TALE OF A SPOOK
WOMAN SAW GHOSTLY VISITOR
SHOOT HIMSELF.
Spirit Tragedy Enacted In Indian
Bungalow Proved Afterward to
Have Occurred Exactly as
She Had Witnessed It.
This is the tnlo of a ghost who shot
himself. The woman who relates it
had accompanied her husband to
Tlrzanur, India, says the Kansas City
Star. Ho had been sent, there to under
take the duties of an agent who had
gone home on sick leave. The only
accommodation they could find when
they arrived was an inspection bun
galow. They retired about ten o'clock, but
Mrs. S. remained awake for some
time reading a novel by the light of a
lamp. She was just thinking of turn
ing it out when suddenly a man hold
ing a revolver appeared in the room,
Bho says:
"Before I could move or speak he
said: 'Don't stop me; I am going to
shoot myself.' As he put the revolver
to his head I shut my eyes and was
nearly deafened by the report that fol
lowed. My husband jumped up,( wido
awake at once, with a cry of ''Who
fired?' and I opened my eyes expecting
to see a ghastly heap on the floor.
"To my amazement the room was
empty and there was no sign of the
tragedy that had just taken place in
front of me. My husband said he had
been awakened out of a sound sleep
by the noise of the shot and when I
told him what I had seen wo searched
the house together. Neither the
punkah coolie, who was sleeping in
the veranda, nor the servants, whose
houses were close by in the compound,
had heard anything. Even the dogs
chained in the veranda had not been
disturbed. It all happened so sudden
ly that I had no feeling of fright or
terror. The man seemed to come from
the direction of my husband's office,
where there was a door connecting
with the bedroom, in front of which
we had placed a heavy wardrobe. He
was a shortish, unpleasant-looking
man and he held the revolver in his
left hand. Neithor my husband nor
I were at all nervous people and when
we could find nothing to explain what
had occurred we decided that it must
have been imagination and that our
being in strong sympathy with each,
other had caused us to share the same
hallucination."
- Now for the sequel. Shortly after
ward Mrs. S. accompanied her hus
band on a tour of the district. Among;
the hills they met a Mme. de Bevery
who had been a widow for several;
years. In the course of a conversa-j
tion with her Mrs. S. discovered that;
at one time she had lived In the bun
galow at Tirzapur where the spectral
suicide had manifested itself.
"On hearing that she knew our
bungalow and had actually lived in it,"
Mrs. S. adds, "I was impelled to relate
our strange experience there, which
hitherto my husband and I had kept
to ourselves. She listened without
comment, but when I ended my narra
tive by saying that we had come to
the conclusion it must have been
either indigestion or imagination she
turned very pale and said, 'You have
related something that really hap
pened ; my husband shot himself there
before my eyes exactly as you have
described.'
"I was terribly distressed afhaving,
all unwittingly, reminded her of such
a painful episode, but she reassured
me by saying: 'It is many years ago
and I can talk about it now, though I
was ill for months afterward from the
ehock.'
"She then told me that her husband
had gone Into tho bedroom through the
door which we kept closed and had
used the very words I quoted and the;
whole affair coincided exactly with.
what I had seen, down to tho small
est detail." '
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The highest service of love is not
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who demands and secures tho highest
from the loved one. The mother loves
her child most divinely, not when sho'
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shuts the eyes of tho mother and wife,
but when the clear-sightedness of her
love reveals itself in tho greatness of
her demands and expectations. It Is a,
fablo that love is blind; passion is
often blind, but love never. They who,
love are sometimes blind to the faults
of those for whom they care, but notj
because they love them. When love
has its way, it grows more clear-sighted
as it becomes deeper and purer.
Fortunate tho man whose wife
stands not for his satisfaction, but,'
for his aspiration a visible 'witness to
the reality of his ideal, and unflinch
ingly loyal not only to him but to it.
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It Makes Trade.
Homer Folks, New York's noted au
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REMINDED HIM OF HOME.
New Yorker Saw Beauty In Sign,
Where Maiden Lady Could Not.
A party of tourists was being shown
nround Cludnd Juarez, the Httlo Moxl
can town Just across tho Rio Grando
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sight.
"It Is all so quaint," she said. "These
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Frank If Not Complimentary.
Her brother, aged 17, had been mado
captain of tNilgh school football team
And consequently had become sudden
ly popular with the girls in tho neigh
borhood. Becauso of this tho man
ager of a skating rink presented broth
er with a season pass. Sister, who
had attained the tremendous ago of
20, was truly flattered when brother
asked her, rather than some of tho
younger belles of his acquaintance, to
share tho privileges of that skating
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- The principal was called beforo the
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complains that sho was grievously in
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class last Friday. What do you know
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