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Show I I house on Art, and then, In n spasm of BUILT ON CONCERTINA PLAN. terror, race away with her children from the results of her carelessness? Llghtkeeper Measures Six Feet Six And If so, at what psychological Inches In His 8tocklngs. moment was her reason destroyed at sight of the flames, or when she Like the towering pines that fringe found herself alone In the woods with the North Carolina coast, upon which , her children? he was born, In sight of dreaded Or did she feel the approaching reFablus Evans Simpson, the asturn of the dreaded malady, and, fear- sistant keeper of Lazzaretto lighting for the future of her children with- house, at the entrance to Baltimore out her care and oversight, spirit them harbor, can lay claim to be the tallest away? And, If so, where did she llghtkeeper in the Fifth lighthouse disDetlinf with Personal Magnet leave them? lim, Telepathy, Psychology, trict, If not level with the tallest In the service from Maine to Rio Grande. Suggestion, Hypnotism, sad Spiritualism. May Have Sent Children Away. lie Is only 23 years old and Is built Some few Brocktonltea believe that on the concertina plan. When he By because the air had been full of rises from a sitting posture one wonEDWARD B. WARM AN, A. M. rumors regarding unhappiness In the ders bow much more remains to be Eminent Psychologist nnd Ball home she really did arrange to unfolded before he Is straightened out. Hyeieaist, have some one come with a red auto- He Is six feet six inches in bis stockmobile and take her children where ing feet. His parents were reared alongside they might be cared for. But such reasoning does not satisfy the sea, and he comes of a family that A PUPILS EXPERIENCE. the majority of those who have has figured la the aiinals of the lightworked on the case. The majority house service. Alpheus W. Simpson, A lady In Minneapolis, on entering believe that the woman, in horror at father of the young man, was keeper the malady which was slowly creep- of North river light station, and his the class for the first lesson, said: I do not care anything about personing upon her, took her children to uncle, Fablus Evans Simpson, Is now some lonely spot and killed them, In charge of the exhibit of the light- al magnetism,' 'hypnotism,' spiritism, then with the cunning of the madwom- house board at the Jamestown expo- nor any other ism; all I want to can, In every Instance, he appropriate ly substituted. Psychology for the Public 8peaker. The foregoing principles aro Just as effective in their results when ap plied collectively as when used Individually, When a speaker steps before an audience he Is, so to speak, sized up: weighed, measured, etc., by those present especially If he Is a stranger to them. Each one present measurei the speaker according to his ,own standard. Whether he falls short of each Individual standard or measures up to tho full measurement, he will never know It if he assumes or holds a positive mental altitude. The speaker should be passive when All stepping before the audience. audiences are, at first, positive. They remain so until they have mentally unloaded their Impressions; but fortunately for the speaker, their decisions are not final. They now await corroborative testimony or otherwise. If their Impressions, as a whole, were favorable, the speaker will have clear sailing; If not, more than ordinary force will bo necessary to carry conlearn Is to know how to collect money viction. But how Is the speaker to know this? How can a speaker size on some old accounts. While she was more or less Inter- up" an audience before he begins? ested In all of the other branches Thats the point at which I am aim(rather less than more) she was In- ing.If a public speaker wishes to tent on laying hold of the eight psycome enrapport with his audience, he rather seven, chological principles (or as those who have bills to pay do must become passive until they have unleaded. This is the work of but not come to you). a few moments. They may unload The very next afternoon she called flowers; they may unload thistles.. If at the hotel to report the result of be Is wise, he will not be too precipiher first venture. It Is best told In tate. He first to the eye, then her own words: "This morning I laid to the ear.appeals Walt. out all my old bills. I chose one that A public speaker should be able to I .knew would be or had been the command such passivity that If there 1 most difficult to collect, as had been Is one critical or refused time and again. The amount In the audience tohpyercrltical person whom he does not was $37.00. But, in the meantime, I he should sense the favorably appeal, had learned a lesson, and learned It condition, find the Individual, and, havwell. 