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HRLIRVEl) Will I )r. Cones Keep W'isftnt'/t l>r. Kiliott Cou es, th? famous or- j uithologist ami member of tho Nati m al Academy ol' Sciences, who die?! ?ot very long ago, was long recognized as tho foremost advocate of the belief of thc existence of ghosts. Ile Isa?! promised several of his friends that. , if able to do KO, he would a pp? ar lo them after his own demise, and ?ow they are waiting with no little interest to sec if ho can carry mil his ai? ree mont, ilimscll a horn a host -'ir. as lie u:-ed to say. h.- ? ?joyed dismissing the Eiibjecl of phantoms in thc Kaine method of coo! lu ad'ed analysis as !.?. ' would apply t" (he ehi-.silicutioji ..:' hirds or .ny nt her matter - * i - : . tibie of i? ; roach hy ratio::;.! ar: : nient. '.1 have ?iyseif seen lin s: h Wt li ol' a good many dead persons. aid tin' doctor one day. "1 retneinher one occasion, when 1 had j a.-1 ?.'"in- lo bed, tho light being turned out. I was composing myself to slumber when 1 ..uddenly became aware of a presence in thu room. The impression convey ed to my mind was that it was thc presence of a certain person lately di ceased with whom 1 have been on very intimate terms. In fact. I felt an overpowering souse of thc nearness of thc individual in (]uestion. About the same moment there arose from the floor a nebulous mass of what looked like shining white vapor, which began to take shape, as did thc smoke from the c-axket opened by the fisherman in thc Arabian Nights tales. Gradually it assumed a more distinct outline, until it presented a radiant image ?d' my friend. Thc lips appeared to move and from them came nu intelli gible utterance-a message, in short, from the departed. I do ?ot caro to say what the message was. "I can assure you that the vision was no dream, and thc nature of tho message was such as to eliminate, to my own satisfaction, ai all events, ibo theory of hallucination. What then was tho shape of shining while vapor? Was it a human soul? lt is ai question pregnant with intense in terest." u A i> TUF. i i HOST run.i.. The doctor took another pipeful j His Promise' to C<ome ck. (.!' iuUu. lind lighted ii, an<l v. i; I. a i . licet i ve i > ii IT or tw?> emili n ned:' ? I!T. rv afternoon at about ."? o clock I lie duwn MU the sofa iii my library for a brief rest before dinner. Occa sionally, while enjoying thi; reposo, (hough perfectly wideawake, there comos upon me the peculiar sensation of thc gbo.-i < !iili. which I will pres entiy speak of. I wait with much at teuiion and interest lo soo what is goine !.> ?jrippj :;. and presently I lind own .. ?!:-(.: MI-ii '-s projected ob jeetividy. it were, ?..> thal my cpu* . -i If si a nd.s du' in th jj room and : ... .vs my b ?;.? lyint! on i!." lounge. Aliou: ti ?e. ia.'.?ei' ?H a bright iL'ht. ?diie'i ;'i'p'\- gradually until it has lilied all tl) . i.ti. find my con; chitts self linds ilncij surrounded by phan t iin.-'l mo il of I beni of pi I* ,oti.?i who appear lo lie strangers loni?', while others, H:.i!/!?' acquaintances who j have long been dead They scorn to j walk about and converse iii th? ord i nary way, though riot audibly. All the time I am clearly aware of the situation, and made useful mental note of whatever I observe, until after a few brief moments thc spectacle j vanishes and 1 lind myself on tho sofa again. > '"ll is obvious, if ghostscsist at all, I that they must be made of something. My belief is that they are in a sense substantial and possess a semi mater ia) structure. If you ask whatl mean by 'semi material,' I will refer for il lustration to thc ether which is un derstood to occupy all space, lt has waves of known lengths and measured velocity, which strike upon tho retina of thc eye and produce impressions of light. In fact, we know a good deal about this ether, but nobody ever saw a partie'e of it. inasmuch as il has not the molecular constitution id'ordinary matter, lt is semi-malei?al. 1 have j no notion ol the nature, ol the sub ; stance that m ike- a ghost, bul I sup j pose thal when a mandles it separates i itself from tho grosser particles that j compose his physical organism. Thc j latter decomposes, but thc spiritual part of tho individual do? s ()0t neces j sari ly share that t'aie, being composed i of liner stuff. IS'VISIJil.K PHANTOMS OF THF. I>KA1>. "Did it ever occur to you that wc ourselves may bo moving in a world of unseen specters and continually sur [ rounded, whether at home or on our walks abroad, by invisible phantoms i of thc dead? It lias been estimated i that for every human bein:-' now liv? ; iii!-' ;{0,UblJ have died on this earth, BO thal, il the spiritual bodies of all pre serve i xi.stcncc hen after death. We survivors arti hut a comparative few pa-sing a brief tena ?d' years of what we call lifo in the flesh amid a vast, impalpable swarm of beings iucorpo I real. Indeed, my own opinion is that ii is only the very rare and exceptional ghu-t that makes itself visible to the m in!