Cumso's Presentiment

"Here's another of these stories," snid Kangle, looking up from tbe morning paper. "What stories?" ssked Curaso. "The stories thal. alvvays appear numerously just after a fearful railway accident or the sinking of a ship, about people who in tended to go on that train or ship. but whose rninds were so strongly impressed by a sense of impending danger that they staid at home. The case in the paper here is of a man who intended to take certain train, and went to the station to do so, but it was lmpresaed upon his uiind that he ought not to go, and lie did not. The next thing he heard was that the train had gone through a bridge, and scores of people were killed and injured. Now 1 don't believe that story, nor any like it. Il one man has a presentiment of danger, why shouldn't more, or even all, of the would be passengers have the same presentiment, and let the train rush on to destruction with no pnssengeis iboard?" "Well," replied Cumso, "I believe it, fol I kiiow from my own experience something about presentüucnts. Let me relate a little incident." "Goahead." "Not long i-o Mts. Cumso decided she would go auil se lier father and take the baby with her, and incidentaUy stop hall way and spend a njght with a school friend. In the preparation for the jnurncv a variety of hindrknces occurred and things went wrong. I began to have misgivings, and to wish that the trip was safely over. Well, the day arrived, and when I went to the office that morning I took the baggage. intending to go to the station at train time and see them off. The train was scheduled to leave at 9:30, so at teti minutes after 9 I was at the station. My wife and baby were not there. Before leaving home 1 had given particular instructions what time they should leave the house, and had allowed them ampie time to reaeh the station. So I was prised not to find them there. The minutes passed, and ttaey did not conu-. Finally the bell rang, and the train pulled out exactly on time, and wil hout iny mie and baby. I was very an.xious, and wondweil wiiat couid have happened. While i was wondering what I had better do they in sight, vralking leisureïy as though ;hey had plenty of time, the nurse carrying the baby. 'Diere wei-e many lamentations when thoy fouud that the train had gone, but I said tliat I supposed it was all for the best, and that I liad had a presentiment that something was wrong. It seemec that the elock had unaccountably lost time and that had caused my wife to be late in lea ving the house." "Well, did the train they missed run of the track and kill a lot oí people?" asked Fanüle. as Cumso stopped. "No; but something dreadful really did happon." "Whiit?" "When we got back to the house ther were seven relatives froni the country sit ting on the porch waiting for us. They staid il inoiith."