Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-29
CLAIRyOYANCE.
The Wonderful Powers youchssfed to an
Invalid in Her Last Illness.


The following incidents happened
during the last illness of n relative o
the writer. The deceased was young
MAJ rled woman, about the age of 81
Her husband was a mechanic, and she
herself was by trade coat-maker, a
which occupation she worked unit
about three weeks before her death
She was the daughter of well-to-de
farmer in New Hampshire, brought III
IN the usual plain manner of the region
When she first ceased her work and &C.
knowledged herself an invalid hei
symptoms were feYerishncss and an UNI
usual activity of mind, which was al
first called flightiness, then Mysteries
and later insanity. As a matter of fact
however, she was entirely normal in
her mental action up to the very last,
excepting in the matter of clairyoyanee.
Soon after she was taken sick she TOLD
her husband: Il am much sicker thar
the doctor thinks me; | am going tC
die pretty soon. | don't mean that
am really sick. for am not; but an
going to die, that is all. y
The queer thing in her sickness was
the development OF genuine clairvoy,
ance of kind which no theory satisfac.
torily explains. Upon one occasion hel
mother came into the.room after having
lett IT for few moments and found hel
making her bed. She said: Emma,
you ought not to do that; let me do it. .
"Oh, no, = she said, Il 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 a few moments had
the satisfaction of Aunt Mercy's APP
prevail. 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 1t under that conven-
lent carry-all, mysteries. So, with
out her knowledge, her mother sent to
a town some thirty miles away for a
moro sklllful physician, n relative OF
the family. The next morning as she
and her mother were together she sud
denly remarked '.Why there i DR.
Lathrop just gettingoff the cars. How
fast he walks" 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?' Pres
emily the doctor came in, out of b..ath,
when she Immediately said: ooh,
saw you running; but why didn't you
take the hort 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 50 far. Her mother replied
that she had not done so, and that she
had no idea that he would come. ''Oh
yes" said Emma, ''hc has started and
he is just passing Mr.. Smiths now. y
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 hcr 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. II 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? l
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 all
lowed. 1t was the opinion OF the dis
SAINT physician that her di ease was
cerebral. But in what way disease
could operate to liberatc the senses
from their customary bondage to time
and space the physician had no opin on
to offer. The writer will add that a
cousin of the deceased had in hid
hood the gift OF seeing friends ut re-
mote dit ances. The faculty was tie t.
ed at the time, and seemed to exist be-
yond dispute. 1t was lost at later
acc.