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The New York $250,000,000 Made in Less P rofessor Asserts Adam and Ma.gazir\e of Mysteries Than Fifty Years Eve were Chinese P r o f . J a m e s K. B u r t o n , a former Cornell 223 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK CITY ANDREW CARNEGIE, A MARVEL OF BUSINESS University student, Ithaca, N. Y., who has SUCCESS PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY just returned from Egypt, believes, he savs H e r e is the life record of Andrew Carnegie that Adam and Eve were Chinese. ' ’ 1 THOMPSON CO.. Publishers at a glance, as told by himself; He is to become a member of the faculty SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Si 00 PER YEAR Born November 25, 1837, Dunfermline, Scot­ of the New York University. Uniil three months ago Mr. Burton was connected with To all pans of the United States, Canada and Mexico. land. Subscribers in the City of New York and Foreign- Countries Came to the United States 1K4S, aged eleven the Department of Antiquities of the Egyp­ must add 24 cents for extra postage. years. tian Government. 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Was one of the first telegraph “ Iam fully convinced," lie said, "that I at once in order that there may be no delay in receiving operators to receive messages by sound in­ will create a sensation in the literary world the next issue of T h e N ew Yo rk M a g a zine o f but I am prepared to support my assertion MYSTERIES, ns we immediately stop a subscription when stead of by tape. it expires Became operator in Pennsylvania Railroad with the bald facts. The whole of the Address all letters to employ and remained with road thirteen history of Egypt, as it has been written, is THF. NEW YORK MAGAZINE OF MYSTERIES. years, becoming division superintendent. wrong, and I may say, for that matter, that First investment—Introducing sleeping the whole history of mankind itself is cars into railroad service. wrong.” During the war in charge of Government M a y telegraph service. Was on battlefield at Bull In blossoms fair the fields appear, Run in charge of telegraphh lines. . y * v V? Love’s Allegory With balmy air sweet May is here. After war invested in oilil wells, “ purchasing _ _ f) ' yV, From the Elmira Telegram —From the German o f Ofer. farm at $40,000 which was soon worth $5.000,-Ss.ooo.- May owes its name to the Roman goddess 000. Maia, the graceful daughter of Atlas and Subsequently started iron bridge building You are gladness, you are sunshine, Pleione. works. Gradually acquired control of steel You are happiness— I trow The hawthorn, emblematic of hope, and the industry in United States. You are all to me, my darling, emerald, of faithfulness, belong to May, while Estimated weaith, $250,000,000. That is lovely here below. ' Amriel is the guardian genius. Has given away for educational purposes„ alone, $20,731,865. > 1 \ ^ 1— s h e ------y 011 , Free Character Delineations 1 You are splendor, you are glory, A Prediction ■ fr You are handsome, you are true; In each issue of this magazine the reader / Vv\tyi v ,1 'A ll there is this side of heaven will find departments on Palmistry, Astrol­ A t every hand we see such growth,, expan­exp« behold, my love, in you. ogy. Psychometry and Graphology.' sion and development in inventions that we in these different departments we print are prepared for almost any astounding an­ HER BA each month free character delineations. nouncement. Here in the great city of New I am lightning, I am thunder. Read each department and send for a free York we see many marvelous changes and I’m a roaring cataract; delineation. improved methods'all the time. It will not I am earthquakes and volcanoes, be long before there will be no more horses And 1 11 demonstrate the fact! on our streets. The horse is too slow and The Powerful English cumbersome for either rapid or economical The Power of Music transit. This city is full of the most magnifi­ L a n g u a g e cent automobiles"which flit about with ease S o m e o n e has aptly said that music is the T h e great adepts, seers and sages of the and great speed. universal language of the world. Certainly Orient and Occident have long said that the Listen to the serious prophecy of the con­ it is understood wherever uttered. It soothes universal and most powerful language in the sulting engineer of a large motor vehicle and inspires all nations, and there is nothing future will be the English; that the really company in this city, made before the New more healthful or helpful than good music. powerful and forceful peoples of this planet York Electrical Society: All peoples of the world do not get enough will be the English-speaking peoples; that in There are now in New York about 4,000 good music. There is nothing more refining time older nations will practically abandon vehicles of the automobile type and about than music, and those who contribute in anv their languages and adopt the English. Only 400,000 horse-drawn vehicles.' I will predict degree, manner or form in putting forth recently, according to a communication re­ that in a few years notices will be posted to music are benefactors of mankind. ceived at the State Department at Washing­ the effect that no horses are allowed upon the Joy, peace, hope, contentment and happi­ ton from Consul-General Guenther, at Frank­ streets of New York, street cars will disap­ ness are produced by music. fort. Emperor William has decreed that the pear, and the sidewalks will be elevated so The more music we have the better the English language shall take the place of that pedestrians will not be in file way of the world will be. Therefore, all people of wealth French m the high schools of the German electric, gasolene or steam vehicles that will should be liberal patrons of the art of music. Empire. The French language will here­ then be in use. It is an art that influences the very lowest after be an optional study. types of humanity and lifts the soul up to higher realms. * ____ A Very Moral Man When Marriage Is Not a T h e r e ’s So-and-So, a moral man, To Y ou D ra w b a c k And all who know him, know it; One of the objects of this magazine is to He strives to do the best he can, T h is is what a young lady is reported re­ encourage and inspire individuals. The adepts cently to have said, apropos of marriage; And strives his best to show it. and psychic mystics who edit it are cheerful, “ Well, no, I don’t know if I would marry for He never stole in all his life, hopeful beings who relentlessly fight pessim­ money alone; but if a man had plenty of A nd lie’s prepared to prove it; ism and are disciples of the so-called New money, allied to a sweet disposition, arid a He knew of gold within a safe, Thought doctrine. It will ever be a helpful mustache that curled at both ends, and nice But hadn’t strength to move it. periodical to enterprising thinkers und aspi­ blue eyes, and a social position; if he had a rants to a higher and better life. The editors distinguished status in a profession, or even He’s proud of his integrity, and publisher earnestly desire to be in close as a merchant, and his father was rich and He’s honest to the letter, touch with our large rind growing family of his mother and sisters aristocratic, and he His lips would scorn to tell a lie— readers. We wish you to feel that we arc- in­ wanted to marry me, and lie would promise When truth would pay him better. terested in you. arid we want you to be in­ to let me have my own way in everything, If e’er he loves, he’s moral then, terested in us. Write us fully at any time on and keep me liberally supplied with mnnev, Nor lets his passion fret him; any personal matter, and we will gladly help and have a splendidly furnished town house He never kissed his neighbor’s wife— you to unravel any problem that is puzzling and a handsome country residence, was lib­ Because she wouldn't let him. you. We will be pleased to have you become era! about diamonds and other gems, also u regular subscriber for one year at our spe­ about the milliner, never grumbling, and I cial low price of only 25 cents for the whole really and truly loved him. 1 shouldn’t con­ Love’s Stim ulus year. This liberal offer is open only to June sider marriage a drawback." 1. Send your subscription to-day. T h e empty plaudits of the world Are naught, my love, to me ; More precious far is one sweet word M an’s progress lies in both spirituality and His Idea, of It intellectuality. There cannot be even prog­ Of whispered praise from thee. ress in him unless both sides are developed ,celebrated New York Citv preacher. Let critics scorn with bitter spleen proportionately.— A'. Narainsatoviy Iyer. )r‘ £iar£ U1-rSt‘ sa-vs: “ Oh* what a world this would be if the perseverance o f the saints Tlie best that I can do ; P eori.e were made o f as enduring stuff as the perse­ It will not pain if there be not may feel together, even when they verance o f the sinners.” A word of blame from you. cannot think or believe alike, and there may be “ difference of adminstration," and yet Mere gold shall be a poor reward “ the same spirit.” The brotherhood of nian When I my course nave run. transcends all the “ isms."— 'J'he Theosophist. The Oldest Belief If from your lips I shall not hear T he belief in the eternal existence of man’s My great reward—“ Well done!" soul is as old as mankind itself— Strabo. Goon nature is that benevolent and If thou wilt stand beside me, love. amiable temper of mind which disposes us And smile upon my toil, As rain breaks through an ill-thatched to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the hap­ Against the frown of all the world piness of others; and, consequently, pushes house, passion will break through an un­ Thy smile shall be my foil. reflecting mind. As rain does not break us on to promote the latter and prevent the through a well-thatched house, passion will former; and that without any abstract con­ "T he Occult Power o f Amassing Wealth" not break through a well-reflecting mind.— templation on the beauty of virtue and with­ B uddna. will be the title of a very interesting article out the allurements or terrors of religion.— in next month’s issue of this magazine. Balzac. THE NEW YORK Magazine of Mysteries

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A SPIRIT HELPED ME WIN BACK MY FORTUNE. (See next page.) 4 The New York Ma.ga.zine of Mysteries

A SPIRIT HELl WIN BACK MY FORTUNE

|E was a hungry, desperate-looking parted, I shouldn't have been very hard up. to England. He professed his regret, es­ man, one I felt I should not care It's cards have ruined me—it was born in my pecially as he had had a telegram from his to meet in the part I had just blood, and many a time she's gone on her rich uncle, from whom he had great expecta­ come from—the drear, lonely road knees to me to "beg me to give ’em up. I tions, which necessitated his leaving me for a to Klondike. Hut in a well-popu­ couldn’t, though, and she chose this pm to short time. lated street in New York no such fears make me remember her words, but she’ll for­ “ But 1 will cut my visit short—postpone troubled me, and I looked him full in the get all the trouble I’ve brought her when I the real interview until to-morrow," he said; face as I passed by. walk in and she sees the pin." “ for we must dine and spend our last evening One fact struck me as odd. Although al­ " Wife or sweetheart ?” together, since we may part forever.” most in rags, and bearing every sign of “ Mother,” he said, curtly; “ one of the I agreed to this arrangement, but he re­ abject poverty, the breast-pin stuck in his best a fellow ever bad. Well, you've done turned shortly after six o'clock to bring me shabbv cravat was bright and yellow, and me two good turns, mate; it’s mine next an invitation "from his uncle, Le Comte de had tiie appearance of being genuine gold. round—shake!” Palleto, to join hint at dinner that evening at In shape it was square, and in the centre was I shook his hand, feeling again that vague his hotel. a raised heart! regret for a wasted life, and then, standing As Bresci explained rather ruefully that he “ That's a pretty pin," I said, slowly; “ and still, I watched him out of sight. was afraid in any case he must accept, and I guess it's real stuff. I don't mind giving urged me to sacrifice myself for a few hours, you sixty dollars for it on chance.” Five years it took me to make my pile. I finally Consented to accompany him, as I I could have bet my life that he would One bright beacon was before me all those had no’ other friends near, and" Paris is a jump at the offer, which I had made partly years, a girl’s face, with sweet, gray eyes and wilderness to a stranger when alone. out of good nature, inspired by the utter low-toned voice, whispering in my ear": The Count’s hotel was a magnificently ap­ desolation in his whole air and attitude, but “ Yes, indeed, Richard, 1 will be true—true pointed one, some distance from my own, to my surprise he only replied, with a queer to your memory, even if I never see your and, as Bresci had informed me, he looked kind "of laugh: face again." old and feeble. We had an exceptionally Not if you made it six hundred, mister. Her people had forbidden any correspond­ good dinner, both viands and wine being the I've kept it" all these years, and it shall stay ence between us, and no one else knew our best of their kind. Had I not naturally been with me now to the end—which isn't far off.” little romance, so it fell out that no line or a temperate man I fancy the latter would I looked at him blankly, and he stared word passed between us during all those have been too much for me—as it was, I felt moodily at the ground. There was some­ years. One hundred thousand dollars was strangely light-headed and unusually reckless thing in the business which I didn’t understand the extent of my fortune. by the time the meal was concluded". —it must be a pretty strong reason which I was no gambler, either by habit or in­ The coffee afterward, instead of steadying made a man choose to die front starvation clination, but on the liner coming home the me, only seemed to intensify mv condition. rather than sell a gold pin. play was rather high. Time hung heavy on Then" we wandered into "the "billiard-room “ It's going to the grave with me, mister,” one’s hands, and, like most other men, I took and watched a game or two, then into a room he said, doggedly; "and a good thing, too; a hand at “ nap" or poker most evenings where there were a number of small tables at it's never brought me anything but bad luck (some of them played all day), and I was which people were playing cards, and the —but I said I'd never part with it, and I considerably startled on totting up my losses next minute who should come up to us but won’t; so, thanking you all the same, we on reaching Liverpool to find myself "a loser Korner and Taylor, and in a verv short time don’t trade this deal.” by $10,000. they had persuaded Bresci to have his re­ “ Well, it shall bring you luck this time if “ Give you your revenge any time vou like,” venge there and then, and, very weakly, he it never did before," I said, taking the laughed Korner, the man who had won all consented. sixty dollars I had offered for it from my along the line; “ not only you, St. Leger, but Bresci privately whispered to me to stay pocket-book and handing it to him. “ I any other of these gentlemen who feel that and see fair plav. respect a man who can keep his word. There fortune has been hard upon them. Come, Just when or how I sat down and took part you are; perhaps it’s the turn in the tide.” that's a fair offer." in the game I never knew—nor how long, nor “ It’s too late for that; maybe she’s dead, “ Thanks! I’ve had enough,” I replied, what we played, nor the stakes! and I’m going the same way! But—but the dryly, but two other fellows named Taylor If I had been in my proper senses I should money will help me along toward seeing her and Bresci eagerly accepted the offer, "and have suspected a “ plant ’’ the instant that once again, if she’s alive; and— thank you.” tried to persuade me to do likewise. Korner and Taylor appeared on the scene, but A month later l was riding through "a pine- “ It’s a game of chance—bound to level up I was just sufficiently muddled to fall into the wood settlement on my way home when I sooner or later,” they urged me, privately; trap, yet sufficiently sober to sit up at the came across a group of angry, excited men “ why sit down under such a heavy loss ?" table, play my own hand after a fashion, and dragging a poor wretch with them bound “ That’s the gambler’s motto," I replied. to take out my well-filled wallet crammed with cords, and being hurried toward the " But I was surprised you two fellows came with bank-notes to the amount of $90,000. nearest extempore gibbet. out losers—I felt dead certain you’d won The stakes became heavier and heavier—my “ What’s up ?” I asked, drawing rein; largely.” wallet thinner and thinner! “ pretty serious, I guess, by the look of But "it seemed they hadn't, by their state­ It was " nap ” we were playing then, and, things." ments, and I earnestly advised them to cut realizing dimly the issues involved, I felt a “ Serious for this skunk, I allow,” replied it for good. We parted at Liverpool Docks. sudden sick desperateness come over me—the em Blinker, indignantly. “ Last day of I rushed up to London, and not being over­ first gleam of returning soberness, which the une he murdered Joe Smith’s widow," and burdened with luggage called at Eaton rest of the party were quick to detect, and Jmade off with the dust.” Square on the Villiers (Ida’s people) on the they pressed liqueurs and cigars freely upon “ Sure of your man. I reckon---- ?" way to my hotel. me, which I rejected fiercely, and pressed “ Dead sure. Three witnesses swore to Great changes had' taken place there, I my hand to my head to try and clear away him. Judge Lynch can't wait any longer— soon discovered; her father and brother the dazed feeling from my brain. so---- " dead (it was the first time I had heard of the “ It's a good haul," said Korner's voice, in As they dragged the wretch on a few paces latter's existence), and Ida with her mother a very low tone; “ if you’d only found out the sun suddenly struck on something bright was in Paris. how much he has, Bresci.” at his neck, and with sudden interest I bent I instantly made up my mind that I would I was quite sober then. The shock had forward and recognized the pin, and a second go there, when, as I left the house, who done it, I think. Someone had mentioned later the ne'er-do-well I had assisted in New should be walking past but my ci-devant ac-. their share would be $20,000 each, with an York. quaintance, Bresci, who was intensely sur­ extra sum for Bresci, the decoy. It meant I “ There is some mistake,” I said, earnestly. prised at the rencontre, and inquired if I was beggared— that my five years’ hard “ You say this man murdered Joe Smith's lived in those parts. work had melted away in a few hours, and widow on the last day of June—now, I'm pre­ “ No,” I informed him; and for the present Ida was farther from me than ever. pared to swear that on that date this man my home would be Paris—I was leaving for Then someone roused me, and sitting up was lounging outside Ferraro’s gambling that place by the night boat. again, the cards were dealt out and the play saloon just near the Chinese quarter, and---- - By some strange coincidence lie happened went on. With this difference—whereas be­ “ Sakes alive—an alibi! Why, the durned to be doing precisely the same thing, so we fore we had been four players, now we were chap swore he was in New York, and if you arranged to dine and travel together so long five— the newcomer was seated between back him up, Dick St. Leger—why, I allow as our business lay in the same route. Once Korner and Bresci, exactly facing me. there’s something in it.” in Paris—with which he was pleasantly famil­ A strange feeling had come over me— I was Speedily we put back to the nearest inn and iar—I abandoned myself to his guidance; we like one in a trance or a dream, and mechani­ reopened’ the case. I proved beyond the drove to a certain hotel, and for a day or two cally went through my part. When it was possibility of a doubt that they had hold of we fraternized very agreeably indeed. my turn to deal I dealt for five, at which the wrong man. Whatever sins he had com­ He was evidently an ingrained gambler, for there was a laugh, as someone told me only mitted, he couldn’t be in New York and in the lie would have simply haunted various gam­ four were playing. When I would have con­ pine-wood settlement on the same evening, bling dens if I would only have accompanied tradicted this statement my lips seemed sud­ seeing they were thousands of miles apart; him, but in that I was very firm. I loved Ida denly sealed—I could not speak. I was so he was released, and the boys, anxious to too well to risk losing her at this stage of awake, sober, but felt like a puppet in the atone for their blunder, hurriedly made a affairs. hands of its owner. collection and offered it for bis acceptance. Then, when we had been together about a The play went on—the tide.had turned. - I “ I'd have given you the pin, mate," he said week, my inauiries at the Grand HOtel were was winning—winning largely. A cold per­ to me in a low tone, as he trudged a few successful. Madame Villiers and her daugh­ spiration broke out on Korner's brow; he paces by my side, “ if it hadn’t have been I'd ter were expected to leave there on the fol­ seemed sorely perplexed, and some inner assed my word to her I'd come back and lowing day, in consequence of which I gayly knowledge told me I was one honest man ring it with me. You see, her idea was informed Bresci that on the morrow I should pitted against three unscrupulous card- that, if I kept that during the time we were bid him adieu. I was returning with friends sharpers of the worst type. The New York Ma.ga.zine of Mysteries 5

That still, silent, unseen fifth player stretched out a spectre hand at intervals— Telepathy, Psychometry Clairvoya-nce as Science touched some card, shuffled some pack, and Cla.irvoya.nce ' the recent hearing given the guided my play, opened my eyes, and the From Omtit Review o f Reviews eminent Rev. Moses Hull, pas­ bank-notes came back thick and fast, as we tor of the First Spiritualistic sat with white, set faces, playing for terrific TELEPATHY— ITS CONDITIONS AND MEANING Church of Buffalo, by' the New stakes York Senate Committee on I was fighting for Ida, for love, for the lost O STUDY is more interesting Codes in opposition to the Wag­ five years of my life, and I was winning them than that of thought transfer­ ner bill prohibiting clairvoy­ back. Then a voice which sounded like ence. Telepathy, to the casual ance, palmists and fortune-tellers from prac­ mine, but which, as I wasn’t conscious of investigator, stands for two ticing their arts, Mr. Hull made the statement speaking, must have been someone else’s, simple modes of mental action to a reporter of the Buffalo Review that clair­ rigidly insisted on their own promise to give — the reception and projection voyance belongs among the sciences, and not of thought—but to the experi­ among the miracles. me my •• revenge," and the crowd of onlook­ enced mental medium telepathy has a far ers murmured approval. After giving some illustrations regarding deeper meaning, being a synonym for har­ the theory' of sight and sound, he says: Fifty thousand dollars were in my wallet, monic power, a condition of complete sym­ five thousand more just won, waiting pay­ “ Now. "as some people do not "hear all ment, when a voice, which again sounded like pathy with the great magnetic forces of na­ sounds made, may not others hear that which ture. This is a state of development in which we do not normally' hear, and see sights we mine, but which couldn’t have been, said: mental healing, prophetic vision, clairaudi- “ Double or quits—any game you like—and don’t see ? Twenty years ago the X-ray was ence and clairvoyance are present actualities, not known. Perhaps we do not understand money on the table—double or quits." not dim possibilities. “ Done," whispered Korner, with white lips. To the expert telepathist the motives, the it yet, or probably we would not call it that “ I take you—double or quits—' nap '—you now, because X is an unknown quantity. It secret intentions of those within the radii of is no brighter than the rays we daily see, yet and I—against each other—and the first ’ nap ’ thought touch are clearly revealed—the spir­ takes it—or ends the game." by the X-ray I have read" my Bible through itual discernment recognizing no barrier, uo an inch plank. Men have photographed bul­ Tavlor and Bresci rose from the table and material being so opaque that the light of stood up behind our respective chairs, while lets in other men’s bodies. This simply proves pure vision will not penetrate it. that the X-ray' is made up of vibrations to Korner shuffled and 1 cut the cards. It was a Effect naturally follows cause, therefore duel to the death, and we played in silence. which the board is not opaque, as glass is not the higher states of sensitiveness are simply opaque to the ordinary rays of light. Gradually—very gradually—the shadowy the result of pure causes. This order of cause figure at the table became more and more and effect cannot be reversed, yet some inves­ n o t ab le c a se s o f clairvoyance visible, and the features seemed dimly famil­ tigators attempt to secure effect (great men­ “ Clairvoyance, then, demonstrates that iar to me, then something bright and glow­ tal sensitiveness) before due consideration of ing caught my eye; it was a gold breast-pin people can "see at great distances—also that cause (purity of mind and body). they can sometimes see events and tile causes m the centre of which was the ace of hearts. Naturalness—a strict observance of the laws Again and again the shadowy hands hov­ that produced them, and thus Emmanuel Swe­ of nature—is conducive to spirituality. Spir­ denborg, one of the greatest scholars and ered over Korner's cards, and the knowledge ituality—aspiration for the higher arid better was borne in upon me that the spectre was most profound men of the eighteenth cen­ —rentiers sensitiveness possible. Sensitive­ tury. acknowledged by all, saw the city of righting the wrong—sorting out the secreted ness is the solid foundation upon which me- cards, seeing fair play—and the game went Stockholm burning, described every particu­ diumship is built. Natural foods—vegeta­ lar of the fire, and he was several’ hundred on. bles, grains, fruits, water and milk—tend to Then a sudden brilliancy caught my eye— miles awav from the fire. This fact is vouched refine the material magnetism by purifying for by William Hewitt, the Hon. Robert Dale it was the breast-pin, and on the heart was as well as nourishing the physical body, there­ written in phosphorescent letters the one Owen and others. Captain Yount, of Napa fore, all who would be physically as" well as Village, Cal., saw people perishing in snow­ word, " Nap.” spiritually pure will find that a vegetable diet Mechanically 1 picked up my hand—it con­ drifts over fifty miles away, and heard them will do wonders toward increasing the pleas­ ray and call for help. He raised an army of sisted of the ace, eight, seven of spades, the ure of living. nine of diamonds, and the seven of fty men and went to their aid in Carson Val­ When the spirit gains absolute mastery' of ley Pass, and saved them. Jacob, when he hearts. its physical encasement and is able to control was dying, foretold the history of his twelve Hardly a •• nap ” hand when $50,000 was at its passions at any and all times, the first true stake, yet it was my call, and from my stiff sons. " One, who is called a man of God, came step is taken in'the evolutionary march to to Eli. in the second chapter of the book of lips came the one word, •' Nap!" soul power. When this important beginning Samuel, and the death of his two sous and If 1 failed to get " nap ” the game would be is thoroughly accomplished, then only pure, ended and he would still have secured a hand­ himself was foretold, all of which came true. true, aspiring thoughts should be entertained “ This is what we call clairvoyant power. some sum as the result of his evening's in order to become sensitive to the finer etheric work. vibrations, which formerly did not reach the NO CASE FOR LEGISLATION I led off with the ace of spades, to which he soul beneficially', owing to the opaqueness of “ Now, all we claim is that persons possess­ played the king. My trick! I followed with the magnetic aura. ing this supernormal power shall have the the eight of spades, bn which he played the The finer ether, in time, becomes visible to privilege of exercising it; that there are king of clubs. My trick. My next lead was the inner, or spiritual vision, and if the inves­ frauds pretending to practice clairvoyance the seven of spades, and he' hesitated, then tigator be eagerly interested in the develop­ there is no doubt, but that is no more reason for put down the ace of diamonds. My trick. ment of soul power he soon learns to use us to legislate against clairvoyants than the Then, before I had decided which card to etheric vibration telepathically—learns that fact of existence of counterfeit money should play, the nine of diamonds sprang out of my well-defined thought, when vibrated upon cause us to legislate against money. People hand on to the table, and I saw Korner's face either by soul or will force, instantly im­ who deceive in that way should be punished twitch violently—if he had only held the ace presses the sensitive, receptive mind to whom under a general law, the same as roguery. of that suit one minute longer the $50,000 it is directed, though hundreds of miles of We are Spiritualists, and regard this law as" a would have been his. While he looked slowly space intervened. law directed against us, and a system of per­ at his two remaining cards, reluctant to part secution. We say, as Paul did. there is a with either, yet compelled to make a choice, I asked the spirits, with loving care. natural man and there is a spiritual man. As the shadowy hand came forth with swifL de­ And with mind not creed-bound, To guide me to the sphere where the natural man has the sense of sight, hear­ cision. snatched the ace of hearts, and threw True soul power could be found. ing and touch, so the spiritual man has all it on the table. these senses. The sense corresponding to We both breathed heavily as we looked in The spirits said: “ Nature giveth you our sense of sight is called clairvoyance, the each other’s faces; then slowly, very slowly, Purity and strength what more is ours? Even the tiny drops of dew French word signifying clear seeing. The I laid down the seven of hearts, and with a Manifest mediumistic powers. sense of spiritual hearing we call elairaudi- snarl like a disappointed wild beast he sprang ence. The sense of spiritual touch we call to his feet and rushed from the room, while “ We descend and, as of old, syehometry. These senses, we believe, can with trembling hands I picked up the stakes We walk with souls apart, Keeping the promise, as foretold, e developed by individuals, and are some­ —my own hard-won money—and placed them With all the pure in heart." times, while they still live in the mortal body. in my wallet, This law if enacted will not prevent them “ Quits,” breathed a voice in my ear, but on from using these senses, but may prevent turning quickly round I saw no one there. Death Message Came Ere them from telling what they see. and the Telegraph Could Bring It progress of the world may be set back.” I have never since that night touched a card or indulged in the mildest form of gambling. MARVELOUS PREMONITION CAUSED CHURCH i saw the Villiers at their hotel on the fol­ SINGER’S COLLAPSE AT THE MOMENT OE lowing day. Ida received me joyfully with SISTER’S DEATH A Voice From the Grave open arms, faithful and true as she had prom­ A t Cleveland, O., while rendering a song at S om e spirits do return, according t<> Mary ised; and Mrs. Villiers, who alone of the the Trinity Congregational Church recently, Blossom, in Everybody's Magazine. In 1802, family had always been my friend, yielded a Mrs. W. A. Langdon. a noted singer, stopped a young man who had been a friend of Dr. glad consent. suddenly and left the platform with tears Hodgson, and who was keenly interested in all On my wedding morning a sealed packet streaming down her face. She was assisted intellectual pursuits, met a "sudden death in came for me bearing a foreign post-mark. to the dressing-room by her husband, where New York City. Four weeks later he made Inside was the mysterious breast-pin, with a she burst into hysterical crying. himself known" through Mrs. Piper's trance, brief intimation that the owner had died on “ Something "awful has happened.” she identified himself to the thorough satisfaction the last night of June of that year, and de­ moaned. Her husband tried to soothe her of parents and intimate friends, and has since sired the "pin to be forwarded to Dick St. and to assure her there was nothing wrong, rendered much assistance to other “ commu­ Leger—his one friend in time of sore but she was unable to resume her singing. nicators.” He is referred to, for descriptive need. She was taken to her hotel in a carriage, purposes, as “ G. P.” The handwriting was a woman’s—was it and there received a telegram from Ashe­ that of his broken-hearted mother ? I think ville, N. C., announcing the death of her T he holiest o f all holidays are those so; though she was dead before I received an sister. Mrs. Langdon left the platform at Kept by ourselves in silence and apart, answer to my acknowledgment of the gift. 9.05 o'clock, the exact moment that her sis­ The secret anniversaries of the heart. The oddest part of the whole affair was ter expired. When the full river of feeling overflows. that the date of my last gamble at the Paris t" This was cither a telepathic message sent by —Longfellow. hotel was the last night of June of that vear, the dying sister, or else the spirit of the dying and the hour of my unknown friend's death body sped immediatelvat release from the bodyto was identical with the time at which I saw Mrs. Langdon, or some other kindly spirit con­ C ircumstances ! I make circumstances. him seat himself at the card-table and steer veyed the message," says 011c of our adept edi­ —fapoleon. me to victorv in my last gamble. [Thk New tor’s. We will be pleased to print any similar ac­ Y o r k Ma g a zin e ok My s t e r ie s will print each counts which our readers m ay send in.—EDITOR.) month occult stories from the pens of adepts. S e l f -r e v e r e n c e , self-knowledge, self-con­ Several striking and startling stories will be W h en all else is lost, the future remains.— trol. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.— Tennyson. published next month.—E d it o r .J Bovee. 6 The New York Macgaczine of Mysteries

Startling Messages From Some Occvilt Secrets the Spirit World How to learn the occult secrets of life is T he newspapers and eminent thinkers are very important. Surrounding us all the time much interested in Mr. 11. A. Buddington's there are many hidden or unseen forces of recent books containing messages he hus re­ tremendous power to help mankind. We ceived from the spirit world. propose to print in this magazine each month This gentleman lives in Springfield, Mass., articles written by master adepts in the oc­ and in his books he gives reports of apparently cult. We have already sent to far-away In­ truthful and intelligent spirits which have dia for some matter that will open the eyes been made to him at various times concern­ and minds of some people in this part of the ing the nature of death, and what follows. world to'new and grand truths. The Hindu Now i; the time to look for a four leaf clo­ Certainly the reading of his books awakens Yogi Seers and Adepts are remarkable be­ ver. According to old tradition, luck ap­ a desire to investigate spirit return, and if ings. For thousands of years they have proaches everyone at least once. But accord­ what is stated is true it certainly will emanci­ been working in the realms of occultism and ing to the opinions of the greatest seers and pate the mind from the gloomy view of death, have discovered forces we know little about. sages of modern times, everyone can be lucky which darkens the future of "millions of the We possess exceptional facilities for laying at anv time by keeping up courage and a human race. before you each month the secrets of the cheerful spirit. If any of our readers have ever had any ex­ Mystics, and we would suggest that you do If you hunt fora four leaf clover in the right periences in talking with their departed not delay in sending in your name and address way you will be sure to find one, and it will triends, we will be pleased to have them send with one dollar for a whole year's subscrip­ bri ng you luck. Here is the rule laid down by us a brief account of the same. tion, and not miss one number of the maga­ zine, which will always be so full of g o o d and Y doiananda an adept Hindu Yogi: Goforth, From the messages received by Mr. Bud- dear brother or sister, in the bright green dington he finds that the future that awaits instructive reading. fields, with joy and gladness in your heart and us on the other side of the world is very beau­ Neither time nor expense will be spared to soul, feeling that it is really good fortune to tiful. He says, among other things: Here make this magazine the leading occult journal live in such a good and beautiful world as this in these celestial realms no sorrow ever en­ of the world. is. Search patiently and diligently for the ters, no sickness, no worry. Life, life, beau­ four leaf clover, with your mind free from tiful life, pulses through every heart. Exalt­ O u r A im doubt and fear. In a while you will be suc­ ing inspirations, profound thoughts, are con­ cessful in finding one. This "you must treas­ stant companions. Nature, with her myriad T h is magazine will ever strive to give hope ure. Contemplate it with admiration and de­ secrets, opens her book, and the keen student and courage to those who suffer from pov­ light. Think of the wonderful power that of these supernal realms can find happiness erty and sorrow. can create the beautiful leaves and flowers for aeons of time in reading her treasures of Our editors and writers are persons who and all nature. Certainly if this higher power knowledge. To such transcendent beings the are full of life, force, vigor and sympathy. can create the four beautiful leaves of the memory of earth life is like a fading dream. We write from the soul, the "heart, and a clover and care for it, the same power will Nothing is garnered up from its trials but the mind that believes in cheerfulness, health, care for you, for are you not equally as won­ lessons of wisdom that it taught. prosperity, happiness. derful in construction as the little four leaf \Ve shall live on and on, developing into We believe in looking on the bright side of clover ? Searching in the fields on a sun­ marvelous beauty of form, brilliancy o. mind life—in seeing lots of good everywhere. shiny day for four leaf clovers, with such and tenderness of heart; still always young It is the Law of the Universe that as we grand thoughts in vour mind, will attract to in vigor, our spirit bodies continually refin­ think so we will be. vou certain occult forces that will make you ing. The soul increases in power from age No one can have success who continually fortunate and happy. to age. thinks failure. Luck cannot be bought; it comes unex­ We shall behold the mighty suns of the This world has progressed because there pected. Old tradition has it that the finding stellar universe, and floating upon the ether have always been in it enthusiastically cheer­ of a four leaf clover is a sure omen of good currents sail off into the abysses of space, ful souls "who have inspired others to be luck coming. Anyway, it will do anyone a passing planet after planet, some being born, hopeful, strong and courageous. whole lot of good to get out into the pure, some teeming with individualized life, others The highest type of man is cheerful, hon bracing air of the fields and hunt for a four barren and dissolving back into original star­ est, courageous," fearless. Moreover, such a leaf clover. dust, with the consciousness that amid all erson is always a worker—a helper of man- the cataclysms of matter, the rise and fall of ind. So, our aim shall always be to make constellations, we shall live on, immortal in this magazine bright, cheerful, helpful and Golden Fortune Often spirit or ethereal body and immortal in mind, inspiring, and it will be an inspiration to read everlasting personalities of the universe. it with regularity. Comes to Us Unexpectedly The question arises in some minds, if the We are always pleased to print cheering W ho can tell when fair Fortune will smile spiritual world is so beautiful, would it not be letters from our readers. To do good by a on us ? better to commit suicide and go there ? To deed or word is ennobling. Never lose courage! Never give up! Here which Mr. Buddington with emphasis an­ is the story of how riches were unexpectedly swers: NOl We are placed on earth for the showered on a seamstress, long needy. purpose of obtaining knowledge through con­ 105 Yea.rs Old, a.nd Still It was stitch, stitch, stitch from early morn tact with matter on this plane. We need till late at night, and even with her industri­ nearly a hundred years of this life's journey W orking ously plied needle Miss Mary Ann Kelly, to get all the experience useful for us. No, Mes and women who keep busy at work up seamstress, could eke out but a scant living. it is not well to hurry into spirit life. Live as to the very last live verv long’ lives. The Because her work was neatly performed she long as possible here. Obey nature's laws. new Superintendent of Streets of Calais, obtained plenty of employment from some of Try to live a century on earth. Me., has just reappointed Patrick Myers, the best families in Flushing, N. Y., where Modern spiritualism is creating a wide­ who will be ros years old next June, to his she lives. She never married, and her years spread interest in all parts of the world old place as custodian of the city sidewalks, had passed the two-score mark. among all kinds of people. There is certainly a post which he has held for thirty-seven con­ Years ago her uncle, Patrick Kelly, emi­ something very interesting about these al­ secutive years, in 1864, when" substitutes grated from Ireland to Australia, and there leged messages from the other world, and it were getting from $800 to $i,oco to go to the amassed a fortune, immense for him. is not fair for anyone to say there is not a lot war. and national and State bounties made Miss Kelly was fretting over an unfinished of truth in them. It is claimed by master- the sum total up to $1,500 to $1,800, Myers en­ garment recently one Sunday night, when a adepts and mystics that soon this mystery is listed, and having passed a successful ex­ cablegram was "delivered at her door. It to be fully cleared up. amination as to his physical abilities, was re­ jected on account of his age, being 68 years read: “ Though we return to dust that does not prove •' Your uncle Patrick is dead. Leaves im­ That we shall never live again as men ; old at that time. mense fortune. You only heir known. Com­ What from the atoms was evolved before. “ It was discouraging to me," said Myers, municate at once." By evolution can be born again.” in speaking of the matter. “ I was a "poor The message, flashed from Melbourne, bore man, and the bounty money would have the name of a firm of lawyers. bought me a fine home, which" I should have No one can tell what a day may bring forth. A Mira.de Sa.ves a. Sick enjoyed after serving out mv time in the The unexpected often happens. " army. I felt so bad that I didn't care to do Babe’s Life any "kind of work for nearly a year. 1 knew l lx a last despairing hope that a miracle was as strong and healthy as Î ever was, and F o rtitu d e would be wrought and their dying child be age doesn’t count tomen built the way I was. brought back to life and health, Mr. and After a time I secured a job from thé city to Ik the battle goes against you, Mrs. Archibald Clark, Presbyterians, who work on the streets. When I had been dig­ And your foes upon you press, came to New York City from "Pittsburg not ging sewer ditches and shoveling dirt for ten Do not yield your weapons to them; long ago, had their baby boy baptized into years, they put me in charge of the sidewalks, Give not voice to your distress. the Catholic faith. The child began to mend where I have been for a long time. My work Up again and wage new battle; almost from the moment that the holy water is not hard, but it keeps me busy. I earn my Up again and strike fresh blows; touched its forehead. The whole proceed­ money and intend to stick to the work as long You may yet come off triumphant, ing was the outcome of a vision. as they will have me.” You may win the fight—who knows ? Archibald Clark. Jr., is the child. He was The old man lives in a small house, which stricken down with pneumonia. The phvsi- he has bought and paid for out of his earn- Naught vou’ll gain by idle weeping— cians announced that there was scarcely any irgs at $1.50 a day. His widowed daughter Tears but add to your distress. hope of saving his life. acts as housekeeper for him. Report says he If the wicked world "has wronged you “ I wish you would let me send for Father has a tidy sum in the local savings bank. His At its hands, then seek redress. McMullen, of St. Joseph's Church,” said Fred­ general health is still good. He eats his three Bring to your assistance courage, erick Campbell, who lives in the same house. meals a day and sleeps ten hours every night. And the fight again begin, “ I am sure he could help your child as he Since he Has passed his hundredth birthday Knowing industry and valor helped me." he has frequently regretted that he was not In the end will surely win. Campbell said lie was a Presbyterian, and permitted to enter the army. —Arthur J. Burdick, in ¿os Angeles Herald. while suffering from gastritis saw his dead “ If I had served a year or two," said he, “ I father and younger sister in a dream. They could get a pension to help me out when I waved their hands at him and told him he grew old and unable to work. Lots of men Lincoln’s Plan must become a Catholic. If he did, all would younger than I am who were in the army and be well. He was baptized, he said, by Fa­ never received a scratch are drawing as "much A brah am L in co ln said: Die when 1 may, ther McMullen, and almost immediatel’v the as $12 a month, I am told.” I want it said of me by those who knew me gastritis left him. best that I always p'lucked a thistle and His story touched the parents, and they W h at is the use of knowing how to tell the planted a flower where I thought a flower sent for Father McMullen, and the child re­ truth?—so few persons know how to hear it.— would grow. covered. A. if Houdetot. The New York Macgaczine of Mysteries 7

