Evening star., 1905-07-30

respectability Many reputable citizens of Lon
don and Edinburgh not to mention cosno-
politan Paris and New York. to whom he
is known personally would be exceedingly \
surprised were they to recognize through
the thin disguise of places and people,
the popular man of the world whose
extraordinary career is set forth
for the first time. ZE4
Some few there are who din1y s.
comprehend Karl Griers secret. ~
They, for reasons that shall be ~ w.
obvious, will keep their amazed cx'
imaginings locked in their own y
hearts Others, men of precise IS
science for the most part, who AV48S
have been approached in order
that certain remarkable phe- <Zszl :, f.
nomena might be sanely inves-
tigated, refute with scorn the
suggestion that such a person
ever lived. That is to say -
they cannot defy Karl Grier,
with his giant frame and his
hearty whole-souled laugh, but
they do deny most emphaticaly
that he ever possessed the
known power which he exercised
in a marvellous way during several
eventful years.
If aught could make Karl angry it
is the stupid agnosticism of these learned "
critics. true children of the dull tribe
which began ages ago to create its own
unbending gods of stone and wood and has
been setting up barriers to knowledge ever
since, building dogmatic walls the crossing of
which is forbidden by bell, book and candle.
Yet it IS not within my province to rail
against these infallibles, who smile at the
density which imprisoned Calico in the six
teen hundreds but refuse to-day's evidence of
new realm in mans mental activity. Some
times Karl has been tempted, with me, his
biographer, as tempter, to place before an as
founded world such an array of facts as must
convert these scoffers into perfervid disciples.
He has been deferred land here may claim some
credit too) by personal considerations by dread
of the fierce light of publicity being shed on those
near and dear to him, and, in lesser degree, by
the fact that settled happy existence has
stifed the weird and subtle sense which was
vouchsafed to him during the growth and pleni-
tude of his bodily and spiritual powers So, peace
be to the critics. "E pnr 81 nuoOel'' sighed
the astronomer, recanting the truth to save his i
For, without further preamble be it said
friend Grier was endowed with, permitted
Providence to use, sixth sense which he and
seeking its correct classification in after years. nan
telegnomy, far-knowing That is the nearest
vocabulary of our times will approach to the
cription of his mysterious faculty. Strictly spe;
ing, it was not sense, differentia
seeing from hearing, or taste from touch. Purists
words may even quarrel with us for using
term sense to denote tranScendental UNI
of reason with animal attributes. But in writ
a quaint, almost sensational, narrative of act
occurrences, it is well to be content with the sim
phraseology of everyday life; and in that w
defined vehicle of plain thought the attribute gi,
to Karl Grier a sense
It's stupendous range, its curiously rational lii
tations, will be grasped only by intelligent read
of these memoirs. So truce to the Yea" a
Nay" of theorists. Let the story group
queer incidents. as it may be termed, speak
itself.
II have always thought" said Karl, speak