The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-11

lowered her voice and looked apprehen-
siFely around her. 90 a friend Of mine once
told me that she saw an inkstand hop
around Ike sixty. and there wasn't any
one around touching &c either Now that
was particular friend Of mine, and I
know she wouldn't tell me anything that
wasn't right You don't think she'd fool
me. DO your
Gracious, nor' exclaimed The reporter,
ferventIy.
Wen. now you know I'm not just exact
~ splritualist, still, / can say / don {
believe in the existence Of spirits. I'm
sreatly interested ina spiritualism, though,
ana We been to a coup 3 OF saances where
I things heW around, and tables walked, and
on Gear me, such funny things hap
pehed- say" suddenly turning TO re-
porter, did you ever 20 10 a seauce
where they materializede
Inc reporter said that me had
Ell, resumed Miss Draper. II think II
1 went to one ana saw ghost coming
70 me- 1 just couldn't help grabbing IL or
plnching ii to see II t was really "a spirit
Now, l forgot to tell YOU something else
tnat SHOWS that there must be spirits
ABOUT me. One night I heard knocking
( AT the mead Of my bed. and L sat up ana
looked' and there wasn't soul there,
bul the knocking went right on Now,
what do you think Of thatc' and a pie-c-
ING glance Of triumph from Miss Draper $
{ ga Alt@ reporter HlffttlAiH's0s
On, that isn't all j know said Miss
] Draper, scoFnfully. when the reporter
maze a move TO get up, tIll tell you some
tnlng else that may furnish you an oXpla-
nation OF that plaque business ABOUT
seven years ago had a dear, dear friend
MISS Draper began TO look mOurnfuD,
ana she was dying, and she said to me he
fore she died that when she was dead she
was going to try and make herself known
70 me. Now when Just made up my mind
that no mortal hand was twisting that
PLAGUE around ] called on "a medium ana
| told her all about it. and she said Of
course it was my dead friend and she
promised me that she would have talk
with my friends spirit and tell me all
about it,
We'll, she talked it over with the spirit
and when / saw her she said that the
spirit had told her that for seven years
she had been struggling to make herself
known to me, but had only recently sue
ceeded In getting at all near me. The
medium didn't get a chance to ask her
whether she turned the plaque because
she faded away as soon as she was through
speaking and that ended the matter.
But the medium told me there could be
no doubt but that the spirit was RESPONSE
/ Bile for that plaque business.
"A wonderful woman. that medium, and,
| by the way, she told me ia make a great
medium myself If I wanted to study.
I but 1 think ! won't, because I have no
taste for spirits. They'd make me laugh,
I'm afraid, when they came around like
lot of shadows. Now. that's all OF that,
and / only tell II because it has been al
ready published in part. But there are
other things l might tell ana Miss Drap-
/ er looked mysterious.
ANY other manifestations" asked the
reporter.
Look at that picture" said Miss Drap-
er, and she pointed at framed picture Of
couple OF eherubs dressed in wings and
smiles which was securely nailed to the
top of her desk.
If l wanted to,I might tell lots of
| things about that picture. Queerer sto-
ries than that plaque. TOO. and then there
are lots Of other things I might tell, but
| won't" and Miss Draper meant what
! she said, as the reporter discovered when
he had spent fifteen minutes vainly try
Ing TO make her reveal the mystery Of
| the picture.
"Oh, by the way" said Miss Draper.
as the reporter rose to leave don't you
! think you'd like to print picture of my
Office? No? Well, then, goodbye. You've
/ got three minutes &c. catch your train back
| TO New York and It's only a quarter Of a
1 mile away" and she stood in the door
way and laughed gayly as the reporter
| plunged through the snowdrifts.