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4 VOLUME XXXI. ALL it 1i THE GHOST THAT WANTED TO SHAKE HANDS. Visiting In Chicago Is a (dentist and student of religion who believes In the gtfXs'-Hc says he has seen them nd conversed with them. According to his statement, he was once haunted by the ghost of dog. In Lon-- don, he says, he met a ghost on Ihe street.

Be has seen ghosts in graveyards, in haunted houses, and has even induced them to materialize before him. "Upon one occasion lie says a ghost tried to strangle him. The man who makes these remarkable assertions if C. He is one of the leaders of the International Theo-' sophlcal society, and was a close friend cf the late Mme. Blavatsky.

"Mr. Leadbeater's home is In London. He is In America for the purpose of lecturing on theosophy. In recent lectures delivered at the athenaeum, he has dwelt at considerable length upon the subject of spooks. To a reporter for The Sunday Inter Ocean last week he made statements concerning his researches in the realm of spirits which he has never heretofore confided to anyone.

Severn Type of Ghost. According to the English cheosophist ghosts are classified in seven types. These are: Thought forms, elves, churchyard ghosts, astral impressions, double of living animal apparitions, and the genuine ghost. astral impression is the most com mon kind of Mr.aadbeatersaia last week. "It may be either Been or heard.

VIslbl.L it may bo the Bpecter of a ship or train wreck, a holocaust, a destructive volcanic eruption, or any scene fcrwnich great stress of emotion has existed. "The first ghost I ever encountered was an audible astral Impression. 1 did not see It. but I well remember the fright it gave me at the time. It was on a lonely highway near I was tramping toward home one dismal, dreary midnight with the thought of the tragedies and crimes of the centuries of London's history keying up my fear.

"When I reached a turn In the road I was startled by the sound of feet pattering on the roadway In the distance. I thought. 'Here is a person suffering some great and I shook like a leaf. The. footfalls sounded louder and louder and were coming directly toward- me.

I fled to the roadside and stood by a tree. My heart seemed. In my mouth. I ceaeed breathing. In a few seconds more the ghost fled directly over the spot where I was standing.

One foot struck Where my feet stood and I could hear the labored breathing of the invisible thing. I "I know now that some one, perhaps hun- SAVED BY "Beneath the walls of this prison there Is submarine-boat. It cost me (1,000,000. you fly with us?" "Yes." --f'l i chloroform the guar da and come on." Mrs. Hudson Rivers made this offer to Tom "BTASD BACK!" SHE.

EXCLAIMED. Manley In Sing Sing, prison. Her daughter -was la love with The young fellow had been condemned as a murderer and was to be electrocuted on the following tuorolng. 7- "Yes." he said when aha told blm to chloroform the guards. "I will go with you, although heaven knows I am not guilty of this crime.

One million dollars for submarine-boat I How can I ever repay you?" As Manley's last words died away In a sob Mrs. Rivers and her daughter tip-toed out of'tbe prison and the orchestra played creepy All of this, and a whole lot more besides, happened at the Alhambra theater last week. It was aa "elaborate tnelodramatlo production In four acts and nine scenes," and its title was "A Fight for Millions." The Alhambra, the EIJou. and the Academy have had some pretty exciting plays In their time, but this one was a veritable abou Ben Adbem of an affair. It waa written for the purpose of drawing crowds, and It did.

A ABOUT GHOSTS sr. HAUNTED BT PPECTER OP HIS DOG. dreds of years ago, had received a great fright In that place and the ghost traversed the exact route taken by the living man. Our spirits are always striving to return to every spot our bodies have carried them and sometimes do return while we are liv ing. When they are liberated by death ihey return without restraint to the places where they have met either the greatest suffering or the greatest pleasure.

"There have been ghosts of wrecks in which every detail of the disaster was enacted by the specter. If it were not visible it would be audible. One passing lonely places hears strange cries. These are the audible ghost's and 'not mere figments of the imagination as some tell us. "The genuine ghost is a thing that, must be reckoned with in.

his haunt. -He rarely appears to more than one person at a time. He has the power of speech, strength, the will to do good or evil, just as a living man has. He haunts the scene of his murder or of some wrong that has been done him. But that Is not always true.

