Show A MISTAKEN GHOST it did the Appen appearance rance act AU all right jut inde a Ill blat ion some people are arc always hav i ing pre sentiments said a cincinnati man re bently cenal and I 1 elways always make it a point to steer clear of such uncanny folks I 1 never lia had 1 l but one and a as that ended in no nothing at all I 1 am always really to tell it to people when I 1 henr ta talking ikin about their superstitions one hot summer rummer afternoon I 1 went to ny my room to lie down I 1 had no disposition to sleep and in fact was never wider awake in my life the rest of the family were all in a distant part art of the house ouse As I 1 lay there alone trying to cool off there suddenly appeared at the open door an object that teemed like ray my iden idea of what the angel of 0 death would beit approached the bell bed on which I 1 lay and placing two arrow arron 1 s crosswise cros over my heart said in a hollow but perfectly audible ardille voice 1 I will not take you now I 1 will call for you september 20 then it disappeared neared as suddenly as it came I 1 arose from the bed with great beads of perspiration running down dourn my face and must confess that I 1 was thoroughly seared scared but I 1 had sense elou enough ii not t to relate my experience to any of of the family until after the day clay set act by the object of my taking off of it so happened that on september 20 0 I 1 wae wa a passenger on a mississippi M issis sippi river steamboat and I 1 freely acknowledge that I 1 felt a good deal shaky until the day was numbered among the thin things s of the past years have passed tinco sinco then and here I 1 am a pretty lively specimen yet what was the apparition I 1 am sure I 1 dont know and have ion long since given up trying to explain it dont try to tell me that it was a dream tor for I 1 was as wide awake at the time as I 1 am at this thi minute besides I 1 have the alie arrows that were laid across my breast securely locked up in a trunk at home st SL louis globe democrat |