/ SYCHJCAL experiences 
A DIARY OF 
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SARAH E. POST, M.D. 
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EDITORS PREFACE. 
Recent literature has anticipated 
many features of this narrative. A 
newspapr article entitled the “Thrill 
along' the Wire” attracted attention last 
•winter, the phnomenon being a sensation 
conveyed by the telegrapher’s key, the 
sensation given being peculiar to the per- 
son operating the line. 
Another paper also of last winter has 
the following still more pertinent para- 
graph. “The lover can tell whether all 
is well with her whom he loves.” The 
writer adds, “The time is not far distant 
when this new sense will replace the 
telegraph and telephone among those 
who are in sympathy with eachother,” 
Here too is a poem of the period: 
“I sometimes wish it were really so, 
“As the Buddhist devout declares, 
“That tlie soul at will could easily go, 
“From its fleshy sheath, unawares. 
“.Swiftly as moonlight creeps on the tide, 
Lightly as perfume floats thro’ the air, 
“I’d waft myself, dear love, to your side 
“Kissing away all traces of care. 
“Then float above this earth-world? 
“Perhaps. I cannot know or say. 
•‘When hound you my spirit furled, 
“I might forfeit my life to stay.” 
The author of the diary is the person 
to whom I alluded, N. Y. Med. Jouh., 
July 12,1890. The circumstances were 
the more or less familiar “'Willing'* 
game. The subject being blindfolded, 
another person having a hand in contact 
with the subject willed that she should do this or that—to walk in a certain di- 
r ctiujv, to find accreted articles, etc. The 
subject described this game as follows. 
learning that all that was required of me wan to fojlow auggca- 
tloijh, 1 prvir.imxl cooperation. 1 etuh dat first that 1 would maka 
no realstamc; that if the operator could In an; way make me know 
what 1 w.-is to do by means of her hands on my back, 1 would <k< It. 
I lutther prepared myself by putting all Ideas out of my mind; tor, 
I thought, unless I mo alert and attentive, I shall not be able to 
wderstMUd w hat it is lam to do. My thought was that 1 might re- 
ceive a finished Mea or project which tvonld outline What t was to 
do. Instead, during the earlier eXpteiilnhfiti 1 left nothing bUt iri(ta» 
of equlibnum; 1 took steps in lliia dV •Sctlon or that to Save mysCll 
Irom falling down. Ido not remembt/ttio schaalloPs which preced- 
ed or accompanied putting out the hand to grasp the hidden objects 
but I found the thiugs without knowing that I Was linking lor them. 
During the last experlmefit, however, I did havb an Idea and U 
came about In tills way. I advanced to the middle of the room 
In response to the loss of equilibrium as before. 1 bent my head 
and then commenced to feel a puckering up of the mouth and I 
■aid to mpsell: “I am afraid that they are going to make me kies 
•ome one 1 hope not, for I shall not be a'blc to do It. ” Then 1 reason 
cd with myself about having so foolish an Idea. I said to myseh i'lhit 
It away oryou wfll not bo able to receive the impression they are 
trying to give to you”. I did then succeed In again abstracting n | 
mind so that no memory of the kiss remained but no further Im- 
pulse came to me. I stood in the center of the room, motionless. n«t 
even the loss of equilibrium reasserting itself. I had been directed 
to kiss one of the young hirtles. only women being in the room. I had. 
Advanced to her side then had stood motionless and the experi- 
ment was declared to have tailed. 
This experience was corroborated by 
the operator who willed the kiss and by 
the audience who knew that the test of a 
kiss had been agreed upon. The astonish- 
ing feature was that the muscular action 
preceded the kiss and suggeste 4 the idea. 
This order of mechanism is similar to 
that of the primitive language of 
the narrative. The mind, at a distance 
here used the lips of the receiving party 
in the production of letters, words and 
sentences. This mode of communication 
is carefully differentiated from that of 
the more direct transmission of words or 
thought. In this method of communica- 
tion the lips did not move. 
A very interesting feature is the 
difficulty experienced by the subject and 
her lover in the acquirement of their lan- 
guage, which was throughout, I under- 
stand, a language of the lips. Direct 
thought transmission was not acquired 
by the two at all in the course o± their 
communications. The use of two kisses 
for words of two letters, three kisses for 
words of three letters etc-, is unique. 1 fh'nk thin feature an evidence too of the 
truthfulness of the story. 
Mind-talking appears to have been a 
feature of th;<VMina-rcading”of the past. 
It has been recognized also in a scientific 
way. Sirmitt speaks of it as the“ Psychic 
♦airgraph.** (Occult World, p. 207.) He 
adds, “If any one still doubts that 
thought impressions can be conveyed 
from one mind to another without the 
aid of speech or any sign or communica- 
tion having to do Vrith tho physical sen- 
*e* he is unacquainted vfritn the results 
of scientific inquiry in. this direction.” 
What is called the “JPSychid atmoipherc” 
(Oehorowioz, Mental Suggestion, Hum- 
boldt Library, 1891, p. 18.) seems to play 
an important part in its production. 
When we come to the practical value 
of this modoof communication, we know 
that several planes of conosiousness, hyp- 
notic trance, thejqualities of a “good sub- 
ject” are of little use in the ordinary af- 
fairs of lifc,our systems of education be- 
ing in the direction of a binding together 
of the mental forces and the building of 
commissural fibres in the brain, making 
concentration and application of mental 
force easier and more effective. In the 
light of Western civilization, Sinnctt’s 
prediction that the psychic telegraph 
might ultimately become the world's pos- 
session, is a reversion rather than an 
advance and a result to lie deplored un- 
less with the faculty a high degree of 
inhibition and self-control is exercised, 
unless with Boston’s young lady, "We 
can talk but don’t.” To her most Gracious 
Majesty, the Queen Vic- 
toria, this little hook is 
respectfully dedicated by 
its author. 
‘Tor they Jo* had to be Wehh, you know." 7 
Part /, 
”Vor lh« wxmtan sm m loved that the man made hlrnaeU 
into a ghost In order to be with her.” 
have always 
een my chief joy. 
o,^jAßooks Possess an at- 
jSyT£!§ iWm osphere of con- 
@ Jigltent. Books never 
mi reproach one, never 
disturb the most ir- 
■ r*taß^e mood. Books 
' are friends who know 
•\G) f when to keep silent, 
when to speak. If I 
should add the school-room to the 
free library, I would certainly have 
named yon the pleasure-grounds 
of my childhood. This was, how- 
ever, a library where one could 
wander at will, climb the ladder 
for oneself and bring down the 
volume to which in unreasoning 8 
ways the fancy strayed. Had there 
been an unmeaning catalogue to 
be consulted anb an unsympathet- 
ic clerk to be applied to, at least one 
child would nave gone without 
mental food during those early 
days. And what food it was—-Tyn- 
dall, Huxley, Spencer and Ruskim 
And what delight did the last- 
named writer give to one little girl. 
How she would read one para- 
graqh and stop, choked to the full 
with its loveliness of imagery and 
suggestion. And flhen the won- 
ders opened out by Tyndall. Is it 
any cause for remark that this girl 
should have had no room in her 
mind for lovers at the time when 
her feet first strayed into this new 
and most beautiful world of 
thought? Is it any wonder that a 
passion for learning took hold of 
her, threatening to overwhelm nat- 
ural impulses and to supplant nat- 
ural duties and even home ties. 
Books were in childhood my only 
joy. As I have grown older the 
study of human nature, sunlight, 
sky-effects and scenery add to my 
pleasures but at that time my ap- 
preciation of these was very limit- 9 
cd. People, as a rule disturbed me. 
The mental attitude of the person 
I am with makes me vaguely un- 
happy now as then, . It is not nec- 
essary that the person should re- 
gard me unkindly, she may be 
simply disheartened or angry with 
some one else; but, if unhappy, I 
shall be in her company also un- 
happy. The people with whom I 
am happy are people who do not 
borrow trouble, people of a sunny 
disposition. Particularly do I seek 
physical buoyancy in my friends. 
I go into this analysis as perhaps 
throwing some light upon my later 
experiences. I have in no respect 
altered since my most childish 
recollections. Always I have had 
these characteristics, they distil 
guish me still. 
I have never had robust health 
and as a child I was even delicate; 
yet my longing for the ideal world 
of my thoughts was so great as to 
brook no denial. I matured a plan 
for leaving home and teaching 
school, the only avenue toward an 
extended education which was 
open to me. My ideas as to what 
1 was to do in this work! of thought were vague. Only to be there 
was all that I asked. I can add that 
this has remained my ambition 
I have never aimed at competition 
or special excellence or to do 
things for the sake of their accom- 
plishment but always for the sake 
of the atmosphere of learning, the 
rapture of acquirement. This is 
undoubtedly a low view of life but 
truth requires the statement. 
I then commenced teaching 
my first school. I gave it up before 
the term was over. I was appoint- 
ed to another school and gave it 
up before the term was over. I 
was tried in other positions and 
failed in all. The sensitiveness 
which shrank from a thought was 
exposed to the savagery of child- 
hood. For children are not gentle, 
they are not kind, there is an ele- 
ent of rudeness in them which 
must be met by force and this, I 
never possessed or never cared to 
exert. I might explain that these 
were middle grade positions. Once 
I was employed as instructor only 
and here I did well but there was no 
one to tellme: this is your place, 
government requires sterner stuff 11 
and so for the sake of a larger sal- 
ary I again tried my former posi- 
tions with a repetition of my for- 
mer lack of success. 
At this juncture my self- 
estimate was very low. I gave up 
the hope of a liberal education and 
in my twenty-second year secured 
admission to a large training 
school for nurses, already a disap- 
pointed and in a certain sense a 
heart-broken woman. There for 
two years I had hard work; I had 
back-aohing, feet-aching work and 
it was good for me.* I came out 
♦I am requested to add another cir- 
cumstance associated with this time. 
My religious feelings also underwent a 
a change. I was converted at an early 
age. when eleven years old, I waa 
taken by my grandparents to my first 
prayer-meeting. Only about eight or ten 
persons were present. The lesson was 
upon the passage, “This is a faithful say- 
ing and worthy”, ete. A statement of the 
greatness of God, the comparative *litll&- 
ness of man together with the fact that 
Christ came was simply and quietly told. 
I think that I realized these facts for 
the first time and as the love of God 
shown in Christ became known to me, 
suddenly a glow of light and warmth like 
that of a flame entered my heart. Later, 
almost immediately, doudts took posses- 
sion of me. When sixteen years of age 
I united with the church of my people 
simply because 1 could find no reason for. with nothing forgotten and some- 
o o 
hi ng learned—something of frie nel- 
ly sympathy added to my previ- 
ous egotism—something of help- 
ful earnestness in the place of my 
former shrinking unreliability. I 
also learned to utilize my peculiar 
sensitiveness for the benefit of 
others. I found that while I suf- 
fered as others did not suffer, I 
also could understand better than 
others what the patient suffered—- 
where and how she was sick. In- 
deed I suffered with the patient if 
closely attendant upon her. I 
staying outside of the circle that united 
my friends and family.For several days 
previously I had been struggling with, 
my thoughts. I took the sth and the fol- 
lowing chapters of Romans. I went 
away by myself and read these chap- 
ters verse by verse. I said, “I believe, that 
and that. I do have faith; therefore I 
must have peace, although I do not 
realize it. I do believe; therefore I will 
place myself upon Christ’s side.” In this 
decision I felt as though I were opposing 
a tremendous power but I persevered. 
I rose in the congregation and made my 
confession in these words: “I do believe, 
‘that Christ died to save sinners of whom 
lam chief; if that is to be a Christian, I 
would like belong to the church.” 
I was received, of course, but the 
peace which I sought did not follow. Up- 
on the occasion of my baptism, I felt my- 
self surrounded by the unseen world. 13 
had the same pain, the most un- 
likely symptoms would be dupli- 
cated. At first when I suffered in 
this way I thought that I was 
myself sick; later, upon discover- 
ing the rapidity with which these 
symptoms disappeared, I learned 
to disregard them, except as a 
knowlspge of them enabled me 
to add to the patient’s comfort. In 
the hospital I acquired, too, a 
new power or a power of which 
I was not previously conscious. I 
found that I not only suffered 
with my patient, I could out of 
Spirits seemed to be contending for my 
bou.l. Afterward, possibly from exhaus- 
tion, for a time my doubts left me and 
I w;is a little happier but I did not re- 
main free from their visits and the facul- 
ty for appropriaing skeptical allusions 
remained until I entered the hospital. 
Here, within the first month, the entire 
phalanx of my doubts disappeared- 
vVhether my nervous energy was in 
other ways so absorbed as to leave for 
them no sufficient creative power or 
the realities of transgression and suf- 
fering, made me long to rest upon the 
gracious promises of the gospel, Ido not 
know. Whatever the reason, I did then 
believe in them gladly and this nerv- 
ed me to many an almost impossible 
task. 
The above entry was made toward 
the end of this experience It was as- 
sociated with an incident which 1 am my own healthier organism lend 
her strength. I found that the pat- 
ients weak will could be assisted. 
Vomiting could be checked, for 
instance, and sleep induced by 
my own strong mental intention. 
By the exercise of this power I 
have brought patients through to 
recovery after probabilities and the 
medical staff had given them up. 
I might add that this power is 
consciously or unconsciously ex- 
erted by many nurses. 
But to come to my more re- 
cent history. Notwithstanding 
now, still later, asked to Include, I was 
telling the story of my conversion in 
response to some one’s questions and 
about in the words given, when a voice 
on me swiftly and clearly to my car with 
the words:—“ Mamma, I have found Je- 
sus,” A few seconds later a person near 
added,—“And then they knelt in prayer.” 
Now the voice which came to me 
was swift and distinct in its utterance, 
different from the voices of my people 
an 1 others who were near. It resembled 
somewhat that of the strong woman 
who came to me in May. It was as tho' 
she had been given the words, had come 
swiftly to speak them and had added 
the sentenco: “They knelt in prayer”, in 
the hearing of others, lingering a little 
on her way as she passed back. 
■ In my storyjl had omitted something. 
,M At the -time of my conversion, X 
paid nothingl a£d I hocae slowly my impressionable character, I 
had never been in love, when 
the fates threw me in the way of 
a man who pleased me. In fact, 
he was the man of my dreams so 
far as 1 had allowed myself to 
dream at all—a man of affairs, of 
sunny temperament and an 
almost unlimited capacity for 
work, both physical and mental. I 
have said that the fates threw us 
together; how or why, it is not 
necessary to recount. It is enough 
to say that the circumstances of 
our case made it obligatory for 
us to break up the enterprise 
which we had together and to 
separate absolutely. It is said 
that “Love laughs at lock-smiths.” 
with my grandparents but, arriving at 
the house, I burst open the door and 
rushed in calling out in an excited way 
“Mamma, I have found Jesus.” She an- 
swered me quietly and afterward pray- 
ed, both of us kneeling. I recall that she 
was doing the family mending that ev- 
ening; my father was away from home 
and did not return for several weeks and 
he has no recollection of her having told 
him of the incident. During these experi- 
ences I have had other reminders. People 
have recalled miuute circumstances re- 
gardingme in a way which has suggest- 
ed the tact that our doings arc known and 
remembered or written above. Well, out of this forced separation 
a new strange faculty grew. Pre- 
viously my lover had developed 
a delicacy of perception which ex- 
ceeded my own. He found that 
he could kiss me through space 
and so much in harmony had we 
become that we seemed to sleep 
and wake together*and in our cor- 
respondence, knew when a mes- 
sage was written or receivcb. If I 
were too busy to give attention, 
I said so in thought and 
was understood. Actual meaning 
was not at this time understood 
but negation was understood. 
Later we learned to talk. 
*1 went to sleep at nine o’clock and 
was waked up nightly—-waked up by a 
kiss. Later, when I told this, the people 
said, “Love himself hath visited her”. The quotations, which head the Parts 
were Refrains, used by the people in. 
the “mind-reading”. That for Part II 
was given me from the other world. 
The circumstance was this. My father 
came to see me. As he entered the 
room, I noticed that his face shone and 
there flew from him to me, a presence, 
which settled over my head, envelop- 
ing me—my father went away to 
Set his lunch. Later, I was told that 
omebody had asked him to come and 
that he took him home and left him at 
the door with a big kiss. Part II 
ARCH 3oth.*-I have 
lately start- 
by curiouslit- 
fj| tie sensations in 
tj! the left side, now 
Ef in the arm, now in 
the foot or hand or 
ywXj^fS>l These have 
*> been a great many 
\ times repeated. 
* The right side is 
now touched also. Sometimes 
first the left and then the right 
side is touched. I understand 
the words left and right but 
of their meaning I am in doubt. I 
have a number of surmises but 
man, who conkl “come like a flaeb of lightning sod 
wrap bis Lore In a shining shield.” 
•The diary proper begins here. Part I 
was prefixed later. I commenced the 
♦‘writing up” as it came to be called as 
a history of events, mutually important 
and finally preserved it as a record of 
the language, its development and the 
uses to which it is put. 20 
tf> r ‘ 
all fill me with anxiety. Today 
this anxiety seems to be recog- 
nized forthe right has been exclu- 
sively dwelt upon and I have de- 
cided to trust to this assurance 
for its author is well-nigh invin- 
cible in matters of management 
and if any trouble which threatens 
me can be made right, he will 
make it so. 
Friday, April 3rd.—Somebody 
seems to be studying Ziemssen’s 
points. He can now pick out a 
number of sensitive areas while I 
can only say “ Yes ” and “ No ”, 
The first, I do by mental acquies- 
cence; the second, by mental ob- 
jection. Sometimes the complica- 
tions are, however, a little funny. 
He knows always whether I am 
occupied or passive and a touch 
of the eye-lid asks whether I have 
gone to bed. On Friday I was 
on - the cars and as quiet as 
thoifgh I had composed i*nyself for 
sleep. This seemed to puzzle him 
a little; for, about ten o’clock, 
came the touch on my eyd. This 
question, of course, I could not 
answer satisfactorily. 
Tuesday, the f th,—l have some new signs. The ring finger of the 
left hand is first touched; then, the 
ring-finger of the right hand and 
last, the fore-finger of the right 
hand. Again the ears are touched. 
First, the left ear which, I under- 
stand, is to remind me of last 
year; then, the right ear. This, I 
think signifies next year. In mem- 
of last year I send a kiss. About 
next year, I am, of course, pru- 
dently doubtful. The other signs, 
I may be able to explain later. 
Possibly they will be found quite 
without significance, 
Thursday, the gth—l have been 
quite sick- Somebody did not 
seem to understand my idleness, 
so I tried to explain that I had the 
Grip, spelling it to him—g-r-i-p, 
giving a separa mental impulse to 
each letter. He seemed to under- 
stand that something was being 
spelled but not its meaning, for 
he seemed pleased, which could 
not have been had he really known 
what ailed me. I was answered in 
twenty-one letters, a combination 
which I could not make out. 
