The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-06-16
A GL|MMER FROM
BEHIND THE CURTAIN
BY SUSAN p. LowRiE.
tCopyright. 1903, by American Press Asso
ciation.J

scientists can trace animal life back
TO the very cicatricula of the egg.
which is an embryo living being. but
we cannot tell why two people will fire.
quently think Of The same thing at
the same moment. In other words.
we have never made beginning In
the science of mental telepathy. ell
ther between living people or between
the living and the dead. This Is pre-
liminary to an experience given me
by one of my most gifted pupils snort
ly after she had taken a husband.
professor" she said. "you remem-
Der that ! once contided to you that
there was mystery In our family.
that when | was child my nurse was
dismissed for the mere mention of II
To me. though she had given me no
idea NJ what II was. Well. the even.
ing before my marriage while explor-
ing gaI"et for some needed article
came upon y trunk. which | opened
aud foi,nd to contain sundry kuick.
knacks. all evidently very old. one
was II daguerrputyp' of girl, anoth-
er Il pastebUard box led with faded
ribbon. opened the box and found u
small piece of wpddil cake. dried to
crisp Girls. you know. sleep with
wedding cake under heir pillows to
influence their dreunn' | took the
piece found away witt me and that
night slept with II under my pillow.
II dreamed this dream:
II was walking IN one of those old
fashioned gardens still common IN old
New England and more So In the
southern states. inclOsrd by "A high
wall. Through vista of trees and
flowers could see the rear uf II house.
Through door opening on To n porch
came n young man and n girl. The
man wore n frOck coat with brass but,
tons. prOtllSiOn of npckwpar and
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 plastered down over her temples.
The two came toward me over II walk
bordered with wood, and ms they
drew near recognized the girl whose
daguerreotype | had seen in The trunk
IN the garret. The mans face looked
familiar. but | could not place 1t.
''They 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
wooden door In the garden wall open
ed and another man entered. lie. too.
was young ana dressed IN the same
fashion as the man walking with the
girl. On his entrance she gave cry,
and the two yonng men stood and glar'
ed at each other. There was some con
fusion In my dream from this point
for awhile. and the next feature | re-
member distinctly was seeing the man
VINO had come out of the house with
the girl pull his walking stick in two
pieces, separating it just below the
handle. The upper part was long,
thin piece of steel. With II he rushed
upon the man who had entered last
and stabbed him. The steel with
drawn. ! saw the red blood gush forth.
The girl fell over on bed of flowers
in faint.
81 awoke In one of those horrible
conditions produced by bad dreams.
Had mine been the consequence of
some internal ailment like indigestion
| might have -quieted down and gone
to sleep. But my seeing In the girl the
person whose likeness ] had found In
the trunk convinced me that | had
been carried back to some scene en-
acted In the past. Consequently / puz-
zled over II till morning and arose on
my wedding day, having slept only a
ing my appearance, looked at me anx'
iously and asked me II l were Ill.
told him my dream.
"After my return from my honey
moon father told me the family Sc
cret. My grandmother, his mother
was a New Orleans creole. A coquette
she had encouraged two sultors. The
scene | had dreamed had been enacted
In the garden behind her fathers
house in that city. My grandmother
had chosen the young man who had
entered the garden with her. His
portrait. taken when he was about
forty years Old, hangs In our drawing
so0m. No likeness of my grandmoth
er remains. except the daguerreotype
which was taken a year before the
crime. Indeed, she would never have
her portrait painted, living retired
life, burdened by the thought that she
had been the cause Of the tragedy
The weapon used was a sword cane
much in vogue in that day"
When the narrator ceased the In
quiring look she gave me told that
she wished to know If l had any the
ory of the natural causes that hat
transported her back to witness whaI
had occurred more than sixty years
before. said this to her:
GAS prior to the fifteenth century
there was a vast continent-America-
unknown, except through report, t
the people of the world, there Is ant
has always been realm OF spirit
/ co.tl oon a. xuhaf Won Ufil- ~ hnQl