Show MESSAGES FROM MIND TO MIND The subject o telepathy or mental tolegrnphy la provoklnc wide discussion In Europe just now In England anti In Franco It ns much of n fad as hypnotism hyp-notism was a few years ago All sorts of i tests are being made and talked about and things that formerly were Hct down as mere coincidences suddenly Imv assumed more serious importance UK a result of the discussion Awriter In CassellB qnolus theseIncidcnts as H lllustrailntj the myatcrlouw p6vor1 I of mental telegraphy Not long ago a gentleman suddenly conceived 1 a desire to purchase the house In which he lived After thinking think-ing the matter over he wrote tohis landlord whom he had never once mentioned IL I asking1 him I If he was willing to sell and If so on what terms Ho posted the letter at night On the following morilnr he received one froii the Innillord l suggesting that he should buy the house The two communications communica-tions had cioscd In the hostS host-S Another gentleman while sitting by his l l fireside at night gave u slnrt which made his vlfc Inquire the cause lie replied l that t he had just remembered to whom he had lent ore of his hooks which had long been missing former noJuhbor then living twenty or thirty miles away Acting on tile spur of the moment ho then itnd thuro wrote a note to this gentleman reminding him of thC loan but as It was a very Inclement In-clement night and he had no other correspondence cor-respondence to dispatch he determined to lake It to town and post It In Ito morning The letter however was never sent tthen he mnie down to breakfast break-fast lltere lay on the table a parcel containing the very book whoso whereabouts where-abouts had llashcd into his mind the previous night The sender staled that It had been mislaid and thai he hal only just found H 1 A contractor told the same writer somo time iigo of ti curious example of tulujalhio thought He was engaged In putting iho I finishing touches to a tender which had to be In by Ihe following fol-lowing morning when It Hashed upon him without any obvious caute whatever what-ever lint It would be h politic for him to roducc by f > 00 the amount he had alI al-I rived at tentatively or ho mIght be underbid And he acted accordingly and thereby obtained the contract whereas he would have lost it I had he kept to his original I price Now on the same night that ho made the fortunate nductlon in his estimate his SOl who was In a distant Ill of the I country got to know more by accident ac-cident than doslgn the amount for which a rival had offered to do the Olkstmiie 3CO or 100 Icaa than the Hum which Ills father had HJttled upon This wu a mortifying discovery Cs pcolnlly IW there was no n ant whereby he could tuni It to account since it was too lato to fend IL telegram that nlpht and one In the morning would be tim less So lie retired to his hotel and brooded over the matter While 10 dolnir his mind apparently unconsciously unconscious-ly I niYecied his fathers mind A gentleman whom the writer knew Ion Intimately hada parallel experience exper-ience l lie purled from his wife who returned to her parent In a lovvn nboui 50in1lcr uwny l Very noon he bitterly regret toil this tcp and took upon hImself him-self a 11 the bliuiH1 but his prlda would h IdtilldWlifiii I to write and con rtss that he had been In the wrong One aftcr noon when he IUd been mpurated from hiaVvlfe nome months he could not dismiss hut from his thoughts At length he imlled a writing pad toward him with the Intention of writing the fateful iLUor But he pushed It I aside put on his Ijal a id went Ut AH noon i he was In motion t con viclion forced Itself upon him that I his win was coming lo Ito I tol then at that moment tty some Impulse which he could never explain la turned toward I Ito railway Mutton mil when he was half I way up I the slope lo I il I t hi snw her coming down not alone ns lit hal pictured pic-tured her but In company wllh I home fi Honda whom site had come to visit a vlpll I of hlch hi1 vans In complete Ignorance Ig-norance A day or two afierward man alt wife met again with the result I Its L II roconclllation look place Tho lady afierward 1 said that she was think nig about her husband all the while she was traveling Similar In essentials was u story which an old lady tinted to tell She had only one sona sad c scapegrace but none ihe I less her son For good and sutllclunt reasons the father banished the lad to the colonies ant for ore years afierward ho wrcte to England lltfully Eventually his lollers ceased altogether and when the father tiled nothing hal been heard 0 him for at leant eighteen Inon this Desirous then that he should return home the mother advLrtlbcd for him In u number of colonial col-onial newspapers but with a negative result One day something told her that her boy was not only alive but actually actual-ly I coming back to the parental roofa presentiment which affected her so powerfully that she gave orders thai n bedroom should < he r1c rol In readiness for him And sure the fo enough scapegrace scape-grace lh cqnK1 1 He had not seen the advertlsemenls and did not even know of hh fathers death Can one mind thus affect another even In slee1 It rcaHy seems as If two minds tlC sometimes attuned to such a degree de-gree A lady once laid the writer that her father hailconic down to breakfast break-fast that morning looking sorely troubled trou-bled He had had he conllded to helL n very distressing dream lie had 5001 I 3 certain person a third member of the family whoso whereaboula were then not known lyingby 1 the roadside dead New York Ires |