V. ATIlUEOHOSTSTOltY THE OLD WOMAN IN THE QUEER DRESS UNDER AN OAK TREE. the Always Appeared to AnnannM Ap proaching Iteath In the Family flha Wm Probably e rrant Who Had Iteea Foal lj Itealt With fa Ancient Day "EvnrylHxIy lnti"lm In tlinw dityi at tho old atoiT of tlio lrlhli(HH)io" until Kcntlonmii of nnliminl reputation Into )jr M lio clmttttil with a friend or two tn tlio tiflleo of tlio Continental, "and I Kin not wiylnK but that it wan bnt a no porntttliin after all, HkiiikIi tlirm in a ilttln thing conniK'tpd with my family thnt in a utriiiiKO coincidence, to call it (ten thnt "Omnv whnn I wan a Imy, I vrtilco tip during tlio liltflit weeping bitterly, nnd when my mother ranie to my Ihm1hI1 I told tier thnt 1 Imd drrnmed thnt aqnoor ly drenHel old wiiiinm Imd romc to me under n lure onk tret nnd had warned nit- thnt my brother Lemmril, who wa my enlnr tiy aereml yenra, wnf koIiik to die very nHin. I noticed then thnt inntead ot calming my feare my mother liMened to m without unylng a word, nnd ire. ently eaw thnt alio, too, wn crying aa bnrd aa I wna. 1 nuked whnl waa thfi matter, and thotiKh elio int mo off I did Dot forget the ntrnngn effect on her thnt my dream had produced. "It could not have been a week after that that my brother eamo lu one after noon from school and aaid ho wa going to Join a party of yonng peoplo in a lclghlng excursion to the next towh. My mother wna very unwilling for him to go and confcMed to all aorta of nerv ous fears, very unliko her usual ralm and self reliant self, but my brother insisted nnd at last went olT, followed by my mother's anxious eyes. Within thn-o hours wo received a telegram any log thnt ho had been killed by the horses attached to the sleigh becoming fright ened, nnd, running nwny near a rnilrond tinck had thrown my jmkii tirolher m tier the wheels of a train "When his mangled body enme home, my mother met it, saying tn her sister, who wns visiting nt our limine for the dny: '1 knew it Fanny. H. here snw her the other night' and for n long time I wondered who the 'her' referred to could ho. 1 wns nearly grown when I again snw the old woman of my lmy hood dream was about to graduate at our homo university and wns studying hard for the final examinations and wan sitting up lute ono night rending over tome questions in mental philosophy when 1 dropped off to sh-epin my chair. "Then I dreamed of standing once more under a largo oak tree, which wns particularly marked nlsint the bnrk by a ring about three feet above the ground. Here I was, facing an old woman in a servant's dress of the thirteenth or four teenth century, I should judgo, and this old woman wns telling me that I would see my father no more in life. I wan a good deal worried over this dream, re membering my former one and its trag ic sequence, but had (teased to think of it in the hurry and anxiety of the ex aminations, when one day old Professor B. called to me as I was passing from one classroom to another and asked, 'H., isn't yonr father in Switzerland?' "I replied that he was, for his health had failed so alarmingly for months past that ho had been ordered abroad and had been rapidly getting well in the mountains of Switzerland. Be had recently Joined the English party in an expedition to Mont Blano and had writ ten in line spirits regarding the trip. Professor B. said no more, but I came across in a few minutes a newspaper containing an aooount of an American who had been killed by falling down a crevasse in the Swiss Alps. "No particulars were known or given by the paper, bnt I knew oh, yes, I knew that the American waa my father, and so it proved. I told my widowed mother of the strange ooincidenoe of my second dream, and she replied that the warning would never fail; that it had gone with her through her life, and that her mother had told her that this strange phantom had also given her warning of very disaster she had experienced, The old woman, whoever she was, was al ways accompanied in her missions of woe by the oak tree marked as I have aid. The whole thing is a mystery to us, bat it is true, every word of it "If the thing is something supernat ural, none of nt has any idea who the woman could have been or why she came like a bird of ill omen to prophesy evil to a plain American family, sans castle, sans legends, sans romance. And I, for one, am particularly interested In why the oak tree should have come down to ns in connection with the ghost I would somehow hate to think that some doughty ancestor of mine had, after the playful little manner of the good old times, put some faithful servant to death tn a way in which an oak tree took prominent part but I should not be sur prised if he did; indeed I have a sneak ing belief that that is the true explana tion of the whole thing, though I am sorry that same servant is so unforgiv ing as to take it out on me by bringing me bad news, which, if she'd only wait long enough, would reach me with pro verbial rapidity. ' 'Philadelphia Times. Eatartalaad. Aurelia (anxiously) Have yon seen George