Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-10
Ghosts Reveal Spirit Life.
SECRETS OF HISTORY WRAlTHs OF CELEBRATED
PERsoNAGEs WHO PENETRATE VEIL.

How fare those who have passed on
beyond the grave?
If there is conscious life after death,
can the beings on the other side tell
us of their experiences? Do the ghosts
Of men return? If so, can this be
proved?
1T cant" declares Miss Rose
Ievere, Ii. B., member of the New
York bar.
In proof Of this she submits a re-
markable book, entitled Scientific
Proofs of Another Life" 1t has just
been published ny the Spiritual
West One Hundred and Thirty-sev-
enth street. and il is a most interest
ing contribution 10 tf.e large number
OF ether works which deal with this
eyer-interestine, never-settled topic.
Miss Ievere says-and she believes
it-that the shades Of the illustrious
dead composed ire beck for her. She
was merely the amanuensis. The
wraiths of such men as Moses and
Lincoln, Samuel F. B. Morse, Frank
Leslie and Russell Sage. Christopher
Columbus and p. T. Barnum super
vised the entire work even to the
punctuation and illustrating, she says.
From the spirit world Miss Ievere
received her detailed directions for the
publication and. in addition, instruc-
lions that the review of the book,
written by the late William T. Stead,
who went down with the Titanic s
shattered hulk, be included in the
work.
The great of many periods of his
tory have communicated with this
world through the medium of Miss
Levcre's pen.
Probably the most welcome an
nouncement in this volume comes from
Sir Isaac Newton. The discoyerer OF
the law of gravitation has now dis
covered a way to overcome IT. Sir
Isaac prephesies way out OF our
rapid transit problem which will de-
light everybody except the Inter
borough magnates. Railroads and
steamships and subways and elevated
will some day be so much junk. All
we will need to do is to learn levita-
ton When we want to go to any
particular place we will simply think
ourselves 70 our lllitioi. hCi Z
will be no more danger of accidents
then than there is of collision on the
telephone.
Another all-important scientific mat
ter is decided by Cyrus W. Field. The
layer Of the Atlantic cable has this
time applied himself to finding out
who was the first spiritualistic med
ium 70 receive a naturalization
grievous contest between friends of
Mrs. Andrews, of Moravia, n. Y, and
Mrs. Huntoon, Of Chittenden, VT,
which has ragged for nearly half
century, is thus wiped off the boards
There was a difference Of seven min
utes in this respective claims, and Mr.
Field discovered that there was just
seven minutes difference in sun time
between the two villages, and that the
imaterializations were exactly stimuli
taneous,
Great historical mysteries are clear
ed up. Theodosia Burr Allston, the
beautiful daughter of Aaron Burr
sailed to meet her father 100 years age
and the ship was never again heard
from. But Mrs Allston was one Of the
"a ghosts who compiled this book ant
tells the whole story for the first time
.of how she leaped overheard to escape
"a pirate captains attentions.
The most gossipy ghost in the whole
convention was the Marquis de La
1ayette, who gives some inside infor
ton about George Washington.
when a young man. says Lafay
tette. washington was great ad
l.nirer of tho fair sex. He had hi
lsweethearts in many sections Of tn
thirteen colonies, and more than on