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 Clairvoyance 
 
 ....BY. .. 
 
 Prof. J. W. WELTNER, 
 
 President of The National University 
 of Magnetic Healing, St. Louis, Mo- t 
 and Author of Mail Course in Mag- 
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PREFACE TO BOOK I 
 
 The object of this book is to explain in 
 a clear and simple manner how to hypnot- 
 ize yourself and others and to improve 
 the mind by systematic development. 
 
 Many books have been written on this 
 subject fully discussing its history during 
 all ages, but the aim in this work is to 
 simplify it and enable the reader to do all 
 that any other hypnotist can do. Not 
 only this but to develop one's clairvoyant 
 powers, and this is made so simple and 
 plain that no one need to fail. 
 Respectfully, 
 
 J. W. Wei/tnER. 
 
HYPNOTISM. 
 
 — ® — 
 
 HYPNOTISM as a theory, is handed 
 down to ns from ancient times, 
 bnt, as a science it is of modern 
 times. It is now creating a world wide 
 interest, and is being investigated, 
 stndied, tested, accepted and practiced 
 by people in every walk of life. Having 
 run the gauntlets of prejudiced criticism, 
 it stands to-day successfully demon- 
 strated to be one of the most wonderful 
 sciences of the century. 
 
 Hypnotism in its broadest sense, may 
 be considered mere suggestion which 
 influences or controls the sub-conscious 
 mind. In its limited sense it is simply 
 sleep produced artificially or by sugges- 
 tion. 
 
 Mesmer claimed that hypnotism is 
 
magnetism or electricity. From him it 
 received the name of Mesmerism, bnt the 
 same power is in Mermerism and in Hyp- 
 notism, the power of the sub-conscions 
 mind. Some say it is only weak minded 
 people that can be hypnotized, bnt a 
 greater mistake conld not be made. The 
 subject simply becomes passive and 
 accepts the suggestions of the operator, 
 not because of weak will power but 
 because he is willing to become passive to 
 the suggestions of the operator. No one 
 can force him to do so. His will is 
 always free. The power of hypnotizing 
 resides in the subject. 
 
 In the last few years the Medical Pro- 
 fession, in the most enlightened nations 
 of the world have used hypnotism to a 
 great extent. It is used in many Hos- 
 pitals, and Physicians, Dentists and 
 Nurses learn the principles of Hypnotism 
 
in the schools located in nearly every city 
 of importance in the world. Many works 
 have been written on the subject, such as 
 Wood's Ideal Suggestions ; Hudson's 
 Laws of Psychic Phenomena; Bernheim's 
 Suggestive Therapeutics; Delenze's Ani- 
 mal Magnetism, etc. 
 
 It is no longer an experiment but an 
 established Science. Systems of Medi- 
 cine have been tried and discarded, but 
 Hypnotism as a System of Healing is 
 with us to stay. Every great discovery 
 had its enemies, and no wonder that 
 this, one of the greatest of all discov- 
 eries, has met violent opposition. People 
 condemn it without investigation, but 
 if the reader will carefully observe 
 the directions given in this course 
 of study, and test them thoroughly, you 
 will be convinced of the wonderful power 
 of Hypuotism in the cure of diseases, and 
 
in the control of yonr business affairs. 
 
 This is not a subject that should be 
 lightly trifled with. The charlatan stage 
 performances are largely responsible for 
 the adverse criticisms against Hypnotism 
 in many localities. Persons should not 
 practice it until they become complete 
 masters of the science, not only in pro- 
 ducing the hypnotic sleep, but also in 
 waking the subject, or in bringing the 
 subject out from the influence into com- 
 plete consciousness. 
 
 The first stage of Hypnotism may be 
 termed a light sleep or the somnambu- 
 listic stage. The second stage is the 
 cataleptic stage, and the third is the 
 trance stage or clairvoyant stage. In a 
 light clairvoyant stage, mind reading 
 may be developed, but in the deeper 
 trance, or clairvoyant stage, most won- 
 derful powers of the sub-conscious mind 
 
is developed or discovered, such, as 
 leaving the body to visit distant places 
 and persons, and make accurate reports. 
 In the deepest trance the mind is able to 
 know and to see most wonderful things. 
 2 Cor. 12: 2-5 illustrates this condition. 
 The words heard were unspeakable and 
 not lawful to be uttered, because the 
 world was not then able to comprehend 
 such wonders. 
 
 PASSING THROUGH THE STAGES. 
 
 When you place a subject in the first 
 stage or light sleep, and desire him to go 
 into the cataleptic stage, you simply give 
 the command fearlessly and confidently : 
 ' l Go deeper ; n "Go into the cataleptic 
 stage where your body becomes perfectly 
 rigid." The subject immediately be- 
 comes rigid or stiff. This may be ascer- 
 
—10— 
 
 tained by lifting the hand slightly and 
 it will be observed that the arm is per- 
 fectly rigid. 
 
 To pass the subject into the trance 
 stage, you simply give the command : 
 ' ' Go deeper ; " "Go into a light clair- 
 voyant stage," or "Go into the mind 
 reading stage." When you give these 
 commands or make these suggestions, 
 you must expect them to be obeyed, and 
 the result will be exactly according to 
 your expectations. In this condition the 
 subject may develop the power of mind 
 reading. 
 
 When desired to go into a deeper 
 trance, the order is given as above, " Go 
 into a deeper trance where your mind 
 may be able to visit distant persons or 
 places." If the mind of the subject is 
 directed to make visits and bring back 
 reports, it will do so more and more accu- 
 
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 rately as the clairvoyant develops. Be- 
 fore giving the suggestion of going into 
 the deepest trance, you should suggest 
 that the mind return to the body and pre- 
 pare to go into the deepest trance, then 
 your suggestion : ' ' Go deeper into the 
 deepest trance and remain (a given 
 length of time) not longer than twenty 
 minutes, and at the end of that time, 
 after directing the mind to return to the 
 body, the suggestion should be given : 
 "Wake up," or "You may now come 
 back through the stages and prepare to 
 awake. ' ' You can wake the subject direct 
 from any stage, by the simple command, 
 u Wake up," or when properly devel- 
 oped, the subject can be placed in any 
 stage direct, without being required to 
 pass through the preceding ones. 
 
 If the subject does not wake up when 
 the command is given, say when I count 
 
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 (a certain number as) twenty, you will 
 wake when I say twenty. It is just as 
 easy to wake a patient as it is to put him 
 to sleep. The main business of the oper- 
 ator is to keep cool, not get excited, and 
 issue all suggestions or commands with 
 the full expectation of being obeyed. If 
 you make any "Time suggestions' ' such as 
 ' ' Go into the cataleptic stage and remain 
 two hours," you cannot wake the subject 
 before the time expires, therefore be ex- 
 tremely careful what suggestions you 
 make in any of the stages. If you fail to 
 wake the subject, do not be alarmed, be- 
 cause he will wake of his own accord, 
 after sleeping the usual length of time of 
 his natural sleep. 
 
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 METHODS OF HYPNOTIZING. 
 
 FIRST METHOD. 
 
 The patient should be directed to lie 
 down or sit in a comfortable position and 
 be at perfect ease. The hypnotist either 
 standing by the side or sitting in front of 
 the subject, places his hands, with fingers 
 extended, over the subject's head and 
 makes passes slowly down to the extrem- 
 ities, near but not touching the body, 
 stopping a few moments in front of the 
 eyes and also at the pit of the stomach, 
 closing the hands at the end of each pass, 
 until he is read)/ to make the next pass, 
 or until the hand reaches the head as the 
 starting point. 
 
 It is also suggested to ask the subject 
 to direct his eyes to a certain point and 
 hold them there steadily but without 
 making any effort to think. 
 
 After making these passes a few min- 
 
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 utes, you should let the voice drop into a 
 monotone and say, "You are now resting 
 quietly, and will soon be asleep. Do not 
 try to think, but just rest and not even 
 try to go to sleep. You are looking very 
 sleepy and your eyes are getting moist 
 and you are breathing more slowly and 
 your limbs are getting heavy and you 
 are going to sleep, down, down into a 
 peaceful sleep," etc., etc. You can pre- 
 pare a long speech similar to these ex- 
 pressions to be delivered in a monotonous 
 manner and use as much of it as neces- 
 sary, and after your subject is asleep, it 
 is best to say, " You are asleep and you 
 cannot wake up 'till I call you." 
 
 When you are sure your subject is 
 asleep, you can say "You are asleep but 
 you can hear me, and do everything I tell 
 you." "You may remain asleep but you 
 can open your eyes." 
 
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 The subject will now take any sugges- 
 tion and do anything or attempt to do any- 
 thing you suggest, except to commit a 
 crime. He cannot be induced to commit 
 a crime in the hypnotic condition, any 
 more than in the waking condition. 
 
 There are hundreds of ways to hypnot- 
 ize, and the operator should try various 
 methods, until he finds the method best 
 adapted to himself, which he could select 
 as his leading method, but the methods 
 should also be varied to suit the subject. 
 
 SECOND METHOD. 
 
 Your patient will" lie down comfortably 
 and you sit by his side and touch his fore- 
 head with the tips of the fingers of the left 
 hand, pressing gently, and with the right 
 hand grasp the patient's right hand and 
 give the monotonous suggestive speech 
 similar to that suggested in Method No. 1. 
 
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 THIRD METHOD. 
 
 The subject is comfortably seated and 
 you stand in front, Holding a bright 
 object, not more than one inch in diameter, 
 in front and a little above the eyes, direct- 
 ing the patient to look steadily at the 
 object and think of nothing but sleep. 
 This position tires the e}^es and the 
 monotonous suggestive speech similar to 
 that used in the preceding methods, will 
 soon induce sleep, if the subject is sus- 
 ceptible. 
 
 SELF-HYPNOTISM. 
 
 Take a comfortable position, call in 
 your faculties of mind, and rest. Count 
 the pulsations of your heart, by counting 
 mentally, one, two, as you inhale the 
 breath, and three, four, as } t ou exhale, 
 repeating this count mentally, thinking 
 of nothing else, and you cease to think of 
 
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 the counting, but you doit automatically, 
 you will soon be asleep. 
 
 Other methods of self-hypnotism, such 
 as repeating the letters of the alphabet 
 mentally, or a stanza of poetry over and 
 over again, abstracting the mind from 
 everything else, have been successfully 
 used. 
 
