Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1895, Page 14

14 SPAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1895—TWENTY PAGES. ITS NEW. OFFICER —————— Those of the Christian Endeavor Unioa Take Hold. ALL INTERESTED IN THE WORK They Will Prepare for Next Year's Convention. COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN ———— eee September 1 was the Christian Endeavor New Year day in the District of Columbia. On that date the terms of the old officers of the District Union expired, and the ofti- cers elected in June last stepped in to oc- ecupy the places thus rffade vacant and assumed the task of carrying forward for another year the work so well done in the -past and @f creating additional interest among the various local societies and the “public generally. ‘This year’s change is of more than ordinary interest, for it is necos- sary that the work of the union be more systematically and successfully carried on during the coming season, inasmuch as up- on the union will fall the burden of pre- paring for and entertaining 2 great con- vention in July next. In work the new Officers will be ably assisted by the com- mittee of '06, whose special province it is to make all preparations for the next interna- tional convention. The New President. Miles M. Shand of the Calvary Baptist Church is the new president of the Dis- trict Union. He has. for thirteen years past been actively identified with Chris- tian Endeavor and other religious work. For five years he was superintendent of the Stickney Memorial Sunday school, at that time about the largest Sunday school in the District; for one term was president of the Christian Endeavor Society of the Calvary Baptist Church, and ts at pres- ent secretary of the Sunday school con- nected with that church. He was chair- man of the committee of finance of the President Miles M. Shand. preliminary committee of "96, which made the successful canvass prior to the meet- ing of the board of trustees of the United Society of Cleveland in 1804, resulting in the selection of Washington as the meet- ing place for the 18% convention, and throughout that year he was also first vice president of the Distriet Union. Dur- ing the season just ended he conducted the work of the union lookout committee until he was elected president of (ie union to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- tion of Mr. L. A. Conner, jr. upon the latter’s removal from the city. His re- election for the full term, beginning with the present month, is a deserved testt- monial to his ability as president and ex- ecutive officer. The Vice Presidents. The first vice president under the new regime is Samuel G. Wise, a member of the Memorial United Brethren Church. Mr. Wise has engaged quite extensively in past years in city mission work, and last year was a member of the union lookout com- mittee, conspicuously valuable because of the experience gained in various lines of Christian work. ‘The union's second vice president is Dr. C. W. Childs of the Zion Baptist Church, who has been enthusiastically identified with the Christian Endeayor movement for about two years. He was the or- ganizer and first president of the society of which he is a member, and was, with others, largely instrumental in closing a number of saloons in South Washiagton. Last year Dr. Childs was a member of the good citizenship committee of the union. Miss Mary Folks of the Vermont Avenue Christian Church Is the third vice presi- dent. She last year a member of the union missionary committee, and is thor- oughly in. love with Christian Endeavor work, being at present president of her own local society. The Seeretaries. Perhaps, after the president, the position of secretary is most arauots and respons- ible, especially during the present term, when so much additional work will be nec- essary in order to properly rrepare for the hosts of visitors who will swarm to Wash- ington next July. To fill this important post of duty the union has selected Hermon €. Metcalf of the Gurley Memorial Presby- terian Church. Mr. Metcalf’s fitness for the place was recognized from the able man- rer in which he last year performed his duties as secretary of the good citizenship committee of the union. Like many others prominent in Endeavor work, he was for some time president of the society in which his membership belongs. He recognizes the importance of the work to which he has been called, and starts at it with true Christian Endeavor energy and diligence. ‘The office of corresponding secretary is a Pertmanent one—the only one in which a change is not yearly made. Miss Lucy Jurney of the Mount Vernon Place Metho- dist Church has acceptably filled this post- tion since 1889, and, profiting by her long experience, is this year at her post better than ever prepared to perform the duties required of her. The Treasurer. ‘Judge Anson S. Taylor will look after the union's finances during the coming season. Judge Taylor is a member of the Union M. *E. Church, and was last year chairman of the good citizenship committee of the union, besides being connected actively with other agencies devoted to elevating the moral tone Samuel G. Wise. Dr. C. W. Childs. of the community. Judge Taylor was not an active member of any Christian En- deavor society, and was not identified with the movement untii after his attendance upon the Cleveland convention. Then he took in a dose of enthusiasm ample enough to last him until the Washington conven- tion of "0G, when he expects to get stocked up again. All these cfficers were elected in June last, and since then have been meeting and planning for the work they were soon to assume, and now that the new year has fairly begun, t have their ideas formu- laied and their plans well in hand, and will begin at once the work of execution. No time will be lost, no time can be lost; every moment is precious and from now forward must be occupied In arranging for the ten thousand tun usand things that must be attended te the 3 of the ‘vs ec Meetings of the executive will te heid monthly, have been lanned the annuat istrict ary. After that it is presumed ‘that the committee for the international convention will take charge of ail meetings, since