Sunday, the 12th—Something 
funny has happened. Somebody 22 
eems to know aim ost everything. 
He certainly knows whether I am 
busy or not and seems to know 
whether I am doing head-work, 
running the type-writer or walking. 
Yesterday evening began a series 
of signs My attention was re- 
peatedly called to my right ear; 
then, to the crown of my head, 
my hands and feet, seeming to 
ask whether I am going to work 
so hard with my head and my 
hands and whether I am going to 
run about so much on my feet 
next year. 
Tuesday.—Dear Diary: Altho' 
I have so much to do, I must tell 
you of the siege which 1 am go- 
ing through. As I told you be- 
fore, somebody can tell almost 
what I am doing; always knows 
when I think of him and is not 
pleased unless I think of him all of 
the tune. Now you know, Diary, 
that this would be inconsistent 
with business success. So far as 1 
can make ont he objects to my 
using my head, hands or feet for 
other people. Signs are directed 
to the head, hands snd feet repeat- 
edly and then to the nose. Now 23 
the nose means No. I seem to be 
asked to promise that I will stop 
this kind of employment, as they 
are all followed by a sign to the 
right ear and behind the right ear 
meaning, I think, next year and 
after. 1 could not quite agree to 
this and the signs were continued 
all night. About two o’clock a 
sign came to the pit of my stom- 
ach. To this I willingly assented; 
I too was hungry. I will add here 
a certificate of sanity which has 
come to me from my physician un- 
solicited. I think it will answer as 
well or better than one in due 
form;— 
•, April 13 th., 
I am very much interest- 
ed in your new business. You have ideas 
and energy enough for three fortune* 
and seven reputations. 
I neglect to say that somebody 
is also felicitous in the use of slang. 
For some time this puzzled me. 
The sign was to the cheek-bone. 
It is being made at this minute. 
I understand now by the repeti- 
tions that he thinks I have great; 
cheek and I send a kiss in reply,. 
The next sign is to my nose indU, 24 
eating that a kiss won’t make 
the matter right; so you see, Di- 
ary, how serious the situation is. 
Another sign is to the chin. He 
wants to come up and talk it 
over. Other signs are to the jaw 
and upper lip. I think I am asked 
whether I scold or cry. 
Wednesday.—Somebody ad- 
vances rapidly. He can now put 
two words together. Signs now 
come also to the right and left 
temple with the meanings—right 
and wrong. As a rule signs to the 
left half of the body refer to some- 
thing wrong. 
Thursday, the 16th.—I have 
been going through such a time, 
that I have forgotten what happen- 
ed yesterday. Somebody wants to 
come up* to talk things over. I 
was a good deal worried about 
this and my feelings seemed to be 
♦This sign was to the leg below the knee. 
Another sign was to the breast-bone. This 
ineant myself or “y-o-u”. A sign to the 
heart meant love; to the right side, over 
the liver, its opposite or anger. A sign to 
the arm-pit meant a question; a sign to 
the right arm below the elbow, a hand- 
written and a sign to the left arm below 
the elbow, a type-written letter. The 
crown of the head located the “under- 
stand” sign. ■ . ■ I 'V' 
appreciated for immediately there 
followed a series of regrets. I 
should scold him, he was sorry 
he had been wrong—quite wrong 
with other efforts at conversation, 
which I failed to understand but 
which occupied the most of the 
night. I could not say No, either, 
so as to be understood. At the 
present time, Y-e-s is being spell- 
ed to me over and over again. 
This is done by three kisses. 
Later in the evening.—Peace 
has been restored. Somebody says 
he was wrong about coming up, 
he says that there are two people 
within him, that one of them is 
very bad, he says that he has been 
very presuming. He tells me this 
by a sign to the left cheek. 
Sundaytfie i<)th.\—l had been 
more or less occupied, reading and 
writing my thoughts being pretty 
continuously shared. Toward even- 
ing I went out of town to visit rel- 
atives. On the stairs G. said: “I 
will go along" and this he did, com- 
menting now and then so far as 
tEvents here crowded upon oneanoth- 
er so fast that this and subsequent entries 
were made after the lapse of some days. 26 
oilr ‘limited -vocabulary tallowed 
and'appearing to enjoy his visit. 
One of the family was sick and, the 
trouble being considered too triv- 
ial for the family-physician; I was 
asked to see the case. I told G. 
that I had a patient. 
He- quickly rejoined, “A 
m-a-n ?” 
I said, “Y-e-s.V 
He repeated to hrmsclf, 
“M-a-n.” 
I explained that the malady 
was a b-o-i-1 and thatjt had to be 
A 
c-u-t. 
He then seemed to agree to 
my proceeding with' the c. se 
but himself went along, making 
various inquiries and remarks dur- 
ing the treatment, so that my 
friends asked me why I laughed. 
He, meanwhilej seemed to enjoy 
his position; there to look 
after me; the patient was a man 
and he repeated, “C-u-t m-a-n .” 
-rv: It wste funny for nle,- too, and I 
explained1 the details as they 
came up.* That night we did. not 
" *1 am now at a loss to understand 
kow we did this much talking'; I can only 
suppose that like the baby who gets his 
first language in kisses from his moth- 27 
skep. Conversation was still spell- 
ed and in spelling only a few let- 
ters were understood. Mean- 
ing was guessed at and 1 re- 
member being very, very tired 
and trying to beg off. I said,“l am 
so tired of spelling,” repeating 
t-i-r-e-d and s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g many 
times and failing to be understood. 
I recall another word which failed 
of recognition. Along in the night. 
G. said to me, “I am here”, mean- 
ing that he thought he was really* 
present with me. 
I said, “Well, then you are a 
ghost.” 
He said, “Why?” 
7 * 
I said, “Because you take up 
no room”. Then I added, “Yon 
are a substantial ghost.” The 
word—substantial—was a new 
one and its ten letters were a 
pretty big combination to guess; 
besides, the idea of G. as a ghost 
made me laugh and this added 
to his perplexity. Finally I substi- 
tuted the word—fat. He was a 
f-a-t g-h-o-s-t This he under- 
er’s lips, we advanced and receded in the 
art, what was gained on one occasion 
being lost before the next 2 S 
stood but I had added insult to In- 
jury, Why was.he a fat ghost;' - I 
then explained to him that as ;.he 
was there and yet took up no 
room he was a ghost; and, 1 s.aid 
further, a ghost must be of the 
size of the person or it would not 
be recognized; ..hence, being,a 
ghost, he .was a fat ghost Still, 
his muscles did not relax, he was 
not fat and I was too. nearly., ex- 
to make the original word clear. 
During the night we advanced 
from a primitive form of speech, 
which was but a series of kisses, 
through the spelling ordeal and 
the use of words and sentences to 
complete utterance.* I.think that I 
never did, before.,or since, such 
severe mental work, G. had so 
much to tell me. . We. talked of the 
future and„a number of times /C-. 
repeated, “Good partners in bus- 
iness,, good partners in life". He 
told me nothing definite but;-1 
trusted- . that somehow things 
were to come straight,, I hfidgain- 
ed the impression, 'that he was 
♦lt ig suggested to me that 'G. ooijld 
talk from the beginning-, that the diJlicnil- 
tfes of commiinichtShii' 
side only. About this I do hot know. ■ v free or would be free in the course 
of a year. 1 had not asked about it, 
not wanting to know the circum- 
stances; but now, toward morn- 
ing, I asked when his wife went 
away. He said that she had b«en 
gone three weeks; he said that 
fbey had had no misunderstand- 
ing; she had simply gone, taking 
the baby with her. This was for 
me the beginning of a series of 
shocks. He had not realized, that 
he ought to do anything: he had 
not thought of anything but that 
he was free and he had not 
had in mind anything relating to 
his freedom but me. He simply 
shut up his house, went to a hotel 
and did nothing. I expressed 
surprise and he told me that he 
thought she had gbne away with 
some man. 
1 told him that I conld hot 
believe this. 
“But," he said, “She had very 
little money.'* 
“Well,441 said,44Women, have 
grit It is not unlikely that, she is 
starving somewhere at this mini* 
ute.** 
44 Starving with my babyl” he repeated. To say that he was 
distressed would but poorly rep- 
resent the situation and tog-ether 
we planned what he was to do the 
next day. He was to employ a 
detective; he was to hunt her up; 
and we relinquished completely 
our thought of future happiness 
together. We were still cheerful, 
tho’, in a way, and I still laughed 
hysterically now and then at the 
idea of G. as a ghost. The sense 
of his personal presence continued. 
It seemed to me, too, as though 
he was really there and we were 
almost embarressed when my 
friend came in to call me. Said G., 
“What would Rebeckah say, ifsha 
knew that there was a man in the 
room?” Talking was now, however, 
put aside and we both became 
occupied with our own thoughts, 
so that while passing to the depot 
I was surprised to have spelled 
out to me,“B-u-i-l-d-i-n-g 1-o-t-s”. 
3 found the words on a sign-board 
at which I had unconsciously 
glanced. We talked a little on the 
cars, he accompanied me home; 
then, leaving me at the door he 
went on to his office. 31 
Monday, the 20th.—G. must 
have been late at the office for he 
on arriving, he communicated with 
me immediately, telling me that 
his wife had been there that morn- 
ing and had made a public com- 
plaint against him. I am glad to 
say that her complaint did not in 
any way refer to our relationship 
of which of course she did not 
know. The complaint was fictitious 
apparently and he was in the ut- 
most excitement of indignation. 
He would not take her back—he 
he would not take her back into 
his house. He would take the baby 
away from her. My memory is 
here confused but the baby was 
to be brought to me and of course 
there were difficulties connected 
with this scheme. Anyway he 
went home that night, telling me 
as he got to different parts of the 
route—in one breath telling me, 
“Not to think of him, he had so 
hard a thing to do;" and in anoth- 
er telling me, “Not to leave him or 
he would not be able to do right/’ 
But he left me at the door, he did 
not take me into the house and I 
felt that I was again alone and free. When he had got weft IVO 
the house a sense of weeping 
tame back to me but 1 said, they 
are crying together and every- 
thing will be made up. 
Quickly, however, there fol- 
lowed the words-—-“My baby is 
dead.’, 
“After a while I askcd,“When 
did she die?” 
He said, “She has been dead 
some time—two or three days I 
should think.” 
And then I asked, “Where is 
the mother?” 
He said, “I don’t know; she 
isn’t here, only my baby, my little 
girl.” 
1 said, “Who is in the house?” 
“He said, “Nobody, only my 
dead baby.’* 
I said, “What do you mean? 
Is she in the coffin?” 
“He said, “No, on the bed and 
not nice, not nice at all—in her 
old clothes. My baby, my baby!” 
It was getting late—it was 
eight o'clock, nearly. 1 asked G. 
what he was going to do. 
He said, “I do not know what 
1 am going to do." A minute lat- er a shiver of horrbr of rage went 
through ,me but before 1 could ask 
what was the matter immedi- 
ately he i said, “She is here, she 
is in the, room, she is crying.” 
I said, “Of course she must cry. 
What does she say about the ba* 
by?- : : 
She doesn’t say anything, she 
only qries.” A minute later' he 
added, “She is afraid of .me.” , * 
I said, “Of course she is afraid 
of, you. I would be afraid of yoUJ, 
too, if you felt about me as you 
did abont her a minute ago.” ■ T 
’He repeated again, . “She is, 
afraid of me and she won’t specie 
to me-and I do not speak td 
he . ’ A minute later he said>( ‘ 
“Now, she is:talking.” The baby 
died on the cars, it had been sick 
ever since she had left home. Aff, 
ten a while he said,, has 
she says that she must m"h|r 
sister’s tonight as , she has lier 
things there, she says that ‘ she 
has been at her mothers:” 
“To leave her own housearidher 
dead baby!’” anda then; Ties' 
saich fT think ;,that ’ 
be another manT:; 'V "A t T Vj. r' 
> W..';}! * 'F J|» .:(i'flJf.V® 34 
I said, “O no, I think not, she 
is afraid of you.” 
Said he, “Is she afraid that 
I might kill her? No; but I might 
hurt her; ’though I don’t know 
how; but—" 
“Yes,” I said, “I think she is 
wise.” I said this to change the 
current of his thoughts; and to 
divide his lonesome responsibility. 
I suggested that he go to his fam- 
ily physician and ask what he 
had to do: and I remember asking 
whether he had his over-coat on as 
he went out and locked the door. 
It was quite a walk—took a 
half hour, I should think, then 
he had to wait a few minutes 
The doctor at first said that he 
. would come over in the morning 
but on second thought he said, 
“No; that wouldn’t be enough’and 
declined to have anything to do 
with the case. “Then,” I said, “Why 
not go to a lawyer? Do you know 
any lawyers?” 
“O yes,” he said. “I can go to 
a lawyer.” 
“Well, go now,” I said. An- 
other long walk followed. >The 
.lawyer was not at home. “Is he a good man?' I said, “Worth wait- 
ing for?'* • '■<} : . • ... . . 
“Yes,” he said, “A very good 
man.” :1 J : 
“Leave a- message,- that you 
will be in early, teinprrow. and go 
home ‘mow; . that seems- all that 
you can do.” Then I told him to 
fo and get something -to eat and 
remember that he got a ■ ham 
sandwich, a glass of ice-water 
and a piece of pie-—at this minute 
he tells me, a piece of apple:pie. 
He then turned and went back 
to the house. He was-not partic- 
ularly nervous-*-told me that he 
thonght he would sleep—told me 
that there was nothing to feaß in 
his own- dead baby, ..that he 
would lie down on the lounge in 
the room. - 3.;: fa 
He did this and tried to sleep 
but would start now and.then. I Re- 
assured him as well as I could,1— 
told him that his nerves had been 
overstrained, that he would be-all 
right in the -morning; when he 
gave great start and sprang vp. 
-Then .1 .thought it was tijjne 
to do something and I said,M You 
must not stay here tonight; it is 3$ 
too much for you to stay here 
alone and nothing can happen to 
the baby. You must not stay alone 
tonight.” 
He said, “You are right, I 
must not stay alone bnt what 
shall I do?” 
I said,“Go to a hotel.” He got 
up and dressed and hunted up a 
place but when he got there found 
that he had not money enough in 
his pocket to pay for a room. 
Said he, “I can’t do it, I must go 
back.” ' 
“No,” I said, “You must not 
go home—-not, if you walk the 
streets all night. You can do that; 
some men have to do it and,” I 
added, “A well-dressed man like 
you will not be molested; only 
tramps are told to ‘move on'. Go 
to a park,” I said, “and then you 
can sit on the benches when you 
are tired—-sit down for. a while 
and then walk again. If the police- 
man notices you, say that you are 
hi trouble and cant sleep. Any 
man would see that you are in 
trouble I am sure.” He appeared 
to acquiesce, walking on as though 
he had no ideas of his own. 37 
A half hour only had gone by 
when he came very near to me, 
saying, “You will have to help 
me now.” He said, “A‘ss woman’ 
is coming to me. She is speaking 
to me now. I shall have to go 
with her, I think.” 
I said, “Why?” 
He said, “Because I can’t get 
away from her.” He added, “But 
I will not go.” Then getting very 
close to me, he said, “No, no, no;” 
and then added, “She is gone.” 
Another half hour and he said, 
“Now help me; two are coming.” 
Then he added, “But this will 
not be hard. Usually they come 
alone.” 
I asked,“ What do they do— 
speak to you?” 
“No,” he said, “They don’t 
always speak to you; they sit 
down by you and cpax and 
wheedle you.” 
These two were disposed of 
and another, the sense of his 
presence being lost to me for an 
instant in every case. He contin- 
ued to appeal to me and after the 
first encounter I had nodonbt in 
regard to the unmitigated evil of the interests represented. ! had 
not felt at all on the subject before, 
not understanding and letting the 
question lie, but now 1 made up my 
mind that these women should 
not hate this man and I put 
forth as much effort as ] was cap- 
able of to save him. Finally the 
fifth came and he said to me, 
“Here is another and now 1 know 
that I shall have to go. She is 
one that 1 know. Yes, lam sure 
that I shall go now. 1 know I shall 
go with her, "and again he was 
lost to me. 
1 now waited without hope, 
feeling that the limit of my power 
had been reached. He again return- 
ed,^however, saying, “She is gone.* 
1 said, “How did you get rid 
of her?" 
“I told her," he said slowly, 
and hesitatingly, “I told her that 
1 was engaged. It is a good excuse 
ta give them* They don't inter- 
fere with one another. I meant to' 
you." 
I said, is so; you arc." 
This- pleased him and he said 
Wllhsomeglee, “I can always say 
lhatnow," Soon after, however* he 39 
said,"l think that I will go to her,” 
meaning his wife. It was about mid- 
< night and he went, again taking me 
with him to the door; when he left 
me. A minute later he came back 
saying, excitedly,“ She is not here, 
you see 1 was right after all.” 
He stayed there all night. I recall 
asking whether the-people were 
kind to him and' them I went to 
sleep. At six o’clock or as soon as it 
was light be wakened me. He. 
was in, 3 very happy state of mind; 
—told me ’ that 1 had been with 
hiifi all night. He seemed to haye 
been watching me—told me -tliab, 
I had slept—told me thai;§he*had 
really left, afterward? 
the ring,,-finger of the * right hand 
many times. He was so jubilant, 
in fact* that I cautioned him. I said 
“A man doesn’t look happy when 
he has the errand?* which you 
have today." . ; 
He .said, “You are right; I 
must be careful today,” and he 
went down stairs. I asked wheth- 
er they would give him his break- 
fast and he said that he must not 
wait; he had so many things to 
do and that he would get his 40 
breakfast down town. 
Tuesday, the 2ist.—I do not re- 
call where he went or what he had 
for his breakfast; I was probably 
eating my own. I don’t remember 
his going to see the lawyer but I 
remember his telling me that the 
lawyer would attend to the whole 
matter. Then I recall his saying, 
“I think that it will be just as well 
for me to work today. ”As to my- 
self, I felt utterly used up although 
I had slept and I did no work but 
lay down the whole morning. 1 
came upon Olive Shriner’s love 
Dream and I read it to G. or 
rather he read it with my eyes as 
he not infrequently pronounced 
words before I had recognized 
them arid later, when we wanted 
to exchange tokens, he asked for 
the~Dream. I told him that he 
Would fund it, not cut out nicely 
but roughly torn out and I told 
him that this was a sample of the 
bad business habits which he was 
to correct; for already he had tak- 
en in hand my spelling and vari- 
ous grammatical defects; together 
with othert faults among which 
the omission under consideration might be included. - . ! * 
I recall that in the course of the 
morning we spoke of the possibility 
©four being insane; we were tempt- 
ed to think that our minds wander- 
ed. I at least had that thought. By a 
more or less rapid progression 
we had become possessed of a 
new language, as it were. Where 
we had been before dumb and 
without knowledge we now knew 
and could talk in a way which was 
unintelligible and even inaudible 
to others; it is said that the insane 
9 * • • 1 •> j f ** * 
hear “voices" by others unheard 
and I asked for a sign that I was 
not alone in my fancies. G. then, 
reassured me by telling me the 
time which 1 compared with 
that of my own time-piece. This 
he did a number of, times 
the morning—there were two of 
us; the insane were alone in their 
delusions: we had little jokes; the 
insane, we thought, ’did not laugh. 
