The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-10-17
MYSTERIOUS MANIFESTATIONS.
The PVzrIlns Things rhs, Happen to
Some peonle.


The PvzKlIna Things That Happen 10
Some People.
Nearly every one Is familiar with
stories Of events that foreshaaow
death, says Pearson's Weekly. Tho
writer OF this article is personally
acquainted With a family who are sus-
eeptibh to certain warning. and
once had the uncanny experience OF
hearing it himself.
One night child lay IN. In the
room next to II the governess slept
On the following morning she SPOKE
OF tapping at her window durirg
the night and was surprised TO see
that the father Of the child was violent
ly affected by her remark. The child
died early on the following morniae.
Some years afterwards the writer,
In company with member OF this
family and some other friends, was
seated in a room playing cards.
Suddenly he heard three distinct
taps at large French window whicl
opened into the garden. Looking np,
his gaze met that OF his friends,
and he saw a sudden pallor come into
the latter's face. AftervVrd he mem
toned the occurrance, and received
the reply that il was the death tap
he had heard. Surely enough, tele-
gram arrived on the following Gay
to say that his friends grandmother
was dead
Another instance occurred IN the
writer's own family. lady dreamed
that she was journeying TO the ives:
CT England At Swindom she left the
train and waited in the waiting room
until branch connection arrived.
Suddenly she looked up at the clock
and saw that it registered 7:15. at
That moment dense blackness came
over the scene and she rsmcmbofed
nothing more.
The next day the news arrived ttat
her mother had died at 7:15 that Same
morning in her home in the west OF
England
Life is fun OF little inexplicahle
mysteries. They occur every dsy, and
are passed by as being merely ordin.
airy. Whenever the conversation turns
on telegraphy or the occult sciences
there is always some one With story
OF the mysterious to tell.
About ten years ago. on a Urge
open tract Of land in the north of
London NOW fortunately covered with
red brick villas) a number OF boys
were playing cricket. Suddenly rhure
came loud humming noise, like the
combined droning Of thousands of
bees, and S great stone, larger than
mans fist whizzed across the center
OF the pitch and embedded itself in
a bank. Almost immediate ID was
followed by another, and then a third.
Although they waited in hiding for
some time there was no repetition oi
The mysterious missiles The question
then arouse: Where could they nave
come from? The nearest house WAS
quite 400 yards away, and a machine
to have sent these large stones whirl-
ing at such frightful pace over this
distance wouso be rather an extraol di-
nary article OF furniture for a subur.
ban villa. So the cause oi this remarks
able occuranoe yet requires explana-
ton.
in the same district, a few years
back, four young men were seated in
q room playing whist Suddenly, lust
after midnight, the door which lad
been latched opened slowly until it
bad reached its fullest limit
In surprise the players looked up.
but no one was standing in the door
way. Then. ere one OF them coaid
move, the door slowly closeo itself
again. Immediately one OF the young
men jumped up, pulled the door open
and stared up and down the hall, blS
there was absolute silence and no one
about.
Some years ago gentleman yaa
seated at table busily writing. AT
the moment he was alone in the house.
Suddenly he heard the patter Of sest
outside the door and then the sound
OF dog barking. Going outside thu
room he saw. to his surprise, that mis-
dog had found its way from the gar
den into the house, and for some rea-
son was violently barking.
Crash The room behind him was
suddenly in darkness and a smell Of
escaping gas prevailed the air. Dirsc--
ly he understood what had happened
and hurried to seal up the broken
pipe Of the chandelier. The latter was
lying in a thousan pieces on the floor.
But for the mysterious instinct hat
caused the dog to enter the house and
attract this gentleman's attention, ne
would probably have been killed BY
the falling chandelier, for he had been
sitting directly beneath.
But there Is no end to the number
~ similar experieuces. untI one il