Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-10-28
DO THE DEAD REVISIT US7
A Discussion Of Stories and EXPERIENCES
Tending to Show that They do Some.
times,

nome WHICH was DOy 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 roam
ing, 1 landed at Bombay, where l be-
came printers devil on a small pa
per.
II was taken iii there of fever, so i'll
that thought l was at the point of
death. That night it was very hot,
but somehow l got out of bed and stood
at the lattice of the open window.
"That was some seven years after l
had run away from home, but had
never once forgotten my mother. She
was my idol. prayed to her. In my
troubles l talked aloud to her. aud 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 l said to her
that was sorry had left her and
caused her so much unhappiness. That
now that I was about to die, wanted
her to understand that. l wanted her
to know, too, that I had always loved
her.
"Just then 1t became a little light in
the east and there began to be breeze,
cooling the intensity of the heat. I
heard her voice at the same time say
ing as plainly as I am talking to you
now:
"'You will not die
''Then it was as if she kissed me as
stood there.
II got we'll and went home to her.
She told him the day and the hour that
1 stood at the lattice in India talking
to her and her answer to me.''
II believe in such things" said the
Psychic Woman, land also in the near
ness Of the soul or spirit to earth and
loved ones Immediately after death,
particularly in the case of those who
die suddenly. Not long ago a friend. a
young man, came to see me. He was
tho wreck of himself. His eyes were
hollow. his face haggard.
what in the world has changed you
so ?" I asked him.
''This, he answered. My best friend
died suddenly and be has been haunt
ing me. I see him near me always. and
l wish he would rest in his grave and
quit haunting me-
II know all about that. l knew a
man of such splendid physique that
you would have thought, to look at
him, that he wouldslive forever. He
Was taken with appendicitis and died
in three days.
HE had beautiful auburn hair-a
splendid mass of 1t, as thick as could
be. He used to sit, when living, in a
certain chair when he called on me,
and the sunshine coming in at the win
dow made assoft flame on his hair.
used to 60 to the head of the stairs and
watch him come up. his fine hair gleam-
ing in the dusk of the stairway.
For weeks after be died, whenever
l entered the room could see him in
| that chair with the sunlight on his hair.
Whenever went out and looked down
the stairway l 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, l believe the spirit of him was
there.
Zone 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.
IA girl whose father had rented the
manor house, was stricken with the
kodak fever. She took pictures of the
house, one room latter another, until
she had taken them all. Then she took
the films to London photographer to
be developed and printed. After a
week 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 libra
~ by the table
"'What one-armed man p she asked
in amaZement. There WASH t single
soul in any room when I took the pic
lures. Not soul.
"'There was.a man in the library.
reiterated the photographer, for here
is the picture of him.
HE brought out the picture of the
library, and there was the one armed
man sitting sadly there by the table.
Upon investigation it was found that
the owner of the,,house, the one armed
army officer, had died suddenly in In
dia on the day on which she had pho.
tographed his home.
WAS there anything more natural
than that his soul should come back on
a visit to his old home che moment it
Was freed from his body? Or that my
friends soul should come back and visit
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