to become dazed by such fellows as ghosts.  Many other remarkable manifestations continued to take place almost daily for the next two weeks.  The ghost could now tell how much money people had in their pockets, both by knocking and by telling Esther.  He would answer any question asked in the above mentioned manner, and behaved himself very well indeed until the end of the sixth week, when his true devilish nature broke out again.  He commenced setting fires about the house, and walking so that he could be heard distinctly.  Of course John White would not run the risk of having his house burned down.  So he persuaded Esther to remain during the day in his dining saloon, which stands opposite the well known book store of G.G.  Bird, on the principal street.

While standing behind the counter in the dining saloon, also while she worked in the adjoining kitchen, many new and wonderful things were witnessed by the inhabitants of Amherst and by strangers from a distance, and many plans were tried to prevent the manifestations.  Among others, some one suggested that if she could stand on glass they would cease.  So pieces of glass were put into her shoes, but as their presence caused her head to ache and her nose to bleed, without stopping the manifestations, the idea was abandoned.

One morning the door of the large stove in the kitchen adjoining the saloon was opened and shut by the ghost, much to the annoyance of Mr. White, who with an old axe handle so braced the door that it could not be moved by any known mundane power, unless the axe handle was first removed.  A moment afterwards, however, the ghost, who seemed never to leave Esther’s presence while she was in the saloon, lifted the door off its hinges, removed the axe handle from the position in which it had been placed, and, after throwing them some distance into the air, let both fall to the floor with a tremendous crash.  Mr. White was speechless with astonishment, and immediately called in Mr. W.H.  Rogers, Inspector of Fisheries for Nova Scotia.  After bracing the door as before, the same wonderful manifestation was repeated, in the presence of Mr. Rogers.  On another occasion, a clasp-knife belonging to little Fred, Mr. White’s son, was taken from his hand by the ghost, who instantly stabbed Esther in the back with it, leaving the knife sticking in the wound, which bled profusely.  Fred, after drawing the knife from the wound, wiped it, closed it and put it in his pocket.  The ghost took it from his pocket, and in a second stuck it in the same wound.  Fred again obtained possession of the knife, and this time hid it so that it could not be found, even by a ghost.

There is something still more remarkable, however, about the following manifestation:  Some person tried the experiment of placing three or four large iron spikes on Esther’s lap while she was seated in the Dining Saloon.  To the astonishment of everybody, the spikes were not removed by the ghost, but instead, became too hot to be handled with comfort, and a second afterwards were thrown by the ghost to the far end of the saloon, a distance of twenty feet.