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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1906-12-06, Page 71. • •q«DwR-D»pC,•q,•1nR«qxR••DxD••D-,nq..q.,,»}wiwgxRwi»DwR.,,"y 4«l.,,qnR»R»R"R»R„R„R•,R,M»q„4„fM•'Mq„q»q.r� �.i D NALD Being a True Record and Explanation of the Seven Mysteries Now Associated With ills Name In the Piddle Mind, and of an Eighth,, Whkh is the Key of the Seven SON, JR. Copyril;hCl ae�i'les Sv, Hooke 4 By HOWARD FIELDING •R-RwR«qwq••qwq-D»DwDwD,•IwDwiwDwDwlwl-DwgwDxD,NnDwD,M-DxD»D»i»D xiwD,•Du.xq»wD-.xDMwgwD•N-1«Dwh� CHAPT1l R T. Tug rnonvels. HAVE known Donald Donaldedn, I Sr., ever since he was born; in- deed, I may say, much longer. r There is an entry about him in My diary under date of March 10, 1877. ' and that Is about four years before he saw the light and nearly two years be- fore I first heard of either of his par- ents or they of each other. In plain words, he was an ideal of mine, a sub- ject of speculation and study, a dweller In my brain before bo had an actual existence, so that he might be a tenant Of my heart. It is singular that two romances. many mysteries and a very startling tragedy should hang upon so small and commonplace a peg as this which I shall show you. Twenty odd years ago I made an appointment with Stephen Hackett, then my partner and since deceased, to meet him in a New York bookstore, choosing the place simply, because it was convenient. I was ahead Of him and of the hour, indeed, and ;while waiting I took utile volume en- titled "Psychic Marvels," by an Eng- lish writer whom I now perceive to have been both credulous and menda- cious, a man to believe a good lie and Improve it In the telling. In those days, however, I had read little, and the book appealed to me as a scientific presenta- tion of a subject of great interest and Importance too often shunned by prac- tical men and left to be the sport of im- postors. . When Hackett arrived, I was sitting (pn top of a small stepladder on rollers, 31 device common in bookshops, while two polite clerks were vainly endeavor- ing to gain my attention for the pur- pose of telling me that the business of the establishment was suffering for lack of that ladder. I bought "Psychic l.farvels," and we devoted the evening to it, Sackett and I, in the library of my house in Tunbridge, N. J. Now, if you please, that was the cause of Donald Donaldson, Jr. If I had not suggested the bookstore as a place of meeting, if that particular vol- ume had not caught my eye, perhaps even if the stepladder had not been placed handily for me to sit upon, there would be no story for me to tell. But some one built the store, and some One wrote the book, and some one else (was the father of the author, and an - Other was his grandfather, and so on back to the monkey who was the an- teater of them all, not to go further. Tracing causes is a famous old amuse - Intent of our race, though we know el - 'ready that the whole past of the uni- verse is the cause of every blade of grass, even as that blade itself is an essential prop of the whole future. It Is a- worthy effort, however, to see as pouch of this vast skein as we can, and he is ',wisest who sees most, pro- vided that be does not fancy that he sees alt which exists even in the small portion that is under his eye. , To resume my story, Hackett and 1 ispent a studious evening with "Psy- chic Marvels," sitting up so late that neither of us was fit for business on the following day, and we were led to read many other books and to engage et last in a practical, common sense Investigation of an interesting subject. The firm of Ilackett & Harrington manufactured carpets -still does so, in fact -and keeps the name, though my partner long since closed his earthly account and went to meet another 'which could not have been one to Shame him. I hope my own may be as good, for it must soon be closed.' Tunbridge people began to call me "old" John Harrington a matter of ted years ago, However, In the days of which I am now wrltiug I was a young Wan of forty-two, and Hackett was not lunch older. We had made a good bit Of money in our business, and both of us had been fortunate in outside In- vestments, so that we felt very secure. The time had Come when we might (afford to relax the pressure under Which we had labored since boyhood and to take more ease and pleasure in the world. But the opportunity to en- joy Is one thing and the power is an- other. I had little appetite for amuse- s e none. and Hackett had e n n. We were uneducated wen, with narrow so- cial interests, and, to be brief about it, the really did not know what to do with ourselves. Unlike many others in the same situation, however, we knew what was the matter with us -we need- ed mental exercise, This decision we bad reached before the Englishman's book fell into our hands and offered an acceptable suggestion. If we had not chosen to investigate psychic phe- nomena, the hidden wonders of the hu- man