The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-09


printed in the last report q the proceed
ings Of the Society Tor Psychical Re
ton here 10 illustrate some OF the sup
in question.
D. J. Parsons. a physician in Sweet
Springs. No, SAYS he discovered years
ago that he was able 10 see things, men
tally, which had happened hundreds Of
wrote in 1891; while in company with
Dr. TrOtter Of Lexington. Mo, / could
see before and near 10 MIN a delicate
hand on which was dark red kid glove.
The hand was an the time in motion.
1 called his attention 10 IL. and he was
much surprised. ] told him the hand had
a history, and If he had no objections
| would be pleased 10 know il. He said
ne was travelling in Canada on the cars,
ana one day We ran up 10 a train that
had been wrecked a little while before.
1 went to the wreck. and about the first
thing that / saw was a young lady lying
upon the ground dead. One hand was
naked, and one was covered with dark
red Kid glove Instantly upon his utter
Ing the words the dark red kid glove and
the hand vanished"
subsequently the DR.. TrOtter here men,
TONED sent full account Of the accident
and the conversation with Dr. Parsons
70 an Oincer of the Psychical Research
Society, IN reply to inquiries. He corrob-
GRATED the foregoing story fully, saying
that the gloVed hand made strong i'm
| preston on him, which has remained 10
this day; about forty years he was
astounded at DIR. Parsons remark to him
nearly thirty years after the event, and
even yet cannot understand how that per
son should have preached the subject, IN
asmuch as DR.. TrOtter had never to his
knowledge mentioned the sight OF the
dead girl to living soul.
A Well-known member OF the Society Tor
Phychical Research in England woman
/ who wells her identity from the general
| public by the name Of Miss X, has had
many such experiences. For instance, on
| meeting for the first time a mature gen
| ueman whom she had every reason 70 es-
| deem highly, she perceived near MIN
vague but persistent image or lad, wear
/ ing terrOr-stricken aspect, and holding
/ his arm up in self-defense. Later she
learned that in bOyhOOd, at school, for
| some misbehavior, he was obliged to run
the gauntlet" Mr.. Myers cited these two
/ stories as suggesting the adherence OF
| phantasmal scenes to living person.
| A large group of incidents found IN this
| collection occurred almost exactly at the
/ same time when the ''percipient' received
| a corresponding impression. ShipWreckS,
more trifiing accidents, the recovery of a
| lost dog and the position in which a watch
| that had been dropped in a bayfield, q
| few hours before still lay were paralleled
| provisions, either in sleep or a half-wakine
| condition. Thus, on the morning of Oct.
! z, 1888, the wife of Chicago man asked
| him, while they were both dressing and
| before either of them had left their sleep
| ing room, If he had ever known person
/ named 'Esdale." He replied in the mega
| tive Then she narrated dream in which
/ she saw coffin on the lake shore so
| marked. Later in the day. the man dis
| covered in the morning paper of that date
| an account of the disappearance of VIII
| liam e. Esdale, but with no theory as to
| his fate. After elaborate inquiry il seems
| to be established that this was the first
| public mention of the fact that he was
| missing. For several days the Chicago
| papers referred to the topic, but sug-
| gested that he was alive but insane and
would be found. The notion OF suicide
was secuted. On Oct. 10 Esdales dead
! body was found. He had been drowned.
| In the great majority of cases the vision
| Cd
| Sometimes 1t was the only experience of
| the kind which that particular person had
! had, and sometimes the seer was accus-
| toned to receiving such impressions. Very
| often they related to people and things in
| which the "percipient had not the slight
| est interest, and of which. perhaps, he had
| no previous knowledge. One of the conspic-
| uous exceptions to the latter rule was a
| Geographic conversation conducted by a
| San Francisco physician and his wife in
| May, 1893. She was to make visit in the
| country for a fortnight. Almost every
| evening during that time, by prearrange-
| ment, they sat down at certain hour for
| twenty minutes, each of them alone. They
| We're nearly one hundred miles apart. On
| alternate evenings the doctor acted as
| transmitter and receiver, his wife always
| acting in the other capacity. They made
| written notes of the messages sent and inn
| pressions obtained at the time, and COM
| pared these afterward. Here are a few
May 15-The doctor writes: "E and R.
| went to park Mrs. A. is angry. S. paid
his BILL His wife's record SAYS: Gould
get nothing definite. Think you collected
some money"
X; b. feels quite we'll" The Doctors note
| book has this; You took a long walk.
see a young man with revolver in his
hand" "a young man shot dog in the
garden that day.
| business prevented" The other: Gould
get nothing at all. Think you were out"
| May 2O-Mrs. s. writes: MY clothes and
r-I,1 oil ffrf I harr Oa1r
| my arms. Hope it will NOT be bad" The
| doctor says: You went riding. / see you
holding a shoe in your hand. You have
me to mail you 1.-THE Bulletin and THE
| Chronicle" (His wife merely wished for
a Bulletin supplementl
May 23.-The doctor: up all night Very
| tired Nothing new" And his wife: You
| are looking very cross and tired"
Good authorities vouched for the charac-
ter of DIR. S. as a truth-teller, after he had
related the foregoing story to an officer of
| the society.
Visions. dreams or Impressions which
seemed to be prophetic figure frequently
| in Mr. Myers catalogue Occasionally
there would be only a vague impulse
or sensation A railway engineer stopped
his train, he could not say why, and sent
| a flagman ahead. He thus stopped an ex-
press train coming toward him, on the
| same track, but out of sight around a
| curve Having landed in a strange city,
| a man was picking his way along in the
| dark when he was impelled to change
his route abruptly. He found next day
that a few more steps would have thrown
him off a dock A fathers anxiety about
a son in another part of the country in
| creased to such point that the family
| had just decided to summon the boy home,
when the news of his death was received.
| But usually vivid picture, as of a mon
key climbing along a roof, or of a hunts
man lying under his horse that had Stun
| bled and fallen, was received.
Again, of the prefigured events some
were only few seconds away; others
| perhaps months distant. A naturalist
| would discover, without search or sus-
| picion, exceedingly rare ferns or moths,
almost instantly after an image of the
| specimen was found in his mind or a
| hint was VIII spered in his ear by some un-
seen agency Accidents and even deaths
were predicted weeks in advance, and
sometimes on a specified date, and the
forecast was fulfilled, A man dreamed
of seeing the headstone of his own grave
| inscribed Jun. 81 AS the word June
| is seldom abbreviated, he believed that
this was meant for Jan. g." Soon after
ward one of his children died on June
| 8, and ne considered this occurrence a
fulfllment of the supposed prophecy.