 Another method is to direct your eyes to 
 a point between the eyebrows on what the 
 Phrenologists call the organ of individual- 
 ity, keeping them in this position, while 
 mentally doing what is suggested in either 
 of the methods suggested above. The 
 eyes should be closed in these efforts at 
 self-hypnotism. Before inducing the 
 hypnotic sleep upon yourself, it is wise to 
 make auto-suggestions similar to any of 
 the post-hypnotic suggestions explained 
 in the twelfth lecture. This will enable 
 you to accomplish anything you, as an 
 
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 operator, can lead your subjects to do, 
 such as Self-Healing, or learning Tela- 
 pathy, Psychometry, Magnetic Healing, 
 or how to apply your mind to the healing 
 of others. 
 
 There are good works published on 
 Psycho-Therapeutics and much valuable 
 information may be gleaned from them, 
 but my endeavors have been to present in 
 this course of study, the simplest and 
 most practical methods of healing, and to 
 present them in a way that may be under- 
 stood by the average reader and yet 
 sufficiently comprehensive to interest the 
 most philosophic minds. 
 
 POST HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION AND 
 HYPNOTIC CURES. 
 
 When a subject is hypnotized, you may 
 make such suggestions as will influence 
 him in his conscious state. You may 
 
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 suggest that at any time you desire, you 
 can hypnotize him instantaneously by 
 any movement on your part you please to 
 suggest, or by the reading of any letter 
 you may write him, or even by telephone 
 message, and if you make the suggestion 
 sufficiently impressive, you can at any 
 time afterward accomplish with him just 
 what you had suggested, except to cause 
 him to do anything morally wrong. 
 
 You may suggest to your hypnotized 
 subject that he can learn how to be suc- 
 cessful in his business transactions, and 
 he will soon discover a marked improve- 
 ment in all his business operations. 
 
 Remember all Post hypnotic sugges- 
 tions are made while the subject is in the 
 hypnotic state or condition, and }'Our ob- 
 ject should be to make only such sugges- 
 tions as will be of advantage to your sub- 
 ject, and induce him to lead a better and 
 
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 more useful life, or to rid himself of any 
 bad habits that he may be addicted to. 
 You may suggest that he may now learn 
 to make his life more agreeable to his 
 associates or companions. 
 
 TELEPATHY. 
 
 You may suggest to your subject that he 
 can learn how to communicate his thoughts 
 to absent persons or to receive communi- 
 cations from them. This is termed by 
 some writers Mind Transference. The 
 communications may be so distinct as to 
 seem audible, and it is then called Clair- 
 audience. This is learned when the sub- 
 ject is in the deep clairvoyant stage. 
 
 PSYCHOMETRY, OR "SOUL SEEING." 
 
 Suggest to your subject while he is in 
 the deep trance or clairvoyant stage, that 
 he can learn how to see absent persons 
 
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 and know just what they are doing at any 
 time, and if the suggestion is made suf- 
 ficiently impressive when the subject is 
 in his conscious state, he will soon dis- 
 cover that he possesses what is called by 
 some writers "Spiritual Sight," or know- 
 ing by intuition. 
 
 The only way that you can really 
 know that these Post Hypnotic sugges- 
 tions accomplish these, wonders of the 
 mind is to test them for yourself. Some 
 of these things seem incredible until you 
 see them actually done by properly de- 
 veloped subjects. If at first you don't 
 succeed, try again. 
 
 Many diseases may be cured perma- 
 nently, by making impressive sugges- 
 tions to your subject. The proper sug- 
 gestions for the cure of diseases are: 
 "You are getting better and your trouble 
 will soon leave you." "YOU are im- 
 
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 proving very rapidly and in a few min- 
 utes you will be entirely cured." "Your 
 restoration to Health will be complete and 
 permanent." "You are now perfectly 
 cured, and your troubles will not return 
 any more," etc. 
 
 In this manner you can cure nervous 
 troubles, Headaches, laziness, the tobacco 
 habit, the whiskey habit, the morphine 
 habit, epilepsy, colds, la grippe, loss of 
 power, etc., and give tone and health to 
 your afflicted patients. 
 
 Many cases may be successfully and 
 permanently cured by one hypnotic treat- 
 ment, but if you have failed to make your 
 suggestions sufficiently strong to effect a 
 cure, try again and again, fully EXPECT- 
 ING your efforts to succeed, and your suc- 
 cess will be exactly according to your 
 EXPECTATIONS. 
 
 To make a successful hypnotist, it is 
 
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 necessary to cultivate and possess full 
 confidence in your power to control your 
 subjects. Without this confidence you 
 will fail. The way to acquire this power 
 is thoroughly to master the subject, that 
 is, to understand how to proceed, how to 
 think and what to say. Make any sug- 
 gestions you can that will give your sub- 
 ject confidence in your power as a hypnot- 
 ist, and the stronger you can make these 
 suggestions the easier it will be to get 
 him under control. A good reputation 
 as a hypnotist adds much to the power of 
 an operator. 
 
 Cultivate perfect confidence in your 
 own powers, and learn to depend on your 
 sub-conscious powers to attract unto you 
 whatsoever you desire. Do not recognize 
 in yourself any possibility of failure. As 
 one traveling man suggested, ' 'When you 
 want anything, go after it and GET it." 
 
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 Many persons undertake a task, think- 
 ing, " I don't know whether I can suc- 
 ceed, but I will try." This is not the 
 correct position to assume. 
 
 One Commander said to a Lieutenant : 
 ' ' Can you and your company take that 
 battery?" The Lieutenant answered, 
 "We can try." The Commander said, 
 u You are not the man I want." Calling 
 another Lieutenant he asked, u Can you 
 with your command, take that battery?" 
 The answer came, u I can." The order 
 was given, " Go and take it;" — and he 
 TOOK it. 
 
 Industry and economy, together with 
 a settled purpose, will bring you into any 
 degree of prosperity you desire. 
 
 If you desire to become a hypnotist or 
 clairvoyant, assume you can do so, and 
 try it when you have an opportunity, and 
 if you make your suggestions as your 
 
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 own common sense may dictate to yon, 
 yon will succeed in a majority of cases. 
 Whatever yon do, let it be with a purpose 
 similar to that conveyed in the Historic 
 expression, "I shall fight it out on this 
 line, if it takes all summer," and "Gen. 
 Taylor never surrenders." 
 
 You may learn of the power of the sub- 
 conscious mind, but you must TRUST 
 it, and EXPECT it to do your bidding, 
 and you will succeed. 
 
 This is true as a hypnotist, clairvoyant 
 or healer. 
 
 There is no limit to the power of the 
 sub-conscious mind, except the doubts, 
 fears and biased judgment of the conscious 
 mind, and when the conscious mind or 
 objective mind is asleep, either in the 
 natural or hypnotic sleep, the sub-con- 
 scious or subjective mind is free to accom- 
 plish whatever is demanded of it. 
 
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 The sub-conscious or subjective mind is 
 a distinct entity, and its business is to 
 care for the body, regulate all the organs 
 and secretions and excretions. It is the 
 intuition, the human soul, and can see 
 without the .use of the natural eyes , and 
 has the power to communicate with other 
 minds, regardless of distance. It is able 
 to project thought and receive thought 
 any distance, and read the minds of 
 others. It never sleeps, it never forgets, 
 and is considered the storehouse of all 
 human experiences. It never dies. 
 
 The sub-conscious mind is that which 
 produces all the phenomena of clairvoy- 
 ance, and these powers are more or less 
 common to all human minds. That is, 
 the power of bringing up into conscious- 
 ness all that is stored in the experiences 
 of the conscious mind, or to read the con- 
 scious and sub-conscious minds of others. 
 
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 Enough has been given to enable any 
 one to develop his hypnotic powers, and 
 the discussion under the head of Clair- 
 voyance will give all that is necessary to 
 know to develop yourself or others. 
 
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 CLAIRVOYANCE. 
 
 WHAT has been said about hypnot- 
 ism may be considered the prelim- 
 inaries to a complete development 
 of clairvoyant powers. Clairvoyance 
 means clear seeing. It is simply seeing 
 or discerning with the sonl or sub-con- 
 scions mind with sufficient distinctness 
 for the knowledge, or facts to produce an 
 intelligible impression on the conscious 
 mind, or to cause the organs of speech to 
 communicate them to others. To see the 
 absent as if they were present. To see 
 the past as if it were present. Much that 
 is presented to the public under the name 
 of clairvoyance is merely trickery and 
 cleverness on the part of the so-called 
 clairvoyant, whose generalization will 
 
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 apply to all alike, or who may be able to 
 read the mind to reveal the past, and 
 since their object is to make money, their 
 future predictions are usually of a pleas- 
 ing or flattering nature. 
 
 The power of clairvoyance is through 
 the sub-conscious mind, or as some term 
 it, the subjective mind. Being an indi- 
 vidualized expression of universal mind, 
 it may search out and know the peculiar 
 characteristics of any other individual. 
 Here lies the secret; herein exists the 
 power. 
 
 This power of the mind has been ob- 
 served in all ages. Socrates and Appo- 
 lonius exercised this self-same power. 
 Cicero and Pliny speak of it and recom- 
 mend that someone should record "what 
 these sleepers say because they do not 
 retain any recollection of them." 
 
 Tertulian, St. Justin and Plato recog- 
 
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 nized that certain people in their days 
 had these pecnliar powers. 
 
 These powers were supposed to be 
 "gifts," and that only a few were en- 
 dowed with these peculiar gifts; but 
 modern science has revealed the fact that 
 most persons are, to a greater or less ex- 
 tent, clairvoyant subjects. 
 
 Clairvoyance may be natural or in- 
 duced by hypnotism. In its perfect form, 
 the concious mind is asleep and the body 
 in deep sleep, so that the strongest sub- 
 stances have no effect on the sense of 
 smell; needles thrust into the body would 
 produce no pain; surgical operations per- 
 formed without being felt. When in this 
 state the sub-conscious mind is most active 
 and it is able to read the minds of others 
 even to the power to give names of persons 
 and places that any other mind is ac- 
 quainted with. To see the absent as if it 
 
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 were present; to visit people in strange 
 places and give accurate descriptions, to 
 even leave this earth and visit other 
 spheres, as illustrated in book II of this 
 volume, these are powers of the sub- 
 conscious mind. 
 
