Detecting The Thief

While Cory, the mind-reader, was in this city last week he perfonned one test of his wonderful powers that made a convert out of a skeptical olerk. A merobant doing business on Jefferson avenue carelessly leit a $20 gold piece on his writing desk one evenmg and thought nothing more of ït until the next afternoon, when he disovered that it was missing. Each of his five olerks were severaüy interrogated, and each declared that he knew nothing ot the coin, protesting his innocence and assertinghia willingness to have the .„.4:Or fnllv investieated. All the mon had been in the uierohant s employ for some time, and all had been tound faithful and honest. He could fasten suspicion on none of them, and decided to let the matter re3t, Dismissiug the vexatious subjeot ne turned his attention to his inormngs Post. One of the first articles that he perused was an account of the mindreading feats perforined by Cory the evening previous. Among these was the finding of a ooin that had been hidden in some out of the way oorner. An hour later Mr. Cory was in the mer.h...ta Trii7vto nfflno. and the merchant was telling the clerks the test to which they were severally to be subjeoted. They all expressed a willingness to be put to the test, but a look of iucredulity was manifest upon every face. The first stepped forward, extended hia hand, which Cory grasped and pressed to his forehead. In the mind of the subject there was thought of the ooin, but Cory was not impelled to any locality. He dropped the clerk's hand and quietly remarked " You are acquitted." A second clerk submitted to the test, and the result was the same, but no sooner did Cory place himself in communicatiou with the third than he feit impelled to searoh in the rignthand pocket of the young man'g coat. Fearful that he inight inake a wrong acousation, Cory removed the hand trom his forehead for a moment, and then replaced it. Instantly the ooat tail pocket was before his inind's eye as vividly as before, and he realized that every thought of the clerk was fixed upon the pocket, though the impelling power vasoillated somewhat, indicating an effort on the part of the clerk to think of something else. Cory dropped the youth's hand, and said : " Please give me what you have in the right hand pocket of your coat." The olerk's face blanched somewhat, but, after a moment's hesitation, he drew torth a package ot suioKing ioubuuu, at the same time turniug the pocket inside out, showing that it coutained nothing else. The merohant turned his head to hide a smile, and the other clerks laughed outright. Cory, however, drew the striiig, opened the bag and 6hook the tobáceo out on the merchant's desk, and out tumbled the missing coin. There was an immediate vacancy in the clerical forcé of that establishment, the thief at once acknowledging hia sin. Should Cory fail to make mind-reading profltiíble as an exhibition, he can turn his talent to good account in a business point of view. Merchants would require nis services yery otten ; bank directora would oall him in to read from the inind of the cashier on what page of the ledger those " little irregularities " might be found, and where the corresponding funds are deposited ; detectives would employ him to ascertain where watches and diamonds had been " spouted ;" housewives solicit his assistance in determining where the " oat," that the cook affirms, ate up the sugar, staroh, tea, etc., was hiding ; railroad magnates use him to advantage after those " emash-ups " for which no one is to blame, or to asoertain what was fare for conducdors to take, and what wasn't ; jealous wifes, and husbands too, could from him get " confirmation strong as proofs of Holy writ." In short, the field of usef ui and profitable labor that is open to an experienced mind-reader is as boundless as the realm of thought.