Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-06-14
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College Dornitory.
The following narratives are from
THE Story of Two Noble Lives" be-
ing memorials of Charlotte Countess
Canning and Louisa Marchioness of
Waterford by Augustus j. c. Hare,
volume 3:
Sept. IL, 1S69-We have all been to
luncheon, says Mr.. Hare, at Carham,
1G miles from Ford castle, the seat of
Louisa M~archioness of Waterford.
Carham is one of the well known
haunted houses. The "Carham light
is celebrated and is constantly seen.
We asked old Mrs. Compton, who
lives there now, about the supernat-
ural sights of Carham. Och" she
said, land have We niver heerd of the
phantom carriage? We've just heerd
1t this very morning. When we
were waiting for you, we heerd it
drive up" We are quite used to it
now. a carriage drives quickly up
To the door with great rafting noise,
and when it stops the horses seem to
paw and tear mp the gravel. Strange
servants art terribly frightened by
it. One day when L was at luncheon
l heard Il carriage drive up quickly
to the door. There was no doubt of
1t. / told the servant to go and e
who it vas He came back pale as
ashes and said, 1T is only just the
the "Carham light" That is Just
beautiful 1t is IL large globe of fire
III the shape of 4 full moon. / have
seen it hundreds of times. 1t moves
about III the woods and sometimes
settles III one place. The first time /
saw it was driving home from Kelso,
and l saw n great ball of fire. l said
to the driver, What is thatl' ''Oh,
it's just the Carham light" he said.
When Dick Mrs. Compton's son-in-
law, Mr.. Hodgson Hinde) came in,
he said he did not believe it. He had
never EEL it, and that night it came
as bright asever All the gentlemen
went out III the woods to examine it.
They all saw it, and they We're quite
convinced. 1t has never been ex-
planned.
1t was Lady Ashburton's brother,
says Lady Waterford, Stewart Mac
kenzie, who had that strange adven-
ture at school. He was in bed in Il
long dormitory, with the boys III
rows of beds on each side. In the
night he awoke and SAW a little old
woman come into the room, and
round her neck was slung a sort of
satchel filed with carpenters in
struments-a mallet, chisel, ham
mer nails, etc. He saw her go up to
of the sleeping boys, look at HIM,
bend over him, examine him very
carefully and then take out a nail,
seize the hammer and seem about to
knock the nail into his forehead, then
suddenly, just at the last moment, to
change her mind and pass on. Into
the foreheads of some of the boys she
seemed to strike the nail and then to
change hermind. Finally, with hor-
ror, he felt her approaching his own
bed. She took out a nail, seemed
coming near and then suddenly
passed on. In the morning young
Mackenzie was very i'll, very fever
ish, and said, "Oh, l have had such a
dreadful dream!' and he told what
he had seen. The master said: Can
you remember which boys they
We're into whose foreheads she struck
the nail?" ''Oh, certainly l can
and the master wrote down the
names in a pocketbook. Very soon
after a terrible fever broke out in
the school. All those boys died.
The boys the old woman looked at
and finally turned away from had
the fever, but recovered. The boys
she passed by altogether escaped en-
tirely.
Lady Jane Ellice says, writes Mr..
Hare, that at Harewood.there is one
of the most splendid collections OF
china-quantities of it. Formerly ii
used to be kept in the gallery in
which the family live on bureaus, TIA
bles, etc. One evening it was left in
its usual place, and next morning the
whole collection everything quite
unbroken-was found on the ground.
There was never the least eXplana
ton. The china has since been kept
in cases.