Show A wonderful erfal erful phenomenon accounted eor I 1 see by your correspondence that there is some interest taken in spiritualism A case occurred in my experience some 15 years esgo which for a while made a profound impression on my mind my house is situated about SOO feet from a large church which haa has a fine organ that we heard more moio or less when played upon it was in the beginning of sum mer the windows being open myself and family fatally heard more plainly than common as we thought at first the organ it went through a chord producing at times what is called the tremolo we soon ascertained however that these sounds did not come from the organ but from the piano which stood in our double parlors it went through a chord of quite a number of the lower notes giving somewhat the sound round of the organ being myself rather skeptical in matters pertaining to superhuman phenomena I 1 was waa touched profoundly by these manifestations some of the more timid neigh bois bore declared they would not live in the house myself and family did not share these views I 1 stated to my friends that I 1 expected to fidd some rational cause for this most extraordinary phenomenon people wanted to come androv ln droves a to witness this new wonder which I 1 did not allow some spirit came from Boston 10 miles to hear bear for theme themselves elves and declared it must be produced by spirits from the other world to this I 1 could not yot assent never having baving believed in spiritualism cherey the rey rev ell and now settled at eld eid england and the revar J 0 bodwell JB orthodox now dead both able discreet men spent with me considerable time in investigating the cause of these wonderful sounds they examined the house throughout including the cellar without success on one occasion one of my neighbors present made the inquiry 11 who have played moat on your piano plano who are now dead my answer was hla hia own wife now dead and the daughter of one of my near neighbors he then re piled plied I 1 Is it possible that caroline carolines spirit meaning his cifes is there when the piano seemed to go through a chord louder than ever before and almost made the hair stand erect on our heads and eo so it continued for some days until one ono evening I 1 bat eat on the front stairs reading the evening paper there bel bei being ng no gas burning in the hoube house except in the hailand balland hall hali and my family were out my attention was attracted to a very different sound not musical coming apparently from the piano I 1 stepped into the tha parlors still the noise continued I 1 now lighted the gas in the parlors when immediately the original harmony was renewed it now occurred to me that the i gas must produce some gome vibratory e effect upon the strings of the piano and therefore was the cause of thesa these extraordinary tra ordinary sounds in support of this the sounds werch were heard eard only in the evening which gave the whole affair additional strange mobs mess this thia proved to ha be the key bey that unlocked ithe whole my mystery I 1 soon found the piano had nothing to do with it notwithstanding myself sel bel gelfand tand and fand friends had bad repeatedly listened tene d at the piano when the cover cove r wag was both open opeil and shut and it seemed to proceed direct from the instrument on farther investigation the sounds were traced to the ga gas meter which was in the i cellar nearly under the piano the sound though diffused somewhat had seemed to be in the piano after a short short time hine iiii my family became tired of these sounds and I 1 had the g gas ras as meter changed for another and have never neven r heard them ain aln since c e 1 I c could 0 have made a great sensa senea tion of thib thia matter but did not I 1 h have ave no doubt that many liL lit 1 ous things have taken place which have been ascribed to some supernatural caused cause when persistent t in lil tell igent investigation would have boived solved the whole affair in a rational way truly jonn JOHN CLou gir aIr woburn Wb burn mass blass july 1879 popular science monthly 1 |