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The stranger still made no reply, but
gradually his mouth grew smaller, and his
| lips contracted, and the air rushed into his
throat with whistling sound, like the win
ter wind through broken window pane.
At length the barkeeper took compassion
upon his writhing Gus mer and gave him a
glass of ice water TO d his throat. When
the stranger was-able 10 speak he looked
reproachfully at the - medicine man, and
said
''See here, stranger. il that's the kind of
stuff You give a man for grasshoppers, I'd
| like 10 know what in-yOu Il give a feller
if he had a tareworm :" 81. Louis Dan.
From the Springfield Unioa.
Scotch Second Sight.
| While our historical critics or skepties
are turning not few formerly accepted
| fact into fables, there seems to be chance
for some things to arrive at the dignity Of
substantial reality, which have been this
long time laughed at rs intentional or un-
| intended delusons. That singular power of
provision which has a great antiquity among
the Highland Scotch, has been set down
among the auld wives iancies by most people
who have heard of it beyond its own im-
mediate locality. And Others, who have not
been disposed thus to make Jest Of it. have
turned it over into the limbo of unanswerahle
eonundrums, rather thinking that the "iath-
er of lies, has good deal more to do with it
than any more honest operator. Bat it is
possible shat. after all. We have here also
another Of those eccentricities of abnormal
| human action which are to find their com
mon explanation neither in dem0niaca. or
any other spiritual agency but are to come,
| by and by, into the regular categories of
scientific phenomena, marked and classified
and hung up in our museums Of curioSities
lust like any wired skeletons If Mr. Fair
fields d" New Solution Of an,o.l Puzzle" in
Scribner, is on the right track to explain the
hatie hiRg and similar maryels, il would
appear to he very easy to bring the Scotch
second sight under the action of Lis " nerve
anra' theory, for many of its strange ex-
| hibitions are much like those more recent
performance among ourselves, and mag well
| DO set down Is effects - 0c the same nervous
disorder to which, as a center is tetherel
startling circle Of strange seusorial imureS-
sions and preternatural states Of conscious
ness, involving in its nocturnal aspects pre-
monitory dreams, and in its diurnal. the cle-
ment Of provision. -
In the fourth volume OF the diary and cjr-
respcndcnce of Samuel Pepys are several
letters which this inquistiye aud go-sipy
old 'irtuoso drew from some Of hi, Scotch
friends, containing quite 4 number Of these
wierdly, prophetic revelations, which are
youched for by gentleman Of high intelligence
and social standing as well H. undoulted
honesty, among them eminent iiyines and
members Of the nobility. One Of tie latter
Lord Reay, 4 nobleman OF parts and learn
ing tell Peuvs these among other incidents.
from within his own circle OF observation
4 servant woman (resdence and name
given) told her mistress thar She .aw
gallows-rope around her brothers neck.
who was. 81 far as known, On honest man
which 50 displeascd her mistress that she uut
the servant ont Of the house. Bat. stealln-
some goods. this brother was sentenced %
be lUag. August -. 1928. By tie interces-
sion. ..vc,er. # several gentleman. the SEM
trncs was ir,a-.J, they becoming bail for
his future good conduct. which occasioncd
one Of the gentlemen 10 tell the woman thar
i0I once at least. she had been mistaken. 10
which she replied. that the man wasn't dead
vet hut would certainly be hanged And 80
he was, on the lith Of February, lGgy. hay-
ing again been caught az his ola trick.
Now, If this shrewed Scotch las-ie had some
private reasa rs of her own t. guess tll. this
man neck would make acquaintance with
a caiLows rope, which does not. however. at
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the problem
Pcpys gets from another Of hi, noble cor
respondents, Henry. second El7l oi Clarcu-
don, this account OF the singular death Of lis
own wife Another carl, ewboroush. and
d Scotch gentleman. were dining with
Clarendon. Standing AMI talking together
after dinner. the Scotchman drew attention
to himselfby looking very long and intentlv at
Carendon's wife, beautiful young woman.
Being asked the reason Of this. he rerlied
that he saw blood on her This prolucei
rather dry laugh among them. and the
company broke up The lady was then in
perfect health bat. the next month. she fell
II Of the small pox: on the ninth day She
blel at the nose, and IN the afternoon blood
burst forth again from nose and mouth with
great violence. and ahout eleven at ni,ht she
died ''almost weltering in blood. The
Scotchlnan had never seen the lady svecr.
at the dinner party. Her husband might
very well say that il was wonderful that n
man boxing thus casually on woman
should give such n prognostic
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