Developing Powers of the M ind Astrology More in Favor By A neireto Carnegie A Better Demand for Horoscopes Reported in New York I can with confidence recommend the busi­ ness career as one in which there is abundant Business Far From “Being V o Good Here aj in London and “Paris— room for the exercise of a man’s highest ^/istrologers Consulted by XOomen ,/Ibout Business as XOell as powers, and of every good quality in human .flbout the Heart—Other Classes of Customers nature. I believe the career of the great merchant or banker, or captain of industry, to be -favorable to the development of the powers of the mind, to the ripening of the judgment upon a wide range of general sub­ " C an you cast my horoscope while I wait ?" they can. I don’t know that it is impossible, jects, to freedom from prejudice, and the asked the woman reporter of the New York but, personally, I don’t care to go beyond keeping of an open mind. And I dokrow Sun. scientific faets in regard to which I feel abso­ thut permanent success is not obtained except The astrologer looked pained. Nothing lutely positive. I’ve known a great many bv fair and honorable dealing, by irreproach­ so grieves vour true seer as does a lack of instances in which men followed such advice, able habits and correct living, by the display reverence for his art; but, in defence of the with successful results, but I’m inclined to of good sense and rare judgment in all the re­ reporter, it may be said that she had no idea think that the success was as much a matter lations of human life, for credit and con­ of the amount of information the astrologer of the man’s own judgment and of confidence fidence flv from the business man foolish in was willing to give for the money. She had inspired by his belief in his horoscope, as of word and deed, irregular in habits, or even never met a master before. Clairvoyants astrological prediction. If men would only suspected of sharp practice. The business and palmists and crystal readers and tellers go in for occultism rationally, instead of career is thus a stern school of all the virtue:;. of fortunes by cards she had known and loved, hysterically, the occult would win respect." but she had never dabbled in astral occultism, The Ang'lo-Egyptian sage was talking seri­ and she didn't know its breadth and depth. ously. The man seemed to be in earnest, Wonderful New York City " If you will give me four days, I think I and was apparently not posing. can have a horoscope ready for you,” said the " I take tnv own prescriptions," continued IT IS TO BE BEAUTIFIED AT AN EXPENSE OF astrologer, gravely, "but. of course, it will not the sage. " That's more than most doctors $275.000,000. he a complete nativity. For how many years do. Look at this." N ew Y o r k w ill soon be the most magnifi­ do you want it prepared ?" He opened a drawer and pulled out a bulky cent city in the whole world. “ Howmuch does it cost?” roll of stiff paper. It was covered with The tremendous sum of $275.000,000 is to be " Three dollars for the horoscope and $i for figures mathematical and zodiacal, and spent within the next few years to transform the reading of each year.” looked like a game of “ chopped up zoo” New York Citv into the grandest city on the “ I'll take a year." said the reporter. “ How married to a problem of differential calculus. planet. will it benefit me ?” she added. The reporter eyed it with the respect that For this sum we are to have a new and “ You will understand yourself—your vir­ mathematics always inspires in the feminine beautiful city. Ten years will see a change tues and faults, your tendencies," the astrolo­ mind. that will be as the wave of a genii's wand ger said, patiently. " You will know how to " That is my horoscope,' announced the in the sky line, the shore line, the beautv line control and direct those tendencies. You professor. •• I "have put a great amount of of the future metropolis of the world. will know what influences are malign and work and care into it, and I follow it abso­ Half a dozen enormous bridges, such as the beneficent in your life. You will be able to lute! v. So far it has never fooled me. old world has never built, are already being foresee and, perhaps, ward off disaster. You “ The planets don’t change our limitations. planned or are under way. can tell when to venture and when to hold They only show us what our limitations are, It is the city of big"things—great men, back. A horoscope is simply invaluable as a and teach us to make the most of our possi­ great wealth. guide in life." bilities. My horoscope has warned me of It is the financial headquarters of the coun­ “ Do many people use them ?" danger that sometimes I’ve been able to try’s great enterprises. The New York banks “ More than you would imagine. Within avoid. Sometimes I haven't been able to hold "the nation s millions; $476.140,000 de­ recent years a new interest in astrology has ward it off. Then the chart has shown me posited here belong to other institutions. sprung up, and a great many scientific" men the luckiest times in which for me to make All the great occult seers and adepts have have been admitting that there may be some­ ventures, and I've succeeded in the ventures long known that New York City was destined thing in it. because of that; but a horoscope will not give to be the largest, the wealthiest, most mag­ •• Horoscopes that have been cast for great you qualities you haven't got, or help you to nificent and most important city of the men have in a good many cases proved accu­ grasp fortune that is out of your scope. A world. rate. You know Mr. Gladstone's horoscope, brainless dude can’t be a Napoleon of finance cast early in his career, showed the whole just because he has a horoscope cast, but he course of’his public life with especially clear can make the best of his own possibilities.” bearing on his relation to the Irish question. “ Is astrology as popular her; as in Europe?” The Power of FLea.ding He didn't believe in astrology, but he was in­ “ No, decidedly not. Paris is the home of A ny reading that will fan the flame of am­ terested in it, and he had to admit the accu­ astrologv to-day ; and astrology has a strong bition and bring success to the reader is racy of the horoscope. Beaconsfield was hold in England. It is growing in favor here. good . another public man who was interested in The number of Americans who have their Success is bound to come to those who are astrology, but he really believed in it, while horoscopes cast and regard the science seri­ earnestly trying and striving for it. Gladstone didn't. ously is increasing wonderfully. The women The secret power of successful men and “ It's a rather curious fact that, while palm­ usually want horoscopes so they can consult women is given them by hope, courage and istry and clairvoyance, etc., are more popular them about love affairs, matrimony, and that patient work. with women than with men, more men than sort of thing. Funny how that is always the Anyone who will regularly read this maga- women believe in astrology. I suppose it is one absorbing interest in a woman's life, isn’t ziue every month is bound to get force and because there seems to be a more definite it ? That's all the average woman ever con­ power to do tilings—to accomplish and scientific basis for astrology, and men aren't sults any reader of fate for. Astrology is achieve. so strong on matters of sheer faith as women very definite about heart matters. That's Hidden here and there are great occult are. They want something that can be re­ luekv for the women. Venus, in her relation secrets which will be understood by the as­ duced to "figures, and they arc inclined to to the other planets, speaks very clearly piring and ambitious person. think that anything mathematical must be about the part of the heart in a life.” Read much, ponder and think and earnestly respectable. “ Do you always tell all that you read in desire success and happiness; then you will " You would be surprised if you knew how one's horoscope ? ’ understand the power of reading. many men whom you would call shrewd, The professor shook his head. hard-headed business men consult their horo­ “ What’s the use? If the conditions show scopes in regard to their business and their unavoidable tragedy, what good would 1 do H um an Mira.cles public life. Half the time they aren't will­ by telling it ? I can read the past as well as ing to admit even to themselves" that they do the future. If there are discreditable things It has been predicted for manv years by it. or are influenced by it, but they are, alf the in it, why should I rake them up ? I some­ many sages, seers and prophets in "all parts same, and many of them make a regular prac­ times think there can't be any other business of the world that the twentieth century will tice of following their horoscopes, though so fascinatingas mine, though. I'm trying to be the century of human miracles. they wouldn’t want their friends to know it. make my living out of it, but I wouldn't give Certainly strange and wonderful things are You remember about Jay Gould, don’t you? it up for another profession that would bring coming to pass constantly in these days of He had a complete nativity chart made out me a good many times as much money as I progress, growth and expansion. for his whole life, showing" the astral condi­ make now. Every consultation is a new Scarcely a day passes now that someone tions as affecting his life each year and each study in human nature and a new look into does not "make some wonderful discovery or day of the vear. The horoscope’ cost him $250, the book of fate. I never tire of it. perfects an invention which in olden times and it took an expert astrologer the better “ But, talking of women, they don't all come would have been classed as " miraculous.” part of two years to make it,” to hear about love affairs. Particularly here The era of a most wonderful age has be­ “ But did Mr. Gould follow it ?" in America they are interested in other things. gun. “ I don’t know that he did—probably not on I'm astonished to see how many women have Who can tell what will happen next ? all occasions; but why did he have it ? A a keen interest in business affairs. They want The great universal forces are being under­ man couldn't have a thing like that in his help in speculation and in business ventures, stood by man, and are not only understood possession and not be more or less influenced just as the men do. The woman who passed but are" being controlled and "used for his by it. you in the hall has been waiting for three great advantage. “ For instance, T have a man’s horoscope. months for certain conditions in her horo­ Hypnotism, psycuic power and occult forces He wants to know what his chances for good scope before she would make a certain busi­ were little understood and little believed in fortune are on a certain day. I erect a figure ness change. only a few years ago. for the specified day and" hour. That is. I “ I'll tell you a class of workers that often Now, instead of being laughed at or ridi­ find the exact position and relation to the turn to astrology—the writers. There is culed, they are fully recognized by all. planets at that time, and study them with something poetic and fine about the idea of The things we ridicule to-daj- in a few reference to their bearing upon his life. I astral science that appeals to imaginative years are accepted as absolute truth. can tell whether the hour is fortunate or un­ minds. A man whom you would know by It is silly for anyone to ridicule anything fortunate for him and what the outcome of name, if I should tell you his name, will soon he doesn't fully understand. Many deep and certain actions made at that hour would be. publish a book. The manuscript has been profound thinkers say that we are soon to “ Some astrologers say that they can not ready for a long time, but he u. waiting until witness many human miracles. only tell a speculator what are his lucky Mercury gets into the right relations in his and unlucky davs, but that they can tell him horoscope before he launches the book. Mer­ T his magazine will print some wonderful what stock to buy, whether to buy long or cury is the planet especially affecting expres­ happenings in succeeding issues. Watch for sh irt, and all that sort of thing". Maybe sion and the arts, you know.” them . 8 The New York Ma^geLzine of Mysteries The Secret of Luck By an A dept Yogi

L u ck is in a great measure a state of the m ind. Before we can have luck we must think luck. The foundations of poverty' and misery are often laid by poor thinking—by thinking of bad luck. On the other hand, fortune and happiness come by persistently thinking of good for­ tune, good luck and happiness. By thinking of prosperity and reading of prosperity and desiring prosperity we will sooner or’ later come to having prosperity. SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THE NEW YORK MAGAZINE OF MYSTERIES We thus draw upon the powerful hidden or unseen forces to help us. The good Devas BY YOGIANANDA, THE BLISSFUL PROPHET are everywhere ; the Devas can help us. EKam jat Viprah Bahuda Vedanta, "that which exists is ONE. Sa-ges ca.ll it If we are blue, despondent and can see no variously."— "Rip- V eda. good in the world we draw upon the bad forces, and they will keep us down. They T he Yogis of India dearly love all beings inhabitants, their physical conditions, et cet­ are a mighty power for everything that is in the universe and know All are practically era. Moreover, there arc countless astral or bad. One, and All are eternally going onward, for­ ethereal spheres or worlds—commonly called We begin to have luck just so soon as we ward and upward to one goal—to perfection. the Spiritual World—with which the Yogi begin to think right. Thought is all-power­ We tell A l l that the goal for A l l is the seers are constantly in touch, which will soon ful for good or bad. same— namely, perfect knowledge, perfect be fully and comprehensively explained to the Like attracts like. Read and imbibe the power, absolute bliss and Eternal'Life. more intelligent or more spiritualized inhabi­ contents of this magazine every month and ☆ it ☆ tants of this planet. you are bound to have luck. The greatest The countless suns, stars and planets that O O O adepts in the world will regularly contribute pervade all space we, contemplate with awe, We will positively and conclusively prove t.o its pages. Here is what a great seer says admiration, adoration and profound worship that there is not O n e S p ir it W o u l d , but about luck: —we worship and love the Mighty Matter of countless Spirit and Celestial Globes more Clear y'our mind of every gloomy, selfish, these myriads of worlds, the most of which real and more lasting than any of the planets angry or revengeful thought; allow ho resent­ are inhabited. that the Astronomers and Astrologists talk ment" or grudge toward man, or fate, to stay- O O O about. in your heart overnight. The Yogi Seer in the superconscious or Wake in the morning with a blessing for AAA every living thing on your lips and in your blissful state sends forth and receives thought Furthermore, it will be clearly demon­ vibrations—true messages—to and from the soul." strated in a while by actual demonstrations Say to yourself : Health, luck, usefulness, nearest and uttermost of these planets, hence that some of us who now live on this beauti­ his knowledge and seership. Yogi means success are mine. 1 claim them. Keep think­ ful planet of gross matter will sooner or later ing that thought, no matter what happens, ■ wise or all-knowing, A nan da means bliss, live on similar planets larger and grander gained by profound study, deep meditation just as you would keep putting one foot be­ than our earth. We know that the soul of fore another if you had a mountain to climb, and from" realization. The power to go into every being in the universe is eternally pro­ the superconscious state, which is the highest gressive—it moves from planet to planet; no matter what mud or brambles you en­ state of consciousness that man can attain to from one solar system to another; from one countered. Keep on—keep on—and suddenly while living in a physical or gross body on ethereal sphere "to another; all in a progres­ you will find y-ou are on the heights—“ luck'’ this planet, comes to the adept Yogi. sive order. beside you. } 2> 3 AAA The sub-conscious state is one thing and We will soon have something to tell you the superconscious state another. The gulf about the Devas (angels) or Bright Ones; Gems From Great t Minds between these two states is so great that it how they are with us much of the time, work A ll one’s life is music, if one touch the cannot even be imagined by the ordinary with us,"help and guide us. Few know how notes right and in time.—Buskin. mind. The sub-conscious is a trance or hyp­ to attract and commune with the Devas, and notic state while that of the superconscious what is more, care less about such things. There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, is a state of sublime wakefulness and the As long as most persons can eat, sleep and There’s nothing so royal as truth. most intense activity of the soul-mind—when enjoy themselves like animals and beasts, — Cary. the soul or real man is perfectly at one with what care they about the Devas ? Then they the Universal Soul and sees, knows, works wonder in amazement why they suffer from They never are alone that are accompanied with, and comprehends all the subtile and disease, poverty and early "death. They con­ with noble thoughts. usually unseen or unknown forces. These stantly and persistently disobey the Law —Sir Philip Sydney. are the Mighty Forces or All Powerful Forces and repel and drive away the Devas, who are of the Universe or All Creation. Then the ever ready and ever anxious to help the in- Our whitest pearl we never find; Yogi is illuminated. habitants’of this world. XXX Our ripest fruit we never reach; What is that, knowing which, A ll will be ☆ ☆ it The flowering moments of the mind known ? This is the great theme of the Yogi, There is a cause and a reason for every­ Lose half their petals in our speech. which he persistently clings to with an un­ thing. — Holmes. bending will and a true and high love for the There is a cause for disease, misery, wor­ Blessed One until he becomes illuminated ry and anxiety. He who is honest is noble, with the Light of all lights, and thus solves "There is a "cause for health, opulence and Whatever his fortune or birth. all the riddles and mysteries of the universe. happiness. — Cary.' □ a □ The Yogis are the greatest students of Not only that, but he also acquires a power cause and effect in the universe; they are in­ to use the" mighty and powerful forces of the tensely practical; have ample wealth; have Ripe Old Age universe—for good works onlv. A powerful the most perfect health and vital force all 11 His head was silver’ll o’er with age. Yogi would not misuse his knowledge nor the time; live in the body for great periods And long experience made of him a sage.’’ force. The ignorant and superstitious often of time, and are always joyful, happy and —Gay. call his works “ miracles.” Modern telegra­ blissful. The truth has made them perfectly free. Their love for God and the beautiful A braham E. E lmer, of Utica, N. Y., is 119 phy or the telephone would appear to an ig­ years old. He says his health is good and he norant savage as a miracle. Every mani­ universe and its perfect order puts them on the u n iv e r s a l p l a n e . They are not limited. is yet strong and vigorous. festation of power when not understood ap­ Joseph McGrath, of No. 414 East Eighty- pears miraculous. The real Yogi never calls Life to them is an eternal joyous state. They know there is neither beginning nor second street, New York City, is 102 years old his works miracles. He can successfully send and can see, hear and sleep perfectly. He a telepathic or thought message thousands end. They live in the Eternal. They work all Iht time with prodigious energy to" uplift takes long walks every day. of miles easier and quicker than the same Would you enjoy ripe old age ? Read this message could be transmitted by the tele­ humanity; they arc not laborers or drudges, but true workers. They secretly and quietly magazine "regularly. graph or cable, and knowing exactly how to We believe in living to a ripe old age. do this by a natural law it is a much" simpler make the greatest and grandest things hap­ pen on this planet. See all you can of this wonderful century. operation than conveying my thoughts to the Great things are to happen right along reader of these sayings by means of the pen, O O O now. types, printing press, paper and ink. Again, Now that this planet has entered the New if he has realized the highest truths and is an Grand Cycle (January 1, 1901), and is to have adept in the so-called “ occult" forces he is billions of years of prosperity and hap­ naturally prophetic, clairvoyant, mediumistic piness, the order has been issued from the Peddle Sunlight If You Can and clairaudient. Highest Source of Power to the Grand Coun­ T h ou gh you deal in liquid blacking, cil of Ancient Yogis to fully reveal truths Dismalbilling and such things, The Yogi easily and readily can get en which will enable man to more fully compre­ When you have a sale to manage, rapport with great souls at any distance, hend all the mysteries of the universe. For Do it as the robin sings. whether they are in the gross or physical the first time we are to use the modern print­ Put some cheer-up in your business— body or out of it—whether on this planet or ing press freely in scattering broadcast these Be a chipper sort of man. other planets or the ethereal spheres. golden truths, and any publisher or editor And. with other lines of notions, © © © who will help us circulate otir sayings will Peddle sunshine if you can. Right here, permit me to state that within never have occasion to regret it. To those the twentieth century communications be­ who will read and digest these sayings each There’s an awful deal of meanness tween intelligences at a distance from each month will come wonderful light "and great In this busy world of ours ; other, by telepathy, will be so common an power to do. Next month I will give some But, mixed in with weeds the rankest, everyday occurrence that it will cause no of the principal rules of our order showing Ofttiines grow the finest flowers. more comment than does communication by clearly now anyone who desires can practice Wear a posy on your lapel— telephone gause to-day. The great and an­ Y ooa and attain to adeptship. I will also, Tt won’t hurt the trade you plan— cient order of Universal Yogis will soon give to each month, make a few tirnelv prophecies And along with other samples this world some striking and startling truths which will be inspiring and helpful. Peddle sunshine if you can. about ‘die planets of this solar system, their Y ogi a nan ua. — Chicago Record. The New York Macgavzir\e of Mysteries 9

historic house. The homestead has a repu­ tation for strange noises and uncanny hap­ penings. This reputation is of a general sort, and nothing more alarming than the gentle-faced old lady has ever been seen. SEEN IN BROAD After every apparent visit of ghosts the neighbors for a while inquire after their health much as they do after that of the family. Peterboro finds the spirits interesting, and feels as proud of them as it always has felt DAYLIGHT IN A of the old Smith home. The members of the family living in the house, strange to say, have "never actually seen the ghostly visit­ ants, although they admit hearing rappings sometimes. DRAWING-ROOM They would welcome the ghosts, feel verv kindly toward them, and have no fear at all. Mrs. Dr. Smith says that whenever she is at the homestead slfe has a subtle conscious­ ness that the air about her is full of unseen R e Ma r k a b w : instance, seemingly well at­ brary and dining-room, on the other is an im­ persons. Other visitors have observed the tested, of a spirit visitant seen by Mrs. Ger- mense drawing-room as large as a Fifth ave­ same phenomenon. Nobody ever likes to rit Smith, of New York, in the old family nue ballroom. Off the drawing-room is a sleep in Grandmother Smith's room. Strange mansion in Cazenovia. Figure like that of conservatory facing the west. knoekings and tick-tackings go on at the head the late Mrs. Gerrit Smith, wife of the fa­ On the afternoon in question the sun of the high old bed—and—well, there is a mous abolitionist, seen walking with head streamed through the conservatory window something plainly felt, but hard to put into slightly bent, as was her wont in life. and lighted up every nook and corner of the words. To look up from the tea table and see a drawing-room. From the hall and the One gentleman from New York visiting the relative who has been dead for years walking dining-room across it objects under the sun­ family, and knowing nothing of the ghost placidly about in an adjoining room is an ex­ shine were thrown into relief like a medallion stories, was put to sleep in this Blue Room, perience which does not fall to the lot of upon a dark wall. Besides, six o'clock in the as it is called. He said not a word during many people. summer time comes early, and the whole his stay, but afterward told a member of the This is especially true when the observer house was as light as at midday. family of a strange incident. has no belief in ghosts, and no first-hand Mrs. Gerrit Smith sat at the dining table That night he locked his door and bolted it knowledge of the dead relative. Mrs. Gerrit exactly opposite the doors opening into the on the inside. When he waked in the morn­ Smith, the well-known New York singer, has drawing-room, and facing them. Dr. Smith ing the door stood open. had such an experience. sat at the end of the board, his side to the Perhaps the most remarkable incident re­ Mrs. Smith has never been interested in the doors. The two other ladies sat with their fers to a watch. Mrs. Gerrit Smith, the mis­ subject of spiritualism in one way or an­ backs to the doors and facing the younger tress of the house, had an old-fashioned gold other. She has no theories to advance. The Mrs. Smith. Suddenly Mrs. Smith saw a fig­ watch which had been given to her bv her incident took place at the old Gerrit Smith ure pacing up and down the drawing-room. husband, who was then dead. The mechan­ mansion in Peterboro, N. Y., the homestead There were no other guests in the house, and ism of the watch got out ot order. Local of the Gerrit Smith family for many genera­ she looked the second time, with natural jewelers failed to find out the trouble, and tions. In some repects it is the most remark­ curiosity. for a year the watch lay on the mantelpiece, able and certainly one of the best authenti­ The whole figure was then plain. It was not wound up and not running. On the even­ cated instances of the supernatural on record. that of a slight, white-haired woman dressed ing before the anniversary of Mr. Smith's For this reason Mrs. Smith was induced to in the fashion of bygone times. She wore a birthday Mrs. Smith thought of the watch give the facts to the Harvard branch of the gray dress with a full skirt and trim-fitting and wished that she could have had it re­ Society for Psychical Research. waist. About her neck was a white kerchief. paired. Although somewhat averse to talking of She walked lightly and aimlessly and seemed Next morning, which was her husband’s the matter, Mrs. Smith corroborated the story perfectly at home”, as the mistress of a house birthdav, she looked at the watch and found for the Sunday World, the circumstances be­ might in walking in her own room. The it ticking awav as if nothing had ever been ing as they appear here. most striking fact, however, was a certain wrong with it." When she came in to break­ Mrs. Smith is the wife of Dr. Gerrit Smith, peculiar forward bend of the neck, graceful fast that morning she asked some of the the composer, organist of the South Church, and characteristic. The figure walked with family, who carried accurate timekeepers, at the corner of Thirty-eighth street and hands folded in front and did not look about what time it was. Madison avenue, New York, and for a long curiously at anything. Upon comparison she found that her watch time president of the Manuscript Club. She Mrs. Smith noted these things casuallv, as was exact to the second. is a well-poised woman, known among her her eye fell on the visitor. Something about friends as a charming hostess and delightful it startled her slightly, and just what this talker. The South studio is the centre of a something was Mrs. Smith has never been Is This Girl Obsessed T he Adept prints the following in­ musical coterie. Ghosts are touched upon able to say. By Some Departed only in the most frivolous wav in this circle “ Who is in the next room ?” she asked. teresting case of —or they were until Mrs. Smith came face to “ It must be one of the maids,” said Mrs. Spirit? a young girl sup­ face with one at her summer home in Western Green Smith, naturally. posed to be ob­ New York. “ No, no," said Mrs" Dr. Smith; " I do not Arv O ccult M ystery sessed by an Indi­ The Smith homestead at Peterboro, near think it is one of the maids.” an spirit". Cazenovia, is one of the old-fashioned houses She rose from the table and stepped across In the city of Minneapolis, near Cedar on one of the oldest family estates in the into the drawing-room. No one was there. avenue, lives’a young lady of twelve years of country. Peterboro is a little town of 600 in­ Mrs. Smith had seen the vision as clearly age. Born in the month" of June. 1SS8. She habitants, and the Smith house is the show as she saw the furniture or as she saw the lives with her father and aunt; her mother place of the neighborhood. Those of the family at the dining table, and she was cer­ died when she was but two years old. wide family connection who do not live at tain of it. So she surmised that the white- At first sight there seems toi be nothing Peterboro live in the exclusive little resort of haired old lady in the gray dress had stepped unusual about her, as she is good-looking, Cazenovia, the population of the latter place out into the hall and front the other door of very jolly and pleasant; in fact, she laughs being made up largely of kinsfolk. tile drawing-room. There was no one in the most of the time. Wliat her name is, or who Previous to the Civil War, and along the hall, and no trace of such a figure on the big she is, is the mystery. She was named forties and fifties, the resident of the Smith pillared veranda in front. Caroline Peterson by her parents, but she mansion was Gerrit Smith, a wealthy man By this time the rest of the family had be­ says she is not Caroline, she is another person and an abolitionist of national reputation. come interested, and they, too, looked about. altogether; but every few days she will stop Around the house there were large, well-kept The most minute search, however, failed her laughing, get very quiet and serious, and gardens, and these were tunneled exten­ to reveal anyone around the place except the wish so hard that she "could be Caroline Peter­ sively to serve the purposes of the famous , family and the servants. son. Often she will remain gloomy for “ underground railway" for the escape of Finally the elder Mrs. Gerrit Smith, the several hours, and her only complaint is that fugitive slaves. mistress of the house, asked; “ What did the she wants to be Caroline. The Mrs. Gerrit Smith of that day was in woman look like ?” The younger woman de­ Several doctors have examined her, and, as full accord with her husband. She was, scribed her, mentioning her dress, and the might be supposed, have declared her insane, moreover, greatly interested in spiritualism, fact that she walked up and down slowly but her father says she is not; she works which, at that time, was creating a furor in with her hands clasped. about the house, does fancy needlework of the land, mainly through the work of the Fox “ Why, that’s mother!” exclaimed Mrs. various kinds, but claims she is an Indian sisters. Smith. " girl, that she can see “ all kinds” of spirits, Mrs. Smith had the Fox sisters often at the The New York woman added that she had and if one desires, she will describe what she house, where they gave spirit manifestations noticed the bent head of the figure. sees for them. In many cases the descrip­ of all sorts. There were “ spirit Tappings" "Grandmother, exactly!" said Mrs. Green tions are recognized, and’several have claimed and many callings forth of the sheeted dead. Smith. “ That bend of "the neck is peculiar that the advice she gave them on certain Stories of the abolition days and the doings to the Fitzhughs." business affairs was remarkably beneficial. of the Fox sisters are remembered now by Mrs. Gerrit Smith, the grandmother, had It is generally understood among hypno­ the very old people of Peterboro and Cazend- been a Fitzhugh. of Virginia. tists that an insane person cannot be hypno­ via, but Mrs. Gerrit Smith, of New York, In short, the figure which Mrs. Dr. Smith tized, but Caroline is one of the finest o"f sub­ knew of them only by hearsay. had observed walking quietly in the draw­ jects. Her father brought her to the office of She and her husband. Dr. Smith, went up to ing-room corresponded exactly to that of the The Adept to see if hypnotism would bring the old homestead for a visit. The place is former mistress of the house, who had been Caroline back or send Miss Indian away. On now owned by Mrs. Gerrit Smith, aunt of dead many years. An examination of olcf the first attempt the “ control ” had a lot to Dr. Gerrit Smith, and by Mrs. Green Smith, portraits corroborated the evidence of her say as soon as Caroline was in the hypnotic her daughter. eyes. state, but a request pleasantly that she keep One afternoon in August the family were Strange to say, it then came out that the awav was sufficient. I placed Caroline in a about the tea table. It was six o’clock in the drawing-room had at one time been divided perfect sleep, and used all the force I could afternoon, the fashion at Peterboro being to into two apartments. The room at the back command to cause her to awake in her normal dine at noon and to have supper in the even­ was Grandmother Smith’s sitting-room. She state. The only result was that she awoke ing. was accustomed to have her tea there at six and said, in such a forlorn tone, “ Oh, /w-.u 1 The house is one of the quaint, restful and o’clock in the afternoon. After tea she al­ did wish to be Caroline once more!” roomy mansions known to the past and now ways walked up and down in the twilight, Caroline was born with Libra ascending, often imitated in the dwellings of the newly her hands habituallv folded, her head bent. Uranus on the ascending degree. Can some rich. There is a wide hall running through The ghost seen by Mrs. Dr. Smith is not hypnotist or anti-obsession artist tell how to the middle. On one side of this are the li­ the only visitor which seems to haunt the effect a cure ? 10 The New York Mecgaczine of Mysteries

