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10 The Guardian. Charlottetown. Thurs.. April 8, 1965.

Murphy Came Back 0 Trounce Kelly

_By NEIL A MATHESON » Provincial-Farm Editor :

J} HAVE no names for this story. The lady who gave it to me is too modest to have me use her name, and she did not want to give me the names of the people involved. But I can assure you the lady is reliable. I found the story interesting, - and T hope you will like it too.

I'm using the family name of ‘Kelly’ and “Murphy” for the people involved, just to make.the story more easily tinder- stood. I hope that's not the real name of either party, if it is, I assure you it’s purely a coincidence.

Pat Kelly was a likable young fellow who was a fine

specimen of manhood. He came many years ago to a district in West Prince county—it was not far from Tignish—and there he encountered a Murphy family whose four husky sons had

_ an ambition to defeat in an combat any newcomer to the

__ district.

FIRST CHANCE he “gol, “the older Murphy boy — young Kelly. But the likable Irishman wouldn't be- pushed around, though he never sought a fight. And he defended him- self and defeated his Irish assailant. Every one of the Murphy

. brothers tried to beat Kelly. But none’ of them could do the

trick

** Finally Murphy senior, father of the pugilistic boys, was‘ having a few drinks one night and in the midst of a tirade against young Kelly, the older Murphy exclaimed with _em- phasis “Tl beat that blankety-blank Kelly yet, even though: t- have to come back from Hell to do it."

}°-The scene shifts a few years ahead and Mr.- Murphy had died in. the meantime. One night Kelly dropped in at the home of the lady who told mé fhe’ varn, and eee the chair nearest the .door. He looked as though he had ab- sorbed a terrible beating. And indeed he had.

Asked for details, young Kelly: said “I was walking along the road and when f got to your neighbour's gate, I was set upon by something that, proceeded to give me a beating. | couldn't do angling against it, and it gave me a fearful trouncing.”

YOU WILL note that Kelly never once used the personal -

ns “him" or “her” but used the impersonal or neuter

‘it’ or ‘that’, or he merely referred to it as “that thing.”

The likable Kelly wouldn't attempt to say anything more by way of description.

Not long afterward Kelly left: the district for the United_ States. When he returned for a visit father of the lady who told me the. st station and brought Kelly to their home.

The young Irishman was in great fettle: Retween their bits of conversation, he was singing, whistling, jigging or humming meuyy lighthearted tunes. But he stopped and was silent. as the¥ approached the spot on the roadside where he had re eeived his beating some years previously: then he blurted-

“That's where that old so and so, Murphy gave me the bea “‘ng some years ago.”’ That confirmed in the minds of Kelly's friends what many of them had supposed all along. The bad hearted neighbour had come back to keep the threat he had made not long before he had died,

That story has been told in the community, ‘the lady as- ‘sured me, and it was of particular interest to her because she and other members of her family had thought so much of the young man who had come. to their district from the Tregion of Kelly's Cross, or ‘65’, though she-was not sure of exactly where

- he did come from. At least she would not tell me.

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IT WAS my friend Charles §. MacDonald, Murray Harbor” who gave~me~this~ ghost sory which comes fromthe: Old Land. -

The man-who had the experience had Visited the home. of a titled countryman for thé purpose of examining a half dozen books in his well-stocked library and making extensive notes or extracts.

First, however there was a dinner and a social hour. then the visit to the library. The fifth book had been disposed of end the gentleman had heen working on -the sixth for about one-half hour when he explains:

“T saw a large white hand within a foot of my elbow". . Turning his head he saw “a figure of a somewhat large man, with his back to the fire, bending slightly over the table and apparently examining the pie of is on which I been working.

“HE WAS dressed in. what 1 can only ‘dsettibe as a kind of ecclesiastical habit of thick corded silk or some such material, “ close up to the throat, and a narrow rim, or edging of about an inch wide, of satin or velvet serving as a stand up collar and fitting close to the chin.’

Continuing he said ‘‘the right hand, which had attracted.my attention, was clasping, wifhout any great pressure, the left hand; both hands were in perfect repose, and the large blue veins of the right hand were conspicuous.”

The man who saw the unusual apparition was apparently a elergyman, for he had signed the initials D.D. after his name, and he insists that he had not" the least feeling of alarm or

even of uneasiness.

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‘Imagine! A Ghost Being Alarmed | THINKING OF a sketch book, which 1g had left upstairs,

he was wondering whether he could get it without disturbing

the unnatural visitor of the night, whefi ‘his hand dislodged a

‘ book which fell to the floor. That alarmed the ghostly visitor,

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apparently, for the vision disappeared.

“I was simply disappointed and nothing more. I went on with my writing as if Goting had happened’’—he was a cal ehap. ‘I had actually come to the last. few words of what I had intended to extract from the book, when the figure ap- peared again, exactly in the same place and attitude as before.

“I saw the hands close. to. my. own; I turned my. ; “ again, to examine more closely, and I was framing a oe to to him when I discovered that I dare not I was afraid of the sound of my own voice. There he there sat I.

