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. CHARLOTTE 1)AILY " OBSEIl VElt, DECEMBER 23, 1006 J! . CTbr Tha Observer. , v CHRISTMAS fcA. . t ' i t 1 f I 1 , -4 un the day . , ; : .id vaa faraway."-: ; iw-v;-;;, A Babe in Eastern nutf lay, .",'.' . beriMLh' the bright ,;; .,. ",'.''' And wondrous light . ' . ' ...r.'.r, -. Of propbet star with guiding ray, ro The 'seekers 'Wtsa ' With ravished eyes , All mutely etood In sweet surprise Round Mary'o 8on, Incarnate One. '' Imperial Kins In earthly gulsel ''Oa earth, be peace, 7-ljrt' clamor cease. ... - Let hearU rejoice. nd love Increase; rings the song . From heavenly throng. '-Vol sorrowing soulu find here aurcease. ' Again to-day Men, hear the lay ... V The Bhephnrdu henrd orire far away, Dear Babe, dcir Klnr. vThyLove w ulng. Owl grant ua eu.-ii Us ir nlway! t WM. THORNTON WH1TSETT. TALE OF HOSTIfAL GHOST ,' GOING IP TO HIS OlA KOO.H Extraordinary Cue of Urmia Itobbrry The Trouble Canned By a Dla- mond RlngTho Apparition of William Garvin In the Corridor , The Mystery of ll- Patient's Room Balclgli's Soft Snap. Written for Teh Observer, ifamlet "Alan! poor ghost!" Horatio- "But aoft! behold; Is where It comes'- I'll croaa It, though It blast me; 1 alay. IUumIok! If thou haat any sound or uso of voice, cpeak to mr. If thera la any good thing to be done. That may do eao to thee, or graco to nio, Speak to mo!" One Of the moMt remarkable of Brave robbery, or. if 1 may venture n a piece of ugly flang, "body watching." like the stealthy, mid night, ghoulish work of Jerry ' Cruncher. In Dickens' "Talo of Two tltlee." Is part of the past eventful Mstory of a large town In North Car olina. Simultaneously with this des ecration of the restlng-plaro of the dead, thero was a mysterious occur- - rence. unexplained to this day, still talked of with bated breath by the superstitious; still scouted by tho ksptlcal and strong-minded, with no nonsense ubout them." William Ourvln, a rltlzr.it of soma prominence, past middle life, and un married, waa admitted to the hospit al for treatment, suffering from a ' complication of maladies, one ot Which waa very serious, and at the same time so singular and complex In ita nature, so unexpected In Its development., and so battling In Its alternating periods of diminution of severity and increase of violence, as to awaken the deepest Interest In tho superintendent and hospital staff, as . well aa In men high In thu surgical and medical profrsxlon at a distance, an exhaustive article on tho case having uecn contiibuted to a medi cal journal. On .his entrance Into the hospital the patient was badly run down physically, and all posmhle care and attention were given to the ameliora tion Of his condition as to his dlef, his hot baths, and t h- lemperaturo Of hla room, while about once a week ha was subjected to mild static elec trical treatment. At times he mend ed sufficiently to dress himself, und . walk about the corrldora and Into (ho sun parlor, making the acquaintance of convalescent patients. Though never, even at his bst, without phys ical suffering, hewaa always cheerful, realgnud, a (Table in manner and cour teous In bearing. Mr. Gurvln was under middle height, of slender build, with dark blue, deep-sunken eyes, light lialr streaked with gruy. and deun-shaven face, except for u close-clipped mous tache. He was an Interesting con versationalist, having traveled much and aen much of the world, narrat ing his personal experiences of men and places graphically and with treat effect, lu had a keen mi-iiho of humor. Indulging In pleasantry and badinage with the nurses, and de lighting to find ntcknumes for them out of a fertile Imagination. At the same time he was so considerate, so tareful to avoid giving them unnec essary trouble, that they all became fond of him. A messenger was fre quently sent out for fruit, fancy can diet, nuts, etc., for their enjoyment, and especially for the night nurse, who, he was wont lo remark, was a greater heroine In her rule over the realm of the afflicted and the suffer ing than Queen Zenobla at the head f her cohorts. But the short and uncurtain spells f semi-convalescent e on tho part of Mr. Oarvln did not deceive the skill ed and vigilant superintendent and phyalclan-ln-chltf. The case waa very grave. The nutu.i.t ho,i i...n wr weeas under treatment, ulih View to the building up of his broken down system that he might be sutn- cianuy rortmed ,y ,, accession of physical strength to undergo thr- dir. ficolt and critical surghal operation by which alonn i,i ifp tuld aTaa. TlHi result satisfactory; for, better than on his was only j,Urty ullhougli In. , Ull sadly lacking in stamina rniiunce, tie wut in a lew days. aftT tivlu ,-,,'.t "' ,,"",t l'U'nsl..kli,g perlnteudent of n. i, 1.. ... -l-i.ai. Mr. emerge. V,. : "' 1 "'. 