In my entertainments, I never failed to call the attention of my audience to the actual occurrences of people buried alive. Some cases have come before my personal notice. I remember a lady who was taken ill with neuralgic pains. A physician, who was in the habit of drinking heavily, was called. He administered an opiate and the lady fell into a deep sleep. She never awoke. When every sign of death was apparent, preparations were made for her funeral and when she was encased in her casket, her form was still limp and on her face was a healthy flush, while there was not the slightest sign of decomposition. Always look for this discoloration in death and always tell your audience about it. It is the one great sign that nature has given us - where putrefaction sets in, life cannot exist! This, I admit, is a gloomy subject to bind between the covers of a book purporting to teach the profession of Psychic Entertaining. But, student, you become a dealer in the secrets of life when you don your professional garb, and you can do much good and no great harm by telling your hearers that there ever lurks a terror a thousand times worse than a quiet death - a living tomb!

But I am forgetting. I believe that I have taken up most of my time and I want to get through so that I can escort my students into many other branches of this work. I usually find it necessary to change my coliars, despite the fact that I have kept a handkerchief tucked in at my neck during my tests. I also wash my hands and face, which greatly refreshes me. When it can be procured I find a cup of strong coffee without any milk or sugar will revive my waning spirits considerably. Take warning, you who would make a profession of this work: Never indulge in strong drink as a pacifier of your nerves. It is bad enough to drink strong coffee, but when it comes to an intoxicant, although it will likely relieve you for the time being, you must bear in mind that you are ruining your future in this very act. No matter how great your exhaustion, you will come out of it in time and that time will not be extended at the longest. Keep away from "bracers," for they will ruin you and your business, they will in time unfit you for this kind of work and if you become a nervous wreck from following up mind-reading and whisky, you will be no good to yourself, your fellows or the world.

There never was a profession that did not have its setbacks. The ordinary man gets to that point where he receives the brunt of their influence; then he stops. He is entangled in the snares that are always set and he ceases to be progressive. Instead of stopping at this point, were he to go ahead and withstand these annoying influences, he would succeed.

The Telepathist is not out of the embrace of these influences. A desire for stimulants is his weakness. If he gives up, he is lost.

Hut I will go back to the stage - or platform - and deliver the little speech that is always necessary when a "new chapter" is reached.

My committee will be there and I will take up about thirty-five minutes in the continuance of my tests. This will give me time to perform about four tests.

I once more step upon the platform: "Ladies and gentlemen, in the tests which are to follow, I wish to call your attention to several facts relating to the higher phenomena of the Mind, as witnessed in entertainments of this nature and in real life. You may have had some experiences that you dismissed with the thought that they were "queer" and you may have had experiences that you still do not attempt to explain. In fact, explanations are difficult when we consider the limit of human knowledge relating to the laws and future of Life! I once knew a woman who related to me the following experience:

" 'When I was a girl, mother and I were standing in our kitchen one day,' related the lady, 'preparing our noonday meal. While we were thus engaged, the door opened and into the room came an uncle - a brother of my mother - whom we had not seen for some time. We both advanced to greet him, but he faded l>efore us. Some two weeks later we received news that he had died at that hour and on that day at sea.'

"There is one peculiar thing about these spectres: They never speak, nor do they remain while others speak; that is, if they are real phantoms. You may sec fit to explain this on the grounds of spiritism or the transference of thought. Just as you like, I have no reason to doubt that it occurred. It simply goes to illustrate that there is something about Mind that baffles mind itself! There is something in our organisms that is hidden from our conscious view. Now and then we get a glimpse and the vision vanishes. We struggle ever for some unknown goal. If, in my tests this evening, I have aroused any deep thought among any of the audience, I trust that they will reason along the lines of the good there could come of a fuller knowledge of this work, and not of the evil that is supposed to prompt it.

"I will now ask the gentlemen of the committee to kindly step upon the stage. I am not particular whether they are the same or not, although I would be greatly pleased to see them back".

At the mention of the word "see" there is a little laugh in the audience, as they are reminded that sight pays so small a part in my entertainment.

My old committee come back - they rarely refuse - and I am again blind folded.

"My next test, ladies and gentlemen, will be to pick out of a pack of cards a certain one selected by the committee. I have here a pack with the seal still intact. I will hand it to the committee, who will break the seal, open the pack and. while my back is turned to the audience so that you will be doubly sure that I cannot see. I will have them select a card and show it to the audience. Then I will go through the deck and pick out the card selected. I trust that the gentlemen of the committee will not detain the entertainment by indulging in a game of poker!"