The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-03
TALES OF ALTERATIONS.
THE ADMIR1L'S TELEP4THIC YIS-
 ION OF HIS SON.

l WynWard aud Ills Brother Ghost.
 I know of a distinguished admiral who was reading the paper one day, when he suddenly exclaimed: "I have l just seen L." naming his son.. who was 1 a lieutenant in the navy on the West African station He is on shore being carried by sailors. He is very ill, or dying, and he is wearing marine S cap" It was afterwards shown that his son, who was on some expedition on shore, had been suddenly struck down with fever, and at the time in question was being carried by sailors, and, what was more strange, he had some time before lost his own cap, and } was wearing such a cap as his father had seen, which he had borrowed from a marine.
 Of these stories, there are a great many. One of the best authenticated of them is the incident in which Capt. Sherbroke of the Thirty thrid Regi-
 ment, afterwards Gen. Sir John Cope Sherbroke, and Lieut.. George Wyn- ward of the same regiment, were con- cerned. One afternoon in 17S5, when
 they were with the regiment in Can-
 ada, they were both sitting together in
 Wynwards quarters. It was about 4
 o'clock. They had both dined, but
 neither had taken wine. The room
 they sat in had two doors, one opening
 into a passage, the other into Wyn-
 wards bedroom. The only way into
 the sitting room was the door from the
 l,a rN,1,t tnx i,1t, lD hnH
 room was through the sitting room.
 The two officers were reading some
 military subject together having left mess early to pursue their studies
 Sherbroke, happening to look up from his book observed a tall youth of about 20 years of age, whose appear ance was that of extreme cancellation. Struck with the appearance of per feet stranger, he turned to his friend, and directed his attention to the guest who had broken into their studies As soon as Wynward saw the mysterious stranger he became very agitated. T never" Sir John Sherbroke used to say in telling the story afterwards, saw a living face assume the appear ance of a corpse, except WynWard's at that moment" Good Goal" Wyn- ward exclaimed, "it is my brother" The stranger seemed to go into the bedroom. They followed him, and found that there was no one there. They took note of the hour and day. When the mail came out from home there was letter to Sherbroke from mutual friend asking him to break to Wynward the news that his favorite brother was dead He had died on the day and at the very hour on which Wynward and his friend had seen his spirit pass through the apartment.
 It is said that Sherbroke still was in- clined to doubt that he had really seen a spirit. Some years afterwards he was walking with two gentlemen in Picca- l dilly, when, on the opposite side of the | way, he saw a gentleman bearing the ! most striking resemblance to the fig | ure which had been disclosed to Wyn- | ward and himself. His companions | had heard the story, and he directed | their attention to the gentleman as the | person who he believed had entered ] apartment. Hoping to ! elucidate the mystery, he went up to the gentleman. The latter received him
  been out of England, but he was the twin brother of the youth whose spirit had been seen. As to the last part of the story, it seems to have been shown that there were no twin brothers in the family, and there is another version that it was a gentleman who had often been mistaken for the younger Wyn- ward. There Is one point that occurs 70 one on reading the story. Did the young man die In England at o'clock n the afternoon on the day In ques- ion, or did he die at the hour that the dock would have pointed to in Eng and when it was { D. m, in Canada? n a good many of these stories the difference of time at different parts of he world seems to be ignored. The tory however, seems to have plenty if evidence to rest on. It was pub ished in 1923 by MT. Jarvis in his 'Ac- redited Ghost Stories,' and there is a lote to the effect that a relation of had read 1t, and stated that trictly true. Then the author says hat Sir John Sherbroke often told the tory. and Sir John lived for some five ears after the book was published n discussion in Notes and Queries, writer, who seems to have known the amily, bears witness to the correct ess of the story. One important point $ that after the apparition had been cen and before the news had come out yynward and Sherbroke spoke freely to heir brother officers of what they had Household Words