The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-04-06
Imagination on. BTyStery.
READING WOMAN WHO PROPHECIES HER
DEATH AND TAKES SUUL-FIIGHTs.

READING WOMAN WHO PROPHECIES HER
DEATH AND TAKES SUUL-FIIGHTs.
There is at this tine considerable talk in
some cncies uf this city concerning
Strange au! some " hat IeniaI kahle case
that has developed near The Reading Driv-
ing Pal k, close to the Three Mile House.
About ii square up the road ~ the right of
the hotel stand two modest two-stoIy hons
es With high rorclres. They are occupied
10y Mr.. Henry Deeds and his wife, Who are
aged people. aud Riclard Snadei aud his
wife Angrline, sun-iu-la and daughter of
the fi,s, named people.
Ms. Snader is The second oldest daugh-
ter Of Deeds and if she lives until next No
vember she Vi i'll be f,rty-tw" yeais of age
She is the wife of Richard Sma,ier. an in
du>trious mechanic, employed at the pipe
mill vixen he has woIk. Mis-. Sudder ele-
ven days ago WAS tu all appearance perfect
~ healthy. About Tie 18th of the Inesent
month she took tu her bed and said that
her lime was mp and that she would die
before she aru>o from her pillow again.
Eleven years ago she told her friends that
iu the year 1871, early i'm the year. size
would tc called upon Ia euIer the future
world. Since March L. she has remained
i'll bed, aud gradually she iS Gecumiug
weaker aud lo all appearance is slow ly eb-
bing away her life. Her husband and her
parents called iu IA physician, but the wo
man iendriI,d q that II Was no Use tu do
that, that she is not sick, that she needs nu.
medicine aud that it is sIuful to do any
thing that might III any way interfere with
her souls progress and journey to the
bright aud beautiful wnI Id in tie land of
The leal. The r'h, sIcian therefore iIas ad-
mImistered no medicine. The woman ea,s
very little, aud man, times she becnnes
rigid and pale as death her breathing ap
parcntlv stops entirely aud her body has
all appearances ui IL corpse. During these
strange and mysteiinr intervals, aI,par-
eutly absence of all vitality, she says her
soul Journeys to the spirit world and the
stoi les "f her fantastic flights To Il beauti-
fuI golden heaven are interesting aud
strangely attractive, because they are told
in language that seems beyond ilie power
Of any person. no matter how exitaotiina-
ry his or her intellectual capacity May be-
During iier souls absence from the body
since she has taken to led it visits many
places. She gives vivid description OF the
beautiful land she sees, with the angels
and archangels. She says she is ready and
/ all prepared to go. She IL dome with the
world here and does not want to remain.
She is only waiting for her time. BY and
by her soul will leave her body AND not
I come back again. When she is ia a trance
no breath appears TO enter the uoStrils.
Night before last her aged parents thought
she dead Generally her trance cx-
lists about four hours. During the last
flight oi her spirit she visited her sister in
Lancaster county. She washed the chill
/ dreu's faces, kissed tiiem and then vent
! Into the cloudS. She sees many familiar
faces in the spirit world-people who have
} died among her relations and friends. She
speaks with them all. She says her bed is
flied with pnre and holy spirits who are to
accompany her soul when it takes its last
flight ft'm the body Ia the tod who gave
il. Such are the main facts stated i,y
the Woman parents. A number ui Read
ing people vi>ii her. and the very strange
case ha> caused considerable diScussion.-
Reading Pa. Eagle, Nayeh 2i.
ROMANTIC STORY. In the middle OF
the nrn'er of 1898, iiie bruke "ul iu the
female. spmiuaty at Limoges. Franco. aud
spread With such rapidly that il WAS fear
ell all the inmates would ,.eriSh Sudden
lv iheIe was cry that one little gul WAS
left in her room. As the excited spec, "a
tnis We" beginning Ia pray for the uuf.r
tunat, oh a. IL IAN giIl. with dislpveli, d
blonde II aud flowing nighidres rain
thruu.h the crnwd. alid with the shrek
"I'li save her =! that rose above the sound
nf cracking tinhets and falling masonry,
dashed inio the doorway. 4 loud hurrah,
tl,at was prolonged I" the echo nuiy tn he
repeated again. attracted the attention {
devotees. -auG the lssle faced ptl Was sreu
hnirying through the flames with the ter
riti'.d child. A few days after King lsnui
Philippe sent tbs heroine a gold medal fof
her bravery. aud Il captain la the French
army. xhn had Witnessed thu girls plnciS.
begged an lntroduction. The captain is
now president of France, aud the brave
girl Madam Mac Mai,cn