The Cedarville Herald, Volume 24, Numbers 27-52

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A TWENTIETH CENTURY "GHOST STORY. By C iaudo Roberta* fr""A- ♦ 1 f .. I t was a strange coincidence that brought into my office that, copy of The Sunny South containing (ho ar* tid e ‘‘True Stories of Ghosts. In Southern Homes” and our little weekly paper with this notice down among the personals, “For Sale— The Brown lot on Main street,” for the only real ghosts, we claim, have their headquarters in a handsome old fashioned mahogany.wardrobe in a certain-chamber of that house,. And now the place was doomed. I laid the paper down with a sigh and strolled up to look at tho familiar’ spot. I found “one of the hoys”?of other days, a gray headed man now, leaning ‘on the gate with a far­ away look in his eyes, and together we stood in silence listening to the chiming pf the bells of memory, A low, rambling house, standing fa r back from the street, shaded by tall magnolias arid water oaks;.the deep porch, hack and front; the long; wide hall, where the young folks in the old days danced by the music of Uncle Eph’s riddle—the whole structure was on„one floor.- ’Neath the shade of the trees and the shad- ows of closing day the, massive white pillars stood out like grim sentinels guarding the spot from' all intrud-' ers, and .the last rays of the setting sun pierced the gloom, and a soften­ ed light, as of fading glory, rested for a moment over all. , Then we were standing in the twilight. “To think of the- colonel’s home, with all its sweet associations,' pass­ ing into the hands of strangers!” said my companion, breaking the silence. “1 am glad that he cannot know itfTako alone that right hand front ropni,. Why, almost every cou­ ple tha t have married hero since,the war have spent their honeymoon there. That was the way the colo­ nel’s widow kept the.plaoe together as long as she did boarded the young folks until they were ready to set up housekeeping for them­ selves.” - “And that is the room, too, that is haunted,” said I. “Yes, that is it* and- strange, strangest is !” , , “ “Of course you, flq not belieVe it ?” I •asked, surprised ' by his earnest tone. . ' ' “When have you slept, there?” 'he replied, answering ray question.by another. . ‘SNot since my honeymoon, 25 years ago.” „ , . ■ ' “Go and try a night there now/’ he sai^l. *- “I will. I promise you that I will. But ybu have aroused my curiosity and roust tell .me what you mean.” “Only this—that ,!, too, thought of it ns an idle tale until I had sub­ stantial proof to the contrury. One night during tho year Captain Wade and his wife occupied that room we wore down a t Thomas' office, Bitting around a big liglitwood knot lire-in the happy, afterglow of opossum supper,' when the captainT*leaning over and dropping tho ashes from his cigar, said: “I tell you, you fel­ lows are-lucky to have a place in which to rest after we leave here to­ night! As for me, I can have no peace for those darn ripises, and last night they were worse than ever be­ fore!’ . “Wo wero in that happy mood when we were willing*to humor any whim or' listen to any tale, so we looked a t him indulgently through the blue mist curling upward from, our cigars and cried to him to tell us about it; that it was just the night for a ghost story. “ ‘There is nothing to tell that you have not already heard,’ said he -—‘just the same loud, distinct rap­ ping on’ that wardrobe door and nothing after the usual desperate search to account for it; I am not going to stand it much longer and have given warning tha t Wemust be moved into new quarters.’ . “Although welistened so politely, we believed no iadre in the ghoSts than we had before, and i t was with no misgivings that I accepted an in­ vitation to keep the captain compa -1 ny during th e ’absence of his wife a few nights later* “ ‘Yon see, I am in my Bame quar­ ters/ said he. ‘The landlady asked ns to give the room one more trial, and, strange to say, since that night of which I told you the ghosts have been quiet. I t ifl my honest opinion that they exhausted their powers; and have gone for good.’ “I t was my honest opinion that the wise landlady had put out rat S Olson, hut I held my peace and act­ ed. down for a long night’s rest. Suddenly I wheeled over. I must have been napping and sat half up in bed. /S o / said the captain, with much satisfaction,.*! was wondering if you could sleep through i t / Through what?’ -I asked* But the Q uestion was useless, for I caught he sound which I now know had awakened me—tap, rap, trip! No‘ ra t could ever have made that noise, and for hours I lay. listening, thor­ oughly convinced at last that the room was haunted. Now/1 cannot explain it, and therefore I have nev­ er before spoken of it. I do not care in my old age to be called a crank. But you go and see for yourself/’ And go I did that very night. How familiar the hid room, looked1 N o t « piece of furniture had bean changed, Even the carpet, it seem; ed to me, was the very''same on. which I entered as .a bridegroom a * quarter of a century ago. Tim influence of the place was magical. In a moment time had turned back in its flight, and I was a boy again, full of strength and hope and happiness. That grave up in the old cemetery,,by a merciful delusion, disappeared, and Yny wife returned in 'her youth and beauty, just as she left me that first year of our married life, I forgot the long, lonely yeurs of my bereavement, I forgot the present, with its never ceasing regret? and heartaelfca; but, .soothed by the sweet dreams of my ■ 'early manhood, “1 drew the drapery of my couch around me” and was soon lost in pleasant dreams, „ . Suddenly a sound disturbed me. Some one 'was rapping at my door., Without a momenta hesitation I reached for a match, lighted the lamp and -call’d out hospitably; “Come in!” ThemI waited, sitting half wav up in bed and watching ex-, pectantly my chamber door. A slight noise caused mo to turn my head, and this as .what I saw: The wardrobe door swung slowly open, and there stepped out into the room a tall and’strikingly handsome man. He waB. immediately-followed by a beautiful girl and she, in her turn, hv another, Then another actor in the drama appeared and another un­ til the room was filled, with a party’ of the most, distinguished people, taken as.a whole* X had ever seen together. There was not one infe­ rior or homely’person among them. But the thing which impressed me most forcibly was hot so much the, ■perfect physical beauty’of each one of-iny unknown guests as the unmis­ takable signs on each of a true no­ bility of soul, of a nature so much less, human than divine: •As,soon as they entered there was a perceptible change in the atmos­ phere.* It was as if l had been trans­ ported to a purer* higher region, where crime and vice, selfish aims And sordid cares were unknown. The first man came directly to the bed and, leaning on the footboard, spoke to me: ‘‘Sir,-1 thank you for your invitation. We have been rap­ ping here for years to the different occupants, but not one except your­ self has ever hidden us enter.” I looked opt a t him with much in­ terest from over the edge of the cover, .which I had drawn close up’ to my nose at sight of my. female visitors. He was such, a perfect- man in every way that the mere sight of.hiin was a treat. “If all the ghosts wore like? you and your companions,” said I, “man wdflKFsoon lose lus natural horror of them/* •' 1 “But we are not ghosts,” replied he. - “Ghosts are the spirits of peo­ ple who are dead. We have never lived; therefore we could not have died.” “Neither living nor dead!” erjed I. “Then who or wiiat are you ?” . “We arie lost ideals, the inhabit­ ants of a dream world, Our homes are those far fumed eastles in the air. Wo are the.ideal husbands and wives whom tho men and women married and Jived with here in this room during their honeymoons. Needless to say, they left us behind When they emerged, enlightened be­ ings, from this’*paradiso of fools.’'1'' “This is horriblei” I cried. “Do. you mean to say that every person who married i3 deluded and disap-. pointed?” -f “Your question worded different-' ly would be, *Is marriage a failure?* But surely you.do.not expect a be-, fng like myself to discuss with you in this fresh young century that old, threadbare subject?” The speaker’s eyes twinkled mer* rily, and he laughed amusedly*-Evi­ dently this ideal had plenty of hu­ mor in his make up, and somehow it shocked me* For the first time since *iis appearance “that creepy feeling”;ppsed over me, and I sank deeper into the cover* “Seriously speuking/’ he contin-, ued, “I could not if I would discuss tha t subject with you, for 1 can see only one and that" tho ideal side of the question. From this standpoint and taking the present case as an example marriage is a complete and utter failure* Of the 20 couples who spent their honeymoons in tliis room there is here tonight a representa­ tive of their ■*'“-----!~1“ “ an cs severali accounted happy and successful, even the parties themselves being deluded with, this belief* ,Some of them have forgotten the very like­ ness and nature o f their first pure and lofty ideals ■ and are eontont With common day, which has had power ‘to drag them down,’ These are called the common sense, practi­ cal ones of earth, but to us it seems that they are lost because the mate­ rial has been allowed to crush out all tho beautiful, spiritual part of their natures. Tho saddest faces you Bee hero tonight were at one; time the ideals of these matter of- fiact people.” “But a few of us remember/' said I, “and if those first Sweet dreams seem buried, and are buried, from profane eyes they are not dead. Of-.