Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1885-06-13

does not allow his appreciation of the
marvellous to run away with his
reason; but I had it from his own lips
thatthe manifestation is Hnaccountable.
since, even though it were the result of
adiseased and disorganized brain, it
was also an actual revelation of clair
voyance or second sight.
Almost a similar instance occurred
to eN-Postmaster-General Jewell on his
death-bed. He awakened from sleep
and told his family that something had
happened in 'sHenry's family rela-
tives who lived at distance. The
kinsman he named was dead, but he
had not been informed. By what
subtle, mysterious intelligence was the
sense OF misfortune conveyed to the
dying man? Who can answer?
A VOICE FROM THE DEAD.
A circumstance ofrecent origin, which
is vouched for by men of Christian char
acter and high social standing, confirms
this strange theory of biological condi-
tons. A couple of years ago Willie
Lord, young man well known and
well liked in Pontiac and Detroit. lost
his life IN Washington. There was no
preliminary sickness as his death was
caused by drowning. At the time he
died, lady, the member of a family
who were all intimate friends of the
young man, was living in New Mexico.
She was formerly Miss Virginia Palmer,
OF Pontiac, and is now, I think, Mrs.
Anderson. This lady who, in common
with her family, regarded Willie as
dear friend, was sitting in her room in
New Mexico with open windows, when
she heard q well known whistle-a
snatch from bar of music with which
young Lord always announced his COM
ming. Her first thought was one of
mingled pleasure and surprise pleasure
at seeing her friend and surprise that
he should be in that far distant
part OF the country. But there was no
mlstaklng the repeated strain of the
signal whistle. She ran to the windows;
he was not there. To the doors. No one
had seen any person. The event so i'm
pressed her that she sat down and wrote
to Mrs. Lord, and the bereaved mother
answered that at that time her son
was dead. Was it then the music of the
spheres that had been conveying an I'M
Ineligible message to earth-bound
ears?
A MOTHER S FOREKNOWLEDGE
Among those who have been visited
by this rare intelligence is a sanity
woman in our midst who was the life
long friend of such men as Bryant and
Longfellow and such woman as Lucretia
Mott. [ allude to Mrs. Eliza Leggett,
who is ever ready, out of her own
sources OF experience to give that which
may benefit humanity. When that
| beloved son, Percy, whose picture hangs
in, his boyhood's home draped with the
uniform he honored and the flag he died
to defend, went into the army it needed
no advance courier to tell his mother of
| his death. When the soldier who had
been detailed to bear her the news
approached, cap in hand, his face I'M
mobile, as if he simply brought an orcli-
| nary message, the mother said calmly:
"Thee need not tell me-''
'Ihey said he was dying,' stam-
mered the soldier, whose discipline was
not proof against a mothers grief
And Aunt Eliza said with that faint,
sweet smile of hers, and the tears we'll
ing to her fond eyes:
"Not dying, good soldier, but dead"
Rising from her sleep one day she
remarked to her family, ''Something
has happened to our boys" These
boys We're friends and comrades of
Percy, Dick Whitehead and Phil.
Mothersilr and in a few hours the word
came, that one had gone ''into the silent
/ land -
These illustrations I have given in
this paper are not the dreams of the
romanticist. They are not the vague
manifestations of the spiritualist ncr are
they used to found a hope OF religion
upon. AS actual realities they have
been received almost in the spirit of
agnosticism. We do not know, we
cannot explain the untranslatable Ian
guage of a mystic literature. A finer,
rarer, more subtle brain-power may vet
give us some direct clue to that missing
link of intelligence, which We now con-
ceive to be will-power, OF mind-rcading,
or in its best and highest sense, that
which we call clairvoyance. NJ. L. r.