The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-22
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FrenchwOman Who Can Read Blind
folded the Contents of Letters
Miles Ayyay

folded the Contents of Letters
Miles Away.
From the New York Herald.
Great are the Roentgen rays, but great
er, say those who know her, is a certain
Frenehwoman of Narbonne. The Roent-
gen rays enable us to see through wood
and flesh, but they are powerless against
metals. Yet this woman of Narbonne, we
are told, not only read a letter wrap
ped in metallic paper but can read 1t
when 1t is at a great distance away from
her.
Dr. Ferroul discovered this marvellous
woman. The doctor, who was. some years
ago a socialist deputy in Paris, recently
settled down at Narbonue and determined
to devote all his leisure to the study of
occultsm. So he tried his hand at turn
ing tables and, like so many others. strove
to obtain messages from the dead by
means of Planchette and spirit rapping.
His success was not marked in any direc-
ton until one day he became acquainted
with a woman who possessed the strange
faculty of reading letters through opaque
bodies"
The doctor was amazed. He tested the
woman several times, and in no instance
did she fail to read the letter correctly
Then he sat down and sent word of his
wonderful discovery to friend of his,
DR.. Grasset, professor of medicine at the
University of Montpelier. The latter
who is well known in Paris as a savant
of great merit, was at first wholly incred-
ulous, but finally promised to test the
Woman'S power in his own way First
however, he went to Narbonne and had
long conference with Ferroul, after which
he returned to Montpelier and wrote the
| following words on half sheet of paper;
THE deep sky reflects our tears in it's
stars, or we weep this. evening al feeling
that we love too much"
over these words he wrote in one line
three words. one in the Russian, another
in the German, and the third in the Greek
language, and then he added final line
containing the word Montpelier" and
the date of the month. This paper he
folded in two, with the writing on the in
side, and then he covered it entirely with
sheet of tinfoil, such as is used for chloe
olate. This sheet he turned down at the
edges and he then slipped the whole into
an ordinary envelope, which he tightly fas-
tened with gum. Finally, as DR. Ferroul
had warned him that string sometimes in
terfered with his subjects reading powers,
he fastened the envelope with a safety
pin, which pierced in such manner that
it formed a sort of paddock, and, this be-
ing done, the pin was embedded in a mass
of black sealing wax, which was stamped
with DR.. Grassets coat of arms.
To this sealed envelope DR.. Grasset at
tached his card, with few word and then
he placed the document in a large en-
velope and sent it by mail to DR. Ferroul
at Narbonne. Two days later he receiv-
ed.the following letter from Dr. Ferroul:
Mon cher MaitTe:
when your letter reached me this morn
ing my subject was not at hand / OPEN
ed the first cover containing the envelope
and found your card. Having some Wis
its to make, / decided to bring my sub
iect to my house at about O'Clock and I
called at her house to leave word.
when l told her what 1 wanted her to
do she expressed a desire to make the read
ing at once. Your envelope, sealed with
black wax, had been placed inside it's big
envelope on my desk, and my subjects
house is distant at least 300 meters from
mine.
LAS we leaned against a table passed
my hands over the subjects eyes and this
Is what she told me without having seen
your envelope:
You have torn the envelope
eyes, but the letter to be read is inside
in another closed envelope.
The one with the large black seal?'
Yes. Read.
There is some silver paper
! Here is what there is: The deep sky re-
fleets our tears in it's stars, for we weep
at feeling that we live too much
Then there are letters like this (She
showed me with her finger tips D. e. K)
Then there is a short name that l
don't know. On what sense are we to
take this0
Then she read the word Montpelier
| and the date on your letter.
There, cher maitre, is the report of the
experiment, which lasted at most a min
ute and half. am returning you your
envelope with my letter. Yours,
"Dr. Ferroul."
DIR. Grasset was exceedingly surprised
when ne received this letter. To him, in
/ deed the story savored of the supernatu-
| raj. The sealed envelope was once more
in his possession; there was not the slight
est evidence that it had been tempered
1 with and yet this strange woman had read
the entire contents with the exception of
the few words in Greek, Russian and
| German.
| Are we to conclude from this experiment
that reading through opaque bodies be-
| longs to the domain OF possibility? Won
! derful, If true, and yet not as wonderful
as the fact that the reading in this in
| lance was done a q considerable distance
| The subject not merely read the words
that were inside the closed and sealed en-
Velope' but she did so at a time when the
! envelope was 300 meters away from her
| ana when they were between her and il
such objects as her own house and Dr.
| Ferrours house.
Clear, however, as the facts were, Dr.
Grasset was still half-afraid of being mys-
tined and therefore he submitted the seal
ed envelope to the members of the Acad-
envy Of Sciences and Letters of Mont
pellier and, by opening it in their pres
ehce. satlshed them that the envelope had
not been tempered with The members
were as puzzled as DIR. Grasset, and at
once decided to make a new experiment
Consequently a committee was appointed
Tor TINS purpose, and it was agreed that
the members thereof should not know the
contents of the envelope and, while on
their way to Narbonne should not let it
for a moment out of their possession. As
70 the result of this last experiment, moth
ing has yet been made public
Mexfcau Cotacnmh