This real ghost more often appears when he is In great misery, and we do It a great wrong whenjwe flee fromT it. It desires to offer aid or ask for It, or else it would not appear. I have talked and shaken hands with these ghosts and have learned more or less about their habits. They are not always visible, but sometimes appear as speaking ghosts. Choked by sv Spook.

'T visit every haunted house I can locate, and on one occasion had a terrifying ex-pclnc with an obstreperous spirit. This had tbe family from the bouse and made life a terror In the vicinity: No one ever saw It. but the unearthly yells and 1U Insane actions struck terror Into the hearts of all who heard it. I did not fear it and went to the house. It was a lonely cottage, far from other habitation.

The environment was the owls screeched and hooted in the trees, and the night was as black as Erebus. "When I reached the door I pushed It open and stepped into the room. A chill etruck, me and I felt faintly sick, but I was resolved to stick out the night, to see or talk with the ghost I aat by a window and waited. Ten minutes passed and I heard nothing. I felt reassured.

I waited an hour and till no ghost came and I began to doubt' the stories. 'VI will never forget how long and fearful that hour seemed, although I was really not afraid, but I felt the chill again as midnight approached. At 12 o'clock the hush of deathly silence fell upon the room. I heard the faint rustling of a garment and an In- Those who attended saw a submarine-boat In full action. They also saw a "wireless telephone" In' communication' with a ship 1.000 miles out at sea.

And last, but not least, they saw the two villains have a horrible finish. 'When- this happened a mighty shout went up from the gallery and every one went home satisfied. A Problem Play. "A Fight for Millions" Is a problem play; The problem involved is. How did the author dodge nervous prostration or the Insane asylum after finishing his production As no one has 'come forward to answer this question, the melodrama bids fair to be handed down to posterity with "Iris, "The Notorious -Mrs.

Ebbsmrth," "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray," and "Magda." The first act of the play showed the country seat of Hudson Rivers, at Riverside-on-tbe-Hudson. Hudson Rivers 'was president of the Great Central railroad, and had more money than he knew what to do He also had a wife and a pretty daughter The daughter's name was PesrI, and she was down on the program as "a true-hearted American girl. At the start it developed that Tom Manley was-In love with Pearl, and that she re- CHOKrNO BCENW TfTAT WAS WORTH WIT- clprocated his affection. Richard Dudley, listed as "fighting for wanted to wed FearL It thus developed that Mr.

Dud A SUBMARINE lltil CHICAGO, SUNDAY MOIINING, FEBBUARY 8, 1903. I 11 -ssssassaSSI isinni i "wwrjr-B. BOAT C. W. stant later felt two cold and clammy hands close upon my throat.

"I Jumped from the seat and strove to free myself. I clutched at the bands, but they were not material. "The ghost was throttling me. I felt my breath going and I was I fought around and around the room and all the time those clammy fingers held me In a viselike grip. "I tried to cry out.

My hands beat at the ghostly hands at my throat, and I was rapidly becoming exhausted. Every second seemed an age. I lived an eternity every minute, and yet I had no hope of being able to release myself. My whole frame shook like an aspen leaf, my temples throbbed, and my heart grew heavy as lead. Yet the only sound to break the unearthly stillness of the night was my own scuffling and gasp ing.

fight against aa invisible spirit kept up until I reached the open door. With one ley was the villain. He enjoyed the eonfl dence of Hudson Rivers, and the railroad president wanted to see him marry Pearl, Tom Manley, therefore, was left out on the back step, so far as Papa Rivers wss con cerned. The chief reason for this was that Manley hadn't any. money and was honest AS HB WALKED TOWARD DfDLEI THE enough to say so.

