The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-08
AS TO APPARITIONs.
Mark Twain Has an Experiences I'm
ThOught-Transferen Up in Cam

ada.
great many people are being con.
verted to the claims of mental telegra-
ply. Mark Twain gives a number of GU
rious experiences in "Harper's Magazine. -
which indicate telepathy. Among them
is the following:
Several years ago 1 made a campaign
on the platform with Mr.. George w
Gable. In Montreal we were honored
with a reception. 1t began at ? in the
afternoon in long drawing room in the
Windsor hotel. Mr.. Cable and I stood al
one end of this room and the ladies and
gentlemen entered it at the other end
crossing it at that end, then came mn
the long left hand side, shook hands with
us, said a word or two, and passed on
in the usual way. My sight is of the
telescope sort, and presently recognized
familiar face among the throng OF
strangers drifting in at tine distant door
and l said to myself, with surprise and
high qualification; That is Mrs r.,
l had forgotten that she was a Canadian .
She had been great friend of mine in
carson City, New, in the early DAYS
mad not seen her nor heard of her for TWEEN
ty years; l had not been thinking about
her; there was nothing to suggest her to
me, nothiong to bring her to my mind:
IN tact, TO me she had long ceased to exist.
and had disappeared from my conscious
ness But 1 knew her instantly. and | saw
her so clearly that 1 was able to note some
of the particulars of her dress, and did
note them, and they remained in my mind
l was impatient for her to come. In the
midst of the handshaking 1 snatched
glimpses of her and noted her progress
with the slow-moving file across the end
of the room, then l saw her start nm
the side and this GA mo f,,n
view of her face. 1 saw her last when
she was within twenty-five feet of me.
For an hour l kept thinking she must
still be in the room somewhere and
would come at last but was disappointed
When l arrived in the lecture hall that
evening, some one said: Come into the
waiting room; there's a friend of vours
there who wants to see you. You'll NOT
be introduced-you are TO do the recog-
nizing without help if you can"
L said to myself: 1T is Mrs. R.; shan't
have any trouble"
There was perhaps ten ladies present
all seated. In the midst of them was
Mrs. r.. as l had expected. She was
dressed exactly as she was when I had
seen her in the afternoon. 1 went for
ward and shook hands with her and called
her by name, and said:
1 knew you the moment you appeared
at the reception this afternoon
she looked surprised and said: "But 7
was not at the reception. 1 have inst
arrived from Quebec, and have not been IN
town an hour"
1t was my turn to be surprised now
l said: Il can't help 1t. I gave YOU NV
word of honor that it is as 1 say. I saw,
you at the reception, and YOU we're
dressed precisely as you are now. When
they told me moment ago that I should
find friend in this room your image
rose before me, dress and ali. lust as 7
mad seen you at the reception.
Those are the facts. She was NOT a.
the reception at all, or anywhere near
1t; but l saw her there nevertheless and
most clearly and Enthusiastically. To thar
l could make my oath. How is one TO ex-
plain this? l was not thinking of her q r
the time; had not thought of her for
years. But she had been thinking Of
me- no doubt; did her thought Ait
through leagues of air to me. and hiring
with it that clear and pleasant vision
OF herself? I think so. That was and
remains my sole experience in the mat
ter of apparltions-I mean apparitions
that come when one is (ostensiblv1
awake. / could have been asleep for a
moment; the apparitiOn could have been
the creature of a dream. Still. thar is
nothing to the point; the feature of in
terest is the happening of the thing iust
al that time. instead of at an earlier or
later time, which is argument that its
origin lay in observation-disclosures.