The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-12-31
THE ACTORS DOUBLE.

retailing the usual second or tnird hals
accounts OF deceased ladies' ana geN'
tlemen showing este their sof'
rowing relatives.
ut is strange the tricks which oui
brains VIII sometimes play us @l'l
Dr. Macpherson, u remember once
seeing a ghost myself, ana can ten
you That the sensation IS very curious
one 1t was a good many years ago. III
my examination DAYS ana had peen
sitting up until the early hours cram
mlng' EVeryhody III the mouse nau
long since gone TO BED, whee iought 70
have been myself, so was rather sur
prised when ! glanced up from my
BOOK 10 see somepouy sltting at tne
table where | myself had neen rev
moments pefore writing l 1elt quite
startled Tor an instant untli ! recog-
nlzea tne intGuder' lie was u iie'ie navy
but could see PLAINLY enough VINO II
was"
"A dead relative!' asked MAJ Deh'
nett, who was a nrm 'pelieVer IN the
good old-fashloned ghost'
macpherson answered IN MS peeul-
larly qulet way M" IL was myself
Inc experience Oh seeing ones own
ghost IS not altogether unusual, be'
iieve''
Now, do not think your experl.
ence was half so remarkable as one Of
mine" said Gilbert Dane, the well
known actor and manager OF the How
ard theater, who happened TO be there
That night Dane is not member OF
the lhiry-nine, but mad come WitU
Macpherson. Most OF The brain spe"
ciallsts frlends are IN the profession, a
fact which IS perhaps due to the year
which he himself spent on the stage as
a young man.
MY story begins prosalcally," SAID
the actor, whcn v5c begged to hear it,
u lost the latchhey with which | lei
myself INTO the theater, and TOOK some
body else's 10 THE locksmlth's TO have a
duplicate made. / agreed TO call for It
the following morning as ! was going
up to town Tor rehearsal, ! was living
ut lutney then, and we We're actively
preparing play which deserved a bet
Ter fate than IT received, II thought
and preparation go Tor anything, Tor
came near making myself Ill over IT. J
was feeling out OF sorts on the mornip,
That called Tor the latchkey, ana wheh
the locksmith swore positively that he
had given me the thing already-that
less than ten minutes previously | haG
come IN ior the Key palo LOT H. ana
laken u away Win ihe--l VIII CONFESS
that iost my temper, ana stormed a.
the ielow; out could not get MN 70
ouuge line from ms story Ne
seemed 70 nave an laea 'hht ! was p!ay'
ing practleal Joke ana the only rc-
sun ol my Ulhing was tnaV ne9ilS
ios' ny ti@in 70 Nsvetloo, ~ was 3 II9'
ing "nen isael.u ''i0 l''u'4oi ni' ai'o :
lhd 10 run iol 'he oI'S ooiif'"r 'ii.n'
u "aiien ". uooi "a' open' "o"i 'i''
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hind a daily nanar bod fortunately
horgbt nv, oty,, Manor besoro calling at
4ho Iool,s,oith,s ard .reod;lv folloped
their exomple So far the story is
nninfnllv commonnlace. Nav comes the
trnlv remarkable experience which
has slammed the do;n0s of that day in.
delihlv on INV memoryr
Tho motor n,nsed IN str;lse n match
and religbt n eberoot which he had nj.
lowed 10 oo out and we all watched him
In silc,ca Wondering what WINS coming
NIocnhcyaon onlv Ind the air OF a mar
who had heard the story before.
81 had h.cor,a rather interested i,
mv naner" Dane went on. when til,
cipnr was Egbted again. "and did not
notice INV oomnanions talking until one
Of tberi started telling an anecdote.
mFb. story ana voica start,ed mo hrt
!. Il ditr,cnjt n aeacrihe NV feelings
,,.henI,n, do,n nv norer IN glance at
,ho rorrator.
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