Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-24
BELIEVED IN GHOSTS
Or. ELLIOTT CoUES SAID THAT NE
OFTEN SAW THEM.


tiOn Of the Spirit of a Dead Friena
Who Appeared to and ConyerseA
with Him In HIS Room.
DR.. Elliott Coues, the famous nrni-
biologist and member Of the AnssEt
can Academy Of Sciences, was Laza
recognized as the foremost advocate al
belief In the existence of ghosts- lis
had promised several Of his frisr.Ss
that, If able to do so, he would appear
to them after his own demise. and they
are still waiting, with no little ln1Hf'
est, to see If he can carry out the
agreement.
II have myself seen the ghosts Of &
good many dead persons" said 'tns
doctor one day. 81 remember one oe-
casion when l had just gone to fef
the light being turned out, was cnu~
posing myself to slumber when l sud
denly became aware of presence IT.
the room. The impression conVtEyrsa
to my mind was that it was the prs:s
ence of certain person lately deteeas-
ed, with whom had been on very iu-
innate terms. In fact, | felt an sver-
towering sense of the nearness Of fE<
individual in question.
about the same moment Ttrs>a
arose slowly from the floor nebuie,sE
mass Of what looked like shining
white vapor. which began to take
shape, as did the smoke from the cas-
ket opened by the fisherman in the
Arabian Nights tales. Gradually r
assumed more distinct outline, ur-
til it presented radiant image of my
friend. The lips appeared to novx.
and from them came an ineligible ns-
terance, a message in short, from t]ic
departed. | do not care to say yl&a7
that message was.
81 can assure you that the vision was.
no dream, and the nature Of the n,ss
sage was such as to eliminate, to rbY
own satisfaction at all events, the tlss-
ory of hallucination. What, then, WIRE
this shape of shining white 'vapors
Was it a human soul? 1t is a ques1ila,
pregnant with intense interest
Each of us, believe, has in him n
ghost, which ordinarily is confined ns
the precincts of the body. When L
die, my ghost leaves my body pe,1ra
nently, and. having done so, perhaps It
may continue to be the vehicle ana
means Of expression of conscious VIII.
memory and understanding. st Paul
says, There is a. natural body anS d
spiritual body 1t is Of the. spiritu1
body that am speaking.
nyr 70 mr. nf YNr
forms of matter except those whActA
are in certain degree Of condemns
ton, but the spiritual body may he xFe-
a more rarefied and tenuous substance.
The nonappearance Of ghosts to Us
may be question not Of the existence
Qf specters, but 81 the acuteness of M1r
perceptive faculties.
MY own experience Is that the con z
ing Of an apparition is always pl.cttf
ed by a curious sensation which ] caE
the ghost chill When this sympIo,E
arrives, the threshold Of consciousness
seems to be shifted to the extant'1o&
rendering possible perception ut
something ordinarily Invisible TIE
change Is usually very brief, lastinE
only a few seconds, during which tne
manifestation occurs
Zone reason that have. for believing
the evidence Of my own senses In thRN
matter Is that on several occasions the
apparitiOn of my own personality hzE
presented itself to other persons In
places where my body WAS not 1t rt1'e
time Some years ago l was In Chico
60, at an ordinary evening party WIZ
about 40 friends when an individual
in Washington, who did not even know
where l was, was visited by my Yah2A-
tasm and received from 1t a brief0me<
sage stating where was at the time
and giving the names Of two or 1hnee
whom the observer was unacqualnsssE
This was one of the rare cases when
a ghost made itself audible.
You ask what would happen II ones
should approach a ghost such as E>aSs2
described and try to touch it. MY ~
ply is that there would certainly h. nc
danger in doing so, for specters ner@
do anybody any harm. the fear of fhen
entertained by most people being Gafi-
bly, dread of that which Is unknown
and not understood. Whatever is Mn
known is always terrible. But tie
phantom is composed Of matter TOO
tenuous to present any obstacle, AMI
l do not doubt that it would dissolve
and disappear If you attempted e.
walk through it."-Washington Posi-
Fish Living In Hot Water.
There Is pond at Golconda which n