Then we utilized our language. We 
talked of this a little arid surmised 
in regard to the parts which we 
could play with each other's assist- 
ance—we could telltime with- 
out a watch—either of us co,uld 42 
in fact furnish any information of 
whiah the other was possessed. I 
thought that I could assist G. in 
his examinations should he go up 
for a medical degree; while the 
ways in which he could help me 
were endless. Already, as I have 
said, he assisted me in spelling 
and points of grammatical con- 
struction in which he considered 
me weak. Still I was worried and 
G. proposed that we send each oth- 
er something, previously agreed 
upon, as a test ofthe reality of 
our strange asked 
for the Dream as I have related 
and I was to receive a letter, 
which he wrote and addressed. 
Once he asked a test of me and 
along in the afternoon, he said to 
me quite snddenly, “I need you 
very much; I am going to be sick 
—sick—l thtnk very sick. What 
shall I do?” 
I said, “Can you write a note?” 
He said,“ Yes, I can write.” 
I said, “Write a note to your 
doctor and then sit still where you. 
are until he comes.” 
Later I asked, “What are you 
itoing?” 43 
He said; * ‘Sitting at my desk 
and looking like other people.’* 
A little later he said, “The 
doctor is here, he is going to take 
me home with him in a carriage. 
He has a carriage here.” 
Every once in a while I asked* 
“Are you there?” 
He said, “No. It is a long 
drive.” 
Finally, he said, “We are 
here. We are going up the steps.’* 
A little time elapsed and he 
summoned me with great earnest- 
ness. Said he, “I have got to have 
you up here right away. They are 
are going to take me to an asylum.'* 
“Well,” I said, “Probably this 
doctor isn’t the right man for you; 
he is a doctor for babies, you know. 
It will be all right—I will go with 
you and whatever happens to you 
there you can tell me and if it is 
not right I will do something about 
it.” 
“All right" he said and in the 
course of a couple of hours he was 
taken into a carriage again and 
after a long drive into the asylum 
without any difficulty. 
He arrived there and in a few^ minutes summoned me. Said he, 
“I want you here right away." 
“What is it?" I said. 
“They want me to go to bed,” 
he answered. 
I said, “Why not? You are go- 
ing to have medicine probably and 
have to be in bed in order to get 
better." 
“All right,” he said. 
After a little he called me 
again. 
“What is the matter?" I said. 
“They want mo to take off my 
•hirt." ,t. • 
1 said, “Well, ! don't see any 
reason for that. I think that they 
will let you keepjon your own 
Shirt* J. .. *1 ' 
He said, “All right". •• • 
This difficulty had. Just been 
arranged when he said, “I am not 
going to get on here at all." 
Said I, “What is the matter?" 
“They want me to pass my 
water in bed." . . . 
I said, “Well, why not? You 
are in bed—Aren't you—and you 
can’t very well do it anywhere 
-else." 
He said, “All right but it isn't 45 
the way.” I do not remember 
ail of taese incidents but there 
were a number of them and it 
was the same with his medicines, 
all of which had to have my ap- 
proval. About midnight he slept 
and waked next morning in a very 
quiet state of mind—so much so 
that they planned saving him from 
any future imputation of insanity 
by representing him as a guest 
of the family He was invited to 
breakfast with them and was told 
that it would pay him to make 
that much of an effort and that 
they would give him something 
to eat first to brace him up. He ask- 
ed me what I thought about it. 
I was pleased and told him that 
he could do it, I thought—- 
that he need not exert himself to 
say much—that he probably look- 
ed nice. G. is a* little vain of his 
looks and I said this thinking that 
it would help him to pull himself 
together. 
He said, “Yes, I do look pret- 
ty well, I think." Still it seemed to 
take all of the force he could mus- 
ter to get through with the ordeal 
of going into the room and after* 46 
i- di lie was ready to be put back 
to bed. 
Wednesday; the 22d.—1 h d 
slept and had been calm because 
I expected the letter which war, 
to assure me that I was not de- 
ceived by an insane dream. But 
the morning mail brought no 
such letter. This in connection 
with the surprising character of 
our experience shocked- me very 
much—l was so much troubled 
th&t G. asked me what , was the 
matter. It was the letter. The let-, 
ter had not been sent at all. It 
had been lost out of his pocket. 
He me another letter 
He said, “Now, that has gone aud 
you will get it quite soon.” Then, 
every once in a while he would 
ask me whether the letter had 
come. The letter was sent by a 
boy and boys never went straight 
On their errands. He would send 
me another letter, this time by a 
man. “JNow,” he said, “You will 
get your letter—you will get two 
letters, which will both come at 
about' the same time." He then 
added, “They say, send for your 
doctor.” 47 
I said, "4 will wait a HttVc and 
if the letters don’t come 1 will 
send for her.” 
“No,” he said, “They say scad 
for her anyway. Don’t wait for the 
letters. Send for her at once. 
They think that your position is 
too much for any mind to stand. 
As the morning wore on 
things became—l have no suitable 
word—unreal will do—l had no 
letter and so many promised me 
and I felt glad that the doctor 
would soon come to take me in 
charge. 
That afternoon there seemed 
to be two men with G.—very idle 
men, they seemed—I thought, 
very poor nurses, I think that I 
said so once or twice—said that 1 
would have to come up and show 
them how to take care of a sick 
man—teach them not to talk and 
go over and over all of the things 
which he should forget—teach 
them not to stir him up to analyze 
that which had been too much 
for a well brain. I referred to our 
experience—l was very much 
worried and hesitated about an- 
swering the'questions, which He 48 
said that they told him to ask me. 
I said, “I don’t think that this is 
good for you at all. Are these 
nurses or doctors?” 
G. did not know. Part 111. 
~Vo r»*D(* wofnWp, MNM 
IMtb." 
fHB cross-questioning 
of that day was the 
commencement of a 
series of similar in- 
terviews which for a 
number of nights de- 
prived me of sleep. 
So-called doctors, 
lawyers reporters and 
members of the Theo- 
sophical Society all of 
in turn interviewed me. The ob- 
ject was always friendly—our sto- 
ry was to be substantiatod or our 
sanity was to be proved. I should 
perhaps, have stopped answering 
but scarcely know that it would 
have been possible—-the experi- 
ence was so strange—the manner 
of communication, so new, and 
then 1 was, as a rule, wakened for the conferences out of an even! ig 
or morning sleep. Besides I felt 
that I was in the hands of friends. 
Any way I answered all questions 
patiently, sleeping when I could 
and writing only fragmentary 
memoranda from that date.* 
April 2sth.—A well-known 
voice came to me in the early 
morning with the following Words: 
“It will be with us as it was with 
him; there was a time when she 
could have withdrawn herself from 
him but now she must accept him 
with all the consequences. As it 
was with him, so with us. There 
was a time when she could have 
withdrawn from us; now she must 
accept us with all the consequen- 
ces." The voice had a sinking: ut- 
b o 
*A number of times I was told that 
there would be a meeting of the Theo- 
Jgophical Society at thy house or that 
people would oall upon me at a certain 
time and I prepared myself and gave 
Orders relative to the appointment which 
subsequently was found to mean mere- 
ly a mental communication or the mar- 
jehalling of a number of such addresses 
from various parts. During these inter- 
views Gr. had seemed to be presen 1.1 heard 
him speak from time to tune. Indeed, he 
fried to brighten a little investigations 
Which had become very tiresome, “in- 
terluding to make h-e-r laugh.*’ After 
this time I lost sight of him. terance and the words had the ef- 
fect of echoing repetitions.f The 
waking-up was accompanied by a 
sense of pressure on the forehead 
or fore-brain. The two preceding 
nights I had been wakened at 
the same unseasonable hour with 
the same sense of pressure on the 
head. 
- May 4th to 23rd.—During this 
interval a series of astonishing 
events took place, including re- 
puted communications from Char- 
cot of Paris, and from Bebinsky 
of Russia by the “deep-sea- 
sounding wire.’' My own mother 
was made to appear to come from 
the dead for the purposes of this 
history. I had also a series of 
communications or dictations—for 
I took these down verbatim—re- 
lating to G. and an estate of which 
he was the heir. I had communi- 
cations from an Uncle represent- 
ed as on his death-bed and from 
a woman, an ancestress ofG. who 
also came from the beyond. I ex- 
perienced also certain physical 
* was told that this form of utter- 
ance was characteristic of the Blavatzky 
discipleship. Many of the earlier com- 
munications had this form. phenomena including what ap- 
peared to be electric disturbances 
together with a series of bodily 
convulsions in myself. These were 
of the hysterical type,* varying in 
•Thase Mhxures m*tm ehieffy ahara* 
terizcd by difficulty in breathing. I 
yawned continually and a number of 
short, shallow respirations would be fol- 
lowed by a long gasping or sighing res- 
piration. I would Tomit and there was a 
generally heightened sensibility with 
loss of nervous control. Tremor and cold 
perspiration and an anxious dread ac- 
companied these seizures. I was simply 
frightened near to death. I recall beg- 
ging that I might be spared further sur- 
prising manifestations. The most severe 
convulsion that I had preceded the com- 
munication by flr.’s ancestress. I lay up- 
on the floor, fighting for breath as though 
in the death agony. I never befoie had 
spasms of the general muscular system 
and not since. Circulatory disturbances 
such as cold extremities with perspira- 
tion, tremor and feat arc symptoms 
from which I sutfsr as a rule when out 
of heiftth. The turn varieties of spasm oc- 
curred both simultaneously and alone 
In the course of this experience. At this 
time the muscular spasm was uncom- 
plicated. 1 simply fought it through and 
was immediately warm and comfort- 
able. The convulsion lasted perhaps an 
hour; while the complicated spasm 
Would last hours and would leave me 
With a dusky look and a feeling of 
weakness. _ Consciousness never was 
lost. On this occasion 1 went immediate- 
ly to my desk and the woman commenc- 
ed speaking. I insisted upon taking these 
communications. I thought that if they 
impoztaat enough to be Ustcaei to, they 55 
degntef from flight spasms, such 
as stiffening of the fingers to $ 
general stiffening in which the 
respiratory muscles were involved. 
h received one communication, re- 
ferring to the* opening up of an 
oldasylumf from which hordes of 
mites—a species of lice, micro- 
scopic in size—spread over the 
country. I suffered from sensa- 
tions which might be referred to 
this suggestion. Other plagues 
were important enough to be preserved. 
1 asked a question of this woman in 
regard to the condition of the departed—- 
the peculiar features of life in the be- 
yond., She told me that I could under- 
stand but little about it, that the majority 
of people passed over into an intermedi- 
ate state; a few passed directly up near 
God. This was sometimes true of inven- 
tors. Invention, it was said, was a draw 
ing near to God—a seizing of the things 
of God and bringing them down to men- 
If any of the statements made to me 
were not put down because they seemed 
too incredible for consideration. I have 
1 find, entirely omitted to mention this 
woman’s husband. The man was sum- 
moned from hell or forced his way out 
to interfere with her communication to 
me. A club seemed to be held over me, 
I kept on writing until the woman her- 
self stopped and it was then said that I 
had “passed by the mouth of hell.” 
fThis communication was by a wo- 
who had been an inmate for many years. 
As I was taking her down I was called 
from another direction in the name of 56 
followed, all in some way depend- 
ing upon the asylum disaster. The 
last plague was a promise of flash- 
es of fire which would burst from 
the ground and might appear any- 
where; these flames were to burn 
up impurities only and do no great 
damage to property or life. On 
May 9th this plague would reach 
the vicinity of New York. It was 
for me a night of great nerve ten- 
sion—l lay upon my back, not 
daring or wishing to move—I lay 
sleepless and almost without stir- 
ring the entire night. I was helped 
or visited several times during 
Charcot, I told the woman that I was 
called and by whom. Said the woman, 
“The great Charcot who has done so 
much for the insane in Saltpetriere?” I 
repeated this remark and the reputed 
Charcot replied that this word of appre- 
ciation from an asylum repaid him for 
the work of years. He asked me to have 
a copy of the exact words sent to him. I 
must say that with the accompanying; 
circumstances these long-distance com- 
mumcations had an air ut reality which 
was highly impressive. I listened and 
replied when X assumed an attempt to 
deceive but the possibility of a true com- 
munication from p. great distance was 
too much for ina-—the idea made me 
faint and weak—Heart and brain both 
failed at the The communi- 
cation from my jwas even more 
disquieting. the night—among others by G.’s 
ancestress whom I had now learn- 
ed to call the strong woman, M y 
mother was brought near again 
but I asked her to go back. I re- 
call being told that the lower part 
of the city was in confusion, that 
the people were afraid of their 
houses, that they crowded the 
streets and climbed over one an- 
other in their efforts to reach a 
place of safety. The following 
nights were almost sleepless. On 
the night of May 10th the street- 
cars seemed to be out in full force 
all night. On the following night 
fire-engines were out. I under- 
stood that in both cases the hors- 
es had become unmanageable and 
were taken out to quiet them. On 
another night I was surprised 
from sleep by broad flashes of 
yellow light 
On tlie following night I was 
inclined to sleep but was repeat- 
edly waked up by the voice of a 
little pld lady who chanted and 
a man who told me that I should 
see something on the wall. It 
was as though a lantern exhibition 
were in progress, the man, staad- 58 
mg by. pointing, and the voice of 
t hcchanter furnishing the explana- 
tions. Now I was continually fall- 
ing asleep so that I cannot give 
more than a fragmentary descrip- 
tion of that night. Once I was wak- 
ened and told that I would see the 
sun, the earth and a star. I look- 
ed and did see on the wall a 
yellow or flaming sphere the size 
of an Oiange followed by two dark 
spheres, one smaller than the other. 
They entered the field at the low- 
er portion of one side and passed 
diagonally across it, the little old 
lady repeating, “And the moon 
batted the earth and the earth bat- 
ted the moon,’’many times.*At an- 
other time I was made to see a 
field of moving spheres, approach- 
*Some days later I noticed a flicker- 
ing light near the horizon and was told 
that it was the moon which had 
drawn too near the sun and had ignited. 
This catastrophe had disturbed the solar 
system so that we no longer revolved, a- 
round the sun but had rolled off into space 
preceded by the sun and followed by 
one of the smaller planets and the still 
burning moon. I learned later that this 
role was taken by the Bartholdi Light,! I 
have not myself investigated this light 
but it still flashes out low down near the 
roofs of the houses as before. The moon 
too is ia its accustomed place. 59 
ing and retreating and threading 
intricate paths. Here the little eld 
lady chanted, “And this is the bat- 
tle of Armageddon.” Later a good 
representation of a comet passed 
across the field alone 
This was a time of dread. I 
was told that the harbor was de- 
stroyed, that the continent had 
parted in the middle*)* and that 
Manhattan Island was now far 
out at sea. Our position in space 
was also a matter of speculation 
I was told that we were in danger 
of being whirled off from our plan- 
et. I was told that to make my 
own roof more secure a barrel of 
gravel had been deposited upon 
it.Later I found that the forward 
chimney had fallen. JI can not say 
that at the time I either bolieved or 
fin December this expression was 
again used and then it seemed to refer 
to a patting of the psychic atmosphere. 
(Ochokowicz, Mental Suggestion, Hum- 
boldt Library, 1891, p.2_l) At this time too 
long-distance communications were freq- 
uent and conversation, once commenced, 
was with difficulty terminated and 
it was a rule that while we might listen 
safely we ought not to reply if the at- 
tention were to be controlled. 
|I am now told that this chimney 
was intentionally, destroyed—that a man 
was paid for the service. disbelieved thysO surprising ,sug- 
g£stions.n 1 them of -im- 
portance enough to keep my rec- 
ord I was in a state of ex- 
treme physical weakness with re- 
curring attacks simitar to those al- 
ready described so that-“for the 
time nothing seemed, to>.matter. 
May 2jd.r—l find my office- 
stamp at May, 4th, - the date evi- 
ently, when1J ceased to attend 
to my1 business. 1 continued in a 
estate of extreme weakness, occupi- 
ed with for 
the tinjO seemed of "importance 
sufficient to "blot out business* re- 
quirements.f i was environed by 
the miraculous and business en- 
gagements were forgotten or re- 
fused. 
fAt this time I was addressed by many 
distinguished people. I recall a short con- 
versation with Curtis, who in. turn pre- 
; sen ted me to James ,Gr. Blaine.- He asked 
the abtiutmy life and, work—what-i had 
done. I replied that I had. in one sense 
wasted. time-—1 had been interested in 
*b. paper.“ One waste time and money 
pa. a paper,” I nig<mtiously explained. “ A 
paper is like a child. You nurse' it and 
expend your resources upon it; in 
time it may repay you or it may hot.” 
Yhe great man said slowly in a rem- 
iniscent way, “She has a paper which is 
to her as a child;” 
i *As i listened, my left hand which lay MayjisL— For a week I 
made no record. I felt weak and 
confused. This morning 1 went to 
the Park. It being Sunday I was 
asked why I did not go to church 
and pray, why I did not read the 
Bible in my time of trouble. I re- 
plied that I felt like Elijah at tHe 
mouth of the cave when the whirl- 
wind and the fire passed by. The 
very air was heavy with the 
strange experiences of the month 
Voices came to me from incredible 
distances with impossible tales. I 
felt as though 1 were in a new el- 
ement, a new world. A voice, seem- 
ingly that of an old man, added “W 
cannot worship, we cannot pray, 
we can only live in faith. "A gen- 
eralized conversation followed.* 
•upon the table was moved. I became 
conscious of the motion but allowed it to 
go on. The fore-finger was made to de- 
scribe a curious character which I vraa 
told was the Russian for God. 
I do not recall any other conversation 
of this kind. The question of church or- 
ganization was broached together with 
certain recent difficulties in various 
religious bodies. These church differen- 
ces seemed less serious to me than to 
some others. The church which has In 
its keeping a distinctive truth has in this 
truth a reason for existence. It is per- 
haps impossible for us to grasp all truth 62 
June 2d.—R etur nill g from 
breakfast my attention was attract- 
ed by the city’s noise. On listening 
it resolved itself into a measured 
chant or dirge. I was told to think 
of a street like Mulberry Street— 
a street in which the people, when 
at leisure, congregate for neigh- 
borhood talk. On this occasion 
the street seemed full of people 
who walked up and down or kept 
time with their feet as they sat. 
The burden of the chant was their 
houses. Their houses could not 
contain them. Their apartments 
were small, their rooms were 
crowded, they could not get 
around in their houses, they could 
not find room for themselves. The 
chant became a cry. I n vary i ng cad- 
ences and a variety of words the 
wail was multiplied and repcatc d 
over and over.fThey asked about 
If then relig ions truth is to be preserved 
in the world it must be by segments. 
fThis was a time of chants, which 
were often very impressive. The people 
who participated, the audience, could be 
by agreement of the pace 
in walking and when sitting by a 
drumming of the fingers or a tap- 
ping of the foot. At one time an entire 
street or section of the city walked 
with a single tread. At this time voices 63 
myself and the lover who could 
“Follow like a wreath of smoke.” 
