The Washington herald., 1907-01-27

passed away before them. In some cases
they seem 70 have n coincidental impor-
tanee that may give them some scientific
value, If well enough attested as facts
writes Prof. James H HysIOp in the
Chicago Chronicle.
The phenomena which I have I'm mind
are type of appreciation. Whatever
their explanation they have one char
actcristic which distinguishes them from
ordinary deliria. They represent the ap-
pearance of deceased persons 10 the Wis
ion. imagination, or other source Of
sensory representation of the dying
person.
The following instance I received from q
correspondent whose testimony I have nC
reason TO question.
4 called this afternoon May Il, 1900
upon a lady who buried a niue-year-oid
boy two weeks ago. The child had been
operated upon for appendicitis some two
or three years ago and had had peritonitis
at the same time. lie recovered and was
apparently quite well for a time. Again
he was taken sick and from the first the
doctor thinks he did not expect To get
well. He was taken TO the hospital and
recognizing his parents. the doctor. and
the nurse after coming out from under
the influence of the anesthetiC. Feeling
that re was going. he asked his mother
To hold his hands until ne should have
gone He had. ! forgot 10 say. been given
strong stimElantS after the operation.
which, l suppose, made his mind very
active
soon he looked up and said: Mother,
dear, don't you see little sister over
there"
No, where is she"
Right over there. She IS looking At
me
Saw His Grandmother.
Then the mother to pacify him said
she saw the child. In a few minutes his
face lighted up full of smiles and he said:
There comes Mrs. c. Ga lady OF
whom he was very fond and who had died
nearly two years hefOrei, and she is
smiling just as she used TO- She is smil-
ing and wants me 10 come In a few
moments:
There is Roy, I am going 10 them. l
don't want 10 leave YOU, but your come
10 me soon, won't YOU? Open the door
AMI let them in. They are waiting for me
outside and he was gone
NO, I forgot TO tell about his
grandma. her. l gathered the impression
that r Hid not know his maternal grand
mothel but may be wrong.
AS his mother held mis- hands he said:
How small you are growing Are you
still holding my hands? Grandma is
larger than you. isn't she? Her hand IS
larger than yours. She is holding one hand
and her hand is larger than yours
Remember. the boy was but nine
years old. Did he really see spirits and
recognize Jhem2 or was IL the result Of
the highly sensitive condition of the
brain, caused by the medicine
The mother confirms this narrative and
inquiry brings out the following facts.
The boy had never known his grand
mother, who had died twenty years ago.
His sister had died four years before his
own birth. Roy is the name of a friend
of the child and he had died about u
year previous.
4 Suggestive Case.
But I have a group of incidents which
are much more suggestive Of something
unusual and possibly quite significant
Some Of them involve record and con-
hrmatory support that gives them i'm
portance. The first of this group is one
dictate to me and taken down verbatim
by the two persons who knew the facts
They are both intelligent and trustworthy
witnesses. not more liable to errors in
such things than an of Us. II involved
circumstances which give peculiar value
to the incident as the story will vOuch
for itself I quote the narrative as 1 took
it down.
-Four or five weeks before my sons
death Mrs. s. was with me lshe was
my friend and a psyChic). and a message
was given me that little Bright Eyes
control would be with my son. who was
then III with cancer. The night before
his death he complained that there was a
little girl about his bed, and asked who
it was. This was at Muskoka, leo miles
north of Toronto He had not known
what Mrs. S. had told me. Just be
fore his death. about five minutes. he
reused, called his nurse for a drink OF
water and said clearly: i think they
are taking me- AfJeTWard seeing the
possible significance of this, 1 wrote Miss
A. and asked her TO see Mrs.aS-- and
try 70 find why the word they was used.
Undersc0ring il in the letter, as / always
supposed the boys father would be with
him at death. Miss A. went TO see
Mrs. S., and did not mention the letter.
When / saw Mrs. s. more than week
later, We We're having a sitting. and
Guthrie, my son, came and told me how
he died. he said he was lying on the bed
and felt he was being lifted out OF his
body and at that point all pain left His
first impulse was To- get back into his
body. but be was being drawn away. He
was taken up into a cloud, and he seemed
to be a part Of IT, His feeling was that
he was being taken by invisible hands
into rarihed air that was SO delightful
He spoke of his freedom from pain and
said that he saw his father beyond"
DIR. Savage's story.
I quote next a well-authenticate in
stance on the authority of DR.. Ninot J.
Savage. He records it in his Psychic
Facts and Theories" He also told me
personally of the facts and gave me the
names and addresses Of the persons on
whose authority he tells the incidents
am not permitted to mention them. But
the story is as follows,
In "a neighb0ring city were two little
girls. Jennie and Edith. one about eight
years OF age and the other but a little
older. They We're schO0lmates and init
mate friends In June, 1883. both were
taken III of diphtheTia At noon on We'd
neSday Jennie died Then the parents
of Edith and her physician as well took
particular pains to keep from her the
fact that her little playmate was gone
They feared the effect of the knowledge
on her own condition To prove that they
succeeded and that she did not know il
may be mentioned that on Saturday, June
s. at noon, just before she became I'M
conscious Of ali thar was passing about
her. she selected two of her photographs
TO be stint to Jennie. and also told her
attendants 10 bid her goOd-by.
She died al $50 o'clock on the evening
of Saturday, June s. She had reused and
hidden her friends go0d-by and was talk
ing of dying and seemed TO have no ftar.