in no other way than by supposing that they were
brought about by some influence outside of human agency [said
a believer in Spiritualism the other day to a St. Louis Globe
reporter]. I know a lady--a church member--who makes no
pretensions as a fortune teller, clairvoyant, or medium, and
who would indignantly resent being called a Spiritualist. This
lady takes a pencil in her hand and writes rapidly and
legibly, with her arm extended, without looking at the paper
or pencil, and gazing in an opposite direction from the work.
And this is done in a way that shows no control of her arms in
the operation. She writes answers to questions she could not
possibly have any knowledge of in a correct and thoroughly
truthful way. Even when she is separated from the questioner
by a closed door she readily writes out the correct answer to
a mental question with no effort of her own. This woman could
not be induced to do so for any compensation. I have seen all
the performances of the mediums in the way of musical
instruments floating around the room in the air, but these are
open to doubt. In the case of the lady I speak of, all is done
by daylight without any thought of compensation or notoriety.
It is a natural endowment, a spiritual control, an unseen
influence, and a power outside of our ability to account for."

MIND-READING AMUSEMENT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TRANSCRIPT:

This amusement may possibly help to attract the indifferent public
toward the higher branches of science, which are so much neglected.
Probably not one in a thousand of those who are attracted to this
subject by curiosity has given any attention to that department of
science to which mind-reading belongs.

Americans are not distinguished for reverence. They often rush into
the consideration and discussion of subjects with which they have no
familiarity, without pausing to learn whether any investigations have
already been made. In matters of mechanical invention attempts are
continually making to achieve what investigation has proved
impossible, and a great deal of labor and money are wasted in finding
by costly experience what is already known, and might have been
learned by an hour's attention to recorded science.

The dabbler in science and invention often fancies himself a
discoverer, asserts his claims, and receives recognition from those
who are still more ign