Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-23

A Woman Who Was Forewarned of Dan-
 ger to Her Sister and to Her Father
 What the Wise Man Says About Premo-
 ritions.
 Perhaps you don't believe in thought transference, and perhaps you do. A wom- an who doesn't know whether or not she believes in it does know that she was ter. ribly frightened twice in her life when thero was no apparent reason why she should have becn-that is, in advance of hor actual knowledge of trouble or danger. She declares that these are the only incl dents of the kind in her life, and she furtbers sdeclares-this for the benefit of psychologists-tha she cannot recall that sine ever had any other premonitions, true or false.
 A man who protends 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 arc away from home that something terrible is hap pening to somebody somewhere. Accord ing to this wise man, 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 bod and broken his neck; that he has been ab- ducted; 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 Il min utes. When she goes home, she enters the child's room in breathless suspense If the boy is sleeping soundly, as is the case 99 times out of 100, she does not give single thought to any one of her horrify- ing promonitions.
 But if, the wise man declares, she comes homo on the hundredth time and finds that hcr adored son has awakened in the night and asked for drink of water be- cause he could think of nothing else to 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 premo- milton at the very moment he awakened, tortured with his feverish thirst, or at the exact instant the nightmare assaulted him.
 Tho 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 if 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 daug hter of 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 Sbe grew extremely nervous, and her suffering became so keen that the other passengers in the car no ticed her distraction and cndeavored to soothe her. Finally her agitation became SO terrifying that she repeatedly moaned her sisters name, falling eventually into such condition of collapse that whom the car reached hor home she could barely stagger to the house. At the door she was met by a servant, who was palefaoed and sobbing.
 "Oh," cried the sister, "how is''-
 'sIt's terrible, terrible" sobbed the maid, but she is alivel'' and rushing into the house the woman found hef little sis ter lying on a couch with white face, wet, streaming hair and almost lifeless. She had just been rescued from drowning in shocking way, having fallen into 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 corre- sponded with her sisters attack of nervous frenzy, oyerpowering depression and suo- ceeding oollapse. The periods, so far as could be judged, were also coincident 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 in this case the mental impressions were