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"Afraid, my boy I" I ex:claime·1 in surprise; "afraid of wha.t? There lo nothiilg WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 11, 18Sg, Betore I tell willthat be well for nobody me to make itmy story, ib clear it ls a 11nd afraid of?" here to harm you; wb"V are you perfectly true ono, Ae a. lad, and as a. young m:l·dT.hey are a.fra.ld, sir I" chim II in the mllll, neither ghosts nor the idea. of ghosts w "Afraid of what?" I a.gain demanded. ever troubled me. I heard strange stories of them, told with all the vivid description "Have you seen any thieves a.bout?" which would tend to frighten sleep away"No, air," she replied; "but they 11re told, too, wheri the wlnd was howling oub aftaid to go:" and tha.t wa.11 all I could get side, the rain pattering against the windows, out of her, and the only light visible tha.t which found "Come al1mg, boys I and don't be mere Its way through the chinks in the shutters children," I said to encourage them· "the to the "pitch·da.rk" outside-told when light is ready for you, and the house be everybody waa rell<ly for bed. Bub they a:.fely fastened up aa usual," never disturbed my slumbers. I could "True, sir," said one of them, John by heten to any number of them at any time name; "but we a.re afra.id. Lasb night--" a.:id they never had any effect on me, ;; What?_' I In wonder. fa.cb, I disbelieved them thoroughly, a.nd L9.st n1gb.t, ur, he went on to say though I conld not dClubt the veracity of the "there were fearful noises up-stairs narrator I always regarded them as the out· "8 sleep. We heard men fighting, and we co".lle of a strong imagination, or the result trembled--" of too heavy and too la.be dinners. A white "Nonsense I" I oried. "Cook, what did tombstone in a ohurcbya.rd did not frighten you give the boys for their snpper last me. on a very dark night, nor did the mys- ntght '" ter1oua movements of a donkey whiJh had "Only beef and rice, sahib," he replied; broken into it cause me to start, as he moved "the same a.s they a.I ways ha.ve." In the da.rkness In and out among the gra.ve,, "And no more? nothing el.ee ?" LONGFELLOW'S MA.IDEN who ist ao that I was thoroughly unprepared for "No, Sa.hib." anything like a personal experience and "Standing, with reluctant feet, "Then you boye were drea.ming or heard Where the brook and river meet considered myself one of the la.st p~reone the rate. I heard nothing a.nd saw nothing. Womanhood and childhood fleeti" likely to be a.ffeoted by anything like a So, come along I" is a type. or thousands of young girls who ghostly manifeeta.tlon. I wen~ iuto the houae and they followed arc cmergmg from the chrysalis stage ct their But now to my story, which I aha.II tell me. On reaching the door ab the foob d t he y::1stence, as they enter upon their "teens " en ous, excitable. irritable . stirred b simply as the affair took place, leaving lb to spiral sba.iroa.se I gave them their lantern strn:ge, unknowable forces 'wlthln thenf the reader to draw his or her own conclusion, {not an open candle, for fear of fire) and one ~~~ t~~~~!frKn~:1t~h8 hcrselft. 1 our girls neeci And to make 1t q1lite Intelligible I must of them again exclaimed : 'ver 1 ht d t · mos ov1ng, patient "We are a[re.id, sir l we oan not sleep up p s g t' an lie aid of Dr Plerce's Favonte explain the plan of the house where it hap· rescrtp ion, to safely cariy them thro h · "'h "' e } iouse i ·tso If was a. 1arge one there." this olirtt1cal period, durmg which, in ~o PeDed m1my ves, alas, are suwn the seeds of dis boilt of brick, and was what is called ~ " " N ol!sense, ·boys I" I replied, firmly ; there ts nothlDg there worse than youl' ~ressmg forms of diseases peculiar to th~ "fl.!l.t ;" that is, in had 110 regular up-eta.ire emale sex. But this boon to womankind rooms, though over the celling there was a selves! I am down below, and the ma.id sleeps wJJI prevent all snch diseases, or cure them great deal of room under the roof · a.nd the in the dining room right under you; t here is if thef have already seized a v~ctlm Woman owes it to herself, to her family and to he lower inside walls had be&n oa.rriod ~p to the nothing to ca.use fea.r, so go a.long." tomal station, to be well and strong L l roof to aupp()rt lt, a doorway being m11ode to Without anothor word they took the Ian ,.e Fr·~ tvhentenopt neglect thfl sure means 0 / cur: get from one pnrb to the other. '.rhe walls t.ern, and filed off up stairs. When the 11.\st .. or1 resor1ptlon" i 1 ti 11 · were thick a.nd the doors a.nd windows were had gone I carefully latched the door saw cme, ca.refully.compoundc~ %Y~ e1: !