The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-06-21
TOLD AT THE TABLE.
4 True Incident Not Easily Explained by
SkePtics.

lOriginaLl
We had been talking Of springtime, and
how grateful seemed the first warm, bright
days The young man of twenty-seven, who
sat at his fathers right hand, said:
''TO thoroughly appreciate green trees,
Rrass flowers and all the sdjuncts of Spring,
you need to see them after rising from sick
bed the first time in many weeks. have an
0xparisnce of that kind in my memory, which
always grows greener every time the trees
put forth leaves. When 1 was seven years
old broke my leg The accident occurred
In March, when everything outdoors was as
chill and drear as possible. l wasn't out Of
bed for eight weeks, and when did get up,
and was taken to ride In the park, expe-
Pienced an exquisite and indescribable pleas
ure in seeing the earth green. The trans
formation looked like magic to me, having
taken place while was a prisoner in a sick
bed How delicious the air was, how lovely,
how mpremely lovely seemed everything out
side OF the city. 1 thought heaven couldn't,
surely, be any more attractive
''How did you break your legp asked
woman, On the opposite side of the table, who
had an Unsuitable appetite for details.
ST was on my way to school, carrying a
little satchel OF books, and swinging the
satchel, of course. At the corner of Broad
way and Ninth street box that had for
merly served as a travelling case for a tall
mirror stood rather unsteadily against the
wall, on the sidewalk Boy-like 1 went as
near it as possible The swinging satchel
struck it, and down 10 caune upon me. / fell
In a heap, one leg doubled under me, with the
weight Of the box on top. heard the bone
crack. screamed and became unconscious"
"a singular psychological incident oc-
CURED with that" said the young mans
father Mr.. h, (which may interest you"
1--WE were living on East Fifth street, near
Second avenue then. I saw Willie (tha
young mani start TO school that morning,
and then went to sit with my wife IN her
room She was holding our new, four weeks
old baby in her arms while the nurse was
eating her breakfast. We had chatted about
ten or fifteen minutes when we were both
startled by a shrek of distress, and the voice
scanned to be Willie's. My wife sprang to
her feet, as I did also, saying, Why, isn't
that WiIlies cryP 1t sounds like it, L an
swered, but it can't be. I saw him on to
school fifteen minutes ago.
I've both sat down again, with outward
calm, though inward uneasiness, which we
could not account for. In about quarter OF
an hour the door bell rang, and when the
door was opened two men stood there carry
ing the boy, his leg broken, his face bruised,
and grooming with pain"
Mrs. H, who was present, then said:
when the door bell rang sprang instantly
70 my feet, impeIled to do so l know not
yky Nv husband did the same, but stopped
TO gently push me back into my chair and
saw, sit down, sit down. though he
feared a calamity which he did not want me
Co confront Before he reached the hall door
the house-maid had opened it and admitted
the messengers Of misfortune"
'GMr. H, how do you account for hearing
the chiId's cry nearly mile away in a crowd
cd cityTn asked a man near the lower end Of
the table. who was grimly practical and cor
reSpondingly narrow"
sIT don't account for it. replied Mr.. h,
cor, rather, can to myself, but should not
like TO undertake to make my theory com
prehensible to others"
IT think" said the young man, who had
been the small hero of the interesting little
story, '+that the explanation is very simple
It means that /, as well as every other human
being. have a soul which in moments of great
danger can rise superior to the body and an
initiate distance like flash"
The woman of details and the realist looked
quite pityingly at the earnest youth, but re-
Trained from annihilating him with any
words
''I think you have the true explanation"
said a woman on the opposite side of the
table, who looked though she had had
similar experiences, but did not care to throw
them upon ungenial soil.
II think" resumed Mr.. h, ''that we cover
the ground when we say, There are more
things in heaven and earth than are dreamed
Of in our philosophy"
GERTRUDE GARRISON.
New YORK, -