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TRUE GHOST STORIES
HE WEIRDEST AND
most gruesome ghost story
true or otherwise, which J.
ever listened to I heard
Mine. Sarah Grand tell to
a ihones' company assem-
bled in the drawing room
of the late Major James
B. Feud, in Jersey City,
during Mme. Grand's, visit to thie coun-
try in the 'winter of 1902.
It was a, meet conventional dinner
party, and in its initial stages there ed-
died the usual flotsam and jetsam of
conventional dinner party conversation.
All the precious old inanities were me
chenged; all the pateut "bromiamns."
Literature, art, polities, theology. the
crimes of high finance, with convention:11
dinner party wit and wisdom; we skat-
ed over their dangerous surfaces with
almost as much grace and celerity as the
dishes came and went.
Those who had been invited to meet
the author of "The Heavenly Twine"
and had accepted with any preconceived
notion that they were going to be regal-
ed by finding her the reincarnation of
any oilier unconventional heroines might
have been deemed to disappointment had
Major Pond not suddenly broken into a
theological iliscuseion the lady was sus-
taining with a well known divine, by pro-
pounding the ever interesting query, "Do
you believe in ghosts."
Now, to that categorical question no
wise man or woman ever gives a cate-
gorical emswer. Only the foolish and ig-
norant answer in terms of yes or no.
And Mine. Sarah Grand is a wise wornan.
Moreover, Mme. Grand is an artist, and
in virtue of that title she proceeded to
answer Major Pond's question in an un-
mistakable way by relating to our erst-
while conventional dinner party a series
of remarkable ghost stories, each and ev-
ery one of which she personally believed
'to be authentic. One exceedingly thrill-
ing one she declared to have been a per-
sonal experience of herself and her step-
children, and the others -were all from
sources she sincerely believed to be sin -
questionable and unimpeachable. Of the
latter the story of "The Driver of the,
Hearse" was perhaps the most impree-
sivei—impressive not only because of
the peculiar nature of the story itself
and the extraordinarily artistic woy in
which it the additional face of the gen-
uineness of its phenomena.
Some fifteen years previous, so the
tale ran, a woman friend of Maim Grand
began to cause her family and friends
considerable grave apprehension because
of what seemed to be a case of approach-
ing insanity. This woman, whom for ob-
vious reasons we ellell here speak of as
Mrs. A., was the wife of a well known
country gentleman and landed proprietor
of Kent. She was a woman of :brilliant
social gifts and very popular in society,
both in the country and in London,
whore her house in Mayfair was ,and
indeed still is, not for its hospitality.
Story of the Hearse.
The apprehensions referred to were
first caused by a weird story which Mrs.
A. one morning told her family regard-
ing a hearse with a negro driver which
she had seen passing along the highroad
the night before. She had prepared for
bed rather early that evening, and after
dismissing her maid turned out the light
herself and was about to lie down when
the beauty of the moonlight impelled
her to go once more to the window and
look out upon the peaceful landscape.
It was a scene with which Mrs. A. had
been familiar all her life long— the wide
reaches of gentle English country, now
golden with the ripertal harvests, the
winding roads, the dark patches of the
leafy wooded parks, the roofs of distant
country houses and villaand the great
broad highroad which on its way to Lon-
don led directly past the box hedge only
a few rods from her window.
Everything looked to -night just as it
had looked .on hundreds of other moon-
light nights which Mrs. A. could remem-
ber from her childhood up. Nothing
strange or unusual ever happened in this
quiet Kentish country, she mused to her-
self. Seed time and harvest and seed
time again. The houses and the trees
and the lawns and the hedges, the only
difference from year to year, and from
decade to decade, was that the houses
were a little older and grayer and home-
lier, the trees and the lawns and the
hedges a little older, and, if that were
possible, a little greener. And the peo-
ple—why, nothing happened to the peo-
ple either, except that from time to time
some of them were born and from time
to time others of them died and were
laid away in the quiet churchyard of
the parish.
