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Show Darttion of Dreams. How long do you dream? Have you ever tried to measure the period of time? Dr. Seholtz, a noted physician of Germany, holds the theory that all dreams cover but a very small space of time. He has many interesting examples on the subject, iml among them is the following. THE HOME SENTINEL BY THE tEMITKL onPASV. JAL T. JtkEIIT, niatccr. P. o. Box 47, Ttanll, ( . T- - Pkim e Karl Ludwig of is a demist iu New Orleans. A THE rll of 2,000 Feet, A most exciting incident took place in connection with the balloon ascension at Stafford Springs, Conn., not long ago. Professor, Hogan, the enparachute artist. who had ben balloon ascension, a make to gaged ha.l waited all day for the wind to die down. About 5:30 oclock, 3,O()0 spectators, he inflated his monster machine and ascended gradually to a height of 4,000 feet or nearly a mile. At that enormous height the balloon with its occupant apeared to be about the size of a frog. According to his programme, the aeronaut at this point fixed his balloon so that it would fall to the earth alone, and prepared to make his daring descent by means of the parachute which was attached to the side of the balloon by a small cord. The parachute, when inflated, is a sort of cone in shape, the base of which looks like an umbrella, the sides being numerous cords and the apex being a small iron ring, to which the pro fessor hangs by hishand. Mr. Hogan jumped from the basket at that terrible altitude with the Iron ring in his hand. The cord attaching the chute to the balloon at once broke, leaving the daredevil with his flimsy apparatus nearly a mile from the le-fo- re Ml'S Georgiy It ATT AS i' the suge't-iv- e He says: name oi a young Oregon school After excessive bodily fatigue teacher. and a day of mental strain of a not Joaqi is Miller ha been appointed disagreeable kind 1 betook myself to a in cm Ver of the California Forestry bed after I had wound up my watch commission. md placed it on the night table. Loiu Coleridge has collected fS5,-00- 0 Then I lay dow n beside a burning for the widow and daughter of amp. Soon I found myself on the Matthew Arnold. high seas on board a sliip. 1 wua again young, and stood Dr. WlLLIMAS of Mount Carmel, Fa., on the lookout. 1 heard the roar of Was bitten by a little girl whose throat floated His the water, and golden clouds he was treating for diphtheria. me. How long I stood I did around entire arm is now swollen and discolor not know, but it seemed a very long er, and he is in a precarious condition. time. Then the scene changed. 1 was in the country, and my long-Jen- d Mr. Ruskix was recently the proprieparents came to greet me; they tor of a study by Melssonierof Napoleon took me to church, where the loud on horseback for which he had paid organ sounded. I was delighted, but guineas. When he had disposed of it at the same time wondered to see my it realized 6,000 and soon afterward when wife und children there. The priest mounted the pulpit and preached, sold in Paris it fetched 7, (XX) guineas. but I could not understand what he organ, A Taunton (Mass.) preacher has said for the sound of the 1 took my earth. sued his church for salary, lie was to which continued to play. and with him asA terrible thing, now happened. receive 60 per cent of all .collections, son hv the hand cended the church tower but again The cords had become entangled and 77 to amounted but the fund has only Instead of stiffened by the rain, and prevented the scene was changed. cents, and he claims he did not got his being near my son 1 stood near an the great chute from expanding its share of that, lie is the Rev. Thomas mrlv known but long-deaofficer I broad surface in the air, through liar ris, colored. ought to explain that I was an army which the aeronaut was falling with surgeon during the maneuvers. I frightful speed. The people below, William S. Ja K'ox, thejhusband of was wondering why the major should looking up with wide open mouths, the lato Helen Hunt Jackson, betr look so young, whin quite close to could see nothing but n dark line, b r known in the literary world as II. my ears an unexpected cannon sound- becoming longer at each instant and II.," was married to his third wife in ed. Terrified, I was hurried off, when coming toward the earth with the Colorado Springs. He is a prosperous I woke up and noticed that the sup- speed of lightning. My God!' cried laid its cause iu a looker on: Hogans gone!' A wombanker in that city and is well known posed cannon-sho- t door an clutched frantically at a strange the of the opening us n shrewd railroad manager. through some one entering. It was man at her side as the body in the air us if 1 had lived through an eternity was seen to careen to one side, ns if Qi EKV Vktouiy and one of her in my dreams, but when I looked at unstable. At this point, when fully daughters were driving in Windsor a my watch I saw that since I had fal- one-hal- f ofthedescenthad been made few weeks ago when