£lOOO TO COUNT ORANGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2454, 19 March 1909, Page 2

£IOOO TO COUNT ORANGES.

Any spiritualist who is able to count tlie number of oranges that are rolled out of a basket on a table in the office of the Metropolitan Psychical Society, New York, will be given £IOOO by the sceptics who make up the membership of the organisation. This is the Society’s announcement: “It has been the experience of those offering rewards that when alleged mediums professing to communicate with spirits are asked to demonstrate their powers, when opportunities for fraud or for telepathy have been eliminated, they are helpless -and ‘cannot do a thing. But we are open to conviction. “We have raised £IOOO, now in the hands of David Goldberger, 747, East lGSth-street, to be given to any person who will shut his eyes, and be means of the help of a spirit or any.other means will count a few oranges spilled on a table behind him. Tlie person who spills the oranges will look the other way for the moment to eliminate the possibility of telepathy.” Several .hundreds have applied for permission to try to earn the £IOOO, and of all who have endeavoured to count the oranges none have succeeded. The Society demands that all applicants present some reliable basis for their assumption of uncommon power, so that .the time of the Society shall not be taken up by persons who hope to get the money by .plucky guess.