1110 Olliiurl null v i,f OlilH.rl iit.l, . i..,. . I . i..i.. . .7 . . . """ wen i ill..-. . J" r ""-""ghoul his J''""' ' hv'; h conf.-.cn,e null tl.. , two men. N fM( v j at he informed ihc ,,at the c.e I thT", "rr,OU"' lha' ,n" (""y '"l' that IZrl "y '" " t'""'"". and ' to Impress upon them that while the fntioru,,H "urHy di -; I' tw,. 1. . """o. "er was no Ire ' , ' mvf. bis volet, ,,r .i.iu., . . . away of his nerve. . , ,.7V ."" Ul information conveyed gave I ana the su. was In ih..' , -" m.w-nm is. inn fiii-Mis.i 1 'I i1lA fll.. . . IUS Ol , room. bt enabled ZT"' ! werua,., never having regained rV. aelun.ui "aainea con- - rJ0'. body wo- Z yrtU' lamsRBgT mant. Krr perwon shouid know thai .wwi heslih I. impossible If tb. kldu.ya'Sr. .v..gea. rvley's KWney" hire w I cum Ji.li.vjr an Maddar dleeaaaln' Jer? I, TT ,u n" atrengthen it.ew argqna m they. will rswforJVi.... (oneilona properly, N aogr ' f ( V,irht . "'diabetes t Volera brother, from which the funeral ex erclses .took, place.- While the attend anU were preparing hie rerualna for the conin,' one of them waa on the point of drawing- a ring from one of the, fingers, when Mr. George Gar vin savea hie hand. ."That ring," he Mid, "was my brether'e moat pre cious possession, the gift of oar moth er, gnu he has often ueclared that ev en In death he did not wish to be parted from if. Let the gleam and tuner of this poor atone be extin guished in the grave with hla cold clay." This dectalon of Mr. Oarvln, uuimportant In itself, waa prouuctlve of momentous consequences. The ring was a handsome piece of Jew elry of a single diamond, but not of great value, having eoat probably $15 or HO. tout everything connected with the case of William Oarvln cre ated great interest In the communi ty his long stay in the hospital, the fatal operattoa, the funeral, etc. An exaggerated rumor spread from one eno or the city to the other that thu dead man had been burled with a ciunio.r uiamond ring on hla ringer wurui i.vuo, ana a magnificent gold watch and chain worth 1300 or $400. Two or three nignts after William Oarvln waa laid to rest, and Just af ter the might nurse in the hospital had gone on duty, while a group of day nuraes.off work, were standing about midway of the corridor on the second fl floor, from the lobby on the first floor on which the main entrance opened, a man, bareheaded, came slowly up the stairway, looking up ward, his face very white and a smile on his lips. At first ho attracted no notice, being taken for a convales cent patient walking about. But as he ilea red thu landing one of the nurses turned toward him. when her face blunehed, her eyca dilated with horror and sho threw out her hands In amazement and terror. The mun ilowly passed tho group of nurses, all gazing at him, petrified, "a If some Gorgon horror had turned them Into stone upon the spot," mounted the aecond stairway, supporting himself with his hand on the balustrade, looking down on them with white face and set smile, as he said: "I sup pose I can go on up to my old room. Then shriek after shriek rent the air, re-echoed by screams from above aa this mysterious visitor reached the next corridor. One nurse fainted dead away whl! another rushed down Into the lobby and Into the of fice of the superintendent, who waa sealed at hla desk, railing on her knees and crying, "(ireat God. Dr. Blank, the dead man, Mr. Oarvln, Is walking about the corridors! He spoke to us, he smiled at us: we all recognized blml He Is up there now!" She fairly1 shivered In an ecstacy "i fright. Dr. Blank was at first much Incensed at such a breach of discipline and such senseless behavior, probably growing out of a cruel practlcul Joke, and waa about to berate tho poor nurse severely, when her agonized face stopped him. Raising, her from the Moor, he said: "My girl, all this Is folly; you are needlessly wared by some, practical Joker" but she broke away from him, throwing herself on a lounge, and sobbing plteoualy. I)r. Blank hastened up to the sec ond floor, where he met the resident physician and tho head nurse, both nt a loss to understand the excite ment. The fainting nurse had come to herself, and was crouched In an anKle of the wall, her face hidden, and rocking herself to and fro. "Hhut all the patients' room doors, and quiet these fools," ho eald to the head nurse, going on with the resi dent physlclun