The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-27

Copyright, 1909 by John Elfreth Watkins,
Whether OUT sheeted dead do really
return to squeak and gibber through
highway and byway. or rattle their
bones in our haunted houses, YOU may
believe or you may not, Whether di.
rect mind o-mind communication can
be maintained between the quick and
the dead, you may seriously doubt. You
may have shifted and sneered at all ac-
counts that you have hitherto heard or
read of spirit, Of specter, spook or
shade, hoggard or baushec, ghost or
goblin, it matters not. Whether the
strange occurrences here TO be set
down are the products OF minds that
are disease. warped or minds gifted by
supernormal sense-who knows? The
gentle reader doth not; no more doth
the humble writer, and. as for the lat
ter, all that he can say is that these
strange accounts have been compiled
from the testimony of recent cases fled
with our new American Society for
Psychical Research And that profound
association Of ghost hunters assumes
no direct responsibility for these weird
phenomena-g gives them no indorse-
ment beyond its avowal that they have
been furnished by apparently trust
worthy contributors.
The Violet Ghost.
First 7 will give you the pith of the
strange story OF the violet ghost. A
personal friend of Prof. James H. Hys-
lop, the head OF the society was sit |
ting by the deathbed of her nineteen
vear-old soD IN the death chamber !
was small vase, Glled with yiolcts, !
which the mother several times during |
the day brought to the bedside, and /
the last time she did SO he whispered /
that he would devote his time to rails" /
ing violets when ne WIS well. Then .
in a very litJlc while the black angel
came, and with her his soul floated
away through tie vio,et-scented air.
6 7 laid the violets or his breast, and
there they were when he was laid in
his grave, writes the mother, This
was early in March. Ia August
Of the same year ] was alone IN my
room. sewing. when all at once, first
= FAINT ard then a very pronounced
olor of vioicts flied the room. There
certainly were 20 violets anywhere. RI
was not the season. What was itl
Charlie is here. something said with
i'm NE. and Just thcu ny remaining son.
Who had been upstairs IN a little den
wherein the boys had always done
iheir studying, came down and sad:
Mother, have YOU any violets here? !
Just now it snelled so strong OF them
up in my room. Ii was so nice. {
Every now and then. at long intervals,
This fragrance Of volets would thus j
be with us. and whosoevcr
happened TO he here Just then would
smell it and know 1t TO be violcts.'
Then to this haunted house came q {
bride Of the youngest :
r,, Sbn Snoff.l Of tho SiTriac f,f tl,a :
riolet 0host until ten years after us J
irst haunting, when, so she tcstifes, l
,he herself met with it IN the sitting l.
'oom She and her husband were Y
'tanding in wonder when the mother
slipped into the room. and the latter S
adds: "Oh, the sweetness of it, \ h
1asketful Of violets could not nave e
illed TIE room with that fragrance Y
We stood and marveled, but ]
NEW in truth that Charlie had come c
gain. Since We. could not see him.
his was surely a beautiful way for 7
lim TO impress US with his presence. = j
Ghost Of Kate Field.
Indeed it was n 'Fbeautiful way
with that alleged TO be enl.
,loyed by the ghost of Kate Field,
he author. Miss Agnes C. B., cor, t
espondent of the Society for Psychical 0
Research, after dining with the Boston s
uthor, Lillian Whiting, sat in q dark i
DOM with the latter. They were chat. c
ing of Kate Field. E'Near the close {
e the narrative,'' says Miss B., for C
u instant I had curious numb feel a
ng run through my left arm, similar e
o the shock experienced from grasp d
ng the handles Of an electric battery. @
t was such a strange happening that n
vhen Miss Whiting finished l told her a
Il it, and her reply somewhat stag n
,ered me, for she said; 'Oh, yes, Kate g
: here; 7 felt her That's how 1 I
now. She doesn't mean to give that il
title shock, but she can't help it ! c
ould hardly accept it with the same 6
quanimity that Miss Whiting did. c
Sever before nor since has the same ];
ceiling come. AS I was resting easily +
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