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* WILL SEABROO 'S TRAVELS.
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(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. A tele
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