The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-10-05

want is rest and quiet at first. Some
times they are like mad people when
they find they have no physical body,
and we have to keep them as if i'm
prisoned here. Then desolation and
loneliness and reaction come on them
and we help in cheering them up.
We bring beautiful new sights, COL
ors and inventions before them to dis
tract their minds.
-'Nearly all are interested to find
they can fly. Aviation has made such
tremendous impact on the minds
of the combatants. 1t is sign that
human beings are now in touch with
this life where flying is the natural
means of moving about.
October /, 1915-We are very
busy now. We are both at the front
helping some poor soldiers, some of
whom do not realize that they are
dead, so that we have great trouble
in preventing them from frightening
the other soldiers. Many of those
Tommies have such thick spiritual
skins that nothing short of wars
alarums could make them conscious
of their souls or of God. The war
! will bring about great good, and
women will get the vote of it, too,
but it will last good while.'
The hint given that the death of
William T. Stead on the Titanic was
planned so that he might be avail
able as one of the reception commit
tee for dead soldiers in the spirit
land brings up again the famous
story of the British museum mummy,
| which may have been employed by
the benevolent spirits to bring about
that great ocean disaster. The tale
is told in the book.
She caused the case to be photo
graphed, with the weired result that
the picture showed a woman's face
entirely different from that visible to
the eyes upon the case. The photog-
rapher died soon afterward. To get
rid of the hoodoo, the owner present.
ed it to the British museum. The
carrier who took it there died in the
same week; the man who helped to
remove it broke his arm, and soon
after the arrival of the case two at
tendants in the mummy room. died.
The editor of a newspaper who had
the temerity to publish the photo
graph of the case died soon after
ward.
An English peeress and her daugh-
ter went to the museum to see the
case. The daughter remarked that
she didn't care for that silly old
mummy" and made a grimance at
the case. On leaving she tripped and
fell on the steps, breaking her ankle.
Another lady versed in Egyptology
painted a picture Of the case, but
took the precaution of placing a plate
of apples in front of the case. These
presumably absorbed the malevolent
influences for they were invariably
found withered the next morning.
By this time the mummy case be-
gan to get on every ones nerves, and
it was removed to the basement of
the museum. Not long afterward,
as reported in the London newspa>
pers, there was an explosion of es-
Gaping gas in the basement and a
gasftter and his mate were severely
injured.
Then, says the author, an expert
on the subject, who was examining
the mummies in the museum, found
that this particular case was missing,
and that it had been replaced by
clever imitation, he questioned the
curator, who finally admitted that
the museum officials had been so
worried over the curious train of ILL.,
fortune following the owner of the
case that they sold it to an American
ti-millionaire who made them a
handsome offer for the curio.
The case was shipped to America,
the curator continued, on the maiden
voyage of the Titanic! Today, pre-
sumably, the misunderstanding relic
lies at the bottom of the Atlantic
ocean,
According to the author, it is wide
ly believed in England that Admiral
Jellico is a reincarnation of Francis
Drake, whose spirit also animated
Nelson, in popular opinion. King AL
bert, of Belgium, is hailed as the re-
embodiment of William the Silent,
who freed the Netherlands from the
yoke of Spain. These quotations may
come to an end with ''The Strange
Tale of an Astral Spy as related by
Crawford:
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