Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-21
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PSYCHOLOGY.

When Owen Glendower boasted that
he could call up spirits from the vast
deep, Hotspur replied, "And so can /,
but will they Gomez" The ghost of
Caesar, which appeared to Brutus and
warned him that he would meet him at
Phillippi was simply the offspring of a
guilty soul and disturbed mind. The
murdered victims of Richard the Third
whom Shakespeare parades before that
terror-stricken monster on the eve of
Bosworth Field were only the reflection
from the eternal mirror of his blood
stained soul. No one in this life has ever
produced spirit from the other world
present or accounted for. No ghost
has ever appeared to man except in the
minds of the ignorant or superstitious
or in guilty imagination of the criminal.
But that the souls of living beings do
communicate, where there exists
mental sympathetic accordance, psy-
Geological union, there can be no
doubt. 1t is true that the instances ale
rare and / will recall two or three of
the most remarkable of them. but they
are thoroughly authenticated and COR
roborated by authorities contempo-
raneous with the events.
In the city of London at 6 O'Clock in
the evening of the battle of Waterloo,
lady surrounded by many friends was
seated at piano singing the then pop
ular song, "For his bride soldier
sought her and winning tongue had
he," when without the slightest premo-
milton she fell to the floor in swoon
simultaneously exclaimiug, "Shot
through the heart!" London of course
knew nothing then of the great battle
in progress, but when the news of the
battle and the details thereof reached
the city it found that gallant young
fell pierced through the heart
precisely at the moment the lady who
was soon to be his wife swooned She
afterwards declared that she saw him
at the supreme moment. Another
event is that of the wife of an English
Colonel who was serving in India while
she remained at their country residence.
On certain morning she at daybreak
aroused her domestics declaring that
her husband had just fallen in her
chamber pierced with many wounds. A
search was instituted, no trace of
the officer was discovered, and
trembling with apprehension she
drove to London and made anxious in
quiry of the war department, but she
was told that all was quiet in India
and her husband safe. In few hours
the information of the insurrection of
the Sepoys was received and of the
murder of Col. - and others, the
time and manner of that officers death
being in exact accord with the vision
of his wife. Now the writer is not
believer in the supernatural in the
slightest or remotest degree; he is
neither fabricator nor dreamer, and
he hereby declares the following Incl
dent to be absolutely true. What am
about to relate happened when | was
wide awake and in the full possession
of all of my faculties. 1t is true that
overwhelmed with grief could not
sleep, in fact, had not sleept for three
days, but nevertheless my mind was
not disordered and l had taken no mar
cotic. Upon my word / was under
neither delusion nor illusion.
The room was as dark as Ere
bus, but I can point out the
exact position of the being-spiritual,
mental or what certainly not bodily,
though seemingly so. AS observed /
was overwhelmed with grief, a hope
less darkness was enveloping my soul,
my doom seemed fixed, life burden
and death welcome visitor, hoped for
and prayed for momentarily. When