Arizona republican., 1899-06-05


 partner and myself prosperity ani
 honors Our friend Wilson, in the
 lumb Ger business. had adnassed q com
 petence. We had all been most gra-
 ciously favored by Dame Fortune.
 Rarely did week pass when We three
 friends C:d r'oS meet during two or
 three evenings and pass the time
 pleasantly at whist or relating remi- hiscences of the war or in discussion
 of various subjects.
 Among these subjects discussed
 and agreed upcn, especially by Will
 sen and myself were those pertaining
 Us warmly discussing the phenomena Of hypnotism, clairvoyance, mind
 reading and other kindred subjects.
 Wilscn had studied these subjects for | years and was posted with facts anJ
 experiences gained from personal in vesigations l am willing to aeknoWl
 edge that wonderful phenomena were
 taking place in al. parts of the globe, that Charcot, who presided oyer the
 grClt government hospital at Nancy
 France, had performed cures by means
 Of hyPnotism which had astounded the l medical profession of the world kneW, too, that many of our highest scientific societies for 6 long time had ] i hypnotism, spiritualism. telepathy and i kindred subjects, and while they found much that was fraudulent there
 was also undoubtedly an intelligent force at work in many of the so-callPl spirit manifestations which took place
 under the most eXacting test ccndi- tiOns. which these savants could not
 explain by scientific reasoning. So, as
 l have said, in my arguments with my
 old friend while 1 admitted there
 might be truth in much of what he as serted and believed, and that possibly
 an intelligent mind or spirit from person who had passed from earthly life might communicate in some way with friends on earth yet when ny friend said he believed that departed friends often appeared on earth after death and talked, as while alive, with
 friends. must say l had serious mis- swings in regard to his exact mental
 balance. This was the last point we
 had argued up to and I most emphaJi-
 cally declined t5 believe as he did and
 candid.y told him SO. But these
 friendly discussions always ended in
 the same way, by my vCwing that 1 should require more absolute personal proof to convince me that spirits of friends ever did come back to earth again and cCmmunicata by voice, and he would then aver that 1t would car- tainly some time be in his power to give me full proof Of what he asserted, not only once but thrice. Very well, my friend, 1 would say, if you can give ms positive proof three times I will certainly believe
 One morning my partner and my self were called 10 Wilson's. We found cur old friend in bed in need Of a physician, for he had a high fever and ether alarming symptoms which indicated . hard sickness. After seE- eral Gnys had passed our patient was in no way improving; in fact the fever was doing it's burning work and every new day found the patient weaker than the day before. I think it was the tenth day when we could plainly see the crisis was approaching. /If Ile could during the coming night gec a refreshing sleep we were sure he would commence to mend; if the fever, did not subside so he could get the much needed sleep and rest we were afraid he would last Cnly few hours.
 Both my partner and myself, hay ing bsen with cur sick friend nearly | every hour, determined to return to our residences and rest on a couch i where we could be called by telephone i should any emergency come. The | watchers wilh the patient were tive of our nearest peignDCGS and a prOfes | siOn2l nurse. and w9 warned them to | have the utmost Watchfulness for the | Iatient, that the crisis might come; if 1 sleep should come tc the sick man 10 | let him sleep and not to awaken hint | under any circumstances. Our watches | and ths little cl-ck in the sick room i e-O+ r7 ol.- her inc D. m. My partner and myself then went nome. For some time my part ner and myself and Wilson had had q l private telephone system of cur own; we had a little circuit for cur own private convenience. We had 10 central and if we wanted t5i cOn- verse with each other all we had to do was to give our signal and what enc said both the others could hear if they desired, and in telling stories joking or talking over the news of the day
 Entering my private Cffice at 1ny residence l tC0k off my overlooking and made a pallet of blankets. The phone was Cl1 the opposite side of the room and a young medical student with me volunteered to sir up fer that night to awaken ne if 1 should be called. lay down, and my eyes c-1sed in sleep as sOCn as 1 touched the couch Then I heard the -.nkle Of the 'TGone and my student ouched me 1 went to the 'phcne and ne professional nurse told me the pa ient had just passed into sleep. My watch showed twenty minutes to len. Good I said, and 1 fell back into ny ouch with a load of anxiety lifted rom my mind. l was having a most freshing sleep when the signal again irkled. was at the phone in a sec end, my watch standing at the twelve c-ark Then 1 heard a voice cal, Is hat you Dr. S?' and l heard my part ger answer, Yes at his phone, and hen the voice again asked, Are you here, Dc. H.? 9 Yes l answered. My Sod, it was Wilson, who was calling IS. Come over,'' the voice said NTiIsion for Gnd's ga I,e cried .c,c