Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-16
ONE GHOST THAT WAS SEEN.
sEvKnAL PERSONS WITNESSED THE sfEcrxR-
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prKD OF WILLOW rKvER
Most people profess not to believe in ehos,s
Some few have actually no faith in them what
ever. To all the subject 10 one Of great IN
terest, because it 10 mystery which involves
the possible future. Who can be sure that he
himself may not some day be q spook? The
eonte mplation Of such q prospect 10 far from
agreeable. And why? Chiefly because the
accepted notion Of spec,er is painful To be
. sheeted churchyard apparition-to squeak
and Gbber in the public haunts OF mems not
q cheerful idea At oil events. one would not
select it as picture Of Q subjective existence
yet to be.
No more emphatic non-believer in ghosts
can be found in Washington than the chief of a
certain departmental bureau, whose business it
Is almost wholly to deal with figures which are
not less cold than perambulating specters
ms 10 the story which he told to a STAR
writer yesterday:
Il have two sisters and q brother. Once /
had three sisters, but one OF them died in New
orleans ten years ago She perisned OF yellow
fever. At the time none OF us knew that she
was sick. Ii was only afterward that the in
formation was gathered which makes up the
extraordinary account am about TO give YOU
lou may say that it was a coincidence. and l
VIII not say that it was not such. You can
judge for yourself
MY sister died at ten minutes past o'clock
on the night OF August IA. 1852. At that time
another sister was in Toronto. Her name is
Mary. She was about 10 put her child. a little
girl to bed. As she entered the bed room for
that purpose the child cried out, Mamma.
there Is Aunt Anna The mother look ed and
saw her sister Anna in the bed, living with her
head propped up on the pillows and looking as
II she were dying. The vision disappeared
immediately. Remember that the news OF
Hpaf n+ oh H.. I'll
lowing morning. One would naturally account
Tor such an apparition by supposlng that it was
an alIusion, but IN this case The appearance was
witnessed simultaneously by two persons.
Now, If that had been all. should deem
the occurrence sufficiently remarkable But it
happened that at the same time my brother
samuel was living in Louisville. where he had
Official connection with a railway. At about
$50 I. m. on the evening OF which speak he
was standing with his little son upon his front
doorstep Suddenly the child caught at his
coat and said, pointing TO the garden gate
There Is Aunt Anna His father looked
quickly and saw tho figure OF a woman. which
seemed TO disappear with strange suddenness
among the trees. He called after her. but she
did not answer. The next morning telegram
came from New Orleans, saying that Anna ha d
been taken Ill with yellow fever and had died
My sister Violet was married and living IN
San Francisco. She had not heard Of Anna 3
illness. But on the night in question. at about
. m, she heard voice calling her by name
She listened, but there was no accounting for
it. 1t was the voice Of her sister Anna. she
told her husband, but he laughed and SAID that
it vas an absurd hallucination. That was all
She wrote ms about it q short time later You
are at liberty TO draw your own conclusions. / do
not think that l am a superstitious man. o.
serve that saw no apparition on the occasion
referred to. All can say is that there are
certainly more things In heaven and earth than
are considered in our everyday philosophy"
The writer wishes TO add that this story is
related with absolute faithfulness as told TO
remarkable 10 render this authorization worth
while.