Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1901 — FORESAW HIS OWN DEATH. [ARTICLE]

FORESAW HIS OWN DEATH.

< Rrvmonition That Quickly Came Traa Reported From a Canadian Village. The little country town of St Eu»-< tache, in Quebec Province, report* * ease of second sight premonition ori presentiment which is scarcetyi •qualed by any of those related by M.t Camlle Flammarion in “The Unknown.” One of the villagers, a healthy, mid- 1 dle-aged man named Legare, after rising one morning recently in the best of health and spirits saidi abruptly to his wife: “I am going to die to-night but you, must not trouble yourself about it I’ am going to arrange everything in such, a manner as to give you as little war? ry as possible." . ’ Mrs. Legare believed that her husband was ,c"rlng, and attempted to laugh off hi* remarks. Nevertheless, Legare proceeded to shave himself; with care, changed all his clothing and' put on clean apparel, placed all his pa-, pers and business affairs in proper order and made his wilt Then he calmly asked his wife to go for the parish priest in order thati he might make his confession and receive the last sacraments of ths church before dying. Seeing that he was apparently in the best of health, his wife positively refused to go for the priest until Legare had Insisted again and again that he was perfectly sane and knew only too well what he was about

The priest went to the house with Mrs. Legare and consented to receive her husband's confession, but positively refused to administer the sacrament of extreme unction, reminding Legare that it could be given only to a dying person. In vain Legare Insisted that he was about to die, although perfectly well at that time, and that he would be a corpse that very night. The priest was obdurate and left him. Legare continued to busy himself with the affairs of his estate until early in the evening, when he suddenly expired. The doctors says that death was due to heart failure and could not possibly, In the natural order of things, have been foreseen. The remarkable circumstances attendin' the death are, naturally enough, the wonder of the whole district— New York Sun.