isi raj Lsi rj isi rJ isi rj lsi rj isi rj isi raj isi raj isi rj lsi rj isi rj isi rj isi rj isi rj isi [hj lsi rJ isi raj £ Frea.k of Journalism . This pi Isi Unique Publication p p A CURIOUS publication, which has found its way to this city, is a Christian Science journal, p NO DR.EAD OF DEATH s entitled Christian, published in Denver, Col., El p by Thomas J. Shelton. It is being used as a pj Testimony of the Dying That El method of proselyting, and a few days ago El They Have No Fear p many copies were received in ihe homes of p p this city, says the New York Herald. Only Persons in health Desist the Approach of Death, Which Comes as a p Some of the statements in the paper are in E Relief to the Sick—Experiences of a Physician W'ho has Seen metaphysical language, and one of the most interesting is this, by the editor: P Thousands of People Die p S1 lal I am doing greater things than Christ did while he was on earth. I am doing my work in all Et R]l51RJl51RJlSlRJlSlRJlSlRJl51RJlSlRJl51RJl51RJl51RJlSlRJl51RJl51RJlSlRJl51RJl51RJl51 s parts of the earth. His work was confined to a small district in an obscure part of the world. I am doing just what he said the Spirit Christ From the Philadelphia Press hundreds whom you have seen on the thresh­ would do I speak the Word of Truth in the Silence and heal all manner of sickness. I have If there is such a tiling as being an author­ old of death which you could interpret as a positive indication of a future life?" patients in London, Rome, Vienna and in all parts ity on death, Thomas H. Andrews, surgeon to of Europe. I am healing the sick in Australia, the Bureaus of Police and Fire, should rank "N ot one." Mexico, South America and in all parts of the high as an expert. In the course of thirty- “ Have you ever encountered instances in civilized world. seven years of active practice he has con­ which dving persons have told you of visions In the old literary days novelists called ducted over four thousand post-mortem ex­ which they have seen, of voices they have their readers “ dear reader," but the editor of aminations and has seen at least half that heard ?" this Denver publication is even more affection number of human beings die. " Yes. I recall particularly one instance. ate. Here is a sample: He talks freely on the subject of death. It was that of a man who fiad apparently died, but revived for a little time before he I am the Light of the World ! He has looked into the eyes of dying men I say unto you, my Sweetheart, that the days and women and children of every kind and finally passed away. He told me about, the of miracles can never pass. I Am Spirit, and, condition, and this is the summing up of it lights and sounds' and chaos of magnificent therefore, I create and re-create every day. I all: things he had seen, • beyond the river,’ as he say, all the time, “ Let there be light." i Am •• Death is as much of a mvstery to me now put it." the bright and morning star. 1 Am the Sun of Dr. Andrews, it may be remarked, is a Righteousness. I Am the only real Light, and as it was when 1 first saw a human being die. he who follows me will not walk in the darkness. •• Nature is never so kind to man as when churchman with strong religious views. she is severing the ties that bind him to this “ I have found," continued Dr. Andrews, One department of this journal has the earthly life. She removes all fear, amelio­ “ that persons of clean life, of honorable, up­ caption “ Eye to Eye Talks." The “ Eye to rates every harsh surrounding, softens every right, religious character, not only do not dis­ Eye " is intentionally a misnomer, for the idea sound and smooths the narrow pathway to the play an indifference to the approach of death, is"“ I to I ” talks. 1*1115 is an extract: grave with kindly hands. The easiest thing as those of grosser life do, but welcome it as Say. Sweetheart, this is an I to I talk. All your in life is to die." " a relief from care and toil. There is some­ so-called higher criticism is nonsense. It is that "In your experience, Dr. Andrews," I thing about the approach of death that, rec­ hypocritical effort to excuse their want of dis asked, “ have you ever found a case in which onciles men to it. The senses are dulled, cipleship. fear of death rose to the point where men the perceptive faculties are blunted and the The typewriter girl of the journal evidently fought and screamed at its approach ?” end comes quietly, painlessly, like a gentle has a column for her editorial reflections. “ Never. In severe sickness death comes sleep. This is part of her ebullition, under the head­ in the guise of a welcome visitor. On the " In this condition, I mean on the approach ing “ Helen Hints:" battlefield or as the result of accident or sud­ of death, those who retain their faculties to I am Helen. den shock, when it comes to a man swiftly, any degree become more or less philosophers. I am the licker who licks the stamps who but a moment before was in perfect They know that death is inevitable, that it is I am the addresser who addresses the enve­ only a question of hours, and they accept the lopes. health and half an hour later will be dead, a 1 am the one who sits here and writes down fortitude which I cannot describe and have verdict without any demonstration and in a what the Boss says. And sometimes he doesn’t never been able to analyze sustains the vic­ philosophical way. In all my experience I care whether I hear it or not, but walks the floor tim." have never found’ a case in which a dying man and talks to himself, and I have to catch every *• Do men and women of the higher grades or woman complained against the inevitable, word the best I can. of intelligence exhibit any different emotions attempted to fight its approach or even It is a good place to work, for the life current feared it," said Dr. Andrews. is so strong you don’t get wearv. as death approaches, from those gifted with I wish that each one would send a self-ad­ less mental power? Does the professional dressed and stumped envelope. man or the scientist betray any different feel­ 1 wish that you would always write vour ad­ ings or emotions from those exhibited by the dress in full somewhere in your letter. The best day laborer or the most ignorant of men >" She Is 144 Yea.rs Old and place to write it is in the lower left hand corner “ No and yes,” was the reply. “ The scien­ Still Works on the last page of your letter. Give your post tist, the man or woman of keen intelligence office. Give your State. Give it in full. and trained faculties, unless their lives have WE CAN LIVE TO GREAT AGE NOWADAVS The editor of the publication does not take been conspicuous for an exhibition of faith in A l l over the world people are living to kindly to Carrie Nation, who has been religion and its teachings, are slower to ac­ great ages. From now on the age of human smashing saloons in Kansas. Here is what cept ministrations of clergymen and others. beings is to be very great. If you don't be­ he says: The man of low intelligence yields at the lieve it read this magazine every month. It What do you think of Mrs. Carrie Nation, the first approach and calls for religious con­ will show many how to live more than one saloon smasher? solation. hundred years. She is no worse heathen than the other heath­ ens. It is all paganism. The saloon was created “ The reason for this is, I think, that the Here is a case of longevity vouched for by- by the church, and now it is trying to destroy its vast majority of professional men, outside of El Morro, of Arica, a city in one of the own creation. In Kansas the saloon is an outlaw, the clergy, and particularly doctors and Peruvian provinces held for’ransom by Chili. and Mrs. Nation is an outlaw, so ii is tit for tat. scientists generally, are not inclined to be­ In the valley of Codpa, in the same prov­ She says she is led by the Lord, but this is all in lieve or accept what they cannot demon­ ince, it says that there is a woman, named her imagination. The Lord Christ never smashes strate as a scientific fact. And yet, as a rule, anything He is not a smasher. Martina Celada, who is 144 years old, and to Jesus seems to be having a hell of a time m this these men and women willingly accept tilts day works in the fields. According to same Topeka. As I said before, all is Good. It religious ministration when death is only a her many relatives living in Arica she was is all right for cals to scratch, but I am not a cat, matter of hours. born in 1757, and has seen most of the noted therefore l refuse to scratch. “ I recall an instance during the war. One men of the South American wars of inde­ Regret is expressed in this way at the slow­ of the most distinguished men in the Confed­ pendence. ness of some cures by the Christian Science eracy was brought to me for treatment. I This old woman has seen three centuries, treatment: saw at once that his death was a matter of the eighteenth, the nineteenth and the dawn hours only. He was one of the most brilliant The only defect in the treatments at present is of the twentieth. She was twice married, that they are not instantaneous. They ought to and charming men I ever met. I told him the first time at the age of forty, and the be. The time is coming when I will speak one that he could not live and asked him if he second when she was sixty. Her sons and Word in Silence and the patient will be healed desired to talk with a clergyman. He re­ daughters are all dead; some of her grand­ from that hour. 1 have had several cases of in­ plied in a rather careless way that he did not children are living, and she has great-grand­ stantaneous healing, and these prove the prin­ feel disposed to change his views—that children and great-great-grandchildren. Two ciple. death, as be believed, ended all, and there of the last generation are of marriageable The editor apparently does not have to eat was no use of dragging religion in at the last age, so the old lady may yet live to see her breakfast, which is a good thing if he wishes hour. fifth generation. to lie in bed all the morning and be in time “ That was in the morning. He then felt The old woman has some means, but she for lunch. This is what he says: strong and clear headed. When I saw him in does not want to enjoy them, because she I am a metaphysician, therefore 1 do not give the afternoon he was weaker, and referring says it is not yet time. ’ She wants to live as attention to breakfast or no breakfast. I eat to our earlier conversation told me that he she does in order to entertain all who come breakfast when I feel like it. I advise you to do had been raised in the Methodist faith and to her house. the same. But if you care to have a good diges­ that its teachings had left an impress on his tion, you had better leave your stomach alone. Doña Martina is somewhat blind, for some­ Why do people who claim to be mental scientists mind. He asked me to send for a Methodist thing like a film of flesh covers her eyes; go crazy over such silly questions ? clergyman, which I did. When I saw him she has completely lost her hearing, and just before he died he told me what comfort This shows how generously the editor’s her power to think went shortly after her patrons “ treat ” him: the talk with the minister had given him and sight. But she can still walk very well that he now would face death with a braver through the fields she cultivates, and as It is well in taking treatments for business suc­ heart than he could have done before. cess to stick right to the work every month for a late as 1899 she was known to climb up a fig whole year of more. In fact, many successful “ I merely cite this instance,” said Dr. An­ tree to gather the fruit. business men have sent me money regularly drews, “ to show that there is nothing which It may be said in passing that such stories every month for the past five years. They say it influences a man so much in later life, and of great old age are not very uncommon in pays them to keep in my vibration. even in the death hour, as the environment Peru, where the facility for gaining a living and teaching of his boyhood davs. 'Jimmy' and the equable climate seem to conduce to Logue. the notorious burglar and criminal, longevity. It is a very common thing to see The Ancient Vedas told me here in my office that a night never Indians, cholos, who are said to be as old as “L if e and progress consist not in isolation went over his head that he did not kneel down 100 years or more, doing their daily work and contraction but in expansion." This is and say his prayers.” with the ease of a young man, and carrying the teaching of the ancient Vedanta. “ Has there ever been any demonstration, their years as lightly as in the days of their physical or otherwise, on the part of all the youth. F e a r is the graveyard of prosperity. — Loth. The New York Ma.ga.zine of Mysteries 11

Identity Is Not Lost in the Spirit World T he Rev. Minot J. Savage, the great New York minister, believes in modern spir­ Is the XOorld to be itualism. At one of Ins recent sermons in the Church of the Messiah, among other things, he said: There has sprung up in the hearts of men, Destroyed this year? as naturally as the grasses grow in spring, the belief that some time and somewhere the inequalities were to be equalized; the people Another Great Flood Predicted who deserved to suffer would suffer, that the people who deserved to be happy would be happy. And as they have not seen equalities brought about during the brief span of hu­ In the Sunday Chicago Tribune of Jan. 6, tunes ago prophesied ill for the inhabitants man life, and as they have generally believed 1901. we find tlie following startling predic­ of the world when the planets again should in a continued life "beyond the grave, they tion of another Deluge or l-'lood similar to be in conjunction in the sign Capricorn. have felt that these rectifications were only the Great Flood of Noah’s time. The adept As to the direct meaning of this planetary being postponed—that over yonder some­ astrologers employed by this magazine say phenomenon, however, astrologists, person­ where. wherever the place of good or evil that it is a false alarm, and that no general ally, are more or less noncommittal. From a might be located, things would be made to Flood will ever again take place on this London publication called Coming Events, come right. earth. Here is what the Chicago paper says: however, an unnamed contributor is quoted Dr. Savage said that every description of That the world may be drowned again in as regarding the situation with a certain de­ heaven that he had ever read, whether that December, 1901, as it was drowned in the gree of credence. He writes: of John in Revelation, or of Dante or of time of Noah, is a possibility now considered This term flood, or deluge, does not neces­ Milton, had always wearied him. as human by astrologists and students of the occult. sarily mean the total extinction by submerg­ faculties are too limited to describe a thing The possibility is based upon a Babylonian ence of all the living creatures of the earth, like perfect bliss." On the other hand, he tablet, written thousands of years before the but rather the submersion of a continent, had found Dante’s hell and Milton’s descrip­ star of Bethlehem shone upon Judea’s flocks, such as happened in the case of the lost tion fascinating. They were “ human, in and ages before the twentieth century was in Lemuria and Atlantis, traditions of which all spite of their horror; real." He continued; the line of evolution. nations and people seem to possess. Neces­ I believe in a heaven that will satisfy the Its significance lies in the fact that in that sarily such a huge submersion would cause personal consciousness of identity. I want m mth Capricorn will be the ruling sign in fearful tidal waves in all other lands, and to to remember everything, from the dawn of the zodiac, as it was when the rain fell forty such phenomena the Noachian record prob­ my being up to the’ present time, and carry it days and forty nights upon the ark of Noah. ably refers. Whether partial satisfaction in with me, so that it can be I who am doing, For the significance of this phenomenon December, 1901, of the conditions specified seeing, feeling as a part of always. the astrologists turn to a prediction made by by Berosus will produce even partially simi­ The idea that deatli puts an end to all Berosus, a Chaldean astronomer, and one of lar results is a matter we may leave "to the growth, the one in which 1 was trained: that the ablest men of his time. Berosus wrote a consideration of students. you are a moment after death either a devil history of the Babylonian Empire, in which Since the time of Ptolemy each of the or an angel, that this is the end of it, lives no he quoted these Babylonian tablets. Not twelve signs of the zodiac has been supposed more. So there stretches out before us an only that, but he declares that another deluge to have a decided influence over certain cities illimitable career, in which there is a field for may be expected whenever the Sun. Moon and countries, and the experience of cen­ ail that one can dream or think or accom­ and planets again occupy the sigh of Capri­ turies, it is claimed, proves that misfortunes plish. corn. always come to those cities and countries As to astronomical conditions in December whenever malefic planets are in their signs. next, only the Sun. Mercury, Mars, Jupiter If this be true, and there should be even a Let Us Strive to Die of Old and Saturn will be in the sign Capricorn as partial flood in 1901, India, the Puniaub, required by the Chaldean: toward the end of Thrace, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Albania, Hesse, Age the month” the Moon and Neptune will be in Mexico, Lithuania and the City of Oxford, in A l l the great seers and occult adepts fully the opposite sign, Cancer. But as to this ap­ England, would be most likely to suffer, since understand the importance of the poet's parent lack of conditions in the Berosus thev are the places over which Capricorn is w o rd s: prophecy, it may be said that Neptune was said to hold sway. unknown at the time of the Noachian deluge, Cancer, however, will be afflicted at the " I’ll die. so please you, of old age." and that Venus then was a minor planet. In same time by the presence of Neptune and This magazine believes in prolonging life consequence the astronomers of the time by the opposition of the other planets in and making it as bright and happy as pos­ hardly would have taken cognizance of either Capricorn, and as this sign is said to rule sible. of them, even had they been in the sign. Africa, Scotland, Holland, New Zealand, In Servia. with a population of 2.250.000 in­ As to the position of the Moon next Decem­ Amsterdam, Cadiz, Constantinople, Venice, habitants, 575 persons are more than 100 ber, it is insisted that while the other planets Genoa, New York. Milan and Manchester, years old. mentioned by Berosus are in conjunction in occultists assert that these places will also be Ireland has, in its population of 4,700,000. the sign Capricorn, the Moon will be there seriously afflicted in.December, 1901. 578 persons over 100 years of age. for some hours at least. The basis of Berosus’s prediction of an­ Many people in tliis country are over too In view of the Chaldean prediction and the other flood is upon the position of the planets years old. coincidence of the planets in Capricorn at the when they shall be in Capricorn, as they were \Ve will be pleased at all times to hear end of the new year, the question may be ill the time of Noah. from old people—people who are near or past asked, ■* Is the world again to be drowned as The question for the student of the occult the century mark. it was in the time of the sons of Noah ?" is. if the planets in Capricorn, as they were Let us all strive to live long, useful and As to Berosus and his standing as a his­ at the time of the flood, were responsible for happy lives. torian. he has not been questioned. He was the overwhelming of continents, will a par­ There is nothing that will make for health, in the height of his fame at the time of tial arrangement of them in that sign bring prosperity, long life and happiness so much Alexandrian conquests, and was priest of the about a partial recurrence of the flood ? as the study of occult and metaphysical Bel, translating the records and astronomy Time will prove it. truths—the very subjects treated upon in this of his people into Greek. His works all have But has one a theory benefitting the occa­ magazine each "month. perished, but they were drawn upon liberally sion and the conditions ? Are you a regular paid subscriber ? It will pay you to send your subscription this very by Eusebius anci others of the time, and [YOCIANASDa , one of the greatest living Hindu these quotations at second and third hands Yogi Astrologers, who is employed regularly by day." It costs oniy one dollar for one whole have been verified in a striking manner. this magazine as one of its adept Astrologers, year. Up to June 1 new subscriptions for one For instance, the story of the Noachian says the above article from the Chicago Tribune whole year will be accepted for only twenty- is "moonshine" and nonsensical According to five cents. Send your name now. deluge, taken from Berosus, has been found the great Hindu system of Astrology, YoGIA- identical with the story in cuneiform charac­ NANDA says that this planet is to last billionsand ters on the Babylonian tablets. According to billions of years yet. all the time improving and Berosus, ten kings reigned in Babylon before getting better and better. Jan. 1, 1001, we en­ the Flood, and after it eight dynasties, to his tered the Fourth Great Cycle, and the Real A New Theory of the Aurora own time. All this has been accepted as Golden Age.-E d it o r .) and of the Earth’s Tail history. The Babylonian tablets which Berosus The Ghosts Vanished T he Swedish physicist. Arrhenius, has quotes are now in the British Museum in sought lately to explain the aurora borealis London. Thev were _ exhumed from the LIVING DOWN A HOODOO bv a new theory, considering it as the effect ancient City of Nineveh. They contain an A N e w Y o r k hotel that is daily over­ of negative electrical discharges from the account of the Deluge as the most important crowded with patronage of the first class sun. message to the modern world. was designed as an apartment house, and oc­ These discharges are subject to fluctuations Professor Sayce, of Oxford, a noted Orien­ cupied as such until ghosts drove the tenants which manifest themselves on the planets talist and the author of “ Ancient Empires,” away, says the New York Press. Every more or less strongly according to the planet's says of Berosus as a historian: night there were strange noises in each of distance and its position with reference to Berosus was a priest of the Temple of the 35° or 400 rooms. The occupants lost the solar equator. Bel at Babylon; is said to have been a con­ sleep and nerves. Women were afraid to be Violent discharges take the form of cathode temporary of Alexander the Great, and lived left alone in broad daylight. Leases were rays, which are the cause of the aurorae. into the reign of Antiochus Soter, and had, ruthlessly broken, and people moved away in The phenomena extend over the whole therefore, special opportunities of knowing swarms." The news that the place was earth, but they are especially conspicuous in the history and astronomy of his country, up­ haunted spread all over the country, enticing the polar regions, for the reason that there on which he wrote in Greek. Recent discov­ scores of bold investigators. 'File noises con­ the rays are' more luminous because of the eries have abundantly established the trust­ tinued, but no ghost was seen. The pro­ greater density of the air. worthiness of this Manetho of Babylon, whose prietor was in despair. Some advised him to According to Arrhenius, all the planets, like works, unfortunately, are known "to us only burn the house down, others to wreck it. comets, have tails which consist chiefly of through quotations óf second and third hand. Finally he sold. Another of New York’s negatively electrified particles, but are much The account of the deluge as given by seven-day sensations dropped out of mind, less bright than the tails of comets. Even Berosus agrees perfectly, even in its details, and presently new tenants, who had never the moon has a tail, which becomes visible with that of the cuneiform texts, in spite of heard of the haunts," flocked in to take ad­ during eclipses. These phenomena are as­ the fragmentary and corrupt state in which vantage of the reduced rates. To-day we cribed to a continual exchange of fine par­ his fragments have come down to us. witness the spectacle of a hoodoo lived down ticles of matter which trail behind all the This is the Chaldean astronomer who cen- in the very heart of our great city. heavenly bodies. Wars, Murders, Calamities— Amazing Prophecy for 1901 E u r o p e will see a peck of trouble this year, according to tile long-distance prophet who in London gets up Old Moore’s Almanac.” War and sudden murder and rebellion are commonplaces in its list of horrors. Last year this more than up-to-date publi­ cation prophesied that there would be just one king assassinated in Europe, that England would have a great war and that India would suffer from famine. The year 1901. according to this authority, will be tumultuous. January.— A dangerous agitation will arise in France and an attack will be made upon A Page of Mystifying Items the Republic. February and March.—Serious uprisings will occur against British rule. Riots and general disorder in all England’s possessions in the extreme East. expecting to see my brother Mat, he was no­ April.—The month will be comparatively where to be seen." I spent all the evening peaceful and uneventful throughout the seeking for him at places where he might have world. If an attempt to comprehend the state­ called, but without success. I was so dis­ May.— Ireland will rise against England, ment that the universe is made up of one turbed at this that 1 went off home to Shiney following the example of India, accompanied hundred and eighty-six nonillions of tren- Row next morning to see if they knew aught; by much bloodshed. tillions of atoms makes the imagination of but he had not been there, nor had they heard "June.— The anarchists will again become the reader to reel, a wild guess might be any news of him. But this was the astound­ active throughout Europe. An attempt will hazarded as to the condition of the mind of ing coincidence which I learned afterward: be made on the life of the young King of the man who found it out. This man, Mat died in the hospital at Elsinore about the Spain by his political enemies. He is cau­ Prince Gregori Stourdza, a distinguished time when I saw him standing in the street in tioned not to expose himself in public during Roumanian general, has just published his Durham. The date was October 21, 1S37." the month. theory about the universe. The visible July.—A number of serious catastrophes world, he announces, is composed of about Cevught by Cla.irvoya.rvce are promised for this month all over the eighty million stars, which he distributes as world, both on land and sea. People intend­ follows: Fifty millions corresponding to the THIEF'S VICTIM CONSULTED THE ORACLE AND ing to take journeys at this time are advised twenty-five hundred nebulous constellations GOT A TIP to stay at home till the dangerous period is counted by Herschel, of which each is com­ S u p t . Joh n B ir d , of the Sorrento apart­ past. posed of about twenty thousand stars; ten ments, at No. 136 Madison avenue. New York September.—India will be visited by the millions near the Milky Way, ten millions in City, believes in clairvoyants. There have most terrible famine in years. the clouds of Magellan, and, finally, ten mil­ been a number of petty thefts among the October.—An outbreak will occur among lions among those stars that have been ex­ help at the Sorrento recently, and when Bird the dervishes which will attain serious pro­ tinguished and are in process of formation. lost a gold watch and some clothing he saw portions before being suppressed. These stars are accompanied by planets, that something would have to be done. He November.—Serious trouble will arise in and, estimating the average mass of each didn’t want to accuse any of the employees, Holland because of some new and radical star from what is known of our solar system, but he did want to find the thief. diplomatic policy. The agitation will threaten he finds that the eighty million stars have a Bird gave the matter a good deal of thought a great European war, which, however, will total mass which is equivalent to that of the and finally decided that he would consult a be averted. following number of cubic metres of water: clairvoyant about the thefts. He called on December.—A number of social disturb­ 168,413,226,376,053,770,000,000,000,000,000,000. an old’ negro mammy who, her customers ances will occur in this month in Europe and The volume of these eighty million stars is say, can tell the future as well as the past. America. There will be a number of serious equivalent to a sphere with a diameter so “ You've lost something," said the clairvoy­ strikes requiring armed intervention. long that light could pass through only in ant to Bird. “ It’s a small round thing that The prophecy concerning Holland is con­ 3,006,000 years. can fit in your vest pocket.” sidered the most interesting announcement Prince "Stourdza calculates also that there “ That's it,” said Bird, delightedly. “ It's in the Almanac. It is feared that Holland are ninety-three nonillions of trentillions of my watch." may during the year take a stand on the Boer atoms condensed in the eighty million stars '' Yes, it’s your watch,” said the old mammy, question, which may bring about a concen­ and just as many in a free state, or altogether with a wise look. trated move of Europe upon England. one hundred and eighty-six nonillions of tren­ Then Bird told the old woman about the tillions of atoms—a number which one can thefts. He says she described one of his They Cadled It a. Mira.de write by putting down 186 and placing 120 employees accurately to him, and told him to noughts after it. watch" that man and he would find the pil­ A RIBBON THAT BELONGED TO A SAINT USED TO ferer. CHECK A BIG FIRF. IN MONTREAL Deeply impressed, Bird went back to the In these days of wonderful happenings we Hundreds of Thousands of Sorrento and told his wife that when he are not startled at even miracles. The nuns Y ea.rs wasn’t around he wanted her to keep her eye of the congregation of Notre Dame are at on the day engineer. Following his instruc­ present saying prayers to thank Providence I a m b l ic h o s, in his famous treatise on Egyp­ tions, Mrs. Bird thought she saw the engineer for what they believe to have been a miracle tian Theurgy, describes the knowledge of acting suspiciously in his basement quarters. in Montreal. the stars as a wisdom imparted by Divinity, Bird was informed of this fact and he hurried At thetnillion-dollar fire which occurred in and confirmed by observations made for hun­ to the cellar. that city recently, and which destroyed a dreds of thousands of years. Proklos, who In a dark corner Bird saw a case of Rhine number of large warehouses in the rear'of the followed him as a teacher, affirmed that the wine which he knew didn't belong there. He famous parish church of Notre Dame, grave Chaldean sages had records of astral revolu­ left the engineer, and watched to see that no fears were entertained for the safety of the tions which embraced entire cycles of time. one went to his quarters. Half an hour later stately pile, and at one period almost every Cicero, in his treatise on Divination, stated Bird went to the basement again, but the case hope of saving it had disappeared. that their accounts were for over 370,000 of wine had disappeared. At this moment the Sisters sent to the fire­ years, while Diodoros increased the number The superintendent hurried to the Tender­ men a piece of blue ribbon which is said to to 470,000. Verily, past time is an eternity. loin Police Station and asked the police to ar­ have belonged to St. Amable, and which had rest Christopher Strauch, the engineer. De­ been given to them by Mgr. Bruchesi. The tectives Hutchinson aud McGuire followed captain of the first brigade was asked to A Sailor's Apparition Strauch when he quit work, and when they throw the ribbon into the flames where they A n interesting account of an apparition is saw him go into a saloon they followed him threatened the church most, and it is de­ found in The Two Worlds, taken from the and asked the contents of the bag he carried. clared that immediately after he had done so collection of stories made by William T. When he wouldn’t tell they examined the the fire miraculously subsided in that direc­ Stead, which is entitled, “ Real Ghost bag. In it were half a dozen bottles of Rhine tion and the church was saved. Stories.” It was told by Alderman Fowler, wine. They arrested Strauch and locked him A similar miracle is said to have been who is still living, and is "one of the patriarchs up on Bird's complaint. wrought in Montreal some time ago. The of the North of England. The case of wine was stolen from the stor­ exposure of a statue’of the Virgin Mary in “ I was assistant at a shop in Durham, near age room of Albert Heidelbach. one of the front of a convent is said to have saved it my present place of business, when a singu­ tenants. Bird told the police. Bird only ac­ from destruction in a fire which swept out of lar circumstance happened to me which cused the engineer of the theft of the wine. existence every other building for several seemed to imply that the spirits of the de­ He said, though, that there wasn't any doubt blocks around. parted have, at "least at the time of their de­ in his mind as to who committed the other parture, the power to manifest themselves to robberies. He admitted that he based his Clairvoyant Finds Body of survivors. 1 had a brother, whom I familiarly opinion on what the clairvoyant had told called Mat. who was a sailor and had gone oh him. a. Drowned Lad a voyage to the Baltic. One Saturday after­ In order to find the body of Clarence Six- noon I was attending to a customer, reckon­ bury, a schoolboy, who was’ drowned recently ing up an amount to be paid after serving the Chica.go Sees Mira.ge of in Indian River, Watertown, N. Y., and swept articles, when I happened to look toward the M ichigan City away in the flood, his family employed a window, and was surprised to see my brother clairvoyant. The body was soon recovered. Mat outside. Our eyes met; 1 smiled and A t Chicago, on April 6, Michigan City, Mrs. Sarah Owens, a" clairvoyant of Water- nodded to him, and said ' I'll be with you Ind., more than forty miles southeast across town, accompanied the family to the Sixburv presently,' or something of that sort. I told Lake Michigan, was’ plainly seen in mirage home in the village of Philadelphia and there my master that my brother Mat had come by a large number of Chicago residents. told of her vision of the place where the body and was standing outside. I was immedi­ lay, her information coming, she asserted, ately released from my engagement with the It is unwise, and certainlv not the part of a from the spirit of the boy's great-grand­ customer, and told that I might go to my broad or liberal mind, to ridicule any belief or mother. brother, and also bring him to sleep with me doctrine. Remember, "ridicule is the argu­ The body was soon found at the place de­ that night. When I went out into the street ment of the ignorant.” scribed. The New York Ma.ga.zine of Mysteries 13

Some Predictions of For­ Orve Million Dollars for She Tells of Blue Music and tune-Tellers That Came Studying Ghosts, Spirits G hosts T r u e and Psychic Phenomena. A LECTURE CONCERNING COLORS Jiy A'. N. J’rice, A.A/., D.D., in Magazine T h at moonshine and every blessed ghost is L o r d R o b e r t s makes no secret of the fact ale blue in color, that a tornado is of a dark that years ago his great march from Kabul o f M in d I n an article in The Arena for December, lue hue, and that the soul leaves the body in to Kandahar was foretold to him by a " for­ San orange flame were a few of the novel and tune-teller,” and that he was so impressed at 1900, Prof. James H. Hyslop, of Columbia University, calls for a "million dollars, the unique points of esoteric information secured the tune that he had full faith in the prophecy. by the women who attended the lecture of The late Sir Henry Parkes was the son of interest of which shall be applied to Psychi­ cal Research. I believe the money will be Mme. Alice Le Plongeon, delivered recently a farm laborer in Warwickshire, and, like at the home of Mrs. Egbert Guernsey, No. many of his class, more than ordinarily super­ forthcoming. Intelligent men of means will no doubt see the wisdom of this demand. 180Central Park South. New York City. stitious. One day at a countv fair a gypsy The subject of the lecture was “ Blue and fortune-teller told him that he would find There are individual capitalists in the land who could set aside a million dollars for this Orange," and Mine. Le Plongeon, the better great honor and wealth “ on the other side of to illustrate her ideas, wore a becoming gown the world.” Parkes selected Australiaas the purpose without financial embarrassment to themselves. of dark blue, relieved at waist and throat by place where the promised fortune lay. and touches of orange. Because, however, ac­ landed at Sydney in 18.59 with a wife and baby No field of investigation is more important and interesting at the present time than this. cording to the lecturer's theorv, dark blue is and three shillings. Fifteen years later he depressing to the spirits, a bright orange entered the Parliament of New South Wales Psychical Research is too important to be left to the few enthusiastic devotees who are ex­ scarf was draped artistically about the and ultimately became Premier of the colony, shoulders when the address was well under a knight and a man of wealth. perimenting in various parts of the world. Most of the experiments are private, and are way. When the British battleship Victoria was GHOSTS APPEAR IN BLUE LIGHT lost a certain individual wrote to the news­ never published ; the myriad facts that have papers asserting that he had foretold to Ad­ come to light lie scattered in the minds and That blue was the invariable attribute of miral Tryon the date and nature of the dis­ memories of men and women throughout the melancholy and of people who found no ioy aster. This statement, incredible as it may world—thus renderinga generalization of them in life, the’ lecturer proved by asserting that seem, was substantiated later by the produc­ impossible. A fund of, say, forty thousand ghosts appeared to “ sensitives" surrounded tion of documentary proof. It was this same dollars a year would enable well-chosen scien­ always by a curious blue light. Cheeks and astrologer who predicted to President Carnot tists to prosecute careful and honest investi­ lips lost color and hearts almost forgot to the hour and dav of his assassination. gations to satisfactory results. A large vol­ beat while Mme. Le Plongeon told of ghostly Mine. Modjeska. the Countess Bozenta, when ume giving accounts of experiments could be experiences of her very own, in which appari­ she was a girl of fifteen, accidentally encoun­ published annually, so that ill a few years tions had always manifested themselves in a tered a gypsy woman in the Ring Theatre, abundant trustworthy material would be on blue light. This effect was by no means lost Vienna, who told her that one day she would hand on which to generalize and from which when Miss Mabel Munro, attired in a chilling wear a coronet. Two years later" the actress to infer general principles. costume of cold grays and blues, sang Ade­ married her guardian, M. Modjeska, and they The New Psychology is at present the Dark laide Proctor’s "The Storm,” to illustrate laughed the prophecy to scorn. Nevertheless, Continent. It is true "that a landing has been the fact that a storm is blue in color. it came true, for after four years of married effected on its weird shores, but what is now In the same logical fashion the lecturer de­ life M. Modjeska died, and three years after needed is a well-equipped party to explore to­ duced that since blue is a cold color, and Mine. Modjeska became the wife of the ward the centre. Professor Hyslop's proposal, reason a cold process, therefore reason, or Count Bozenta Chlopowski. if responded to, would organize and equip the color of the brain, must be blue. At this Ten years ago two pretty girls, Rachael this exploring party. Let Mind renew the point more "b lu e” music was played and and Laura Gurney, were assistants in the call, and let the newspapers of the country sung by Miss M. F. Sinclair, to show"that the establishment of Stme. Elise, a well-known repeat it, till the heart or hearts of some hint of blue in moonlight was also the hall­ London dressmaker. Dissatisfied with their wealthy philanthropist or philanthropists mark of pale sentimentality and romance. surroundings, they sought, half in jest and half shall be touched, and the “ sinews of war” When the audience had been depressed and in earnest, the services of a Bond street sor­ furnished. Such a fund should be used, first, chilled to the last degree Mme. Le Plongeon ceress, who promptly comforted them by the to make experiments and to accumulate facts; warmed and thrilled it, and sent it home in assurance that they "would marry titled hus­ secondly, to demonstrate the truth or falsity touch with real life, by her eloquent remarks bands. So preposterous did this’seem to the of spiritualism, hypnotism, telepathy, clair­ concerning orange. "Orange, said the lec­ sisters that they vowed to renounce thence­ voyance, etc.; thirdly, to inquire into the turer, was the color of revelry and of war. forth all belief in fortune-telling. Neverthe­ nature of the soul and’its relation to matter; It was the sound of the trumpet call, the color less, the one is now Rachael. Countess of fourthly, to determine the application of of that vivid dance, the Spanish "bolero," Dudley, and mistress of Witley Court, Worces­ psychic force to education and therapeutics. and the color of fire. As a final proof that tershire, Hitnley Hall, Staffordshire, and i believe that Psychical Research has vast orange is the color symbolizing life, it was as­ a mansion in Carlton Gardens; while the possibilities ; that psychology will yet. as it serted that the souf leaves the body through other, as Lady Troubridge, cuts a conspicuous is natural to suppose, cap ttie climax of all the head in an orange or yellow flariie. figure in the smartest of smart London so­ sciences. The intelligent world can no longer SHE PREDICTS COLOR BATHS ciety. be satisfied with a psychology based on mere Since color has so tremendous an effect Even Queen Victoria confessed to a certain introspection and casual observation. It is upon life Mme. Le Plongeon predicted that amount of belief in fortune-telling, based on demanding that experiments in this field what she called color baths would be the the fact that when a girl, at Broadstairs, she, should be made as carefully and as honestly chief delight of afflicted humanity in years to in company with several young friends of her as in the field of natural science. It has a come. A bath filled with water woui’d be ex­ own sex, had foretold to her a number of events right to expect more wonderful developments posed to rays of light colored so as to pro­ which were fulfilled in a remarkable manner. in the psychological field than photography, duce the desired effect. For the aged, red Among other things she was told of her telegraphy, telephony, electric illumination, was prescribed; for the anaimic, orange, and marriage with Prince Albert, and. further, motor-electricity, the X-ray, etc., in the field for the nervous, a bath of pale blue. that one of her immediate descendants was of physical science. Surely Mind is a vaster to “ reign over a great European Empire not field than Matter ; and to bring out its won­ then created.” This has come true, as her ders nothing is wanting but systematic, hon­ Sees Her Child’s Soul in a. grandson, the Kaiser, now reigns over the est, intelligent, persevering research. P e t Dog German Empire, which did not then exist. M r s. M. E. H a l p r u n e r , of Alameda, Cal., The utterer of these prophecies was a cer­ Died After a. Sermon on believes firmly that the soul of her dead tain “ Mother Maddern,” a once well-known D ea.th daughter, Lillian May Halpruner, dwells in character at English watering places. the body of a little Spitz dog she possesses. A c a b l e despatch from Paris to the New On ttie birthday anniversary of the dead York Sun, dated April 6, says; Father Souil- girl, a year ago, she refrained for the first lan, a monk of the Sacred" Heart at Mont­ time from going to the cemetery to strew Men Sit on This Lounge, martre, preaching in the Cathedral at Nantes flowers on the child's grave. She had been on death and eternity, concluded by remark­ told a snow-white Spitz pup was to be given T h e n D ie ing that he had preached Lenten sermons for to her by a neighbor, and went to receive the the last twenty years in many places, and gift. The white pup ran away from her, but T h e r e is a luxurious lounge in a room in noticed almost "invariably that within a week m its stead a golden-haired pup ran up to her one of the public buildings in the City Hall of his preaching someone among his hearers and nestled close. Park, New York City, which is called “ The was called to his account. This, he said, was “ At once I saw my daughter's gestures Hoodoo." City officials of high and low a terrible example made by God, and was no duplicated by the dog,” she said. " I knew degree fight as shy of it when they enter that doubt a necessary lesson. that twice in seven years Lillian's soul had room as though they knew that there was a “ If the same thing happens here,” he con­ come back to be near me. The soul of my rattlesnake coiled up in one of the corners. tinued. “ I wish that the person called may daughter entered the body of my golden Spitz There is not enough money in the biggest be ready to appear before the Lord.” dog, Earl of Glengower, a year ago, and I national bank in the city to make a Council­ He rested a few moments after the sermon, treat him as I would my child. man take a seat on it. and then approaching the chancel, fell dead “ At night he puts his paws together for a Sometimes there are persons who, having on the flagstones. few minutes in prayer, just as Lillian did." occasion to enter the room, and who have never heard of the bad name of that lounge, Mrs. L\ietgert Ha.\ints the sit on it and feel just as comfortable as they Stra.nge and Peculiar ever did in their lives. But any city official Sa\isa.ge Factory D re a m s familiar with the record feels" a cold chill N e w s comes from Chicago that the ghost when he sees a stranger do such a thing. of Louisa Luetgert haunts the sausage fac­ W e desire to print in T he M ag azin e o f M y s­ Since it was placed in position, two years tory in which she was murdered. Several t e r ie s some dreams that have come true. ago, six well-known men who had occasion to persons who live across the street swear her We will pav Si each for the three strangest call in the building have passed out of the ghost appears nightly. John Seifert, August dreams sent "each month by its subscribers. body. The last time any of them was seen Beck and Gustave Hess say they have seen Especially does the editor desire to receive in the City Hall Park region was on that the ghost walking the route from her house truthful accounts of Dreams That Have Come lounge. to the vats taken by her on the night of her True. “ I'm not at all supers! itious," said an Aider- murder. Write only on one side of the paper. Write man. as he pointed out the lounge, " but I One of our editors will investigate and ex­ in ink. Write verv plainly. Address Dream wouldn’t sit there for one minute for a plain these ghost stories in some coming is­ Editor, T he N e w Y o r k M ag a zin e o f My s­ thousand-dollar bill. The last time the poet sue of this magazine. t e r ie s , 223 William street, New York. Geoghegan was here he sat there. The last We would like to hear from any of our time Herman Sulzer was here that’s where he readers who have seen a real ghost. "Address T h e higher the wisdom, the more incom­ sat. They are both in the other world all such communications to the Ghost Editor prehensible does it become by ignorance.— now." of T h e M a g a z in e ok M v s t e r ie s . Herbert Spencert 14 The New York Ms.ga.zine of Mysteries