He had Invented a "wireless ocean telephone," however, and he kept telling Pearl that some day he would make millions out of It From th verr Drat Dndlev tried In dn things to Manley, much to the Indignation or tne audience. He told Papa Rivers that Manley wss a pretender, and the old gentle man promptly oraerea tob on the place. uut or my nouse, yon beggar you said the railroad nreaident. "fin go, I say, before I order my servants to tnrow.you out. Then Pearl sprang forward, her eyes flashing fire, and exclaimed i "Go, Tom.

and I will go with you." The npshot of this was that Tom didn't go, and tne vutam irownea ana twirled his mustache. Vtllala Foiled Asala. Then Willie Neverwork, an "automobilleg. golfing, ping-pong tramp." appeared on the scene. Close upon his heels came the cast-off wife of RlcharA Dudley.

he was fol BY A "v- MAN Lcadbeater and tKe Spooks He Has Seen. terrific lunge I threw myself at the opening and carried myself and my ghostly adversary Into the open all. As I passed through the door. the fingers slipped from my throaty -T had won the fight, but I never shall forget It nor be entirely able, I fear, to determine why I was attacked. "I have always found most, ghosts to be friendly.

On several occasions I have met them at seances and have conversed with them. There Is a great deal of humbug In seances, for often the ghost is no less a spirit man than the medium, a charlatan dressed in whiter I bad my doubts about the reality of a ghost I once, saw, but proved without a shadow of a doubt its genuineness. This I did by having It materialize before me. The materialization of a specter is a physical fact, which I will explain later, "When I asked that this particular ghost take bis visible orm before me I at oace noticed on the. floor a luminous patch about OR, HIGH lowed by her daughter.

Little Madge, who was put on the program as "a gleam of sun shine." 1 Mrs. Dudley told the tramp her troubles, and he gave her bis 'last dollar, which caused the gleam of sunshine to get chummy with him and ask him a lot of questions that little girls are not supposed to care much about. "What is a millionaire?" was the first question Madge asked. "A millionaire," answered Willie, "is skate what owns, da eart' an' Is layln' pipes to git a corner on heaven." At this Madge kissed him. Meantime Mrs.

Dudley had corralled her husband In a corner of the stage and she- asked him to contribute toward the support of their, child. He replied by threatening to kill her. and she drew a "Stand back!" she exclaimed, leveling the weapon at him. ''I am a desperate woman." This made the second time that Dudley had been foiled. After the revolver, episode Dudley sauntered up to Hudson Rivers and began telling him of the distinction won by the members of his family.

The tramp didn't like these boasts and expressed his displeasure by saying: "His family's like potatoes the best part of 'em Is under ground." Things began to drag along after Ibla, and the" play threatened to become tiresome when suddenly Mrs. Dudley stepped forward and announced to the crowd that Dadley was her husband. The excitement following this declaration became so lntente that the cur tain dropped. Ia. the second set the second villain ap peared.

He was Solomon Moses and the scene, was Jaid In his pawnshop." Moses didn't show his true character at first He sang two songs which made a decided hit with the audience, and was becoming rather popular when Willie Neverwork appeared." VMAch, I recognizes said Moses. "Who am IT" asked Willie. "You Iss a escaped convict" "Will you give me away." If you don't do what I tells you to." do you want me to dor. "Listen." "All right" then, went yon to tske charge of my store until goes out und attends to some business. Will you do It 7" "Sure." Now the Plot Coaei Oat.

All of this having been settled, Moses took his departure, leaving Willie In charge of the shop. After he bad finished advancing WHO KNOWS fpur feet In diameter. gradually grew Into a column of misty light until it stood seven feet lalL It quivered as It stirred by a gentle breeze, grew and assumed the form of a human being. When the transformation was complete, I asked 'Are you a spirit -T "I am a spirit. answered the ghost as It put out one hand and clasped mine.

Its fingers were as solid as mine, but were as cold as the grave. I pressed the specter's band li I would that of a friend and received a responsive pressure. "'What Is the nature of the life you now lead V'--- 'The same as when I was answered the ghost. are alive then in spirit formr asked. 'Just the same as when In the human body, said the ghost In a voice gradually growing 'squeaky and unhumanllke.