They had heard that he was the 
heir to an estate, he had been spir- 
ited away. They had knowedge 
of these matters, they had pow- 
ers, they would find him for me. 
exhibited superior musical qualities, the 
musical characteristics of the ordin- 
ary voice were present, heightened and 
purified. It was as though the chant- 
er had received power to realize his 
dreams. M y sister, a sweet littie singer, 
usually, developed an “Angel voice” and 
th ■ "S'.v' ;tost voice this side of paradise.’* 
A t.av>r cook on soaring qualities equally 
elf ctiv •, se-uniiig to rise high above the 
city. This was out-door music and the 
voice; fill d fa; auditorium, apparetly 
with eas-. Singing toms were the rule. 
Tr i • musical compositions could have 
been rend -r-d on this plane I think. The 
chants, as I b iv ; called them, were simp- 
ly improvisations, the rhythm depending 
noon the arrangement and repetition of 
syllables. They were impromptu and 
without effort after musical effect. They 
were music, however, primitive music, I 
think. Writing down always disturbed 
the p.-ople so that I was not able to pre- 
serve any specimens of these composi- 
tions. I recall that the chant required a 
central idea or thought common to many 
min is; then there was a leader who im- 
provised the arrangement and maintain- 
ed the rhythm and visually another who 
supplied words. The intonation varied 
with the matter and with.-the leader. 
The three-day chant which I have else- 
where described was a dirge-like recita- 
tion rather than a chant, so great was 
the volume of sound and the seriousness 
which characterized it. 64 
I awoke early the next 
morning to find the chant again 
in progress. The following m< m- 
ing the chant was reestablish d 
but in less orderly measures, laps- 
ing into a confused murmur which 
rose and fell in volume, becoming 
louder or less loud with the rum- 
ble of passing wagons and the 
sound of the horses’ feet. It seem- 
ed as though any regularly recur- 
ring noise could be made a vehi- 
cle. Last night words came to me 
with the grind of the street-car 
wheels. Part IV. 
... j 
“Well, Oh well! that Is what we think abont It, that Is what i 
wo think about it. Well, Oh well! Well, Oh welll” 
«am now closely follow- 
ed by what seems to 
be a remnant of the . 
choruses of my previ- 
ous experiences. My 
work,., which is mental, 
Is read off and my 
thoughts voiced in con- , 
cert. In translating I am 
followed often by a per-. 
son more ignorant of 
the language than myself who has 
to be literally towed along by my 
own mind. Again lam followed '' 
by a person who suggests words .' 
or construction. In both eases - 
thought is interfered with . so. « 
that ■ the resulting work differs - 
from what would have been my 
own. Tired of translating I try - 
copying when sentences are re** 68 
peated for me from the eye-image 
even in advance of my own mind. 
June, jgth.—The following 
continues. One or more voices 
persistently repeat my thoughts 
going on in a monotone which 
ceases only at intervals which can 
be identified as times for eating 
and sleeping. One in particular 
has been so prominent that I have 
been asked whether his interest 
was in me or my story. I replied 
that the man had very little 
interest in me personally, that 
that he was simply, I thought, un- 
able to control his mind. A wo- 
man's voice here remarked, “The 
man is not sick, he can still reply 
to questions and talk for himself. 
If people are really sick in this 
way they can do neither but on- 
*This man was called, the “Man with 
the .dram in his head/’ He said that he 
fcad beat a drum in his youth and he had 
* faculty for making a noise, for getting 
what to be called a “Mind-read 
grow,” for marshalling sound. He was the 
jorganizer. I have repeatedly detected in- 
tention in this matter, an evident effort 
fo.add to my pursuers, He was in almost 
constant attendance for months, I was 
later told, by the .order of my enemy. I 
was told that this <e&smy had power to 
reward the man and that this power 
wa? accorded ;to tby various business 
of £\ty„ , 69 
ly follow the minds of others. 
July ist.—The persecution con- 
tinues and I ask myself whethe life 
is any longer worth living. In the 
past I have always been able to 
shield myself from disagreeable 
effects, I have been able to lock 
my door against the intruder. 
Now people may come to me 
unbidden, voices may fill my ears. 
Books even fail me, words and sen- 
tences being droned out almost 
before they reach my own brain.f 
I seem to stand alone separat- 
ed by a gulf from the past. In 
complete folornness I, who have 
never cared for the pictured feat- 
ures of my friends, now have re- 
sorted to some old photographs 
have ranged my whole fami- 
ly in miniature before me and 
have obtained some sense of ref- 
uge from their inanimate likeness- 
es. 
This morning I had a lit- 
tle conversation with one of the 
mind-readers. Some of these peo- 
fl*ater I was told that in my case 
while perception is reaonably quick the 
known to consciousness” is. 
slow. All of my judgments are slow— 
visual judgments, I think, with others. pie seem to have had previous 
experience of this kind.* They 
speak of “crazes" as though they 
were of no unusual occurrence. 
One man had done mind-reading 
for years. In another case it was 
a family gift; they had not given 
publicity to the fact fearing to be 
thought “queer.” One young wo- 
man stated that she had done 
“Mind-reading” ever since child- 
hood, that in her native town 
even children understood the art, 
that as a child she could “haunt” 
people and make suggestions 
from time to time. She said that 
she must be first acquainted with 
the person thus haunted. It was 
said that in a craze people do 
whatever the mind-reader tells 
•Later a number of people spoke of a 
mind-read time in their youth. Informa- 
tion came to me in regard to it from both 
Eastern and "Western States and from 
England, so that the phenomenon would 
seem to have been wide-spread. My oWn 
family had known of it. They had not 
told their children about if because it 
bad been forgotten in some cases and in 
°^C«rS bemuse of a superstition in rc- 
gard to it. This mind-reading extend- 
edfrom about 1847 to 1852 or 3 1 am told 
that a period of financial depression &1- 
lA* » of them to do. A woman from Ma- 
ryland said that this was the only 
way to get along in a craze. I then 
asked the mind-reader, whom I 
took to be a physician, whether 
this talking were recognized in 
text-books relating to insanity. 
He thought not, he did not re- 
gard it as an insane development. 
The “voices” heard by the insane 
were supposed to be imaginary, 
the product of the diseased brain; 
it was not known that conversa- 
tions such as ours were carried 
on by the insane. 
I then asked whether books on 
psychology mentioned the faculty. 
He thought not, he did not be- 
lieve it worth mentioning. The 
“craze ’ simply came and after a 
time it went. It was true that 
some of the people affected did 
not resume their former places— 
as the Maryland woman expressed 
it, “They dropped out of things." 
This was, however, but a matter 
of course. I said to the mind- 
reader that such an experience 
ought not to come upon a person 
unprepared, that it ought not to 
be again possible for such an ex- 72 
perience to develop and the suf- 
ferer have no resource in a previ- 
ous experience or record. For my- 
self, I was ignorant of the exis- 
tance of both mind-talking and 
the astonishing scenic effects 
which 1 have recorded.* Said the 
mind-reader, “Had she had such 
previous knowledge those effects 
would not have been produced.” 
fuly stk.—I am discouraged, 
the following to which I am sub- 
i’ected is nothing less than a 
lounding of the mind-read person 
and the results are most disas- 
trous both in the fatigue induced 
and in the annoyance to myself 
and others. Even my business 
callers are not free from this im- 
pertinence. I am driven about. 
Tired of one kind of work I try 
another; while my friends, become 
discouraged and give up the at- 
tempt to call upon me rather than 
be drawn into the vortex of such 
•I understand that the medical pro- 
fession of the city were equally ignorant, 
Kt« a prominent alienist had not 
knovm of the existance of this? mind- 
talking. The main opposition to my 
“'writing' up” came from business in- 
terests—people who in some way make 
Jt&o&ey by mind-reading. 73 
espionage. I ask myself how I 
have become! a mind-read person 
that this atrocious thing should be 
possible. I think that it has been 
due largely to my frankness in an- 
swering questions in the early 
part of this experience. Being 
without any known reason for 
. concealment, I gave to the public 
in regaad to my thoughts and life 
as well as my story. I have no 
other explanation. It is hardly 
possible that I have been of 
importance sufficient to induce 
systematic investigations on the 
part of mind-reading people. 
July 10th.—There is a peculiar- 
ity of the following to which I am 
now subjected. The mind-reader 
uses his own words. At the same 
time he follows my thought. If I 
think of my troubles, the mind 
reader takes my troubles as his 
theme. If I say to myself, I have 
not been wise, the mind-reader 
comments upon my lack of wis- 
dom. If I say, I am hot getting 
along, the mind-reader says, you 
are not getting along. The effect 
is depressing. Were not Job’s 
“friends” mind-readers? I recall 74 
that these friends so analyzed Job 
that for a time he could only 
moan in reply. Later I note that 
there are among my “followers” a 
man and a woman who unmistak- 
ably wish me some injury. They 
are practiced mind-readers, that 
is to say, they are able to haunt 
or follow closely. They persistent- 
ly interfere with my work, repeat- 
ing over and over any effort of 
my mind. If I try to formulate a 
thought or to write a sentence 
they accentuate the mistake as 
well as the finished work, so that 
progsess is almost impossible. 
Yet, without work such following 
would, I think, make a person 
insane or idiotic or drive him to 
some desperate act.* 
*1 did at a somewhat later date arrive 
at the verge of desperation and fled—l 
think that not an inappropriate term— 
to the house of a relative in Nem Kng- 
land but -1 was followed closely by the 
mind-readers and everywhere recognize 
ed as a haunted person. On the steam- 
boat and cars their words were distinct- 
ly heard by the other passengers while 
at my friend’s home they simply pervad- 
ed the village, singing out their repeti- 
tions with the buzz of a saw-mill, the 
dominant noise of the place. The situa- 
tion was intolerable and rather than 
subject my people to annoyance T re* 75 
During August I continued the. 
more or less constant use of mor- 
phine, during that and the subse- 
quent months running up to grain, 
doses, two or three in the course, 
of the day. I found that it helped 
me, it favored indifference and a 
degree of calmness which made, 
the management of my own af- 
fairs still possible. Without it I 
presume that I would have exhib- 
ited my exasperation in some ab- 
surd way. To morphine then I 
ascribe the fact that I was able to 
hold my own and to preserve a 
certain balance of judgement dur- 
turned home before the end of a week, 
being' still closely followed, the repeti- 
tions being ground out with the noise of 
the wheels. On my return I resorted to 
morphine and with its help settled down 
to more or less consecutive work. 
I neglect to notice something about 
Boston. The few hours spent on this trip 
in that‘city were comparatively comfort- 
able. I found there something of a sense 
of protection, a stability of equilibrium, 
which was wanting before and which 
was subsequently lost. The following 
was interrupted or carried on in sub- 
dued tones. Here as elsewhere I was 
mentally addressed at, times by people 
passing me on the’ street but less fre- 
quently and in a more indifferent way; 
One young lady expressed the sentiment 
perhaps when she said •in passing me, 
“Yes, we caa talk of. course hut we 
don’t.’* ing the remainder of this time. 
With its assistance I was able to 
meet people as though nothing 
were the matter, and I was 
able to transact what business 
was left to me on its usual lines; 
without it, I would probably have 
acknowledged myself ruined, in 
which case an insane asylum 
would have been my refuge. I 
cannot speak too gratefully in 
praise of this drug. I find no en- 
tries for August; it was a very 
trying month worse even than 
July in many respects but lived 
through so that September found 
me with a small piece of . work 
This was altogether, however, a cu- 
rious tirrfe. Many persons developed the 
powtr to come close. Sonic of my own peo. 
pie could come ‘.‘Like a flock of doves thro* 
the window,” and in ordinary inter- 
ceurse the electric tension of the individ- 
ual was unstable and a slight shock on 
coming near a stranger- w?is not un- 
common. I myself experienced repeated 
shocks on one occasion, several Oscilla- 
tions of tension .pcourring before an 
equilibrium was secured. Illumination 
or the countenance in the presence of a 
stranger and altered pitch, or. qualify it* 
the voice were not uncommon. Imese 
changcsappeared to depend-&poh aTittle 
perturbation of mind. I 'noticed theni 
particularly in women and aftetf‘sitting 
with the person quietly for a time hfcr 
“seif-possession” would be restored. * . accomplished. The doing of it was 
however, like pulling against the 
tide or travelling with a ball and 
chain. 
September 26th.- -I received 
today a name for my diary* As I 
waited for a parcel in Hearns' 
dry goods store a cash girl look- 
ed me over in a spculative way 
and toward me gently floated the- 
words, “The book called love and 
life.-' In the summer my “writing 
up” had been named Love and I 
had objected for the reason that 
there was so little of love in the 
record and so much of life and 
suffering—only enough of love, 
I said, to make life tolerable. A 
child has combined the thoughts. 
October 6th.—l read yester- 
day of a young woman accused 
of witch-craft. Her neighbors 
avoided her and the story grew 
until the girl ended the matter, 
by becoming apparently or actu- 
ally demented. I can understand' 
this and I doubt whether without 
my own little establishment and 
freecom in regard to morphine 
\ co.ild thus far have maintained 
rr y n \ental balance. My work is 78 
still unfortunately of the mental 
order—work which can be easily 
taken up and followed. If the dif- 
ficulty persists, I must try to get 
into some kind of mechanical 
employment; this is, however, not 
an easy thing to do with snch an 
escort. The song is now, “Well, 
Oh well! That is what we think 
about it; well, Oh welll’etc. I am 
now and then, too, asked about G., 
whether I do not hear from him. 
I do not. The “following” would 
make a private communication 
impossible, without any special 
reason and this is not wanting. 
Several persons have distinguish- 
ed themselves at various times by 
efforts to steal the message. The 
signs are sent to me by strang- 
ers and my lips even are moved 
by them in the old familiar way. 
“ For we cannot speak when 
44 Cannot send oar voices from ns, 
41 To the friends that dwell afar-off; 
44 Cannot send a secjet message, 
44 But the bearer learns onr secret, 
“May pervert It, may betray It, 
“ May reveal It unto others." SEQUEL* 
Subsequently we seen*c cl . 
to gain \'access|To the spiritual 
world. During the winter of 
1892 we were surrounded by the ■ 
souls of the departed,* who spoke 
with the accents of the ordinary 
voice or represented themselves 
familfar attitude or cos- 
.-‘k 
turned distinguished people by a 
by a portrait or familiar cut. John , 
Bunyan, Shakespeare, Columbus, 
Bonaparte’.Washington, Dickens,; 
Thackery, Irving, Mme. de Stael 
and Elizabeth and members of her ’ 
court were some of the noted [ 
people thus recognized. Thomas 
Aequinas spoke once or twice. I 
understood that they were always 
here or near the earth. Indians al- 
so were represented—on one oc- 
casion these seemed to be out, • 
*1 am finishing' my book—March 22d, 
*93, having bought printing materials ■ 
and set the type, working it through 
upon a hand-press, myself. I commenced ’ 
setting the type in January ’92. My 
health gave out in May and I did not ; 
again resume work until the latter 
part of September. The author and the 
editor of this history are, of course, the * 
same and as I close it, the mind-reading . 
—the haunting continues. lassooing wild horses on the 
plains and on another, a noted 
man, a medicine inah, I was told, 
seemed to. be delivering an ad- 
dress. Finally, along in April,, in 
the place of the expression, per- 
son or soul, they began to substi- 
tute human being, for they said, 
there are other beings not belong- 
o # .0 
ing to our race about. One night 
in April such a being came among 
my people. I received a commu- 
nication from this man and thro’ 
him from others but the whole 
time was clouded with forebod- 
ings; so that all united in trying to 
prevent these communications and 
to destroy, if possible, the medium 
through whom they were made. I 
learned that even over there 
talking had to be limited, that 
especially during a time the best 
that could be done was to keep 
quiet or, as one expressed it to 
me, lie with the face to the ground 
until the time had passed over. Appendix, 
Later in the Spring I learned 
I many new things. I asked 
questions and for a time received 
unhesitating replies. My own 
family could talk to me. I remem- 
bered that when dying my moth- 
er had looked a* me and then 
toward the foot of the bed. She 
now told me that a company— 
two or more—women, she thought 
them, like herself—came for her, 
that they expected to take her 
away in the morning and that they 
came and went all day, keeping 
watch of her her and finally tak- 
ing her with them some hour after 
midnight. It was winter and I 
asked her whether she felt the 
cold. She said that they surround- 
ed her and took such care of her 
that she could not Later I learn* ecj that they do 'n of i/?fccl $ cold. 
Wind, they can appreciate but 
they seem in 
with several of them in the room 
the night air became wi£m like 
that of a day, go oh, 
a brother who asylum 
said that quite a coVbpany came 
for hlht. I might add*fhat I found 
the boy as he before his 
mental disease. An tincle, who 
died ohf . the held 6fibattle, said 
that there were' %'cftiy of these 
people waiting about.- A little 
brother, “three going on four”, met 
some people who asked what his 
name Was. Washington remem- 
bered his coming, he thonght, be- 
cause he came from Minnesota in 
the year Minnesota was admitted 
as a State. Garfield added, “We 
like to see the States come in”. 
Another baby, too little to go 
alone, was “picked up” and brought 
.mV i was told' that they were 
angels or “other people” who per- 
formed these services. I was told 
that rail-way trains often carry 
these “scouts". Over there, too, 
the people are helped by them, 
‘Said one woman, “We can can 87 
upon the angelic host.” They 
were, however* unknown to many 
and either helped them without 
recognition or: did not help them 
at all/ : | asked the man that 
talked with me who they were- 
He said that they served the 
Ldrd of Hosts. I was; told that 
they were known to the earth 
as the “big fellows” in some parts 
at the present day. They stood 
about eight feet.; There were oth- 
ers, 1 learned-small people— 
smaller than myself even—who 
seemed to, be women and had a 
place where a child was taken hi 
and made happy. The man who 
talked with me once said, “That 
holy book of yours is a great in- 
stitution. And Christ. Do some 
of your people think him only a 
man? We. think he must have 
been one of the greatest of the 
angels or even God himself." He: 
added, “The miracles even have , 
never, been equalled." A day or 
two later Christ himself was rep- 
resented as present: I was made 
to ;see the picture of the “Good: 
Shepherd” and, later, the “Behold.. 
1 Stand at the Door and Knock*'#, 88 
He did not speak to me directly 
but through the man who had 
talked with me and thev remain- 
* 
ed near for a number of days. 
There was no restraint over there; 
every one did his own pleasure 
but in the doing of it every one 
went to his own place. They 
referred particularly to the Social 
Evil. Of the people they said, 
“And we can do nothing for 
them.” I was told that Christ 
lived four days’ foot-journey up- 
ward among the Jewish people 
with whom he was brought up. 
