Show I TWO WiSCONSIN GUOSTS I I ic There are ghost stories In great abun dance hUt hosl ctorlcs related with Ircumstantlallty as to time place nno tventa sworn to by reputable and Judicious Ju-dicious pvsons aro not particularly r rr mmon Wisconsin has two remarkublo Cst stories or rather Btorlcs of two jhotf slnco neither ghost has contented itct slth ono manifestation I Tho Na hotah theological 1 seminary at Kifhotah Wl 1 a Cow mlleo from that la 1 the Vc UTn Newport Oconomowoc r mIrHpfU itronghold of tlio High Church rln of the Episcopal enurcii In tho e t Tho founder of thla institution r r1l5 tho Rev William Lloyd Brock 44 st > 1rd tn thc annals of tho faith the a plocC < r of tho church a tine well card Ju addition to dozens or par 4 flshos In Wisconsin ho was the founder 4 of thu s > sum of schools at Farlbault C3 linn afterward brought to nuch great 4 rromlnmco by Bishop Whlpplo Saburj 4 iihoologicil seminary Shattuck mUlti mUlt-i chool and St Mary hall and In California Cali-fornia he founded St Augustines college ad St Marys of the Paclllc Hu died f 11J1 WAS burled at Benlcla Cal thu Crenel of Ills last labors but after a few I years tho church In Wisconsin naked that hiH l body bo exhumed and brought I Lclc to Nahotah hl llrst love This + j I I aas done and iho occasion of tho return V tnd rcburlal wero made memorable by a firlen of phenomena which It 13 I possible may bo explained by natural causes but 1 which have not yet been so explained AftT Its arrival the cake containing tic body of Dr Bred lay for a time ont on-t the ground Moor of ono of thu buildings ia4 l catchers rut with IL Ore Xhw night tvforc tho reburlal the watcher wero juv Charles P Dorset for fifteen years actor of St James In Chicago now of V ISO I diocese of Texas nnd Dr Vllson now of Chicago Along in tho hours near sorning Wilson a topped out for a I breath of fresh air but In a moment came rush V jnc hack with tho exclamation TJoraot Dorset the woods are full of KhostB Both clergymen wont out In every direction through tho trees they saw UK urea darting hither and thither In a wild and Illful dance Tho clergymen approached ap-proached but tho figures drew back be roro them forming lo left and right of them and It was impossible to got within 1 with-in clone range In tho morning when tho V casket was lifted tho floor beneath l was found to bo blackened by lire and a hole Gas actually burned through to the space V beneath IIow did this happen No ono V bas over tried to offer a conjecture This wn not tho nd At night the faculty of tho Institution Eat in tho office of Dr Gardiner tho president discussing I the strange events that perplexed them Suddenly their dlarusslona were abruptly terminated by a ctartllng and tremendous V tremen-dous racket jUt > t outside the door chit terln and whacking that was deafening Pr Gardiner throw open tho door Not afoul j a-foul In tho hall Ho returned to tho room hul hardly had ho sat down when I tho noises began again Again a sudden I dash Into tho hull failed to reveal anyone any-one Nor did a search of tho building reveal that outsldo of tho faculty a living liv-ing being was In It A third time tho noises began nnd this time Dr Gardiner Gardi-ner spoke into tho hall If you are gentlemen gen-tlemen ho still Tho noU stopped Coming at another time all thin might not havo occasioned any mystification but In conjunction with tho other strange und unexplained happenings It assumed an Importance it would not havo os Kumcd alone After tho reburial of Dr Brcck a photograph V pho-tograph was token of tho cemetery Ono of the students was the photographer lnlho foreground of the picture can bo reon two graves Just as they appear In tho cemetery But at tho foot of each grave stands something no visitor han tvtr evri and for tho peace of his mind It b to bo hoped never will sec Al tho foot of ono grave stands tho Rev Dr Cole IL former president of the seminary In full canonicals At the foot or tho othor grave stands the counterfeit presentment pre-sentment of Its occupant a woman who r In life was a benefactress of the school I When these startling things appeared at tho tlmo tho photograph wow doveloped I tho temlnary authorities decided that possibly somo welltimed conjunction of 1 sunlight and foliage was the cause of tho f Images that they had no real existence wore only aliadowa So thoy had tho picture L I pic-ture thrown on a screen by a stercoptl COlT But tho ilgunap camo out moo V plainly so plainly that tlu > ro was no denying that they were wcllrorncmbcred features of Dr Coo nnd the seminary V benefactress The possibilities of photography pho-tography were not KO well known thon nu now The superimposing of one negative V upon another and tho resulting ghost photographs that hmo been the stockS stock-S trade of GO many Impostors was an art not well known then The other vohiau thentlea ted Wisconsin I Wiscon-sin ghost has chosen his haunt in a less I urban region and among less cultivated people than tho theologians of Nnnhotah 1 Jndocd the scone of his walkings Is most artistically chosen in tho midst of a wild and twuago landscape that would have delighted Don Indeed It Jo another V Brittany both In topography and ethnology ethnol-ogy for