1 had previously gone with deing found him, he able to read his termination and anger instead of conthe writer I unexpressed thought. This, fidence and quiet concentration.' has done repeatedly before audiences bad not been passive,; was 'positive' numbering a thousand or more. in the wrong place and with the Be It understood that the speaker wrong spirit I talked too much. It does not or should not remain passive. I had He will was I who had 'unloaded.' naturally become positive If used, or endeavored to use 'compul- be Is master. sion' Instead of Impulsion. Now, all Speaking of' negative passive and had changed. You pointed out to me positive conditions let us also rememthe error of my ways, but what was ber that, in a general way. In our more, you gave me a remedy. life, In order to become negeveryday "This morning 1 applied every prin- ative to the finer forces we must beciple you taught How often I had come positive to the grosser. He la gone not expecting to get the money, wise who makes himself receiver for but this time I was all confidence. only the best, and he Is most powerful How often I had gone expecting a who, through wisdom, can control the fuss and I had It vibrations within and without This morning I presented my bill In Psychology by Letter. a kindly manner but spoke not a This Is one of the most effective word; nor did he. He pushed back means of this wonderful powthe bill to be receipted, stepped over er. Someutilizing of the eight, principles to the cash drawer, took out the which can be used verbally cannot be money, handed It to me without a applied by letter the only way wherewaa I thanked him. That word. the by you can Influence a stranger at a first the silence had been broken. distance. The three leading princiWell, 1 just ran In to tell you of my ples to be so used are confidence success and that I am already $27.00 concentration impulsion. . ahead for my $10.00 investment I have every reason to believe that, Another Pupils Experience. at the very time you la re writing, This was a business matter that your subjective mind conveys (tele Involved $600. The lady pupil Inform- pathlcally) your desire to tbe subjeo-tiv- e mind of the one to whom you are ed me that the man was honest and upright In all his dealings and would writing) but the recipient Is not obnot. Intentionally, wrong her out of jectively conscious of the fact, and Is, a dollar; but there was a misunder- therefore, uninfluenced until the readstanding and she had never been able ing of the letter. Even then it la to convince him. After the class In- not in the written words of themstruction she realized where her mis- selves, but In the suggestive spirit takes had been and that the fault back of them. If tbe recipient comwas wholly hers. She bad gone at him plies with your request his Impression with hammer and tongs and In such so to do comes from his subjective a manner as to arouse all his antag- mind as the result of your telepathic communication. onism. He always met her halfway To Illustrate: Some years ago I deat the office railing. . Heretofore they had both unloaded at the same time, sired a certain piece of merchandise with the usual results, nothing gained valued at $225. I did not want to on either side. pay any cash, but would give value reThe day In question he met her as ceived for cervices rendered. I was not kno,wn to any member of usual and divining her mission proceeded to unload. She remained per- the firm. We were a thousand miles fectly calm. Instead of the usual or more apart. I wrote. The chief frown she wore a smile. She said characteristics of that letter were concentration" not a word. He was surprised, com- "confidence plus In due time I repletely disarmed, and finally realiz- plus Impulsion. ing that beyond her presence there ceived an answer. It read: In reshe had not said or done anything gard to your request permit us to say to call forth such a harangue from that It Is but one of hundreds of him, his better nature asserted Itself. similar nature, all of which we have Pushing open the little gate, he Bald: turned down. But there Is a some"I beg your pardon for keeping you thing In your letter which Impels me standing so long; step Inside, please, to say that I am Inclined to grant your and be seated. I think we can under- request; hence ask for further particustand each other this' morning and lars." He granted the request. He did settle that matter amicably. Here was a perfect fulfillment of the more. A year afterward he thanked law. All the way over from Minne- me for the services rendered, stating