The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-09-09

@neMy Se'd 8 FssPoos6Ie Pos;s;oo 10
New jersey. recspfly, related IN
instance Of shoss1 ;ne : his own ex=,
pesiencas A fed I'm fsce be Ne
sitting bis d. kfMsDeney City.
when I ! suddes behd hs brother
Ewh4 Ought to I've b in Dublin
1Aodlhg beside hidl. No noticed his
dress, bis watch chain. his scarf. his
hat, his cnllar. -his- aPPassssly -shrss
days long heard. Speeches With
establishment. he could hardly believe
his eyes. although it was brosd day
light. Finally. he stretched out HE
rhands, crying. WY. Harry. my
dear tellsv. | wss never % surprised
in my lite. When did you arrive!'
No hand grasped his. The vision
faded assay o. oystsriosalyas Il hsA
appeared. IL was % overpowered,"
continued the narrator, THAT | felt
like fsinting. | pulled out my watch
and lacked at the hour. and made .
memorandum Of e end the dase. for
I felt that something had happened.
Sure enough something had happened.
Twelve days after | received q letter
announcing nv dear brother's death.
Mating allowance FIR the difference
Of longitude, the hour Of death coincid.
ed exactly wish the sppesraoce Of bis
soul-shape in Jersey City" Like the
old physician whose experiences We
have described, this gentlemen has
seen several other spirit forms
notably that Of Q deceased physician
and former friend Of biz. whose 70.
mains but fiifully repose in the Catho.
lie Cemetery, Jersey City" The
mystery of the nature Of the foregoing
notes the present writer does not pre-
sumo 10 define. Ii 10 sufficient tn
state the address of the medical ghost
seer can be obtained BY those interest
ed at this Office. "'
Further inquiry among intelligent
people reveals the fact that there are
quite q number Of otherwise ehrewd
and reliable pers'ns.. who believe in
and profess to have seen the astral
element or spirit Of departed friends.
In this connection the remark u
Lucretius the epicurean, is interest
ing. The surfaces Of bodies are con-
tinually aud constantly thrown % by
a sort Of centrifugal force. and hence
40 exact image IL often presented 10
us by this surface coming ID, as II
we're, entire, like the cast skin Of the
rattlesuake, or the shell Of the
chrysalis; and thus the idea Of our
absent or..derarted friends strike ON
the mind"
PHILOSOPHY.
Francis Grose, the antiquarian i'm
mortalized by Burns. has summed up
many of the wonderous attributes Of
ghosts, in the existence Of which he
appears to have been . 6rm believer.
The spirit Of q person deceased, he
writes, sis either commissioned Ia
return for some special errsnd. such
the discovery Of a murder. to procure
restitution Of lands, or money unjust
~ withheld from m orphan Or widow !;
or having committed some injustice
while living. can not rest. ill that Is
redressed. Sometimes the occasion Of
spirits revisiting this world Is to in
form their heir in what secret place
or private drawer in IN old trunk
they had hid the title deeds Of the
estate. Some ghosts Of murdered
persons whose bodies have been secret
" buried can not be ct ease till their
bones have been taken up and Geposit-
ed in sacred ground With al the rites
of Christian burial: The last illustra-
ton accords with the experience If
Gerald Massey. the poet. He Was
persistently haunted By . ghost At bis
house in Porto Bello, near Edinburgh,
until he dug under the hearth-stone
aod discovered . human skeleton.
On heing transferred to saDcti6ed
ground M. Massey has alleged over
his signature the ghost troubled him
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