The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-26
PRESENTINIENTS.
a NUMBER OF CASES LIKE THAT AT
THE PARIS FIRE.
several Historical Examples of Death Pre-
figured In the Mind Reflections of Henri
de Parviiie on Manifestations Of Teiep-
athy.

accident, Henri de Parville, in recent
paper, recalls number of such in .
stances. The case of the sister of chart.
ty Marie Madeline was strange one.
She was woman of singular equable-
ness OF temper, without the slightest
tendency toward the neurotic Accord
ing TO her fellow sisters, the night be-
fore the disaster she had dream, or
vision, in which she went through the
agonies of death by fire, and such was
the impression it made upon her mind
that the following day, as she was leav
ing for the bazaar, she told the other
nuns of her presentiment, adding sadly:
Farewell, my sisters. l shall never see
you again. The nuns did what they
could to reason her out of what they
thought an unfounded fear, and she left
the convent. Two hours later she was
brought back well nigh unrecogniza-
BILE corpse.
M. de Parville mentions several his
lIorical examples of death prefgured in
the mind either of the victim himself
,)r of some friend or relative. The most
famous case is that of Calphurnia, the
wife Of Julius Caesar, who, in the
night preceding the assassination, saw
her husband expire, bleeding, in her
arms. President Lincoln's dream the
night before his murder is we'll known.
He saw the White House draped in
mourning, and, inquiring the cause,
was told, 1.-The president has just been
shot at the theater." Mrs. Lincoln, TO
whom he related his vision, besought
him not to go to the play that night,
but the president scorned what he be-
lieved to be superstition.
Bernardo, councillor of the consistory
at Berlin, vigorous man of 90 years
Of age, related early in the year 1890 to
Fichte the younger that he had the
preceding night dreamed that the leaves
| of tree flew toward him and that, hav-
ing picked up one, he saw upon it his
name, followed ny these words: "Died
| June /, 1890" The incident made
scarcely any impression upon Bernardo,
and none at all upon Fichte, but he re-
membered it when, going several days
later to call upon Bernardo, he found
| ulm uedu anu ltdIuci tbaV ho hau Ca
pired on June /.
Another quasi historical event OF this
kind, which was related in the mo
nistichen Seelenlehre, twas the dream OF
DIR. Won Gudden, the physician OF Lud.
wig II of Bavaria, who was drowned
with his sovereign in the Starnberger
See. A few days before the departure
of the doctor for Hohenschwangau,
where he was to attend the king, DIR.
Won Gudden told his wife that he had
been oppressed all night by dream in
which he struggled with a man under
the water. His widow informed the
Anthropological society of Munich OF
the facts some time afterward.
Perhaps the strangest incident among
these, however, is one which occurred
in Brussels, and is told by Mime. A.
l.. At about o'clock one night, wher
she had just left the table to get plate
forgotten by the servant, and while she
was leaning toward the dresser where
the chinaware was kept, she distinctly
heard her name called and recognized
the voice of her cousin. She raised he
head and saw him outside the window
nod his head and heard him say
GOOD evening, LULU GOOD even
ing, Wenand." she answered, and
turning from the dresser, she ran e
omen the street door. To her surprise N
one was there. Her father, hearing tn
door opened without having heard tn
docrbell ring, came out of the dining
room to see what was going on. 1t
, NV cousin" said his daughter, blu
he is trying to tease me. He has ma
den." Her father answered gravely
"You are mistaken. 1t is impossibl
, that Wenand should be here" And b
went ON to tell her that her cousin ha
died the previous day-a fact which n
had until then been DESTROYS OF keepin
from her. In telling of the occurrenc
Mime. A. L. adds: II therefore saw
person who had been dead for "a hours
I spoke to him and he to me. wa
neither sad nor i'll when had this Vi
: sion. I suspected nothing, and l had nc
= the shadow of q fever. "
= In commenting upon these cases, a
!, of which, with many others which d
ouotes, are, he declares, duly authent
Gated, M. de Parville remarks that W
have all had within our experienc
cases that were singular, to say I'll
4 least, when we suddenly thought OF
: person long since absent, only to nm
Q him or her the same day or the follow
q ing one standing before us IN the nesh
: "We know our nervous systems an
! our brains so little" he adds, "that
, may ask whether these are mere como
8 dences. Mr.. Crookes of the Royal socl
I ty of London, in discourse before Il
Society For Psychical Research receh
. ly. showed to what point certain IN
4 terial influences could be put TO woi
: about us in the universe without OF
being aware of it. Hesaid that telepatf
8 is new conception which provokes T
t pulsion in many persons, but the asse
0 tions concerning which may be exa
Q without contradictiDg any truth airea'
D known. He reminded his audience tn
o in the universe everything is made
q of vibrations, differing only IN the
e frequency and rapidity. 1t has pee
d proved that they serve to transmit
L. AT.