apolis to St. Paul she held the one that I had more than fulfilled my promises. thought on him, over him, for him Tlease note in his letter, tho two an amicable settlement and It was words "something" and "Impelled." done. What was that "something?" Whence Psychology in General, A few pointers. You have a caller came that "Impelling Influence?" That either at the office or at the home. Is what I call reading between the It Is your busy day. Time is precious. lines and getting the soul of a thing Your caller does not know when to go. psychology. There are two things, however, that You can freeze him out or otherwise should observe In every psychologyou make him uncomfortable or, as a last resort you can ask him to go. Any ical effort; first, do not expect someof these might be efficacious, but all thing for nothing; second, while yon e should expect success In every things elficaclous are not always exdo not be discouraged effort, pedient. There Is a better way. Do not ubo compulsion but Impul- should you fall aguln and again. Failure, ultimate failure, exlHts only sion. Impel him to go, 1. e., lodge In the grave. Man, belug alive, bath the thought with him (in the first not yet failed; for always he may person singular). This Is done by turn about and ascend by the same thinking for him, "Well, I must he gohe descended; and there may bo path I Is This term what ing. holding one that Is less abrupt (albeit, longthe thought on or over him. Almost er of achievement) and more adapted will he be Instantly Impressed with to hls condition. the thought as emanating directly Seek comrades among the indusfrom himself, and he will voice your for those who are Idle will trious; thought as his own "Well, I must be sap your energies from you. Thero going." Is a plus entity and a minus entity la ' When he thus expresses himself, let human body thut Is born Into every hint go. Do pot be dishonest by trythis world. Whichever one is favored to be polite and saying, "Why, by the flesh becomes ing then what's your haste? I'm sorry you j Is the other Inclined dominant; to abandon Its have to go so soon." It would serve habitation, unipotailly or for all time. you right If he then sat down and The consciousness of dominant power ttald an hour. within you Is the possession of all It will be ooserved that I have used attainable. the masculine gender (he) through- things all walks of life: My advice ls-l-a I Is bceause am dealing See "success" out That written everywhere; with business men on business prin- ultimate failure, nowhere. ciples. The feminine gender '(she) tCopi right, by Jos eh iJ. f3 Hat--teras- Ej FACTS FADS FALLACIES o an, hid them beyond all finding. Perhaps the torn hands came from digging In the ground that she might hide the silent little forms. Perhaps the scratches on her throat came not from her own fingers, but from the tiny hands fighting for their lives. And who shall say at what Instant reason was dethroned, or what act of her own or another swept like a sharp knife through the tottering brain and left It a blank? Perhaps Mrs. Ball knows where the children are, and, with demoniac cunning, refuses to let the father claim his own flesh and blood. Perhaps, If she would, she could lead the searching parties to the very spot where the silent forms are burled. Perhaps her mind was never a blank. But history, medical and otherwise, gives her the benefit of the doubt half-froze- n to-da- y I opened my rockton, Mass. ik and took the children under It, on each aide. From that time till oke up everything Is a blank. wenty-flvtrembling words, spok-ba disheveled, shaking woman, behind them lies the tragedy of recked home, the remarkable of two human beings as If ground had opened to swallow baf-th- e m, and a mystery which has keenest detective minds of v England. mother calling at the schoolhouse r for her boy and girl, three flg-disappearing Into the woods, a Rt storm cloak flung open to shelter small forms a blank of 24 hours, then a disheveled, quivering her form being hurried to an ,ln-asylum. t hat happened during that period mental death? nd where are the children? n Monday, December 2, soon after ; oclock, Mrs. Mary R. C. Ball, of John Ball, left her home at lolbrook avenue, and walked hur-lto the WInthrop school, where children were engaged In their lies. Mary Grace Ball, aged nine, Thomas Ball, aged seven, were ex-by their teachers at the request heir mother, who was apparently e composed aqd natural In her warm ring. They put on their is and toques and mittens and trot-dow-n the Bchoolyard path, one on ier side of the tall, cloaked figure. y e b e y d Idren Went Joyfully. came from all over New England to