The daily Alaskan., 1912-11-13
TALES OF GHOSTS
Lord BrOugham'S Curious Experi'
 enCe With a "SpOOk.'
A COMPACT AND ITS SEQUEL

The Creepy Story as lt Was Told In
 the English statssman's Autobios-
 raphy-eosths once Saw a sPsetsr
 of Himsslf-A "ehost" cuvisr Saw
 There was a certain PiSander whose name has been preserved In one of the proverbiaI sayings Of the Greeks be cause he lived in continual fear of see ing his own ghost, Just that thing hap pened to the German poet Goethe. One day, when he was out riding in a spot somewhat removed from tbe usual haunts of men. he saw a horseman approaching him. and as it drew near he saw that the rider was no less a person than himself-his other self though dressed differently. Twenty years after he found himself quite without forethought of the matter In the same place on horseback and dress cd just as was the apparition ot him self which he had met there two dec ades before
 Lord Brough0m pronounced Broom), the English statesman, orator and au- thor. after whom the well known species Of vehicles was named, had a remarkable experience with a "spook.' DO He tells the story in hts autobiography published in 1871.
 "A most remarkable thing happened to me" he says. ESQ remarkable that ] must ten the story from the beginning After left the high school Gn Edn burgm | went with e., my most int mate friend. Co attend the classes In the university. We frequently in our walks discussed and SpeCulated upon mans grave subjects. among others on the immortality Of the soul and a future state. This question and the possibility. | win not say of ghosts walking. but sf the dead appearing Co the living. were subjects of much speculation, and we actually committed the folly Of drawing up an agreement written with our blood, Co the effect that whichever Of us died first should appear Co the other and thus solve any doubt we had entertained of the life after death
 After we had finished classes 60 college e. went Co India. having got an appointment there in the civil serv lee. He seldom wrote mo, and after a lapse or a few years [ had almost for gotten him. Moreover, his family hay ing little connection with Edinburgh I seldom saw or heard anything of them. SO that an the old schoolboy in- tlmacy had died out and ! had nearly forgotten his existence. | had taken, as I have said, a warm bath, and while in it and enjoying Che comfort ot the heat after the late freezing | had m dergonc | turned my head round tc ward Che chair on which | had de positcd my clothes as I was about to get out of the bath On thc chair sat e. calmly looking at me How | got out Of the bath | know not, but on TO. covering my senses | found myself spra awIiuC on the floor The appari- ton or whatever it was that had taken the likeness Of c. had disappeared. . It was arterward ascertained that G.. had died iu India on the very day his annarltion was seen by Lord Brougham
 Very similar is an incident related by Sir Walter Scott under date of ISIS A certain Mir Bullock had been em- pIoved by Sir Walter to make improve ments at Abbotsford. MT. Bullock was called to London, and during his absence the Incident narrated in the following letter took place. Scott, writ ing to a Mir. Terry, says:
 sThe night before last we were awakened by a violent noise like the drawing ot new boards along the new part of the house | fancied some thing had fallen and thought no more of it. This was about in the morn ing. Last night at the same witching hour the same noise oCurrcd. Mrs. S. as you know. Is rather tmcrsome. so | got up with Beardy's broadsword under my arm
 sat bolt upright
 And ready Go fight
 "Rut nothing was out of order Nei- tbcr could | discover what occasioned the disturbance" The strange thing about this is that Bullock died in Lon don on the very day and as near as could be sscertained at the very hour that Sir Walter heard the "spooks' at AhbOtsford In writing later to the same correspondent he said: Were you not struck with the fanmstical CO., Incidence of our nocturnal disturbance at Abbotsford with the melancholy event that followed? ] protest to you that the noise resembled half a dozen men hard at work pulling up boards and furniture, and nothing could be more certain than that nobody was on the premises at the time
 These are Instances of what may be termed successful ghosts. The ghosts that have failed are perhaps entitled to a brief notice. A ghost once un- tiertook to frighten the great natural ist Cuvier. This ghost appeared with an ox's head. Cuvier swoke and found the fearful thing glarlng and grinning R,HgfHs,