The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-09-23
ANEW GH0ST STORIES

voyages he ran away and came home to
his widowed mother half-naked and half
starved. He was i'll for awhile, and his
captain, taking pity on him, gave to him
another chance. Tom sailed for the West
Indies and his mother, having married a
Mr.. Cooper, left the H family with
whom she had been living. Some weeks
later woman whose name was Mary
came to the HIS to tfill the place Mrs.
Potter's marriage had made vacant Mary
did not know anything of Mrs. Potter or
Mrs. Cooper. Z q ,s-#<5ss. = +, "A
ION the night of Sept. 8, 1885," says Mr..
Grassland, some one rang Mr.. lis
doorbell. Mary answered it. Opening the
door, she talked to some one outss6s fer
a moment and shut it. Mrs. H. was
going on. She recognized Tom Potter's
voice. Who was at the door, Mary?' she
asked. "A little sailor boy said Mary
He wanted his mother. I told him
didn't know anything about his mother
and sent him about his business. When
told him that he put up his hand to his
forehead and said: ooh, dear. what'll
I do?",'
''Well, Tom Potter's run away from
his ship again, that's sure enough, said
Mrs. H. She and her husband tried
to find him, but not a trace could they
discover. A priest, who was interested in
Tom, did not believe the lad had run
away. He said he had heard from Tom
not long before and in the letter reported
himself as getting on finely. The priest
questioned Mary carefully, however to
find out whom she had seen He showed
her lot Of photographs OF boys about
Toms age who were or had been pupils
| in the same school. Picking up one he
asked: rs this he?' NO. said Mary in
stantly this is i'm, as sure as I'm sitting
ere She had picked out Toms photo
graph and was positive it was a picture of
the boy she had seen the night Of Sept 8.
1.-THE next month letter rrom the ad-
miralty reached the priest: We write to
you, it ram because We do not know the
address of Tom Potters mother and
then it went on to say that the lad was
doing well until July "a, when he fell
from the masthead and hurt himself bad
'ly, a fever set in, Tom was delirious,
and on Sept. 6 he died, calling for his
mother" FL.
Newton Crosland declares that he has
taken great pains to verify the details of
this statement and has found them to be
facts beyond question. - ~-
Goethe says his maternal grandfather,
Textor, had a prophetic dream portenG-
ing his promotion to- a seat in the SEN
ate HE saw HIMSELF says Frederick
Henry Hedge, Gin his customary place in
the common council, when suddenly one
of the aldermen, then in perfect health,
rose from his chair on the aldermanic
platform, and beckoned to him courte-
teously to take the vacant seat. This
man died of apoplexy soon after His
successor, as was the custom, was chosen
by lot from the lower board, and Textor
won.''' -. -. -. - .'
And again, when Andre was leaving
for America he went to Derbyshire to
say goodbye to some friends. There he
met Mr.. Cummington, who recognized
Andre instantly as a person he had seen
in a dream not long before Mr.. Cura-
mington saw this person arrested in
forest and subsequently hanged
Robert Dale Owen says that the mate
of bark off the banks Of Newfoundland
sat in his cabin, working out the YES
sells course, when he saw one whom he
supposed was the captain writing on
slate in the cabin. The mate went over
ito him only to find it was not the cap
tain nor any member of the ships COM
pany. He spoke to the stranger, who
vanished instantly, leaving on the slate
the words, "Steer to the nor vest Her
mate called the captain, who was much
interested. AS the wind was fair for
that course the skipper said, "We'n see
If there's anything in this spook advice"
He ordered the bark to change her course
to northwest, and sent mariner aloft to
keep sharp lookout. In short time
the lookout sighted an ice-bound vessel
whose passengers. officers and crew were
nearly persisted Of cold and hunger. The
skipper reached them just in time. One
of the passengers the mate recognized as
the. stranger who wrote on the slate. Ac-
cord1ng to the other passengers this man
had been. in profound sleep at the time
the mate saw the vision. z b. .ssr.. q
In THE Story of My Life Col. Mead
ows Taylor, of the British army, and the
author Of several novels whose scenes are
laid in India, tells the following: "The
determination to live. single he says,
was the result of a strange incident that
befel me on one OF my marches to Hyder-
asan.. have never forgotten it, and it re-
turns to this day to my memory with a
strangely vivid effect that I can neither
repel nor explain. I had been devoted to
girl at home and only relinquished hope
of winning her when the terrible order
came that no furlough would be granted
to Europe" '+@ N@'% 's-s-s..
The colonel was captain then. In Eng
land was woman he loved and hoped to
marry. 1t would seem she cared for him
also. At any rate, there was sympathy
between the two. This Is the coloners
story: SsE3g - .s.
Zone evening I was at the village OF
Denver Kudea, after long afternoon and
evening march from Muktal. I lay down
weary; but the barking Of village dogs,
the baying Of jackals and over fatigue
and heat prevented sleep. I was wide
awake and restless. Suddenly-for my
tent door was wide opep-I saw the face
and figure so familiar to me, but looking
= profusion Of lace, and glistened in the
bright moonlight The arms were
stretched out and low, plaintive cry:
Do not let me go! Do not let me go!
reached me. i sprang forward, but the
figure receded, growing fainter and faint
er, till could see it no longer; but the
low, sad tones still sounded. I wrote to
my father. wished to know whether
there was any hope for me. He wrote
back to me these words: TOO late. my
dear son; on the very day of the vision
you described to me-Was married"
Capt Taylor gives another ghost in
stance from his Indian experience A SOL
der enters his captains tent and begs
that the arrears in his pay be sent to his
mother In England. The captain, busy
with his writing, takes down the address
and promises to fulfill the request. Short
" after 1t occurs to him that the soldier
had violated the rules of the service in
entering his tent and without saluti1lg.
He summons the sergeant. why did you
allow to come to me in that ir-
regular MANNER" he asks. This query
astonishes the sergeant beyond measure.
he exclaims, don't you remember
was buried this morning.
In his autobiography Lord BroughAm,
the famous English statesman. tells this
incident, which he had recorded in his
diary at the time. He was travelling in
Sweden.
AT 1 in the morning Of Dec 10, i7p9,
arriving at q decent inn, we decided to
stop. for the night and found couple OF
comfortable rooms. Tired with the cold
Of yesterday, was glad to take advant-
age OF hot bath before turned in. And
here. q most remarkable thing happened
Ito me-sO remarkable that must tell the
story from the beginning