Show Alexander Reveals Power 44 l. l J e e 2 4 4 1 2 4 a- a t 4 I 1 Girl Writer Writer Gets Gets Secret k 3 rl- rl 2 i Spirits Do Not Aid Him I B By Uarda McCarty I come comae to 10 JU A i. 2 Having e eyes e that see sec not cars ears I that hear not and perceptive e faculties that perceive not bumping Into a l man I who sees hears and knows all makes ono one feel like a modest modost little mermaid emerging from her pool Into the crowded street streel of oC a busy city Alexander does docs Just that When hen one first steps Into his presence presence pres pres- i ence that that Is Is while ore oro Is on the ho he way to stepping Into his presence one ono wonders wonders won won- ders ers and worries whether washed a well the ears cars and If it all tho the butt bUll ns are sewed on or whether that tell-tale tell safety pin Is groins going to give giveaway giveaway away any dark secrets V VerT ery like S Seer r Trying to attune myself to the tho at atmosphere at- at of oC the great I adopted what I thou thought ht a proper East Indian slide glide I II and sort of ot slid Into the room eXp expectIng expecting expect expect- ct- ct in ing to be bo enveloped cn with Incense and maybe get chummy with some of or his spirit controls but controls but nothing of the sort happened I found instead a very businesslike brisk snappy humored good Irishman For Alexander is Irish You Biddies and Paddles Paddies just think of ot that He lie was born on Erins Erin's Isle of oC I good old Irish stock But Dut while he was vas still a aver very young youns child his parents unloved moved to East Bast India and it was there amon among the Indian fakers takers and Yogi men that ho learned tho the wonderful mind control and development which has startled the worl world He lIe was wa seated in front of ot a a. high deal table stacked with piles of or letters from the Salt Lakers who are besieging him with their worries and troubles and andwan was wan very cry deftly d and quickly opening letter after letter till tm he ho came to a telegram telegram tel tel- Just as I stepped through the thedoor door The telegram seemed Scented to demand demant demanda a little extra attention for ho he took it out and read it while giving me the tho once over o through a fraction of at those eyes COS that can see ace ce so 80 much Then de decisively decisively de- de crumpling it up In his hand ho motioned me to be bo Beat seated d at the opposite opposite opposite site side o of the table and tho the ceremonies nies s rather the Interview was ready to begin JIa iIa Hall Inter Interesting GroT Gray Not ot being certain what was the most effective wa way to tobe be bp begin in a conversation eon with Ith a magician I 1 tentatively ely observed ed that its H a beautiful spring day dayse we se seare arc are having it was th the day the tho wind was blowing like hiko a gale ale and all th the time I was thinking s- s What Interesting gray cray ra Lair hair Mr r Alexander has and what lon long slim fingers I wonder if IC he Is going to brush those fingers through h that hair and rub It all up like Uk the mu musicians do But ho he And I 1 Iguess guess uess he lie must mURt have read my thoughts for ho didn't remark about the spring da day or tho the wind but said Eald aid Musicians I Ido do do queer things at times and all the tho while hUe he was laughing at mo me out of or thOl gray blue eyes ye of ot his luis There are no spirits around he hr went on I 1 do not nol claim any an occult power er What 1 do I do through h mind alon alone I have o merel merely trained m my mind to concentrate to grasp rasp and to hold all that it receives And what I have o done anyone can cnn do if he h. applies s a lifetime to It as ns I have Everyone I Is endowed with five sense sense- as the whole world l knows fhe senses es which can bo ho de do- fined and explained and everyone Is Just as surely endowed with a sixth sense Though the sixth sense is not BO so casU easily explained hat In Is Sixth Senses Senses' f What hat Is the sixth 8 sense I lucri queried cd interested at once und and hoping hopins- to get a aery avery vcr very ery vexing problem solved Ah now no you OU have ask asked d something Alexander replied and I began beJan to feel quite deep deop and occult myself Tho sixth sense I i I Is something I cannot explain but something we all aU have and you ou no doubt have acted on It hundreds of ot times I am sure I have I agreed For or Instance ho went on have you never been walking alon along a n. dark street feeling perfectly safo SIlO and secure when suddenly without apparent cause caus you ou 1 have hae shied out from p. p doorway or ortho tho tho I Iside side of or a tree Instinctively knowing I someone was concealed d there Your i I sixth sense told you ou danger I didn't I explain that on dark nights I shied on ort I from Cram every doorway and tree and thi th I II I II I had never discovered cred anono as yetAs yetAs yet ct I As another i- i example take a mother I and her babe Sti She knows instinctively where h ro tho