The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1905-08-04
LITTLE MYSTERIES OF LIFE.

Nearly every one is familiar with
stories of events that foresbadow death
says "Pearson's Weekly" The writer
of this article is personally acquainted
with a family who are susceptible to
certain warning, and once had the
uncanny experience of hearing it him
SELF
One MI ht 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 violently
affected by her remark. The child
died early on the following
morning.
Some years afterward 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 a large French window which
opened into the garden. Looking up
his gaze met that of his friends's, and
he saw a sudden pallor come into the
alters face. Afterward be mention
ed the occurrence, and received the
reply that it was the death tap he had
heard. Surely enough, 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 dream
ed that she was journeying to the
west of England. At Swindon she
left the train and waited in the wait
ing room until a branch connection
arrived. Suddenly she looked up at
the clock and saw that it registered
7.16. 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 7.l5 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 telephatby 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 humm;ng 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 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 a frightful pace
over this distance would be rather an
extraordinary article of furniture for
a 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
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