£1000 TO COUNT ORANGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 53, 27 March 1909, Page 3

£IOOO TO COUNT ORANGES.

Any spiritualist who is able to count the number of oranges that are rolled out of a basket on a table in tin- office of the Metropolitan Psychical Society. New York will 1"' given CIUOO by the sceptics who make up tile membership of the organisation. This is the Society's announcement : '•lt has been the experience of those olTerin" rewards that when alleged mediums professing to communicate their powers, when opportunities for traud or for telepathy have been eliminated, they are helpless and cannot do a thing, lint we are open to -We have raided 110(11), now ill the hi,nils of David Ciildiierger. 747, East lliSth street, to be given to any person who will shut his ~ye.- and by means of the help of a spirit or bv any other „„„ns will count a few oranges spilled on a table behind him. The person who -pills the oranges will look the other way for the moment to eliminate the possibility of telepathy." Several hundred persons have applied for permission to try to earn the t'looll. and of all who have endeavoured lo count the oranges none have succeeded. I The Society demands that all applicants present some reliable basis for their aslion of uncommon power, so that il„. time of the Society shall not be ; taken up by persons who hop.- to get the money by a lucky guess.