mind, we should have -followed some other line, with a less definite re- sult perhaps. It would be singular It two trained business men, with thoroughly practi- cal minds, accustomed from their youth to deal with hard facts, should fail to accomplish anything in such an under- bi?lting. We approached the subject without prejudice. When we discussed the matter in the light of the blazing logs in my library, Hackett would be the skeptic on a Tuesday evening and I on a Wednesday. We never agreed in those early stages except upon a statement of the first essential of the investigation. As to that, we never differed. We decided to base our work upon the wisdom of the old proverb which says, "First catch your rabbit, and then cool. bim." Thera is no doubt whatever that nearly all inankind have tried to cook this particular rabbit be- fore catching h4.. Suppose we take the psychic problem In its simplest form, which used to be called clairvoyance, and I still think that that `is the best term for it. IN there upon record one single genuine case of it, proved beyond doubt? Hack- ett and l read fifty books and failed to find an Instance based upon such evi- eence as we would accept in our busi- ness. Yet where there Is so much smoke there must be a little fire, and, using this crystal of popular wisdom as a touchstone in the matter, I would be willing to assert that one ten - millionth of the labor wasted in base- less discussion of doubtful facts would have sufficed to give the world enough genuine facts to satisfy all candid THE WI Gil A31 T11ES, bECENIBER 6 1906 o was white engaged hi a fruation WELL EL KNOWN though not uninteresting investigation f� /� KNOWN ette in Boston that we came quite by acci- dent upon the most important Informa- tion. We made the acquaintance of a IN JAMS, ONT.: young physician named Harold 'Whit- who was then and Is today one of the most honest minded men in the llaldimand County Councillor tells not lie oven to himself, and there aro ©W SyClllne cured his few of whom so much earl be said. He Lung Troubles was amusing himself with experiments in the matter of peculiar capacities and knowledge exhibited by persons in the «1 contracted a series of colds from the hypnotic state, but confessed that he changing weather,” says Mr. Bryce Allen, bad found no facts upon which con- a well-known resident of Jarvis, Ont., and elusions of any importance could be a member of Haldiniand County Council basso, , for his district, and gradually my lungs became affected. I tried medicine and We discovered that his thought bad doctors prescribed for me, but got I no been turned into this chs nol by a re- i relief. With lungs and stomach diseased, markable occurrence wh1, he had wit- nervous, weak and wasted, I began to use tressed, but we had considerable difi3- 1 Psychine, With two months' treatment I eulty in persuading him to say any- I ound regained belle I am as and givell tlhe credit to thing more upon the subject. It aP- i psychine," peered that he was under some sort of 1 There is a proof of what Psychine does. pledge to the matter. It not only cures Colds and kills the germs "There is a friend of mine, now in i ofLaGrippe, Pneumonia and Consumption, New York," said be, "who received a . but it helps the stomach, makes pure, rich psychic message from his brotber, who' blood and spreads general health all over was then upon the other side of the ; the body. You will never have Consump- world. This thing happened under cir- tion if you use cumstances which matte doubt itnpos- • • - world. I believe that 'VVhittng would sable. 1 was pre: est when the message was received. I know the story In all Its details, but I cannot give you the facts nor tell you the man's name be- cause I gave him nay word that I would not disclose them." Perceiving our disappointment, he expressed sincere regret, and by way of atonement he gave us the name of a young woman in New haven whom it might be worth our while to see. "I received a letter about her some lime ago from an instructor in psychol- ogy at Yale, an old friend of mine," said he. "My friend and several other members of the faculty are investigat- ing the case, and they regard it as gen- uine and important. The girl's name is Dorothy Vaughn. She is an orphan and lives with her aunt, Mrs. Eustis, who bas had certain occult experiences herself, as I am told." He gave us the address of Mrs. Eus- tis and the name of his friend. His reference to the fact that unusual pow- ers appeared both in the aunt and the niece led to a general discussion of the restriction of such powers and their persistence in families. No one who has given the subject any study can doubt that these traits are hauded down from generation to generation. Often a vague family tradition leads back to the true psychic whose powers. weakened by admixture with a com- tnon strain, reappear to flicker uncer- tainly in the present day. Hackett seemed to find much mate- . sial for thought in this conversation. He did not contribute largely to it, be- ing a man of a slow mind and of few words, but some days tater, while we were on tho way to New Haven, he suddenly emerged froth a reverie to say: YCNI (Pronounced Si -keen) 50c. Per Bottle Larger n}zen 81 and 82 -all druggl;ts. DR. T. A. SLOCUM, Limited, Toronto. minds. 