St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-06-25
F0RET0LD FATAL ACCIDENT
Washington Woman's Remarkable
Dream Saves Her From
Horrible Death.

A prominent society ,matron IN
| Washington has become convert to
a belief in the supernatural, and has
joined the Society of Psychical Re-
search. She is very matter-of-fact
woman. not given to imagining things,
| and seldom looks beneath the surface.
Consequently her Washington friends
were all the more astonished at this
change in her. and asked for an ex-
PLANTATION.
| They were so insistent that she con-
sented to tell them her experience. A
pad thunderstorm was raging, and the
room being darkened, this story had
most convincing effect upon her audi
ence.
About year ago." she began, ut
was very hot here, and did not sleep
well. One night I was thoroughly ex-
hausted and dropped off to sleep al
| most as soon as my head touched the
pillow. l never have dreams, but that
night l dreamed that l was down In
the dining room with my family, when
the front door bell rang violently.
mo one went to aswer it, and in a
moment it rang again, peal after peal.
Considerably astonished, l looked
around for the servants, but could find
none OF them, so to stop the clamor l
went to the door myself and opened 1t.
On the threshold stood a man, short
and stockily built, but. it was his face
which attracted my attention. A
dreadful scar ran from his right eye
down his cheek and across his chin.
1t was very jagged and red, giving his
face most repulsive look
LAS l stood there, too surprised to
speak, he addressed me:
All ready here?' he demanded, in
a loud, authoritative voice.
las he spoke l raised my eyes and
looked over his shoulder; there by the
curb stood a hearse drawn by black
horses with large black plumes at
their heads in the harness.
Ono, MOI l cried, breathlessly, and
slammed the door in his face
Then 1 awoke. trembling with
fright, and found my family in my
room. They had been awakened BY
my scream. so Immediately told
them of my nightmare. 1t had been
so vivid that could not sleep any
more that night: in fact, l could not
get 1t out of my mind for weeks"
The woman paused, then went on:
Eight months after l went to New
York to visit some friends. had been
there ten days when l went with my
office high up in one of the big sky
scrapers.
After our business was concluded
we went out into the corridor and
rang for the express elevator stood
talking with the lawyer, and did not
notice its arrival, when my attention
was attracted by loud. authoritative
voice, calling:
"'All ready here?'
II looked up. There stood the ele-
vator man, short and stockily built,
with that self-same frightful scar on
his face-the face of my dream!
No, MOI cried, and half dragged,
nal1 lifted my aStOn1Shed friend out OF
the elevator, which she had just en-
tered.
"The man slammed the door, the
elevator. crowded with passengers,
shot down and out of sight
LAS we walked down the stairs
told my friend Of my dream, and had
just finished the tale when breathless
men ran past us shouting that some
machinery had given way. and the ele-
vaotr had dropped to the ground and
every soul in it was killed or fatally
injured"
The speaker stopped and drew
long breath
Since then" she said. II agree
with Hamlet that there are more
things in heaven and earth than are
dreamed Of in our philosophy"