Show 1 I A HEAL GH GHOST STOEY STRANGE experiences OF A respectable BUSINESS MAN three tima in the course coarse of ni alfe lie ile 31 has s geen seen the shade of Ms his dead nother mother and each time she seemed te be trying to warn mm him of danger there a ats ta more things in heaven and earth ho horatio r atio it capie cape to tho the knowledge of a reporter quite by accident that in an eminently respectable house lying between betwee n madison and fifth avenues avenue a on an eminently respectable respect abla street a gentleman well known in business circles has hag repeatedly experienced what may be called on lack of a better word visitations this th the a reporter learned while tho the gentleman gentled was quite unaware of his connection with the press thanksgiving evening when conversation turned on mesmerism and othet other occult subjects from talk to experiment the step was easy when it was discovered that the man ta la question was waa an almost perfect I sensitive to hypnotic influence the discovery was probably a surprise to most of choso in the room tho man is perhaps pe chaps forty five years old under the medium height stout and Inc inclined linea to baldness fond of the good things of life a shrewd business man yet he was absolutely sol at the beck and call of an amateur of tolerably developed hypnotic power when after some grotesque m manifestations the subject was restored to consciousness the company with olt accord pressed him to ex explain plain his feel mg ing while under the influence you are asling asking ing impossibilities eald eaid the man good humo hamo for while in the hypnotic state my waking self belt is submerged and I 1 real I 1 the ego of the metaphysicians meta physicians am what is is called unconscious although Bo something methin 9 that must most be a second 1 I or alter ego is obediently active it is all 0 as great a marvel to me as it can be to any of yori lam am n not otaw a weak eak willed man or one easy to influence by ordinary methods 1 I have always been keenly susceptible to psychic influences this caused a stir of in the little attla company 1 I do not often speak of these things went on the man after a little pa pause use such a nature as mine must most seeni seem uncanny to others and to be frank la in a business way I 1 could not afford to be known as aa a sensitive but I 1 think I 1 am aaa safe to speak under this roof 1 I can remember when quite quit a small email boy seeing my uncle drive toward the country home where I 1 thou then while he ha was waa yet far off and neither face nor attitude could have borne to ine ma an any y visual hint I 1 knew that thal Ms his son eon m my 1121 cousin gin william was dead ir I 1 ran an and bobbed in my mothers mammal she chided me for f my tolly folly as she believed ina in a long two minutes my uncle drove up looking ashen gray and sad and the questions my mother would have put died upon her ups it was true tine my cousin had died unexpectedly after tie t a briefest illness I 1 have been more than six years old and had never heard beard of occult art cf any sort for onis aurs were wera country folk aai As I 1 grow grew up of this kind were more common I 1 was a stupid bullet headed fellow in the ninin main but in in this special sense as I 1 mast mu t think it I 1 was and am extraordinarily gifted to 0 this I 1 attribute the fact that on ahr three es occasions I 1 have seen been the ghost of my mother who lied died very soon boon after the incident which I 1 have just related A stir of incredulity caused a rustle in the room and done one restive festive chap whistled a bar ot of over the fence la Is out oh I 1 dont expect you to believe it resumed the narrator easily q in a wa way I 1 I 1 dont believe it myself that is I 1 cant account for it and ana my mind revolts against Lec epting anything against my mv reason yet I 1 lam am brought face to face with the fact thrice my life while wide awake fully clothed and as much in my right mind as I 1 am at this minute I 1 have seen the shade ghost or aura of m my y dead mother seeming not worn and thin as I 1 remember her but young youn and fairer and here h is the curious part of i it L she was clothed as aa in tho the days before my birth there were older children than I 1 in a dress which I 1 had ahad neverseen never seen or heard beard described and of which no picture is in existence yet by my description of the d dress as I 1 saw it my oldest bister aister recognizes it perfectly what did the ghost say to your you asked ached ono one oi of the party clothing thing yet in each case ase the visit came before some misfortune which w was in a sense avertable it seems to me as if the 0 my was ineffectually to warn wara her favorite and youngest child the set face the mournful ful air all so indistinctly seen might agthe authe visits that impression co convey vey were a at t night twice the vision came cama when I 1 waz was alone the last time my wife was with me I 1 said nothing to h her at the time not wishing to alarm her but she can testify that I 1 was wido wide wake awake the room in which we sat satis is I 1 large arge ar ge and was at the time lighted only by y a well ell shaded lamp I 1 which left the farther end of the rovin in but bat the figure seemed inte inter penetrated with a light of its own it did not move ovo or beckon it simply was and then was waa not an odd thanksgiving night tale was ihnot it not 1 11 I dont want my business associates cl ates to suspect inspect me of seeing visions 1 concluded but bat this is the gentleman story etory and I 1 would like to know my what yo you make mak a of it new york re be corder |