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THE SCBANTON TMBTOITWEITNESDAY MOBNING. AUGUST 12; 1896. ,
S THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR, i
J . BY HOWARD FIELDING. p
Copyriitht, JbS6, by the Bachellor Syndicate.
SYNOPSIS. '
Mr. J. Woodbury Newcomb, an elderly
student of criminology, returning to New
York from a visit to Sins Sing, meets on
the train Frank Gleason, Hill Harris and
Jack I'lnnoy, convicts, who have Just
completed thplr terms of Imprisonment,
and who mistake Newcomb for a fellow
convict. To draw them out, he assumes
the character, and proceeds to K-ll them
the story of his tlrst crime.
FART IT.
To the Imputation upon Ills veracity,
Frank Gleason retorted that the story
which he was about to tell was strictly
true. He added that a man who had
led such a life as his did not need to in
vent stories of a marvelous adventure.
This proposition he proceeded to prove
by sketching a strangely varied career
with great clearness und exemplary
brevity.
It appeared that he had worked at al
most every trade by which men live.
Ho spoke of each with a technical fa
miliarity that compelled belief and.
probably without meaning to do so, he
proved that his nature had been always
superior to occupation or environment,
for he had made every path lead to
crime. As a soldier. In a petty South
American war, he had fought for booty;
and as a diver, even at the bottom of
the sea with the world so far away and
God's hand so near, he had had the
hardihood to wrest Jewels from the fin
gers of the dead.
"As to the little affair I'm going to
tell you about," ho said at last," it was
not much to boast of, and the only rea
son why I like t tell the story is be
cause it marks the cross touUs of life
'VI.-.. 1 1
"I SAWGRAYLTN'fl PUT THE MONEY
IN THE .SAFE."
with me. It was the first time that I
ever went wrong.
"It happened this way, TJrot her Wood
bury," he continued, turning to the pen
ologist. "I was brought up in a west
ern town, and got a fair education In the
schools and In a little academy that the
folks out there were rather proud of.
A few years later I drifted into New
York, without any money, and chanced
to run across a man whom I had known
ut home. He had started with a little
money, and had built it up to a fortune
In New York. He. seemed to be glad to
meet some ono from the old place, and
was sympathetic when he learned that
I was out of work and low In pocket.
If I would call on him at his ofllee the
next day he would try to find me some
thing to do. I went there expecting to
get a soft Job and what do yoii think
lie offered me?The position of night
watchman In his furniture factory in
Long Island City.
"From that moment I hated the rrian,
and made up my mind to get square
with hiin. That was the only reason
why I took the Job. It was worth ten
dollars a week. Think of that! Well,
I went to work, and every week I
charged him, in my mind, with the
amount that he ought to have paid me
over and above what I got. He was go
ing in debt to me pretty fast, although
he didn't know It.
"Late one afternoon I went to the
factory to begin my regular night's
work. Grayling that was his namt
was In the office, talking with his part
ner. Bob StcUon. The ofllee was a lit
tle one-story building conencted with
the factory by a covered walk, I saw
the two men through a window. They
were talking across a big pile of money
that lay on Grayling's desk. Presently
I saw Grayling put the money in the
safe, and then Stetson went away.
"A few minutes later I showed tip In
the oMlce. Grayling told mo he was go
ing to be there till midnight, and that I
needn't come over from the factory be
fore that time. Ordinarily I was sup
posed to make my regular rounds
hourly,
"Grayling went out for his dinner,
and came back about seven o'clock. I
took a look at him through the window.
He was at work on the books, and the
safe was open. The money was in that
safe. I had been thinking about that.
It seemed to me that there ought to be
some way to collect what Grayling
owed me, according to my figuring.
Probably I could get a few dollars extra,
If I worked it right.
"I was new at that sort of business
then, and naturally didn't know JuJ
how to go to work. Of course, I might
have walked into the ofllee, and prob-
the head without any trouble. But 1
hesitated at that. Murder isn't In my
line, and, besides, I didn't know how
much money there was In the pile that
I had seen. Moreover, Grayling kept a
loaded revolver quite handy In a drawer
of his desk, as I had discovered while
glancing over his papers one night after
everybody had gone home.
. "Perhaps I might have given up the
Job, but luck was in my favor. About
nine o'clock, as I was standing by the
window of the office looking in, and
thinking, a boy came along carrying a
tin pail. He had his hand on the knob
of the office door when I spoke to him.
