The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-04
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SECOND SIGHT.
"A Country Woman Who Poseceood tho
Peculiar Gift.


Some forty years ngo. In northeastern
Ohio, before the time of railroads and
hotels, says writer In the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat, woman and her hus-
band came through that section, travel
ing to the West They stopped ut my
fathers farm and stayed over night,
and in tho course of the evenings con-
vcrsation it came out that the wife, n
frcsh-faccd country woman, possessed
tho gift called by the Scotch second
sight, and which Is now generally called
clairvoyancc.
She did not go into franco to SEQ
things. II just put my hand before my
eyes and look through my head" said
she. II can not explain it any other
why. My eyes are shut, but they seem
to see out through my forehead sec
them not MS sec with my eyes opon,
but as Ii I looked through narrow
opening and could only SEQ one object
ut time, but that very plainly"
Her gift was destined to be of profit
to my fathers family, for before tho
evening was over my mother begged her
TO give lis a test
Look and try to SEQ something thot
concerns u.s." she sold
The woman covered her eyes, bent
her head forward, and finally said: "I
see an old gentleman, worry old and worry
feeble, dressed In blue broadcloth with
brass buttons and wearing a ruffled
shirt. On his arm is nm old lady in a
yellow chintz gown, with brown figures
in it. Something oils her throat; 1t Is
imuffied up" And 80 she continued,
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grandparents, one Of whom had died
three years before and the othor within
~ few months, and describing the dress
they most commonly woro down to tho
minutest details, which could not have
been given her by tho ncighbors, for
they had even been forgotten by the
family, and were only remembered
when she mentioned them.
Can you find things that nrc lost?"
asked my mother. MAY DO you can
tell us who stole Simon's ono hundred
dollars"
The woman drew long. quiet breath,
and, still with covered eyes. said: ut
wns not stolen, think"
"Im sure 1t was" said father; 'T
know right where put it. md when I
looked for it it was gone"
The woman continued, however, say
ing: you leave this house by u south
door. You go down path moro than
fifty steps, then you come to tho barn
No, you do not stop there. Oh, here it
is, You stop. I thinl, 1t is chicken
house. Here Is q nest, and In tho straw
lies tho money"
Father had been lighting his lantern
as she spoke, and had 1t ready as she
finished, and hurried down to the hen
housc-we children racing after him.
Sure enough, there in deserted nest,
among broken and added eggs, lay the
roll of bills.
II had it in my pocket when I was
trying to set that pesky yellow hon."
said father, land sho struggled and
fought SO that | must have dropped it
out in the melee"
When we got back TO the house the
woman was chatting pleasantly with
mother. She would take nothing TO-:
her services, saying that the gift wac
from God, and if she were puid for MAX
ing use OF it 1t would leave her. How
ever, we prevailed on her to spend
week with us, and many old persons
now living who then lived in that Sec
ton still remember her and some of the
wonderful tests she gavo In finding lost
articles and telling the whereabouts of
those absent