Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-10-02
sAIYSTERIOUS sINFLUENCES.
5Drsans and rsmoniti ons which % rot

Come q Pass Are Forgotten i.
ST ,InI going to tell you sonnet hing
that Il true !, said. q Brooklyn man tho
other day I'd q. New York Sun rep
5ter. Oh can believe it OF not, but
/ its true. I have q cousin Who went
to Europe for her health 1 last year.
While in France she died Comparing
time between I rance and America, it
must have been within an hour Of her.
death that her mo ther, who was knit
ting IN the sitting-room at home laid
I her knitting-Work ii her lap and look
edsup with d sort of stunned express
sion. 4 ny! Alice is deadl she said. n
Next day we got a dispatch by cable
saying she was dead '' IS d
There was" said another member
OF the party, "a .curiousillus tration5f
mind-reading, or spiritual telegraphy,
Or whatever y OH like to call it, during
the war. You remember that the bait
tie Of Gettysburg was settled on the {
|=3d OF July, though Lee lay on his arms I
expecting another attack on the 4th,
and began his retreat that night: The
surrender of Vicksburg occurred on the
4th. Gettysburg and Vicksburg are
800 miles apart, or perhaps more, and
| no telegraph message had been re- !
ceived at Gettysburg announcing the
surrender Of $Vicksburg-at least, if
there had been, it could hardly have
reached headquarters before shutdown
on the 4th. The 18th corps had been
drawn up ii line ON the afternoon OF
the 4th with a view to changing posi-
ton, and was standing at in place, j
rest,' when one OF the soldiers ex-
claimed: 1Vicksburg' s taken!" The''word
passed down the line, and cheer broke
from the troops. That news and the
certainty that Lee had sustained a
severe defeat put new life into them.
But when an attempt was made to
trace the news to official sources it
couldn't be done. That soldier felt it
in his bones,' and had spoken right
out. Next day dispatches arrived that
proved that the soldier had spoken the
truth"
Eyes, those things are unaccounta-
ble," said O. third speaker. .''The in
tuitions, or whatever they are, needn't
be SO very important, either. [ re-
member that my father was sitting in
his library one afternoon, when he
took out his watch looked at it, and
said "E-will be here in ten min
utes. E-was his brother-in-law,
who lived in q neighboring town: and
though hecalled frequently he was not
expected that day: After he had
spoken, NV father seemed rather sur
prised at himself, and laughed a lit
tie awkwardly. My mother asked
how he knew that E--would be there,
and he said ne didn't know, he HAD
spoken on the impulse OF the moment.
Sure enough, in ten minutes the bell
rang. E-was at the door. He had
only come to dinner, and his visit was
not Important; but he had somehow,
projected his personality ahead OF
him."
Said fourth: tThere really issuch
thing as seeing beyond the limit OF
human vision. I'll tell you a little
circumstance that I can swear to, and
then let's talk about something else.
When / was 16 years old Ihad no more
idea of going to London than I had Of
going to Nova Zembla. I knew prac-
tically nothing about the city. One
night dreamed that I was there in a
park facing some public buildings,
and over the trees and roofs sat
the right were the towers ,aEof
Westminster abbey and parlia-
ment buildings. That night an inn
portant letter was on it's way sum-
moning ME to London. I went there,
arriving just as the man who had writ
ten the letter was leaving his housefor
awalk. Isaw my trunk safely slowed,
and then went along with him. We
strolled out to ST. James park to hear
band play. At one point in thepark
I looked behind me, and there was the
picture Ihad seen in my dreams--trees,
towers, public buildings, and all.
Before Iwent there hadn't the slight
est idea how the city was built. For
aught knew St. Pauls Westminster
abby, Temple Bar, and the. British
museum stood in row on one street.
How did manage in q dream to see
those buildings east OF ST. James park
just in the position and size, shape,
and color that they really have?" $