The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-02-09
TWO QUEER PEOPLE.


1t is quite common thing at the present
time for some of the people living in the
! state of Pennsylvania to make excursions
to the other world, and after spending a
few hours wandering around the other
shore to return and make mysterious init
nations of what they saw and what they
did.
4 woman. named Amelia Grath, has
been doing a little business of this kind
recently. The most remarkable thing con
nected with this woman's history is thai
she is attended by an angel, which she de
scrbes as being like child of about three
years old, and which dresses in white
Angels of this kind are partial to white
clothes-we have noticed they seldom dress
IN any other color. This one showed re
maikable degree of Intelligence for one SO
young and gave her much information
which indicated that he was wise beyond
his years. This woman had some diSeaS.
of her chest and the angel directed her To
inform the priest how 4 cure might br
effected. The priest cured her a good
many times. but she, in spite of the twain.
would get sick again, which indicates thar
the angel and the good father were rather
unskillful doctors, or were deceived by this
woman. Indeed, we are not sure that she
did not deceive herself However. about
uie weeks ago. the angel said to her that
- for one hour her soul would leave her
body, but would return again She went
I and when she came back, she described her
sensations as like unto one carried OFT by
the Winds She has been interviewed
since her return. but like all other visitors
To the undiscovered country. she is reticent
and says she was forbidden to tell what she
saw. The angel probably wanted to do all
the talking himself, but from the way his
tongue had been running for some weeks
before he might have allowed her the priv
ilege of saying few words without any
detrimenl to himself or any body else.
The case of Harry Schrack his name is
Joe. but they call him Harry, probably be
cause of his supposed relationship to very
ancient individual Of the same name. a
very glowing description of whose journey
was published by our neighbor across the
way, last week, was very different from
that of Miss Amelia. He, poor fellow, had
no angel dressed i'll white clothes to tlutter
round his head and whisper in his ears,
when he got sick. 1t would seem though,
from some things that have been made
public since Harry returned from his little
trip to worlds unknown, that he had been
able to get along very well without one
This man Schrack has the misfortune to
have a very strong lmagiuatIOu; 50 strong,
indeed that ofttimeS it OvercomeS his judg-
ment. In consequence of this, his reputa-
ton for truth and veracity is not good.
Many years ago, when he was only seven
teen years of age, he was sent to the House
of Refuge, at which institution he gradu
rod If nal 70,
himself and his alma mater when he reach
ed his ma iority. After he graduated, he
resumed his old profession, which was that
of chief mourner at all the funerals in his
neig hOorhOOd. There was no harm in this;
indeed it showed rather a tender heart and
kind disposition, and he would, no doubt,
have been allowed to continue to practice
it, had not many articles of virtu, belong
ing to the other mournerS, contracted the
peculiar habit of mysteriously finding their
way into his pockets possibly he had an
angel after all ) but be this as it may, when
the fact was discovered, he was obliged to
relinquish this branch of business.
Then he became a religious man, and
would have terrible hemorrhages of the
lungs. Strange to say, he was always
seized with these hemorrhages in church.
In this way he played upon the sympathies
that he was in the habit of scoring his
gums in order to produce the hemorrhages.
and he was obliged to relinquish this branch
of business also.
Then he became kind of jackal for
a hungry broker and did pretty well for
time, but though he was like .iackal in
many respects, he pretty soon wanted the
lions share of the prey, aud he was forced
to relnqush business again.
Then he tried the religious dodge once
more. and joined the old Swede's Church,
i'll the southeast part of Philadelphia, and
some time in the early part of last week,
he took his departure for 1.-THE land of the
hereafter He did not stay there long,
which seems to be a matter of regret to the
worthy medical man who discovered and
exposed the deception he was trying to
practice, which consisted in suspending for
a time the action of his heart.
Is \ bright and beautiful child shows
in its very express that its Babyhood was
not associated with Opium. cordials, ETC.
for the continued use of Opium is antag-
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