STRANGE PRESENTIMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 12524, 7 June 1905, Page 5

STRANGE PRESENTIMENTS

1 the other day (says “Eix,” in tho ‘Evening Times’) of the following true and very curious case of telepathy, or second-sight, or premonition, or whatever one may prefer to call those mesages from tho Over-World. A man who was engaged in America upon lucrative business which would in ordinary circumstances have occu- i pied hijp for many months, suddenly told his employer that he> must start for Scotland at once. To the usual questions he could answer only that lus presence was : urgently required at homo. This message had come to him in his sleep. He had no new knowledge of hia domestic or business j affairs through letters or any similar source, I either to suggest or to confirm this mysterious warning. His employer said the custo- ! mary things in such cijcumstanccs. but saw that it was no use to detaiu him. Ho started forthwith, cabling that he waa leaving for Scotland, without explaining why. When ho got to I iverpool he fonnd a telegram waiting for him to say that he must come North at once, as a near relative had been ordered to undergo immediately an operation which might have a fatal issue. He went home, and the opera- | tion, which could not have been postponed. 1 was performed successfully. That is all the story, and it certainly seems to call for explanation from some expert in telepathy. There was, as I have said, no fact, snob as delicate health of the relative who “ called ” him across 3,000 miles of sea, to account for the origin of his dream. It was a sudden and totally unannounced illness. The person who was “ called ” has no spiritualistic beliefs, or at least he had none at the time of this incident. | A somewhat similar case, perhaps at least as strange, came under my direct notice lately. A lady went into her sister’s room one morning, with a newspaper in her hand, and said; 7 ‘ That’s a very sad thing about the Smiths”—naming a family with which neither sister was intimately acquainted. The lady, who was hardly awake, cried; “ Oh, don’t tell me that Mabel Smith is dead; I dreamt that last night." And the fact that Mabel Smith’s death was in that morning’s paper, coming so close upon her dream, gave her a gru© which was not , easily shaken off. Now, there was nothing whatever to suggest this dream. Tho dreamer had not been thinking about Mabel Smith, and know her only ns a bowing acquaintance, and Mabel Smith had died very suddenly in Loudon, two days earlier, before even her parents, who live in Scotland, bad learned that she was ill. On the whole, this is the more remarkable case of the two; for there was no bond of sympathy between the dreamer find the subject of the dream, as in the other case, where there was close family relationship. Both of these incidents arc thoroughly authenticated.