The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, January 17, 1908, Page 2, Image 2
Came Back From Spirit Land.
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fi True Ghost Story?Man Killed In Buffalo Fire Appeared to His
I * Brother and Told Him Where to Find His Body,
, _ Which Had Been Buried in Debris.
f fA correspondent of the New York
Herald vouches for the truth of the
following- "true ghost story." The cor
respondent's brother was one of eleven
men missing after the fire which de
stroyed the wall paper factory of M.
H. Birge & Sens In Buffalo. Remains
of what appeared to be eleven corpses
{were taken from the ruins, all so char
red or disfigured aa to be unrecogniza
ble. The remains were all Interred In
lone "grave In Holy Cross cemetery.
fChat was in December.
[ "On the night of March 31." the
Herald's correspondent 6ays, "I re
ared at 10 o'clock. In spirit I bad felt
tery" close to my brother that entire
jvening, so I lay awake, thiuking and
Repeating ovev and over a significant
/ittle verse he had written ou the fly
leaf of a much used book of mine:
''Should frownlne fate e'er grasp my hand
And lead me far from thee.
Oft call to mind when last we met
? And fondly think of me.
1 "I was aroused by sounds of tric
kling water, which seemed so close and
loud that I put both hands to my ears
to shut out a peculiar drip. drip. drip.
I then discovered that the disturbance
;was caused by unfelt tears that had
poured over my cheeks, had filled the
"I went down early In the mornlnc
and proceeded at once to tell my moth
er what I had seen and heard. She
was much affected and brokenly cried:
" 'God is good. He may be alive; he
may come back again. I can never feel
that he is among those I followed to
the grave."
"One member of the family remark
ed. 'That was a very vivid dream.'
"1 asserted that It was no dream.
"My mother grew very restless and
called In a neighbor, to whom she re
peated what I had told. The woman
turned on me and gave vent to her
doubts. Nevertheless she left shortly
after and spread the story of my
'queer' dream about the neighbor
hood.
"At 10 o'clock that morning, a few
hours after I had seen my brother and
while the story I told was still being
discussed, workmen engaged In remov
ing the bricks aud debris came upon a
hotly lying ou the stone walk of the
Terry street side of the ruined factory.
Among the curious that gathered
arouud the body was a next door
neighbor of ours, who recognized the
body as that of my brother and has
tened to notify my mother. We hur
ried to the scene, but the body had
"TELL MOTHER I AM COMING BACK TOMORROW."
hollows of my ears and overflowed
In little streams that soaked the pillow
around my. head and neck.
"I sat upright and looked around.
Every object in the room was plainly
discernible hi the flood of mellow
tnoonlight that poured In through a
partly open, uncurtained window near
the head of cuy bed. I looked at the
clock. The time was a quarter of 12.
I wiped the moisture away, turned the
pillow over, lay back and was about
to close my eyes when I saw the door
open and close behind my brother. As
he came toward me I called Iiis name
and was about to spring from the bed
.when he raised his right hand with a
gesture that caused me to lean back.
In manner and dress he looked just as
;when 'bast I saw him, but the eyes
jwere dull and hollow, and the facial
expression was one of extreme sad
ness. He spoke my name in a perfect
ly natural voice and said:
i "'Tell mother I am coming back to
morrow. Tel! her not to worry any
more about me. I am all right. They
left me there on the sidewalk all win
ter, and I look bad. but don't be
afraid; there Is nothing to fear. I will
mot trouble you again. Goodby!'
I "Before I could utter a word he had
(passed through the door, which did
AOt seem to open as when he entered
fthe room.
i "With a wildly beating heart I arose
jfroni the beci and staggered to the
door. It was locked and bolted as I
<had left it on retlriug. Weak from ex
Icitement?I was not afraid?I sank Into
ja chair and remained until the painful
[throbbing of my heart and temples
?passed ever. I decided not to disturb
tany member of the fumily, and so I
?spent the reraaiuder of the night pac
Iing the floor from door to wiudow,
rwatching the full March moon serenely
eall down the western sky and count
Sing the lonely hours chimed by the
?lock in a nearby church steeple.
been taken to the morgue, where we
followed. After the first wild grief
had subsided we called In an under
taker and were about to make arrange
ments for the burial when two women,
mothers of victims of the Are, rushed
in and upset our plans for the time
being. After looking the body over
one stoutly maintained the body was
tbat of her son, who was of about the
same age as my brother. Arguments
and remnants of clothing which we
produced in evidence of our claims
were unavailing. She was positive In
her belief. My poor mother was on
the verge of collapse when, the coroner
told her he could not allow our under
taker to interfere until Identity was
proved beyond a doubt.
