Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-27

lady In question WAS therefore laid
out ~ bride In 4 white dress, orange.
flower wreath and veil. The day Be.
fore the funeral the most intimate
friend Of the deceased, who had been
on . visit ct distance, came home
and insisted with floods OF tears that
she should be allowed to see her.
The mother most decidedly refused,
explaining that her daughter had
been the victim of an infectious fever
and that she could not allow the
daughter of q friend to run the risk
Of catching It. The young lady per-
sisted, and would not leave the
house; but the mother, much a. II
pafned her, was firm in her refusal
However, in the evening the young
friend being on the watch, saw the
paid watcher leave the room and 70
down to supper, leaving the door un-
locked. She Immediately entered
and having kissed her friends cold
face, knelt down by the side Of the
bed to pray. There were two can
dies ct each side Of the bed at its
head, and two placed on q table its
foot
"The poor girl WAS deep In her
prayer, when suddenly, without any
movement or warning the dead
girl sat up and said in q sharp tone Of
voice: Que faistu LAP (What are
You doing there y Startled and hor-
riAed to the last degree, her friend
sprang from her knees, and In trying
to rush out Of the room, upset the table
upon which the candles were placed,
and became wedged between 1t and
the bed, her head downmosti Inex-
tricably entsngled, she shrieke d,loud-
IL for help. The supposed dead giri
had keen sense Of the ridiculous,
and being weakened from illness, she
went of into . hysterical at Of laugh
ter and the more her poor friend
kicked and screamed, the more she
kept up the duet by peals of lighter.
The mother and household hearing
the noise, rushed up % quickly ae
possible. The mother was the first to
enter the room, and being q quick
witted woman, ut once compreheu
ed the situation; she few to her
daughter and angrily ordering her to
be quiet and moi laugh at her friends
miafortune, she pressed her 10 her
bosom, and hastily tearing off wreath
and veil. dropped them on the floor
and kicked them under the bed then
calling assistance, she carried the
girl into another room and put her
to bed. The doctor who had been
sent for, ordered her torbe taken home
without delay. and they started ae
soon 10 was possible. She perfectly
recovered; but, strangely enough,
could never call to mind the startling
event of her return to life. She af.
terwards married the gentleman who
10 the hero Of our first story. Her
poor friend. when extricated from
her unpleasant situation, was quite
delirious she had . nervous fever, of
which she nearly died, and she never
recovered from the shock her
friends sudden return to life had CIV
On her."
On writing to the lady who related
these anecdotes for permission to
publish, she says:
"You are at liberty to make what
nee you like of our family story, on
condition you do not mention names
of family or places; but you may add
that al three lived to be very Old
my father to eighty-four and my
mother and aunt to seventy six--re.
taining their health rare intelligence
and to wonderful extent, their per-
'onal beauty to the last