The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-07

erect its head almost reached the ceiling
| with much stateliness 1t marched back
and forth past the foot of the bed three
| times, and then sat down as il to rest
But almost Immediately it-arose and again
marched three times back and forth The
tension to which my mind was now
wrought was painful My heart beats
could have been heard in any part of the
room, my brain seemed oppressed to the
point of bursting, cold perspiration ran
down my face in streams. and 1 realized
that action must be prompt to escape mem
tai calamity. Turning my fare away from
the specter | gathered every energy for
supreme effort and screamed loudly.
The entire family was aroused, and In
three minutes my room was filled with
their kind presence while the most dill
gent search failed TO discover any trace Of
the ghostly marauder.
"Of course / was numerically jeered,
principally by those who had previously
Joined me in ridiculing the pretensions OF
spiritualism, but from father and mother
was sure of genuine sympathy and good
advice and their assurance that nobody
thus visited could come to harm from the
visits soon composed my mind and l slept
in peace"
Was that your only experience with
ghost?"
The lady was troubled by the question
and evidently wished to avoid an answer,
but at length she said:
Il have never seen anything else that
could be called a spector, but not long after
the occurrence have related. l heard as
was lying awake in the wee sma' hours
of early morning, a voice which said In
gentle tones: There's no harm in inno-
cent belief. Do not fail to respect those
who sincerely believe E"
frightened by a shadow is frequently
said of those who see apparitions in NOR
tai guise. There are shadows more fright
full than the majority of citizens take cog
nizance of, and luckily they are seen by
only few. In the abode of a historical
parsonage in England there appeared, in
the reign of Charles H., shadow of ex-
traordinary significance-that of a great
oak tree which shaded a window of the
dining hall-and not only this, but the
shadow of a man who had been hanged
upon II by the neck until he was dead
and, although coffined and buried was the
body, its shadow remained with that of the
tree, and was thrown with it upon. the
door of the hall for years, till the window
was filled up with solid brick and mortar
1t is said that even then for one person
in the family the shadow never lifted but
always when the sun shone on the hill
and field. in the gladstone spring or fruit
full autumn, in the high noon of summer or
the uncertain CLEANS Of winter, the awful
picture was painted afresh upon the oaken
floor for the eyes of the faithful sister who
had been forced to witness a brothers
doom beneath the roof that owed him
shelter from all danger. The tree was cut
down and reduced to ashes, but 1t made
no difference to her. Every time her foot
crossed the fatal threshold she saw its
shadow and that OF the CHASTITY fruit It
had once borne still pickering on the floor
in uncanny gesticulations. Niewless to
all other eyes. the terrible memento could
never cease to exist for her, and she con-
tinued to- see 1t till her eyes were closed
in the eternal sleep.
What shadows we are, what shadows
pursue" is susceptible of a double inter-
probation. What shadows pursue u is
known TO only the very few who can dis
Germ them and understand their personal
ity The murderer. Colesworth, who shot
his sister-in-law while she was holding an
infant to her breast, was constantly pur-