Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-09
4 Real Ghost Story.

Once upon time there lived maiden
in Saint Andrews, 8 beautiful Canadian
named Pemige gewasset MckIrchenthumbach
the loveliest flower that ever grew IN the
sunshine and showers, chaste as Diana,
true as Penelope; the violets paled in the
blue of her eyes, and pearls sold for second
choice in pools when she smiled; ivory
white was her broad, high brow, for she
didn't comb her bangs down into her eyes
like the foretop of Shetland pony, and
the semi-occasional fogs of her native land
kept down the frecklcs and the tan. She
wore good clothes, and moved in the high
est circles; she embroidered her OWN num-
Der one -and-a- half moccasins, and was the
belle of the singing school Her father
owned more acres Of spruce and pine lands
than he could count IN month; could get
Cut enough ships keels in day to build
Tn ted States navy and two scnooners, and
was rich and proud. He sat in the best
pew in church, and responded louder and
contributed smaller lhan am other member
OF the congregation, and possessed all the
other ear-maiks of a wealthy man. One
day, a man named MIchilimachinac-
Pierrepont T. Michilimachinac-
down from the up-river country with a
luad Of pelts. He was mighty hunter,
and every year he captured Ly trapping,
shooting, and swlndlIng the untutored In
dian, enough furs TO control the marker,
and he was growing monopoly. He
wore plug hat, and shirt that buttoned
behind. and hung bis watch chain outside
his coat. He was mashed on Pemigewas-
SET in the first inning. He was a lonely
man he said. He took her hand IN his,
and said he wanted some fair maiden TO 60
with HIM and stay in the north woods
about nine months in the year, and help
him skin beayer, and mink, and otter, and
fox, and certain varieties of cats and bears,
and cook for him, and help to bamboczle
the Indians out of their pelts, and pack
the furs for him, and help him down the
river with them. Would she fly with
him2 She shook her wealth of golden hair
and told the hunter lie was away off his
base, and she would see him fur-der before
she'd go. Stralghtwsy the Michiiimach-
inac led her to her father, and told the
um, m,oire that he had been put out on foul.
The old man bent his brows upon the re-
belIious girl. You'd otter have him." he
said. "What fur?" replied the maiden
Because it would be very gratifying TO
me-" said her papa. Il cannot bear 10
think of it, she said. But you are very
deer to me, put In her lover. That's
where the gaZeile comes in, sighed the
maiden; '.pm afraid you're lion to me. !"
'.Make 'ernnne," the lover said. And the
old man said he would, and called for some
mink and paper to draw up the settlement.
But Pemigewasset simply said: Thou art
SO near and yet so fur, and left the room.
There was another. a youthful sailor
man, with straw hat and wide trousers,
and broad collar with anchors worked on
il with white thread, ani lovely yacht
club buttons-George Augustus Saskalch
evan. He was daisy. He played ON
the mouth organ and danced the racket di-
vInely, sang all The new songs of the
street, got nine hundred dollars year and
spent every cent of It ON his clothes. And
when the old man found out the previous
attachment there was a circus. But the
brave girl stuck to George, and SAID if the
old man didn't like George he needn't
marry him, but as for her, she was lis
hairpin (or words TO that effect), and that
was the kind of girl she was Aud H.
asmuch as it WAS not pleasant for George
TO visit Pemigewasset at tie house, as he
didn't feel able to feed her fathers dog
three times week out of his scanty sal
ary and sensitive legs, these devoted young
people used to wander clear out TO the
lane, and meet when the moon was full,
and when ii was gib6ous, and when it was
half, when it waned into the last quarter,
and wheh there wasn't even enough moon
to excuse the gas company. And SO one
night while he bent his head to gaze into
the happy face that was nestled against
his breast, there was moving shadow by
the rocks that was not cast by the waving
hemlocks, the cold, cruel glitter of steel in
the starlight, and the heart throbbing so
warmly beneath the cheek of the gIrl was
still, and she held ler lover in her arms
only to see the love light in his dear eyes
die out in the CLASSY stare of death. A
mocking laugh from voice she knew and
hated Jared Un her soul 1t appears that
the rejected rival, Pierrepont T. Mlchili-
mschlnac, had taken bowie knife two
inches wide and two feet and half long,
and tapped George for laudsble Dus, pene-
trating the peiihelIon at the base of the
cardiac apolhegm by lateral incisIon,
bearing sou'west half west, through the
etacarpal phalanges in apogee with the
base OF the fifth rib. The treacherous
Michillmachinac fed to the north wood,
and in the following month ate himself up
with a wild bear, and the Indians gobbled
all hls skins. Pemigewasset got her to q
nunnery, and followed her lover TO the
summer land In few months. The stem
parent having bit off little more slock
than he could mesticate, went on change
to unload one day, and 90: caught on a
falling market and was skinned alive. And
TO lhls cay, when the bell IN the csstle tolls
the hour of midnight, two ghostly figures
wander down the lane with the skating
rink glide affected by ghosts, and IN the
shadow of this rock the lady ghost. on her
bended knees, lifts her clasped hands in
the passionate eloquence of voiceless ap.
pear 10 the glittering stars, while her shad-
owy figure bends over the PROSTATE phan-
tom stretched before her, staining the
crushed ferns with the crimson current of
life.