The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-05-30

would never return; that | would g
in bathing and be drowned. 1t wOr
ries ME, for L am going to Rockawa,
next Sunday (the Sunday referred
to-, and who knows what may hap
pen -
Her fears were quoted and the triI
was made. Before starting some o.
the party (lhere were seven in it,
suggested that they 90 TO Staten island
but Minnie and her escort objected
and all at last decided on Rockaway
as the place for the days sport.
Upon arriving there (to shorten
the story the party wen. in bathing.
The seven, to avoid danger, clasped
each others hands. While laughing
and romping in the surf, a tremendous
wave dashed over the party and
swept them apart. Through the exer
tons of a gentleman and his wife,
six were brought to the shore, and
after considerable difficulty were re-
stored to life The man felt some.
thing grasp at his feet while lac was
bearing shoreward.
ONa HA!.F DROwNDED FEMALE.
but when he returned to the water
nothing of the cause could be seen.
An hour later the damp, lifeless form
Of Minnie was washed ashore,
seemingly to fulfill the prophecy CT
of the clairvovant. Minnie's body
now reposes in New Jersey cemetery.
The above is recital of facts, as
many resi- 1ents OF this city and Newark
can testify. Whether the clairvoyant's
prediction and the result We're coin
cidence, depcnent sayeth not. The
fact remains. The fact also remains
that Madame Beebe made capital out
of the circumstance, and many dol
lar flowed into her pocket as a result
of the widespread notoriety she gained
in consequence Of her prediction. The
madame died several years ago from a
cancer of the breast, after she had
made several visits to Paris to have it
successfully treated.
What follows may be relied upon
as truthful in every particular. The
interviews are given verbatim, as
closely as memory serves, no notes
having been taken on the spot, for fear
that the interviewed, who We're all
timid representatives of the soft sex,
might become aware of the fact that
their testimony was being taken for
newspaper purposes, or, in the words
of the late lamented Whatshisname,
might tumble to the racket" The
stories were gained in conversations
that were held on different occasions
during the past week, and those inter-
viewed were young ladies of unquestior-
able responsibility and standing.
"Clairvoyants?" CALCULATED one.
why, yes, I've been to them. Who
hasn't ?"
The surprised look reminded the
writer of that of the little boy who,
when asked why he didn't have his
shirt washed, replied: "Ain't got no
other" What only one shirt ?"
queried the minister. "Would yer ex.
pect Teller ter have tousand ?" ask.
ed the wonder stricken anti-waterite.
The young lady took it as matter
of course. Not to have been in the
presence of a represen tative of the
black art was to her an objectionable
siB, and any one who would own up to
being so unsophistical was to be look
ed upon as a phenomenon and a curl
osity worth gazing upon.
'How many young ladies do YOU
know who have ever visited clairvoy.
ant or clairvoyants ?"
Il could tell much better how MANY
[ know who have not visited them.
Why, is there any harm in it?"
"ls there any good?"
"Why, yes-that isl don't know
They may tell a great many things
that are not true, mere guess work,
perhaps, but they certainly do tell a |
great many things that are true"
For instance ?"
"Well, there's a friend of mine.
Nary -. She and / went to
on State street. She tells for
unes with round solid piece of glass.
t is about three inches in diameter
md stands about an inch high. She
ooked into this and went into
SIS that the first thing she did -
y No, she received fifty cents
irst."
SIS that the usual fee?"
Eyes, almost universally, if may
lse the term"