The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-27
GIRL SEER SAW VISION
OF IMPENDING DEMISE
Child Noted for Her Prophecies
Warned Her Mother that the
End Was at Hand.
THEN IN PERFECT HEALTH

EASTPORT. l.. l., April 26-"Why are
you taking the trouble to make this pretty
dress for me, mamma? / shall not live to
wear it,
Coming from ordinary children such
prediction this would have occasioned
no alarm. Parents would have laughed at
it or more sympathetic ones would have
petted and treasured a child and given the
words no special thought. But when
few days ago the mother of twelve-year-
old Helen Edwards heard her child thus
predict her own death she burst into tears
and clasped the little girl to her breast as
If TO guard her from some evil fate.
Helen was seated on a stool at her
mothers feet at the time. The child spoke
the words simply and quite as a matter of
course. She had been silently watching
her mother sew for full half hour with
out having said word, and her eyes had
taken on far-away look, which Mrs. Ed
wards had noticed but had not given seri-
Gus thought to. as it was a mood in which
Helen was frequently seen.
something tells me L am going to be
taken FAR away. mamma, to a great, beau
tiiul land, where there are pretty flowers
all the year and birds with, oh, such bright
colors on their wings. Something is call
ing, calling me, and L must go. Don't cry
mamma. i shall be very happy there
There was a smile of exquisite hapniness
on the childs face, the broken-hearted
mother says, and Helens only grief
seemed to be for the unhappiness of her
mother.
Helen never appeared to be in better
health than when she spoke the words
which almost broke her mothers heart,
but that night she was stricken with a
strange illness which physicians were un-
able TO diagnose. Care was lavished upon
her and the knowledge and experience of
the local practitioners were taxed to their
utmost, but IL was all in vain. Gradually
the child became weaker, though no spe-
cific symptom of disease developed and as
quietly as If she were only sleeping Heens
breathing stopped and her journey was be-
gun TO that far off land of which she had
told her mother.
Ever since she about eight years
old Helen had been mystifying not only
her parents, but others in Eastport who
have heard the strange tales of the child S
second sight, or whatever the power may
be- which made ii possible for her to see
into the future. The coming of important
and entirely unexpected letters has on sew
eral occasions been forecasted by the child,
and it has been through her that Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwards have first learned that
guests were on their way.
She was barely nine years old when she
told her mother of the coming of Mrs
Edwards's sister.
"Aunty's coming to see us pretty soon,"
Helen told her mother one day.
why, that can't be, child" said Mrs
Edwards, who had only a short time be-
fore heard from her sister that she was
planning a trip In an opposite direction.
But the next morning came letter saying
that the plan had been changed and that
if convenient the aunt would spend a few
days with her sister and little niece. What
made the childs prediction more remark
able was the fact that she had not seen
her aunt for more than two years.
In other ways Helen had a remarkable
power for presaging events. She seemed
to know several days in advance OF the
coming of a storm and so generally were
her predictions fulfilled that she became
known as the little weather prophet