this evening, papa? He prom ised to call. Papa Yes, he did call, and I enter tained him for an hour before yon came down stairs. Aurelia Yon entertained him, papa? Papa Yes; I gave him list of all the new dresses you had last year and the cost of each. I never saw a man more interested, yet he left very hur riedly. London Tit-Bits. Happily Defined. Little Johnny (looking up from his book) Pa, what is the besom of de struction? Pa (who is adjusting a collar A ma chine they use in laundries, Johnny. Boston Transcript HAIR RAI8INQ FRI0HT8. A Mis "Stsniilnt aa KnT ftrnutkni a Heal or an Imaginary One Asa general rule unscientific, opinions 9n a sclentlflo subject are of but little value to the student and the investiga tor. Yet to be permitted to ask such questions appears to relieve one to a cer tain extent, even though the answer be far from satisfactory. There Is a variety of opinions among the authorities concerning the subject of the hair "standing on end" in time of extreme fright some of which are tena ble and altogether probable, others ridic ulous in the extreme. The notion, If no tion it be, thnt the hair occasionally tnises and lifts the lint is of extreme an tiquity. In the oldest lxxk in the Ilible ,'Jnb iv, 14 15) I find the following: "Fear enmo Hxii me nnd trembling, which nuido all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed liefiire my face. The hair of my flesh stood up. " Do yon rememlieT whnt Virgil says about his hero in the celebrated vox fail elbns hoesct passage? I read from Cun Ington's translation: While thus In ssnnr t preened From litmus tn linuee the mllrt qneet, The pale, Atl ierter of my wife Confronts me larger then In lire, I ttiKMl appalled, my hair erent. And fear my tongue tied utterance eherked. Macbeth relates his experience as fol lows: Why 1o I yleM tn that snugnitlnn Whom horrid Image doth until my halrf And again in Hamlet we read: I could tale nnfnld whon Hxtitest wnrde Would harrow up thy soul, frees thy young til. -xl. Make thy two eyes. Ilk stars, start from their sphere. Thy knntted and rnmlilneil lock to part And earh particular hair to stand on end, 1.1k quills upon the fretful porcupine. Similar instances of "hair raising" being mentioned in literature could lio multiplied, but the above nm sufficient, even without selentiflo corrolHirntioii, to prove thnt the phenomenon is not a freak of the Imagination. One of the authorities ls-foremo gives this opinion: "Plainly staled, the hair raising notion Is without a suttstiuitlnl basis. In short, the sensation is only an imaginary one." llildreth says, "In such ense the hnlr actnally stands erect, n result of a sud den contraction of tho follicles." Wilson's "Normal Condition of the Hair and Skin" snys, "Tho phenomena of hnirNtnndlngeroctiiicnHesof extreme terror cannot satisfactorily bo explain ed." Ht Louis Ilepublio. Ilrnnlleee I'liyelrlane. It is an almost fatal olmtaclo in the building up of pructico for a physician to wear a youthful face. Any doctor will eorroborato that I ronienils'r nn amusing incident in my own oxpcriouco after I had graduated from hospital service and put up myshingloand start ed practice. It was terribly slow work getting patients. I had a friend who was a medical student in my office. Ho was very dark comploxionod, and though only SO years old had a big black beard. A woman called at the office one day and asked to see the doctor. My student an swered the summons and said that he would call ma I walked into tho recep tion room. The patient who was a stranger to both of us, looked at me im patiently. I had a very adolescent mus tache at that time, "I want to see the doctor, " she ex claimed rather sharply. "I don't want to see a medical studont I wish to see the gentleman with the beard. " To save myself the loss of that patient I had to apologise and call my student back. 1 was present heard all that was said, and I was the author of the prescription given. The woman didn't know that however, and went away perfectly sat isfied. It was simply an amusing illus tration of the prejudice, unjust enough, to boyish looking doctors, and Incidents of that kind occur every day. New York Bun. oathera Planters, ' The gentleman, indeed, has taken to agriculture in the south. Before the war the whole southern social system rested on the planter. There has been an in sidious and noiseless industrial revolu tion since, but the planter remains the main support of the taxes. We have no class among northern farmers that quite answers to his. He resembles more the English country gentleman of a past generation when country gentlemen did not go to town. All the same, it would nut do to count the planter out of the soheme. He is the most American farmer of them all barely exoeptlng the New England ear, who is disappearing every year. He furnishes a conservative, native born infloenos of immense aooount A olass that still believes in God and women and honor, that may be led astray by hotheaded prejudices, but can neither be bought nor oowed. Is a class