"I talked In this wise for more than two TRAGEDY a Bowery girl 60 cents on a torn piece of cloth Richard Willie. hid behind a suit of armor and Dudley, finding the room apparently mpty. shouted Moses appeared. Then he revealed an awful plot to the pawnbroker. "Do you see thtsT" he asked." drawing a COVERED ni3 FACE WITH" A HANDKER-CHIKK gATURATKU WITH CH LAJltOfXJKM.

piece of paper, bearing a red seal from. his pocket "Yes what lss-lt?" asked "It Is Hudson Rivers', will, responded Dudley. "What are you going to do with It?" "I am going to hold It nntll be dies." "But that will be a long time, won't It?" "Ha! I should say not" Here Dudley began to look real vicious. Before this be had simply been a polite villain. Shaking the will in hT hand, he eoatinued: "The train that goes Jhrough the tunnel tonight will have among Its passengers Hudson Rivers and his wife and daughter.

Now. I Intend blowing up that train, killing off the whole family, and then inheriting all of their money." Moses wouldn't hear of the plan at first. but he finally gave In and agreed to help Dudley perform the frightful work. So the two men armed themselves with spades and were departing from the shop when Mrs. i onted Dudley and the gleam of sunshine confronted them, 111 iny "I In off and and ently the of THEM if 1 CHOKED BT A SPIRIT.

minutes, when the ghost bade" megood-by and, with a ahiver. vanished. Once I saw a ghost that exlased In visible form for four minutes and another that lasted, for three minutes. They cannot retain their physical form for a longer period. The vibrations of light dissipate the tenuous body, hence the reason ghosts are seen In the dark.

"During my life I have seen two animal apparitions. They were aa real aa a human One was the specter of a favorite dog I had owned. It appeared to me. and I rec ognized it Just as if it were living. These mystic animals are -drawn to men and are always endeavoring to take some visible form.

I doubt not they follow their former masters about, and the reason they are not aeen la because the man has not developed the senses of his own finer, etberlc body that dwells within his body of flesh and bone, i- other animal apparition I saw" was that of a cat The animal bad been a pet In the family of a friend of mine, and I once beheld It as a rr "The thought form as truly a ghost a any one of the other six. It la visible, which Is proof enough of Its existence. The manner by which It makes Its form Is peculiar. I may desire greatly, to be In some other My mind la striving to place me there, and in itaelf does project my other self to any distance. This other self take visible form, and there I am seen, not as a misty, white-robed specter, but aa a living, breath ing body.

Tii. iv9. fairies, and pixies are seen only in lonely- Like the ghost of a dead man they choose wild. unrearsTirround-lngs. A shepherd playing his reed pipe, child lost in the wood or.

sometimes, if they be In utmost sympathy, a pair of lovr will have visions of these little which never existed In living form, but appear as spirits. The Chmrehyarel Apparltloa. "The most frightful of all the ghosts, the one about which more weird ctories are told and which gives to death great horror. the churchyard ghost. This ghost is harmleis.

It has neither a' message to deliver nor a request to ask. It rises as a luminous vapor from the gravei hovers shivering abovetbe mound, and then vanlehea. Unknowing freeing these things, are horrified. For the Instant they are pinned to the tpot, and then have an uncontrollable impulte to flee. By that time the ghost has disappeared and could In no wise harm-a person.

"It Is merely the ethereal body of the dead person, and may or may not be endowed with the lenses of the spirit. It is the fear of the eight of this ghost that hurries a man fleet-footed paat a cemetery. That kind of a spirit ON ARC HEY ROAD ri came her to pawn my wedding ring, she said. "Oh. corse the wedding ring." said the "vil lainy while the audience hissed violently.

want to tell you that you're always in my way, and now I'm going to get rid of you forever. He then seized her by the throat. The gleam' of sunshine grasped his hand and when she began pleading with him to spare her mother he turned upon the child. Then followed a choking scene that was worth Dudley, squeezed the child's, throat until she began to grow black the face, while Moses took Mrs. Dudley a corner and performed a similar Neverwork tried to lnterfer some one knocked him senseless with a shovel." vi This state of affairs set the sudience In frenzy." Cries of "Let up!" and "Cut It out! Were hurled from the gallery, but the villains kepr boldly at their work, and when' their victims fainted they bound them with ropes.