 The all important question is not to 
 give in detail the history of what has been 
 accomplished in all ages; but how can a 
 person develop these powers? 
 
 There are many ways of inducing 
 the hypnotic condition and being carried 
 into the clairvoyant state. This may be 
 done by engaging a successful operator 
 and placing yourself in his hands to be 
 developed, or it may be accomplished by 
 auto-suggestion . 
 
 The discussion on hypnotism will en- 
 able you to hypnotize others or teach them 
 to hypnotize, and we shall now explain 
 the process of 
 
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 SELF-DEVELOPMENT, 
 
 of Clairvoyant powers. 
 
 Once or twice each day "enter the 
 silence" for a space of fifteen or thirty 
 minntes. This is simply entering a pri- 
 vate, quiet room, and sitting; sit facing a 
 dull black cloth spread out about a yard 
 square, holding the eyes upon a particular 
 point of the cloth without moving them 
 in any manner whatever. Relax all your 
 organs of body and mind, cease thinking 
 and rest. Before u entering the silence" 
 direct your sub-conscious mind to give you 
 a hypnotic sleep and carry you into a deep 
 trance. This may develop you in a very 
 few sittings. Some seem to develop very 
 quickly, while others require a long time. 
 Before these hypnotic auto-suggestions, 
 make the suggestion as to the time you 
 wish to remain asleep, and if you make 
 this in a positive manner you will wake 
 
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 up at the time designated. It would be 
 safer at first to authorize a friend to wake 
 you after a certain length of time. Simple 
 as this seems, it will do the work for you. 
 
 This is a development no one can do 
 for you — no one can give you these 
 powers. Even if you go to a noted hyp- 
 notist or clairvoyant, the most he can do 
 is to employ such means as will make 
 suggestions sufficiently strong to your 
 sub-conscious mind to cause it to accom- 
 plish the desired result. He presses the 
 button, but your sub-conscious mind 
 must do the work. 
 
 Any phase of clairvoyance, mind read- 
 ing, telepathy, clairaudience, psychome- 
 try, may be developed in like manner. 
 When "entering the silence," make the 
 proper auto-suggestion, but do not try 
 any particular phase until you succeed in 
 hypnotizing yourself. Continue this 
 
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 until you become clairvoyant, and repeat 
 the process from day to day, or time and 
 again, until you can enter this condition 
 at will. 
 
 You may make the auto-suggestion 
 that when in the clairvoyant state you 
 will be another person, and thus assume 
 any character you desire. Our good 
 spiritualist friends term this being "un- 
 der control." Whether true or not, much 
 of their teachings is most beautiful. 
 I do not offer it as an argument against 
 spirit manifestations when I say when 
 you become clairvoyant you may assume 
 the character and identity of a living per- 
 son (mind or spirit,) or you may assume 
 the character of one who has passed from 
 this earthly existence and represent either 
 character, one as easily as the other. 
 
 This volume is not intended as an ar- 
 gument for or against any of what are 
 
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 termed the nineteen phases of medinm- 
 ship, but it is simply an explanation of 
 what hypnotism is and how to induce it 
 and what clairvoyance is and how it may 
 be developed. 
 
 Many things have occurred in the lives 
 of most people — coincidences they are 
 nsnally termed, but many thoughtful 
 people recognize them as mind transfer- 
 ence. 
 
 Yon "happen" (?) to think of a friend 
 from whom yon have not heard for a long 
 time, and while holding him in mind 3^011 
 write him a letter. Before he has time to 
 receive yonr letter he has happened (?) 
 to think of yon and written to yon. The 
 letters pass each other on the way. Co- 
 incidence? Not always! Mind transfer- 
 ence? Why not? Telepathy? Pure and 
 simple. 
 
 This occurs with persons who are 
 
—36— 
 
 naturally clairvoyant. They seem to 
 know or sense things by what is some- 
 times termed the sixth sense. 
 
 Mr. , of Nevada, Mo., left home 
 
 for a two weeks' trip. The third day 
 after leaving home he felt an impulse or 
 impression that he was needed at home. 
 He went home and arrived at night, and 
 his little boy was at the depot with his 
 buggy to meet him. The father said, 
 "Son, why did you meet me with the 
 buggy?" The son replied, "We thought 
 you would come home on this train." 
 The father said, "Son, what is wrong?" 
 The answer came, "Uncle is dead!" 
 
 Coincidence? Certainly not. Mind 
 transference or telepathy is the only ex- 
 planation, and it was natural with these 
 people, but these same powers can be 
 developed in a large percentage of the 
 human race. 
 
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 Volumes could be written to illustrate 
 this great subject, but it is our purpose 
 only to make the way plain to seekers 
 after these seeming mysteries. If you 
 desire to develop your clairvoyant powers 
 you have many points in your favor for 
 success. If at first you don't succeed, 
 if you are willing to try again and 
 TRUST your sub-conscious mind to ac- 
 complish what you desire, all you 
 need to do is to take your sittings 
 for development according to the plan 
 already suggested, and you can develop 
 more surely when sitting alone than in 
 company . 
 
 To illustrate the psychometric powers 
 of the mind, the writer developed his 
 sister-in-law, Mrs. S. J. Weltner, as a 
 clairvoyant, or led her to develop herself, 
 and tested her power of visiting places or 
 persons with such accurate or definite 
 
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 results that he directed her to visit the 
 planet Mars and report what she could 
 see and learn. The result is given in 
 Book II of this volume. 
 
MRS. S. J. WEI/TNER. 
 
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THE BOOK Or MARS 
 
 .BY.. 
 
 PROP. J. W. WELTNER. 
 
 ST. LOUIS, no. 
 
PREFACE, 
 
 The things seen by the wonderfnl 
 clairvoyant, Mrs. S. J. Weltner, are re- 
 corded just as she reported them while 
 making many visits to the planet, with- 
 out trying to observe the rules of rhetoric. 
 If the subjects are slightly disconnected, 
 or if some facts are repeated, our friends 
 will understand the cause. 
 
 Mrs. Weltner never studied astronomy, 
 and the points given by her that coincide 
 exactly with astronomical science seem to 
 be proof that she actually saw with her 
 mental vision what is recorded in this 
 volume. It is this sincere belief that her 
 reports are correct that causes me to offer 
 this "Book of Mars" to the reading 
 public. Respectfully, 
 
 J. W. Weltner, 
 
 St. Louis, Mo. 
 
MARS, 
 
 The planet Mars, so conspicuous in 
 the heavens, and so much studied by 
 astronomers, is an oblate spheroid, simi- 
 lar to the earth in form, having a diam- 
 eter of 4200 miles. In its perihelion it is 
 128,500,000 miles from the sun, and 
 when in aphelio it is 154,500,000 miles 
 from the sun. It revolves around the 
 sun in 687 days, and rotates on its axis 
 in 24 hours, 37 minutes, 22.67 seconds. 
 
 About every 15 years Mars, when in 
 opposition, comes within 60,000,000 miles 
 of the earth. It is then a brilliant orb, 
 rivaling Jupiter and Venus in splendor. 
 
 The telescope brings into view what is 
 supposed to be land and water; also snow 
 about the poles. The polar caps dimin- 
 ish in size during the summer and in- 
 crease during the winter. 
 
 The dark portions seen through the 
 telescope are supposed to be water, and 
 
the reddish portion of the planet's disc 
 is supposed to be dry land. 
 
 Astronomers report the existence of 
 clouds, bnt they report the air only one- 
 fonrth the density of the earth's atmos- 
 phere. 
 
 The bnlk of the planet being only abont 
 one-eighth as large as the earth, the force 
 of gravity is not so great, and if the at- 
 mosphere were of the same composition 
 as that of the earth it wonld not be dense 
 enongh to support life, but an all-wise 
 creator has supplied, even to this ex- 
 tremely rare atmosphere, the elements 
 necessary to the existence of animal and 
 vegetable life. 
 
 Mars is attended by two moons. Their 
 names are Deimos and Phobos, which 
 names are given by Homer in the fif- 
 teenth book of the Iliad, to the steeds 
 which drew the chariot of the god of war, 
 who personifies them as the attendants of 
 Mars. There are five smaller moons 
 belonging to Mars. 
 
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 The surface is composed of land and 
 water, the permanent water surface being 
 about 500,000 square miles. 
 
 The land surface consists of what we 
 call low plains, plateaus and mountains, 
 with rivers and many artificial waterways 
 for drainage, irrigation and navigation, 
 thus making the vertical configuration of 
 the surface of the planet similar to that of 
 the earth. 
 
 The foregoing facts have been learned 
 by astronomers, and they are about all 
 that they will ever be able to learn with 
 any degree of accuracy. 
 
 We shall now proceed to describe Mars 
 as seen by an expert in Psychometry, 
 whose sub-conscious mind or soul has 
 made frequent visits to our sister world, 
 and has learned many beautiful lessons 
 about the planet and his productions . 
 
 What the astronomer has learned has 
 been verified by the greater science of 
 Psychometry, and it is needless to repeat 
 what has already been written. We shall 
 
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 proceed in a simple manner to describe 
 the productions, animal, vegetable and 
 mineral, as far as we have been able to 
 see them; also the military and civil life. 
 
 The Vegetable productions are simi- 
 lar to those of the earth, though not so 
 profuse. . The forests being extensive, 
 but the trees not so large as they grow on 
 the earth. The animal creation is also 
 similar to that on the earth, though the 
 various species are smaller but hardier, 
 and all are covered with wool or fur in- 
 stead of hair, to protect them from the 
 intense cold. 
 
 The planet is inhabited by two races of 
 people similar to the Caucasian and In- 
 dian races of this world, each forming a 
 separate nation. 
 
 The country inhabited by the white 
 race has a republican form of government, 
 and the nation of the red people is a 
 limited elective monarchy, though the 
 customs and habits of the people and their 
 laws are similar. 
 
The name of the white country, in their 
 language, is Latu, and the people are 
 called Latunes. The name of the red 
 nation is Gobay, and the people are 
 called Gobay s. 
 
 Each nation has its own language, most 
 words being dissyllables. The name of 
 the king of the Gobays is "Geegee," and 
 is styled "Faba Geegee," or Great King. 
 The name of the queen is "Pumlum" 
 and is called "Veve Pumlum," or Lovely 
 Oueen. 
 
