Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-10-10
An Imperial ApparItion.


correspondent Of the Boston Adyer-
tser, writing from Heidelburg, tells this
marrow-freezing tale Of ghost in the
Queens bed-chamber:
| lasely heard a story, which is good
enough to repeat, if it has not got to
America already The Emperor of Aus.
tru is "a man with whom one can talk.u
SO ii was said TO me- no. great lnan pro-
badly, but neither fool nor u fanatic
His mother, however, was Jesuit to the
core she, while she lived, ruled the
Empire, in fact, though not in name. and
did so with the stricIest submission to her
:. holvn advisers. But while ago she
died, as even good people will do, and her
pious counsellors began to see clouds
rising in the, sky which had been fair for
them so long. They meditated upon the
matter, and this il what came of it. One
night the sentinel who was stationed at
the door of the deceased lacy's apartments
had surprise Just at midnight the door
opened, as if Of itself, and there appeared
veritabe ghost-an imposing majestic,
terrible woman ghost. Angels and min
listers Of grace defend us The poor Eel.
low was unequal to the occasion. He
flung his gun aside and fled for dear life
rushed to his immediate superior with
pale face staring eyes, shaking knees and
chattering teeth, and told his story. This
one the mex: morning repeated to the next
above him, and this to the uext, and 50 it
reached the chief officer of the court.
The last named called the sentinel before
him and said Tell me now the exact
truth about that affair"
The other told his story as before.
"Tell me tho truth y cried the officer.
With the sternest tone and look "truth if
you love your life"
"Were you to cut my head off, could
say nothing different answered the sol
der.
Another watch was placed before the
door, and gems darmeS Stationed in the ad
iacent passages. On the third night fol-
lowing that supernatural appearance, the
fearful phenomenon required Again the
door seemed to open ofitselt the sentinel
saw his appalling visitor issuing through
it and advancing slow y upon him, spectral,
stately, severe. Like IL true soldier he
kept his post but the duty that command
ed his will could not command the cur
rents of his bleod, and he went off in a
dead swoon. The ghost was a second
time loft in possession Of the field, but con-
siderately spared the genS darmes, and
did not visit them. A few nights after
ward her ghostship appeared quite unex-
pectedly il quite different part of the
palace. A young sentinel, one or two
and twenty years of age, saw her snper-
naturaness approach; he slipped quietly
behind a pillar and waited; when the
dread vision was within some ten PAGES,
out darted the young fellow from behind
the pillar, and made bayonet charge
full upon it Who could have anticipated
such heathensh procedure in a Chris
tian land F.? The imperial ghostess turned
and fed Fidelity to truth "ompels one
to add that in flying the spectre struck the
floor with hard steps, and, moreover,
made a display of leg not altogether
womanly. The young soldier pursued,
gained uponil, came up with it, thrust his
bayonet straight through it without SO
much as saying, by your leave when 10!
cry in no feminine voice, a fall upon the
ground, and the rush of red blood the
affair was hushed up; and when next it is
desired to produce an impression on the
mind Of the Kaiser by evoking hsmother's
ghost, that Jesuit father will not appear
as her proxy.