Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-23
Dr.. LuciuS D. Morse Relates Some
Queer Stories of Psychic Phenomena

was breathless and cold. pulse gone, heart
still. head dangling forward upon the
chest-not a symptom of life could be de-
tected.
The ligatures combining the medium were
quickly cut, the body stretched out upon
the floor and with nitrate of amyl and
other stimulants, together with artificial
respiration the work Of resuscitation was
instantly inaugurated.
IT was several minutes before the first
chickering's OF the returning pulse could be
detected, but, finally, respiration was es-
tablished and life gradually came back
Fully three-quarrers of an hour elapsed
before 1t was deemed prudent to allow
the medium to leave the hotel.
"WeIl, professor" said 1. II suppose
this experience was convincing
by no means, SIR" he replied. II am
not sure, after all, that I saw anything
more than a hallucination conjured up by
expectation. But one thing / will cheer
fully grant you: was never so scared be-
fore in all my life"
NY old partner in the practice of medi-
cine, DIR. John r. Allen, of Kentucky, had
a most beautiful and accomplished daugh-
ter At the time of which l am writing
she was about nineteen years of age and
had but recently returned home from an
eastern boarding school. None of her
family or her large circle of friends sus-
pected that she possessed psychic powers
The young lazy herself was as ignorant
as the balance.
One autumn evening about $50 o'clock,
the doctor and his family were all gath
cred in the sitting room. There was some
talk regarding spiritualism and the won
derful things said to have been done by
medicines, when, in the midst of the con-
versation, the daughter said laughingly;
- xa..gN, vv~s11 ak -
write for me-" She procured a large
sheet Of foolscap paper, placed it upon the
center table under the chandelier with
the gas burning as usual. and then seat
ing herself at the table placed her
hand with a pencil in 1t at the
head of the paper as though in the act
of writing. Almost Immediately the hand
began to move in a jerky way and pres
emily set in to write. The young lady d.
rected her gaze to the other side of the
room-not looking at the paper after the
movements began-and laughingly re-
marked upon The queer sensations which
she experienced in her arm, hand and fin
gers.
Presently the writing movements ceased.
The doctor took up the paper and this is
what he read:
I've are all here in home together
MARTHA"
The writing was all Joined together.
From the time the pencil began to travel
across the page until it reached the last
letter of the name signed the point had
not been raised from the paper.
Martha was the name of the doctors
deceased sister who had passed away
some twenty years before, but who was
little Dossie?'
Not until the next day and after much
cudgeling of the brain did he remember
that in boyhood he had lost by death an
infant sister, only a week old, who had
received no name but the pet name,
'DCssie." That was half a century be-
fore. None of the doctors own family
had ever heard this name. He himself
felt sure that he had not thought Of 1t
for twenty-five or thirty years.
1 was shown the paper with the message
upon it next morning, at once grasped
the possibilities which might lie in so
conspicuous a medium. However, all
tests were barred, the mother moved by
religious scruples securing a promise from
the daughter that she would not lend her.
self to any Investigations along this line.
(DR) LUCIUS d. MORSE.