 The name of the president of the La- 
 tunes is "Roman." 
 
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 LATUNE ELECTIONS. 
 
 Elections in the Latune nation are held 
 each year, and the men and women who 
 have performed their year's work satis- 
 factorily and properly are the voters. 
 
 Their work is regularly inspected, and 
 at the close of the year the officers of the 
 government issue to those who have com- 
 pleted their work properly a clearance 
 card. This clearance card entitles the 
 holder to a vote . 
 
 After the age of fifty years all men 
 and women are retired and receive the 
 same yearly support as when they la- 
 bored, and all these are entitled to vote. 
 
 These elections are held once a year at 
 the beginning of a week of rest, and the 
 delegates are selected on account of their 
 special qualifications. 
 
 There is no scramble for office, such as 
 we have in every election in the United 
 States. 
 
 Each voting precinct elects a delegate 
 
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 to what we would call a county conven- 
 tion, and they also elect three trustees to 
 manage the affairs of the precinct. The 
 trustees divide their precincts into dis- 
 tricts and appoint a superintendent for 
 each district, who appoints his clerks, 
 school teachers, etc., and all these are of- 
 ficers of the government. 
 
 These superintendents and all other 
 government officers are paid by the 
 coupon system, the same amount as any 
 other laborers. The idea prevailing in 
 this Mars republic is to provide for every 
 one's support, comfort and happiness, 
 rather than to accumulate wealth. 
 
 The government offices, from the pres- 
 ident down to the clerks of the districts, 
 are considered places of honor, and are 
 not sought after, but the places are all 
 filled from the list of those who had passed 
 the civil service examination. Each of- 
 ficer or clerk is selected on account of his 
 or her special fitness for the place. 
 
 Clerks and teachers continue in their 
 
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 respective positions permanently or dur- 
 ing good behavior, and any complaints 
 against them must be brought before the 
 district court, which will be described 
 later. 
 
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 THE COUNTY CONVENTION. 
 
 The delegates elected by the voting 
 precincts compose what we would call the 
 County Central Committee. 
 
 They hold a convention regularly once 
 each year for the purpose of electing state 
 delegates and county officers, and meet 
 from time to time to fill vacancies, etc. 
 
 They elect three delegates from each 
 county or "forum" to represent the 
 county in their state legislature, and this 
 legislature elects the state officers, the 
 governor and his staff, whose term of 
 service is three years, and they are not 
 eligible for more than two terms. All 
 other state officers, such as clerks, ac- 
 countants, etc., they elect to serve during 
 life or good behavior. 
 
 This state legislature makes the laws 
 for the state, subject to the constitution 
 of the general government, and fills va- 
 cancies in the offices. 
 
 The state legislatures also elect repre- 
 
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 sentatives to congress, and these are 
 chosen on account of their character and 
 qualifications. This congress makes the 
 laws for the general government, and 
 appoints all committees for the manage- 
 ment of the civil and military service. 
 
 The state .legislatures also elect one 
 delegate from each state to the national 
 convention, whose duty it is to elect the 
 president and his cabinet. The term of 
 service for the president and his cabinet 
 is six years, and they are not eligible for 
 more than one term . 
 
 All vacancies in the national conven- 
 tions are filled by the state conventions, 
 in which such vacancies occur, and vacan- 
 cies in the government offices are filled by 
 vote of the national delegate convention. 
 
 The president and his cabinet have 
 powers similar to those exercised by the 
 president of our U. S. 
 
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 THE COURTS. 
 
 The supreme court is composed of one 
 national judge for each state, but no judge 
 is selected from his own state. 
 
 The president appoints one chief justice 
 and the twenty-three associate judges to 
 represent the thirty-three states, and the 
 congress accepts or rejects the appoint- 
 ments by a two-thirds vote. 
 
 Each state is divided into judicial dis- 
 tricts, and the national judge for each 
 state appoints a judge and other officers 
 for each district, and they hold court four 
 times a year and continue in session until 
 the entire business is disposed of, and 
 thus no cases are postponed except for 
 obtaining further necessary information. 
 
 There are no lawyers, and everything 
 is settled by arbitration. Each side 
 selects one man and the judge selects the 
 third man, and the judge then requires 
 each principal and all the witnesses to 
 write all they know as eye witnesses about 
 the case. 
 
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 A clerk then collects all these written 
 testimonies and reads them in the pres- 
 ence of the judge and the arbitrating 
 committee, or as we wonld say, the jnry. 
 
 The judge is well versed in the law 
 and he explains to the jnry all the legal 
 points of the case and expresses his opin- 
 ion, or as we wonld say, gives his charge 
 to the jnry, and the vote of the jnry is a 
 final settlement of the case. 
 
 They do not have many cases in conrt, 
 because there is no money or property to 
 fnss abont, as all belongs to the govern- 
 ment. Their conrt cases are abont their 
 personal difficulties. 
 
 I witnessed one trial which was a suit 
 for divorce, and I learn that divorces are 
 not granted for a complete separation, but 
 the party at fault is sent to prison for a 
 time commensurate with the nature or 
 extent of his or her offense. 
 
 Adultery calls for a life imprisonment. 
 If both parties in the divorce suit are at 
 fault, they are both imprisoned; but if 
 
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 they liave families to care for they serve 
 in prison alternately. 
 
 If husband and wife are quarrelsome, 
 the neighbors are expected to sue for a 
 trial and bring the case into court, and 
 the case then proceeds as in the other 
 divorce cases. 
 
 The result, I am told, is that almost all 
 homes are lovely and peaceful. 
 
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 THE ARMY. 
 
 All able bodied men between the ages 
 of eighteen and forty are considered as 
 belonging to the state militia, which, in 
 Mars' language, is called "rom torn." 
 The militia is required to meet two days 
 in each month for drill, and each state is 
 expected to furnish a certain number of 
 men for a national guard , and in time of 
 war against the "Gobays," a call is made 
 by the president, and each state furnishes 
 its quota of troops. 
 
 The state militia has been thoroughly 
 drilled by officers of the national guard, 
 and they are armed ready for battle at a 
 moment's call. 
 
 The militia are all eager to volunteer, 
 and the required number is selected by 
 casting lots or standing in line and every 
 third, fourth or fifth man is taken, ac- 
 cording to the number required. 
 
 They have never had a civil war, and 
 as they are about evenly matched against 
 
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 the "Gobay" nation, in case of a general 
 war, each nation calls ont their complete 
 force of militia. 
 
 One general battle settles the matter 
 for the time being, as each side loses 
 abont the same, and they rest and prepare 
 for the next atta'ck. 
 
 I saw one battle which may interest 
 our readers. 
 
 An invasion from the Gobays was ex- 
 pected, as their preparation for battle 
 was discovered by airship scouts, and all 
 the border towus of the La tunes were made 
 ready to resist the attack. The towns 
 are fortified by a double wall with the 
 space between filled with earth. On the 
 wall are placed watch towers and shooting 
 engines which hurl immense fire balls 
 into the ranks of the enemy. 
 
 We are stationed in mid air in an air 
 ship above the contending parties and can 
 witness ever} T maneuver. On comes the 
 foe and they are repulsed by the terrible 
 fire balls hurled by the shooting engines. 
 
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 These balls fall in the ranks of the enemy 
 and explode and hurl death and destruc- 
 tion in every direction. 
 
 The attacking army retreat a short dis- 
 tance and go into camp for a few days, 
 while they prepare to place and explode a 
 mine under the walls of the besieged town. 
 
 All is ready to renew the attack and 
 they approach and the mine is touched off 
 and a great breach is made in the wall. 
 Through this breach the attacking army 
 begins to pour; but the shooting engines 
 hidden in the walls of the building begin 
 a galling fire and mow down the enemy 
 as fast as they approach, and the attack- 
 ing party retires in great disorder. 
 
 In other parts of the country the 
 attacking party was successful and cap- 
 tured some cities and slew many of the 
 Latunes. 
 
 With all the ferocity of the warriors of 
 either country, they never molest the 
 women, children or the aged, and before 
 any town is attacked a surrender is de- 
 
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 manded, and instead of a surrender it is 
 understood that the people in the town 
 not expecting to engage in the battle, will 
 leave the town and remain in the country 
 until after the battle. 
 
 If the town is captured these people and 
 the remaining part of the army retreat to 
 another town, and are provided for by the 
 government . 
 
 If the town is not captured, the people 
 return to the town to enjoy their homes 
 again. 
 
 No prisoners are ever captured, but as 
 soon as either side considers itself beaten, 
 all the able bodied men retreat and carry 
 their dead and wounded with them. 
 
 The battles are fierce, but of very short 
 duration, and in case of a general war all 
 the border cities are attacked simultan- 
 eously. 
 
 The people of either nation are not 
 allowed to travel in the other country and 
 they have no commercial relations and no 
 representative or ministerial, consular or 
 
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 any other relation, except that of enmity 
 and hatred, exists. Each nation feels 
 prond of its own strength and permits the 
 air ship sconts to come and go unmolested 
 except in time of hostilities. 
 
 Although the people of each nation are 
 loyal and friendly at home and personal 
 quarrels seldom occur and neighborhood 
 feuds or quarrels are unknown or never 
 occur, yet when opportunity offers to 
 fight against the other nation they are 
 always eager for the fray. The idea of 
 cowardice does not exist, and they have no 
 words which convey the meaning of 
 treason or cowardice. They are indeed a 
 war-like people and the planet was cor- 
 rectly named. 
 
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 CUSTOMS, HABITS AND DOMESTIC LIFE. 
 
 All property belongs to the government 
 and all labor is performed for tile govern- 
 ment. The farmer, the mechanic, the 
 merchant, the teacher and all other lab- 
 orers are in the employ of the government 
 and all prodnce belongs to the government, 
 for distribution, and "no man liveth for 
 himself alone." 
 
 Their medium of exchange is a kind of 
 coupon system. 
 
 Each man and woman receives from the 
 proper government clerk a coupon book 
 at the beginning of each month, the same 
 amount of coupons for each man and each 
 woman . 
 
 The heads of families are allowed a 
 certain amount of coupons for each child, 
 but when the children reach the age of 
 thirteen years the parents or guardians 
 receive the same for each as for an adult 
 and the children are expected to have 
 regular employment the same as adults. 
 
