Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1911 — Cromwell and the Spector. [ARTICLE]

Cromwell and the Spector.

The stories of the “white lady** that periodically visits the German royal family and of the “little red man” that frequently paid his respects to the great Napoleon are tolerably well known, especially that of the former. But few perhaps are familiar with the story of Cromwell’s “giant specter.* It appeared to him onehlgbt when be was wide awake and quietly resting on his couch. In appearance the ftpparltion was a woman of gigantic proportions. Approaching him, she announced tn tones like thunder. “Within the year you. my son. will be recognised as the greatest man in Britain."