Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-12-10
PRESENTING NTS.
How Very Sensitive People Have
Reen known 20 Feretell the Manner
OfTheir Death.

Reen Known 20 FeretelI the Manner
OfTheir Death.
a. feel rs if | were fated to die on this
beautiful river said young English
actress. As she talked % COmrade on
thedeck Dfa Hudson river steamboat. y
week later, going from Albany to New
York on the Oregon, she was suddenly
taken i'll, and died OFT West Point, on
the most beautiful part of the river she
30 admired. Other players have had
prpsentiments justified by the event, or
the author of Thirty Years in
Gotham" TO whom we stand indebted
for the following histriOnic examples,
sadly deceiveS Us:
An American actor named Chapman,
who was also a dramatist in the mod
EST sort of way, found it so difficult to
arrange the details of d piece which
ne called "The Mail Robbers" exactly
IN his mind, that he observed TO 4 friend
that the play would be the death Of MIN.
A day or two afterward he rode out Of
town to survey the surroundings Of the
DIsoe where he had laid the chief
scene of the drama, and was thrown
from his horse, escaping with bruised
shoulder. COngratulating him upon
coming offsO lightly, his friend jOked
him about his preSentlment, but the aC-
tor was not to, be laughed out of his no.
ton. and persisted that his words would
vet come true. And 80 they dill,
though in a somewhat roundabout
way. In a part he was then playing
Chapman had to wear suit Of brass
srnnor. and the night being very hot,
ne discarded his Undertaking all to-
VetheT. The armor chatting the bruised
Shoulder some veridgiriS got into the
wound andpOisOned it, and of that pOis-
Oning he died.
"Fulfill your engagements like q sem
sible creature" was the well-meant adj
vice of Mile. LoiSette's confidante, when
that tight-rope dancer consulted her
upon the ACCESSIBILITY of cauceling an
engagement 10 appear at the NOlks
theatre, New York, for no better reason
than that she had a preSentiment the
engagement would be a fatsl one. Sure
enough, it was so. Her first appear
ance was her last. She went through
the performance without a hitch, but
as she was stepping from the cross
trees 10 the stage, her gauZy dress caught
fire at the foOlights, and before help
reached her she was 80 badly burned
that medical skill was Of no avail.
There is nothing repulsive about q
gold watch, yet when sheppard, the
actor, took one from his mothers hand,
as her birthday gift, heshuddered, with
out knowing why, except that 1t was
destined to bring him misfortune. He
wore il. however, out of respect for the
piyer. and wore it for years without
anything unpleasant coming oft. One
night, when he was playing at the Ma:
tlonai theatre, Philldelphis, the house
took fire, while he was on the stage;
Sheppard got safely into the street, and
then remembered that his watch was
i'm his dressing room; unwilling to lose
the memento Of his dead mother, hE
went back to the theatre, and vas nevel
seen alive again. His charred body
was found the next day under the ga:
pipes; the fateful watch was in hi
pocket. The actors presentiment II
hardness of fulfllment reSembled thai
which troubled Mrs. -Brownrigg. A;