The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-09-16

when rising from sleep could hardly
lift or even move it. This made ne
dread final paralysis. Then went to
Paris. You also remember the little
cid gentleman called M. Eyette, the
mezmerizer, who tried to cure you BY
magnetism, only without any results:
1t was you, I believe, who suggested
that he should try to cure my arm OF
the pain I was suffering from, and you
will remember also that from the even
my when he first tried few passes
from the right shoulder downward l
felt better. Then be visited us regu-
larly every day for some time, and
never failed to mezmerize my arm.
After five or six seances my arm was
entirely cured, all pain had disappear
ed, its weakness also, to such an extent
that my right arm suddenly became
stronger than my left one, which had
never given me any trouble. Soon
after we parted. Ireturned to Odessa,
and never feeling any pain in that arm
from that date to this New Years Day,
i. e., during the four and half years,
I very soon lost every remembrance OF
my past suffering.
"But 10, and behold! On January
1st, 1889, suddenly felt with dismay
that my right arm was again paining
me. At first I paid no great attention
to it, thinking it would soon pass over.
But the pain remained; my arm began
once more to feel half -paralyzed, when
finally I found it in just the same con-
dition IS it had been nearly five years
before. Still, hoped that it was but
a slight cold which would disappear in
time. It did not, however, but became
worse. My disillusion as to the po-
tency Of magnetism was complete
and very disagreeable one, I assure
you. I had labored under the impress
sion that magnetism cured once for
all, and found to my bitter regret that
in my case it had lasted only four and
half years! -.
"Thus went on suffering till the
end Of the month, when one day re-
ceived the January number Of the
Revue Spirite, which 60 on subscrib-
ing for now, as I did before. I began
to look it through, when suddenly,
under the title Of t'Obituary Notices."
my eye caught these lines: lie Is Jan
vier courant, on portait en- terre la
depouille mortelle de M. Henri Evette,
magnetiseur puissant.' Con January
18th were buried the mortal remains Of
Mr.. Henry Evette, powerful mes
merizer.) I felt sorry for the good
old man, evidently the same that we
have known, when suddenly thought
struck me. January Is new styles
means with us January Sd in
Russia. If he was buried on that
date, then he must have died on JAN
uary 1st, or thereabouts, since in
France, as elsewhere, people are rarely
buried before the third day after their
death. He must have died, then, on
New Years day, precisely on that day
when the ong-forgotten pain had re-
turned into the arm he had so success
fully cured some years before! What
an extraordinary occurrence! I thought.
I was thunderstruck, as it could never
be simple coincidence. How shall
we explain this? Would it not mean
that the mesmeric passes had left in my
arm some invisible particles of a cur
ative fluid which had prevented the
return of pain, and had been, in short,
conducive to healthy circulation in it,
hence Of healthy state, SO far? But
that on the day Of the mesmerizer's
death-Who knows? perhaps, at the
very hour these mysterious particles :
suddenly left me! Whittier have they :