ble diamond ring—probablv an engagement ring. H an n ah K .—Your dream could almost be called a glorified vision; it portends great EAMS happiness for you. S p ir it u a l -—Your dream plainly warns you a n d th eir to not be too sceptical about spirit power. You may be dumtounded one of these days by the power of the Psychic Forces. It is not wise nor in good taste to ridicule any re­ INNINGS, ligion or belief. Mv r t ie —Your dream means that you must exercise care, prudence and wisdom in your i* investments. Next month I will have something to say “ Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto will have some dreams that will help you. about how we can control our dreams; how him in a dream .’’—¿V. Matthew, i. jo . The dream also means that you ought to dreams are in many instances important mes­ In all ages of the world men have believed marry a blond young man. who earnestly and sages and warnings; how we can prepare our­ that dreams were prophetic, or at least sug­ sincerely loves’ you. You did not say any­ selves to receive great aid and valuable and gestive of future events. The Bible from thing about this in your letter, and when you important advice through dreams. For in­ one end to the other contains accounts of read this you will" marvel and say, “ W'hy, stance. here is an account I cut from a New dreams and their fulfilment. how did lie know about that?” We dream York daily paper to-day, which shows how The art of divination through dreams was specialists know more than you think we do. we are warned in dreams of coming events: almost coeval with the birth of civilization, d w a r d E B.—Your dream will be realized. d o c to r ’s d r e a m o f t h ie v e s camf. t r u e and among the great nations of antiquity the This is a dream message that seldom comes expounder, or interpreter, of dreams occupied to anyone in this part of the world. In India Three thousand dollars' worth of jewelry sto­ the most exalted position. len from Neresheimer residence. and Egypt tile great seers and interpreters In a dream Dr. Frederick N. Neresheimer, son Among the Chaldeans this official was sup­ of dreams say that this dream always means ported by the state in a luxurious palace, so of E. August Neresheimer, former diamond mer­ great wisdom, great wealth and great happi­ chant of Maiden lane, foretold a visit of burglars that all might come to him for consultation ness. You are indeed fortunate to have such to his house, in the Bowne Park section of Flush­ without fee or reward. a dream. You must have a very lovely ing, L. I. The publisher of T he N ew Y o r k M ag a­ character. Dr. Nereshciraer’s house was visited by bur­ z in e ok My s t e r ie s has engaged regularly glars early Monday morning and $3,000 worth of as an interpreter of dreams the celebrated C o r a B,—Your dream is significant of some jewelry, most of which belonged to his wife, was adept. P r o f e sso r S t a r , who, in this column coming important event in your religious stolen. each month, will print brief interpretations of life. Had the doctor paid attention to this warn­ dreams entirely free for its subscribers. To A l l e n W.—Your dream is a warning to ing dream he could have prevented the theft have the meaning of vour dream given it is stop eating so much; overeating brings on of $3,000 worth of jewelry. necessary that you be a paid subscriber. many fatal diseases. Heed this warning. Thoughtless and ignorant people have no Those who are not subscribers can send with C a s t l e —Your dream clearly shows that idea of what the dream or sub-conscious state their dream one dollar for a year’s subscrip­ some great and wonderful powers are en­ means. Many enlightened persons who in­ tion and the interpretation’ will be given. deavoring to have a communication with you. telligently and honestly study dreams and Al.ways write the full dream and sign your Live plainly and quietly and avoid excite­ their meanings, are helped more in the dream full ñame and address, with some fictitious ment and anger and you will receive some state than they are in the waking state. name for print, as we do not print the full astounding messages through your dreams. There is a reason for everything and a mean­ names. In cases where P r o fe sso r S t a r thinks ing for about every dream we have. If I have a dream is of vital importance he will write a A l e s ia —Your dream means that you are to never met persons and yet know their dreams, personal letter to the dreamer. Be sure to soon receive a large sum of money and will 1 usually know more about themselves than address all letters pertaining to dreams to then go to Europe. they or their nearest friends or companions P r o f e sso r S t a r , Dream Editor, N e w Y o r k C o n s t a n t —Your dream indicates that you know. Interpreting dreams correctly is not M a g a z in e o f M y s t e r ie s , 223 William street, ought to get married at once; it is a warning an experiment with me. It is done by a New York. that you are wrongfully delaying a marriage Psychic Power which I fully possess. 1 am Here are the brief interpretations for this that would bring you much happiness. always pleased to hear from’ the subscribers month: Jo n a th a n M.—Your dream is a definite and to this magazine, and cordially invite all of A nna H.—Your dream is unusual and por­ positive warning that you must quit your you to send in your dreams for interpretation. tends great fortune to you. You will marrv drinking habits or else you will suddenly be Sincerely, a very handsome man of strong character, overwhelmed with dire disaster — possibly P r o f e sso r S t a r , who will make you very happy. Be very sudden death. Heed this warning. I should Dream Editor of T he N e w Y o r k M a g a z in e careful to not go on a long journey in July say it comes from your poor worried mother, o f My s t e r ie s , N o. 223 W illiam stre e t, N ew —postpone it until August. You "must be who passed out of'the body about two years Y o r k C ity . very discreet and secretive about your love ago: she dearly loves you with that grand affairs. You have not yet met the gentle­ motherly love that only a mother can give. A W onderful Drea.m man you are to marry," but will meet him P e t it e —Your dream is a rare and peculiar before next September. He is now in your one, and to give you a correct interpretation To t h e E d it o r o f D r e a m s : I dreamt that aura. I dreamed about it, and got this message: I was returning from a professional visit J oh n W e s l e y —Your dream means that You must not accept any attentions from the to a patient and was walking along the you must avoid having any dealings with an young man; he is not true nor sincere. Later brow of a small hill or ridge just back of elderly gentleman who is trying to get you- on you will meet your soul-mate and be mar­ our house. At the foot of the hill some of to invest in oil properties. Your realm is not ried to a very handsome man somewhat older the neighbors’ children were playing; they in minerals. Some powerful and unseen than yourself. The warning dream you have called to me to know whether 1 had seen forces are striving very hard to impart valua­ had is from a very high and wise source. the strange light. I asked, Where? The chil­ ble information to you in vour dreams. Live Obe—Y our dreams amount to nothing; they dren pointed east, and immediately I beheld a clean, virtuous life so that your sleep will are caused by mental disturbance brought on a hill opposite to where I was what be calm and sweet, and your ” guiding and about by indigestion. Learn to live an up­ seemed to be a tent (bell-sliaped), and out of guarding angels ’’ will tell you much in your right, clean life, and then you will be in a re­ the tent there shone upon me the ravs of dreams that will be of untold value. ceptive condition to get some really valuable what appeared to be the All-Seeing Eye as it L o r e t t a — If you only knew what impor­ dreams. is pictured on an Odd Fellows Chart. The light was so strong and dazzling white that it tant messages are given mortals in dreams C a g e —Your dream is a warning. Be care­ by outside or unseen intelligences you would seemed to throw me face downward to the ful; be very honest. To dream of a cage ground, and as I was thrown prostrate I cried cease at once to live the gav and frivolous means imprisonment. life you are leading. Your dream tells me out, “ God save my soul and body," when 1 much, although your letter tells me little. L a u r a —Ere you read this you will have awoke. . D r . B. The party who appeared in your dream is a heard of the death of a friend. See if I am not Arts.— The above vision I should regard as very dangerous person for you to have any­ right. a call from the unseen world to a higher life. thing to do with. This dream should be’a C a r l o t a —Your dream need cause you no A tent or a tabernacle is a temporary dwell­ warning to you. Before you retire at night alarm whatever: it means you are to inherit ing place, so it seems to me that the vision spend an hour in meditating on some beauti­ a large sum of money. was to show you that the tabernacle of God ful or high ideal with a strong desire for a In v a lid — Your dream indicates that you is now among men. As the All-Seeing Eye message from the highest powers, and thev will live to a great age. was turned upon you, your soul recognized will reach you through a dream. If people the import, and therefore asked for mercy. only knew the real meaning of dreams and A z ie l —Y our dream means success in love. Now, if your intelligence will do the same, how to prepare for sleep they would get J. R. T.—Your dream is a warning to stop and be obedient to your heavenly calling by many grand dream messages that would lead the use of tobacco. living the life, you will always have reason them on to great fortune and happiness. I C l a r a N.—Your dream clearl v indicates that to thank God for the vision.—E d it o r o f have written you a personal letter, as there you are to be greatly honored and respected. D r e a m s. is so much of importance to say to you. O scar B.—Your dream unmistakablv means Loco—Your dream means that you are to that you are to hold high political offices. engage in gold mining. You will become a As Regards Visions M r s. B. H.— Your dream clearly indicates very rich man, and own a valuable gold mine. that vou are not happy, and that it is all your T o t h e E d it o r : You are surrounded with the best of in­ own fault. Your husband ought to have the Several Yonkers girls distinctly saw the fluences; your dream is more in the nature of consideration he demands. spirit of a dead girl friend a few days ago. a grand vision than a dream. Pay particular Every month some such phenomenon is wit­ attention to all of your dreams, as they are O ld Ma id —Your dream tells me plainly nessed. Yet we still scoff at the idea of very valuable and important to you. ’ You that it is your own fault that you do not mar­ ghosts. If the same quota of evidence were must be very honorable and just in your ry; it is a warning to not be so particular; it piled up in regard to any other thing its ex­ dealings with your fellow men, and then’ vou is a very difficult task to find a perfect man. istence would long ago have become a recog­ will have more and better dreams. A n d r e w —Your dream is a warning against nized fact. We believe in the North Pole, C a t h e r in e —Your dream fully indicates to speculation and gambling. which no one has seen. Then why not in me that you have a bitter enemv who is striv­ Ma y b k l l e —Your dream means you are to spirits which many have seen?—S p ir it u a l ­ ing very hard to injure you. 'Silently pray soon have a constant lover, a happy home is t . every night before retiring for ligfit and and great wealth. [We will be pleased, at all times, to have short letters like this from our readers. Will some force to overcome the plots of the dark man Ma u d e —According to your dream some who appeared to you in your dream, and you reader answer S piritualist ? We will print admirer will soon present you with a valua­ the answers, if suitable.—E d it o r .] The New York Mauga-zine of Mysteries 15

Imagination Kills—Cam it C u re ? MR. HARMSWORTH AND THE CHINESE TORTURES An Editorial in the .Vcw York Journal

M r . H a r m s w o r t h . editor of a score of Eng­ lish publications, sailed recently for England, carrying with him, we regret to say, an attack of United States malaria. Mr. Harmsworth went to Florida early in the past winter to catch tarpon, but the "ma­ laria caught him, and bothered him consider­ ably for nearly a month. Before he left the United States he ex­ pressed to the writer his great interest in that display of mental activity which is called Christian Science. A friend sent a Christian W e l l , we’ll tell vou something about it. solvent; and nothing equals pure water for Scientist to see him. X iw. because you think you know about it, that purpose. He received the Christian Scientist and al­ don't for one "moment think this is meant Most people, especially ladies, do not drink lowed him to exercise his talents. for you. If you happen to be an unbeliever enough. For this very "reason—the want of Mr. Harmsworth declared that he did not in the power of mind, don’t jerk your head a proper solvent—many a case of fever has pretend to decide the merits of Christian and snap out. "I don’t want to be bothered been induced. Science, but he did know that this Christian with such stuff," but put on your thinker and We are constantly dying, and the two proc­ Scientist or something else had unquestion­ read carefully what we say. esses, cleaning out tlie dead atoms and re­ ably done him a great deal of good. We consider the will ¿he commander-in- placing them with new ones, must not be ob­ We feel bound always to mention Christian chief of the physical forces. Each individual structed if we would have the best of health. Science with respect. It expresses the sincere will is, indeed, boss of its own body. It is This means plenty of pure water in the sys­ belief of a great many thousands of citizens, limited iti no respect except by lack of prac­ tem and a strong circulation of the blood. and all sincere belief is entitled to respectful tice, which needs only the “ know-how n put If the constant repairs to the body were treatment. into use to attain tliatpractice. properly made, we could always remain at a We feel bound also to say, whenever Chris­ The most common of our acts in everyday certain "standard of bodily perfection. But tian Science is mentioned," that the Christian life are the results of will power. They are this is not sufficient. You should desire to Scientist who pretends to deal with actual so common that the phenomenal interest is in c r e a se your standard of perfection. Your violent troubles, such as pneumonia, typhoid lost. You turn your head, your hand, your bodily structure is not perfect, but vou can fever, broken bones, is a quack and a crim­ foot or your eye, which is a "wonder, because make"it SO if s-ou w il l it h i be . inal. mu do it with your own willing or volition, It is scientific and true that proper physi­ Having stated this view of the most radical t is auto-suggestion executed by command cal methods, as well as mental, should" be claims of Christian Science, let us examine of your will. It is by auto suggestion that practiced till they become habits, if the the one interesting doctrine which Christian certain habits become, as we say, second patient desires to "get out of his old condi­ Science expounds. nature; that is. we do some things without a tion and build a new body in health and hap­ The Christian Scientist gives to his con­ special willing. piness. It is for this purpose that we insist verts a very thick book and a great deal of By a little practice, willing auto-sugges­ upon the practice of both. wordy explanation and comment. He tells tion, you can breathe with your right lung Reader, it is pure fallacy to talk of mental the childlike believer that there is no such and not your left, and vice versa; you can power—the spoken word "or auto-suggestion thing as pain, and imparts other nonsense of cause your heart to beat fast or slow; you —manifesting a perfect body out of nothing! that kind. can force the blood to or from any part of There m u st be something to manifest from. The main idea in Christian Science, it your body; you can move your ears up or seems to us, is extremely interesting and rea­ down, and cause your scalp to jerk forward Why Should Orthodox sonable. Here it is: The mind, the imagina­ and back. All these movements you do and tion. represents the highest development in don’t wonder at it because they are common; Medicine Dread Compe­ the human organism. Under proper control but when I tell you that by thé same willing tition ? they should be able to control the human ou can remove the worn-out atoms of your body, freeing it from ills, from much needless ody and replace them with new. healthy Ir r e g u l a r practitioners of healing arts are suffering and useless worry. ones, you don’t believe that, because, first, ft finding at Albany that eternal vigilance is We are inclined to think that much good is going a step farther than you are accus­ the price of toleration, says the New York will result when men of real scientific ability, tomed to, and. second, because you can’t see Journal. A little while ago it was Christian free from charlatanism and a desire for quick the action take place. Now, from a mechani­ Science that was to be rooted out; then it was profits, shall investigate the possibilities of cal point of view, which would take the osteopathy, and now it is hypnotism and sug­ Christian Science treatment. strongest willing—the most power to move gestive therapeutics. If you resent the idea that imagination can your body, your head, hand or foot, or a No doubt there is much quackery in all C UR E, please explain how it happens that single atom of that same body ? these schools. It is not entirely unknown in imagination can KILL. Faith plays a great part in the volition of the regular practice of medicine. But such The Chinese, who have wasted centuries the mind to move any portion of the body. progress as has been made thus far in the devising ingenious tortures, discovered long If a person thinks he can’t move any portion knowledge of the human body and of the art ago theart of destroying life through imagina­ of his body, h e ca n ’t . Bedridden persons of treating its diseases lias been made tion. are so, in most cases, because they have not through the liberty of the individual to sub­ Most of us have read about the Chinese the faith that they can get up. The child ject himself to experiment. If the various torture which consists in allowing a drop of learns to walk through faith. Its first feeble kinds of practitioners were to match grave­ water to fall upon the victim's head at very- attempts increase its faith to make the sec­ yards the cemeteries of the regulars would short intervals. ond; the practice strengthens the muscles, be found not the least imposing. The succeeding drops of water do no real and it accomplishes what it set out to do And when the regular physicians make harm. They do not pierce the skull or even through a growing faith. .medicine a true science they will not find it the scalp. This is how that man accomplishes any­ necessary to run to the Legislature for laws But the constant, monotonous, regular drip, thing. This is how you can overcome dis­ t i protect themselves against the competi­ drip of the succeeding drops soon affects the ease, remove worn-Out atoms, and replace tion of heretical outsiders. The astronomers patient disastrously THROUGH HIS IM­ them with new ones. W il l t h is in f a it h to do not have to work for statutes to keep the AGINATION. be done, and it will be. Though you can’t public from deserting them for the ex­ He waits for each drop to fall. The an­ see the result as readily, yet, put your trust pounders of the doctrine that the sun do ticipation preceding each drop becomes in­ in it and the result will appear. The same move. tensely painful. The mental torment in­ cause m u st produce similar results in both creases as time passes and the unfortunate cases. A Remarkable Faith Cure victim of Chinese deviltry- and HIS OWN IMAGINATION dies ultimately in atrocious But (and this is a big but, too, and one .4 . IV., in Metaphysical Magazine which many healers don’t seem to consider), agony- there must be healthy atoms at hand with A f a it h cure is recorded which utterly Mr. Julian Ralph, the distinguished Ameri­ which to replace the diseased ones. Repairs bafiles the acumen of medical materialists to can newspaper correspondent, who has trav­ in your house cannot be made unless you account for. It appears, however, to be well eled extensively in China, informs us that the have new material. Can your body-builder, authenticated. A woman in New Orleans Chinese have "another method of inflicting even at the command o( your will, recon­ had been paralyzed forty-five years. One death through the imagination; namely, by- struct your body without material ? New day last year she was at church and became submitting the victim to the sound of a bell material atoms must be at hand or your body impressed with the thought that she ought held close to the ear. must go unrepaired, regardless of the faith to pray for recovery. She spoke to the The bell rings once in so many seconds. It or will power exercised. This is a very im­ clergyman, who concurred. So several per­ does no actual harm, apparently. It does portant factor in mental healing that is sons for more than a year spent a season nothing save excite the nerves of the ear, usually overlooked. every dav in the intercession. Finally in May sending along a succession of useless mes­ Give the body-builder a sufficient quantity last she felt an irresistible impulse "to walk. sages to the brain. of good material, and when commanded by Stepping from her wheeled chair she walked But no man can endure the torture of the the will—auto-suggestion—there is nothing rapidly across the room. From that time bell beyond a certain number of hours. His surer than that your body will be put in first- her strength to walk steadily increased. In­ overstrained imagination kills him. class repair. This means a good supply of pure fant children, it may be remarked, acquire Since it is evident that imagination can air, the best of nutritious food and pure the power to walk after a very similar man­ destroy life, must it not also be true that a water. The air should be breathed properly, ner. The true philosophy of miracles is the reversal of the imaginative KILLING proc­ the food should be properly cooked and mas­ philosophy of mind itself! ess must strengthen and prolong life ? ticated, and the water should be absolutely Everybody knows how a feeling of cheer­ pure. Old M&.n Changes His fulness" and elation overcomes despondency. Again, of what use were all of the best Pleasure excites the heart, increases the material you can get if the worn-out atoms White Beard to Black activity of the lungs and the consequent ab­ of your body are not removed to make room At Medora, 111., seventy-vear-old S. V. Kel­ sorption of oxygen. for it? You must first make room for the ler has changed his white beard into a black Every remotest corner of our physical new material bv clearing away the old. The one. bodies "must be subject to influences of the body-builder ca n and w il l do this, but it "Divine science and will power” are the mind. That being so, there can be no ques­ MUST have a MATERIAL MEANS bv which to means the old man says he employed in ef­ tion as to the importance of controlling these take it out of the system. This m u st be a fecting the wonder. mind influences. 16 The New York MaLgôLzine of Mysteries of any kind. When I have heard sincere people tell of them I have always believed that they were to be accounted for by natural causes. “ I was near the door when I heard Katie Kane cry out, as if in great excitement. “ Her tones were so strange that I entered instantly. Katie was kneeling beside the bed, praying. As 1 entered. Rose McGowan went to the portières, calling to my sister Mamie, who sat beside the casket: “ ‘ Oh, Mamie, come! Julia is here!’ “ Mamie was angry because, at a loss to understand it at all, she thought at the moment that Rosie had the bad taste to at­ tempt a hoax. But Miss Nora Smith came into the room at once, screamed slightly and GLORIFIED VISION OF DEAD GIRL AP­ fell in a faint. Then i stood by Miss Kane, with my hand on her shoulder to steady her, PEARS TO TEN AWED MOURNERS for she was trembling—and saw the vision. "It was moving out from near the paint­ Apparition of Julia Murray, of y onKers. JV. y .. Visible to Her ing of the Blessed Virgin, along the wall Friends and K^elati-Ves XOhile They Were Watching toward the head of the bed. The face was as real as in life. There was a faint image JVear Her Corpse in the Early Morning of the bed on which she died She seemed to be leaning against the pillows, with white draperies mingling with the white coverings of the bed. FORMAL STATEMENT OF THOSE WHO VISION LASTED SOME MINUTES “ The vision moved along the wall till it SAW THE VISION occupied the space lighted by the reflection of the candles. It lingered’ there while a These are ten of the witnesses to whom, according to their story, appeared the dozen of the watchers in the other room vision of Julia Murray moving about the room where she died, while her body lay came in and saw it. in its casket ready for burial: “ I do not know how long the vision lasted. It must have been four or five minutes. William Murray, the dead girl’s brother, No. 154 Ashburton avenue, Some of us were silent and others were Yonkers, N. Y. praying.” Mrs. James Corbalis, No. 154 Ashburton avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. “ MY JULIA A SAINT NOW ” Miss Kate Kane, No. 80 Orange street, Brooklyn, N. Y. “ My Julia is one of the saints in heaven,” said the mother. “ I was heartbroken; now Miss Rosie McGowan, No. 154 Ashburton avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. I am happy and at rest. Never in all her Miss Tessie McGowan, No. 154 Ashburton avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. life was there the smallest sin. Often she Miss Rosie Kearns, corner of Park and St. Joseph avenues, Yonkers, came to me and said: ‘ Mother, do you be­ lieve that I am truly pious ?’ I knew that N. Y. she was. Now she has her reward.” Miss Nora Smith, No. 99 Palisade avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. When the mother had told how resignedly Miss Alice Hayes, Vineyard avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. Julia lay down to die, and how lovingly she John Sullivan, Yonkers, N. Y. clasped the rosary placed in her hands an hour before her death by the sisters of St. Martin Monahan, Yonkers, N. Y. Joseph Parish, Mrs. Corbalis said: “ In the fear of God and in the love of the * *T**ETO**T*tt Blessed Virgin, I say that I surely saw Julia Murray in a vision. Ten Witnesses Testify with Absolute U m - said her mother, her features showing radiant “ I entered the room of the vision when nimity to the Details of the Miracle Which Lasted happiness. Heartbreak over her Toss had Nora Smith fainted. I had heard her fall. Several Minutes. given way to joy over the certainty that her The moment I entered I saw Julia. The re­ child had entered into eternal bliss. flection on the wall seemed to extend dimly Apparition Appeared in Room Where Julia Ten of the witnesses of the apparition are to the foot of the bed, where the picture of Murray, Who Was Extremely Pious, Breathed named herewith. Their accounts of the vision the Blessed Virgin hung. Her last. agree in almost the smallest detail. “ It was a sort of mysterious illumination, Mother, Radiantly Happy. Exclaims. " My In the home of the Murrays two of the chief in the midst of which was the vision of Julia Jnliais One of the Saints in Heaven Now.” actors in the vision scene described it in the emerging from back of the picture. It rose presence of the mother. During this scene very slowly, the covering of the shoulders Brother's Story. the mother, worn with fatigue of nights of seeming to"be the gown in which she died. NE of the most remarkable phe­ watching beside the sick girl's bed, was in a “ This seemed to flow into formless white nomena ever recorded hap­ sound slumber. draperies, like folds of linen. I immediately pened in Yonkers, N. Y., about MOTHER HEARS STORY thought of the pictures of the Immaculate four o’clock Monday morning, She listened eagerly, with clasped hands Conception. It seemed as though the out­ March 25, 1901. lines of Julia’s figure were surrounded by Ten intimate friends of Julia and beaming countenance, to the story that will never grow old to her. Those who de­ filmy clouds, white and luminous. Murray, a young girl of saint­ “ Julia’s arms were crossed on her breast at like character, say positively that she ap­ scribed the wonderful visitation for the fiftieth time since it, according to their oaths, oc­ first, the tips of the fingers resting on her peared to them, simultaneously, in a beauti­ curred at four o’clock Monday morning, March shoulders. But as the apparition rose and ful vision in the early hours of Monday morn­ 25, were her son, William, a hard-handed, advanced along the wall toward the head of ing. It was in the room where she breathed hard-headed young man of twenty, and Mrs. the bed the arms fell slowly— very slowly— her last, while her lifeless body lay ready for till the hands were clasped. Then I saw that burial in an adjoining apartment. James Corbalis, who lives in an apartment in the same building. No. 154 Ashburton between the hands was the black cross of the Ten of the witnesses, whose names are avenue, Yonkers. rosary which was in her hands when she died. given, testify to the details of the miracle “ Every instant it grew more distinct. with absolute unanimity. First it is necessary to understand the ar­ rangement of the rooms in the Murray apart­ When the figure was at its greatest distinct­ The scene of the occurrence is the com­ ness I saw, running through Julia’s fingers be­ fortable home of intelligent people, in the ment. In the front room, near the front win­ dows, m a casket, lay the body of Julia Mur- low the ebony cross, the beads of the rosary parish of St. Joseph in Yonkers. A priest on theircord, till the emblem hung below the of the parish vouches for the sincerity of the ray, who had died the evening before after an illness of two weeks, of spinal meningitis. clasped hands in festoons.” witnesses, though disclaiming personal knowl­ It was Julia; I could see the soft, curly hair edge upon which to base an opinion. Lighted candles were about the casket. On the mantel at the head of the casket, higher about her face floating like on the cloud. The pious life of Julia Murray, the details She wore a beautiful wreath of roses and of the vision, the scene in which the watch­ than the others, stood one of the candles. Its rays fell upon the glass covering of the casket large leaves, and her head was in a halo of ers figured, and the apparent absence of a bright, red light. Kate Kane was beside me. plausible explanation, cause the phenomenon and were reflected between parted portières into the adjoining room—the room in which She cried out to Julia's sister, Mamie, and to resemble those which are a part of the their brother, Willie: history of the Catholic Church and which Julia had breathed her last, in a white draped ir?.R ”u<'’ with posts tipped witn brass knobs. “ Come, Williel Come, Mamie! Here is have added more than one saint to the cal­ Julia!’ endar. I he reflection cast an oval spot of light on the white wall at the left of the head of the Willie came. Katie dropped down on her HOW THE DEAD GIRI.’s VISION CAME bed. All the evening it had been noticed by knees, sobbing: ‘ Oh, Julia, pray for me!’ Witnesses. Including Brother, Tell o f a Mir­ the watchers, who filled the rooms. The vision seemed to understand, for the acle— Mother Radiantly Happy ^e °f Julia’s deathbed hung—and hands slowly changed to a position as of Julia Murray died clasping to her bosom jgj-. hangs—a painting of the Virgin and prayer, the palms together before her face, the ebony cross of a rosary placed in her Child, but this on that night was in the shadow and’ then a rosary seemed to drop down and hands by two Sisters of the Parish of St. Jo­ of the portières. Against the opposite wall hang as if hung on the left hand. seph. In all that popular parish there is not t° the nght^ of the bed were two chairs. I could see it plainly, and the face took on a one who had not been impressed by the saint­ At four o’clock in the morning these were sadder look and the eyes closed, as if she was liness of her character during the eighteen occupied by Miss Kate Kane, of Brooklyn, a praying. The vision kept rising and moving years of her life—a life unspotted by the sixteen-year old cousin of the dead girl, and along the wall and faded slowly out at the shadow of the smallest sin. Miss Rose McGowan, one of Julia's school ceiling. So when her glorified spectre appeared to friends, of the same age. We all had dropped down on our knees for watchers in the chamber of death, and dur­ prayer. I said the rosary, fifty-nine prayers THE BROTHER’S RECITAL altogether, and the others made the answers. ing four or five minutes would not be dis­ “ I was in the third room with John Sulli- missed by doubts felt or expressed, all be­ I was saying the “ Hail Mary” when Katie lieved that Heaven had sent the vision, and van,’ ,l,.,l.r.tln Monahan and other watchers," asked Julia to pray for her. to-day they believe it more firmly than ever. said William Murray. “ I want you to under- There were eighteen of us on our knees say­ “ Oh, my Julia is a blessed saint in heaven," stand m the beginning that I have never be­ ing the rosary. lieved m ghosts, nor in apparitions or visions Julia's head seemed in a ball of fire. Her The New York Ma-ga-zine of Mysteries dress seemed like clouds. Her head slowlv making a shadow, and it was dark in the bed­ thing worth seeing in front. I went in. When fell back, as the vision rose on the waif. room. That light was a supernatural Light, 1 stepped in the bedroom where Miss Murray When it passed away we all started for the and what we saw was a vision of Julia Murray. died I saw the light on the wall over the bed. dining-room. It seemed to me a far brighter light than rose m 'go w an 's te s t im o n y eould come from the candles in the parlor, WONDERFUL MOVING LIGHTS “ It Was the Most Beautif ul Thing 1 Ever and it was a strange light. Rose Kearns and 1 were last. Rose looked Saw ” And I saw on the wall the shade of the back. Then she nodded to me to look back. I was sitting in the place with Katie Kane. oung girl who was dead. No, it looked more The room seemed filled with light as if it was I was saying: "Poor Julia; this is where she £ike a picture of her. Her features were all afire. died." plainly distinguishable, and the picture was I got a bottle of holy water from the At that Katie stared at the ceiling behind in the midst ol this strange light. kitchen, and, returning to the room, sprinkled the bed and called to me: I did not stop to look out, but went through it in the sign of the cross. The light blazed •1 Grcat God 1 Look at Julia 1" into the front room, for 1 was afraid her sis­ up and was so strong it blinded me and made I looked and saw Julia all in white and a ter, Miss Mamie Murray, might have hys­ my eyes water. wreath of roses on her head, the most beauti­ terics, as she was weak and half sick anyway. Then it went before me like two torches, ful thing I ever saw. 1 am sorry now I did not stay, since Í have heard what a sight the others saw. The home of the Murrays is a model of neatness and comfort. The’mother, a widow, is esteemed in the parish for the admirable manner in which she has brought up and educated her children. William Murray is a youth of fine, manly qualities. In the parish no member of the family is spoken of in connection with hallucinations, such as might account for beliefs in this vision. Besides, all the witnesses are of similar reputation. There are no scoffers to be discovered in the parish. Father Brady, of St. Joseph's, said that he had no personal knowledge of the matter, but he esteemed all the persons

one of red and the other of blue and other colors. It passed into the parlor, paused a moment over the corpse and then passed out through the wall. 1 asked the time, and it was.4.30 in the morning. The vision must have lasted five minutes, the lights an­ other five minutes or more. It was the most beautiful thing I ever saw, and I shall not forget it as long as I live. It was not imagi­ nary; it was real. There was no drink in the house, we were all awake, and I am a Catholic. I know that I should laugh if anyone had told this story to me, for l don’t believe in ghosts or visions, but this one was real. I saw it. WHAT ROSE KEARNS SAW “ Its Hands Were Clasped in Prayer When First I Looked." “ Mamie Murray and I were sit­ ting beside the corpse in the parlor when we heard noises in the bed­ room. Miss Kane, of Brooklyn, called: “ Mamie, come quick; here is Julia 1" " But Mamie wouldn’t go. I went. As I reached the open folding-doors I saw the vision on the side wall. The other girls were on their knees. They said: “ Rosie, look at Julia’s shallow on the wall !" “ Glory be to God, yes," said I. And I stood amazed with my hands on my eyes, for I could not bear the light. I called to the rest to come, and Alice Hayes, Nellie Spillman, Tessie McGowan and others came. SHADE OP JULIA MURRAY The shade of Julia Murray ap­ peared there. I saw it. It appeared to have something on the head— some say it was a wreath—and a rosary in its clasped hand. It had a white Katie said, “ Julia, pray for me;” and Julia concerned, and knew that they were abso­ gown that ended in clouds. She looked very bowed her head slowly and closed her eyes, lutely sincere. ____ natural, but it was a vision and nothing else. put her hands together in prayer. A rosary I did not see it when its hands were crossed appeared in the hands and we all knelt down on the breast, before Katie Kane asked it to and said the rosary. Mrs. Corbalis held the T his Magazine One Whole pray. beads and the restof us answered. It lasted Year Almost Free Its hands were clasped in prayer when I three or four minutes, I think, and seven of To introduce T h e Ma g a zin e o f M y s t e r ie s first saw it, and it faded out slowly with its us saw it. to a wide circle of readers we will send it every head thrown back and a look of sorrow on m a r y r e g a n ’s vision month for one whole year for only 25 cents, the face. It all happened long before day­ provided you send vour subscriptions at break. It was a rainy morning, anyway, arid “ / Saw on the Wall the Shade o f the Dead once. This offer is "only good till June 1, there was no sunrise in Yonkers. Girl" 1901. Send your subscription with 25 cents The heavy portières between the two rooms I was sitting in the dining-room when some to-day. Don’t delay and forget this great prevented the candelabra by the corpse from of the girls came out and said there was some­ offer until it is too late. S en d T o-D a y . 18 The New York M^g^zine of Mysteries Phrenology and Physiog- n o m y B oth the study of Phrenology and Physiog­ nomy are very beneficial in developing force and power to help us throughout life. By thinking the brain can be wonderfully developed. With a good, active, thinking brain fortunes are built. By regularly read­ ing a magazine like this each month one will be benefited. Our articles are food for thought—true brain stimulants. Now about Phrenology and Physiognomy. We find one of the best articles ever printed on these subjects in Human Nature. The writer says: The signs of character in the P rofessor L f K ar.mo, the eminent chirographicnl sccr, has been engaged to write tor this department each month brief and correct psychic graphology delineations of character by your handwriting. This is fr t e to subscribers only. If face are the result of brain action. The face you are not a subscriber and desire to have PROFESSOR Le K armo delineate your character, send your subscription to our of a new-born babe is a blank page. Its eyes, magazine, together with eight or ten lines of your own handwriting, telling us how we can improve this magazine, and your nose and mouth are without expression. As delineation of character will be printed. Sign your full name and some fictitious name for us to print, so that you will recog­ it begins to smile the outward corners of the nize your delineation when printed. Be sure to write your full name and address besides the nickname or initials for print. We never print the real names in this department. mouth turn upward and its features come to wear an indelible smile. Where does this expression come from ? It E v a n g e l in e —Y ou have a sweet, lovable char­ very successful. There is but one way to succeed acter and will have a host of triends and admirers in this world and that is by putting your whole comes from the brain organ of mirtlifulness. because you are polite and considerate. The heart, soul and mind in everything you do. "We There could be no smile without this faculty. psychometric voices say: “ Tell her to have more must all fight bravely and courageously, with There is no case on record where a man with faith and hope and all her wishes will be granted God in our hearts. A voice this instant says: a low and very narrow forehead ever wore a and her aspirations will be realized.” “ Tell all the readers of T he Ma g a z in e ok My s ­ continual smile. t e r ie s that faith in and love for the Higher Ma e - You are generous and good natured and Humorists are large in mirthfulness, as de­ have a restless ambition to succeed. That is Power will bring true and permanent happiness noted by a high and wide forehead. right. I believe in success. You have lots of and true and permanent success, and nothing personal magnetism; when I opened your letter else will.” The typical North American Indian has a the psychic vibrations were strong; this is a good When writing to me the writers will get very narrow forehead; he is not a laugher, sign. Just this instant a voice says: “ She will better results if they will pen their communi­ •but is sullen in his demeanor. Barbarians do be very fortunate in a little while.” cations alone in quiet places. Some letters not joke, they do not understand or compre­ R u d olph —You are a soul-charming person, produce remarkable clairvoyant visions; in hend a joke. Those with narrow foreheads and vour psydhic forces are tremendous. You such cases, i send a personal letter to the do not, whether barbarian or civilized. will be very successful in love. “ Yes,” says a writer, so please write your full name (not for When Hope is very small and Cautiousness psychic voice “ he will marry Ella, and the prop­ very large, as revealed by form and shape of erty will come to him sure. We are working publication) and a ficticious name in your hard to help him out of his present trouble.” You letters. the head, such persons are apt to become will know the meaning of this message from the PROFESSOR LE KARMO. despondent and melancholy. See how this unseen. Your writing indicates a strong char­ Graphology Department affects the facial expression. The corners of acter. M a g a z in e ok M y s t e r ie s , the mouth then turn downward and the nose HANDSOME Y ou are what people call “ pretty,” 223 William street. New York City. also turns down at the end in a “ melancholy but in about two years from now you will be fashion." “ charming," because the spiritual forces, which The action of every brain organ can be seen make people charming, are beginning to change The Love Charm on the face, so that character can be read by your character. You are surrounded by many the aid of Physiognomy. psychic forces. Placing your writing on my head T h ou gh oft I pass her in the street, I sense fine vibrations'which indicate that you Phrenology, however, is a deeper and more are finely organized. A psychic voice says: “ Tell I seldom seem to catcli her eye; reliable science than Physiognomy. Physi­ Handsome to not think’so much of physical She rarely lets our glances meet, ognomy is only a record telling us how a per­ beauty but more of building a fine character.” Although she knows I'm passing by. son has lived". It is a surface science and H. H. G.—Your writing produces in me a very But though to me she does not speak", does not reveal the possibilities of men. peculiar sensation. I trembled when I first took Nor give a look my heart to cheer, Phrenology reveals all the latent as well as it up. I am afraid you are too timid. He posi­ The furtive blush upon her cheek tive in all you do. Some very strong and helpful Tells me she knows that I am near. the active "powers of the mind. psvchic forces surround you. A voice says: The Physiognomy of the earth does not re­ “ Write Yes! yes! ! yes! ! ! Hope, patience and 'Tis true she's full of girlish art, veal the secrets of the bowels of the earth. work will bring a great change soon and the de­ A trait that's common to her sex, For millions of vears gold and other precious sire will be granted.” From your writing you But she is no coquette at heart, metals have lain beneath the rocks in Cali­ ought \o be very prosperous. Read this maga­ fornia, but neither stone nor fern, or tree or zine regularly, as it can help you a greal deal. Though oft her tricks my heart perplex; I know she's partial to the rose, flower told the story to man that untold Do c t o r —Y ou are restless and ambitious, and treasure lay beneath the sod, until Marshall have a keen sense of humor. The study of I’ve sent her some, both red and yellow, metaphysics and occult science would help you Yet out into the road she goes. found a nugget at Sutter. wonderfully. A psychic voice says: “ Be kind, With violets from some other fellow. So it is with Physiognomy. By searching be gentle, be patient, the matter you have been the face, signs of character may" be traced. apprehensive about we are shaping nicelv and it And still this love chase I pursue, But the real and (unknown sometimes) char­ will be all right.” You will understand this mes­ ’Twist hope and fear continued wooing, acter of the man—his talents, his strength sage. One day o’erjoyed, the next so blue and weakness are only revealed by Phren­ Ca r r ie K.—You have a fine and strong charac­ ology. ter with high aspirations. Don't drop your ideals. I scarcely know what I am doing. You will be very energetic in a year from now. But one thought 1 take comfort in, The form and size of the head, texture or Spend much time in the open air and sunlight. And gloomy doubt gives place to rapture: quality of organization, temperament and The solar vibrations can help you. You are mag­ The harder site may be to win, other conditions tell the whole story. netic, but tfill be more so. A voice says: “ Tell The dearer yet will be the capture. Carrie to give much attention to spiritual ma ­ ters; that the powers of the soul are the greatest Drop Your Bucket powers in the universe.” Know and Command the By .S', iy. Pass St r i v e —Y ou are very ambitious and have great force about you that will help you to achieve Mysteries of Life “Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; much. Aim high and persistently and hopefully “ Oh, give us water, or we die!” hold to your aspirations and they will in time be A n y b o d y can command the mysteries of A voice came o’er the waters far, fully realized. You are a little bit too critical the whole span of life; can do anything on “ Just drop your bucket where you are.” and suspicious and ought to think more of your earth that he wants (to ; can learn anything And then they dipped and drank their fill own affairs than those of others; your character he wants to learn ; can command the "power is strong and vou abhor anything that is low and Of water fresh from mead and hill; that created worlds, if he will only think. And then they knew they sailed upon common. “ You are perfectly right. Professor,” An intense desire for any laudable acquisi­ says a strong masculine voice, “ tell her to not The broad mouth of the Amazon. worry or be anxious and to keep on in her usual tion is the prophecy of its sure fulfilment. energetic manner, and we will help her.” Your A man is as he believes ; the thoughts in O’er tossing wastes we sail and cry, magnetic vibrations are good and you will at­ which he believes create his body and his ex­ " Oh, give us water, or we die!" tract health and money ternal conditions also.— 7'he Metaphysical On high, relentless waves we roll ANXIOUS—T h e most pleasing and delightful Magazine. Through arid climates for the soul; psychometric vibrations thrilled me when 1 took up vour note, which indicates that you are a su­ ’Neath pitiless skies we pant for breath, perior person. You are methodical and painstak­ Cheerfulness in Adversity Smit with the thirst that drags to death, ing in what you do, and will be very fortunate and And fail, while faint for fountains far, happy. Two voices speak to vou. One says: “ Her A l l powerful beings are cheerful in ad­ To drop our buckets where we are. troubles will soon vanish;” the second voice says: v ersity . ... “ Tell her I am carefully watching and guarding The great Hindu miracle workers get their Oh, ship ahoy, you’re sailing on her all I can, but she must have more fai’h and The broad mouth of the Amazon, confidence in her ability.” The meaning of these occult powers by always being Cheerful. two psychic messages will be plain to you. They do not know what adversity is.' Whose mighty current flows and sings Of mountain streams and inland springs, Ma r ie —Y our writing means a great deal to It pays to be cheerful at all times. me—you are a sweet, lovable character, and vou Prosperity and happiness are bound to come Of night-kissed morning's dewv balm. will have much happiness in this life. You are a to the cheerful being. - Of heaven-dropt evening's twilight calm, strong psychic, and as your charming character Cheerfulness makes perfect health. Of nature’s peace in earth or s ta r- develops you will attract and draw to vourself Be cheerful, whatever happens. just drop your bucket where you are. just about what you desire. “ Yes, tell her that wish she has he'ld so long will be realized in Seek not for fresher founts afar, time,” says a quiet, gentle psychic voice. How to Control the Mind Just drop your bucket where you are; E ugf.NE Ugh! What wicked and vicious forces And while the ship right onward leaps. surround vou! Your writing makes me shake W e s l e y said: I cannot help evil thoughts Uplift it from exhaustless deeps. and tremble every time I touch it. I see great from coming into my mind, any more than I Parch not your lips with dry despair; danger ahead for you if you do not control your can help birds dying over my liead; but I can temper. I will write you a personal letter advis­ The stream of hope flows everywhere. ing you. “ Yes, do write him. Professor, and tell help the birds from building their nests on So, under every sky and star, him he is breaking several hearts, and when you mv head and there hatching their young. Just drop your bucket where you are. write to him some strong psychic forces will help Do not allow bad or impure thoughts to you.” So I want you to heed my personal letter, enter and abide or develop. When an im­ [There are many Rood things right at hand if Eugene, as i have a strong desire to help the pure thought does come, cast it out by im­ we would only reach out and grasp them. We readers of this magazine whenever I can. mediately thinking of something good—some must think, read, labor and work for success, and A n n a—Y ou are enterprising and ought to be clean, pure thing. drop our buckets into the well of Knowledge and Wisdom and the river of Hope.— E d it o r . I The New York Ma-ga-zine of Mysteries 19

