The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-06
'V1sroNs or THE NIGHT
 PROVE TO BE REALTTTEs.

Detroit News-Tribune.
 Premonitory dreams are scoffed gt Dy the skepti6 of matters psychic. but nev. ertheissb soma Of tts visions of this kind are related as truth by men of scienop and reseaxcI Camille FlAnimariotas the
 noted astronemer, in his book. "Ths unA known" tells the fdllowines
 ''DurinR a certain summer one Of my sisters had gone with her husband and her children to live in the ilttlA town of Nogent (TIaute- Marne); my father had accompanied them, and my mother re-
 nalned ifi Paris. All the children were in good health ana no one felt any unea. siness in regard to them. My mother dreamed that she received letter rom my father, in which she read this sens tence: f am the bearer of c sad piece of news; little Henri has just died in oonvulsions, with hardly any previous iilness.'
 ''My mother, on awakening, said to her sslf It is nothing but q dreAnis It is aii imagination and deception A week afterward letter from my father contained precisely this very phrase. My poor sister had just lost her youngest child In conseuueface of convulslone.
 My oldest brother, Emile Zipslius, an artist, died on September fg' 1885. 20 years of age He was drowned while bathing tn the MoselIe. He lived iR Paris, but he was then visiting his parents at Pofnpsy. near Nancy. My mother had dreamed twice. at wide in- tervals, that this son would be. drowned.
 "When the person charged to bear the terrible news to his parents came to irI- form them, my mother. feeling sure that he came to announce some misfortune, first asked could 1t be anything about an absent daughter. from wrom she had had no news for several days. When he told her that it was nothing about her, she said: Don't tell me, then. know what 1t is. My son Is drowned We had a letter frcm him that same day, so, that nothing could have led us to forssee such catastrophe.
 My brother himself had said to hlB concierge short time before: If any night l do not como home 90 the next day to the morgue and look for me. 1 have a presentiment that shall die In the water"
 My parents lived in the small town of Montigny-le-Roi T1aute-A6arne). I had begun my studies at Langres and they had decided Co leave the country for the capital. actuated. above all, by the desire to open to their children the most secure and most promising career. A fortnight before their departure my mother dreamed that she had arrived in Paris and she had crossed two wide streets and reached canal, across which there was an elevated bridge. Some Iit- tic time after her actual arrival In Paris she went to pay a visit to one of her re- latives who lived in the Rne FonsaIne- au-Roi. in the Faubours du Temple, and upon reaching the canal she was much surprised to recognize the bridge. the quay, the whole appearance of the neigh borhood, of which 1t was impossible that sh6 could have any knowledge. either by means of pictures or in any other way
 ''Thls dream is very difficult to explain. It would eeem to prove that the mind Is able to see at distance and during the night details which conform by day to the image remaining in the brain. This however, is hard to believe"