~;::;,edi~~f ~k~lful Pli:ys1cmn, rmd adapted tlwomn~~ made of heavy ha.rd wood, There was not a the maid m to her sleeping qnarters ~nder If orgaruzation. It is purely veget..ble pane of gla88 in the house, and both doors the dining room ta.ble, exa.mined all the bolts lD l11;s &ompos1tion and pe1 tectly harmless and windows-except two doors, l'f whlch a.11 uaua.l and wont off to bed. Wold be %-1:8 in 5any condition of the system more pre@ently-were fl\l!tened by unusually I told my wife wba.t ha.d hPppened, and $S.OO·· Y uggl ts i 31.00, or su: bottles for strong iron bolts. My wife a.nd i-for my she put it down to nightmare on the boys' wife wa&with mo and shared all my exper part. However, it paaeed ouc of our heads. Copyright, 1888, by WOBLD'S Dxs. MED. A SS'N, ienoes-alwa.ys entered the house by the big We alwa.ys kept a. light burning in OtJr room doorway lud1ng into the large aemicircula.r at night-a small hand pa.r1>ffine lamp. Thia porch, where our pa.lanquiDs were kept. was kept on the obm1 t of drawers againsb t he PIMU!lng on we came to the pa.sea.go. Going wall opposite the foot of the bed In course along ~his we came first of sol! to the door of time I turned ib down very low and got on our left hand, opening into the dining into bed, with my head as usual q~!ta oloae regulate ,11;nd cleanse the Hver, stomach aac room. On our right, directly opposite this to the door. It wa11 a. sma.11 room, rather, ~owtlels.h Ibey are purely vegetable and per ec Y armless. One a Dose. Sold b· dininll' room door, was a.nother door, at the and the bed oame a'most up to the frame of drugglsts. 25 cents a vial, · foot of a. circular ata.ircase, in the thick wall the door. Meantime, I had, of oonrse pullleading up to the empty spaces under the ed the door to, as far aa it would g~, bub roof, Straight in front of us wa.s the door could not actually oloae it, so it hung ajar a.ti lea.ding into the great central reception room the place where it caught the eill. fhe which conta.ined no furniture except an framework for the glass we had covered with armoire, a. table and a. fow chairs. There wa.11 11 curtain. a. la.ri;ce front door to this room, but it was I wa.s tired and glad to get somc;i resb and seldom open, 11.nd we rarely uae<l it, our visit· sleep, more particularly ae I was jueti re coming mostly through the poroh and oovering from a very sharp attack of a weak Has ;;net received 11n immmeue new stack o:ra pa.saa.ge. Going furbher on we ca.me to ':lur oning My wife very soon went off or all kinds of :Millinery conauiimg of bed room, which oonta.ined only our bed, a to sleep, soundly, a.nd I quickly followed her traveli11g chest of drawers, which served as The honae \Y'all perfectly quiet, and I wae a dreHiog table, a washstu.nd and one or two fa.et aaloep, when I chairs, Lea.ding out from this Wl\ll anobher "Sora.t~h, a'lratch, sora.tch, scratch, rattle room which we did not use, simply beca.use rattle, ba.ng, ba.ng, rattle, rattle, ba.ng in all the newest styles o.nd shapes to be we did not need it. scratch I" a.nd up 1 Jumped, upright In bed' proouro<1. La.dies should call early and And now I must c!l.ll your a.ttantion to our my wife jumping np a.t the ea.me moment' make their noleetion1 before the stock Is picked over, Thie stock le one ot the largest bed-room door. It wa.s ma.de of wood, In an instant all the bhod in my body seem the lower ha.if being panelled, but the od to 1Jurdle, my face grew p!lle and cold, over brouaht to tcwn. upper ha.lf was fitted with' framework tJo and we losta.ntly a.eked ea.ob of the other in OVER $1,000 WOR'rH OF RIBBON reoeive pa.nes of glass, whic"h bad not yet a whiaper: been lnBBrted. tr he door had neither looll "What's tha.b ?" Inspection Invited. nor bolt. trhere was only a.n Iron ring, Scra.toh, 1ora.teh, sora.toh, scratch, rattle, ba.nging loosely, by whioh the door could be rattle, ba.ug, ba.ng-, bang, rattle, scratch, pulled to, But it could not be olosed, for scratch, scratch, at the door cloae to my head at the bottom, close to the side on which the aa if a thousand oats were 11oratohinv and hinges worked, it caught against th-, sill, tearing away furioudy a.tone of the lower which bad not been sufficiently planed pa.nele, and ohe vibration of the door Ja.11sed CANADA. to a.llow the door to shut properly, the loosely hanging iron riog to make a fearCapital pald -.-p, 111,00&,000. :Rest, IJ:Jao,ee aw11y 111.nd:110 ib was always a.ia.r, and could very fnl din as it wa.e brcught in oonta.ct with the Thla Bank h prepared to do Legltl easily be sha.ium backward a.nd forward, wood. a.a it worked on the place where It c ughb; We lilltened- brea.thlesa I A pause I Only mate Banking tn all lta branches. 