The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-14

Americans. ought to be proud of. And
yet the critics continually say Sarah
would have done differently" Yes, she
would. Here in New York she would
have staged the play poorly; she would
have had a miserable company; and she
would have acted well, or i'll, as she fan
oied. Outside of Paris, Nine. Bernhardt
is the creature of caprice. She acts su-
perbly or badly as she chooses. I have
seen her do magnificent work. and / have
seen her slur her work. here in New York,
as no fourthrate actress would dare TO 60
She is Invariably lily supported and it is
well-known fact that she sneers at Amer
lea and only comes to 1t for its dollars
why then, should we not praise the best
among our actors, encourage them, and
not keep up the continual cry of Mime
Bernhadt' every time there is a Sardou
production.
Then, what do you or l know about spir-
ltualism? How can we decide what there
Is IN 1t of truth, or of untruth? Everybody
knows there have been charlatans innum-
cradle but are there not charlataus in
medicine, in law. in theology and even in
neWspape' work? am not making plea
for spiritualism: l know nothing about II
MY one experience In il frightened me so
that nave never permitted myself to even
attempt to know anything more. But who
can deny that there are more things in
THIS world than are dreamed of in the
philosophy of the ordinary thinker? His
tory tells of the wonderful things that
were SHOWN in a glass of clear water to
Marie Antoinette by Cagliostro. History
tells of wonderful apparitions, and only
the other day IL was announced that
Blshop's wife had met the ghost of Charles
l! 1t hasn't been so very long ago since
hypnousm was believed in exclusively by
the so-called charlatans. And yet, who,
among the scientists, can deny the won
derful force of the human will TODAY?
Poets, dramatists, scientists-especially
scientists-on the other side of the water.
are trying TO solve the question as TO the
possibility of those who are dead coming
back to this world / wonder if we will
ever be able even to explain what we cali
condolences?
You think of some one all during the
day. You cannot get that some one out
OF your mind. Tomorrow. she either an
pears, or You get a letter from her. And
in the letter she says: you have been
on my mind all day." How often does
mat happen to you? How do you explain
ltE You are sitting entirely alone yet
you have a curious consciousness of an
other presence In the room with you. You
are restless; you drop your book your
pen, or your work; you do not know what
1t is, but you feel sure that there is some
one with you-how do you explain this?
You go into a strange city, place YOU
yet the very house in which you stay is
old to you, you seem to know your way
about the 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 explain it satisfactorily
to you or to me. How cftrn, when you
are reading book do yJU seem to know,
before you turn the page, exactly how
the next few lines will be worded, and
how often do you say: "This man is
writing exactly as l have always
thought" Little things, all of them
but they are the strange little events in
life, that make one wander, and which,
firmly believe would, if dwelt upon to too
great an extent lead to madness.
Personally. / have always remembered
what a good old priest said to me. I
asked him: Father, what do you think of
spirituaism?" He answered: MY dear.
in my church there have been innumera-
BILE histories of apparitions; but if you,
whom L believe to be a truthful woman,
came to me and said that you had seen
boy walking on his head on the iron
fence around the church. the posts of
which are pointed, I should not think that
you told me an untruth: but l should be-
lieve that you thought you saw it. And.
to keep my mind easy, / would investi-
gate no further" And that is the safest
way. Don't let us be the tools of ig-
norant charlatans but don't let us deny
the possibility of anything. The man
who, yesterday, heard Gladstone's voice
through a graphophone, would have de-
MED this as an impossibility fifteen years
ago. There is nothing that is impossible
If God wills II. There was nothing finer
i'm all the history of the world than that
message which Morse sent flying over the
wires that his knowledge of electricity
controlled! what hath God wroughtr'
Bah.