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Dr. John D. Quackenbos. NEW YORK.—Dr. .Tekvll drank a chemical reagent and became the bad Mr. Hyde. He changed himself back to the good Dr. Jekyll by the same means. Eminent scientists to-day are experi menting with a reagent for which they claim the power to perforin the miracle of converting Mr. Hyde into Dr. Jekyli. By this mysterious power they are making bad men good, weak men powerful, mediocre men talent#d. And the beautiful thing about this reagent, they say, is that every one has it in his own possession, to com mand at will. Only when he lacks the \Yill to use it, after learning the sim ple processes of its application, need he employ others, skilled in the art of handling it, to administer it to him. This is the claim now made for hypnotic suggestion, that it is the one reagent by which a man can transform himself into the ideal of what in his d>est moments he aspires to be. For 25 years Dr. John D. Quarken bos. former professor of psychology in Columbia university, has been study ing and practicing the art of curing .and reforming persons by this process. He has treated 7,000 cases by sugges tion given during hypnotic sleep. What he has accomplished, often seeming to approach the miraculous, and the exact processes by which he and other skilled suggestionists oper ate. Dr. Quackenbos is now to make public, in a book to be issued from the press of Harper & Bros. Dr. Quackenbos gives to the New York Sunday World, in anticipation of hi3 forthcoming exposition, the revel ation of his discoveries and remark able experiences. As a few instances of the power of hypnotic suggestion, as he has proved it. Dr. Quackenbos cites the following: A leading lady in a Broadway theat rical company owes her rise to fame to inspiration given during hypnotic sleep. “At the time of her visit to me she was adjudged to possess but a slender mediocrity of talent," says Dr. Quackenbos. "Two treatments evoked the realistic touch of Bernhardt. It was in her. She was only inspired to express it on the instant, and the peo ple of New York have for months given singular evidence of their won der and delight." A woman artist who has recently painted a portrait from life of King Kdward VII., and previously had por trayed many other royal personages, owes the inspiration to do the work that has made her famous to sugges tion given to her during a few sessions of hypnotic sleep. A private ambassador representing President MeKinley on an important diplomatic mission was enabled to utilize talents he had never before shown that he possessed because of an idea of power implanted in his mind during one hour of hpvnotic sleep. Other cases are cited to show that a dying person—one who has even passed beyond the realms of con sciousness back to life, and in in stances to health, by such words as were spoken to the apparently mori bund Adele: “Adele, where are you going? You cannot die! Come back, you have work to do on earth. Come hack at once.” Came Back to Life. Of the gill Adele, Dr. Quackenbos says: "In answer to the summons the upturned eyes resumed their natural angle and became riveted on mine. . . . Gradually the mental mist cleared away, the physical strength returned and to-day the young lady is perfectly well, filling an important position in the musical world.” '■Numbers of men and women with musical gifts have applied to me,” said Dr. Quackenbos, "for the transla tion of latent into actual talent. In such cases an appeal is made to the self-regnant along the lines of fearless utterance, without thought of extrane ous criticism, with force and feeling and dramatic power. "Of a!! the good work possible to a suggestionist. that which is inspira tional in its nature is itv far the tuos' thrilling—the evocation of genius from the subconscious to the conscious life in response to the dynamogenic voice of him who is en rapport.” "Leaders of thought are becoming conscious of superphysical world.” said Dr. Quackenbos, "which men hav sought to apprehend since nun began to think. Every human being is now conceived of by students of mind as existing simultaneously in two worlds, described as the objective, suprali minal, or world of waking life—in which he communicates through his senses with the phenomenal universe —anil the subjective or transliminal. tinj world of sleep, of an all-compre hensive, extra-planetary or outside ex istence, of which the earth-life is hut a fractional expression. The Process Explained. “In a state of sleep, natural or in duced, the objective consciousness is in shadow, and the individual is