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WAR'S LATEST GHOSTS. wi tii Weird and Wonderful Tales of Spirit Visitors That Come From Front. ar pr There is the story of two Tommies, lo who were doing outpost duty ''some- ar where in France," and one suddenly W said to the other: or "I say?look there!" tr "Look where?" replied the otner, loath to take his eye off a possible th German head that might expose it- a self. of "Just there," said the other. "See hi ?that dear old lady in gray?over th there." m The other turned his head. "Good Lord! My mother!" he exclaimed, ^ half rising in his excitement. He j fell back dead, with a bullet in his : brain. d Then there is the tale of the heir i3iV$ , *" of a well-known title and family, ^ whose life was miraculously saved ?p( J J ? U by bis being pinnea aown vy <x gj, erful invisible hand" just as he want- al ed to stand up when he would have of been struck by a shell. It is not ex- w plained why so many other heirs to _.( I titles were abandoned to their fate by t)l the "invisible helpers." A Royal Artillery officer, the au- ^ thor relates, had a strange presenti- p| ment one evening at 7 o'clock, and at acting upon it, although all the men te and horses were comfortably en- la sconced for the night, he went and gt moved them all, telling his orderly w to put his bed in the basement. At ^ midnight a shell, screamed through the night, landing and bursting in is the very spot from which he had moved his men and horses. A frag:.v ment of the shell shattered the wingr th dows of the room in which he was to have slept. This officer is said to th / have told his brother officers, before ra retiring at 9 o'clock, that he had a r-( feeling something was about to hapmi, ? A woman went to a firm in Lon- co don and ordered a fountain to be put re up in Westminster in memory of her ?|. son, who was reported killed at the te battle of Mons. When the base had been finished she ordered the work ^ discontinued, stating that she had "a gr very strange feeling" that her son WJ was still alive. Two weeks later she learned that he was truly alive. This te is cited by the author as "a case of ca phychic sensitiveness." A woman friend of the writer re- m lated to him that, when the news from Russia was darkest, she was fe - walking in Oxford Circus, in London, and saw a newspaper man displaying pa a poster on which seemed to be print- t0 ed in large type, "Great Russian Rally!" She called it to the atten- pr tion of a sister, who exclaimed: jn "What do you mean? It says, 'The f0 Dead Brides' Case.' " The sister was right, as a second ga glance showed, but the next day, at the same spot, they saw another posRussian Rally*" It proved that the as news had arrived the day before, at pe the. very hour when the woman ca thought she saw it announced by pos- ga ter, and had been held up 24 hours jn I by the war- office. The author's suggestion is that his friend received 0E the news clairvoyantly a day before it was made public. From letters communicated aE through automatic writing by a Mrs. cj( C , wbo died three years ago, to cu ber sister, it appears that the spirit world arranged to have 140 officers ^{ ' of the Salvation Army on board the f0 Empress of Ireland when she sank, ca so that they could aid in welcoming m the ghosts of soldier? killed in the war. Extracts from the letters are given in this book: ^ "August 6, 1914. This war is full vc of pain and tragedy, yet the light it su sends here is much purer and finer than I would have thought could oc come with carnage.- The men have more thought of God in them in the jv daneor and horror of battlp than they tc ^ ' uc would have when working ordinarily ^ at home. We are used to help them, picking out our affinities by the lights of their auras. eil "August 21. Alfred (her dead w] brother) and I are allowed to help vc comfort the dead soldiers, who are co coming here in thousands. No. we rp, don't use language, light, colors and ?i thought expressions; no word language is needed here. I "September 6. For some time be- . in fore the war special preparations ^ were going on here for dealing with / Dc large numbers of people, and it was part of the plan that the Empress of Ireland had 140 Salvation Army of- ^ ficers on board when she sank. These , . hi were needed to form a good link bese tween the military life and the re- . ligious life for the special interworld A duties consequent on the war. ^ "The experience of sudden death a of the Salvationists (and of Stead and his companions earlier) made them j especially valuable, and they are now ^ used for the most important organi- * ra zation and educational work in con- 4 nection with the vast number of men 5 