THE CHINA MAIT
SEPTEMBER 5, 1939.
TO-DAY'S STRANGE STORY OF REAL PEOPLE
THE UNEXPLAINED
POWER OF DANIEL D. HOME
By VINCENT TOWNE
Y FATE?" asked Napoleon III.
"Like mine-discrowned and death in exile," replied the shade of Napoleon I., whereupon the Empress Eugenie swooned and the Emperor himself fell back in his chair, as if about to faint:
The scene was the Tuilleries, where the French court now lionised its third nian of mystery, upon whose broad shoulders had fallen the mantle of St. Germain' and Cagliostro. This mystic was Daniel Dunglas Home, born near Edinburgh in 1833. His father was William, natural son of the tenth Earl of Home.
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A Plano And A Noblewoman Playing It Floated
Through The Air
"Second sight" was an alleged an- cestral "gift" to Daniel, and many weird phenomena are alleged to have -been connected with his childhood.blewoman who was playing it to float sort of letter scale, with a recording When he was about nine aunt in the air while the playing continued. point which marked down every de- adopted him and took him to Green- A polish count next took Home ville, Conn. This was about 1842, but Naples, whence he went
to gree of pressure exerted upon it. Home to Romé, stood at the opposite end of the labor- soon afterward he was turned out of there joining the Catholic doors because of disturbing raps which being after abjured by the Pope
Church, atory and, by exerting what Crookes to admitted to be only his "psychic force," appeared in his aunt's home. Then abandon spirit seances forever. such men as William Cullen Bryant, 1858 he had established a social posi- down and record a considerable pres- By caused the platform of the scale to bear Justice Edmonds of the United States tion so high as to marry a
Russian sure. Supreme Court and Professor Wells of jcountess, a goddaughter of the Czar, Harvard took the young man up and and their brilliant wedding brought vouched for him. AŁ the home of Alexander Dumas all of the way from Ward Cheney, near Hartford, Conn., Paris. But after his young
wife's when he was 19 Home is said to have death, four years later, Home returned been first levitated" into the air by to Rome, where reports of a return of some unknown force,
his spirit manifestations reached the authorities, who preferred
seances were continued.
other Russian noblewoman in
This man of mystery married an-
after which he fell into a slow con- 1871;
sumption, which caused his death in
"psychic force," and was it, partly bona 1886. What was the mystery of his
fide, as Sir William Crookes maintain-
He grew to be tall and red-haired, Papal with a freckled face, slate-gray, red-charges of sorcery against him, as ined, or was it entirely the result of in- rimmed eyes, sharp teeth, a snub nose the case of Cagliostro, and compelled detected by men of science?
genius fraudulent phenomena not yet , and cold, bony fingers. His body was him to return to England, where his
described as like an iron cross on which some one had hung a coat. In- deed, he was rather uncanny to look upon. In 1855, when. 22, he went to England, where he began giving sean- ces, where there were mysterious rap- pings, table tiltings, ghostly appear ances and feats of levitation.
He now handled fire with ease, it was said, and kneeling before a hearth he would take out a big, glowing coal, break off a large piece and hold it in. his hand while discoursing to his au- diences on his "power over solids." Then he would place the coal upon a Kneb-folded news paper and burn a hole
through it.
in Home
At Bulwer-Lytton's home, worth, where he was a guest, for days at a time, Home is said to have caused
But public confidence chairs and tables to float in midair. somewhat abated when .one Jane Here also guests solemnly declared Lyons sued him for $165,000, which he that they saw the "master of the me- claimed to have obtained from her for diums" rise and float about a room, communications from her departed sometimes sailing tranquilly out of one husband, and later when a bottle of window, then around the house and in phosphorus was found at one of his again through another. The Earl of seances. Nevertheless, some of Dunraven also took him up and de- phenomena
his clared that he had sometimes seen him celebrated chemist, Prof. (late Sir) endorsed by that elongate and shorten his body: at will William Crookes, whom Home started or cause a closed piano to play by upon the high road to spiritualism, simply placing his finger upon the lid. Crookes submitted the medium to se- At Florence in 1855 he is said vere laboratory tests, such as fasten- have caused a grand piano and a no-ing in a secure case an accordion
to
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which Home, from a distance, caused to play. The great chemist also. ar- ranged at one end of his laboratory a
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CZECH®
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Warsaw, To-day. The President of Poland has issued a decree providing for the formation of Czechoslovakian legions in Poland. These will be part of the Polish Army, while retaining their special national character.
One thousand Czechoslovaks have already joined up.
The legions will be, commanded by a Czech, General Prchala.-Reuter.
EXCHANGES OF TELEGRAMS
London, To-day: A telegram was sent by the King to President Lebrun of France yes- terday.
His Majesty and President Moscicki of Poland also exchanged telegrams. Reater..
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