The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-08-25
HAUNTED LANGUAGES.

tune negro says, have been here too long to be fooled, and the experience had down at the mills will ever remain as an evidence tha, we canno, always bring the reason of common sense and edu- cation to bear agains, the supernatural agencies which the most intelligent of men must acknowledge Is sometimes employed in the dull round up.' using cowboys expression, of our every day affairs.
 Some time ago, visited my old friend, Judge Money, the proprietor of Pine mills, Arkansaw. One evening, jus, after my arrival, heard one ofthe judges sons speak of the lJrary. On ordinary occasions would have paid no attention 10 the remark, l.: the young man seemed to pronounce the word library with peculiar accent. waeteupon asked the judge Ii there were ] library in the sh- borhood ,ha, was possessed of more than ordinary in;eres:. Yes. ,ae )gdse re- piled we have iae most remarkable library ln ,te woe. ]. ;h!nk. la srea, degree. we h,I! i, sasted eonseq quen,iy yoo have see:i u9:..zas 0! <; n the news papers. We have t li5lary that Is haun,ed
 "' Haunted. repeated Why. SIT. your neishboyhn,! ls fortunate. since the most noted liotAtles of history have been haunted
 - This Is no leke. the judge con- tinued. Our library IS .he most peculiar in the world. for, as 1 tell you, |, ls haunted.
 suppose ghos, appears and se- leets volumes ofln;erestng reading matter for the visitors
 No, sir very few visitors are favored with even glimpse of the grand array of books which OUT library contains. The library is haunted. yet no ghos, appears.
 Strange noises are heard. suppose, insisted.
 - No, the judge said. there IS never noise which the visitor cannot account for; never the appearance of anything thl; Is not perfectly natural.
 " Then how can the place be haunted 7
 ! will give yoa an opportunity of an swerins iha, question yourself. and the judge, with an ait which conceived 10 be illustrative of one of his characteristic Jokes. arose from where we were sitting and sAGntered around ln way ,ha, was provoking 10 me. was determined 10 sisl, the place of which he spoke. no; that had the leas, faith in his story, but 10 show him tha, there ye, remained man upon whom the los cabin s,orles ot the negroes. famous people for the su- peFna,ural, lad 10 effect. An oppor,un- iy Was soon al hand, iai the neN, day ,he adse calling me. sa.s. Come or. cid boy. and we'll vis,, tle p,ace ot haunted languages.
 His careless aif lmplesse,, me. If he had been seTioas would ne, have thought so much of It. would have d: once declared th., tae old tune negroes had captured him accompanied him down the valley, along j path alinos, eversFown by bushes saw tha, the place WIS rot iie4len,ed by members of he judges family. and my in,eres: in- creased IS we lifted the green briar and rushed aside the rank weed Presently Ee came to a small clearing in the mids, of heavy wood. The o.d s;amps around showed tha; the place had been visited hy the hands of civilization years ago aad ,he ,all spears of undis;urbed grass spoke oi retirement which one would no, expect .o find in ,hiekly populated community.
 "' This is the place said the judge. stopping near the door of an old log house. Walk right in and make your ssit q, home, and again his eyes swiukled with iha, hgh, which from the ihrs, had gwen to his actions the air of joke. I looked at him for . momes,. halt smil- ing. and entered. There was only one room, no, very large. bu, deceivins in ap- pearance. 4 massive bookcase extended all the way around the wall In the cen Ire of the room was large oak table. plain and substantial, and near i, was a chair of heavy oak. saw nothing that spoke of the supernatural, and laughed !. the joke my friend was playing on me. lteok down large volume. l, was Sanskris. Then l remembered how 1 had studied that ancien, language. It was book tha, had always wanted 10 hnd and l gloated over it's pages, reveling m the great old lore. was surprised a, my ability to read the language. Words of whose meaning had formerly been in doubt, read with ease. I put the A<.1t I 1