The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-12
Presentiments.

Presentiments.
81 feel as if were fated to die on
this beautjfulE rivsr" said ~ young
English actress, as she talked to a COM
rade on the deck of a Hudson River
steamboat. A week later, going from
Afbany TO- EewiYofkon The Oregon. she
vas s1ddenly snken i'll, and died off
West Point, on the most beautiful part
of Ithe river vhe $50 tsdmired. Other
nlayers hive hal, entiments iusti-
fed by the event Of the author Of
'Thirfy Years in Gotham" 10 whom
we stand indebted for the following his
toric examples sadly deceires MS.
+ An AmeTican actor named Chapman,
who was also dramatist in a modest
sort of way. found it SO difficult to ar
range the details of piece which he
called 1.-The Mail Robbers exactly to
MS mind. that he observed to q friend
that the play would be the death Of
him. A day or two afterward he rode
out of town to survey the surroundings
of the place where he had laid the chief
scene Of the drama, and was thrown
from his horse, escaping with a bruised
shoulder. Congratulating him upon
coming of SO lightly, his friend joked
him about his presentiment, but the
actor was not to Be laughed out Of bis
notion, and persisted that his words
would yet come true. And so they did.
though in q somewhat roundabout way.
Ina part he was then playing Chapman
had to wear a suit of brass armor, and
the night being very hot, he discarded
his underclothing altogether. The
armor chatting the bruised shoulder
some veridigris got into the wound and
poisoned Il, and Of that poisoning he
died.
Fulfill your engagements like asensi-
BILE creature was the well-meant ad.
vice of Mile. Louisette's confidante,
when that tight-rope dancer consulted
her upon the sdvisability' of canceling
an engagement to appear at the Volks
Theater, New York, forno better reason
than that she had a presentiment the
engagement would be fatal 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 to
the stage her gauzy dress caught fire at
the footlights, and before help reached
her she was SO badly burned that medi-
cal skill was of no avail.
There is nothing repulsive about
gold watch, yet when Sheppard, the
actor, took one from his mothers hand,
as her birthday gift. he shuddered, with
out knowing why. except that he felt it
was destined to bring him misfortune.
He wore it, however, for years without
unpleasant coming of it. One
night, when he was playing at the Ma
tional Theater. Philadelphia, the house
took fire, while he was on the stage.
Sheppard got safely into the street, and
then remembered that his watch was in
his dressing-room; unwilling to lose the
of his dead mother, he went
alive again. His charred body was found
the next day under the gas-pipes; the
Hateful watch was in his pocket. The
actors presentiment in hardness of full
fillment resembled that which troubled
Mrs. Brownrigg. As the executioneI
was doing the last office save one for the
woman, an expression of
horror came over her face, caus-
ing the clergyman to ask what
new temptation assailed. .Ihave many 1
times. 'Sshe said, "passed by this place,
and always when near this spot OF
ground dreadful horror seized me, for |
fear that some day or other l should come
to be hanged, and the recollection terri
lies me exceedingly g EtTktE}NFN4k |
Well aware of her deservings. it was no |
wonder if the .apprentice-t orturer had !;
bad quarter of an hour whenever she
came within hail of Tyburn Tree; her
prophetic tears were born of coward
Such was not the case with
The honest miner, who, talking to. his
wife of the dangerous character of the
seam he was working, said: ''Hennie,
Pm feared if there should be an explo.
sion I'll be knocked about worst" This
lear impelled him the next night. when
he dread of something happening was
strong upon him, to return home once
md again after starting for the pit, only
% shake off the feeling and go to his
work, and his death.
At an inquest upon the body of col.
Ter who was killed by the fall of rock
n Statfordshire mine, his wife deposed
hat the night before the accident heI
woke, complaining he had ton
If rock upon his head; and so sure was
lie of some ill Detailing him that it was
,nly by dint of much coaxing that she per.
'uaded him to go to work. Before lear-
ng the house he bent down to her child,
aging: "Let me have my last kiss"
TO make the story still stranger, it came
tut in evidence that the news of the poor
elbows death had hardly reached his
lome, when a cousin, much attached to
lin, looked in to inquire for him. i'm
,elled to do SO by seeing or thinking he
aw the dead man standing before him in
he road w.v All The Year Pound