The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-08-27

mo, Alphonse,' said Miss Ethel
Hardinge, and as she spoke the words
she sighed gently, lit cannot be. | re-
spect you; l hold you in the highest
esteem, but | do not love you as I
feel that l must love the man whom
| would marry, and-oh, | I'm so sor-
ry!"
/ said | was sorry. too, and | GER
tainly was.
And there is no hope for me what
ever?" l continued.
II wish for your sake there were but
mo, there is none"
And l suppose it would be best that
this should be our last meeing?' I
bIokenly suggested.
Again Miss Hardinge sighed. Eyes.
| suppose So she then replied, "un-
less-unless-if you would be willing
that should be a sister
l declined, | already have three or
four sisters of that sort and for some
time past l have experienced an un-
easy feeling lest the sister market
might become over stocked. Then,
having gently but firmly declined the
sister proposition, I took my hat and
departed for my home in the city.
But If anybody supposes that / had
given up all hope of winning Miss
Hardinge's hand and heart, he does
not know my indomitable resolution.
That very evening | visited a lady who
enjoys converse with the unseen world
Of spirits. Her revelations were mar
velous-marvelous,
Il see,' she said, as soon as she had
gone into a trance condition, Il see a
tall man dressed all in black. Do %
recognize him?'
| told her that l did not; that her
description was somewhat incom-
plete, as numbers of my departed
friends were tall and were wont to
wear black clothing while still in life.
"Oh, the blindness of mortalsi" muir
INJURED the medium. THE one who
comes to me has a full beard. Do you
recognize him now?"
| told her that | still groped.
II says" continued the medium
that he entered the world of spirits
sixty-four years ago last November"
| tried to explain that this might &C
count for my not recognizing a
hurried description of him, but the
lady paid no attention to my inter-
ruption.
He says that he has a great grand
daughter, a most beautiful maiden,
with eyes of heavenly blue and golden
hair"
The wonder of the occult, the Won
der! Could any description of Miss
Ethel Hardinge be more surprisingly
accurate? To be sure, some individ-
uals have referred to her hair as a
plain carrot red, but the lucubrations
OF jealous minds are unworthy of
heed. For my part l was startled by
this accuracy of description.
This great granddaughter" the
lady continued, lis in love with you
(Ch! blissful thought) but she does
not know it." Il sighed.) This lack
Of knowledge on her part is due TO
the Vaccinations of an enemy of
yours, a medium-sized, dark man
(Just as l expected-that internal
FergusonD Him you will soon over
come by means Of a wonderful inven-
ton which you are about to make.
see wheels and-and-things. Then
you will marry the girl with the blue
eyes and golden hair, and will be hap
py. Two dollars, please!'
From the latter remark | inferred
that the seance was at an end, and the
inference was correct. I paid the 81.
and went away greatly comforted and
gladdened.
So Ethel loved me; only she did not
know 1t. Well, mine should be the
pleasing task of enlightening her and
at the same time circumventing that
v.llainous Ferguson. To that end I
would invent would invent-well,
something remarkable.
| went home and tried to think Of
something to invent, but 1t was slow
work. for at first | could think of
nothing but a remedy for bunions, and
I could not believe that it would en-
courage love much.
So l thought and thought. and slow
ly, slowly, the great idea came to me.
The medium had mentioned wheels,
and from the thought of these to that
of Hindu praying wheel was a step
natural and easy for the mind to take.
| took 1t. am aware that it is the
custom of our Occidental civilization
to sheer at the East Indian and his
praying wheel. but am convinced that
this sheer is born OF intolerant ig-
ncrance. And there is a scientific basis
for this conviction not alone in the