1 "I wonder what would happen if two Have patience with me; I am get- of them should marry?" ting the philosophy of the subject out When I had found out what he was of the way as fast as I can. The es- talking about, I agreed with him that sentiai point is that Hackett and I the experiment would be very inter - went out to catch a real rabbit -in oth- esting if there were any way of mak- er words, a. human being who had had Ing it. Hackett suggested that we a genuine "supernatural" message. should go forward into the smoking car, and when we were there and he had smoked a part of a long cigar he said: , "I don't see who. there isn't." I replied with the argument that two persons of opposite sexes, possessing powers now commonly called occult, must be naturally antipathetic, so that a marriage between them could not be brought about, for, if this were not so, the whole human race would have be- come "psychics" long ago. The clair- voyant power, uoi to go further in the matter, is an obvious and great ad- vantage and would certainly have been utilized by' evolution to the extent of crowding from the earth all other kinds of men unless nature had set up some sort of barrier, and where should we took for it except in the realm of that attraction which we call love? As we were running into the station at New Haven,,. Hackett remarked that there might be something in what I had said. "I'm sorry, too," he added, "for it `seemed to me as if Iliad an idea." As a matter of fact • this idea had long been in my mind, and at intervals during the space of nearly two years I bad jotted down notes in my diary regarding an imaginary child whose parents should both be psychics, but I bad never discussed the subject with Hackett. His idea of title experiment in heredity was therefore entitled to the credit of an independent discovery. We did not care where it came from or what It was about or how it was transmitted so long as it could be proved that It came and that no known organ of this-m(Irtal body could have enabled the individual to receive it. When I was a boy, I used to hunt rabbits in a piece of woods which was supposed to be a particularly good place for them. All youthful hunters ' went there, and as a result (visible to the in these mature years) all sane rabbits had gone over into another county. One day, when the snow had come and the rabbits had put on their winter coats, some jester set up the corpse of a white cat in the edge of the woods In au absurdly Conspicuous position. I saw it and blazed away, though my common sense should haste told me that it could not be a rabbit because such a preposterously reckless rabbit would have been shot long ago. Yet I wasted my powder, and, having done so, I set the creature up again in the same place, and every mother's son that came that way exercised his marksmanship so long as there was anything to shoot at. And next day, in a different spot, but equally conspicu- ous, the joker played the game once more. I remember that for a long time afterward all the boys were ashamed to be seen going into that piece of woods with a gun. It took Hackett and me about a year to discover that genuine psychics are not found in the edge of the woods be- side the beaten path; that it is hard to fi 1 them e,en when one knows where nt they are, for they Iie low, and, like the What Are Files rabbits they imitate the natural color of the surroundings. 1 '`i You may accept this as it general 1 or Hemorrhoids rule: When your fellow man takes you by the button Of your coat and leadsP ILES or hemorrhoids are small you into a corner to tell you of a pro- A4. elS3 tumors which form in and photic dream or a mysterious psychic. (i- ,fir message, he does not believe e story . about the orifice of the rectum, and himself. ,Perhaps he may be trying to because of the itching, stinging sen- believe it, but no one has to try to be- sations produced they cause the 11 i keen est suffering inn „mna ILBURIT3. bie. eve in a real experience of that kind as had it. IIo knows. And after he Piles are spoken of as itching, the cllanees are good that he will not ialk of it to his closest intimate. It is bleeding or protruding, according to ever the element of doubt that leads to which symptom is most noticeable, tailing. but every form of piles is accompan.' Oltlr hobby gave to Hackett and me n-study,an aim in travel ' r and ufora . of ase excuse feelings m an led byf easines, which can scarcely be de. and an opportunity of meeting culti et- ; scribed. ed men `and wolnell. As it was ati As a cure forpiles Dr. Chase's elected hobby And not the result of nrode distortion, we [ is cit 4 congenital menta o . t 1 ell t to t,- , os - Itis ., stands alone. Ointmentp 1 PUC it calmly and were never mistaken itivoly guaranteed to give satis- cranks except by cranks. It is true factory results, and is backed by that some of our earlier experiences thousands of the most reliable were more or Iess absurd, but we were people in the land as the only actual saved from serious error by the buss - cure for this distressing disease. i tress tuna's faculty of turning from the " Ointment, CO scuts : impracticable to tho practical. When Dr. r. Chases s ' we encountered an Impostor, we at all dealers, or i3dtri lson, i3tttes I promptly charged hien up to "profit and & 'Company, Toronto. ' loss" and passed on to the next item. iiiiiiiLlallinimillialbene pILLs ere mild, sure and safe, and area perfect regulator of the system. They gently unlock the eeeretione, clear away all effete and waste matter front the 1 an vitality to the 'r11(l 1t0 tone d f' ':`�tClll �' t r t, tti holo intestinal tract, etrit, C esa i1a• tion, Sick Headache, Biliousness, Dyspep- sia, Coated 'ronguc. 1 oul Breath, Jame. ti:, e, Heartburn, and Nater Brash. Mrs. 7 > tvrltea: ,. Woodstock, N.1. den 1i oodsto. ( , I,. 5 Ogden, , "My husband and myself haeel used Mil- 1411.11"8- Laxa-Liver fills for tt, number of y. ars. �Vo think we c'anno: do without tlu m. Titov oro the cloy I .lis we ever take." Price in cental or five bottles for 6'1.O0, t all dealers or direct on receipt of price. (!y'lto 'r, Milburn Co,, Limited, 'Toronto, Oat. CHAPTER II. VPOix TETE MOTHER'S SIDR. MIL, BUILNIIAM, the instructor to whom Dr. Whiting had referred us, proved to be a pleasant fellow, well worth meeting, but we had no sooner made known our errand than he became much disturbed. "A most unfortunate thing has hap- pened," he said. "Since the date of my letter to Dr. Whiting Mrs. Eustis has died, Miss Vaughn is In deep grief and in a very trying position, too, poor child. Her aunt left nothing but YOUR MONEY'S WORTH. Burnham was in love with 1►1isa, Vaughn and that slip disc not find her- self able to respond. To settle this point I ventured to say that I had heard she was quite pretty. "Pretty:" echoed Burnham. "VW,, that's hardly the word. I.1 happen to have a portrait of her." And he pretended to forget which pocket it was in. It was, an ordinary cabinet photograph, but it showed a most extraordinary face, a dainty com- posite of womanly and childish quali- ties. I would not have been able to de- cide from this picture whether Bliss Vaughn was fifteen years old or twen- ty -live, and alter my first glance 1look- ed up at Burnham and asked, "Sow old Is she?" IIe Laughed. "You'd be as mueh puzzled if you saw the original" he said, and this proved to be no exaggeration. "The youth, I think, is in the lower part et the face. What a pretty mouth and chin! Did you ever see such a pretty, mouth and chin? There's all the dim- pled Sweetness, all the quick sensitive- ness o1 girlhood, and yet no weakness. But there's a calmness in the forehead and eyes -the eyes a bit long, as you notice, with very delicately marked brows. The eyes are deep blue and all the coloring exquisite. Her • hair is like the gold of Ophir. It may seem bad tastefor me to run on like this," be added suddenly, "but Miss Vaughn's beauty is such a simple and natural thing that one feels no Hesitation in speaking of it. Why, even in her pres- ence I sometimes find myself -howev- er, that's ueither Here nor there. You asked bow old she was. She'll be eighteen next week." "If the young lady's peculiar powers are of interest to science," said I, "it would seem as if some financial ar- rangement might be made whereby" -- "We've suggested that, but she won't listen to it," 'he interrupted, "The queer part of it is that Miss Vaughn insists that she has no powers which are not shared by all our species. She has, though." We had reached Burnham's lodgings by this time, and there we conversed for an hour or more upoit the subject of the experiments which had been made in the case of Miss Vaughn. They seemed to me to possess the vague and unsatisfactory character which I had learned to associate with common fraudulent practices. The young lady answered questions con- cerning matters of which she was sup- posed to have no knowledge, peculiar- ities of persons whom she had not seen, incidents in the lives of the ques- tioners or of their friends. It was not- able that she passed into no state of trance or mesmeric sleep. She remain- ed entirely normal, not even exhibiting the excessive fatigue which usually follows such manifestations. She did show repugnance, however, and was always more pleased when she failed than when she succeeded. After a se- ries of failures she would laugh almost hysterically and display a childish re- lief and delight. Her successes de- pressed Her. The best of them, so far as I could learn, were not conclusive, but there were some that were hard to explain upon