New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-01-28
CLAIRVOYANCE.
The Wonderful Powers vouchsafed to an
Invalid in Her Last Illness.

Ihe following incidents happened
during the last illness of relative of
the writer. The deceased was young
married woman, about the age of 50.
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 f1ightiness, then Mysteries,
and later insanity. AS a matter of fact,
her mental action up to the very last,
excepting in the matter of clairvoyance
Soon after she was taken sick she told
her husbands: II am much sicker than
the doctor thinks me; l am going to
die pretty soon. 1 don't mean that 1
am really sick, for am not; but am
going to die, that is ALL
The queer thing in her sickness was
the development of genuine clairvoy-
ance of a kind which no theory satisfac-
torily explains Upon one occasion her
mother came into thereon 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. +"
| ''Oh, no. she said, II am strong
enough to do it. Aunt Mercy is COM
ing down. She just started a few min
ntes ago, and you know how she hates
to find anything in disorder" After
a look in the glass the invalid returned
to the bed, and in few moments had
the satisfaction of Aunt Mercy's APP
proval. Nothing was thought of this
at the time, but few days later anoth-
er case happened. The family doctor
could make nothing of her sickness,
and disposed of it under that conven-
lent carry-all, "hysterics. So, with
out her knowledge, her mother sent to
a town some thirty miles away for a
more skillful physician, a relative of
the family. The next morning as she
and her mother were together she sud-
denly remarked: ''Why there is DR..
Lathrop just getting off the cars. How
fast he walks" Then a 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?" Pres
emily the doctor came in, out of breath,
when she Immediately said: "Oh,
saw you running; 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. ooh,
yes" said Emma, she 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 he get
those blue pants for?'' Uncle 10 lived
about forty miles away. Her aunt
said, Il don't know. I should think
10 would look we'll in blue.'' Then the
invalid said, ooh, 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
stops 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 PIP l
thought you would get left.'' Uncle
10 owned up io having gotten off upon
the wrong side at the junction and to
having had & 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 physician that ier Iii ease was
cerebral. But in what way disease
could operate to liberatc the senses
from their customary bo"dage to time
and space the physician had no opin on
to offer. The writer will add that a
cousin of the deceased had in child
hood the gift OF seeing friends at re-
mote distances. The faculty was test
ed at the time, and seemed to exist be-
You'd dispute. 1t was lost at later
age.
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