to be valued, sinoe It Is as true today as in Goldsmith's time that 111 fare the land, to hastealng Ills a prey. Where wealth accumulate and men decay. Octave Thanet In Scribner's. Wasting Oar Wealth. Providence stocked the earth, the wa ters and the air with a store of all that Was necessary for the use or for the benefit of man. Had we been content to live upon what may be called the inter est of this store there was amply suffi cient to last for all time But we are the spendthrifts of our race: we are ex hausting our capital, exterminating ev ery wild animal, ladling out with our machinery every mineral and raking the very ocean for its wealth. What is to become of us when we have exhausted our sensationalism, exhausted our cap ital and exhausted even our vitality? They call this fln de siecle. I call it flu du monda Truth. Yonr Learning. Wear your learning like your watch in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one. If yon are asked what o'clock it is, toll it bnt do not proclaim it hourly and unavked like a watchman. -Chesterfield. THE 8YIARITI. A. tied of roe where the eanllsht fallei A f llmpo of purple grapta on southward well. And fair, whit Thurll through Ui leave of trees. A nan of reet where yet no duty calls. A sins! war that lap the Idle eeerhi A shining Heard darting eul of rearht A breath of wind through odoroa banks of flower) A thought of peace, and ret too slow for patch, A dial where the pointed shallow erneii From hour tn hour of resri a lsy that keei lis beauty through the nlghti a night thnt come With dew and stars-a husli-a world that leeps, Detroit Free Pre. Red Men of flnlane. There are still "red men" in Onlnnn, according to Mr. Smith Dclnconr's re port descendants of tho inhabitants at tho timo of it discovery. They nro np pnrontly of threo or morn separate ori gin". The oldest inhnhitnnta nm believed to be the Wnrraus, who lead asemiaiiiphih ious life, without agriculture and rath er as fishers than as hunters. Where these people came from in not known. Of more ccrtnin origin are tho second set the Arawacka, who were driven southward from the West Indian Is land. After them name a Whole series of Cnrib trilios, who were also forced southward from the West Indies. Just before the advent of the European the Inst of the Car lb tribes mode its apis-nr-ance, and its people were known as the "TrueCaribs." In life and surroundings thoro is no great difference between any of the ex isting tribes. They live in small family gronps, the mntnal relations of the mem bers being admirably regulated by a very decided though unwritten code. They pass perfectly simple lives, the happiness of which seems to bo enhanced by the inevitahlo collisions with other tribe. A sufficiency of food is procured by hunting and fishing nnd a primitive kind of agriculture. Their houses, ndds Mr. Smith Dcliu-otir, tire of tho simplest, but exactly what Is mini red, and the fiirnituro is usually a hammock. Cloth ing is "a question for tho futura " London News. Itrt-lpee Tor Kline lircetlng. Hero nro two recipes for making a dressing for shoes: Take 3 drains of F)crmacctl oil, II ounces of good molas ses and 4 ounces of finely powdered ivo ry black nnd stir them together thor oughly. Then stir in half n pint of good vinegar, and the dressing is ready for usa it gives a bright, clean surface ami makes the shoes look almost like new. Tho second dressing is for rainy weath er nnd is said to make the shoes water proof. Tako an ounce of beeswax, an ounce of turpentine and a quarter of an otitico of burgundy pitch. Put them into half a pint of cottonseed oil and mult together over a slow fire, being jareful that the mixture docs not tako Ire. St Louis Post-Dispatch. Safe Abnee. Stnbbs Well, sir, I gave It to that man straight I can tell you, sir. Ho is twice as big as I am, too, but I told him exactly what 1 thought of his ras cally conduct right to his face, and I called him all the names in tho diction ary. Spudds And didn't he try to hit you? Stnbbs No, sir, he didn't And when be tried to answer back I Just hung up the telephone and walked away. Lon don Answers. Was Sinoe re. Friend What did he say to you when he proposed to you? Miss Rox He said life without me meant nothing. Friend He was slnooro In that That's Just what his possessions amount to. Boston Commercial Easy to Take And Ptrftct In The Action, AYER'S PILLS Never fall to relievo Dyspepsia, Constipation, and Headache. "I have proved the value of ol Aver fins in relieving uysiiep- u,,. a, ..I l.a,wl,iM.a u-ltl. ufilh PIU SB) J 1 14 iii;iuut.iiU vvis n complaints I whs so long troubled that neither the doctor nor my- o self suimogftd I should ever be O well again. Through the use of the above? medicine I am better than I have been for years." o A. uaskill, Versailles, in. "I have used Ayer's Pills for o . S years as a cathartic in liver o complaint, and always with ex- treiuely lienellclal effect, never JJ having had need of other medi- o cine. 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