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* * WILL SEABROO 'S TRAVELS. ** (By W. B. S abrook). Rome, Italy. While seated- one morning in the reading room of C vok's tourist of fiee. in -the Piazza di Spange, with my elbow propped n a table littered with pamphlets a vertising various attractive exeurinns that could be made in the neigiborhood of Rome, such as a "T p .n Tivoli with Sig itre i.'' "Aiqng the Appian Way r latmobile," ''A Day among the Alban Hills," et c.. my eves were sud denly arrested lby a red-bound broch ure entitled: A LITTLE JOURNEY TO PUR GATORY. Pers< nally Conducted by Father Victor Juet. I thought it must be a joke-book, maybe a caricaturist's concentrated edi-iFn of Elbert Hubbard's "Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Men.' but no: it was a sincere, albeit friendly invitation to go to Hell; and I went. Instead of crossing the Styx in Charon's boat, I crossed the Tiber in a ram-ear. and instead of passing thrungh a gloomy vavern-like portal, gruaried by Carberus. I entered the in fer::al rezions via a modern church in the vicinity of the new city court house. Doubtless I am not the first who ha.s chosen a similar route to per ditiol. Fat,her Jouet is a priest who has devoted his life to the collection of objects bearing marks and finger prints of alleged supernatural origin, tending to show that purgatory is a definite geographical spot in the uni verse and that the unhappy souls, w'ho have been plunged therein to ex pliote their sins, live literally in a lake of fire. These relies he has preserved in a museum at No. 12 Lungo Tevere Prati. next door to the church above mentioned: visitors are shown the church first. as a sort of preparation for t.he extraordinary sights which are to follow. It is decorated witli fres coes and paintings representing the torments of the lower regions, and above the altar is a realistic pano rama illumined by red lights, showing a sea of flames, in which nen and wo men are struggling. Twelve years ago, beside the altar an event occurred which Father Jouet and many other Romans regar~d as a miraculous endorsement of the priest 's project to prove to the world the material existence of purgatory. One night at an hour when no one was in the church, a candle fell f.rom the altar, setting afire some velvet curtains; the blaze crept, along t,he wooden railing, ar & finally spent it self against a plaster wall where the ~woodwork ended, without doing fur. ther damage. Next morning when Father Jouet and his confreres discovered the ac ident, they set about at once to clear away the ashes and have the place re paired. "This section of the wall will have to be replastered, seeho curiously it has been discolored by the fire and smoke,'' remarked one .of the priests, and then suddenly raised his hands:'in amazement to ward the stain. The flames had traced a picture on the wall: Not a grotesque, phantas mageric, shadowy smoke-effct. re qiring an effort of the imagination to desern, but a human face and fig ure outlined as.eclearly as if depicted by the painter's brush, an old man ohed in a red robo. wearing onhi head a bishop's mitre, and standing waist deep in flames. "A soul in purgatory!'' cried Father Jouet. "And a bishop,'' whispered the others. !That same morning Father Jouet visited the Vatican anid communicat ed his strange discovery to the Pope. Now. as all the world knows, Leo XIII was strong on natural seiences Sand nmL much of a believer in latter day miracles, so he turned the matter over to a committee of eminent pailt era for a cold. technical examination. The artists readily admitted that it was a real picture, and lost no time in arriving at quite a simp)le explana tion of the phenomenon : it was an old fresco. they said, representing a biship or cardinal of the early church beine burned at the stake as a mar syr:i had been effaced by time, or by a (n ot of plaster or w iit. wash. and the sudden heat coming. m e:>n tat with the wall had brought out these old outlines and colors. It was a most extraordinary work~ of art, they said. and were beginning to analyse its style for the purpose of assigning t to a particular date and school. when Father~ Joaet calmly set their wisdom at naught by prov in that. the wall was only two years old, that he himself had sunerintend ed its construction and t.ha. it had been plastered with