The Motive Power m N o t he who hews the tree with well-aimed axe. lili Not he who tunnels through the stubborn aJTKe Worvder-Story of Our 151 stone. SI Not he who boasts the mettle of Ajax. p Nor. Zeus - like, hurls thunder from a Unparalleled Prosperity throne. SI p m Facts and Figures Thai Read Like a.n Ala-ddirv Dream Isi But he who stoops to watch the daisy grow, Isi p Who seeks the sap within the sapling's G'he Commercial -Supremacy of SImerica sheath, m 151 And he who learns by force of mind to know Isi p The marvels of the universe, beneath. B y C h a s . IÎ. Flint Isi m Not he who rests upon the glory won, Not he who sighs to have his life-work ^ ^isïïatsnaEïïaETfaisïïaisïïaEHai^TaEïïasTracsTfaËTi^i^TTgisïïacgnaETfatsTTe through, But he who, in the midst of what is done, Impatient stands for what is still to-do. Charles Ranlett Flint is n ship-owner on We have the largest interstate commerce —AIcntrose J. Moses, in Success. a vast scale, an advocate of large commercial of any country in the world. Our people are organizations, and a financial factor of great im­ not only producers, but buyers as well. The portance in New York, rated worth $50,000.000. He was born in Thom aston. Me., in 1850. vast trans-Pacific region is being opened up, He formed the Pacific Clipper Line, construct­ with its limitless possibilities in the way of Fortune and Success ed fleets for South American governments, etc. trade. T h e r e is a better chance to acquire fame, He formed the Export Lumber Company, the The time may yet come when we shall send fortune and success now than ever before in largest concern of its kind in the world. In 1881 as many ships across the Pacific as across the the history of the world. he organized the Crude Rubber Company, a Atlantic. Since 1893 our trade with the East colossal enterprise. , _ , , But one" must be alert and not idle. Here Mr. Flint is a director of the National Hank of has been multiplied by three. is what Governor Odell, of the great Empire the Republic, the Produce Exchange Hank, the If a nation of inferior intellect and energy State, has to say to our readers on the sub­ Knickerbocker Trust Company and other great to ours were in possession of the vast ore de­ ject: concerns. Mr. Flint says: posits of the Northwest, on which our domi­ There is no hope for the idle in this age; nance of the steel industry is based, they T hf. United States Treasury reports show but there are great hopes fur the shrewd, te­ would probably be but slightly developed to­ nacious, energetic man. whose brains have that for 1900 the balance of trade in our favor day. was nearly $649,000,000. In other words, this been rounded into proper shape by a good amount represents our net trade returns as a ft is not natural resources, but energy and American education. nation from last year’s business with foreign ability plus natural resources that account The man who would be successful must countries. This' is at the rate of nearly for our position. laugh at defeat and must not consider it defeat A possible danger in international trade is at all, but take up his burden and fight the $2.000,000 a day, $80,000 an hour, $1,300 a a “ war of tariffs.’ The United States should minute. battle anew. Only such men have won—only Europe needs our goods more than we need not continue to plead "infant industries." the men who have been defeated year after hers. Last year for every dollar we spent in Without making radical changes, we should year, who have faced the bitterest phases of Europe, Europe spent $2.50 in this country. tend to freer trade. despair, contumely and contempt, but who And our money was spent mainly for luxu­ While England, France and Germany have have raised their’ banner after each defeat ries. which we could do very well without, a balance of trade against them, they partake and carried it finally to glory. of our prosperity through their interests here, There were times in my early political life while Europe is obliged to buy her necessities and the balance of trade against them is from us. when 1 felt that any further attempts to gain During the first ten months of 1900 our im­ more than made up by returns through their political recognition were as hopeless as re­ ports o f manufactured goods amounted to foreign investments and enterprises.— The calling the lost past. But I had entered the $183,523,103, while our exports of manu­ World. fight to win, and had determined not to let factured goods for the same time reached any defeat stand in the path of that deter­ the handsome total of $376,247,618. Prosperity irv Big Chunks mination. A H&mburg newspaper recently pointed out that American tools, shoes, sewing SENATOR MARK HANNA SEES IT COMING machines, bicycles, agricultural implements, T he other day. at the Waldorf-Astoria, The Power of Silence stoves, typewriters, tables, desks, etc., are Senator Hanna made the following prophecy driving the foreign goods out of the market. to a young newspaper reporter: A l l great adepts know the Power of Si­ And this wonderful change has been " I tell you, young man, that this country lence. Great merchant princes also under­ wrought in less than four years, an achieve­ is on the eve of an era of prosperity which stand it. ment without precedent on earth. will surpass anything ever seen in the civilized The late Philip D. Armour, who succeeded Our commercial supremacy is not a lucky world. Signs all over the country are point­ in piling up a good many millions of dollars accident. It is the inevitable result of the ing to it. Everywhere is prosperity, and the that he didn't know what to do with during working of that law of evolution—“ the sur­ greatest confidence is manifested in the pres­ his span of life, believes the following prin­ vival of the fittest.” The credit is due not ent Administration. Trusts? There are no ciples to be the best guides to financial suc­ only to our great natural resources, but to trusts! cess: our system of centralized manufacture and " We are the greatest commercial nation in Capital can do nothing without brains to consolidated management. the world.” direct it. The most perfect results of industrial Every wise man is predicting great pros­ No general can fight his battles alone. He development have been attained in this perity.’ The occult sages and seers prophe­ must depend upon his lieutenants, and his country. We work under the most modern sied a thousand years ago that the twentieth success depends upon his ability to select the methocls, and we are constantly improving. century was to start the Golden Age. right man for the right place. Our workmen have welcomed labor-saving Good men are not cheap. machinery, instead of retarding its use, as Most men talk too much. Much of my suc­ European wage-earners have done. Why Some Men Fa.il cess has been due to keeping my mouth’shut. We have proved that cheap labor cannot From the Elmira Telegram compete with intelligent labor. For in­ stance, in 1899, among other things, we My song is this: Why some men miss, Occult Forces Serve Us shipped 200,000,000 yards of cotton doth to In life, their chosen goal— the Chinese, where the rate of wages is only They seek to fill, with half the will, T h e r e is no aspiration that one can con­ one-seventh as much as the workers in our A plan that needs the whole. ceive of, but can. through growth in spiritual cotton factories received. knowledge, become a reality. A worm where In 1875 the exports of Great Britain were They sow the seed on mount and mead, the invisible occult forces serve man. in an­ And wait to see it spread; swer to his every desire, is no more folly to twice as large as ours. In t88S our exports While, half concerned, they leave, unturned, the spiritual man than a world wherein ma­ were the largest, and last year we were ten The clod upon its head. " chinery works for him is unreal to the material millions ahead. m an.— A . A. Mallory. At our present rate of progress we will They waste in play the light of day, probably distance the United Kingdom by Knowing that there will come fortv or fifty millions this year. More than At evenfall the welcome call T ry T h is this; the indications are that during 1901 our To eat the unearned crumb. balance of trade alone will amount to more L e t love, gentleness, kindness, peace, calm, than the entire exports of Germany for the Thus down the tide of life they' glide, tranquillity take the place of hatred, anger, year. passion, enmity, revenge, turbulence, and To sum up, while we have a balance of In poverty and pain, Leaving undone, from sun to sun, then you will find, instead of pain, disease, trade of over $600,000,000 on the right side of The things that lead to gain. care or worry, great peace, great strength, the ledger. Great Britain, Germany and great force, and a satisfaction with yourself France have a balance of trade of over one that you never before felt. billion on the wrong side of the ledger. But when the last lone hope is past, The United States is to-day the chief gold- No more to light their way; producing country of the world, and by the And all is lost—they learn the cost time the Johannesburg mines are again pro­ Of doing things half way. Live irv the Now ducing as of old we shall probably be still in By Ella Wheeler Wilcox the first place. In 1900 our mines produced There’s Money Coming to a million and a half a week, and our increase K e e p out of the Past. It is lonely has been pronounced this past year. You And barren and bleak to the view; What, then, may we expect of the future? If you are an honest worker. Its fires have grown cold, and its stories are Our resources have hardly been tapped. The I f you are not a whiner and grumbler. old. future triumphs of American commerce will If you don’t worry about other people’s Turn, turn to the Present, the New. be immeasurably greater than the present. affairs. Foreign capitalists realize this, and since the If you have hope, faith, courage and that To-day leads vou up to the hilltops last election, the gold standard having been sort of thing. That are kissed bv the radiant sun; established beyond question, there has been If you are not envious and jealous of the To-dav shows no tomb, life's hopes are in a rush for American investments which is rich—of the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, Rocke­ bloom. unparalleled in history. fellers, Sages, et aL And to-day holds a prize to be won. 20 The New York Mecga-zine of Mysteries

universe, this solar system and this planet are run in the most perfect, intelligent and or­ derly manner; that everything is eternally progressing; that man is exactly as he thinks. v* Next month I will give some simple, com­ prehensive rules for acquiring great psychic power. In the meantime let us be as cheer­ ful, happy and progressive as possible. F r a n k H a r r is o n , Carnegie, the New Messiah of th e A ge HAIL, ST. ANDREW OF THE TWENTIETH CEN­ “ Through clouds of doubt and creeds of fear, Probably the good old souls of the good old TURY, REDEEMER OK THE MASSES! CRIES THE A light is breaking, calm and clear." times would have burned our Edisons and REV. HENRY FRANK -Whittier. Teslas as witches. T h e Rev. Henry Frank paid a glowing At the present time a tremendous Psychic tribute to Andrew'Carnegie recently before Light is breaking upon the inhabitants of this “ The ideals of one age become the idols of the congregation of the Metropolitan Inde­ planet, especially upon the American people. the next." Through the comparison of the pendent Church of New York City. He spoke, At every hand we see growth, improvement, present with the past, we can see the light of in part, as follows: development, expansion and progress. We power is now bursting forth in abundant and " Andrew Carnegie is a revolutionist. With are now nearer the absolute truth of being radiant glory. The birth of a new and glori­ one bold stroke he has uptorn by the roots than ever before. We live in a new and power­ ous age has taken place. The new man is an one of the vested ideas of the race. It has ful Light. Ours is truly the golden age. The embodiment of hope, strength and courage. always been assumed that he who acquired drama of thought is now a continuous per­ Light in the form of education is spreading wealth was its rightful owner and possessor, formance. The psychic and mental forces everywhere. Light is softening the hearts of despite the claims of all contestants. But are at work as they never were before. It is men." Everywhere we see men of wealth this prince of industry, whose wealth has al­ the epoch of soul and mind, where the psychic- giving away in a single dav vast sums for most reached the top notch of human achieve­ mental force is seen to be the alpha and the universities] colleges, schoois, libraries, hos­ ment, seems to have discovered a new gospel omega of conscious power. pitals, churches, etc. Yet, there are some and fearlessly proclaims its principles: J* with greed and envy in their hearts complain­ “ Whosoever holds his wealth for selfish We are once and for all time free from the ing and saying that these times cannot com­ use alone is a thief; he who dies overbur­ “ Good Old Times ”—the good “ old days ” of pare with the good old times; that the world dened with wealth is a criminal. superstition, when life was a bitter drudgery is not progressing. They should say, that “ One must needs uplift his heart in hope and the comforts and luxuries were few they, as individuals, are not progressing. when he discovers that amid all the sordid and far between. Now and then you hear Such a thinker cannot have much prosperity. ambition and avaricious aggrandizement of a groaning pessimist pining for the good J* the age there has come a true Messiah as a old times and bitterly railing against the relief to the masses and a rebuke to the mas­ present progressive days. Such growlers are The pessimist or grumbler never has much ters. always unhappy, thoughtless mortals who at­ confidence in himself or human nature and “ The great question, however, which pre­ tract" to their egos all the bad and disturbing does not inspire confidence in others. “ No sents itself as the issue of Mr. Carnegie’s vibrations of the universe, and they have an man can inspire confidence in others who has philanthropic efforts is what effect his per­ awful hard road through life. Fortune rarely not confidence in himself." Moreover, with­ formance will have upon the smug and self- smiles on them, and if it does they do not out confidence in our ability to succeed, we satisfied rich. Will it result in transforming know how to enjoy her favors. cannot expect success. Much failure is due their ideals, in forcing upon them a more se­ to a lack of confidence and too much con­ rious consideration of the conditions of the J* servatism. “ Conservatism is the serpent multitude, and in awakening in their breasts The power of thought for good or bad is that crawls upon its belly, eating the dust of mutual emulations to assist in uplifting the tremendous. “ Nothing is either good or bad, obsolete ideas.” oppressed and bestow upon them the desir­ but thinking makes it so." The great souls J* able comforts of life ? of this great age who are doing the great Let the readers of this magazine who aspire “ 1 am loath to believe that Mr. Carnegie things and reaping the great rewards are to success and happiness persistently yearn is the only fortunate individual whose breath those souls who live in the Now or Present for Light, Life-force, More Spirit and they will kindles with such noble ambition. I believe and are thankful that they do not live in the begin to learn the secret of acquiring "great that he has set a rapid, far-reaching and ag­ so-called "good old times'' of stage-coaches, psvchic power and attracting forces that will gressive pace, which will instigate the here­ tallow dips, flint and tow and that sort of help them to a wonderful degree. The desire tofore halting and indifferent aristocrats of a thing. It is passing strange, how tenaciously to know, desire to do, desire to achieve, if nation to follow in his wake and imitate his some persons still cling to the primitive days firmly, cheerfully and hopefully held will be noble activity. and are blind to the present grand days of completely fulfilled. Thus we draw from the “ Carnegie" is the new Messiah of a new progress along all lines. storehouse of the universe the breath of life age. He is the forerunner of a new type of J* and great psychic power. Aspire and Desire, the American rich, whose crowns will be In philosophy, religion, science, art, litera­ Desire and Aspire continuously and you will placed upon their brows by rejoicing multi­ ture, commerce, finance and everything we see soon get in touch with the great Light which tudes, who will ultimately” delight both in the most rapid advance and progress. Those is shining so radiantly at the present time. their financial leadership and in their philan­ who do not see it, or will not see it, are simply When desire is awakened in the heart, the thropic endowments. standing still looking through the wrong end Light is born, never to go out. A new and “ Hail, St. Andrew of the twentieth cen­ of the telescope, and getting real hard knocks powerful Light glows in the soul's centre. tury, whom no church or religious conclave at every turn. Eternal progress is the Al­ The Spirit of Life then vibrates as it never will canonize— for he is a man without a mighty will, and those who will not, or do not vibrated before. church — but whom the common people get into the spirit of the times must take a through all time will acclaim benefactor, back seat and suffer. In other words, man's “ No one was ever yet made utterly misera­ educator, friend and brother!" highest development, growth, health and hap­ ble except by himself.” Some men and women piness depend entirely upon his keeping up make themselves miserable by thinking and Personal Magnetism with the times or the march of progress. He dwelling all the time on their own woes and By William E. Towns must be up to date. miseries and those of the world. In time J* such persons become negative and powerless, P e r s o n a l M a g n e tism is not some mysterious and have no force to help themselves or and wonderful power possessed by the select Cheerful, hopeful, sanguine, optimistic and few, neither is it a “ gift" which comes to enthusiastic souls are in the right psychic vi­ others. Other great souls are always bright brations and will attract from the unseen and and cheerful and see the world progress­ one by inheritance. It is nothing more nor hidden realms forces and powers that will make ing in an orderly way and become fully less than personal farce, the strength mani­ their paths easier, rosier and happier than alive with joyous vibrations which make fested by a strong mentality which is con­ the paths of the blue or morbid pessimists. them very positive, forceful and helpful. scious ot its power, together with the aura Therefore, how important it is for us to cheer The psychic Light makes such cheerful, hope­ which emanates from the body of a healthy up and look on the bright side of things. Any­ ful beings luminous, magnetic and powerful. person at all times. This aura is impreg­ way, it is the duty of everyone, no matter They represent the embodiment of goodness nated with the personality of the individual, what their griefs or sorrows or troubles are, and have the highest spiritual activity. If hence when a person is positive and healthy’ to be cheerful. Cheerfulness is a great power you would not be miserable stop thinking mentally and physically we say he or she is to overcome disease, sorrow, grief and ad­ about misery, and earnestly desire the im­ magnetic. versity; it is a prayer which will be answered perishable and everlasting Psychic Light, The quality of magnetism is a matter of with good, and ease our troubles. Pessimism, which illumines the way to all real progress. temperament. A person of the mental tem­ whining, murmuring and complaining are perament will impart mental force to his insults to the great Creator and Ruler of this magnetism. A person of strong animal Universe. T hear someone say, "Oh, it is easy to tendencies will impart animal force to his magnetism, etc. u* write about these things; he has never had my worries nor my troubles.” Up to ten Anyone who by thought, deed or action years ago, I suffered much with disease, sor­ retards progress retards his own individual row, grief, abject poverty and general failure. Voice of the Soul progress. It is well then that a Light is In a slough of despond and in almost utter A l w a y s the soul says to us, cherish your breaking calm and clear through all doubt hopelessness I uttered a silent sincere appeal and all fear. Not a second passes that this best hopes as a faith, and abide by them in to the Higher Powers for L ig h t , and almost action. . . . Such shall be the effectual, world does not get better. Love, Truth and instantaneously Light and Force lifted me fervent means to their fulfilment.— Margaret Light are rapidly freeing us from our doubts out of a most dangerous disease, and I was Fuller. and fears, and through the power of soul and carefully guided and directed in the study mind ignorance, superstition and fear are and practice of psvchic-mental science under vanishing and we are getting great power to O ne silver quarter sent at once will secure the greatest adept's. Since then I have been this magazine for one whole year. This do. In this great age we know better how, in the most perfect health, am cheerful, when and where to do than ever before in the liberal offer is only open until June i, 1901. happy, and progressive. The psychic Light Send your subscription to-day. history of man. The grand results of our not only made me a new man, but it is with work show this conclusively. The things we me all the time as my guiding Light. With N e x t month we will print a very interest­ do to-day, if spoken about one hundred years this ever glowing powerful Light I see with ago, would have been thought impossible. ing article on psychic or metaphysical heal­ the psychic eye, and what do I see ? That the ing. The New York Ma.ga.zine of Mysteries 21

5 1 fHJ 151 fHJ 151 fHJ (si RJ151 fHJ 151 fBJ L51 [ZJ151 fHJ isi fHJ LSI fEl isi fEJ Isi r J isi Í2J isi faJ isi [BJ isi fHJ [51 raJ Ü The Spiritual Force a.t Work p . Everywhere Now a.s It Never H as Before Dynamic Power and § THE STRAIGHT EDGE 16 T h e New York Sun is printing a good deal Energy of the So\il about the Straight Edge Association, which anybody may join who will work and keep the Golden Rule. Psychic "Power ihe Greatest Force in the X/ni%>erse— Its Great [p3 | It began with two dollars cash, finds a live­ Power fo r Joy, Health, Prosperity and Happiness J+ l[n] lihood in its co-operative enterprises and is enlarging them. Drones and idlers who joined soon wearied. TaisiRJisiRilsifaisiraJlsiiaJlsiraiisifaiisiraJisifaJisifaJlsiraJisiiaJlsiraJlsiraisiRjisiraJlsiii “ The Straight Edge Association,” said Mr. Wilbur F. Copeland, who would be the as­ sociation’s head were it not a co-operative On the editorial page of the great New tears as well as smiles, and if by faith you commune, where everybodv has just as much York Herald each Sunday is printed a won­ can look forward to rest, to higher activities, authority as everybody else, “ was formed derful and powerful sermon from the pen to reunion, there comes into the soul a some­ to study and live up "to the Golden Rule. of the celebrated preacher, the Rev. thing, a dynamic energy, a cheering force Here aré our constitution and by-laws: George H. Hepworth. These so-called ser­ which makes despair impossible and changes mons are short and up to date, and contain despondency to hope. “ CONSTITUTION gems of thought of special interest to mystics That kind of religion is what the boy needs “ All things whatsoever ye would that men and the student of the occult. Each month when passing through the formative period, should do to you, do ye even so to them. we will reproduce one of these powerful ser­ when he is laying the foundations of a charac­ “ BY-CAWS mons, which will give strength and power to ter. It does not interfere with his joyous­ all who read them with care and thought. ness, it is not a cloud in his sky, but an addi­ “(1.) Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy­ The following sermon on How to Serve God tion source of physical happiness. self. It is what the man needs when he is in the “ (2.I In honor preferring one another. is full of inspiration: “ (3.) Lay not up for yourself treasures upon And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God midst of affairs and when the pessimistic earth. of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart forces are at work. It illumines his ideal, as "(4.) I am in the midst of you as he that and with a willing mind.—i Chronicles, xxviii. 9. a white statue is illumined by a calcium serveth. How differently we look on life at different light, and teaches him that loyalty to eternal “(5.) Take heed that ye do not your right­ periods! We really live three or four kinds of things is better than the gainful success eousness before men to be seen of "them. life between the cradle and the grave. which he must leave behind him. "(6.) Whatsoever things are true, honest, In early youth, for example, the davs §0 It is what old age needs when it faces the just, pure, of good report, virtuous, praise­ with leaden feet. From the half-holiday in inevitable, for it opens the door of the future worthy, think on these things. the middle of the week to the other half-holi- and discloses such radiant facts that death is “(7.) This constitution and by-laws cannot dav at its end seems to be a small section of only a sweet sleep from which the soul rises be repealed or amended by any majority, eternity. The hours of boyhood are longer to cross the threshold of eternal life. Re­ however large or respectarle: but supple­ than the months of manhood. In later years, ligion crowns all periods of life with hope and joy. mentary articles, consistent herewith, may on the other hand, when the coins in the be adopted from time to time when found to treasury of time have grown to be small in G e o r g e H . H e p w o r t h . be expedient. number, we rush by the weeks as we rush by “ Under the principles thus set forth we the telegraph poles" when on an express train. Queen Victoria/s Comfort­ conduct a bakery and a printing office at But what an exquisite season our youth is! in g B elief 240 Sixth avenue, New York City, where we The boy opens his eyes on a beautiful world, all live and do our own washing, cooking, and every passing moment is a special de­ I t is reported that Queen Victoria was a scrubbing and general housework. There light. He is 111 harmony with the universe believer in the theory that our departed are sixteen of us now. men and women, and and joins in the chorus as the morning stars loved ones are given the privilege of watch­ we have a number of applications for sing together. He may not appreciate the ing over those of us who are still upon this membership since the story of our existence situation, but he is charmed by it. He wants earth and are exposed to the temptations and got into the newspapers. "We have been in to live forever, and the thought of death sorrows of this life. The Quiver states: operation two years and several papers got chills, possibly terrifies him. In the full and “ It was the great consolation of her be­ wind of us from time to time and sent re­ magnificent flow of physical vitality, he reaved years that she felt that the Prince porters to us to find out all about us. But dreams great dreams, builds castles in the was watching over the events of her life. we always sidetracked the reporters. We air of which no architect could make a defi­ During her retirement at Osborne, imme­ did not desire any notoriety. But we had to nite plan, and is happier than any language diately after the Prince Consort’s death, the have it when we came to apply for corpora­ can express. It is ordained that we shall be­ Queen found ‘ her only comfort in the belief tion privileges, and we had to be incorporated gin our long career in that way. that her husband's spirit was close beside in order to hold property. When manhood comes stealing on with her—for he had promised that it would be “ I was living at a Mills Hotel two years slippered feet the dreams fade away and we so.’ This was told to Dean Stanley by the ago when the idea of forming some such as­ stand face to face with grave and stem reali­ Queen's half-sister, the Princess Hohenlohe. sociation as this suggested itself. There ties. We need muscle of body and muscle of The belief that the spirits of the dead are were four of us who talked it over, and the mind to do our work. Disappointments hovering about those whom they loved on first night we met we had just $2 among us. check our hoped-for progress, and so far as earth may be the reason for Her Majesty's But one of the four had been to Santiago and this world is concerned we feel sure of very dislike to second marriage, especially the re­ had a number of war relics which he sold. little. The optimism of earlier days gives marriage of widows.” With the proceeds of that and our $2 we way, and the tendency, both spiritual and started. Then my own salary began to come mental, is in the direction of a mild kind of Some Gra.nd Old Men in, and that helped us out. We took a bouse pessimism, which is as harmful as a drop of away over on West Tenth street at first. poisonous acid in a glass of pure spring P o p e L eo XIII, aged ninety-one. Sir Frederick Hall, ninety-four. Then we took a flat lower down in Sixth water. We are all of us conscious of this, avenue, then we came to our present place, and we all of us vield to it in some degree, Earl of Perth and Melfor't, ninety-three. Sir Charles Nicholson, M.D., ninety-two. 240 Sixth avenue, and there we are going to unless we know of a well from which we can remain even though we have leased twenty- draw water without the accompanying drop Sir Henry A. Pitman, ninety-two. Admiral "Sir II. Keppel, ninety-one. odd acres down on Staten Island. of poison. “ We are going to start a lunch room in or I venture the assertion that it is impossible Duke of Cambridge, eiglity-ocld. Sir John Tenniel, eiglity-two. near our Sixth avenue house soon and we will for any man to go through life keeping a raise the vegetables for it down on the Staten cheerful temper and a trusting heart unless Li Hung Chang, eighty-four. It is now getting to bea very common thing Island farm. We will also run a laundry at he has that series of uplifting thoughts the Staten Island place and gradually extend which it is the privilege of our religion to for men and women to reach one hundred years or more. All life insurance companies to other lines of work there. furnish. But with those thoughts in his firm “ Anybody can join us who wants to work possession he is superior to any possible ex­ carefully watch the average age of man, and they uniformly report that we are living and wants to live up to the Golden Rule. We perience. Life makes one tired, but religion longer and longer as civilization advances. have no drones. We have had such come and is like the sweet sleep from which he rises re­ try it, but they found it unpleasant and left. freshed. Life makes one hungry; but re­ To what extent we will grow and succeed is ligion is like the food which nourishes the Eva. Best’s Idea for the future to determine, but we are all worn tissues. Life is a stormy season, but T h is brilliant writer of occult truths, in a very hopeful and very happy and contented.” religion is the sun that breaks through the recent issue of the New York Metaphysical clouds and floods the landscape with longed- Magazine among other things said: While Never Too La.te for light and heat. we tarry here we should take heed of our It would be folly to deny that from morn­ precious" moments ; should seek to live un­ By E. G. Holtzman ing to evening we have a hard day’s work. selfish lives,with arms and hands outstretched It is not easy to live comfortably or "serenely; to all the world ; should live clean lives and I t is never too late to purpose and do, it is impossible to do so without religion of think pure thoughts, and harbor not enmity It is never too late to find what you can do, some kind. Your very health depends largely nor malice, nor jealousy, nor revenge; for It is never too late to cast off error’s chain. on your state of mind, and when your mind enmity sours the heart, malice warps it, It is never too late to say: “ lam free once has soared to that realm in which your God jealousy devours it, and revenge bums it as again 1" dwells, not only does your body respond, but in a ravaging fire. Rather within the mys­ your whole outlook undergoes’ a change. If terious, growing cells of our being store hope It is never too late to be kind and sweet, you look up and see nothing but darkness, and faith and charity and love. It is never too late to cheer those we meet, the shadow of that darkness englooms your It is never too late to be sowing good seed. days: but if your upward gaze discovers God' Remembering, Now is all the time we need. and immortality, your pathway becomes How to Keep Young light, even though it be rugged and difficult. M adam e B e r n h a r d t , the great actress, who It is never too late to be lowly of heart. If there is nothing ahead of you, if graves are retains youthful grace to a marked degree, Drive out pride, and the lilies of meekness simply graves and nothing more, if broken declared the other day to a newspaper in­ will start. ties will remain forever broken, your mental terviewer that she managed to keep young by It is never too late for the heart to be right. attitude produces a depression which is close thinking young; that she held a strong desire And your feet will then walk in a path of to despair. But if, on the contrary, you are to not grow old and feeble. Site is a very light. convinced that the universe has a "Master, active, hard-working woman, and occupation and that your road to a better world lies and enthusiasm in her work help her to retain S c ie n c e works only on the outward rind of through struggles as well as joys, through her youthful feelings and looks. th in g s.— Emerson. 2 2 The New York Macga-zine of Mysteries

