The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-04-14

of Trchah. falmouth a lady well knoNn to every one of rsl who had heard the story from her grandmother, one of the children who watched the apparinnn Few families could be named in which such traditions were likely to be al once more sacredly and more sobetly pre- served.
 In f7S9 Mrs Birkbeek, wife of Mil liam Ri.kseck, banker. of Settle. meFnbei of the Society of Friends, was taken Ill and died at Cockermou.h. while returning from Journey to Scotland which she had undertaken alone-her husband and four children. aged seven. i've and four years respectively, remaining al Settle. The friends q, whose house the death oc- cured made note of every circumstance attending Mrs Birkbeck's last hours. su that the accuracy of the several statements as to time as well as place was beyond tne doupliulness or man memory or oi any event. unconscious attempt to bring them into agreement with each other.
 -One morning. between seven and eight o'clock. the relation to whom the care of the children al Settle had been entrusted. and who kep, ! minute Journal of all that concerned them. went into their bedroom as usual. and found them all sitting up in their beds m great excite. ment and delight. Mamma has been here. they cried. and the lIttle one said, : She called come Esther. Nothing could have made them doubt the fact. and |, WAS carefully noted down to enter tain the mother on her return home. That same morning. as their mother lay on her dying bed al Cockermouth. she said should be ready to go if could but see my little children She then closed her eyes 10 reopen them, as they thought. no more But after ten minutes of pcrfec, stiffness she looked up brightly and said. am ready now have been with my children and then at once peace fully passed away. When the notes taken al the two places were compared, the day, hour and minutes were the same.
 1'One of the three children was my grandmother. nee Sarah Birkbeck. after ward the wife of Dr Fell. Ckers,one. From her lips heard the above almos, literally as have repeated Il. The elder was Burkbeck. af,erward of Guildford. Both these lived to old age. and retained 10 the las, so solemn and reverential a remembrance of the circumstances that they rarely would speak of II. Esther. tse youngest died soon after. Her brother and sister heard the child say that her mother called her, but could no, speak with any certainty of having themselves heard the words. nor were sensible of more than then mothers sanding there and looking on them.
 We pass over now 10 the second great family of cases. where the tIansferenee of impressions Is facilitated by some abnor- nal condition on the side of the agent, while the condition of the perciplent re- mains normal. To this category belongs the following singular dream. written down by the dreamer. the Rev. los- eph Wilkins. a dissenting minister a, Weymouth. who died Tn ISoo. and in- dorsed by the late Dr. Aberoromb,e of Edinburgh, a man. VIC need hardly say. of the greatest scientific acumen: Joseph Wilkins, while young man absent from home. dreamed. without any i apparent reason, tha; he returned home, reached the house at night. found the l front door locked. entered by the back door. visited his mothers room. found heI awake and said 10 her: Mother. l am going on long journey. and am come to l bid you goodbye A day or two after i wards this young man received d letteI 1 from his father asking how he was and alleging his mothers anxiety on account l of a vision which had visited her on a night which was. Tn fact. that of her sons dream. The mothef.1ying awake in bed had heard some one try the front dooI and entered by the back door, and had then seen the son enter the room. heard him say 10 her: Mother, ain going on a long journey. and am come to bid yot goodbye. and had answered. oh, deal son. thou art dead words which the son had also heard her say in his dream
 We have received the following accoun from our friend, MT. John Adding,on Sy mond.
 II was boy in the sixth form |; liar row. and as head of Mir. Rcndalfs hous, had room to myself. II vas m the sum mer of 1858. awoke about dawn, anc felt for my books upon the chair between the bed and the window: when l knew that must turn my head the other way ! and there between me and the door stood Dr. Macleane, dressed m a clergy. mans black clothes. He bent his sallov face little toward me and said I ar going long way-to take care of my son. While was attending to him
 suddenly saw the door in the place where Dr. Macleane had been. Dr Macleane died that night tat xha, hour
 can not precisely say at Clifton. M) father, who was great friend of hts. wa' with him. was no; aware tha; he wa. more than usually i'll. He was chroni' invalid.
 We received the mex, narrative from Mrs Hunter, of , Ellcsmere Villas, For est Hill, who IS personally known to us
 Mrs. Hunter had had friend from whom she had parted in colaness. and whom she had not since seen or cores bonded with. Poor /. was very lar from my thoughts when one nigh, hae rus, go, into bed The fire burned brightly, and there vas my usual night light. l was placing my head on the pil- lows when beheld. close to the side o the bed and on level with il, Z.'s head