The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-03-17

Under almost all circumstances-no
Yet, though almost universally, wher
once We become human, the smaller
doors are shut behind us, sometimes
we DO become 'entangled,' as the In
dian scriptures phrase it, That is te
say, If the desire for reincarnation is
SO intense that it transcends the me
chanical possibilities, the discarnate
soul may return to birth, using the
limited medium at it's possession
eltner as beast or as plant You
VIII find 1t distinctly stated in the
Brahmfnfcal books that the departed
soul descends first into plants"
"Plants!" shouted Tarrant. "You
mean that I shall come back as q
geranium?"
No, my dear fellow" answered I'm.
manuel, smiling. Il mean that the
body-making potentialities may first
be concentrated and focused, so to
speak, In some plant medium-for q
while. Have you never heard of the
Dryads, the Greek spirits of the
trees?"
1T strikes me-" l suggested, shat
we are getting OF the track. Suppose
we return, first to Pelorus Jack, and
then to the professor"
"Pelorus Jack-yes. Well. he was
simply a dolphin who formed the
agreeable habit of meeting all incom-
ing ocean steamships and plotting
them into the harbor of Melbourne
was it Sydney? Anyway, he became
so famous and popular that the COM
monwealth government made it crime
to kill him. And, until within the
last year or SO he was a constant fea-
ture of interest to the passengers.
But instanced him as an example of
a soul becoming entangled in animal
form. Now 1 will bark back to Pro-
fessor Garretson.
Thirty-five years ago Andrew Gar
retson. then young man Of twenty,
came to this country from Scotland
and settled in Prince George county,
Maryland. He was a well-to-do youth,
his father having recently died and
left him, the only child, modest an
nual competence. l believe his pur-
pose In leaving Scotland, was to es-
cape the memories of some boyish
love affair. Whatever it was, it was
nothing lasting, although at the time
he probably thought that it was. You
see, even in those days he was sus-
ceptible-just shy, bright, affection
ate lad who picked out Maryland of
all places in the world, as he thought
by within, but really because he was
controlled by far-reaching purposes.
MARY Lassalle was the only daugh-
ter of one Of the professors at the
university. Lassalle, meeting Garrett
son, took fancy to- him, and after
some thought the young Scotchman,
who was Of a studious disposition, de-
termined to enroll at the university, |
and endeavor to become one Of the
faculty after his graduation. That |
was the sort Of quiet life that appealed |
70 him-and he has never had reason
70 regret his decision.
THE two young people fell madly |
IN love with each other. It was one
II those romantic attachments rare |
n that day and time, though not so
ARE as now. There was a sort OF |
spiritual bond between them which
made each almost a portion Of the
,ther; 1t was almost as though the
same soul animated both bodies. So /
lnworldly was their love that the
bought of marriage was looked upon |
by both only as something ultimate
Ind remote. Professor Lassalle and
lis wife looked favorably upon the
Engagement; it was arranged that the
voung people should be married as
Joon as Garretson completed his
course and obtained the position
which would obviously lie open to one
II his talent. AS You may know,
le is one Of the few classicists In
America of worldwide reputation.
THE year 1880 was one remarkable
or many things. Among these was
he spiritualist craze, which was run
ling through America like a fire.
True 1t was long before this that the
FOX sisters had laid the foundations
t the modern Spiritualist cult at
rochester; but In the late seventies
here was remarkable Renaissance
t this superstition. Impudent 'medi-
ms imposed upon the gullible all
through the large and small cities OF
he country-they do yet, am told,
ut then the imposture was compare
lively new. It did not pass over even
he quiet little home of the Las
allies, where Garretson boarded. The
wo elders and the young people often
at round the table and laid on hands,
nth the usual obtaining of amusing
nd impossible communications. We
now now that these forces are moth
lg but thought Impressions, either
the sitters or Of others. cast OF
nd congealing round this magnetic
rubbish from the
'orld's psychic waste-baskets, SO to
~. But to the young people all this
as very real. They lived in world
copied with invisible intelligence,
nd to them death was nothing more
ian q simple transition from one con-
Ition to another, hardly different.
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