“T turned my head again to my work, and finished writing the two or three words I still had to write. The paper and my notes are at this moment before me, and exhibit not the slightest tremor or nervousness. I could’ point out the words I was writing when the phantom came and when he disappeared. Heving finished my task, I shut the book and threw it on the table. It made a slight noise as it fell—the figure vanished.”

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Man Is Not Completely Consistent

The man who tells the story of Y. spooky nightly visitor is not completely consistent in his effort to make us believe he was unafraid, as he does at one stage of his yarn, and tke impression of being shaken he gives at other stages. But he gives a darn good impression of his curiosity overcoming any lingering fears he may have entertained.

Having finished his writing, he sat back in a rocking chair before the fireplace and wondered “whether my friend would come again, and if he did would he hide the fire from me”— are not ghosts supposed to be transparent, with no earthy substance?

Continuing the story, the man states “There first ‘stole upon me a dread and a suspicion I was beginning to lose my nerve.” But he still strives mightily to give the impression of ealm as he adds ‘I remember yawning:"’—that's scarcely the action of a frightened man—‘‘then I rose, lit my bedroom candle, took my books into the inner library, mounted the chair as be- fore, and replaced five of the volumes: the sixth I brought back

and laid upon the table where I had been writing when the phantom did me the honor to appear tb me.” ° *

1 SHOULD apologize, perhaps, for doubting the man, or for casting aspersions on his eae for the indications, as T have said, are that he was a’ clergyman, indeed a Doctor of Divinity. At any rate he concludes his yarn with these senten- ces which would indicate that he had indeed overcome any trace of nervousness which he may have exhibited, or felt, at some stages of his unusual experience: _

“By this time I had lost all.sense of uneasiness. I blew out the four candies and marched off to bed, where I slept the sleep of the just, or the guilty—-I know not which—but I slept very soundly.”

Then he adds, as if to clinch his argument: simple and wunvarnished narrative . of facts. theory, or inference I leave to others’’.

Sam Sherren Was The Bailiff

THE SHERREN man I spoke of in that old school-boy story several weeks ago, was Sam Sherren who lived on the Sherren Road near Crapaud, my cousin, Willie Matheson, Rose Valley told me yesterday afternoon.

WOODROW WHEATLEY, Mount Edward Road told me last week, after my column reference to the Ku Klux Klan appear- #d. that he and his brother were delivering milk in the City one father had wx milk route—And just about . Pius X church now stands, they saw a huge cross about 25 to 30 feet high, and perhaps 15 feet wide.

The KKK had wrapped it with heayy burlap that was soak- ed in oif and Mae Dursed it the previous nigh It had burned hercely, a but the ‘cuttines of the cross were still

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‘By RONALD LEBEL OTTAWA ‘CP).— It seems that most Canadian taxpayers don’t mind being identified by la seven-digit number. | The taxation division of the |revenue department -reported Wednesda: that 70 per cent of | the personal income tax returns | filed to date bore the identi‘ica- tion numbers used in the gov- _ ernment's electronic computers. “Personalized” income tax forms labelled with the taxpay- er’s name and social insurance number .were mailed out to ' 6,616,000 Canadians in January by the taxation division and the response has pleased officials. The pessimists in-the division ' had predicted that half the tax- payers would lose’ or Aeliber- ately ditch the ‘personalized’ forms and use substitutes with- out the all-important number. The ‘optimists had hoped that __in_this first year for the num- bers 60 per cent of the labelled | forms would fing their way back ' to Ottawa.

A ‘hardy band of taxpayers have registered their protests against the government's tax “collectors, however. They enclosed their tax returns, usually ae- companied by notes saying:- :“You took everything else; so you might as well have the

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One official noted most of the | shirts were old.

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By 7-Digits .

, Nearly 3600,000 or about 55 per cent of individual tax re- turns have’ been filed, with three weeks left before the April 30, filing deadline. If last year's experience is repeated, about § 1,000,000 returns will arrive in a single day, May-—1!.

Three computers set up at the tax data processing centre here in October, 1962, now check the arithmetic .and general inform- ation in all personal income tax returns. ie

The seven-digit number as- signed to each taxpayer ‘permits the computers to compare in seconds the latest return with the two previous ones rom the same -taxpayer.

Every two days, 160,000 new names are being added to the master magnetic tape that = cords the data in all returns filed>in the last three years.

Despite the efficiency of the

~romputers;~ 2,000 temporary-em=#

_Ployees have been added to’ the

revenue department to handle the huge direct mail -operation and feed information .to the computers around the cloc ; . Taxpayers who filed early and made no mistakes in their re- oturms get an accounting within “three or four weeks: Errors and} last-minute filing delay the. pro- cess.

Revenue Minister Benson, ap- pointed to the cabinet last June 29, toured the data processing centre for the first time Wed- nesday to familia himself

The ‘cheque’ was processed.

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