Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1910-01-14
A GLIMMER FROM
BEHIND THE CURTAIN
BY SUSAN 2. LowRlE.

scientists can trace animal life back
to the very cicaricuM Of the egg.
which Is an embryo living being. but
we runnot tell why two people will FIRE.
gucntly think of the same thing at
the same moment In other words.
we have never made beginning in
the science of mcutal telpputhy, Ell
Their between living people or between
the living aud the dead. This is pre-
liminary to an experience given me
by one of my most gifted pupils short
~ after she had taken Il husband.
Professor" she said. you rcnem-
Der that once contdod to you that
there was q mystery in our family.
that when / was child my nurse was
dismissed for the mere, mention of it
to ne. though she had given me no
idea Of what it was. VOL. the c"c0-
ing before NY marriage while eXplOr-
ing garrett for some needed article
| came upon Il trunk. which | opened
and found to contain sundry knick
knacks. all evidently very old. One
was a daguerrpotype of girl. anoth-
ribbon. | opened the box aud found Il
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
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. Enclosed by a high
wall Through Il vista OF trees and
flowers ! could see the rear of Il house.
Through Il door opening Oh to Il porch
came young man and girl The
man wore frOck coat with brass but
tons. profuSiOn of neckwear and
trousers strapped beneath his shoes.
He carried II 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
burdpred with lockwood, and as they
drew near | recognized the giri whose
dnguerreotype / had seen in the trunk
in the garrett The mans face looked
familiar. but could not place it.
They were talking eXcitedly. but
what they said l-dld 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 Il 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
wnU 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 IL he rushed
upon the man who had entered last
and stabbed him The steel with
dawn. saw the red blood SuSb forth.
The girl fell over on Il 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 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-
2led over it till morning and arose on
my wedding day. having slept only
few hours. At breakfast father. motto
ing my appearance. looked ut me anX-
iously and asked me if / were i'll. |
told him my dream.
after my return from my honey
moon father told me the family Sc
cret. My grandmother. his mother
WAS Il New Orleans creole. a coquettc.
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 yeHrS old. hangs in our drawing
room. No likeness of my grancmoth-
a. remains. except the daguerreotype.
which was taken IL year before the
crime. Indeed. she w0uld never have
her portrait painted, livlag a retired
life. burdpned hy the thought That she
had been the cause Of the tragedy.
The weapon used was sword cane.
much in vogue in that day"
When the narrator ceased The in
curing look she gave me told that
she wished to know if | had any the
orr of thu natural OouSps th3t had