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Ghost-Flowers-It is to be hopod liiat money w 11 bp foundto 3nv the Protestant ct-oi't ry ot Rome tb« Iim«« i! which ie ht-1 i by Germany. N-x«ylt; ar •.be I air rs^ir*-#, Arid with it the up iju.of purchase, »o (bat the cemetery «ill tbeu reverl to tiie municipality.Ao appeal bii been nude for foods to por ckuse the quiet re«ting-gfiund by the Pyra-' mid of Qesuus, with its hallowed memories I of tb*» fimocs dead —the an lei of Shelley aod | Keats rest tb**re.I Some years ago this s*.me cemetery made aoether bri* f appearance in the papers. An I English clergyman and his mt. r waoderirg arvuud the quiet lomba came to a grast tb.ckly covtrod with violet leaves, As they ; stood o»er it ihey u uc^d a de'icicus in*-II of iwlets, and. locking down, saw the little porpte fl.jwtrs ptfpiog cut here aod there from de p among the bates Next roomer; they raw there were do violets. Tbs 3owers were not -dually tangible—as aooo • at tbsy I tried to da their gai? on a violet it vanished ' like ao lt;p’ical illutioo.| The fac's were curious »noogb. Bth the people a bo saw the inlets were normal.1 be grave w»s that of Enxtbetb Wyckbiff, ao American unknown by name or association lo eiibwr, which disposes of the theory of auto-suggestion.Moieover, st least one other credible witness claimed at tbe same time to base aeeu v.ob t» growing on a g»ave ne.r that of Keat», wbicb is dose to that of Elnabttb Wyekbiff.This s ory about ghost fljwers. if so tbt fleeting %i lets of the Pmt'stant c»metrry at I Ksmemay be called, is not isol-ted. Setrral . people base claimed similar 'Xperirncet, and I acting on tbe beautiful taocy that tboee who • re gone are asking for gifts of tbe real ‘ dowers ib y bate planted these on their graves.Stranger still is that story told some years ago-aboui an ancient tree m a country town. Under it vii once found tbe dead btdy of a woman cUspiog 10 her baud votsa aid.thyme. Nobody kn*w kvr, and oo wild J tbyoae grew near. Yet afterwards a stroov, ■nmis'akable scent of wild tbyiae was often noticed under tbe tree. Tbe scent haunted tbe rpot ; propl* wholly ignorant of tb**' eircumstaocee could smell it, and would loot for tbe plant that was not there.Costly Messages,
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Kilmore Free Press
Kilmore, Victoria, AU
Thu, Feb 13, 1919
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