The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-05
GRISLY AND GHOSTLY.
eREWsOME STORIES ABOUT START.
LING SIGHTS.

From the Pail MaH Budget
Mr.. Steads second regiment OF spooks
r,Wore Ghost Stories" RerieiU of Reuietgsl.
;s on the whole. even better than his first.
We have dreams aud dreamers, prophecies
and second-sight, spiritual vagaries and
GOOD honest ghosts, haunted houses in Lon
don and out Of it IN variety sufficient for a
bouse agents catalogue, clairvoyants to
7vbom Sam Weller's double-magnifying gas
microscope for the penetration of deal doors
and brick walls would be quite a superfu-
;.v and as for doubles" and Thought
bodissp-why, one lady had such an ener-
,atie second self that she was under the
constant necessity Of proving alibis.
Readers may not be surprised to find that
one Of the most interesting stories is more
or less photographed. Mr.. Stead il tell
inc about some experiments with q "clair-
liant lady.n "Now," said /. take an.
other test. Tell me il you see anything with
this. Then he took from my purse the
shilling which most prize Of all the pieces
of money in my possession. l said nothing
n ber about it beyond saying that had
carried It in my pocket for several years
and that there was story connected with it
which wished her to tell.
THE STORY OF SHILLING.
She held the shilling in her hand for some
time, and then said: "This carries me
back TO a time of confusion and much
anxiety, with feeling that everything de-
handed upon a successful result This shil-
Iine brings to me vision of q very low
woman, Ignorant and drunken, with whom
YOU had much better have nothing TO do.
She has passed. over. There is a great deGl
of fever about; feel great pains as IL
H., Ill
and my joints, but especially in
nv ankles and my throat. l suffer
horribly in my throat. it is an awful pain;
and now feel a coarse, dirty hand pass
over my brow as distinctly as if you had
laid your hand there. 1t must be her hand.
/ feel the loss of q child. This woman is
brought to me by another. She Is about 80
wears, about five feet high, with dark brown
hair, gray eyes. small, nicely formed nose,
large mouth" Scan you tell me her name!"
asked. Not certainly. but l think it
seems most like Anne. Is that rightw 81
do not know" replied. And then told
her the story of that shilling.
Six years ago when | was standing for
my trial at the Old Bailey, poor outcast
girl, who was dying OF disease in hospital,
asked that the only shilling which she pos
sessed in the world might be given to the
fund that was being raised for our defense.
jail with written on it's paper cover, "Dy-
ing girl in hospital gives her last shilling"
l have carried it about with me ever since,
never allo wing it to pass out of my possess
sion for a single day. Beyond that know
nothing. The symptoms which Mrs. Davies
described we're very like those which such
poor creatures suffer in their closing hours
and it is too probable that the donor was a
low drunken woman; nevertheless, think
iad he fa - har -
upon her brow, for. low and drunken as
she was, l would prize that touch more
than permission to kiss the hand of a
queen.
REMARKABLE AND STARTLING SIGHT.
And now for a good old-fashioned specter
OF most unpleasant kind. We plunge into
the story:
When l had walked about 100 yards away
from my friends saw on the bank of the
canal (which runs parallel with the road for
Six or seven miles, what L Thought at the
moment was an old beggar. The spot was
a very lonely one. The nearest house was O
good quarter OF mile away. The night
was as silent as death. Not single sound
broke upon the silence from any quarter
couldn't help asking myself where this old
man had come from to such a place. had
not seen him in going down the road.
then turned round quite unconcernedly
TO have another look at him, and had no
sooner done so than / saw within half a
yard Of me one Of the most remarkable and
startling sights / hope it will ever be my
lot TO see. Almost on a level with my own
face ] saw that Of an old man, over every
feature of which the putty -colored skin was
drawn tightly, except the forehead, which
was lined with deep wrinkles. The lips
were extremely thin and appeared perfectly
bloodless. The toothless mouth stood half
open. Tbs cheeks were hollow and sunken
like those OF a corpse. and the eyes, which
seemed far back in the middle of the head,
were unnaturally luminous and piercing.
BANDS OF CALICO OVER ITS HEAD.
This terrible object was wrapped In two
hands OF old yellow calico, one of which was
drawn under the chin and over the cheeks
and tied to the top Of the head; the other
was drawn round the top OF the wrinkled
forehead and fastened at the back of the head.
80 deep and indelible al impression 1t made
on my mind that we're l an artist I could
paint that face to-day, and reproduce the
original excepting, perhaps, the luminous
eyes as accurately as if it were photo-
grsphed.
What have thus tried to describe In
many words | saw at glance. Acting on
the impulse of the moment turned my face
again toward the village and ran away from
about sixty yards l then stopped and
turned round to see how far had distanced
IT, and, to my unspeakable horror, there it
was still face to face with me as il | had
not moved an inch. l grasped my umbrella
ana raised it to strike him, and you can
imagine my feelings when | could see moth
ing between the face and the ground except
an irregular column of intense darkness,
through which my umbrella went as q
SUCK goes through water.
lam sorry to confess that again took to
M heels with increasing speed. Having
gone few yards down a branch road, de-
ternlned to speak with my strange pursuer,
~ustever he was, and boldly turned round
W lace him for the third time, intending to
ask MIN what he wanted, etc.
IhE GHOST OF A STRANGE CHARACTER.
ne had not followed me after l left the
nam ROAD. but | could see the horribly fas-
o,uatng face quite as plainly as when it was
SyIUSe oy. 1t stood for two or three minutes
t.S3 ~. intently at me from the center of
ue main road. / then realized fully 1t was
IVY human being in flesh and blood; and
WIN every vestige OF fear gone l quickly
TaiAso toward 1t to put my questions But
i was disappointed, for no sooner had I
V toward it than it moved quickly In
i suo direction of the village. saw it NOV
tSs aiong, Keeping the same distance from
~ ground until IL reached the churchyard
al lt then crossed the wall and disap-
r a. near where the yew tree stood in
oo1 me moment 1t disappeared became I'M
bocl0us. When | came to myself, two