The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-17
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There are mauy things that are con
| kltpred SupersritiuuS which may be
| nuIcr"ppiI.sS of natures laws. We
Scientists can trace animal life back
to tue very cicatricua of the egg.
which is an embryo living being. but
we cannot tell why two people Will ire
t,upnfly think Of the same thing at
lhe same moment In other words.
we nave never made a beginning in |
the science Of mental tefeputhy, Ell |
Their between living people or between |
the living and the dead. This is pre- |
Hminary to an experience given me |
by one of my most gifted pupils short
* after she had taken Il husband.
"PrOfeSs0r," she said. YOU relnem-
Der that once cOntided to you that |
there was a mystery in our family.
that when | was a child my nurse was
dismissed for the mere mention Of it
TO me. though she had given me no
idea of what it WAS. Well, the even
ir.s before my marriage while eXplOr-
ing a garrett for some needed article
| came upon trunk. which opened
and found to contain sundry knick-
kuacks. all evidently very old. One
was dagueTrpOtype Of a girl. anoth-
er a Dashboard boz tied with faded
ribbon, opened the box and found a
small piece Of wedding cake, dried to
crisp. Girls. you know. sleep with
wedding. cake under their pillows to
influence their dreams. | took the
piece / found away with me and that
night slept with it uUdcr my pillow.
~ dreamed this dream:
. Il WAS walking il one Of those OLD
. fashioned gardens still common in old
Npw Eu.'and and more 50 i'll the
southern STATES. nrlOSed by high
wall. Through vista of trees and
, flowers | could see the rear OF house.
Through q door opening on to porch
. came Il Young man and girl. HE
, man wore frock coat with brass but
tons profusiun of neckWear aud
trousers strapped beneath his shoes.
, He carried cane. The girls dress
-. was covered with flowers. aud her
hair. parted in the center of her head.
was Dlasterpd down over her temples.
=, The two cane toward me over walk
. bordelpd with boXwood and as they
drew near recognized the girl whose
:, duguerreotype / had seen iii the trunk
in the garrett Fhe mans face looked
familiar. but / could not place il.
sThey were talking eXcitedly. but
, what they said did not hear. indeed,
! | didn't hear their voices; ! only knew
/. they were discussing some subject OF
> vital importance to them Suddenly
A wooden door in the garden wall open
~ ed. and another man entered. He. TOO
y, was young. and dressed in sthe same
fashion as the man walking with The
: pirl On his entrance She gave a cry
n. | and the two young men stood and giaf
ed at each other There was some con
fusion in my dream from this poin
for awhile, and the next feature | re
:, member distinctly was seeing the ma'
-, VINO mad come cut Of the house VIII
- the girl pull bis walking stick in 1--WE
-, pieces. separating it just below tn
handle. The upper part was a long
thin piece of steel With it he ruShe
:; upon the man who had entered las
-, and stabbed him. The steel with
80 dawn. saw the red blood gush fortf
-. The girl fell over on bed OF flower
in faint.
Il awuke in one of those borribl
~. conditions produced by bad dream:
Had urine been the consequence 9
:, some internal aiIInent tikr indigestlo
w. | might have quietpd down and gon
-, to sleep. But my seeing in the glrl ID
person whose likeness ] had found l
- the trunk convinced NE that h'l
II been carried back 10 some scene ei
IA acted in the past Consequently la
n zlpd over it till morning and arose 9
III nv wedding day. having slept only
la few hours at breakfast father. notl
"a ing nv appearance looked at ME an:
iously and asked me if ! were i'll.
81 , told him my dream.
"a After my return from my hone
n moon father told me the family
"a cret. NV grandmother, his mothe
4 was a New Orleans creole. coQueft
she had encouraged two suitors. III
scene | had dreamed had been enact'
Il in the garden behind her father
house in that city. My grandmoti
M entered the garden with her d
lin portrait taken when he WIS abo
sM forty years old, hangs in our drawn
ssI room. No likeness of my grancmot
VII err remains. except the daguerreotyI
7 which was taken a year before
crime. Indeed. she would never ma
her portrait painted. living a retir
life. burdened by the thought that
had been the cause of the tragee
The weapon used was sword cal
much in vogue in that day.
n When the narrator ceased the
quiring look she gave me told IL
she wished to know if ! had any Il
u Dry of the natural causes that h
~ transported her back 10 witness wi
had occurred more than sfzty yef
t1u' before. / said this to her:
us las prior to the fifteenth cent?