The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-30

visited ny Ststerss Ghost.
Here Is another story which has been
locked lnfo BY the society. IL is coaErrns~f
ny r. G~~-s father and his brother who
were present the FIRST tine IL was told:
In lsss F. Ca WAS IN ST Joseg.a. Mo. He
was a commercial Traveller and had don.
a good days work He was seras.ing Ia
his orders 20 bis employers and smoking a
cigar when be realized that some one
was sitting on has left with an arm on
the table II was his dead sister H.
sprang forward 10 embrace her forget
ing foT the moment she had been dead
nearly score Of years, bat she was gore
Mr.. G---- stood there. the ink wet on his
pen. the cigar lighted in his hand. the
name Of hts sister on HIS nps He hal
noted the expression. features. dress. the
Kindness OF her eyes, the glow of hs,r
complexion and what he had never seen
before. q bright red scratch on th, RICH,
side Of her face. He took the next tra,r,
home 10 ST Louis, and told the story "a
HIS parents. His father was Inclined IN
ridicule him. but his mother nearly faint
ed.
When she could control herself she said
that, unknown 10 any one else. she acct.
dentaliy had scratched the face Of the
dead girl. probably with the point of her
brooch. while arranging something about
the corpse. She had hidden the scratch
with powder and had kept the Incident To
herself
Emma s.. one OF seven children. was
sleeping alone. with her face toward the
west. AT large house near c.. IN the
SlafYordshire moorlanas England. As she
had given orders To her maid to caii her
AZ an early hour. she WAS not surprised
at being awakened between 3 and o'clock
on fine August morning in fs4o by n
sharp tapping at her door. When, In spite
of Thank you, hear" 10 the frs; and
second raps. with the third came a rush
o; wind that caused the curtains to draw
up Ia the center OF the bed She was an
noyea at this, and. sitting up, said Mary
what are you about" Instead however
of her servant. she was astonlshed 10 see
the face of an aunt ny marriage peeriug
above and between the curtains. and at
the same moment her arms reached for
ward. WHITTIER she herself thrust them
forward or they were drawn IN an air vor-
tex che does not know. She could feel
one OF her thumbs pressed between the
teeth OF the apparition. There was no mark
there afterward. however.
Despite all this she kept cool. and MS
ing, dressed and went down stairs, where
she found all quiet. When her father
came down shortly after he asked her why
she was about 50 early. and jokea with
her as 10 the cause. Soon. however. he
went over 10 his sister-u-iaw's house
where he learned she had just died un-
expectedly. One OF the thumbs OF the
corpse was marked as IL bitten In the
death agony.
boys spirit seeks His Mother.
Here is story vouched for by Newton
Crosiand. Of Blackheaih England who is
interested in psychic phenomenal:
Tom Potter. a bright. daredevil of an
English lad. joined the British man-of-
war Doris In 1855. After couple OF voy-
ages he tan away and came home TO his
widowed mother, half naked and half
starved. He was II for a while. and
his captain. taking pity on him. gave
10 him another chance. Tom sailed for