The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-11-04

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London Telegraph. In the issue ~ oct. 10
Ms Ann Day writes in regard 20 the
Drummer Bow Of Air'ie questioning the
st,tewert that the warning ~ impending
danger n the Arlie family consists only Of
the sound Of a drum. She says
''EarIv in the wear S45 went ia Cortachv
Castle in attendance upon Miss Margaret
D7lrvmple, who was paying a two days
visit 70 the Earl and Countess Of Airlie.-
We arrived late in the evening and Miss Dal-
rvmrle had only inst time 10 dress for din
nor As she rested for few minutes on the
sofa. however. (thiS she told me some time
after we had left the castlp). she heard dis
tinct'v. as if immediately beneath the floor
the sound Of ffes and aftprwsTd the heating
Of \ drum. While at dinner she remarked
to Lord Airlie who sat near her What is
that strange music you have about the house d?
YOu assurdlv have an excellent piper?'
Lord AirIie. without replying. dropped his
knife and fork and retired from the dining
r00n. Later in tho evening the place seem
nd "a he III in confusion, and learned that
Lord Airlia after leaving the table went to
the library and diupd in solitude. The next
morning, while the family were at breakfast.
was quite alone i'm Miss Dalrymp'e's room,
and as 7 stood before the fire I heard. as /
thought, a carriage drive IN, and stop dead,
directly under nv feet Immediately there
. followed the sound Of fanothercarriace driving
MP, and stopping in exactly the same man
ner And then. as if following the vehicles,
Al. I.
soldiers. Then l heard some shrill notes Of
/ the fife so distinctly that looked round in
( stinctivelv, expecting to see a piper in the
room. In another m Oment ] was still more
/ startled by the beating of a drum. About
/ this there W as some thing indescTibably isa
/ grerahle; it seemed as if the drummer were
making his way thr ough she floor. Being a
I perfect stranger to the place, ] thought there
might he q coach road and an entrance door
/ to the castle near the room in which stood
and that some distinguished guests were ar
+ irving or departing. On looking out of the
/ window, however, found there was no door
| or coach road near, and not human being
: was to be seen. concluded, therefore, that
/ the sounds must have been echoed from a
! distance. The next morning, before our de-
! parture, Lady Airlie came to the door OF
Miss Dalrymple's room 20 give her five
/ pound note for an orphan school in which
/ she was interested. Neither of US ever saw
I the countess again. She was confined OF
! twins at Brighton some months afterward
| and died. 1t was not until Miss Dalrymple,
/ a few days after we left the castle, asked me
/ it had heard the strange music there, that
! / disclosed my experience, and then for the
! first time I learned from her the tradition
| about the Airlie drummer boy. She tod me
/ that sh, herself had been totaIly in ignor-
/ ance of it until her alluaion at the dinner Ia
! BILE to the music she had heard ELECTED from
/ another guest an explanation"
/ Another writer in the same paper says
/ Il can only say for myself that | am not al
/ together ignorant of physical scierce and
! yet ! myself have witnessed phenomena for
/ which could not account. After the death
/ of female relative, whose husband at the
| time was lying paraIyzed the room in which
! she died gave birth to all kinds of noises
J the furniture was moved violently about,
I etc, while the room itself was locked, and
the key in my possession, This lasted until
the death of her husband, when the house
resumed its normal condition. These sounds
were no. heard by one pair Of ears, or by the
inmates of the house only And here | am
reminded of another fallacy in the reasoning
of ghost scoffers. They say that a man, by
prolonged concentration OF thought on one
particular object, may project picture OF
that object on 20 the retina. But from this
view how is the following explained a
friend OF mine same home one evening and