The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-11
INSTANCES or rELEPATmY.
A Woman who Was Forewarned OF
Danger TO Her sister and TO Her
Father.

Father.
From the New York Tribune.
Perhaps you don't believe I'm thought
transference and perhaps you do. A
woman who doesn't know whether or not
she believes in It, does know that she was
terribly frightened twice In her life when
there was no apparent reason why she
should have been-that is. in advance OF
her actual knowledge OF trouble or DANGER
She declares that these are the only incl
dents of the kind in her life. and she
further declares-this for the benefit OF
psychologists-that she cannot recall that
she ever had any other premonitIons. true
or false.
A man who pretends TO know something
about mental manifestations says that
this is an extremely important point. for
he SAYS that most mothers have forty
premonitiOns an evening when they are
away from home that something terrible
is happening TO somebody somewhere
According to this wise man. "a mother
goes 10 the theater leaving her beloved o.
year-old peacefully sleeping In his bed
She has premOnitiOus that he has fallen
out of bed and broken his neck. that he
has been abducted, that he has
been burned up, that he has
coughed himself to death and that
escaping gas has asphyxiated him. She
has an appalling premonition every IF
teen minutes. When she goes home. she
enters the childs room in IL Dreathless
suspense. If the boy IS sleeping soundly,
as is the case ninety-nine times out OF
hundred, she does not give single thought
10 any one OF her horrifyiug premonltions.
But if, the wise men declares, she comes
that her adored son has awakened in The
night and asked for a drink of water be-
cause he could think Of nothing else 20
ask for, or he has had an uneasy dream
because he was allowed TO have pudding
with his dinner. she clasps him in her
arms and declares that She had a Fremont
ton at the very moment he awakened. tor
tured with his feverish thirst. orat the OK
act instant the nightmare assaulted him.
This wise man declares that he knows
what he is talking about, for he Is the
father Of a 6-year-old boy and the hus-
band of a iN-premonitions-an -hour wife
But this is only a side issue, touching
upon condolences in the case of mother
who is sure, If she guesses enough horrible
things horribly often enough. to guess
near enough some time to establish CO.
incidence.
The women who had the two dreadful
premonitions, or whatever you please to
call them, is positive however, as has been
pointed out before, that these two are the
sum total of her premonitions, and she
hopes that they viii remain so. And If
any one could be 50 stupid as 60 doubt the
veracity or the memory of a woman. why
then it need only be said that this woman
Is the daughter of a famous bishop, so
that point is settled once and forever.
But now for the premonltions.
She had been downtown and was riding
home in a car, when her mind was op-
pressed with sense of some harm com
ing TO her little sister She grew extremely
nervous and her suffering became so keen
that the other passengers In the car no.
ticed her distraction and endeavored to
soothe her Finally her agitation became
so terrifying that she repeatedly moaned
her sisters name, falling eventually into
such a condition OF collapse that when
the car reached her home she could bare
" stagger to the house. At the door she
was met by 9, servant, WHO was pale-faced
and sobbing.
oh" cried the sister "how s-?"
IT'S terrible, terrible" sobbed the maid
but she is alive" and rushing into the
house, the woman found her little sister
lying on couch with white face, wet,
streaming hair and almost lfeless. She
had Just been rescued from drowning in a
shocking way having fallen into n els
tern and having been taken out with the
greatest difiiculty.
The period covering the child's fall into
the cistern, her struggles there and her
rescue in an unconscious condition, cor
responded with her sisters attack Of
nervous frenzy, empowering depression
and succeeding collapse. The period, so
far as could be judged, we're also coincl-
dent in duration.
To the wise man this seemed n clear
case Of telepathy, with no confusing as
sociations and no deceptive circum-
stances.
The other instance was similar, though
In this case the mental Impressions were
not so vivid. But on the other hand the
inducing cause was not so serious, though
the sympathetic brain was undoubtedly
of more powerful influence, being that
Of the bishop.
Again the woman was in a street car
on her way to a church where her father
was taking part IN some services, when
she was startled with a sense of impend-
ing danger to him. The oppression Of the
previous experience was repeated, and this
was followed by an extreme eagerness to
reach him. When the car carried her TO
the church. she jumped to the street,
hurried into the basement, and was run
ming through several rooms which were
between her and the room where she
knew her father should be- when she met
a young woman.
How is my father?" cried the bishop's
daughter but she did not wait for an
answer running on to the rear room
Here she found her father. He had failed,
and, having partially recovered, was be-
ing removed from the room to his car
riage.
Two interesting features of this case
were brought out by questions of the wise
man. The bishop was not subject to
fainting attacks-in fact his daughter
did not believe that he had ever before
tainted, and he had scarcely been III a
day in his life, so that there was no rea-
son founded on association or habituaI
dread why the daughter should have
been struck with fear for her father
These are the simple statements Of the
cases, given here, as they were given by
the bishops daughter, for what they
are worth to those who are interested in
psychological discussions and research.