The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-25
HOW DID THIS WOMAN KNOW
rEATS THEY TELL or 4 FORTUNE
TELLER IN RINGHaNTON.

the Recovery q Lost G0ohs taer strsn6
Hold Missing Articles Fssssd Just
where che said They Would De-Thlngs
That Her Customers Can't Expaain.
BINaHAMroN, Oct 24--This In q charac-
teristically proper middle New York town,
with the regulation number OF churches
hanks, schools, mills, mill sites and dam
sites But more than this, II has q title
to distinction that outweighe all other
considerations It Ia the home Of sooth-
sayer. a real No. 1. first chop, topside sayer
of soothing things. without any discount
at all.
This oracular individual does not con-
fine herself TO mystical illusions and veiled
prophecies OF vague and unnamed good
fortune certain to come some time In the
future if you only wait long enough. She
deals in facts 40 hard and cold that they
glitter. and there n just a sufficient ad-
mixture Of past, present and future IN
them to drive them home all the harder.
Almost anybody can tell some kinds OF
facts from the past, but facts Of that sort
this woman fails TO mention. She does
business with the facts that only two or
three persons know and they usually have
a vigorous desire to keep them dark.
Her special stronghold is the recovery
Of stolen goods, or things that have been
lost, and the range Of her operations seems
to have no particular limit. For instance,
there was the case the other day Of the
Doctors wife.
She had lost valuable brooch. As usual
is such cases, it was one to which she was
attached for particular reasons. outside Of
it's intrinsic value.
1t happened that she had not worn Il for
several months, and supposed that 1t was
in the case with the rest OF her jewels.
When she had occasion to use it, it could
not be found.
There was a commotion in the house.
the brooch was the only article missing.
That seemed to dispose Of the theory that
there had been a robbery, at least by any
one outside Of the house.
There was, of course, the usual suspicion
! that some one of the servants had taken 1t,
| The house was searched from top to bottom.
| Every nook and Granny was ransacked.
| The brooch could not be found.
Because it had been gift from the ctor,
his wife was unwilling to tell him that it
\ had been lost, until every possible means
| Of recovering it had been exhausted. In
| this dilemma she thought Of the soothsayer.
Straightway she called on that remarkable
person, and, without making herself or her
errand known, received an appointment
| for the next morning.
This miracle worker does business with
| many of the usual accomplishments. You
write your given name on a slip of paper
| and turn it face down on the table. Then
you write whatever question you desire to
| ask and turn it down also.
The soothsayers eyes are closed. She
folds up the papers. with the writing inside.
| and rubs them on her head. Then the
trance begins.
The doctors wife had asked simply
where her pin was. The olairvoyant be-
gan'b describing the pin. Then she re-
marked that it had not been stolen. and that
Mrs Doctors suspicious Of her servant
were groundless.
In certain room of the house there was
a chiffonier the top of which extended back
q little in the rear Of the glass. On this
! ledge, behind the mirror, the pin was then
! lying.
Mrs. Doctor got home as quickly as she
| could. She knew the chifonier very we'll.
! 1t was in the doctors room. 1t had already
| been searched, but no one happened to look
| behind the glass. There, sure enough,
| the brooch was found.
When the doctor came home his wife
asked him about it. He remembered at
once having picked up the pin just before
they went away for the summer and put
! it there to tease his wife. Then he forgot
all about it.
Now, says the Doctors wife, how did tina,
woman know all about it? She was never
in the house and couldn't have known
ANYTHING about the chiffonier In the doctors
room.
Then there was the case Of the Angors
cat. 1t belongs to the daughter of a banker
| and had always been kept in the bank.
Not long ago the bank changed it's quar-
tiers and the kitten disappeared. Their
was a commotion of search, all in vain.
| The loss was advertised in all the cit,
papers, with offers Of reward, but will
no success. The cat did not come back.
Thcreupon the bankers daughter sale
she would consult the clairvoyant. Tn,
banker il practical man and had no faitl
| in such things, and he forbade it. Tn,
| girl was not so sceptical however, anc
she got one of her friends to make the visi,
to the soothsayer for her.
This friend went at once, and wrote OF
the slip OF paper the simple question
| Where il the cat?" The clairyoyan
went into her usual trance.
Il hear the rattle of money" she said
There is great deal of it. 1t IL In bank
She went on with some more remarks
of that sort and then got down to the
business of the cat. The questio was
told to go back to the bank at once, and
TO go up three flights of stairs to vacant
room at the rear OF the building. There
the kitten would be found shut in.
Just ~ soon AZ the bankers daughter
heard the clarvoyant's directions she
went TO the bank building and climbed
the three flights of stairs. When she neareo
the vacant room she distinctly heard tn.
kitten meowing.
The door was opened and there was thu
missing Angora, very thin and hungry
| II had been gone for about week Now
the banker says, How the devil did tia
kitten get there, and how did that woman
know it waa there"