Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-08-27

Ss,'rh,er ~ the late Colonel BIanckiey: !"
s,.a xnsr 1914. and she told me the following
~. storv. She woke one night anu
rn,,seI her husband, telling him thai sopc-
,h;no areadfuI had happened IN frsuce;
IT, bseoed her 10 GO 10 sleep again. anu
~, 80 ,ro,,ble HIM. She assured him sue
No. not osIeep when she saw what she W.
sisted ON then telling binl-wbat she s,",
In fact. First, a carriage-accidcn', Wh,.n
sne aid not actually see, Dut what sne s'"
was the result--a broken cH,i'ze,
crowd collected. figure gently ra',su a".
carried into the nearest mouse, a"o .n.' 80.
figure living on bed, when sue then IA
cognized rs the Duke OF Orle,ns. ".a
ualy friends collecting rounu .ns ~,
among them several members oi ,nc iene'
royal family--the Queen, tneh .ne MS
ALI silently. teariuly Watching tne es wv, ~,
"a Iyact but aid not know he WAS was
doc,or. He stood bending over the Duhe,
Seeljn0 his puse, bis watch IN MS olher
hand. And then ali passed awayIsho Sd"
no more. As soon rs it was dayngh' sns
wrote down In her journal all she niu
seen. From that journal she READ t1s
10 me. IL was before the days OF eiectriv
telegraph, and two or more days passcu
before The Times announced The deatn OF
The Duke of Orleans.' Visiting Paris
short time afterwards, she saw ana Tecos-
nized the place OF the accident, ano re-
coiycd the explanation OF her Impression
THE doctor who attended the dying Duhe
WAS an old friend Of hers; and, IS nc
watched by the bed. his mind had been
constantly occupied with her and hPr
family. The reason OF this was an extra,
ordinary likeness-a likeness when had
often led TO amusing Observation-Disclosures
several members Of the Br0ughton 1amiIy
and members Of the French royal Ianll'y
who were present in the room"
Another instance, which the authors OF
the article denOminatc "a tfansierence Oh
actual sensation" il cited. II is an incident
in his own life supplied by Canon WarDur-
ton. OF Chichester. He called upon MS
brother tarrIster. OF Lineoln's lnn' VINO
bad left n note explaining tnat ne "n'
attending ball. While waiting for him he
doyed in an armchair .nd saw his brother,
when leaving drawing-roOm, catch his
foot in the edge Of the top stair, and, fa'l-
ing headlong, Just save himself by his
elbows and hands. shortly afterwards the
brother came IN snd explained that he bad
had barrow escape OF breaking his neck
by catching his foot and falling down stair
on leaving The ballroom. He WAS hurry
ing away under the sense OF keeping MS
brother waiting for HIM. Another instance
is cited from the Memoirs Of GeOr9idnd,
Lddy ChdueTfOn.
"My mother had not been very wei, but
there was nothing alarming in her state. L
was suffering froma bad cold and went early
TO bed one slight, after leaving her in the
drawing-rOom in excellent spirits and tole-
raby well. slept unusually well, and when
| awOke the moon was shining through
the old easement brightly INTO the room.
The white curtains Of my bed were drawn
TO protect me from the draught that came
through the large window, and Oh the chr
tain. IS II depicted there. ! saw the figure
of my MOTHER the face deadly pale, with
blood flowing on the bed-clothcs. For =
moment lay h0rrOr-stricken and unable
to cry out; till, thinking It might be a
dream or "A delusion, | raised myself up in
bed aud touched the curtain. still the ap-
pcarance remained although the curtain
on which it was depicted moved 10 and fro
when | touched ~ rs ii reflected by A
magic-antern.'
She Sprang up in terror, and, putting on
a cloak. ran 10 her mothers room 20 find
her lying a. she had seen her in the cur
tain-thc sheet covered with blood and two
doctors standing By. Mr. Richard Scarle,
barri>ier, Home Lodge llernc. describes
his experience OF u hallucination. One
afternoon he was sitting in his chambers m
the Temple. working al some papers NJ his
desk. suddenly he became aware that he
was looking at the bottom windoW.pan
which was about on a level with his eyes,
and there he saw the figure OF the head and
face Of his wife in a reclining position. with
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bloodless, ~ il she were dead. Mr.. Searlc
afterwards learned that precisely at that
time his wife had witnessed an accident 10
a friends child, and was so alarmed that
she tainted.
The writers next come TO the final class
Of cases, where the pcrcipicnt sees the
phantaSmal figure ~ an apparently solid
! objec. among the familiar objects which
surround him, and holding 10 those OBJ
| jectS Just such relation rs figure OF flesh
| and blood might have held. Mr.. George
Marchant, OF Linkiicld street, Rcdhlll.
formerly large farmer and miller, and
now "an admirable specimen OK shrewd
and vigorous old age" furnishes the fol-
] lowing example:
About O'Clock on the morning OF the
DIST OF October, 1881, while | was perfectly
wide awake and looking at lamp burning
| on my Northumberland. a person. rs
thought, came into the room by mistake
and stopped, looking into the looking
glass on the table. 1t soon occurred
to me it represented Robinson Kelsey.
by his dress and wearing his hair long
| behind. when | raised myself Up in bed
and called out it instantly disappeared.
The next day ! mentioned TO some OF my
friends how strange it was. So thoroughly
convinced was ! that searched the local
papers that day Saturday and the follow
| ing Tuesday, believing his death would be
in one OF them. ON the following WodncS-
day a man, who formerly was my droyer.
came and told me Robinson Kelsey was
dead. Anxious to know at what time he
died. wrote 20 Mr.. Wood. the family I'M
dcrtakor, at Lingticld. He learned from the
| brothcr-in-aw OF the deceased tha, he died
at \. NJ. He was my first cousin. and
| was apvrcnLiccd formerly to me as miller .
afterwards he lived with me as q Journey
man-altOgethcr eight years. never saw
anything approaching that before. / an
seyCnty-,Wo years old. and never feel
nervous. | am not afraid OF the dead o.
their spirits. / hama you rough plan Of
| the bedroom, etc"
Mr.. Marchant. who hsd never had any
other hallucination, and laughs at the idea
al such thing. says tina, ne had not been
thinking OF Kelsey. nor had he spoken to
him for twenty years. Three witnesses de-
pose 10 having heard Dir. Marchaut de-
scribe the apparition the next day. An
other instance OF similar kind is supplied
by LieutenaEt-C Colonel Jones. OF Sussex
| Place, Regents Park. On the evening Of
the 2iih OF March, 1915, when he was
with his regiment in MOulmen. in Burmah,
after dining at airiend's he was sitting with
other guests in the yeranda. In the midst OF
the conversation on local affairs he all at
once distinctly saw before him the form OF
an Open coffin with a fayorite sister, then at
home, lying in it apparently dead. lie natu-
rally ceased talking, and every one looked
at him with establishment and asked what
WAS the matter. lie mentioned i'm laugh
| ing way what he had seen, and it was look
ed upon rs JOKE. On the 18th Of May fol-
| lowing he received letter announcing his
| sisters death on the 9th Of March tlIotv.