Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-13
Inanimate Objects Tell Him of Scenes
Through Which They Passed and
Persons With Which They
Have Come in Contact

from inns limo ElilmaS fame grow
greater. Foreigners heard OF linn. AMI
they came, giving him money 10 tell
them things. a. NJ. Robinson, the well
known traveller, ran mp from Yanada
To visit the buy in his home ami learn
Tor himself regarding his strange
powers.
He tells the following story regard
ing his interview:
IN - years travel among Oriental
people have learned not To hiShrlicvc
until know One cannot rathum the
depths of these half-mysiic natures.
found an ordinary. bright looking .Iapa-
ucsc boy, who spoke some English. be.
cause his father was in the curio trade
ana he had heard the tourists talk. |
spoke with him in Japanese.
THE wonderful stories hat the ma.
lives of Iakka-ichi told concerning
him made me think That perhaps he
was Il sort Ut freak. gifted with great
powers OF deduction or Il vivid imaGin-
alton Frankly, | was prepared to go
further, and admit that he might pos
Scss something Of ocultistic insight.
But | was totally unprcparcd for what
] found lie told mo that he did not
know ut all how he know things.
How do You icll?' I asked
~ look at II thing, and pictures
com" before me- he said.
DO YOU hear nnythlng?'
No. | scr the words spoken hear
nothing see IL man Ills lips move.
know what he says but do not hear.
Once | heard music. hit that time |
was just waking from IL dream
''i)o you dream milch?'
e 'NpS | tjrpntn tlIiupc lint ihn
dreams are not always true. What !
see is always true
Did any one ever tell you anything
about men who had second sight?
No What is that? Is il like mo-
Satisfied that he had never been
coached, questioned him about his
education. He has little. but can read
and write well and figure rapidly. as
most merchants SONS can do With.
out bit of warning put my hand in
tn my pocket and drew forth IL silver
piece, two inches in tlinmcntcr. which
always carry. There is Il round hole
In one edge, on one side are hands
claspctl. ami I'm the other is the bust
OF James Madison
This silver piece was dug up by
my grandfather in Scluto county, Ohio,
years ago. There was no Glow to its
origin except that in our family il was
stated that the medal, ur coin. was
one of dozen or more given by prcsi-
,lcnt James Madison to tho Miami In
dans
Holding this piece in my hand ]
asked: Did you ever hear of James
Maidstone
NO said the hoy. who was he?
DO you know what an Indian is?
| 'ln,lian--O. yes. My father gets
curiOs from India
No | mean II North American In
| diali--a rcdman."
| Americans are white and have
much money he said. Then handed
| him the piece
The boy held il in his hand. turnct
| II over examined il curiously. What
do yon see asked.
| l see Il big white building he said
slowly. in a big city. There is IL crowt
of white men and one, two. seven, Mint
rcd men. The red man-thc big rec
man. with the feathers in his hair
promises he will bc the friend of thu
white miiado. The white miliad,
shakes hands with the red NOR am
| gives them silver pieces like this
| "Astoundcd. simply sat and siarc'
| 1T tIlt DDN. llt WIS sun lDDklIp IL
| the coin and was greatly Interested
Did you see all that in the picture?
| asked.
red man is dead. They have killed
his horse his little spotted horse
They have put Him on Il platform
above the ground. All his people weep
lis bow and arrow and his gun and
N sl. al. IN, ln1 /.
around his neck. was dumioundcd
suddenly remembered that, when Il
boy. my grandfather told me that Vel
low Horse. chicilain. had died near
our town in Ohio and had been buried
on Il platform. | remembered distinct
~ that he described the killing of the
horSc--a Pinto, Of which the chief was
proud. | remembered that he told me
there was trouble between tho whites
and Indians because the chiefs body
was disturbed ana some of his be-
lonrines taken. had forgotten all
about the story until that Japanese
boy told ii to me again.
Il have since learned through
friends vino, al my request, Investigate
I'd government records NJ Washington.
that yellow Horse was AT The head of
the delegation of Indian that visited
Washington during Madison's term,
and that Especial medals were struck
III honor Of the visit and presented TO
the cliicf and his followers"
Other foreigners have tested the
boy, but Il few weeks ago government
agents held an interview with his
father and stopped the exhibition of
his powers, requesting the father to
sec that the bog reserved his gifts for
The use Of his country.
Recently. il is known, blank papers
and small articles picked up in Kuro.
patkin's headquarters AT Mikdcn have
hrrp t.ItlIbtit. tod ~, III, h,,, L..