Turning over these placid reflections
In her mina as she fea,sted her eyes up-
on the moonwashed picture, Mrs. A.'s
reverie became suddenly changed into a
lively curiosity as she espied a vehicle
moving along the high road a point
about a quarter of a mile distant. It
was; now about 10 o'clock, and immedi-
ately Mrs. A.'s conclusion was that it
was the carriage of a belated guest,
whom she had been daily expecting from
London for the last week or more, and
who for some reason or other had been
obliged to postpone the visit from day
to day. With all sorts of pleasant anti-
cipations Mrs. A. leaned out of the win-
dow and watched the approach of the
vehicle, as it appeared and disappeared
behind the closely clipped hedges and
clumps of trees that bordered the road-
side. At the moment Mrs. A. was struck
by the fact that the carriage moved
very slowly, and as it drew nearer she
became much impressed by the oddity
of its shape and the unique manner in
which the horses were caparisoned. Nev-
er outside of a royal pageant, thought
Mrs. A., had there ever been seen such
a queer vehicle as this great black equi-
page, four plumes at each corner, and
drawn by two massive horses, upon the
heads of which were also black plumes.
In a few moments the vehicle must
pass close to her own house, for, as she
already been stated, the road to London
here made a sharp dip so that it came
close to the hedge, which was but a few
rods from her window. Eagerly Mrs.
A. watched that part of the moon flood-
ed road where the carriage would
emerge from the clump of alder trees
and pass along the open space before lies -
own 'brightly lighted carriage entrance.
As she watched and waited Mrs. A. be-
came impressed with the strange fact
that thus far she had not heard a sound
of the horses' hoofs nor of the carriage
wheels, all of which puzzled her more
and more the nearer the vehicle came.
Negro Driver.
At last a shadow fell upon the open
roadway under the window, and slowly
and solemnly the two great plume rep-
ositioned black horses stepped into the
breach, while behind them rolled a slam -
did hearse, upon the bOx seat of Which
sat a mem in a cap. Mrs, A. was, to say
.the least, somewhat startled by the ap-
pearance of e hearse at this hour of the
night, and at her own gate; for, sure
enough, the driver drew alp hie black
air and peeled under the glare of the
lamplight that shed itself from either
gate post. He paused, but just for a
moment—just long enough, apparently,
to single out the window where Mrs. A.
was, and to look up at her with a ghast
ly and diabolical grin upon his repul-
sive negro face. Then, the driver's face
still upturned, his features still distort-
ed iii the same fiendish grimace, the
black horses drew the hearse once more
into the shadow of the alder trees and
on down the road leading to the village.
Dumbfounded with astonishment, Mrs.
A. watched the hearse and its driver until
a bend in the road lost them to view.
Nor was her astonishment unwarranted,
as her family agreed when a few min-
utes later she had gone down stairs to
inform them of what she had just seen.
A hearse of any kind at that hour of the
night, was, in that part of the country,
an unheard of thing. Where could it have
come from? And why the strangely re-
pulsive negro driver on such a splendid
and stately vehicle? And, why, of all
things, should the driver of a hearse,
even if he WaS a negro, wear a cap with
brass buttons and a braes buttoned
coat? Anil, stranger than anything else,
why should he, the driver of a hearse,
in any circumstances, look op to the
window of a quiet country gentlewoman
and grin and grin and grin at her?
Inquiry among the members of the
household and servants threw no light
upon the mystery. Such of them as were
awake at the time hind seen nothing of
what Mrs. A. described, but as Mrs. A's
maid declared that the coachman and one
of the housemaids had just that moment
come in from it TiSit to friends in the
village, and must have met the hearse
on the road, they were accordingly sent
for. But, when questioned, both declared
that they met no vehicle of any descrip-
tion on the road. They had walked from
the village, 'where they had gone to call
on an old friend, formerly a fellow ser-
vant, and they had walked home leisure-
ly upon the main road. Further inquiry
proved that at the very those the hearse
was passing under Mrs. A's. window the
coachman and, the housemaid were
approaching the entraee gate, because
they both declared that they had seen
Mrs. A. in the clear moonlight looking
out of the window, and that they had
wondered what she could be looking at
so intently. No amount of persuasion or
suggestion could shake their story that
they had met neither vehicle nor pedes-
trian on their return walk, and, still
more mystified than ever, Mrs. A. gave
up further inquiry for -the night and
went. to bed, full of expectation of what
morning might reveal.
