Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-04
SIGHT .
er J. H. coNNELLY'

{ -,ns percept lohe.
 sa9's l,sntjons, and there are persons sN .at find themselves trammeled os . p ,;,n;tations. They see, hear and a'n i,,as ia remote, silent and hidden. 'pian 'ipsisnntists tell us that is due to .s;e w influence by mental v1bra- ls'nI .hicb by no means covers all 'round. othee7, who did o,g ot t,Ia chunks lps alo call the faculty "percipience lsaI,s ~ astral plane of consciousness; Sl's ,,ssr aS ell, the old Scotch name for n's @second sight. " Everybody sas assra enough of that to at least AsJ what it means, and he must be 's ,,stinately shs stupid person who will s'ssD ;,s reality, inexplicable as it may U ID You and I may not have it sui FFa. ar n even realize its possession; 'Fp~s s,hsns we cannot do all the other 7. r'ur that some folks find easy--dis. s,bing delicate gradations in tones
 J nt shades in colors, for instance, ',,a s turning handsprings.
 s's- \. more than probable that we all ,, 2 mora of this capacity in early ' I when it is loosely called s'intui- ''s, , tban we retain in later life, after s,rs been trained to distrust it and snr confidence i'll those arehtrait- mr s physical senses. and that most |.i,ble quantity we call treason. 7 As '.,1 I faculties are lost, it is quite to find, among people who have .rp up to years of indiseretion, any < ~ nOssess clear second sight, . ex. trrhaps such as have enough Gaelic dfOr it to finger in as an hereditary Bmplishment.
 Torenee Cameron was one of those ,ations "The gift of second sight aped to her, asit had to her mother, rsndmother, and yet more remote ,sstresses, and though the power had !. much weakened in transmission ahlf the stories cherished in family hr were half true-Flossy had [me5 If # to make her seem to some N quite a surprising and rather un. krDY young person. Certainly that was orly exception the severest critic I,ahaye taken to her. She was as ae. uyished as girl needs to be, good as rgrl wishes to be considered, and stYs ss all girls like to consider them. &ra Notso blond as to be colorless ol nnette as to seem murky, she was 4Rbious medium between the two, soft chestnut brown hair ill sY little wayelets and erinkles mar aaga broad white brow, and tender WI eyes full of expression and soul. Ia withal, Flossy was Q dangerous Her fortune was fair, her social lidn good and nothing could be said Ans her family. She had only one Eaar, Q young man so good that he ! Ess seemed sad, a plump and amia. mother and father absolutely safe. @he had been dead ten years. AnG Flssy was dangerous. Why? Sim because of her gift of second sight iculty of seeing things" was al Elher independent of her volition, Fa more than momentary in mani. Esion, but intensely vivid while i Ta like clear glimpses of aetua t and might be exercised upon Mor 8 total stranger, near or far, nymoment. To some extent unusual aa excitation both stimulated al36 sd the power, but she could never glt by will or prolong it even sl0n Of a second. It was as if a rap. alfting mirror in her mind from 10 tune caught instantaneous re. aaas of Whatever might happen tc ane right line of incidence. And lunately the power did not extend 11mg or intuitive understanding oi Hal meaning in things she saw. 0uld see moving the lips of per. many miles away and so know he qeaklng, but would not be able to mn any more than if he had been < moon If we make so many blum u iue, even with all our senses to ' now Is 1t natural to suppose that N should have escaped grievous V aS $, In judging things simply by Y 7, mat reflection, in it's legitimate. ~ extensions should have made
 ase with Flossy seem hazardous s"pudent young men. But it did 4 s,su occur to the mind of Algernon 4Ntly Miss Cameron's "second s,., amused and even pleased, instead suu.salng him. That she could and ssa see him when he was far away !. ~ evidenced to his thinking that as; Iuuch In her thoughts and flat ss a'M lie did not realize how diff. M sl'., some things seem under the silassl asu' that beats upon a marriage s'e Yet fate was kind enough ts l4 aa s.a ample warning.
 ,It v' ,, ,l go and play billiards again ,ss.. gs fiossy said to him one even. 1asa ),ba1, he was leaving her.
 kel,. ali not," he replied. 1T hardly aas sSay billiards now"
 Sss VI you did last night.o
 |n,o. 1one Friends 1 met would have 'svng. Ia~ But how did you know it?'
 N us one told you.a
 In. saw you" ]" She told him the
 st, s' ,, ae' knowing nothing as yet ot tses thought she was jokingly