"Crushed and disappointed, we were
about to leave when close to my ear
there came a sharply whispered 'Why
don't you tell them about my '.eethV
Instantly there flashed across my mind
soipething I had antirely forgotten. A
few days before bis death my brother
called my attention to a seeoud row of
teeth that had made their appearance
In the left upper jaw. I quickly turn
ed to the coroner and told him, describ
ing the teeth and their position as I re
membered them. He and the under
taker ut once proceeded to Und out if
the peculiar proof was present. They
opened the jaws, and there, just as 1
described them, was the Inner row of
teeth. We buried him in the plot with
the other victims, for his name, with
theirs, was inscribed on the handsome
brownstoue monument.
"Should you ever have occasion to
visit Holy Cross cemetery please ask
an attendant to direct you to the Birge
fire monument and read the Inscrlp
tion thereon, reading downward. When
you reach the ninth name on its east
ern face kindly pause a moment, for
that name perpetuates the memory of
one who came back from the great un
known."
Sea Gulls Attack Lineman.
electrician on Lofty Perch Desperately Battles With Hundreds
of Winged Warriors.
I John Nlxsou, lineman for the Seattle
'(Wash.) Electric company, met with an
?unusual adventure while stringing a
cable. Perched In his airy isolation, he
;was discovered by a sea gull, who
?fieemed to consider Nixsou so far from
5 ground an intruder on the rights of
ae feathered tribe. The gull screamed
and called orfc?rs of his tribe to his
assistance. One followed another until
[ a hundred or mure of the birds had
gathered and made an attack on the
man, who was completely at their
mercy for a time. They swooped down
upon him with their wings and tried
to find a vulnerable place to pick at
him. It was not until the lineman g;?t
one end of the rope free that he was
able to beat the birds off and get back
to earth alive.
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later varieties, I have the Succession and the Late
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W. P. CAKK, Meggctts, S. C, 1-17-6,
King's Classmate In Pigpen.
Man Who Went to Oxford University With Edward Vli. Dies a
Pauper at Melrose, Mass.
Once a classmate of King Edward
at Oxford. Charles Frederick Powell,
known as "Che Melrose hermit." a man
of education and refinement, who,
made a tramp through remorse for a
blow he struck hin father, has been
Identified at the Melrose (Mass.? hospi
tal, where he died a pauper. Identifi
cation was made by Mrs. Barbara
Lynd of Dorchester, with whom be
boarded up to two years ago.
He was taken to the hospital from a
piggery, where he was found 111 among
swine. Pneumonia had him in Its grip,
and from It he never rallied. In life
he loathed children, and when one of
them' approached the cave in which he
dwelt in Middlesex fells he growled
and so contorted his features that he
spread terror among all those of the
neighborhood. Yet but for a child he
would have died among the hogs, for
one of them while passing heard his
groans and called assistance.
No man was better known by sight
to the resideuts of that section of Mel
rose than "the hermit." He was not.
however, known by name to any of
them. When he died the hospital au
thorities were obliged to do considera
ble investigating before they learned
who he was.
His life story, which he has told In
fragments to Mrs. Lynd and to Mrs.
George Beckford of Melrose. was as
strange as anything found in fiction.
According to what he told them, he
was born in Plymouth. England, fifty
seven years ago and in his early life
was surrounded by every comfort and
luxury. He was sent to school until he
reached manhood, when he matricu
lated at Trinity college. Oxford. The
Prince of Wales, now King Kdward
VII. of England, was a member of his
claat. at Trinity, where he hims?elf
sang in the choir and often appeared
In colas to which the young prince was
a listener.
He did not complete his course at
Trinity, he told the women, because
of trouble he got Into with the school
authorities, but he later studied at a
German university, whither he was
sent by bis father, who at that time
lived In Liverpool, and it was there
that he finished his education. While
he was in Germany his father married
a second wife. When he returned to
his home he and his stepmother had a
violent quarrel. His father Interfered
and took his wife's part, a fact that so
enraged the son thnt he raised his
iiHiul to his parent and struck a blow
which felled him.
For that act, he often said, he never
forgave himself. He turned from his
father's house, and, going at once to the
docks, he took passage to America.
He never afterward heard from either
his father or his stepmother.
That was twenty-six years ago, and
when he arrived in . Is country he
tried his hand at various occupations,
finally becoming a sign painter.
When he lived at the home of Mrs.
Lynd In Dorchester he appeared like
any other workingman, except that
when those in the house came to know
him they learned that his education
was far beyond that possessed by
many workers. He knew the best lit
erature and could quote Virgil by the
hour. He read books In Greek. In
German, in French and In Italiau. He
was well posted on politics both In this
country and in Europe and knew the
history of most public men.
