The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29
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Michigan Girl Scars to CeIes-
tial Regions.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. Nov 2S.-Mary A.
Kidder, aged fourteen years, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Kidder is causing in
tense excitement in the southeastern part
of the city by sinking in from one to three
frances daily after reviving from which
she relates remarkable tales of departed
beings and scenes in heaven. She fore
sees the particulars of her own and her
parents death. To Kalamazoo men and
women unknown to herself and family the
girl has unerringly given names and de-
scriptions of their departed friends and
relatives, some of whom have been dead
forty years. She conveys a message from
the dead to the living, and relates events
which occurred over fifty years ago.
To Mrs. Addie Hess, whom neither the
girl nor her family had ever seen, she de-
scribed and gave the names of the WON,
ans husband, Cyrus Hess, deceased, and
Of several relatives dead for years: To
Mrs. Edwin G. Russell she described and
named her brother, George Hartman, who
died forty years ago and never saw Kala-
mazoo, conveying several messages. She
also named and described and gave mes
sages from two deceased children of Mrs.
Russell. One son, Victor, died in Penn
Carlton Russell, died in this city ten years
ago. To Mrs. Mary Pressable she named
and described mother dead twenty-five
years, told of a daughter and husband
and named and described several other
deceased members Of the Pressable fam
lily.
Mrs. A. Kamp, total stranger was told
Of her husbands mother, who died thirty
two years ago. Her name and descrip-
ton were given. The girl also named and
described two deceased children of Mrs.
Ramp and conveyed messages from them.
Mary describes graphically her visions
of heaven. She says: II can't tell just
what the sensation is like, 1 can't tell
when the trance is coming. 1t just strikes
me suddenl. l lose control of my body
almost unimaginable height. The air
seems soft and fans my face. fly through
the clouds and then suddenly know am
in heaven. About me stretches a great
city, but there are no houses or streets.
Beautiful white-robed angels are singing
and talking and sailing through the air.
am flashed through two immense. white,
pearly gates, and then the whole beauty
of the place is before me.
"Colors of every hue and description and
the most beautiful music I ever heard
the people there and they come to me
and talk. 1t all seems so strange to me.
Then angels tell me their names and
when I come back here and repeat them
and describe what have seen find the
living. relatives of the angels right here
and they look at me and wonder.
mo words can describe what heaven
really IS I try to cry out my JOY, but
HnQ Can move HSltHer UdHu lOOt.
One of the spirits told me that when /
died I would be free to move just as
they do. I cannot understand how the
angels pass through the air. They have
no wings, nor do they walk. They just
seem to be taken through the air in any
direction they wish to 60"
Mary has been suffering from spinal
and nervous trouble for some time. Last
July curvature of the spine developed.
Dr. Frederick Shillito attended the girl
and incased the body in a plaster cast.
Last Monday the cast was removed and
an hour later the girls body became rigid,
her eyes dilated and the most strenuous
efforts failed to arouse her.
1.-The girl is in a very peculiar mental
condition. said DR.. Shillito, the attend
ing physician. "She has what is called
cafafepsy, and when in that condition
people often have such peculiar ideas and
dreams have seen her in this condition
and know of her telling people who come
to the house, of their relatives dead for
years. Whether all that she says is true
or not, of course / cannot say.
1.-THE case is very peculiar and I'M
usual one In which I am personally very
much interested. In cataleptic state the
most developed moral emotions general
dominate. The girl is known to have
always been of very religious turn OF
mind, and her visions of heaven and the