prac tically excarnate by reason of sus pended sense-activity. Hence he is transliniinally focussed in all the phases of his personality and all the infinity of his powers. It is then that the dynamogenic touch that may work a miracle of heating or reform or In spiration to the quick development of hidden genius may be imparted— "I. By a fellow being who. owing to the existence of mutual sympathy and confidence, is en rapport with the sleeping subject. This is Suggestion ' ll. By the man objective to his own subjective seif. This is Auto or Seif Suggestion. "Various methods are in vogue of inducing the suggestible stale. The technic adopted by myself involves ar rest of the visual attention by a bril liant jewel or some object in the room, the concurrent establishment of the patient's confidence in his de siic and ability to extend aid (rapport must lie consensual), and monotonous sleeping suggestions as an accompani ment of impression by his personality —the several steps being relaxed eye muscles, vacant stare, indolent audi enoe, passive brain, blank objective mind, reverie, sleep. "Inspiration communicated in this negative state of animal being calls forth adequacy dormant in the ego. to regulate physical function, enhance faculty, or modify character. "The directions imparted by em phatic declaration may not be objec tively heard by tlie sleeper; but in some mysterious way they pass the sentinels of his world-consciousness unchallenged, to rivet the atleniion and launch the spiritual energies of ♦he transiiminal man. Employed by Physicians. “Reputable physicians in this coun try and abroad are employing the sug gest tonal appeal extensively in the re lict' or cure of functional disorders of digestion, absorption, and circulation: of nervous conditions represented by hysteria. hystero-epilepsy, pseudo meningitis, petit ntal, chorea, habit spasms, occupation neuroses dike telegrapher’s arm, writer's, violinist's ami ballot dancer's cramp), psycho genis cardiac arrhythmia, pseudo agiua. speech defests, intractable in somnia and neurasthenia or nervous exhaustion; even of diseases charac terized by severe pain, like sciatica 1 and other forms of neuritis, locomotor ataxia, tuberculosis and carcinoma. Indeed, there is no rational sufferer who may not be benefited in some degree by such treatment. “In treatment of moral diseases truly awe-inspiring results of trans liminal domination are manifested. “A moral defective may be com pelled to take upon himself a changed nature in response to appropriate sug gestions. The bad may be made good even in the face of their deliberate de termination to continue in the clutches of sin. “As a rule, however, the success of suggestional methods depends largely on the de.sire of the subject to be cured and his faith in the power of the suggestion selected. “Dipsomaniacs are generally easy DR. JOHN D. QUACKENBOS, FORMER COLUMBIA PROFESSOR. SAYS— THAT HE HAS Hypnotized an Ambassador and Enabled Him to Suc ceed in an Important Diplomatic Mission. THAT He Hypnotized a Mediocre Actress and Made Her a Broadway Star. THAT You Can Cure Yourself of Drunkenness by Self-Hypnotism. THAT Hypnotism Can Cure Seasickness, Locomotor Ataxia and Other Maladies of Mind and Body and Call Back the Dying from the Edge of the Grave. subjects. In that they yield readily to the h; ;notic influence, and accept un conditionally the suggestions com municated by the operator. Morphine Habit Cured. “All the great suggestionists have successfully treated morphinomania by inducing hypnosis and implanting a fixed idea against the use of the drug in question either by hypodermic syringe or mouth. Morphine cannot be suddenly cut off front the patient, as there is danger of collapse in such heroci treatment; it must he gradually withdrawn. Hypnotic suggestion ren ders such reduction absolutely pain less to the subject. "The method pursued with con firmed cigarette smokers has been to deprive them gradually of the dele HOW TO CURE YOURSELF OF DRUNKENNESS. Ey Dr. John D. Quackenbos. An alcoholic addict, actuated by a sincere desire to break the shackles the despotism and go fcrth wi capacity for the higher joys of life, is urged to think per sistency as he is fading asleep in lines like these: “Whisky is unnecessary to my physical well-being: it is creating structural changes in vital organs: it is destroying my mentality and blunting my moral sensibility. I do not need it. and shall no longer use it either in mere bravado or to hide from my vision conditions that are insufferable. I shall de pend absolutely on the units of energy legitimately manufactured I out of nutritious food, good air, | exercise, and sleep. . I am done 1 with alcohol once and forever, y The appetite for it is destroyed in my being, and I no longer admit capacity for temptation. From this hour it shall be impossible for me either to desire or to take a drink for any conceivable rea son. I do not want it. I do not need it. I shall not miss it.” ——..Min !