The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-12-20

HI HAVE got an alarming confess
sion to make. | am haunted
S by ghost.
NsgI If YOU were to guess for
Tndred years, you would never guess
sot NV ghost is. l shall make you
arb TO begin with, and afterward l
s1 make your flesh creep. My ghost
tho ghost Of a bedroom candlestick.
yes n bedroom candlestick and can
mr. a fat candlestick and candle,
1t which way you like; that Is
hat haunts me. | wish 1t was some
Inc pleasanter and more out OF the
omon way-a beautiful lady, or a
no Of gold and silver, or cellar OF
he and a coach and horses and such
4. But, being what 1t Is, must
ke it for what it is and make the best
It. and shall thank you kindly II
u will help ME out by dong the
me.
am not a scholar myself, but l
axe bold to believe that the haunting
any man with anything under the
begins with the frightening OF
|m.. At any rate, the haunting Of me
Nib a bedroom candlestick and candle
gan with the frightening Of me with
BEDROOM candlestick and candle-the
khtening of me half out Of my life
for the time being the frightening
me altogether out of my wits. That
not a very pleasant thing to confess
fore stating the particulars, but per-
ADS you will be the reader to believe
bat | am not a downright coward be-
tuse you find me bold enough to make
clean breast Of it already, to my own
reat disadvantage so far.
Here are the particulars as well as
an put them:
was apprenticed to the sea when l
tas about as tall as my own walking
lick, and l made good enough use OF
BY time to be fit for a mates berth at
be age of twenty-five years.
It was in the year eighteen hundred
md eighteen or nineteen, | am not
mite certain which, that / reached the
efore mentioned age of twenty-five
a being very good for dates, names
Aqmbers, places and such like. No fear
Y ho,sh. about the particulars | have
ndertaken to tell you of. l have got
hem all shipshape in my recollection
can see them at this moment as cleal
monday in my own mind. But there
/ mist over what went before and
lr the matter of that, mist likewis
over much that came after, and it
bot very likely to lift at my time o
life, is IT.?
Well. in eighteen hundred and eight
Zen or nineteen, when there was peac
In our part of the woodland not be
fore it was wanted, you will say-ther
MAS fighting of a certain scamperlne
krambling kind going on in that OIL
attlefeld which we seafar1ng me-
now by the name of the SPANS
ain.
Che possessions that belonged to tn
baniards in South America had brt
IN into open mutiny and declared &c
4 emselves years before. There wa
benty of bloodshed between the ne'
m pvernment and the old, but the me-
iii bad got the best of it, for the mos
art, under one General Bolivar, II
nous man in his time, though he seem
au have dropped out of peoples men
W. nies now. Englishmen and lrlshme
''e Nth a turn for fighting and nothln
/ particular to do at home joined IL
an pneral as volunteers. and some OF OF
Merchants here found it a good vel
D lure TO send supplies across the ocea
Z 10 the popular side. There was ris
enough of course, in doing this, b'
AEhere one speculation of the kind su
4 coded it made up for two at the lea
ha, failed. And that's the true pr
dpe of trade wherever | have m
= With it all the world over.
Among the Englishmen who we
Wncerned in this Spanish-Americ
business l, your humble servant, ha
Rned in small way to be one.
was then mate of brig belongi
70 certain firm in the city whi
hove a sort Of general trade, most
aqueer out of the way places, as
INN home as possible, and viii
on haghted the brig in the year l G
ity Soaking of with a cargo Of gunpowc
her e General Bolivar and his yoll
is Ars. Nobody knew anything abe
0a Ar Instructions when we sailed
@pt the captain, and he didn't h
Nem to like them. l can't rightly
Low many barrels Of powder we
% board or how much each bal
aeld only know we had no OF
argo. The name of the brig was
'Ood Intent, queer name enough,
viii tell me, for vessel laden W
snpowder and sent to help rev'
"A uon. And as far as this partcr
vi Oyage was concerned so it was,
+. uean that for joke, and | hope
y VII encourage me by laughing at
tn The Good Intent was the craziest
IS uo OF vessel l ever went to sea
e'T sau the worst found in all respe
i.,s. 0ae was $50 or $50 tons burden,
aany SCI which, and she had crew OF eli
heel III told-nothing like as many as
It sught by rights to have had to W
TOM ue brig. However, we were well
ting Onestly paid our wages, and we
take set that against the chance of fl