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Show DO SP!RtT3 COMMUNICATE-? j If the Fceplicauy disposed are prone , 1 to q1 nation the following story oP J gbootly communication, we refer them to the editor of the Oswego Times. In a village in Oswego , county, says that journal, there resides re-sides an intelligent widow whose husband hus-band was a Methodist clergyman. A lew years ago she lost a much beloved be-loved daughter, a young lady at the time, whose regains were deposited in the village church yard. The mother for a long time incunsolable, and against the remonstrances of friends, wis in the daily praciico of visiting and weeping over' the grave of her daughter. This she would do no matter how inclement the weather, a:id her own health was seriously imperilled by this course. One day, after ehe was apparelltd for her daily visit to the grave-yard, all at once her daughter, just as she appeared when in full health, stood beside her, and looking into her mother's lace said sweetly and as naturally as Bhe had ever spokeo. "Mother, why do you risk your health by these uusea-1 uusea-1 a n ible visits to the grave yard? I am not there. It is only the dust of the t human form that molders there. The ; spirit which you loved is in a far happier state of existence than when . held and fettered by that dust over which you shed unavailing tears. Your duty, dear mather, is to the living, not to your dead daughter, ' who haa been made far happier by this great change which soon all must meet." And alter a lew con- , solatory remarks the daughter i vanished from sight as suddenly as Bhe came. "Now," concludes the Times, "this lady reports this as having positively occurred. She waB not dreaming, because she was not sleeping, but attired for her daily visit 1 to her daughter's grave and in a moment mo-ment more would have been on her way to the cemetery." |