The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-02-21

"And large salary, suppose" }" added
Mr.. Grimm.
"And larger salary" allowed Mr..
Lindsay. "Double, in fact"
81 suppose" persisted Miss Rich,
after the wedding-'I suppose Lucre-
| tia must have refused him first. ;"
CIairvOyance.
The Wonderful Powers vouchsafed to an
Invalid in Her Last Illness.
The following incidents happened
during the last illness of relative of
the writer. The deceased was young
married woman, about the age of 32.
Her husband was mechanic, and she
herself was by trade coat-maker, at
which occupation she worked until
about three weeks before her death.
She was the daughter of a well-to- do
farmer in New Hampshire, brought up
in the usual plain manner of the region.
When she first ceased her work and ac
knowledged herself an invalid her
symptoms were feverishness and an un-
usual activity of mind, which was at
first called fightiness, then Mysteries,
and later insanity. As matter of fact,
however, she was entirely normal in her
mental action up to the very last, ex-
cepting in the matter of clairvoyance.
Soon after she was taken sick she told
her husband: 81 am much sicker than
the doctor thinks me; am going to
die pretty soon. | don't mean that |
am really sick, for am not; and l am
going to die, that is ALL"
The queer thing in her sickness was
the development of genuine clairvoy-
ance of kind which no theory satisfac
torily explains. Upon one occasion her
mother came into the room after having
| left it for few moments and found her
making her bed. She said: emma,
you ought not to do that; let me do it. I"
"Oh, no." she said, "I am strong
enough to do it. Aunt Mercy is COM
ing down. She just started few min
utes ago, and you know how she hates
to find anything in disorder" After
look in the glass the invalid returned
to the bed, and in few moments had
the satisfaction of Aunt Mercy's approx
al. Nothing was thought of this at the
time, but few days later another case
happened. The family doctor could
make nothing of her sickness, and dis
posed of it under that convenient car
ry-all, "hysterics. So, without her
knowledge, her mother sent to town
some thirty miles away for more skill
full physician, relative of the family.
The next morning as she and her moth
er were together she suddenly remark
ed: "Why there is DIR. Lathrop just
getting off the cars. How fast he walks. l"
Then few minutes later, she laughed
and said: 'Why how fast the doctor
does walk /; and he is coming the long
way round, too. Why don't he take
the short-cut?" Presently the doctor
came in, out of breath, when she i'm
mediately said: "Oh l saw you run
ming; but why didn't you take the
short cut !? But of course you wouldn't
know"
Another day she said to her mother,
"What made you tell father to come
down here to-day? He is too lame to
walk so far" Her mother replied that
she had not done so, and that she had
no idea that he would come. "Oh,
yes," said Emma, "he has started and
he is just passing Mr.. Smiths now."
So she went on from time to time, tell
ing how far he had got, until at the end
he came in, just as she had seen him.
| One day she said to her aunt, who was
with her, "Uncle 10 has just started to
come up to see me, but what did ne get
those blue pants for?' Uncle 10 lived
about forty miles away. Her aunt
said, "I don't know. should think
10 would look we'll in blue" Then the
invalid said, "Oh, yes, he has got a
blue coat. Well, it is becoming to
him." After little she said: "He is
now opposite Ipswich, but he will not
STOP" When the train arrived Uncle
10 was on it, in the new blue suit, as
She had seen him. When he came in
she said: "What made you get off on
the wrong side of the train at P? |
thought you would get left" Uncle
10 owned up to having gotten off upon
the wrong side at the junction and to
having had a narrow escape from being
left.
The incidents here given are literally
true. They are but samples of many
others which took place during this
strange sickness. No autopsy was al
lowed. 1t was the opinion of the dis
tant phsician that her disease was cere-
bral But in what way disease could
operate to liberate the senses from their
customary bondage to time and space
the physician had no opinion to offer.
The writer will add that cousin of the
deceased had in childhood the gift oi
seeing friends at remote distances.
The faculty was tested at the time, and
seemed to exist beyond dispute. 1t wa'
lost at later age.