The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-09-17
A TEXAS PHENOMENON.
An 1S.Year-Old Girl With Apparently
Supernatural Powers.

A Caldwell, Texas, special to the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat says:
Miss Fannie Bremen, a young lady
about 18years of age, and we'll known
in the vicinity of Caldwell, has just
recovered from a long illness, and
she has created the greatest sensa-
ton ever Witnessed in that part Of
Texas. The first indication of pre-
science noticed about Miss Bremen
was her ability to tell the time of
day without looking at a clock or
watch. In this she never fails, and
she has been tested in a hundred
different ways by men of established
reputation. A few days ago she
said George White will be at home
next Thursday at ten o'clock and
twenty minutes" Sam George
White had been gone from home
two years. No word had ever been
heard from him, and his people
mourned him tor dead. No one be-
lieved that he would turn up in &C.
cordance with the prophecy of the
strange girl, but he did. He had
come from California. He had never
seen Miss Bremen in his life. It is
utterly impossible that there could
have been any communication be-
tween the prophecies and the prod
lgal. lie came on the very day, and
at the very hour she said he would
come. A few hours before he came
she described the color of his cloth
ing and she Nit it exactly. These
people are all reliable, and it is in a
part of Texas where all have had the
advantage of liberal education.
One of the strangest features OF this
wonderful psychological phenome-
non is that the young lady impro-
vises the most beautiful music that
mortal ear ever listened TO. E. l..
Jackson, we'll known as one of the
finest musicians in the state, went
to see her yesterday. He said to
you reporter: II am simply dumb
founded. They say she never took
a music lesson in her lite. Well,
when / FIRST came here she looked
like corpse. [ would have sworn
she was dead. In few moments
she arose from her bed and going to
the organ improvised the most beau
tiful music ever listened to. All
of it was in perfect accord with the
rules OF harmony. 1t would take
years tor good teacher to make
such an accomplished musician out
of the most apt and brilliant young
lady"
Everything connected with the
: young lady has been investigated,
and it is certain that she knew lit
tie or nothing of music before her
long spell of sickness. Hundreds
OF people are going to see her every
day, and she astonishes everybody.
A few days ago lady whom it is
certain she never saw before, steps
ped into her room. She instantly
called the lady's name, and told her
where she lived, told her when she
left home, and accurately described
an incident that occurred on the
road. The physicians say that she
is not sick, and when she is in what
the people call trance that there is
no evidence of life in her body. eve
would pronounce her Dead is their
verdict. .
Yesterday she opened her eyes and
said: 'There is q man in the room
from California !; he has come here
, to settle up an estate; let him come
and shake hands with me; his af-
fairs will turn out as he wished" 1t
was all true, and by no possibility
could she have known anything
about that Californian.
She certainly looks as if she was
dead. She says she has been in
heaven, and she will turn to some
of the people aad say: II have just
seen your father" and then she will
go on and deliver a message from
those that have gone to the shoreless
sea of the unknown that amazes the
listeners. People say cit is impossi
, ble-she could not have known my
father, or mother, or brother, back
in Virginia or kentucky. There is
OILY one solution. She communes
with the spirits of the dead. She
repeats beautiful poetry which rolls
of her tongue as if it were some
thing she has memorized.
In the vicinity of Caldwell, people
talk Of nothing else but the strange
girl. She has only had the benefit of
country school education, and yet
she is a living encyclopedia. The
strangest thing l noticed was her
definitions of words. Almost in
stantly she defines every word given
to her. For a moment she looked
| puzzled over ''integral" and "differ-
, entail calculus" -but she went a
head, and you would have thought