"'What have you got there?' said I;
and he told me it was coffee for Mr.
Grayling.
" 'He always has It sent over when he
works late.' said he. 'It's to keep him
awake, I suppose. I bring it around
from the restaurant, Just before we
close up, and I put it on the gas stove
In the back office so that it will keep
hot
" 'That's a pretty good Idea, said I.
"Could you get another pailful for me 7
"He was willing; and after he had
carried In Grayling's coffee, he trotted
back to the restaurant after mine.
While he wan gone, I ran around the
corner to a drug store, where I bought
some laudanum for the toothache.
Tretty soon the boy came back with my
pall of coffee, and I paid him the price.
.When he had govn I dosed the coffee
with laudanum Very carefully, for I
sUdnt want any accident to happen..
1 raw
-r
That was why I got a second pailful. I
was afraid that if I tried to dose Gray
ling's coffee while it was on the stove
and he In the next room, I might get
nervous and make a mistake.
"Having fixed the coffee all right, I
slipped into the back room through a
rear door of which had the key; and
I shifted the two pails without making
a sound. Then I took his pail over to
the factory, und put it in a warm place
in the boiler room, thinking that I
might need it later, to brace my nerve,
I waited half an hour by my watch
which appeared to be going a good
deal slower than usual and then I
went into the passage that led to the
olllco. 1 didn't dare to open the door,
at first, but I could see fairly well
through the keyhole. It was not so con
venient as the window; but I didn't
like to be seen there too often, In caso
anybody should be passing.
"Grayling was drinking his coffee.
There were two cupfuls. I was wish
ing that ha wouldn't drink all of the lust
one; but he did. And while he was do
ing it, the passage where he stood got
hotter and hotter till the sweat ran oIT
my forehead. I thoupht that he would
hear It dropping on tho floor.
"After he had drunk his coffee he sat
down before his desk, and presently his
head fell forward into his hands. I
thought he was gone, but he roused
himself; gut up, and began to pace the
floor. I heard him mutter about being
sleepy. When he passed his chair I
could see him through tho keyhole, and
I soiw that he Ins tated every time. He
wanted to sit down; he wanttd to throw
his hend upon his hands on that desk
and sleep and. sleep. I knew just how
he felt, anil I knew too, that he would
have to come to It before long. At last
he sat down In a decisive way, shaking
his head and shrugging his shoulders.
He was) going to do some work. No
more sleepliiu--s for him. He picked up
soma papers und rattled them briskly.
Then he began to crumple them In his
fingers. His hands dropped upon the
desk his head dropped lower and
lower over them, and suddenly he was
asleep. Or dead? I didn't dare to
think of It.
"I had watched him so closely that
It seemed as If the drug had worked
upon both of us, steadily, evenly. My
arms and legs were like lead. Hut my
head seemed to be cool cooler than
usual. 1 could think of an enormous
number of things in a second. Some of
them were of a nature to frighten a
man. Hut then there was the money;
I never oulte forgot that.
"Opening the door noiselessly, I en
tered the office, nnd went to Grayling's
side. He was sound asleep. I turned to
the safe. The money was there In a lit
tle drawer. It was locked, but the key
was in the lock. My hand was on the
key when I heard a sound a footstep.
Some one was coming. I was panic
stricken. Instinctively I sprang behind
one of the big doors of the safe. There
I stood trembling, it seemed a long time.
I knew that some one was in the room,
but how lie had come, or who he was,
I could not guess.
"It was useless to stand there. Dis
covery was certain. There was no hope
except In a bold and sudden dash. Draw
ing the revolver which I carried for pro
tection while on my watch, I sprang out
into the room. In that Instant I was
face to fnce with Stetson. It was his
life or mine. 1 leveled the revolver at
him.
" 'Hands up!' I cried.
"'Gleason!' he screamed, starting
back.
" 'That's me,' said I, und I mean
business.
"He sank upon his knees.
" 'In the name of heaven,' he cried
hoarsely, 'do not betray me. He drove
me to it. With his Infernal cunning he
was dragging my share In our joint en
terprise out of my hands. 1 had to kill
him to save myself from ruin.'
"The back part of my mouth was so
dry that it rustled when I tiled to speak,
and my brain was reeling, but I man
aged to gather sense enough to take
the amazing tip that he had given me,
and breath enough to say: "Sit down.
Mr. Stetson, and try to be calm. I will
hear your story.'
