The Washington herald., 1914-05-20
1tatssnsa, Ri a Near.
Bx FKEp g. KELLY.

s z 3.ts 81
BY FRED C. KELLY
/ sens4or, ,Niiss rolndsxfer was the victim,
Of q weird psyehlc experience on the
night Of ths sixth -ofr rlaser AprA He re-
members the date because-weil. the date
has en- important bearing on the story.
Tho Senator went to bed on the night
Of the sixfh feeling - we1i A. usual In
fact. ~ he looks back On the strange
experiences Of that night he distinctly
recalls that he was in particularly good
spirits at tbs hour Of retiring. Shortly
after midnight he found himself In the
throes Of nightmare-and then swoke
with stfrt. Previous to that time he
had not had good nightmare for years
He was af complete loss 10 figure out
why he should be bothered with q bad
dream and wake up suddenly, In cold
perspiTrtion on the sixth OF April.
Moreover. why should his dream be
about an siection?/ Until the moment
when he aroused hiu,self, he thought he
was running for something and that at
him IN the face with large ballot sheets.
each containing Q huge cross after the
name OF his opponent. Even after al
lowing for the exaggerated effect that
dream gives to q thing. Poindexter on
awakening could scarcely shake on the
Idea that he must have been seeking Of
dee just q few seconds before, He sat
up on his launches In bed for two or
three minutes trying to anaiyse the situ-
alton. but gave II up and went on back
to sleep.
Now. II Poindsxter's queer little expert
snce had stopped right there. 1t would
not be worth mentioning at all. One
would simply say that he had eaten too
heartily of Welsh rabbit or lobster New
burg before retiring. and let 1t go at
that.
But the next morning when Poindexter
got on . street car to 70 to his duties,
up at Capitol Hin. his seatmate, who was
nothing about the bad dream, turned to
him and remarked:
We'll I was sorry to learn last night
about the ele ,tion going against you.''
Instantly Poindexter thought Of the
dream In which some election-he knew
not what-had gone violently against
him. Others then knew about his dream.
The thing was uncanny!
What election do you mean?' asked
Poindexter excitedly ut the same time
giving himself . clandestine pinch on the
thigh to verify his belief that he was
really awake.
of course" replied the stranger, giving
him Q funny look. IT supposed you were
down there. Oh, well. underwood's q
good man, but I've been rather In
sympathy with your side
Then q rift broke In the clouds and a
shaft Of light came through. II was not |
the first time Poindexter had been mis- |
taken for Richmond p. Hobson, and the |
Ii indeed striking.
But what puzzled Poindexter then, was |
about the nightmare. Why should he
dream about being defeated for an Of
flee simultaneous with the actual defeat |
Of his double? Did all the people who |
Hobson's defeat SO intentiy that the |
thought waves got to him while he slept |
Did some Of the thought waves come |
themselves to him all the way |
from Alabama Or was the whole creepy |
OF circumstances nothing |
more than coincidence?
Who knows? All, who knows?
DIR. Romulo s. Naon, the Minister OF |
Argentina, which Is the A. OF the So |
,alled A. 3. c. republics which figure in /
he Mexican mediation plan, Ii a per-
,uasive person. II is said to have been
he who talked T. Roosevelt into making |
his recent trip to tsouth' America
One person after another interested in
south America went to Roosevelt and
ried to chow him what a great thing 1t
would be for science. humanity and him
,elf IL he would make a trip over that
continent and get acquainted with the /
,eople. But T. r. seemed reluctant to
make the journey. Then Naon got hold
Il Roosevelt. told him that he, T. r..
lad a message for the South American
,eopie that. whatever 1t was. they painted
o hear. He stated the thing with such
personality that almost Immediately after
he interview Roosevelt determined to
make the trip.
Naon Is really the Roosevelt of Argen-
is, he represents the extreme
thought of that country.
Representative Percy E. Quin. Of Mis-
issippi. Is an exceptionally modest man.
,ut he is also at times an absent-minded
nan. For that reason he gave an ex-
libition the other day Of what might
ave been construed as gross immodesty.
lie had just made speech on the
ioor Of the House. When he sat down
verSbody applauded. Having had his
mind fixed on his subject he did not
ealize when he sat down that the ap-
,ause was for him, and so he absent
Joined In the applause. He
pplauded louder than anybody else. un-
II a friend came over and brought
lin to himself with the remark:
you must have liked that speech"
copyrsht. rsli. by Fred c. Kelly. All nights