Holbrook argus., 1911-01-31
NEW NEWS Or YESTERDAY
Confession That Was Made by
 John ]. IngaIlS.
How the Brilliant Kansan Told E. J. Edwards That He Could Project Himself Into the Future and
 Determine Coming Events.
By E. J. EDWARDS.


 way to the New Mexican ranch of Stephen w. Dorsay, former United States senator from Arkansas, and during the national campaign of 1880 prominently before the country as sec retary of the Republican national com mittee. It was 8 visit that resulted in Senator Dorsay exposing the manner in which he had collected and used S200,000 in new two-dollar bills for the purpose of making the state of h. diana return a majority for the Repub- lican candidates.
 Sometime during the night the train on which I travelled between St. Louis and Kansas City was held up for sev- eral hours by a freight wreck dead ahead. The confusion incident to the clearing of the track caused all the passengers in the sleeping car to be estir early in the morning. That is all except one, at the rear end of the car, and not until nearly ten o'clock was there head thrust between the curtains of the lower berth, revealing the late riser as none other than Sen ator John j. Ingalls, of Kansas.
 Senator, you are a late sleeper, I said a little later in the smoking compartment, "and, apparently, very sound one. All the rest of us in the car were up early owing to the freight wreck that has made us so late"
 The brilliant Kansan smiled.
 My method of spending the night in a sleeping car differs from that of most persons" he said. q usually go to bed an hour or so before midnight. Then, while sink immediately into a physical lethargy that is luxurious, my mind becomes very active. This mental activity seems to bring to the surface, so to speak, the sub-con- scious quality that is in every human being, and 1t continues until about two o'clock, when I sink into pro found slumber that will last for eight hours if the train schedule permits.
 Now, when my mind thus becomes active-and it does so only in sleep ing carl find that I am studying g the psychological side of my nature. You may have heard it said that I am an atheist, or an agnostic, but both accusations are absolutely untrue. am a profound believer in a first, all powerful and ever-controlling Cause, and am persuaded that it is con scious Cause. But there is much that we do not know, and we cannot know, since the mind is mortal, and, there fore, reasoning is confined within nor tai limitations. Yet, as my mind is active as I lie in my berth, find my self absolutely convinced, and not by any process of reasoning, that the vital, conscious element in my na- ture existed before my birth, and must exist after my death. I-that is to say, that part of me which recognize, my consciousness existed from the beginning and will exist forever"
 For a few moments MT. Ingalls, sat looking thoughtfully out of the win | dow
 And as I have pondered upon this, he continued, q have found it possi ble to project myself into the future; know, for instance, at what time my service in the United States senate l l it will end. To know that would in volve considerations entirely apart from my projected consciousness. And I also know, or am convinced that know, the time of my death, although I do not know the place or cause. Il is a consciousness that has given me great peace of mind. It has abso lutely relieved me from all sense ot personal danger. An, the soul, as dis tinguished from the intellect, is the marvellous part of our nature! It has never been explained and never vii be; it is not part of our mortality.
 Seventeen years later, with perfect serenity, John James Ingalls, ap preached his end. And I have ofter wondered since then whether his great peace of mind as he faced the grim reaper of us all would justify the impression that he had predicted accurately the time of his death.
 Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards. Al
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