they heard a len not more than one minute in but a few seconds, and when not asleep blind street musician playing Abide Imd elapsed a much shorter time one of the 3.000 spectators expected With Me- ii ton an accordion. The than it takes to relate the else but a catastrophe, the aught bo given tc queen ordered that a florin great surface ofthe chute was seen to him for her and all England is up iu expan 1, and thence there was only a arms at this royal encouragement of graceful, easy fall that turned every About Divorces. to a smile. nil instrument of torture. In Australia divorces have never groan When the performer reached the Edwin Chadwick, who has been sanctioned. ground lie said that at the beginning Divorces nre scarcely ever known of the descent he realized his danger, been knighted bv Queen Victoria, just hut could do absolutely nothing but is the oldest man ever admitted into to occur in mordent Greece. clutch titering. He was unable to in his of ranks for n the In llimlostan either party, chivalry, being his head to swim, faintbreath, ninety-firs- t year. He wrote an article slight cause, may leave the other and ness overtook began him, and his sensafor the Westminster Review sixty marry. tion was that his fingers were relaxDivorces ore senreely allowed in ing their hold. At this years ago, and his whole life seems to point, howhave lieen passed on committees, counThibet, unless with the consent of ever, the entangled cords that held cils, congresses, commissions, und con- both parties. Remarriage is forbidinclosed the folds of the chute were ferences in connection with the Eng- den. by the enormous pressure In Cochin China the parties desir- snapped of tlie air, and he was saved from lish Social Science Association. ing divorce break a pair of chopsticks certain death. Springfield Repubji- ot witnesses, and the can. the Cardinal Hvynald, Hungarian in the ispresence dotio. prelate, was leaving his hotel to go to thing Among soino tribes of American his carringo a fow days ago when a Indians Beecher's Ailvlce. the pieces of sticks given the child begged him for alms. Ho felt iu witness of the Ward Ileecher, in one of his are broken Henry marriage all his jioekets without finding a coin, as a sign of divorce. latest sermons, said: To all the d woman and seeing a If the wifo of a Turkoman asks his that are coming into the young asked for to beckoned her ho her, passing permission to go out, and says church I say be young, be gay, be purse, and taking from it a liberal sum go, without milling come back If God has hopeful, be mirthful. bestowed it upon the chill. Then ho again, they are divorced. To kinds of divorces are granted given you a sparkling disposition, thanked tho woman gravely an enterin Circassia. By the first the parties thank God and cultivate it. While ing his carriage was driven away an immediately marry again. By it may not be tho object of your life tho joy that comes from these qualiThe invento r of the. ligs in Clover' the second, not for a year. In Liberia, if a man is dissatisfied ties. it is the privilege of your life to Moses a fanner is living with the Lyman, puzzle nets of his wife, perform all your duties under its innear Waverly, N. Y., who has m my tie tears amost trifling or veil from her face, fluence, and they can be performed in cap on is arid an children authority pigs. and that constitutes a divorce. no other way so well. The world One day the farmer was in a quan iry In Siam the first wife may be di- needs just such a development of the should lie how as to uimso young- vorced, but not sold, as the others Christianity. The world is full of ster'. llis mind naturally ran in tho may be. She may claim the first sorrow; it needs cheer. It is full of lino of pigs, and thereupon he made hild. The others belong to the hus- despondency; it needs .hope. It is full of cowardice; it needs courage. It out of a pieao of woo and a little paste- band. In the Arctic regions a man who travels in pain, it wants a healthful board tho original of the Iigi iu Clover. The novelty was so unique wants a divorce leaves home in atmosphere, sweet and balmy and does not return for several radiant. It wants the messenger of and tantalizing that it soon spread over r, and no lays. The wife takes the hint and Christ to lie a the surrounding noighborho id. lenurts. man has the right to make a dark In China divorces are allowed in all lantern, to go home and open the Mils. Ward McAllister was a Miss of criminality, mutual dislike, light to himself and family alone. rises Gibbons of New Jersey. She was marlealousy, incompatibility of tem per- That they carry a burdensome, a Manried to the arbiter of aristocratic or too much loquacity on the tinent, face, dishonor God. Ib hattan about thirty-fiv- e years ago. part of t lie wife. is contrary to His word. In sayin fin of son practicupward They have a Among the tartars, if the wife is substantially to the world that all she complains to the magis- hope, all the promise of the divine ing