The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-07
GHOST OF THE oRUo1F1x.
Story Told by Citizen of the Village
of Dwight, Ind.

Story Told by Citizen of the Village
of Dwight, Ind.
From the Chicago Times
Dwight, ILL.,, Sept. 1S.-'With all the
different kinds and conditions of jags
that have ever visited this place, not one
OF them has ever seen a spook so far as |
can find out" 1t was leading citizen of
the town who was talking to a crowd of
companions in a store here one evening
recently. "A good many of the boys who
come here claim to have seen birds of
paradise. angels with aluminium wings.
and alligators lowering around the Chi
cago and Alton depot as they alighted
from the jag train. A good many men,
poor devils, who come here for the NOR
phine treatment have often had troop
OF monkeys in training until Keeley's
medicine began to get In its work, and
then they would forget all about the pets.
l simply refer 10 these matters to show
now strange it is that in a place where
so many are liable TO be given
upon their arrival to strange
! Authorizations, not once have l ever
heard that spook had been seen
by any of Them" continued the
! citizen, that people who see ghosts and
| spooks are not, as a rule, suffering from a
! deranged intellect or deranged liver. l
| confess that am trihe superstitious.
Have you ever heard of our white lady
| and the crucifxl he asked.
One fat bystander said he believed he
| had heard of ghost over at Campus,
but had really paid little attention to the
matter One or two Of the others said
/ they believed they had heard OF the
/ Campus spook.
We'll, lll tell you what saw and
| what Others have seen. young woman
/ of this countv-wel, in fact, she lived
near Campus-graduated at Roman
/ Catholic school in St. Louis few years
/ ago. She was one of the highest scholars
in the class and won several prizes. One
| of them was beautiful golden crucifix,
studded with diamonds. The mother
/ superior had evinced great love for the
! girl, and her love was intensified. if not
! embittered, by the knowledge that the
| young girl was the victim of consumption.
! She was lovely girl, yet the ravages of
the dread disease had already begun to
manifest themselves when she gradu-
ated.
CRUCIFIx FROM THE MOTHER SUPERIOR.
1.-THE day of her graduation the mother
superior took the young girl to her own
room, shut the door, and said gently and
sweetly: Alice to-day you go from as
You have been one of our best and most
conscientious pupils, and we love you.
hope and pray that you shall be spared to
your friends and the world for many
years, but if the Lord should call YOU
away | know of no one who is better pre-
pared. Take this beautiful crucifx. 1t
is a gift from me- Wear it next your
heart, and never lose it or neglect to wear
it. God bless you, my darling
The young girl, of course, was de-
lighted with the gift, and Immediately
suspended the beautiful trinket around
her chaste neck so that the cross rested
upon her fair breast, rising and falling
= = h., 80
She returned to her home near Campus,
and in time consumption had so far ad-
vanced as TO contine its victim TO her bed.
She never for moment neglected to wear
the crucihx, and when she learned that
her death was but question of but few
days she exacted a most solemn pledge
from her friends TO bury the crucihx with
her.
SACRED EMBLEM WAS FORGOTTEN.
death came one morning early to the
young woman and of course grief was
general around that household, so that in
preparing the body for it's final resting
place the crutifix was temporarily re-
moved and laid aside. One of the ser
wants had promised Miss Alice that she
would see that the crucifix hung around
the dead girls neck, but the servant girl
in her grief forgot her promise and did
not again think of the crucifix until the
funeral cortege was leaving the house the
day of the funeral. Filled with remorse
for her Carelessness she hastily suatched
the crucifix from the drawer in which
she had placed it and took it with her TO
the cemetery. AS the coffin was being
lowered info the grave the servant girl
threw the cruciiX away into the tall grass
near by, saying to herself that as she had
failed to carry out her mistress wishes
she did not propose 10 have anyone find
the cross about the house and then chide
her for not seeing that il was buried with
the dead girl.
Its a rather long story" continued
the speaker, but | will come 70 the point
now by saying that The spirit of that girl
could not rest without the crucihx.
SEES A FORM DRESSED IN WHITE.
~ was going by the cemetery few
nights after her burial and saw a form
dressed in white moving slowly among
the gravestOnes. ] was not too much hOr-
rhed TO step nearer, when / discovered
that the object was the spirit OF Alice
NJ. She was walking slowly along,
ono hand was clasped con vulsively TO her
bosom while the other was shading her
eyes Her head was bent forward, and
seemed TO be searching for something in
the grass. Suddenly the appartion
disappeared. The same apparition
was seen by other people, but
DR.. was the last person TO
MlIhSSs tuo strange slkht' nc was urlN-
ing past the cemetery late one night. 10
was moonlight. His attention was at
tracted TO the spirit form, and while he
was gazing at IL the spirit suddenly
stopped, stopped down quickly and picked
something out OF the grass. Whatever IL
was sparkled in the moonlight. i saw
the features Of the girl, DR.. 49, said TO
me afterward, when she had found the
crucifx, for such 10 was They we're
radiant, like that OF the fnirest angel.
The vision then disappeared And"
continued the narrator OF the story, 1.-THE
spirit has never again been seen In the
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