•
Imagine her surprise, however, to dis-
cover the next morning that the hearse
and its driver were as much of a
conundrum as ever. Diligent inquiry
could throw absolutely not a ray of light
on the mystery. Nobody of any note
had died in the whole countryside for
more than a year, and indeed the only
death within a radius of ten miles for a
whole fortnight had been that of the
village baker's wife, and she had been
buried a week. A telephone message sent
to friends in a half dozen country houses
along the road on which the hearse had
passed only added to the mystery. Ab-
solutely nobody save Mrs. A. had seen
the phantom hearse with the negro
'driver.
By nightfall the matter had come to
be regarded as a joke by Mrs. A's. fam-
ily and friends, and by bedtime Mrs. A.
who ordinarily had a keen sense of
humor, gave way to a very feminine
expression of ill humor and disgust for
the manner in which her story had come
to be regarded.
Being a very practical woman and not
given to superstitious fears, she dismis-
sed her maid after the usual services had
been performed. Then, putting out the
light, she said her prayers and, -with-
out any more ado, went to bed and fell
asleep. She awoke, as was her invariable
habit, about two o'clock. The moonlight
was streaming into her room and, re-
membering her strange experience of the
night previous, she arose and went to the
same window from which she had seen
the hearse. The scene was as peaceful
and quiet as it had been the night before.
tier eyes wandered over the hills and
downs and rested for a moment upon that
point of the road where she had first dis-
covered the funeral equipage. To her
great amazement there it was again,
moving slowly down the broad, smooth '
highway. She leaned out of the window '
like one spellbound. Slowly and silently
It drew nearer and nearer. Then for al
few moments it was lost to view in the '
thick shadows of the alders flanking the
road's approath to her own gates, and
now at last it wheeled into the open
under her window, the great black hearse
With its black plumes waving from each I
corner, the big black horses, their heads
capped with sable plumesand, stranger
than all else, the grotesque driver in
his braes 'buttoned uniform and cap.
Mon. A. Held her breath. The driver '
pulled the reins gently, the horses stop-
ped, on the very spot they had stopped
the night before, and, raising his fie ,
to Mr. A's 'window, the negro grinned
a ghastly grin. Then the horses moved,
once more and drew their gruesome
freight into the shadow of the alders.
This time Mrs. A. did not wait to
see the vehicle out of eight, as she had
done on the previous night, hut ran in
great agitation to the room of her daugh-
ter, whom the awakened. However, by
the time the latter got to the window,
the hearse had disappeared around the
bend in the road and was no longer to
be seen.
The next morning an evert more dila
looked and here sure enough it was, for
she herself saw it with her own eyes
in broad daylight—the hearse.
Quieting the patient's fears, the nurse
stood and watched its epproach, in
every detail, as he afterward declared
in the affidavit, it was identical with
that seen on previous occasions by Mrs.
A. There were the same great black
horses, and its the equipage drew closer
she also saw that the driver %IS it, negro.
Nearer and nearer it drew, and at last
pulled up in the open space in front of
the house opposite where Mrs. A. and the
nurse were stationed. Then the negro,
whom the nurse described as about 23
years old, looked up at them, his face
distorted itself into a horrible grin, and
then, to Mrs. A's, amazement, for this
was a new turn, he lifted his whip and
struck the horses such a sharp blow that
they dashed madly through the alder
shade and around the bend of the road,
The fact that the nurse had hVall the
hearse anil could henceforth bear wit -
nese in her behalf had to great tonic ef-
fect upon Mrs. A. both mentally and
physieally.
But the strangest thing of all was yet
to happen, for although what they 110
seen had taken ?leo at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon—an hour when the road was
much frequented by carriages and pedes-
trians, not a single person could be found
who had scan the hearse, and, whet was
still more inexplicable, it half dozen per-
sons whom Mrs. A. and her attendant
had seen passing along the road when
they met the hearse, declared emphatic-
ally they did not met such a vehicle, and
that it could not have met them.
