The morning news., 1898-10-15

SPAR upon her face, and the blood-curdling
SOUNDS or her screams, and only three
years aSo there was a wholesale exodus
from the palace, not only of the servants
employed there, but likewise of widowed
women of rank, owing 10 the antics of
yet a third ghost, who, for some reason
or other, is believed to be that of Queen
Anne Boieyn. 1t is all very well TO laugh
at this, but servants do not give up good
places, nor do titled women of limited
means relinquish so highly priced priv-
lege as tree apartments in royal palace
with free fuel, lighting, water and repairs,
for the sake of mere fancy or imagina-
ton.
Empress Frederick of Germany. the
eldest daughter of Queen Victoria. was
acknowledged even by her most bitter, in
yeterate and lifelong enemy, the late
Prince Bismarck, to be one of the clever
est and most levei-headed women in En-
rope, to have downed him in many
tussle and to have been the chief factor
In bringing about his final downfall Yet
she herself vouches in the most positive
manner for the fact that certain portions
of Windsor castle are haunted by the
ghost of Queen Elizabeth. She insists
that she has seen the appartion of the
Virgin Queen pass through the library
when she has been sitting there, and the
same apparition has since then been wit
messed once by Mr.. Holmes, the aged and
learned librarian of Queen Victoria, and
likewise two years ago by the officers of
the guard, who was reading at the time
in the library In the latter instance the
incident was placed on both official and
military record. Then, too, the wife of
the Lord Bishop of Winchester, who is
herself the daughter of Archbishop TAFT
OF Canterbury, says she has seen on the
anniversary of the decapitation of King
Charles 1 his ghost promenad.ng about
a AE
vaults beneath which his remains repose.
Mrs. Davidson declares that she wit
messed this apparition when she was still
living within the. precincts of WindsA
Castle. adjoining the chapel, prior to the
elevation of her husband from the Office
OF Dean of Windsor to that of Lord Bishop
of Winchester.
Another very level-headed parsonage
is Lord Haisbury, the lord high chan
cellor of England, the keeper of the
soVereign's conscience and the dignitary
VINO outranks all laymen save the princes
of the blood, besides being the highest
legal functionary of the British empire
He is the last person in the world whom
one would credit with superstition, while
joking is as foreign to his character as
romancing. Yet he is deeply in earnest
ABOUT the following account, which took
place year ago at ST. Boswelrs, in Scot
land, which he had leased from Mr. and
Mrs. Erskine One afternoon Lady
Halsbury was lying down with a head
acne, When she heard carriage drive up
She looked out of the window and saw
rather old-fashioned looking conveyance
with strange woman seated inside
presently the footman came up and said
that the visitor had asked for the mis-
tress of the house and wished to speak
to her for few minutes and had declined
to give her name. Lady Halsbury sent a
ca dNuyF -, A.
sick 70 see any one. But when the foot
man came down to the door he found
ne,ther woman nor carriage there
though no wheels had been heard to go
away. Meanwhile, the earl who. seated
in the library, had heard the carriage
passing over the gravel of the drive on
its arrival, came to his wife to INQUIRE
who 1T might be. On hearing what the
footman had told her he followed the
footman down to see what the woman
wanted. On coming down he too. found
that no carriage was there, nor could he
even discover any traces of the wheels
in the thick gravel. A few days later
he learned that Mrs Erskine, the wife
of the owner of the house. had died on
that day, and it appears that there is
tradition in the Erskne family that
whenever demise is about to take place
among the members of the house phan-
tom carriage appears TO give warning.
AT Holyrood the ghost of the murdered
Rizzio, the troubadour admirer of Mary
Queen of Scots, is supposed to promenade
the gloomy old galleries after dark, and il
is noteworthy that whenever any member
of the Queens family is forced to spend
a night in the capital of Scotland a hotel
is preferred 10 the royal palace Buck
ingham Palace in London, is far too mod
ern building to have a banshee of its
own. while if Marlborough House were
ia1o "a
could only be the spirit of that imperous
spouse of the first Duke of Marlborough
who is on record as having bullied 10
tears and into utter submission the good
Queen Anne of glorious and pious mem
ory. The writer has never heard of any
supernatural appartion at either Kens-
ington Palace or at ST. James, although
the tragedies which have occurred with
the latter royal abode, notably the mys-
terious murder of the Duke of Cumber-
lands confidential valet, Senlis, in the
early part of this century, ought to be
sufficient to people il from cellar to gar
ret with specters.
The most uncanny of all the royal pal
aces of Europe in the way of specters is,
however, that of Stockholm which has
been haunted to SUCH an extent since the
assassination within its precincts of King
Gustavus III, that it has been twice at
enormous expense entirely raZed to the
of dislodging the supposed ghost, to the
existence of which Princess Louise of
Denmark Prince Christian, the eldest son
of the Crown Prince of Denmark; Prince
Charles of Denmark, the Crown Prince of
Sweden and Count Moltke, chief cham
berlain of the Crown Prince of Denmark,
can hear most eloquent testimony. Prince
Charles and his elder brother, the Crown
Prince, are big, burly men, OF rather
stol;d character, and not particularly i'm
pressionable, and their testimony thereof
carries a certain weight, while it took
Inc 1g-vear-old Princess Louise of Den
mark three weeks to recover from the
shock which her nerves sustained through
the spectral visitation which she witness
ed on the occasion of her last stay at
Stockholm.
OF course, all this may sound ridcu-
lous and childish to ordinary people who
do not believe in the supernatural But
even they would experience an uncanny
feeling il forced by circumstances 10 live
in houses which had been the scene Of