11 Farmers note11 discounted ; Deposit an1 in ab.aktng, the iron ring, to which I for two seconds, however, a.nd then it eet off b.ave referred, clattered aga.mst the door, aga.ln, Scratch, scre.tch, ra.ttle, bang, ba.n2 I received and Interest paid on amounts o' ma.king a great noise in a more or leu "What Is it ?" I inquired of my wife, 15 upwards ln Savings Bank Department empty large house. "I don'b know,' she replied-sne was aU DRAFTS The only remark I have to make about the of a tromor; but "Thia won't do," though t Issued and Oollectious made in Euzepe other door leading up into the spiral sta1:r I, and out I sprang from bed, the no1see ca.,e, is that it opaned outwards, a.nd waR meanwhile continuing with una.babed fury, United States, e.nd Ce.na.da.. 1 by an ordinary door latoh, a.nd I rushed to the lamp and turned ib up simply fastened W. J. eTONES, The affair of which I eom writing took Instii.ntly the noise oea.sed ! I so!l.rcely seem Ag·nt place in a large island in the Ea.st for 11way ed to .think what to be a.bout-if burglars from Canada-in a oountry full of ghostly were ID t he house I was powerless against stories, and equally full of a belief in all them-if the noises were of supernatural kinds of ghosblymanifesta.tions. !had heard, origin, what then ?-if t he result of some but had taken no notice of them. The cleverly designed plan to frighten ue, 1t native town t o which we had gone in sea.rch mnat be expe>sed. Those thouli;hts seemed Savin~s of health contained very few foreigners a.nd to fiaah through my mind, and, quick as $300 000 raid up ()a1.ttal, fewer a.cqua.inta11ces ; consequently we had thought, I slipped on my dressiog gown, $UO,OOO. lleat, · · · to " shift for ourselves," and with the sma.11 seized the 111.mp, and ma.de for the door. It -oammount of luggage we took with us found was as I ha.d left it exactly I I pushed it 1 beg to notify the public that I am recelvln 11 our home in this large house, whiJh we open, and wont oub mbo the big central deposits for this company, and allowing: s renbed from a native. We liked it; the air r.icepbion room, which the small la.mp higher rate ol mterest than the bankswas fresh, very pore a.nd bracing; medical scarcely lit up, I looked behind the door No NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL RxQUIRllD help was at ha.nd, and with our cook a.nd where the sounds ea.me from, and there wa.s I am also prepared. to grant servants a.nd my pupils we settled In. The nothing I N ex t I went cartofully to every house was surrounded by its own grounds, door a.nd window, looked Into every corner Loans on REAL ES'.rA.TE and the kitchen a.s usua.l, stood away by examined the u.rmoire, everything was on !avorable terms. itself. tened, the house was perfectly silent-there wae nothing I OFFICE: I went ba.ck to my room. McMurtry's Dry Goode Store, We were simply on a visit ; we did not you seen anybhing ?"my wife ask burden our6elvea with unnecessary furnl ed"H11ve W.F.ALLE~ me. Bowmanville, Oct. 11, 18EB. 42-3m ' ture, but were content with buying wha.t ··No," I replied; ""very thing la fasten few tb.ings we needed, a.nd servanbs and pupils did not add much to our buden, for ed, and just a.s we left it. It is strange." I turntld down the lamp age.in, a.nd got during the da.y they were all engaged In continues to 110 ~ Ge nere.l Banking BuslnfM!· one wa.y or another, a.ad, provided they had Into bed, wondering all the time wha.t it Bowmanvi1111 'liranch. a. fairly comforta.ble mat or mattreBB on was a.nd wha.t it mea.nt, a.nd little inclme-0 which to lie, did mit care very much for sleep. DEPOSITS where they slept. Cook, a ew11rtby son of th!~ooner was my head on the pillow !teoelved In Savings Bank Department ana Madras, guarded his kitchen and cooking Jal.I and interest allowed a1 current rntea. ~ Scratch, scratch, soru.tch, bang, bang, aotiee of withdre.wa.I nooeesary. A.JI deJJGUt utensils at night ; my pnpils curled np on clatter, cla.tter, bang I beg<1.11 again. their mattrassea up stairs, in the " room" oayable on demand, at ~he top of the spiral stairca.se under the . I flew out of bed, hurried into my dress.EXCJHA.NGE mg gown, turned up the lamp, a.gain sallied Bought and sold and Drafts lssned n pon Enrop roof ; and my wife's maid slept under the forth, and with the same reeulb. Instantly Jnlted State a and Canada., also Gold, Sliver an dining room table on her mattre·s, which the noise ~topped I All wa.s quiet ; every wu.s 1emoved every morning the first thing 1~nltedStaies Greenbaoksbouirht a.nd sold, ~ · ·e l and brought In the la.at thing a.t night. I door a.nd window wa.e safely bolted-~ll (JOLL E(?J.' IOl'Ut ~ways saw them all safely in the house, left it J But, thinking tha.t, perhaps, the Promptly me.de at current rates upon all pa and go ca.oh to hie or her own a.pa.rtment, natives might be playing triclls on us I ex ,1f Gree.t Brittain, the United States and D before retiring myself, and made 1t my a.mined the neighborhood of the' door, :nlnlon of Canada. nightly pra.ctice to see tba.t a.11 the doors ~hence t he bOUnlls ca.mo, very, very care Telegraph TransCers and windows were securely bolted-for we fully. There was no string, no wire eiuher ..lade to1· large or small sums on all parts of did not care to ioee the few things we had a.t top or bottom, or n11oi.': to which it could -:la.no.do.. This is especially advanta.geous to with us, which in such a far distant pla.oe be at nached, Tne wall, every ineh of which I .ereons living in Mamtoba or the North·wost ex11mined, was soltd as bricks could make it . 