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 To secure an earnest effort on the part 
 of all laborers a certain premium is allowed 
 to those who complete their work perfectly, 
 and so reasonable are the demands that 
 almost every man, woman and child 
 earn the offered premium. 
 
 The housewife is considered in the em- 
 ployment of the government and receives 
 the same wages as the hospital nurse, the 
 actress or any other female laborer. 
 Preachers, physicians, surgeons, receive 
 the same wages as the farmer or the clerk. 
 There are no trusts, no great corporations, 
 no millionaires and no poor people or 
 tramps, but all have an abundance. All 
 laborers are retired at the age of fifty and 
 receive the same wages as when they 
 labored, and the housewife is furnished a 
 servant so that she may rest from her 
 labors. 
 
 This seems very simple, but the peo- 
 ple seem extremely happy in their sim- 
 plicity. They simply have nothing to 
 
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 If tfle\ 
 
 worry about. If tney are sick, the gov- 
 
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 ernment furnishes the necessary medical 
 attendance and nurses, and all funeral 
 expenses are paid by the government. 
 
 Their hours of labor are limited to six 
 hours, and they have all the remaining 
 time for rest and improvement. The 
 meals are prepared by expert government 
 cooks, and all food is furnished by the 
 government, giving the individual the 
 privilege of selecting from the bill of 
 fare. The people dwell in small villages 
 and every home is made comfortable. 
 The capital city is quite a large city and 
 the border towns are large and well forti- 
 fied. The streets and highways and by- 
 ways are kept in proper condition by the 
 government, and the sidewalks and 
 awnings are also kept in good repair, and 
 everybody is treated alike and have the 
 same care and protection from the govern- 
 ment. 
 
 The homes or houses are built for com- 
 fort rather than for display, and the rooms 
 of the houses have partitions that may be 
 
removed or raised out of sight so that all 
 rooms may be thrown together when de- 
 sired. 
 
 The rooms seem to be withont furni- 
 ture except a few stools, but by the press- 
 ing of a button in the wall you discover 
 or bring in sight your bed or table or easy 
 chair. 
 
 All dressers, cupboards, etc., are built 
 in the wall, and places for books, papers, 
 clothing, etc., are built in the wall. 
 
 There are no carpets, but the floors are 
 of a peculiar kind of wood that seems soft or 
 similar to our India rubber. The houses 
 are not large, as every room may be used 
 as a bed room, and they need no kitchen 
 or dining room, as all meals are taken in 
 the public eating house where a family 
 and their friends may have their meals 
 served in a private room. They simply 
 enter the room and press a button which is 
 answered by a waiter who fills their or- 
 ders without delay. They eat and are 
 permitted to enter a reception room where 
 
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 they meet their friends and neighbors 
 for social intercourse. This room is sup- 
 plied with reading matter, magazines, 
 daily papers, literary works, etc. 
 
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 DOMESTIC RELATIONS. 
 
 The home circle seems to be a model 
 of simplicity. 
 
 The wife is considered queen of her 
 household and is the head of the family 
 in all matters of domestic economy, and 
 the husband is the head of the family in 
 matters of business. 
 
 The women are considered equal to the 
 men and are treated as equals. 
 
 In their courtship the ladies act about 
 the same part as the gentlemen of the 
 earth. That is, they are expected to 
 make all the advances and proposals. 
 The men of marriageable age try to make 
 themselves attractive to the ladies, but it 
 is for the lady to take the first steps and 
 do the wooing, and when she proposes, if 
 her suit is favored by the gentleman of 
 her choice he simply says, You may ar- 
 range for a family council. 
 
 The parents are duly notified by the 
 anxious seeker after wedded bliss and 
 
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 they meet in solemn council, and at their 
 first meeting they simply talk the matter 
 over and take a week for deliberation. 
 They then meet and vote on the petition 
 that has been formally made by the 
 woman who has made the proposal. 
 Three votes are necessary to elect. 
 
 If either parent is not living, a guard- 
 ian is appointed by the government or by 
 the courts, and the guardian takes the place 
 of the parent. If it is decided in favor of a 
 union the happy couple are notified, and 
 the lady then goes to the home of her 
 intended husband to live for a month and 
 then he visits her at her home the same 
 length of time. 
 
 The parents are then called together to 
 hear the report of the visits, and if the 
 couple still desire to marry, the ceremony 
 is performed as soon as possible, and as 
 they have no elaborate trouseaus, and all 
 that is needed is to call the friends together, 
 the wedding usually takes place within 
 two or three days after the final council 
 
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 of parents. During the two months that 
 the couple have visited each other they 
 have been allowed every opportunity to 
 get acquainted and study each other, 
 being together constantly, but of course 
 they are prohibited from acting as hus- 
 band and wife. 
 
 The marriage ceremony is then per- 
 formed in the presence of invited friends, 
 and is performed in the center of the room 
 at the home of the groom's parents on 
 a revolving platform similar to that in 
 the theater or forum. This gives every 
 one an equal chance to witness the cere- 
 mony, as the revolving platform brings 
 the party face to face with every one 
 present. 
 
 The happy couple then go to their home 
 that has already been provided and 
 tastily furnished by the government. 
 They live together for a month and then 
 are permitted to travel for one month, all 
 expenses being paid by the government. 
 The wedding trip is not attended by any 
 
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 exciting scenes, bnt the Happy conple 
 seek only to enjoy each other's society. 
 
 After the trip they are met at their home 
 by their friends for congratulations. They 
 are now considered married and begin to 
 live as husband and wife. During their 
 associations together for four months they 
 have rigidly adhered to the strictest prin- 
 ciples of virtue, and now that they have 
 had four months of intimate acquaintance 
 they are ready to enjoy their conjugal 
 relations. There is no great marriage 
 feast, and no charivari excitement. Dur- 
 ing this period of four months they have 
 rested from their labors, but now the 
 husband is ready to begin his usual 
 avocation and the wife is expected to 
 assume her household duties. 
 
 Before any man or woman can be mar- 
 ried they must pass a physical examina- 
 tion to determine whether they have 
 sufficient health and strength to bear 
 children, and once each year the husband 
 and wife are expected or compelled to pass 
 
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 the physical examination to determine 
 whether they may continue to bear chil- 
 dren, and if any parents bear children 
 when they are not pronounced healthy 
 the children are taken from them and 
 reared in the government nursery and 
 training school until they become strong 
 and healthy. 
 
 This precaution on the part of the 
 government to bring forth children by 
 strong aud healthy parents causes the 
 people to be almost free from sickness or 
 disease, and a stronger and healthier 
 people cannot be found on earth. The 
 people are free from worry, care or anx- 
 iety, and the highest ambition seems to 
 be to be strong and well, and you seldom 
 hear any one complain of aches and pains 
 or suffering. If any parents bear chil- 
 dren when the physical examining board 
 pronounces them unfit for such duties, 
 they are sent to prison for a time, but if 
 they have other children at home they 
 serve in prison alternately an equal part 
 
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 of each day, so that one of them may be 
 at home to care for the children. This 
 seldom occurs, because the wife being 
 the head of the family seldom disobeys 
 the laws in this respect. 
 
 If the parents are pronounced unhealthy 
 they are expected to take especial care of 
 themselves until the next annual physi- 
 cal examination, and if they both pass 
 the required examination they are per- 
 mitted by the laws to bear children, and 
 this causes them the greatest happiness. 
 The Spartan mothers were proud to raise 
 male children, but the Latune mothers 
 are just as proud to raise children of 
 either sex. 
 
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 THE SCHOOLS. 
 
 The schools are all government insti- 
 tutions. The teachers are employed by 
 the government and all books and supplies 
 are furnished by the government. 
 
 All children from seven to thirteen 
 years of age are expected to go to school 
 and the chief studies are Politeness, 
 Reading, Numbers, and Astronomy be- 
 sides an industrial occupation. The in- 
 dustrial school is the chief feature of the 
 Mars schools, and every child serves an 
 apprenticeship in the schools in the trade 
 or profession that the child , the parents 
 and the teacher selects. The natural in- 
 clination or bent of the child is a great 
 factor in the selection of an avocation. 
 
 Politeness or etiquette is so thoroughly 
 taught that the people become highly 
 polished or cultured, and rudeness is sel- 
 dom seen in children or adults. 
 
 The idea of selfishness does not seem 
 to prevail anywhere. The children have 
 equal advantages in the schools. 
 
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 They have no tardiness or truancy- and 
 children are never absent except on ac- 
 count of sickness, and this occurs so seldom 
 that the teachers do not keep any record 
 of attendance but merely record an occa- 
 sional absence, and in every case on 
 record in the schools I examined, the 
 cause of the absence is sickness. There 
 is no word conveying the meaning of cor- 
 poral punishment, and such a thing as 
 whipping children never occurs in school 
 or home. 
 
 The time devoted to study and recita- 
 tion is four hours, and four hours are de- 
 voted to the industrial work each day, and 
 the seven years of school life make the 
 pupils proficient in the four branches of 
 study and in the chosen trade or pro- 
 fession. 
 
 All writing is done in short-hand and 
 all print is in the same characters, and the 
 pupils do not have to learn to spell by 
 letter and learn print, and script and 
 short-hand, but the one style of writing 
 
answers all purposes. I wonder at the 
 simple things composing the work requir- 
 ed of Mars' pupils, and when I think of 
 the great book satchels and the arm loads 
 of books and slates I have seen carried by 
 the children of earth, I wish we had suffi- 
 cient common sense among the educators 
 of earth to eliminate from the school 
 curricula all the un necessary rubbish and 
 teach only practical things. The arith- 
 metic used in Mars' schools consists of 
 (eighty-four) pages and they have no 
 higher mathematics except astronomy, 
 and for the astronomer there is a course 
 in trigonometry and geometry, but the 
 public schools are not burdened with any- 
 thing but practical studies. 
 
 Ladies teach the branches and all the 
 industrial work pertaining to house-keep- 
 ing, and the gentlemen teach all other 
 industries. 
 
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 PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. 
 
 Each town or city has a grand fornm 
 large enough to hold the entire population. 
 The larger cities have a number of these 
 forums so as to be convenient to all the 
 people. These forums are places for public 
 amusements or entertainments and in the 
 large towns the districts in which the 
 forum is located is also called a forum to 
 distinguish it from other parts of the city. 
 
