The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

increased by heavy fall of snow. The
coachman took the wrong turn at a
CROSSE roads, and only discovered his
mistake on arriving at a house whose
brilliantly lighted interior betokened
that festivities were being conducted
within. One of the travellers walked up
to the door and asked his way to the
master of the house, who came out to
meet him. He was invited to enter,
and on his declining, a servant was
sent with him to conduct the chaise
into the right road. When, on leaving
them, one of the occupants of the car
riage placed a crown piece in the SER
wants hand, it appeared to them both
to fail through the hand onto the snow,
and the man himself mysteriously van
ished. Arriving at their destination,
they learned that no house now stood
in the locality which they described.
The house formerly built on the spot
had been pulled down after a terrible
crime, which had been committed there
on Christmas eve many years before.
Going to the scene OF their nights adj
venture on the day following, they
found in the snow the wheelmarks of
their carriage leading up to the spot
WHARF, the house had once stood.
a contributor who conceals his iden-
tity under the initial of j gives an
account of a strange thing that hap
pened in 1880, when he succeeded a Mr..
O as librarian of the B Library.
He, Mr.. j had never seen Mr.. C.,
nor any photograph or likeness of him.
One evening he was sitting alone in
the library, finishing some work after
hours. when it suddenly occurred TO
him that he would miss the last train
TO his home in the suburbs. He gath
cred up some books in one hand, took
the lamp in the other and entered the
passage leading into the main room
of the library. AS he did SO, he saw a
face looking around one of the book
cases. The face was pallid and hair
less, and, as he advanced toward it,
an old man with high shoulders seemed
to come out of the end of the book
case and with a shutting gait to walk
to the door of a small lavatory which
opened from the library and had no
other access. Mr.. j followed the
man at once into the lavatory, but, to
his extreme surprise, found 30 one
there. He left the library, and found
that he had missed his train. Next
morning he mentioned what he had
seen to u local clergyman, who. on
hearing the description, said, why,
that's old O.. Soon after he saw a
photograph of O., and the resemb-
lance to the apparitiOn was certainly
striking. c. has lost all his hair,
eyebrows and all, from gunpowder
accident. His walk was a peculiar,
rapid, high shuttle.
. The following story, unique in it's
way, was received from two sisters.
One of them wrote it, the other in
dorsed it. zone autumn night" says
tbn ur1,itpT ''i11v cict1r nd I11UGnlf wit h
our maid, We're returning from evening
service in our village church. There
was thick fog; the moon was full,
but it made a sort of steam in the fog,
instead of shining brightly. Suddenly
[ saw a man at my sisters side, who
had come there without making a
sound. My sister apparently did not
see him. / pulled her sleeve, whispered
Let the man pass! AS [ spoke the
man disappeared In another moment
we We're all bewildered at the sight
around US. 1t was as if we were in a
crowded street, innumerable figures
surrounding u.s. Men, women, children
and dogs. all were moving briskly
about, some singly, others in groups,
all without a sound. Some seemed to
rise out of the grass on either side of
us. others to pass through US and to
come out on the other side. The figures
were all short and dwarf-like except
one. The women were dressed in by
gone fashion, with high bonnets. big
cloaks and shawls, and large hounces
on their dresses such as l remember
my mother wearing when / was a child.
We three were never mistaken as to the
identity of the different shapes; if one
saw a man, all saw a man; if one saw a
woman, all saw a woman, and so on.
We saw two men that had sparks all
around their faces; they appeared to
grin. There was one very tail man
who took great strides, though per-
fectly noiSelesS; he wore a kind of
cape. We approached our own gate,
where we should turn in. and then we
had a long driveway to walk up before
we could reach the house. I think that
by the time we had reached our gate
all the figures had disappeared except
this one tall man. He had quite a
different look from any of the others
more horrible altogether. AS we entered
our gate, to our intense relief he passed
by along the road and disappeared. OF
course, we We're all very much fright
ened. The maid and my sister We're
crying aloud. 1 have never in my life
had any other vision of any kind"
The modern style of ghost appears
sometimes in the midst of q strange
and brilliant light. OF this sort was
an apparition which appeared a few
years ago in an orphanage at Aber-
lour, Scotland. The warden of the in
stitution. a thoroughly reliable man.
tells the story. He was sleeping in one
of the childrens dormitories, when he
suddenly woke without any apparent
reason and saw wonderful vision
Over one of the beds near him was
floating small cloud of light, forming
a halo of the brightness of the moon
on an ordinary moonlight night" The
narrator says: 4 sat upright in bed
looking at the strange appearance, and
taking up my watch, ] found the hands
pointing to five minutes to 1. Every
thing was quiet, and all the children
sleeping soundly. I was seized with q
strong impulse to rise and touch the
substance, but something held me
back. In the morning l began dress
ing the children, beginning at the bee
over which l had seen the light hover
ing. l took up the little boy who occu-
pied the bed, placed him on my knee
and put on some of his clothes. AS
did 50, he looked me hard in the face
and said, oh, Mr.. Jutt, my mother
came to me last night. Did you see
herr"
Another welI-authenticated story re-
lates to an old Elizabethan manor
house in England. It is we'll known az
haunted house According to some
accounts the ghost usually shows only
its back, which is fortunate, since the
face is so horrible that any one seeing
ii is frightened almost into fits. From