any natural hypothesis, and they must have been extremely startling to the inquirers. As Burnham continued to speak I be- came less hopeful of Miss Vaughn as a possible subject of investigation, less interested in her as a psychic, but far more interested in her as a woman. Somehow the words of this fiery but hopeless lover, this poor little, thin, dark, ugly faced fellow, who had no right to crave a beautiful woman -ex- cept that he couldn't help it -built up before my mind's eye a very charming personality. I I talked the matter over with Hack - Easy V9ay to Get Full Value For Every 'Half Dollar You Spend. In your search for health, you who suffer with stomach trouble, do not try a remedy where the proprietor has not -sufficient faith in its virtue to sell it under a guarantee that the money will be refunded unless it gives relief and cure. 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CE U"E CASTO R IA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THE a CNTA„A Ct. Alr'A„Y, 11 MURRAY E1T15CCT. NCW matt OiTY, ett, and we agreed that Miss Vaughn was undoubtedly worthy of substantial assistance, if it could be rendered with- out offense. Her situation was cer- tainly most lamentable and involved no fault of her own. Having heard of this case, we could hardly "pass by on the other side,” as Hackett ex- pressed it, The fact is that my part- ner had been playing the role of the good Samaritan in many towns that we had visited, and mostly to the unde- serving, I am afraid„ We decided that I should call upon Miss Vaughn, and so I asked Burnham to secure her permission; but he told me very promptly that he did not care to undertake the errand. "I couldn't Iie to her," said he. "She'd have to know the object of your visit here, and then she wouldn't see you.” Incidentally I learned during this conversation that Miss Vaughn was an intellectual prodigy, baying been the youngest girl ever graduated from Smith college. Indeed, she would prob- ably not have been admitted to that institution if her age had been correct- ly stated, but her aunt had misrepre- sented the matter to the authorities. Her record had been exemplary, both for scholarship and conduct. "She might teach,” said Burnhain, "but I really don't see how she's going to live till we can find her a position." After leaving Burnham's room I went at once alone to the Eustis residence, which must have been considered quite a grand house in its day. A despondent old woman answered my ring and ad- mitted me into a chilling, gloomy at- mosphere and eventually into a small room at the rear of the ball. It had the look of neglect, as if it bad not been used in some weeks. My eye was at- tracted ttracted by a small table unlike the other furniture and awkwardly placed near a window. It was littered with loose sheets of writing paper, which were dusty, and some of them were covered with scrawls in pencil as if a child had played with them. I thought that I knew why this table was there. Clearly Miss Vaugbn's psy- chic messages were written with a pen- cil. I wds displeased. This scrawling hand looked like the usual counterfeit. And yet I would have given my bond upon the honesty of the face in the photograph. Well, we nlny all be de- teived by a face. I began to regret having sought an interview with; ?Hiss Vaughn, and my mind was deflected from her to the unknown than whom Dr. Whiting bad mentioned. A strong inward conviction that that nein was ttie true peychie, worth a thousand Dorothy Vauglnls to the cause of so ence, arose to prominence in my con- seiou tress, and I was striving to think of some mentis by which I could learn his mune when a very pleasant voice spoke my own. I turned and sate a slight, girlish fig- ure, all in blaek. There was the puz- zling, childish, womanly awe that the picture had shown, the perfectly open innocence quaintly combined with a se- rene wisdom such as 1111i=ht linagine in an angel. Yet this serenity was wholly intellectual. 1 veldt(' ' .et the floor girI's body was r11(l.ed with nervtnliness and algtre'hemee n, Lose. 1115099 in this old, decaying house, from which mite t'oulei :tee no way ('et ltt.o the lirigitter world, had told u; on 11'•r, +t cannot roin(`111i:C' that nl ' ` 'Ill la ( I 1 l 6 . � y y z , ever went out so suddenly and ::o strongly toward any tether human be- ing. 1 was had seen that I lool,.ittg euri- +oustY at the table, and I observed that ro be continued.) A TeAi pelf'. If a man has a quarrelsome temp' per, let him alone. The world will soon find Haul employment He will' soon sleet with some one stronger than: himself who will repay him better than you can. A man may fight duels all his life if he is disposed to quarrel, - Cecil. Posted. "Can you repeat the Declaration of Independence?" site asked. "I used to be able to," he replied, "but about all I remember of it now is, 'To be or not to be -that is the ques- tion.' "-Judge. 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