ordinary lime nd mor-tar. by a common workman, ho still lived in a neighboring street Iud who recollected having been paim <a day for' the job. Aston~i1hng-' exlmd th .ae artits and gave it up. ILI ~~1 Id !'I(IIY I person of devout faith to pray; o dav an eminent church hIltori: from the Piedmont, caie to Ron and dropped in casually to see ti picture; searcely had his eyes restE upon the features when he turni pale as death and gasped in Fath Jouet's ear: --'Nv G.od, inan. dlor't von knom' That face: It's Cardinal." and I mentioned the name of a great pI late, who had been dead more tha a quarter of a century. I saw the mysterious picture wi my own eyes. It is an awe-inspiri visage. a nightmare of a face, whi( haunts the imagination for hours a terward. It is no accident or fre of natu.re. It was executed by master's hand, whether of man spirit. It shows design. From the church, Father Jouet co ducted me to the museum. The o jects it contains are difficult to d scribe. Imagine a piece of linen, book or a wooden table upon whi a red-hot human hand, a hand flesh and blood, glowing with heat ai yet not withered or consumed, h ilain for a fraction of a second, ju long enough to leave the scorche blackened imprint of the fingers ar palm but not long enough to set t] object ablaze. The museum contai twenty or thirty articles bearing su I imprints, collected from all parts Europe, each with a separate ter>rib histor of its own. Persons who ha faith in the supernatural are course disinclined, even after havi seen those things, to credit the th ory that they have actually be touched by souls returning from pu gatory to earth. but no one who h seen the collection and the doe ments accompanying it, and who h afterward talked with Father JouE can harbor the suspicion that the fie finger prints have been fraudulent fabricated with the deliberate inte tion to deceive, that they have be( "faked.'" to use an American .slai expression. Whatever is the real c igin of these imprints, Father Jou I believes them to be exactly what I represents them to be. The Reverend Mother Angela, nun at the Ursuline Convent at Sor 'miees, of which the Abbot Leona: was the chaplain, died about two de ades ago, at the age of 35 years. S: was venerated as a saint by t: whole community, and no one thoug it necessary to say masses for her,so or pray fo.r her deliverance frc purgatory, because it was taken ? granted that she went straight heaven. Shortly after mother Angella death, a young girl from Clermo presented herself as a novice at t: door of the convent; she was call Sister Maria, was pious, intellige and full of zeal. One day she said the Abbot Leonard, her confessor: "Father, I am afraid to stay my room alone at night.'' "W1 what's the matter, r child?'' asked the aged priest. "For several nights I have not bei able to sleep; each night, just as t lo-k is striking twelve, a stran; *light enters my room and hove above the stool on which I am a customed to kneel before my litl altar. It is like a candle flame su rounded by mist or fog. I am s1i from fear."' The old chaplain patted the chi on thle head, laughed good-natured at .her story and told her she mu *have been dreaming, bu.t Sister Masri who continued to be visited by t: mysterious light, not getting any sa isfaction from the chaplain, final *demanded and obtained permissi' to speak to the Mother Superior. T: latter also treated the matter light] but as she had some writing to that night and was anxious to cal the girls fears she consented to up and watch with her. Neither sa anything that night, and the Moth Superior took advantage of the ne ative experience to ridicule the siu plicity of Sister Maria and decla i:at sh,e was the victim of her ov imaination, but the child. certa as to what she had seenm. insisted- th tle Mother Superior retu-rn the ne nit. and midnight found the tx hazin seated together in ti ell o.ie tremb1lingY with e pet-at i' n. the ori:.er seeptie: Suddenly tile youns:c ro panting and perspiring with terrc and stretehed out her arms towa: something which she wished to shc :er companion. But the latter sa uothinz until Sister Maria cried o "Mother, it is a nun.' Then the figure became visible bth luminously visible. yet dim outline. like tile whlite nuns who fi aess tile cloister court-yard in ti shadows on a moonlight night. The apparition began to speak: I have ret