law in San Francisco and a daughter who has boon in society a number trate, who, attended by the principal presence, all the love which is poured of seasons. The means on w hich Mr. iH'ople, accompanies her to the house iiike an atmosphere around about us McAllister lives like a gentleman come and prononuees a divorce. every day from the bosom of Jesus Christ, is false and wrong. The man from the Gibbons estate, which is now, that carries a. doubting, weary, sad Is Time McATho Money, by the way, in litigation. dened face, misinterprets the religion llister share of it produces probably 3altiinore Sun. of Jesus Christ. (XX) is to $18,000 a year, and from f 12, Time well employed produces sufficient for their ostentatious home money or an equivalent gain ofsome The Tope and the American; life. kind. Time idled away or wasted cool assurance under all cirFor upon some unnecessary or use-.es- s cumstances tho Yankee holds The pope Is a very fine chess player, twavlabors prenot only yields no return, and one priest iu Rome has tho especeminence. Mgr. Cupel tells the story loss nut of a represents opportunity ial honor of being his adversary over that cannot be replaced. One may ol a meeting between Pius IX. and a tho board. This priest Father Geilla regain any other thing that is leading Westerner. A special audihas played chess with Leo Pecci for squandered save time. Unco gone, ence had been arranged for an Amerithirty-tw- o years past. When Cardinal t is gone for all eternity. No more can of prominence. Mgr. Cnpel himFather iinportent lesson can be given to the self was iu attendance on tho Pope. Pecci was raised to the papa-yGeilla, who was then in Florence, got voung than t hat on the value of The unterritied Oshkoshian was an invitation to proceed to Romo atil time. It may be passed by unheeded, uhered in with due ceremony. Not or on this subject more than nny at nil dismayed by the surrounding hike up his quarters in the Vatican. Geilla is hot tempered, but the pop. at her men seem determined to learn grandeur, he walked right up to the and by experience; but warnings should successor of St. letcr, und seizinghis takes his temper nevertheless be given, that there may holiness by the hand, exclaimed, I is said to often Improve the oec isioa be as early an awakening as limy be am glad to meet you. Pope, because naof on virtues tho a rosig by homily to the irreparable loss of wasted I have heard so much about vou. tion and meekness. time. Even the best of men nriived It was the Pontiff's turn to at middle age nre sure to have re- abashed. Oi;r rejected but still grets for lost opportunities, for friend Halstead has a pretty rtt, .ys wasted time. Looking buck with A Breach Pin In a Boy's Head. the Milwaukee Sentinel. Once a nu m the knowledge gained by experience, Marietta (Ga.) Journal. 'e her of editors were gathered at they can see how much better they Last week Dr. Will Dean was sent office and they were discussing might have ordered their lives if they for to assist in taking a breach pin made the best use of possible the merits of different prominent had Such time. their cannot of a boyshend. The boy's name out knowledge HalWe have in Ohio, said cranks. tie expected in younger men. The is Roach; is about 14 who years old, and is the an mo't editor stead, time will come when they, too, will lives near Holly Springs. While in fool and the ino-- t stupon louse but look hiukwithrcgret: they should the net of discharging a gun the Just then tie given the world ran show. warning from tlieex-STienc- e breach pin flew out, striking the boy early the floor tqioaed and a man ram i in. of others, and be taught ns in the temple and entering his head Gentlemen. said H isteai. allow mo well ns may be that time is money, to the depth of nearly two inches. . of wh to introdu e E Jltor gr nt not in the vulgar sense, but in that M hen it was taken out some of the now wa I higher one which represents money brain came with it. The cord of one just quilltio js merely a symbol of things that eye was rut in two. He was doing And tho ng wood or beatne 1 with U ire good to have. very well at last accounts. well-know- n )0 d bed-roo- richly-dresse- 1 1 light-beave- woe-smitte- n 5 Hal-stead- eol-lus- al go-ti'- i- -e Y qi ESTIOS WH1TH11. GFOHfSK MERtnmi. off th o'd r' Wfso much in nrthrown i of mrn'linjr. i w To tnnk anions tha naked tnut, U that, think you, our ending? TVe follow more we lea it And you who naoly turn u Believe not that a!l li inn Must tlower above the eurtacc. i a gnH'e'iil jrift. But were it cramped to stnt on. The pmjer to have't cut adrift ouhl spout from all sensation. have w inked to nun. Enough if Have eped the ploh a teasou, soil a for labor done, There it Endureth fixed aa reuaon. Then let oar trust te firm and good Though we be of the fasting; Onr questions are a mortal brood. Our work w everlasting. We children of lienetioenoe Are in its being eharen: And whitner vainer rounds than whenea For words with such wayfarers. GHOST STORIES. No