Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-05
THREE INSTANCES.
Actions which Demonstrate a Peculiar
Power of Mind over Body.

Power of Mind over Body.
| had intended TO head this article I'm
stinct," but it struck me that two OF
the stories at least which l have to tell can
hardly be called instinct and as | don't
know what else to name them call them
simply "Three Instances"
They arc on the same principle as that
old story Of the singer who had lived on a
canal boat before she became famous, and
one night as she stood before the audience
somebody shouted out Low bridge" and
the woman ducked her head
The first instance is about two young
fellows, who, barefooted in the wilds OF
America, were turning hay in meadow.
The two were talking together as they
turned the hay. Suddenly one of the boys
heard a sound like the rafting of very dry
peas in pod He never looked down to
where the noise came from, but with
suddenness that was puzzling to his com
panion he gave one yell and jumped at
least half a rod.
His comrade, looking in amazement from
the boy TO the place he jumped from, saw
coiled near spot where a bare foot had
| been a large rattlesnake. Two or three
/ blows from the pole with which he was
turning the hay killed the RATHER. Now,
the young man who jumped had never seen
a rattlesnake before, never had heard a rat
tlesnake rattle, was not thinking Of snakes
at all, did not even see the snake before he
Jumped, yet if he lived to be one hundred
years old he will never again take such &
leap as that one was.
The second instance is about a snake that
wasn't there. | was up the other day see
ing a man who had spent most Of his life
In India. | noticed that one Of the panes
Of his window was broken.
How did that happen ! asked.
"You sec. was the answer, 1T was this
way: Yesterday ! went out for lone
tramp. and wore hole in the toe Of M
stocking, which didn't notice at the tint
and didn't notice this morning when I pu
it on. WAS absent miudedly putting Of
b my shoe when suddenly my toe touche'
something cold. and before I could remem
Der that Wa in EngianI and not in IndH
: I kicked that shoe through the window.
never put my shoes on in India withOu
shaking them out 70 see that nothing va
in them in the shapeof snake This morn
q ing forgot that was in England, and n
T. membered that hadn't shaken ny shoe
l. The third instance was something q h
same sort. I wa coming; from tL- Temp
10 station U TIE -lrall Hil-4 4 - 49, Z
m me a well known var oo-r=DC11s-t
b. wa a nasty. slushy day and ] l-rrlz- Z
ID catch up With him On o1z u - str=s'
ID leading from the 5trau1 ~ - s-1-IzlI
De nent good deal u bulldIl ~ j. gJ-1g o.
At the moment ] SPEAK u = car tlls
a. with gravel backed up 70 where the bull
= ing operations were proceeding and q
ne man opened the tack Of the cart II
TO gravel with a rush and roar fell out On u
Of road. Instantly my friend, the war corr
a. spondent, flung himself face down
iy the mud. He got up rather sheepishl
looked around him and brushed the mt
off his trousers rs well as he could. Wh'
We came up TO him | said:
m "What in the name Of wonder made u
do a thing like that'" You didn't tri
W did your"
re- mo" he said, 81 didn't trip. thre
i -, myself down." and he laughed rather u
90 90 comfortably 1T was like this, you 81
nor You heard that gravel shoot out Of t
at carti Well, that is exactly the sound Of
he shell overhead Coming up from the 81
&c ton was thinking of the Russo Turk
VII war, and / was really at Plevna and not
val London at that moment, and when | hea
that rush of the shell was down on I
knees before thought of it. That's WI
no we always did when we heard she'll co
~. ing during the war. II you are down
your face in the sand you are not so apt
" be hit by the fragments. st. James 81
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