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generally, prior to discussing the Thornhope type specially. There 'is no doubt that to a greater or less extent a leaning toward 'belief in the apparently possible or supernatural, enters as an element into every human character. The aggregate of this belief even in very small communities is sufficient under provocative circumstances to seriously disturb their tran-The case of Thornhope is strongly illustrative in point. A respected elderly citizen especially noted 'for truthfulness, sees or believes he sees an apparition. Straightway his neighbors without exception, are ready to swear by bis story. Subsequently a railroad brakeman solemnly and circumstantially avers a similar experience and the event passes ’beyond the realm of doubt for all of that hamlet. 'Now the genus ghost like all others is divided into .specri.es, so say ,those -who credit its existence at all. Enumeration of these would 'be impossible 'because for (believers in ghosts, there are as many kinds as there are variations of fertility in the human imagination. This writer is constrained- to disclaim dis-• flritinct personal -.acquaintance with any class of spectre but the universally popular ghost which walks on Saturday night or other stated time for the boss to cough up the weekly stipend. 'He however, in later childhood enjoyed the educational advantage of attendance from an abigail fresh from the Emerald isle who was a perfect •cyclopedia of ghost lore, so much so that no ghost story ever heard since ‘failed to duplicate some one of her numberless repertory till the one under discussion\ for the purpose of which it is ...necessary to take some standard o'f ghostly orthodoxy of demeanor.
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Logansport Weekly Reporter
Logansport, Indiana, US
Tue, Jun 20, 1899
Page 5
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