The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-12-28

STRANGE TALES.

TWO STRANGE TALES.
NOT QUITE GHOST STORIES, nut
I 9,i,, -, RATr3ER AKIN 70 THEM.
A Vision ana Drsan That WIN In
terest students Of TelepatAy-A Lett
ter That Appareatiy Came From Z
Deceased wife.
In company recently the subject OF
psychology was discussed. Every one with
o careless courage vouchsafed ap opinion,
some oondemnin1 n utterly absurd the
stories Of ghosts that crawl from graves
and OF the midnight eniissaries from an
other world who, unleashed for brief
space, appear III caliginous localities for
tho solo purpose Of Tightening weak
minded ilortals into f1ts..
III these ghosts, I" said one Of the party,
ARE simply struggling beggars, why don't
they ask for what they wanty II they do
sire to tiisburden their minds, why don U
they visit some one with strong nerves In.
stead Of those with agile heelsP"
1
with narratives OF spectral appearances
Or Of occurrences akin to them, and two
Of these latter purpose to lay before the
rsadeF Tho f1rat came from man On
whose veracity feel bound to rely.
II was at college at the time, said the
person Indicated, land had notifed my
| mother that would be home for vacation
at certain time. ] say my MOTHER
| though she was In reality my stepnother.
yet nevertheless as much to me az though
/ had been her own. When I reached a
certain village ON the railroad on my way
home, remembered that Ii was the near
est station to the residence Of my late ia
theirs brother, whom had not seei, aimee
l was q child, and, knowing that I had
near at hand a number Of cousins 81 whom
had often heard, I determined to stop
and pay my relatives a visit. I hired a
vehicle and reached my uncie's house Just
ut nightfall. I received q most hearty
welcome and was delighted with the host
Of young people who called me cousin. I
spent many happy days thers. There were
hosts Of relatives around on whom I had
to call, and there were places Of interest
which I had to see, and there was fine Iish-
ing and don't know how many delightful
occupations day after day to OCCUPY nv
time. Twas 30 happy among my cousins
that forgot all about home, and put of
from day to day writing to my mother,
until . whole month passed away.
"Now, / may say that my stepmother
had never seen my unGls's dwelling,
though she had met my uncle and some
Of his family more than once The house
was an old fashioned one, with many De-
culiarities in it's structure. At one corner
was sort of round tower, and in this
tower was the bedroom which occupied.
It was the Oldest part Of tho building, and |
the window was in a deep recess, for tho
wall was fully three feet thick. The bed |
slept in was In keeping with the room, |
being what was known as tent bedstead.
with chintz curtains, gathered up at each
Of the four posts.
Zone morning I awoke suddenly. Day
was lust beginning to break On opepine
my ewes beheld INV stepmother standing
by my bedside and looking down at me,
ooh Harry. she said why dom II Won
come homer
81 arose, and the vision vanished like
wreath of smoke, After breakfast that
morninp told NV amt what had hannah.
ed, and she sail
".It ia very strange. I think YOU had
bptter on home at once II Ia inst nossihle I
that something has hannened
"I loved INV stepmother and nv two lit.
tie half sisters md an determined tn
start for homo immediately. was driven
to tho station, caught train and reached
home that NIGHT After the usual greet.
lnrs and uuestionipas were over NV moth
or said:
"sYou know. Harry. I had yerv curl.
ms dream this morning thonpht that
| was in a house with a f1ouble staircase
and that after ascending II turned In tbe
left and found myself in a room which
vas circular II had N window In n deon
recess and n tent bedstead with ohintz
hanyings. Looking around. I saw Won
wing in bed. and lust then You nwaked
and said to Won. ooh. Harry whv lon,t
YOU come houeS'' Then / awoke and II
was lust daylight 49,
"You NAV imagine that T 1,staned tn
this recital of NV mothers dream with
much interest, and when she had finished
sat for a moment dumb Then I told
her what I had seen inst about the time
when she had the dream. ~
Some discussion followed. and one of
the company. a clergyman. raIated the
following:
"My father was a man of uncommoplv
,tronr nerves He had spffered severaIy
rom a fall from his horse. and the acct.
lent had thraatened at one time to disahla
,im for lifo Init he struggled nm and hv
industry mt bimsalf on
,ood business footing and likevis recov.
red his health, Just at this time his fa.
her died, and the farm where be had livad
'or over 10 ycars went into tbe nossession
If NV fathers Youngest sister md her
husband. both of whom had managed If
,uder the old mans SUPERVISION for some
ears II wns we'll stacked Farming i'm.
Elements Of every kind were on hand and
he crops were most promising. Tbert
yus nothing in tho world to nrevant tbo
,ounle from prosnerino But the husband
ook to drink, md in two years, time tbo
arm was sold to the last stick and NV
other had to take care n his s,ster and