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”hello,” he greeted them ”Did you know that Charlie M is dead? Here is a notice in the paper, stating that his body is at the ot the naht, but froh”

”But he can't be dead,” said Doctor Entwistle, aghast, ”for it was only a few lewood”

Nevertheless, it turned out that Charlie M _was_ dead, and that his body had been taken to the ht he saw hio suburb Moreover, on inquiry it was learned that the clothes worn by him when he was killed and the marks on his face ”tallied in every particular with the description given by the doctor”

Quite a similar experience occurred to Mr Harry E Reeves when he was choirmaster at St Luke's Church in San Francisco On a Friday, about three in the afternoon, Mr Reeves was in an up-stairs roo on so to rest for a few e, but alain and open the door of his roo at the head of the stairs he sain Russell, a member of his choir and a well-known San Francisco real estate broker Mr

Russell had pro day to look over the ht was that he had coreet hiure on the stairs turned as though to descend, and then faded into nothingness

”My God!” gasped Reeves, and fell forward

A door beloas hastily opened, and tomen and a man ran to his aid

The woue They found Mr Reeves seated on the stairs, his face white and covered with perspiration, his body tre

”Uncle Harry!” cried the niece ”What in the world is the matter?”

Mr Reeves was in such a panic that he could hardly speak, but he host?” inquired Mr Sprague, with a skeptical shost of Edwin Russell”

Instantly the se,” said he, ”that's very strange For, as these ladies will tell you, I ca the music for Mr

Russell's funeral He had a stroke of apoplexy this o”[4]

[4] Detailed reports of this case are published in the _Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research_, vol viii, pp 214-218

Sohosts of this type present themselves in such a way as to leave no doubt as to the fact anda case in point as has coular experience of an old friend of mine, Edward Jackson, son of the late General Jackson, of Bideford, England

Born in India, Jackson was fro and adventurous disposition He went in for all for, cricket, and polo, and before he left India was one of the best known andset

He was still in his early twenties when he cao on a ranch in Wyoh not of his fondness for adventure, he found work in a Lake Superior mine, where his quickly deh-and-tuang of men whom it had hitherto been most difficult to superintend

As superintendent he was privileged to live by himself in a small, two-room cabin, so-shacks It was in this cabin that he saw the ghost

”I had returned frohly tired out,” he said, in telling me the story, ”and sat down to rest for a fewthere, half dozing, I felt a cold current of air, and looked up, thinking that somebody had thrown the door open

”The door was not open, but standing between nized as a boyhood chum in India He was dressed in polo costuether--but for a ruity between his dress and the rough, outlandish place in which I then saw hilad to see you When did you get here? And how--'

”I stopped He had been standing with his profile toward hastly white, with a deep cut over one eye Without a word he walked pastat me solemnly, and disappeared in the inner room