The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1888-01-19
STRANGE PHENOMENON.
A Pennsylvaaia Politicians Thrilling Pa
ehoioEical Narrative.

A Pennsylvania Politicians Thrilling Ply
Geological Narrative.
A citizen Of this county, who is not only
prominent locally. but is well-known pOliti-
eally throughout the State, says the PUNK
utawney pa correspondent 70 the New
York SHE, was present recently where q
number Of persons were Hdiculing super
natural or psychological Phenomena, and
finally said:
There Is no person who is more skeptical
on such matters than /, but / had an expe-
rience once that was more than enough %
make me q most ardent and sincere be
lever In the supernatural / could never
bring myself % think. however that Il was
any thing more than the result Of some
natural law beyond the cognizance or sx-
PLANTATION Of any human being.
at occurred several years ago One cold
but clear winters night / was on my way
70 ReynOldsville on horseback The Rey-
noldsyille road, as you all know, leads for
some distance through the woods, and was
passing over that stretch Of the road when
suddenly, probably rod ahead Of me, the
figure Of = man suddenly appeared in the
road. and he seemed 10 be surrounded By .
fierce fall Of snow, which was apparently
hurled against him by q terrific gale Of
wind. The man struggled along feebly
against the storm had no need 10 draw
ny horse up, for he seemed 10 see the
strange apparitiOn too and stopped sudden
", pricked up his ears and paved the snow
impatiently All around, except in the
small space surrounding the figure Of the
man, every thing was clear and calm I
rubbed my eyes and made up my mind the
man was some drunken fellow on his
way home from the village, and that
the storm was an optical illusion I
called out 70 him, but no answer
came back. l shouted again and again,
louder each time, but the struggling figure
gave no response. At last the man fell as
II exhausted. and the snow continued 70 fall
upon him and the fierce gale whirled IL
around him. Knowing that II the fallen
man was drunk he would freeze to death II
left him lying there, / jumped frOm my
horse and ran 10 help him up, intending
TO take him 10 the nearest place Of
shelter Il was starlight, but In that
light alone the features Of no person could
have been recognized under the closest
scrutiny. hurried 10 the PROSTATE figure,
and as I reached is l saw the face was
turned upward As my eyes fell on the
face Istarted bal and almost fell faintIngin
the snow. The face was revealed in the dark
ness IS plainly as il II was broad daylight,
and it was the face Of my brother, who lived
In Dakota, and It was his face as a corpse.
When l recovered from the shock the sight
had given me and turnc.i again 10 the body
Il was gone. There was not even an i'm
preston in the snow where il had lain. Be
wildered and much unstrung by this singu-
lar vision, finally mounted my horse and
rode on. | gradually recovered my com
posure, and at last convinced myself that
had been the victim Of a strange and unac-
countable Authorization But ! slept but
little that night and q strange fOrebOding
Of evil haunted me for several days; in fact,
until received letter from the station in
Dakota where my brother was, and which
informed me that he had been caught in q
blizzard while on his way 10 his cabin, and
was oVerpowered by il and frozen 10 death.
Ths letter gave the time aud date Of his sad
death II had occurred the very hour and
night that the appariti0n Of the man strug-
Cling against the storm appeared 70 me on
the Reynoldsville road. and recognized my
brothers fare as ne Law dead In the snow"