Kansas City daily journal., 1895-08-31
MENTAL TELEGRAPuY.
Mark Twain's Experiences with Startling
Coin ncidencps.

| A great many people are being converted
| 10 the claims OF mental telegraphy. Marx
| Twain gives n number OF curious eNperi-
ences in Harper's Magazine which indi
| cate telepathy. Among them is the follow
| ing:
Several years ago / made a campaign on
! the platform with MIR. George w. Gable.
| In Montreal we were houored with a re-
| ception. II began at > in the afternoon In
| long drawing room in the Windsor hotel.
| MIR. Gable and | stood at one end OF the
| room and the ladies and gentlemen entered
then came up the long left hand side, shoot!
hands, with US, said n word or two, and
Of the telescopic sort, and | presently rec
ogniaed a familiar face among the throns
of strangers, and ! said to myself, with
surprise and high gratfication: THAT Is
Mrs. Il had forgotten that she was n
Canadian" She had beon n great friend
of mine at Carson City. New. in the early
days. | had not seen nor heard of her for
about her: there was nothing to suggest
mind in fact, to me she had long ago
ceased to exist. and had disappeared from
my consciousness. But knew her instant
to note some OF the particulars of her dress
and did note them. and they remained in
my mind. | was impatient for her 10 come
snatched glimpses of her ana noted hor
progress with the slow moving file across
the end of the room; then saw her start
up the side and this gave me a full front
view of her face. ] saw her last when she
an hour l kept thinking she must stll be
in the room somewhere and would come at
last, but was disappointed.
When / arrived at the lecture hall that
evening, some one said: Come into the
waiting room: there's friend Of yours
there who wants to see you. You'll not he
introduced-,you are to DO the recognizing
without help IL you gan"
| said to myself: ut is Mrs. r.; shan't
have any trouble"
There We're perhaps ten ladies present,
all seated In the midst of them was Mrs.
r., as | had eXpected. She was dressed eX-
the afternoon. I went forward and shook
hands with her, and called her by name.
"T knew you the moment you appeared
n the reception this afternoon"
She looked surprised and said: But
was not at the reception. | have Just ar
rived from Quebec, and have not been in
town an hour"
said: 81 can't heip it. give you my word
of honor that 1t is as / say l saw you at
the reception, and you We're dressed pre-
me a moment ago that mould hnd u
friend in this room. your mage rose be-
fore me, dress and ali jus as 1 had seen
Those are the facts. She was not at the
reception at all, or anywhere near IT. but
clearly and unmisttakahlv. To that ! could
take oath. How is one to explain this? |
was not thinking of her AT the time: had
not thought of her for years. But she had
been thinking of me, no doubt; did her
thought fit through leagues Of air to me,
and bring with i that. clear and pleasant
and remains my sole experience in the
matter of apparitions-I mean ,appartions
| could have been asleep for moment;
the appariton could have been the crea-
ture Of q dream: rear Still' that t. Is et nothing to
happening of the thing just at that time,
instead of at an earlier or later time,
which is argument that its origin lay in
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