The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-02-27
SAVED BY PREMoNlTlONs.
Mysterious Warnings That Doctor
Needed in Time to Escape Injury.

Mysterious Warnings That Doctor
Needed in Time to Escape Injury.
al want to tell you a story" said DR..
Moiere to a reporter. I'm not n super
stitious man, nor do believe in dreams
but yesterday, for the third or fourth
time in my life, | was saved by pre-
monition. | got aboard of car No. 81 on
the Suffer street line at the ferry yes
tcrday to ride up to my Office. AS usual,
| walked to the forward end OF the car,
took seat in the corner with my back
to the driver, and pulling a paper from
my pocket, was soon deeply engrosSed
in the news Suddenly something said
to me, Go to the other end of the car
Acting on impulse, changed my seat
and so rapid We're my movements that
the other passengers in the ear noticed
them. Remember, l was sitting in the
first place with my back TO the driver
! was paying no attention to anything
but my newspaper, and the premonition
if | may SO call it, could not have come
! from any outsi de influence. such as see
ing approaching danger, but, sir, had
not been i'll my new seat more than five
seconds when the tongue o. a heavily
loaded wagon crushed through the side
of the car just where had been first
seated, and had l not changed my seat
my back would have been broken by
the wagon-tongue.
"As | said" continued the doctor. ~
am not superstitious, but the incident l
have just related, taken in connection
with other incidents of similar nature
occurring in my life, makes me believe,
in spite of myself, that there is 'des-
tiny that shapes our ends, rough hew
them as we will
In answer to a question as to what
similar warning or premonitiOn of dam
ger he had ever received, DR. Moliere
said: "Well, one time | was riding on
the Michigan Central railroad. 1t was
bitter cold night, and when | entered
the car nv feet seemed frozen. | walked
forward and took seat next to the
stove in the forward part of the car.
putting my feet on the fender. In a
short time a gentleman changed his
seat and came and sat beside me. The
speed, and the draught soon made the
heater in the car rcd-hot. Suddenly
there came to me Il premonition of dan
ger. and turning to my companion, |
said: "lf we should meet with an acct
dent, collision, for instance, you and
would be in a bad place. We would GER
tainly be hurled on that red-hot stove.
seatmate could reply, the impulse TO
grasp the end of the seat came upon me
so strong | could not resist it, and hard
| ly had my fingers closed upon the rail of
the seat when there came crash, and
the car we were in was thrown vio-
| lently from the track. | chung to the
seat, and my companion, when thrown
| Ny position in the seat was such that
had been pitched hcadloug, as he was,
| could not have missed the heater. A
broken rail caused the accident, but
what caused me to grasp the seat as
did | would like to know"
Speaking of DR.. Moliere's story to IA
well-knOwn sporting man, the latter
| Sdll. w Gil, L We vldu IIt StlI1t SOrI vi
experience once or twice in my life. I'm
superstitious. | admit it. OF course,
fellows laugh at me. but for all that
believe I've got some sort of a guardian
angel that whispers to me when I'm in
danger. May be it's one of the wrong
sort, for they do say the devil takes care
of his own; but wrong or right as to
kind. know one thing certain, that my
life has been saved more than once.
One time was at IL racc-course and was
up i'll the grand stand. ! was broke and,
wanted to keep away from the boys.
There were not many people on the
stand; it wasn't half filled, but suddenly
felt an impulse which fairly drove me
out of the place. had not got clear
down the stairs when the whole stand
went down with crash. and the fellow
who was sitting right next to me was
crushed out of all semblance to hui
manity by great big beam that
smashed the whole row of seats we
were in. That is not the only time |
have been warned, and if the what-is-it
would only whisper to me when ! go to
put up money on the wrong horse, Id
be millionaire in month. San Fran
| cisco Chronicle.