to the room on the third floor occupied by Oarvln. The door was wide open, and the elec tric light ablaze, which was an un usuul, aa thu room had boen vacant since hla death. The window waa also open, and the curtain waa fly ing out horizontally, aa If under the Impulse of a violent wind, though there was not even a light breeze at the time. Of course there was no one In the room, and the two men atood for a moment at a loss. Hud- denly the resident physician exclaim ed: '"Hen thero on tho bod. Dr. Blank!" Plainly visible on the pillow was tho deep Impress of a head, and outlined on tho top of the covering wero the Indentations of shoulders, elbows and feel, where some one hadlaln. Dr. Blank was by this time bending over the bed: and. starting back, he cried: "Look here John." Following the outline of the form was a thin streak of mixed clay and aand. such as would adhere to the clothing of one coming in contact with the earth of a new-made grave, Tho superintendent stood for a minute or two looking down on the floor In troubled and perplexed thought, as was evident from the ex pression of his face. Then he went down to the clerk's nfhVe and tele phoned u request to Mr. George Oar vln that he would come to the hos tilliil at once, on a matter ot Interest. "After all," he soliloquized. us he lighted a cigar and aeated himself In un arm -chair. "I have only a 'cock-and-bull' story to tell him. Hut this Is too tangled a skein for mo to un wind. I take no stock In rhosts. but Inhere Is something unaccountable h e re When Mr. Oarvln arrived, and this amiizlng story whs related to him he j was plainly mucii Impressed, und by ' no means so skeptical as pr. Blank When shown the l)(-d and the streak ' "f and and iay. his fai'e turned i lilte, und he was deeply agitated. "Mr. liarvln," said th auperlntend enl, "your bereavement riaa naturally set yuu apart from tho town s doings for Hie past day or two. It Is proper to lil on (hat the fact of your tu-olh-cr tliiiijr tturleil with a rlnir on lo. . . . . ..." '",:r Hr n'r" '"fninea .y rumor In- xvstdi 011 his body worth between $.'.iu and $3.00o. inrlii started as If he had been eliol An Instant after he exclaimed: i)i. Blank, is your carriage at tho door'' A lantern and to the ceme tery.'' The superintendent caught at Ms meaning by Intuition, and In five mlniiliM the iw men wro being cried, glaring at Or. Blank: "This grave had been dug out, the coffin broken open, the body was gone! "Oh, Ood!" exclaimed Oarvln, "wiiHt does this mean?" Huddenly he sried, glaring at Dr. Blank: "This desecration has been dono for the purposv of dissection." Then remem bering blmanlf, he continued mora mildly. "Can It be possible that medi cal student, knowing the remarkable case of my brother, could have com mitted this horrible deed?" 'it does not by any means follow," Huld Dm physician, "that thl grave has been opened for the purpose you have in your mind. The wretches guilty of this desecration for theft would desire to create that very Im pression, if they left the grave open Willi the body In the coffin, of course the truth would be known at once. The nights are short, and to excavate find mill the grave would consume too much time. Therefore they somewhere concealed the body, proh ably dug- a grave for It before J:hey begun this work lere. ? The three men. Including the car riage driver, at once began a eearcll their way guided by lha lantern) and after about an hour's tramping over the surrounding country they found the new-made grave near a ' small creek. ' Fiends' aa they were, the rob bare were not brutal enough to leave the face expoaed, which they . naa sheltered bv a cloth from the over lying earth. They restored to Its first reating place the lifeless form of poor William Oarvln, and let ua hope that Inca then the sleep has been souna and undisturbed of one who had suf fered so much In life. The diamond rln had been taken from the dead man' hand. Pay- was breaking- when they finished their taak, and Oeorgi Oarvln plteoualy implored the other two to keep secret tnis horrible affair. The temptation to tell ao wonderful a story waa probably too strong for the carriage driver; but he must have told it to but few, for it was little known. About a year afterwards CJeorge Oarvln chanced to t-ead In a newspa per an account of the arreat In South Carolina of a negro for burglary. In the description of the man waa the statement that he woro on his fin ger a handsome diamond ring. In scribed on the Inside "A. E. O. to W. O." Mr. Oarvln went to tho Bouth Carolina town, Identified the ring, and, to