The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-15
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a fish. L saw him day before yesterday,
the picture OF health"
Julia QEsisting)-'T can't help what you
saw; that gentleman is doomed. He won't
live long"
How do you account for that, JULIAN"
The somnambule-'I see blood all around
him; he is marked. assure you"
You don't mean to say that he will die
in duel?" Il should add here that had
once intended 70 call out that person. Re
member. we were in France)
Julia-"No. there viii be no duel"
He will die of accident, then, or by the
hand Of one OF his victims; vengeance will
cut him DOWN." (This man, being con-
cerned In numerous shady transactions,
had many enemies.)
Julia-'NothiEg Of the kind. He will
die, say; that's all. Now don't ask me
further, please. Let me go. I'm so tired"
Not until you say"
The sOmnambule moved uneasily IN her
chair. II can't say more. Pray let me CO.
told all 1 know
Commissions again shook the Sibyl, and,
as the childish voice ceased TO speak. the
countenance of the fat, fair and forty"
gradually reappeared before my puzzled
eyes, while madame seemed to awaken
from a deep sleep. 1t is hardly necessary
for me to say that this was our first meet
ing. that the medium knew me neither by
nothing OF my difficulties or of the parties
in the case she analysed.
PROPHECIES THAT CAME TRUE.
Next 1 sent to Julia two persons whom
have every reason to esteem for their good
myself, anxious TO look into their future
and only fate seemed capable of answering
the questions that agitated their mind.
My friend Smith asked Julia about the
illness of a near relative. She foretold his
early death and hit it right, though at the
moment when the prophecy was made the
persons illness had taken a turn for the
better
Miller asked her about case before the
court. He got rather undecisive answer,
but the prophecies gave him, unasked, a
piece OF information that helped him i'm
mensely In his legal troubles. She told him
where certain document needed in the
case could be found. Miller had put it
there himself, but had forgotten all
about It.
AS to my own affair, Julias prophecy
came true, in part at least; the matter
was settled to my entire satisfaction. How
ever. though very sick man, my opponent
is still alive. May fate spare him.
AN UNPLEASANT SENSATION.
1t is almost alarming TO find that a
stranger read our heart better than
we ourselves.
Julia, undoubtedly read in my soul and
in those OF the friends l sent to her. She
read their thoughts and sentiments old
and new-among them some forgotten ones;
she read of hopes we had abandoned or
were ashamed of, or dormant aspirations,
yet unborn, maybe unconceived.
L will try to explain.
1t would seem to the shallow that Julia
knew more about my affairs than I. That
is a mistake. Her prophecy echoed, in
reality, no more than my own hopes and
aspirations. And who knows but that she
gagged by innermost wishes correctly in
predicting the death OF my enemy? Doubt
less, the desire for his undoing was one
Of those contemplate thoughts which man
is loath to express, or own UP to, but it
was there with the rest, and she read it off.
If this death had occurred, II my enemy
had passed away without apparent reason,
for no outward cause-illness, accident or
crime-then I would believe in prophecy.
But I, not Julia, would have been the
prophet, for Julia was but the medium.
1t would have been my instinct that fore
saw the event so intimately connected with
my fate, the Sibyl merely interpreted my
own particular intuition.
Now to the other cases.
Smith, who was told that his relative
would die, probably knew in his heart of
hearts that the man was doomed-knew
| it despite the encouraging words of the
! physician.
This conviction, be it natural or other
wise, he tried to down because he wished
his relatives to live, but the somnambule
discovered it in the bunch of false hopes
held out for her inspection
SECOND SIGHT OR NOT?
Miller, by Julias aid, recovered precious
| document-second sight or memory? that
is the question. My friend scouts the
memory idea He thought the thing had
been stolen and secretly blamed one of his
employees for the theft
Yet it is possible that some brain cell
made a note Of it. when he put the docu-
ment in certain place. while his memory.
busy with other things, did not. The SOM
nambule discovered this hidden writing and
| drew it forth to the utmost astonishment
of its human depository.
Is this prophecy? And were the great,
historic oracles of which the Bible tells
and that we find spread on the books Of
the ancients no more real-just thoughts,
aspirations and hopes slumbering in per-
! sons or nations brain cells, brought to
/ light by special gift, that. after all, may
have been a disease. and, certainly, is abb
normal? I cannot answer this question,
/ science will-some day.
Yet 1 repeat: 1t is almost inconceivable
that we cannot look into the future while
no further removed from it than from the
/ past. Taking it all together. a memory that
concerns itself only with things that have
/ been. is but half a memory. I feel sure
that the time will come when the memory
/ for things future shall be discovered Cor re-
/ discovered.)
! What would happen II We could look
/ into the future? Those who know enough
/