it Miss Lucy Jurney. must be from that time on largely con- cerned in the preparations for the enter- tainment of the great gathering. Commit- tees of the union have already been select- ed and announced and are now organizing for a vigerous year’s work. The Lookout Committee. Of these committees there are six, the most Important of which is the lookout committee. Miss Lizzie Warman of the Gunton Temple Memorial Presbyterian Church has been appointed chairman. Sie has had no particular official connection with the union prior to this time, but has been such a successful worker in all lines of Endeavor activity that her influence as chairman of the lookcut committee is ex- pected to be of great valve to all the so- cietles. The lookout committee, composed of twelve members, is organized for the purpose of assisting in any way desircd any society of Yhe union, either with sug- gestions or by practical work with and for the society. Last year the committee had charge of a¢ least one prayer meeting m every society sav: ad, in addition, a system of intervisitation was arranged, by which more than six hundred Endeavorers visited meetings in other societies than their own. The work of this committee fs a most important factor in keeping the societies In tuoch with one another and with the union. The Missionary Committee. Another branch of the unign’s work is given In charge of the missionary commit- tee, also composed of twelve members, whose chairman is Miss Florence Shuffle of the E Street Baptist Church. Miss Shuffle was a member of this committee last year and acquired an intimate knowledge of the work and much valuable experience as to its objects and best methods of carrying it on. The purpese of the committee is to Keep each individual society interested in missionary projects of whatever characte: whether home, foreign or city. By sprea ing information concerning mission fields and missionary organizations the cemmit- tee seeks to enlist more generous giving on the part of the virlous societies. But its function is limited to edneating and en- thusing and does not contemplate the col- lection of funds; this latter work is always and only done through the missionary boards in the various desiom:nations, Good Citizenship and Correspondence. The good citizenship committee, of which Judge Anson S. Taylor is chairman this year, as he was last, is organized for the purpose of fighting the degrading influ- ences in society—the saloon and kindred evils—and of fostering upright citizenship and good government. The locai committee has alway co-operated with District or- Ganizations having a similar import. ‘There is also a correspondence committee, of which Miss Jurney, the corresponding secretary, is chairman, consisting of the corresponding secretaries of all the local societies. This committee’s work i8 to wel- ecme Christian Endeavorers from other cities who come here to take up their resi- dence, and to find for them a congevial church home and provide them an invita- tion to join one of the societies of the de- nomination to‘which they belong. Fer Goed Music. The ‘two ‘remaining committees of the tnion have the same chairmen as sim- liar subcommittees of the committee of "96. Charles S. Clark of the Church of the Covenant is chairman of the music committee. He is supervising principal of the public schcols of the second division, is the preceator at the Church of the Cove- nant, and was at one time president of the Endeavor Society of that church. Besides, he is cont ected with several musical organ- izations of the city. His committee of eight members looks to the supplying of 2 leader and organist for the monthly mass meetings, and endeavors, also to increase the eificieucy ot the music in the iocal so- cleties. The Press Committee. John B. Slemen, jr., the retiring secre- tary, has been selected as chairman of the press committee. Every District Christian Endeavorer knows this active, energetic, always-full-of-good-ldeas worker. His local society is that connected with the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, but he has for some years belonged to the union, first as its vice president, then successsive- ly as chairman of the press committee, member of the preliminary committee of "06 and as secretary of the union. In the Mrs. May Folk. Abner 8. Taylor. H. C. Metcalf. fall of ‘82, during His term as first vice- president, the official organ of the District Union, the Endeavorer, was started, and he became its business mansger, and as chair- man of the press committee during the fol- lowing year ne managed and edited the pa- per. This year, in addition to his other du- ties, he will again assume that task, in which he will be aided by the five members of his committee. Mr. Sleman will also as- sist the Jaily papers of Washington in se- curing news about the movements of the uri and especially toward the time of the corvention will bis committee be in itself a small news agency and press asso- elation. He has a number of excellent ideas as to the manrer of assisting the daily press in gathering corvention news, and will not be slow in carrying them out. The First Mass Meeting. The first mass mecting under direction of the new officers of the District Unton will be held Friday evening, September 2), in the First Presbyterian Church, and a large attendance is looked for, as It is expected to begin the year’s work with a fresh start. A part of the evening will be devoted to the reading of the ant.ual reports of the re- tiring secretary and treasurer and to five- minut> talks by the newly appointed chair- men of the various committees, detailing their plans for the seascn just entered up- on. Stirring singing under Mr. Percy 3. Fos- ter’s leadership will be a feature of the ex- ercises, and an address to the Endeavorers, urging them to untiring activity during the season before them, and offering encourage- ment in their work of preparation for the coming convention, will be delivered by Rev. M. Ross Fishburn, pastor of the Mt. Pleasant Congregational Church. ——.