The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-08-15
KENOSHA WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, AUGUST IS 1861 @

principal characters. My slight endeavor to
assist them by such counsel as had suggested
Itself to me was actuated by the purest human
sympathy, and upon further reflection 1 could
discover no other means of help. A spiritual
u!Sease could be cured only by spiritual medi-
cine, unless, indeed, the secret of Rachel EN-
mons, mysterious condition lay in some perma-
nent dlsiocation between soul and body, which
could terminate only with their final separa-
| ton. .l--..... &c q
with the extension of our business and the
increasing calls upon my time during my West
Journeys,lt was three years before again found
myself In Toledo, with sufficient leisure to re-
peat my visit. had some difficulty in finding
the little frame house; for, although it was un.
a.eTea IN every respect, number of stately
orlck villas had sprung up and quite disfgur-
eu the ioca!lty. The door was opened by the
same little black-eyed woman with the addition
OF four artificial teeth, which We're altogether
too large and loose. They were attached bv
plated hooks to her eye teeth, and moved mn
and down when she spoke
Is Rachel Emmcns at home q / asked.
The woman stared at me in evident surprise
She's dead she said at last, land then added
let's see-a'nt you the gentleman that call
cd mere some three or four years ago?'
-, les, SAID entering the room 81 should
like to hear about her death
Well, 'taoaS rather queer. She was fail;n,
when you was here After that she got softer
and weaker like, and didn': have her death-like
@ear1n sleeps SO often, but she went lust as
fast for all that The doctor said twas heart
olsease, ana the nerves was gone too, so he on
~ give her morphy, and sometimes pills. but he
knowed she'd no chance from the first Twas
year ago lust May when she died She been
confined to her bed about a week, but I'd no
thought OF her goin' SO soon, was settin' up
with her, and twas little past midnight, maybe.
Shed been layin' like dead awhile, and 1 VAS
thinkin' could snatch nap before she woke.
Ait onst, she riz right up in bed with her ewes
wide open, and her face lookin real happy, and
called out, loud and strong FAREWELL! Eber
Nicholson farewell I've come for the last
time There's peace for me in heaven and
peace for you on earth farewell farewell -
Then she dropped back ON the piller, stone-dead
Shed expected it, 'tseems, and got the doctor
to write her will She left me this house and
lot-I'm her second cousin on her mothers side
but all her money in the Savin's Bank, six
hundred and seventy-nine dollars and a half to
Eber Nicholson. The doctor writ out to Illinois
but found he'd gone to Kansas a year before. j
so the money IN the bank yit; but suppose
he'll git it some time or other.
As returned to'the hotel, conscious ola mel
ancholy pleasure at the news of her death,
could not help wondering Did he hear that
last farewell far away III his Kansas cabin p
Did he hear it, and fall asleep with thanks Civ
ing III his heart, and arlse the next morning 20
liberated nte?' have never visited Kansns
nor have ever heard from him since but
know that the tloing ghost which haunted him
is laid forever ...
Reader, you will not believe my story; BUT
1T Is TRUE. .-....