■! teriotis gas. Suggestions are first given to smoke fewer cigarettes each day: secondly, to detest tobacco and drop the practice. 'Kleptomania, habitual falsehood. “Two Treatments Evoked the Realistic Touch of Bernhardt!” hopeless dishonesty, mania for swindling and gambling all yield to suggestional treatment. "Kvery mother in the land ran make her children what she wishes them to lie. provided she is a woman of high moral principle, gentle and patient, apprehensive of the power of trans iiminal appeal, possessed of courage to apply it with intelligent persistence, and having ardent faith in its effective ness.’’ Asked to state (he care of auto-si'.g tion anti the process by which a per son applies it to himself. Dr. Quack cnbos said: "The trausliminal self of an individ ual is as amenable to suggestion by his own objective mind as by the ob jective mind of an outside person. Self-treatment of this kind, or auto suggestion, is open to all who would ennoble their lives by cultivating a closer relationship between the supra liminal and the trausliminal nature. "The state of mental abstraction called ‘reverie,’ immediately pieced ing natural sleep, is most appropriate for self-suggestion. As one is about yielding to slumber for the night, let him say to himself, for instance, that he will no longer be a slave of the imperative conception or the evil habit that is crippling his best expression— that he will develop talent along speci fied lines—that, he will draw spontane ously upon the resources treasured in his higher being for creative work in the normal sphere. Prerequisite of Success. "Lapse into sleep with the trans liminal thus invoked, to employ itself as instructed, is all but equivalent to suggestion given by another. The pre requisite of success is earnest, intelli ■gent, persistent application of the self given suggestions. "It is in accordance with psycholog ical law, now well tested and proved, that if the active intervention of one's own richly endowed spirit be honestly and earnestly invoked, adequate pow er will always be forthcoming to re sist temptation, to destroy unworthy motives and impulses, to flood the earth-life with currents of prompting to sublime action. The unprincipled man is he who never defers to his ti’ansliminal self. “inspiration comes from t!>o inner self, the spiritual personality, in re sponse to spoken commands uttered in the approaches of sleep, and the propulsion of supernormal faculty grows easier with practice. “By auto-suggestion before sleep, Robert Louis Stevenson obtained material, through immediate dream representation, for his most impres sive romances. "For centuries," said Ur. Quacken tios,. in conclusion, “science has been seeking to fathom the real connection between mind and matter. It lias but just reached an explanation in the philosophy of a translimiual control of the material by the immaterial man, for the good of the human complex." EUROPE IS GROWING COLDER. Temperature of the Continent Con stantly Becoming Lower. Some months ago there appeared in these columns some tables worked up by Camille Flannuarion to show | changes of a meteorological character which seem to have taken place in Europe, says the Philadelphia Record. Writing again, he states that from actual figures obtained within the past six years lie lias become cerlain I that the temperature of Europe has [ been falling. France lias been snf | fering lor a long time from an excess 1 of cold weather, the thermometrieal readings at Paris having been one degree below the normal height. Other readings show even less favor ; able results. The fall is more notice I able during the spring than during other periods of the wear. Similar prenomena are recorded in Great | Britain. Belgium. Spain. Italy. Austria and Germany. In the days of Philip Augusta, in the thirteenth century, the wines of Etantpes and Beauvais were tlie favorite beverages at court. Henry IV.. a pronounced bon vivant, frequent ly expressed liis fondness for the product of the Suresnes grape. At the j present day there is not a vineyard of importance north of Paris, and as for the petit vin now made at Suresnes, it has become the drink only of tile poorer classes. In the middle of the