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Show CAMt BACK' AFTER DEATH. Hnre'e hnt That Evidently Liked Work Connected with a Drug Store. A envious thing is said to have happened hap-pened at Crossen, Silesia, in tho year 1659. In the spring of that year one Christopher Monigh, a drug clerk (an apothecary's servaut, as the old account ! says), died and was buried with th usual services of his church. A few days after his death a bhadow exactly like his in face, clothes, stature, mein, etc., appeared in the drug shop where he had been employed In-fore his decease, Li tho shop he would walk about, sit himself down, take boxes, pots, glasses etc., from the shelves, always returning them to their exact places. Later on he began to try the quality of tho medicines and to weigh various drag stuffs in a pair of scales used for that purpose; would pound drugs in a mortar with ft "mightie noise," and even serve people who came on business to the shop; in a word, do all that a servaut in such a capacity could do. He looked very ghastly upon those who had formerly been his fellow servants, tliey being afraid to say anything to him. The owner of the drng shop was sick at the time, and this phantom servant soon began to cause him ft deal of trouble, performing all sorts of tricks on the invalid, in-valid, such as pulling down the bed uion which he lay, burning sheets, coverlets, etc., and at one time even going so fat as to throw the lamps in Ihe tire as often as they were brought into the sick room. During all this time ho had never been seen in the streets or heard to speak. Finally, one day lie put on a cloak that bun,' in tho shop and walked out into the streets, minding no one and turning neither to the right nor to the let. Nearing the churchyard where his mortal remains had been deposited, he met a maid servant with whom he had formerly been on speaking terms; accosted ac-costed her, only to see her fall in a swoon. This single instance is the only one in which he is said to have spoken during the six weeks he was terrorizing ter-rorizing all that portion of Silesia. When the girl fainted the gallant phantom essayed to help her to her feet, and placed in her hand u paper written in blood red ink telling tho location of much buried treasure. That night Prin-i.-i;nVu.h f'lmrlntte tlio then chief magistrate of Crossen, determined to put an end to the ghostly raids of the drug clerk. She ordered the grave opened, and the corpse, grave clothes and the coffin burned. This weird proceeding was carried out to the letter, and nothing of the ghost clerk was ever seen afterward, although exact pictures o him appeared ia every window pane in the drug shop building. Some of these pictures, which much resembled re-sembled sand blast work, faded in a few months, but two of them, in an attic window where tho clerk lived prior to his death, were plain to be seen up to the time the building was destroyed by fire in 1741. No explanation of these mysterious shadows has ever been given. St. Louis Republic. |