arned from purgato: :. k that three masses be said f id ma e- wr Sni and peretu al C}aVer VtI 1reC l ile po-e of the m1 unlhap)py 11un1. ie But who could it beI? The Abbott ie Leonard was inclined to think prob d ably a certain sister Agostina, who d had died a month or two previous and *r who had possibly been sent to purga tory to temper her disposition, which -? ad not been most gen-tle during her le earth-life. During these nine days. e- the apparition did not return, and n Sister Maria slept soundly, but on the tenth night she was awakened by a h mysterious light and found the spec g tre standing by her bed. h1 "Fear nothing.'' is said. "it is on f- lv T." tk "But who a-re you?" a "I am Mother Angela. Thank the Dr community in my name for their prayers. My condition has been greatly ameliorated, though the or b- aisons of some of the sisters have been e- useless because they were offered a with incredulity. Tell the Abbott sh Leonard not to reproach himself. It )f is not his fault that I have suffered id so. I am condemned to nine more Is days of torment, after which I will t Ibe admitted to heaven. But listen. d. would you like to save your own soul id and at the same time ease my pain by 1e 'suffering in my stead?" as Sister Maria accepted the penance, -h and for nine days remained fasting in f her cell. daily inflicting upon herself le severe bodily pains. When a midnight ,e of the last day came, the devoted )f girl lay prostrated on the floor of her 1, cell. half unconscious, so weak e- ened by her fasting and self n inflicted tortures that she was r- unable to drag herself to bed. as Suddenly the little chamber was fill u-ed with a lurid, unearthly glare, and as she felt a burning hand laid on her t, shoulder, and hea-rd a voice which v said: l I "Tonight is my last hour in purga tory. Thanks to your wilIingness to m sh-are my suffering, I can already -ee io afar the opening gates of Paradise." rI Here Father Jouet closed his story, et while I bent to examine with breath le less interest Sister Ma-ria's scorched sleeve. There, indeed, in blackened a outlines, was the unmistakeable im a- print of a woman's hand. d "And the drops of blood?" I ask - ed. 1e "A scourge with leaden pellets," 1e replied t'he priest.. a.t Copyright 1909. m IDENTIFIED HER ASSAILANT. t Victim of Attempted Assault in .'Georgetown Visits the Peniten 's tiary. at Columbia, June .21.-The young la 1e dy who was attacked last week by a ned ro in Georgetown, now in the peni at ,tentiary for safe-keeping, came to Co to lumbia today with her father and pos itively identified the negro now in n -prison as the man who attempted t'he assault on her. When confronted to iy day with the man at the penitentiary, the young lady exclaimed: "That's f the man,'' and then broke down and e cried piteously, begging her father to e kill the negro. It is stated that a rs special term of court wvill be ordered c- to try the negro. r- COURT AT LAURENS. Will Goodman Pleads Guilty of Man id slaughter and Gets Four Ye'ars. ly Laurens, June 21.-Will Goodman. st a white man, today pleaded guilty of a, manslaughter and was senaenced to 1e four years in th]e penitenitiary or orp tthe county works. Joh -Woody. a ly negro. p)leaded guilty of housebreak ing and larcency, and was sentenced ie to seven years in the penitentiary or yon the county works. 1o Goodman killed a negro in a crap m game. The.se two cases, together with it several minor ones, have been dispos w ,ed of today. The June term of crim er 'inal court is presided over by Judge g-DeVore. rINJURED MINISTER DEAD. i The Rev. D. D. Richardson a Victim1 aof the Auto-Trolley Smash in EtAnderson. 1eAnderson, June 21.-TC:e death of the Rev. D. D. Richardson. which oe' -c.ured at a hospital here. w here lie was e- br1ought soon after the accident, makes him the second victim of the d .automoile-trolley car collision, nine w miles east of here yesterday. His wskull was fractured and he never re it gained consciousness. The body was taken to Simpsonville, near Green tO ville, today fo interment. accompan f ied by Mrs. Richardson. who wvas also it injured, and who had since been here ie with her husband. Mr. Richardson was thirty-six years old. and pastor of the Second Baptist church. of the 7 Belton and the (luck mills church >r h e. They had noh children. 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