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Show I.tturanoa Oliphnut't Mnater. iO-toD tie-aid. There have been few instances w here ono man has dominated and controlled the life, ot another to tho extent to which it is now acknowledged that Mr. Harris, the AmtTicau hypnotist, con-t--o'i!cd Mr. Oiiphant. This prophet of tho mysterious bad such iutluer.ee over this brilliant man that ha made hiru completely his dupe, and slave, and it was only by the greatest effon that Oiiphant escaped from him and regained re-gained contiol of his properly. Mr. Harris is a master in the atisohito in-llueucs in-llueucs which he exercises over bis victims. It is a very sad story which the. life of Mr. Oiiphant revealed. Tha indignities to x tiich ho and his mother and his wife submitted at the hands of I this mesmeric tyrant wou.d not be be-i be-i lieved if they bad not been reported by ! Mrs. Oiiphant ia her memoir, and sub-st sub-st intuited by persons in this country who aro acquainted with the facts. Of all the strange things in Mr. Oiiphant s career, his surrender to this vagrant prophet is the most amazing and incomprehensible. |