Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-03-18

guilty. but repentant, than look upon
your dead face. " And this is the play
in which my master, the critic always
excepting one who undsrstoodl seems
to lind great deal that is amusing
1t Was HIpgularly well acted, and yet.
! do Not believe there was one criticism
10 which there was not reference 10
how the part would have been played
by Nine. Berohardt The actress who
played ths part of tho wife Virginia
Hsrnedi did really great work. She
has had neither tho experience, nor is
she the age Of the divine Sarah, but
she did work that We. as Americans,
ought to be proud Of And Jet the
critics continually say Sarah would
have done differently" Yes, she would.
staged the play poorly; she would have
had a miserable company; and she
\ would have acted we'll, or i'll, as she
fancied. Outside of Paris, Nine. Bern
| hsrdt is the creature of canrire. She
acts superbly or badly as she chooses. /
have seen her do magnificent work,
and have seen Ter sIur her work. hero
in New York. as no fourth rate actress
| would dare to do. She lie invariably
lily supported, and it is weil-known
fact that she sneera at America ard
only comes to il for its dollars. Why,
then. should We not praise the best
| among our actors, encourage them, and
not keep up the continual cry OF
Mme. Bernhardtn every time there is
Sardou production.
Then, what do you or know about
spiritualism. How can we decide what
| there is in ii Of truth, or of untruthy
Everybody knows therG have besn char.
lataDs innumerable, but are there not
cnarlatans in medicine, 10 law. in
theology, and even in newspaper work.
| am not making a plea for spiritn-
| alism: i know nothing about it. Ny
one experience 10 it frightened me SO
| that l have never permitted myself to
even attempt to know anything more.
But who can deny that there are mDrs
things in this world than are dreamed
of in the philosophy Of the ordinary
| thinker? History tells OF the wonder
ful things that weresshown in a glass
of clear water TO Marie .sntoinette by
Cagliostro. History tells of wdidprful
apparitions, and only the other day il
was announced that Bishops vito
bad met the ghost of Charles | !. 1t
hasn't been SO very long ago since
hypnotism was believed in exclusively
BY the so.called charlatsns. And yet
who, among the scientists, can deny
the wonderful force OF the human will
! to-day? Poets, dramatists, scientists
especially scientists-on the other side
OF the water, arc trying 10 solve the
question as to the possibility of those
who are dead coming hack to this
world. | wonder il we will ever be able
even to explain what We call coin
cidences?
You think of some one all during the
day. You cannot get that some one
out of your mind. Tomorrow, she
ether appears, or you get letter from
her. And in tho letter she says: "You
have been on my mind all day." How
often does that happen to you? How
| do you explain 1T? You arc sitting
entirely alone, yet you have curious
consciousness OF another presence in
| the room with you. You are restless;
| you drop your buok, your Zen, or your
| work; you DO not know what it is, but
| you feel sure that there is some one
with you-how do you explain this?
You go into strange city, a place you
have never in this life been before, and
yet the very house in which you stay is
old to you, you seem TO know your way
about tie streets, and nothing. SO far
as the town goes, is strange TO you.
Doctors will tell you that there is some
special action on one half of the brain
that it photographs more quickly
than the other-but that doesn't ex-
plain 1t satisfactorily to you or to me.
How often, when you are reading q
book, do you seem to know, before you
turn the page exactly bow the next
few lines will be worded, and how often
do you say This man is writing
exactly as have always thought. {"
Little things. all Of them, but they are
the strange little events in life, that
make one wonder, and which, l firmly
believe, would, il dwelt upon to too
great an extent, lead to madness.
Personally, / have always remembered
what a good old priest said to me. |
asked him: FEATHER. what do you
think Of spirituslism?n He answered
my dear, in my church there have
been innumerabie histories CT APP
partitions; but il you, whom believe
to he truthful woman came to me and
said that you had seen boy walking on
his head on tho iron fence around the
church, the posts of which are pointed,
should not think that you told me an
nntruth; but | should believe that
you thought you saw it. And to keep
my mind easy would investigate NJ
further" And that is the safest way.
Don't let us DO the tools of ignorant
charlatans; but don't lat US deny the
possibility of anything The man who
yesterday heard Gladstone's voice
through q graphophone, would have
denied this as an impossibiity 10 years
ago. There is nothing that is impossi
BILE il God wills it. There was nothing
finer in all the history o! the world
than that message which Morse sent
flying over the wires that his know
ledge Of electricity centralized "Wha'
, hath Gud wrought - Bah.
INA DANGEROUS POSITION.