Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-11
TELEPATHY is A FACT.
Exists Between Dogs and Men, Ac
cordine to French Scientist

The big dog in the heavens, Sirius,
and it's companion, who rule over the
winter consultations. being too often
yelled by clouds at present. We direct
our thoughts today toward a dog on
our planet whose history is really
strange.
He was a st. Bernard, sort of
colossus. which measured l meter 50
centimeters C71 inches) in height. and
was able to open doors by himself A
faithful guardian and a great friend OF
his master. Mr. Georges Graeser, a
member of the Astronomical Society OF
France. at Lausanne, he was lavish in
his signs of the deepest attachment.
kept him company. lying quietly at his
feet during the hours of reading and
study, and followed him during his
walks. never leaving him for an in
Stant.
An excellent comrade intelligent
good and devoted to his master. on the
other hand he greeted all that came 10
the house in such a noisy manner
with such furious barking and such a
menaeing air that the parents of his
owner resolved to get rid OF a host 50
troublesome and sometimes dangerous
Therefore, on a certain evening in
winter the unlucky Bohy--sueh was
the name of the dog-was taken to the
llnacker's ON the suggestion of Mr.. q.
Graeser Now the latter who was in
his room about 80 o'clock. heard the
door open and saw his dear COM
panion.
He appeared TO he suffering and re-
manned motionless on the threshold,
His master called him. but he did not
move. Nevertheless. he obeyed
second call. approached slowly. rubbed
himself against the legs of his protec-
tor and stretched himself at his feet
His master wanted TO caress him, but
his hand waved in vain in emptiness-
there was nothing there. BODY was a
shadow. Astonished and uneasy. he
set himself in search of the dog, all In
vain. The fear that the dog had been
sacrificed came to his mind, and he
telephoned to the knacker's yard to
ask if his big and fine dog had been
seen. He learned with grief that the
dog had just been killed. The mo
ment of his death exactly conceded
with that of the apparition
Many stories of this kind are known
indisputabN authentic, but relating to
persons. The appearance of a dog in
a fact of this kind deserves, therefore,
To be mentioned
Are dogs endowed with souls like
ours? Can telepathic communication
between them and us exist? The PROB
lem is complex. Very likely we ought
not TO conclude from the above that
the ghost of this victim went from the
pound to the home of his master.
where it appeared to him; but it is
not admissible that seeing that he was
about to receive the fatal blow. this
brave dog had thought of his master
with the intensity OF despair and that
an ethereal wave went from his brain
to that of his great friend? The
hertzian waves of wireless telegraphv
help us to understand the possibility
of these transmissions, which are not
at all supernatural
This fact, Which is so remarla Bile
and which was told me directly by its
observer, is not unique of it's kind.
The wise and learned Caesar de Yes
mes has made us acquainted recently
with two cases of the same kind in the
Annales des Sciences Psychiques.e
In the first case it concerned a little
female spaniel. which every, morning
went to scratch at the door of her
master. a counselor at the Court of
Appeals of Paris. until he opened it,
Having left her at Rambouillet during
a season of shooting the counselor
was very much astonished one morn
ing TO hear at his door the familiar
scratching of his little bitch. He
thought that she had been brought to
Paris by his servant, arose, went to
the door and saw nothing But two
hours later he learned that the poor
toutou had been accidentally killed by
a sportsman.
In the second case a woman sees a
scar reappear of a wound caused in
paying year previously by her ia :
Voflte dog at the moment the latter
died from being run over on rail-
way.
we are here in presence of facts
really incomprehensivle i'm the present
state OF our knowledge. The OBJ
sefVatlons of telepathic communica-