The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-16

range OF the OBJECTIVE vlslon, ana IL
Is always on the alert for the safety |
Of the one in whose temple it dwells;
its first law being self-preservation.
This subjective perception is what
when the warning is heard, true clair
audience. / give, herewith, an illus
tration in my own experience that
cannot possibly be accounted for by
telepathy; therefore, clear case OF
clairvoyance.
Away back in the seventies" there
occurred what was known, and Is
still remembered by many, as the
Ashtabula disaster"
Before the train pulled out from
Boston / had enteerd the fated sleep
er with the intention of securing
berths for lady friend and myself.
We had barely taken our seats when
heard-or thought / heard-these
words: "A wreck, wreck; get out OF
this car, get out of this car"
| / recognized it as the still small
voice that came to warn us of APP
preaching danger. 1t was a Fremont
ton received through impression. The
impression came. as words; yet can.
not say that actually heard them
(clairvoyantly) and / am sure that
my friend did not hear them. Sufice
II to say needed them. We left the
train, but not until l resorted to lit
tie ruse to meet the prejudice Of my
/ fvfo NIB
what she called my "eccentricities"-
lacking better word.
To prevent any anxiety on the part
of her father, at whose request was
accompanying the daughter, l imme-
diately telegraphed him of our delay;
and then, after the train had pulled
out, l took back the little white lie
had told for the purpose of saving her
life-and mine.
She did not believe my premonition
not then; not until we had passed
J safely over that great gully at Ashta.
'bula, and she, with shudder, looked
down into that yawning chasu and
partially retlized what might have
, BEEN had it not been for my "eccen
tricities"
AS is well known, not q passengei
escaped from that sleeper; hence the
! question naturally arises, why
should you be the only one to receive
| the warning message?"
: / am not sure that l was, but an
: sure that l was the only one wht
r needed.
1
! | am often asked why did no
A | warn the others. Because the warn
!. ing would not have been accepted ant
= | would have been looked UPON as
I fit subject for the lunatic asylum. Be
sides, had the passengers really be
, lieved it, there would have been sucl
an exodus that the railroad official
|, would have probably looked me up
: and then locked me up" for disturb
a ing the peace.
} During the civil war l was, for
. short time, quite Ill while in camp
comrade called at my tent and in
o sisted on my going with him to hi
a tent. / told him that was out Of tn
q question. He was impelled by an VI
= known power (Which neither of u
q then UNDERSTOOD and would not tax
!. no for an answer. He raised me
7 my feet and, with the aid of anothe
n comrade, l was being helped to hi
q tent, which we had not yet reache
= when, with terrible crash. tree fe
% across my tent, deeply burying int
IS the groundnthe blanket upon which
.. had just been lying.
Telepathy? l, think not. Clairvo
ID ance? Without doubt My own SUI
% jective mind undoubtedly perceive
ar the danger, but for some unaccount
o. Bile reason my objective mind did NJ
"a get the impression. My comrade W;
ID impelled to act quickly. The on
ID telepathy was from my subjecti'
ID mind to his, but that was after Il
nj danger had been perceived by n
\, subjective mind. 1t was, it is true,
% roundabout way, but the object W;
10 accomplished. 1t could not have be-
telepathy, as by no possibility cou
no the knowledge of the eccident-to-l
q have been in anyone's else mind.
isl The night before Lincoln's asss
IN sination he had a dream OF his
ge preaching death, and on the evenil
Ily of it's fulfillment he was narrating
to Stanton. Booths mind was nee.
sarily intent on his muyderous pl
ne for days before the ASSASSINATION, a
NJ, especially so during the hours INN
20. diately preceding the moment VIII
70 the murderous scheme WITS to be ,
,n. into operation. Lincoln, you will {
,ot serve, was duly warned, but he he'
70. ed it not. His subjective mind p
ow ceived it, not necessarily clairv'
mt antly, but possibly telepathically,
IN, it existed in the mind of Booth.
either case it furnishes us fine
"a. ample of premonition; its origin,
M. accuracy; its benefits, when heede
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