J* hastily flung into the next world. ^ >. "December 18?I aid in comfort- ,. tn the lonely soldiers and their wives. I iy go to the wives on earth in the night- ^ time, but we have to meet the sol- ( to diers in the day time. Most of these _ are so tired emotionally that all they i t* !v mt is rest and quiet at first. Somenes they are like mad people when ey find they have no physical body, id we have to keep them as if imisoned here. Then desolation and neliness and reaction come on them id we help in cheering them up. e bring beautiful new sights,* cols and inventions before them to disact their minds. ""Nearly all are interested to find ey can fly. Aviation has made such tremendous impact on the minds the combatants. It is a sign that iman beings are now in touch with is life where flying is the natural eans of moving about. "October 1, 1915?We are very isy now. We are both at the front dping some poor soldiers, some of horn do not realize that they are ;ad, so that we have great trouble preventing them from frightening Ck i-ktVior cr?lriie>r?3 ATflnv of those V m. ? _ _ Dmmies have such thick spiritual ;ins that nothing short of war's arums could make them conscioustheir souls or of God. The war ill bring about great good, and omen will get the vote of it, too, it it will last a good while." The hint given that the death of illiam T. Stead on the Titanic was anned so that he might be avail)le as one of the reception commite for dead soldiers in the spirit nd brings up again the famous ory of the British museum mummy, hich may have been employed by e benevolent spirits to bring about at great ocean disaster. The tale told in the book. She caused the case to be photo'aphed, with the weired result that e picture showed a woman's face itirely different from that visible to e eyes upon the case. The photog.pher died soon afterward. To get d of the hoodoo, the owner presenti it to the British museum. The rrier who took it there died in the me week; the man who helped to move it broke his arm, and soon ter the arrival of the case two atndants in the mummy room%died. ie editor of a newspaper who had e temerity to publish the photoaph of the case died soon afterard. An English peeress and her daughr went to the museum to see the se. The daughter remarked that e didn't care for "that silly old ummy," and made a grimance at e case. On leaving she tripped and 11 on the steps, breaking her ankle. Another lady versed in Egyptology ,inted a picture of the case, but ok the precaution of placing a plate apples in front of the case. These esumably absorbed the malevolent fluences for they were invariably und withered the next morning. By this time the mummy case ben to get on every one's nerves, and was removed to the basement of e museum. Not long afterward, reported in the London newspa. rs, there was an explosion of e?ping gas in the basement and a .sfitter and his mate were severely jured. Then, says the author, an expert l the subject, who was examining e mummies in the museum, found! i at this particular case was missiug, J if T-,ornnlo pnrl hv Q LU tlictu it uau i ^/f/iuvv^u ktj u< sver imitation, he questioned the rator, who finally admitted that e museum officials had been so Drried over the curious train of illrtune following the owner of the se that they sold it to an American ulti-millionaire who made them a mdsome offer for the curio. The case was shipped to America, e curator continued, on the maiden tyage of the Titanic! Today, premably, the mischief-making relic js at the bottom of the Atlantic ean. According to the author, it is widebelieved in England that Admiral >llico is a reincarnation of Francis rake, whose spirit also animated 3lson, in popular opinion. King Al>rt, of Belgium, is hailed as the renbodiment of William the Silent, ho freed the Netherlands from the ?ke of Spain. These quotations may ?~ ? /? J "TTln C + 1?OtlOTQ Illy LU ail CIIU w iLil x lie utiaii^^ lie of an Astral Spy," as related by *awford: "For a long and drearily monoto>us time A B had been lyg desperately ill in a nursing home, it when the crisis of his illness Lssed he fell into a deep sleep and id a curious dream. "In the dream he was commanded r an invisible agency to get up from s bed, go to a certain little bookller's shop in the Strand?and he id never heard of the shop?buy a jsignated book, the -very name of hich was unknown to him, turn to special page, and from the direc3ns found there, 'to make a model at would be very important and >eful in submarine and aerial warre.' Then he was instructed to rite to a friend, and borrow a ecified book, which would give irther details useful to the invenon.' 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