The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-10
A GL|MMER FROM
BEHIND THE CURTAIN
BY SUSAN P. LowRIE.
Copyright. 1908. by American Press Asso-

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copyright 1903. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
There are many things that are con
sidered superstitious which may be
outcroppings of natures laws. We
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 ut
the same moment In other words.
we have never made Il beginning in
The science of mental telepathy, eli
Their between living people or between
the living and the dead. This is pre-
liminary to an experience given ,ne
by one of my most gifted pupils short
ly after she had taken Il husband.
Professor" she said. you remeln-
Der that ! once confded to you that
there was mystery in our family,
that when | was 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
ing before my marriage while explor-
ing garnet for some needed article
came upon trunk. which ! opened
and found to contain sundry knick-
knacks, all evidently very old. One
was d daguerreotype of girl. anoth.
er pasteboard box tied with faded
ribbon. opened the boz and found a
small piece Of wedding cake, dried, to
a 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 under my pillow.
~ dreamed this dream:
Il was walking in one of those old
fashioned gardens still common in old
New England. and more so in the
southern states. inclosed by high
wall Through vista Of trees and
Through door opening on to a porch
came Il young man and a girl. The
man wore Il frock coat with brass but
tons. Il profuSion OF neciwear and
trousers strapped beneath his shoes
He carried cane. The girls dress
WAS covered With flowers and her
hair, parted in the center of her head.
was plastered down over her temples
The two came toward me over Il walk
bordered with lockwood. and as they
drew near recognized the girl whose
daguerreotype | had seen in the trunk
in the garnet. The mans face looked
familiar. but | could not place it.
] .SI'hnv tnlI-inr Iy I,rt
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
Il wooden door in the garden wall open
ed. and another man entered. He. too
was young and dressed in the same
fashion us the man walking with the
girl. On his entrance she gave cry.
and the two young 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 i'll two
pieces. separating it just below the
handle. The upper part was long,
thin piece Of steel With it 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.
IL awoke in one of those horrible
conditions produced by bad dreams
Had mine been the consequence OF
some internal aiment like indigestion
might have Quoted down and gone
to sleep. But my seeing in the girl the
person whose likeness | had found il
the trunk convinced me that hao
been carried back to some scene en-
acted in the past Consequently l puz
zled over it till morning and arose OF
J my wedding day, having slept only ;
few hours. At breakfast father. motto
ing my appearance, looked at me anx
iously and asked me if were ILL.,
told him my dream
After my return from my honey
moon father told me the family Sc
cret My grandmother. his mother
5 was New Orleans creole. A coquerte
she had encouraged two sutors. Th
scene had dreamed had been enacte
in Inc garden behind her father
house in that city. My grandmotEe
had chosen the young man who ha
entered the garden with her. Hi
, portrait. taken when he was abo,l
| forty years old, hangs in our DRAWN
room. No likeness of my grancmotl
err remains. except the daguerreotyp'
which was taken year before tn
crime Indeed, she would never hav
:. her portrait painted, living retire
: life. burdened by the thought that sl
had been the cause Of the TRACED.
Che weapon used was sword can
much in vogue in that day."
When the narrator ceased the il
: quiring look she gave me told tn;
3 she wished to know if had any tn
/ DRY Of the natural causes that ha
!. transported her back to witness VIII,
/ had occurred more than sixty veal
s before. ] said this to her:
"As prior to the fifteenth centul