Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1894 — COMMERCIAL CLAIRVOYANCE. [ARTICLE]

COMMERCIAL CLAIRVOYANCE.

Clairvoyance has been regarded as a mythical talent by the mass of people, and comparatively few of the believers in its actual existence have claimed for it a commercial value, or that it could be practically applied to business transactions. It has by common consent been relegated to the domain of quack doctors and fortune tellers. Yet we are now told in all truth and earnestness that a woman in Wayne county has located a fine gas well by means of this mysterious power. This is an improvement over the old style of clairvoyance, and if the talent for practical wook can be attached to the worthless manifestations which have hitherto marked these exhibitions of an alleged higher intelligence or supernatural powers, then will the business world shortly be on a new footing. Clairvoyants will be in demand, and who shall say that in the near future we may not have clairvoyant institutes —as we now have business colleges and stenographic institutions —that shall open a way to financial independence to the downtrodden sex that is ever panting for the rights of man while still claiming and retaining all the deference and privileges that are accorded to wotnan.