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Show I THE GHOST OF ANTIGON ISH. A real ghost story comes from Hall fax. Nova Scotia. There is a haunted house at Astlgonttb which is described de-scribed as lollows: The haunted house" is the old homestead of Alexander MacDonald, 100 miles, ns the crow flies, from Hall fax. In the dead of winter Mr. Mac-Uonald, Mac-Uonald, his wife and their adopted daughter fled the house, terrorized bv unseen things" that had chased his horses, the farmer said, braided the Lallfl of his cattle and started myfltW ious fires of ordinarily not highly com bustilc materials In his home. So seriously se-riously was the tale taken hy the countryside that the Halifax Herald and the provincial police sent repre sentatives to stay three nights and days in the "haunted house." They returned a week ago with shaken nerves, indorsing the farmer's story find adding to it, saying they had been awakened in the nieht by slaps from unseen hands Thus baffled, the C.v nadians have called upon American science to rout the Antigonish ghost. It must be borne in mind that Nova Scotia Is "wet territory" and ghosts inhabit wet places. In all modern history there is no well authenticated ghost story, and i his excitement will pass when some one other than a reporter with a nose tor news gets on the ground and begins be-gins a careful investigation There are several forme of spirits The reporter may have possessed him self of the ethereal kind 'which flows from little brown Jugs and, ihus fortified, forti-fied, proceeded to place himself In a receptive mood for seeing things Ghosts should be the least of ou concern during these days when imagination im-agination is no necessary in the inflicting in-flicting of troubles. |