In the light of this additional testi-
many on the part of the nurse, and ut-
terly baffled be, the turn affairs had
teicen, the physician recommended that
Mrs. A. take a trip to the continent in
the hope that acchange of scene would
work a beneficial effect. Accordingly, a
few weeks later Mrs, A. and her daugh-
ter, accompanied by the nurse (the same
who had Meet a witness to the phantom
hearse), set out for a trip to Switzerland
and the Italian lakes.
The folio wing winter they spent in
Italy, Mrs. A. all the while gaining in
health and strength. The phantom
hearse had by this time become only a
tantalizing memory to both Mrs. A. and
the nurse. _Neither of them had ever
seen it again after that afternoon. It
was, they reasoned, just one more of
those strange psychical experiences
which once in a lifetime come to certain
I persons, apparently without rhyme or
, reason.
The Secret Revealed.
From Italy the party sojourned to
'Paris, where they arrived just after dark
'one spring evening. Rooms had been en-
gaged for them at one of the prominent
hotels, the name of which I do not re-
call.
I When they arrived at the hotel they
were conducted by an attendant across
the main foyer to the elevator into
which a crowd of patrons were hurry-
ing. Mrs. A. by some accident fell be-
hind the party'all of whom had entered
the elevator before she could get to the
door, which she did just in time to have
it clicked to in her face and to see
through the iron grill the face of the
elevator operator grin back at her as
the car shot upward.
, Mrs. A. screamed with terror, for it
was the face of the driver of the hearse,
and none other, that she had seen. She
screamed, and the next moment there
were other screams from above, and then
with a terrible crash the elevator fell.
Everybody in it was killed, everybody in-
cluding Mrs. A's, daughter, her nurse
and the driver of the hearse himself.—
New York Herald.
DIAMOND MINING.
How It is Carried on at the World's
Greatest Mines.
The story of the Kimberley diamond mines
began two generations ago, when two bands
of Boer immigrants fled out of Cape Colony
to escape British rule,
One of them, says a writer In The World
To -day, settled on a patch of gold forty
miles in extent which has since become the ,
famous Rand and yields a hundred million
dollars every sem' in ;ace erecsous metal.
On the caiaer hand, Bergner Jataies off -
caddied on a humleed acres ef cleaeecries, and
his lattle elaim to -day cer.taires an atemerse
rconeeely in these teens. •
. in,childien aeed te acey le tee Eillnd 71tb
gent inquiry was made over the same
territory canvassed the day before but
strange to say, not a person could be
found who had seen or heard of the
hearse with the negro driver. On the con-
trary, there was every evidence that no
suoh hearse could possibly have paced
along the road, either at the hour Mrs.
A. declared she had sten it or, for that
Thaettoer, apnaynt*sethofer time.
which wer'oe carriages,
raturniume
from a late party at a neighboring coun-
try house, and travelled along the same
road in an opposite direction, and could
not fail to have seen such a vehicle had
they met it.
Mrs. A. was by this time in a state
bordering on hysteria, so confident was
she of the reality of what she had seen.
The family physician was called ill and
he prescribed rest and quiet., confidenta
Ally Informing the family that his pat-
ient :was in the initial stages of nervous
prostration as a reeult of the unusually
arduous social duties that had devolved
upon her the preceding sewn. The story
of the beetle the physician disposed of
as a species of hallucination symptomatic
of overwrought nervous eondition.
Seen by the Nurse, Too,
For two weeks Mrs. A. was constantly
attended by a nurse, 'while the physi-
cian continued to see her every other
day. During his time nothing further
was heard of the phantom hearse, until
one hot afternoon about four o'clock the
nurse heard her patient utter a little
seream from the balmily where she re -
dined in an invalid's chair. Stepping Out
the found Mrs. A. cowering in terror
IWO she pointed up the road, The nurse
inegat peare.es ter mart:cat. ale:saber Sehnh
Van Neie,riz saw one ef the manes. rook It
fl -coo Cli', atea oeas -,--,,ta tee remark three it
might be valutiale, and the follow:Mg year
it v.as oat snow at the C.:Live:sal ilt.ttosttlon
of Parts as a magnifist diamond of
ra-s,
Two years latcr old Van Neikirk herreell
picked out of the reed plaster of nefehbor
Do Tait% hut the famous Star of Africa,
which sold for 4:A4;v. That was the be-
ginning of the diamond mines which to-
day employ 16,0) Karrirs and 4,00 Euro -
Deane,
The pits rim in tubes or funnel; many
acres in extent, evidently forced up ages
ago by volcanic action. At first a Yellow i
ground was found, aad men lett the blue '
below this severely alone. But the era of
open workings soon came to an end, al-
though thou -sands of Independent diggers
made huge fortunes In a new monehe.
