The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-03-24
THOUGHT IRA NSMISSION
y Observation-Disclosures Gases or Tele
pathio q Communication.
WashingtOniaRs Are Very Much In.
terested In Psychical Phenom.
ena just NOw-Reminis.
y, cences OF the War, RI
Especial Washington Letter.l

III have had some personal expert
ences with telepathy," says DR.. s. C..
Miller, of this city. my father was
governor OF Minnesota, my brother
Wesley was lieutenant in the army of
the Potomac, and was soldier in the
army Of the frontier. In July, 1868, my
mother was at the old home in Harris
burg, Pa, and at exactly IS minutes of
six o'clock on the evening of July 2 she
said: Wesley is shot Fifteen minutes
later, exactly at six o'clock, she said:
"Wesle y is dead She afterwards ex-
planned that at quarter of six o'clock
she heard him say as though standing
close behind her: oh, my mother
On the following morning telegram
was received announcing the fact that
my brother had been killed at the bat
tie of Gettysburg on the preceding
evening. OF course mother knew that
a great battle was going on because the
guns could be heard very distinctly in
Harrisburg, but she had no means of
knowing that her son was actually en-
gaged in the battle, or was where his
life was in danger. She simply re-
ceived the impression that he was shot,
and then Is minutes later that he was
dead. Two days afterwards my uncle
went to Gettysburg and found the
body of my brother and had it removed
to Harrisburg, where the remains were
inferred.
."I had another experience which was
very singular. l was in the national
cemetery at Gettysburg several years
ago, and by some instructive impulse
I walked towards the graves of the
regular army soldiers. There, to my
great surprise, saw the headstone of
Lieut.. Wesley F. Miller. called the
attention of the superintendent to the
headstone and asked him if he had any
means of knowing that Lieut.. Miller
was buried there, and he said that there
could be no doubt of it. told him that
I personally knew that my brother was
buried in Harrisburg, and he indiffer-
emily said: We'll, some other soldier
is buried there, and that name will do
just as we'll for him as any other, now
that he is no longer fit for duty on this
earth
II either read or heard of singular
story several years ago, which had an
amusing side to it. A veteran of one of
the union armies went to the national
cemetery, I believe it was at Gettys-
burg, and instinctively was led to a
grave bearing his own name, company
and regiment. He went off Immediate
ly and got Il little cart full of flowers
which he brought into the cemetery and
deposited upon that grave. One of the
keepers asked him why he was so pro-
fuse in decorating that particular grave
and he responded: We'll, if there is
any grave on earth in which ought to
take great deal of interest, and upon
which l should bestow a number of
floral decorations from time to time, it
is that particular grave, because am
buried there"
Mr.. Earl S. Goodrich, founder of the
st. Paul Pioneer-Press, was lieutenant
colonel in the army of the Potomac, on
staff duty. He said: There were a
great many instances of telepathy dur
ing the civil war, but nobody at that
time was able to give any scientific
name to the peculiar transmission of
thought from mind to mind, which is
now receiving great deal Of attention
from the scientific world. l know a
number of instances where men re-