Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-19
DO DOGS SEE GHOSTS
FOR " ERuTEs SEE GHOSTS THEN
THERE MUST BE GHOSTS.

Examples to Prove That Dogs Have
Been Frightened in Houses In which
spirits We're said to Have Appeared
Question Of Animal Immortality.
Some time ago bad something to say
on animal immortality In that article
briefly referred to the argument, now
not uncommon. that some animals APP
pear to have intercourse with beings, or
forms and states of being, unseen by US
ms on the face of it Is not improbable:
ont It may be stretch Of our own inn
agination to assume that this is vision
OF ghosts. But if it can be shown first
that. as Wallace affirms, objective phan-
tasms appear to men sometimes, and to
dogs sometimes, then ii would be hardly
TAR to assume that men are to have a
spirit life hereafter and the dog not. It
might become necessary for us to shove
back onr dividing line between immor-
tails and nonimnortals, and take over on
our side at least some Of the beasts. Is
the Indian right who, in Pope's language,
believes Ibis faithful dog will bear him
company" in the spirit land? There
seems, however, to be a conviction in
the minds of some ol5ervers that dogs
not only sometimes, but at all times, see
| and hear what we do not hear.
First of all, in justice, let us get the
facts, or the ayerred facts In Rod and
Gun appears the following letter: s.Sir,
there is reason to believe that animals
can see spirits At any rate, | have
very remarkable fact to relate. There
is in Devonshire large. rambling old
house, which has long had the reputa-
ton OF being haunted. Family after
family tried to make it their home One
after another they gave it up. all for the
same reason - that was frequent spec
trail ongoings in one Of the corridors.
Sometimes the ghost was seen by one
member Of the household, while it was
invisible to others close BY" which, Of
course, would indicate that the seeing
or not seeing, depended on the ocular
condition of the family At least, a
skeptic would strongly urge that the
| probabilities were in favor of visual de-
fusion Sometimes mysterious sounds
showed the ghost to be about, while he
was not visible to any of the watchers I"
A SCARED DOG.
| Hearing easily follows hysterical see
ing. | have myself seen wires and lamps
when knew none existed. THE fam
lily that last occupied the house thought
a fierce dog might settle the problem.
on the supposition that a human trick
ster was at the bottom of the disturb
ance. On the first night of the dogs
residence the spectral ratings were
heard The watchers took the dog to
the corridor True to the instincts OF
his nature he rushed to the front, bark
ing savagely Suddenly, when half way
through the corridor, the dog stopped
and gazed upward in evident terror
His tail dropped, and then he retreated
trembling But to the human eye
nothing was visible" This story is
authenticated as coming from persons o.
unquestioned veracity and excellent
powers of judgment.
If You will excuse me for turning
aside from the main thought will Civ,
one or two illustrations to show tina
ghost seeing is not SO improbable as yol
have judged. Fanny Kemble tells u
that when residing in Rittenhous,
square her maid. sitting SO that sh'
faced and could see the staircase ant
upper landing, saw the door of her bed
room open, and an elderly woman in
flannel dressing gown, with bonnet o.
her head. come out, walk the Who'll
length of the passage, and then return
deliberately in the same manner. Tn
maid knew her mistress was down stairs
and also was confident that no such per
son as she saw could be in the house
Having good nerves, the woman did nc
at first tell Miss Kemble what she ha
seen, but ransacl1ed the rooms to see
: she could solve the puzzle, all the tim
afraid her mistress would be .disturbe
by some similar apparition. She after
ward came on a portrait i'll the hons
suddenly that was an exact copy of he
. ghost. A good chance. of course, for a
t imaginative maid, or Il cunning one, t
: work up fine yarn. Yetit is somethin
! that Miss Kemble believed the girl di
see an apparition.
STRANGE CASES.
The Epworth parsonage case, invol'
+ ing John Wesley, is of great value b
9 cause it links both man and beast in IL
t sensing of apparitions. Mr.. Wesley say
h '.Soon after our large mastiH dog can
! and ran to shelter between us. Viii
9 the disturbances continued he used
G bark and leap and snap on one side an
the other, and that frequently before AT
"a person in the room heard any noise at al
But after two or three days he used
tremble and creep away before the moi
began. And by this the family knew
f was at hand. nor did the Observable
A ever fail" The testimony here is ce
a tainly credible merely rs honest asseve
y alton. but we are free to judge wheth
% it was some electric or magnetic phi
- uomenon that the dog felt or was ghost
if presence. :.
: A very strange case is reported by NJ
e Hodgson in September 1880, in which
!. white lady appeared. The third mig
= the haunted mans dog crouched al
y stared, and then acted as if driven aroui
= the room Brother saw nothing, b
. heard kind of rustic, and then the po
dog howled and tried to hide, and nev
y y again would that dog go to that room
= Robert Dale Owen reports case OF
= haunted man who had not been able t
- years to keep dog lconfess these cas-
- all seem different when looked at WI
. some knowledge of. dog nature. a
:, sure that scared man would scare
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