actly like me," she said, " a wonderful deline­ ation of character; but that could easily be written by one who knows me well enough to know the hour when I was born—but who, of TKe Old Astrologer’s« * y all my friends and acquaintances, could have made out a chart like this? It is certainly very puzzling.” Puzzling though it might be, the matter did Startling Story is * w‘in M‘ not trouble our heroine for any great length of time. She had other things to think about THE A.VETT — that trip to Europe with her god-mother, FORETOLD BY THE STARS for instance. Should she go, or shouldn't she ? Henry seemed to favor it—Henry, her husband, to whom she had been secretly married only two days before. DO not like it." said the old astrolo- “ Oh, mercy!” "It will do you good, dear,” he had said, when Vv: T r j ger to himself, as he turned for a "Y e t he may never hang,” with a smile; she told him of her god-mother’s proposition; llYt second look at the handsome couple “ indeed, he may get through life with a " and nothing can be gained by your staying who had just passed him. "She fairly good record, although the chances are here, for at present our marriage must be seems too nice a girl to sacrifice against him.” kept a secret. We could see very little of herself like that.” •• I see Mars in conjunction with Mercury each other---- ” “ Cannot you prevent it ?” in Virgo,” said Mrs. Merwin. " If lying could " But it doesn’t seem quite right to go, The astrologer wheeled as the unexpected get him out of a scrape, he wouldn't hesitate, under the circumstances," interrupted question met his ears, and faced the speaker would he?” Daphne. “ She thinks I am still single---- " —a woman about his own age, handsome, “ I should say not. Then we have Mars •• As long as she thinks so, what difference well dressed and a stranger. and Mercurv in conjunction, which foretells does it make ? You are a wife only in name, " You are not acquainted with me.” she a gambler,"while Saturn, afflicting the as­ and hardly in that." said, smiling pleasantly, " but 1 know I am cendant, and the Moon opposite to Saturn is "But her stipulations, Henry—don’t you talking to Prof. Rudolph Zimmerman. 1 am a strong testimony of cruelty. I should not remember ?" Mrs. Merwin, a student in the A B C class of like to be in this man's power, if he had any “ About her will, do you mean ?" the occult, and godmother to the young lady reason to wish me out of the way.” " Yes; if 1 agree to put off my wedding dav who just passed this way.” “ But the casual observer would certainly until we return she promises to make her will ••Being her godmother, Mrs. Merwin," was not read him in that light. He seems pleas­ in my favor. Such queer conditions! 1 can't the grave reply, “ why do you not prevent ant, alwavs ready to do small favors---- " understand---- ” it?" •• I know; it is "all here—a handsome, pleas­ “ I can. She thinks your love for me can "How can I? I wish you would advise ant, modest, lying villain!” be cured by separation!----" me. I am on my way to Central Park, Pro­ " Professor Zimmerman, what can I do to "Oh, Henry!” fessor Zimmerman; will you walk with me a save Daphne ?” “ She does." She has never liked me. She little way ? This is unconventional, but we The astrologer took up another chart, and would separate us if she could, and il I show are both old enough---- " studied it carefully for a few moments with­ a desire to get even---- " " Not to be slaves to conventionalities. out speaking. “ Oct. 5, 1874,” he said, mus­ "Don't talk that way, Henry. I hate get­ Thank you; 1 shall be delighted to accom­ ingly, "at thirteen minutes past seven in the ting even. Mrs. Merwin has always been pany vou. And now, tell me, how far has it morning. Libra rises, Venus, her ruler, has good to me---- " gone ?” Saturn on her ascendant exalted. Jupiter “ You don't imagine I am asking you to be " First, please tell me what you know of with her Sun just leaving a sextile of Uranus, bad to her ?" the young man ?” that shows her indecision concerning them.” “ Oh, no, but---- ” “ 1 have read his horoscope.” “ There is no indecision, so far as I can “ Let her have a good time, Daphne, in her " He is a social favorite, as you doubtless see," interrupted Mrs. Merwin. own way. Go with her. since she wishes it, know, having read his horoscope; the son of “ Nevertheless, she is perplexed. She real­ and remember that, where ignorance is a good family, fine-looking, well educated, izes that Mitchell is the better man, but he is bliss---- ” accomplished in many ways—in fact, a matri­ fourteen years older than she is, and his “ But the will, Henry! I am almost sure monial ‘ catch '—if I may be pardoned a little manner is too abrupt to please her. She has she intends to make it before we leave." current slang—and the girl’s parents give too great a regard for mere appearance, and “ Well, can’t she destroy it upon your re­ their consent." therein lies her danger. The Sun is just turn, when she learns that you are Mrs. "Y es? And you?" leaving a sextile aspect of Uranus and form­ Henry Hunter ? Depend upon "it she not only "Have little influence, except that I am ing a good aspect to Jupiter. Mrs. Merwin, can, but will; but she will have had her good childless and—not poor! Daphne, as I have just now your god-child is in danger of mar­ time, just the same." said, is my godchild, and my love for her rying Hunter—a hasty and secret marriage— A happy smile crept into Daphne's eyes as leads her parents to believe— —" but if she can be kept" from doing so for just she recalled this conversation. “ 1 understand. If you were really to op­ a little while, she will, of her own accord, “ It was so unselfish in Henry," she said, pose this match, and should strengthen your choose the better man.” softly. "H e doesn't consider himself at all, opposition with hints as to your last will" and “ I might take her abroad," said Mrs. Mer­ vet lie is unhappy if one day passes without testament---- ■” win, her kindly face brightening at the his seeing me. "But he is right—my dear, “ I presume the parents would take my op­ thought. good husband always is right—and so 1 will position into consideration. I am not so sure “ It would be a good idea, but I'm afraid go to Europe with Auntie Merwin, and I’ll about the girl. Having never known pov­ she won't go. I see no journey for her in the forget my desire to be with Henry in my ef­ erty, she does not fear it, and it would be near future, but try it. Meanwhile, I'll send forts to make this the very' happiest time she difficult for her to imagine a situation where her a copy of these charts---- ” has ever known." she might be less comfortable than she al­ “ Oh, site must not know I've been to you." Daphne went to her closet to choose the ways has been." “ She shall not. See this aspect of Uranus garments she would need on her journey, but " What have you against the man ?” asked and the Moon." pointing to the chart. “ That before the first one had been taken from the the astrologer, curiously. shows a love for the occult and the mysteri­ hooks she was star!led by the sound of "Absolutely nothing’ except a fixed idea. ous. I’ll send her the charts anonymously, hurrying footsteps and thé unceremonious That is the trouble. 1 don't like him; I don’t and she will be sure to give them a reading.” entrance of Katie, the cook. trust him; I fear him; yet I don't know why. “ Oh, Miss Daphne," she faltered, “ come That is why I spoke to you just now. Hap­ On the evening of the next day Daphne sat quick, come quick! your mother has fainted!" pening to "overhear your remark, I thought alone in her room, reading a peculiar docu­ " She was told, without warning, of Mrs. you might help save "my godchild from what ment that had come to her through the mail. Merwin’s death," explained Daphne's father, I believe will prove a" most unhappy mar­ "Please study the enclosed character in a low tone, as Daphne entered her mother’s riage.” sketches,” she read, •• for they tell a most in­ room. "Don't you faint, Daphne! Brace "Can you give me the exact date of the teresting story. It is of a good girl, with up! Rub vour mother's hands, while I re­ young lady’s birth ?” considerable obstinacy, yet easily influenced, move her shoes.” " I can send it to you. There is a record who has two lovers. One is, to all appear­ Daphne controlled herself, and while she of it." ances, all that a girl’s heart could desire. In worked over her mother she heard the par­ “ Do so, please. There is another suitor, reality, he has all the characteristics of a ticulars of the tragedy, in so far as the father perhaps ?” villain, and if his wife does not kill him be­ knew them. “ Why do you ask ? Do yon know him ?’’ fore she has lived with him a great while, he “ It seems,” he said, " that Mrs. Merwin’s “ No." I judged bv the young lady herself will kill someone else, for he is a man who dead body was discovered more than three that she would be likely to have more than would not stop short of murder. The hero­ hours ago, but the discovery was kept quiet one. My work, you know, makes me rather ine, if she marries him, will see her mistake until the doctors and the coroner had made observant.” before the honeymoon is ended. There is a preliminary examination.” "There is a young man—Albert Mitchell. little likelihood of her killing him, although "W hat was it?” gasped Daphne, with stif­ 1 like him. 1 should like him even if he were she will hate him enough for that, but, see­ fening lips. “ Heart failure ?" not the son of my dearest friend—and there ing her mistake, she will give the other man " No, poison. Someone had sent her was a time when I had strong hopes that he the wealth of love that should have been his poisoned candy—sent it toiler, a woman who and Daphne would marry. Nothing could from the first. A man with Gemini rising. never made an enemy. Why, Daphne, my please me better—but Daphne does not seem Mercury ruling, Venus in Taurus, and with girl---- ” to like Albert Mitchell as well as she did." the Moon in mid-heaven and in Pisces, is The father caught the swaying form, but in “ Then he did interest her at one time ?" sure to make a husband whom a woman can a moment she had gained her self-control. “ Yes. before she met Henry Hunter." trust; he is one of the men whose good qual­ “ 1 will go to my room fora moment,” she ities are bound to win love, sooner or later, said. “ Don’t worry; I'll be all right, and " I do not like it,” said the old astrologer but the love of a married woman will never mamma is better now." again. He was in his study now, seated at sway him in the least." A bright fire smouldered in the grate, and his desk, and three charts, peculiar to as­ Daphne read the letter through twice with Daphne hastily gathered the charts and trology, lay spread out before hun. In an a curious expression on her face, then studied horoscopes and fed them to the blaze. easy-chair near him sat Mrs. Merwin. As the three charts and the horoscopes accom­ “ If his wife does not kill him,” she repeated he spoke he picked up a chart, on the margin panying them. mechanically, as she bent over the fire, “ he of which this inscription was to be seen: “ I wonder who could have sent these will kill someone else;” and these words were “ Aug. 12, 1865, 3.28 A.M." things!" she exclaimed, throwing the offend­ the last to become obliterated of all those “ You see.” he said, “ he has the twenty- ing papers on the floor. “ It is all nonsense she had fed to the flames. ninth degree of Cancer rising." —mere bosh—and impertinent besides. I “ Why should I think it ?” she moaned, “ And that means?" asked Mrs. Merwin. wonder if anyone really believes in such throwing herself into a chair. “ It is cruel, “ The Egyptian symbol of the twenty-ninth stuff—" She stooped and picked the papers outrageous, insane! He never would do a degree is a "man hanging," was the grave re­ up again, and turned once more to the sheet thing like that. I do not deserve to bear his ply. bearing the date of her birth. “ It is ex­ name. Oh, God, punish me as I deserve for The New York MAga^zirve of Mysteries 23 letting such a wicked thought come into my Raby saw George Washington, but he never Mystery of the Stars, the mind." saw President McKinley. But even in the midst of her wildest protes­ His pleasures are visits when someone Sun, the Moon and the tations something within her—something in­ reads to him " swads of the Bible," he says. P la n e ts definable, but not to be ignored or set aside— His memory is wonderful, his hearing perfect, kept pressing, pressing upon her half-crazed his voice strong. His only ailments are ery­ T h r o u g h o u t endless space there are count­ brain one unformed, wordless thought, and sipelas and heartburn. less stars, suns, moons and planets. How did she knew that the underlying, unreasoning Raby wakes up when he hears other in- they happen ? Why do they exist? Who fear that had oppressed her since she first saw mates of the almshouse stirring, then he fixes what rules them? What is"the f ir s t g r e a t Henry Hunter was now materializing into a his “ nest," as he will allow no one to make c a u s e of this most wonderful universe ? belief in his guilt which would never leave his bed for him. He walks into the dining­ These are questions we ought to discuss her. room with the assistance of a cane. As he and think about more than we do. Among the papers found in the dead cannot now eat solid food, milk forms a sub­ The editors of this magazine and its adept woman's desk was a will, executed only the stantial part of his diet. writers know that they did not tiappen by- day before, in which all her property was left He goes to bed later than the other inmates, chance. We know that there is an all-wise, to "Daphne. There was also found a copy of but sleeps fairly well, considering his re­ grand and loving Ruler of it all. We are not the three horoscopes and of the anonymous markable age and physical condition. atheists. We were prompted to write this letter to Daphne which she had so carefully It is getting to be an easy thing to live to from the following editorial recently printed destroyed, and with these was a signed letter over 100 years nowadays. Read what the about Napoleon in the New York Journal; from f’rofessor Zimmerman to Mrs. Merwin. Occult Adepts have to say about living long Napoleon trifled with everything e x c e p t t h e f ir s t g r e a t c a u s e . “ I wish to warn you,” he wrote, "against and useful lives in this magazine, every On the deck of his ship, on a fine night, letting anyone, except your lawyer, know that month. there was much irreverent, flippant, materi­ you mean to make your will "before you go alistic chatter. The Revolution had made abroad. I can’t help* feeling that it would be stupid atheism fashionable. dangerous to let such information reach the Love Messages by Telepathy But Napoleon was impressed by the calm ears of Henry Hunter. He knows what an It is easier to send messages by telepathy night, the blue, dark water, and'the silent, influence he l'las over women, and he would —thought transference—than it is by wireless beautiful stars shining down in cosmic rebuke feel sure of Daphne and her fortune if once telegraphy. Moreover, it makes ho differ­ of the tiny blasphemers below. you were safely ou' of tile way." ence how "great the distance is. He stopped very abruptly the prattle of Such testimony would not have been of Can lovers who are far apart commune atheism. much use, unaided, but it furnished a clue, with each other without written words or Toward the stars he pointed the short, and when Henrv Hunter had hastened to any kind of material signs ? I often think of thick arm, so soon to rule this little planet: make public the fact of Ins marriage, and Mrs. the poem— “ You may talk as long as you please, gen­ Merwin's maid, who had witnessed the will, tlemen, but who mtute ail thatt" confessed that she had told Henry Hunter “ Last night we met as others meet. Though many a mile apart; There was no answer, and there was no about it, at his earnest solicitation, the detec­ And greeted as some others greet more atheism that night. tives had little difficulty in trapping the Who are not heart to heart " The man who was to build up the Code Na­ murderer. In the next number of this magazine will poleon could appreciate the force and neces­ Throughout the dreadful days of the trial be given a detailed explanation of how such sity of law. His mind realized the feebleness Albert Mitchell stood right by Daphne and miracles and how the old Biblical miracles of man, coping even with little problems of her grief-stricken parents, proving himself a are in accordance with already discovered earth. veritable rock of refuge. When it was all laws of science. It will not only be told how He felt that great laws, and a Great Law over, and there was nothing more he could Ananias of Damascus knew at a long dis­ Giver, must swing and direct those millions do, he quietly left the country. tance off that Saul of Tarsus sat blinded in of silent worlds above. the street called “ Straight," but also how, When Napoleon was still a Corsiean patriot, “ The twenty-ninth degree, rising," said the through telepathy, a world of other things the great Paoli said to him; old astrologer, one dav, as he laid aside the unsaid can pass, and how, dear young lady, “ Napoleon, you are not a modern; y-ou talk paper which announced that Henry Hunter the other evening at twilight, a s . you sat like the heroesof Plutarch.” had paid the penalty of his crime, “ backed alone at the piano and sang to yourself a song Earnestness of the old kind was indeed Na­ up with such other testimonies as I found in of Schubert— poleon’s characteristic—as Emperor, planning that horoscope—well, I'd stake my reputation “ Your cheek a phantom kiss flushed red." to rule Asia from the back of an ornamented on my predictions every time!" elephant, or as a poof, half-starved lad, tak­ Then he took up the two other horoscopes. Oftentimes telepathic love messages pass ing off his muddy shoes to enter the presence “ Poor little girl!" lie said. “ Fate was between those widely separated. of the matronly Madame Permon, and listen­ against her, and we did not interfere quick The writer knows of a case where a dying ing to her stories of descent from the Empe­ enough. But she is not to suffer all her life wife ill New York City sent a parting message of love instantaneously to her husband, a gold rors of Constantinople. as she suffers now. If she and Mitchell are Napoleon in his hours of work was a d o e r , not married within four years, then I’ll agree miner, who was thousands of miles away in the Klondike. and in his hours of leisure he was a dis­ to eat these charts for my Christmas dinner c u s s e r . five years from the coming holiday season." Sailors dying at sea in a shipwreck have He exercised constantly the two sides of [We intend to print in this magazine during been known to send a last message by telep­ his brain—the practical and speculative. the year a number of mystical and occult stories. athy to their friends or relatives on" shore, Do the same, and succeed. Don’t fail to read next month’s issue; it will con­ thousands of miles away from the wreck. tain much of interest to all persons, especially The study of telepathy is a very interesting those interested in mysticism and the occult.— one. and we will have "much to say on the Tesla., the Worvder Worker, E d it o r .] subject in these columns from month to Tells Why He Turned month. Vegetaria.n He Is 129 Years Old " I r e l ie v e in the eating of vegetables be­ TIIK OLDEST BACHELOR IN THE WORLD Their Hypnotic Gla.nces cause I believe that a vegetable diet is much more beneficial to the human being than an On Monday, April t, 1901, Noah Raby, of Touched Her Hea.rt animal diet." says Nicola Tesla, the magic New Brunswick, N. J., reached the remarka­ M r s . A. K. Jonf.s . a wealthy resident o f worker in electricity'. ble age of 129 years, and if he will carefully Vineland. N. thinks she was hypnotized “ Vegetables, grains, nuts and fruits are read the M a g a zin e o f My s t e r ie s every month and swindled recently by two spectacle ped- certainly preferable as a food, and that we there is no telling how long he will hold the lers. can perform our work while subsisting on body before passing on to the Spirit World. One morning a dapper-looking man talked that kind of food is not a theory, but a well- He has a comfortable home in the New Mrs. Jones into buying a pair of “ gold demonstrated fact. Brunswick Almshouse, where every kind at­ rimmed" spectacles for $25, and in the after­ “ To free ourselves from animal instincts tention is shown him. noon another smooth stranger appeared, and and appetites, which keep us down, we should The old gentleman is in fairly good health after telling her that the “ gold rimmed" begin at the very root from which they spring. and his mind is perfectly clear. ones were only brass, succeeded in duping •• We should effect a radical reform in the His father was a full blooded Indian^ and her into purchasing his spectacles at $15. character of food. Noah was born in Gates Court House, N. C., Mrs. Jones does not understand how she “ There is no doubt that plant food such as April 1, 1772. came to be victimized so easily, unless she fell oatmeal is more economical than meat, and Possibly his longevity is accounted for by under a hypnotic spell put upon her by the superior to it in regard to both mechanical the Indian blood which he inherited from his pedlers. and mental performance. full blooded redskin father, Andrew Bass. Both men, she says, shook her hand so “ A man who eats vegetables is a better man Noah bore the name of his mother. Morning queerly and looked into her eyes so strangely, mentally than one who eats meat. Vegeta­ Baby. No Indian traits show either in his yet pleasantly, that she believed their stories bles are more beneficial to the brain than is physical being or in his happy, even-tempered and bought their spectacles before she really animal food.” disposition. knew what she was doing. All the great psychic adepts and wonder His head is covered wit]» a heavy growth of By getting interested in psychic science one workers of the Orient, who have such won­ long white hair, and a heavy wavy beard is can soon learn how to be "impregnable to derful powers to work miracles, never eat still tinged with black near the corners of the hypnotic scoundrels. Always look a stranger meat or animal foods ; they live on fruits, mouth. straight in the eye, and you "can thus ward off nuts, grains and vegetables. Raby never varies in the stories he tells any evil intents "on his part. covering two centuries. All attempts to trap him fail. He is a model of cheerfulness, and About Theosophy wants to live to fill out his second century. Thoughts Are Ma-grvets T housands of the most intelligent and pro­ He said recently: gressive people in all parts of the world are “ I’d like to live forever. W hen we know how to use thoughts we deeply interested in Theosophy. It is a very " I don't know any rule for living long." he can attract to us anything we desire. A good interesting study and has helped many per­ remarked. “ It's Providence made me live. husband or a good wife can be attracted to sons to great occult powers—it is helpful and You want to be always cheerful and happy. one who knows how to concentrate the inspiring. Many of the theosophists are strict I would live just as long if I’d been married. thought upon the desired object. This maga­ vegetarians. They are a very successful and Marriage doesn't shorten your life." zine is having prepared by one of the greatest happy people who have splendid health and The first forty years of Raby’s long life adepts and teachers of occult truths in the live to great ages. Theosophy is called the were spent in North Carolina and Virginia. world, a series of articles, which will begin Wisdom religion. For a year shortly after the War of 1812 he to appear next month, that will clearly and served as a common sailor on the Constitution comprehensively show how we can use the Now. don’t you think you would like to re­ and Brandywine. After that he came to New mind to draw to us anything good we may ceive this magazine every month for one whole Jersey, where he has lived ever since. His desire. These wonderful articles are sure to year? It will cost you only twenty-five cents last vote was east at Morristown, when he be appreciated by our readers, especially for the whole year's subscription if you send was over one hundred years old. those who desire success. your subscription t o -dav— before June 1. 1901. 2 4 The New York Macgaczine of Mysteries

Hale a.rvd Hearty a.t 102 “All Men acre Brothers,” LEARN HOW TO RETAIN YOUR VITAL FORCES Declares Wu Tirvg Fang

T h is magazine believes everyone should CHINESE MINISTER TALKS WISELY AT GOLDEN live a long, healthy, prosperous, busy and RULE MEETING IN NEW YORK CALVAKV happy life. John" Tubbert, of Syracuse, BAPTIST CHURCH N. Y., recently celebrated his i02d birthday. “T h a t grand idea, the Golden Rule, was As far as known he is the second oldest first enunciated by Confucius.” man in New York State. He is in excellent So declared Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese health, and his mind is as clear as that of a Minister, who came from Washington to speak man of 70. for the brotherhood of man in the Calvary L e t us all pulsate with Life—real Life, beau­ In speaking of his old age and what he at­ tiful Life. Baptist Church at the Golden Rule meeting tributed his longevity to. Mr. Tubbert says in the name of the Baron and the Baroness de High aims, high hopes bring the real Life that he was always a man of excellent habits, vibrations. Hirseh. and this more than anything else, he avers, is Clad in his Chinese robes of wine-colored With the great Emerson let 11s all pray: what aided in the preservation of his health. “ Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. silk, hisqueue hanging from beneath his man­ Dr. Gregory Doyle, a well-known physician darin’s cap, on which sparkled the diamond Don't bark against the bad, but chant the of Syracuse, says that he believes the old beauties of the good." button of his rank; with face marked bv man will retain his vitality for five years at high cheekbones and the slanting eyes, which Now—this very moment—is the time to least, and that it is quite probable’ he will live, to have, to enjoy. gleamed shrewdly behind large spectacles, he last ten years yet. sat surrounded by Hebrew rabbis and Chris­ “ Time past and time to be are One, A singular feature of Mr. Tubbert’s physi­ And both are Now.” tian ministers, serene in knowing that the cal condition is that his eyesight is almost as Golden Rule they were to extol was first ut­ — Whittier. ood now as it ever was, and never in his life Stop liv in g in the p a s t , stop liv in g in the tered by Confucius. as he worn glasses. He has two children, With the subtle mind of the Oriental, aided f u t u r e , live in the Now. “ Billy” Tubbert, the well-known sporting Now, is the time to do. by the scholarship of a Western education, he man of Syracuse, and Policeman James Tub­ sat impassively marshaling the follies of “ 'Twas only striking from the calendar bert. He has five grandchildren, ranging in Oriental civilization in his mind and strength­ Dead yesterdays and unknown to-morrows." age from 1 to 15 years. —Omar Khayyam. ening the innate pride of the high caste China­ “ Life is constant. There is as much Life man, until it came his time to be introduced. as there ever was. All Life that now is ever The great audience applauded him loudly will be."—Henry Harrison Brown. as he rustled forward. But soon they grew Success a.nd Happiness for quiet, then restless, as with smooth contempt L if e is boundless and inexhaustible. he contrasted the protestations of Western P r a y fo r L if e . Y o u civilization for the equality of man with the T h in k f o r L if e . events in their history. B r e a t h e fo r L if e . E v e r y human being who aspires to growth, E a t fo r L if e . progress, perfect health, long life, prosperity IGNORANCE CAUSE OF INTOLERANCE S l e e p fo r L if e . and happiness should regularly read books “ Ignorance is the cause of racial prejudice D ie fo r L if e — eternal Life. and periodicals which have an uplifting and religious intolerance," declared Wu Ting Life Vibrations come from Love, Toy, tendency; that will inject new life and in­ Fang. “ We are all apt to be prejudiced Merriment. Dutv well performed, Morality, spire hope. against things with which Ave are unac­ Purity, Virtue, High Aspirations. We should read to be wakened as well as quainted. For instance, all of us hate snakes. Don't say you are weak—say you are strong. entertained. But the naturalist learns them. He learns If you say or think you are weak you close What real good is a monthly magazine if it their habits and becomes acquainted with the' door to the manifestation of Lite. doesn't suggest new thought—if it doesn't them, so that he can handle even the most W o r r y , wake the reader out of a sluggish, humdrum venomous. Now, if he can overcome his prej­ A n g e r , sort of existence f udice against snakes by education, bow much H a t r e d , One of the most stirring and stimulating more ought we to be able to overcome our E n v y , studies is that of the mysteries of life—occult prejudice against races and religions.” J e a l o u s y , science, psychic forces, metaphysics, psychic He dwelt with subtle scorn upon the driv­ >1 e a n x e s s—all stop the flow of Life Currents phenomena, etc. ing forth of the skilled Huguenots from —of Life Vibrations. T h e N e w Y o r k Ma g a z in e o f My s t e r ie s is Christian France, and the expulsion of the Go in the Silence and Affirm: a live, wideawake, up-to-date periodical. Its industrious Moors from Spain. He recalled “ Life is Infinite, therefore I am Immortal.” publishers, editors and writers are progressive how Catholic Spain had harrotved the thrifty “ I cannot cease to live, for I am Immortal souls who enthusiastically believe in the farms of Protestant Holland. He pointed out Life." doctrine of DOING. the intolerance of a religious Europe for the' “ I cannot die; being Life I will forever We do things. devoutlews, and declared that the Crusaders manifest as Life, in some form.” We believe in intelligent and honest activ­ had inflicted untold suffering upon Christian “ There is no Death. The stars go down, ity. We hate failure, poverty, disease and and Mohammedan alike in the name of Him To rise upon some fairer shore, drudgery and will strenuously fight these who repeated in His life and words the Golden And bright in heaven's jeweled crown conditions all the time. We are all pre-emi­ Rule which the prophet of the Mongolians They shine forevermore." nently successful as D o e r s . We have great had uttered centuries before. “ It is not the absence of Life that makes vital forces and ample material wealth which me sick, weak, blue or poor, but it is because we have acquired by constant use of the NO RELIGIOUS WARS IN CHINA I do not, by my thought, allow Life to mani­ M in d , occult forces and H a r d , P e r s is t e n t “ It is remarkable,” he said, “ hoiv little dis­ fest." St u d y and W o r k . We know about the crimination on account of race or religion Weak thoughts weaken us. Unseen or Hidden Powers and Forces, which there has been among Oriental peoples. I “ To love one another is the best wav of can help anyone, and we will print each cannot recall a single Avar between China and aiding God,” and the best way to attract Life month truth’s and suggestive matter that any of her neighbors waged for the propa­ Vibrations. will waken y o u , and start y o u to thinking gation of any religion or the enslavement of There is plenty of Life for all. and doing and achieving and accomplishing. any nation. The whole universe is nothing but Life. Read our magazine regularly and get into “ During the 4,000 years of China’s history If you are not getting an abundance of Life our vibrations, and you will have success and she has relied upon growing from within, and there is something wrong with your Head— happiness. not by encroachments on the rights of others. your thought generator. As Confucius told us long ago, all men within Wake up! the four seas are brothers." Cheer up! Live It Down Get Life 1 Knowledge a. Great Power - F . H. H as your life been bitter sorrow? Live it doAvn. L oo k about and see who succeed. Think about a bright to-morrow, It is the knoAving ones. Become a Person of Mark Live it down. KnoAvledge is power and force and every­ T his magazine believes in Personal Magnet­ You will find it never pa vs thing that makes for g o o d and happiness. ism. Just to sit wet-eyed and gaze The great Clianning said: “ Every mind We desire all of our readers to possess On the gra\’e of Vanished days; was made for growth—for knowledge; and charm of character—attracting qualities. Live it down. its nature is sinned against when it is doomed Personal Magnetism attracts the good and to ignorance. Progress consists in nothing dispels the bad. Is disgrace your galling burden ? more than in bringing out the individual, in Those who possess it are persons of mark. Live it down. giving him a consciousness of his own being, It can be acquired by developing the You can A vin a brave heart’s guerdon; and in quickening him to strengthen and psychic or soul side of your nature, and in no Live it down. elevate hisotA'n mind.” other way. Make your life so free from blame To get real poAver and force we must im­ All good and true men and women have That the lustre of your fame prove the mind in e v e ry possible way. The personal magnetism to a very marked degree. Shall hide all the olden shame; reading of a monthly paper like this "is help­ You cannot wildly indulge your appetites Live it down. ful to the mind. and passions and have real personal magnet­ ism. The psychic power cannot work in im­ Has your heart a secret trouble? moral beiugsi Live it down. Character Building Useless griefs will make it double, “ A man need not be a great scholar to Live it down. think what is beautiful and true." That is Soul Cha.rming Do not water it with tears— the reason that now and then we find among Do not feed it with your fears— the uneducated, lovely characters; their How to become fascinating or charming Do not nurse it through the years— minds are clean and pure, and thev think of and attract or win the love of anyone will be Live it down. only the true and the beautiful. ’ You can fully explained in an article by a great adept build your character a true and beautiful one psychic scientist in next months issue of Have you made some atvful error? by thinking about Avhat is beautiful and true. this magazine. It is very important for you, Live it down. dear reader, to be truly magnetic and charm­ Do not hide your face in terror; It is Avorth knowing every minute of the ing. Success and happiness in this life de­ Live it down. day and every waking hour of the night that pend much on personal magnetism. We at­ Look the Avorld square in the eyes; there is nothing so paralyzing to health and tract or repel people by a certain occult law. Go ahead as one who tries success as fear. Wish for good things and It is wise to know this law and how to use it. To be honored ere he dies; expect them. There is nothing that can pre­ Be sure to carefully read what we print next Live it down. month on this subject. vent the good resulting from those two great —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. forces, desire and exocetation. The New York Me^ga-zine of Mysteries 25

The Power of Will Expect Success AN W e can be what we will to be! From Success I will not fail! ASTRO­ I will succeed! F ear of failure or lack of confidence in I will be happy! one's ability is one of the most potent causes L O G IC A L I will be healthy and strong! of failure. The youth who expects to get on V IE W O F 1 will live a long, happy and useful lifel in the world must make up his mind that, The best jov of existence lies in using in­ come what may, he will succeed. He must WEALTH telligently the’ will power. have a firm conviction that he was made for Failure is always sad! success, that success is his birthright, a right I will have none of it! of which he cannot be deprived by any com­ We can all do more than we think we can. bination of adverse circumstanc'es. "Every The Mighty Good of Wealth The truest saying ever uttered is that youth should hold in his mind the thought " Where there’s a" will there’s a way." that success is as much his right as the acorn l a b o r 's w a r s a r e soon t o end Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the man who thinks has the right to become an oak, or the rose­ bud to become a rose. Y o g ia n a n d a , the Blissful Prophet and emi­ nothing of giving away five million dollars nent Hindu Yogi Astrologer, says that now in a day, started a poor boy, and by sheer Failure, like disease, is abnormal. Nothing that this world is entering upon the Mew will, determination and honesty not oulv is more depressing than holding for years the Great Cycle we are to witness all kinds of became one of the richest men in the world, thought of defeat, or that you are' unlucky great and wonderful events. but also one of the kindest-hearted philan­ and are not intended for success as others Poverty and drudgery are to be abolished. thropists. Mr. Carnegie recently said to a are. The New Light is rapidly enveloping this reporter that it was his strong desire or will, That success is the normal condition is planet. Vibratory forces from the far-away persistently and firmly held in one direction, shown by the fact that it is a great health that made him succeed. tonic. People who have been in delicate suns—stars—planets are working great and Read these verses by Ella Wheeler Wil­ health for years, upon suddenly or unexpect­ lasting changes for this planet. edly achieving some signal success, im­ Peace, eternal peace, will come on earth, cox about the will, and take on new courage. W i l l mediately improve ¡11 health. The mind as it is in heaven. The Devas are now at reacts upon the body, and there is a rebound work with their psvchic power on the very You will be what you will to be; from the old depressed condition, to the rich, and the wealthy will use their vast for­ Let failure find its false content vital, the normal, the healthy. Fielding a tunes to make life easier, brighter and hap­ In that poor word “ environment,” But spirit scorns it, and is free. success-thought brightens your outlook and pier to the toiling masses. scatters vour spectres of doiibt and fear, and Already they are giving away with a lavish It masters time, it conquers space. sends an electric current of hope and power hand millions of dollars. The Great and It cowes that boastful trickster Chance, through you that will revolutionize your Eternal Spirit of the All-Father and All- And bids the tyrant Circumstance Uncrown and fill a servant's place. possibilities and transform you into a "new Mother is pervading the very rich. being. The quarrel between labor and wealth will The human Will, that force unseen, The greatest artist in the world could not soon end. From an astrological view-point The offspring of a deathless Soul, paint the face of a Madonna with the image wealth for all from now on is to increase at a Can hew the way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene. of depravity constantly held in his mind. tremendous rate. You cannot expect to be"loved if you surround But wealth will not come to grumblers, Be not impatient in delay, yourself with an atmosphere of hatred, envy, whiners, anarchists and complainers; it will But wait as one who understands; and jealousy, and for the same reason you come to the good, the honest, the true, the When spirit rises and commands, The gods are ready to obey. cannot succeed if you surround yourself with patient, energetic workers. an atmosphere of doubt. Large capital is now necessary, and it is The river, seeking for the sea. If teachers and parents could only realize here, and will remain, and all are to get the Confronts the dam and precipice, the infinite possibilities they can bring within fruits of it. Yet knows it cannot fail or miss; You will be what you will to be I the reach of the child, by impressing him at Great fortunes exist and more are accumu­ the outset with faith in himself, in his power lating, and the future, according to the stars, to succeed, it would revolutionize our civiliza­ will be bright, very bright, for all. Gold Flowing to the United tion. If you are a teacher, try to impress The preachers of Divine Truths are realiz­ success-tlioughts upon your pupil. Teach ing the importance of great wealth. The S ta.tes PLENTY OP MONEY FOR ALL him that he is a success-acorn, and that the Rev. Madison C. Peters, New York City's Creator intended him to unfold into an oak— prophetic divine, recently said: It is large A n , the adepts and prophets say that not a crabbed or dwarfed oak, but a mag­ capital that has made possible our railroad, from now on this country is to be very nificent giant of the forest that will furnish steamship and telegraph systems, established prosperous. We are sending manufactures shade for man and beast, and timber for a our manufactories and opened our mines; and food-staffs in great quantities to all ship or a house. Impress upon the child that has built up and sustains some of the parts of the world, and money is coming to your faith in him; tell him that you expect most important institutions of learning and this country in a great and constant golden great things of him in the future, and charge charities covering every conceivable case of stream. In the one item of agricultural ex­ him not to disappoint you. need. ports we have made wonderful progress, A few encouraging words as to the writer's The desire for property, with a view to its §800,000,000 worth of farm products are sent possible success, from his teacher in the right and legitimate use, is not only not abroad yearly, and exportation is rapidly in­ academy», have never ceased to have an up­ covetous, but it is lawful and right. If there creasing. lifting and inspiring influence upon his life. were no desire for wealth there would be no Report No. 67 of the Department of Agri­ Goldsmith owed much of his success to his need of it. It would soon cease to exist at culture, just issued, presents in a very strik­ teacher: for, when t-veryone else had de­ all. and society would go back to a state of ing form the great leaps and bounds by spaired of his amounting to anything, when actual barbarism. What would labor amount which American exports of agricultural prod­ on all sides he was spoken of as a •• dunce," to without capital behind it ? ucts have increased in the last forty years, the teacher still encouraged him by word and Covetousness is the desire of having money and especially the last ten years. action. Through his teacher’s faith in him simply for the sake of having it, making Plenty of money for all is coming to this he became one of the world's celebrated the acquirement of wealth the absorbing grand and glorious country. This is the poets. Thousands of men in this country ambition of life. Christ cautions us that •• A greatest country in the world. owe their success almost wholly to the in­ man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of spiration which came from the confidence of things which he possessed!." Collateral can­ Brairvs Count These Daeys parent or teacher or friend in their ability; not take the place of character. and, when discouragements crowded upon Mr. Carnegie, by his benevolence, lias S m a l l capitalists with brains find that in the new order of business organization and them, and they were almost ready to give up, clipped the wings of riches so that they do the thought of the disappointment of those not fly away, while at the same time lie lias big combinations they have a far better chance than they ever had before. Their who believed in them and had faith in their sweetened the breath of society and deprived success spurred them on to renewed efforts. the agitator of his stock in trade when he in­ small capital cannot compete with the big capital. Money is cheap nowadays, but We little realize how we can assist our furiates the mob to deeds of violence and friends by constantly encouraging and sug­ confiscation. there never was a time when brains and abilitv commanded a better price at the hands gesting healthy thoughts to them, believing When the rich men of America and all other in them, and inspiring them at esfcrv.rfppor- lands shall stretch out to the struggling of capital than now. The big combinations are employing these tunity. " •' masses of humanity the kindliness of Mr. Car­ Thé greatest help does not come from negie they will do what shot and shell can­ men at bigger salaries than they eould earn in business for themselves; the salaries are money or other material aid. A warm grasp not do. what severe laws severely executed of the hand, a cheering word or thought, an cannot do, what armies with bayonets can­ sure and permanent and they are relieved of much care and anxiety and have a great expression of sympathy and encouragement not do—end the age of dynamite. will not only help our friends, but will react The poor are daily less envious of the rich deal more leisure time for pleasure and the cultivation of their minds. upon ourselves. The giver is often helped and the rich are more generous to the poor. more than the receiver. Good and glorious times are near at hand. There’s a-plenty for all. Read this magazine Love, Marriage, Good Luck every month and learn the power of honest A h a p p y love marriage the fruits of which The Power of Orve Dolla.r getting, of honest keeping and of honest are joyful children brings great luck, because giving. It can surely start you on the path to per­ the divine command has ever been to marry fect health, to'great prosperity and to eter­ and increase and multiply. High and pure nal happiness. M any Million Dolla.r love with marriage develops the mind and How ? Ma.rvsiorvs body and is bliss to the souls thus blended. By subscribing for this magazine for one The mating of man and woman should be year and absorbing the grand occult truths it Tn no city of the world are there so many done with a high and divine purpose—for will print. million dollar mansions as in New York City. love and procreation. A marriage alliance Send your subscription with one dollar to­ In these prosperous days a number of new made in any other way is a dire failure, and day. palatial residences are being erected. This brings on misfortune, grief and sorrow. gives a great amount of work to a large army of skilled workmen, and a great many millions Three Remarkable Old Merv Gla-dstorve’s Motto of dollars are thus set in circulation, which eventually benefits all hands. Moreover, L ivin g at Richmond, 111., are three clever T he great Gladstone started each dav with these magnificent mansions beautify the city. old men. David Burson, an octogenarian resi­ God and ended it with God. Every clay» he The more money the millionaires spend the dent there, has just begun to take a course in saw the following motto in big plain letters better it is for the' workingmen of the country. trigonometry, Valentine Mark recently cel­ over his mantelpiece in his bedroom: ebrated his one hundred and eighth birthday, “ TlIOLt WILT KEEP HIM IN PERFECT PEACE Wise wage-earners never complain of the ex­ WHOSE MIND IS SET ON THEE.” penditures of the rich. and John Reid is one hundred and two years. 26 The New York Ma.ga.zine of Mysteries

