Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-05-09

range of the objective vision, and Ii
is always on the alert for the safety
OF the one in whose temple 1t dwells;
its first law being self-preservation.
This subjective perception is what
| believe to be true clairvoyance, and
when the warning is heard, true clair
audience. l 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 l had enteerd the fated sleep
err 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 l can
nor say that l actually heard them
| (ciairvoyantly) and 1 am sure that
my friend did not hear them. Suffice
| IL TO say l needed them. We left the
train, but not until resorted to lit
| tie ruse to meet the prejudice of my
| friend, who had no patience with
what she called my "eccentricities"
| lacking better word.
To prevent any anxiety on the part
of her father. at whose request 1 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
safely over that great gully at Ashta-
| bula, and she, with a shudder, looked
down into that yawning chasm and
partially retlized what might have
been" had it not been for my ''eccen-
| tricities."
AS is we'll known, not 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 l was, but l am
sure that l was the only one who
needed.
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
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 / 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. l 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, l 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? l think not. Clairvoy-
ance? Without doubt. My own SUBJ
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, it is true.
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 anyones else mind.
The night before Lincoln's assas-
sination he had a dream of his ap-
preaching death, and on the evening
Of it's fulfillment he was narrating it
to Stanton. Booths mind was nece%
sarily intent on his murderous plap
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-
aatly, but possibly GEOGRAPHICALLY, as
IL existed in the mind of Booth. In
either case it furnishes us fine ex.
ample of premonition; it's origin, it's
accuracy; its benefits, when needed;
its inevitable results when unheeded.
In conclusion | desire to say that