The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-03-01
THE PROFESSORS PEACH TREES
"You have ANTICIPATED NV argu

Under almost all circumstances-no.
Yet, though almost universally, when
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 to
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,
either as a beast or as plant. You
will find it distinctly stated in the
Brahminical books that the departed
soul descends first into plants"
"Plants!" shouted Tarrant. "You
mean that 1 shall come back as a
geranium?"
mo, my dear fellow" answered I'm
manuel, smiling. II mean that the
body-making potentialities may first
be concentrated and focused, so to
speak, in some plant medium-for a
while. Have you never heard of the
Dryads, the Greek spirits of the
trees?"
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we are getting off the track. Suppose
we return, first to Pelorus Jack, and
then to the professor"
"Pelorus Jack-yes. Well, he was
simply 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 a 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
soul becoming entangled in animal
FORM Now I will bark back to Pro-
fessor Garretson.
"Thirty-flve years ago Andrew Gar
retson, then a young man Of twenty,
came to this country from Scotland
and settled in Prince George county,
Maryland. He was well-to-do youth,
his father having recently died and
left him, the only child, a modest an
nual competence. l believe his pur-
pose in leaving Scotland was to es-
cape the memories of some boyish
love affair Whatever 1t 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 a whim. 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
to him-and he has never had reason
to regret his decision.
"The two young people fell madly
in love with each other. 1t was one
of those romantic attachments rare
in that day and time, though not so
rare as now. There was a sort of
spiritual bond between them which
made each almost portion Of the
other; it was almost as though the
same soul. animated both bodies. So
unworldly was their love that the
thought of marriage was looked upon
by both only as something ultimate
and remote. Professor Lassalle and
his wife looked favorably upon the
engagement; it was arranged that the
young people should be married as
soon as Garretson completed his
course and obtained the position
which would obviously lie open to one
Of his talent. AS you may know,
he is one Of the few classicists in
America Of worldwide reputation.
"The year 1880 was one remarkable
for many things. Among these was
the spiritualist craze, which was run
ming through America like a fire.
True it was long before this that the
Fox sisters had laid the foundations
of the modern Spiritualist cult at
Rochester; but in the late seventies
luGIS WAS q 1Suul hdUlC SSl uuSoSShSS
of this superstition. Impudent 'medi-
ums' imposed upon the gullible all
through the large and small cities Of
the country-they do yet. am told,
but then the imposture was compare
lively new. It did not pass over even
the quiet little home of the Las
sales, where Garretson boarded. The
two elders and the young people often
sat round the table and laid on hands,
with the usual obtaining of amusing
and impossible communications. We
know now that these forces are moth
ing but thought impressions, either
Of the sitters or of others, cast off
and congealing round this magnetic
nucleus-mere rubbish from the
worlds psychic MASSACHUSETTS, so to
say. But to the young people all this
was very real. They lived in world
peopled with invisible intelligence,
and to them death was nothing more
than a simple transition from one con-