- ten and often they are with us, as near as a real presence* Tonight#; £orjinstanee”’-^' I paused* Not even to this pure being could I ’ speak of that most sacred memory, “Ves, yes/’ ho Said; “1 know.” And there was a note of almost di­ vine sympathy in. hi# tone, “A few cling to their first ideals* These tho world calls dreamers, idealists,' Very oftqii Hhsy lteal~ftWay alone, lowotijM®, oome to this vary mm <- . The Superior Tone Qualities of the < Ludwigr Pianos Are much admired in Kliringfield by the hundreds who own and enjoy llirm. T 4 fc,wlw' Urn nmywi! CouuaeudMwm attest- to ail who of the musical public who have seen and used, this Piano in tlie various dries of the. Tnit-ed £Litee * •appreciate the artiste’ opinion* of wlmt TONK slionld be in a Piano for the American horde. Jiy conniaristtu any oueat nil \ creed ih, wipmraj qualities understand that the Btemway Wano is st the.head, of the Piano world in Sweet, Pure, Elevating Musical Harmony. AVitliout.rtallcitation the tone of tho TAPWJG PIANOS sold in Kpringheld and Central Ohio from the ARCADE few ^ITI R a ! i )B°IUANt^ ^ r° *lavo WnpWd ipom-frcquently to tlu.'Steinway tone than any one of the world produce*. - 'YU’ Diploma of Honor Silver Medal Export Exposition International Exposition Philadelphia, 1899 Paris 1900 ~ 0hio OUMtomers can now lmve the advantage of buying JAIBWIG PIANOS at the FACTORY BRANCH STORE at an immense.anving over wh&t i« DEMANDED for other Standard High -Grade Pianos. Sold on easy payments if desired, so that no one need hesitate at nil ip becoming tho Proud owuer of a Piano., the peer Of which ’ is not,sold elsewhere t i - 1...... ........— .....-...................- .....................>■ — ■ -■ ■ ' • *F * r« agent, and he to the only be sold at loW.f „ Grade manufacturer in pwduci’^ i n a factory where but one grade of Pianos arc made and that the highest.. Gull at Our'-wmemoins—the A a G l U o I VEIIANO HOUSE in Springfield, and for your own satisFuotiim see llu-seruaeniiSeeht Pianos now heii at prices never before offered. . ' ’ b ingsold ARCADE - MUSIC - HOUSE, , * , , ’ JEPw, SSL S i r MwftOkgfiW# - ■ • >: * Lugwig & Go’s.Branch Factory Store. -N. B.—All injerurban Care stop iii front of of our store. Q y t m y i m -C A gv| ’ Waiting rooms ,nutl general offices next dopr.- - -' 0 £ /A l U g J iw I .U y K>i --S e e - j . M, TARBOX Si, SON, ' --------FOR PBICES O N - f - J - ‘ ' “ 1 : Hinds : of : Lumber, : Lath, : Flooring, Skiing, Ceiling, , Richmond fVi c ■, , Gates, • ' * L ' Combination Sti |>s, and Extension Luihieis, “A million for some Tarbox fence/’ Good Grade and Low Prices. land. hold sweet communion with the companions of their better na­ ture, from whom fate has divided them. We have heard them say that to take this little rest helps them to go on down the path they must j tread—-that path so different f r om. what their first youthful fancy pic­ tured it.” “There is something very familiar about ydu,” said I* ‘T t really seems that somewhere, perhaps in another world, I have known you.” “You should know me,” he said, with a sad smile. “I aiu the first ideal bridegroom who floated in a gilded castle above and around arid Within this room. In the physical make np of the real man and myself there ‘tros very little difference, and so I thought perhaps you would rec­ ognize me, though, of course, I had the advantage over him even in this respect, as I represent tho man she alone saw through tho glamour of ’love’s young dream/ ” “Why, you — you are — John 3mithr’-exclaimed 1. “Yes, I am he, or, rather, his rep­ resentative” “And do you know* how low he has fallen ? Do you know wherO he is tonight?” Xasked*' “Yes, I know.” For a moment after this neither of us spoke, and then he said: “He Was a better man than you gave him credit for, arid at. one timer he came very near being all that is embodied in mo because Blra believed So strong­ ly in him', You see, It flatters a man for some flue woman to believe In him and. adore him as a superior be­ ing; 1 have fcflowtt a few cases where the man.actually lived up td what,the Woman believed him to be simply because he did not have' the moral courage to let her see him as he really, was . In this partiettlaf case the man fell because the wo- man forgot her ideal, lost sight of i it amid tho glare and glitter of earth’s baubles. These seemed to; her brighter end better th#& all [ sum m er FURNITURE. I A Fine Stock of Furniture Consisting of.. A full assortment of Bed Room Suits* A fine stock of Rockers. A complete line of Combination Book Cases* A full stock of everything in the Furniture Line* UlbatV om 'mill ReceivebytradingwithUfl The Largest Stbck to Select From. i The Lowest Prices The Best Values. Special in Side Boards; We will for a time make special prices oreall Side Boards. Better select early ***OurgarptfDepartment it Ttil of Darsafci «** . t •.•v ■ -♦ • - ■ • .. ;• JAMES H. flcflHXAN, Furniture Dealer -J- Funeral Director, ihlngsibesides, and ho who could win them for her became her highest ideal of a perfect man, and that id the reason tha t ho who came so no*# being my counterpart is serving out s term tonight m a certain state prison for eiSbeasriaraent.” Softly dire fir*i light of day *tol#, into the^foom# ifce figure* of my guest# faded slowly into the *had- • ow# of the fast dying night, and I woe left, alone with my .thought# andmymemorio#.—SunnySoatq* i —For the beet galvanised iron water tanka and trough* toe Piero# fit Stewart as they will quota you low* it