People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — Page 7

LIKE MOLIYFANCHER

STRANGE THINGS TOLD ABOUT AN OREGON GtRL She Wm Seriously HI end Apparently Died—Revived end Declares She Has Been to Heaven—'ls Totally Blind, bat Can Do Some Very Wonderful Things. Ethel Gilliam, a young girl living with her parents some ten miles east of; Palouse, Or., is at present the subject j of close attention on the part of doctors 1 and others as the result of remarkable powers develpped since her equally as remarkable resuscitation from supposed death. Ethel’s parents are poor but highly respected people, who shun anything like notoriety, and to this is due the fact that the matter has been kept so quiet. Both parents are active members of the Methodist Episcopal church and haye inculcated their religious feelings in the young girl. Late last fall Ethel was taken seriously iIL At that time she was an apparently strong, robust, healthy girl, with every faculty alert. After a long illness she died, so it was thought. The body was cold and clammy and soon became rigid. She was mourned as dead, and # arrangements were made to bury hpr *on the third day. The little body was placed in a casket, and all arrangements were made to consign the remains to the earth. A glass case was over the face of the child, and about an hour before the seryices, while the heartbroken mother was taking her last look at the dear face, she saw the eyes open as if from a deep sleep. The cover was only laid on the casket. The mother removed it, and the child at once sat up, and in a pained voice said: “Oh, mamma, I wish you had not reoalled me. But why is everything so black? Why do you not light the lamp?” An examination then showed that the child was totally blind, though every other faculty was perfect. Although blind, she seeihed endowed with a wonderful power, that enabled her to read and see by the sense of touch alone. She told her parents that she had been in heaven and had seen Jesus and the angels and many friends who had gone before. Although blind, this girl can read by passing her fingers over the printed or written page and can describe persons whose pictures were handed to her. The latter power was first discovered by J. B. Cawthom, a photographer, whose mother lives in Walla Walla. He told the marvelous story to a Sunday school in Palouse City, and Mr. Gray and wife hearing it drove out to the home of the girl to see for themselves. Mr. Gray first handed the sick girl his watch, and she told him that it was a gold watch and the time of day by passing her fingers over the glass. To make sure that her power was genuine a paper was held between he# face and a photograph that Mr. Gray handed to her, and she described the picture perfectly as that of an old gentleman with gray whiskers, wearing a dark suit and a cravat. She read from books and papers handed to her by the use of her fingers. Mr. and Mrs. Gray tell many wonderful things in relation totthis child. She has now been ill 100 days and has not been able to digest any food. As references for the truth of the story Mr. Gray gave the names of the Bev. A. Y. Skee, pastor of the South Methodist Episcopal church of Palouse; the Rev. J. G. Kerrick, La Grande, Or.; H. A. Gray, Thomas Cox and J. B. Cawthorn of Palouse.—San Francisco Chronicle..

THE MAJOR’S PRESENT.

Mr. McKinley Gives His Wife a Magnificent Inaugural Wrap. There is at present being made in New York for Mrs. William McKinley a fur trimmed wrap that is intended for an inauguration present to her from her- husband. The tasteful garment, now being made is a creation of Mrs. McKinley herself, while modeled on the general plan of one she admired. She has selected for the material of the wrap a rich but quiet lavender brocade silk. The figuring of the brocade, while of the Persian order, is of a large and intricate design. The cloak will be lined throughout with a mellow cream brocade silk of much the same pattern as the lavender. The wrap is wadded throughout with the fleeciest of wadding, making it, while of light weight, a stire protection against drafts in reception halls and while passing to and from the carriage. The trimming of the cape is the finest of the natural white furs. A wc' band of the purest white Alaska fox J i. covers the outer edge of the entn Wrap. The high collar is of this fur, which, after extending down the front of the wrap, runs around the lower edge of both back and front. At least a dozen of these costly skins will be required for the trimming. Its length is such that it covers the entire gown . Without dragging on the floor. A furrier, to whom.the cloak was described, stated thaf he would not undertake to duplicate it for less than SBOO. —Cincinnati Enquirer. *

Tho Car Was Hoodooed.

