Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1916 — SOLDIER GHOST [ARTICLE]

SOLDIER GHOST

Crowds Gather to View Luminous Spectre That Balutes With Transparent Arm New Orleans, La. —Under the trees in Carrollton Avenue, between Maple and Burthe streets, a ghastly, shimmering half tangible shape stood one night this week. The shadows around lent a weird, eerie atmosphere to the place. At times the shape moved slightly, from its position, and then moved back into the shadows again where it was only half discemable. jA half luminous, half transparent apparition dressed as a soldier, booted and hatted with a spectre rifle slung across its shoulders, it seemed a half real, yet half unnatural something that no mortal dare encounter. A man came down the street jauntily whistling. He was between Maple and Burthe streets. Suddenly from its place beside a tree the ghost glided menacingly onto the banquette. It halted—stood silent. No sound did it utter; there was no rustle of cloth as one long arm went up in seeming salute to the barrel of the spectre rifle. It was just something that stood there The man saw. He could not be mistaken. And before the spectre’s arm had finisHed the half circle of its slow salute, the man was there no longer. The tap-tap of his fleeing feet quickly died away in the distance. Then the news spread. A ghost was haunting Carrollton avenue. Thomas Cleary tn front of whose house the spectre had taken up Its stand, was notified by phone. Cleary came to his front porch and looked streetward. For a while he stared into the darkness. Then slowly, very slowly, seemingly growing out of the dark that lent a background to the sombre thing, the shape reappeared. It looked as it had been described — the likeness of a soldier on guard, yet only half discernible and illusive, even as a shadow might seem if viewed with a dim light behind it. * In the unaccountable way that news travels, others heard of the apparition. Crowds of people who didn’t generally pass that way at that time of night thronged the street cars going past. Crowds viewed the apparition in the shadow. The jitneys did a big ghost seeing business. Nevertheless hundreds can give voice to the apparitions authenticity. Further investigation will be made and the findings submitted to the professor of physics at Tulane University. According to the tale told by one street car motorman, he saw the dim shape standing there at dusk, but thought possibly it was bnly a figment of his imagination as his car sped swiftly past. It was not until nightfall that anything that might be construed as tangible was observed, and from then on it was viewed by hundreds. FLIGHT OF TIME RETARDED . ✓ ■ Pigeons Enjoy Rides on Hands of Big Tower Clock. Seattle, Wash. —Joyriding by pigeons on the minute hands of the four big clock? in the tower of the Kings station has occasioned considerable annoyance to the station masters of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific for several weeks and they say it must stop. Almost every night between 7 and 9 o'clock, the pigeons alight on the minute hands of the clock while they are on their upward journey from the half hour point .to the hour, thereby retarding the movement of the machinery. After the minute hands pass the hour point the birds desert their perch and wait until the half hour station is reached again and then go aboard. FEELS WELL RECOMPENSED Man Falls Into Creek and Comes Up With Six Pound Turtle. Connersville, Ind. —David Disselwein fell from his log wagon when one wheel fell into hole in a bridge over Garrison Creek and he plunged eight feet downward into shallow water. He came up smiling, unhurt, and with a six-pound soft shelled turtle clutched in his hands. He felt the turtle writhe as his hands encountered it, deep in the sand, he said, and immediately reasoned that fate had recompensed him for the momentary embarrassment of his fall. «NO WOMEN IN HEAVEN" Cleveland, O. —"Feminine personality does not exist in heaven,” is the belief of Mrs. D. D. Butcher, teacher of individual science, which aims at the perfection of true mating, Mrs. Butcher says: "Woman goes to heaven after death but becomes a part of man. “The theory involved in Individual science is that the sun as male, is the true mate of the earth, as female. The earth Is the producer. “Without the sun there would be no progency. "On earth men and women must become perfect before perfection of spiritual body can be obtained. Woman was created in Adam and In the reflection of hiin. Man and woman unite in forming the spiritual body. They retain their Identity, but remain as one.” Mrs. Butcher doesn't believe woman subordinate to men. She says each has a seperate duty to perfonp. She selectß as lfer girls and young women.