The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-31

weeks after the marriage. IN tne
early days of their honeymoon they
had given promise that the one who
died first should, if possible, return
and warn the other Of approaching
death.
"My uncle's grief grew less as time
passed and he married again. His
second marriage brought him great
unhappiness, but he lived to be an
old man. In the early stages of his
illness he told my mother the date
and hour of his approaching death.
60 came to me last night he
said, and sat beside me. She told
me that my hour was approaching
and that I must prepare to meet her
in Heaven
"My uncle died at the exact date
and hour predicted.
Another member Of the party con-
tributed the following experience:
"My great-grandmother had made
her home with us for a number OF
years. She was a tiny little woman,
very old as I remember her, and in
the habit of reading her Bible almost
constantly. At night before retiring
she would kneel beside little table
in her room, read chapter in her
Bible while on her knees, say her
prayers, and then no word would
pass her lips again for the night.
Many and many time I have seen
her kneeling there making her even
ing supplications.
"She moved with a daughter to
Texas and had. been living in that
State for a number of years when
one day entered the room which she
had occupied while with us, and
there, kneeling beside the little table,
her Bible before her, was my great
grandmother. She smiled at me and
pointed upward, and then seemed to
fade into nothingness.
''It was broad daylight and I could
scarcely credit my senses, but 1 told
members of the family and expressed
the belief that grandma was dead.
The following day we received news
of her death, and she had passed
away at the very hour of her appear
ance to me. They said at the last
she had smiled and pointed upward" "
In the party was a man of affairs
whose success in business and prac-
tical ways gave weight to the follow
ing contribution:
"I have never seen but one ghost.
That was several years ago, before
my mothers death.
ssI had been fox hunting on clear,
moonlight night, and on coming
home was met by the stable boy, who
told me that my mother, who had
been an invalid for several years,
was much worse. It was the fall of the
year, and 1 remembered noticing, as
I passed through the gate, that a
pile of dry leaves had accumulated
in front of it, and as I walked
through them I thought that I must
see that the gardener had them re-
moved the next morning.
tsI did not enter the house at once,
but sat down on a bench on a side
porch, thinking I would collect my
self after the shock of the stable
boys news, before going into my
mothers room.
tsMy mother was very charitable
woman and was greatly beloved.
Among her pensioners was a Mrs.
Brown, poor widow, dead for sew
eral years at the time of which 1 am
speaking. This poor woman had been
an especial pet and beneficiary Of my
mothers.
GAS sat idly looking out into the
grounds, I thought I saw a woman
come down the lane and pass through
the gate. I was especially struck
with the fact that when she passed
through the pile of dead leaves there
was not rustic of a leaf, so far as
I could hear. She was dressed in
black and came on quickly down the
walk and passed me with face avert
ed, going into the house. She did
not make a sound, and passed so
near me. as almost to brush against
me. I seemed to recognize some
thing vaguely familiar in the figure.
presently, without sound, she
came from the house and passed me
again, going as she had come,
through the leaves and on up the
lane. I reused myself wondering If
I could have been dreaming, and
went into the house, washed my face
and hands and went down to moth
er's room,
Gas I bent to kiss her and asked