The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-08
WARNED OF DANGER.
Apparition That Saved u Woman From
Being Bitten by "a Cobra.


The following remarkable occurrence,
an absolute fact, was related by a lady
visiting friends in Hartford as it was
told her by her cousin i'll Mcerat, north
western India. 1t took place in the
house of the sister Of the narrator. OF
its absolute accuracy there can be nc
question. The two sisters III India are
connected with families Of rCpute and
with officers in the British army in In
dia. "" give the story rs the lady here
related it. She is a GcvOut member of
the Episcopal church and is incapable
Of misrcpr"S,n ting i'll the slightest par
ticUIar.
Her cousin. in whose house the occur
renee took place, was seated at "a lighted
table Engaged III reading, when. think
ing 1t about time TO retire, aud happen
ing to lift her eyes from the book, she
was astoniShcd to see seated in u chair
before her, and between herself and the
door to the bathroom, Il man, a strange
to her, who calmly regarded her. 1t was
too great Il surprise for her to speak and
demand who was thus intruding unbid-
den upon her privacy and what was
wanted. She remained for a moment in
silent establishment.
Then it gradually dawned upon her
that the figure was probably not that of
a person of real flesh and blood, but a
visitor from the unseen world Of life.
She remembered having once, as a child,
seen a similar figure, under circum-
stances which seemed to preclude the
idea that 1t was any person still in the
body, and in later years. in revolving
those circumstances, she had remember
ed how the apparition had after a little
while faded away into invisibility.
Concluding that this new visitor also
was not a person of flesh and blood, she
sat silently gazing at the silent object,
while the intruder, whoever or what
ever he was, sat also in silence, steadily
regarding her. Just how long this state
of things lasted the lady did not accu-
rately know, but it was probably not
very long, when the mysterious stranger
began to vanish into a thinner and thin
ner personal presence, until in a mo-
ment or two he had vanished quite
away.
1t was the lady's hour for her evening
bath. but she thought she would first let
her two pet dogs from their Conine~
ment in another room. They came bark
ing ~furiously and running directly to-
ward the bathroom. There, through the
open door, the lady was hoxgiticd to see
on the floor a monstrous cobra-the
whose bite is certain and speedy
death. springing forward to save her
dogs, she quickly shut the door, but not
so instantaneously as to prevent her
the reptile turning and escaping
down through a hole in the floor where
the drain pipes of bathtub and wash
bowl went-a hole which had been care
iessly left larger than was necessary.
If she had gone directly to the bath
room, as she would have done but for
the intervention of her mysterious visi-
tant, her life wou,i undoubtedly have
been sacrificed in the act.-Hartford
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many & Agents Discharged.
FOND DU LAC, June S.-The baggage
agents of the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway company at Fond du Lac, Osh-
kosh. Green Bay, Neenah, Menasha,
Stevens Point and a number OF other
important points i'll Wisconsin have
been discharged and new men installed
in their places.
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