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Emila Cour, one time pharmacist to Luxor from Cairo, and emption Mro. Constance White, of of Nancy, France, shara srose, their burden of tourists upon the Wembley, whose husband was ons after another, patients who Theban plain at dawn. As there formerly head of the police train described their ills, hesitantly were not suficient donkeys, ing school at Nasik, India, ra- tried the "Cune_method" of marringas or sand carts to take called a police dinner wher, she autosuggestion and returned to the visitors across the desert for their places declaring themselves | the Valley of the Kings, samebu and oxen werepressed intoservionë
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opposed by the resilhary legstees. the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind, Homeopathic the
the Children's Hospital, and Hospital, Great Ormonde-street SIR CONAN DOYLE'S TESTIMONY. Mr. G. B. Hurst, K.C., who appeared for the Alliance, read affidavits by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and others, testifying to the healing nature of the psychical treatment of disease.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said he was one of the senior members of the Psychical Research Society, and bad. been interested in psychic maiters for 30 years. He had written five books on the subject.
"I have had personal experience of the psychical diagnosis and treatment of diseases, and am of opinion that after all normal metbols have failed, this line of trestment opens up other pos- sibilities for the patient," continu ed Sir Arthur.
Taey could get better. That was what he taught thou. And
was infinitely more valuabls to them than to think that they wanted to get better, but coull not.
**I am much better since Satus
The scene at the tomb awaken- ad memories of Epsom Downs on Derby Day. The road leading tos
the rock-enclosed ravine War packed with vehicles and snimate of every conceivable variety.
The guides, dankay boys, sellarm of Batiquities and hawkers of "No, I learned that a few
lemonade were doing a roaring weeks ago,” said Mrs. White.
trade. Fabricated photographs Witness added that when he
of Tutankhamen, szored scarabs, was reprimanded for creating the
miniature sphinxaz, bands
miraculous** properties and scene at the dinner he told her day," said one woman, that I his superiors were only "silly | am afraid to say
spurious antiquities in unending. foola."
"Dont' fear!" "Don't far! Don'tvariaty were offered at extra- The case was brought by Mr. | faar!" snapped the little French-, vagant prices. Garrick Hanbury White, of a quickly. "Ah, ah, madam, The immense crowd surround- Southsea, who sought a restitu- you are fearing. You must no ing the tomb waited patieniłyś tion of conjugal rights. His wife faar. You do not fear. Tell me under the remorseless rays of the cross-petitioned for judicial you do not fear."
sun for several hours. It was separation, and pleaded that she The woman, smilingly, admitted noticeable that the women out- bad just cause for refusing to live the rapidly beating heart, nambared the men by four tot with him.
and semi-paralysis from which one. Everyone of them had a Mr. Tyndale, for the wife, said she had been greatly relieved foamers, and the whole battery of she was a daughter of Judge since Saturday, would go, she instruments was lavelled at Mrs Aston, of the High Court of Bom-said. bay, and she married Mr. Whits in 1904.
STUTTERERS ARE AIDED. There was one shy, nervous Her husband was petitioning young girl who stuttered very for restitution of conjugal rights badly. against a woman with whom he certainly did not want to live again, and whom he had not seen for eight years.
The hearing was adjourned.
benefit, it must be without taint of illegality, and it must be a good educational charity.
4
'Think to yourself, ‘I do not fear to stammer any longer," said M. Coue, gently, all the humorousness gone out of his face. He spoke to her gently, slowly, cossingly, as if she were a little child.
"You do not fear. Tell me you do not fear. Say to me. I do not tear. Slowly! Easily! Without "I bave in mind the case of my They were all familiar with effort. Say it." He looked t sister-in-law suffering frora mal-the hypnotic treatment of nervher face, making ever so little tiple sclerosis and consequentous disorders, but he submitted gesture with his hand as if to curvature of the spine, whose that judicial cognisance could not help her get out the words, one health was entirely restored by a
| sensitiva clairvoyant, who treated it on psychic lines after the case had been declared hopeless by Five doctors.
ba taken of healers."
"mediumistic by one, slowly, but without
It might be that a bequest for training conjurers and ventrilo quists would be a good charitable WHAT IS A MEDIUM ?
gift, but to train people to con- "I have not the slightest doubt duct the three-card trick-ao, that very great advances may because it would be illegal. take place in that direction, There are some honest par- especially if we can have medium-formers of the three-card trick, istic beslers and paychometrists said his lordship. "You 'could especially trained and developed perform it. But as a rule the for the work
performers are dishonest."
"The treatment of nervous cases resulting from war condi- tions and shellshock by what is called bypnotic suggestion is allied to the psychic treatment to which I refer. A few years ago its utility may have been disputed, but now it is universal- ls accepted. "
His lordship said be bad not been told what a medium was, “I thought there was a decision that they were rougues and
xga bonds," be added.
