Evening star., 1922-07-09

quite completed (all that remained
was the tuning he fell desperately
i'll. and was borne. dying. to his ma
tive land. His death was expected
from one moment to another. Silent
and sad. relatives and friends sur
rounded the dying mans bed. Sud-
denly the latter. who had for some
time given no sign of life, sat up
and said in a clear, calm voice:
Nothing is the matter; everything is
all right After this he fell back on
the pillows and breathed his last.
NO one. it goes without saying,
understood these last words of the
dying man: but light was soon shed
to them. Two days later the relatives
Of the deceased received letter
from the pastor Of the parish in
which the organ remained uncom-
pleted telling them of an extraordi-
nary thing which had taken place in
his church on the preceding night.
Sounds had been heard suddenly
from the new organ. which had not,
so far. been played; he and the
schoolmaster had been awakened and
had run to the church; but they
found no one there, despite a lengthy
search: the keyboard was locked
even: it was inexplicable. What they
had been able to hear distinctly was
that the organ was being played
wonderfully. though it was not tuned
The pastor then had an idea that
there might be some connection be-
tween the organ builder and this
manifestation, and it was under this
impression that he had written.
This letter opened the eyes of those
who had been present at the death of
my great-grandfather. and made them
grasp the meaning of the dying mans
mysterious words.
Indeed. ii such were the occurrence.
we could not deny that we had in this
case a most astonishing example Of the
uneasy spirit Of the artist detaching
itself from the body before death.
traversing space. and going to convince
itself of the perfection Of the work left
mystery lies in an act Of this sort!
CHI. HOFFMAN (student Of Philoso-
ply. Finkma ttstrasse, Strasburg)."
Letter s7D
THIS almost incredible account.
added to many others. convinced
the astronomer Of the existence Of a
psychic force which may separate itself
from the body and function at a dis
tance.
to-,
sression to the visioning Of death scenes
at distance. "The observers whose
testimony we are about to hear" de-
clares the scientist. ''have watched
death scenes taking place far away, by
telepathic transmission; there are no
effects without causes. and the god
Chance. to whom these occurrences are
always attributed. has nothing to do
with them" In support of the latter
statement he refers to the calculations
made by M. Marrillier. who figured that
the part played by chance is reduced
for auditory hallucinations to one in
twenty trillion and for visual hallucina-
tions to one In forty trillion-that Is to
say. in forty trillion visual hallucina-
tions there could be only one that could
be explained by chance coincidence.
Having anticipated the usual objections,
he proceeds with the display of the evil
dence. Here is a typical letter, dated
January 21. 1918:
Madame D, a young woman who
at the time Of mobilization had been
married only a few months, adored her
husband. who returned her love. Sepa-
ration had been cruel, in spite of the
bravery Of the young man, who seemed
desirous of persuadins his wife that he
felt certain OF his early return.
HE had even begged her not to be-
lieve any news Of him which might
reach her. whatever its nature. The
days went by without letters from him.
Then came short health bulletins, and
At last, on August Is. 1914, she received
long letter from the soldier. Happy
and full Of confidence. ahs regained q
little gayety. The afternoon Of that
day there was a family reunion. She
asked her younger sister to sit down
at the piano and play q ballad Of Cho-
pin for her-one that she and her hus-
band dearly loved. Her sister did so.
Suddenly Ut was 3 o'clock) the young
woman rose. uttered a cry. terrible
cry. and fell to the floor senseless. When
she came to herself they questioned her
Opening frightened eyes she exclaimed:
What I have seen is dreadful
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