11 lt roa.kes the tnn<ls a va.ilable at once a' he could not easily be repla.ced. The few days we bad p11ossed in bhe house Tbe floor? I ex..mmed tha.b, boo. It was a. Ia.co of payment. l'orturther partloulars call at the Banll:IPg had pa.seed pleaea.ntly a.nd the nl!lhts undis- beautiful tioor, inlaid with different kinds of turbed, save by the howling of dogs ontelde, wood, forming an artistic pattern. Every ouee. T, BRODIE, G.B'O. M oGILL when one night our pupils were iater than bit of wood was in ibe pla.ce-there was no A.coountant. M a Dage usua.l in comin~ in to retire for the night trap door, no sign of interference of ~ny I went out t-0 look after them, and found kmd. Hence there was no trickery, or ouothem and the m!\ld all gathered round the ningly devised mea.ne ->f frighteniDg me out brlghb ftre in the kitchen, busy in amusing oftBywit.easwella.aoutofbed. Iwaspnz· and interesting' conversation. Their eyes zled and be!l.ten ! Again I went off to bed were glistening in the firelight, and their after turning down llho la.mp, and again, n~ sooner wa.a my head on the pillow t hanlaugh was very hearty. , SJnbch, scratch, soratoh, bang, bang, clat" Oome, boys" I said " it is time for you to be going to rest now. And you," to the ter, clatter, ba.ng ! It went a.gain. "That's right I Go it l" I cried, as I again maid, " bring in your mattress, for in is spran ~ out of bed. night." " ua getting tiresome, t hough, "I said Immedi&tely t here was a dead silence. The laughter was hushed ; gloomy oounten· to my wife; "I ceon't make it out I Bub 1f I ancee 11.t once appeared, a.ud a kind of tur- can only getJ hold of t he evil d oor, he shall tive inquiring gla.noe was ca.st from one to feel this," tor I felt angry ab t he contfoued -:.BYthe ot her. Not one of t hem attemp ted to disturbn.noe, and sefzlng a huge stick with I! mov;e, e~ceptthe mllid. I mayhereuaytba.t one hand, ...nd t he la.mp with the other, <'!lb I went t~gain. B11t t he noi·e had etopped as II~ · the ooys Liges ranged from about 10 to 14. /J/flT I am fully pr~a:red to attend Frmerale c.n "Come, boys !" I repeated, "come along ; quickly a· before, and again all was quielJ iued ever/ window 1md door1 e ohor L est11otice, u.t the lowest possible i·ates \ it's time for going to rest now · whv do ycm A gain I exan1 i11 l wer e ~11.fe1y 1as\.ened ! 11skets andBuualCaaesready on short notice wain,,, ' ~ It th en struck me tha1i perhlllp~, ii.ii t he !rat-class ~- >ge on very moderate terms ,..i !l.rouds an<I,,~~;ns constantly on hand Fun Sud tht,re ws.s no answe!'. noise was so terrific and p eculiar, posr~l cards supp ed al cn~c. l! urnlture Shol)l "Are you not tired?" I iilquh ed, s1bly my wife e nn1d h11od hen.rd in, or could >11 0W ll coms-BounsaJ1b ~ tW bocb:, Then one vouchsa.fed an answer. ~~~A~.a~G~TM·H~O~-S~T~-~l~~~m~M:.;~A~N~i~f~f~S~T~A~T~l~O~N~:rin~1a~,P~t~:~a:; ~1~;:~;, ~7;.o~ c:~ :e~a.~fr~a.~id~t~ ·~go~~~:, ~h:e:aa.~i~;~·;f~~sc~sl:;n~;~u~;~ fe~ ~ -~a!n1~d,~mw:u:; ~h~~~~;f~;s;i;n~~f~:~~!~r1:n0~:epd;,e·T~~W~~hy~?:"~I:iu!!q!u:lr!!e~d!!!.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!J~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"!!!!!!!!!!!lli A MARV£LOUS INVENTION. perfec~ly .. was certa.ii;ily very uncomforta.ble. What "Tell him, John,' sa.ftJ. one of them· whilsti was the no12e? Who or whab made lb! The t he othor broke in. "Although oom iron ring made that awful banging, bub what ma.ad us to eleep up there again we can not ' caused the cla.tterlcg sound and the furfoua We are killed with frighb I" ' scra.tohing ! So going into the dioing·room I " What is it?" I aga.m ix:q·1!red called to the maid by name, and oaid: John epoke. · "Are you awake?" It w11s 11owful, air, a.ud we can not bear it "Yes, sir," was her reply; and she raised It was this. Wha.t we hes.rd bhe 1 herself on her ma.ttress and t hrew back the last we a. so hes.rd hut night but it wa.s far cloth In which she had enveloped her head. worse, There were, as It to us, t wo "Why are you a.wake?" I Inquired. "I men up & ta.Ire engaged in a. fierce struggle. too. can't eleep. Have you hea.rd the' nts T hey seemed to be in t he middle al bhe racmg a.bout!" under the roof, and tlley fought I shall not forllet the look she gave me as desperately, We heard a kind of whisper· I. held the small lamp near her a.nd its light lug, quarreling, as it were, buti we heard no h t up hor dark. faoe, But the eyes seemed words. It seemed a.11 if one was we11rlng yo~ ~her: se~med ni~ht befor~ ) ~lll hon~e, I~ inq1:1l~~d wher~ Dr. PIERCE'S PELLETS NEW MILLINERY MRS. DONNELLY illne~e. Hats, Bonnets, Flowers. Velvets and Ribbons STAN'tlARD OF .... - ... BAN~ - The Ontario Loan and Co. fas~ ONTARIO BANK ~NDERTAKING LEV MORRIS 1 . 