The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-10-31
MYsrEaIous MANIFESTATIONS.
The PuzrlIns Things That Happen te
Some People.

Ntdtit every ont - Iamliiar WIN
stories Of events that foreshadow
death, says Parsons Weekly. Tho
writer OF this article Is personally
acquainted with a family who are sus-
cepti0le to a certain warning, and
once had the uncanny experience OF
hearing it himself
One night child lay ill In the
room next to II the governess slept
On the following morning she spoke
Of a tapping at her window during
the night and was surprised to see
that the father Of the child was violenl-
ly affected by her remark. The child
died early on the following morniag
Some years afterwards the writer.
In company with member OF this
family and some other friends, was
seated in room playing cards
Suddenly he heard three distinct
taps at large French window whicn
opened into the garden. Looking up,
bis gaze met that of his friend's,
and he saw a sudden palior come into
the latters face. AftervNrd he mon
toned the oceurrance, and received
the reply that it was the death tap
he had heard. Surely enough. a tele-
gram arrived on the following Jay
to say that his friends grandmother
was dead.
Another instance occurred in tse
writer's own family A 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 :. tho clock
and saw that it registered 7:15. At
that moment a dense b.ackness cane
over the scene and she remembered
nothing more.
The next day the news arrived that
her mother had died at 7;15 that samo
morning in her home in the west OF
England
Life IS fun OF little incxpliahle
mysteries. They occur every day, and
are passed by as being merely ordin.
ory. Whenever the conversation turns
on telegraphy or the oceult 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 viaas) a number Of boys
were playing cricket. Suddenly rnore
came a loud hVmming noise, like the
combined droning Of thousands Of
bees, and great stone, larger than
mans fist whizzed across the center
Of the pitch and embedded itself in
bank. Almost immediate IA was
followed by another, and then a third
Although they waited in hiding for
some time there was no repetition ol
The mysterious missiles. The question
then arouse: Where could they nave
come from2 The nearest house wa;
quite 400 yards away, and a mlchiEs
to have sent these large stores wnirl
ing at such frightful pace over tbil
distance wouio be rather an extraoidi
nary article Of furniture Tor a subur
ban villa. SO the cause Of this remark
able occurance yet requires explsna'
ton.
In the same district, a few years
back four young men were seated il
a room playing whist Suddenly las
after midnight, the door, which h1'
been latched, opened slowly until /
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 coax
move. the door slowly closeo itsel
again. Immediately one Of the youn.
men jumped up pulled the door ops;
and stared up and down the hall, bl
there was absolute silence and no on
about
Some years ago gentleman ga
seated at a table busiiy writing. A
the moment he was alone in the house
Suddenly he heard the patter Of .es
outside the door and then the SCUM
OF. dog barking Going outside ID
room he saw. TO his surprise, that nj
dog had found its way from the gar
den iato the house, and for some rea
son was violently barking.
Crash! The room behina him ga
suddenly in darkness and smell o
escaping gas prevaded the air Dlrec-
ly he understood what had happene
and hurried to seal up the orokel
pipe Of the chandelier The latter wa
lying in thousan pieces on the floor
But for tss mysterious instinct sha
caused the dog TO enter the house an
attract this gentleman's attention. b
would probably have been killed b
the falling chandelier. for he had bee
sitting directly beneath.
But there Is no end 70 the numbe
OF similar experiences, untn one
led 10 believe that there are man
mysterious forces at work. OF wnsc
we have no conception.
Little Elmer-Papa. What is cri
icg