sixteenth cen tury Macon was celebrated for its muscated wines, whereas the muscatel grape at this moment can scarcely be made to thrive there. Ancient chron icles mention the cultivation of the vine in northern Brittany, where now even apples are not plentiful. Again, it is to be remarked that trees which once nourished in the north of France are at present found in the extreme south, and a considerable number have disappeared altogether. Languedoc no longer grows the lemon; there is not an orange left in Rousillon. The Lombardy poplar, so familiar and picturesque in old French iine engravings, is now nowhere to be found on French soil. These are facts which, putting statistics out of the question, serve to illustrate the changes wrought by temperature in the great fruit-producing country of France. Life in Kentucky. Drummer iat Moonshineville, Ky.) —Good morning, Mr. Crossroads; how’s business? Storekeeper (disconsolately) — Mighty poor, mighty poor. You see. a new store started up in opposition to me. and of course I couldn't stand that, so I jest gave my frlen’s th’ wink, and they commenced killin' off his customers; but he had more trade than 1 kalkerlated on. an’ w'en his customers began to shoot back it made a purty even fight, an’ both sides killed each other off so fast that now there ain't either of us got any customers.—X. Y. Weekly. The Trouble with Some People. One trouble with some people is that a very small effort enables them to keep their self-respect. NIGHT EY A BEAR FORMER PET TAKES TO WOODS AND TRIES TO HAVE PLAY MATE STAY WITH HIM. BRUIN FOND OF OLD KEEPER Seemed Satisfied So Long as Compan ion Did Not Endeavor to Leave Him—Rescue Effected by Shooting of Animal. Marble Falls, Tex.—Thy strange story that Miss Maggie Caime and her friends have to tell concerning the conduct of a black bear will only tax the credulity of those who are famil iar with the humanlike intelligence often displayed by Bruin. Miss Maggie Caime of Zavillu coun ty, Texas, 1ms always been very fond of pets, and for a long time she was passionately attached to a fine black The Bear Did Not Intend That She Should Have Her Way. hear that she had raised from r small cub. She called the bear Nigger, anti be would answer to his name and come running the moment his mis tress commanded him. Nigger was very intelligent and fo: a long time he was as playful as a kit ten and regarded as perfectly harm less. As he grew older he began to show considerable temper and he often got sp angry that he looked dan gerous and his mistress would con sider it prudent to chain him to a tree for awhile—at least until he got in a good humor. He never tried to harm .Miss Caime and nothing pleased him better than to follow her front place to place. She alone fed him and he appeared devotedly attached to her. Finally he began to show that he disliked ail the other members of the family. In the absence of Miss Mag gie he would sttik and refuse to eat. Nigger's ugly traits grew so pro nounced that Maggie's brothers talked about killing him. One day he scratched one of the boys and tried .1 break his chain. The boy was angry and ran and got a gun. Maggie bare ly prevented him from ending Nig ger's career. Bruin saw it all, and with his head turned to one side he listened to the threats made against hint. "I believe he knows what you are saying, broth er," said Maggie. "I»ok how lie is lis tening." “Well, I'll kill him yet," said the boy. Nigger evidently understood the sit nation, lor he sulked all the evening, and that night he broke his chain and disappeared. No trace of hint could be found. Months passed and Nigger was stiil a lost bear. A few evenings ago .Miss Caiine was returning from a visit to a neighbor, it was nearly sunset and the girl was hurrying along a lonely path through a forest only a short distance from her home when she suddenly encoun tered Nigger. He was standing in the path directly in front of her. He had evidently waylaid his mistress and he did not show himself until she was close to him. Maggie's heart fluttered a little, more from surprise than fear. She recognized the bear when she called his name and he grinned with satisfaction. Maggie went toward him holding out her hands. Pie sat on his haunches in the path and would not move. When the girl attempted to pass he instantly got in front of her. Finally he showed signs of anger, and when she tried to pass he growled and raised his paw. In vain she tried to | pet him. He continued to bar the path. Finally Maggie concluded to re- ' turn to the house she had visited. Nigger trotted along behind her un til