The herald., 1897-08-15
SAW HIS DEAD FRIENDS ToRx
Ghostly Story Related by Judge Phil
lips Of Illinois


Jesse ]. Phillips, one Of the Judges Of
the Illinois State Supreme Court, re-
elected recently. told a strange story
not long ago Of his experience with q
"spook." 1t was told at Hillsboro, ILL.,,
his home for many years, and which u
situated not far from the uncanny place
where the spirit from the other world
appeared. Many years age he had .
friend who was to him as Jonathan to
David. Together they discussed al
most every theme Of science, philoso-
ply and ethics. They paid one another
frequent visits. Their homes were in
towns several miles distant. On one of
these visits the Judge noticed that his
friend seemed to be in unusually robust
health, and he remarked about it. He
was much surprised to see his friend
grow suddenly serious and say. II shah
look you in the face again before die"
'Nonsense!" replied the Judge; don't
talk Of dying! You are good for dog
en- years yet. I'm more likely to die
than you are" His friend eniled and
began a more cheerful subject Of con-
versation, but as the time came to say
goodbye he repeated his remark. RE
member" he said, II have promised
WILL lOOh yOu Ill Lie AdCG again bCAVt .
1 die."
Days and weeks passed on, and Judge
Phillips soon forgot the speech, for he
was not a man who placed much faith
in warnings, signs and the like. One
summer day his thoughts were far
away from death or ghosts. He was
riding with a friend over the smooth
country roads of Montgomery county.
1Iro l1 f,,IJ 4
of golden wheat, green waving oals and
forest trees beyond. The Judge was
driving. His companion was in the mid
die of a remark, when suddenly the
Judge dropped the lines.
"Look!" he whispered There, over
the dashboard!" he said.
II see nothing" said his companion
What do you mean?"
Judge Phillips sat as IL spellbound,
though his companion was unable to see
anything but the empty air. Before him,
for several minutes, there stood the inn
age of his old friend who had said, II
shall look you in the face again before
die" He was there, life-size, face.
arms and shoulders, az If he were stand
| ing on air, just in front of the dashboard.
Judge Phillips does not often tell the
story, but when he does he says. IT never
saw human being more plainly than I
saw him standing there before me and
looking in my face" How long the Vision
lasted he could not tell, but at last it
seemed to melt into air, and the judge
picked up the lines and drove on.
His friend wasInclined to laugh at him
and he himself made no attempt to ac-
count for the strange happening. But
early next morning he received a tele-
gram announcing that on the day before,
at the very time when he was taking
his drive his friend had died suddenly.
Was it a warning? Did his friend have
a pemonition when he said, II shall look
you in the face again?" Judge Phillips
cannot explain the story. Its narration
affects him deeply, and he probably has
not told it to more than half dozen per-
sons, though it occurred years ago. He
is not a Spiritualist, and no one would
be reader than he to discountenance
the cheap delusions which are some
times called Spiritualism. The only de-
diuction which he admits having drawn
from the weird incident is a negative
one, which he states in his habitually
careful manner, II am not prepared to
say" is his conclusion, that the dead.
under some circumstances, may not re-
visit this world. st. Louis Globe-Dem-
| ocrat.
Chicago Record: What makes you
think there are apple trees in the vicinity