Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 6, 1888, Page 12

Frock Suits. Sack Suits. THE OMAHA Prince Alberts. DAILY BEK: SUN DAY, MAY 6, 1s8%-SIXTEEN PAGES. | WANT TO GET . RID OF MY CLOTHING!== As I Intend to Retire from that Branch of My Business. here is no Need for Me to _fluoie Prices as the Goods | Garry Speak for Themselves, and ~ the Prices | Will Make from this On, Will Insure a Speedy Sale. IHAVEA FULL ANDCOMPLETE LINE OF NEW GOODS IN Spring Overcoats. IHAVE A FULL AND COMPLETE LINE OF NEW GOODS iN Boys’ Suits. Children’s Suits. Children’s Extra Pants. Pants. In Fact Everything Perfaining fo a First Class Clothing Store I MUST GET RID OF THESE GOODS. 1313 FARNAM STREET, OMAHA. ALBERT CAIXL b SPOOKS AND HOBCOBLINS. The Ghosts of the Dead and Their ‘Wanderings. LIME KILNS THEIR RESORTS. A Spectre in Every Kiln—Warnings of Death By Apparitions—Haunted | Houses -~ Spirits By the Score. The Ghost of the Lime Kilus. A fully authenticated ghost story— time, place, witnesses, details, every- «thing duly attested—comes to the C cago Herald, from the region around Rhode Island avenue and Lincoln street, where a few lime kilns dot the broad expanse of prairie. It has beena wonder why these particular lime kilns were without a ghost, that necessary appendage to every other known lime kiln in the country. The re.ator,James King, gives his address in a Blue Is- land avenue saloon, but as he also men- tions a number of other witnesses of the apparation, policemen included, it can hardly be said that Black road ben- zine is alone responsible for the weird specter of the lime kiln. The story may as well bé told in Mr. King’s own style except such alterations in the way of spelling reform as will make the nar- rative intelligible for the Herald read- ers, Mr, King say “Having read your ghost story of the water at Pullman with a great deal of inte; , I should like to tell you of a ghost at the lime-kiln of Lincoln street. It is the strangest spook of all I ever heard of. 1 have seen it at least ten times, but last Saturday (March 24) I got near enough for the first time to give a discription of it. A friend of mine namen Cassidy and I returned from a wedding about half an hour be- fore midnight. In passing the lime- kilns we saw the ghost, but we walked on until we reached Twenty-first street, where we met ofticer Moore’ of the Hin- man street station, Officer Lavin, of the Hyde Park force, and Owen Sheridan, ex-sergeant of the Hyde Park police. We weut back with him, and on our way we mot Mike Lavin, Monahan, Flannigan, Hanley, Healy and Bob Hanke, who also went along. “Near the lime kiln is a long shed, upon the roof of which we all saw the form of a woman with long, flowing white hair. Her garments were also white and fluttering in the breeze. We could seo this very plainly because the veflex from the rolling mill furnaces lit up the sky. Offcer Lavin went up to within three feet of the apparition, when it began to move backward, beckoning the officor to follow. This he did and we fell in with him. Over rock piles and trestlowork went the march, from one kiln to another, the apparation slowly retreating, but ail the while seemingly pointing out some- thing for the officer to find under the rocks. The officer would get so near sometimes that it looked as if they eould have caught her, but the speeter slways moved hack until it hovered over an old well, where it finally dis- appeared, Officer Lavin savs that he once placed his hand upon the appara- tion, but all he caught was air. *Nine years 0 an old German women was murdered in the dreary #pot, and her body was found in the well, She had been on the way of Vaking her husband’s nightlunch to the rolling mill just ubout the time when we saw the ghost. There had been much quarreling between the womon and her husband, and he was suspected for a time, but no proof could be found against him. Lver since this ghost has been seen by a good many people.” A Spirit aterfalized. A lady will, we are told, soon ap- pear in London who is an apparition at first, afterwards a solid, palpable, and even a somewhat fat lady; then she re- tires from her fat and her solidity and dissolves into airy nothingness, saysthe Court Journal. In the center of the ex- hibition room a globe will appear with- out, apparently, anything suspending it supporting it; from that globe, after the mystic words have been spoken, to the accompaniment of weird music, a female form will be seen to emerge (draped), but hardly recognizable, so vapory will she be. Then she will gradually solidify nour- ished or. nothing (& much-desired at- tainment in these hard times), and after smilingly but speechlessly intor- viewing the public, will gradually be- come vapory, and retire finally to her residence in the hanging globe. ‘Warnings of Death. The story of ‘‘The White Bird of Oxenham” reminds