1 ChUdren Cr~ for P'tcher's Casb"lilria~ to light up of themselves, and a look of dis boots, a.Pd t he other was not . Then the one gusted orept over her features. w,earu:ig hoots rnn, and the llt her ran after "&a.ts! ' she exolaimed. " That's nob rats hun, ba.ckwards and forwards, backwards and I am afraid. I hl>u.rd t hem I" ' and forwa.rds, a.II in the dark; down they "Heard what?" I asked. "If the sound ra.n, down the stairs, and we beard t hem did not come from frolioeome rate, what u t tling tho la.tob as if t hey wanted to get made it ? There are no people In t he house out, Back t hen they would come, and rush except ourselves, and the boys are up stairs past us, and as t hoy pa.seed the air was icy asleep," cold I Then t h ey would fighb and struggle "They are spirits I" she exclaimed "I again, and we heara the whispering sound . them, and a. row thsy have beer: mak· tihen again they would run; t he one wea.ring tng. I have been listening to them-bub 1 boots ran first, then the other atter him. kept my head covered for fear, I heard Down they would run, down the stairs them rushing with a kind of nc.isoless etep a.ga.in, rl\ttle the latch, and I was terribly ~ your door; then scratching and ra.otling frightened," tihe poor boy a.dded, almost cry It ; then I heard them rush back to the door ing " for once as they were going down one at the foot of the stairs and rat tle, ra.ttle of tnem seizocJ my leg a.nd dragged me half a.w»y at the la.tcb ; then back to your r oom wa.y down. His hands were like ice " he again, backward and forward, ba.ckward said, his shoulders t oget her' and and forward. They have been making a shivering at t he remembranoe, "buti he let row. They a.'!'e spirits, and I wish they go and I crawled back to my place ag~in would rest, for I W'l.nb to sleep I" trembling. This went on for a long time'. "so d o I ," I replied. Still her word~ Th~n ~ "h · ey f ought aga.1n, · and at 1a.st t he one ra.~her staggered me. y eb account for theae without boot s t hrew down the one wit h 1 noises o~ ?ony other hypothesis I could not. boets; he then do.need about, then foll him But spirits I and In my own house, and close self, Then a.II wa.s ouieb. ' to the head of my bed I Strange . bub wha.t lb ~Ile stra.nge, and 1 was silent. Whan was it! I was aa wide awake a~ possible. to thlDk I know not , nor do I t o this da.y Evory fa.ouhy was in good working order The other boys cod i r med John's statement' and now the utter 11isbellef of years and stood looking frightened a.nd sorely puz' bv was to be rudely-an<\ I thought lb very zled. I a.m perfectly cer baln that I was noD rude of them so to intrude an my rest and mist aken ; the ma.id ha.d heard the ex tra.or peace of min<i-aba.ttered. dina.ry sounds, the movements of "epirit a" The ma.id threw her olobh over her head downstairs, a.nd,the ra.ttllng of t he latch · a.gain a.ud retired under the table ; but her and now confirmation comes from the room, too, was innocent of any ~hlng cap of something uncanny. In the full fioodable of being turned t:> aooount for ca.using light of day I examined every inch of wall the noise. and floor near t ba.t door, bub t heir was Again I returned to my room, but would neither me.rk on it, nor place for striog, not t ell my wife what tho maid ea.id. Qllite wire, or trap door near It . All was psrfect. enoullh for me to ha.ve my own thoughtd on I mentioned this extra.ordine.ry affair to a the matter wlthoub disturbing her peace of doctor llvlng ne .. r, and he and hie wife ar· mmd. ranged to sleep in t he house wtbh us the " However," I thought to myself, "If next nli:1ht. W o spent the evening at hie I can put a. atop to this I will. If I oan house, and we all went to our own abou t 9 only get this door over the ba.d place p. m, Sitting outside, round the door of t he ab the bottom, whoever or whatever they porch, I found my servanb, together witn may be wen't be able to make it the son ol tbe landlord, to whom I ha.d sent shake again, and we shall be saved u.ll the word of the affair. clatter. 80 with a. great eJl'e>rb I lifted the "Well, leods," I said, as we approached door so 11.1 to brillg in over tb.e uneven place them, "ha.ve yon seen or hes.rd anything ?" and then with a strong pull I closed it The landlord's son anawerec : · ab la.et. " We have not seen anythhig, but whilet "Now ah..ke It If you ca.nl" I t hought, we have been sitting here we heard a. sound and, turning down the Ii.mp once m 3 re, as of som'l one having hurled a big went off to bed, aga.lnob your bed room door," Va.in hope of peace I The enemy, whoever "Was any one in the bouE e ?" or whatever the enemy was, seemed to be "No, eir," t hey all answered. simply infuriated wit h my attemp~ to balk We wenc in and oxa.mined everything but him, for no sooner was my head on my found neither stone nor mark, ' pillow ir.gain bhen the scratching ·.vo.s renewThe docbor a.n.d I t urned down on a ooople ed with tenfold vigor, as