Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-22
STRANGE PREsENTIMENTs.
Men Who Have Felt Mysterious Warn
ino of Approaching Violence.

Men Who Have Felt Mysterious Warn
ing Of Approaching Violence.
When Lincoln's cabinet met on a
certain afternoon. they wondered what
had happened to their chief. Instead
OF finding him lolling easily in roomy
chair. telling funny, irrelevant stories,
the president sat silently erect with
his head sunk forward upon his breast
as though pondering some deep and
serious problem. Gentlemen" he OBJ
served presently, something very ex-
traordinary is going to happen, and
very soon too"
Something good, I trust" said the
attorney general.
81 don't know; but II will happen,
and shortly" replied Lincoln.
That evening he was shot.
Mozart's gloomy notion that the re-
QUEEN he had undertaken to write for
his mysterious customer would be his
own death chant. proved as prophetic
as Hogarth's serious conception Of the
jocular suggestion that when "The
End of All Things" was completed.
there would be an end of the painter;
and when Thomas Sheridan bade An
gelo good by with the remark, II have
twenty months to ive." he gagged the
term Of his existence to a nicely.
Foretold His Doom.
stranoa oooa ~ tho f,,lAIlpnant nf
"a presentiment Of impending disaster
was that Of Lieutenant Spalding, in
August, 1881 When Admiral Porter
visited the American torpedo station
at Newport in that year, torpedo prac-
tice was to be held. and Lieutenants
Spalding and Edes were to give the
practice exhibition.
The morning OF the event Spalding
awoke with a sense Of impending
doom. In vain he tried to shake of
the feeling, but as the time for the
exhibition approached the vague sense
that something disastrous was about
to happen grew almost to a surety.
and, always a courageous young man,
he found himself cowed for the first
time in his life by nothing more tan
gible than what he termed at the time
q superstitious fancy.
The two officers left their quarters
for the torpedo station, and had pro-
ceeded about half way when suddenly
Spalding stopped. II wish this thing
wasn't coming off today" he said.
'Tve had the creeps all the morning"
Then he hurried back to his lodging
house and, hunting up the landlady,
handed her card, saying, Il think
something may happen today. If do
not come back, notify my parents at
the address on this card"
Then he went to the torpedo station.
and the two officers took their places
III a small boat, Spalding at the oars
and Edes in charge Of the torpedo in
the bow. Everything went well until
Spalding ceased rowing and gave the
word to fire the torpedo. In leaning
over the side of the boat to launch
the engine of destruction, Edes struck
the torpedo against the gunwale. In
stantly 1t exploded. and the two on
GERS and the boat were blown to atoms.
Years age Nile. Louisette, famous
tight rope walker and dancer, engaged
to perform for a week at Volk's thea
Ter in New York. She had been in
the metropolis for only few days and
was waiting for her engagement to
open, when one afternoon she said to
a friend, II never ought to have TAX
en- this engagement"
why in the world do you say that"
asked her companion.
81 don't know" answered Mile.
Louisette; but felt the moment en-
tered this theater that something was
going to happen. and every time I
come the feeling gets stronger. Do
you think I ought to give UP the en-
gagement?"
Certainly not" replied her friend.
During the early part Of the week
the scenery caught fire. and in an in
stant the flames had swept across the
stage and ignited the filmy garments
of the actress as she was standing
bowling before the footlights. She
rushed to the wings. but before aid
could reach her was fatally burned.
A Myth That Came True.
The story of what may have been
the curious premonition Of ]. c. Bald
win, soldier Of the civil war, is inter-
esting. Baldwin before the war was
engaged in Journalism in Newark, New
Jersey, where he wrote under the pen
names Of Ned Carroll and Frank
Greenwood. These two mythical per-
sonalities soon became well known to
the readers Of the papers. and no one
ever dreamed that they were merely
the pen names Of young Baldwin. At
the outbreak Of the war. Baldwin en-
listed, and soon after he reached the
front wrote several letters to New
ark paper among which was curious
one recounting the death of the
mythical Greenwood. 1t read:
"Mr. Editor: I only fulfill the dying
request of a beloved comrade In ap-
,r,sipo yo, NJ hio Sad fate. Two