The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-10-15

Gust write that down, boys,
said Fulmer. "He hints at bur
glarly."
''See here" said Wentworth
"yoa are not the man we dissected
l believe you're fraud"
''Do your" returned the ghost
"I'll convince you in order to save
myself 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
counterpart of young Fulmer. The
next instant the ghost was himself
again.
"By jove," said Smile, "what a
splendid lightning change artist he
would make"
"Say," said Fulmer, what would
you take for a night at the zig
hall? You could personate the
head of the University and sing i
want to be an angel with splendid
effect.
81 am in no mood for chaff," said
the specter, severely. Finally, will
you give up my skeletonF
''Let him have his old bones, :"
said Smile.
81 certainly will not cried Went
worth. "Why, Smile, 1 had to
drill one hundred and fifty holes in
that skeleton. No sir! j. W. Stod-
gers remains here"
Remains is good" said Fulmer.
"Well, Mr.. Wentworth, when you
get tired of the fight just give that
skeleton q 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 John W., Of
course"
Next day there was an astOund-
ing charge against Wentworth. A
passenger coming up from Detroit
on the early train had been met on
the road from the station by stu
dent exactly answering Went
worth's description, who demanded
money at the point of pistol, and
the passenger would undoubtedly
have been robbed if two others
coming along had not frightened
the culprit, VINO escaped. Nothing
but Smiles solemn oath that
Wentworth was asleep at the time
it was Saturday morning-saved
Wentworth. On Sunday all Am
Arbor was scandalized as it came
from church by seeing Wentworth
staggering along the street in
state of beastly intoxication. The
professors hauled him over the
Goals, and it was in vain 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 wendell 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 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
swiftly down the backs of the seats,
jumping over the students heads,
hopping lightly on the subject"
that lay covered up on the revolv-
ing plank, then sprang among the
lady students, who scattered scream
ing, and thence up to the top of the
opposite tier.
''Now for jump across the are
ma. Never before attempted by any
one outside of this circus"
"Catch him." shouted somebody.
''He's insane"
At that Wentworth went for the
narrow stairway, Smile and anoth-
er after him. He beat them easily
across the campus and entered the
door of his boarding house.
When the two students burst into
the room they found Wentworth sit
ting dolefully looking at the damag-
ed front of Stodgers, and he swore
he had not been out that morning.
Next day he got notice of dismiss
al from the University.
As he sat by his window stub
boznly refusing to be conquered by
ghost, and yet aware that perhaps
some people would not believe the
whole story if he told 1t, he saw his
double on the opposite side of the
street.
"By George he cried, "Tll have
it out with him. If they see US
both they'll believe my story"
He seized the ruler and started
out. The ghost looked behind him
and then it too had a ruler in its
hand: Nearing the postofice the
ghost came suddenly up to a group
of men, hit out right and left with
the club, struck a policeman across
the face and fed towards Went
worth. 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 out
ragged constable.
From the lookup the detected
young man wrote to Smile:
For my sake, buy a cemetery lot
and bury John w. Stodgers, charg-
ing the cost to me. Yours,
WENTWORTH.
That ended the fight. Went
worth, regret to say, is not the
first student who came to grief by
letting spirits get the best of him.
Luke Sharp, in Detroit Free
Press.
1t is coming to be pretty well
agreed that Fred Ward, Grants
partner, is not as guilty as he was
l. l.