/, and that such a phcnoiiM non i.- to be regarded wholly i xtraordi I nary. ' "Wc have reason now to think that tlo re i- no such thin? as the highly con ve uti o nal i zed ghost represented iu tradition ?md described in popular [fiction tho corpse-like apparition which enters by preference M tie ?itroko ? f midnight, dressed in a wind jug sheet, smelling of the grave, and drat'viac a clinking chain through thc sliding panel j it ?-rt by the door, while the e.indies bum bl lie and the dogs howl dismally. According to my own observation, and to the testimony of many other reliable persons who have I observed such phenomena, thc real [ spectre ?if a dead person shows few j >ign< of life, resembling a magic lan tern picture more than to anything . else lo which it is readily comparable. I It ?Ines not speak nor use its limbs, j its method of locomotion, when it i moves, being a gliding. lt is clothed ; not in a winding sheet, but in gar I incuts such as were worn in life by the individual of whom it is the eidolon or image. It appears by daylight as of ten as at night, but never with any purpose in its actions that is at all comprehensible. Occasionally it is self-luminous. In most cases it dis appears through a door or wall, but often it simply fades away in shadowy mist. Sometimes tho phantasmal lig ure is seen as though illuminated ona dark background: sometimes thc con tour is indistinct and resembles a lu minous cloud; sometimes there is no ligure at all, but morely a diffused J glow. Abb OK rs IIAVK (.MOSTS. "Knell of us, 1 believe, bas in him j a ghost, which ordinarily is confined j to the precincts of the body. When \ I die my ghost leaves my body, and, ; having done so, perhaps it may con I ti nun to bc the vehicle and means of j expression of conscious will, memory and understanding. Ht. I'aul says, 'There is a natural body and a spirit ual body.' It is of tho spiritual body that I am speaking. "Our senses take cognizance of no for tn 9 ?il* matter except those' which ? are iti a certain degree of condensa tion, but. as I have already said, the spiritual body may be of a more rari ? tied and tenuous substance. Thc non appearance of ghosts to us may bo a <iucsti JU not of the existence of spec tres, but of the acuteness of our per ceptive faculties. My own experience is that the coming of au apparition is always preceded by a curious sen?:! Lion which I call thc 'ghost, chili When this symptom arrives the threshold of consciousness seems to be shifted to the extent of rendering pos sible a perception of something ordi narily invisible. The change is usual ly very brief, lasting only a few sec onds, dering which thc manifestation occurs. ' Since childhood i have lound my self possessed of an organism in which the threshold td" consciousness is markedly capable of such shifting. On several occasions I have been aware of the presence of spiritual bodies ?d' de ceased persons, who gave; to mc infor mation that was not otherwise obtain able, and who conveyed to my mind a conviction of their identity. The ev idential value of these experiences is wholly personal, of course, inasmuch as they arc not subject to the ordinary processes of verification. "In each of us there is an inner in dividuality which differs wholly in its characteristics from our other self, lt is not subject to thc law of gravita tion, and it cannot bc mechanically affected to its injury or boue?t. It docs not depend for its being upon thc welfare or survival of the body it in habits. It is capable of changing its location by its own volition under cer tain circumstances, such as I will presently mention, though probably not exactly in accordance with oui idea of transfer through space. Tc such a being thc notion of time ii doubtless different from our own, ant this may give it a duration of existence comparable with our notiou of endlesi life. Very likely iL is not coutinnd ta this planet when once released fron thc body. Indeed, nothing forbid: ?thc assumption that it antedated tm body which it inhabits. It is the sou of ordinary language, and may cousis of a substance as dense for its condi tions of environments as is the physi cal body for thc conditions surround ing it. "I have spoken of thc permanen separation of thc ghost from the phye ical body as implying thc death of the latter, but there is plenty of evidence to show that it sometimes leaves the corporeal tenement for a brief time, presently returning. I myself have seen phantoms of living persons on more than one occasion, which looked and acted precisely as the individuals themselves might have done. They looked like figures thrown upon a screen by magic lantern usually, being