The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-21

The PuzzIina Things That Happen to
Some People.

Nearly every one is familiar with
stories OF events that foreshadow
DEATH says Pearsons Weekly Ths
writef OF this article Is personally
acquainted with family who are sus-
ceptible to a certain warning. and
once had the uncanny experience OF
hearing It himself
One night child lay ill In the
room next to it the goyerness 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 violen5-
ly affected by her remark. The child
died early on the following mornrg.
Some years afterwards 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 large French window which
opened into the garden. Looking up.
his gaze met thar of his trends,
and he saw a sudden pallor come into
the latter's face Afterward he men
toned the Occurrence, and received
the reply that it wes 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 the
writer's own family. A lady dreamed
that she was journeying to the wes.
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 a dense blackness cane
over the scene and she remembered
nothing more.
The next day the news arrived ttat
her mother had d.ed at Is that same
morning in her home in th west Of
England
Life is fun OF little inexpicAble
mysteries. They accur every doy, and
are passed by as being merely ordin-
any. Whenever the conversation turns
ON telegraphy or the occult sciences
there is always some one with a stcry
OF the mysterious to tell
About ten years ago. ,n Urge
open tract of land in the north Of
London nov fortunately covega with
red brick vilasl a number OF boys
were playing cricket Suddenly tItre
came a loud humming noise, like the
! combined droning OF thousands ~
bees, and a great stone, larger thll
a mans fist whizzed across the certeF
Of the pitch and embedded itsell IN
bank. Almost immediate il vas
followed by another, and then a taird.
Although they waited in hiding for
some time there was no repeduol 9i
the mysterious missiles. The question
then arouse: Where could they nave
come from? The nearest house was
quite 400 yards away, and machine
to have sent these larsc atones whirl-
ing at such a frghtful pace over CHS
distance would be rather an eStr3oidi-
nary article of furniture Tor a subur
ban villa. SO the cause of this remark
able occurance yet requires EXPLAIN
ton.
In the same district. few year'
back, four young men We're seated ~
a room playing whist Suddenly. lusl
after midnight, the door whieh l'oe
been latched. opened slowly until II
had reached its fullest limit
In slprise the players looked up
but no one was standing in the door
way Then, ere one Of them coale
move, the door slowly eloseo ltsel
again. Immediately one OF the youns
men jumped up. pulled tho door opei
and stared up and down the hall. bu
there was absolute silence and NO one
about
Some years ago a gentleman va
seated at a table busily writing. A
the moment he was alone in the house
Suddenly he heard the pstter Of tes
outside the door aud then the soun'
OF dog barking, Going outside tn
room he saw. to his surprise that MI
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 wa
suddenly IN darkness and smell 9
escaping gas prefaded the air. Direc-
ly he understood what had happene'
and hurried to seal up the 0rolkel
pipe OF the chandelier The latter wa
lying in a thousan pieces on the hooV
But for the mysterious instinct 'ha
caused the dog TO enter the nouse AM
attract this genuemaR's attention, a
would probably have been killed b
the falling chandelier for he had beel
sitting directly beneath.
But there is no end to the numbe
OF similar experiences, until one
led 10 believe mat there are man
mysterious forces AT work, OF wnic
we have no conception
Little Elmer Papa what is crt