FATAL POWER OF SUGGESTION.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11501, 6 February 1903, Page 7

FATAL POWER OF SUGGESTION.

A Vienna telegram of a recent date pubfahed in a London paper, states that six Week* ago Gabriel Katona, one of DeJH>ecsten'» aged inhabitant*, lay ©n his death**J- A f«w hours before hie death he ojKed his wife to him, and in the presence i.t amiJ >* H °d tiie raid to her: "~'l dreamt that you will follow me into ttw grave 40 days Katoaa died , and was burittl. His wife was disconsolate, became dseynjndt'nt and continually said that her late husband's dream w;is going to come it?"' At iavt " P' niu X »way. she died on M* fonktli day after h*r husband's death.

THE PANAMA CAS A L. ' fc^f* 1 orc ' au M . vs the opening of the JWama Ganal umier American ownership *iU mark the beginning of a new epoch. The tragic ataje of the world's hietory vi&ch in anojwst tiniest centred in the ai«dit«rraneuTi, and which moved in the navel ages to the Afclairtic, will then be tiwvafcrrwi to the Paccfic Ocean. At feet t« Aogto-Saxon dement, he tava, will

flags floating over single points in the Pacific <)oean; then the struggle will be carried further to the Asiatic Coast, where Anglo-Saxons and Russians will have to decide the momentous world question of whether Eastern or Southern Asia will remain British or Rtwwi&n. One can only imagine with horror ((writes the Ghrc&s o correspondent of the. "Otago Daily Timee") what such a ■gigantic struggle of race* and nations will signify. It is needless to «iy thut Nordau's viewe on American milifraiYsm are not American viewe. In the ■words of one American paper, "the present epatun of miiitaroem w much more likely to result in disgnxst and reaction than any grand running tunuck."