if the very door of mattresses in the reception room on the would be torn to pieces. It wa.s eimply floor, opposite the front door. Hie wife a.wful, and I seemed to expect to bear 11lept with mine ; and t he boys ha.d a.gain shrieks of anger added to the frightful gone up et a.Ire wit h t he men 1erva.nts and the scratching. I 1at up in bed and looked la.ndlord's son, feeling safe in their company a.b bhe door. It could not, and did not 'l'be doctor soon fell a.sleep, but I k ept awake move, and the iron ring hung mobionless ~ At about 11 p. m. I hes.rd a steady ma.rob but down in that far corner tha: poo; over me of one-only one-marching ba.ck · panel seemed to be the point of a.tta.ok of wards and forwards. This wae kep~ on at a. a. thouea.nd fiends, Suddenly I eried out steady pace till 12. Then there wa.s a. furious in the n11.tive tongue: ba.nEt at t he fronb door. as of a huge stone "Be quite, a.nd listen. o ye, whoever ha.vmg been hurled a.gamet it. T here was u.nd whatever ye are," and, strangE> to aa.y then a. howling of dogs and t hen all wae no sooner. did I begin to speak tha~ quiet . I heard no thing more, neither did perfect silence-dead silence -reigned. tb.ose up stairs, but that was t he last night Listen, O ye, whoever and whatever I elept in t hat house. Obhera tried t o live ye are," I contmued, "for I don't there 11fber 1Vard, bu~ had to leave. What know; only yourselves know. Ye are was it? !ree to come 1;o my house and visit me durNo~ fo~ ~bit of history by w;iy of ex· mi;: the dllytime, bub now it Is nighb. I am pla.natton, if 1t can be explained. T be King b 1red a.nu want to sleep, so get ye to your of the count ry h8 d a. few yeare before beer1 houses I If ye be friends, epea.k I if ye be assilossinated-stra.ngled. He was aurprl!!ed not , depeort; or if ye will nob depart be in his pa.lace, and i.1 full dress a.s he was quite _a.nd enjoy youreelves in p ea.ca, I chased from room to room by t he asaa.ealu' am tired and want to sleep. So good until ai length he t ried to find sa.fetv 1n hid' night !" Ing am~ng the r11ftiera, i ust under the roof. Alan! my llbtile address had no effaot . From !us hiding pla.ce he was dra.gged and Quite the contrary 1 At ib they went aga.in slain. rl.~d I pitied the poor door. If they sors.toh' Tho actna.1 regicide died in the h ou re ea fur1ouBly before, now they seemed to where I hv~d, on a. bedstead oloae to the tea.r a.way ab it mercilessly. How t hey did door whence all t he noises procsml ed- be peg away a.b It J and the noise was a.lmost died t here a.bout three m.>ntbs before I t ook deafAnlng. However, t here seemed to be the house, within thrile ya.rdo ol where my nothing more to he done. I ba.d been out pillow wae I Oi this fa.ct I was not thev and examined eve(ything. All was safe I aware, had uaod pl:iJn words and words of pers~a. I oa.n only a.sk, How iaib to be ex:pla!ned' sion, and they had no effocb. So L gave up a.nd add t hat t hia story is abaolutely t rue in in '.imple deapair, and leh the "spirite" to every renpecb. A C LERGYMAN . the1.r own aweeb plea.sure. It was now long p!lst midnight, a.nd quibo tired and worn oub I dropped off to sleep to "Th I lB ., the music of the 1oratchlng a.nd tea.ring close e mperis. agma.n. to my head. Uneasy sleep it was, and in Emperor William of l+armany well de· bhe yery early mo>rning I woke t o the i1weet serves the name of "The Imperial Bagman,' music of t he scratching which etiil continu· given to him by London humorists. Hurrying ed I from t he na.val revl~w at Spithead, ho imme "I muab find out wha.t it is, If I can!" I dlatelya.ppearedoonductlng t bo eham fight at thought, Jnat then I heard t he door in the Spanda.u for~he enterta.inment of t he Empor. porch u.t t he other end of t he house open 80 01· of Austria.. The moat interesting fea. I knew soma one was going out. Is 'the rure of t his display was the use of the ne w mystery about to bs solved? No, for the smokeless powder which is t he latest inven aora.tcnm11 still continued with una.bated t lon relied upon to increase t he ~fficiency of fury I There wu.s the a.t ba.ok on the p<1.nel sma.11 arms. Wherever W illiam the German still going on a.a h11.rd as ever. But the open sovereign goes It tsnot thep eopleof the coun· door allowed a certain a.mount of light to try th!