Rockland Gazette The Largest Rockland Tribune Circulation Union Times In Eastern Maine Consolidated March 17, 1897 T he Courier-Gazette. TWICE-A-WEEK . TUESDAY AND SATURDAY. Two Dollars a Year Rockland Maine Saturday August 28 1897 Vol. 52. N«i. 58 ANOTHER GHOST STORY of flames separated from the ruins and swept was exceeded only by their importance. The THE ARMENIAN IOUNB MEN IN A CORNER OF THE LIBRARY toward the luckless party in the road and in aflair was attracting attention in the big cities, a second they were submerged in a tidal wave and ‘The IIotstufT was widely read, and the * Thia One Drain W ith Camden, Hope and They Are Prospering of fire. The scene and conditions baffle de matter bearing on the case was quoted. I. Zsnqwdi’s “ Dreamers of tie Ghetto” is Longer Out an Lincolnville and the Central Figure Is a scripbon The unfortunate young people “ Tim e dragged along and I received a let­ announced for next month. Burning House—You Want to He Sure must have imagined that the millenium was ter from the M. E. to the eflect that if some­ In sn«wer to a number o f inquiries as to the I)u M aurier Iqff an undelivered lecture and Read It To the Very Rnd. near and the promised bathing of the earth la thing didn’t happen very quick we had better little party of Armenians who were brought behind, which the Harpers are 10 publish. The Lewiston Journal which will print seas o f flame was a reality; and they were the set fire to the old house and let it burn; and to this city last fall, The Courier-Gazette will Mrs. Alexander’s new romance (Lippin- ' first to succumb. he glad to correct an erroneous impression anything in the shape of a haunted house or to make as much capital out of it as possible. cott’s) is entitled '• M rs. Crichton’s Ci editor.” | “The fiery visitation was a thing of the “ But something happened, and to my final that has become prevalent throughout the Rockland ghost story, was recently responsible for the The Century Company’s principal work i past before a scream was uttered or a hand day, I shall never forget it. One night, it county, that the young men have become nui­ following one, which deals with a neighbor­ of fiction to be published this autn nn is D r. j moved, but it seemed hours to the terrified was the first day of April, we had been there sances in the guise of peddlers. O f the eight ing locality: Mitchell’s “ Hugh Wynne, Quaker.” occupants of the sled. The tide of flame took one month— I sat at the window smoking who came to Rockland only three have gone an upward curve and was lost in the heavens; while my companions were sleeping, their out peddling; but trading upon the public Mrs. Elizabeth Wormeley is addmu the Coiwwrtial ^ 0 | | C ( R “ Did I ever tell you of roy experience, the but it left behind a dozen painic strickened dreams free, no doubt, from any such things sympathy evinced for Armenia several Syrians finishing touches to a new history (M cC lure) time I was assigned to investigate the mysteri- and prostrated human beings. Two of the as fiery ghosts, when I was startled by an and other foreigners have traveled with their of “Spain in the Nineteenth Century. I ous burnings of ‘Old Jacob’s’ house in the women had taken refuge in hysterics and the explosion, and before I had time to move my peddling packs and represented themselves as S. R. Crockett’s new novel, dealing with I little town of L — , down in Maine?” inquired remainder were plunged into a faint. • Only position, the house was wrapped in flames Armenians, winning sympathy and money un­ the Covenanters, is entitled “The Standard TBrM Courts. 1 our friend ‘Bob’ Parks, one evening, when two of the men— the driver and one of the and I, yelling to my assistants, jumped out of deservedly. One old fellow has been very Bearer.” It will appear first as a serial. we were all lounging around the little ofiicfc once merry party— were conscious. The the window and ran toward the raging fire. successful by displaying a letter representing W hen, several months ago, ‘T h e D e­ in the only hotel in Lyndeburo, N . I I . , telling bimself as an Armenian whose family had horses had, at the approach of danger, There was a singular lack of heat and I was scendant” was published anonymously by stories. W e were a party of newspaper men squatted to the ground and died of