The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-04-06
DREAMS THAT CAME TRUE.
Scientists Tells Of PremonitOry
Visions That Come to Pass.

Scientists Tells Of Premonitory
Visions That Come to Pass.
Premonitory dreams are scoffed at
by the sceptic Of matters psychic, but
nevertheless some of the visions Of
this kind are related as truth by men
of science and research. Camille
FIammarion, the noted astronomer,
in his book, 1.-THE Unknown" tells
the following:
During certain summer one OF
my sisters had gone with her husband
and her children to live in the little
town of Nogent (Haute- Marne:) my
father had accompanied them and my
moi her remained in Paris. All the
children were in good health and no
one felt any uneasiness in regard to
them. My mother dreamed that she
received a letter from my father. in
which she read this sentence: I am
the hearer of a sad piece Of news; lit
tie Henri has just died in convulsions,
with hardly any previous illness. My
mother, on awakening, said to herself:
1T is nothing but dream; it is all
imagination and deception A week
afterwards 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 Is, 1865,
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. Ny
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
to inform them my mother, feeling
sure that he came to announce some
misfortune, first asked could it be
anything about an absent daughter,
from wuom she had no news for sew
eral days When he told her that it
was nothing about her daughter, she
said: Don't tell, me, then. l know
what it is.-My son is drowned We
had a letter from him that same day,
so that nothing could have led us to
foresee such catastrophe.
My brother himself had said to his
concierge a short time before: If
any night do not come home go the
next day to the morgue and look for
me-. l have presentiment that l
snail die In the water.
my parents lived In the small
town of Montigny le-Roi (Haute,
Marne.) 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
Using career. A fortnight before their
departure my mother dreamed that
she had arrived In Paris and she had
crossed to wide streets and reached
canal, across which there was 40 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, the
quay, the whole appearance Of the
reighborhood, Of which it was impoS-
sihle that she could bave any knOWl-
edge either by means Of pictures or in
any other way.
This dream is very difficult to ex-
plain. 1t would seem to prove that
the mind is able to see at distance,
and during the night, details which
conform by day to the image remain.
ing in the brain. THIS, however, Is
hard to believe"