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,
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