"It burst out of him like a torrent of
fire. He told how Grayling had cheat
ed him; had Imposed upon his simplic
ity to make hlin sign documents that
would beggar him. Those documents
were In that safe in Grayling's private
drawer. Yet to get them was not
enough, for he would still be in his part
ner's clutch. So he had planned mur
der. "Knowing Grayling's habit in the
matter of the coffee, he had decided that
therein lay his opportunity. So he bad
provided hinuelf with poison, and had
"GLEASON!" HE SCREAMED,
STARTING BACK.
secreted himself In a closot in the back
office returning after a pretense of
leaving the factory as usual. When the
boy had brought in the coffee, and had
gone. Stetson had crept out of the
closet, and had poured his poison into
the pail. Then he bad returned to his
concealment.
"A few minutes later I had come In,"
a humble Instrument in the hands of
Providence and had removed the pall
which contained the fatal dose, substi
tuting that which I had mildly drugged.
Often have I reflected, since that, how
wonderfully I was guided on that night,
nd how mercifully my life was spared.
For I had come as near as possible to
drinking the coffee which I had taken
from that room I I thought It would
brace my nerves, and only the sicken
ing thought of the drug that I bad used
prevented me from taking the fatal
dose. As it chanced, I poured it out
upon the ground.
"Returning now to Stetson, you will
readily perceive how he came to take
the course he did. Being discovered by
me beside the body of his victim as he
supposed there was no recourse for
him but confession. Yet he begged that
I would have mercy and shield him.
"Well, now, do you know, Mr. Wood
bury, I couldn't do it. Of course, it
wasn't business. I might have been
blackmailing him yet. But the fact Is
that, coming face to face so suddenly
with a rascal worse than myself made
me an honest man by sheer force of
contrast. I
" 'I'm sorry for you, Mr. Stetson, said
I, 'but I can't shield a murderer. I
must do my duty.' . . .
"With that I threw open the window
and called for help. It happened that
there was a policeman on the corner.
He came In response to my call and
arrested Stetson, who was In a pitiable
state of collapse. Then I got a doctor,
who worked over Grayling until he
brought him to his senses; but he said
that a half more hour would have put
the man beyond the reach of help. I
don't beliere it. In r.y opinion Gray.
ling would have wr.ked up all right;
but naturally the doctor wanted as
much credit as possible.
"When the circumstances were ex
plained to Grayling he was overcome
with gratitude towards me for saving
his life. Weil. I had saved it, though he
didn't know just how it had been done.
He shook me warmly by the hand, and
then, tottering over to the safe.i he
opened a drawer and gave me the roll
of bills that I had planned to take. The
bills were all ones sixty-seven dollars
In all. Suppose that I had killed him
for so little! It wasn't as much as he
owed me, according to my calculation
But I never tried to get even. I was
afraid of a man with such luck as his.
Stetson got ten years."
"The worst luck In the world," re
joined Gleason. "Nothing more die
astrous can happen to a man than that
he should escape the just punishment
for his first crime. Had I been for
tunate enough to be caught. It might
have accomplished my reform, but such
an escape as that which I have de
scribed led me to think myself the es
pecial favorite of Satan. As usual the
tempter deceived and deserted me."
He pronounced these last words with
good elocutionary effect, but they failed
to impress Newcomb, who had too clear-
up in mind the character which Gleason
had given himself in his introdunctory
remarks. The criminologist made no
verbal comment, however, but content
ed himself with mentally adding gross
und palpable hypocrisy to the list of
Gleason's crimes.
"It Is your turn now. Mr. Harris," he
Aid. "What story will you give us?"
"The story of what we call in my pro
fession 'An Inside Job,' " replied Har
lib. (To be continued.)
THE CHEATING OP WIDOWS.
From the New York Tribune.
There are, according to the latest -avail-ablejeports,
no less than Jilnety-one fra
ternut orders doing u mutual Insurance
business. They have u total membership
of 2,017.:7J. And tlie totul u.mount of In
surance in force Is $3,j"fl.7!0,7a!i. That
makes nearly $l,ml insurance fur each
member. .Most, perhaps all, of these so
cieties are strong and trustworthy be
yond question. They are paying out mil
lions of dollars every year for the bene
lipof their members, or of their lato mem
bers' families. The noud they are thus
doing is incalculable, the more so be
cause, on Mie whole, the bulk of their
membership Is In Ihe less wealthy part
of the population. Wage earners, far
mers, small shopkeepers are saving each
a few dollars a year from their incomes
to secure provision for old utte and sick
ness or for their widows and orphans, and
the tl.SH Insurance when It comes, is more
to Its recipients than vastly larger sums
to those who have never known 'the need
of saving.
