Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07

ton. Not that she was suspectedfof doiu
any thing wrong, but she was believed to
the victim of her husbands occult practice
Blonde, pale, with ligh blue eyes and so
| cheeks, she trembled before her spouse as
poor bird trembles that has been fascinate
by serpeant. Besides, she was subject I
lethargic fits. Sometimes she would renal
for days wrapped in a strange slumber S
closely resembling death that when she wa
first attacked they came near burying he
| alive.
Such were husband and wife. Not havin
any special charge to make against JOsias
who was active and honest, we neve
thought of discharging him, and attache
| but slight Importance to the reports tina
had gained currency concerning him.
Josias, besides his work in the garden
had certain tasks assigned him in the house
One Saturday, the day of the week b
usually devoted to waxing the floor OF N.
| library, l happened to enter the room sud
| denly, and surprised him standing nea
| these shelves in the act of reading thi
Bible. On hearing me come in he closed i
hastily but, as the passage seemed to inter
est him greatly, not before marking thu
place with bit of paper he had in his hand
the very piece you are now looking at, anC
which has on it an expense account for me
first week of the month of July 179-.
l said nothing, seeing from his agitation
that he thought he had been indiscreet. He
put the volume back in its place, and as il
was not this one that had been annotated
by the great Frederick, never thought OF
taking out the mark.
And it is Just here, Herr Magistrate that
the mystery begins. The next day being
Sunday-take notice of the date-the cook
not having seen any thing of the Frau
Josias, and becoming alarmed, went over to
the cottage in the kitchen garden. She
found the unfortunate woman stretched on
her bed, white and rigid, her eyes wide open
and the pupils dilated.
"A lethargic attack" remarked Josias,
without the least emotion.
The ACCESSIBILITY of calling in physician
was suggested, but Josias would not hear
of it.
mo, no! l haven't any money to throw
away. She'll come to all right, as usual."
Three days later, when the body began to
decompose, he at last consented that a doc
tor should be sent for. The latter said at
once that the woman was dead, which did
not seem remarkable considering the pre-
carious condition of her health
A month before-note this fact also-Frau
Josias had fallen heir to quite nice little
sum OF money and had at once willed it t.
her husband.
You will no doubt ask, Herr Magistrate,
what connection there is between these
events and the mark in the Bible Have
patience.
The Counselor stopped a moment to en-
JOY the interest manifested by his auditor
in the narrative, and then proceeded:
After the death of his wife, Josias, rich
to the amount of several thousand thalers,
left US and set up on his own account in the
District Of F.. We subsequently learned
that fortune, so long waited for, continued to
smile upon him, and that he had become
Of his village.
He was never seen again at s., and
never visited the burying-ground where
he body of his wife rested.
In fact the burying- ground itself soon
disappeared. 1t was so damp that miasma
arose from it night and day, invading the
houses, and feeding the wan
lering fires that after dusk misled and
righted belated travellers. 1t was first or
Tered to be closed, and ten years later was
d
having been surveyed across it.
In the month of July, IS, the mattock
vas first used, and some bones brought to
he surface. One morning when the dig
'ers were about getting to work they no.
iced an old beggar woman who had got into
he graveyard through hole in the wall,
nd was engaged in picking up the dead
ranches of trees, or worm eaten pieces
allen from the wooden crosses that marked
he graves. Suddenly she sprang backward
4 alright and gave a terrible scream. They
an up to and questioned her. She could
My succeed in making them understand
Y gestures and few disjointed sentences,
hat she had seen a skull moving along the
"Look, it movesw cried the terror-stricken
yoman.
Every one started back instinctively.
rue enough, on heap of human remains
nd stones skull came bouncing along,
ropelled by some strange energy.
One workman was of the opinion that the |
ector should be notified. Another more
irile intellect-ran for doctor. l was also |
ent for and reached the spot as soon as the |
MUSICIAN.
He first ridiculed the cowardly supersti- |
ons of the by-stanGers, then stopped down, |
licked up the skull, and inside it found a |
BAD, that, having got into the cerebral cav
y through a narrow opening, was yainly |
-ying to get out of its prison.
'You see," he said, laughing, ''the-,n
But he did not finish the sentence. A
econd discovery checked the words on his
ps, and froze the smile on his face-a long
O1c%a
eedle, was imbedded in the occiput, and
lust at some time have passed entirely
trough the BRAIN
"Hnh, hob - no nynIafrnaI "a cIever as
lssin. that Death instantane = M efru-
on OF blood, and, thanks to the hair, no
lsIole trace. My predecessor NJ doubt at
ibuted 1t to the rupture of a aneurism."
How to find out the name - ...ui>..-..
Ia Thai o. lis ,.I..-.I
In this portion of the cemetery the labor
IS had demolished four graves and thrown
lie remains In single heap. The tomb
ones were the only means of Identification
It, One of them bore the inscription:
Here lies COr,selid ,Josias'
How to find out, for find out 1 was re-
lived l should!
Suddenly thought flashed through my
-ain like lightning. awo names stood be
re me as if printed in letters of fire. How
-er it was only a personal conviction;
'oofs were necessary.
ran and shut myself up in my library
e very room in which we now are.
l opened book-this Bible.
The proof was there. 1 no longer sus-
'cted- L no longer merely Believed
lew.
The next day the represents of the
W presented themselves at the residence
Josias, whom they found alone eating his
upper. /,
A police officer accosted him, placed his
md on his head, on the very spot. in fact.
which the nail had been driven through