Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-07-09

all the tendencies of law would be
against you. When a man is dead there
is no question but that his next of kin
have the right to cremate, to embalm
or to bury his body. They might sell
it Imagine, although that is rarely done
in first-class society. Now the point
would make before a jury would
be-"
81 have no wish to discuss law with
you. l have demanded the skeleton
and l propose to have it whether you
are willing or not"
"Just write that down, boys" said
Fulmer. ''He hints at burglary"
"See here" said Wentworth, "you
are not the man we dissected. I be.
lieve you're fraud"
"Do you?'' returned the ghost.
"ln convince you in order to save my
self further trouble. l can take any
ones form. For instance. that of a
rising lawyer" And with that the
figure before them was an exact coun-
terpart of young Fulmer. The mex.
instant the ghost was himself again.
by jove,'' said Smile, "what Z
splendid Lightning change artist he
would make
"Say," said Fulmer, "what would
you take for night at the big hall:
You could personate the head of the
University and sing Il want to be an
Angel with splendid effect"
Il am in no mood for chaff," said
the specter, severely. 8. Finally, will
you give up my skeleton?"
''Let him have his old bones," said
Smile.
Il certainly will mot,'' cried Went
worth. "Why, Smile, 1 had to drill
one hundred and fifty holes in that
skeleton. No, sir! j. w. Stodgers re-
mains here
Remains is good" said Fulmer.
"Well, MIR. Wentworth, when you
get tired of the fight just give that
skeleton decent burial. With that
the ghost was gone.
$50 long" cried Smile. "What
are you going to do, Wentworth? It's
you and the ghost, it seems"
"Do? Why, keep j. w., of course. y
Next day there was an astounding
charge against Wentworth. A pas
senger coming up from Detroit by the
early train had been met on the road
from the station by a student exactly
answering Wentworth's description,
who demanded money at the point of a
pistol, and the passenger would I'M
doubtedly have been robbed if two 9th
ers coming along had not frightened
the culprit, who escaped. Nothing but
SMILES solemn oath that Wentworth
was asleep at the time-it was Saturday
morning-saved Wentworth. On Sum
day all Ann Arbor was scandalized as
it came from church by seeing Went
worth staggering along the street in a
state of heastly intoxication. The pro-
fessors hauled him over the Goals, and
it was in va that he protested he had
spent the day worthily. trying TO catch
fish up the river.
He went home mad and, as j. w.
grinned at him as he came in. he seized
the ruler and smashed in the trap-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 wend-
ed his way to college. He had just
taken his seat while the Professor was
jotting down names preparatory to a
''quiz when an unearthly yell at
tracted all eyes to the top tier OF seats
that descended one by one down to the
operating table. There stood Went
worth on the back of the highest seat
Zone, two, three, look out for me,
he shouted, aud with that he ran swift
" down the backs of the seats, jump
ing over the students heads, hopping
lightly on the subject that lay COW
cred up ON the revolving plank, then
sprang among the lady students, who
scattered screaming, and thence up to
the top of the opposite tier
''Now for a jump across the arena.
Never before attempted by any one out
side of this circus
Catch him." shouted somebody.
"He's insane"
At that Wentworth went for the mar
row stairway, Smile and another after
him. He beat them easily across
the campus and entered the door of his
boarding place.
When the two students burst into
the room they found Wentworth sitting
dolefully looking at the damaged front
of Stodgers, and he swore he had not
been out that morning.
Next day he got notice of dismissal
from tho University.
As he sat by his window stubbornly
refusing to be conquered by ghost,
and yet aware that perhaps some peo-
pie would not believe the whole story
if he told it, he saw his double on the
opposite side of the street.
'By Georger' he cried, ''Tll have it
out with HIM. If they see lis both
they II believe my story.
He seized the ruler and started out.
The ghost looked behind him, and then
it too had ruler in its hand. Nearing
the post-otfice the ghost came sudden
ly up to group of men, hit out right
and left with the club, struck polio e.
man across the face, and fled towards
The crowd pursued. As
it came to Wentworth it vanished into
thin air, and the next instant Went
worth was in the hands of the outraged
constable.
From the lookup the detected young
man wrote to Smile:
For my sake, buy cemetery lot and bury
John w. Stodgers, charging the cost to me.
Yours,
WENTWORTH.
That ended the fight Wentworth, J
regret to say, is not the first student
who came to grief by letting spirits get
the better of hiln.-Luke Sharp, IN De-
troit Free Press.