The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-22
MIND MESSAGES OVER SEA
SOME STORIES OH TELEPATHY
=c4D AFTER DINNER.

Was Pointed Out tn n Dream n GshOStly
Hand That saved n Man From Death.
: remark by one Of four men who had
been dining together "a 20 Sir Oliver Lodges
conclusions in regard to the persistence
of life after the death of the body. "a ar
nOunCed in a recent lecture. turned the
current OF their ak to matters Isychical.
One of the men. recently returned from
Alaska. said that a friend OF his through
a very singular experience had located
a valuable gold mine. He then related
that this man had dreamed that a map
of a certain vicinity was held suspended
in the air before him. II was in black and
white and he easily recognized all that
was indicated. After what seemed a few
moments, "a hand, with the index finger
pointing. appeared on the map and began
moving slowly across it. Starting at the
point where the man vas sleeping. the
hand progressed along "A course which
led 10 a remote locality. When at last II
stopred the pointing finger drew a circle
around a sizable area. Then the map and
hand faded from view.
The man who related this said that while
much IMPRESSED by his dream. his friend
did not consider il seriously. Ten days
later he IA the same dream. but not until
n was again repeated ten days after this.
when the indicating hand as II to he more
explicit drew "A small circle around each
place he would be able to stop at in making
the trip. did he decide TO investigate. II
was moi an easy undertaking to do 80. but
once ha hal determined to find whether
his repeated dream meant something or
nothing, he made the thorough search
which LED him to locate the mine.
This incident he'd to the telling Or another
by a man who had but recently returned
from Montana. His story was this: Being
with "a company Of p~TospeCtors he one
morning left the camp early and alone walked
'seyeral miles across a country with which
he was not familiar. As he was thinking
%iuteutly Of q plan he had in mind he was
unconscious Of his surroundings. save that
he WAS following an old trail.
Suddenly. as il seemed 10 him. an arm
was thrown ont before him. II appeared
81 close to his face that. starting back. he
fell. Recovering himself, he stood and
looked about him. Although IL vas open
country and the highest point in the vi
cinitv he could sea no living thing. hut he
did see that had he advanced a few steps
further he would have plunged into the
excavation Of m abandoned mine, half
filled with staguant water. and that u would
haye been quite impossible for him I'M
aided TO have ever escaped from il.
Il have had no personal experiences
such as you gentlemen nave related" said
a third man. The so-called supernatural
In TO date a sealed book 20 me. save IA |
hear about il. though what is TO me a mCst
Interesting and convincing Instance Of
telepathy recently came under my Observa-
tion.
a little less Nthan Two years ago an
italian. "A man Of education, rank and
in at least one direction Of unusual attain
ment, came TO New York. ] first saw him
NJ a dinner given by a society OF which l
am a member. He had been invited 20 play
some Of his musical compost; lions. We had
with us n friend of my wife, a woman
neither handsome nor ugly, rich nor poor.
old nor young. In fact she has no dis
t%inct1on save that she is most apPrecia-
tive and unusually well informed.
when the Italian had finished PLAYING
he asked to he presented 20 my wife's friend,
and of course. incidentally. to INV wife and
myself. Although he ead tngli-h with
ease he spoke il much az did y Frpnchman
who heard some one saw that he mus; teaT
himself away and. finding that one defini-
zion Of TO tear ia 10 nip. proceeded when he
called on a friend to announce az he
rose to go that he must rip himself away.
Now. my wife's friend does not know Italian:
but from the very frs they goi on ~ well
az IL they had mastered Esperanto. SinGr-
lariy enough. the woman. who has p kecp
sense of humor, never as much as seemed
inclined TO smile At the mdiCrous Combiua-
ton Of English words which this Italian often
got together,
Now, understand. this is no love story
The man il married and has a number ~
children. He came to America 10 learn 70
speak English and get together ds, n for
a musical composition on which he is a;
work. As 10 the woman. ! am certain bcr
interest was wholly imDersonal.
AS I have said. my wife'S friend * no thor
rich nor poor. Among things she inherited
together with her modest income. y. an Old
fashioned piano, a regular jingle box which
cannot be kept in tune more than "A week
IT a time. To one who's ear Is ~ accuratN
and highly sensitive as was his Italian
composers this old piano must no irst
about impossible, and vet he composed one
~ the most exquisite thin ~ J ever head
on the impossible old instrument.
MY wife tells me that one afternoon when
she was with her friend this man came in AMI
after greeting them sat for some time with
ont seeming To observe any one IN partic,;-
lar. Then he rose n went to the old piano
and for an hour or more seemed OhhviOliG
~ everything save the composition he wa
working out He frequently said that To he NJ
the sam room with my wifP's fr 'end had a
peculiar influence on his mind. which enabled
him to compose as he could in no other wav.
He also said that nc felt this when nc first
wv " NiAt'iiN 'h'F ''AN'h' l"hH ~ "
distance, and that he az Once determined
60 know her.
Last s0ring the Italian returned 10
italy. A few weeks ago my wife and J
were making an evening call on her friend.
Az we sat talking our hostess suddenly
rose. excused herself and left the room.
When she returned she explained that
she had been and still was feeling strangely.
a. she never had before. and that she
seemed TO have a double consCiCusness.
She said that while she realized perfectly
where -ehe was and that we we're with her,
H. yet seemed that n part Of her realization
was elsewhere. She said that she seemed
20 hear AZ distinctly ns IL IT, wers being
played in the room in which we were sitting
one Of the compositions the Italian had
written nj her Old piano. and that also she
seemed 10 see him. She told how il seemed
70 her ne was dressed, even speaking If
the kind and cOlor Of a flower he wore.
When she had related this she sat for a
few moments with her hand at the side Of
her head and then said, as IL she were
listening:
-It seems 10 me that Mr.. 1900 is con-
sidering writing an opera founded on a poem
I once read TO him. She gave the name
Of the poem. which is one by a we'll known
American poet. Both my wife and I were