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.