To -day you will find neighs of 1,000 feet I
In the diamond mines, and the bottom of
the blue funnel bee not yet been reached. 7..
Both blue and yellow earths, ettraded with
diamonds like a geological pudding, are sup-
peceed to be volcanic mud.
Holes for 'blasting aro drilled ,and after
the blest are Muehed off the crushed blue -
ground is conveyed to Nem mine shaft, 1,500
feet from the tunnels. Demo the ore Is
dumped into buckets on *heels and drawn
out of the mines by powerful engines. You
will see thous -ands- of men, mostly negroes,
earning e1.25 a day, perched upon the blue
ground rock in the tunnels, patiently drillIng
with hammer and chisel.
Great stretches of ground known as the
floors are marked off like tennis courts to
receive the precious ore; for air, rata and
sun will do tim work of disintegration as
no costly machinery could do t. Onetine,lnebsfiTeriesofdumrlg floors.ton their smootsurlecolsnpre
the blue
olky to the depth of a foot and after sev
oral months it crumbles and releases the in. I
destrtletible crystals 'within. otiOh _as .
din -
mends, garnet .% olivines and other aeones of
lesser value usually found associated with
the naost precious of all gems.
The disintegration peocess Is helped be'
harrowing with steam ploughs; and all
such ground as eernairle obdurate gees Into
the crushing machine. The weehing gear
is a marvel of ingenuity; and as the dirt
and gravel pees down its plane the diamonds
are arrezted by a tallowy coating. This
fat is then scraped off and melted in a eat.
n, in whose bottom the diamond, are
1°44 likt eereeloue grounds in a gigantic
lCoffeehey coupe.
taken from hero to the general
Offices of the nionepoly and carted
log to to value and size. atone worth e200,-
000 have been washed in a single day.
But even the weste earth is not yet done
with. Thie is twee:Illy treated lest tellow
and machinery alike should have ovolooked
anything of value, Thet the precaution
worth while is Aeon from the fact that dle-
inonde worth $1,400,000 were recovered from
theme tailings het year.
A Leaden eyndicato contracts to take
the entire output of the ,mines; and all cut-
ting is done in the Continent of Ettrene, chief-
ly in ten etartiam end Antwerp. Tito titmice
vary enorennoly in quality and leech in tho
rough from $1.50 to MO a carat.
There is very little leakage, considering
the stupendous ecate on which the diamond
mining is dram, Oue year, however, a memo
sorter was found to have ewanowea e3,o0 Of
stotee, but a colleague brOlso me record be
mellowing $48 catate of diamorida worth
'r'l°41its' Merin are constantly &miming new
modes of mougeltata They will load their
eMe beWl with eman diamonds under a lay-
er of tobamo aim vigorously puff emotes to
divert euspimen. 0,
Lawee of beelte hevo Mee so tut that to
on would think eimateede were comeemed
between them. Mitee eteugglere have gone
so far as to inflict mtioun tete upOn them-
selves and stuff Namable etoetei into those
wets:414
The,Refege Againat Old At..'