pure fright. so excited I ran straight into the house, the been slain and property conficated by tbe th< llarpers it was speedily recognized as a off on a fishing trip and as we were in a good No one was burned. The driver’s whiskers, walls of which were even then tottering. I Turks. He is an Arab and a fraud, but has n> vel of remarkable force and originality. In - I cality, besides having two expert anglers in the young men’s mustaches and the ladies’ was enveloped in a mass of flames, hut its made lota of money out of his deception. PATfNTtt dt I, to shrewd was the knowledge of human the paity, our luck had been excellent, conse­ eye-brows were unscorched. This fact seemed contact did not shrivel my flesh, nor char a y There are several women among this com­ no’ .ire and of varied phases of life displayed quently wc were in hilarious spirits. strange for they had all been clasped to the hones. pany of peddlers also passing themselves ofl in 11 that even the most discerning reader kCTUA “ Old Jacob,” said Bob, “ was a thumpingly bosom of the holocaust; tbeir features and “ I wondered why my companions didn’t as Armenians. They are all Syrians; there could hardly have suspected it to be the sturdy o’.d o d g e r who lived alone in a ram­ forms were caressed in an affectionate m an­ show ud. I was in need of help. I yelled isn’t an Armenian woman this side of Port Lowest rates of luilion. shackle, unpainted house down in the ‘Pine ner by little tongues of fire, hut there was not lustily, and my voice sounded as loud as the land. SB Tree State.’ It stood in off the road, sur­ a single hair nr blistered skin to prove the mar of a lion deprived of its prey; it almost W e are confident that the reports of III Best equipped roonw^itonk rounded by broken-down apple trees and visit of so awful a foe. drowned the roar of the raging holocaust. action* heard from various parts of the coun unpruned elms; a house that impressed me ‘W ith such a load of frantic and un­ I thought of ‘Old Jacob,’ and shouted his ty do not proceed from anything done by the Reopens Arat Tuesday tSepl when I first saw it as being a particularly conscious persons, the driver and the con name, but there was no response. three Armenian peddlers above referred to, fitting abode for all kinda of low-down, ill scious member of the party were practically “ Then, to my horror, the roof sagged, and who so far ns we can learn are decent and bred spooks and after dinner phantoms. helpless; they cut the traces and rolled the at the same moment the walls caved in, and gentlemenly fellows; but the general opinion ^Call orsend for Catalog “ Rumors were thick that the house was defunct horses to one side, but this act did my fate was sealed. You may laugh, but I that al, the foreign peddleis in tbis vicinity haunted, but the tales had never gained any not help matters any and the driver leaving confess that I prayed and fervently too; and belong to the Armenian race bas brought un credence to speak of until one night a drum the other to keep guard over the crowd and even as I mentally sought a higher protection, merited disgrace up in these three. mer, who represented a grocery firm in B o l­ sooth the hysterical women, departed to get I frit rayaell blended with a body o f fl.m e. O f the eight Armenians who came heie a ton, passing the bouse on the way to L — , help, lie returned shortly, accompanied by and waftedwai up out of tbe ruin. and carried few months ago one haB gone to Greece to discovered the house in a sheet of flames. a delegation....................................... of excited and incredulousilc town along on a billowy wave of lurid light toward join his family; one is a success as a house p O YOU KNOW THAT Screams and groans issued from the very Be*. As they arrived at the spot one of them the alty. servant; two are satisfactory farm hands; one bowels of the conflagration; sounds so exclaimed, ‘ Why the house ain’t been “ U p, up the maaa of flame. aped bearing has become a skilled workman in the pants awful that the blood in the drummer’s veins touched 1’ Sure enough it hadn’t. It stood me an offering, a human oflering on a burn­ factory; and the other three have been THE TRAVELERS INSURANCE CO., was congealed, while hia driver trembled in there just as it always had; not an evidence ing pyre.