And now these 2,ni".7.'U men nre asked
to renounce, relinquish, abandon nearly
one-half or thnt to which they are en
titled. They have been paying in their as
sessments In dollars worth 100 cents each,
and they are asked to accept their Insur
ance In dollars worth only Ut oents each.
Tlia is what the Chicago convention de
manded of them. That Is whut the Chi
cago platform calls for. That Is what the
Chicago candidates would bring to pass
If they were elected and invested with
authority. Every member of a fraternal
order who votes for Bryan and Bewail
will vote to have his Insurance the In
surance for his wife and children reduced
nearly one-half. He has been telling his
wife that his life is Insured for J1.U0U, and
he now votes to have her receive at his
death only f.M.
That is exactly the meaning of free
coinage of silver to every one of these
2.017,374 members of fraternal orders. What
they will do about it Is a grave social
problem. It Is no light thing to destroy
at a strike l.r,oo,0u0,ooo of the property of
the people. That Is what free coinage
would do. These 2,(H7,J74 men are cred
itors. There is owing to them or to their
heirs, contingently, the sum of M.G7G,7!0,
7S!t. It Is bcinu honestly paid In Instal
ments. Tho whole of it will be paid when
it falls due. Hut now Mr. Bryan and the
Free. Silver parly demand that It shall not
be paid 111 full; that only &1 cents shall be
paid on each dollar, and that these 2,017,.
374 men. most of them comparatively poor
men. shall be robbed of the gross sum of
II.GSI.OHI.'hO a sum half as large again as
the entire national debt. What answer
will the membership of these fraternal
orders make to this monstrous proposi
tion? WOMEN VOTERS IN COLORADO.
Published at the Request of the Ameri
can Women Suffraiie Association.
Denver, Col., Aug. 12. No one claims
that the women of Colorado have ren
dered that state a t'tonia. No one with
senso would demand that women should
accomplish that In three years, or perhaps
In any number of years. Hut I will make,
as an undented and undisputed asser
tion, thnt euqal sun'rase has not Injured
the slate by one Jot or tltlu either In Its
public or domestic life, or In the character
of Its citizens. I will go further, and claim
that the possession of the ballot by the
women of Colorado has had a beneficial
effect upon both the public and the private
lifo of the stale.
First, as to public life. It has Intro
duced into the political world a large body
of voters whose alms, on tho whole, are
pure and whose Intentions, on the whole,
are correct. Equal suffrage has brought
Into the political arena a larite uncertain
vote; a vote that cannot be herded to the
polls, that cannot be bought with drinks,
or controlled by any of the ordinary
means. There has always been a large
uncertain vote at the bottom uncertain
only till It beciMne apparent which side
had the longest purse or the shrewdest
bosses. This uncertain vote at the bot
tom, rendered certain only by the low
est means, is now balanced In Colorado by
a vote at the lo, whose action Is uncer
tain and will be decided on election day by
considerations of a nature more or less
moral. Mrs. John L. Routt, whose bus
band has once been the governor of the
territory and twlc-e the governor of the
state, said lately that she had always been
more or less conversant with political ilo
Inns. Of late, she had noticed In the dis
cussion of candidates, names otherwise
available would be ut aside because of
a doubt as to the feeling of the women.
There Is now a "woman vote" to te con
sidered, as well as an "Irish vote," a "Ger
man vote," and all the other classes of
votes which have hitherto Influenced the
selection of ticke ts.
II II II
As to private life, equal suffrage has
brought the discussion of economic and
political subjects Into the home. The char
acter of candidates, the Intentions of par
ties, the meaning of platforms, the prin
ciples involved, the pledges made and
broken, the mysterious ramifications of lo
cal politics, are nil topics of conversation
in the home. The children are being
brought up In this atmosphere. The
mother's opinion is no longer passed over
with Indifference. It Is worth some,
thing, because It is going to be counted
on election day. One thing more, before
I close. The polls on election day are as
orderly and quiet as the postofflce. There
Is no noise, nothing whatever of a disa
greeable nature. All that has been ab
solutely eliminated from election day In
Colorado by the combined Influence of the
Australian ballot and equal suffrage.
Minnie J. Reynolds.
HAD NO EQUAL AS
A READER OF MINDS
No Other Professional Performed Feats
Like Irving Bishop.
