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turned back. placed the instruments in the
buggy, and drove Off

was fractured In several places and his
llfetde was flowing fast. What with drag
ging the man to a shady place. oetting the
broken bones. applying restoratives and
summoning aid to remove the man, that
young doctor had his hands full for tho
next couple OF hours.
81 often afterwards asked myself he
said. how ] would have felt II, after deny
ing that impression with plg-headed OBJ
stlnacy, I had como upon that man without
the appliances to relieve his condition In
time. Oh, yes, he added, in answer to my
question, L have often had those impress
sions, and after that never failed to act
upon them. My experience, however. tells
mo that the more you keep yourself In the
vortex OF worldly affairs tho less likely
you are to have psychic experiences. Those
strong still, speechess voices have most
to say to you when you are alone with
yourself and nature. II Joan OF Arc her
self had been a Paris shop girl instead OF
peasant, she might never have heard those
voices through whose guidance she wrought
maryels before which the worlds knight
hood pales.'
IT know little woman who lives by lee
turing and writing; her home Is In one OF inc
Boston suburbs. She spent part OF last WIN
ter here in New York. bringing with her
other members of the family, and closing Tor
the winter the house In the Boston supuro'
She had been here few weeks. giving taiks
in private houses to such people as cared 10
listen to her speciality, when one morning
one Of her patrons appeared and told tnst sne
had had such q queer dream about her Few
piebts before. Then she went on to relate
how abe had seen In her dream the lectur-
er's house at home which she never had ac-
tua,ly seen. She described It's exterior mi
nutely. and said she saw man place lad
der at the rear Of the house, climb II, ana
enter by an upper window. which he pried
open. She saw him go through the house and
select his plumber. Leaving all he did not
went in drest disorder, he went out by the
door.
THE lecturer wished the woman had told
her Of the dream sooner. She was believer
in the psychic side of life. and with good rea-
son. But she did not have long to walt In
order to learn whether or not there was
truth in the dream. A letter came soon from
neighbors at home who told Of their waking
been ransacked in the manner described by
the dreamer The neighbors said also that
there was no absolute necessity OF the own
er's Fastening back, that everything had
already been done that she could DO In the
matter and that the doors had been again
secured as we'll as possible. The burglar ap-
peared to have made good his escape Here
was a case when, II dream had been acted
upon in time. a thief might have been Sc
cured as proof. But as yet people seem to be
too uncertain or ashamed Of their psychic
gifts to utilize them with any proper intelli-
gence.
1T know Of another woman who with her
husband was visiting hero. Her homo was
also in a town in Massachusetts, She had
left at home three children in charge Of
near relative. One evening, after she had
been here q couple Of weeks, she went to her
husband as he entered the house and insisted
that they should return home at once; giving
as her only reason that 1t had been borne in
upon her all day that her daughter Mary was
very Ill and needed her; was calling for her.
OF course her husband pooh -poohed at her
impression, and tried to dissuade her from so
foolish O project as returning home before
the time set. But. leave she would. and with
express haste. There was great hurry to Be-
cure cab to reach the station in time and
the FIRST to appear was secured. They had
not been in It more than three minutes when
the wife declared that they were not going in
the right direction. The husband again tried
to convince her Of her error but she would
not be silenced. The driver was called to
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ton disclosed the fact that the man was in
a quiet but advanced stage Of intoxication;
had misunde rstood directions, and was taking
them far out of their way and to wrong sta
ton. The wife had no clue as to the real d.
rection; she acted simply on an INNER voice
which told her the thing was So Through
her insistent action they caught the train
Just in time.
They travelled all night; the woman trou-
bled to get homo. but assuring her husband
that though their child was very Ill. an In
ner voice told her she would not die When
they finally reached home they found every
thing precisely MS she had believed It to be,
The child had been taken suddenly and vio-
lently Ill: the family doctor was summoned.
everything was done. but the little one called
gram was sent, which reached its destina-
ton some hours after the mother had started
for home.
THE question remains. are these things
worth needing? I think they are. I won't
| ask are they worth cultivating, for I don't
| think cultivation has much to do with them
| They come more through that quiet, sympa-
| thetic contemplation which puts you in touch
with all nature. All one has to do is to give
such things hospitable Judgment. The obey
| ing Of them may help you; even II at times
| you find nothing comes OF them they cannot
| hurt you. Some people believe all these
| things come through departed spirits I'm
| not ready to accept that belief There may
| be many other intelligences at work in this
| universe besides the spirits OF those gone on
| DR.. Richard Hodgson. of the Society for
| Psychical Research, after above ten years Of
| close research, declares himself a believer in
| spirit intercourse, and promises to reveal
| facts which he believes will revoutionize mo-
dern thought DR.. Hodgson has been the
| champion discoverer Of spiriualistic frauds
| 1t was he who exposed Madame Blavatsky
| and her followers; 1t was he who discovered
| -. nal