Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-06-27
LITTLE MYSTERIES OF LIFE.
Curious Happenings For Which There
Appears to Be No Explanation.

appears 70 % NO ESPsahauVU'
Nearly every one is familiar with
stories Of events that foreshadow
death, says Pearson's Weekly. The
writer Of this article is personally ac-
quainted with a family, who are sus-
ceptible to certain warning, and once
had the uncanny experience Of hear
ing 1t himself.
One night a child lay III. In the
room next to 1t 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 violently af-
fected 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
a room playing cards.
Suddenly he heard three distinct
taps at a 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
latters face. Afterward he mentioned
the occurrence. and received the reply
that 1t was the death tap he had
heard. Surely enough. telegram ar
rived 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 waiting room
until a branch connection arrived.
Suddenly she looked up at the clock
and saw that 1t registered 7.15. At
that moment a dense blackness came
over the scene and she remembered
nothing more.
The next day the news arrived that
her mother had died at 7.15 that same
morning In her home in the west Of
England.
Life is full Of little inexplicable mys-
teries. They occur every day, and are
passed by as being merely ordinary.
Whenever the conversation turns on
telepathy or the occult sciences there
Is always some one with story Of
the mysterious to tell.
About ten years ago, on a 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 a loud humming noise, like the
combined droning of thousands Of
bees, and a great stone larger than q
mans fist whizzed across the center
of the pitch and embedded itself In q
bank. Almost Immediately 1t was fol-
lowed by another and then third.
Although they waited in hiding for
some time there was no repetition OF
the mysterious missiles. The question
then arose. where could they have
come from? The nearest house was
quite 400 yards away and a machine
to have sent these large stones whirl-
ing at such a frightful pace over this
distance WOulu uC idehSi s-H
dinary article Of furniture for a sub
urban villa. So the cause OF this re-
markable occurrence yet requires ex-
planation.
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 1t
had reached its fullest limit.
In surprise the players looked up, but
no one was standing in the doorway.
Then, ere one Of them could move, the
door slowly closed itself again. Inn
mediately one Of the young men Jump
ed up, pulled the door open and stared
I'D and down the hall, but there was
absolute silence and no one about.
Some years ago a gentleman was
seated at a 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 a 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 q smell OF