The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-08-09
Do the Dead Revisit Us ?

Do the Dead Revisit Usp
81 have had only one experience in
teepathy." said the man, but that was Z
strong one; | ran away from home
when / was a boy OF nine My father
was cruel to me, but loved my mother
dearly. got on ship at the Brooklyn
docks, bound for | didn't know where
Eventually. after much roaming, | land
ed at Bombay, where | became printer
devil on small paper.
81 was taken i'll there of fever, so i'll
that / thought ] was at the point OF
death. That night it was very hot, but
somehow | got out OF bed and stood
at the lattice of the open window
That was some seven years after
had run away from home, but | had
never once forgotten my mother She
was my idol. prayed for her In my
troubles | talked aloud to her, and she
must have heard me; for though all the
rest had long before given me up for
dead. she would never believe it.
well, as | stood there ! said to her
that | was sorry / had left her and
caused her so much unhappiness. That
now that | was about to die, wanted
her to understand that | wanted her
to know, too. that | had always loved
her
Just then it became little light in the
east and there began to be breeze, cool
ing the intensity 'of the heat. | heard
her voice at the same time saying as
plainly as ! am talking to you now:
You will not die
"Then it was as if she kissed me as
stood there
Il got we'll and went home to her
She told me the day and the hour that
| stood at the lattice in India talking
to her and her answer to me-"
81 believe in such things" said the
Psychic Woman, ''and also in the near
ness of the soul or spirit to earth and
loved ones Immediately after death, par
ticularly in the case of those who die
suddenly. Not long ago friend, a
young man. came to see me. He was the
wreck of himself His eyes were hollow
his face haggard.
What III the world has changed you
so?" | asked him.
"'This, he answered. My best friend
died suddenly and he has been haunting
me. | see him near me always, and
wish he would rest in his grave and quit
haunting me.
Il know all about that. knew a man
of such splendid physique that you would
have thought. to look at him. that he
would live forever. He was taken with
appendicitis and died in three days.
HE had beautiful auburn hair-a
splendid mass of it, as thick as could be
He used to sit, when living, in a certain
chair when he called on me, and the sun
shine coming in at the window made a
soft flame of his hair. used to so to
the head of the stairs and watch him
come up, his fine hair cleaning in the
dusk OF the stairway.
For weeks after he died, whenever |
entered the room could see him in that
chair with the sunlight on his hair.
Whenever | went out and looked down
the stairway | could see the shine OF
his beautiful hair as he came up. You
may call it nervousness or the effect OF
my constant thought of him, but as for
me. believe the spirit OF him was there,
One proof, to my mind. is this story
of an old manor house that belonged to
an army officer who had rented it and
gone to India. The house was in the
suburbs OF London. The officer had lost
an arm.
"A girl whose father had rented the
manor house was stricken with the ko'
dak fever. She took pictures of the
house, one room after another, until she
had taken them all. Then she took The
films 10 a London photographer to be
developed and printed. After weel
or so she called for them,
"'They are very good said the pho
tographer, with the exception OF one
that is a little dim-the one of the one
armed man who is sitting in the library
by the table.
"What one-armed man. she asked
in amazement There wasn't a singl,
soul in any room when | took the pic
lures Not 4 soul
There was a man in the library re
! iterated the photographer, "for here Il
the picture Of him
"ie brought ont the picture Of In
! hnrary. and there was the one-arme,
man sitting sadly there hy the tabl,
| Upon investigation il Was found tina
the owner vi the house, the onc-armc
officer, had died suddenly In India %
| the day on which She had Photographic
f, his home
"Was thrrr anything more nalur,
! Than that nj, soul should come back IS
IA Aslt al hIs Did homo tho mnmrnt
, NW ilrri from nj. h0if or lhll 90
! friend UW should come back and yIs
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