A REMARKABLE ROMANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 262, 11 December 1909, Page 3

A REMARKABLE ROMANCE.

| SHERLOCK HOL.UES Off Im'WUS.U. HOW AN INVEiNTOIt ills LUST i'LA_S*. Paris, October li). A remarkable romance of hypnotism —the rediscovery of uu invention wlneli iits own creator had quite forgotten—jis quoted in the Uealtli Record I'roni the j French Review of Hypnotism, in whicn the story was originally told by Dr. .Joire. 1 An electrical engineer, .Mr. F., U the |central ligurc of the story. For months he had been inlcrested in arc lamps, and after much thinking had cvolu'd a new and important- scheme for improving them. The invention was made in May last year. Then a spell of hard work intervened —so hard that he had lo put an | his thoughts of invention aside. The ! strain began to tell on him, and linaiiy lie went to l)r. Joire in the following iOctober sull'ering from neurasthenia and iinsomnia, and with the paihetic new* | that lie 'had lost all memory of his iu j vention. I When he liad iirst thought out the inew design he had sketched it roughly on a piece of cardboard with- a styio:graphic pen. Rut not only had he lost the memory of the design, he had mislaid the sketch also. Dr. Joire set lo work to lind the invention like a hypnotic Sherlock Holmes. His lirst step was to discover what kind of materials Mr. F. used when he made ins rough sketch, aud then, while llu-tired-out. inventor held the rough cardboard and stylographic pen in h's hands, tlu; hypnotist put him to sleep aid • talked to him. This is what lie se'd* ""Von aie aware of the defects y".i' existing arc lamps. \o uwish to abulMi them. You have thought of a new device. "You begin to see the details clearly. You aire going to draw a sketch on one of these cards. "You take your pen and—you draw!' The track of the lost invention continued in the following drama lie manner, in the words of Dr. Joire:

All this time Mr. F.'s face expressed profound concentration; lie suddenly took his pen and began a design, psuised. se.emed to make mental calculations, then went on adding letters and signs, but after a few atten.pt.s lie threw iil( on the ground with a look of annoyance, and a second design which hi' began after 4 some rollei-tion -was discarded in the same wav.

A longer pause followed; then his hand wrote slowly ami automatically: 'lt is the poles' of the «ndueli<n currents which must be reversed. J must have two successive contacts reversed each time."

His expression became calm; he put 'the sheet gently on one nde and look another, on which he began to draw a complicated design without pause or hesitation; when finished, 'ho examined it carefully, and *'aid in a' low voice: '"There! I've hit 011 it at last." and al once jiassed into a slate of sleep.

When I awoke him in the custonru'y uianuer he 6tared at the sketch with i ie greatest surprise, "Why, that is my design which I have been seeking mr six months! Did Ido that? How is ic possible? It is 1 incomprehensible!" 11 told me that he remembered distinctly seeing the days, weeks, and months pas. before his mental vision in reverse order.

HYPNOTIC MAIUUACK. WOMAN COMPLAINS THAT SllK WAS L'NDER A SPKLL. London, October "»• Mr. Ilarwood, a relieving oflieer. told an extraordinary story to the Faraham Guardians yesterday about a young woman named Milane, who said ahe was niiirried while under the spell oi' mesmerism.

The woman applied to the relieving officer for an order to the workbook*. She explained, he said, that her age was twenty-eight, and iliat her husband, aged seventy-eight, was a knight of the Legion of Honor.

"He mesmerised ni<- before the marriage," she alleged, "and I wa- under the spell when the ceremony 1 »>*»!< place. When I woke up and found whai had occurred 1 left him immedmicly and topup my marriage ecrtiiicate."' She also said he was a veteran -oidier and had seven medals. The relieving oftieev staler! that- Unorder had been given to the woman, who, however, had not made use of it. KEEPINu THEM OFF! TRAINS INFESTED l Fll SNAKES. Belgrade, October IT. The railway station of Jsragu!i;t. Servia, is so infested with snakes that special precautions are taken while tlx 1 trains stop to prevent the reptiles entering the compartments. An English lady coming up .from Constantinople was appalled to find a small snake coiled round the handle of her travelling - bug. A search resulted m the discovery of several others among the passengers' rugs. REVENIE. A MILLIONAIRE MURUERED. Vienna, October K!. An Austrian millionaire named Roman Freitag was murdered yesterday evening when driving to his castle at Vasskonte, in the Bukovina.

Six shots were fired at the carriage f'rorn behind a hedge, and four bullets inflicted fatal wounds. The coachman esaped uninjured. 'Hie Dnirdcrcr j&' supposed to be in J peasant whom Ilerr Freitag had evicted the day before for non-payment of t£'i due for rent.