St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-10

Mrs. e. preferred the disease to the
remedy. Finally, the house became un- !
tenable, and Mrs. G. departed. Two
human faces at her elbow were more
than she could endure. Then some in
quirers tried the house, and clergy
man exercised the ghosts, which seems
to have put them down. a good deal.
Nowit is not just as likely that these
apparitions were dead peoples dreams
(Mr. Meyers notiOn) as that the ghosts
seen by Mrs. g. were started by the
thoughts of Mrs. Morris, which is an
hypothesis of Mr.. Podmore's? Mr..
Myers justly observes that if we are to 4
besdriven out of house and home by the
reflections of the dread of somebody at
a distance, 1.-THE peace of all of us rests
on sadly uncertain tenure" But we
are not much better off. really, if our
peace rests on the nightmares of some
body who has been dead for years.
Now for Mr.. rs butler. He came to
Mr.. u. Oh Oct. 81. 1885. He had not been
in the house for three days before he
heard ga row on the premises" as King
ValoroSo remarked. The row was in
the cellar, also in the pantry-the
halntea pantry: Praffies would have
butler of scientific gentleman.
Then Mi. rs butler saw a figure
''in brown garment, with two
tassels hanging on the left side;
her figure was perfect. with
the exception of head, which could
not see, as it appeared to me like
black mist. caught up the coal-scuttle
to throw at it, when felt something
touch my left side. 1t was like very
"cold hand" and so on. A firm use of
local option, some advocates Of temper
ance may hold. would diminish the
number of these apparltions. But MIR.
Il. tried table-turnihg, and it was like
ground-bait in attracting apparitions.
The butler, Mrs. u. and Mrs. Nj. all saw
the figure in the tasSelS which depend
ed from garment OF Japenese SILK,
embroidered with chrysanthemum.
Could it have been Nine Chrysantheme
looking for nj. Pierre Lott? Mr.. L. did
not even see hand or the waving OF a
gown.
The figure went into the cellar and
insisted on digging for concealed treas
ures, none of which have been found up
to date. ''She stood in the center of
the cellar and said it was there, but on
digging we found nothing. She seemed
to be dreadfully excited; she threw her
arms in all directions OH disappearing.
This butler appears to have had prevl-
Gus experiences, seemingly of hallu-
cinatory nature, for which he was ina
BILE to account" but for which science
may possibly discover cause.
The odd thing is that a lady had died
in the house some years before. and
that. on seeing number of photo
graphs, the butler picked out one as
that of the ghost. This was the photo
graph of the dead lady. Whether the
butler is an unusually emotional butler,
whether he communicated his impress
sions to the ladies who saw the ghost in
his company or whether real ghost
was walking in her sleep after
reading Treasure Island" are queS-
tons which we leave to the taste and
discretion of the reader. In this case
perhaps Mr.. Podmore's theory is more
plausible than that of Mr.. Myers. Per
haps both gentlemen are right in differ
ent cases. But we could wish that MI.
Il. had seen something. MIR. POdmore is
perpieXed by ghosts OF cats. black dogs
and other fauna of fancy. The cannot
be dead men walking in their sleep. Do
dead dogs walk? Who knows?
M. BaSser thinks human ghosts
''throw back" to animal conditions: but
who ever saw the ghost of the missing
link? 1t is all very perpleXing, and the
society will be glad. to receive any NUM-
Der Of fresh ghost stories. The energy
of the society is, honestly amazing; the
results we must expect in faith. The
society should read the trial for murder
published by Sir Walter Scott for the
Bannatyne society QS3D, in which
what the ghost sad'' was offered IN
evidence. The ghost was that of an
English sergeant. but he spoke Goelic.
and this went against him with an Ed
inburgh Jury in 1749.