\b he visits or peacefuline bltutiona t hat get through to our door, and I thought I he inspe.otJ. I o is the ar my or t he na.vy would a.va.d myself of it. that b.e 1a overywhare a.nxious bo see, in his "I'll ca.ooh you this time !" I thoughb ea.gernees not to keep t he p eace, but to study "If there be springs or t rap door, wires 0 ; the most approved methods ot ma.king war. string I'll see what they are." The essenti& llV millta.ry oha.ra.oter of E ·1 So wh_llst the none Wl\S still progressing I ropean monarchies Is a fearful fea.ture in very quiet l y and noiaelossly drew myself up wesenu CIV z~ ~ il! t'.on, and t he E mperor Wil· in bed, ready for 11. spring. I stretched out ham seema t o be t he ve ry lnoarna.tion of my Iefn hand and pushed aside t ho ourtain restless warlike rule. How different w"'s over tb.e frame for the glasa in t he door very the course of hie father, "Frederick t h e q uietly and cautiously, sprang out of bed, No~le, " in observing forel~n lands I .But bhe &nd io lees than ha.If a second my hea.d was spmt of Frederick has died with him and through the opening for one of the panes dra.goonism dominates the Empire he a~ught a.nd I wa.e gazing a.t t he place whence th~ to lead in the peoths of peace. Tnat gem,,ral sound came, and nll>rrowly searching for ha.rmonv cannot long be reser ved during someth~ng, though what I did not know. the s.tram o~ the rivalry between n11ot1ons in But q_u1ck as I bad been, it or they had beeu wa.rhke eqmpment eond cons truction, ls car· a.a quick, for no sooner wc.s my bead t hrough tain. E uropean powers mueb inevi ba.bl y the opening than the noise ceased . There soon fight or dis:i.r m, and the ascendency of was no wire or string to be seon, no trap- the element typified by Garma. ny's young door of any kind; a mouse could not ha." l' Emperor does nob tend toward d1sp.r mament got away ; all wa.e silenb. ' "lca.nnot understand it," I said tom wife. " .But I sh!l.1,1, get up now and go !ulp1t and Pew. your early coJfee, Ston es of discourteous smar tness ia either I pr..rbially dressed, put on my dress- pulpit or p ew abound, The following fo aa tDg gow~, threw open th<! windows and fresh as are t he w10ds t bllt bloiv across Cape waa gotDg out . to t he kitchen t~ get Cod, ~here t he incident occurred. I he con t he us.ual morning ccffse for my wife, gregat1on was not attending to t he sermon. ~hen, JUBt as I got oppoaite t he door lead· The mlmster atopped in hia rea.diou " My mg to the apiral ~tairoase, I msb t he boys hearers," said he, " I h~ve gi;'~n much oommg.dow.11. I saw at once there was t h ought to this sermon. It has cost me eon:iethmg wrong. The _poor boys' faces ~~ny day~ of la.hour, I ha.ve mediteot<Jd on wern gloomy aud of .~ p11.lh cl hue- there was it tn the ;;11gh t 5eu.sona. If you ou.nnot listen not the usn~l cheery" Good·morning, sir"to lb, I will stop riJ1ht hare and now." The and d~prees1on ~nd even a.nx ie ty seemed to reply vyas prompt from a member of t he con be wnt ton on their countenances I ir1egc,t1on, "Go on, Ot\ator ooo 00 · y<:1u mus~ :· How have you ~lept, my boys?" I in· ba about t hrough ".:.[Ohi~ago Ad~a.nc~. quu~d of them- and t hEy knew absol utely nothmg of my night's expe.,.ience. "S~·pt, air?" t liey inquired in r~turn, in .E ge( 13h ell was once ueed in m~dical preGastonisnmenb · " we hlllve noti 1 t ·a chripi;iona. When ctt.lcined at 1,1 lo r. red-heat , 6 lime. · coultl. Wo:J"" ' ~ ap · ""0 ' 7 , ate b of i.:!h~lhJ afford u. very pu1e for m of c;i,rb on- w~11rin6118 ~eard A l\'c w R a u w a y thn.t ls Cb.eat>, 1',1s& an«& Bey ond «;om1iar lson. press view took }>lace nc .11:y, H a.yn a. Pa.ris lett..r, of t he so oiilled · C ' "'nin de Fer Gliesant ," or " Slide ' on llhe E aple.nade deslnva.lides, w.thin the ex'l!bitioa, The invention is a slngu1 arly original oontrivanoe for enabling tra.ma to mn, biy mell>ns of water power, at a &pe"d undreamed of. Arriving there without lUI}' intima.tlon 11.a t o what a shdrng railwa.y might be, _ I 11ot fi rst m1Stook 1t for au over. grown switchback with t he humps emoothe:ll 11.wa.y. t ra.ln consisted of fonr carrfagee, affor ding room for about 100 pagsengers, 'I '.bo c11ornagca ha.d no wheels, _ being supported ab the corners by blocks of iron of a. s1z3 somewht·t thnn a. brick, whioh rested UJ>QDt a line of iron vlrders. [n t ne mid1Ue. of tho ltne a.ti rei;:ula1· m b r vala Jllttod out irregnlarly shaped pill..rs, t he of whicho w&a not yet app ...rent. H ,.ving taken our sea.ts and the ugni\l being glven we vlidfd along very gently tor a wpa.ce of a few yarc la. wheu fiUDDENI.Y WE GATHERED Sl'.EED. ~ ~ew R~ilw,y. bitbMt~ T~e la.rg~r doub~., u~e drawin~ gon~ boy~ tlgh~ ston~ sn;ioo~hly a.a a b<>ab on a rivar. Ther~ was a. ch okmg noise, on the rails, bu b this, I 'Vi' r.8 11.ssured, w"e a ue to a defect in the conatl'uQ· t1on of bhe elides a.n d wo11ld b9 remedled, Tho 11obaence of a.ny vibration shaking n~ .. ·1 mo t :on. ' " w11s wonderful. · · ~ · t Ill A slighll i erJi; t here was at regular intervals, bub tbev, aga.m, I was t old tha.t it wa.e due merely ro the shortness of t he course a.nd t he ln11.bility to get up a proper pa.ce. In a. hydraulio t rain traveling at full speed, thab Is t o B fii.:JI'· at t he rate of 1(0 to 200 kilometers or f!l to 124 ~ilea an hour, there would be almost no conno:ousness e>f motion, The p urney do'!ll"C t he espla.nade only occupl.id a tew seconds.. Upon our safe return Mr. Piltor, cha.irml'IQ oI the compa.ny "'hioh owns 'the invention gave a ful! accounb. of