Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-12-22
SAMPLE LOT OF GHOSTS.
Howard Fielding Solicits Orders
from Psychical Researchers.
lie Always Carries Full STOCK Of Ghosts,
Dreams, Visions and warninga, All
Fully Equal In Quality 70
Those Here Given.
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ihave always been deeply interested
In supernatural phenomena. Even
when quite young, could never walk
ky q cemetery after dsrk without be-
ing disappointed. No ghost ever VEN
tured cut Of his cage when was look
ing.
In the matter Of visions, warning in
dreams, ETC., have been equally un.
fortunate. I once dreamed that was
lying on a pile of stones when the sa-
cred white elephant came along and
stepped on the third button of my
waistcoat. This happened in Worces-
ter. where I was working on news
paper from nine o'clock In the fore
noon to three o'clock the next morning,
seven days in n week, with an allow.
ance of 1--we minutes for meals. includ.
ing piece of mince pic at one a: m.
knew that this dream contained
warning. and at first thought II re.
ferred to the pie. But on second
thought l decided to throw up my job.
I did It. and have never dreamed the
same thing since, which makes II look
like plain case to me.
When think Of my existence there,
Il seems natural that should never
have been warned again. A man can.
not reasonably expect Providence TO do
too much for him. A favor Of that
size should content him for life. How.
ever. II has been hard for me to listen
20 so many nice ghost stories and re.
feet that ! have never enjoyed any.
thing Of the sort myself. II has been
some consolation to investigate, by my
own scientific method, the experience
| Of others.
Here il q case which I vouch for.
became acquainted while in Boston
with an aged victim Of the game Of
policy. II IL game In which man
can bet one cent II he has no more. and
the person to whom refer had even
lost his self.respect. He was q great
| believer In dreams, and his stories Of
what they had done for others were
which bestowed upon him from timc
to time. As he always went to bed
hungry, he never lacked dreams. The
only trouble, as he explained to me,
wns in the Interpretation. For In.
stance, he would dream Of death,
and then play the dead gig" 0.10-o0,
'when," as he would inform me, after
the drawing, 'any cussed fool ought
to have known that the coffin gig was
the right one for that dream"
One day found him In luck; and also
somewhat In liquor.
~ hit Il this time" he said.
"Drcn,ncd about Ben Butler for three
nights running. What did It mean?
II took me long time to study It out.
Finally II came to me like fash.
asked fellow how old the general
WINS, and he said he was sixty.two. So
! played sixty-two daycd, to lead, and
In the cap. II was the first number out
In both drawings. I've got money to
burn"
lie had, In fact, won nearly hun.
drcd dollars.
And the curious thing about II was
this" he continued, thoughtfully, 1.-THE
fellow that told me Buffers uge lied;
thc general was really sixty-four!'
Some persons might think that this
S"t, 10 my hind, it Is the best part 81
the story.
This trifing inaccuracy reminds me
Of the difficulty experienced by ghos,
which appeared In my fathers house q
good many years ago. n awakened Us
all in the dead Of night by playing on
the piano. listened to the supernat
ural music In horror, us the others did
too, no doubt My musical err IL good
and II Is exceptionally accurate In the
matter Of absolute pitch. Such being
the case, l was soon able to make out
that the ghosts tune consisted OF only
two notes, high c and A way down IN
tho bass.
This means something, said I, In nj
awed whisper. &C. A. must be the In
itials of the ghost"
Then l rose and followed my father
down to the parlor. where we fount
our cat previously supposed to have
wandered away and died. standing or
the keys Of the piano. She had hel
left hindfoot on G, her right forcfoo
on A, and was reaching out after I
Nothing but the system Of musical no
tation prevented her from revealing he
identity completely, My father drov'
her away, and she never came back
which Is good ground for believing tina
Il was not the cat ut all. but her ghost
Another case even more remarKa oil
than this occurred on the banks Of tn
st. Lawrence this summer
A lady whom we will call Mrs. A.
because that will make 1t easier for tn
Society for Psychical Research to ente
this story on its records, had gone t
this region with her husband who ha
= great passion for outdoor sports, and
IN fact, sports of any kind. Mrs. A. rt
; tired to rest on the night Of August 1;
believing that her husband was the
returning down the river, from q fish
ing trip on which he had started earl
that morning.
And she dreamed a dream. She be
held her husband and old Abe Grover
the river pilot, coming down throug
the rapids in Abc's boat. The water
whirled around them madly, and All
yrew white around the gills ii
\ caught II crab with his starboard oal
and the boat turned a'dozcn tlip-tiops !
the hurrying tide. Mrs. A. behcld h'
husband struggling with the currcn
She was conscious of making franti
efforts to reach and save him, probahl
remembering that he had money in h
clothes. although she does not tell I'll
J story that way.
In the midst of these struggles sl
aw re. The dream still ran riot In ht
mini II was certainly warning. liz
husband was In peril.
Mrs. a. was so deeply moved b
ithaca ana,tinpS thnt she nrpsp. lrp,Sp