The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-10-05
WARS LATEST GHOSTS.
Weird and Wonderful Tales of Spirit
Visitors That Come From Front.

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There is the story of two Tommles,
who we're doing outpost duty some
where in France" and one suddenly
said to the other:
Il say-look there!'
"Look where?" replied the other,
loath to take his eye off possible
German head that might expose it
self.
"Just there" said the other. "See
that dear old lady in gray-over
there"
The other turned his head. Good
Lord! My mother!" he exclaimed,
half rising in his excitement. He
fell back dead, with bullet in his
brain.
Then there is the tale of the heir
of a well-known title and family,
whose life was miraculously saved
by his being pinned down by pow
erful invisible hand" just as he want
ed to stand up when he would have
been struck by a shell. 1t is not eX-
planned why so many other heirs to
titles were abandoned to their fate by
the invisible helpers"
A Royal Artillery officer, the au-
thor relates, had strange PRESENT.
ment one evening at 7 o'clock, and
acting upon it, although all the men
and horses were comfortably en-
sconced for the night, he went and
moved them all, telling his orderly
to put his bed in the basement. At
midnight a she'll screamed through
the night, landing and bursting in
the very spot from which he had
moved his men and horses. A frag-
ment of the shell shattered the win
dows of the room in which he was
to have slept This officer is said to
have told his brother officers, before
retiring at 9 o'clock, that he had a
feeling something was about to hap
pen.
A woman went to firm in Lon
don and ordered fountain to be put
up in Westminster in memory of her
son, who was reported killed at the
battle of Mons. When the base had
been finished she ordered the work
discontinued, stating that she had "a
very strange feeling" that her son
was still alive. Two weeks later she
learned that he was truly alive. This
is cited by the author as "a case of
phychic sensitiveness."
A woman friend of the writer re-
lated to him that, when the news
from Russia was darkest, she was
walking in Oxford Circus, in London,
and saw a newspaper man displaying
q poster on which seemed to be print
ed in large type, "Great Russian
Rally" She called it to the atten-
ton of sister, who exclaimed:
"What do you mean? 1t says, The
Dead Brides Case
The sister was right, as a second
glance showed, but the next day, at
the same spot, they saw another pos
Russian Rally" 1t proved that the
news had arrived the day before, at
the, very hour when the woman
thought she saw it announced by pos
ter, and had been held up "a hours
by the war office. The authors sug-
gestion is that his friend received
the news clairvoyantly a day before
it was made public.
From letters communicated
through automatic writing by a Mrs.
c., who died three years ago, to
her sister, it appears that the spirit
world arranged to have 40 officers
of the Salvation Army on board the
Empress of Ireland when she sank,
so that they could aid in welcoming
the ghosts of soldiers killed in the
war. Extracts from the letters are
given in this book:
august 6, 1914. This war is full
of pain and tragedy, yet the light it
sends here is much purer and finer
than I would have thought could
come with carnage The men have
more. thought of God in them in the
danger and horror of battle than they
would have when working ordinarily
at home. We are used to help them,
picking out our affinities by the lights
of their auras.
august 21. Alfred Cher dead
brother) and l are allowed to help
comfort the dead soldiers, who are
coming here in thousands. No. we
don't use language, light, colors and
thought expressions; no word Ian
guage is needed here.
''September g. For some time be-
fore the war special preparations
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