The judge selected two newspaper men to assist in the experiment. They went into an adjoining room and wrote on slips of paper the maiden names of their mothers. They also wrote two questions each on slips. The slips were brought into the room where Reese was waiting. They had been folded so that no writing was visible. Under his direction they were placed in a hat and mixed up. Then the slips were placed in the reporters’ pockets. Each man then took out a slip, still folded, and pressed it against the exhibitor’s bald head. He turned to one man and said: “Your mother’s maiden name was Electa Winans.” To the other he said: “You want to know if Charley Becker is guilty. He is not really guilty.” The reporters then took two other slips from their pockets. “You want to know how old Henry C. Terry is,” promptly said Reese. Then plainly puzzled, he shook his head and went on to a question as to what was the floor covering. The next question was: “Where did I do my first newspaper work?” He gave correctly the answer. The last slip Reese took in his hand, but did not open it. He handed it back and directed the writer to hold it. Then Reese said: “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.” Now let us see how the ancients looked at this question. Almost since the beginning of history there has been a theory--a silly one, says one scientist--that battles caused rain. Battles, not explosives, observe, for in the early centuries, A. D., there were no gunpowder or similar explosives.