Debut Xhsle SeleeneoII Wrote " OHM:
to your y,Outh. It It the artistel stock in
trade. Do not give up that you are aging,
and you Won't age." In this familiar and
homely advice is hidden, the secret of the
artist's power tied charm. The never grows
ale; things never become commonplace to
him; the colors do not fade. As a matter
of fact, they never fade; it is the perceptions
which become duller, the inteeeet which be-
comes less keen. A good Many Men mat
women have discovered that it It e Fema
thine to associate intimately with poreone
younger than themselves. This Is one refuge
agalust.old ago, but the real refuge Is with-
in. It is the aeeortion of one's immortality,
the COnSCiotrinc::,s day by slay, In all relations
and occupations, that one Li going forward
and not backward; that the world, whielt
grows sadder because one's compaulone go
out of it, la growing brighter because one
is pushing toward the dawn and not toward
the sunset, There is e great mass of nits-
ipading and cynical philoeophy about old
age. Peary is full of images of disenchant-
ment ereetea for the greater part by dis-
enchanted men, There was a profound truth
in the ale Grocer picture of the millet begin-
ning its life In a strongly built house, pro- ;
Meted from all the elements; finding pros-
ently that the house -begins to be less cc -
cure; direevering at last that It begins to
crumble, and at the end that it falls in nano
—only to leave the man free under the open
elcy.—From the Outlook, New York,
A Horse with a
Strained Shoulder
Is sound as a dollar in 24 hours
after you rub the sore spot with
Fellowe' Leeming's Rssence.
It gives instant relief in all
cases of Strains, Bruises and
Swellings — draws the pain
right out — strengthens the
weak back, shoulder or knee.
Whether you have one horse
or twenty, accidents are liable
to happen any time. Keep a
bottle of
Fellows'
Leeming's
Esserice
bendy so you can have it when
needed.
soc. a bottle. At dealers.
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Mad Dogs Easily Avoided.
Mad doge do not atack people. This is
the statenem t 'undo by Dr. P. M. Han,
city health vonenissioner. "When a dog
has the rabies," 'said Dr. Dail, "he has
lost control of hie body end whot lime
does is ineehanical, JUR jows snap Invol-
untarily awl if he etwounleme any object,
whether animate an ioaninetto, the is
likely to bite it, nut a mad dog does
not attack as does an angry dog. He
does not pick out a victim nor use any
strategy, laor this reason dogs suffering
from rabiesare less dangerous than is
supposed. No grown person need fear
them, for all lie has to do is to get out
of the way. The dog will not chase him.
Of Course, pilule children are in danger,
as they do mit know how to dodge the
inute."—Minneapolis Journal.
Cow Carried Away a Golf Ball.
On Saturday two goltore were doing the
round of the Bury Field links, Newport Pan-
nell, when a most remarkable incident cm-
eureed.
One of the golfers in making a cleek shot
struck a grazing row on the hindquarters,
In dropping the deall lodged in the -whisk of
the cow's tail. Expecting to see the ball fall
when the tow moved, the players approach-
ed the animal, which started off on the run,
the ball still lodging in the tall. Tao move-
ments of the animal caused the ball repeat-
edly to strike her on the legs, which made
her kick out viciously. For fifteen minutes
the players gave chase in tbe hope of dislodg-
ing eh° ball, when a specially vicious kick
caused the' ball to fall to the ground.—From
the London Evening standard.
Getting Tired of Bosses.
The people are less and less well dis-
posed toward bosses. They want none
of them. The political boss is coming
into constantly increasing disfavor. The
voters are more and more awake and
determined not only to know but to
transact their own business without
waiting to be told by any self -constitut-
ed guardian, There have been recent
examples showing that conventions can
be controlled by the politicians, but,
that the voters are free and independe
emit, and that when they go to the polls
they cast ballots according to their own
Reim and as they choose.—Utica, N. Y.,
Press.
BETTER THAN SPANKING
Spanking does not cure children of
bed-wetting. There is a constitutional
cause for this troable. Mrs. M. Sum-
mers, Box W. 8, Windsor, Ont., will
send free to any mother her successful
home treatment, with full instructions.
Send no money but write her to -day if
your children trouble you in this way.
Don't blame the child, the chances are
It can't help it. This treatment also
cures adults and aged people troubled
with urine difficulties by day or night.
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Finding the Difference.
Some people are going to be mighty
surprised when they find out that there
is a difference between real goodness
and a receipt for pew rent.—Florida
Times -Union.
—and all stomachs
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The Spirits Moved.
(Toronto Wax.)