pin Is Is' that Is hurting th the child She doesn't have to reel feel allover all alii I over o It and hunt for Cor an unknown 1 quantity She knows It is the same sarno wa way with me I dont don't know wh why I know or how I know But Bul ButI BulI I know Got M Mc Ie Some timings things s ar are aru unknowable Here i Alexander wasn't sympathetic at all He lie said You learned nil all about what tin fire was In your our chemistry class cliss di didn't you ou Chemistry always alwa's rather got mo me but I answered Oh yes I learned that No 0 you YOli didn't ho he answered Nobody 0 knows what fire Ire i Is It Just Is And that Is the thet only onh I explanation offered for the curious an amid I seemingly Impossible things I do tb Ido I Ido 1 j I do lIo thorn Science Is gradually learn learn- learn 1 I III mug Ing and some connie day a may perhaps lie be able ablo Ilu t I to lu explain tho the phenomena But this I know lwow Anybody who has a mind of or lil his own and amid who cares to apply appl itma it ma may do what I do What hat wa was the first time you realized realized real real- Iz d this strange power I asked When I was T i years eArS old I received the first t manifestation o of the force which Inns lias IQS since dominated m my I entire 11 life fe At this I ha hind had an au older brother who was In the En English army One Ono lla day I r was seized with the I cognition that this brother was km killed d News ess was slow to travel In those days as a's the tIne only medium of or communication boIng bo- bo In big Ing the tho native runners Several Se days lal later r they the arrived with tho the confirmation confirma confirma- tion Lion of this somber prophecy Then hen I 1 began t n to take an Interest in tine the men and to watch what the they did lid I t used to tal take o peculiar Interest In their ropo rope trick the one where tho the rope ropo Is la thrown Into the tho- theair air suspended and md r aPPl apparently nl hol lucId held taut while a small 1 bo boy climbs up the rope In later years ear I I hn have yc bIl been back to sec Ice th the e sumo sarno trick but 1111 tho the rope and a small bo boy no nolon J lon longer cr appear appear Phenomena nn Projected Prom Iron I I what hat ho hue meant and anti lm he ex- ex i cx-i J i the visual Usual phenol phenomena was wash wasl I projected from the tho minda of oC the men Into the minds of at their audience and what they apparently saw was In reality not there thero In proof of ot It ho cited the now now famous experience of at the bl big moving mo picture corporation In California that sent camera men to India to take tako the pictures of the thc trick and md who returned with with- films practically call cally blank ho said They had halt re recorded recorded reo re- corded pictures of the men In their positions but the ropo rope and the boy were missing because the YoS-SJ YoS men could not project thoughts Into a camera since a camera docs does not nol th think Ink Then I asked might ht not someone someone some some- one ono attend your our performances with their minds made up not to receive any of or your oUr thoughts and by concentrating on Bomo some other object fall to B 15 ecu ecu- Ule I marvels and mystic things you OU cause causel l to appear and disappear on your stage Most 1 assuredly ho answered II 1 their mind was thoroughly made u up and amid If it is strong enough My knowledge is a comforting philosophy and the tho most optimistic ho declared I HI believe In positive thought and that nothing can triumph against It Con Concentration for tor Attainment I believe that anyone may attain attar anything in the world that ho hI want wante If lt he but concentrates his mind on art it and believes that he will wm get set It It You Youcan Youcan can cami will anybody to do anything so 50 long IonS as it Is a a. good s thought but bat you OU cannot will crime for there thero doubt enters Into the mind and destroys the power of the thought thought- During the conversation Alexander tore ot off a sheet of or his hla writing pad ant writing something on It folded ii tight placed It In the center of the table and put the Ink well down on on onIt itI it I noticed what be be- was doing and anda wa a a little bit curious to know what W Won wa sa saon on the paper but refrained retrained from askIng asking ask ask- Ing Later he asked me mo to about the room and notice the objects See Sec ho lie said there thero Is Js a calendar clock a a. lock a coat a picture No Noname Now name namo something in tho the room room quick It about took my breath away but bui there was a a. typewriter In front of ot m gaze so I gasped out like a a. drowning man Now ow think of oC i number he ho went on Quick som number numbe between 1 and OO I gasped Alright now a da of ot the th week WEck It was an awful ordeal but I managed it Saturday I said Alexander sat Bat back In his scat smiled sweetly and said Now look at that thal paper I took It out out it and there written on it Were th three words words typewriter typewriter five and Saturday |