 The seats are so arranged and the 
 acoustic properties are so perfect that every 
 one has an equal chance to hear and see 
 the performances. The forum is in a large 
 building which is so perfectly heated and 
 lighted that one seat is considered as good 
 as another. The stage is in the center 
 and the seats are arranged like an amphi- 
 theatre. 
 
 The stage is made to revolve and several 
 performances are given at the same time, 
 but the stage is made to revolve noise- 
 lessly, and as it revolves it brings each 
 performance in full view of every beholder. 
 
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 Entertainments are given on one even- 
 ing of each week and the actors and 
 theatre managers being in the employ of 
 the government, the admission is always 
 free. Everybody goes and as the theat- 
 rical troupes are only permitted to exhibit 
 in the same forum two weeks in success- 
 ion, the people are favored with new 
 plays since no two troupes in the theat- 
 rical circuits are permitted to use the same 
 play. There are a number of these 
 theatrical circuits with a sufficient number 
 of towns or forums in each circuit so that 
 each town w T ill have a different troupe 
 every two weeks throughout the year. 
 
 Every town or forum has a theatrical 
 troupe and great competition is seen, as 
 every town tries to have the very best 
 troupe. 
 
 Each troupe plays two different leading 
 plays with a great variety of acts, per- 
 formances and feats. 
 
 No daring or dangerous feats are allow- 
 ed, but each act is judged on account of 
 
its artistic display, and each year they are 
 expected to have a complete change of 
 program. 
 
 The traveling expenses, entertain- 
 ments and costnmes and all expenses are 
 paid by the government, or I should say 
 provided by the government, and every 
 tronpe is expected to give high class ex- 
 hibitions, and nothing vnlgar or com- 
 mon or low is ever attempted. 
 
 Around the stage there is a space for 
 the exhibition of animals. This display 
 of animals is always near the close of the 
 performance, so that the people will not 
 have to endnre the smell of the animals 
 a great length of time. The horses all 
 appear in colors similar to onr zebras and 
 the riding is extremely artistic and 
 beautiful. 
 
 The movements of the actors seem so 
 light, free and graceful. One reason is, 
 the attraction of gravitation is only about 
 one-eighth as great as it is on earth, 
 which may be more readily understood 
 
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 when I say the writer weighs on earth, 
 two hundred pounds, but his weight on 
 Mars is about twenty eight pounds. The 
 people seem to be of greater strength than 
 the people of earth, but not quite so large. 
 
 The average weight of men is twenty 
 pounds, or about one hundred and fifty- 
 four pounds by earth weight. The same 
 amount of exertion seems to accomplish 
 so much more. 
 
 High jumping is one feature of the per- 
 formance, and they leap from twenty to 
 thirty feet in the air and perform many 
 astonishing tricks while in the air. Dur- 
 ing the performance very fine music is 
 rendered by a string band, but so soft and 
 sweet that it does not prevent the assembly 
 from hearing every word spoken by the 
 performers, and all actors are expected to 
 make themselves understood when speak- 
 ing or singing. 
 
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 COMMERCE. 
 
 All prices are regulated by tile govern- 
 ment, and everyone pays the same prices 
 for like articles, meals, etc. The work- 
 ing suit for each individual is a uniform 
 peculiar to his avocation. The dress suits 
 of all people are various, according to the 
 tastes of each individual, but all prices 
 are regulated by the government, and in 
 public you cannot know a person's avoca- 
 tion by his dress. 
 
 All clothing worn by all the people is 
 tailor made, and as the tailors, milliners, 
 shoemakers, etc., are all paid by the gov- 
 ernment, the purchaser only pays for the 
 material, and such a thing as shoddy work 
 or shoddy goods is never known. There 
 is no attempt to cheat, wrong or defraud 
 anyone in any manner whatever, because 
 all work is inspected by experts and it 
 would be impossible to deceive them. 
 There is no adulteration of food, but every- 
 thing is made as pure as possible. The 
 
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 motto of all laborers is "Not how much, 
 but how well," but at the same time they 
 each aim to accomplish a fair day's work. 
 
 The object of the government is to keep 
 all people supplied with every production , 
 so that one place can not claim any ad- 
 vantage over another, and there is no 
 chance of becoming dissatisfied and there 
 is practically no moving from place to 
 place. 
 
 In the manufacture of every article, 
 utility, comfort and taste govern, and 
 there is no attempt at display at the ex- 
 pense of health and happiness. It is 
 needless to say that the notion of using 
 corsets, tight shoes, etc., has never been 
 conceived by the women or men of Mars. 
 Of course there are no dress reform asso- 
 ciations and in fact there are no other 
 reform associations, because no abnormal 
 conditions are permitted to exist in modes 
 of living or in any commerce. 
 
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 CITY PARKS. 
 
 Every city is provided with a city park 
 which is artistically planned, and all 
 animal and vegetable life is on display. 
 
 These parks are free to the people at all 
 times becanse they are government insti- 
 tutions. 
 
 At regular stated times general celebra- 
 tions are arranged and all people gladly 
 assemble in the park for a grand holiday, 
 and when they leave their homes to go to 
 these celebrations or anywhere else they 
 never lock their doors . They seem to have 
 no notions whatever of thieving, pilfering 
 or burglarizing, which happy condition 
 seems to be the natural result of their 
 absence of money. There is no struggle 
 for wealth, either through " highway rob- 
 bery n or high-handed robbery through 
 great monopolies such as exist on the 
 earth. The telephones and lines belong 
 to the government. The government 
 owns all railways, waterways, ships, air 
 
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 ships, all the land, — everything. Homes 
 are provided for all. Every married 
 couple is furnished a home by the govern- 
 ment, bnt the architects plan the honses 
 somewhat different and the hnsband and 
 wife are permitted to select the home that 
 they desire.' 
 
 Bnt we are digressing. 
 
 One thing is very noticeable in all cele- 
 brations in the parks or in any other 
 assemblages. The children all wear a 
 badge on which is placed the street and 
 nnmber of their respective homes, and as 
 all adnlt people are expected to protect 
 any children, they are allowed perfect 
 liberty to rnn abont and enjoy themselves. 
 If a child is lost it is expected of the adults 
 to take it to a central station, where a 
 policeman or patrolman is detailed to take 
 the child to the place designated on its 
 badge as its home. The notion of kid- 
 napping seems never to have entered the 
 minds of these contented Latimes. 
 
 In these parks are places for displays of 
 
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 art, pictures, vases, sculpture, paintings, 
 hand work, needle work, anything and 
 everything made by hand. Nothing is 
 allowed on display except the most per- 
 fect work, except in the display of the in- 
 dustrial schools. The best specimens are 
 taken from each grade in each year. 
 
 In all these associations of the people, 
 everyone seems to be acquainted with 
 everybody, and the people of any city are 
 not strangers to each other. 
 
 If any strangers from other cities arrive 
 at any time they wear a badge bearing 
 the name of the city, and these are always 
 treated with great respect, and the 
 "stranger within the gates" is indeed well 
 cared for. 
 
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 RELIGION. 
 
 Only one form of religion seems to exist 
 among the Latnnes. Their bible is so 
 plain and simple, without any ambiguity 
 or even without a chance of quibbling or 
 controversy. • They never hear anything 
 of sects or creeds. There are no agnostics, 
 infidels, cynics or stoics and they do not 
 have any word in their language that con- 
 veys the idea of eccentricities, idiosyncra- 
 sies or cranks. 
 
 They worship a supreme being as their 
 creator and preserver. They had no 
 original sinner and of course have never 
 been in a lost condition. They have no 
 conception of a hell or devil, but all ex- 
 pect to exist forever in a beautiful here- 
 after. Their notions of eternal bliss 
 seem to be that they will continue to 
 improve in knowledge and power and that 
 their labors will be all of a useful nature. 
 
 They worship God or the Supreme 
 Intelligence, and one day in each week 
 
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 they assemble in the "Forum" for divine 
 services which consists of most beautiful 
 music, a lecture or sermon and a form of 
 entertainment that is elevating as well as 
 fascinating and entertaining. I asked 
 one intelligent individual if there were 
 different religious denominations, but he 
 could not be made to comprehend my 
 meaning. 
 
 Their simple form of religion and the 
 perfectly plain language of their bible, 
 leaves no room for doubting, and they 
 have no word in their language that con- 
 veys the notion of doubting. They have 
 no idea of attempting to deceive, as decep- 
 tion is usually practiced on the earth for 
 mercenary motives, but here they have no 
 word conveying the notion of deception. 
 They carry their religion into their every- 
 day lives. In fact they seem to have a 
 heaven on Mars. Their sermons seem to 
 be for encouragement and to extol the 
 goodness of God. They have no ordinanc- 
 es or ceremonies, but they simply wor- 
 
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 ship God for his goodness, and not to 
 escape punishment here or hereafter; and 
 since the minister is employed by the 
 government and the chnrch worship 
 is nnder the care of the govern- 
 ment, everything in this line is free. 
 They can not say "salvation is free, " 
 because they have never been in a " lost 
 condition' ' and do not need saving. They 
 are safe or saved. They have no use for 
 such expressions as "the survival of the 
 fittest," which usually means on earth 
 "the survival of the fightest." 
 
 To the enterprising, pushing, scramb- 
 ling, jostling, grasping, selfish people in 
 many localities on earth the simple ways 
 of the Mars people will seem too tame. To 
 this I can only say we cannot help it. 
 We are only writing what has been made 
 plain to the writer through the Clairvoy- 
 ant powers of one who proved herself to be 
 exact and accurate in visiting places on 
 earth, even places that neither she nor 
 the writer had ever seen. 
 
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 FACILITIES FOR TRAVELING. 
 
 The numerous waterways and air ships 
 render but few railroads necessary, and 
 most of the business done on the few rail- 
 roads is mainly freight business between 
 towns not connected by waterways. We 
 do not learn what the motive power is on 
 water, land or in the air ships. If it is 
 steam no smoke or steam is visible. All 
 of these roads as well as waterways and 
 ships, and air ships belong to the govern- 
 ment. Every person is carried free on a 
 pass issued by the proper officer, and no 
 carrying vessel or car is ever over crowded. 
 