less a man than Samuel Johnson believed in ghosts believed in them implictly, some ofhis biographers relate. Many eminent men believe in them. Few of them pretend to explain why they believe in them. They just do it, that's all. About six years ngo there was studying at a noted eastern medical university an extremely bright and promising young fellow from Tennessee. He was distinguished among fellows for his absolute fearlessness. Many a ghastly joke have they put on him to shake him from his pinnacle of courage, but he remained undaunted. They resolved to give a mighty test. They dared him to sit alone through the night in the dissecting room in the presence of a corpse. He accepted the challenge. The dissecting room was a long, narrow chamber with a door at each end, with suggestive tables in the middle and ranging shelves of surgical instruments on the walls. Into this room was brought the body of a man who had committed 6uicide a couple of days before. The body was laid on a slab at one end of the room. At the other end was a table, with a student's lamp in the center anil covered with books. Two loaded revolvers were laid on the table side by side. The student had placed them there as a precautionary measure. But the men who were testing his nerve took the bullets out of tho and replaced them with blank cartridges. Early in the evening the student entered the room, exumined the corps, lit his lamp ad sat down at his table and began to read. He became deeply absorbed in what he was reading and was oblivious to bis surroundings. Kia fellows, who were watching him through a crack in the door atjthe other end ot the room, took advantage of his absorption and one of them, clad in a long white robe quietly entered the room and took the corpse from the slab and placed it underneath a table. He then lay down on the slab in the place of the corpse. The student, intensely interested in his book, heard nothing and did not look up. He read on for another half hour, when he heard a slight noise. He looked up and he turned white ns lie noticed one arm of the corpse slowly moving. He was totally unsuspicious of any trick. The supposed corpse slowly sat bolt upright. After a moment it rose to its feet and stood perfectly still. The fellows, w ho were watching through the farther door, noticed that the student was deathly pale and seemed dazed. But he did not lose his nerve. He jumped up, seized a revolver in either hand and faced the supposed corpse. The corpse took a long steptowards him, then slowly advanced. The student commanded it to stop. No response, but the corpse kept nd vancing. Again the student, evidently crazed at the sight, commanded it to halt. No attention was paid to his demand, and the corpse was gradually nearing him. The youth, who was enacting the part ofthe corpse, raised his hand, pretended to catch the bullet (lie had a hand full of them), and threw it back at the student. Again the latter fired, and again and again, until he had discharged the twelve cartridges. After each shot the bullet ceased to shine for us here, we were his occupying his rooms, taking apartlarge room for our sleepinglmd rement. One nitrlit after we I fallen had wife asleep, and tired my remained awake, as was niv custom, book reading. 1 had put aside my the out light, to was about and put when the partly open door of the smaller room stepped the form of ur bed was in the ray dead brother. corner oi the room directly opposite. first thought was that 1 must have dropped asleep. But I rubbed looked my eves, sat up in lied and about me. There was my wife quietburnly sleeping, there was the lamp books were there my ing brightly, and newspajier, and there was my brother. I did not notice that he stopped w bile he took the hurried was survey, but now I saw that he his approaching ine. He had on His dress suit and a soft black hat. face was not so worn as when he left enus, but it bore the look of patient durance which pain heroically borne had stamped upon it, and through that shone the cheerful spirit the brave youth never lost and which could not be conquered. He came to within a few feet of me, and I was he strongly minded to speak, but me address to lie about to appeared and I kept still. Just then his eye seemed to light on my wife, and he turned his face away and hurried from the room, leaving by the outer door. His manner was such as it might have been in life if he had intruded into my wife s sleeping room. The outer door was open, the blinds being dosed, and the only unusual thing about the affair was that he passed through the blinds without opening them. I was not all startled by the apparition. I should not have been if he had stopped and talked with me as if he had been permitted to return for a visit with us. Indeed, after I had convinced myself that 1 was awake, I did not think of the appen ranee ns other than a reality, and only waited the pleasure of one whom 1 dearly loved, and whose untimely death made me feel that I was crippled for lile. 1 was glad