recognized for a few moments, and then disappearing, but in some cases they had every appearance of solidar ity, to tho extent of hiding objects behind them. I never heard any of them speak, but on two or three occa sions ?hey gave intelligible messages by their attitudes and'gestures. There is no essential differeucc between the spectre of a living human being and the apparition of a dead person, so far as appearances go. Mach of us, as I have said, carries bis own ghost with him. whic!) is ordinarily under the control of thc possessor, but* some times appears to act independently. As a rule, thc projection of a phan tom by a living person is an involun tary act, resulting ordinarily from great mental perturbation, with thc cause of which the individual to whom thc spectre appears is in some way connected. Tho most startling in stances of this kind occur a little be fore or a little after thc death of thc sender, and such ghosts are known as 'death wraiths.' "Ono reason that I have for believ ing the evidence of my own senses in this matter is that on several occasions thc apparition of my own personality has presented itself to other persons io places where my body was not at thc tims. Some years ago I was in Chicago, at an ordinary evening party with about forty friends, when an in dividual in Washington, who did not even know where I was, was visited by my phantasm, and received from it a brief message stating where I was &i the time, and giviug the names of two or three of the guests present-persons whom thc observer wa? acquainted. This is ono of the rare cases where a ghost made itself audible. The So ciety for Psychical Kcscarch has col lected enough carefully attested and fully authenticated instances of such appearances to fill two bulky octavo vol umes. l'Of course, in a study of this inter esting subject, thc chief and obvious difficulty is to distinguish veritable apparitions from mere hallucinations. We know that the bodily senses are j very easily deceived, and therefore we i have to be ou our guard in sifting all ' the evidence obtainable. There is probably not one of UH who might not be haunted this very day or night by a spectre projected from bis own im agination. Men of great reputation for 1?.arning have in numerous iustau ccH recorded their observations of fa miliar phantoms, which, though they rocoguized them as creatures of their own brains, have been constant com panion^ of their waking hours, always likely to be on hand and accepting no hints tu depart. ''You ask what would happen if one should approach a ghost suchas I have described and try to toucli it. My re ply is that there would certainly be no danger in doing so, for spectres never do anybody any harm, thc fear of them entertained by most people being simply a dread of that which is uuknowu and not understood. What ever is unknown is always terrible. Hut tho phantom is composed of mat ter too tenuous to present any obsta cle, and 1 do not doubt that it would dissolve and disappear if you attempt" cd to walk through it." mm m -1 Rheumatism-Catarrh, are Blood Dis eases-Cure Free, It is the deep-seated, obstinate cases of Catarrh amt Hheumatism that H. li. H. (Botanic Blood Balm) cures, lt matters not what other treatments, doctors, sprays, liniments, medicated air, blood purifiers, have failed to do, li. B. B. always promptly reaches the real causo and roots out and drives from tho bones, joints, mucous mem brane, and entire system thc specific poison in the blood that causes Hheu matism and Catarrh, B. B. B. is the only remedy strong enough lo do, this so there can never be a return of thc symptoms. Don't give up hope but ask your druggist for B. B. B-Bo tanic Blood Balm or three Bs. Largo bottles $1, six bottles (full treatment) $5. B. B. B. is an honest remedy that makes real cures of all blood dis eases after everything else fails. We have absolute confidence in Botanic Blood Balm ; hence, so you may test j it. we will send a Trial Bottle Free. Personal medical advice free. Ad dress Blood Balm Co., 380 Mitchell St., Atlantu, Ga. For sale bv Hill Orr Drug Co. and Wilhite & Wilhite. - Dancing eggs are said to be abun dant in Shasta County, California. The egg is laid by an unknown insect on the oak leaves, and when it is mature it drops to the ground, where it dances about as if auimatcd. "I had dyspepsia for years ; no med icine was so effective as Kodol Dys pepsia Cure. It gave immediate relief. Two bottles produced marvelous re sults," writes L. H. Warren, Albany, Wis. It digests what you eat and cannot fail to cure. Evans Pharmacy. - The Indians of the interior ol Bolivia wear shirts and hats made of tho bark of a tree, which is soaked in water to soften the fiber, and ther beaten to make it pliable. Furniture Polish. There is a simple mixture of kero sene aud|linseed