Join in the search. The Brockton Enterprise offered a reward of $100 for the recovery of the children, dead or alive. Brockton citizens raised $400 more, and more detectives, professional and amateur, flocked to the scene. Woods Thoroughly Searched. Every inch of the frozen woods Into which the woman and her children had disappeared was raked over. The Avon reservoir, beyond the woods, was dragged. Farmers all around Brockton neglected their affairs in their frantic efforts to unearth the bodies of the two little ones. The police matron of Brockton was sent to the asylum at Taunton In the hope that talking, woman to woman, she might obtain some clew from the demented mother. But she came home with word that her attempt bad failed. Mrs. Balls mind was a blank. Then came a day when some children playing in the woods near the suburb of Holbrook, five miles from the Ball home, came upon some juvenile raiment a boy's blouse, two union suits and a JJttle girl's underskirt These were partially but not completely identified by the distracted father, for man-Ukhe was not up on the details of the family wardrobe. And then, while searching parties raked and scraped the woodland In which these garments had been found, the father received word that his wife seemed to be quite rational again. anticipations were aroused their childish minds. Christmas i at hand. Perhaps they were Perhaps they were goto the woods to gather evergreens! to where, they really went, directly m the schoolhouse, opinions differ, s may have been because Brockton something else to think about ins the next few hours. The Ball ie on Holbrook avenue was In lies. There was a fire to be put out to bo discussed, and it was so un- unate that It happened while Mrs. was away shopping! lowever, since the tragedy has bene the sole topic of conversation 'he little manufacturing city of x'kton, one man recalls that lie the mother and her children toiler about 2:30 o'clock that after-n- . Two children, who knew the family well, claim to have seen mother without the children on kton street at 4:30 of that afternoon. !'it th one tangible piece of evl-m- e is that Mrs. Ball, unaccompanied her children, stopped at a lunch for a mouthful of food at Avon, "tie town JiiHt north of Brockto,n, Tuesday evening, December 3. r that night she was found by a n by farmer, A. L. Pinto, In Ills barn was ordered away. The children not with her. Pinto did not who she was and took her for 0 poor, drunken wretch. Mother's Memory Gone. So to the Taunton asylum be hurried alone. Unaccompanied by hysterical women or keen-eyedetectives, he hoped that In a quiet, talk with his wifi he might obtain some clew to the whereabouts of his children. I took my children under my cloak. They were cold and crying. The rest Is a blank. Behind that moment of motherly Instinct when she stretched out the protection of arms' and woolen folds to envelop her shivering children, .Mrs. Ball's memory cannot go. Sometimes she gropes wildly for fads, and says a woman In a red automobile took the children away. But always she realizes that the children are gone, that none can find them, and that behind the veil of her clouded mind lie the facts which she cannot reach. Grave physicians and alienists have visited this woman, striving to decide whether It is a lapse of memory pure and simple, or a return of the mental malady from which she suffered four years ago. At that time she was confined to the asylum because, on the death of her youngest child, she had developed a curious honitcldul mania, brought on by excessive grief. But as time cured the wound her mental equilibrium was restored, and she returned to her homo, iwhere apparently she was devoted to the two remaining children. tmet Led Woman Home. "o nights later, on Thursday, Do-- i her 5, Mrs. Ball staggered Into the of Mrs. Baxter, who lived opposite the Ball home In I' kton. The BnxtCrs were terrified figure which stumbled across r threshold. Her clothes were In "h r. Her fingers were grimy and s though she had been digging !'e frozen earth. Across her "at were great bloody scratches, , lenson Her eyes were her speech Incoherent. Iu' next morning a raving munlae, lv Ball, was taken to the asylum 'he insane at Taunton, Mass. I'd where were the rhildrcn? he distracted father asked It. The "eil neighbors echoed his question, It f0,inty officials considered r duty to find out. Detectives Restore Reason. Her present condition In nowise resembles her former unfortunate state. Then she was violent and noisy. Now her mind Is simply a blank. And Dr. Goss, superintendent or the asylum, who has been studying her case, believes that unless her bruin receives some terrible