The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-02-17
ABOUr GHOSTS.

IHN'thC'hc "'lCle li Inc w aSHlnHtOH W.
G. Saturday Evening Visitor, in relating
to IA subject winch has alwats produced
fear and alarm among the timri, ignorant,
and superstiiiuus, and does 70 this day
We are sorry to thMk that the belief in
this class of appariIions is still prevail, ut
among our agricultural population, AMI
yet fingers in the eiIies and towns. We
are not disposed 10 enter largely INTO the
sul.t-ci at present, bat avail ourselves vi
the opportunity which is afforded 10y "a
correspondent, of stating sulne consiIcra-
iIuns which tender TO refer such appear
ances tn the state ufthe ghost seer : health
or nerves. 1t may be stated generally,
that 1t is not the young and vigorous who
witness such appearances, but lhe old,
and nervous, and the timid
When the nerves are di5ordered, either
naturally or otherwise, the patients be-
come SUBJECT 10 delusluns and false sights,
which are as real 10 them as they appear
perverse and ridiculous 10 others whuze
nerves are III perfect health These pa
tirnrs are naturally very ready TO swear
10 seeing a ghost, or spirit at living per-
sons mol present, because they do actu-
aily, III the day dreaming of their minds
eye, see what they swear TO The nerves
oi gho>I->eer' > are lightly disorlcred fl ON
fears brought on By having heard so many
stUiits about Them when young, and from
nalu' al crt dulIty and tendency TO indulge
IN the marvellous When The nerves are
mu, h diseased the de,usions becomc more
| liked aud pcImaneni, and the patient is
lien {, rtned ii lunailc.
a young clergy mar, who was given to
stud, and who took bat iitte exercise,
was one ruUrnins visited by Two friends.
/ la the passage beyond them he saw am
( other friend, and asked ihcm why he did
moi cUne i'll along wiIh them ; and lie SAW
/ that thIrd iIIend so piaIuly that nothing
would convince him 10 the contrary,
| though he immediately searched every
/ where about tile house, until he was told
! 10y that third friend alterward that he
was at The lime many miles off. The
/ doctor told him that he must take more
exercise, or his nerves would become dis
Urd,red altogether.
Sometimes these deusions are brought
Un 10y bodily diseases, and when the pa
IIent body Is recovering, the nerves re-
cover likewise. The following story is IL
rem;.i kabie instance of II "A lawyer
/ In E.iInbu~g WAS very Ill with fever,
/ but nobody sept or sat up III the loom
! with him, Ills nurse being III room be
! low. Buing winter time he had iiie IN
| the room, aud one III Eht lie saw slitlhg III
the easy CHAIR young lady he had been
/ formerly acquainted with, but who had
! been dead TWO years. lie saw her 50
plainly, and the glare from the fire played
| and II ,shcd un her In such slrUng light
and shade just The same as II she was
IuaiIy Iheir, that he wrapped OIL the floor
with The enu ui his stick 10 fetch tie nurse
up; but She could see nobody in the char,
nor vae there any Impression Oh The cush
Ion since she placed 1t there. Every niglh
for three weeks this VISION was repeated
/ distinctly Ee thea began to mend rapid
| iy, and as he nended, though the vision
was still repeated, II grew fainter ami
fainter every might, and after his health
Was restored never appeared again. y
! lawyer, being III The habit Or reasoning
and arguing aud sitting the truth, could,
! on SUN ~ iiio
| doctor, becoue at once CONVINCED that The
young lady Was no actual vision Or ghost,
but cunse sequ,ncc merely of the nerves
being diseased as we'll as the body. An
i.uuran! pea SON would never have been
convinced but thai The vision was zeal
and not imaginary.
Sir Waller Scott says, in his work on
"Dtmouoi"ey,' that line remarkable
circumstance of Thomas, HE second Lord
LyIIl-Iun, prophecy inS his own death
wlIhn "a lew minutes, upon ihe iniurma-
ton oi AN "ppariuon, has always been
q-lolei as Il Irue story. But ct late Il
has been said and published that the un
! turIuuate nubicman had previously dcie' =
mIhed TO take poison, and "t course had
il in / is own power Ia insure The iuitii-
mcnl ot the prediction. lie WAS ~ doubt
! singular that IA Inan who methiaued hIs
exit from the wuri should have chuscn 10
play such "A trick on las friends. But II
Is sill more credible that ii whimsical
man should do su wild II thing, than that
"a messenger should be sen; from the dead
10 tell a hberIine al what precious houl
he should expire.