S0ME OP HIS GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS
The Experiment at the Lamb's Club
Uambol Which Hastened if It Did
Not Cause His DeathA Feat Not
Done by Muscle Reading Even if
Not Mind Reading.
From tho New York 8un.
"Various men, the best one being a
Russian, have given exhibitions In New
York during the last half dozen years of
what they alleged to be mind reading,"
said a physician at the Lamb's club one
night last week. "Being interested in
the subject I have seen them all. They
were simply mure or less clever exhibi
tions of muscle reading. There are sev
eral men in this club, und Harry Dixon
Is one of them, who can duplicate ev
ery act of these so-called mind read
ers. Not one of them, however, has
ever duplicated the trick that Wash
ington Irving Bishop performed in this
club half a dozen years ago. I knew
Bishop well, and I was present on that
occasion. His death a few hours later
In a cataleptic, fit- which was appar
ently the climax of the Intense nervous
excitement Incident to the successful
performance of the feat, was accepted
by many ot his friends as a proof of his
claim that he did his so-called mind
reading while In a seml-hypnotlo condi
tion. I don't know enough about hyp
notism to afllrm or deny that assertion.
"Bishop's last feat has never been ex
plained to my satisfaction. Previous
to that fatal evening I have frequently
seen Bishop's exhibitions, and I had
always been skeptical of his olaim
that he possessed any other power than
that of expert muscle reading. I said
after his death, and I say it now. that,
in my opinion, the feat that Bishop
did In this club on the evening befor
his death cannot be accounted for upon
any theory of known science or medi
cine. It was and is a mystery."
"Did you ever make a physical ex
amination of Bishop?" asked one of tne
little group that had been discussing
muscle reading.
HKMARKABLI2 PHYSICALLY.
"Yes, several times," replied the doc
tor. "He was a remarkable man phy
sically. He was a man of medium size
and rather slender build, but despite
the fact that he took no care of his
health he had a .wonderful muscular de
velopment.' His arms and back weit?
strongly developed. He was of an ex
cessively nervous temperament, and his
mother said that he had been subject
to cataleptic fits from the age of 8,
On several occasions after these fits the
doctors who were summoned to attend
him said that he was deud. The fits
usually followed some mental exertion.
At the time when Bishop drove blind
folded through the streets from the
Hoffman House to the Oramercy Park
hotel and found a pin which a commit
tee of well-known men had hidden in
the latter house, I found that his pulse
,wos 1G2. Bishop himself told me that
the highly nervous condition in which
he was thrown by performances of this
sort was a proof to him that there was
an abnormal state of mind developed in
his work.
"Do I believe that? I can simply say
that I don't know, I am skeptical of
Bishop's claim, but I followed him
closely the night before he died and he
mystified me. Two or three of you
were here thnt night, but I don't believe
thatf-ou watched Bishop as I did, and I
know that none of you sought an ex
planation of his feat as persistently as I.
"Harry Dlxey brought Bishop as his
guest to the 'gambol,' and about, mid
night he .went away. Bishop seemed to
be In good health and spirits. I talked
with htm for a few minutes, and then
he said:
" 'Feel my arm.'
"It was as firm as Iron and he was
very proud of it. Later in the even
ing I asked him to give an chibltlon
of his powers. He was in the humor,
and he began with what he called the
detective trick.' This little Russian
who hus been giving exhibitions here
this winter does much the same thing.
It is simply muscle reading. Bishop
left the room and a member of the club
took a Bmoll dagger and made the mo
tion of stabbing Louis 'Aldrlch. The
dagger was concealed. Bishop was
brought in blindfolded, with the hand
of the man who had concealed the dag
ger on his own hand. His quickness
was one of the strong points of his per
formances. Without a moment's hesi
tation he walked to where the dagger
was hidden, found It, and then walking
to where Louis Aldrlch was seated went
through the motion of stabbing him.
There was applause, but Bishop tore off
the bandage from his eyes and said:
" 'That's an easy one. Walt and I'll
show you one that you never saw be
fore and I'll guarantee that no one else
can do It.'
HASTENED HIS DEATH.
"It was this feat that undoubtedly
hastened his death, If It did not really
cause It. He asked Clay Green to think
of some word In the club's book of ac
counts or records. Mr. Green and Dr.
J. A. Irwin, an acquaintance of Bish
op's, who had dropped In while he was
performing his last trick, went down
stairs where these books are kept and
found in the club's minute book a name,
Margaret Townsend, I think It was.
