For the first part of hig demonstration Professor Langsner chose the method of getting three persons present to write on respective sheets of paper handed to them the names of other individuals In the room, These sheets of paper were placed in sealed envelopes and the signatorleg in turn, a lady and two men, ong foreigner and one Chines asked to hold the wrist of monstrator and at the same concentrate upon the name tion in the room of the person to be discovered. The first test proved unsuccessful, due, as explained by! the professor, to nervousness 01 the part of the Indy who grasped his wrist during his agitated going to and fro in his quest. The next two were entirely successful, in each ease when the envelope was opened, the name written therein tallying with the person grasped by the telepathist with the exclamation, "Aero he is." Then the first test was repeated, the Indy choosing: an-their person in the room and follow ing Professor Langsner about through his obviously deeply agitate ed course to the successful discovery of the man whose name she had written a fow moments before. In his experiments Professor Langener waved the sealed envelope in his hand as he sprang about the room through the rows of observers and his demeanour throughout resembled the quick agility of a fox-tomor on} a scent, The Missing Pin Following these tests, a third consisted of finding a pin which had boon hidden by Captain Wahl of the' 8, M.-P. while Professo> Langsner, "necompanied by two newspaper reporters, was outside the building and entirely beyond venge of either sight or sound of the. procesiings. Upon his return to the room, and after his secretor ras asked fo leave the room as an additional precaution, the telepathist was adequately blind-folded, and the tect to prove the powers of teleplastic begun. Captain, Wahl fol-owed his precipitate flight down the aisles of the assembly' room, with arms tightly folded as requested, The Professor, arms lifted in groping: movements above his head, and swith spasmodic breaths which shook his entire body, went almost imimmediately to a. row of book-shelves at the right side of the. room, There in intense excitement he re. moved books from two of the shelves and so great was his perturbation that creat drops of perspiration on started out upon his face. "Con-contrate on the spot," he whispered to Captain Wahl, who was then requested to place his index Singer and thumb on the back of his head. A. short period of search followed fand a book was clutched frantically by the telepathist and taken to the! speaker's platform. There ko tum-¢4 through the pages hurriedly, "Do you remember the page?" he demanded of the audience... When an affirmative answer was" given him by Captain Wail, it evolved! that the pin had fallen out of the page. But the book was correct and enthusiastic applause greeted the Professor's demonstration.
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