Loses His Appendix at Sea.
Cunard Liner Pannonia Stops and Rolls In Awful Storm While Ship's
Surgeons Operate on a Stoker Desperately
III and Save His Life.
While 853 passengers on the Cunard
|-liner Pannonia were praying for deliv
erance from one of the worst gales the
Atlantic has ever known a stoker was
operated on for appendicitis. He was
able to sit out on the deck when the
steamer docked at New York. It was
one of those cases where the ship's
surgeon had to act quickly and use all
his skill to save a man's life, giving
little or no heed to the possibility of
the scalpel's slipping when the steamer
lurched under the blow of a comber.
Bob Law was the patient. He is a
husky Scotchman about twenty-eight
years old.
The Pannonia bad just cleared Gi
braltar when Bob complained of paius
In the right side of his abdomen. He
took from a fellow stoker a glass or
two of "the mixture that never failed"
and admitted he felt a wee bit better.
But three days later the pain returned,
and the chief engineer took fron? the
medicine chest a big dose of "black
draft" and gave It to Bob. That should
ministered the anaesthetic, and within
one hour alter he stretched out on the
operating table Bob Law was able to
understand what the doctors meant
when they informed him that his ver
miform appendix was probably float
ing in the Atlantic a mile or two away.
When the patient was well under the
influence of the ether, Dr. Orr found
it almost impossible to make an inci
sion. The Pannonia plunging into
heavy head seas and lurching under
the stress of sudden blasts of tho gale
mode it almost impossible for biro to
stand on his feet.
Although braced and strapped to
Reep it from rolling, the big stoker's
body slipped on the operating table.
In desperation Dr. Orr sent word to
Captain Irvine, asking him to bring
the Pannonia to a dead stop for an
hour or two until he could perform
the operation, which Is considered a
delicate one even under best condi
tions. It was explained by the doctor
that he would run fewer chances If
THE SURGEONS OPERATED BETWEEN LURCHES.
have cured the srol ? c, according to the
belief in the stokehole, but it didn't,
and Bob had to "turu into his bunk
for keeps." Reports of the man's ill
ness uever got any further than the
engine room until the eighth day, when
the wiseacres of the lire room thought
it might be well to send for Dr. Orr.
One hi'sty examination of the help
less stoker was sufficient for a diagno
sis, and within ten minutes Dr. Orr
had the young Scotchman on a table
in the steerage hospital aft. ne sent
for Dr. Torok, the physician sent
aboard all passenger steamers leaving
Triest and Flume by the Hungarian
government. He asked him to assist
in the operation. Dr. Torok thought It
a desperate' undertaking in such a
heavy sea. but consented and attended
to the duties usually assigned to a
trained nurse. Dr. Orr's assistant ad
the steamer got into the trough of the
sea, as it was the shock and jar of
plunging into head seas while under
way that made the operation particu
larly hazardous. Dr. Orr did not have
to explain much to Captain Irvine, for
the latter stupped the steamer at once.
The surgeon worked cautiously, cut
ting into the abdominal region between
lurches, and within thirty-five minutes
after the Pannonia had stopped her
commander got word that the opera
tion was over and Bob Law would pull
through. The operation was the talk
of the steamer when the Pannonia
docked. The only man not wrought up
to concert pitch over it was Dr. Orr.
He said the operation was performed
under annoying circumstances, but
apart from that he did not see any
thing unusual about It. Bob Law
thought it was a great job. ,
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J- H. ROBINSON,
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Over Twenty-three Years Ago Baby
had Severe Attack?Years Later
Grandfather Suffered Torments
with the Disease?Virulent Sores
Developed from Knees to Toes.
BOTH OWE COMPLETE
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bills and an in
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I recommended Cu
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A few years ago I
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and became an in
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A few good furs at 3.00
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The live ones swim up stream,
The dead ones float with the current.
Never raind what you thought you knew yesterday. That might be
enough if everybody else stopped learning.
It's what you need to know for the business battles of to-morrow, next
month and next year that should concern you.
Remember the hare that took a nap.
Remamber r.lao that just twenty years ago the Rock Hill Buggy Co.
was organized and-to-day thousands of satisfied users r.re singing the
praises of a bu^gy the reputation of which was made solely upon their
merits and today with an annual capacity of 20,000 vehicles, the demand
for this famous buggy cannot be supplied.
This all has a meaning
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The Orangebiirg Collegiate Institute
Orangeburg, S. C.
Our new building is now completed, and at the opening of the sec
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live new boarding students.
Catalogue and terms on request.
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President.