The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-07-01
LITTLE MYSTERIES OF LIFE.

says PearS0n'S Weekly. The writer
of this article is personally acquainted
with a family who are susceptible to
a certain warning, and once had the
uncanny experience of hearing it
himself.
One night child lay i'll. In the
room next to it the governess slept.
On the following morning she spoke
of tapping at her window during
the night and was surprised to see
that the father of the child was vio-
lently affected by her remark. The
child died early on the following
morning.
Some years afterward the writer,
in company with a member of this
family and some other friends, was
seated in room playing cards.
Suddenly he heard three distinct
taps at large French window which
opened into the garden. Looking up,
his gaze met that of his friends, and
he saw sudden pallor come into the
latter face. Afterward he mention
ed the occurrence, and received the
reply that it was the death tap he had
heard. Surely enough, a telegram
arrived on the following day to say
that his friends grandmother was
dead.
Another instance occurred in the
writer's own family. A lady dreamed
that she was journeying to the west
of England. At Swindon she left
the train and waited in the waiting
room until a branch connection ar
rived. Suddenly she looked up at
the clock and saw that it registered
TIC. At that moment dense black
ness came over the scene and she re-
membered nothing more.
The next day the news arrived that
her mother had died at us that same
morning in her home in the west of
England.
Life is full of little inexplicable
mysteries. They occur every day,
and are passed by as being merely
ordinary. Whenever the converse
ton turns on telepathy or the occult
sciences there is always some one
with a story Of the mysterious to tell.
About ten years ago, on large
open tract of land in the north of
London (now fortunately covered
with red brick villas) number of
boys were playing cricket. Suddenly
there came loud humming noise,
like the combined droning of thous-
ands of bees. and great stone larger
than mans fist whizzed across the
center of the pitch and embedded
itself in a bank. Almost Immediately
it was followed by another and then
third.
Although they waited in hiding for
some time there was no repetition of
the mysterious missiles. The ques-
ton then arose, Where could they
have come from? The nearest house
was quite 400 yards away, and ma
chine to have sent these large stones
whirling at such frightful pace over
this distance would be rather an ex-
traordinary article of furniture for
suburban villa. So the cause of this
remarkable occurrence yet requires
explanation.
In the same district, few years
back, four young men were seated in
a room playing whist. Suddenly,
just after midnight, the door, which
had been latched, opened slowly until
it had reached its fullest limit.
In surprise the players looked up,
but no one was standing in the door
way. Then, ere one of them could
move, the door slowly closed itself
again. Immediately one of the young
men jumped up, pulled the door open
and started up and down the hall, but
there was absolute silence and no one
about.
Some years ago a gentleman was
seated at table busily writing. AT
the moment he was alone in the house.
Suddenly he heard the patter of feet
outside the door and then the sound
of dog barking. Going outside the
room, he saw, to his surprise, that
his dog had found its way from the
garden into the house and for some
reason was violently barking.
Crash The room behind him was
suddenly in darkness and a smell of
escaping gas pervaded the air. Di-
rectiy he understood what had hap
pened and hurried to seal up the
broken pipe of the chandelier. The
latter was lying in a thousand pieces
on the floor.
But for the mysterious instinct that
caused the dog to enter the house and
attract this gentleman's attention he
would probably have been killed by
the falling chandelier, for he had
been sitting directly beneath it.
But there is no end to the number
of similar experiences, until one is
led to believe that there are many
mysterious forces at work of which
we have no conception.
O
"ALBERT, DEAR, while looking
through some of your old clothes. |
made such lucky find that / ordered
a new dress on the strength of it."