Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-11-08

Rcverting to the lore of the Psychicdl
Research society, here is u case i'm which
apparitions of the dead and the living
were comminglcd. a lady doctor says that
in 1869 she was living in the family of
retired naval officer, Mr.. r., and his wire,
two miles from seaport town. Mrs r.,
who was the sister of the Brit - consul at
Cadiz, married her husband, IL widowcr,
in that city When, after the marriage,
they came to England, her husband VAS
unable to find the nurse with whom his
youngest child had been left. After "a vain
search they came to London. One night
Mrs. II. saw the sitting room door open.
a beautiful lady came in, followed by a
common looking woman, carrying "A child
about Il year old, dressed in yellow pc
lisse. The lady came up to the bed and
said, pointing to the baby: "This is John
ny. You will remember johnny" She
smiled, and Mrs. II. was just going to an
swcr whom the vision was gone. Her hus-
band said she had exactly described his
first wife, and that the childs name was
Johnny Some days after, returning from
Westnr ter Hbh,r. they lost themselves
in Il iLttruW cong, fiCs of streets. suddenly
Mrs. Il. saW the common luui,ing woman
of Lcr vision carrying he baby with vel
low uclssc she tuld her husband, who
spoke to thc woman. After discreet in
Quiry it turned uU. that She was the nurse
tHat WAS waited, and that the baby was
the luis~ln., ,nid
The uuuiuc-is of unconscious spiritual
manifestation by the hNin.; tnc conscious
severance lIu4h the body and a forctastc of
| deaths mystery. DR.. Wiltse of Skiddy,
Kan whose case was first published in
the st Louis Medical journal in $50 ap-
parcntlv died OF fever. He was declared
to he dead by the physician who attended
him. To make assurance douhlY sure
needles were thrust deeply into the flesh
This was done many times. The doctor
who pronounced the patient dead subsc-
quently said, Il observed his symptoms
closely, and if there are any symptoms
marking patient in articulo morris that
were not present in his case | am ignorant
/ of them" Meanwhile the spirit of tho
man alleged to he dead had, according to
/ his own story discovered itself from tho
| body The discmbodied spirit even con
tcmplated the dwelling of clay it had just
/ quilted. The liberated DR. Wiltsc was
! conscious of two weeping ladies in thu
room (his wife and his si,tcr) and of two
/ gentlemen at the door. With one of these
gentlemen he came into contact and, very
much to his surprise perceived that the
/ other party was unconscious of the coli
sion. Il now attempted to gain the atten-
/ ton Of the people with the object of com
/ lOrting them rs well rs of assuring them
/ of their own Immortality. | bowed to
them playfnlly and salutcd with my right
hand. passed about among them also,
but found that they gave me no heed.
Then the situation struck me rs humur-
GUS and | laughed outright. Going out
of the house he noted the rcdncSS of tho
soil and the washes that the rain had
made. Presently he found himself in the
air, borne along by Il pair of hands ill he
/ came to where were three prodigiOus
/ rocks, which, his conductor told him, was
the road to the eternal world, whence he
could no more return in the flesh. He at
tempted to pass, but his path was barred
by II black cloud, and he knew he was to
be stopped. The cloud tho touched his
| face. When he regained consciousness, hG
found himself at home in his bed very ill.,
Now there is abundant evidence to prove
4 that DR.. Wiltsc's wife and sister did not
fall a-weeping until he was pronounced
dead: there is evidence that the soil and
the rain washes were as he described i'm
mcGiately he found utterance, Though they
must have been very different the last
time he saw them with his bodily eyes;
there is evidence that he told all these
things rs soon MS he could speak and as
often as he was permitted
The Rev. l.. j. Bertrand, Hugucnot
minister of Ncuilly, Paris, writing in
1919, gives strange experience that befell
him in the Alps 30 years previously. The
sleep of death had come upon him as he
crouched in the snow upon a ledge of n
precipice. His mind continued active,
though his body was benumbed. The ap-
l. 4, IL.
last when there was drcadfully acute
pain of momentary duration. "Then" he
says, my life went out His spirit scared
above his body, to which, however, it was
still attached by kind of elastic string
With the spiritual eye he saw the remain
der of his party and their guide in posi-
ton where he could not possibly have seen
them from the place where his body lay.
He saw that the guide had disobeyed in
structiOns as to the route To be traversed.
He saw the offender take n sly pull at the
percipient's own Madeira and eat the alb
stracted leg of IA fowl. Still more wonder
full he saw his wife, who was always merry
aus about him when he was alpine climb
ing, going to Lucerne till the following
day. well wife, - he soliloquized, Il am
dead man. Goodby." Suddenly he felt
shock, realized that his party had re-
turned and that the guide was rubbing
him with snow To rcanimate him. His
first attempt at speech was TO reproach the
guide "lf You had simply cut the string
he pecvishly exclaimed. BY and by he
taxed the guide with his small misdeeds,
and the delinquent ran off in dismay.
When he reached the inn, the guide be-
came dclruus, being convinced that the
esteemed pastor was the d. 1t afterward
appeared that Nine Bertrand had set of
for Luccrne exactly under the circum-
stances her husband had norcd with the
spiritual eye illustrated Modern Art
and Literature.
Bismarck and the American Girl.
DR. Stcfunsson rctells the story of beau
tiiul American girl from Colorado wht
went tu kissingen To see bismarck, who
was taking the waters there. Having
Toasted for some days on the sight of the
great man, she one day summoned NJ
courage. walked straight up to him ant
said: "Durohinucht, / am going TO Colo