It is uot uncommon for employees to conceive the idea that a certain engine or car has been hoodooed, but it is very unusual for a corporation to take cognizance of such superstition, as was done by the Nassau Trolley company in Brooklyn. Car No. 288 is the hoodoo of that line. It has killed and injured more people and blocked traffic oftener than any half dozen other cars. Then employees complained that it had the peculiar faculty of sickening either the conductors 'and n crineu or some member of :h i •, So the hoodoo v , . i cm the streets, employees had in on* ■

RILEY’S NEW PLANS.

THE HOOStER POET SAYS HE WILL LECTURE NO MORE, Will Devote the Best of HU Days to Writing Poetry as the Spirit Moves Him. Riley's Experiences at Massillon, O. and How It Affected HlmJames Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosiei poet, who is closer to the hearts of the American people than any other singer who ever wrote 1 in English, has been spending a few days in Chicago visiting the family of Horace E. Rood. “I am devoting myself exclusively to literary work, ” said Mr. Riley the other night. “I have quit the lecture platform for good. I may give a few readings occasionally here and there, just to suit myself, but as a business I’m through with it. I’m tired of being ‘managed,’ and I’m glad to have a chance to settle down and write—just as the spirit moves me—without business interruptions. ” “Always in verse?” I inquired. “Always,” he replied with emphasis. “I cannot remember a time when I would not prefer to write anything in rhyme rather than in prose. Today, if I were to begin upon a history of the United States, I would write every line of it in verse. ” I referred to Mr. Riley’s early connection with an Indianapolis paper, and he said concerning it: “Bless you, I never was a newspaper man, never for a minute. I tried to be and wrote a little for a home paper, but I never could tfb anything the editor told me to do, and so I gave it up. I can’t take an assignment even now. If a firm gives me an order for a certain piece of work, I can’t fill it, and I don’t try to either. Whenever an idea strikes me, I turn it into verse and lay it away. By and by, when a publisher asks me to write a poem on a certain topic, I say to him that I can’t do it, but suggest that 1 may have something else which will suit him just as well. “Queer, isn’t it,” chuckled the Indi--ana poet, “that we always want what we think we can’t get? When I was in the leoture field, I Buppose my manager often had to lie awake nights to find

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.

dates for me. Just as soon as it became known that I had quit the platform I seemed to be in demand everywhere. My mail immediately jumped up to enormous proportions compared with what it had been before, and I was offered bigger figures than I had ever dreamed of.” A few years ago a couple of Ohio boys, as a speculation, engaged Mr. Riley to deliver two lectures in Massillon and Canton. Coxey’s town has only 12,000 population and never has been noted for the high literary standing of its people, a majority of whom are la? borers working in the manufacturing establishments. The lecture was not well advertised, and Mr. Riley was greeted by an audience that was pitiably small and intensely frigid. He worked hard, but it was a hopeless task. The entertainment was one of the worst frosts that Massillon ever experienced. It nearly broke Riley’s heart. He mourned and mourned and refused to be comforted. All attempts to cheer him up proved futile. The next day, which he spent in Canton, where he was to lecture that night, was a ceaseless round of nervous agony. The family whqpe guest he was tried to impress upon Riley the fact that the Massillon failure was not due to the lecturer himself, but to the want of preparation mid advertisement. They assured him, with great emphasis, that if he came a second time things would be different. The Canton hostess had invited in several young ladies to meet the distinguished Icdianian, - but their combined efforts proved insufficient to distract Riley’s thoughts from the specter which he.mtedhim. Once he was missed, and ' i.e hostess found him alone in the gar- ■ wringing his hands and pacing ■ 1 t like a enged lion. come, Mr. Riley,” she said, 1 *u. never do. You are my prisoner. ’ ’ Then she took him by the arm and led him back to the house like a lamb to the slaughter. Lying, on the center table was a copy of The Christian at Work, the back page of which was ornamented by. a large advertisement announcing the forthcoming publication of an elaborate work on “The Second Coming of Christ. ’ ’ “That must be a interesting book. Don’t you think so?” remarked the hostess for lack of anything else to attract Riley’s attention, at the same time handing the paper to him. The Hoosier poet glanced at the advertisement and abstractedly said: “ ‘The Second Coming of Christ, ’ ‘The Second Coming of Christ.’ Um—yes. I wonder what kind of an audience Massillon will turn out.”—Frank S. Pixley jn Chicago Times-Herald. £

Lady Somerset's Danger.

Lady Henry Somerset has undergone an operation, made necessary by the recent carriage accident in which she was injured. Her present condition is pronounced favorable, but prolonged rest is imperative.

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