Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-11-16

again. We were greatly puzzled. The
piano was notln That room. And the
sound certainly suggested a wind in
strument Of sweet tone.
| went down early next morning,
and found to my surprise, a concertina
lying on the table. lifted the handle
and there came forth a long-drawn
note, the very note | had heard in the
night. My wife called out To me from
up stairs, That's til That's III What is
| h?p
Without attempting to disentangle
her speech, held up the cencertina.
son, that is Phi's. He must have left
it behind. But it was the very note;
there is no doubt Of it."
We locked the thing up in It's box,
and put it inside bookcase, and the
next night we were treated to repu-
utation OF the musical notes, only
mullled.
1t was only during the night that the
noises were heard. For instance:
was reading by the fading afternoon
| light, when a chair On the other side OF
| the room seemed to be moved fronf its
place; so that | instinctively turned my
head to see who had entered the room.
! Again, | was about to go down the eel
lar steps in the afternoon, when / heard
heavy picking pan dragged along the
stone floor below. quite thought
some one was down there; but, as
usual, there was no one to be seen, and
the pan was in its place.
At IL o'clock a. m. my wife and Still
were on the landing. The girl was tell
ing her mistress that she had heard
Mrs. KS voice the evening before
Her mistress told her she was giving
way to fancics.
"But Mary Jones heard it too. She
had just brought in the eggs, and stood
listening to the singing in the drawing
room. Then | heard Mrs. KS
angry voice again, on the stairs, and
Mary said, "Who's shoutiDg?' | said
didn't know, and she said, 1T must be
the missis. Lor how angry she is to
boiler like that. Doesn't she like'em
to sing?"
"In an old house like this" began
my wife, "there may be many noises
raised by"
Suddenly noise, as if q shower Of
small pieces of the ceiling came down
sharply on the floor cloth, caused mis-
tress and maid to start back in alright
and involuntary too look up. There
was no crack to be seen. Then the
two pairs Of eyes searched tn floor IL
every direction; their ownerss cauti-
ously standing within the shelter of two
| i Nj Nf l., u
could they discover.
"What was that ma'am ?" inquired
Saltwater, fixing her sleepy gaze on hel
mistress.
81 cannot tell" was the only reply
that occurred to that intelligent lady.
One morning the post brought me or
ders to "move on" Instead of grumb
/ ling, | hailed them with delight Fol
we seldom got decent nights rest, ant
my wifes nerves were beginning to be-
weakened by the constant strain upor
i them.
The old lodge had been for years il
the caarge of Mrs. n, who hac
borne the character of a highly respect
able old lady, with the drawbacks o
being somewhat misanthropical ant
very avarclous.
| ann nerfectly aware of the ridicule
with which stories Of this are gener
ally received. can only repeat tina
/ have related an absolutely true expe
rience, for which | am utterly unable
to account. / have no theory on the
subject. / have always felt stron,
distaste for so-called Spiritualism.
preceive the inconsequence and ever
childishness of my story; and yet, i
will always remain, to the story-teller,
serious fact.