Later he spoke of infanticide. The 
child should have the chance of 
eternal life. And it seemed to 
me further that the term was 
not used figuratively as with us 
but that “life” means continuance 
of being, while the “lost” seem 
to disappear or cease to exist. As 
one said, “They pas-< away and 
are no more”. 
At a later time the place seem- 
ed over-crowded and the situation 
was at short intervals changed by 
marching manoeuvres and once a 
company filed down into the 
.street. 1 could almost see the figures and the tread was that of 
armed men. At this time the 
atmosphere was frequently fresh- 
ened. This was done with a noise 
of friction. I thought that clouds 
were rubbed together and the 
quality of the air immediately im- 
proved. As I tell this some one’s 
attention is attracted. An old 
poet has seen this: they are all 
nere—Sophocles, Homer,* Pin- 
dar and the rest. They are favor- 
ites*—they to whom the gods 
show themselves. And then was 
added, “And they whom the gods 
love do not always die young: 
they live to grow old in a dis- 
graceful occupation. It does not 
matter where you live or what 
you do if they want to come to 
you.” None of them could write, 
they could only tell what they 
saw and people believed—it was 
not thought strange in those days 
for the gods to snow themselves 
*1 was told that Homer lived in the 
the third century, 8.C.. He “had some* 
thing: to do with art.” He dictated hia 
works. He hired a man who could writs 
and had them taken down, word by 
word. In replv to a question, “No; th«X 
were not sold but reoited, he grunted the 
privilege ot seeitieg them fox pay”, Azy 90 
tu men. The jxiople believexY in 
omens because they sent tlu m 
Other things happened dur- 
ing this time which showed me 
powerful spiritual forces.* I once 
dromeda was a ■woman that he know. Pla- 
to had hi 6 writing done hy his own slave. 
That did not mean that he was rich. “A 
man may own a slave who cannot af- 
ford to hire one.” And that slave, he said, 
was around there still. Plato lived in the 
first century, 8.C.. Euripides lived in the 
seventh century, 8.C.. He recited and 
managed his own dialogues, hiring a 
place for the purpose. Some of 
the dialogues were funny enough to 
be acted again and again. Praxiteles re- 
minded me that Venus had not been in- 
quired for. Venus was removed from 
the sun early in the Christian era. She 
lived on her own planet; then, she went 
away to another place. Praxiteles lived 
in the first century. 8.C.. The Latin writ- 
ers were- there—Juvenal, Horace and 
Livy. Hero was there with others who 
excelled in the races. The German poets 
were there. Heine had talked with “them”. 
Hiawatha wras given to Longfellow by 
a “voice which spoke to the soul”. The 
Scandinavian poet tells me that he came 
by his version in the same way. “Some 
one seemed to stand near and tell him 
■what to write”. Fingal lived in the fif- 
teenth century, B. C.. The spirits of the 
hill were known to everybody then. The 
ghosts of the past appeared only to a few. 
He recitedjhis“pieces”, they were not sung, 
,*I had at one time tangible proof. 
I lost a brass door-key, of the usual size. 
The key was lost on the floor below. 
Failing to find it, I returned to my own 
floor and was breaking open a window, 
when the key dropped from above my 6?w things overturned and the 
location of the spiritual kingdom 
swept away from me as a disk 
is turned. At anotner time, I 
saw the clouds put to one side 
and rays of Hgnt slanting down- 
ward which, I was told, came from 
God him-self. Later, I was told, 
tnat tne sun, moon and stars were 
inhabited by celestial beings. 
Where a body is luminous, it is 
said, they are there. The middle 
of May for a number of hours 
the sun appeared to be double: 
I am told that one of them 
journeyed a distance from home. 
I ani told, too, that a being in 
the sun has, in a way, charge of the 
earth. He turns the earth toward 
Him and away from Him. He has 
nothing to do with the alterna- 
tions of day and night, if the 
earth goes around the sun, year- 
ly, he does not know it, he does 
know that the earth is flat. This 
man—Phoebus—asked of Christ; 
whether he could teach an irasci. 
head, past my hand,. to the floor, havingl 
been transported to the height of almost 
two stories. I do not recall the date. 1 
did not put it down. It was about the 
time that Christ and the angel came down 
to me and nothing seemed strange. We man to keep his temper: 
without that they could not ap- 
pear before Him. He said that 
no other people had been favored 
as the human race had been; 
there was no other Christ f He 
said the people who “disappear’' 
from the earth’s circle go to the 
sun and oth'T places, where they 
belong. He said there were others 
-—much greater than he—who 
who would be glad to leam how 
to become right in His sight, Ju- 
piter and the rest of them were 
there in charge or the motions 
of the other planets. Here some 
one exclaimed in wonder and ad- 
miration. He said, “What seems 
big to you seen*? little to us and 
what is small to you seems big to 
us. We think it a great thing to 
have a Christ. Two or three 
times he said that self-control and 
patience before insult and injury 
seemed to them great The plan 
cts were inhabited and their peo- 
ple came there. Here some one 
remarked that on account of its 
f During ihi* time we eame hto 
•onjunsttea with another planet—tftey 
•aid it wsj» mem of whose inu&bi- 
t&ats to m I hiked jpsvtio- sulphur the sun’s atmosphere 
could not be breathed by living 
human beings. Said he, “Nor by 
dead ones either. We make 
that to keep them down where 
they belong.’’ And the earth was 
made to tremble a little to show 
that the communication was true. 
Another person pushes the earth 
away when it comes too near. If 
this is neglected, we have a time 
of drought. His anger makes hail. 
This person was the God of the 
Pentateuch. Christ came from 
One above. Moses and Elias 
came from Him when they “spake 
of his decease which he should 
accomplish at Jerusalem”. The 
i near nation was an effort to pre- 
sent a sinless world. I askod about 
the other worlds. “Yes, efforts 
had been made for them but not 
this effort. He thought that he 
would, iu a way, come himself.” 
This, person moves the sun a 
little now and then. All had them- 
selves sinned mightily when 
on earth in the past and he 
laxly about this. They had no Christ and 
ho Law so tar as they knew. Later I heard 
from Mars. A woman spoke. They have 
no oceans but water mainly by irrigation, 94 
was not sure but that Girists 
mission was taken out of their 
hands. The Holy Ghost, if it 
comes, is from above. He asked 
why it was promised and the 
answer came from one of Them, 
•‘We thought that we would come 
if we could". Phoebus had a mes- 
sage for me, too. The person who 
came to me last year was one 
of the archangels and I was told 
that at the time one came to tell 
the little boy that I had “found 
Jesus". The Washingtons heard 
about it at the time. He had ask- 
ed them what was meant. One 
Sunday an angel talked with me. 
He said that he thought the hu- 
man race ought to be fit to come 
acceptably among them. Nothing 
was said cf holiness or sin but 
this thing and that they would 
not have around. 1 was once told 
that nobody need be without hope. 
It was thought that one might es- 
cape from hell. One lime 
1 heard a sound like the closing of 
a steel casement and 1 was told 
They d% canals through lime-stone rook 
going deeply until they overflew. Cross* 
the planet are tiu reservoirs of the 
people. The revenues of tho government that “the time was put back”. I 
was told that hell was opened to 
let out the lice which over-ran 
the earth last year, that hell re- 
ceives “all things that offend” as 
well as “they who do iniquity ”. 
The March of the People mar- 
shalled Siberia and was conduct- 
are derived mainly from the sale of wat- 
er. Press-gangs do the work and the 
water is sold at a Denary a pound. Mars, 
too, is flat. I asked whether they have 
newspaers. The necessities of life 
-ccupy them—they dig, dig forever. On 
Venus, life is still more difficult. In Mars 
women work at about the same oc-, 
pupations as the men. ‘4,Where women 
arc necessary- for.the. Support of the 
house-hold they are not ill-treated.” Five 
children are a small family.- The baby is: ’• 
carried in a sliilg and nursed while at < 
work. They have a printed literature 
derived, mainly, from North America, ■ 
with which continent they are in juxta- 
position. Hiawatha, they, think, might 
have been located in Mars. The hand-.-.i 
press is used.Steam is toopfostly. Govern- 
meat is by the deity. A few million years 
ago, Jupiter took hold of.Mars.. There , 
are two lines of resurvpirs, one for the « 
North-land and one for the South-land. 
They have priests of Jupiter and Mars ~ 
and have to propitiate both of them, al- 
though the exactions of their religion " 
are not at the present time difficult The „ 
time when human sacrifices were de- 
manded was worse. In Venus the grain - 
is planted mainly by the Government I 
They have a day of only six hours. They 
worship Venus and Mars and the sun, 
too. Hutharis&cHfioes'tute hot interdicted 
and, in order to please them, they may 96 
Ed from the other world. 
Later—along in September— 
we heard from a more remote pe- 
riod. Abraham was there, Isaac 
was with him. Sarah was as attrac- 
send a soul over to plead their cause, 
If he is not received, it shows that their 
anger is not appeased and the anger of 
tha gods means drought and famine 
and catastrophes by sea and land. These 
deities all belong to the black race. Mars 
has our moon- The earth is a day-orb. It 
rises a little way but docs not set before 
night comes. The earth is luminous for 
Mars, they have no stars. Venus has 
three day-lights— the sun, the earth and 
Mars. All are luminous, All rise but a 
short distance from the horizon. The 
sun travels only half-way to the zenith 
for Mars. The average day-temperaure is 
the same as that of the earth. Mars shows 
a white face to Venus, that of the earth 
Is faintly green. To Mars the zones are 
visible—one green and two white with 
two variable parts between. Our teles- 
copes are located by their reflected light 
at times seeming to equal the sun in bril- 
liancy. the luck Observatory 
in construction with a glass used for call- 
ing the men to dinner. They know that 
Mars is flat because a man is underneath 
dead; only, in Mars they do not say 
that but “they go among the living.’— 
well, this man can talk to them. He lost 
his foot-hold and rolled over and over un- 
til he got there. Ha is continually sig- 
nalling the earth, too,: on account of the 
loneliness of his lot. The man says that 
he is our own Marco Polo. He perished of 
hunger. Mars has no flowers and 1 am 
told that the beauty of these is the work 
of elves—they paint the lily and the rose, 
the crystal xs by cunning lingers set, 
they make the sunset-glow. 97 
tive as ever. In reply to our curi- 
ous questioning, she said that they 
understand English as well, almost, 
as their native tongue—the Chal- 
dee vernacular. They have some 
command of other languages but 
speak no other so well. Some lan- 
guages are too complicated; the 
Babylonish is so encumbered with 
idioms as to be difficult for a 
stranger to master without the 
help of a Babylonish woman. 
Women possessed the learning of 
those days, men served the gods 
in other ways. Noah was there, he 
was an artificer in wood and met- 
al. The ark was of gopher-wood 
fitted at the seams. Gopher-wood 
is peculiar; the parts fitted togeth- 
er adhere. Hearing of Noah, some 
one said, “Then the flood really 
happened”. He replied with some 
energy, “Do they doubt that?" 
Some one then asked whether 
the whole earth was destroyed. 
He supposed only the people who 
required to be destroyed. In fact, 
the country flooded was the Land 
of Egypt and the people destroy- 
were Ethiopians. Noah came out 
of Hindostan. He had still, thot people of that time near him. They 
said that “if he was going on to 
glory, they would hug him closely”. 
They waited for him, quite a com- 
pany came after him when he was 
killed—“He, had to be killed, you 
know, or we would never have 
got him at all; he lived so long,” 
This was from a . woman who 
loved Noah and waited for him.” 
Everywhere I found people colo- 
nizing around the person “who 
knew God” or “them”. Angels 
were with him almost constantly 
while the ark was building and 
“they still come now'- and then”. 
Later, I heard from Adam and Eve. 
They were united somewhat like 
the Siamese twins. Both they and 
Adam and Eve have been cut 
apart since they have been over 
there by a strong angel, carrying 
a sword. Adam looks like a young 
man of not more than thirty-five 
years. Eve was always carried and 
Adam has between his shoulders, 
a cushion of fat for her to rest over. 
He also has a pouch in his side 
to carry the baby in when there was 
one. Of course he had to ford 
streams and carried a stick. Seth 99 
was their oldest child. Eden was lo- 
cated where Babylon subsequent- 
ly stood. In Eden the)- had a lan- ■ 
guage free from gutterals. Later . 
they learned a “lingo” from the 
aborigines whom they found out- 
side. These aborigines had, as a.u 
rule, on one finger, a prehensile ' 
claw. They,(Adam and Eve) were • 
driven a long distance, northward 
and their time was largely occu- 
pied in finding wood for fire and 
getting food. They used the bow 
and arrow, the spear came later. 
They found cutting instruments 
scattered about everywhere, they 
purposely for their use. , 
They learned from the aborigines 
to put the ear to the ground -j 
but were told how to light a fire 
with flints. It was difficult to strike ; 
them just right., They had been ’ 
as long as a day and a half, work- 
ing all night, and as long as two ii; 
days and a half in finding fuel. ~t 
Adam died a violent death and p 
Eve died naturally .within .two £ 
days. They spoke of the coming i 
over of children to them from us. 
Their children did not die. TThe 
aborigines, too, ,lived to maturity % and died a violent death. In reply 
to a question, he said that they had 
no enemies; the aborigines were 
kind—they were gentle—these 
people of the woods—but they 
could not do much for them, they 
wepe so different; they could not 
climb. These were little people, 
only about four feet high. Adam 
was only five feet, four while Eve 
was a head shorter. God came 
to them in Eden only as a voice 
He did not talk with them later 
but after they died, they found that 
He had prepared them a place. Of 
course they came for them and 
of course he stayed and they all 
wraited for her. He would not 
care to go over, if he were not 
known unto “them”. The place to 
which, they were first conducted, 
was not where they now were, 
they soon asked for a place, where 
there was wood to hew and riv- 
ers to cross. The aborigines were 
with them. Noah added, “There 
are unoccupied wildernesses here 
as on the earth and colonization 
can go on indefinitely.” Neither 
the aborigines nor the people 
among whom Noah lived were long-lived. Thirty to fifty or sixty 
years was the usual term of life. 
Things went on with them main- 
ly as on the earth. He asked about 
Christ and the gift of the Holy 
Ghost. The words seemed to at- 
tract attention for he added, “They 
want to know, too", meaning the 
aborigines.* Here I seemed to see 
a mouth and some one “licking 
his chops" and 1 asked what it 
meant. Adam turned and bronght 
into view a large wolf-like dog. 
He is told that they are wolveu, 
adding, “They are fond of us".f 
All of these conversations end- 
ed with an iupuiry about Christ. 
Abraham wanted to come right 
•As 1 write, I am told that at a West- 
ern Post Indian ghosts come to. the camp 
and stand around until they get some 
me to read the Bible to; them, 'that j 
sometimes they ask for a prayer jmd, 
“Well, the Colonel can pray a little”. I 
hear at the same .time that human sacri- 
fices are no longer to be required, of Mars 
If they, too, “name the name of Christ 
and keep hia precepts”, “and the l»aw, 
too, of course”. Human sacrifices are the 
rule on all of the planfets.’ 
fAt this late day, ■ ! am iold that Car- 
lo the black dog is there. One 
last year the little boy came do,Wft to me 
cn Broadway with a little friend* Tb,e« 
two boys were running aJoijg andj 
laughing because it ha rqWork 
to keep up with me, Wheii a a 102 
down to see him. Said he, “If he 
was the Son of God or even in- 
formed by angels of high rank, 
don’t the people see that there is 
a privilege to be seized”. Moses 
was there. Some time ago I was 
told that there were placed around 
here and there, stone tablets hav- 
ing passages from the Bible writ- 
ten upon them. I now find that 
Moses attends to all this. The 
Book of Job was given to Jethro, 
who seems to be a favorite—“He 
was, at the time, the only person, 
who could take it in.” He could 
not write and had to get Moses 
or some one else-—whoever was 
willing—to take it down. I might 
add that they made a great im- 
pression upon us. As some one 
St Bernard, perhaps, bounded down to 
the street and brought them home, lift- 
ing the little fellow over the parapet, the 
Other one tells me, taking him up by hla 
skirts behind. I am tola that he doesn’t 
really like the dog, however. “He shuts 
his teeth together so hard”. These 
dogs can talk. Carlo can talk a little and 
the St. Bernard, can talk well. Adam’s 
dog says that he sees no reason why 
they should not keep the Law, too, and 
he wants to know why they are not in 
eluded in man’s duty to his neighbor. 
Panting is an infirmity, limited to 
the hunting breeds; it is brought oaby 
hard fields. 103 
put it, “Those mert with whom 
God talked, we like all of them”. 
I am asked to tell what I know 
about their way of life over there. 
I found more or less uneasi- 
ness among the recently-arrived. 
Spurgeon spoke of his work, the 
Prince regretted his yacht and 
Husted looked about to And out 
why the money did not come in 
faster. Romeo and Juliet are to- 
gether and I am told that Romeo 
was a sailor, that he went to the 
tomb to “mark her down” and she 
was there and told him to come to 
her. Juliet was not good-looking 
and Romeo’s name was just John. 
Both were about thirty-five years 
old. Romeo tells me that they 
are occupied with the fortunes of 
the family. Now and then they 
prosper the Capulets—they favor 
marriage with the opposing fac- 
tion. The “nurse” was an old wom- 
an, who sold charms. She was hir- 
ed by him, when he went away, 
“to keep her from harm”. Romeo 
once had an elfin child, which 
troubled them both, greatly, be- 
cause they did not know tha£ 
these can come by themselves. . 104 
We had cases of apparent 
death. They went over and then 
would come and go, one for eleven 
days. The President’s wife went ov- 
er for three days and returned. One 
went over during child-birth and 
the baby went along, the little 
body living still on the earth. 
Another baby could run away be- 
fore she was born. She was held 
to the little mother by a ribbon 
and she couldn’t go far. This ba- 
by has been told that her name 
is Amy-Little Women Amy. 
Babies are very cunning over 
there. They perch on the shoul- 
der and I saw a person with three 
or four, climbing over her at one 
time. 1 am told that a place is 
given .up to little babies, who lie 
in nesta everywhere. In another 
A number pf children were down 
here last year. One little boy stood 
around so long that some one thought he 
wsslpst and put him into the Ra ndall's Is- 
land Infant Asylum. He stayed as many 
as ten days and a number of people saw 
• him. One little girl remembers the angel- 
boy The nurse noticed him, undressing 
and saying his prayers. He says that he 
ohae had u bed to himself and that other 
nigh ts he go.t in with another little- boy—• 
iittlef* lhal4 himself—a good dear! little r. 
Finally,ho wanted lo go away und-,‘Hlic-y** 
pame lor him. place are Wordsworth s babies— 
little chatterboxes, one and a half 
years old. He takes care of them. 
Children are born over there, too. 
