The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-03-12

avoid tho deepest snow. how he came
~ the rail fence which separated the TWO
farms. and walked along 1t Tor some
distance. looking for convenient spot
TO limb o"sr. go, 49,.
said "for he waited here at the fence
fer a long time. on the other side OF
IL are some deep drifts OF snow, anu
there you will find him"
And there they found him. after FOL,
lowing the course described by the ola
woman. his body covered by the snow.
Another case, I'm which the WHO"
Wades faculties were employed LOT a
more trivial matter. IS vouched Tor .. -
]. Frank, farmer living near Castlle.
AR FRANK says mat one day TWO ytuhS
fellows drove up 10 his house. and said
they had heard that he had sugar eVap-
orator TO sell Mr.. Frank tod t'fhi
his price for the cvaporatcr. ana CIV
ing them the key to his sugar-house' sent
them down TO the maple grove 10 '@'"
at It, Presently they came BACK. ..
"it's a coed evaporator." said one. but
We can't pay what you ASK LOT t"o p''''
are gone" ,ar,s
were missing. for he had locked me sus s.'.
house; but when he came 70 ION ,,',ss,us,
enough. TWO OF the pans were ll''sSi ,i',,,
He told the men to come PACK III - ~
davs and meantime he visited the WIDOW
Wade. She told him that the men nau
taken the pans and hidden them uilusr
a certain brush-heap in a nelshD .,.,.i.
woods, quarter OF ille """''
the pans were found.
Rom fbese end many other cases are
atttested rot only by the persons directly
interested but also by conspicuous mel
of the town. Whether II Is case or iost
cattle. stolen goods. or runaway chiidreh,
the Widow Wade IS called upon 10 sec
Mrs Wade said she learned 70 her
power by accident long before she pc
came n widow. On the farm where she
lived when a young woman a iooi n"a
been lost She found IT by looking III 4
glass Later she found other Things IN
the same way. until 4 came TO be accepted
by her family that her vision was not
bounded by ordinary physical parIIc.s'
Many years ago a murder was couliilie-
ted in Wyoming county After an unsuc-
cessful hunt for the murderer, the az. lJl-
ities went to the Widow Wade. she look
ed in her glass and then described enc Ol
the men who had been active IN the
search for the murderer as me ildi WV
had done the killing. The man was dc-
cused and he confessed. The WIDOW uo-S
not pretend to be infallible: at least she
cannot always see the object SOUGHT us
tinctlv enough to locate 1t exactly. LAST
spring John Z. Myers, of the Builalo
commission firm OF Myers, WOODWARD q
Drake. Republican politician, ulsdp-
peared, leaving shortage In ms ~
counts. Some of his frlends cohSuIleu VIZ
Widow Wade. After looking in her glass
she said that the missing man had gone
first west. then east, and that he was
AT that time in a ship upon the ocean.
But here her sight ceased. Myers wa
traced from his home near Butaio' wesI
TO that city, and thence to New YORK,
where, 1t is believed, he embarked lor
South America.
Or. W. A. McFarlane, local physician
OF reputation. who had been acquainted
with Mrs. WaGe's career for many Years.
told the reporter:
81 do not. of course, pretend 10 UNDER
stand how Mrs. Wade Is able 10 40 these
things. but that she has done all thaI
YOU have heard, and more, there ean De
no question. l sometimes believe thAt
there are some persons who possess pow
ers which are undeveloped in the ordinary
Individual. Perhaps Mrs. Wade IS one OF
the favored few. Her sincerity l cannot
doubt. IL is impossible 10 suspect s1ch
a woman Of duplicity, and besides, hu-
plicity il not In any way an explain
alton. New York sun.