"Judges are very careful to say they are only dealing with the particular alleged medium who has come before them, replied counsel.
"MA. SLUDGE, THE MEDIUM. **,
Mr. Peck, who appeared with Mr. Hurst for the Alliance, said there was no doubt that the "medium" was in bad odour be. cause of the case of Lyon v. Home.
Another reason was that Mr. Home got himself disliked by Robert Browning, the poet.
Mrs. Browning believed in Mr, Home, but her husband did not and he wrote a poem, called "Mr. Sludge, the Medium," which everybody thought was directed at Mr. Home.
Mr. Preston, K.C. for the Children's Hospital, said it had not been proved that the bequest was a valid charitable gift. To be that, it must be for the public
**WITCHCRAFT."
stammer 'I-do-not-fear."
Carter, as, shortly before Doon,! he emerged from the tomb with: his assistants, bearing a grotesque, alongated cow, built on the lines of a dachshund.
This inanimate beast of gold and wood formed one of the sides of Tutankhamen's Imperial coach. It was a curious-looking cow, for the body was as slander as that of a wolfhound, the tail was curled up in a perfect circle, and the head had the delicate: lines of a deer.
COW OR ROCKING HORSE? "What is it-calf, donker, gost, deer, or rocking horse? ejaculated the crowd." "It is an Egyptian cow, 3,350 years old," explained Mr. Carter with a smile. It has guarded King Tutankhamen throughout his 333 centuries' sleep."
With a patient of a different type, the method was quite different. A tall strong young The wooden effigy was theta man also suffered from stuttering carefully laid to rest in a bogu, "You have four," he said crate and carried away with all severely to the young man. 05. pomp and ceremony, that it yes! You have fear." Everybody might attend the bist of the smiled. The young man blushed. dead sovereign, to the adjoining
tomb of Seti 11.
"You must think 'I shall not stammer any longer: I shall not A second row was then brought be nervous and I shall not stam- out of the treasure vault, the mer. Say it! Say it!"
brilliance of the gilding, with "I shall not stammer," said the which it was covered, glistening | young man, quite easily.
in the bright sun.
On the question of illegality Mr. Prestoc said he had no doubt that to practice as a medium to claim to hold communication with discarnate spirits, and there by to console the bereaved was an offence under the Witchcraft floor. "It is done." Act of 1735, which had never been reposted.
"Ah! Ah!" With a sounding thwack M. Cous's hand came down upon the young man's shoulder and his foot upon the
Dealing next with the question:
Finally, the beautifully carved. couch itself, designed especially to conform with the King's contour, was brought out. It was. covered liberally with a proteo- "Yos," said the young men, tive solution and cotton padding, "but I cannot always do it." so that the crowd could but littlo "You can do it if you stop appreciate the azquisite beauty
of its design.
"You
of anti-morality in connection fearing, "said the little French
When the couch had been re- with the bequest, Mr. Preston man, brushing past him. said be claimed to be entitled are two-thirds cured," he flang moved, the newspaper correspon to refer to the views of the back, over bis shoulder.
denta began a spirited dash Cbristian Churches as showing! ** IT DEPENDS ON YOU.” across the desert to the banks of that the doctrines and practice of Sometimes be asked patients if the Nile upon donkeys, horses spirituslism were unmoral. All they had been to a doctor, and and camels, and in cheriot-like the Churches in this country con- what the doctor had said. Some-sandcarts, in a race to be the first, demned spiritualism.
times he said that their discase to reach the telegraph office was organic and that be said Beuler. could not promise a cure, but ha could assure them that if they would practice autosuggestion they would be improved as much as was possible.
"
ARCHBISHOP AS WITNESS. **Where," asked his lordship, am I to get evidence of that? Am I to have an affidavit from the Archbishop of Canterbury?
"I don't think I should have much difsalty is getting evid eace. replied counsel.
involuntary being, which worke through the imagination.
"It is precisely, this being which ruos us entirely, be After this he had made several added, "which presides over all patients clasp their hands to the functions of the organism of gather, saying to them, "Now the physical body and siro of the you are thinking, I want to open moral body. If it leads us, and my brods, but *I cannot, if we learn how to read it, wa Mr. Preston asked for an opport- I cannot I cannot,' And now say learn how to lead ourselves."
To leard it, he explained the ss7+ unity to consider this matter.to yourself, I can." This he did, Although it was not illegal to be explained, to show that whereing of his well known formala every day in every way I'm deny the truth of Christianity or the will and the imagination clash,
His lordship said it was for him to decide whether he should pro- duce the evidence.
to teach other religions, be bought always the imagination is vic-getting better and better," which he was entitled to rely on the torious. We have two beings, he should be said in "simple, evidence of the Churches that explained-the conscious, volun-child-like and mechanics! man- spiritualism was unmoral tary being, which works through ner." "It depends upon you,” he
The heating was adjourned. the will, and the sub-conscious, added, "not upon me."
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