ib, Th~ sliding rail~ wa.y was m vented 111 1868 by aJl en.,:ineer named Girard, who was k illed in bne Fra.nc(). Ger man wa.r, and it ha.a beon improved tc> its present sba.te by one of his aseista.ntli eogmeers, M, Barre. As ha.s 11.lready been mentioned, bhe. hydraulic ca.rriages have no wheels thelle being replaced by hollow elides fitti;g upon: a fiat and wide rail, and grooved on t he innet' surface. W hen it i& desired to seb the. o~rrla.ge in motion wa.ter Is toroed into the. slide .or ska.to of t he c11orriage from a reser voir ~y oompreeeed air and seeking 1Jo, eaoape, iu spreads over the under surface of th~ , slide, whioh it raises for aboub a. natl s t hl.cknesa a.bcv.i t he rail. The slide& tbu~ reettng, nob on the rMla but on a film.. of '!Vater, are !n a pedectly mobile con?-itton, in fir.ct, the preBl!ure of t he fol'efingor is 8nffialent to displace a carria.gll t hwt eupported. fhe propelling force 1s supplied by th.e piHo.rs which stand at regular intervals au the line bet ween tho rails. ~nnn lng under neath every ca.rr!a.ge Is an. iron rn.ok, a.bout six inches wide ficted with. ' paddles. Now a.e the foremost oa.rrlage passes 10: front of ~he pi..tlar a ta.p on the la.ttcr is opened a.utomatrna.lly and a. stream of wn.ter at h igh. pressure is dtreotod on t he paddles T h11.b driv~s tho train on and by the time the las~ carrtaee hae gone p ast t he ts.p (which then olosee) the foremost one is in front of t h & next t ap, t he water's a.obion thus being o..n ~ tlnuous. Tho force developed is almostincredible. There ill some sph ehinl( on the ral~e at the eta.rt, but this dunlnish&1 al! thB tram goes. To stop t he train t b.e sm~ll stream of water bhat feeds the slides is burned oa:, and the latt~r coming in con tacb with tho rails, t~o reaul twg friction stops the c&rria.ge a.lmoau mstantaneously, A water brain r1 1au1ng at oY er 100 milert a.~ honr ~oul d, I wae told, be pulled up ~1thin thirty yards, could climb up ~rad. 1ent e of aixtetin inches in the y a.rd, descend them 4 0 :rw .. or t hree t ugs were felt and we were fi'yrng oo t he pace of an or dinary t rain but a.a WITil EQUAL SAFETY, f~r run on cur ves ot torty rour y11.rds radius. Tb1s system would seem peoulla.rly adapted. for elevated railwa.ys m otties, bemg light. noisel ess, smooth, wi thoub smoke, fast. and t horoughly nuder comrru·nd. The danger. o~ runclng off the rails is reduced to ~ °!'munu~, t ho centre llf gra.viby of the carn u.ges betng ac~rc,.Jy m Jre t han a couple of feet from the rails. The cost of a met. ropolltrm system would only be a t hird of on~ on the old pla.n, but in the open country its ooet would be somewha.~ higher t han. the ordinary rallwa.y ; but M. J:)!\rre tell!!>. me t ho expense would be in F ra.nce an average of £8.000 a mile. Where no no.tlll"ll: wat er supply is ava.1la.ble a propelling ma,. oh.ne every twelve miles or so would be sufficient to keep t rains going at full speed. T he consumption of coal per p a.ssengerwould be one tent h only of t he urna.l qu!\11tity, :rh o i mpor tance of t his may b.i realiz~d by considering the stabement that the Pa.riaLyons company alone bas an annual coa.l bill of £2 000,000. Nevertbefoes, 1b would be ra.bh to pi edict t he general int roducoionof t he wa.ter system on rail way~. Oae oba iaction, for instance, that occurs to me is ib. a.ppi1.rent uneu1tab11ity for good t r11ffic Mr Pe~sil, th~,n ana.ger ~f t he' Ch.imins de FoJ; Ghseants, believ es it will a.II bub do awat with the looomotive engine. With respec· to England ha believes tna.t the dioa.dva.nb· a.17es of the slow method of oroseing t he channel will become so a.pparenb t h an all op· position to the tunuel will vanish. " l a'll ready," he said with enthusiasm, " t o wager any sum t hat when th" tunnel is ma.de u.nd our system hae a tria.l people '!"Ill go from London to P aris in two not1>~.."· · an~ A .Look Ahead. Mother-" Laura, you ought to make tha.t young man of yours go home earller Miss L!lui;a.- " Bun we are en 'ed mv.mma. and I don't soc why-" ga.g ' Mot~er-" You will get him into ha.bits of at~y10g out late ohu.t you will be sorry for 1,~ some day, after t he honeymoon la over, f!r I l . · What He Was Cryine: r or. " Hana," said one Ger man to a.nother la t he streets of Fra.nkfort "whab are yo~· · a.b ou t ?" "I am crying J crymg because th& grea.t R othschild is dea.d " Wl.\ll the repl?. " And why should you 'cry about that ? ; v:as the further query. " H e was no ret~ tion of yours, was he ?" "No, was the answer, half smothered in sobs, "no relation, ab all, e.nd that's 3uet what I am crying for." M;. A Neeoful Statement. Since that Bridgeport girl i uined her jawa wlbh chewing gum the manufacturers of the "society quid" have been forosd to put ou~ tho followmg statement : " Our gum doea not paralyze." T _he value of the three crops ef whtat m bJze, and oats In t he Uui~ed 8 tates in. 1887 w11>s $1. 155,000.000. , i