 The railroads have double tracks and 
 accidents seldom occur and no dangerous 
 speed is ever attempted. For short dis- 
 tances or private conveyance, the govern- 
 ment furnishes to every town or forum 
 a certain number of vehicles, — a kind of 
 horseless carriage, which is rented out to 
 the people at a very low rate. Besides 
 these every family is provided with a 
 
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 unicycle. This is a wheel made very 
 large and the rider is within the wheel, 
 and it is so constructed that the center of 
 gravity falls below the center of the wheel, 
 and it is almost impossible for an accident 
 to occur. This seems to be a wheel with- 
 in a wheel, so geared together that the 
 movement of the pedals will cause the 
 outer wheel to revolve. They could not 
 grasp the meaning of such an expression 
 as "taking a header." 
 
 Every child born into this Latune 
 nation is presented a beautiful child's 
 carriage or cab. The government has 
 these made in various styles and the 
 parents are permitted to select the style 
 desired. This present is made by the 
 government and this is only one of the 
 many ways the government manifests 
 great interest in the little ones. 
 
 The respect for the aged is shown in 
 many ways also, and one that is appre- 
 ciated perhaps more than any other is the 
 fact that after they have reached the age 
 
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 of retirement they receive from the gov- 
 ernment an elegant easy carriage. These 
 are made so as to be readily distinguished 
 from any other vehicle, and great respect 
 is shown to these aged people when out 
 riding as well as at home. 
 
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 TILLING THE SOIL. 
 
 All farming is done by machinery and 
 the motive power is the same as that used 
 in propelling the carriages. Farming is 
 conducted on scientific principles and from 
 the numerous streams and artificial water- 
 ways thev obtain water for irrigation. 
 
 If at any time there is a scarcity of rain 
 they irrigate and such a thing as a famine 
 or failure of crops has not occurred in 
 several past centuries. The garbage and 
 refuse of the towns is all conveyed to the 
 farms, if it is fit for fertilizing, but if not, 
 it is consumed by fire. 
 
 The sanitary condition of all the towns 
 is so perfect that they have no epidemics 
 and the health of the people is almost 
 perfect. 
 
 Great care is taken to rotate the crops 
 in such a manner as not to impoverish 
 the soil. 
 
 A great variety of vegetables similar to 
 our potatoes, carrots, etc., are raised. 
 
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 Their variety of choice fruits is simply 
 wonderful to behold, but they can not 
 compete with the earth in this line, but 
 what they raise they save, because the 
 government has a sufficient number of 
 storage buildings to properly care for 
 everything in this line. 
 
 What they have in immense quantities 
 is a vast variety of nuts, large and small, 
 and of almost every conceivable shape and 
 kind. 
 
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 ART DISPLAYS PAINTINGS. 
 
 Entering the art halls I find in art what 
 far surpasses any of earth's displays I 
 have ever seen or heard of, and I speak 
 thus advisedly as I have seen the finest 
 displays of art in Europe and America. 
 Fascinating surroundings, mysterious and 
 sublime in every department. It is like 
 entering through a great stone wall with 
 three great arch doors opening up on the 
 most picturesque parks of magnificent 
 foliage, statuary, rockeries, mounds, land- 
 scapes and flowers of rarest kinds and 
 colorings. Among these in glorious 
 profusion are urns and vines and flowing 
 spraying fountains that make the scenery 
 and place a paradise. 
 
 The spraying fountains and waterfalls 
 that dash the spray of mist and dew on 
 every plant, tree, statue and urn, make 
 all seem crystallized when the brilliant 
 illuminations, known to the great artists, 
 bring out every shadow in a deeper shade, 
 
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 and every light reflected as from radiant 
 stars through a mist of dazzling dew- 
 drops. 
 
 We see massive statuary of the noble 
 men and women and beautiful children, 
 as well as of animals. These we behold 
 in this most beautiful park, which leads 
 to the main hall where we find displayed 
 everything in art on a grander, more per- 
 fect and magnificent scale, a complete 
 description of which would require volumes 
 of poetry. 
 
 Old masters had painted under inspir- 
 ation, and every face and form is life-like 
 in appearance, which seem to be living 
 beings, rather than paintings, with purity 
 of mind and body portrayed. The fur of 
 animals, the heavy clothing, everything, 
 perfectly represented in this display of 
 high art. 
 
 The child's picture painted by a great 
 master is perfect. The child is in almost 
 a nude state, with hands outstretched 
 feeding two large white birds almost like 
 
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 the swans of earth, but heavier and more 
 massive feathers. The child seems to 
 have chased the birds from their nest and 
 is master of the nest, but is feeding and 
 kindly petting the birds. The nest is 
 made of weeds, small twigs and leaves. 
 
 Another picture of immense size is of 
 beautiful women showing the different 
 types of the beautiful Latune daughters, 
 all in perfect harmony and admiration for 
 each other; all intelligent and angelic in 
 appearance. 
 
 A picture of perfectly formed men, 
 heavily robed in furs. Each man bears a 
 medal or badge giving evidence of honors 
 he has won in battle or in civil life, where 
 great skill and high artistic talent had 
 been developed. 
 
 The marine pictures in perspective, 
 with a blending of colors impossible to 
 describe in a few words, seem to be beyond 
 human hands to paint nature so divinely. 
 
 The painting of an air ship sailing in 
 air is so inspiring, as it seems to sail 
 
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 majestically along, beautifully lighted 
 with colored lights, and with many joy- 
 ous people aboard and many more on the 
 ground below to cheer the voyagers and 
 wish them a glorious journey and heavenly 
 dreams. The ship's band with musical 
 instruments playing in mid air is echoed 
 back to them by a band playing at the 
 starting station. The people seem en- 
 tranced by the distant strains of music and 
 seem to give more attention to the depart- 
 ing band than to the one playing to all 
 those left behind . We see in this picture 
 the landscape below, the herds of animals 
 in the fields, the streams of water, and all 
 seems harmonious. 
 
 The next picture shows an air ship de- 
 scending and landing at night. The 
 light of moons makes the vessel look 
 weird and the people ghost-like. They 
 seem to be descending toward the earth 
 like a group of chirping birds. This 
 moonlight picture is great, too great for 
 me to attempt a description of it. 
 
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 The paintings of animals in groups 
 represent the animals as friendly to them- 
 selves and to human kind. The Mars 
 people love the animals and care for them 
 and there are many pets. The painter 
 gives to the animals such a familiar and 
 lovelike appearance that you seem to want 
 to talk to and pet the pictured animals. 
 They never need any "Bands of Mercy" 
 among these people because there is no 
 cruelty to animals here. 
 
 Groups of pictures of fishes and reptiles, 
 peculiar in shape and coloring, and some 
 like the fishes and animals of the earth's 
 seas. 
 
 The old masters of Mars have painted 
 the mother love and child. This is in- 
 deed a master piece. Such exquisitely 
 tender looks does the mother love give her 
 babe. Even Raphael has never produced 
 anything to equal it. There is such in- 
 spiration in this picture that the behold- 
 ers bow in reverence and uncover their 
 heads to the mother love and child. 
 
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 One painting represents God blessing 
 the children. His radiant countenance 
 is as the sun shining and He smiles words 
 of love and each child is so attracted by 
 the power of love that all their faces are 
 gazing upward and their lips seem to say 
 love, love, to thee, so great and so good. 
 Their beautiful hands are lifting to him the 
 most gorgeous flowers, wreaths, palms, 
 crescents, and crowns, and they appear to 
 desire to give still greater honor to the 
 Ruler of all and the Giver of all good to 
 man. 
 
 Another great painting by a great 
 master is a group of twelve Mars women, 
 bowing and holding in their hands tall 
 ancient bronze candle sticks. These are 
 standing in a circle, with God in the 
 center, and the brightness of His crown of 
 glory causes the light of the candles to 
 appear dim, and His light overshadows 
 all. Around them seems misty atmos- 
 phere in which are seen their favorite 
 palms as if standing guard. 
 
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 Anotlier painting represents God's love 
 of animals. He shows how He values 
 their lives as He stands in their midst 
 placing food, grain, grasses and branches, 
 and waters them with clear, sparkling 
 water. They show their gratitude by 
 feeding together in perfect harmony, rest- 
 ing their grateful eyes upon Him as if 
 returning thanks for His great goodness 
 to them. Words can not describe these 
 paintings and only the inspired can paint 
 them and the beholder becomes inspired 
 as he gazes upon them. 
 
 Ancient and modern paintings of their 
 presidents and governors, both men and 
 women, show greatness 'of character and 
 nobility of mind in each face. They 
 seem to be living, breathing, speaking 
 pictures. There are many rooms and 
 galleries full of these great pictures and 
 it would require volumes to describe them. 
 
 The larger and more elaborate painting 
 in this large hall exhibits the manner of 
 honoring those who had reached the high- 
 
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 est degree of excellence or perfection in 
 their life's work. Men and women hav- 
 ing received the beantifnl medals to which 
 they are entitled, and having received 
 great honors, their animated faces are so 
 life-like I seem to enter into their lives 
 and feel that I am one of them. 
 
 Then we see the painting where these 
 same happy people are honored by the 
 government with a great banquet, where 
 all are so merry. The menn and service 
 all life-like, the dishes in their various 
 styles and colorings, gold, silver and 
 bronze pitchers, cnps, bowls, vases, art 
 decorations, etc., to represent much be- 
 yond my comprehension. 
 
 This all is so fascinating that I attempt 
 to handle one of the bronze pieces. 
 
 The fruits and flowers in this immense 
 picture I could almost take hold of and 
 handle, so perfect are the shades and lights 
 and colorings. 
 
 One feature in these great paintings is 
 the representation of the pictures and 
 
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 pieces of art hung on the interior walls of 
 these government reception rooms; por- 
 traits, pictures of scenery, arts and deco- 
 rations, trie richness of heavy draperies, 
 all combine to please and enlighten the 
 lovers of art. It shows years of study 
 and labor as well as rare talent to produce 
 such great masterpieces. The harmony 
 among the people, the harmony in 
 music, the harmony in nature, all ming- 
 ling together, I feel as if I am one in 
 their midst and can realize the beauteous 
 lives of all who have been and now are on 
 good old Mars. O how I admire these 
 most beautiful pictures, seen in perspec- 
 tive, apparently at such distance. 
 
 The displaying of elegant furniture 
 let down from the walls of these great 
 reception rooms; the servants in order, 
 chairs in order and all luxuries supplied 
 and the guests so cared for. What can 
 it be but really live pictures and not 
 painted on canvas? It is simply wonder- 
 ful to see all human life so accurately 
 
— 101 — 
 
 reproduced . So many of these pictures 
 are large in size and show the customs 
 and costumes of ancient and modern 
 times. 
 
