The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-01-15
CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER V.
THE MYSTERY Of TIE EXPECTED RoBBER.
G ONALD rONALDSON, JR.,
81 G was born May 2. 1881 lie
ill., was the healthcSt and alto
gether the finest child that
ever came into TIE world. the most de-
sired. the hest loved And whimsical
nature eXacted the smallest possible
price of pain for him.
Yet permit me 10 reconsider that
ctItcncEt In the light of a better phi
lcSophy. There are those who say that
In adversely one need not shout for the
awakening Of The gods nor in the day
of superahundancc dread il: that moth.
ing comes which is not earned 1t may
be that young mother reaped no more
than tie just reward OF consistent right
livirg from her earl:e%; g:rlhood. How
ever that may BE-. "''. fact remains
that oil things We. icrcdibly we'll
Rehold Dorothy. as pretty MS ever and
not day older, tripping about the
house With Il song; behold the boy,
healthy as q young lion and roaring,
when he roared. for his own good
pleasure and not for any i'll.
Hackett propbcsied great things Of
him. believing that his exploits would
some day peccssitate a revised edition
of our psychic Facts" work that
was. then complete except for the last
section, which Hackett wished to en-
title THE Real Facts" despite the
impAtation upon the accuracy of the
preceding portions.
AS to his hopes of young Donald my
partner spoke only once in the pres
ence Of the boys parents.
You'd have thought ! had accused
him Of being cross eyed" said he to me
in describing the incident, and there
after we discussed the subject strictly
In private.
Our book eventually went to the
printer, but Hacbett never saw it in
binding. He>was stricken with an i'll.
ness which rushed on to q fatal ter.
mination in such haste that it seemed
all over in day, and was standing by
the grave Of my oldest friend. After.
ward ] could hardly bear to look at the
book upon which. we had labored to.
gether. left everything to others. 1t
had small success and was soon for.
gotten, though recent events have led
the publishers to print some thousands
of copies from the old plates. The work
Is full Of unfounded belief and equally
unfounded doubt am proud only of
tie former, which was mostly Hack.
etts. A natural. honest. seemingly
baseless belief is probably founded up
on the knowledge of the ages and the
souls sympathy with infinite WISDOM
but your doubt is likely to be your
own. and you should be the more mod.
est in the expression Of it.
Pardon this depression about "Psy
chic Facts" The psychic fact with
which this present record principally
concerns itself is Donald Donaldson,
Jr.. and from this point onward l shall
stick closely to him. have given a
view Of his parents because that was
absolutely necessary to an understand
ing Of his nature and of the events in
which he took part. l shall now very
briefly sketch his youth, which was
unmarked by any incident out of the
ordinary.
He was healthy baby and q sturdy,
active schooiboy when the years had
brought him onward to that stage of
life. Mentally he was too quick to re.
quire diligence. The tasks in the Tun.
bridge schools were easy for him, and
he led his classes without effort 1t
must be remembered. however that no
other pupil had equally good home
training. His mother was teacher
1both by nature and by instruction. He
might have advanced more rapidly un-
der her care alone, but the public school
is part of our creed in Tunbridge. If
any school in the town had not been q
good place for Donald, we should not
have taken him away. We should
have made the school better.
While upon this subject will quote
curious remark that once heard a
little girl make to another in Don's
hearing and somewhat in the way of
tauht:
Don Donaldson always knows what
the teachers going to ask him. He
guesses it before recitation and hunts
1t up In his book"
3 ] questioned the little girl. but could