r of 42nd Street then, and there was the usual jam of wagons,
carriages, and automobiles there. I stopped to let it thin out before
trying to cross the street, but a stranger, who didn't require as much
room as I do, came racing by and darted into a crack among the vehicles
and made the crossing. But on his way past me he thrust a couple of
ancient newspaper clippings into my hand, and said,

"There, you don't know me, but I have saved them in my scrap-book for
twenty years, and it occurred to me this morning that perhaps you would
like to see them, so I was carrying them down-town to mail them, I not
expecting to run across you in this accidental way, of course; but I
will give them into your own hands now. Good-by!"--and he disappeared
among the wagons.

Those scraps which he had put into my hand were ancient newspaper copies
of that "Christian Union" article! It is a handsome instance of mental
telegraphy--or if it isn't that, it is a handsome case of coincidence.

_From the Biography._

_March 14th, '86._--Mr. Laurence Barrette and Mr. and Mrs. Hutton
were here a little while ago, and we had a very interesting visit
from them. Papa said Mr. Barette never had acted so well before
when he had seen him, as he did the first night he was staying with
us. And Mrs. ---- said she never had seen an actor on the stage,
whom she more wanted to speak with.

Papa has been very much interested of late, in the "Mind Cure"
theory. And in fact so have we all. A young lady in town has worked
wonders by using the "Mind Cure" upon people; she is constantly
busy now curing peoples deseases in this way--and curing her own
even, which to me seems the most remarkable of all.

A little while past, papa was delighted with the knowledge of what
he thought the best way of curing a cold, which was by starving it.
This starving did work beautifully, and freed him from a great many
severe colds. Now he says it wasn't the starving that helped his
colds, but the trust in the starving, the mind cure connected with
the starving.

I shouldn't wonder if we finally became firm believers in Mind
Cure. The next time papa has a cold, I haven't a doubt, he will
send for Miss H---- the young lady who is doctoring in the "Mind
Cure" theory, to cure him of it.

Mamma was over at Mrs. George Warners to lunch the other day, and
Miss H----