The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-04-08
DREAMS THAT CAME TRUE.
Scientists Tells of Premonitor,
Visions That Come to Pass.

Premonitory dreams are scofred al
by the sceptic of matters psychic, but
nevertheless some of the visions OF
this kind are related as truth by mer
Of science and research. Camille
Flammarion, the noted astronomer,
in his book, THE Unknown" tells
the following:
During Il certain summer one OF
my sisters had gone with her husband
and her children to live in the little
town Of Nogent (lIaute-Marne3 my
father had accompanied them and my
mother remained in Paris. All the
children were in good health and nc
one felt any uneasinesS in regard tt
them. My mother dreamed that She
received letter from my father in
which she read this sentences: Il an
the hearer of a sad piece of news; lit.
tie Henri has just died in commissions
with hardly any previous illness My
mother, on awakening, said to herself
1T is nothing but a dream; it is all
imagination and deception A week
afterwards a letter from my father
contained precisely this very phrase.
My poor sister had just lost her young
est child in consequence Of convul-
SionS.
My oldest brother, Emile Zipelius,
an artist, died on September 1G. 1868,
25 years OF age, he was drowned while
bathing in the MOselle. He lived in
Paris, but he was then visiting his
parents at Pompey, near Nancy. My
mother had dreamed twice. of wide
intervals, that this son would be
drowned.
When the person charged to bear
the terrible news to his parents came
10 inform them my mother, feeling
sure that he came to announce some
misfortune, first asked could it be
anything about an absent daughter
from whom she had no news for sew
eral days. When he told her that il
was nothing about her daughter she
said Don't tell, me, the" knew
what it is. My son is drowned. We
had letter from him that same day,
SO that nothing could have led us to
foreSee such Il catastrophe.
My brother himself had said to his
concierge short time before: If
any night do not come home 30 the
next day to the morguc and look for
me. have a preScntiment that
shall die in the water.
My parents lived In the small
town of Montigny le-Rui NIautc-
Marne.) l had begun my studies at
LangreS, and they had decided to
leave the country for the capital, ac
tuated, above all, by the desire to
open to their children the most prom.
ising career. a fortnight before their
departure my mother dreamed that
she had arrived in Paris and she had
crossed to wide streets and reached a
canal, across which there was an ele-
waited bridge. Some little time after
her actual arrival in Paris she went to
pay visit to one of her relatives who
lived In the Rue Fontaine-au Roi, in
tue Faubourg du Temple, and, upon
reaching the canal. she was much
surprised to recognize the bridge, tile
Qlay, the whole appearance of the
reighborhood, Of which it was impos-
Sible that she could have any knowl-
edge either by means Of pictures or in
any other way.
This dream is very dillicut to ex-
plain. 1t would seem to prove that
the mind is able to see at a distance,
and during the night, details which
conform by day to the image remain
ing in the brain. This, however, is
hard to believe"