me of a like ex- jerience, says & writer in the London sght, Only last winter I called on some friends, and was met at the dour of the house by the words, “‘Our little niece is dead, but we do not wish Mrs. ——— to be told till to-morrow.” I promised to say nothing, and went up- stairs to where the old lady was sitting near a window. Before I could make a remark she exclaimed, “One of us is gone; Lhave just had the family warn- ing.” She then told me that the sign of a death in her family was a little bird, which flew against the window and then fell dead. This had just oc- curred. Ihave since heard of another case where a small white cat is seen rapidly to cross the room. In connec- tion with this are the banshees of the Highlands and of Irelund, and the phantom coaches heard to drive up to the door of the house. A friend told me she had been in the house on one occasion when this occurred, and saw her host turn pale as death as the gates were thrown open, and there wus noth- ing to be seen. Akin with this also are the bagpipes that wail around Highland houses, and a fumily in England hears lovely music within the house itself. Instances might be multiplied ad libitum, The question is not whether those warnings ure given, but, whence do-they come? What laws give rise to them?" Are they from the physical, astral, for dreams and visions, appar- ently of the astral body, just before or after the death of the iudividual, some- times answer the sawe purpose. The second sight of the Keltic races may probably have the same orig A lady well known to possess iu, on going to the station abroad, to meet her box con- taining her wedding trousseau, was seen to shrink 1rom it and turn pale. Afterward she told her version. “It was a coffin,” she said, *“‘the men car- riedout. I could not go near it.” Next day came the guite unexpected news of the death of a near relation. Another perplexing question is, whence comes the power o bless and to curse, undoubtedly possessed by certain individuals from all time? The "nstances of this power throughout the bible are logion.” Wizards, witches and gypsios have been supposed to possess if, and also the evii eye. Generally, it is ac- companied with a certain knowledge of the future. A wun unjustly coudomned to bo executed many years azofor steal- ing protested his mnocence {o the last, and said that no grass would grow upon grave, us its outer sign. A fricud | surcs me that she herself recently suw the grave, and,in spite of all efforts to cover it, the grave remains bare. Again, a lady died protesting against the resurrection, meaning, vrobably, that of the body. She ordered the stone above her vault to be an extra thigk- ness, and said that if there WEY& such a thing,then trecs would grow up through the stones. A friend declares that she has scen them herself, and she bases theresn her belief insthe full and per- fect resurrection of the flesh. I should be gratified for any light thrown on these and similar experi- ences. The Haunted Houscs of To-day. A house in Tolono, Ill., which had the reputation of being haunted,because un- canny sounds were heard in it, and was, theréfore, froquently for rent, was fin- ally tenanted by its owner,who resolved to “take the bull by the horns” and solve the mystery. After a careful in- vestigation one night he discoyered that some mischievous persons stationed in an unused parsonage opposite had at- tached a brickbat to one end of a string which was dropped through a hole in the porch roof of the ‘“haunted’ house, §0 that when the ‘‘ghosts” pulled the other end of the line the brick would rise and fall, striking the porch ceiling. The angry owner besieged the parson- agé with revolver in hand, but the fugi- tives escaped from the huilding. Spirits by the Score. Mrs. M. F. Williams, the materiali ing medium of Forty-sixth street, in- vaded Brooklyn with her band of spirits last Wednesday evening, says the New Nork Mercury, and received a very flat- tering welzome. It was the first public scance that had ever been given in the sister city beyond the big bridge, and the cozy theater of the Co- fumbia conservatory of music, at Bed- ford and Fulton avenues, was packed with a very intelligent, refined and well dressed audience. Mrs. Williams seemed in excellent spirits herself, and so0 far as tho building up and turning out of spirits from the laboratory of Spirit Chemist Arthur Mortinez went, the experiment was a success. Prof, Joanoret acted as master of ceremonies. Mrs, Williams was dressed in black silk andhad a bunch of big nodding red roses pinned on her bosom. She made a short speech, giving the benighted Brooklynites an idea of the philosophy of spiritualism and spirit phenomena and manifestation. The spirits that generally attend Mrs. \Villiflms‘ cabinet were all there, iuuluding Dr, Holland, the joyous little Bright Eyes, Frank