The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-05-06

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1t was in
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ninth year Of ha Il IS
Of Edward V. s
maker and whe #
little village of B {
from the Hudson v
the old lady lay a SON Is
9ropped up with pillows.
widows facing the south
through the latter bean
came into the room and ST = - y
almost lovingly, up the form ON IS
ing woman until it reached her faSs
Mrs. Thomas loved the sunlight, az
would not allow it to be shut out. The
curtain on the south window-which is
the front one-was raised by her re-
quest, and from her place she saw all
that went past in the street.
She had always had curious eyes, her
neighbors say, but this day they seemed
to possess almost second sight. They
were large and lustrous, doubly so at
the present time, when her face was
thin and wasted. The irises were gray,
yet on each peculiar brown spots had
always existed.
On this morning she seemed to see
everything. Once she burst out laugh
ing. what is it, mother?" asked her
daughter, Mrs. Elsie Cadmus of Wash
ington, who had come home to help
nurse her.
ooh, those hats!'' said the invalid,
still chuckling
Her daughter ran to the window and
saw couple of eolored women who had
passed on the opposite side of the street,
wearing wonderful compositions of the
flower garden order. A little later she
remarked on man passing on the next
street. She mentioned him by name,
though how she discerned him through
the shrubbery and other intervening
things is wonder hard to explain.
At 10 a. m. she asked to see a photo
graph of her sister-in-law, Mrs. S. j.
Raby, which had just arrived by mail.
Her daughter got her glasses-a pair
of old fashioned 'tnippers" and adj
justed them on her nose. Mrs. Thomas
did not touch them with her fingers.
She studied the photograph for minute
intently, then gave it up with sigh.
She could scarcely see it, she said. She
was growing very weak and her vision
was getting dim. AS she looked, how
ever, the little pencil of light reached
her face and travelled to her eye. The
glasses were taken off, folded together
and tossed into little cup on the man.
tel shelf. That night she died. Four
days afterward Mrs. Cadmus acciden-
tally picked up the glasses. She saw
something on them which looked like a
smudge, and tried to wipe it off. But
it did not wipe off.
She looked closer, gave a gasp of as
tonishment and almost dropped the
glasses. For there, printed on the lenses
in outlines so sharp that it almost
seemed as if they had been scratched
with a diamond, were the counterfeit
presentments of the irises and pupils of
Mrs. Thomas eyes. 1t seemed as if they
had hoen nhOtooranhod fbaro hv co1,oo
new process which the scientists have
not yet discovered.
On closer inspection it was discover
ed that one of the imprints was on the
outside of the lens, while the other was
on the inside. This led to the belief
that they were the positive and mega
tive of single eye. Not only were the
outlines of the eyes shown, but there
were faint indications of the brown
spots also.
This is the wonder that is amazing
the good people of Fishkill village, and
none more SO than the immediate fam
/ lily. They are anxious to have science
investigate it, feeling that perhaps some
/, new principle of light may be discover
ed as interesting if not as valuable as
the so called x ray.
Mrs. Thomas died of heart failure.
She had been long sufferer from heart
disease. There was nothing outre or out
landish about her life or nature. She
was simple countrywoman, with no
leanings toward the occult or anything
OF that nature. New York World.