Many of these belong to the an- 
gels Thorwaldsen’s veiled figure 
is an angel and the baby, he car- 
ries, is his of the gods 
is represented over there, forev- 
er, with a child in his arms. These 
are all called “new people”, while 
the children of elves are the fair- 
ies themselves. 
I am told that everything has 
its counterpart over there—that 
is, everything into which thought 
has been pnt. They have their 
ordinary clothes—that is, when 
they are not given away too soon. 
These must be parted from the 
earthly garments and brought 
away. Other things are not made 
but found. Said the man who talk- 
ed with me, “Now a loom came 
over as early as 1868. It “stood 
there and had to be brought 
over.” It is a cotton loom from 
Lowell, Mass.. The loom went 
to Cory, the maker. That loom 
was thirty-eight years building. 
Babcock has a printing-press—the one he operated himself by foot- 
power. It came in fourteen years 
after his death. They tell me from 
Lowell, on consulting their books, 
that the girl who operated that 
loom left their employ with a lover, 
in 1868. The loom, afterwards, 
work” and was, finally, 
removed to an out-building, where 
it now stands. Hoe calls up a 
steam printing-press, now and 
then. They “come and go”. Bach 
has his organ. A parlor organ 
came over in 1846, ticketed, “For 
Sale”, There is an organ which 
nobody plays upon. There are a 
few pianos aud one or two jews- 
harps. There are a few violins. 
The bass-viol is best represented, 
the trombone comes next. Guitars 
are there but I am told that the 
musician may fail. He may neith- 
er see nor hear. 11 earing is rarer 
even than sight and the audi- 
ence fails. Mendelsohn is heard 
by his sister. A blind lady is heard 
by the people, who know her. 
I heard a jews-harp, which was 
played for me. Bag-pipes are 
there—a halFdozen of them. I am 
told that it takes a master in the art to bring a bag-pipe over. One 
of the bag-pipes says this is not 
quite true and some one tells me 
that the bag-pipes just walk in. 
There are two Milwaukee 
churches there.* The Sycamore 
Street Baptist came over in 1868 
and the Spring Street Baptist in 
1874, years in which they 
were built or, rather, correspond- 
ing with entries in the builder's 
books, marking the time when he 
“got those buildings ont of his 
mind.” If asked what they are 
doing there, they say they are 
“waiting to be filled”. Both of these 
churches have been sold and are 
used fcr other purposes. A Pitts- 
burgh church—-the Penn Street 
Baptist—is there now and then. 
It seems to come and go. This 
church is still occupied. They 
have a way over there of putting 
things “where they belong” and 
there is a place for buildings. But 
these churches" want to go where 
the people are”. Whitfield has his 
church and preaches in it every 
Sunday. He preaches of sin and 
of judgment to come. The old syn- 
* These of course I had attended. accrues are there ancl choral ser- 
vtoes are held in diem now and 
then. Ail the great buildings of 
the past are there in their most 
splendid state. Antony fust pro- 
posed noting when they came 
over. Caesar has been keeping a 
census of the heads of families. 
Whitfield’s church did not c me 
over urttil it had been pulled 
down. GiPinquiring they tell me 
that this church or “meeting- 
house” was always open for pray- 
er. This church came over in a 
delapidated condition and had to 
be repaired. I am told to ask 
whether dwellings come over. As 
a rule, not. John Stuaut Mill lias 
the house that he built himself. 
Many marbles are there and I 
heard of a man, who paid sisoo 
for a Damascus blade and then, 
had it pounded up into twenty- 
one pieces. The man died in an 
asylum and over there he has his 
big knife again, now and then. 
The littie ones, too, come and go 
while the babies, he whittled, are 
with Corregio’s in heaven.* The 
•I have been told that this is an inter- 
mediate state—that from here, the people 109 
type are there—not new type but 
worn type, they tell me. lam to 
say something more about the 
press. The printing press gets 
“tired”. To do good work it has 
to rest now and then. The loom, 
too, “gets weak” and one must 
have a number of knives. When 
a knife “gets heavy”, you drop it 
and take another. The “puddler” 
go up and they go down. 
■"About babies again: once, I saw a 
big, sleepy, put into some- 
one’s arms. It was still a folded-up, 
creased-np baby and I learned that it 
had a hard time and the heart stopped 
beating before it was born. I learned 
that for children to be; taken in 
either the parents or the child must he 
known unto “them”. There must be some- 
thing for the angels to get hold of. The 
baby can be taken from its mother, 
older children are more difficult to keep. 
I am told that the child must have relig- 
ious aspirations, One little girl seemed 
to be safe because she knew Moses, and 
“Jesus, of course”, About prayer: I found* 
that these angels don’t have a very clear 
understanding of what we need and in 
ordcy to get help, it is necessary to 
state exactly what We want. These an- 
gels, themselves, are not sinless,'they 
are, however, “without the stain of sin”. 
The Lord is guarded by a group of “holy 
ones’Vsprcallea, because they never 
fend. , jxi this group they talk about 
“Him, who sitteth upon the:throng” arid 
“who liveth fo^cy 
not known how> far : It 
is thought that the angels are made. puts his own energy into the ore, 
the roiling-mill is “alive”. The 
manufacturers hate to “disturb” 
a printing press and this is the 
main reason for their patience 
in the matter of payment. 
About the life oyer there :f the 
richness of this, depends upon 
one’s capacity to see and hear and 
do. You see, too, only people and 
things that you know. The person 
who knows horses can find them. 
A boy over there can find and 
ride an ostrich and a drome- 
dary because he had pictures of 
them in his geography at school. 
An old man tells me that prairie- 
hens are there. Some one asks 
whether there are snipe. The old 
man “doesn't know snipe”. 
1 once asked what the pros- 
pect was—-what the possibilities 
to know and made to do by the ruling 
powers. Years ago, when I was (juite a 
young girl, 1 lost one of my Sunday- 
School scholars and the afternoon her 
life was despaired of, I prayed about it 
and I remember that my dishes were 
late in getting washed up. l am now told 
that h long while afterward, the prayer 
was remembered and a special "guard 
was given to her. The mother at the time 
committed her to God—the whole family 
did—and she was “come after” and “in- 
troduced”. pect was, what the possibilities 
were. Shakespeare said that ad- 
vance was to be looked for, he 
thought, in the manipulation of 
that form of matter, that the pres- 
ent generation have scientific at- 
tainments not before possessed. 
He thought the appreciation of his 
works, rather extravagant. He 
wondered that something better 
had not come to the front.* Unre- 
moyed disease is a bad thing to 
carry over there. They don’t like 
people with holes in them, either. 
One of my hospital patients 
told me that when she came oyer 
they asked her if she had a home 
and she bad no home. Then they 
asked her how she had been tak- 
en care of and they put her 
among the people who had homes 
because she came over clean. 
*1 did hear frpm Chaucexi too, but • 
it was .said that he lived in the 
Century and "that he llviiig 
near Dublin. This was so dffterc&Vfroui 
whajf I' had been tatight that I was uii- ' 
able t© put, it down. The Tales werecom- 
p.jsed for an occasion—a aeries of ban- 
quets given in Dublin; oi .Queen ' " 
Bthelfritda; an , Irish girl,’ who pleased;, J * - 
the ■ King. They were told in colloquial 
Irish f|t?rwaidi written out 1 
in Lyatin by'Broth'er was ' 
therb to *eoeHr« thfe hoinage dbh6 t6''tho I was told something-, too, 
about the deity—at least, about 
the yellow god—he is most splen- 
did. He is )ellow and 
his garments are of red and of 
blue. Wtoen the sun is golden, it 
is because he is there. I am told 
to add something about burial 
The soul is interested in the body 
until it commences to decay. The 
body must not be sealed up. If in 
a ventilated casket—a pine box 
is best—it may be put into a re- 
ceiving vault—l am told that we 
need a House of the Dead— 
it should be left exposed to the 
air until decomposition is estab- 
lished. I have learned something 
too—a little—about the Court of 
Heaven and the under- world but 
I need not tell what I know for 
Queen. In writing even a sentence about 
these men^—they all must have their 
own words used. The Romans correct 
me, too, on English pronunciation. To 
please them, every syllabic must bavo 
its full value. Several of them spoke to 
i&e. The.greatest of the Romans did not 
S)eak,. I am told thst Caeasr was like 
rant. The commentaries were written 
by Sempronius and Suetonius. All of 
these men belonged to the black race, 
the Rhman cohoets were blacks and Cle- 
patra—a black woman—is the syren of 
the ages. Cicerpis pronounced Sisero, •Mfftfm Has written about the one 
aiVo Dante has wtltten about the 
erther. reailv saw these 
✓ . .•» 
judi-angcls east down—tU * 
if from a height. Both Dante 
ami Milton were ccnsidered, in-. 
by the people of their gene- 
ration. both were mind-readi, 
Christ was .win vl-read for the three 
years, preceding His public minis- 
try. Mind-reading means, I am told, 
attention from the heavenly pow- 
e-s. Mahomet was mind-read and 
v. was during this time that he 
gathered together, the Faithful 
and put a sv/ord into their hands 
against the Moslem and the 
his C rations were composed in English, 
V?h' .h they had as'the learned tongue 
cit o Hrndost.m- Cicero’s mother and 
spovemalv Hgndosianee.. Soipio 
A'rieaxj,-i s -was the lather of fcotxr Cae- 
sar ar d Cicero The Orations wfere wr|t- 
t. n up by .Suetonius, another brother. 
They "were done in Romanesque. Cic- 
ero's audit-nce -was composed altogether 
of his own brothers and sisters and 
they did not want him to do. that orat- 
ing. Caesar, in fact, woula not hear him 
at allt and this was the reason for thr 
writing up, The Orations were sent af- 
ter him and Suetonius went a!on£ to 
to see that they were read. “Caesar was 
difficult to follow, Cicero was easy—-he 
fired the soul”. Soipio spoke to me, too. 
He told me sotnething and added, “We 
never have understood*' what your 
Christ came to do”—-heis tho’ the man of 
tCawar wf>».now ani than, fßtrt* one atirthmea, TTls ■pmsmv-a w, thon 
•ennrrl by pr*-Hn/r bam b. 'mus Thu?, Cte»roV> audience was snchalned. Turk. David commanded Mchain- 
ed—he would rather have served 
Christ There was a great mind- 
reading at the time of the estab- 
lishment of the Heptarchy. They 
wanted that Magna Charta right. 
When the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence was constructed, They 
were there and, when the Consti- 
tution was framed, a regular coun- 
cil was called and the masters of 
Roman Law were present. 
About the Bible: when the 
New Testament was constructed, 
Christ, himself, corrected the gos- 
pels while Paul was assisted in 
his interpretations by the church- 
es of Asia Minor.* Christ had a 
twin-brother. He was the elder 
the acres and they will fall into line if 
they can find out how to do it. 
• I learned something; about the Book 
of Job. That book was dictated to a man 
in Syria, named Job, in the third centu- 
ry. It was given in English. The New 
Testament was given to a number of 
men and women in the Eastern Hemis- 
phere at about the same time. The third 
Epistle of John was given in Greek, the 
rest was in English. Scipio lived fifteen 
centuries before Christ, Moses, thirtv 
centuries. The climate was different 
then. lee-bergs floated down near Rome. 
Chrysostom took down the New Testa- 
ment—part of it, anyway—and printed 
it. He used a crank-press, with foot- 
power. He did it in an excavated hole in but was malformed. This man was 
Josephus. John the, Baptist, put 
the Testament—he, put the whole 
Bible, indeed, into literary shape. 
Shakespeare’s Plays were stage- 
set, before written. He knew 
the people and found them some- 
thing to do. DesdemoiMi, herself, 
was the person who wrote them. 
Shakespeare was the magician— 
he got tho people together and 
this was the way he did it. He 
loaned money and usury is not 
the word—he required those peo- 
ple to come down and appear on 
his boards. They were to do 
what they liked and when they 
got tired they were to go off. The 
main character created himself. 
Romeo made himself, of course. 
The Midsummer Night’s Dream 
is hers while King Lear was giv- 
en to her father because they 
thought, that she could take it 
down. Bacon furnished the Win- 
ter’s Tale. The Tempest was by 
the Grand Duke—Gloster, himself. 
the ground. The type was of wood—it 
was costly—he had only a little, printed 
eft and threw in. 300 was the first edi- 
tion. Poor people were the buyers, at, 
first—they wanted the book. As many 
ar a dozen infringements, too, were ia 
the market at once. Cthclic vas there. Artrin- rr.d 
(Cleopatra were brrnght cr. 
The Priucc of Denmark csr-w 
to show them something ale: t art 
and Hamlet is a ref tilt. 
mona erected GcHo ai d. in 
fact, she ci:aetecl tie r.-e.v n' til 
through. Launcdot was awm- .*• 
love and that war. w hat made it 
so easy for him to grow ftoii/i: -u 
rhyme—he was in Jove i\ Tt him- 
self, he was in love wfth himself, 
he was in. love with himself-—with 
every trick and gesture of himself. 
Her work hasht been ac;-rowl- 
edged before on account of the 
Grand Duke. Richard was ira* c 
a hunch-back, too, so that be 
could not personate the Grand 
Duke down there. Gloster cut 
him through with a sharp sword. 
Shakespeare lived in Rome, fifteen 
centuries, B. C. The Plays were 
given in Engiish—it was the only 
language they knew—that any 
I>eay knew. This don't mean the 
people, of course or, at least, the 
Uack people. In remote antiquity 
there was a great England, called 
Angle Land—land of the angels- 
'll Wsis, then, broken tip and; in the South and West, ever-run by the 
blacks. Shakespeare was Sulpur- 
nius under the Roman Law. The 
Grand Duke was Shakespeare’s 
son. Africanus made Rome and 
the Roman Empire one and indi- 
visible by routing the Grand 
Duke, who was taken and cruci- 
fied. He sent for Desdemona and 
she died by the rack and screw. It 
was not hard for her to go. She 
was a Castillian—she wras a slave 
in Rome. She was owmed at one 
time by Calphurnius so that she 
was called Calphurnia, as well as 
Sulphurnia in Rome. She, once, 
to}, personally, quelled an insur- 
rection. Cicero wras made to come 
before the mob and Brutus said 
that she would like to hear 
Sulphurna speak and she did him 
I ago in her own bed-room and 
he went away, satisfied that she 
could rule Rome. She was 
so important, because Calphur- 
nius. who was the Grand Duke, 
by inheritance, went out'of his 
mind, and then, to go up 
to. sit upon the throne of the' uni- 
verse. The dominion of the Eng- 
lish King includes the other world. 
n; Desdcmona* was' a Jewess. She 
V :came'tbe slave wife of Calphnr- 
r theTimc when he 
gnv£rlied’ Castile. Desdemona was 
n of David. 
The throne oflJavid WasTri Spain 
and; ;the was1 there. The 
Tefrtjife is the Alhambra. David 
was¥ called Td atin ibal ’i n Rome. 
Abife was Mehtabei, Generalis- 
simo mndferpavid, the King. He 
boli^ht‘ Sath'sheba out of Hindo- 
staiv‘: She was* the ‘ first white 
David had seen. * Yes, 
he had Carthage and Jerusa- 
lem, of course,but he liked Spain 
mainly on her account. He built 
Orariada for her. Hannibal 
-was Confined in the Keep of the 
' Hill and was, finally, 
tuniec| out in an emaciated, en- 
feebled ibbndhfd# and died of cold 
andf*in - the streets of 
Ro^e.~~; They did not' execute 
he carried the Man 
of God. Bathsheba was the real 
fhcHPuriic wars and* 
Dasid tell" her now and * 
then that ahe wrote up her own 
manin the fiddr tbo muchand-**- 
•wcft*the; Kirighad done him to 119 
the death and she rote the sto- 
ry to make things, more even. 
Absalom was along. Both Ab- 
salom and Solomon were sons 
Cff Mehitabel. Jebosophat. was 
David’s own son by a Queen 
Esther out of Siam, who was 
the Susannah, in whose name 
the temple was dedicated. 
David was the man who met 
Cyrus and he visited the far East 
a number of times. In the East 
he was sometimes called 
ander. He carried war and hav- 
oc even into the Roman Quater- 
nions. JThis work was adjudged 
to him, he thinks, in order to 
spread the knowledge of the 
Most High. The temple was his 
greatest undertaking and he kept 
Solomon to the woJk, even after 
his death. It was built in Spain,' 
because Castile seemed the place 
for magnificence and he found 
there a sufficient rocky foundation, 
they all spoke English,—it was. 
the language of the Man of God.; 
Desdemona* was forty eight 
•And now Desdemona corrects me on 
literary construction. She says that the 
sentence is ended, when the meaning is 
clear. There is toother who can write— 120 
when she commenced to act at 
?. time when they were required 
to amuse the barbarian horde, 
which over-ran Rome. 
I am told told, too, that Don 
Quixote is older than we think. 
-The beginning of the Christian 
Era is Cervantes' date. 
I am asked to explode another 
literary fallacy. Washington did 
not use a hatchet, when he cut 
the cherry tree-—he used the 
jack-knife, his father gave him on 
kis last birth-day and he was rot 
a little fellow—he was sixteen 
years old. 
Baatbshoba. She wap fhc rear) of Cash- 
mere—-she is Moore. She is, too, the histo- 
rian of the Yang tsc Kiang. Shi' is the 
the author 'of'•Solomon’s Song;, which 
she hot only composed hut sang; on-the 
iifdtallation of Solomon—it is the 
mother to her son. Dead-m on ais Spenser 
and Una wrjsa baby-girl. She is Neats and 
Longfellow, even.She andßathsheba are 
the guardians of the English tongue— 
they are Noah Webster. 
Something more about Dcsdemonn: 
onhe she dfovea chariot in the races. She 
drd^esifting, and yet came out with 
Nero in her re(a;r..He says he gave up— 
he saw a man, Standing, in front pf(her. 
Sh& had, asked, jtlte * Grand Duke, to see 
her through and he .asked David to'help. 
The Grand Duke thinks that he drove 
rod* 'l v'';r i , I have avoided details in re- 
gard to moral government, too; 
for they are in the Bible, all the 
About the Song: I am told that Solo- 
mon said to his mother, “You don’t "want 
this to go to the type-setting men,” and 
that he, himself, set it up. This was, 
too, their way of securing their copy- 
right. Solomon did have to be urged on 
with the Temple. It was a costly thing 
to do and the exchequer was low: the 
wars did not continue. 
Something more about Shakespeare. 
De? demon a says that she gof her stuff 
from a man, who lived a thousand years 
previously. The man’s name was .Pork- 
shire. The name, Shakespeare, is assum- 
< d. A man, ;Jonqs, reeeived the stuff, ver- 
bat:m. He then interpolated and changed 
th- name, ilndyriiiqn has been preserved 
without alterations. Porkshire got his 
matter wprd by word, from a man, 
who livf d in .Assam, over a thousand 
years before, who called himself, Christ. 
Porkshire lived in Hindostan. He says 
that Rome existed is his day as a small 
place, comrm r.cing: t* <‘be--oyer-run by 
vVhitos from Babel Mandeb. 
