The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-11-26
Gift of Second Sight.

There are well authenticated cases
in which entirely unexpected things
seen to happen while the person see
ing them we're asleep or in a trance.
like state and Immediately described
to other people, occurred quickly after,
ward, either just as had been ioresee'i
or with little difference, says wfiter
in Lippincort's Magazine. 100,
In AT least one case this has happeheu
twice to the same person. A younG!
lady living in one OF the counties OF
MARYLAND has had such an experience
on two occasions. She is not at all
imaginative, and describes her Two
presentments in q straietior-\
ward matter of-fact way, making
no attempt to account ior
them, but accepting them rs part OF
the unkncwable. One morning she
was in anupper room with hermother,
when the latter, who was talking 10
her, was surprised to see her eyes De-
come fixed and vacant. In II few mo-
ments her natural expression return,
ed, and she told her mother she had
seen one OF her cousins, who was III
the house at that time, come INTO
the room below them with II knife III
her hand, and that she stumbled ana
fell and the knife cut her face. ~ sa"
it as plainly as | see you now, she
said. Neither thought more about
the matter until they heard some one
fall in the room below, and, on gong
down, they found that the vision had
been exactly fulfilled, except that the
knife had not actually made awound.
Several years afterward, while the
same young lady was on a railroad
train with a party OF friends, she fell
into similar trance condition, last
ing about as long as the former one,
and on it's leaving her she told her
companions she was afraid there was
going to be an accident, for she had
seen the mangled corpse of the con-
ductor lying at the foot OF a peculiar
embankment at the side OF the road.
She described this embankmant
minutely, though she did not remem-
Der having seen it on any former
journey. About hall an hour after
the train stopped, and it was soon
known that some one had been lun
over. 1t was not the conductor, but
q deaf man, who had been stepping
over the track, when the engine came
round curve and struck him, killing
him instantly. TGe tram went on
slowly, and, as the car containing the
excursion party passed the scene OF
the accident, they saw that it agreed
exactly with the description they had
heard
In such cases as this it is hard to
know where speculation about their
nature should begin and in what di-
rection it should extend The varl
Gus forms of an extraordinary con
sclousness concerning what is going on
at the time naturally suggest plausi-
bic theories; and as to that vivid rec
election OF ones whole past life which
sometimes comes with the near APP
proach OF death, the explanation Of
fered by DeQuincey is at least worthy
ceivable that something in the mind
OF one person might influence the sub
sequent actions OF another; but it
could hardly produce in afew minutes
or hours q combination of circum-
stances not directly dependent on
mere human impulse. The most
natural view OF the matter is that
second sight" is really a special pow
er-possessed by certain minds. or by
all minds in certain conditions-of
foresceing occurrences which are fore
ordained, or part OF q systematic
order. This view is one which neces-
sarians and other so-called '.fatalists'
should not have any difficulty in ac
cepting.