The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-21
CChicago Chronicle.)

CAPTAIN L. r. W. Beavis of the
steamship Eagle Point has sailed his
staunch vessel eighty-three times be-
tween Philadelphia and London. COW
ering in all SOS, 900 miles
CAPTAIN Beavis at a dinner at the
Philadelphia Art club told a story OF
a haunted ship. 1t was frightening,
a dreadful story, and at its end the
honest mariner fastened TO add that II
was OF doubtful truth.
You know how it is with ghost sto-
ries" said he They seem true on
their face. but when you come to in
vestigate them it's another matter.
"A cousin of mine entertained a
weekend party last fall in an old
Elizabethan house in the country.
zone of my cousins guests, a young
lady. awoke i'm the middle of the night
with a strange forebOding in her heart.
As she lay i'm inexplicable terror i'm the
great old-fashioned bed the door of her
room opened nOiseIessly and a figure,
white from head to foot appeared. She
tried to scream. but fear held her voice
less She could not move. She could
not breathe. And the humping Of her
heart sounded in her ears like great
hammer.
1.-THE white, still figure giided noise-
lessly toward her. 1t reached the bed.
The bedclothes We're suddenly whisked
off her and the awful visitant vanished
as silently and mysterionsly as il had
come.
at breakfast the next morning the
young lady was pale and thoughtful.
She wanted to tell her strange exper-
fence, but she feared no. one would be-
lieve her AS she hesitated an aged
and rosy clergyman hustled into the
breakfast room and said, with merry
laugh, to the host:
Wasn't 1t cold last night? | awoke
nearly froze and, knowing that the
room next mine was unOccupied. took
the liberty of going in there and steal
ing the bedclothes.'"
John Inglis, the crop expert OF Min
nescta. had been describing 10 report
er some of his forecasting methods.
"You see" he ended, laughing these
forecasts don't seem so remarkable
when you once know how to set about
making them. The result, no doubt, is
wonderful enough, yet the method Of
obtaining it Is simple.
Simple methods always give the best
results. You know the story of the
parlor maid and the two young men2
well, a certain clever parlor maid
hurried to her young lady one evening
and said brearhlessly:
"'Oh, Miss Fanny, both them young
gents you are engaged to has called and
they're in the parlor together and
somehow they've found out you've
been false to each and it looks to me
as If there's going to be some terrible
trouble"
"'What shall / do? What shall ]
do? Miss Fanny moaEed as her pow
der puff dropped from her neryeless
fingers
I'm fix it, said the clever maid aft
er moment of deep thought III go
and say you're crying your eyes out
because your pa has lost all his money.
Then you can keep the one what stays.
Good, good. Miss Fanny cried
THE maid withdrew. Some minutes
passed. Then she returned with
cared. awed face.
Both gents is gone, she said"
Mrs. Russell Sage taught school in
her youth in Philadelphia, and a Phil
adelphia. woman who was once her pu-
pill said the other day:
II remember Miss Siecum, as she was
then called--a very intelligent, cheet-
ful, industrious young lady and great
favorite with all of us.
She had a way of hammering home
an idea with an apt anecdote that we
girls enjoyed hugely 1ti
"One day, IN impressing on us the
| Importance of perseverance, she said