The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-18
SECOND SIGHT.
A Country Woman Who Possessed tho
Peculiar Gift

A Country Woman Who Possessed tho
Peculiar Gift
Some forty years ago, in northeastern
Ohio, before the time of railroads and
hotels, says q writer in the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat, u woman and her hus-
band came through that section, travel
ing to the West. They stopped at my
fathers farm and stayed over night,
and in the course of the evenings con-
versation il came out that the wife, a,
fresh-faced country woman, possessed
the gift called by the Scotch second
sight, and which is now generally called
c~luirvoyancc.
She did not go into q trance to see
things. ~ just put my hand before my
eyes and look through my head" said
she. II can not explain it any other
way. My eyes are shut, but they seem
to see out through my forehead. see
them not as 1 sec with my eyes open,
but as if looked through n narrow
opening and could only see one object
at q 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 us n test.
Look and try TO see something that
concerns u.s." she said.
The woma covered her eyes, bent
her head forward, and finally said: "I
see an old gentleman, very old and very
feeble, dressed in blue broadcloth with
brass buttons and wearing a ruflcd
shirt. On his arm is an old lady in n
yellow chintz gown, with brown figures
in it. Something ais her throat; it is
muf1cd up" And so she continued,
giving III accurate description of my
grandparents, one of whom had died
three years before and the other within
q few months, and describing the dress
they most commonly wore down to tho
minutest details, which could not have
been given her by the ncighbors, for
they had even been forgotten by the
family, and were only remembered
when she mentioned them.
"Can you find things that are lost?"
asked my mother. May be you can
tell us who stole Sinon's one hundred
dollars"
The woman drew a long, quiet breath.
was not stolen, l think"
III ouIc IL WdS, SilQ 1dUncr, Il
know right where I put it, Ind when 1
looked for it it was gone"
The woman continued, however, say
ing: you leave this house by q south
door. You go down a path more than
fifty steps, then you come to the barn.
No, you do not stop there. Oh, herc it
is, you stop. 1 think it is n chicken
house. Here is q nest, and in the straw
lies the money"
Father had been lighting his lantern
as she spoke, and had it ready as she
finished, and hurried down TO the hen
house-wc children racing after him.
Sure enough, there in q deserted nest,
among broken and added eggs, lay the
roll of bills.
Il had it in my pocket when 1 was
trying to set that pesky yellow hen,"
said father, land she struggled and
fought so hat / 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 for
her services, saying hat the gift was
from God, and if she were paid for maxi
ing use Of it it would leave her. How
ever, we prevailed on her to spend n
week with us, and many old persons
low living who then lived in that sec
ton still remember her and some of the
wonderful tests she gave in finding lost
articles and telling the whereabouts Of
those absent.