shock her memory will he restored. Her recollections of what happened between the time she took her ehlidieu under the shelter of her clonk and reason resumed 111 lts sway In a ward of the asylum a us at a shock gn by aroused only he ns tho one which robbed her of rea- nyouB event-Monda- I dl-"- i Resembles Famous Stories. Who does not recall Julian Hawthornes great story, Archibald whose hero, from brain shock, reverted every seven years to the mental state of seven years before, recalling In minutest detail everything that had happened when this peculiar psychological and mental paroxysm had overtaken him? And poor Archibald, when he was 28, remembered that on the night when he was 21 he had hidden his bride of an hour in a dungeon, where none of the merry wedding guests might find her, while he went to bring her wine and cake from the wedding feast. And as he went down the winding stairs the hand of time had touched him, setting Mai-malso- sition. Another uncle, A. J. Simpson, Is keeper of Southwest Point light, all In North Carolina. Young Simpson says he will stick to the business, believing he has inherited an ambition for the service In which his family has figured for many years. He could not furnish a full length picture of himself. He said he tried to get a photographer In North Carolina to take all of him, but the artist said be could only do it In sections, and then paste them together, which, he thought, would give an Idea of his client's towering figure. To do so the photographer wanted to charge extra for The second section, and the picture was not taken. PRANKS PLAYED IN YOUTH. Children of Other Days Were Not Good as Supposed. Don't do as I do; do as I say to Is the advice which nearly all parents could give to their children for, verily, the pranks of a father and mother In the telling sound very much worse than anything of which the modern child Is capable. Here are a few stories which a certain doctor tells to his very dignified little daughter who, by the way, listens in astonishment, disapproves entirely, but recounts to her friends with a disapproving pride, If such a thing Is possible, In the whole affair. We certainly must have been rather bad children, my sister and I, prefaced the gentleman the other day do, well-know- n d heart-to-hea- Shock May son. And what shock was that? Tills Is the question which Is him back seven years and blotting out all memory of what had happened between his fourteenth birthday and And so it happened his twenty-first- . that when, with his twenty-eightcame memories of tho birthday, he remembered his bride twenty-first- , and went to take her the cake and the wine, and behold! there, 'neath the wedding veil, lay the bones and the dust of her whom his retainers had Bought for weary months. Then there Is Sir Gilbert Parker's "The Right of Way, the tale of the on the head, young lawyer who. struck his brain the loggers, among roamed a blnnk. until another and an equally And togreat shock restored reason. Is contributing day Booth Tarklngton to Everybody's In The Guest of Ques same nay" a story on precisely the line, of a brilliant ntlnd stricken and then restored In both Instances by shock. And If the alienists now studying Mrs. Ball's ease decide that shock alone will restore her reason and provide the key to the mystery of the two lost children, will the law permit them to apply the test, to administer the shock? h those pranks" played In I remember on one occahis youth. sion we broke up a dinner party by sending a plate warmer clanging down the steps. Another time we succeeded In ripping open every feather pillow In the house and playing snowstorm with the feathers before anyI stood at the top body caught us. of the stairs and showered down the feathers while the other children held over umbrellas themselves down In telling of below. But the best thing we ever did was when my sister nnd I decided we wanted to collect some money. I got an organ and she took a plate and wo went out to collect tho shekels. We must have found the Job very pleasant. because we got out Into the suburbs, nnd then somebody recognized the crest on the plate my sister was currying and took us homo. Then there was tho time " And Judging by all the stories told, these children of some years ago were by no means "good as gold, who did as they were told," and nothing else. al-w- Medical Advice. Doctor, what do yoA do when burn you your mouth with for happiness, If you are looking hot coffee? physicians, detectives and relaside on the look to bright not try why tives of tho unhappy family. Doctor Swear. of things? Did Mrs, Ball accidentally set her bnf-Illn- g Patient J I $ at legit-Imat- |