The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-11-04

the violent fall Of a heavy body and Its dragging
over the floor. Along with. the fall came wild,
To- low, waiiing moans. We both started up,
ready to cry out. when the sound of loud voices
In angry contention made us Check our inquiries.
Next minute a deadly cold blast swept over us
the voices, the shrieks, the moaning was in the
room with us, though We saw nothing; There
bic, with after that some heavy fall.
".,what does. this meanT my husband asked
S Sat r1S w sftieulst n' wen Both tthh" we're deadly ID ne e SRHis a
sensation such as | hope never again TO expert
and answered with visible reluctance;
"'Idon't hear nothing but the rats
"'Impossible,, we both said in the, same
directly in front OF us. They were cut short,
sibiiehat whispers and 3 low, chucklins laugh.
We looked at the woman: She sat bolt upright,
staring at the handful q embers and stick that
ibid you ever hear a rat laugh p my hus-
band asked. She did not stir. further than to
"'Then what is thatr he demanded. She
turned half about, and said with impotence;
stays here. ali the time; | hear It almost every
day. 1t don't. bother. me any more. than by
m pooT aRd 'n mis nSlsSSl snf ihSaSSse got Soi mo- other shell,
ter-and here l mean TO stay, ghost OF no ghost
time mASls oHa ge e siSsSr. the more ShSSs sndi.ss. le %s st tais
not on the order Il our going after that. Any
visible tempest we felt was better 70 brave, than
the company Of things unseen so full OF horri-
history-I know that IL has one-and that IL
must be wofully tragic"
JERSEY CITY HOUSE.
In one OF the broadcast, cleanest, best paved,
and most fashionable of Jersey City's avenues
there stands a handsome four-story brick house
sirable place OF residence. To begin. with, II is
exceptionally broad and solid looking, with q
hundred little details of construction which say
to the initiated eye IL was built by some one who
meant to live in IL rather than sell II. There Is
q Sn 3nsIsr s SrtS of toner ,Ss td in f of e VIII xitog e Pslcq ny
whole air of the place Is. what the real estate
men call a desirable residence for gentlemen.
t tai %Ss with II t sSe look x Of t hSss cne 70 % HIy pP he S Sad
OF a woman friend, long resident in the avenue.
As the door opened TO them the Southerner
cl%@fiI et's h sd ' S%eR'| she a saIdi. Something
feeling cannot explain-tells me l cannot live
Her companion insisted that they 20 through
It. 1t was broad daylight. the house had a ten
ant. and no harm could possibly pefall them. So
was desirable, though the Southerner kept look
ing nervously over her shoulder. When the In
street, she said with a shudder:
81 would not live there IL they gave me the
house % or all places ! was ever IN it 4, + the one
TO feel a ghost clutch my hair"
The other woman laughed dryly. 1T is, a
city-though l was resolved not to tell you until
after you had seen II. No tenant lives in IL
longer than three months-that is why II is Of
fered at such u bargain. Lights fit through II
at night, there are screams and ghostly foot
falls, and floating hands that catch at you as
you pass. The story Of IL Is this: Old Mr.. J.
builtit, after he had made his fortune, intend
ing to live there the rest Of his days. He fur
nished 1t magnifcentlya among other things he
got a fine young wife. Six months after he was
found dead in bed and three months after that
his widow married q, handsome young fellow.
OF whom gossip said that he was her old lover.
Anyway. before the honeymoon ended he left
his bride alone in her fine house. and said openly
II was because he could get no peace there; that
he was beaten by ghostly hands, cursed by
ghostly voices. tormented by ghostly lights, un-
I'll he must either leave or go crazy. Though
that was a dozen years ago, the noises continues;
the ghosts will not down. The wife has been
dead for years: the house passed TO the hus-
band. which to my mind explains the persist
ence of the visitation"
Examples might be endlessly multiplied.
There is not n nook or corner OF the land that
has not its own sufficiently authenticated ap-
partition. The real marvel lies in finding out
that the most advanced modern thought no
longer reckons these apparitions such stuff rs
dreams are made OF.