 The pictures of battles show skill and 
 bravery in every figure, all men being so 
 perfect in body and very nearly the same 
 size. The power that moves the wagons 
 that carry the great shooting engines is 
 unseen, similar to our auto-mobiles, and 
 this same power is used to produce the 
 effect in the moving pictures. These are 
 on revolving platforms, and the compli- 
 cated machinery causes the various fig- 
 ures to appear and act as living beings, 
 showing the maneuvers, the actual move- 
 ments of the soldiers in battle. The 
 discharge of the great shooting engines, 
 the awful carnage, the wounded, the 
 dying and the dead; the victors crowned 
 with glory, with the enemy retreating. 
 Then is shown the work of rebuilding 
 the city, and all calm and peaceful. 
 
 Babyland is a very interesting and at- 
 
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 tractive picture, large in size, rich in 
 coloring. The scenery is in a woodland, 
 and these babes in the woods are exercis- 
 ing, climbing and romping. Their light, 
 easy movements are easily imagined as 
 you see them among the branches in 
 almost every imaginable position. Per- 
 fect happiness seems to be represented in 
 every feature. Those on the dark mossy 
 ground are playing among the rocks 
 and natural mounds, hiding and 
 seeking and almost every conceivable 
 children's pass-time is beautifully repre- 
 sented. The nurses and matrons are seen 
 in a group near the outskirts of this baby- 
 land ready to care for them. Patrolmen 
 seem to be walking to and fro to show that 
 the children are under the special care of 
 the government. 
 
 The picture of a baby in the cradle with 
 its mother carefully rocking it to sleep, 
 while she seems to sing in sweet, low 
 tones, as the fond papa is taking a last 
 look at the sweet little darling before 
 
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 going to his day's work. His look is 
 that of tender love and pride. 
 
 The nursery is furnished by the gov- 
 ernment with everything the children 
 need for their comfort and proper amuse- 
 ment, and there is not a favored few, but 
 all are favored and favorites. A beauti- 
 ful picture of Home shows the happy 
 family, some reclining on a sofa, others 
 sitting at tables playing games and play- 
 ing on musical instruments similar to the 
 pianos on earth, though smaller. Such 
 loA^e and harmony, such congeniality, 
 leads the beholder to exclaim, u O God, 
 Thou hast blest the homes of Mars ! ' ' 
 
 No gossip, no fault finding, no scold- 
 ings. Such things as backbiting, gossip- 
 ing, etc., are not known to these simple 
 people. 
 
 The clock that runs by an unseen 
 power, that seems like a perpetual mo- 
 tion, shows the hour, minute and sec- 
 ond, and the times of all the moons, as 
 well as the day of the month. On the 
 
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 face of this clock the child is taught its 
 first lessons in astronomy. 
 
 There are pyramids of flowers in pic- 
 ture and beautiful forms of children look- 
 ing out and romping through and among 
 the flowers and tossing the flowers here 
 and there. To represent life and beauty 
 seems to be the aim of the artists. 
 
 Many more of these paintings might 
 be described, but enough has been given 
 to give the reader an idea of what is con- 
 tained in these magnificent art buildings. 
 
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 ART DISPLAYS— SCULPTURE. 
 
 A most beautiful figure representing 
 Love Immortal, is in the form of a 
 woman cut in pure white marble, stand- 
 ing erect and holding in the palm of right 
 hand a brilliant gem representing a star 
 and the manner in which the precious gem 
 is cut causes it to shine as the brightness 
 of a star by day and by night, and light the 
 face of the figure causing it to beam with 
 a heavenfy radiance impossible to de- 
 scribe. The left hand is placed on the 
 left side of the forehead as if listening to 
 hear the whisperings of love from all na- 
 ture, and the face seems entranced b} 7 
 these old yet ever new revelations of love 
 coming from the hearts of all living, in 
 expressions of most exquisite tenderness. 
 Thrown over this figure, there is a deli- 
 cate veil carved so delicately as to repre- 
 sent the finest texture. This almost 
 transparent veil does not conceal the per- 
 fect figure, but seems to intensify the 
 
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 effect. The draping is the most artistic 
 I have ever beheld, and where canght np 
 it is fastened with small star stones simi- 
 lar to that in the right hand, thongh 
 smaller. The veil is hnng and draped 
 full trailing in the back, but the sides and 
 front not so long. The feet and limbs 
 seem so perfect and lifelike that you al- 
 most imagine the spirit of life animates 
 them. This love statue rests upon a 
 base of highly polished dark gray stone, 
 bowl-shaped on its upper surface, so high- 
 ly polished as to reflect with the power of 
 what we would call a French plate mirror, 
 and this adds greatly to the wonderful 
 effect and causes an appearance of a num- 
 ber of similar statues in a group. On 
 the sides of this stone base are carved 
 wreaths of palms, flowers, grain and what 
 seems like massed ferns and grasses ; 
 everything seems by the artistic carving 
 to be represented in natural living colors. 
 Many are the pieces of statuary of 
 women, the mothers, sisters and daugh- 
 
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 ters of Mars, so perfect in form, exhibit- 
 ing the perfect purity in their lives. 
 These figures represent womankind as 
 mothers, as government officers, rulers, 
 and in every phase of woman's sphere 
 existing on this most favored planet. 
 
 Man, his power, bravery, dignity and 
 nobility is shown in one grand statue. 
 He stands forth fearlessly with every fibre 
 of his body ready to do duty as a citizen, 
 as an officer or as a soldier. He is indeed 
 what might be called a well developed 
 man, prepared to occupy any position in 
 public or private, in peace or in war. 
 
 Sculptured animals are seen in various 
 colors of stone, not exactly like our ani- 
 mals, but smaller, hardier and covered 
 with thick massy wool or fur, some- with 
 short, straight horns, others without 
 horns. All varieties of animals cut in 
 every conceivable variety of stone. These 
 are to represent the various schools of 
 sculpture. 
 
 Fowls and birds of every variety are 
 
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 carved in stone and not moulded. The 
 plumage is not as rich in colorings as onr 
 birds, but is heavier with more blue 
 and gra}^. Birds with large bills and 
 rusty large claws. Singing birds, one 
 species of eagle so strong and large that 
 it can carry off animals as large as a 
 young calf. The work of the art schools 
 furnishes a vast number and variety of 
 these birds in stone as well as painted on 
 canvas. 
 
 A large figure of a lion similar to our 
 lion except that the heavy long fur covers 
 the whole body instead of the neck and 
 shoulders as worn by our king of beasts. 
 
 Tigers, dogs, horses and cattle all 
 small and covered, some with heavy fur, 
 others with a heavy coat of wool, these 
 are all faithfully represented but in such 
 abundance and apparent confusion that 
 we can only glance at them. Many of 
 these animals seem so tame and docile 
 that the beholder is moved with an im- 
 pulse to pet them, forgetting that they are 
 
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 not endowed with life. The figures in 
 the ornithological department are so per- 
 fect that it is almost impossible to dis- 
 tinguish them from the stuffed birds, and 
 even the live birds that are kept in the 
 room for comparison, and all these are on 
 revolving tables or pedestals, and the re- 
 volving of the tables sets in motion musi- 
 cal instruments that produce bird notes 
 so perfect that they sound like the singing 
 of birds in the forest. Indeed, the music 
 of these instruments is similar to the bird 
 notes in the Wagnerian music in the 
 Siegfried and Tannhauser. Some of these 
 figures of birds and animals are massed 
 together to form arches, pyramids, lofty 
 steps and exterior and interior house 
 decorations. 
 
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 your kindness. Very truly your friend, W. H. H. Clark. 
 
ANYBODY CAN LEARN. 
 
 1729 Olive St., St. Eouis, Mo., June 14, 1899. 
 Prof. J. W. Weltner, St. I,ouis, Mo. 
 
 Dear Sir : I have carefully studied and assimilated your 
 course of instructions, and have also studied Prof. S. A. Weltner's 
 course of Nevada, Mo. I must say that your course excels in 
 your masterly discussion of the source and application of the heal- 
 ing power in your strong analysis of the mind and its control of 
 the body. 
 
 It seems to me that anybody can be a healer after studying 
 your course. I am perfectly well pleased with your instructions 
 and 1 consider what I have learned from you worth considerable 
 money to me. I know I can cure disease without medicine and I 
 expect to make Magnetic healing my business for the rest of my 
 life. 
 
 Accept my thanks for the great good your teachings have 
 done me. Sincerely yours, 
 
 ' C. Hills. 
 
 A WELL SATISFIED STUDENT. 
 
 4037 Easton Ave., St. Louis, Mo., June 1, 1899. 
 Prof. J. W. Weltner, 
 
 President of the National University, St. Eouis, Mo. 
 
 Dear Sir : I wish to thank you for the benefits I have obtain- 
 ed through your course of study of Magnetic Healing. 
 
 I was induced to take your course of study after hearing of 
 your remarkable success in curing diseases without medicine. I 
 had been a sufferer for many years from disordered stomach, dys- 
 pepsia, constipation and catarrh of the head. From your course 
 of study I learned how to cure myself and as "charity begins at 
 home" I decided to try to rid myself of my ailment and I am 
 happy to say I have cured myself entirely. I feel like a new man. 
 I can't find words to express my appreciation of your wonderful 
 course of study that has wrought such complete cures in my own 
 body. 
 
 I have taken other well known and well advertised courses of 
 study and I feel bound by justice to state that yours is the best 
 course I have studied, as every point is so wonderfully strong and 
 plain that the most ignorant can not fail to comprehend it. I do 
 not mean it for flattery when I say I consider your course the best 
 published and yourself the most powerful healer I have ever met. 
 Very truly your friend, 
 
 G. R. Hill, 
 
 4037 Easton Ave. 
 
 P. S. I must also state that I do not have to spend my money 
 for medicine for my family but when my wife or children have any 
 ailment I cure them myself. G. R. Hill. 
 
 This course with diploma will be sent on receipt of 
 $10.00 in Postal or Express Money Order, Registered 
 Letter or Bank Draft. 
 Address : Prop. J. W. WEDTNER, 
 
 St. Louis, Mo. 
 
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