The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-30

1.-THE place in which found myself was
/ lofty, vaulted passage, lighted | knew
| not how. The air was dim with faint blue
smoke and scented with the same heavy
| perfume as had noticed in the room 1 had
| just quilted. Suddenly, from doorway
| on the left, which l had not noticed, a tall
| man, dressed in a long flowing crimson
robe, advanced toward me with "a"
Post scriptum, written by Anton Claus
ius, Phi. D., of the University of Dummer-
hausen, and addressed to the editor of Al
| the Year Round:
bearing landlady of my old friend Herr
Chrstoph Holt, L found him at his table sit.
ting quite dead, with this not yet fin shed
writing before him. He had been working
at it when he was by death seized / find
that this paper is only one of lot all on
sim lar subjects. written and evidently for
them found out the reason of nv
old friends altered toward myself be-
havior We were friends, good friends
a%ass, tllI ne the subject of met
brain was not strong enough. 1t is only men
with strong bra ms who can study metaphy-
sics-men with bra ms like mine. My poor
old friend thought he had a strong bra n 4;
but mol fourteen hoIrs' reading would put
II all in wirr-warr, as we say in German
OFTEN, when we were metaphysics d scussing.
used TO snow him his mi stakes and then he
would become verr angry, and tn men
often do who the metaphysics study without
the strong brain This, | And is the ground
work of his dislike to me. Lieber HimmeI
IL IS very strange that any man should d s.
ike me; but, as | read the papers, | find out
another much-moreto -be-wondered-a at cir
cumstance My poor old FIR end, when his
mead by the too much study of metaph ysics
muddled became would always beg to
FANCY that some strange mystery in the
mouse over against his lodgings hidden was
men, Wnen Dy strange populations he
had himself madden than he was before
made, he invented to help him find out the
mystery over the waX,A sort of phantom,
Liebor Himmeli Did ever any obs b.Sore
hear of ghost named simpson? First h e
the IN vsterY invents and then he nveuts the
S mpson ghost to help i'm to expla it. Tn s
shows what comes of studying the metaphys-
les without the strong brain
AFTER had road through these histories
l went to Wis all the houses in which my old
friend had lodged, and made out as we'll as
could who the people were about whom he
such strange fancies mag ned. OF course,
to systematic thinker like myself, there
was no mystery at all. The house where tho
three Frenchmen | we'd was pulled down and
clean gone. so could nothing about them
learn; but the old man and his daugh ter were
neither Poles nor consp rators The old man
was an Italian music teacher, and his very
talented and atfectionate young daughter
made little money by water color paint ne
IL she got married, ana then she was to the
altar led, not by n Russ an atta:hr. but by q
smart young stock broker whI took her, and
her aged father as well, with him at Putney
to dwell
The young clerk in Isling'on he certainly
did holiday take after a severe illness but
nobody but the mpsOn ghost has ever
heard of the str nge reason The gentleman
in the Clapha Il road he OF his = rd"n is still
very FOND. but his face S very sud, lust MS
my friend describes. Any man IN ght wen
look sad and by care we ghcd down who has
to listen all day long to the noise of the tram
way bells in the Capham road.
The old man in the Horseferry road was
not the ctIm of terrible secret as my
poor friend had imag ned; he was only the
proprietor OF several on the river trad ng he.
tween oxford and London bargeS, and every
week his foreman to h m the money would
br ng. And this last not quite completed,
most horr bic story about DR.. Thermor
but that is not to be wondered at, for the
poor old man took more and more chloral
every dav, and madden and madden became.
The house opposite the lodgings where he s
now lying dead, where he saw at work the
myster Gus mach merry, was the public baths
and wash houses and nothing more. The
people go in dirty BY the door in Last street
and go out clean by another way at the back
"Mr Holt, ] find from some memoranda
that he has left intended to send these
stories to your magazine so | feel myself in
duty bound to forward them; but | can
hardly think you will give them to the world
in your so widely read and much apprec ated
pages | send with them little treatise of
nv own, about four hundred and eighty
pages octave on the future of metaphysics
in England. which would, | am sure, much
more amuse your readers and at the same
time raise to a never yet attained point of
fame. both yourself and your illustrious
magazine. AL the Year Round.