The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-05-17

planned OF headache going to bed, and
after she went to bed, grew hot and lev
crish. so much so. that my mother sat
up with her hoping to STE her go to
sleep. All the night she kept saying, 1
wish Mama was here. / don know
vhy | lett my Mama But as the
small hours Of the evening drew on, she
grew SO ILL., that my father fetched the
doctor. On seeing her he said that it was
lust possible that she caught scarlet fever
as it was prevalent just en-. Directly
the child heard what he said. the wild
scream had heard broke from her,
in the very words. Mama, oh Mama.
I've got scarlet fever, and nearly 2OO
miles away they were flashed to my
ears.
Another instance is given, when not
one but two persons have been perciplents
or receivers OF dream intelligence.
A gentleman had a servant, Susan by
name. wi o was taken to the hospital ILL.,
1t was seven miles distant. During Sat
urdav night. SAYS the gentleman, the fol-
| lowing mystery occurred which has been
| ever since II puzzle to myself: Being
asleep. was awakened with by a sud
den feeling OF terror. | stared through
| the darkness Of the bedroom, but could
not see anything, but felt overcome by
an unnatural horror or dread, and coy
cred myself with the bed clothes. regular
Iy scared Ny room door was in u mar
row passage leading to my mother $
room. and any one passing would almost
touch the door. ! passed the remaining
| portion Of the night i'll restlessness. In
| the morning | met my mother coming
! down stairs and observed that she look
I'd i'll and pale and unusually depressed.
| / asked. What's the matter? She re-
| piled, Nothing; don't ask me An hour
| or two passed and still saw something
was amiss, and felt determined to know
| the cause and my mother seemed equally
bent on not satisfying ne. At last | said,
| Has it anything to do with Susan? She
| burst into tears and said, What makes
You ask that question" | then told her
! my scare during the night and ehe related
to me the following strange story:
Il was awakened by the opening OF
my bedroom door, and | saw to my hor-
ror, Susan enter in her niGht-dress. She
came straight toward my bed, turned
| down the clothes. and laid herself beside
| me. and felt a cold chill all down my
| side where she seemed to touch me. |
| suppose tainted as lost all recollection
| for some time and when | came to my
sell the apparton had gone, but OF one
| thing am certain, and that Is, that it
| was not il dream We heard by the vii
| lagc woman on her return Sunday even
| ing. that Susan died in the middle OF the
night, and that previous to her becom-
| ing unconscious, her whole talk was
| Obout returning to Troston Hall. We had
no apprehension whatever of her death.
We thought she had gone to the hospital
| not because she was in danger, but for
| the sake OF special treatment"
These instances of dream apparitlons,
| (and many more might be quOted). seem
| to Indicate the power OF the subliminal
| self on dying, to convey itself to persons
and places to whom they were specially
| attached when in the body.
| will next give instances OfapparItlOns
seen by persons awake. and i'll full con
seriousness: The first instance Is that of
| Lord Hrougham. who was thoroughly a
! a man Of the world and given 20 no SUI
perstitious fears or Authorizations. In
narratinG the incident, he says:
We set out for Gothenburg. determin-
ed to make Norway. About one in the
| morning, arriving Il a decent inn we de-
| cided to stop for the night. Tired with
| the cold OF yesterday | was glad to take
| in-and here Il most remarkable thing
happened-So remarkable that | must
| tell the story from the beginning.
After | left the high school. | went
| with G. my first intimate friend to at
tend classes i'll the University. There
was no Divinity class, but we frequently
| i'll our walks, discussed and specialized
upon many grave topics; among Others.
on the immortality OF the soul, and on Il
future state. The question and the pos.
| slbility.l will not say OF ghosts walking,
but of the dead appearing to the living,
were subjects OF much speculation, and
we actually committed the folly Of draw
! in" up an agreement written with our
I own blood. to the effect that whichever
! OF Us died the first, should appear to the
other, and thus solve the doubts we had
entertained of the life after DEATH
After we had finished our classes at the
college, &. went to India, having got an
appointment there i'll the civil service
He seldom wrote to me, and after Il lapse
Of Il few years had almost forgotten
him: moreover his family having little
connection with Edinburgh. 1 seldom 81 W
or heard anything of them. so that al
his schoOl-boy intimacy had died out and
had nearly forgotten his existence. had
taken as have said Il warm bath, and
while lying in it and enjoying the com
fort of the heat after the late freezing
had undergone. turned my head around
toward the chair upon which had de
posted my clothes, as | was about tC
get out the bath. On fhc chair sat Il
looking calmly 1T me. How got out O
| the bath | know not, but on recovering
my senses found myself sprawling OF
the floor. The apparitiOn, or whatever
it was that had taken the likeness OF G
had disappeared. The apparition occur
red on Dec. 10Th, 1899. and soon after
Lord Brougham arrived in Edinburgh OF
his return. a letter arrived from lndi;
announcing the death Of g. on the date
mentioned.
DR.. Weir Mitchell reports an interest
ing case III the experience OF his father
who was also Il physician. His father
had patient in an Insane Asylum, who
had occasionally lucid intervals On,
morning DR.. Mitchell went to the Asylum
to inform the patient of the death of hi
wife during the night. rs he came il
sight of the patient the man cried out
on need not tell ne my wife is dead.
know it; she was here last night and tolc
me herself" Surprising that there wa
'
went to the manager OF the Institution
and told him what had been said ant
that gentleman confirmed it by saying
that he had heard the man talkin.
in the night and went to see what wa!
the matter when the patient at once re
proached him for disturbing him. and TO
driving away his wife who, he said, wa
there and told him that she had jus
| died "
DR.. Minot Savage vouches for the fol
lowing incident which he personally in
vesugated: In neighboring city wer
two little girls, Jennie and Edith on
about eight years old and the other bu
4 little Older. They We're schoolmates ano
intimate friends. In June. 1889. botl
were taken i'll nj diptheria At noon
Wednesday. June 18th, Jennie died. Thel
the parents of Edith and her physician o.
well. all took pains to keep from her til.
fact that her little playmate had died
They feared the effect of the knowledge