They tlxed upon Townsend as the , name
that Bishop should find. There was no
question of collusion In this feat I
watched Bishop closely. He was more
nervous than I had ever seen him be
fore. Mr. Green and Dr. Irwin hid the
minute book and came up stairs. Bish
op was blindfolded as before, and with
Mr. Green's hand resting on hta he led
the party down stairs, found the minute
book, and, turning over the pages rap
idly, came at last to the page on which
this name appeared. He stopped for
a second, and then, skimming his finger
over the page, settled on the word se
lected. " 'Is that it?' he asked In a nervous
way. Being told that it was, he led the
way back up stairs and announced that
he would tell what the word was In a
manner that would demonstrate abso
luely that muscle reading had nothing
to do with this feat Bishop asked ev
ery one to stand back. Without touch
lng Mr. Green, he asked htm to think
Intently of the word that had been se
lected. Bishop stood apparently in a
state .of only half consclouness. The
bandage covered his eyes and a part of
his face. There was perfect silence In
the room for nearly a minute, and then
Bishop, speaking with difficulty, said:
" 'I think it Is a name. I think It is a
man's name.' In this latter statement
he was wrong as It happened. 'Give
me something to write with,' he went
on.
"Some one gave him a piece of paper
and a pencil. Without a moment's hes
itation Bishop wrote the word Town
send,' but he wrote it reversed, as It
would appear in a mirror were the pa
per on which the word was written re
flected there.
" 'There it Is, he said, and as the
spectators deciphered the name and
burst into applause he stiffened! out
and sank back unconscious.
"Several physicians present quieted
the fears of the club men by telling
them that Bishop was subjeot to cata
leptic fits, and that there was probably
no danger. He was revived, and when
he was able to sit, he asked that the
physicians should explain that the pe
culiar backward fashion In which the
name had been written might be ac
counted for by the fact that the ori
ginal rcection of everything seen by the
eye is inverted, as In a mirror, and Is
reversed by the optlo lens on the way to
the brain. Bishop alleged that what
he had written was the exact copy ot
what appeared in his eye, and was writ
ten by htm without any conscious In
tervention. He was In a highly excited
state, and we took him to a private
room upstairs. He seemed greatly elat
ed over the success of his feat, and in
sisted on repeating It, although Dr. Tr.
win forbade him doing so. Opposition
seemed only to excite him, and In the
hope of quieting him he ,was permitted
to repeat the feat. This time he hud
great difficulty in accomplishing It, and
when It was over he was completely
prostrated. He had frequent spasms,
and at 4 o'clock he went Into a coma,
which lasted until his death, which oc
curred about noon.
NOT MUSCLE READING.
"There was a good deal printed about
Bishop's death, and many different sto
ries were told about his feats here just
before it My statement of them is cor
rect. Bishop's feat of writing out the
name Townsend that had been selected
was not muscle reading evidently.
Some of the so-called mind readers wno
have followed him can find a certain
word on a printed page by muscle read
ing, and then they write It out by going
through the letters of the alphabet and
putting them down one by one as the
muscles of the guide are bound to in
dicate. There was no one touching
Bishop, I have seen too many evidenc
es of telepathy to doubt it, but except
In this one instance I have never known
a person to feel another's thoughts so
clearly that they could write them
down. Bishop was a mystery to me,
and he always will be unless a man ap
pears who can duplicate the feat that
resulted in his death, and is able to ex
plain how he does it. I am Inclined to
believe that Bishop was perfectly sin
cere in his belief that he accomplished
his feats by hypnotlo Influence! but I
am not ready to admit that that was
the .explanation of them."
An Investigation Needed.
Snodgrass "In me, sir, there Is a man
of genius, unrecognized, perhaps, but still
a. .man of undoubted genius."
Skldmore "Then hold still while I turn
a cathode ray on you and see whom you
have swallowed." Life.
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Were all about the room, ' !
Ijove-llells chiming ! if-"-'
A passionate perfume, i :
Love-bells tolling
My dainty, dainty doom. 1 ! '
Lightly Clara gave me
A soray. and lightly said i !
"Wait, I'll get another,
For this one I have had ; S)
Twirling in my lingers
t'ntil it must be dead." : i
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That was the one I wanted, ;
She could not fancy why, 1
When I could take a fresh one
For one about to die;
But kept her falnt-flush'd profile
Averted from my eye.
J. Russell Taylor, In Truth.
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