avoid dlacloaurea, paid the ne gro liberally for It. He would nolth er affirm nor deny that he had ever been In that town, though he waa a stranger to Mr. Oarvln. The appended paragraph la re apuctfully commended to the prohl bltlonlsta of North Carolina, to "put in their pipes and smoko" aa long and aa comfortably aa they can. It la ta ken from the correspondence of Col. Fred Olda to The Charlotte Obeerv er, from tho Ktate capital under date of December 6th: "The nalelgh dispensary contlnuea to be a money-maker and la regarded by a great many persons aa tho beat solution of tb whiskey question. The sales during November weroi 11,000 more than thy were In November, 1005. It must o remembered that half, at least, of the whiskey sold la outside of this county and tho exten sion of prohibition territory Increaaea the number of buyers here. Of course no liquor Is shipped away; It all has to be taken . Chatham, Johnston, Harnett. Xaali and Franklin counties and part of Durham, get whiskey here. This makes It very easy to understand tho Increase In aales." Any unprejudiced and fair-minded man who will carefully read thla par agraph will be convinced, that Its meaning Is that Raleigh and Wake county are getting rich out of the fact that prohibition does not prohibit just that and nothing leas, not only by strong Implication but almost by acknowledgment In so many words. It Is natural that Halelgh should see a world of good ln lu "soft snap," by which It makes the surrounding world drunk "for a consideration," as old Trapbola says In Scott's "Fortunes of Nigel." 3. H. M. how DinrriiERiA is contract kd One often hears the expression, "My (hlld cuught a ssvere cold which de veloped Into diphtheria," when the truth was that the cold had simply left thn little one particularly susceptible to the wandering dlptherla g"rm. whan Cham berlslu's Cough Remedy is given It oiHrklv cures the cold und lessens the rt;mgr of diphtheria or any other germ dlsesse being contracted. For aula by It. H Jordan A Co. Makes the Children YARBROUGH & BELLINGER GO. . Yards: 'vName day: w Dagobeit, " 4 Sun Hue nt JvJfi; ,et tt 4;35. ::, J i,nt rijmouio Miliars paring , clxed -upon a place for a town, .' .an a high ground facing the bay, ; w where the. .land waa cleared and the water excellent, aa many aa could conveniently, went ashore and aecured , timber ' for the ( erection of a building for com mon use.',;-,;, . !,. A lea, John Cotton, the first minister of Boston; died. IT47. The colonial house and records of Boston destroyed by fire. 1777. Washington had 2.818 men unfit for duty, "owing to their . being barefooted and otherwise naked." . Hla whole force fit for . duty amounted to 8, ZOO. 17 S3. Ramuel Cooper, one of the most celebrated divlnea and poli ticians of New England, died. 1788 Qenergl Washington delivered up hla commission to Congress at Annapolis. 1814. Battle at Vlllarct'e plantation, near New Orleans, between 8,000 Americans under General Jack son and about 4,000 British un der Oenerai Keane. American loss. 211: British loss. 801. 1888. Civil war In Mexico terminated by a convention at Zalaveta of delegates from the armies of Bustamente and Santa Anna. 1814. James Stevenson, one of the oldest of the Seneca chiefs and a rriena or Ked Jacket, died on 1 tho Cattaraugus reservation, aged XI. He was the son of an Kng- ' Ush officer, who vainly tried to narrMiiaH til. h..utifii! Inillin ' wire to accompany him to Eng land. 1863. The Confederates attacked Oenerai Hlgel at Dumfries, Va., but were reoulaed. 1894. Members of the Fenian Brotherhood In Chicago urged war against England because of the St. Albana raid from Canada They pledged a force of 6,000 men. 1898. Four thousand troops, with artillery, Advanced to attack Bayamo, held by the Cuban In surgents. 1868. tight hundred volunteers landed on the south aide of Cuba to join the Cubans. Ten thou sand Insurgents surrounded Santi ago de Cuba; Maxanlllo closely besieged. 1874. The Hoosac tunnel turned over to the State of Massa chusetts by the builders. 1884. Tha Maokay-Bennett commer cial cablea opened to the public at the office of the Commercial Cable Company, New York. 1802 General Frederick T. Dent died. 105. Professor Hollander, ln report on Han to Domingo situation, de clared United Statea must act at once to prevent Kuropean powers Intervening. Cosmetics will ruin the comolexlon. There's no beauty practice equal to the effects of Holllster's Kocky Mountain Tea. It kotos the entire hody In nerfacl health. Tea or Tablets, 3S cents. R. 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