Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10

ghosts these death-bed apparitlons can be
designated. Sometimes he has seen the
soul-form lowering directly over the dy-
ing person suspended in the air, as it
were, sometimes he had seen it standing
at the head of the bed;' and other times
1t has taken the form Of duplicate Sleep
er, as IN the case Of the venerable LADY
already described. The physicians Wis
ION IS remarkably keen, and he is per-
fectly assured that he is not the victim Of
any optical or other illusion It is his
OPINION that quite considerable pro-
portion of mankind behold those spiritu-
al appearances, but that they are pre-
vented from admitting the fact from
dread Of ridicule. If this he so. there
must be some popularity of constitution
and temperament which bestows this
ghostly vision.
A highly educated gentleman, who
formerly held responsible position in
New Jersey, recently related an instance
Of ghost-seeing in his own experience A
few years since he was sitting at his desk
in Jersey City, when he suddenly beheld
his brother-who ought then to have
been in Notwithstanding beside him.
He noticed his dress, his watch-ch in, his
scarf, his hat, his collar. his apparently
three days long beard. Specifies with
astonlshment, he could hardly believe his
eyes, although it was broad daylight.
Finally, he stretched out his hands, cry
ing, ''Why, Harry, my dear fellow, l was
never SO surprised in my life. w en- did
you arrive?" No hand grasped his. The
vision faded away as mysteriously as it
had appeared. 81 was SO overpowered,"
continued the narrator, "that l felt like
tainting. pulled out my watch and
looked at the hour; and made mem
orandum of it and the date, for felt that
something had happened. Twelve DAYS
after received letter announcing NV
dear brother death. Making allowance
for the difference OF longitude, the hour
OF his death conceded exa. thy. with the
appearance of his soul-sllape in Jersey
City Like the physician hose exper-
fences We have DIES ribed, is gentleman
has seen several other spirit forms-nota-
bly, that of a diseased physician and former
TREND OF his, whose remains but 6tfully
repose in the Catholic Cemetery, Jersey
City. The mystery of the nature of the
foregoing notes G present writer does
not presume to define. 1t is sufficient to
state that the address of the medical
ghost-seer can be obtained by those in.
terested at this Office.
Further inquiry among intelligent peo-
pie reveals the fact that there are ante
number OF otherwise shrcwd and reliable
persons W o believe III and profess to
have seen the astral element Or spirit of
departed friends. In this connection the
remark of Lucretius the epicurean, is in
teresting: "The surfaces of bodies are con-
tinually thrown off by sort of centrifu-
gal force, and hence an exact image is
often presented to US by this surface
coming of as it were, entire like the cast
skin OF rattle-snake, or the shell of the
crysalis; and thus the idea of our absent
or departed friends strike on the mind"
Francis Crosse, the antiqua1y lmmortalized
by Burns, has summed up many of the
wondrous attributes Of ghosts, in the ex-
lstence of which he appears to have been
firm believer. The spirit of a person
deceased he writes, lis either commits
stoned to return for some special Grand,
such as the discovery of a murder, to pro-
cure restitution Of lands, or money unjustly
withheld from an orphan or widow; or,
having committed some injustice while
living, can not rest till that is redressed.
Sometimes the occasion Of spirits revisit
ing this world is to inform their heir in
what secret place or private drawer in an
old trunk they had hid the title eds of
the estate. Some ghosts IF murdered
persons whose bodies have been secretly
buried can not be at ease till their bones
have been taken up and del osited in sa-
cred ground with all the rites of Chris
tian burial. The last illustration accords
with the experience of Gerald Massey,
the poet. He was pcrsistently haunted
by ghost at his house in Porto Bello,
near Edinburgh, until he dug under the
hearthstone and discovered human skel-
eton. On being transferred to sanctifed
ground, Mr. Massey Las alleged over his
signature, the ghost troubled him no
more.