Blessing of a. Poor Mother Cancer Cured by Prayer Charms Doctor’s Life MIRACLE RETORTED FROM ST. JOSEPH'S CON­ Id e a .1 .MASCOT SURGEON OF BELLEVUE HAS FORTUNE’S VENT, ST. LOUIS FAVOR— ATTRIBUTES IT TO A PATIENT’S "GOD A r e c e n t despatch to the papers from St. T h o u g h ts BLESS YOU!” Louis says: S tu d en t s of Occultism and Mysticism fully Sister "Laura Kuhn, of St. Joseph's Con­ realize the importance of all persons having vent. has apparently been cured of a cancer, the good will of others i’ather than their ill after eighteen years of suffering, at a time will. when she was "apparently at tile point of Therefore, the divine command that we love death. The seeming miracle, which it is as­ The Soul's Bliss each other has a fuller and wider meaning to serted was performed, occurred on St. Joseph’s day, March 18, the feast of the saint I n sweetening the life of another. adepts than most people suppose. The fol­ lowing instance of good luck attending a after whom" the order was named. In relieving a brother’s distress, It came at the end of nine days of prayer The soul finds its highest advancement young doctor here in New York, as reported And the noblest blessedness. In the daily newspapers, is pregnant with for the recovery of the nun, participated in —Edward I’ . Sheldon. occult truths. Read it and think it over : by all the sisters of the convent. She felt no ••The Mascot Doctor of Bellevue Hospital," relief until the ninth day, when she awoke who, his friends say, has recently had mar­ from sleep with the exclamation; " I feel no The Twentieth Century Cry velous luck for an "ambulance surgeon, has pain." The bandages which covered the can­ bad another stroke of good fortune. cer were removed and there remained only a D u t y points with outstretched fin gers All the lucky tilings that come his way the white scar. Since then Sister Kuhn has been Everyone to action high. doctor attributes to a blessing bestowed "upon doing her routine duties and does not suffer Woe betide the soul that lingers; him by a woman patient at No. 280 East Tenth from the cancer. " Onward, ouwardl” is the cry. street, who brought two healthy boys into the world with his assistance two months ago. T h e A ngels “ God bless you, young man!” fervently The Da.rkey’s Ideas said the patient, who was in poor circum­ S o m e folks say dat danciu’s sinful, an’ de T h e angels have heat according to the stances. “ You'll have nothing but luck from blessed Laivd, dey say. quality of their love, and light according to now on," and she was right. Gwine to punish us’ for" steppin' when we the quality of their wisdom.— Swedenborg. I)r. Janies S. Donnelly is the “ mascot doc­ hyeah de music play. tor.” He was attached’ to the third surgical But I"tell you, I don’ beliebe it, fur de Lawd A Meditation stall and he had been taking the regular six is wise"an’ good, months’ course of ambulance work. An' He made de banjo's metal, an’ He made T h in k o f God who has produced this uni­ verse; may He enlighten our mirds. Usually a doctor who does this, it is said, the fiddle's wood. Thou art our Father, and will take us to the has nothing but trouble. Mr. Donnelly, how­ An' He made the music in dem, so 1 don’ other shore of this ocean of ignorance. ever, has found ambulance life one "grand, quite think He’ll keer sweet song. If our feet keep time a little to the melodies His first pleasant experience was at the we hear. Sight-Seeing at Home Hotel Jefferson fire. He went there and fitted He who wanders widest up a surgery-room in an apartment near the Lifts no more of Nature’s jealous veil hotel. Christian Science Close to Than he who from his doorway sees Here he attended Charles J. Walsh, an T h ro n e elderly and rich guest who had been slightly The mysteries of flowers and "trees. hurt in the fire. SPREADS AMONG THE ARISTOCRACY — Whittier. Mr. Walsh took his name and address. Two days later the doctor received a letter from “ ^ H E New York Herald savs: The Health Habit his" patient which asked him to call. He Christian Science, like the ma­ called, and as a result Dr. Donnelly went jority of American importa­ L e t us think health and get into the habit with Mr. Walsh on a trip to Palm "Beach, tions’, is winning its way in of taking lots of sunshine, lots of fresh air and Fla., in a private car as his physician. Great Britain in the face "1 lots of pure fresh water—internally and ex­ He stayed many weeks among the orange fierce local hostility. Its ad­ te rn a lly . groves and returned to Bellevue with a large herents number lords and la­ That's the way to be joyous and healthy. cheque and, it is alleged by hisfriends, a mar­ dies. and a multitude of com­ riage engagement with the daughter of a moners, including s e v e r a l Cruelty and Psychic Power Western railroad millionaire. dignitaries close to the throne. Dr. Donnelly’s luck was still with him on The Earl of Dunmore and W it h psychic power man can accomplish Sunday when Mr. John Cochrane called up the Earl of Tankerville are almost anything. No one can have this mighty the hospital on the telephone and said : “ I aristocratic pillars of the Eddv power who is cruel to any living being, want to retain the services of a competent church. Mrs. Henry Montague Butler, wife of whether it be human or animal in form. physician, and money is no object." the master of Trinity College, Cambridge, is The psychic power comes to him who is Of the four doctors on duty then, one was another distinguished patron. She and Mrs. kind and gentle and merciful, especially to in the morgue and two others were in the Charles Smith, the wife of the headmaster of animals. Love, intense love, for all of God’s alcoholic ward. Dr. Donnelly was standing the Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, are creatures is the underlying principle for three feet from the telephone, whistling, and waging an" active propaganda among the cul­ tremendous psychic force’ he got the job. tured population of the university. Mrs. Ed­ This is the job. When the steamship dy's English believers entertain niild hopes of Truth is Powerful Catania, of the Tweedie Trading Company, interesting royalty in Christian Science. sailed for the United Sratesof Colombia, with They assert that Queen Victoria was a O n l y a weak and cowardly mind is afraid thirty engineers, railroad presidents and capi­ regular reader of “ Science and Health," and to investigate truths at any and all times. talists, she carried the complete equipment that one of her maids in waiting was a Sci­ Weak, timid and negative minds make color­ for building a railroad. entist. One of the maids in waiting to the less men and women; they are afraid of the There were locomotives, sidings, rails, present Queen is also a recruit. truth. Strengthen the mind with truth, and switches and stations on board, all ready to Mr. Miller, a prominent adherent of the become powerful. Avoid anything that proves put together. The physician who was to go new faith in London, said: "Practicing false, after a most thorough and searching with them fell ill, and the expedition had to healers are at work all over the United King­ investigation. Ignorance and falsehood are “ scare up" another in a hurry by telephone, dom, and their success in a number of notable twins. Think, reason, observe and investi­ telegraph or any other rapid method. instances has done much to stop the howl gate without fear. Don’t say a thing is not Dr. Donnelly gets $75 a week and all his which large sections of the press and public so because you are totally Ignorant on the expenses—all through luck. are ever readv to indulge in. Under instruc­ subject, nor" cannot understand or compre­ “ It breaks the ambulance records,” said tions from Mrs. Eddy, one of her loyal hend it. Dr. 1. N. Polk, of Bellevue Hospital. “ When students came to London in 1890 to reveal I ran an ambulance I was clubbed by a police­ her discovery. This student remained here Why We Long to Fly man, mobbed in First avenue and hurt in a about a year", effecting some excellent heal­ smash-up. My luck consisted in surviving. ing. IT IS THE SOUL’S DESIRE TO BE FREED But Donnelly has had a very different experi­ “ In 1894 meetings began to be held regular­ ly in private residences, and in 1896 they were A correspondent writes: ence, and he ought to be canonized or some­ It is not suicidal mania that impels men to thing." transferred to a public hall. Owing to"grow­ leap to death from lofty heights. It is that Can any of our readers tell of a similar case ing requirements of the work, the church we the ethereal soul essence that animates the of good luck coming after a good act? We now occupy in Bryanston street, near Marble body, itself a part of the mighty animating are always pleased to print anything of this Arch, was leased, and within ten months our character. progress warranted the purchase of the force of nature, grown weary of the restric­ building, which, together with improvements tions of its earthy integument, and longing since made, represents an investment of to sweep through the infinite universe, a free, Fear of Death $30,000, all of which has been paid. We are disembodied spirit which would be part of looking for still larger quarters. We are the immensity, when it is brought into con­ Ig n o r a n c e is at the bottom of all fear. tact with the wider prospect visible from its When a man has true knowledge of birth, conscious of the great popular interest in our elevation, gathers its strength to break the life and the transition called death he is a cause, because, while our active London “ silver cord" that holds it fast. membership does not exceed three hundred, strong and fearless being. A wise and know­ our congregations frequently are five times Sometimes in that first great effort it suc­ ing soul has no fear of death, because such a that number. In the year 1900 Christian ceeds, and the empty shell falls, broken and soul is fullv conscious that it is e t e r n a l — useless. Oftenest it remembers that its ap­ without beginning or end.— Yogiayianda. Science literature circufated represented a pointed work is not vet finished, and draws sale of ¿£'1,500 ($7,5001." back, trembling at its temerity. R.eirvca.rna.tiorv T h e experience of failure is one that cotnes T he Hindu Yogi adepts for thousands of in a greater or less degree to everyone at Who Perform Miracles? years have believed that the soul reincarnates times, trying the metal and probing the char­ countless times and have taught the doc­ acter as ho prosperity can do.— Victor Hugo. A l l the miracles of the world have been trine of reincarnation. In England and performed by those who in a great measure felt the reality of their inward being or America thousands of the most intellectual To live in the presence of great truths and spiritual force. The Miracle Worker realizes and spiritual people are firm believers in re­ eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals that he is an eternal soul, at one with the incarnation. Many Jews and Christians are — that is what keeps a man patient when the Universal Soul. beginning to believe in reincarnation.— Yogi- world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled ananda. when the world praises him.—Balzac. The New York Macgaczine of Mysteries 27

Ghosts arvd Visions Seen in a. M an sio n HAS THE WHITE LADY APPEARED IN BERLIN? SX A WOMAN’S SPIRIT APPEARS r=i ----1 VER in the history of the world has there been "witnessed so much psychic phenomena as is being seen every day at the \S the “ White Lady”—the myste­ There are many famous cases where the iresent time. One can searce- rious, fateful ghost that foretells “ White Lady" is said to have portended mis­ v pick up a newspaper without disaster to the house of Hohen- fortune. On the night before Saalfeld Prince ffinding in it a well-authenti­ zollern—appeared once more in Louis of Prussia and his adjutant. Count cated account of a startling the long halls of the imperial Nostitz, were chatting in the Scnloss Schwarz- vision appearing in some part palace in Berlin ? burg-Rudolfstadt when a white robed figure of the country. If so, what is the portent ? glided before them. The most recent account of a These are questions that profoundly move The Prince turned pale. He had been con­ ghost having been seen comes the people of Berlin, few of whom will even fidently talking of victory, but after that he from Arlington. N. J., a subur­ pretend to doubt the old legend that con­ despaired. ban town of New York City. A woman's nects the “ White Lady ” with the Hohen- Neither he nor Nostitz was surprised when spirit appeared there in a mansion three days zollern disasters of centuries past. next day the “ White Lady "again appeared after the sensational shooting affray where There are nods, winks, mutterings, signifi­ just as the Germans fell back defeated. Pastor Keller was recently shot by Thomas cant looks, eloquent silences when the appari­ Nostitz's own son told this story to “ Unser G. Barker. This is the ghost story, con­ tion is mentioned. Fritz,” father of the present Emperor. Curi­ densed from the stories as given by the New “ She has walked, poor lady? Ah! I say ously enough, Unser Fritz's death also was York dailv papers: nothing—nothing—you understand! And yet foretold by the spectre. Mrs. “ The " Allen, wife of the well-known —what hearest thou of the Empress Frederick When the French officers of Napoleon were New York sporting man. owns a •• haunted" to-day ?” quartered in the castle at Baireuth the mansion in Arlington, N. J., and she wants to The Empress Frederick! the dowager “ White Lady” appeared to them, and get rid of it at any reasonable price. lady of the dead Unser Fritz! the English General Espagne cried out that he was Until recently the startling facts in the case mother of the German Emperor! doomed. Shortly afterward he died. were known but to a few: now they are being Is it she whom the “ White Lady " menaces ? Napoleon, who had all a Corsican's supersti­ discussed widely and with eager interest. Does the ghost mean that Victoria's eldest tion. wouldn’t sleep in the castle. Later, The fact that the mansion is opposite that of daughter, the mother of the German Em­ when he was to build in Paris a splendid the Rev. John Keller, and that the most vivid peror, must follow so soon to the grave the palace for the King of Rome, a poor man's of the supernatural manifestations occurred Queen of Great Britain ? nouse stood in the way. just after the minister was shot by Thomas There are, at all events, reports from Ber­ Napoleon did not demolish it, like Count G. Barker, invest the ghost stories with lin of the alarming illness of the Dowager Joachim, or even apply to it the right of emi­ special significance and mystery. Empress, whose condition causes doubt that nent domain, but bought it—though the owner These stories tell of strange" midnight dis­ she will long survive her mother, Queen Vic­ raised his price several times and in the end turbances, unearthly noises, weird illumina­ toria. got about ten times its value. tions, the sound of footsteps coming from So ill was the royal lady that she was He then expected to found, through the empty space, and finally an apparition. unable to attend the deathbed or the funeral Eaglet, a dynasty of long renown, and he The appearance of the house enhances the of the English Queen, and telegrams from didn't want his successors pestered by ghosts. uneannv interest in it which the reports have Germany seem to point to her serious condi­ aroused. It is a large, rambling structure, tion since. with rooms opening on each side of the cen­ The members of the royal family are said tral hallway dividing the lower floors. The to have themselves too much faith in the A Dying Mother’s Prayer mansion used to be surrounded by pine trees authority of the “ White Lady’s" messages to Calls Home Her Lost Son that almost hid-it, enveloping it. even at mid­ be quite comfortable after her reported day, in gloom, but in order to give it a more appearance. SHE ALONE BELIEVES THAT HER BODV IS LIV­ cheerful aspect it was explained at the time, And who is—or who was—the “ White ING AND HER SUMMONS, WAFTED TO HIS EARS, these trees and a hedge were cut down last Lady ?" BRINGS HIM BACK IN TIME year. Now the gossips declare that this was All sorts of stories are told of her, one of HEN Mrs. Elizabeth Mueller, of done in the belief that the darksome trees the latest and most curious coming from Dr. Belleville, 111., was on her and hedges might lie the abode of the spirits Theodore Hansman, of Washington. D. C. deathbed, a few days ago, she that at night invaded the house. Dr. Hansman is famous as the taker of so- murmured a prayer’for her son G. L. Wiley, president of the Underground called “ spirit photographs.” He avers that who had left home and had Cable Construction Company, with an office the " White Lady " appeared to him and stood been lost to her for eighteen at No. 41 Nassau street, New York, lived in for a picture taken by him, which is prob­ years. That prayer was wafted the house with his family for many years, and ably the only one of the kind in the world. to the Soldiers’" Home in Day- when he gave up his lease without a reason fir. Hansman says the " White Lady" told ton, Ohio, and Paul Mueller many residents were curious to know why he him she was the sweetheart of a noble by heard it. did so. It was soon afterward that the pine whom she had several children, though his Back to the old home went the trees and hedge were removed. real wife was living. At the death of the son. When he entered the sick After it had been two months unoccupied, wife, the woman, angered that the margrave chamber he saw the family gath­ Jonas Benjamin, a New York lawyer, took would not marry her, killed her children, ered about the bedside. He heard his mother's "the premises. Three nigiits after "the Rev. thinking they stood in her way. She was voice calling his name. Then he real­ Mr. Keller was shot by Barker on the oppo­ buried alive, m the pleasing manner of those ized that it was his mother's wish which had site corner, Harry Smith, a nephew of Mr. days, and swore to haunt the deathbeds of all summoned him by some mysterious force Benjamin and a student in Columbia Law generations of Hohenzollerns—an oath she is over three States, and compelled him to obey School, who lived in the house, was roused believed by many to have kept. the call. She died pressing his hand in hers, from a sound sleep by a strange feeling of The royal house of Prussia dates from the with his name on her lips, and smiling. cold, which seemed to affect his nerves. tenth century, when a baron of Wurtemberg It was thought by the Mueller family, all lie remained awake, and while denouncing fortified “ High Zollern," a hill from which except the mother, that the son Paul’ was himself for being afraid, he saw a light that comes the Hohenzollern name. dead. No word had come from him for ten suddenly filled the room take form and grad­ From Conrad of that ilk has descended the years. Efforts to locate him were fruitless, ually shape itself into the glowing bust of a long line of Electors of Brandenburg, of one and the father died believing him dead. young and handsome woman. of whom the more usual legend of the “ White But the mother was not convinced. She He gazed in wonder at the sight, but when Lady " is related. It runs as follows: said that something told her that her boy was he started to speak the ghostly vision faded It "was Joachim I. who, wishing to enlarge still alive. In her last illness, which began instantly away. his castle, found himself blocked by the tiny two weeks ago, the longing to be with her Sounds of footsteps and of moaning have hut of a widow which stood just where one of missing son grew and grew. been heard, but no other materializations the walls of his keep was planned to rise. So She would call “ Paul, Paul,” iu her de­ have taken place. he gave orders to tear down the cottage. lirium. The widow did not believe that the injus­ The son had buffeted about the world, tice was done by Joachim's order, so she weut finally drifting into the Old Soldiers' Home at Brotherhood to throw herself at his feet to ask justice. Dayton, Ohio. By Edwin Markham But when he saw her he directed that she On tlie evening that his mother was stricken HE Economics of Brotherhood" be thrown out by his guards, and this was he could not sleep. It seemed to him that he was the theme of an address by done with unnecessary brutality. could hear her voice calling to him to come Edwin Markham, the poet, be­ Then the widow turned upon the Elector. home. He asked himself if it could be pos­ fore the Conference on Mis­ “ Prince Joachim," she said, “ you have sible that the old folks were still alive. sions at the Amitv Baptist taken all that I possess, and now you refuse No sleep the next night nor the next, and Church, in West Fifty-fourth me justice and order your people to drive me that voice—his mother's—constantly in his street. New York, recently. away. ear. The family had almost passed out of his The largest audience of the session attended. “ But, remember! You must die as other mind. He could not understand why he was “ The incarnation is to be accomplished by men, and in thy last hour thou shalt see me haunted with such a citation as his "mother's infusing the divine idea into real life," said again to announce thy fate, and not thine voice, which had become only a dimmed Mr. Markham. “ The material is to be spirit- only but that of all "thy successors to the memory, but which had suddenly awakened ulized and the spiritual to be materialized. remotest posterity!” into a keen remembrance of the familiar “ Competition has been said to be the And the story "goes that she has done it. tones. fundamental and necessary law of life. The great Elector William saw the ghost. He became convinced that something was This is not so. Brotherhood "is the law of the His son Frederick, first King of Prussia, saw wrong at Belleville. There was a terrible universe. Brotherhood has been a senti­ the “ White Lady” in very truth, though in dread at his heart. He resolved to go. His ment. his case it was his young wife— his third— room-mate told him it was only fancy; that he “ The great problem of the future is to wandering about tne palace in her night had better write; that he was probably get­ lift it out of sentiment and make it reality. robes two days before her death. ting insomnia. “ The great need of the future is to fin’d an His successor, Frederick William, the ec­ But Mueller knew that he ought to go. economical basis upon which universal centric father of Frederick the (5reat, declared Obtaining a permit from the Institution he brotherhood can be established as the grand, that he saw the "W hite Lady "one night. set forth for Belleville, arriving there just in the self-sufficient law of the world." He summoned his chamberlain, ordered his time to receive his mother’s blessing before (Mr. Markham is known in the Grand Circle of coffin made and placed near his bed to see if she passed out and on to the brighter world. Mystic Adepts, and they are working and it would hold him properly. Of course the The power of prayer when uttered sincerely co'-operating with him in a Mystic Way.— stern old tyrant was already dying. and earnestly is tremendous. E d it o r .} 2 8 The New York Maugaczine of Mysteries

trologers, seers, adepts, sages and Swamis. A G u r n (teacher) always is delighted with his pupil when born in' Aries. 1 will write you a personal letter, doctor, as I have a mystic word to convey to you. L i t t l e M a n , born Feb. 1, 1S99.— You were bora in the sign of Aquarius and I am more than pleased that your wise parents have asked me to write something for you. If all parents would consult a well qualified astrol­ oger about their children and would follow his advice it would be a great blessing to them and the children. Now, my dear “ little man," you are a soul that has come to this planet'at a most wonderful period. I find that the planetary conditions at your birth were very'good, and that your life her-; this time promises to be a very- happy one. You were bora in the realm of art, literature and will have the most fortunate and happy life science. Your parents must be very kind ♦ ♦ that you could desire. Powerful psychic and and loving to you, and not try to dominate + Free Astrological Delineations to the ♦ spiritual forces surround you and surge vour very tine organization with their ideas, X Subscribers of THE NEW YORK J through you all the time. Yours is the most feach soul has a God-given right to be left to fortunate' horoscope 1 have looked into for a itself in most things and work out its own ♦ MAGAZINE OF MYSTERIES ♦ number of years, and I will write you a per­ progress. Parents often weaken and destroy ♦ * * * x sonal letter .'as there are some things it would the will and spirit of a little one by too strict not be wise for me to print hero. I often and too harsh rules. All children should be X Conducted by Prof. Yoglananda X write personal letters to the subscribers of this governed by intense love. You came at the magazine, where I see something in their hor­ very dawn of tlie twentieth century, and the ♦ ♦ oscope which requires particular details. stars show- that you will have health, prosper­ A u g u st a , born Sept. 3, 1S70.—You were ity and a long and useful life. May the peace END fur a free Astrological de­ born under the sign of Virgo. There is great and blessings of all the Yogis of the universe lineation. danger ahead for you if you do not control be ever with you, my blessed child. He who It will give me much pleasure yourangcrandterribletem'per. Don’t get mar­ loves children and old people and animals will to send to everv subscriber of ried until after Jian. 1,1902. You will suffer ever have the blessings of the Blessed One. T h e N e w Y o r k M a g a zin e o f much from poverty until your forty-third year. Here closes this month’s instalment of de­ M y s t e r ie s a free astrological Then the chance’s are you will become'very lineations. I cordially invite the subscribers delineation, or reading ot the wise, prudent and careful, and amass a very of this magazine to write me the year, month stars. If you are a paid sub­ large fortune. You must be very, very care­ and date of their births and any questions scriber to this paper all that it ful to live a quiet, temperate life and "to not they may- desire to ask, and 1 will gladly give is necessary for you to do to get angry and excited. The planetary condi­ them a brief delineation. Address your let­ get this free delineation will be tions in your case are very good and at times ters to to write me a letter giving your very bad. I will write you a personal letter full name and the month, date PROFESSOR YOGIANANDA, about certain matters which 1 desire you to T he N e w Y o r k Ma g a z in e o f M y s t e r ie s . and year you were bora. Write your ques­ be careful about. tions' and give me date, month and year of 223 William street. New- York. your birth. No names will be printed, but V ir g in ia , bora Sept. 5, 1870.—You were only the initials of your name as given below. bora in Libra, and are very modest and retir­ A Gra.nd Opportunity The influence of the stars and planets upon ing. The planets at your'birth indicate that human life is very great. You probably know you have extraordinary psychic powers and T h e regular subscription price to T h e N e w of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac, which you you would make a wonderful medium or spir­ Y o r k M a g a z in e o f M y s t e r ie s is $1, but if have often seen printed in almanacs. The itual healer. You ought to give much time to you send your subscription at once, before Sun passes successively through each of these spiritualizing your very fine nature. Strong June >, 1901, you can get it one whole year for Twelve Signs during a year. People are spirituality will give anyone power to do only 25 cents! This remarkably low offer is largely characterized by the influence of the things. Music can do much for you. made to get our magazine quickly intro­ Sign the Sun was in at the time of birth. S a r a h , born Dec. 1, 1880.—You were born duced. Send your subscription with '25 cents Apart from mere family traits, so noticeable in Sagittarius and are a very earnest, sincere, to-day. in some cases, how diversified in character frank and honest person. Your love affairs and disposition do we usually find members will turn out all right and you will have a of the same family! happy marriage in less than two years. You The Spirits Explain Everyone can have success in business, will have a large amount of money in a few love, speculation, etc., if they go about it vears, and will live a long and happy life. BODIF.S OF LUMINIFEROUS e t h e r e n c lo se d right. I make astrological delineations by You are continually surrounded by 'many IN OUR FLESH-AND-BLOOD BODIES the ancient Hindu Yogic system of India, helpful Devas (angel's). * EVERAL explanations arc given which is conceded by everyone to be the best. E d d ie , bora July 5, 1880.— You were born v of the extraordinary manifes­ Here are brief answers to a few who have under the sign of Cancer and have a strong tations of Mrs. Piper. The ac­ recently written to me, giving their name, sympathetic and emotional love nature. Your cepted theory of Dr. Hodgson date,month and year they were born: realm is the business world, and you will be a and other members of the Soci­ E mma D., born Feb. 20, 1889.—-You were great success as a business man; you are not ety for Psychical Research is bora under the sign of Pisces. The planetary fitted for a profession nor a trade.' Your stars that she is a sort of telephone conditions at your birth make you naturally a say your forte is commercial business. Your or transmitter, and it is said that as in­ very thoughtful, industrious," sensible and health will be good and you will live about vestigation proceeds the difficulties in the persevering person. You will have excellent eighty-seven years, possibly longer. The way of clear communication are gradually health all your life and will live to a very old study of metaphysics during your leisure discovered and explained, and will probably age. Being born near the commencement of hours will help you in your business enter­ be greatly diminished in the years to come, the new Grand Cycle, which began Jan. 1, prises. The Yogis say to everyone; ho matter says Mary Blossom, in Everybody's Magazine. 1901, you will be very fortunate. AH persons what their calling is, to study occult and The statements of "communicators’’ as to bora within the past twenty years are more psychic science; to read carefully and regu­ what occurs on the physical side may be fortunate, as a rule, than those born earlier larly inspiring magazines like ’this. The briefiv mentioned : We all have bodies com­ in the nineteenth century. adepts and mystics connected with the maga­ posed of “ luminiferous ether” enclosed in J o h n s o n , B., bora Jan. 3, 1857.—You were zine will put articles and items in it each our fiesh-and-blood bodies. The relation of bora in the sign of Capricorn and are nat­ month that will prove of great value to every Mrs. Piper's ethereal body to the ethereal urally high minded and self-confident. The aspiring and enterprising soul. world in which the "communicators" claim to dwell is Such that a special store of pecu­ month of July, 1901, will be very lucky for D e x t e r V.. born May' 3, 1847.—You were you, and you will then commence a career of bora under the sign of Taurus and are a re­ liar energy is accumulated in connection with unparalleled success. You will not be in dan­ markable person in many respects. Up to her organism, and this appears to them as ger of sickness, accidents or bad luck for many 1898 you had a most violent temper, when the ’•alight." Mrs. Piper’s ethereal body is re­ years. In your fifty-third year you are liable spiritual forces took hold of you to keep you moved by them, and her ordinary body ap­ to have a slight throat affection, which you from tearing your body to pieces, and you pears as à shell filled with this " light. Sev­ can prevent by being very careful of your became a new man. The planets from now eral “ communicators" may be in contact general health a few month's previous to 'that on will influence you for great strength, and with this light at the same 'time. Upon tile time. The solar vibrations are very strong you will do a grand and good work the rest amount and brightness of this light the com­ for you. munications depend. When Mrs. Piper is in of your life, which will extend for a great ill health the "ligh t" is feebler and the com­ G r a c e C., born Aug. r8. 1885.—You were many years. You are destined to be a leader born under the sign of Leo. In India, the of men. Genera! U. S. Grant was born in the munications tend to be less coherent. “ G. Yogi Astrologers would say you bear a Taurus sign and was a true example of the P.” says: “ You to us are more like as tve charmed life. You will be very charming and Taurus nature. I will write you a personal understand sleep; you look shut up as one in magnetic and will attract to yourself fortune, letter, and would like to have you read this prison, and in order for us to get into com­ a handsome, cultured and refined husband. magazine regularly, as it can'help anyone munication witii you we have to enter into Both of you will live to a great age and will who desires to grow and develop and have your sphere, as one like yourself, asleep. be very'happy. Many brilliant men and abundant success. This is just why we make mistakes, as you women are born in your sign. call them, or get confused and muddled, so Dr. W. B., born April 2, 1833.—You were to put it.” G. C.. born June 13, 1837.— You were born born in the sign of Aries. This is a grand under the sign of Gemini and will become a sign. I see by your card you are a physi­ person of mark. You are a handsome and cian, and you ought to be a very excellent Christian Science Invades elegant person with commanding and digni­ one; you would also have made a good min­ fied ways. The planetary and solar condi­ ister of the Gospel. In India, you would G e rm a n y tions at your birth were the very best, and have been advised to becotnea S w A M i (a Yogi A r e c e n t cable despatch from Berlin to the you will achieve fame and fortune andlivetoan Priest). The Yogis worship in all the re­ New York papers says: Church circles are extremeage. You are now well invourseventh ligions of this world; they are universal and much excited over the assertion of a leading cycle (a cycle of a birth is seven years), and the say all religions are good. We are very Protestant organ in Germany that “ the so- first of January. 1901. being thé beginning of broad and liberal, and live on the universal called Christian Science that has been im­ this planet’s fourth Great Cycle (a cycle o f the plane. Aries people, when educated, take ported from America" is making inroads in planet is billions and billions of years), you very kindly to the teachings of the Yogi as­ high circles. The New York Macgaczine of Mysteries 29

Lord, coming as a “ thief in the night," in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall nielt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works that are therein being burned up. Are the Planets Inhabited? SIGNALS TO MARS Is a recent address before the Astronomi­ cal Society of France M. Flammarion de­ clared that the hypothesis that the planet Mars was inhabited by human beings was in no wise absurd and that it could be scientifi­ cally maintained. In the very brief report of and as you work, and return home, and as his "remarks the word hypothesis is put in Neptune Sta.rtles the World you sit with your family drawn about you, italics, presumably to indicate that in the By K. B. Uigbee, in The Adept breathe a breath of tenderness and ponder lecturers mind some doubts have arisen. this question in your mind and enter into the M. Flammarion also discussed methods of ITHIN the last sixty years there occult vibrations, that you may understand communicating with the hypothetical inhab­ » has appeared among the heaven­ more of God’s wisdom and realize that to-day itants and discussed two "principal systems. ly bodies a new planet, namely, and this life is not all, but just the primary The first is to throw from the earth a" power­ Neptune. Though small, new, development of the transition. ful beam of electric light on Mars, and to and as yet but little understood, send rhythmic signals, like one, two, three, it has made its appearance felt upon this [Yogiananda. the Blissful Prophet, predicts that within a few years man is to be compara­ four, etc. Such signals would have to be stage of action already. tively free from disease, poverty and drudgery. simple, it was pointed out. Another system Look about you; seethe changes in thought; All of the stars and planets, according to astro­ of attracting the attention of our "sister see the men and societies that are becoming logical seers, will help this planet from now on. planet would be to place permanent lights of interested and developers in occult wisdom. Read next month's issue of this magazine for great brilliancy at points on the earth’s sur­ There was a time when the Hindus and some grand occult truths.—E d it o r .] face— Bordeaux, Marseilles, Strasburg, adepts of the high caste in India were sup­ Paris, Amsterdam. Copenhagen and Stock­ posed to possess all the secrets of occult holm, for example—so as to mark out the power, but not so to-day. Nature has made The New Star Wonderful constellation figure of the Great Dipper. a change; she has planned to distribute this By Mary Proctor The second plan puts the responsibility upon knowledge abroad, and she is doing it rapidly the Martians. “ How could they fail," says and well. A p p a r e n t l y the new star in Perseus, which M. Flammarion, “ to recognize such a repre­ Men are realizing that a power is at work, has attracted so much attention lately since sentation as exhibiting a purpose ?" and they are digging, running and searching its discovery by Dr. T. D. Anderson, has No one who is at all acquainted with the for it everywhere. Every thread that bears come to stay a while, and is a most welcome course of animal development on the earth the slightest sign of hope is stretched to its guest. It shares the honors with Mars in the can fail to see that the inhabitants of Mars, fullest tension. One goes after Spiritualism; evening skies, and astronomers at all the if they exist, may not be human beings at all, one after Astrology; another after Hypno­ leading observatories are vying with each but great saurians, hippopotami, or other tism, and still another after Christian Sci­ other in paying their respects to the latest beasts. The markings called " canals" may­ ence; and yet another after Clairvoyance. arrival in starlund. be the paths used by them m their annua! All are in search for a power they feel and It is true it has faded somewhat since it migrations in search’ of food. An electric know is about among them; but where and made its astronomical début, for then it shone beam falling on the back of a huge Martian how, or the looks of the thing, if it be a thing, with a lustre rivaling that of the bright first lizard might possibly excite him lazily to lift they cannot tell. magnitude star Capella, while now it is but a a huge foot to brush off a hypothetical Mar­ Well, now! This is a pretty how-to-do for fourth magnitude star and a ghost of its for­ tian gadfly. As the atmosphere of Mars in a world of people Who have stood and prided mer self. The brief story of its career so far all probability contains little or no true air. themselves as independent beings and pos­ as we can trace it has been furnished by the and some carbonic acid gas, this " hypothe­ sessed of the power to do everything they valuable photographic plates which are taken sis” is no more absurd than the former, and pleased; who have declared there was no law on each clear night at the Harvard Observa­ perhaps it might be scientifically maintained but their own; who have been confident that tory, Cambridge. also. The comment of those Who have given their every plan could and would be accom­ The moment the news concerning the new most attention to the subject will probably plished bv their own efforts. Well! well! star was received at the observatory, Mrs. be that it is well to accumulate by patient who is to blame for this commotion ? Fleming, who is curator of the photographic observation more facts before proceeding to All kinds and classes of men have been at department, hastened to consult these rec­ speculations that are unquestionably prema­ work for years, and at last it is decided that ords of the stars in search of facts concern­ ture. Neptune ("poor little Neptune!) is all to blame, ing the new star. Her keeu eyes soon spied and right thev are; and when you have your the little stranger occupying a conspicuous horoscope written, don't forget to have’ the position among the other stars, in a place The World Beautiful astrologer tell vou all he can about Neptune. where no star had previously been seen. Neptune is tiie star, as it were, which has She found that on and before February 19, SAYINGS OP A GREAT YOGI SEER appeared to tell of a great change in the 1901, the star had been invisible, or, at least, T h e advanced thinkers—the up-to-date “ tide and affairs of men.” fainter than the eleventh magnitude, and was men and women—are doing much for progress Uranus is an occult planet, but it took little therefore not bright enough to have its pic­ and are making the world more beautiful. Neptune to set the fires a-going, and now ture taken. It increased in brilliancy until Such occult souls as Ella Wheeler Wilcox they are burning fast, and he who develops February 4, when it reached the zenith of its and Lillian Whiting are working wonders. and comes into the grand and wonderful glory, and then diminished so that on Febru­ The Psychic Adepts connected with this power and knowledge of this new planet, ary 25 it was not quite as bright as Capella. magazine" are all past masters in occult even though it be in a small degree, is on the Although we have only lately become science. They believe this world should be road to success, for he will then learn that aware of the existence of’ the new star in as beautiful as a delightful spring morning. there is a God above us who does rule the Perseus, yet the catastrophe which made its Away with fear, sadness, mourning and sor- universe, and who is just and good; and will presence "known to us may have taken place rowful "thoughts. we but seek the knowledge He will freely several years ago. The stars are placed at Now is the time to be happy. and gladly give, that we may all come into a distances so great that, although light travels The future sta te for a l l , w ill be a l l righ t. better understanding of occult truths, which at a rate which would suffice to circle this The Adepts kn o w the soul is immortal— are but the finer and higher expressions of earth eight times in the course of a second, eternal; they don’t believe it is, but know God’s will and power. yet it takes years in speeding across the vast so. God rules the people, conditions and ele­ abyss which separates us from even the near­ They kn o w there is not an angry, aveng­ ments on this our planet by the influence of est star. ing. wrathful God; they do know tnere is a the other planets which we have so thickly Therefore, the message may have been God of Mighty Power "who rules this grand about us. We know that the eight great years on its way, but it reached us only a few universe, who is a l l l o v e , a l l t e n d e r m e r c y , planets have most to do at the present time, clays ago. Not until then did we know that GENTLENESS AND KINDNESS. just as for many years in the past, in the a fearful disaster had taken place in the star Beautiful and wonderful manifestations of making and shaping of our lives. But Nep­ depths, by which a whole system of worlds psychic power are being made all the time tune has appeared and startled the world— may have been destroyed. Every star is a n ow . Remember, we have just entered the that is, she has set it to thinking, to study­ sun, and probably the centre of a" solar sys­ N ew G rand C y c l e . ing and, last but not least, reflecting—and tem like our own, and swaying by its attrac­ The world from now on is to be a very- among the greatest minds it is conceded that tion other worlds like ours. beautiful planet. Neptune is the cause; and it is believed that Now, let us try to realize the extent of the she has appeared to prepare the world for a fearful catastrophe which has befallen the Everything Lovely great change not only as to living but as to new star in Perseus. It has suddenly blazed religion. She will be a forerunner of a new out with probablv several hundred times its T h e w o rld is as bright to-day as when religion, a new acquaintance with the Al­ former lustre. What would happen if the The Lord in the heavens made it; mighty Spirit which pervades this planet and bright star which illumines our planet were There are more birds singing in every glen. the others, and which makes us brothers and to experience a similar fate ? To quote my And more bright roses braid it. sisters to each other. father’s words in an article written several It will teach us not to fear God, but to love years ago, about "Suns in Flames:" It has less of sorrow and less of strife, Him, and to feel that in time His purpose If our sun were to increase as greatly in Whatever they say or sing you; and object toward us will be made clear. The light and heat, the creatures on the side of And more of love and more of life man who goes to the woods or fields or oiir earth turned toward him at the time The beautiful seasons bring you! brookside, or down into the forest dale, or out would be destroyed in an instant. Those on —Atlanta Constitution. on the sunny plain, to commune with his the dark or night hemisphere would not have God is the religious man, and shall, by seek­ to wait for their turn till the earth by rotat­ T h e longer I live and the more I see ing, come into the possession of occult truths, ing carried them into view of the destroying Of the struggle of souls to the heights which will release him from the bondage of sun. In much briefer space, the effect of his a bo ve. the planet and make him well and strong and fires would be felt all over the earth’s sur­ The stronger this truth conies home to me: happy and prosperous, as God would have face. The heavens would be dissolved and That the universe rests on the shoulders of made him in his earthlv condition. the elements would melt with fervent heat. love— If I have said but little, however, remem­ In fact, no description of such a catas­ A love so limitless, deep and broad. ber that the age of occult power develop­ trophe as affecting the night half of the earth That men have renamed it and called it ment and understanding is upon us, and as could be possibly more effective and poetical God. vou go out to your work to-morrow morning, than St. Peter’s" account of the day of the —Etta Wheeler Wilcox. 30 The New York Ma.g3k.zine of Mysteries