she came to where the path j forked. Again the bear threw himself in front of her. The giri now began to be alarmed. Finding that Nigger would not let her follow the path that led to the house of the neighbor Maggie fled along the other path, hop ing soon to turn toward home. The bear did not intend that she should have her own way. He fol lowed close, and whenever she tried to leave the path he would throw him self in front of her and growl. Maggie was now badly frightened and began to shout for help. This angered the bear and he began to growl and gnash his teeth. She became convinced that he would spring upon her if she did not: keep quiet. “Well, what am I to do?" whispered the poor girl, trembli* g with terror. Finally she decided to walk slowly along the path, thinking that sin* might induce the bear to follow her home. After going a short distance she came to a pile of logs and brush, which she soon discovered was .Nig per's lair. The bear now appeared pleased. He walked about the place, sniffing, and he finally came and laid down at Maggie’s feet. During the whole of the long night . the bear laid and watched the terror stricken girl. The slightest movetrieti1 attracted his attention and he would raise his head and look ai her. Miss Caime's people thought she had re mained over night with the neighbm she had visited and she was not missed until next morning. When it became known that the girl was missing the whole neighbor hood was aroused and soon lilt* wood* were full of people searching for her. It did not take long to locate her, but the bear heard voices anil the barking of dogs anil he got very angry. Bristling with rage he ran about the girl growling and gnashing his teeth. Maggie fully'realized her peril, and when she saw her friends site called to them, warning them not to corni nearer. She explained the situation and her friends concluded to shoot Mr. Nigger from where they stood Aiming well, three fired together, an 1 Nigger rolled lifeless at his cap tive’s feet. GIRL IN POND CLINGS TO ICE 15, MINUTES STICK WITH LINE FINALLY GLIDES OUT TO HER AND SHE COOLLY DIRECTS RESCUE. St. Louis.—Myrtle Harris, the ten year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. F. Harris of Glendale. St. Lotus coun . ty. clung for 15 minutes to the ice through which she had fallen, while her body swayed in water 75 feet deep, in the private lake at the country home of 0. W. Harstow the other day. She was rescued by a rope thrown from shore, 75 feet away, after her re markable case seemed hopeless. Dnr ing the time, which to her seemed in terminable, site followed minutely the instructions of J. P. Evers, who finally pulled her ashore. She kept her senses despite the excited shouts of men and screams of women ashore. Myrtle was returning from school with Harold Lester, her neighbor and little sweetheart. As they passed the lake, covered with ice. Myrtle could not resist the temptation to demon strate to her little friend how grace fully she could glide over the smooth surface. Laughingly, she slid out ti> the center of the pond. Her weight fell on the ice directly over a deep well, around which the lake was created, the fresh w aters of which ha ' partially melted through, and she went down. She called to her companion for help, but he was dumbfounded. The lake is close to the store of Mr. Evers, who heard her cries and hastened to the scene with two lengths of common clothesline. When he saw her pre dicament he told her to keep quiet and not attempt to raise herself above the water, fearing it would break The Brisk Wind Blew It Aside. .*> the ice. which gave her all the support needed while her body was submerged. Time after time Mr.-,Evers tried to throw her the life line, but tile brisk wind blew it aside. In the meantime residents of the neighborhood and other school chil dren gathered.After many unsuccess ful attempts to get the rope to the lit tle girl, and after some of the light weights ventuered on The ice until it cracked and threatened two lives, a heavy stick was tied to.the rope anti it was slid out to her. But by this time the girl was too weak to tie it about her body, and the frantic crowd was about to give up hope when she wrapped the line about her arms, and, gripping it, as best she could with her benumbed fingers, shouted to Mr. Evers to pull. Slowly she was taken to shore, where neighbors look charge of the chilled child. She was taken to the Evers home, where dry clothing was provided and restoratives aftninis tered. The strength and happiness of a man consists in finding the way of duty and walking therein.—Beecher.