Cushman, Lucille the Beautiful, Chemist Mortinez, E. V., Wilson, Lucille Western, Alice Cary, ote. The seance was marked by a large number of spirits who took on tan- gible form and came out to perform the Social politeness of making calls on their friends still detained in the cum- bersome flesh. It was a most sociable, harmonious, lively and ag ception, or lovee and convers: tween the mortal and immortal, Jargeness of the audience was surpris ing. When every seat on the floor was filled the late-comers had to scek the gallories, Two and three spirits came out at a time, and quite a number of them not only dematerialized out on tho open stage, but rematerial- ized, as if coming up through the floor, in open view of the audience. Among the spirits who came out to friznds were Montague Berg,Thomas Combs,Amanda Bowman, Lillie Reed, George Harl ness, Carcie Miller, Auunie Maguire, Tille Roberts, Charles Cunmungham, Miss Floyd, Dr. Slocum, Mr. Nichols, Fannie Hazard and a friend, Mrs. Charles Fox, Mr. Ostrander,and several young ladies with their escorts or cow- pany. Brother Tice, of Brooklyn, was present to see that all things were right. A committee that volunteered from the audience examined the cabinet and declared that there was nothing that could contribute to the prastics oi deccp!iqn. Lord Castleroagh's Ghost. Lord Castlereagh, when commanding in early life a militia regiment in Ive- land, was stationed one night in a large, desolate country house, and his bed was at one end of a long, dilapi- dated room, while at the other extrem- ity a great fire of wood and turf had been prepared within ahuie, gaping, old-fashioned chimney. Waking in the middle of the night, he lay watching from his pillow the gradual darkening of the embers of the hearth, when suddenly they blazed up and a naked child stepjlzed from among them upon the floor. The figure advanced slowly towards Lord Castle- reagh, rising in stature at every step, until, on coming within two or three paces of his bed, it had assumed the ap- pearances of a izhustly giant, pale as death, with a bledding wound on_the brow and eyes glaring withrago and de- spair. Lord Castlereagh leaped from his bed and confronted the figure in an attitude of defiance. It retreated be- fore him, diminishing in size as it with- drew in the same manuer that it had previously shot up fand expanded. fe followed it, pace by pace until the original child-like form dis- appeared among the embers, He then went back to his bed and was disturbed no more. This story Lord Castlereagh told with perfect gravity at one of his wife’s supper parties in Paris in 1815, when Scott was among the hearers. Revealed in a Dream, A special to the Now York Star says: A. F. McNeal, a well-known citizen of Rawson, Allen county, O., died on the 26th ult. after a short illness. A strange story conneeted with this fuct is as well authenticated as his death. On the night of the 28th of January last he dreamed that he had died and gone to heaven. In the dream the date of his death, March 26, was firmly fixed upon his mind., In the golden city of his dream, Mr. McNeal met Mahlon Poven- mire, of Ada, an old acquaintance and friend, and asked when he had left the earth, Povenmire replied that he had come to the eternal woypld a week before. There were other gircymstances in the dream equally a8 strange, which so im- pressed McNeal that the next morning when he awoke 1 his usual good health he reduced the details to writing and put the manuscript away in his desk, where his wife found it and read it with fear and trembling, but said nothing, although it made ap _impression on her mind which she could .not efface. On Monday, March McNeal died ex- actly 4s indicated, while Poveumire had dassed to the land of the unknown just a week before/ Mrs. McNeal is in hossession of the manuseript, dated anug 20, and containing the sub- stance of her husband’s dream as above recited. A Queer Superstition, Pittsburg Commercial Gazette: On Tuesday night Officer Mercer, of Alle gheney, noticed a woman go into the middle of Main street and dig a hole with a hatchet, She k‘lawd an_object in the hole and carefully covered it up. The officer unearthed the object and founa a small mirror with writing on it which he could not decipher. Taking it to the woman’s house, she gxplnxnufi that the writing on the glass was “Father, Son and Holy Ghost,” and that it was & chprm to drive away an ailment in her head. It was a Swiss custom and she wanted to keep it buried for three days. She was al lowed to reinter the glass. Lost Keys Found by Spirits. Mrs. G. A. Woodruff, of Troy, N, Y., rifes to tke Religio-Philosophical Journal: “We used to be just as skep- tical as skeptics could be—three of us, self, husband and daughter. The keys 1o our poultry house and yard wero lost. They had been looked for diligently by every member of the family for more than a week, but as no one could find them they were given up. We had a little music stand that used to do queer things sometimes, and often spelled out messages that proved to be true. We three sat with our hands upon it, as we had often done before; it seomed to be unusually vigorous and active, jump- ing around at a greatrate,so much that we were quite nonplused, and couldn’t think of anything proper to say, although we knew it was waitin, to be interrogated. Presently I lhou;;h% of our lost keys, and asked if the con- trolling influences could tell us where to find them, While one of us said the alphabet in the usual way they spelled: ‘Will try.’ They in a mo- ment said: ‘Found’ ‘Where?’ ‘In cow shed, on window stool.” “It was dark, the lantern was lighted, the search was made and the lost keys were found just as they had said.” Was It the Ghost of His Dead friend? The Carthage, Mo., correspondent of the St. Louis Globe writes: Mr. J. D. K., a resident of West Carthage, a car- penter by trade, experienced 8 few nights since, the following novel ad- venture, which he firmly bhelieves was with some one from the spirit world: It was about 11 o’clock, while he was on his way home from a call on a end, who was seriously sick, Mr, D. lives in the outskirts of the city, and when puss- ing through a hollow, near his home. he was startled to hear his name called quite distinetly in a queer, ghostly vo He stopped and looked about him, but, though the night was quite moonlight, he could see no one. Just then a something struck near by him, as if thrown by some one. He stopped to see what it was, when he received a blow on the back, as if from the slap of o person’s hand, and at the same time his own name was spoken threetimes in rapid succession in & voice unmistakably Seriously alarmed and mystified traced his steps as rapidly as possible toward home, but without further adventure. When he stepped in the house he looked atthe clock, which stopped ticking as he did so, the hands indicating 11:10. By this time Mr., D. was in such a nervous state of mind that he did not care to retire, but sat down in an arm-chair in the dining room without rousing any of the sleep- ing family. How long Yo 5at there Bo does not know, but fia unconsciously fell asleop, and’ was awakencd by fooi~ steps on the stairs, Thinking it some of the family he started with the light to the stairease, plainly hearving the footsteps all. the while, but when the light flasned up the staivway no one was to ne seen, and further search found the sound asleep and not a soul stirring in the house. Mr. D. be- coming alarmed then related his ex- perience to his wife, and together they sat up during the remainder of the night, but no more ghostly sounds were heard, Next morning a messenger brought the word that his sick fr had been taken suddenly worse and had died shortly after Mr, D.’s departure, and at precisely the hour indicated by the Blunds of the clock, as it had stoppod tho night before. Mr. D. is completéiy mystified at his strange experience, but firmly believes it was the "ghost of his dead Triend that thus haunted bim, and now shudders to venture out in the night lest his unpleasant experience be repeated. ) WHY SHE DIDN'T HOLLER. Was _Afraid He'd Stop_and She Sued Him For Breach of Promise. A young woman from the country was suing her ex-sweetheart for breuch of promise, and the lawyers were,as usual, making all sorts of i in- quiries. “You say,” remarked one, “that the de(q)udum. frequently sat very close to you?” “Yes, sir,” was the reply, with a hectic flush. . *How close?” *Close enough 80’ one cheer was all the settin’ room we needed.” “And you say he put his arm around you?r” “No, I didn’t.” ““What did you say, then?" “I said he put both arms around me.” “Then what!” “He hugged me.” “Very hard?” “Yes he did. So durn hard thotI come near hollerin’ right out.” “Why didn’t you holler?” “Cause. no reason. Be please. Because why?” <Cause T was afeered he'd stop.” The court fell off the bench, and had to be carried out and put under a hydraut for the purpose of resuscitation. A Histori The Villa Palmierie, where the queen is residing during her stay at Florence, has been described by one able to speak with authority on the subject as ‘‘the fairest spot on the Tuscan mount,” says the London World. The villa stands on the Bologna road, about two miles from the Porto San Gallo, within ashort distance of Fiesole. It belonged for many centuries to the Palmieri family, who were of great note in Florence, and it originally: bore the name of Schifanocia, but it subsequently became royal property, and the Grand Duchess of Tuscany sold it to the late Lord Crawford, who expended at least £12,000 on fmprovements and additions, and it is now the residence of his widow, who has placed it at the disposal of her majesty, The vi'la