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THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTOItliv, OREGON. SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1908. MYSTIC APPARITIONS 11 jThe Weird and Puzzling Enigma of Ghostly Visions. MESSAGES FROM THE DEAD. The "Ghost" Tht Appears to Warn Living Person of Impending Misfor- I tune The Strange Case of a Boston Man and His Deceased Sister. ' In the "Riddle of Personality" the author, H. Adillnglon Brace, discuss ing the proposition that human per sonallty persists beyond the grave, dtea a number of instances of appari tions that were closely Investigated ty the Society For Psychical Research and says: In order to appreciate the nature of the evidence accumulated, let us glance at a few typical instances, each drawn from the society's records and thus sufficiently authenticated to merit serious consideration. We may begin with an old fashioned "ghost" story or the simpler sort. In this instance the percipient, a Mr. J., was a personal acquaintance of F. W. H. Myers, who obtained a first hand account of the txperience. In 1SS0 it appears Mr. Q., the librarian of X. library, died, and Mr. J. was appointed his succes sor. Mr. J. had not known Mr. Q., nor bad he to his knowledge seen any portrait of him when in 18S4, or four years after his death, he made the old librarian's acquaintance under these circumstances: . "I was sitting alone In the library one evening late In March, 18S4, fin ishing some work after hours, when it suddenly occurred to me that I should miss the last train to II., where I was then living, if I did not make haste. I gatherAl up some books In one hand, took the lamp In the other aud pre pared to leave the librarian's room, j whichv communicated by a passage with the main room of the library. As J my lamp illumined the passage I saw apparently at the end of it a man's face. I instantly thought a thief liud got Into the library. I turned back Into my room, put down 'the books aud took a revolver from the safe, and, holding the lamp cautiously behind me, I made my way uloug the passage Into the maiu room. Here I saw no one, but the room was large and in cumbered with bookcases. "I called out loudly to the Intruder to show himself several times more with the hope of attracting a passing policeman than of drawing the In truder. Then I saw a face looking round one of the bookcases. I say round, but it had an odd appearance, as if the body were in the bookcase, as the face came so closely to the edge and I could see no body. The face was pallid and hairless, and the orbits of : the eyes were very deep. I advanced toward it, and as I did so I saw an old man with high shoulders seem to ro tate out of the end of the bookcase and with his back toward me and with a shuliliug gait walk rather quickly from the bookcase to the door of a , small lavatory which opened from the library aud bad no other access. I heard no noise. I followed the man at once Into the lavatory and to my ex treme surprise found no one there. Completely mystified, I even looked into the little cupboard under the fixed basin. There was nowhere hiding - for a child, and I confess I began to experience for the fist time what nov elists describe as an 'eerie feeling. I left the library and found I had missed my train. "Next morning I mentioned what I had seen to a local clergyman, who on hearing my description said, 'Why, that's old Q.!' Soon after I saw a pho tograph (from a drawing) of Q., and the resemblance was certainly striking. Q. had lost all his hair, eyebrows and all from, I believe, a gunpowder acci dent. His walk was a.peculiar japid, high shouldered shuffle. Later inquiry proved he had died at about the time of year at which I saw the figure." This is a capital illustration of the reveuaut type of apparition, the "ghost" that visits a locality with Which it was familiar in life. Then there is the "ghost" that ap pears to warn a living person of Im pending misfortune. Take the strange case of Mr. F. G. of Boston, who writes:' ; "In 1867 my only sister, a young lady of eighteen years, died suddenly' of cholera in St. Louis. My attachment for her was very strong and the blow a severe one to me. A year or-so after her death the writer became a com mercial traveler, and it was in 1876, , while on one of my western trips, that the event occurred. "I had 'drummed' the city of St. Jo seph, Mo., and had gone to my room at ' the Pacific House to send in my orders, which were unusually large ones, so that T was in a very happy frame of mind indeed. The luinr was high noun, and the sun was shining cheerfully ' into my room. While busdly snrji;!i:; a cigar and wrillng out my ordera I suddenly became conrcio;: that some ' ne was sitting on my loft, with o::;' arm resting on the table. Quick an it flash I turned and distinctly saw tin form of my dead sister and for a brief . second or so looked her squarely in the face, and so sure was I that it was :. that I sprang forward in delight, call ing her by name, and as I did so the - apparition ' Instantly vanished. Xatn- rally I was startled and dumfounded, almost doubting my senses; but, the cigar In my mouth and pen in hand, with the Ink still moist on my letter, I satisfied myself I had not been dream lng and was wide awake. "Now comes the most remarkable wnflrmatlon of my statement, which cannot be doubted by those who know what I state actually occurred.: This visitation or whatever you may call it so impressed me that I took the next train homo, and In the presence of my parents and otlters I related what had occurred. My father, a man of rare good sense