Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-03-15
TELEPATHY CASES.
THOUGHT TRANSFERRING CONSIpl
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A Woman Who Was Forewarned of Dan
ger to Her Sister and to Her Father.
What the Wise Man Says About Promo.
nitions.
Perhaps you don't believe in thought
transference, and perhaps you do. A wom-
m who doesn't know whether or not she
believes in it does know that she was ter
fibly 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
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 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 40 pre-
monitions an evening when they are away
from home that something terrible Is hap.
PoAAAS w ooAAASoOuy k4CCUIu-
ing to this wise a a mother goes to the
theater leaving her beloved 6-year-old
peacefully sleeping In his bed. She has
premonitions that he has fallen out of bed
and broken his neck; that he has been alb.
Quoted; 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 Is min,
utes. When she goes home, she enters the
ohild's room in a breathless suspense. If
the boy Is sleeping soundly, as is the case
SO times out of 100, she does not give a
single thought to any one of her horrify-
ing p~remonitions.
But II, the wise man declares, she comes
homo on the hundredth time and finds
that her adored son has awakened in the
night and asked for q drink of water be-
cause he could think Of nothing else to
ask for, or he has had m uneasy dream
because he was allowed to have pudding
with his dinner, she clasps him in her
arms and declares that she had q premo-
milton at the very II he awakened,
tortured with his feverish thirst, or at the
exact instant the nightmare assaulted
him.
The woman 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 will remain SO, and II
any one could be SO stupid as to 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 ~premonitions.
She had been down town and was rid
Ing home in a car when her mind was op-
pressed with a sense of some harm coming
to her little sister. She grew extremely
nervous, and her suffering became so keen
chat the other passengers in the car no.
ticed her distraction and endeavored to
soothe her. Finally her agitation became
SO terrifying that she repeatedly moancd
her sisters name, falling eventually into
such a condition of collapse that when the
car reached her homo she could barely
stagger to the house. At the door she was
met by a servant, who was palefaced and
sobbing.
"Oh," cried the sister, show isl
"It's terrible, TERRIBLE" sobbed the
maid, but she is alive!' and rushing into
the house the woman found her little sis.
ter lying on a couch with a white face,
wet, streaming hair and almost ~lifeless.
She had just been rescued from drowning
in a shocking way, having fallen into a
cistern, and having been taken out with
the greatest difficulty.
The period Covering the child's fall into
the %cistern, her struggles there and her
rescue in an unconscious condition CORE
sponded with her sisters attack Of nervous
frenzy, overpowering depression and sue
seeding collapse. The periods, so far as
bould be judged, were also c%oincident In
duration.
To the wise man this seemed a clear
case Of telepathy, with no confusing asso-
Citations and no deceptive circumstances.
The other instance was similar, though
II this case the mental impressions were
not SO vivid. But, IN 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 woma was in q street car,
on her way to a church, where her father
was taking part in some service, when she
was startled with a sense of impending
danger to him. The oppression of tho pre-
vious experience was repeated, and this
was followed by an extreme eagerness to
feaCh nllu. Wncu Gno Car carried nCf TO
the church, she jumped to the street, hur-
ried into the basement and was running
through several rooms which were between
her and the room where she knew her ia
Their should be when she met q young
woman.
"How is my fatherf" cried the bishops
daughter, but she did not wait for an an
awer, running on to the rear room. Here
she found her father. He had tainted, and
having partly recovered was being re.
moved from the room to his carriage.
Two interesting features Of this case
were brought out by questions of the wise
man. The bishop was not subject to
fainting a~ttacks-in fact, his daughter
did not believe that he had ever before
~fainted-and he had scarcely been i'll a day
In his life, SO that there was no reason
founded on association or habitual dread
why the daughter should lave 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 psy-
geological discussion and researoh.-New
York Tribune.