Another thing: they stole her lago. 
The Dtike said that it must not be lost 
and rewrote it or together they* rewrote 
it, mainly, as it now stands. And 
the Prince of Denmark had a real 
f;rievance—he thought himself the right- 
ul heir to the titles of the Grand Duke. 
The Plays were at one time her own 
property. The principal character, osten- 
sibly wrote the Play and then gave it 
to her. They later became the property 
of Sulphurnius in this way. Desdemona 
became at one time the slave of Sulphur- 
nius in ntura for the Grand Duke’s ran- 
som and later gave up the Plays as thq 
price of her own. 122 
words of which seem literally, true.* 
To be lost, is, not to be found. 
Death means extinction. To be 
damned is to be shut up—to be 
confined in an enclosed space. 
From the Godhead proceed both 
light and heat. It is cold where 
God is not and the lost wander in 
outer darkness—“blackness and 
thick darkness, forevermore”.' 
People, all the time, too/ go 
over into the abyss—they are 
thrust§ over, because they poison 
the moral atmosphere. Vice can 
be continued. Drunkenness is es- 
ecially regretted. The saved, are 
the known.f People are saved, too, 
About type-setting: John the Baptist 
set type—it was not an undignified oc- 
cupation—not unsuitable, for a gentle- 
man by birth. Ko, it was not especially 
remunerative—his occupation seldom is 
-—he is not fitted for the earth—he is 
from on High. 
*The fairy tales and the tales of 
ogres and giants seem to be true, too. 
§The majority of manknd are shov- 
ed over without judgment. Recently, they 
have tried to save the children and they 
are purposely removed by death. In Par- 
adise, I am told, they wear their best 
clothes all the time—has her things on 
to go da-das, one says—they don’t have 
to 1 cam, they don’t have to go to bed and 
they l ave a Kris Kingle the whole 
year through. 
tGenius is saved—genius is the gift 
of aad-.i; known unto them. 123 
fcecause they know the men, who 
know the angels or God. So, 
they cluster about these—Adam 
the patriarchs, Mahomet and 
others—the greatest of them is 
Christ. I am told that Christ—the 
real Christ is in hell. Here, he 
protects those, who name His 
Name. These are here, because, 
unfit for any other place. I am 
told of two places of confine- 
ment—hell and the under-world. 
In the under-world, are people, 
who hide themselves. In hell, are 
people who are dangerous to the 
The object of the 
government—the main object—is 
to preserve order—to keep things 
so as to escape tne attention of 
“Him, who rideth upon the heav- 
ens”, who “will laugh at your ca- 
lamity”, who “will mock, when 
your fear cometh”. But Christ has 
to be in hell, anyway, I am told; 
The works of genius also seem to be im- 
mortal—they seem to have a soul. In 
1794. the Sistine Madonna was found 
amonjj the children in Paradise and they 
thought it “a real Mamma and baby”. 
JThe ruler is, in a way, elected. From 
out of eternity, the man stands in the 
arena, to be challenged to single combat. 
No, he does not “plant his man” and he 124 
because he suffers so much, that he 
cannot be tolerated. He suffers 
for “the glory, which he had with 
the Father, before the world was.” 
—his work is spoken of as a failure 
—his people do not cease from sin 
•—they displease Him. who is the 
God of the Harvest and must not 
be troubled by suffering and sin.* 
And they are all troubled, fin: I- 
ly—troubled by Christ: for,“ Why 
does, he take it so hard?”1 they 
sav—“Why does he take it so 
hard?” ;« • ■ 
he leaves' himself; able ‘tb carry his 
opponent out. 
♦I am told that offen’ses against good 
taste rank as sins. Among i hese, is un- 
cleanness of both body 'aiid ftiir.d., 
1 am asked to4 tell ’ anything- more, 
that I know about,the other world. As- 
sociated with the *eatth, tif . a number 
of disks or planes of varying’ degrees 
of sky-altitude. Hell is skid to be under 
the earth, the Under-world seems to be 
an excavation near its These 
regions are occupied' by people, who 
seem to be, like ourselvdS ! tm|: “peo- 
ple from out of eternity*. Tam told. 
These people may come to the earth., as 
did Christ—they then1 ' have sf range 
powers. The “Ye mudtbc born again", 
was said unto them. They are women- 
men and born with an inclusion-cyst, 
containing babies, about an ii ch long-r- 
--fifty-nine, in the case of “Jesus, whp is 
called Christ”. These were, adopted by 
wealthy families of Judaea nnd all liv- 
ed. They are now the false Christs, or the New D ispensation. One of them 
is a fair man. The original of our fair 
Christ set ms to be, however, the 
Nan of Ass; m. Such a cluster may 
furnish what is called a “made man”. 
Seve: al men may be sacrificed and parts 
taken from the several. These are put 
together a; d animated by wi at is tail- 
ed the “man of the family”. Weeks or 
monihs may be required, to complete 
the knitting together. The caboose of 
a locomotive is the usual place. 1 saw 
into it once. The men, who furnish- 
ed the parts, were there. The new man 
was there and at his head sat a rob- 
ed figure—a man—who smooth d his 
face and called him, “Son of my Love”. 
The Risen Christ was a “made man”— 
this was the r aso.., they spiked his 
feet. The body was furnished by Si- 
mon of Cyrene. He tried the doubles 
and found them neither long enough, 
not broad enough. Recently, I saw a 
large man—a man, with a clear skin 
ana dark brown hair and with him was 
a large, fair man. They talked together 
and the fair man said, he would stay 
four days. Would not four hays be 
suitable? I am told that he was dead and 
returned to his body on the foui th day.* 
A “made man” means that a god has 
come to the earth. He gives Lie to a 
family and then comes in the person 
of his son. There is another Christ— 
a woman-man. This is the one, pictured 
in “Christ by the Wayside” and the 
young man is her son. The girl is his 
cousin. Both children were crucified, 
because they would not deny her. ’She 
was crucified in Rome with the head 
down, several years after the great 
orucifirirn. The boy, Jesus, was taken 
home soon after his appearance in the 
Temple—he was told that he had done 
enough. He has a good time—fishes, and 
plays golf—tennis is a kind of golf. He 
admires John—John, the Baptist—and 
*ln tte BprtiJf ofllM, want* up to know more about h?m 
Another, lived ut th* same time in j 
rene and perished by the mck and pin- 
ion and he ip told that be d'd nt «Ju# 
for naught. Then, there is the sutlcrcr.* 
There is no conflict between theses men. 
“They are not not around at the sane 
time. I am asked to tell, anything mora 
about the government. There is :;rst, 
the Lord Jesus and he he was on tho 
earth before—he was .Ahashuc; u*. 
There is another—a man, that looks like 
« New York broker, who, now and then, 
takes the throne with » sword in hi* 
hand. By active government, he shelters 
the earth from Jah. By his presence, tha 
Lord Jesus, in turn, shelters from 
this man's judgements. Ti>us thrift too, 
rules and his. too. is a kingdom with n a 
kingdom- What he gains, the other docs 
not lose. lam to>d that this New York 
man made the Katc-Gr enaway b ok. 
Another man is now Kris Kingle—l a* 
was the ma« of the Old Testament he 
was Fingalt—he was Wiggins, in up* 
pearance, he might be a county aw- 
▼er. Another is nowon the earth t;y- 
tag to improve tho condition of the 
working man. He wanted to make him- 
self, a Christ—he was Ninvod- h« was 
Leather-stocking. Another, is asp e, 
dark-complexioned man who wn - " hit. 
ing, Paime Minister of Kngi and before 
Disraeli. Whiting left scun? one of whom 
was our our own Lincoln.| Another is 
•Thto man to the man of Voaapoth—tin mao, we ewuraont: mean, 
Vhe, n .peak of Jam, who to colled, Curiat. 1 t-M wUct *n* It wai 
Mid M aniwered from abov. >‘U» la a man, who !■ railed. Curl.t a it 
•amettmeSL be suffer* eo much that he shake- things". 
tlinootnrecalTpd an extraneous head la hb tereaty-thlrd year. He was 
• year and a halt luernlpg to oae It and ha pare It up hi M» turotv-ninth 
tmt I am told that the h««J can be need, even tom the firtt, but it to not 
|ml j—ti (Minot get nn Lincoln'* bead weal In one dlrecUun and hto 
toady, la another, while bis nameam\ for a time, the soul, svtu, remained 
with another mm n>e bead had bean previously pneaonwd by Washington 
bTtnm tw hto daughter, Mary Waahlngton Inring, by Mnry, the dangbur 
orrmnUn, by Thaekety, a Mary Jones, a man, named Jonea. Artel hoo, a 
met—flDlokahbto—lt hm been In the wortd from a very remote time, A 
CtrtotM thing abottt thto head to, tbot It aheaye prtdnoes a Utde paper. It 
MBrtsrt lh*«PeUt Journal" of France. Artdtoon atked Steato the bead 
if me "fkai lat ii** ww a reanll It did the “Hawk-eye Uni n" fur Locoln, 
(ho ‘‘toamtotrn Gaaette” tor Maty Joca. the “Ttoreytown Gaaette" for 
VaMdnatoo Irrtng, the “TWrytown QnlbbW" tor hto daughter, the “Bcrtb. 
M«« torWaSay* the “Philadelphia Bentd" «w *wSn and the“Un- 
«in fbr hto daaghler. Omnalel l*d H trom hto ninth T*r. Be pubßahed m 
the •Bnlnun" lie jaw thi heart to hie dauj'.tcr, I. eile, In 
h7r*o.ew»h war and fhe poUhAed the “Ntwth Herald". Jmut hart 
B tor ita yaw awl. during r to t'm», he, 100. publtobwl a U.a "Vaa- r concerned in the configuration of the 
cf i.tin-ntsj The people again ask me 
uI in.t salvation. .Safety senna to be as- 
sured in two wavs: tust, by innocence. 
The innocent ana the guilty are not 
tog thcr. The guilty do not want the 
society of the innocent The boy, Jesus, 
thinks that innocence can be cultivated. 
John does not—he says, “Create in me a 
new heart and renew a right spirit with- 
in me." The second way is salvation bv 
Christ and I am told that the Lord is still 
Mighty to Save. He still Saves to the 
Uttermost It is necessary, however, to 
be near Christ to be safe in the Day of 
His Wrath and, even this, does not save 
the guilty, for, only innocence or true 
repentance cares to stay near the Lord. 
•nth OWluorj". Tt* Lrad product* a pap«r without mnnory, without 
kwlitloß •»«'., for its n»w prsweor uiually to Ignorant o) Its prvvlou* fate- 
Vl7. Tin l-.tad of Lincoln *■ gtv«n to • child, this* ytan old, and tU, 
M ton *#<' ui lhlit.cn, got up • manuscript paper for h*r "Literary Boclo- 
hr" ifiuiowet Lad the h.ad and with It, founded the Mecca Oaaattc, 
A curloi* thing I* tl'at th* brain Is not, rtwrartly, trvc.f n.d with th* 
k- a*l T r new powrraor grow* a new bialr. “vltu” l«Tt nlwaye bum a*- 
k-.'lnWd with Um Lead. The** were cured In the promt poaacaaor. A great 
operation »•■> done upon IL* load. 1 am told, by a man, named Cano, who 
U Ciate. {onnsrly of England. Too Lead do.* other literary work, tee. of 
fourea. It d'd Tmclty Tltinouee, It did th* Llillputlone, which la Addl. 
• al* work. With 11, OoouJtel did the Talmud, which waa the Book of lha 
Law la Chrlat't time. previously there was a compilation by Job, called 
1* owe; be and lam. utatlon*. The Book of Job war Included In the Lamia* 
MlMa Job lived MO pare, B. C. Teanyton had the brad been Ult u 
Hie and bo «aye that be did not hue to learn to read with the brad but 
pe did bare to baru U> a'l lte. The l.tt. rr dKI Dot come at all Tmnyeoo 
d J Hii.d d-.rbig tide time and ).« ‘‘loved time- U with thla Lend. 
AnoiLer pejuliaritj of the bead It that Uor attain • throe little baht re, UttU 
tuja and Blrtt, they are called. Hr the Lord1* death, nine little bey* were 
taken from the head, One ol these Ur.d to be Herod the Greet, Tt* child, 
vi-0 cor rind toe cyr.t, cm furnished by a man, named Horod. He was a 
Child ol Piomlr-a and then was no difficulty about getting the bshlea of 
t:l cyst adopted, Oemallel took ohaigo of the toy, b'mseii Joeeph took 
alasrg. of th. twin. Th« boy, himself in cur arriced at the dignity of bla of. 
tat and died In hto tseeotl 'th year. John was obtained from the Maccabees. 
Ail brad-children, (all cyet-chlldren. all these tittle live things, It may be) 
•re of ap.clal vulur, they are the literature, art and mechanic* of the 
fulur*. TVy create employment, Buy pul the Implements of wealth, tbs 
tuvsnaiens, which win money Into our lands. Edison to a head-child, I am 
laid. Oould was tak-a from a east. Foniethtog mors abonl three babies; I 
am told that a hen at- up such a little baby and two weeks afterword, an 
angel-chicken, or bird, cams rigid through the tack of the ben and 
later throe roorVrs and a number of hens gathered around the man and 
I rltd to teQ him something end the news hha spread. All the chicken* 
know about it and, they say, "The Day spring from on High, hath visited us". 
tOsalan lived HOC jisi A. D. Osslan was a swine-herd. He mrmstlaed 
po-try and transmitted It thus to Ids eon. He did not write. Oaelan loved 
Btbslvordeli, the Queen, and the Queen loved the man, who recited to 
Well. Leva seems So In a very Important matter in Paradise. The young, 
eat lovers 1 raw wore, one fifteen mofcth* and the other, eighteen months, 
going on two yean. They don’t seem to tofk but now and thtn, be lake* 
• mania from bis apron pocket and puts It Into her hand. 
XThe continents and Islands are, now and than, moved around like tbo 
Msecs of a dissected map La ancient times, I am told, England ww down 
DT Hlndoslao, Ireland was up, near Iceland, while Scotland was one of the 
Hebrides. The larger cities are built 00 Islands and can bo separately 
dislodged and moved. Hew York City was moved across the Atlantic Id 
ITM. It cams with 10000 Inhabitants. Ten days were occupied by lha 
trosstng and storms were encountered. Thera statements have, nowever, 1« 
anrhutfcorltatlre vMue. They wets obtained, like lbs feat of lbs book hr 
"tuik’mr thro* tha sir*’, “vaifog In rata”, tliov oailaa It hi aoctat Him. fwu rk*** 
#*■ •'.» ■•■tvr, (cnr yew. <*i—v.fe* 
«*.■■*> tfhrr n». >ne earth fn» 
day. wiewi ii«- (;!r! v?u-. Uaiißii g owt 
toe ■ Arthur brniqdtt. Vac » 
tiWaMkai mu! hr •win ' »!■!»”. 
JU"i ho w-., ••(•■ii «rr A:hl fti* 
“Yi’V "Then «tw. it to 
Ka’tf. '. At-d dv two* r,«: And 
they rert’itii tljo «ti-p. And oho inkl 
fci.il » nscn*.-<te l,ja; *« rtte And 
'i" *ato. he rs-uki sn wftj» her. ti h« 
i*>siW. And it-or, >i«v fccid band* 
again, in Htracij-v: They are t/'wib. 
wa day and Arthur bu.ebw the 
dirt off ofi*!, when «!«• mik dowa 
»ih!. at nlifhf, they ’Van. hard 
<ach t-Shr-r, (*>•*»«*- the 
trav-ex m a buah <*- „ trr~~. * 
Tn « lift) rhd tnor who ■< nh» dod". 
|S<«b »r» fiend. Tfcer went together 
and. be day. th, haby sttSdrage 
bmi«h »»”i nd ornonsr the fliOtn lani 
of aa autumn wood* wbDe “dod” 
then,and terra on* 
W d’it two and, at nistl be ear*. 
‘‘U.-rhi" usd take* brr to a plane, be 
dufL‘£il? **• of the htiv 
®n tb« broun dog 
ud tUty jp to sleep together Appendix //, 
( Children in Far a discJ 
A MY'B mother hee her tjrn 
■ hands to her bend ond 
her eyes bent down to a printed 
page. And so, thn angels have 
bnllt her a little platform to whlnh 
■he can come, now and then. And 
this platform just reaches a bang, 
whl -h ehe put* Into order, touch- 
ing It up, first with one llttlf hand 
spd then, with the other,standing 
back, now and then, to admire her 
work. Sometime*, she stoops down 
to whisper Into her ear or, to pat 
the side of her face. Once, Ajpy 
appeared, trailing a sheet held at 
the peck with both bands, Anoth- 
er time, she teemed to bar* bee* 
fpado Queen of the Fairies, for the 
angels bad glren per a gorgeopa 
p>ba—white, ambrojderad with 
gold, like the priest's robe. Mat 
gt other don’t s°lt Amy Tery writ 
She Is only a baby, you know, and 
penally, she Is just becvalf. And 
perar did a baby hare a batter 
time. She has a teeter la the air. 
Von, she rides her teeter, stand, 
fpg In the middle, and new, she 
■polls the teeter to elide down op 
the hoard. ppt sJjegej»tt«id,fc* %nO, when she to Mred, •*“» tu™« 
around end Jumps Into the »rm| 
vf the sbgsl, that t*k«« c«* of 
her end buries her heart In big 
Shoulder. Then ere other '.lt,tie 
ones around One two-jeer-old be- 
ta >« always tundtod Vfy She in 
going somewhere end her tor mit- 
tens giro, her trouble. She he* e 
wagon end a little brother to drlret 
\ pouldn’t see whet wee polling but 
| e%w the wagon dash up Uf greet 
style end It might here been » 
goet; although they do eey that 9 
h>i£ <V«, over thcr\rtoo» that and he 
b eo smart thet he can even har. 
pees himself In. (I am told, lauuy 
that H wee a hobby-horse end nu 
sxrusas wagon.) These two are 
Vlsxle Grace end Ralph;. Another 
boy shows hA* two bends and 
makes to me the letters of tbs 
Pent and Dnmb alphabet He was 
deaf and dumb and blind on the 
earh. Now be can see like other 
people. A little boy “cant talk 
good”. He Is rosy and fat bat he 
has a tube In his neck. Be stays 
around in the grounds of tbs 
Btaten bland Nursery—the place 
where he was sick. I am told that 
they like to be there. Another little 
bo; has always, Important busi- 
ness on hand. He feeds the "ok- 
ken”, he says, but they are horses, 
I ess—Bob and Ned and Old Kate. 
Snap, I see, too, and Folly Is near- 
Charley, the colt, can he called. 
