The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-28

Louisa wrote in her diary:
May not doing well. The weight on
my heart is not all imagination. I fear
the end is coming. This peculiar feeling
has never nlisled me-"
"A dark day for us. A telegram to
Mr.. Emerson (Ralph Waldo tells us
May is dead 1t was sent to him be-
cause l was feeble and it was hoped he
would soften the blow. l found him
when he called looking at Mays portrait.
pale and fearful, with the telegram in his
hand. My child / wish / could prepare
you, but, alas! alasn Then he gave me
the telegram. l was not surprised. but
read the hard words as IL | knew II all
before. T. am prepared l said. and
thanked him. He was much moved and
very tender shall remember grateful
ly the look, the grasp, the tears he gave
me-"
While yet young girl another sister
died and she wrote:
"A few moments after the last breath
came. as mother and | sat silently watch
ing the shadow fall on the dear little
face, | saw a light mist rise from the
body and vanish in the air. Mothers eyes
followed mine. and when 1 said. What
did you see?' and she described the same
light mist. Dr. G.. said IL was the life
departing visibly."
Apparftion of Warming.
On a morning in April. 1890, Mrs Pa
quet, of Muskegon, Mich, having felt IN
low spirits all the morning. was in the
act OF making tea when on turning from
the pantry she saw her brother. Edmund
Dunn, standing before her. He. or his
image was in the act of falling forward
seemingly impelled by rope that had
been looped around his leg. Then he dis
peared over low railing or bulwark,
MY God, Ed Is drowned" she exciain-
ed. When her husband returned home he
said, wishing to break the news to her:
Ed Is sick in Chicago. l have just re-
ceived telegram" To which she re-
piled: He is drowned ! saw him go
overheard" Then she described his ap-
pearance. He was bareheaded. she said,
had on a heavy blue suit, no coat and as
he went over the rail she noticed that
mis- pants legs were turned up enogh to
show the white lining inside" She also
described the appearance Of the boat at
the point where her brother went over
board. He was not subject to fainting
or vertigo.
Her brother was a fireman on board the
tug Wolf, OF Chicago, and at about 3
O'Clock that morning the tug was fasten-
ed to vessel inside the harbor piers to
tow II up the river While adjusting the
tow line he was thrown INTO the water
and drowned He was dressed exactly
as his sister described him and having
just bought pair of trousers that we're
too long for him. he had turned up the
bottoms that showed the white lining.
The captain thought he mad fit, but
one of the crew declared that he was
caught in the tow line and pulled over
board exactly as his sister described it.
She had also given a description of the
vessel and its position.
Friend I'm Vision.
In January 1895, lady In Washington
was sitting sewing In her room between
2 and o'clock in the afternoon, when
she had vision of her friend Mrs Con-
ner. who lived In the same city.
What should I see but your own dear
self" she wrote to her almost Immediate
ly, but heavensl In what position.
You were falling up the front steps I'm
your yard. You had on your black skirt
and velvet waist, your little straw hat
and in your hand were some papers. You
got up very quickly. put on your bonnet.
picked up the papers and lost no time In
getting into the house. I feel almost
ready to scream with laughter whenever
l think of It. You did look too funny
spreading yourself out in the front yard
! can distinctly call TO mind your house
but for the life of me I cannot tell wheth-
er there are any steps from the side
walk into the yard az I saw them or not :"
She ended her letter by doubling the
truth OF her vision.
But II was literally true. At that hour
Mrs. Conner fell while entering the house
She was dressed her friend described
her, and the incidents were also correctly
described. Moreover, two steps had re-
Gently been added to the house in con
sequence of lowering the grade OF the
street. The two were intimate friends
and the lady had had visions of Mrs
Conner two or three times before
he ~ ha Lot p{gt,n Z
between whom and his father there ex-
listed peculiar bond Of affection" was
attending to his duties In bank at Svra-
cuse n. Y, when he suddenly became
aware that his father was In great dam
ger. At that moment he was in n car
on the Hannibal & ST Joseph tMo1
railroad that had left the track and roll
ed down an embankment. He was shak-
en- up and lost consciousness for twenty
minutes.
In 1874 his son. while living in Denver
was awakened by "A loud crash he heard
about 2:30 o'clock in the morning. when
he saw his father fAl down flight OF
stairs, Suth an accident had besallen his
father in HIS new house at Davenport
Ia. at almost exactly the moment when
the son saw and heard him falling from
the effects OF which the bishop siibse-
quently died.
wife In "A Dream.
In December. 1852 s. r. Wilmot, of
Bridgeport. Conn on board the steamer
city OF Limerick, from Liverpool to New
York. dreamed that he saw his wife come
20 the door OF his stateroom, and on see
ing another man IN the upper berth,
hcsitated about entering She finally came
forward, stopped down, kissed him. and,
caressins him a moment withdrew. Next
morning the passenger In the upper berth
rcproached him for having a lady come
and visit him ana behave in that manner.
on his return home, almost tho hrs, ques-
tion hs wife put 70 him was as 10 wheth-
or he had received "A visit from her "a
week ago Tuesday" She then repeated
her own dream Of that night. describing
the cabin the popularity of the upper
berths exter ling furthe~ back than the
lower. because ~ its being In the stern u
the ship and q man iu the upper berth.
who looked straight at her. making her at
first afraid 10 go In.