Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-16

4 on VIII Gu he nrd los, wss rest re
He did not reaiiz. the lapse u time
the least ana was siupofisd with the
changes which had taken plnce.
Jameson relates ht " he once passed
from the second mental state into ar
other, In which the suul to,sook the
body for the timo bel x AMI wandered
q into space. Tnis occurred while lie
was in a telegraph oiIiue. Without
prevl1 u. waning he al at oncs DIS.
covered tnat h. Tor mia "douDIe" had
completely transcended tue Amos
phere AMI was noveflng amid the
emptiness OF our surroundings at
distance OF City miles from the earth.
I was then ,ha. the discovery regard
Ing The tides took place. Tho atmos.
puere asceudel from our globe toward
the moon Ia the snaps .! CONT
perfectly natural thing Tor 1t to do Ia
view Of the noon poserIul attraction
---and whenever tho base OF this cone
rested upon the ocean the pressure
upon tue wafer was ju.l a, naturally
unfinished thtreDy; what with the
less ned pressure there must be CORE
spending buOyancy OF the matter
pressed upon, leaving 1t more free IT,
follow as far % 1t might the attraction
which steadily operates against
gravitatioI-Ihat of the moon.
This is nearly an overturn-
ing, but It is cecidediy ration.
al, not at all the vagary o.
disordered mind, and much more
logically accounts Tor the c5incideace
OF the tidcI 10 antipodsl places than
does the theory at present accepted as
the correct one.
Locomo!ion in space seems to have
bsen q mere matter Of will power with
Jameson, or his other selt, or whatever
1t msy have been that was "chassez'
Ing" through the misty upper depths.
He, or 1t, OF ones proceeded to the
moon aud fund our satellite to be sur.
rou ded with tenuous atmosphere
about Six miles In depth, but otherwise
II 10 o cavernous, mountainouss jaggeJ,
Irregular, sterile, Iiieless mass. The
account OF Lucas surface ia mas
lerpiece OF descriptive writing,
every statement being 40 free IRON
discrepancy or apparent wandering
that tue readef 10 Inadvertently q
believer FOR the time that he is Realm q
an actual occurrence. Perhaps he is;
who know? One or Two things being
shown to bs within the lines Of knowl-
edge In which the fulte ruind can
operate understandingly, where shail
we eet tue limit az to the RESI-?
Before returning to his IN ortal clay ,
the spirit took "dyer" to the planet
Venus. He found 1t com posed princl-
paiiy OF glisteniDg stones and minet-
ais OF nil kinds, inhabited by mon
sters W hlch flaw, were ab.nt eighteen
Inches long aud mad but ons eye. This
part OF the narration savors the most
strongly of an unbalanced yet fruit
ul mind Of anything in the
whole story. Eventually the ego re-
turned to earth In twipkling, rein.
vested the rigid body, and walked 81
cut OF the Telegraph Office into the
street. Another flight was taken
which o,usu med too much time, and
when the ego returned to earth he
found his body had been buried.
The foregoing Is u condemned state
mont which nowhere possesses tn.
fascinating, fantastic quality OF tn,
article itself. The fac! that the mattel
ia Undergoing investigation by bod,
OF eminent psychologists shows tina
1t is something outside the lale OF thu
ordinary.