to see him. After he was gone I told my wife of what had passed, but mentioned it to no other for a long while. In childhood 1 had been taught that there were no such things as ghosts, of which some ot my playmates stood in mortal fear. And I never took any stock in spiritualism. My own experience I could not deny, and could only consider it a mental phenomenon. I confess, however, that for a long time I felt as if I had really been granted one more look in life for which we long after the earth has swallowed up our beloved; and I was secretly eased by it. I am a cool hetfded, practical man and may say with any one: What I have I had lost seen, I have seen. dear friends by death before, and been ones liave even dearer me since, but snatched from in my waking hours I was never vouchsafed any open vision of any of them. This seemed strange. But in all my life I never had any experience more vivid, nor any the details of which are fixed more completely and clearly in my memory than that of tho few minutes I spent with my brother a few weeks after we had commuted his wasted form to the earth. My ly , A NORWICH GHOST. were laid on different member family at all hours of t,.. : TSi Vale sending them into nervoUli Dr. Felix L. The bedsteads were jerked ai value of lmb there room, occupants and Ul , Cal',foresaw t unseen power. bigf against Everything was turned . the gloom of it was impo'sil.L , signs of the turvy andlike order on the ia of postln anything Pandemonium reigned. It Spinoza and t ot tjel1r,Kl ns though the very air was uneasy spirits. The Branny K' ,BuJf and werethinking,, desperate, By -whit mg pastures new, when - Brannen and one Mring of.,, Ru ever sppr being in the yard, were starts "ho kuow of model strange, roaring noise, whii h Twn !, to proceed from the ground 8t'u feet. As he described it, L) to be a small whirlwind ot - ,, ' iuZU& and soinq thing firing lmn -- 1 'W . - . ii deck-int- wy,-n- man named George Greene dwells in a lonely house several miles from incontinent-carryinNorwich. Conn., which is haunted by a novel ghost. In the dusk of eventore-enteing a colorless human shape imprints itself on the gloom of his bed chamber. It remains motionless. When he arises from his bed nnd lifts the A curtain for the light to ccme in at k the window tho apparition vanishes. In the daytime the family hear the sounds of ail invisible object moving about the room or in distant charm bers. The furniture responds to the pressure of unseen hands. Once a case of drawers was thrown clown amateur theatricals at Bosooir. with a loud clatter and nothing was Manor, near Bournemouth. thecnrt seen to touch it. On another day a seat of hospitable Sir Percy Pk,, try chest was tipped over, a table dancI wasgivenslef ley.Beingabachelor, ed, a door o)iened and shut noiselessin what is known ing quarters nnd a ly, earring of feet was heard Theatre street. This was a dit on the back stairs. mitory, divided into cubicles, anda M hen Mr. Greene goes out of the tending right over the stage house a rustle lollows him and when of the pretty little priva; he comes in it goes ahead of him. He theatre. Each cubicle resembled tl has searched every nook and cranny state cabin of an ocean liner, - ; ofthe habitation in vain for an ex- this difference, viz, that there wasos planation of thephenomena , and now berth in each, and that the doors, ihe has decided to flee from the haunt- nstead of t! opening, slided back into ed house. The dwelling was built wooden wall of the compartment; about 200 years ngo, and there. is a When opening or shuttingtheynnD' tradition of a ghost in its history. a noise which echoed through Theatr In Bullock county. Ga., not ion" street was ns much effect as stag since, a man and family bv the name thunder. I mention this fact ton wtis tossed back at liim. The pistols fell out of the students of Brannen moved on to a farm for- sons which will be apparent hereat-ermerly occupied by a very old and hands and he dropped dead. miserly couple. These old people A STORY FROM BUFFALO. Well, I had played my part in Tk (man and wife) had no children or Gentleman Over the AYaynitbsou' The following curious story is told relathes, and, both a dying within a by a well known gentleman of Buf- few weeks of each other, were kindly success, I had had supper andwith Nq falo: glass in the green room buried by friends in the In thesummerof 1885 death took lerev, and I had retired to rest sense of having done my duty from me a beloved younger brother. It was found that they had been a neighbor. wit He had lived in my family utmost Suddenly I awoke in the most abject a start. Ah! my God! shall ever since my marriatre and com- living poverty The place presented a miserable ap- forget what I saw standing by manded from myself and wife double pearance, there being very little side of my bed! It was the fignn 0 for he affection, seemed to us both or cooking son and brother. When living with utensils, with a woman, headless and luminously any provisions, nnd several