Show 7 1 i I 1 z 7 i 1 I 1 il 71 3 i afi sa i I 1 W N AROS TS T S 7 e K i I 1 A s Z i S 4 2 1 t Z 1 pha PHANTOM ta r P I 1 QUEEREST r A f f 41 I 1 1 te bow rona by i ahr 8 amt pmt kc jis nation k ity I 1 1 and la Is ch f Z tt P dd b v 1 ang ON G i Ii jtb W wrote quaintly uy that all houses wherein men mefi had bi I 1 i lived IV e d 4 imd i 4 dae died d r e hous eilt balf this Is meant id to include 41 memories and associations only the the fleeting phantoms e I 1 s 1 I 1 to s of the imagination says the detroit fyee free press but b ut wham what then are ghosts are they not the same unreal creations of a retrospective brain who IB hi the elusive being that opens and shuts the doors at midnight strikes fantastic or sorrowful chords on the piano sets the dog barking and leaves things in a disturbed state generally and what Is a ghost has a ghost parts can an unsubstantial phantom that appears and disappears at will make noise enough by contact chontae t with material things jo waken a sleeping household science with cool calculating methods has h investigated the theory ot of ghosts and found nothing A haunted house has been beeh one of the recent attractions ot of a town in michigan A family in that place living in their own house were suddenly visited by a ghost they did not see the intruder but they heard the clanking of chains in the dead hour of night until at last they were afraid to sleep and the place acquired the unsavory reputation of being haunted then one member of the household brayer braver than the rest determined to sit up and track the ghost to its lair he watched for two nights and heard the chain clanking at a distance but on each occasion the ghost evaded pursuit and remained invisible on the third night the clanking chain was again beard and the watcher acting on an the principle that all things come to him who waits remained quiet ai at his post sure enough the ghost came timidly into his hie presence and turned out to be no ghost but a pet coon that had strayed from its owner and hidden under the woodshed floor at night it entered the house by an entrance left for the family eat cat there ikan empty house in the hea heart rt or of the city of detroit that was formerly a large boarding house it was at one tamo filled with a goodly company of bright spirits but the shadow 0 of doom rested upon it in less than n u acore of years sixty persons associated under that root roof at one time have hare died and all connected in its management have died or been overtaken by misfortune now it Is said that lights are seen in its deserted rooms sobs and cries J echo in the empty halls b dis and forms are observed flitting up and down the decaying stairs it in not surprising to those who know the tragic story of the house to learn that it is a rend rendezvous for ghosts for a more ill fated mansion does not exist but the writer orthis of this paper who had known of its joys and its vicissitudes went there in the shadow ot of late evening and standing near the ruined pile which Is flanked by ay lines of modern street cars gazed curiously at the in curtained windows taking at the same came time a peep backward into the limbo of the past hosts ghosts there were regiments of them ahem where had once been light and gaiety gayety and the music of dancing feet there were now silence and death but it was easy to see shadowy revels and hear bear the shuffle of feet that now lie lid at rest there was the woman who wore a rose in her hair bair and had always a smile on her ups lips and the stal aart art man on whose arm am she ahe leaned there was dust on their eyes now but they top too came to I 1 look boic on their latest g place and the th 6 generous one who ho had kept them all asunder as under the shadow of her wing on whose vadd brow the wreath of asphodel was set she walked in majestic silence from empty room to room and then the lights in the neighbors houses were put dut out and there were werd no all ghosts bats the shifting shit thit ting lights had bad taken on a ghostly appearance Ope arance and quo one had bad heeen the little littie chil child d who died there and wore a kingly crown ot flowers flowe rs and aid another had seen the young girl gid who defied dea death th and danced h two step about her little room when she had but achour an hour or two to live and the ghosts i ats will assemble there until thesa th esi ara a belor forgotten got or the old house la Is pulled to make way tor some commercial aai ifju anter I 1 w F in the days ot of salem the authorities hanged a man w hd that such a being as isagho agho s aver ex r isted julius caesar an u t u S m eipl 7 quoted as classical blassl C 01 IES instances ot the truth troth and sauls experience ezpa jad thi witch of endor and jobs vw night as indo K L i Hain hamlets leVs father hither ij mhd bestall allaround around ghost cf 1 11 thra z ture as v hii t had a mission and ana attended strictly a I 1 c to ni business ff z z ay the 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