The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-04-21
True Ghost Stories.

ABNORMAL PHENOMENA REPORTED BY RE-
LIABLE OBSERVERS.
The stories below are selections from a
compilation of abnormal phenomena made
by the psychical research societies and
supplemented by Investigations made by
w. Il. Stead editor of the Review of Re
views. Every story in this compilation is
vouched for by the investigators.
FROM DEATH TO DANCING.
Here is one of the most remarkable of
the collated stories. A ghost appears in
ball room and is seen by four persons at
one time. The lady was expecting her
partner at the ball was waiting, indeed, for
his coming.
Presently, as she was standing and talk
ing to three of those gentlemen, Mr.. D.
A., Mr.. r. P. and another, they all saw
Mr.. w. come into the room, look calmly
and steadily at her and pass into the din
ing room. She thought it strange that he
did not come to speak to her, and alluded
to it to the other gentlemen, saying she
thought Nh W. was really the rudest man
she ever saw, and laughing, followed him
into the dining room. There, however,
he was not. The other gentlemen had
seen him as we'll as she, and. | believe,
her mother also. The time was 10. -.
The whole affair piqued and veXed her a
good deal.
The next morning her father came
hastily into the room, and asked her if
she had not seen MI. W. the night before.
She said Yes, and that he had acted
very oddly in only Just appearing for a
moment and not even speaking to her.
Her father then told her that on that very
morning his body had been found in the
river. His watch had stopped at 10. Is,
which was the hour at which he had been
seen in the ball room. The rose Miss Ii.
gave him was still in his buttonhole.
SAVED BY A DREAM.
An instance in which dream was use
full in preventing an impending catas-
trophe is recorded of daughter of Mrs
Rutherford at Edelton. the gIanddaugI-
ter OF Sir Walter Scott This lady dream
ed more than once that her mother had
been murdered by black servant. She
was so much upset by this that she re-
turned home, and, to her great astonish-
ment. and not little to her dismay. she
met on entering the house the very black
servant she had met in her dreams. He
had been engaged in her absence She
prevailed upon a gentleman to watch in
an adjoining room during the following
night.
About 3 o clock in the morning the gen
tleman heard footsteps on the stairs.
came out and met the servant carrying a
quantity of Goals. Being questioned as to
where he was going, he answered confus-
eddy that he was going to mend the mis-
tress' fire. which at ) O clock in the morn
ing in the middle of summer was evident
ly impossible. On further investigation
Il strong knife was found hidden in the
Goals. The lady escaped, but the man
was subsequently hanged for murder, and
before his execution he confessed that he
intended to have assassinated Mrs. Ruth
erford.
THE GHOST OF TIE LIVING.
in which ''double' appeared, is that of
Dr.. f. r. Lees. a wen known English
temperance controversialst On COM
municating with the doctor, the follow
ing is his reply:
The little story or incident of which
you have heard occurred above thirty
years ago, and may be related in very few
words. Whether it was coincidence OF
transference of vivid thought | leave to
the Judgment of others.
| had left Leeds for the Isle of jersey
Enough my dear wife WAS only just recov-
ering from a nervous feVer) to fulfill an
important engagement. On Good Fri
day myself and party OF friends i'll sew
eral carriages drove round a large portion
of the island, coming back to st. Heliels
from Boulay Bay, taking tea about !
o clock at Captain S villa. The party
broke up about 10 o clock, and the wealth
Ell being tine and warm | walked to the
banker who entertained me. Naturally
my evening thoughts reverted to my
home, and after reading Il few verses in
my Testament | walked about the room
until nearly II, thinking of my wife and
breathing the prayer, ''God bless you.'
| might not have recalled all the cir
cumstances, save for the letter received
by the next post from her, with the query
put in: Tell me what you were doing
within a few minutes of II O clock on
Friday evening? | will tell you in my
next why ask: for something happened
to me- In the middle of the week the
letter came, and these words in it: II
had Just awoke from a slight repose.
when | saw you in your night dress bend
over me and utter the words. God bless
you" | seemed also to feel yelr breath
as you kissed me. | felt no alarm. but
comtorted went OFT into gentle sleep,
and have been better ever since. | re-
piled that this was an exact representa-
, ton of my mind and words
LOVE WARNING.
a short time ago writes MI, Stead. a
journalistic friend of high standing and
reputation, whom | had met abroad paid
me visit. When asked him if he had
ever seen a ghost he replied, with I'M
usual gravity, that ghost had one time
| saved his life and that he never spoke
lightly on the subject. His story, which
he told me with evident emotion and i'll
tense conviction, was remarkable, even
if. as is probable. we should regard the
( apparition as purely subjective:
1t was many years ago, he said, when
was younger, and when the temptations
of youth had not become memories of the
past. | was alone i'll a country hotel. and
one night had decided to carry out a
project which | still remember with
shame. At 10 o'clock ! retired to my
room to wait till the hotel was quiet, in
order to carry out my design and enter an
adjoining room chamber | lay in my bed
watching the moonlight which flooded the
room, counting the moments till all was
still. After | had lain there for some time
/ | was conscious of a presence in the ROOM
t,y y, II,