Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-04-14

white shoes and stockings. It hap
pened 10 be a Sunday when she began
saying she wanted white shoes and
stockings Ike that other little girl.
She called for them all DAY and ""
could not get them tit being Sunday,
and when Monday came and We could
get them for her. she never knew IT,
Dear little Margie, when We lad
her away. she had on her last pair OF
white shoes and stockings
AT he time Margie was sick ou~
other little ol.d, seven months ola.
whom Marlie loved dearly. was vcry
I'D. aud We did not eXp@c- him 70 re-
cover. ] was sitting alone in The room
with baby n my arms and though Mar
gir had been buried TWO days. ] heard
her call out TO ne:
"'Baby's better, mamma
ut WAS just dawn, and I heard her
speak as plainly as 1 ever did when
she was here.
Il am not a spiritualist but | know
Margies spirit came back then. and
cannot help but wonder does that lit
tie spirit visit your COrinne?
she was such a dear and strang-
crs have remarked that she looked
like a fairy. In fact, many in ROChes-
Ter called her The Little Fairy She
died with the sweetest smile on her
face and no one could doubt but That
Margie was happy
Another strange story comes from
Mrs. X. NcGoyern, who writes from
Fee Ky, in part as follows:
Sixteen years our little Marguerite.
=. small for her age, was burned TO
death by getting too near an open
CRATE. A few weeks later family Hv-
ing here claimed a little girl, all IN
white. visited their home one Sunday
evening just after dark. and the de
scrip-.on they gave was that Of our
LITE Margie
They said she came in at an open
window and left the same way. I said
{ did not believe it-that Margie
would come home If anywhere; but
that family later lost a little girl by
fire.
For d few months before Margie
died she would occasionally wake up
in the night and say. %. mamma, l am
p going TO die and I don't want TO die
We have TWO other babies dead, and
your daughter just describes our chill
dren so closely that felt l wanted you
10 know OF this. We have never be
leved in signs. bu5 it all seems so
strange now that We think of it,
- One woman Travelled all the way
from Los Angeles to see little Corinne
Mayfeld and talk with her. but the
parents are reluctant about impressing
the child's mind with anything mysteri-
< Gus People OF wealth and people of
2 poverty have come or have written to
D her. one woman in a Missouri town
= wants to know if the child can cure
= disease. and had such faith in the
4 childs power that she wanted TO come
q and see her; but the privilege was de
y MED.
Charles y. Brumbaugh, president of
8 an artificial stone and brick manufac-
8 turing company at Marion, Ind. has a
story TO relate which he believes Is
3 true. He says the little Denver girl is
undoubtedly double developed" The
= story he tells comes from Anderson.
3 Ind. and is as follows:
4 The family Of Biddie Murdoch. 1924
a Cincinnati avenue. is much mysrifed
= over the phenomenal appearance Of the
Il figure Of a daughter who died two
q years ago, on the razor blade with
81 which Mr.. MUrdOck shaves.
sunday morning Murdoch noticed a
hlotCh on the blade, he said. but paid
little attention 70 IT, A few days later
when he went 70 shave he was horri
fed, ne said. to notice that the bIotch
had taken on perfectly the features Of
his dead child. He said ne had used
every effort 10 remove the image, Blu,
81 in vain
The story was doubted by neigh
bors 20 whom II was told. but wher
shown the razor blade all admitted h,
likeness 20 be perfect. Some people
r believe that The IMAGE IS a psychologt
cal problem. Mrs Murdoch IS incline,
to believe that the image portend.
some calamity which is hanging owe,
the family.
The Murdocks are not spirfrualist.
q and have no particular religious lean
z ing"
Little Cor.uHe Alberta Nayaeld con
rinues to play daily with her spirit
playmate who. she says, lives "aBov
The clouds" ''Margie" plays with he
fer hours. They dress their dollies
b jump m rope. cu- ont pictures and g
b 20 kiuCer-ar,eu together. Co-rine g.
very fond OF drawing ana declares So