oil, two quarts of kero sene to one of linseed oil, which makes thc best furniture, polish thftt has come to my notice. This should only be mixed a little at a time. Some UPC turpcutinc but this is not BO trustworthy as it will dull instead of brighten the polish iu time. After the piece of furniture to be treated has been well dusted, take a soit piece of flannel ana dip in the preparation; rub a a small surface of woodwork, and then take another small surface, allowiug the first to stand while this is being doue; then take a eleau flan nel, and rub until the polish shines to suit you. This will leave a polish brilliant and beautiful. If this pol ishing takes place occasionally, the furniture may bc kept looking like new for an almost iudefiuite time;in deed, [ might say indefinitely, if it is all of wood. l?e sure the rags are absolutely clean and free from dust; the same ones may boused, and wash ed to use again us long as they last. When there aro upholstered cush ions on the chairs or other furniture, dust well with a whisk broom, then rub rapidly with a flannel wet with gasoline. There must bc no fire in thc room duriug the process, and not even a match struck in it until the odor has evaporated, it will bc best to set such pieces out of doors to clean them, if possible.-Lutheran Observer. - mm * t An Editor's Life Saved by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. During the early part of October, 189G, I contracted a bad cold which settled on my lungs and was neglected until I feared that consumption had appeared in au incipient state. I was constantly coughing and trying to ex pel something which I could not. I became alarmed and after giving the local doctor a trial bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough llemedy aud the result was immediate improvement, and after I had used three bottles my lungs were restored to their healthy state.-B. S. Edwards, publisher of The Keview, Wyant, 111. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. -- O -- - Gasoline drunkards aro becom ing common among the small boys ia the vicinity of North Penn village, a surburb of Phildelphia, and the dis trict knowu as "swampoodle." For sometime past tbe police of the Twen ty-second district have been mystified by findiug youngsters fast asleep and in a semi-conscious condition, stowed away in vacant houses, woodsheds and brickyards. It was finally discovered that the boys had become beastly drunk from inhaling the fumes of gas ! oliu?, and some of them havedevelop I ed into juvenile debauches. 9 ?tli t% A A A i(h ft <?fc*?L^^A.ttA ?tAA rfw?fcA A* A .A .A*. A A A 3 PALPITATION OF THE HEART. i -. Many persons ?re subject to spt??c of violent heart th robbi ug-, so PC ^ vere at times as to be almost painful. They legarc? this as an indica* < tioii ol' heart disease and often worry about it thus aggravating thc 4 trouble. Ninety-nine per cent of these "heart troubloi" are due en 4 tirely to disorders in the stomach and digestion and eau be cured bv applying proper treatment. For this purpose PRICKLY ASH ^ BITTERS is an effective remedy, it cleanses and toues up tho stomach, i strengthens the digestion, regulates tho liver and purifies the bowels. i By overhauling and correcting the system in this way it removes the ^ cause of the heart symptoms and helps to build up a stroug and vig orous body. A stimulant occasionally. The digestive organs, the liver, the kidneys and bowels lose their effectiveness at times and need help. At such times a stimulating, clean sing and regulating medicine is of priceless value because serious diseases spring from neglected disorders in these organs. An admirable stimulant and system regulator will be found in The uniform success of this remedy in correcting disturbance in the system is due to its four-fold cleansing and regulating effect. It is in the first place a kidney remedy of superior merit. Second, it is a successful liver tonic. Third, it tones up and strengthens the digestive process in the stomach. Lastly, it purifies and regulates the bowels. By removing obstructions and impurities in the blood, liver and bowels and strengthening the digestion, the whole internal organism is improved, because there is umimpeded action in all the organs that assist in maintaining health and strength. As a remit of this condition the MAN becomes himself again, he feels at once a brightening up in body and brain, renewed energy, snap, vim and activity. PERMANENTLY CURES A CONSTIPATED HABIT. As a household remedy to 'relieve indigestion, sour stomach, bad breath, belching, flatulence, bloating after eating, and for keeping the system in perfect order it is invaluable; Wards off sickness, cures kidney diseases, ner vous weakness, disorders in the urine, bladder trouble, headaches, heartburn, dizziness. EVANS' PHARMACY, Special Ageats.