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Show i H j" et ' tE OR DEATH WRAITH. !. Tuia Is Cie of the Oldest and Mott " , t'esf cct.ibln Ghonla. r Or" of the oldest and most repet- f" "' t "i of n'ecat l tl'i banshee, M , 'i eh I-. ' regard i J a a near rla- 1 I t'vn ff tho "ika'h wiallh," Inasmuch M j s1 It gives warning ct Impending K I t'onih by uttering lnmontablo walls, ' kiv3 Mpplncott's. Soma families take M ' ni-nt jiJdo In tho possession of tuch B ' -' In " n good example of which is 1 '(Jauc") bid by Mrs. I.ovoy o( 7 Ciitlo H v-'S'-e, London, who wrltos: "Tho M v'-hl 'vl)cn my mother lny dying was m r.- n of gieat inln. At about nlno H r tA tbero enmo a fearful wall ot a H nrrv'ij voice, as It swaying to and , fin j a. t thp windows. I ran to the B v udow, hut no human being could H 1" there, as tho room was two flights H i:i nnd no houses near. Hho dlod at H 1Q:"0 )i. m. My father and family sat B .it dinner on .ho evening of Fobrua-J H 4,' TSC8. v.-'iou the same foarful r BJ or n-r.'l ftiU our hoiiso. At olg')t M . f c!t !, ;-t morning my youngest l-'c'V 'iO qolto suddenly. Tho HBJ v iliit. ; liappcnod on my father's M '"' h I:; US"; lllcowlso on tho death B cf ry sUtcr In 1SS9, and on tho death r nothci' brother In 1890." Till HBl , banLheo seems to havo boon rather H " out plnco In London, such walling H glios.'s (which aro not seen and can- H not therefore bo properly termed ap- H parities) being especially domestl- H catcd In IrrlH id vhsro they aro usual- H ly nss.iolr'.-"l. n'th dilapidated castles H ! i"l an )""m er.'ahed and long-do- H ecrrdtil g.nuy. |