The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-04-19
Selected Miscellany. ];
A REAL. GHOST STORY.

Ill Il lltl Noifa VlsNll
spirits of the dead Revef-waik this cart
10 be seen by mdffd EYES. After they ha'
taken leave of their clayey tenements-
know better Robert Dale Owen MI
write in favor Of dead men coming baS
10 visit the scenes Of their mortal toll
and thousand Others may write again
it: it's all .one to mo. shall have m
own opinion. mitii,4 a try to come BAG
myself, and cail,. \. and dt Is proved to nm
by the best authority of the spiritu.
world. that no one else can: You wi
say, make no doubt, as my friends 'ha,
always done, that my fears alarmed mn
and that my excited Imagination cause
me 10 fancy saw the person of my oil
friend. DIR. Fenton Atwick, and heard hi
voice speaking to me, when | knew h
was crushed and mangled corpse. O
you will conclude that l had been asieel
You will be equally mistaken in eithe
hypothesis. In the first place, Il was nc
timid man. never had been afraid {
anything i'm the earth. air or sea. ha
walked through lone burying-ground,
and by old churches, hundreds of time.
i'm the dead Of night, and no s'Tam q
Shanter" visions had ever yet caused m
to quicken my pace. l had been. all IN
life, sturdy. hard-yorking person: 81;
40 sick. pulling f:incies had haunted m,
ynrOugh long, weary days of idleness
working for twelve hours on the stretch
until you are wearled to death, and sleep
ing like log for ten hours, Is not con
duclye to romancing, nor dld wish it to
be. L had no thought OF writing novels:
or even ,gnost steries. III Ihese days. 1
was piodding ciiahcery lawyer, never
yenturlng TO make 4 speech, but drudg-
ins, as L nave salts isp thc ciQtFs 4 wore,
and the food ny which life was kept i'm
my body, Dr. fentoh Atwlck had moved
TO DarD.oWh ten years before. 1t
was well he ilad an annuity 10 fail back
upon. for there was no need of his diplO-
ma, or Of any science here. He had had
ease or; SO OF 'agrle and fevcr:H and
sometimes IN the autumn few chills-
nothing more. Strange that DIR. Atwick's
should have been the first death. Alas,
poor physician. ih"li vast unable to
heal thyself!' our S;ii'ihrioiIS climate and
bracing mountain air might brave every
effort OF mlasma To fliid victim amongst
us. But accident--tlic creature of fate
how unforeseen. howimpossible to guard
against It's treacherous dealings, The
veriest invalid on earth was safer from
that than bale, harty Fenton Atwick.
| don't know how / got into a sort
of pyerie one eyeninp-fhinkino of all
our lives. and the popular idea that we
all have a mission TO Derform. T was
not giyen to such things. I sbouId as
soon have Thought of ioinino an onera
troupe-hayings no more aidca rof. music
than A ACKNOWLEDGMENT tuIniap, meta
physician. But there | sat. looking ont
at nv window on the piaut Inounfains
ablaze with the golden aureola Of the SET
ting sun. with nv pen behind INV ear.
and ponderous volume of Coke all un-
heeled before me. asking myself. over
and over again, OF what avail my life had
been TO myself or others, and whittier 1t
was tending, until the light died too from
lhe western SKY, anu tle SHADOWS OF mght
the room: "Pshaw.,' exclaimed, Il
am as visionary as child emerging from,
or an 0id man gong INTO, the realms OF
the UNKNOWN. very soon we TOO Will be
DUST as our ancestors are perhaps a
part oil tlat which the young man. who
was gallopmg madiy by but few mo-
ments ago, sent curling into my window
. .sIe' over my BOOKS INTO my very nos
of aisc son-, anu !. .hen our children mot mine,
u course, as am bachelor. put other
eop'e ; VIII LOOK out OF TINS very WIN
pM' as am dohg now. ana wonder whai
,hy dhNy were made ior; and wntllerward
,he,. aes a,e 'ehelng; ana aiey VIII ma
ufiiisises-n tne dark, as L am.
slrack myself a sharp blow on the fore
mead, ;is II by this means l should effect
Slly i,cor the goblin thoughts that were
Dewliehing me; and drawing parlor
match across the green serge that cover
"a my table. Lit my lamp and reopened
ny, my book. But, strange to say, l could
not collect my thoughts.
II am TEMPTED" muttered ..to mo
for Atwick and Fleet and Jones. aid
have a rubber at whist for IL seems I am
determined to be at cross purposes with
time this evening" i srrasy i'm ami nf
my chairs,s EcnSt9,h]ea Grs sbesvy tbud
sounding IKE the faIiino of a human hody,
struck distinctly on INV ear. I glanced
hastily around the room. and. as Sotbiug
was disturbed. listened for n reINstition 5f
the sound from without. but the silence
was profound. and n took nm INV bonk
again. A moment more and heard
some one walking rapilIv down t,,esfreet ]
at is some visitor ta',sc, + hone !. Rnt
no: the footstens ,,sss.r, lon nTg Tn ,ho.a
came lIe sonaJ p s,,,;n n. fian 'l,eie
two threo Sa,arta " aa,niis ices-oh'
Then there waS ,,d"e = haS. Ersods gong Dy.
and some o ou' mas alas,y Ga9n my stshs
a the door ,r mas osi,l - uIrhea qthckiy
.Ah Flee, va !, usl,eI ,,n., open.
YOU. Come :, - ~" .,;d a,ti gI'9 20 see
then wasEa toha aStI, I a eonne M ahu
| friyhful to hah6id iooh upon NM g
Come. Jerrv ;, hs s.;d ,v,,;,o h;s 80. ,,,.,h ~
chaitered. II h.,S heen "ine snn. W. .p s,tah s
You. A fearful acc;dent bss ;nst thn hsn
peaod. Dr. Atw;cI~. 'p ''Hss' n1i-
what p, 7 asEal, ohua s. ssad,.,sr
thought to he moral I'm ,hronah ID
through mey~y~G~." Ian ''ousi anu
rs alreadx slessla5 h.,,. .,,d
you. BY an accident Is hn-,;h,a nast ass au ,,nl
Unforeseen jones' a. IfI,o,S n;fh h; a. !. was Tis
Office, and tbev had T r;so,, h 10 liiil a. IN n,s M
here, when ItwIa a i,sea seanas,sSnS - sSme t uP
lamp. and turn;Sg sndSoni,, SJ,glisned sa ms
n the window ;nstead oin of ~ s.epped ou1
/ fell upon fhe recEs 49, ool, Alu
dead man y,bs,, tyon2 Sd pe was