chat weird strange land of WIs conslno lead region with Its cairns and pinnacles and citadels rock Its gloomy tortuous cavernous vales la I Inhabited e by Celtic folk Welsh and Ulclr Jclndrc3 of Cornwall and a sprinkling of Gal V vviglun Irish notable ghost seers an I Tlio ghost himself l IB apparently a remnant rem-nant of tho days when the population of thu region wits AngloSaxon Virginians V and Kcntucklans Ho Is supposed to bo thy wraith of a man killed In till lead mining days before the Civil war At any rate ho appears lru Rldgoway town vhlp at the spot whore tho house of thlo inurdored man long stood a rotting heap 3f blackenCd boards Tho first person toe I < to-e tho ghost see it a generation after tho murder wag committed WOB one Dr I Cutler of Podgovllle county seat of Iowa 1 county next town beyond Uldnoway Ono night on tho doctor was driving homeward alter a visit to a patient In tho country ho WQ3 suddenly affrlghto at seeing J a dark llguro Boated on tho polo between tho horses The reins lipped from hIs nenclesa hands nnd tho Jiorsos dashed away at full speed I tho Bpocter riding tho pole nothing dl corn mod l by tho shaking ho was getting Up a hill down another and lo the cpccter vanished Tho doctor story found little credence Lie wan known to Jovo tho flowing howl and his frlonda paul ho had talcun a drop too much It was a dream c specter of delirium ire nions of mania c jK > tu But the doctor declared l he was sober lie recalled tho V fact that a year previous when ho rcnllv wa a llttlf full whllo passing the self name haunted spot he had become aware of a dark and sIlent stranger flitting be aide him In tho carriage For a mile tho otrnnger rode without saying a word and nil at onco ho was gone At tho limo the doctor had aced no question of his drunken wits and had considered It a Itrango pjcperlenco and nothing more lie vns now convinced that tho man be Klilo hlrrr and tho thing on tho orul of tho i polo wore ono nnd the same and that a Doing not of this world Whereat tho people lvughcd I in the daytime But not long afterward the reputation of th doctor received ft sudden and tor rlble vindication OB ho was himself afterward aft-erward < < to vindicate It almoHt as terribly John Ll father of 12vnti Lowly > > i champion vr nllcr of tho United States known to port everywhere was a proa I porouu farmer living In tho vicinity of llldgiway a man of sober life undauut cd coura < to and ixx wB fk1 of the ire V ni ndous iihyxlcnl hlrength his son had InhorltiHl UA was returning homo ono fAil evening after spending Uio day OD ulstlng a friend In butchering The night wail not dark and when ho drew near the haunted spot he determined to cut OCTQat lots to reach hln home no won approaching the stone wall at the road rite to climb It when his attention wan nrrfstd b > the aluht of a Jlguro that seemed lo hnvo gathered 1 Itself together out of I hi Jim now termntlcsa air and wtood confronting him in a menacing at titude HP know of no enemy and hlgh J vnyrmn Were unknown In that retired fjuartr of true Htate Ho decided that some one must bo trying to frighten him and toO hi hjLlIwl the figure and no ro rwnK being I given he advanced upon 1U Somo unnccountabla HWU and the un canny hU5Cnc9 > of the thing raado uw11J i J AJ m i V t i iJ V A i l1pcldo to avoid a conIIIcL and drawing I hits butcher knife from his pocket he started to pass byr when the figure rais I ing Its arm with a forbidding gesture stopped athwart his path Obeying a hasty Impulse that was more a ghastly and aoulchllllni fear than Jt was anxer Lewis let drive his keen J knife Next morning a neighbor found Lewls I lying inside tho wall In a pcmlconsclous condl lion Of what liappencd after ho had struck with his knlfo he had but vague ImprcH lon Ho sUd he had been hurled In the ulr ao If In tho vortex of a cy clone pounded crushed Into Insensibility lIt l-It lie died a few hours after he wan II carried home asserting with hID dying breath that he hind como to his end by a mipwrnaturn1 agency Thus did the death of John Lewis moJco the first vindication of tho reputation of Dr Cutler and the scoffing ceawKl But a second and a third tlmo wasrthe doctor doc-tor to bo vindicated A drocBmoker encountered en-countered the ghost and pursued by Itt hoon after died of tho shock occasioned by tho Intense fright At last Dr Cut ler himself seeing the ghost for a third time llnally and trluniphantly vindicated his word though at the cost of hto own life for dying as tho result of fright ho became they third df the victims of tho Implacable specter of tho old military road roadWhat What of these ghosts What explana tion can bo offered The writer confesses he Is 1 unconvinced Yet he has poroonrU acquaintance with persona who claim to have scen them with clorzymon on tho onu hand with unlvoraltybred agnostics oh tho other Tho calling of tho former out to prevent them from lyinir even did we believe them predisposed to be lieve In tho reversal of the laws or na ture as expounded by tho scientific Tho latter had no predisposition to affect their Judgment So there yon are and from tho evidence presented can reader your own verdict W A Curtis In Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Public Ledger |