AN APPARITION OF THE LIVING.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 6 February 1907, Page 4

AN APPARITION OF THE LIVING.

A correspondent writes to Mr. W. T. Stead, of the Review- of Reviews from the neighbourhood of Johannesburg: — "I have just finished read ing witht great interest an articlo in the September number of the Re view of Reviews culled ments in Doubling,' and I would like to bring <to your notice an extraordinary instance of this nature which occurred -a- short time ago to an intimate friend of mine. This friend and her husband live on a farm close to a village in the Cape/ Colony, Ono brilliant moonlight night husband and wife had retired! The blinds wore up, they were at different ends of the room, talkdng to one another, when my fribnd's h-usband called out sharply and ■ asked her if she had seen anything. •'Yes,' she said, 'a shudiw if.st by someone on the step. I was just craniing my neck -to see wrho it was. 'Well,' he said in great agitation. 'I'vo seen my mother, and she jseem ed in a desperate state, and l.eckoned me; she had on a rod dressing gow.n with black spots, w-hSfc-h tt have never seen her wear.' They were discussing the subject, coming to the conclusion- that th-o mother must bo dead, when the galloping of a horse was heard. 'Here comes the messenger; ' exclaimed my friend, and such it proved to be. A note was -banded in byia black boy from, the .mother, urging the son to come if he wished to see his father alive. Whan they arrived the mother came to meet them in the dressing'-gown bar son had noticed, and which sbte was wearing for the first time ; He exclaimed, 'Mother, you've been to the farm to-night.' She said, '1 believe I have: I felt as though' I must seize hold of you and bring you.' This is a true story, and you can make use of it if you like."