The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-12-31
QUEER EXPERIENCES.
WE'VE THEY MERELY CONDOLENCES
OR SOMETHING MoREi



Dual Consciousness.
Tho stories am about to relate I got at
first hands, which is perhaps the chief
merit. We read good many things in
books and newspapers that are out Of the
ordinary range Of our experience and
which We hesitate to believe, but when .
friend tells us face to face and with all
seriousness Of some extraordinary occur
renee we are very apt to treasure 1t up In
memory and classify Ii with the unex-
planned phenomena of this mysterious hui
man life.
A lady of my acquaintance, who is en-
gagged in newspaper work in New York,
fsteiysa visit few years ago from
Western friend who was about to tako O
sound steamer for Boston the same even
ing. While they were talking the lady
had startling yision. She seemed to see
the man walking on tho deck Of steamer
on dark night, when the falling rain
froze into slest as it struck the deck. He
slipped and fell, slid under the guard rail
and was engulfsl in the sea. The vision
came and passed in second. The lady
begged her friend net to go on the steamer
that night. She told him what she hsd
seen. He Was materislist and laughed
the whole matter OF as a bit of idle fancy.
He took the boat that evening, slipped on
the icy deck, fell overheard just as he did
in the vision and was drowned
Three years ago was living in car
and travelling from town to town in the
state of Washington. In Cheney had
call from real estate man. Some way or
other the talk dritted to queer experiences.
My friend told me he had he d one such ex-
perience in life, and one only Ten years
before he was running train ont of Chi
cago as conductor on one Of the Burlina-
ton lines. One morning after heavy rains,
when there were frcshcts in the streams,
he stood upon tho platform of way sta
ton about three miles from the crossing
of small river. He was about to signal
his engineer to go ahead when a voice
spoke plainly in his ear, "Look out for the
bridget" No ono was standing near at the
time. He walked forward and said to the
engineer, Jim, think you had better
slow down at the curve just this sdo Of
the bridge" "Thero is nothing the mat
ter with tho bridge" said the engineer,
cor we would have had q wire from It,
Perhaps there isn't replied the conduct
or, but you slow down all the same"
There was O sharp curve short distance
from the approach to the bridge, so near,
i'll fact, that it would have been impossible
to stop the train after coming in sight of
the bridge had 1t been running at the
usual ratio OF speed. The engineer slowed
down. The bridge was gone 1t had been
carried away between the time tho train
LEFT the last station anu Its arrival ut the
curve. Had 1t not been for the mysterious
warning the whole train would have gone
lnb the river,
A prominent Chicago physician once
kept drug store in small town in Hi
noIs.' Across the street from the store was
considerable stretch of nntenccd town
lots. SltGlng IN tho shade IN front OF the
store one suinhe7 afternoon the doctor saw
young man OF his acquaintance ap-
preaching across the open lots. When he
was five or six rods away, the doctor, with
out any symptoms of being in an abnormal
condition, seemed to 500 the whole anatom-
ical structure of the mSn-all his bones
and Internal organs, and at the same time
he SAW the contents of the young mans
pockets. The vision passed in an instant
When tie youth came up to tho doctor,
the latter said: Henry, l can tell you just
what you have in your pockets. lii ono of
the pockets Of your trousers you have ID
bunch OF string for tying up bags; in the
other there is d black handled jackknife,
two tcnpenny nails and half dollar. The
date on the half dollar is 1916. The
young man turnud his pockets inside out
auG showed that he was carrying the urti-
Clts described lie cook tho coin looked
ut it and found that the date named by the