Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-02-22
AN ACTORS DOUBLE.

tations mt the Thirty club and retail
ing tho usual second or thTd hand nc
counts Of dccca-cd laiies and gentlemen
showing themselves 60 their sorrowing
relatives
1T is strange the trick which our brains
will sometime la. rs, faiG Dr.. Mac
pherson 4 iomombcr onco seeing
ghost myself. and I can tell you that tho
sensation IS q very curious one lt was "a
good many years ago, in my examination
DAYS. and had neon sitting up until tho
early hours CrGmm.1g Everybody In tho
house had long since COMO 10 bed where
oueht 10 have been myself, so I was rath-
or surprised when / glanced up IRON my
book TO sec somebody sitting - the tab.o
where I myself had been fow moments
before writing felt quite startled for an
instant, uut I recognized 40 Intruder
10 was q lido ho2y, but i could sea
plainly cnouch who II wua
IL dead .clatiyct' asked Major Den
nett. WHO was a Grm believer IN tho coed
old fashioned ghost
Macpherson answered IN h.s peculiarly
quiet way;
NO, it was myself Tho appearance OF
seeing ones cwn ghost IS not altogether
unusual, believe. -
Now. do not think your experience
was half so remarkable az ono Of mine,
said Gilbert Dane, tho well known actor
and manager If tho Howard. theatcr who
happened 10 hc there that night. Dane il
not n member OF tho Thirty but had
come with Macpherson Most of the brain
specialists friends Ero ia the profession, u
fact which is perhaps dUo 10 the year
which he himself spent CD the stage as n
young man
My story begins prosa.cally," said tho
actor when we begged 10 hear II. - lost
the latchkcy with which let myself into
the thcatcr and took somebody else's 10
the locksmith $ q have duplicate made
1 agreed 70 Gail i-g IL the following morn
ing Is l was Going ny 10 town Tor rehears-
al. was llyinsat Fu,ncy then and wo
were actively u- pu.n. play which do.
served q b,tt.r io-o thun 10 received, II
thought and preparation 50 for anything
for came near making myself al over it
was feeling cut 81 sorts Ga tho morning
that called for tine latchEcy, aad when
tho lccksmith 5Uo-o positively that he had
given me the thin 8Rlr1Gdy--thut less than
ten minutes pr yiously had come IN for
the key, paid for IL and taken IL away
with mel will confess that ! lost my
temper and s,orinel 80 the fellow but
could not get him - bulge "a l!ne from his
story
'Ilo seemed 70 hGvo "a idea that was
playing practical Joke and tho only re
suit of lay talki-g was that / nearly los'
my train TO Waterloo 70 was moving
wien reached tae platform, aud had t.
run for the only compartment OF which
the door was open near the end OF the
train.
The compartment contained two other
passengers, but II I glanced at them u.
all noticed nothing except that each was
pretty well hidden behind daily paper
had fortunately bought iEy own paper
before calling 40 tic locE1;nith's, and
speedily followed their example. So fai
the story Is painfully commonplace Now
comes tho truly remarkable experience
which has stamped the doiugs OF that day
indc!ibly on my memory.
The actor paused ID strike "a match and
rolight his cLc-oJ:. wlich BE had allowed
to 90 out. ard Sc al watched him in 81
lence, wonGern. what was coming. Mao
pherson orb had the ar Of u man whC
had heard the story before
Il hal bocaiue rather Interested in my
paper," Dano went IN when tho cigar va
alight again, and diu not notice IN!
companions talking until one of then
started telling an auecGotc Then it grad
ually GaNuod upon me that the story IN
was telling was Cuc that ! consider m,
own particular property, and whom is
toned II struck mc thoy tie story was he
ina told rot culy ip my exact words, bu
also in NY own voice They ray that
man does rot recognize h!, own voice
when hc hoars it iu tie phonograph. 70
jnstancc-bgt that Is possibly the fault o