The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-23


It's first law being self-preservation.
This subjective perception Is what
believe to be true clairvoyance, and
when the warning is heard, true clair
audience. / give, herewith, an illus
trauon in my own experience that
cannot possibly be accounted for by
telepathy; therefore. clear case Of
clairvoyance.
Away back in the .'severities' there
occurred what was known. and is
still remembered by many, as ''the
Ashtabula disaster"
Before the train pulled cut from
Boston / had enteerd the lated sleep
er with the intention of securing
berths for lady friend and myself.
we had barely taken our seats when
heard-or thought l heard-these
words: "A wreck. wreck: get out of
this car, get out of this car"
l recognized it as the still small
voice that came to warn us of ap-
preaching danger. II was a Fremont
ton received through impression. The
impression came as words; yet can
not say that / actually heard them
tclairvoyantly) and / am sure that
my friend did not hear them. Suffice
it to say l needed them. We left the
train. but not until resorted to a lit
tie ruse to meet the prejudice of my
friend, who had no patience with
what she called my "eccentricities''-
lacking better word
10 prevent any anxiety on the part
of her father. at whose request ! was
accompanying the daughter, ! irnme-
diately telegraphed him of our delay:
and then, after the train had pulled
out, l took back the little white lie I
had told for the purpose of saving her
life-and mine.
She did not believe my premonition
NOT then; not until we had passed
safely over that great gully at Ashta-
bula, and she, with shudder, looked
down into that yawning chasm and
partially retlized what might have
BEEN had II not been for my ''eccen-
tricities"
As is well known, not a passenger
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 / was. but / am
sure that was the only one wb-,
needed.
l am often asked why / did not
warn the others. Because the warn
ing would not have been accepted and
| would have been looked upon as a
fit subject for the lunatic asylum Be-
sides. had the passengers really be-
lieved it. there would have been such
an exodus that the railroad officials
would have probably looked me up"
and then locked me up for disturb
ing the peace.
During the civil war l was, for
short time, quite i'll while in camp
A comrade called at my tent and in
sisted on my going with him to his
tent. / told him that was out of the
question. He was impelled by an un-
known power (Which neither of us
then understood) and would not take
no for an answer He raised me to
my feet and, with the aid of another
comrade, was being helped to his
tent, which We had not yet reached
when, with terrible crash, a tree fell
across my tent, deeply burying into
the ground the blanket upon which I
had just been lying.
Telepathy? I think not Clairvoy-
ance? Without doubt. My own sub
jective mind undoubtedly perceived
the danger, but for some unaccounta-
BILE reason my objective mind did not
get the impression. My comrade was
impelled to act quickly The only
telepathy was from my subjective
mind to his. but that was after the
danger had been perceived by my
subjective mind. 1t was, IL is truo.
roundabout way. but the object was
accomplished. 1t could not have been
telepathy, as by no possibility could
the knowledge of the accident-to-be
have been in anyone's else mind.
The night before Lincoln's assas-
sination he had q dream of his ap-
preaching DEATH and on the evening
of its fulfillment he was narrating it
to Stanton. Booths mind was neces-
sarily intent on his murderous plan
for days before the assassination, and
especially so during the hours imme-
diately preceding the moment when
the murderous scheme was to be put
into operation. Lincoln, you will OBJ
serve, was duly warned, but he heed
ed it not. His subjective mind per-
ceived it, not necessarily clairvoy-
antly, but possibly telepathically. as
it existed in the mind of Booth In
either case it furnishes us a fine ex-
ample of premonition; its origin, its
accuracy; its benefits, when needed;
its inevitable results when unheeded
In conclusion l desire to say that
the foregoing articles have been writ
ten with the hope of interesting those
who have heretofore given no thought
to the subjects included in Psychic
Phenomena" to clear away the