i explicit, Mansion, u very large house, built in two stories entively in the old Italian style, with loggia-covered balconies, but it is a thoroughly English residence in its comfort and luxury, Tho imterior is beautifully decorated, and the hall, gal- lery and sitting rooms arve full of pict- ures and objects of art, and there is a fine library. There are magnificent views of Flor- ence and the surrounding country from the windows of the principle rooms and from the terrace below. whick is & sunlk garden, as at Windsor castle. The grounds are extensive, shady and ad- mirably arranged. One portion, in- cluding a long terrace from which there is a very grand view, is sepurated from the home gardens by the road, across which is a private bridge. The villa was the constant resort of the great artists of the sixteenth e tury, and within the grounds is a pri- vate chapel, which is undoubtedly the original of the one represonted in Raphael’s celebrated Sposalizio, in the Brera gatlery at Milan. Altogether the queen may be congratulated on Ler good fortune in obtaining the loan of a residence 8o delightful and so interest~ ing. N i Au Absolute Oure. The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINTMENT is onl:” put up in large two ounce tin Loxes, aud is an absolute cure for old sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands, and all skin_ erup: tioLs. Wil positively éure all kinds. cf piles Ask for the ORICINAL ABIETINE ONT- MENT. $old by Goodman Drug Co. at 25 cents por box—by muil 80 cents. A TALE OF TWO LOVERS. Awkward Predicament of Two Young People Who Were Very Near-Sighted. In a cozy flat on One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, says the New Yorle Graphie, lives a plump and rosy young woman, who, like most young women of her age, has a cavalier who calls upon lmrl at regular intervals during the week. The young man is honest, industrious, and is a trusted clerk in a large store on White street. He is about twenty-five years of age,has red hair,and is so nears sighted that without spectacles he would be unable to tell the difference between an elephant and a barn door at a distance of ten feet. Ho wears a pair of strong convex glasses, which are thicker than a pane of French plate- glags, and as long as the specs are astride of his nose ho is perfectly confi- dent—without them he is a helpless, de- pendent child, Strangely enough the plump and rosy young woman in One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street is near-sighted, too. She has an astigmatism which obliges her to wear a pair of glasses of peculinr construction, and which are suited to no other eyes but hers. The father of this damsel isa very stern and peculiar man and he posses- ses an intense dislike for the young clerk, because he says, when his daugh- ter gets on the streev with her lover they look like two walking advertise- ments for on optician. The young man has b forbidden to enter the house, but his love is strong and he makes clandestine visits despite the parental warning., ‘Anybody who has had any experienco knows that it is impossible to read tho soul in the eyes with g pair of thick Soggles in the way, and these young lovers know it wu\i. It is their custom therefore, to remove the glasses when enjoying each other’s society, and to put them on again when good ‘night is kiissed at the door. The billing and cooing was proceed- ing,as usual last night without tho spocs when a heavy, and unexpected tread was heard in the kall, The lover nedat or that papa had unox- roturned and grabbing his in the shadow of the kitchen door until napa passed throug' and then stole silently dovn stairs and into the street, He had not talien ten steps whon he discovered, to his horror, that he had ou his girl’s zlnsses. It was absolutely im- hossible for him to see even his band, e was more helpless than a blind men, turn to get his own 1, ed £long until ho ell down a collar. When he got out hie fell in the yutter, and from thut muddy predicament ho was arrosted hy a policeman for intosication. Whe raigned before the justic effort to make a peivate explanation, and was at once set wown as muudling Justice in this instance wes not blina, or even near-sighted, and couid nob an- preciate the agoay the yo man suf- fered, *“Ten dollurs or ter days” woula have beon enforced had not by the m est aceident s former porter of the White stroet store, now a policeman, come to the cu Mean tin faring much bettce. ing from one roow to ano! ing to remove her spestacles, for that would excite comment, snd fearing to confess the truth to ber father, Jt had to come at last, nowever. 1'he poor girl could not attend to hor beusehold du- ties,and was forced to tell what had hap- pesed Tho s4es have - sincy been wa- changed, but the ez gagement is off, the young woman was no% Ste went blunder- or, net dar-