Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1908 — Houes of Ghosts. [ARTICLE]

Houes of Ghosts.

There is an old manor house at Knaresborough,' England, parts of which were built 700 years ago. it is a line place, with .magnificent paneling in the rooms, a beadstead in which Cromwell once slant, a priests* hiding place and a. ghost The priests* hiding place is concealed by a spying door. The present occupant of the house says that during the night sounds of footsteps are heard on the landing and it is lippossible to keep the door of this room cloeed. On one occasion the footsteps were accompanied by a loud bump at the- door of another room. During some recent restoration* the skeleton of a woman was found buried at the foot of a staircase. Mr. Balfour once spoke of "an empty theatre of unsympathetic auditors,** and Lord Curzon congratulated his party on the circumstance that, ’’though not out of the woods, we have a good ship.** - A new magazine la to tell you just what is In an the other magazines The new editor will not have to work very hard.—Denver Republican.