Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-24

: specter severely. Finally, will yo
: give up my skeleton 7"
Let hlnl have his old bones s.si,
Smile.
II certainly will not" cried Went
worth. why, Smilie, I had to drill
one hundred and fifty holes in tina
skeleton. No sir J. w. Stodgers re
mains here"
Remains is good, said Fulmer.
| aWeH, Mr.. Wentworth, when yuu
| get tired of the fight just give thai
skeleton decent burial" With thai
the ghost was gone.
$50 long" cried Smile. ~What are
you going to do, Wentworth It's you
| and the ghost il seems"
"Do2 Why keep John w, of course
Next day there was an astounding
charge against Wentworth. A pas
senger coming up from Detroit on the
early train had been met on the road
from the station by student exactly
answering Wentworth's description,
who demanded money at the point of
a pistol, and the passenger would un-
doubtedly have been robbed If two
others coming along had not frighten-
ed the culprit, who escaped. Nothing
but SMILES solemn oath that Went
worth was asleep at the time-it was
Saturday morning saved Wentworth.
On Sunday all Ann Arbor was scan
dalized as ii came from church by
seeing Wentworth staggering along
the street in state of beastly intoxi-
cation. The professors hauled him
over the Goals, and it was i'll vain that
he protested he had spent the day
worthily trying to catch some fish up
the river.
He went home mad and as J. w.
grinned at him as he came in, he seiz-
ed the ruler and smashed in the drap-
door jaw. The ruler did not pass
through the bony part of J. w. as it
did through its spectral counterpart
Next day Wentworth was too i'll to
attend class. Smile left him and |
wended his way to college. He had |
just taken his seat while the professor
was jotting down names preparatory
to "quIz" when an unearthly yell at
attracted all eyes to the top tier OF seats /
that descended one by one down to
the operating table. There stood |
Wentworth on the back of the highest
seat
@One, two, three, look out for me-"
he shouted, and with that he ran swift
ly down the backs of the seats, jump
ing over the students heads, hopping
lightly on the subject" that lay Gov
cred up on the revolving plank, then
,prang among the lady students, who
scattered screaming, and thence up to
he top OF the opposite tier.
''Now for a jump across the arena.
Never before attempted by any one
outside of this circus"
"Catch him." shouted somebody,
He's insane"
AT that Wentworth went for the mar
ow stairway, Smile and another after
fter him. He beat them easily across
he campus and entered the door of
lis boarding house.
When the two students burst into
he room they found Wentworth sit
ing dolefully looking at the damaged
ront of Stodgers, and he swore he had ,
lot been out that morning.
Next day he got notice of his dis I,
nissal from the University.
As he sat by his window stubbornly /,
efusing to be conquered by a ghost,
nd yet aware that perhaps some peo-
lie would not believe the whole story |.
he told it, he saw his double on the !
pposite side of the street.
"By George !" he cried, "Pll have it !
ut with him. L. they see US both !
ley'll believe my story"
He siezed the ruler and started out.
he ghost looked behind him and
len it too had ruler in its hand v
Tearing the postoffice the ghost came
up to a group of men, hit
ut right and left with the club, struck
policeman across the face and fed
wards Wentworth in vanished into h
lin air, and the next instant Went 4
Forth wis ia the hand OF the, outraged q
unstable.
From the lookup the detected i
Oung man wrote to Smile:
For my sake buy cemetery lot and a
ury John w. Stodgers, charging the Il
ost to me. Yours, 81
WENTWORTH. 81
That ended the fight. Wentworth, u
regret to say, Is not the first student Q
no came to griel by letting spirits L
It the best Of him.
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