P a lm is try Hypnotized, Ha.d No Pa.irv Don’t Lose Yo\ir Magnetic AVE you ever had your hand Under Knife P o w e r read by a well qualified reader DANGEROUS OPERATION PERFORMED WITH E v e r y o n e has more or less magnetic of palms? Such readings are SUCCESS IN CHICAGO pow er. always interesting and in­ The quickest wav to lose personal magnet­ structive, especially if the S h a k in g with nervousness, yet unconscious ism is to be a croaker—a kicker. reader is a Psychic Palmist. of aught save the doctor's word of command, People who are chronic whiners, grumblers The hand is’ a true index to Thomas Franklin, of Custer Park, in a hyp­ and croakers are never truly magnetic. character, and Palmistry is a notic trance, lay on an operating table in the If the croaker must croak" let him retire to science counting numerous office of Dr. If. L. Nahin, recently, while a his closet, close the door and croak to him­ adepts. This occult science dangerous operation was performed upon self. occupies an important place in him. The present prosperous time is a time of the most civilized nations. At times the man’s trembling was so vio­ hope, and let us have no dyspeptic prophecies According to adepts in this lent that the table was shaken; yet no sound to mar the sanguine spirit’ of the hour. science the hand is to man came from his lips, and his hands lay peace­ Personal magnetism is a grand and helpful that which the leaf is to the tree; it is the fully upon his breast. force, and no grumbler ever had it. servant to the other organs, and the lines When the knife was applied huge drops of traced on it, the feel and temperature, are sweat stood on his forehead; large tears not the result of accident. coursed down his cheeks, his face became set Hypnotized Over Long Dis- There are a large number of excellent and drawn, yet he did not flinch, and his tance Telephone works published on this science, and in a breathing was deep and regular. future issue of this magazine we intend to When awakened at the conclusion of the TWO YOUNG MEN PUT TO SLEEP BY T1IE SINGLE opeii a department of Palmistry, which will operation, he said: “ I have suffered no pain. WORD “ DROP!" be of interest to our readers. One feature of I feel as well as ever." A pr iv a t e hypnotic exhibition was recently- this department will be to guide students in " There is no question,” said Dr. Nahin, given in Houston, Tex., by Prof. Lawrence Palmistry as to the best works to study, as “ but that hypnotism will entirely replace Kenner, in which two young men were put well as directions how to profitably engage anaesthetics.” into a hypnotic sleep under very peculiar cir­ in the business of a professional reader of cumstances. paSms. How Adepts Get Force a.rvd Going to Beaumont, Tex., Professor Ken­ ner arranged to have two telephones con­ Hypnotism or Mesmerism P o w er nected with the same wire in readiness at the Tremont Hotel at Houston. H ypn o tism is the power of one will over T he real occult adept acquires his wonder­ another. Any persistent, determined person ful clairvoyant and psychic powers by never Two young men took down the receivers in is hypnotic. All successful salesmen who by getting discouraged—no matter what hap­ the hotel, and, after a few words of prelimi­ sheer will power mat » a customer buy goods pens. They live very clean and pure lives nary conversation, Kenner said: "Drop!" is practicing hypnotism, whether he knows it and work and study silently and patiently Both young men fell into the arms of attend­ or not. with joy and peace in their souls and hearts. ants standing behind them, and physicians, As a rule, the practice of hypnotism is They put fresh heart into all they do by including the city- and county health "officers, weakening in the end, and often operators in frequently repeating this mystic verse: having put them through some very- severe it become in a few years mental and physical tests, agreed that the young men were un­ “ Every day is a fresh beginning; doubtedly hypnotized. wrecks, because they do not understand or Every morn" is the world made new. rightly use this tremendous force or power— You who are wearv of sorrow and sinning, Two hours and a half later the hypnotist of will. Here is a beautiful Hope for you— stepped into the Tremont Hotel and awak­ It is more powerful than electricity. You A hope for me and a hope for you.” ened the sleeping men, who seemed none the can light and heat your house with electric­ worse for their sleep. ity and you can also kill with it. So with hypnotism, it is very good and it is very bad. Psychic Success Great Secrets to Be Revealed It is bad. very bad, to make a weaker or L e t a man hope for any great and noble By Arthur didwnrd Waite negative m i l bend to your positive mind— thing— high success in business or in art, the both bad for the subject you influence and love of a true woman, his children's growth T he time has come when that which was bad for yourself, because the hypnotic power in every spiritual grace, the advance of some muttered in darkness may be declared plainly reacts oil the operator. good cause, the destruction of some vested in the full face of day, and when that which That is the reason that many salesmen who wrong, the triumph of some glorious princi­ was whispered in the ear can be proclaimed use hypnotism become tired and fatigued ple, the opportunity of an immortal life—and on the housetop. The tremendous secrets of with a' few hours' work— often drink alcoholic the strength and greatness of that hope will spiritual alchemy are about to surrender at beverages to excess. pass into his sou!.—/ . IV. Chadwick. discretion to thé searching investigation of The higher law always exacts penalties for the sympathetic and impartial student at wrongdoing, and no one can escape this law. work in the cause of truth. I can promise It is, therefore, of vital importance that one Can’t Be a Hypnotist With­ that nothing shall be held back from those use hypnotism with care and honesty, and out a Permit true sons of the doctrine, the sincere seekers thus avoid the insane asylum, an early death after light who are prepared to approach the or drunkenness. In order to deprive criminals of the chance supreme arcana of the psychic world with a We intend to print a good deal about hyp­ to allege hypnotic influence as an excuse, the clean heart and an earnest aim. notism or mesmerism in this magazine from German Government lias issued an ordinance [We will print in the next issue of this maga­ time to time, showing what a grand and won­ forbidding hypnotism to be practiced except zine some wonderful psychic secrets of the derful power it is for good ana also how dan­ under a special permit from the Sanitary- Adepts.—E d it o r .] gerous it is for bad. Department. Na.poleon and Dreams Be a Master of Fortune Why We Fa.il In reading history we find the great Napo­ lx these prosperous times it is easier than If you think failure it will surely come. leon was always deeply interested in the it ever was before to acquire a fortune. Adepts and Masters of Success don't go at meaning of dreams and the value of “ pre­ But it requires now more of mind than of things in a half-hearted way. sentiments." muscle to be a master of fortune than A wise and great man once said : The readers of this magazine are invited formerly. Nothing of worth or weight can be to send to our Dream Editor the account of Hence, how important it is to develop the achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, any- remarkable dreams that have come true, brains and mind. with a lame endeavor. warnings of death, accidents, danger, etc., Mental and psychic development is what that have come in dreams and presentiments. counts these days. We intend to make this a valuable feature of The power of soul, the power of heart and $4,000 by Thinking our magazine. the power of brain when fully developed, Address ail communications about dreams CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALER TELLS HOW HE to Dream Editor, Editorial Department of fully equalized and fully harmonized make COLLECTS DEBT us masters of fortune. T h e N e w Y o r k M a g a z in e o f M y s t e r ie s . T h e simple and original business methods of the Christian Science healer, Dr. George Between the Lines Tomkins, were made public the other day at Drea.m Unites Mother and the hearing; before a master in chancery in Son After 11 Yea.rs S h o u ld vou with Truth’s most subtle key Camden, N. J. Dr. Tomkinssaid he collected Unlock the doors of mystery, bad notes by the same methods that he cured YOUNG MAN’S STORY, PRINTED IN A BOSTON And with the eye of wisdom scan ill-health, namely, mind treatment. "Tim e PAPER, BRINGS A LETTER FROM HIS PARENT The wonderful, creative plan; and thought," said the doctor, " and a few Yea, should your Eight, with power sublime. B in g h a m to n , April u. — A story of a letters." mother and son wno were reunited through Pierce through the walls of sense and time, Some time ago the doctor obtained posses­ And, bursting through the veil of tears, the medium of a dream has come to light sion of notes to the amount of $4,000 belonging here. Live in the bliss of endless years— to Miss Katie McCuIlogh, who was taking God's presence must absorb your mind, John II. Gallagher, now twenty years old, treatment of him for deafness. When Miss was left in a Boston foundling hospital when And, earth’s toy magnets left behind, McCuIlogh asked for an account of the Updrawn into the soul's free air, a child. His mother visited him until eleven notes entrusted to the healer he told her to years ago. He left the asylum and came to Sweet atmosphere of answered prayer. keep herself harmonious and not to worry. There you shall read on Life's pure page Binghamton, where he has since lived. The themes which angel harps engage— The hearing was to decide what commission Four weeks ago he dreamed his mother ’Twixt every letter, word and line— was due the doctor for their collection. was alive in Boston, and the story, printed in The quickening power of Love divine. Under the cross-examination of William T. a Binghamton paper, was copied in Boston Boyle, Dr. Tomkins said that his method of and seen by the mother. She wrote to her [The above was inscribed by Charles G Mc­ collection consisted of writing a few letters, son, and he will soon join her in Boston.— Kenzie in a copy of “ Between the Lines ” which locking himself in a room and bringing his Associated Press Despatch. he presented to a friend.—E d it o r .] mind to bear upon the tardv debtors. They did not respond at first, but"after a while his M o s t men fail of their moral growth t>y the T h in k much about the Golden Rule. treatment had its effect, and they came up That rule covers the whole ground and can and paid the money. attempt to extend their own self too far; furnish a million suggestions for doing good. most women, by attempting to contract it too The doctor stiffened himself and flushed m u ch .— 7'hcodore Parker. The man or woman who literally lives by with indignation at the levity which prevailed that rule does not know what pain or disease during bis elucidation of his collecting meth­ is. B e more prompt to visit thy friend when in ods. adversity than in prosperity.— ChHo. TKe New York Ma.gexzine of Mysteries 31

at the feast. The servants of the Embassy however, the Countess while in New York Washington’s Mystery—Ex­ were banished for the day, as they are ail Avas repeatedly chronicled as being enter­ ploits of the Dashing, men, and it was with extreme difficulty that tained by Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont, and Dark-Eyed Daughter of the Countess was able to secure the services so, of course, the smiles went around Wash­ of as many skilled waitresses as she desired ington society. The trip, however, was ren­ the Russian Ambassador on that occasion. As the wife of the Turkish dered unnecessary from the strategic stand­ THE AMBITIONS AND ANTICS OF THIS BEAUTIFUL. Minister understands no English, French was point, because, owing to the President's ill­ G1RI. HAVE CARRIED CONSTERNATION INTO spoken by everyone, and the occasion passed ness, the dinner invitations were recalled. off most fiappily. Then the Countess came back and went on SOCIETY AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL There is no woman in Washington who can with her dancing and dining and automo- T h e exploits of the Countess Cassini, compete with Countess Cassini in the number biling and bicycling like an exceedingly daughter of the Russian Ambassador, are and beauty of her dogs. There are six of well young woman for whom a specialist many and varied. She is not by nature cal­ them, all white, all poodles, but of a rare had either accomplished miracles or was not culated ever to remain quietly "in the back­ Russian breed entirely unfamiliar in this necessary at all. ground. In the full blaze of the footlights, city, and consequently when Countess Cassini Then came the Diplomatic dinner invita­ with the appreciative audienceof the fashion­ takes a fancy for an airing on foot in fine tions, sent out for the second time, and the able world applauding, is the rôle she seems weather, accompanied by her six white Countess, rather twitted by some of her destined to fill. Certainly it is, so far as poodles held in leash, she attracts almost as friends upon her stand, openly announced Washington society is concerned. The lovelv much attention along the fashionable thor­ that, as Lady Pauncefote was in court mourn­ Countess is hardly" twenty-one, yet she is al­ oughfares as would Bariram's hippodrome ing, and so could not go the dinner; that, as ready the best known woman, old or young, through a country town. They are clever the German Ambassador had no wife; that, in the Diplomatic Corps. little beasts, eacli with an utterly unpro­ as the French Ambassador's wife was safely Her latest and greatest sensation culmi­ nounceable Russian name, and with appar­ on the other side of the ocean, and as the nated in two episodes at President McKinley’s ently almost as comprehensive a knowledge Italian Ambassador and his wife were also Inauguration. The first was the Russian of the Russian and French vocabulary as out of the city, she meant to walk in with the Ambassador's refusal to attend the cere­ their mistress, who invariably makes a ’run- President, ahead of the wife of the Mexican monies because of a fancied affront to his ning fire of comment, expostulation and ad­ Ambassador and all the other ladies of the little Countess. Then later matters were miration in these two languages when the Diplomatic Corps. Should this arrangement further complicated by her appearance in the poodles are with her for an airing. not prevail, she would, she declared, remain Senate gallery while the Vice-President took Countess Cassini, upon her arrival in Wash­ away from the dinner. For her to have done the oath of office. Her presence there while ington at the time of the Ambassador's ap­ so would have put the Russian Ambassador the Russian Ambassador absented himself pointment here, was simply Miss Marguerite in the extremely awkward position of giving from the Diplomatic group that surrounded Cassini. When society questioned regarding a deliberate insult to the President of the the Chief Executive was marked and noted her, it was told by the Ambassador that the United States. Tliiswould undoubtedly have everywhere. And behind all this there hangs young girl, not then out, was the daughter of resulted in his recall; so that, with the "wilful a tale—a story of intrigue, infatuation and a favorite nephew, who, dying when she was young Countess on one side and this grave mystery. an infant, had willed her "to him. With her diplomatic situation on the other side. Count Countess Marguerite Cassini’s eccentricities governess, a stout, elderly Russian, the Cassini experienced some unusually bad are, for the most part, entirely harmless Countess Marguerite has lived in the Am­ quarters of an hour. ones, incited by a girlish fancy and the innate bassador’s household since she was in long In the meanwhile, incited thereto by their taste for social prominence, which, with re­ clothes, traveling about wherever, in the wives, several of the Ministers Plenipoten­ gard to her attempted ruling in the matter course of his diplomatic career, he was as­ tiary, gossip has it, the Austrian and German of the Diplomatic dinner at the White House, signed to duty. element leading, went to the White House and led to disastrous defeat. Since the time of It seems to be generally understood that had a conference with the President upon the Catherine the Great there have been Russian for several years past Count Cassini has been matter. The result of this is well known. women of the nobility who have seemed born a widower, with several grown children in his President McKinley emphatically stated that, to lead, to attract to themselves attention and native land, so, knowing his fondness for the in his administration, no unmarried woman to gather about them a coterie of distin­ pretty young creature to whom he was so de­ should, on any occasion of state, take prece­ guished admirers. And so it is with Countess voted, society was not in the least surprised dence of the’ matrons. Then the Russian Cassini. There is hardly an unmarried man when it learned a year since that the niece Ambassador went to the White House on the of the Diplomatic Corps but would play the and adopted daughter had been legally morning of the dinner, and, after talking rôle of her devoted slave would she allow it. adopted as his own. The Czar, who holds a while with the President, endeavoring to But the Countess is autocratic, and she is Count Cassini in highest esteem, conferred smooth over matters, went back to the Em­ ambitious. It is very well for the present to upon her not only the hereditary title of bassy asserting that his daughter would at­ have a swarm of Diplomatic admirers. But Countess Cassini, but endowed her with espe­ tend the dinner in the evening. And to the when it comes to thought of marriage, the cial honors which, as the head of the Ambas­ astonishment of the entire Corps, she did so, C 'tmtess Cassini is neither likely to take up sador's household, would give to her at all eating her humble pie with such a pretty with a title without money nor money without public functions the rank and precedence of grace that every man present actually felt a title. an Ambassador’s wife. sorry for her, and wondered what the’ next Countess Cassini, naturally fond of adven­ Not only was this unusual, but so directly coup of this ambitious young girl would be. ture. fearless and self-reliant", scored a success contrary to the usages of all the Courts of —World. as the first woman of the smart set in Wash­ Europe! that the Diplomatic Corps as a body ington to run an automobile. While the rose in indignation and declined to abide by others were thinking about it and spinning it. The Countess is a wayward little body, The Sia.mese Virgin-Born around the miles of smooth asphalt almost with a mind of her own and a determination God with their hearts in their mouths, under the calculated to make her at times go to un­ guidance of a professional automobilist, Coun­ looked-for extremes in matters. Count Cas­ T he Siamese had a Virgin-born God and tess Cassini had dashed into this new phase sini finds his hands, in consequence, decidedly Saviour whom they called Codom. His mother, of fashionable locomotion, and, radiant with full in trying to hold her back from certain a beautiful young" virgin, being inspired from a certificate of expertness, whispered into the things of which bis maturer sense and wider heaven, quitted the society of men and wan­ ear of the Russian Ambassador that of all experience cannot approve. dered into the most unfrequented parts of a things for which her heart yearned was an It was so with regard to this matter of pre­ great forest, there to await the coining of a automobile of her very own. Then before his cedence for his adopted daughter on state oc­ god which had long been announced to man­ dazzled eyes she displayed the certificate. casions. He would have been quite content kind. While she was one day prostrate in And—well, it was with this as with all else with the conferring of the hereditary title. raver, she was impregnated by the sun- for which she asks the Ambassador. The But the Countess thought otherwise, and not eams. She thereupon retired to "the borders automobile was forthwith purchased, and the only scoffed in private at the attitude of the Eof a lake, between Siam and Cambodia, where Count now is also an expert, having another Corps in the matter, but spoke openly and un­ she was delivered of a “ heavenly hoy," which of his own. Did his beautiful young daughter reservedly among her friends in society of she placed within the folds of a lotus, that cry, like the prince in the fable, for the moon, her intention to insist upon being accorded all opened to receive him. When the boy grew he’ would instantaneously try to pull it down the honors with which the Czar had endowed up he became a prodigy of wisdom, per­ for her. He indulges her every whim, and has her. formed miracles, etc. done so ever since she could toddle and make That was in the early summer. When the The incarnation of the angel destined to every imaginable infantile extravagant de­ Corps got back to Washington, in the autumn, become Buddha took place in a spiritual man­ mand upon him. a meeting of the Ambassadors was called for ner. The elephant is the symbol of power Her latest fad is for red-brown hairin prefer­ the purpose of at once and forever settling and wisdom ; and Buddha was considered the ence to her natural abundance of dusky hair, the matter. This was done by the dean of organ of divine wisdom and power. For these which accords most naturally with her big the Corps, Lord Pauncefote, issuing invita­ reasons Buddha is described by Buddhistic black eyes, wherewith she creates such havoc tions for a dinner party at which the Russian legends as having descended from heaven in among the jeunesse dorée in society. The Ambassador and the pretty Countess were the form of an elephant to the place where Countess is decidedly piquant looking with present. The latter was assigned at table a the Virgin Mava, or Mary, was. But accord­ any color hair she may elect to choose pro place among the other young people present, ing to Chinese Buddhistic writings, it was tern. She is accomplished not only as a lin­ to which no official significance could be made the Holy Ghost, or Shing-Shin, who de­ guist, but is a most delightful musician, play­ to attach, even in the most enterprising mind. scended "in the Virgin Maya.— Parallels in ing not only on the piano, but upon a This dinner was followed the next week by Different Religions. multiplicity "of stringed instruments with one at the French Embassy, when M. Cambon coquetry. followed the same course, and the third week Just after the Lenten season began and the by one at the German Embassy, when the What the Adepts Sa.y usual run of entertaining slackened some­ seating of I >r. von Holleben's guests was ar­ Habits are formed like masonry. Every what, Countess Cassini, ever on the look-out ranged upon the same plan. thought seems small, as every brick seems for the novel, decided to give a luncheon to Thus, so far as the Corps personally was small. Your life is made up of "little thoughts Madame Ferrpuh Bey, wife of the Turkish concerned, the matter was settled. But there and deeds, any one of which is trivial; but the Minister, who, since her arrival in this coun­ were rocks ahead. These showed above whole massed together makes a good or a try, has never stepped her foot across other the surface when the invitations for the sea­ bad man. Take heed : you build the walls than her own threshold. How she ever won son’s state dinners were sent out from the of your character, day by day, not alone for the Minister's consent for his wife to go is a White House. Countess Cassini declared that this life, but for eternity." mystery. But she did, and when the Turkish she intended to rank next to Lady Paunce­ lady arrived, attended by several Turkish fote, and, it is understood, forced the Am­ attendants, as closely veiled as herself, they bassador to use his influence at the White Man at his birth is supple and weak; at his were hurried with all speed from the carriages House toward this end. When she learned death, firm and strong. So is it with all up the steps of the Embassy, through the that her wishes were not to be complied things. . . . Firmness and strength are waiting crowd and into the "house. It had with the Countess took the first train to the concomitants of death; softness and weak­ been one of the stipulations of Madame'® at­ New York, giving out that she was going ness the concomitants of life. Hence he who tending the luncheon that she should see no to place herself under the care of a spe­ relies on his own strength shall not conquer.— men ; not even the Ambassador was present cialist. Forgetful of or ignoring all this, Tao- Te-King. 32 The New York Ma-gaczine of Mysteries

Jacks and eights are regarded by professional And someone, just a little afraid, poker players as invincible, and are known in Opened the jack pot easy and light, the West as “ The Dead Man's Hand.’’—Green next man hoisted it out of sight! Cloth Superstitions. Round and round the board it went, His soul passed on to the Par Away, Each one raising and each intent V H i " 7 / 5 And he cashed in his chips, as the gamblers In bluffing his neighbor and raking the pile— sav. All save the “ Parson,” who, with a smile, ' . . , . . Raised each time as it came his turn. This is the prelude and this is the end; Gael! There were money and chips to bum! The storv was told bv the dead man’s friend. Gold, stacked up in a glittering heap, You may call him a fnend-oh, well, he’ll d o - Silver and greenbacks-elbow deep; Such friendships as that sometimes are true. f° j c,aU ^ v°llcllt'r®.an^ d" ef • „ They sat together and dealt the cards. Checks and collateral and I. O. U. s. And'in frontier slang were known as i4 pards.” kverybodywas in that pot, The friend—and his name was “ Gambler Anc everybody was bluffing hot. Was dark and nervous, tall and slim. ■i^t 'en£ti1 t*le ".Parson pushed in all. He was quick to draw and quick to tire And 1m form with weakness seemed to fall; At the stranger who happened to raise his His head on his hand he slowly bent, ; ** And his fate to cruel Fortune lent, The greatest bet of the night was there, He was loud in talk and coarse in jest; And “ Gambler Jim ” rose up in his chair. Wicked and insolent e’en at liis b e st- He winkled his brow and he skinned” his One of those lawless, devil-may-cares , cards, Who laugh at women and jeer at pravers. And he glanced around at Ins gambling The other was gentle, quiet and meek— _ paras. A queer little chap whom one seldom heard 9 ?,?,* laid em down. speak 111 call, says Jim, l< if he does me brown. But when he spoke his voice was low. Now, whatcher got ? 1 11 call ver bluff. And his words had a sort of a musical flow. f deuces—sav, am t them enough . The boys called him "Parson,” and “ Dea- !lut "Parsons soul had passed away— con " too, He had caslied in Ins chips, as the gamblers And asked him to preach when the game was _ sa-v: , , . , , , . . through. So “icy turned 11P his cards to see what he But Tom, the " Parson," smiled and said , *’ad; , , .. . „ He thought he would rather deal instead. Jlm s?5>'v ed as he said, 'Say, I feel kinder Night after night he'd been playing there; „ . T. ad: ...... N ight after night he had left in despair. ^llt ^ n'.g ';|4,t lat le won’ ^or made a good His ranch, his cattle had melted away— stana. . . Gone, like the smoke, in the love of play. There were jacks and eights in the dead ft(-nbbr,rnlv* *Oill be wns milkint* n ctiiMfl mail S hand. The gray streaked mom in the sullen east Glowered dull and low, like an angry beast. A wee, winsome girl and a mother, too, Had sat there and waited the long night through. In the straggling rays of the daylight dim Was seen the gaunt figure of “ Gambling Jim.” He bunked his eyes and his breath caine hard When he told of the death of his gambling pard; And he poured the silver and gold on the . . ■ % T 3 1

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Si.00 PER YEAR Psychic or Soul Realm soon To all parts of the United States, Canada and Mexico. trickling down outside of the glass from Subscriber?, in the City of New York and Foreign Countries points where the hands and feet were pin­ learn the lesson of the importance of holding must add 36 cents for extra postage. ioned. the body a long time, and acquiring all the experience, knowledge and wisdom possible SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS In great alarm he went for the priests, two of whom came and wiped the blood off, but it while we live on the E a r t h P l a n e . S u b scrib ers’ names are entered in our books as soost as Wise and good men and women who work received, and papers promptly forwarded. Subscrip­ reappeared as fast as wiped away, running a tions always commence with the current issue. distance of six inches. to advance education, civilization, religion, E X PIRATIONS .—Subscribers receiving a paper Hundreds affirm the strange occurrence, anu philosophy and general progress live to great wrapped in a canary «yellow wnipperwill know that their great consternation prevails. The house has ages. N UBSCRXPTT.OX HAS EXPIRED been closed and no further visitors will be Read the following records of longevity re­ it is of the utmost imjtortnnce that it should be renewed admitted. cently printed asan editorial in the New York at once in order that there maybe no delay in receiving So far no one can acccount for the phenom­ Sun : ’ the next issue of T h e N ew York Ma g a zin e of enon. Superstitious people believe it to be The recent death of the French philanthro­ M y st e r ie s , as we immediately stop a subscription when i o i , tt expires. witchcraft. Bishop Eis has been sent for. pist, Pierre Lasserre, at the age of has A later despatch from Menominee, Mich., prompted the Paris papers to rake up some Address all letters to queer records in regard to longevity. THE n e w YORK MAGAZINE OF MYSTERIES. says: An examination of the red spots on the famous bleeding picture has resulted in M. Legouvé, the Dean of the French Acad­ the discovery that they are cougulated blood. emy, is perhaps the youngest old man in the Dr. Venema.'a leading physician, has declared world. He has turned 90, but is still a fair J u n e so emphatically. billiard player and an accomplished fencer, The statement of the poor Pole, Andrew able to lunge and recover with the vigor and B e a u t if u l J u n k ! N ow creation is at flood- Czarnecki, that the spots trickled from the activity of a young man. He is a professor tide. Out into the air and sunshine of June, crucifixion wounds of Christ while he prayed in the art of “ growing old," or rather of ex­ all ye weaklings, and get the strength of the before it. is not contradicted. Rev. Drs. Cleary tending youth, and it would be difficult to find creative forces which vibrate in June greater and Papon believe that it is a possible mira­ a professor with pupils that can beat his in than in any other month in the year. The cle, and are looking for another manifestation their willingness to learn. Ills prescription great adepts live much in the open air with to confirm it. is kindness, brotherly love, optimism, gayety Nature during the whole of June; the fields Many people continue to visit the house, and happiness. “ Be happy,’ said Legouve, and forests are full of Life Forces in June. and strangers are coming from all parts of “ for happiness prolongs life." Who that the Northwest to see the picture. The family wants to prolong life could desire a more de­ Our Sorrows has recently refused to take any money for licious medicine ? But it recalls the peremp­ the privilege, notwithstanding they arevery tory order to the Jester: "B e funny, sir, di­ T ime and patience will cure and heal all of poor. rectly !" our sorrows. It was reported that several drops of fresh Longevity is a subject that has been dealt The great Henry Ward Beecher said; blood were on the picture. It is also said that with by many authors and also by many hum­ “ Sorrows are often like clouds, which, though when some of the dried substance came in bugs. Dr. Xioire insisted that thé surest way black when they are passing over us. when contact with fresh blood from a priest’s wrist to live long was to avoid doctors. But it was they are past become as if they were the it resolved itself into what strongly resembled after he had made his fortune that he garments of God thrown off in 'purple and a portrait of the Saviour. promulgated tltat formula. It was Flourens gold along the sky.” [So many strange phenomena are manifesting who said: “ Man does not die a natural death; Sorrow seems to be essential to our proper nowadays that it is hard to keep track of them, he kills himself." Most of the doctors of growth and development. How often we see much less explain them. Will some of our adept longevity preach temperance. some arrogant, purse-proud, dictatorial person psychical friends send us an explanation of the In the “ Galerie des Centenaires Anciens et made meek and lowly by sorrow! above i— E d it o r .] Modernes " we find the naines of Thomas Parr and Henry Jenkins, who are credited re­ K in d n e ss “ How Many Long to Live spectively with the ages of 152 and 169 years, After This Life Is Over?” and botli of whom died by accident. 'Mile. S p e a k but a word of kindness Jeanne Serimphau was married when she was To a sorrow-stricken heart. SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH ASKS THIS, 127 and died when she was 128. Dr. Dufottr- And sympathy, with tender voice TO LEARN HOW MANY DO NOT nel married when he was a hundred and Bids half the pain depart. “ W o u l d you prefer to live after death ?’’ sweet sixteen and became the happy father One little word of kindness, This is one of the questions which the Society of two children. But he died when he was Oh! who can tell its worth, for Psychical Research of Boston is sending only i2o. Marie Priou.of the Haute-Garonne, When misery’s pall has shadowed out to thousands of persons of all sects and in reached the age of 15S. Mme. de Yolmerange, A creature’s path on earth ? many walks of life. The reason for the query of Metz, died at the age of too. She was the Just as a gleam of sunshine seems to be to ascertain how many person's mother of 24 children. Surgeon Politman, a Across the frozen earth are like some of the East Indians, craving native of Lorraine, celebrated his 140th birth­ Awakes the sleeping flowers for extinction or “ absorption in the abso­ day. The Irish Bluebeard, Patrick O’Neil, And calls them forth in birth, lute.” buried seven wives before he finally died, at So may a word of kindness The society also wishes to know whether the age of 120. The records also’ tel! of a Wake 'depths in the human heart people desire another life like the present Norwegian peasant who died at t6o, leaving Unsounded depth, perchance that lay one, whether they long to be certain about two sons to lament his loss, one aged 108 and Congealed by sorrow’s smart. the future life, or whether they would prefer the other a promising little chap of nine sum­ One little word of kindness to leave it as a matter of faith. mers. May prove a beacon bright When all the replies are received statisti­ Coming down to more recent times, we find For some poor pilgrim, storm-tossed cians will tabulate the result. that the late Queen Victoria in 1898 killed XIr. On some bleak, dismal height. Robert Taylor when he ivas 134 by sending him Oh! could we know the value her picture, signed by herself. The old fel­ Of every spoken word, A Wonderful Mirage or low was so delighted that he died from emo­ Throughout the land, from east to west, V ision tion. An Irishman named Brown lived to be But kind ones would be heard. 120. The Frenchman, Espagnac, died at the W h en the steamer City o f Chicago reached age of 112. Durand d’Estivel. of Cahors,at­ mid-lake a few days ago, on her way to St. tributed his 128 years to taking an occasional A Good and Powerful Man Joseph, Mich., from Chicago, the passengers dose of gunpowder instead of castor oil. A M r . C h a r le s M. S c h w a b , the multi-million­ and crew were startled by a wonderful mi­ man of 114 years rarely ate anvtbing except aire, who now receives the enormous salary of rage. fruit, principally melons, and lie constantly O n e M illio n D o l l a r s a year from the new The lookout discovered that from the bridge chewed lemon peel. big steel organization, is’dearly loved by all he could see Chicago and St. Joseph at the There is great consolation in the assertions his workmen. same time, that is, a distance of thirty miles of philosophers like Flourens, Jean Finotand Mr. Schwab was a laborer at small pay only in each direction. others that the human machinéis intended by a few years ago. The following traits tell The vividness of the vision on both shores nature to last at least 100 years. the secret of his great success: was startling. The Montgomery Ward Tow­ H e n e v e r s w e a r s . er. the Masonic Temple and the Ferris Wheel N e v e r L oses H is T e m p e r . in Chicago were very plain, and the court­ Is a M il k and G e n t l e M an. house and several church spires in St. Joseph $134,758.772 More in T r e a t s A l l A s H is E q u a l s. were equally visible. The vision lasted sev­ Circulation T a l k s L it t l e , t h o u g h N o t a “ r e s e r v e d ” eral minutes. MAN. On May 1 the amount of monev in circula­ tion in this country' was $2,195,404,235. On H as a k in d l y sm il e and h a n d s h a k e fo r A Good Resolution e v e r y o n e h e k n o w s , May I. 1900, it was $2,060,525,463. This makes L e t every reader of T h e Ma g a z in e o f My s - an increase for the year of $134,758,772. The t k r i ks resolve from now on to show more increase since April 1, 1901, amounted to Cure of Poverty kindness and sympathy to every one of God’s $8,060,655. If this money was divided among creatures—whether in the human form or the every man, woman and child in the United In the next issue of this magazine we will animal form. We should show much sym­ States each would receive $28.31, as com­ give the “ Cure of Poverty,” by one of the pathy to dumb animals. The editors and pared with $26.58 on May 1 of last year. Read greatest mystic adepts in 'the world. This writers for this magazine dearly love ani­ this magazine regularly' and learn the occult secret writing has only recently been per­ mals. truths about how to get your share of this missible by the Grand Order of Mystics, as it great wealth. was not deemed wise to give it to the world " A l l l if e is e q u a l in t h e E t e r n a l until now. E y e .” D o n ’t b e a M is f it in the world. Learn to T his magazine is a great success; it al­ do some one thing well, and vour work will be Do you feel our vibrations when you read ready has a large and wide-reaching cir­ this magazine? • in great demand, and you will not be a misfit. cu latio n . —Frank Harrison.