Show A journalistic MEDIUM I 1 hind mind reading as it Is practiced in pittsburg mind reading as a fad seems seem to have taken a strong hold on several newspaper men lately whose lines of doty duty lay on the south side mcallen Mr Allen Allenor 0 allynne allyane as he ia Is familiarly calla called since the exodus of the foreign gentlemen who represented the iron and stel steil in dusti as of europe at the late convention ILI of metallurgists seems to have made more thorough studies in that line oe of occult science than the others he ile grows enthusiastic th us lastic over his pet pot fad and has made so many claims for bis his champion james nellis nellie that many of his auditors openly avowed their skeptical ideas among those who take very little block stock in mind reading are 1 inspector I as william mckelvey and S special p ecial officer pat carrigan Oar rigan of the third police district mr alien allen determined to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the lievers that mind reading as practiced a c by mr nellis nellie is a most bour wonderful d e r awe inspiring and partially unexplainable thing A faw few evenings since several reporters and the police officials patiently awaited the tile coming of 0 alien allen of the dispatch those present were nellis nellie of the news agency bregg of the times timeo of the ilia oa ga inspector INIc mckelvey Kelvey and officer carrigan and they were fully prepared for alien allen mr net nellis was the reader and alien allen the 1 medium through which he worked alien allen finally arrived and the party repaired to the inspectors room up stairs in the station house the 8 e ance b began C gan by nellis nellie retiring to an anteroom ante room rigans nellis nellie promptly told him the number of the works and tho the number and make of the case now I 1 will have mr nellis nellie read a letter which I 1 consider one of bia his most difficult feats eaid said mr alien allen mr fregg produced a letter and nellis nellie named the postmark poet mark the date and the writer are you still skeptical inspector asked alien allen yes I 1 am replied the officer aek ask nellis nellie what this is and let him name the contents and their cum number bar and if be he does I 1 will begin to have a little faith in your theory As he spoke the inspector produced a match box I 1 what is it nellis nellie not an instant elapsed before be he said A brass match box with twenty seven matches in it A count showed the correctness of t the he answer alien allen was wild almost with delight and made one more effort t meanwhile the others odthe of the party could scarcely contain themselves so 10 full fall of risibility were they havo you a warrant inspector on the warrant nellis nellie oh no you dont arole broke in the aln inspector 8 actor this is official business ant and its secrets must not be riven given away he ile must not read the warrant with that he started downstairs 6 the scheme was a deeply laid one and quite successfully executed however the warrant question wag was unexpected d and came near apse upsetting t ting everything nellis had looked at the watch the letter and counted the matches match es before alien allen arrived and was prepared 1 ll 11 pared for him and it was only t the ph quick wit of the inspector that prevented the warrant from being scanned by the reader A few evenings ago the same thing was wit 9 done at the press club A gentleman had riven alien allen his to hide and nellis nellie blindfolded went up stairs and found it on a small box on the mantel a place selected by himself before A alien len cot got to the rooms room a alien allen baa has declared his absolute faith in the and is maki making ag lots of fun for the boys |