The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-02-28
WHY LlVONIAN SCHOOL TEACHER
LOST HER SITUATID. - IIABITCAl
APPARIsION

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There existed, in the year 1915, and is
still continued. in Livonia. about thrty-slx
miles from Riga and mile and half from
the small town of Wolmar, an institution
Of high repute for the education of young
ladies, entitled the Pensionnat of Ncuwelc-
Ike. Ii is under the superintendent OF
Moravian directors of whom the princi-
pal, at the time of the occurrences about to
be related, was named Buch.
There were. in that year, forty-two young
ladies residing there as boarders, chiefly
daughters of noble Livonian families
among them, Madcmoisellc Julie, second
daughter of the Baron de Guldenstubbe,
thirteen years of age
In this institution one Of the female teach
ers at that time was Mademoisele Emelie
Sagee, French lady, from Dion She
was of the Northern typs-a blonde, with
very fair complexion, light t-blue eyes, ches-
nut hair. slightly above the middle size and
Of slender figure In character she was
aminable, quiet and good tempered; not
at all given to anger or impatience but Of
an anxious disposition, and, as to her physi.
cal temperament, somewhat nervously ex.
citable Her health was unusually good
and during the year and half that she
lived as teacher at Neuwelcke she had but
one or two slight indispositions. She was
intelligent and accomplished; and the di
rectors. during the entire period of hel
stay, were perfectly satisfied with her con
duct, her industry and her acquirments
She was at that time thirty.two years O.
age.
! A few weeks after MadeInoiselle Saget
first arrived, singular reports began to cir
culate among the pupils. When some cas-
ual inquiry happened to be made as tt
where she was, one young lady would re
ply that she had seen her in such or sucl
room; whereupon another would say
"Oh, no she cant be there for l have
just met her on the stairway or perhap
in some distant corridor. At first the,
naturally supposed it was mere mistake
but as the same thing REQUIRED again ant
again, they began to think it very odd
and finally spoke to other governesses abou
it. Whether the teachers at that tim
could have furnished an explanation or not
they gave none they merely told the youni
ladies it was all fancy and nonsense, an
bade them pay no attention to it.
/ But, after time, things much more cS
traordinary, and which could not be sc
down to imagination or mistake, began t
occur. One day the governess was giyin
a lesson to class of thirteen, of whor
Mademoiselle de Guldenstubbe was one
and was demonstrating. with eagernes:
some proposition, to illustrate which SD
had occasion to write with chalk on th
black board. While she was doing 81
and the young ladies were looking at he
to their CONSERVATION, they suddenly sa,
two Madcmoiselle Sagees, the one by th
side side of the other. They were exactl
alike; and they used the same gesture
: only that the real person held bit of chal
in her hand, and did actually write, Will
the double had no chalk, and only INIT,
ted the motion.
This incident naturally caused a gre:
I sensation in the establishment 1t was a
certained on inquiry, that every one Of ii
thirteen young ladies in the class had see
the second figure, and that they all agree
in their description of its appearance and
its motions.
Soon after. one of the pupils, a MAIDEN
oiselle Antoine de Wrangle, having o
tanned permission, with some others, to a
tend a tete champetre in the neighborhoo
/ and being engaged in completing her toi
{ ct, Mademoiseile Sagee had good nature
- ly volunteered her aid, and was hookiI
her dress behind. The young lady ha
n pened to turn round and to look into
adjacent mirror, perceived two Mademoisel
Sagees hooking her dress The sudd,
apparition produced 50 much effect on
"a that she tainted. @ ss--
I Months passed by, and similar pheno,