The Worthington advance., 1879-04-10

The melting snow, in slow and sullen drip,
rlashed where mid shattered glass and broad
arch barred,
A struggling rose-tree kept its silent guard
Gone, like the glory Of nv morn," she said,
Like .aith, and hope, and joy of summer
And fIom the untrimmed branches overhead
ehe plucked the frailest OF the frail pink fow
Meet emblem Of the love that had its day
ana passed, with spring aud beauty, quite
away
GHOST STORIES.
BY H. B.. X.
A stout Yorkshire farmer of the name
OF James Wreggit, having emigrated to
Canada, settled himself and family on a
good farm which he rented in one of the
townships. He was considered fair-deal-
ing and honorable in all transactions with
his neighbors, and in every respect bore
most excellent character. In the farm.
er's house was drst.fl sitting-room
with large fireplace. In this room the
children slept, out from the first night
evin:ed the greatest dislike to going to
bed there, screaming with terror, and
saying thst man was in the room with
them.
For long time the parents paid no
attention to their complaints. During
barvesttime change was made, and the
farmer bimself slept in this room, a. it
was cooler and more convenient. The
first night he slept there, he was about to
| rise almost before the break of dav, when
glancing toward the fireplace, he saw
standing there stranger OF dissipated,
drunken appearance. "Hallo! what's thee
doing there8" was his very natural excla-
nation. Receiving no reply, wont thee
speakI Ill make thee speak!' and
picking up one of his heavy
boots from the bedside, be
was preparing to throw it at the intruder,
when the man, suddenly raising his arm
as if to ward off the blow, vanished in q
moment from before his eyes. Wreggit,
unable to get this matter out of his head,
brooded over it till the next day, when
about noon he entered into conversation
with neighbor who was working with
him, and asked him to describe the for
mer tenant of the farm, who had died from
excessive drinking. The description so
entirely resembled the man he had seen
in the room, that he at once exclaimed,
II saw him last night!'' Wreggit re-
counted this to some old friends near
whom he had lived before taking the
farm, and it is from the dictation Of one
of bis auditors that have written down
this remarkable circumstance. At the
time neither Wreggit nor his friends had
the slightest belief in apparitions.
Captain W., friend of mine, was tell
ing M, while we were on the subject of
CHESTS, of circumstance which occurred
while ne was in India, ard which had
entirely removed his disbelief in the pos
sibility of apparitions. He was the
nephew OF the general commanding the
troops in cantonments, near Delhi, in the
north of India, in the year 18-. Attach
ed to his regiment was young ensign,
Arthur G., quite a lad in years, being only
seventeen. He was an orphan with no
aear relations, and his guardians had
yielded to his enthusiastic love for
military life.
He had been year with Captain VS.
regiment, when he began to droop anu to
feel an increasing langour and sense Of
illness, very depressing to his buoyant
spirit. This alarmed his friends, by
whom he was greatly beloved; in fact, he
was the general pet Of tho 1egi-
ment, being a warm heart
ed and genial comradc, often enliven-
ing the dull routine of regimental life by
his merry humor and boyish pranks
After some weeks of total prostra ton,
the fatal verdict of "decline" was given
by his medical attendant, and, anxious to
give last chance Of recovery to one so
young and amiable, the general in COM
mand sent him sick certificate to Cal
cutta, from thence to embark tor England,
after due examination by a medical
board. That no care OF attention might
|e wanting on his journey. regimentai
surgeon, very dear friend, was sent
with him. In due time this officer re-
joined the regiment, reporting that his
young patient had borne the fatigue Of
! the journey better than could have been
expected, that he had himself seen him
on board of a homeward-bound vessel.
and that every possible comfort had been
provided for his passage, the surgeon Of
the ship having taken the especial
charge of him. This WAS satisfactory,
and after a time his comrades almost
ceased to talk OF him and of bis chances
of recovery.
A few weeks after the doctors return,
the officers Of Arthur G.'s regiment were
sitting over their wine after the mess din
ner, the mess-room being long, large
tent with an opening at each end. Cap
tain w. said afterwards he was thinking
of poor Arthur G, and wondering if he
should ever see him again, when Arthur
himself came in at one door of the tent,
and passing down the whole length OF
the dinner table went out at the opposite
door. He was dressed as they had last
seen him; he was deadly pale, but smiled
and nodded to several of his friends as
he had been wont to do, and gave long
and earnest look towards Captain W.,
who had been his most intimate friend.
The mess broke up at once, some going
to lock for their old comrade in the
mess room Of the regiment in can
tonments with them, and Captain W. to
the tent Of his uncle, the general, whom,
however, he found alone writing some
| dispatches, and who. looking up with as
tonishment, declared he had seen hothing
Of the young officer. When, en- inquiry,
it was found that he had also passed
through the mess-room of the other regi-
ment, and had been recognized by many
of the officers, and also by the servants
in attendance, and yet could nowhere be
found, his sudden appearance and disap-
pesrance seemed equally mysterious.
Eventually letters arrived from Calcutta
bringing the sad intelligence that Arthur
G. had died at sea on the very day and
at the very hour that he was seen in the
camp before Delhi.-Atlnntic Monthly.
Tho compromise Of the Vanderbilt
viii case enables Cornelius J. Vanderbilt to
pay OF al his indebtedness, amounting to
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