The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

utes my friendszsent upstairs, and 1
heard her open the drawing room door
Very quickly heard her run out of
the room and downstairs about four
at a time. / found her looking very
white and trembling. Whatever is the
NATTER | asked. I have seen my
husbandl' she replied. What nom
senser l answered. i didn't actually
see him. she explained, but he smoke
twice to me. l ran out of the room
and he Followed and put his cold hand
on my shoulder.
Another lady. described only as Miss
y, tells of seeing the ghost of a
cousin-a Mrs. P.-who dled Sent. IS
1886. She writes: 1T was about six
weeks after her death that l woke IN
with q feeling that somebody was in
the room, and, looking across the room.
saw Mrs. P. sitting in a rocking
chair at the window, in a white dress
Ing gown with ruffles at the neck. She
had her face turned toward me and
saw her distinctly. The fright made
me close my eyes, and when 1 opened
them again she was gone. About a
fortnight later / again aWoke al a. m.
With the same feeling, and there was
Mrs. P. sitting in the same chair.
looked hard at her this time, and she
arose, crossed the room to the side of
the bed, and with her left hand drew
back the curtains. l sat Up in bed in
terror. and cried out, oh, what do you
want" She bent down and said quite
distinctly, Three days, only three
daysr Then she vanished. I arose,
lighted the gas and searched all round
but found nothing" The ghos. was
also seen by the husband of the late
Mrs. P. and by his sister. 1t appeared
at their bedsides, seemingly in might
attire. 1t is not known what could
have been meant by the phaneon1' $
reference to three days.
A lady who desires that names shall
not be published furnishes the fol-
lowing: Our mother died when [
was very young. My father never
married again, and there was a great
affection between US. | had been away
visiting, when a sudden summons
brought me back to find my father
dead. That night I was about to slip
into bed, when the room became sud
denly full of beautiful light, in the
midst of which my father stood
literally clothed with brightness. He
slowly moved toward the bed [
calculated, Father He replied.
Blessed forever, my child 1 reached
out my arms to him, but he appeared
to float back with the light toward
the wall and through it, In 1867 l was
married, and my husband took a
house at S. One night 1 had just got
into bed, when, to my great astonish-
ment, [ saw a gentleman standing at
the foot of it, dressed as a naval Of
hcer. His face was in shadow, and
he was leaning upon his arms, which
rested on the footrail of the bedstead
awakened my husband, and he looked
in amaZement at the intruder. Then
he cried out, What are you doing here,
sir" The form, slowly drawing itself
into an upright position, replied in a
reproachful voice, 'Williel Williep NV
husbands name was William. My
husband sprang out of bed, but the
figure calmly and slowly moved toward
the wall and disappeared. Sitting
down on the bed my husband put his
arm about me and said: DO you
know what we have seen?' l replied
Yes, it was a spirit My husband said
! 1t was my father My husband
father had been dead IA years. He
had been a naval officer. AS weeks
passed on my husband became very
i'll, and then he disclosed to me that
he had been in great financial difficult
ties, and that at the time his father
appeared to us he was inclining to
take the advice OF man who would
certainly-had my husband yielded to
him, as he intended before hearing the
warning Voice-have led him to ruin,
perhaps worse
Mr.. Happerfeld, formerly postmaster
of Bath, testifies as follows: when
my old friend, John Hartford, Wesley
an lay preacher, LAY dying in 1851, he
said to me: Friend Happerfeld. 1 can
not die easy until | am assured that
my wife will be cared for. [ want YOU
to promise TO look to her well-being
[ said, 7 will de what l can, so let
your mind be at rest [ put the widow
into small cottage and saw that she
was comfortable. After a While her
grandson, a schoolmaster, proposed to
take the old lady to his house in a
town at some distance. 1 consented.
Time passed on, We had no CORE
spondence. But one night as / lay
in bed Wakeful toward morning, [ be-
came conscious that some one was in
the room. Then the curtain of my
bed was drawn aside, and there stood
my departed friend gazing upon me
with q sorrowful and troubled look.
He said, in his own familiar voice:
Friend Happerf1eld. 1 come to you be-
cause you have not kept your promise
to see to my wife. She is in trouble
and in want. | assured him that |
would see about her the first thing, and
have her attended to; he looked salts
fled and vanished from my sight l
wrote at once to the grandson. and in
reply he Informed me that he had
been deprived of his situation, and
was in such straits that he had de
cided on sending his grandmother to
the poor house. Forthwith [ sent
some money and a request to have the
/ old lady forwarded to me Immediately
She came, and was provided with a
| home until she died. The ghost did
! not appear again.
Mrs. William Mann Townsend con-
! tributes a story of a ghost that APP
1 peared in garden. She says: I'm
1885 my late husband and myself had
gone to bed at our usual time, say 10
! Soon afterward our dog, a spaniel, be-
| gan TO bark, and he kept it up off and
on until 8 in the morning. Finally ]
went to the window at the back of the
/ house to order him back to his kennel
| l heard his chain rattle as he went in
and we heard no sound of him again
| I turned to go back to my own room
and, in passing the landing window
| just outside my door, | lifted the blind
! to look at the sky. There seemed tC
/ be a strange sort of light, and presently
l saw something which caused me tC