San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-19
4 GHOST PHOTOGRAPHED.
The Spirit of Minister'S Daughter Re-
turns to Sit Before "A Camera.

turns to Sit Before a Camera.
If any question of veracity is to b
raised over this ghost story have your dis
| pute with Colonel Burgess Leigh, for h
| related il as il is here set down.
A few years ago the favOrite daughter q
a clergyman in one of the larger cities fel
into decline. The fathers grief was bit
ter as he saw the life ebbing.
One day when the arrival of the rider O
the pale horse was hourly expected the dy
ing girl whispered to her father to be re
signed.
I'VE will not even have the comfort
which picture of you would afford fol
we have none" he moaned.
She seemed to be unconscious for an
hour or more, when, opening her eyes, she
again whispered:
''If it is possible will come back to you,
father, and you shall have picture"
Those were her last words, which may be
the reason they made such strong impress.
sion on the doctor.
DR.. Dean had no faith in the supernatu-
raj. Despite his strong intellectual revul
sion DR., Dean felt strange desire to visit
a photographer. Passing a studio one day
the impulse was irresistible.
When the doctor went back to see the
negatives the artist noticed a look of dis
appointment come into his patrons face
He inquired wherein the pictures failed to
please the doctor. The good old gentle.
man answered kindly that they seemed to
be very lifelike and that he had no fault to
find.
A few months passed and DR.. Dean, be
ing near the same photographers rooms,
felt the same impulse to go in. The artist
was little surprised, but supposed that
some of the rector's congregation had been
pressing him for pictures. Good poses
were obtained, and when the negatives
were ready the artist said to himself that
the doctor would surely be pleased.
DR.. Dean examined each proof closely,
and again the expression of pain and disap
pointment overspread his face. At this
the photographer was hurt, and he tender.
ly and earnestly sought the cause, recalling
to the doctor the fact that he had been dis
appointed the first time, but would not
explain.
After little pause the rector, with i'll
concealed emotion. narrated the scene at
the deathbed and mentioned the feeling
which had drawn him to the gallery
against his judgment.
Time softened the sorrow somewhat, but
the heart remained desolate. On the ami
versary of his child's death, DR.. Dean sat
in his library for hours. That yearning
which those who have lost loved ones know
possessed him. Finally this Communing
gave way to a sad sweetness, as something
like soft, gentle presence seemed to fill
the room. That impulse which he had felt
twice before seized him. Quietly he arose
and proceeded to the photographers and
was given a sitting at once. 1t was a
balmy sunshiny day, and the mildest
zephyr breathed through the open win.
dows.
A few days later the doctor received an
urgent message to go to the gallery at
once. The operator had just finished a
picture. AS DIR. Deans eyes rested upon
it he was violently agitated. He trembled
and sank into a chair, clutching the photo.
graph and gazing at it intently. 1t was a
strong dramatic scene.
There in the picture was a fine likeness
of the rector, and looking directly into his
eyes was the face of one not of this world.
This face was yelled by something like
mist or cloud.
my daughter" the doctor exclaimed.
1t was a spirit picture, a likeness of his
dead child.
Il remember" said the operator, that
some cloudlike object passed before the
at the moment | exposed the plate.
| looked and it was gone"
1T seemed to come in at one window
and pass out the other. 1t brushed my
face, | remember" responded DR.. Dean.
Not only the doctor, but all the members
of his family and many friends who have
seen the photo pronounce the spirit face
good likeness of their dead.-Atlanta Con.
stitutiOn.