Willie was slso tied hand scd foot. Dudley Moses then started out to blow up the trsln. Things were looking decidedly bad for the Rivers -family. The tramp knew of the das tardly Plot, but there he lay upon the floor helpless. sudience groaned.

"Appar- rfcr- THE ESCAPE IN THE 6UBMARIKE BOAT. there wss no relief In sight' Suddenly tramp stirred. He called to the gleam who also regained hr senses. 0R- WW -r NUMBER 321. THE INOFFENSIVE GRAVEYARD GHOST.

could not chase a man nor do him bodily harm. "A ghost is a fine bypontlst and can work upon any human being. In this way the specter sometimes makes us see by Influencing our finer senses. It never seeks to harm a person by hypnotizing To understand, all thla we must understand Just what the finer body Is. We are dual creatures with two living Death lays aside the one, the other lasts.

The dead. are I Just as much alive as we but until wa develop our psychic sense we, cannot seo When we do develop finer senses we csn see and talk with them. This amounts to a clairvoyance of the ideal kind, and even at the beginning of this great science enables us to see beyond the grave. Specters nrpaotlats. take on material form by gather--Ing to.

their spirit bodies the physical substances surrounding them. A ghost -In great anxiety, such as the spirit of a miser leg over his hoarded gold, or of a man who misplaced his will, la anxious to speak out, and in two ways he may make himself visible. One way is to produce materialisation by his own will without human assistance, the ether Is to hypnotize a person and act upon, his psychic sense, men: are very reasonable and lis-ten to argument They will not do a thing they are asked not to do. It Is quite silly to be afraid of them, although I know by ex- perlesce they may be obstreperous. "Many ghosts may be compaid to a phono- -graphic -record.

They are simply repeating some Intense action of These, records are taken by any solid subetanee, a house, the ground, a' tree, or anything of the kind. By a psychic person this record er ston be Tecovered. This record materializes and reproduces the action. Sounds are more often reproduced than eights, and we hear ghostly noises, oftener than we see the object- This is because sight vibrations travel swiftly and. sound vibrations travel slowly.

The former, are eot so easily stored up and therefore do. not materialize so easily. "It will not be many years until this new science will be as an open book. We are now at the. beginning of it Thousands of the brightest people in "the land know the truth of what I am saying and all will know In time.

The ghost story will come to known as a story of fact and the ghosts themselves 'Will be able to AC what they now so much want to do, that Is; return and. be known to us. have seen ghosts, have talked with them, and may do so at any time. Their x-iztence la an incontestable fact." By a heroic effort she made her way to Willie's side and with his teeth be untied the knot, that bound her. She' then wrocured 'a.

cord and cut th ropes about' his hands. Just as this feat had been accomplished Man-ley appeared in front of th store. He broke Into the the tramp hastily told him of ft 'V-i- THE VOICE OF MOSKS WAS HEARD AT THBI the plot, sod. the hero departed for the tun- nel carrying the gleam of sunshine fn his srms. The seen shifted to the railroad tunnel.

Dudley and Moses were standing on the track of the Great Central railroad. The switch had been turned, a dynamlO bomb placed In the frog, and everything Indicated that there would be some lively doings. "In three minutes the Job will be over with and we: will be worth minions," said Dudley. Off In the'dlstance Ihe whistling of th fast mail could be heard. It was sounding a warning for ths tunnel.

As It began rattling toward the stage Tom Manley. carry- lng the gleam of sunshine, ran toward Dud ley and. Moses. A struggle between th thre men ensued, snd while they were fighting the gleam of sunshine fixed the switch scd threw the dynamite bomb off the track. The train came to stop st the switch, as befors either the or fireman could vi -v i i.