Hamilton woman has mysteriously dis-
eopeared. AS she had previously laid a
complaint against a liquor dealer, they sup-
pose isho bas teen $5pirited away.
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Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper.
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We, Us & Co.
(Toronto Telegram.)
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happy and contented people, who have pro-
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than any similar community of free and fair-
ly well educated citizen& on earth.
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Tyranny of Cards. •
The first universal delirium of -bridge
is, happily, over in England, and even
confirmed card players show signs of
convalescence, but we are still under the
tyranny of games. Though the born
gambler never realizes it, there are
numbers of people who don't care for
cards and remain. quite cold on the sub-
ject of gameof hazard.—London
Sketch.
Mango, Prairie Scratches and every form of
contagious Itch on human or animals cured
in SO minutes by Wolford's Sanitary Lotion.
It never fails. Soldby druggist..
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His Place Was Filled,
Professor James H. Hyslop, of the
American Society for Psychical Researoh,
said in a discussion of mediums:
"Genuine mediums being so plentiful,
I can readily sympathize with those who
ridicule false mediums. I heard of an
amassing incident in this line the other
day. A medium, after evoking Lincoln,
Washington and other seasonable spir-
its, said, in a thrilling voice:
"'I see a man of middle 'age, with
black hair parted in the middle, to
black moustache and a tip -tilted- nose.
Handsome, distinguished, stately, and,
he is hovering persistently about you,
sir,' and the medium nodded toward
an elderly man with white whiskers.
"This elderly man started, and then
burst suddenly into tears. His frame
shaking with sobs, lie cried:
"Tohin, John, why, oi, why did you
leave me to the misery of these past
years?"
tliyo.0 lenerw him?' the medium asked
gen
" Wow him,' moaned the elderly man,
I I communed with him daily. Oh, John,'
he burst forth again, 'why, why did you
have to die?'
"'Courage,' said the medium. 'Calm
youreelf. Thought his loss was a groat
one, you may yet find another friend to
full his placea
" not Impossible! His place is
What do you mean?' asked
the puzzled medium.
"The elderly man, shaking his head
sadly, answered:
"'He was any wife's first husband."
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Wild Geese Late in Northern Flight.
Skowhegan reports that at 3.30 a.m.
Saturday a flock of wild geese, estimat-
ed at 4,000 or more, flew over the city,
bound north.
'While they were passing over the town
the air was so full of them that it
seemed like the approach of a storm
cloud. The first gentleman to witness
this remarkable sight was Summer C.
Ward, Who is an early riser. The flap-
ping of their wings awakened him from
a sound sleep, and his first impression
was, until he went out on the lawn and
sass- What it really was, that it was
The markable part of ibis that the
poem were going north so late in the
season. It is past their breeding time,
but as everything huts been so backward
this spring it is presumed the birds
waited for warmer weather before leav-
big the southhaut—Lewiston journal.
4$.
Minard's Liniment Curet Garget in Cows.
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Mrs. Vanderbilt's Cheap Gown,
Mrs, Vanderbilt, of Baltimore, has re-
cently appeased in a yellow gown made
by a meeker woman of the North Caro-
lina mountaies. The material was grown,
spun and woven by the snme woman mid
coat its wearer just $25. Tb is hoped that
the almost lost art of hand spinning and
! weaving may be revived if a fad for
' homespun meting evealthy wangle can be
: darted, This is a pleasing hope.--Tht-
Oiango.
lIlt liellee Is cool on the hottelit day,
for He ceilings are high, its roof over -
than, It. Iute jalousiett inetead of glass
'windows and it is bare of thiek carpets
Completenos ofIrrenelt Com
Feance it a country where the census
tssumes almoet the elevation of high
art. The cult of &Mil of the personal
kind carriee pamion for statistics to as
aV0i110063, Tilt"TO is uothing like it in
the country. The timid bachelor who
cares to know the Department in which
women outnumber men, and are there-
fore least likely to reject it suitor; the
woman yearning for matrimony who
would leant where meet are numericaaly
lee preponderant SPX, and therefore mini-
mal:el to respect the law of eupply and
demand, need may 014 (heir eyes over
heee abundantly Plea:dried is tic
Similarly, ono may find at it glance
or huk'hm KOVintiti (IOW I men t uuiost hie
el hleci to baelielonlout or opintitaliood,
is It ii'ls to widoWhoint ituki whieh to di-
.. twee; whore till the dee f and Mina,
:mine from, and where 1)11'1111103e is in
Cashion, Tide 10441; 13 perimpe the umet
.turione hi &tailor ell. Why, for in.
