“Emma Drew was your mother’s maiden name.”
The answer to the first five questions had been given in a room adjoining the court, but for the last Reese walked into the courtroom and gave his answer in the presence of the judge and jury.
Judge Rosalsky wrote several questions, as follows:
“What was the ruling in the Shelly case?”
“How much money have I in the bank?” and
“What is the name of my favorite school-teacher?”
The demonstrator not only told what the questions were, but gave the correct replies. Reese is seventy-four years old.
“I don’t know myself how I do it,” he said. “The answers just sort of flash on my brain as a picture, just as ordinary objects are seen through the eye.”
Kaiser’s Big Cannon Can’t Make Raindrops.
So many days during the last two months have been rainy or cloudy that a great many people are led to believe that so much wet weather is owing to the war in Europe. “Our heavy rainfall is probably caused by so much firing over there,” is a remark frequently heard. Indeed, as long as man can remember, it has been a theory accepted by many that constant or heavy explosions in the air will produce rainfall. Tests of this kind have been made in various parts of the country—more often in the west and southwest—and sometimes with evident success, yet skeptics were quick to say: “Shucks, it was time they had a shower, anyway.”