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Show The Organist Died at His Post. Unfailing was the remarkable presentment pre-sentment of death that came to good John Demmer, organist for .thirty years at the cathedral, Trenton, N. J., on Oct. 22. Heeding the premonition, he had called for and received the Sacraments of the church. He was sitting at the organ in his room, where he had practiced prac-ticed for years, when his white-crowned head dropped on his chest and his hand fell from the keys, leaving unfinished unfin-ished the strains . of the renuiem he was playing. When the presentment came to Demmer Dem-mer he told several persons that he would die before the close of the next day. After Father Kilfillan had administered admin-istered the last, rites, the old organist said to him: "Father, for thirty years I played the organ in the cathedral. You are the" only priest who has graced its altar who has not heard my music. While I have not sat at my organ since I left the hospital last spring, I am going to do so now." Demmer crossed the room wearily- to the old-fashioned organ and touched the keys with infinite tenderness. Then he paused, and Father Kilfillan heard him murmur: - "It is for you, father I am going to play." ... The old man began Mozart's "Last Requiem." His eyes were cast upward up-ward as he played. The priest approached ap-proached softly and stood by his side. True was the touch of the old organist, and. Father Kilfillan, with bowed head, was awed by the solemn music. The reauiem was half finished when the organist's hand dropped from the keys and his head fell forward: Father Kilfillan knelt, by his side and. supported sup-ported him. Paralysis had stricken the j old musician. Assistance ,was summoned, sum-moned, and he was carried to his bed. I Five hours later he died. Boston Pilot, j |