The Progress., 1896-05-30

II any reader Of these lines has
haunted house in his possession WISH
no would place it at my disposal iof 8
ann NIGHT I should like very much ~
coo real ghost, and yet am not sure
Init I have seen one, although 'he'e
.o two links missing in the cham ol
evidence which render ahSo!u'e Gel
tainty possible 1t is a curious 'h'ns
that in this investigating age oil 'pe
world the actual existence OF shos'S Is
Gill a matter of doubt; and sui ihoi'
curious is the fact that ghosts, Whe''e'
they exist or not, exert an influence VA
Tho rronertv market Of the most nlA-
,eriaIstic and hardest headed Guy III
the world. The otncr week houSe
was put up at auction in LONDON ana
did not receive bid merely "e." HS1
if was supposed to be hauh't'' ~.
fifteen wears it had not had d 'e'l"n.'
and consequently its valHc III 'Ae A'"'
ket was nothing at all .,,,,
short time since | was SHOWN
house near Denmark lIlA st|H.i' -
Io,don which had been un!et Ioi
orear number Of years. it was AhoSC
COMMONPLACE looking building, anu
the rcpairers were doing Il up III Sne
hone that perhaps it m'Sht ne ie', p"'
mn 70 date this nope mas nov peth -
oiizpd The friend who was WITH ne,
onI who poiuted out the house, sHIu IL
onn,d scarcely he called haunted, io'
No Ghost WAS ever seer there, puI lhe
water in the ewcrS ard water p"'"0-
turned to blood during the night "h :,
when n man went to WASH Liliioeii -,
tho morning he was ndturdliS s'h''
ohock nv This startling transformation
confess that this incident. happening
every night might induce TIE mos W.
romantic stock broker i'll me CIT!
desert the house when quarter va
came around. 4 man must We d wv
daal If q lingo who is content 10 ""S
and battle in blood. 3 y,
Investigation in this realm Oh u
unreal is apt to be somewhat, uN'" ,o
factory. have for months ~" r
Stead's "Spook" magazine III 'NG n'i
nf coming, upOn something talGl"A''
y tboro is ANYTHING tangible III the Noi
NJ snirits but Mr. SteadS gh"StS
ways strike me as peihs " '''"' ',
thin r,o eno
night in haunted house. peA'e
be has never written his eXpeFie"'
and now throw out the hlnt 10 sol
o-,tarnrisinc magazine editor, for
NJ Dovle can be induced 70 WI
upon this subject, the article VIII =,
tainlv be interesting. lie shos
manifestations were in the lauh'
house all right enough, but ai'hou
Mr. Dovle did not succeed III tTacI
,ban, to their source. | understand
is still skeptical as 10 IneIi 'p''''
origin. ,.o.4 ho
F,arold Frederic, whose latest po
illumination is a work OF genus
over there was one, investigated III
rounrer DAYS the methods OF 81,
rbotorrapher. 1t vas at the I
when wet plates We're in vogue.
when hocuS pocus was more uilli'
than it would he now; YET, ai'ho
believe he also did not succeed
finding the fraud he looked Tor
was no+ convinced that the pictl
seen on the plates were those OF ac
snirits. Thus | say that inyestlGa
in all the case | have heard anyu
ahont has been unsatisfactory, ana
story | have now to tell OF my
experience similarly lacks detlni'Gi
good many years ago. when
writing somewhat extensively lor
papers. | received many letters
nprsons unknown to me aHout
work. some complimentary, others
reverse. one correspondent wrote
oueutly, and after time, i pee
very much annoyed at the constitl
ceipt of his letters. l shall not
give his real name, but may say
he always wrote with certain d
ence that seemed 10 me sarcastic
his letters were beautiful speci
OF chirography, the writing iookiI
most like copperplate. What exa
ated me about this correspondent,
n that he was always right and | W
Il, yarialSy in the wrong. lie wro