The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-25

satisfied myself had not been dream
ing and was wide awake.
Now comes the most remarkable
confirmation OF my statement, which
cannot be doubted by those who know
what I state actually occurred. This
visitation or whatever you may call II
so impressed me that took the next
train home, and In the presence of my
parents and others | related what had
occurred, My father, a man of rare
good sense and very practical was In
clined TO rldicule me, as he saw how
earnestly believed what stated. But
he, too, was amazed when later on |
told them of bright red line or
scratch ON the right hand side OF my
sisters face which | distinctly had
seen. When mentioned this, my
mother rose, trembling, to her feet and
nearly tainted away, and as soon as
she sufficiently recovered her self pos
session, with tears streaming down
her face, she exclaimed that | had in
deed seen my sister, as no living NOR
tai but herself was aware Of that
scratch, which she had accidentally
made while doing some little act Of
kindness after my sisters death. She
said she well remembered how panied
she was to think she should have un.
Intentionally marred the features OF
her dead daughter and that unknown
to all how she had carefully obllter-
ated all traces of the slight scratch
with the aid of powder, etc, and that
she had never mentioned 1t to human
being from that day to this. In proof
neither my father nor any of our fam
lily had detected 1t and positively were
unaware of the incident, yet saw the
scratch as bright as If just made"
Whatever the explanation Of the APP
partition, II was the means of bringing
the son home to take long, last fare
well of his mother, for she died within
a fortnight of his return. happy in
her belief she would rejoin her favor
lite daughter In another world"
And now TO turn to psychical phe.
nomena Of another type, the auditory
halluclnations by which knowledge
seems to be conveyed of deaths occur
ring far outside the normal ken of the
percipient. The experience of Mr..
Wambey is typical. Once when plan
ming congratulatory letter TO a friend
the words: What! Write to a dead
man? Write TO a dead man?' rang In
his ears, and he later found that his
friend had been dead for some days.
Far more bizarre was an incident re-
lated to Mr., Myers by Mrs. Davies.
An acquaintance of hers had changed
her abode Unexpectedly, and 1t was
arranged that Mrs. Davies should re-
ceive her mail until she could commu-
nicate her new address to her friends
and particularly to her husband, who
was in India. One evening letter ar
rived bearing the India postmark,
and MrsfDavies placed It on the chin
ney piece, intending to ask her brother
to hand it next day to the addressee.
Suddenly she became aware Of a
strange ticking sound that seemed to
proceed from the letter itself. Her
brother, too, heard it, and, yielding to
superstition, they imagined that the
sound meant: Important! To be de-
livered at oncel" The brother there
upon put on his hat and carried the
letter to their friend. who found 1t to
be a communication from an unknown
correspondent, some servant or COM
panion, notifying her Of her husbands
death.
Taken singly, such incidents as the
above are not without impressiveness.
Considered in the aggregate and as
massed by the thousand with corrob-
oratiye data carefully preserved in the
society's archives, they may well give
one pause.