aud very practical, was in clined to ridicule me, as he saw how earnestly I believed what 1 stated. But he, too, was amazed when later on 1 told them of a bright mi - line or scratch en the right hand side of my sister's face which I distinctly had seen. When I mentloued this, my mother rose, trembling, to her feet and pearly fainted away, and as soon as she sufficiently recovered her self pos session, with tears streaming down her face, she exclaimed that I had In deed seen my sister, as no living mor tal but herself was aware of that scratch, which she bad accidentally made while doing some little "net of kindness after my sister's death. She said she well remembered how pained she was to think she should have un intentionally ninrred the features of her dead daughter and that unknown to all how she had carefully obliter ated all traces of the slight scratch with the aid of powder, etc., and that she had never mentioned it to a human being from that day to this. In proof neither my father nor any of our fam ily had detected it and positively were unaware of the Incident, yet I saw the scratch as bright as if just made." ' Whatever the explanation of the ap parition, it was the means of bringing the son home to take a long, last fare well of his mother, for she died within a fortnight of his return, "happy in her belief she would rejoin her favor ite daughter in another world." And now to turn to psychical phe nomena of another type, the auditory hallucinations by which knowledge seems to be conveyed of deaths occur ring far outside the normal ken of the percipient. The experience of a Mr. Wambey is typical. Once when plan ning a congratulatory letter to a friend the words: "What! Write to a dead man? Write to a dead man?" rang in his ears, and he later found that bis friend bad been dead for some days. Far more bizarre was an Incident re lated to Mr. Myers by a Mrs. Da vies. An acquaintance of hers had changed her abode unexpectedly, and it was arranged that Mrs. Davies should re ceive her mail until she conld commu nicate her new address to her friends and particularly to her husband, who was in India. One evening a letter ar rived bearing the India postmark, and MrsDa vies placed it on the chim ney' piece, intending to ask her brother to hand it next day to the addressee. Suddenly she became aware of a strange ticking sound that seemed to proceed from the letter itself. Her brother, too, heard it, and, yielding to superstition, they imagined that the sound meant: "Important! To be de livered at once!" The brother there upon put on his bat and carried the letter to their friend, who' found it to be a communication from a if unknown correspondent, some servant or com panion, notifying her of her husband's death. Taken singly, such Incidents as the above are not without Impresslveness. Considered in the aggregate and as massed by the thousand with corrob orative data carefully preserved in the society's archives, they may well give one pause. J Custer and Ramseur. In General Morris SchaflTs reminis cences, "The Spirit of Old West Point," there is an incident that goes to show that not even the first bitter ness of the struggle between the north and the south could put out altogether the fires of friendship. It was the fate of Stephen D. Ramseur of North Carolina to fall in the Confederate service, nis last hours had a close connection with West Point, where he had been enrolled as a cadet. When In the darkness after the battle of Ce dar Creek the Union cavalry charged the broken and fleeing remnants of a division of Early's corps, Custer, who was in the midst, heard one of his troopers who had wized the horses ask the driver whom he had In his ambu lance. "Do not tell him," commanded a weak, husky voice. Whereupon Custer, who recognized the voice as one he bad so often beard at West Point, exclaimed: "Is that you, Ramseur?" Custer had him taken to Sheridan's headquarters, where his old friends, Merritt, Custer and the gallant Pen nington, gathered around him and showed him every tenderness to the last. He died about 10 o'clock the next day. Bunsen'a Pocketful of Orders. Professor Bunsen thought more highly of his scientific discoveries than he did of the many orders and other tokens of honor that were showered on him during his long life. He was apt to forget to put on his crosses and rib bons when Invited to official ceremo nies, and his housekeeper tried to re mind him of his duty by putting his various orders in the pocket of his tress suit trousers. On one occasion he was invited with the other Heidel berg professors to dine with a Baden prince. He entered the room late, after the guests had assembled, and one of his colleagues turned to him and said: ", "Excuse me, Herr Geheimrath, but what have you done with, your or ders?" Bunseu was taken aback. He thought for a moment, mul thou plunging his (or a moment, ami then, plunging his ed out n fist full of stars and crosses. As soon ns they recovered from their astonishment every one begun to laugh, but Bunseu said good nntured ly, "Oh, I have a lot inure," and pulled another handful out f the right hand pocket of his trousers, IT'S ALWAYS BAD. The Best of Backs Are Bad When -They Ache, and Astoria People Know It A bad back is always bad. Bad at night when bedtime come. Just as bad in the morning'. Ever try Doan's Kidney Pills for it? Know they cure backache cure every kidney ill? William McLarty, living at 16th and Washington streets, Oregon City, Ore., says: "I had persistent back ache and pain through the loins that seemed to never let up. 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