• tame, should there be 10:1 blind pt.ople
io the 100,000 Votalat and may .15 in
tii Departnieut of Vienne? London
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Signs of Long Life.
"Bacon took a deep interest in longe-
vity and its earmarks," eaid a physician,
"and Bacon's signs of long life and of
short life are as true to -day as they
ever were.
"You won't live long," Bacon pointed
out, "if you have soft, fine hair, a fine
skin, quick growth, large head, early
corpulence, short neck, small mouth,
brittle and separated teeth and fat
ears.
"Your life, barring accidents, will be
very lengthy if you have slow growth,
coarse hair, a rough skin, deep wrinkles
in the forehead, firm flesh, a large
mouth, avid° nostrils, strong teeth set
close together, and a hard, gristly ear."
—Minneapolis Journal.
before you build. Tell why fire -
roof
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kind is the cheapest itr's8vsbalfiemtol
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pmetal material issheape
from first to last—tells why one
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Something in That.
If the people are neglectful of their poll -
tical duties and vote aecording to the orders
of bosses, then they would faro equally badly
under municipal ownership and under pri-
vate or public ownership instead of them-
selves and the bosses, then they would get
good service under either private or public
ownership. It all comes back to the vet-
er'e willingneas to he independent of the
boss.
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Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria.
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What's the Use?
(Toronto Globe.)
The list of drovinia,g fatalities continues to
grow. There seeme no remedy except to
repeat and repeat the -warnings.
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WILSON'S
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DRUCCISTS, GROCERS AND GENERAL STORES
10m per packet, or 3 packets for 25c.
will last a whole season.
Haunted Rectory Abandoned.
Luffineott, where the rector refuses
to reside in the rectory because he some
the ghost of a predecessor named Paie
her, is a remote parish of West Devon,
in the picturesque valley of the Tamar.
There are about thirty "haunted" rec-
tories and vicarages throughout the
country, but choke] ghosts have never
hitherto been taken so seriously, though
Fielding's truculent Parson Trulliber
would make a formidable apparition.
However, the Bishop of Exeter intends
to stop the present week -end visits to
the rectory of rowdy ghost layers—who
certainly do not "do" their "spiriting
gently"—by declaring the living vacant.
As the population and endowment of
Luffincott are both exiguous, the parish ,
could be worked, without disturbing the ,
ghost, by uniting the rectory to some
adjoining benefice. --From the Westmiue
ster Gazette.
C.,
Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc.
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Judging by, a Sure Sign.
Wise—He's very wealthy.
mean.
Mrs. Wise—Yes, and very sting end
Wise—Come, now, you're not ,sure of
that. You mustn't judge a man by his
clothes.
Mrs. Wise—I don't. I'm judging him
by his wife's clothes.—Philadelphia
Press.
Minard's Liniment Co., Limited.
Dear Sir,—This fall I got thrown on
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I could not work and it hurt use to
breathe. I tried all kinds of Liniment.
and they did me no good.
One bottle of MINARD'S LINEMENT
warmed on flannels and applied en my
breast, cured me completely.
0. H. GOSSAltatilf.
Rossway, Digby Co., N.S.
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London's Exposition in rgo8.
An exposition in London is officially
announced for the summer of 1908, to
include science, art, products manufac-
tures and systems of education of the
v,thole British empire, together with
those of France and all her colonies.
The preliminary arrangements were
made last November between the offi-
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The Spirit of Militarism.
(Philadelphia Record.)
The Mores in the Philippines are neatly
all kilted off In the stone of benevolent as-
similation, and General Wood is now get-
ting ready at Olongapo to protect the army
and fleet of the United States against an im-
aginary enemy-.
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