El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-12
VILLAGERS IN
FRANCE SEE
VISIONS
Each Person Sees a Differ
ent Thing, But Excite.
ment is High.
ONE CHILD HAS
GREATEST POWER"
by Jepn De YiIIieru..

~ ARTS, FRANCE, Oct. 11.-There is a
little village called Alzonne, in the
- south of France, which is earning
q curious reputation. All the people
there see visions, even if they do not
dream dreams One sees the Virgin
Mary another st. Michael, a third st.
Margaret fourth St Catherine, q
fifth the holy face, and nearly every
BODY sees Jeanne dare LourdeS will
soon become jealous If YOU go to Al
zonne and see no visions you are liable
to be lynched. The inhabitants may
who has failed to share their bishop,
who has failed to hsare their enthusi-
asm and forbidden the clergy to give
their approval.
For two months and a half the viii
iaSerS nave now been seeing things.
a reporter Of a Paris paper, the Ma
TIM has been there to see, and left
IN hurry The villagers were saying
70 one another, Shall we throw him
into the water2"
Little Henrietta lambert, daughter
OF farmer, is one of the principal Wis
1onaries of Alzonne. Another is a little
Marie Tarramond, whose father is a
tailor They have received various mis-
OF the commonest is to get a blessing
on blue ribbon They look at the sky
between the poplars, and exchange
their impressions as a matter of
course.
One says, 81 see the holy virgin"
The other Immediately says, Il also,
and 1 see Jeanne dare"
so do L Her face is covered with
her armour No, her face is not COW
cred She is making the sign of the
cross
One Sees the Holy Face.
see the Holy Face says the other. It
is hopeless to try to make them agree,
as even standing side by side they
never see the same things.
A habitue of Lourdes asks Henri
cite, How do you see Jeanne d'Arc?s
Il see her on horseback
49,, To which side is the horse turnedF'
ITO the right"
Then you see it only from the side2'
Yes, BOTH
Really, both of them?' yes, both"
Really, both of Them Yes"
Apparent Contradiction.
The man Immediately writes in his
notebook the apparent contradiction of
seeing person sideways on horseback
and also both legs.
Henriette is rather peculiar She is
very shortsighted, and at 20 yards she
cannot distinguish a house from a tree.
She cannot see what everybody else
sees, but, curiously enough, she pre-
tends to be able to read at a distance
the words inscribed on the banner Of
Jeanne dare. An able, who is follow
ing the case out of curiosity. asks her
to tell Jeanne dare to speak in Latin.
The child does so, and she Immediately
says that Jeanne dare has spoken in
Latin. What does she say2" She says,
her to repeat a long Latin question
somewhat as follows: Tell us If you
have come to announce war by making
a star appear in the sky" The sky
was very cloudy, but soon afterwards
the clouds separated, and not only one
star, but half a dozen stars appeared
-Oh, that is too much.' said the able
I wanted only one star, and Jeanne
d. Arc has shown us five or six"
When little Henriette is asked what
Jeanne dArc is saying, she often re-
peats words and sentences which she
has learned in her school books The
reporter went to see the visions at
o'clock one afternoon. There was a
gathering. and the num-
Der of those who had the visions con-
stantly increased. There were not only
but also grownups.
One woman said, 7 clearly see Saint
with wings, in the sky" An
old man said: 81 see the Virgin"
How is she dressed2"
Tn blue and white. Just as she is in
the statue in the village between the
tailor's and the saddler's shop"