The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-16
Saws Sine Talked With the Dead.

Chicago News.
Says She Talked With the Dead.
Florence Bennett, the sixteen-year-
old sleeping beauty" of Kankakee,
who has been in an almost constant
trance since August 10. awoke yester-
day and told her mother that she had
been talking with dead relatives and
friends in another world.
She said three dead friends came to
see her. The first one was Willie Mem
zue, who was fatally injured three
years ago by an engine, and who was
one of her very dear friends: The
girl says Willie said to her: Flossie,
you look as though you had been Ill.
How did you lose your curls? You
once had such pretty yellow curls."
She said Willie appeared as he did
when she last saw his body after the
accident.
The second friend was Mabel Blake
a childhood chum, who died two
years ago. and she says Mabel said to
her: "Flossie. don't you think l am
getting fat?"
The last visitor to appear was her
grandmother Bennett who has been
dead since Florence was little child.
"Flossie,' said the grandmother,
what makes you look so queer?"
Just then the girl said something rest
ed upon her chest and everything got
dark. Then all three of the visitors
Flossie. Come and see US again
She made her first effort this after
noon to keep awake. but was unsuc-
cessful. She is still sleeping. The
doctors state that this sleep will prob
ably continue for twenty-four hours
Chicago DISPATCH to the New York
American.
A Near Tragedy.
Never again will I condemn a wo-
~ w
rus, who will appear in Fay Temple
toms old role in "Forty-f1ve Minutes
From Broadway" you know I've
been stopping at the shore, and late
one night, from the room of married
couple groans and shrieks were heard
to come. These noises at last became
SO violent that number of guests,
pale and frightened, gathered in the
hall before the door.
"'Oh, you are killing mel cried
male voice. "Have you no pity?'
There followed a series of awful
groans. Then:
Stop: You are numbering me! I'm
dying"
For a little while the crowd out
side heard feeble grunts and means.
Then a wild shrek rang forth.
Murder! You've done it at last!
You've killed me. Oh. I'm dying
Here a man Numbered on the door
and shouted: -
there?'
There was a smothered laugh
within, the door was opened instantly,
and young and pretty woman ap-
peared.
Did the noise alarm you?' she
shirt from my husbands sunburnt
arms y oung's Magazine.
No Nature Student.
To Dr. John B. Wilson. professor of
at the Unfverity of Chicago,
has been imputed the statement that
sea gulls have an actual language. Dis
this statement the other day,
Dr.. Wilson laughed and said:
Il have recently made a study of sea
gulls, but I must admit that I have not
gone as far as Prof. Garner with his
have not as yet compiled a
gull dictionary, nor do see much
of my ever doing so.
But 1 have studied the gulls init
mate1y, and 1 have found the work in
teresting and valuable. Is not nature
study, indeed, always interesting and,
You know what happened to
the big game hunter who neglected 1t?
He was out after lions. He found a
lion, emptied his gun at it, and missed.
The enraged beast gave chase, and the
poor hunter fed madly.
And as. fleeing, he reached the jun
gle, he hesitated and said obviously to
himself:
" oh, why can't remember whether
1t Is lion or a tiger that can't climb
q tree?'
This piece of ignorance. I regret to
say. cost the hunter his life"
So Seasick.
The affable Capt Duggs of the Ham
burg American liner Prince Oscar, was
commiserating with seasick passen-
ger.
'Seasickness, SIR said the captain,
is very nasty thing. Some peoples
sufferings, though, are far more atroci-
ous than yours. once carried a Phila-
1elphian who suffered dreadfully
AT the height of his seasickness this
poor Philadelphian beckoned his wife to