Kato died, I am told, quietly. Pol- 
\t was kicked to det tb and the others pot raring rampageous spd 
?vpre Killed. The horses are In the 
Open and the little boy sits on a 
scaffolding, which Just reaches 
fhelr months. His brother calls him 
the “little tenner” and he, himself, 
Isn’t very big. He Isn’t very big 
but he once, had a meet astonish- 
ing piece of work to do. He had 
to do nothing less than to 
back to the earth—and not to a 
place that ho know. He had to go 
> New York City. Think ol thatl 
Amt not oven to a quiet street but 
down-town, he had to go. Think of 
that! And Into a great office-build- 
ing—and all because of what do 
yon think? Just because some one 
had told him his sister was going 
to be married—he said, to find out 
how he going |o like him. So 
he went dowp to New York City 
*nd down Into the street and up 
to the elevator, I suppose. Any 
way, he got there. Into the office 
and stood around. And what do 
they said to him? They said, “lit- 
tle fellow, put on your clothes, so 
that we can tell whether you are 
a boy or a girl”. And so, he had 
to go hack and come again. The 
next time, he had on bis clothes 
all right bat, after all, they were 
only girls’ clothes; lor, he was Just 
a baby-boy yet, don’t you know. 
So they had to find ont by the curl 
on the top of bis head, that it was 
really a little boy, who had come 
down to New York, to take care 
pi his sister. Then, they asked, 132 
•Which of us do yon want?1' And 
he toot his finder out of his moul and ' 
said, “Zon”. Another time, there 
was a man—lt might have been 
Moses—who wanted to know 
whether they spoke In the right 
way about Him and AUie was sent 
and they called him an ambassa. 
dor for Christ. He has another Im- 
portant piece of work to do—he 
takes rare of Susie. Ho takes care 
ofSuste because she Is Susie and- 
Susie was the rubber doll with the 
hole, top and bottom. The top, 
hole Is In the tin of the nose and 
Vie.Other, where it- always is. I am 
topi, she still has Jus!<le, rattling 
around, thp.things, we put into hen. 
There Js another in a b°x—' 
.Kate—a vory.graiifi- dpi! in a yel- 
low satin drops, and Ilattlo taaes 
care ol her but Hattie is really more 
interested. In ..her cat Tills cat 
now .. and . then, makes himself 
yery >thln and long. I am told that 
tie-“4lsi stwings hls-sef out, betoz 
. he don’t know what Battle Is doln 
. t»;4o netst” I ask whether she 
te-’not hurting the cat and I am 
, Ah at ,Bam Patch, of course, doesn’t 
hke tn.be got onjt of shape but fie 
doesn’t mind her doing It and did 
. l,BdySplnk.sayß, that the cat waa 
..“too gopd for the yoarth”. Once, 
On the. earth, there was a man, 
Who wonted a fur coat and Sam 
. Tatc.h was promised to him with 
1 other cats forlts manufacture. He 
was tied up in a bag and put Into 
tbe.wagon, behind the seat, to be *33 
taken away; Then. thf Man went,. 
Into the honse anil while ho wai’ 
pone, ihe horse ran off with thfii 
wagon and, when found, tha 
hup; was not there. So, Sam Patch, 
was lost on the earth and for 
nine days, we knew nothing about 
him at all and then., he was 
brought back and we were told 
that the hag was found, dowti 
by the hi-ook. But,.even then, Sara 
Flitch did hot really return. He 
stayed only a while and then, $1 
gain disappeared, this time, mys- 
teriously, and for three months, I 
am now told how it nil happened 
Somebody cared lor Sara Batch— 
H was Ike. And jko, said to the 
horse; “Go”, before he went off 
and the horse ran a,wny to the brook, 
tke fhund them here, untied the 
hog and tell If ; becanse there were 
wcasles here, and. a musk-rat or 
two and, of cohrse, the water was 
there. And so, the cat stayed 
there nine days arid, when the 
fifties were big enough, they were 
Brought to the ham. Here, another 
disaster threatened them. A cow 
wanted Up eat those kittens np. 
This danger Was, for a time, avert- 
ed by moving them from one place 
to another In the ham. Finally, 
to secure their safety, they were 
. ■taken to the woods. Here, their 
mother took pare of them for the 
three months. I am told that thl# 
man. Who saved them all was— 
r who, .do you think? Nobody less, I£ 
g gfd, thri:FlSgiio, ot old, who gtgyj 134 
on the earth, to take care d hte 
Socks and herds—euclj a power- 
ful friend had Sam Patch. They 
have school, over there, now god 
then, too. But, I am told that 
It Is the Rifls, who want to go 
to school. “Boys wide the zebay”, 
they say, I fonnd out, later, that 
the boys do not always ride alone. 
One boy can ride, standing, and, I 
am told In a reliable way, that be 
•Reached his little girl tostlton”. 
They ride a horse and they think 
that It Is a circus horse. But this 
Is not all. 1 am told that a little boy 
Is Invited by tne rhinoceros to tlie 
tgmbs of the desert, where he has 
his lair. He says that it is suitable 
for him to bo there, as they are In 
a state of decay. He would take 
a man—a poet, perhaps—bnt, ho 
would rather take children, as one 
never knows what a man will do 
and ho won’t have those tpmbs 
disturbed. The rhinoceros says 
that he has to be wise In this 
matter, because somebody has to 
wise. This rhinoceros wss 400 
years old, He says that many of 
the large animals are good to 
children. The camelopard Is safe, 
the elephant, too, Is safe. Both of 
these animals live so long on the 
earth, that they are said to bo 
899 years old. I asked about the 
hippopotamus, because he Is, In 
the menagerie, so near. They say 
that be doesn’t do, because ho goes 
In the water. Here, ho sees that 
the bull-frog doesn’t sing In too M«h * key.. He fifo admonishes 
the pig, Then required. I am told 
that, •‘the .phelnm and the pld” 
take care of their babies, over 
so jm to give the little 
glcl« time- The pig look* after 
(he baby In a very wise way and 
pgrrtes her with his teeth, t 
pm told that “she Utee the pld 
pod the pld Iltes her". Somebody 
geks whether this Is a Mamma- 
pig and a little girl looks np at 
him and says, “Be you a Mamma- 
pl.l or bo yon not!"and now, she 
tolls me that the pld don’t 
Jtljow”. Two other babies seem to 
be always drumming with a plate 
and each has a long nppkln, tied 
arrymd the neck and each, a cup 
Witt}, For a Good Girl, and, Fora 
Good Boy, on It. Now and then, 
too, they k(ss each other—these 
two do—wlfh a big baby-kiss. But 
Amy doesn’t know heee children 
so well as she does s little boy on 
the earth, Amy tells us that thlf 
little boy says, “tnlnd-wed”, while 
the says, “mind-read. But then, 
Amy, you know, la alweye near the 
book, so It la not surprising that 
•he pronounces well—she is always 
sc near the book; while the boy 
can only make things out of a po- 
tato—that Is, he can, when hie 
grandmother lets him hare the po- 
tato-knife. But, even Amy, docen’t 
always succeed; for she says that 
•he is not always Amy. When 
•he Is good, she is “Tdir’. There 
jrp* another baby there, brought 136 
by he mother. I am told that ft 
tipped forward oat of It* mother 
and aoroebody caught it In a Matt- 
hot, ae ft fell. When I «aw it, the 
woman w«* giving H to the grand- 
father. And the grandfather eald, 
oHow wrinkled np ft ls”-lt waa 
so. squeeted together. And tha 
great-grandfather eald that the 
mother Just brought ft to ehow ft 
->jf, for that bsby did not stay. Ita 
nv.thcr 00k It hack to the earth. 
It rot tot, still, once in a while 
though. And what do you think tori 
The angel part of the baby goea 
over there, Just to have a dry dldy 
pnt on and. I suspect that, it 1* not 
quickly changed on the earth. Bnl 
even people, who belong there, come 
and go. There Is a little boy 
who cornea to my shoukl-r—with 
warmth, he come* to my 
like a little love, ho kneels on my 
shoulder, as I stand at a certain 
door. 1 am told, he welcome* me In 
a house, anti a door, that be known, 
There to a dog, np there, tots who 
came to the earth, once, several 
days in succession. And bo came 
down in order to gotoechool with a 
little girl, that I knew. In school, ha 
lay on the floor by her side end at 
noon-time, he took her home Now, 
coon after that, the Utile girl died 
end 1 think that the dog helped 
the angels to bring her away, ft* 
j.ydla was taken np on high. Car- 
lo once saved a man’s Bib—that ft 
fhs kind of a dog that be was. Lyd- 
ft «mW w«k» poetry awMftiin* , o«lheard her; for, lam told 
' ‘hit lla gattwro the "children, ha 
ores. Now, children ape the same 
here, «s they wore’optha asrth 
fnd Lydia tells me that, when she 
looks up at Him, she jtlli has 
to say tier tlpr Jwstis' 
They hope th*t, we 
win all cease from gjn and.try to 
phMfl Op<4—}«*__ np. with .clear 
eye* nnto Him. For Jcsns still 
aunere, they «ty, and the .time 
eeems long. All the chUdren np 
, there appear to work allttte. One 
helps Moses cleap out the lettei* of 
the law—she knows them by heart 
The Commandments are cut out 
"1°“, as . It were, and they 
get dim—the ietters do—or covered 
oyf* with dust Ah the children 
Another person, they 
BkOjla the Lordhmscl/. Andso, the 
Angels have made a Uttfpstep at hfc 
feet for the children to sit down up- 
on and one. little boy la so afraid 
of losing Jesus,, that.be nine up 
and s^to,down there .very, often. He 
has been told that they must stay 
***r *9 him, to bo safe la the 
day of Hh wrath, for the ground 
J». gifting sand. ,J am told of 
other proved,, which la high and 
firm end of gtria, who climb the 
grapevine swing onthehUbefcur 
Ood. gir^ln.».■leddreas— 
hae,beea. brought near, unto. Him 
and, l anr told, she.- becomes the 
Courts of .Qlory. -There la a group, 
too, of Cgthpllo. Cholr-chlldreoUhcre 
an*3, they *lngtnow and then, to find oat If Uaer aw right la Mbs 
right, I asked who heard them elcg 
and they said that, they think, Ihey 
ring unto God. Amy hw cow a drugs, 
eat from the asms robe of night, 
lam told. A Httfe t»y, tat has a blno 
dress, embroidered with Idea, which 
Ms Mamma toed* on the earth. 
He “wamembsie his dwesa”, 1 am 
told, because ft fa most boantftnL 
Ani there fa a yellow tSger, who loves 
a lido gtri—they can him her tJder- 
tet. Then, there Is a lion, who seems 
to be always gnawing a bona. He 
ra.ve that fee gnaw* the hemes of h!s 
enemies. He really seems to chew 
Stem op. And bs scorns to have a 
certain contempt tor the yonog Hon— 
that fa what bs really Is, I am told— 
because be sits np so straight like a 
rat and lets Wmsrif be petted and 
droewd np, Another baby has a ptg—a 
fhany pig—to lake care of him. This 
pig rone aronnd after hie tail, as B 
were. In reality, he fa a very canning 
jdg and he wants as to know shoot 
Urn. Bs saye, he was In Barman's 
Biow on the earth and be eon gal- 
lop and bat most amsangly. A hoy 
<tooe a very surprising thing, ton Be 
tons an elevator. A cartons thing 
about this elevator Is that be don’t 
need to get In himself, I saw him 
stand below and watch It go up and 
I know that It stopped at the rignu 
place, tor (he Lord, Mmsoli; went up 
cone and bs lives quite a distance 
upwards. 1 am told that any boy, 
who is old enough, has a good dm*. 
Once, there were two boys, who 139 
ww« out ID a boat on the earth and 
wore drowned. Their mother, of 
course, tbit badly and she kept on 
graving for many years, when, all 
the time, they were enjoying them- 
eelvoe. “They can whistle up the 
wind”, too, 1 am told. 1 find that 
th's met;ns (hat this means that 
they can make things ga Another 
boy Is to visit the Fbrom to 
hear Cicero speak. I think this, rath- 
er a fine thing for a boy to do hot 
1 wae surprised »r them for all 
that—they can’t manage a Wheel 
There Is a little Safety up there with 
a looee robber tire. 1 told them,! 
know that bicycle, n« well as a Pneu- 
matic, which la Uiere In good shape. 
And now, they say that when these 
Wheels came in, the angels did not 
know even, what they wore for. 
So, they asked an expert, who might 
be called an engineer, If he were 
cot snch a very little boy. Well, the 
yonng engineer called It, a wrong 
kind of a velocipede. He said 
that lh« dealers should he told 
He called It, “a thing that lies on Its 
Bide”, and he said, he was sure that 
yon would have to hold it up and 
sit on it at the same time, which, 
t be was sure nobody, at all could do, 
But now, I learn of one, who comes 
and goes before them, as they say 
It, “flying a wheel”—they thought 
it an Angel of Ught and that the 
wheel was a part of him. And what 
do yon thlukf It is Jnst Laura, a 
girl, who tides her Papa’s machine 
She says that It comas to her like 140 
• hone, when It's caOad. They. res, 
the thinks, only herself mm) tbs 
wbael, that bar foot touch, I find 
that tbs angola didn't know abut 
b» pld or tbs ephslant, author 
—they didn’t even know what pld 
roattok As for tbs elephant, they 
»* him Mid asked him what he 
wna doing there and tbs elephant 
raid, he was then to "ana these 
eh' Dung play". I can’t tell half the 
things that good children da Of 
course, If (boy are not good, they 
don’t have a good time there, any 
more than here and some of them 
roust enq bo put away to stay with 
eider people. I found, orer there, 
’ a little girl, who belong* to toe and, 
who calk twreeif, ‘<puet, fiurah’e 
Puri”, still. And what dp yon think 
fho was doing?—saying her One, 
Two and this Is the way, she did Ih 
She teld, ‘"One, Two: button my 
shoe”. And It seemed to he morning; 
for, the stooped down and buttoned 
Bp her little shoes, Then, she said, 
“Three, Four: go to the door”. And 
then, she went to a door and opened 
It and went out, I think; for, when 
she said, ‘five. Six: pick up stlcka”, 
she had an arm-fid of dry bits of 
wood and, when she said, “Seven, 
Eight; la? them straight", die put 
them down and brushed oS her 
haoda She must wash her “paddles”, 
note and then, but always she keeps 
her white dress clean. How cortio* a 
most surprising part; for, when ehs 
said, “Nina, Ten: a good Iht hsa”, 
the boo appeared—lt was a white beo—and she kick It op Into her 
•rnis tor a m biota and thou, lot her 
IP- S*» has, too, a set of A B C 
ttoek*—white and red, u bright and 
•hlny as can bo. A lit do girt, who 
calls hereof “Tatle”, tells me some- 
thlng more. The baby looks troubled, 
now and then, and Tatle says, “See 
dls knows see most do what Is wight 
and see doesn't know Dreus. See bos 
to do wight by horael". The baby 
wasn’t a Sunday School girl—there 
was nutxjdy to uto her Sha wwn’t a 
Kindergarten girl, evon—she re 
too yittla. Now, tliere Is a boy there, 
whose lather took him to church 
sod, when Ida sister want in, he was 
baptized, too, although ho was only 
lour years old. A meet strange thing 
happened to him, later. Ha was nek- 
el to do something, he thought, 
wrong. He was naked whether ha 
would do this or whether he would be 
cut up into pieces and Laurie said, 
be would be cut up, If they had to do 
It. And ho wos cut up and, alter a 
time, he died. Then, over there, he 
mode an angel of the Most High. 
Tids was not done at once—they 
thought that he did not know 
what It really meant But Laurie 
said that be did understand, tha 
ho did pray and that the glory did 
come down to him, also. And laurla 
asked to be made able to put the 
power Into steel; for, ha was to have 
boon a steel man on tba garth—his 
grandfather was a puddleer and ha 
Puddled main well And so, power 
waa glrea unto Laurie gad ha became an angel of the Meat High. 
There la anothertboy there, who came 
over, rick, and this boy, who came 
d alck, asked to see Jesus, because 
;sh-k’.people on* the* earth. 
Anybody can do this. Anothr thing: 
they aay that'childrun ran stay 
around their homes, until an. angel 
comes to take them away—of 
course,, they would be links ghosts, 
then, One'glrl, ten years old, site In a 
tree. She a*y» that strong hands 
put her there. She has on a big, 
brown nlster and ahe sits In the 
because It Is wet and slushy on the 
ground. Higher up, In the top of the 
tree, the wind rocks the branches, too 
much. “Surah’s girl” smyd In the 
hall, until a sister—eight j-earo old 
came to her. Then, they both wait- 
ed out-of-doors for a little brother, 
who brought away with him, the 
Mamma’s shawl It was soft and 
big and Hattie wrapped It around 
all of them. Then, they waited un- 
til a strong man came and, one by 
one, put thm over the wall, which 
sunounda Paradise Here, It is warm 
and, In some places, sing 
■ll day long. -Some Utile girts tod 
•lowers”, too. There are three oc 
them and they are |nat babies, eigh- 
teen months old. All day, they plhy 
In the grass and, at night, they lie 
down close together In a abed and 
one of them watches, while the other 
two Bleep; tor, something might 
tighten them—lt might be a man. 
A sheep, even, could “lighten” them. 
Once, I saw a coal flre,.near them, 143 
hi t partabJe gram Them am soma 
more bcMsa, who Juri 0* down to 
Sis grass—they we soTOla, that only 
Oca can tak* cam el Oheo. 
This story was to ba Hhnrtratad and 
ths children bars hsndad picture# 
down. They are cut from aoaontWnf 
Hka paper and tba pig Is b* Wg a* 
lha elephant. Now, I don’t want to 
offend the elephant and so, they are 
not pnt In. iam asked to tel! some- 
thing else. Testcrdsiy, a young girl 
died. And they eay that her lace 
sheer; (hr, “lairy rams ler her’1 
And there were offset*— 'the room 
vu ftiA when they came lor her”. 
And, this mornlpg, 1 see a girt with 
red cheeks, her hair, blowing In tha 
wtnd—tha winds of Paradis*. Pbr 
they asked Larry, what ba won Id Uka 
So bring her away to. And Larry 
naked fbr a boggy. And ha held fh* 
horsa. while aha eame to htos. And 
he took her to be registered. And 
their name* were written In the 
Book of Life. I saw a girl, too, 
Industriously tatting and another, 
crocheting and I asked what this wae 
Air. And I wae told that ’Belle sella 
her work for 10 cents a yard and 
Kmma, her*, for $1 a whorl I am 
asked to tell, too, “in the book”, that 
the girl with the bicycle '’islts her 
lather and that people look after her 
as she “bowls through he!”. She 
finds roads and a track, even, irprp 
for her machine. 
I am asked why I know bo many 
children in Paradise The story is a sad 
one. These children, all but one or two, 
met violent deaths—some, with their 
hands over their heads and some, with 
their hands at their sides—and their 
sacrifice was due to people and conditions 
introduced among1 us by a foreign gov- 
ernment. I hope, however, that their 
deaths will not be in vain—that such iniq- 
uities will be made impossible—that Eng- 
land will hear and understand—that they 
have died fc r the Republic of the future. PHE NIGHTINGALE 
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