white. i us in health he occupied two rooms, scarcely cats, and half starved Hhe pointed towards me. I a f; one a large front room with an emaciated the poverty stricken outer door opening on the piazza. fouls completed but I buried my head crwr-aspect. Mr. Brannen bought tlie coward, the clothes, filled with a fright, Diagonally across from this in the p ace at auction opposite corner of the room the old people died shortly after the two I cannot describe. After about , and immediately minutes of this terror I sang out door opened from his bedroom into moved there with his family. But my his sitting room. The outer door neighbor in the next cubicle, at ; of his sitting room had Venetian they were there only a short time be- - asked him to throw over a box 0 ) blinds attached to the outer casin'" the hey wi5he1 thV had never seen matches. He did so. The figure1 thus allowing the door to be open seenplace. Strange beings wJre to but we kept our cnntb flitting about after nightfall, and appeared; while the blinds could be closed and till when we burning unearthly sounds were to be covered thatdaybreak, fastened, giving increased circulation dismal, in the Oj,1' the windows heard of air while insuring against intru- his wifeduring the- day. Mr. Brannen ridor outside, which we had carefck and son- being honest hard closed In the later weeks of sion. on going to bed. were al) u, my life, my brother had his sitting room working peopie and m open. I cant guess what the pork5' j because, although he was never bed f first pa.ldlittle meant, but this 1 do know, thate; , thinking it some ridden, he said he was growing lazv since that night I have never fP; j of the jokes neighbors. But as the without a and felt like lying down agood'deaf light in my room, A month or so after his blight light 8tad oi' better. ih, perhaps, but human natures" . all. . A An sretns 0nies? them to follow uld indeed. gradually drifted over into a ndon1 field, and atthefurthercorner to sink into theground, at the of an old dead peach tr ten went to the house, procured link irining ments, returned, dug, nnd found 4iral religi' one knows just how much, .rise of jnstic fate it was a great deal of money !r'Le the hoarded wealth of a lifetis'' tlie the old couple that d ied, is well b nd The Brannons have still wi Arfnilibe, on the old farm, and oner medioi remain quiet and serenethere now, whr! Owing to tl was chaos a short time ago. Tte snnovanc doubt b easy spirits have accomplished ? no meu ftIld mission and are at rest. There is in Parkville, L. I., att lBpecufllv house whose timbers once furUeful watch notorious HojJal eonditior part of thescene of many Blazes, the iy disease, nnd affrays of lesser import on red' kaai,ll,ic teentli street, New York. hen lt'on i , t House of Blazes was demoln 1 nersirti many years ago, its material an", etc., s taken to the Flatlands road jtcTand at made into another house. Thekdtliful use was occupied for the past seven-,- Rich lias ci troul1' by a John Moran, his wife and t children. During their tenaiD-- ; were queer rumors about the Vot diseased believ ed to be mainly because q y ' s have timbers. About a year ago Mr. oii, and o ran moved out. and Mr. Rennet ositively i tlirouv wife and an son m im is a "art jn wnced kidu Two nights alter the son was ar mother mm ened and saw a ball of fire To preser about the room. It vanished pon live are well came, nnd he thought it was an time earnest t.cal delusion. The next night leect use the a ring ot fire and then gren !r. o;ciouB Blld ened. A few nights after this he; treated to a much liiorcstartlins 11 fools v tliere pearance. Shortly after retiris.ol!y was awakened by the presence in For two t ne, oi room of a man whom he drenf,ou ; be country as very dark in complexion J wearing a dark pea jacket as A man m principal article of clothing. l0I'rtr 80 figure danced around the room i grinned and gloated over the terri; boy until the latter screamed or terror and brought liis mother the room just in time to see the, ure vanish, as they both thin air. Next night Mrs. fc ner saw the figure in her room,tr Mr. lteisner, who was with her, b not and laughed at her fears. Saturday night he was eonvinc that there was something wronz.: om4 approaching the house after dark.saw a figure dancing in front oft: which vanished when he hurried; sold &y CHaf ward it and raising, about midair he was struck across tlie face wit: hand so hard that the prints offer J fingers were left there. This settled the question. T Reisners left the house their clothes with them, at dressing in the open air. They : r fused the house and mot' Monday. The house is now vacar except ns to halls of fire and mvik ous figures which the neighbors clare can be seen there nightly, one has been brave enough to sol; the mystery. An English gentleman now ink United States relates the follow- weird story: .TTT Til Home years ago I was plnyinzi V J impel d 1-- wi- . wf-- . fur-nitur- e whK-q- . non-belie-e- pVaS 2I JF av. II ( R c5dStoliSS k |