___ Her Escapade. From the Pittsburg Chrontcte. Mr. Hiland—“Did you hear what Mrs. Norths'de has done?” Mrs. Hiland—‘What {s it?” “I thought perhaps you had heard. Sev- eral people know of it.” “What on earth is it? Tell me, quick!” “She has left her husband.” rue. I have it on the very “Who told you?” “Mr. Northside himself.” “O, dear! f'm so sorry for them. They seemed so devoted to each other. Tell me what caused the separation.” “There really isn’t much to tell. Sho wanted to pay her mother a visit, and Northside couldn't spare the time to go, so she left him, and went alone. She will be away about a month.” Mr. Hiland, you are a brute! So, there!” BUCKINGHAMS DYE FOR THE WHISKEPS IS a popular preparation in one bottle, and evenly a brown or black, Auy persom ean ea: apply it at home, AUTUMN’S BANNERS The Chemistry of the Beautiful Fo- liage of the Fall. SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS Jack Frost Not Altogether Respon- sible for the Tints. TO PRESERVE THE LEAVES ROM NOW ON BE- [Fees nature’s grand- est season. Every American who has penetrated out of doors in autumn has admired those trees which relieve, the otherwise gray land- scape with their foli- age, as rich in varie- gating colors as the solar spectrum. How many of those who not only admire but gather the autumn leaves understand how they are snaded .gnd tinted in nature’s workshop, which is now open to all? The Department of Agriculture is solving this problem, which has always been a great mystery to botanists, up to very recent years. The writer a few days ago ited the laboratory of Albert F. Woods of the division of vegetable physiology and pathology, and learned a greater part of the results of his studies in this line. Mr. Woods’ specialty is the study of all the dis- ezses of plant life, and consequently he has devoted considerable of his attention to leaves, which are the lungs, or breath- ing organs, of plants. It is now believed that autumn leaves are diseased, or rat that they are abnormalities. This is all new science. It is the revelation of the most modern experiments in botany, reach- ing up to date. How a Lenf is Constracted. First, we must definitely understand the anatomy of the leaf. Here it is in a few words, as described by Mr. Woods. if you take a large bag and fill it with potatoes until they lie four or five deep, when the bag is flattened out you will have a first- rate mode! of a leaf‘on a colossal scale. ‘The material of the bag represenis the epi- dermis, or outer skin, of the leaf. The po- tatoes represent the cells, within which the leaf mzkes its food. This food consists en- tirely of sugar and starch. Starch is made by the leaf by chemically combining water, | absorbed up through: the roots of the tree, and carbonic acid gas, breathed in by the leaves themselves. Both the water and ges are abserbed by the protoplasms, or living substances, in the celis, as well as the minute grains of pigment which furnish the color of the leavea. Under the influence of sunlight certain chemical changes take place in the carbonic acid gas and water, and their elements again coming togeth. form sugar. The sugar is transferred from one cell to another in the leaf, gradually becomes diffused throughout the stem, reaches the branches, limbs, trunk and finally the roots of the tree. Any force which prevents a‘leaf from ful- filling its functions of making starch will cause it to change color. These differences are caused by changes in the grains of color pigment. Green, which is characte:- istic of the greater part of vegetable iife, is very complex in its composition. It is not produced in plant life except In the pres- ence of sunlight. It ts the result of a com- bina ‘ion of colors, which, when mixed, ap~ per is solid green. Hence a leaf colored ovner wise than green is not natural. A Natural Paint Box. t Red is one of the color elements of leaves. Redilsh colors are generally in a liquid form, in the sap contained by the leaf ceils. Yellow is another principal coler element. This, combined with green, is the natural shade of the grains of pigment within each cell. Brown is the normal color of the walls of the cell. The cell, whieh, in the first instance we likened to a potato, for closer details of structure may better be compared with a smail rubber ball, very thin, filled with the red dye, which dissolves and colors the whole solu- tion. Also add Paris green, whose minute grains will not dissolve. Yellow grains of seme powdered substanee, likewise insolu- ble, should be mingled with the green enes. The rubber bail itself is brown, cor- responding to the color of the cell walis. The combination of ali these colors in the one ball, when seen in the light, is the green tint of plant life. When any one of these elementary colors just describ-d disappears the general eftect of the remaining colors clustered in that particular place is changed, just as would be the case if you had a lot of green beads mixed with brown ones, yellow ones and red ones, and took away any one of these shades. If ar autumn leaf turns red, for instance, its color is due to the fact that only a red pigment is left’ If yellow, all the other color is destroyed except the minute yellow grains. If it changea to brown, that is the sign that the leaf {s dead. All living- color has disappeared, leaving only the brown walls of the cells. The brown leaf, therefore, may be com- pared to a rulped castie, deserted of all interior life, and whose hollow wails still stand. Or the brown leaf may be said to be emblematic of the human skeleton, in which simile may weil be seen the appro- priateness of the lines which mention man- kind as “green today, tomorrow sear.” Jack Frost Not Ail to Blame. Mr. Woods says that many people other- wise well informed make the mistake of supposing that the frost alone is the cause of the variation in the color of autumn leaves. The leaves in this season really begin to turn before the frost appears. Frost, however, hastens the destructive action already beginning to take place. Any conditions of climate whtch cause the gradual death of leaves produce a high variety of colors. Hence in a long-drawn- out 2utumn, when the days gradually cool from summer heat to winter snow, are to be found the most beautiful autumn leaves whereas in those autumns {1 which the frost comes early and the weather is irregu- jar fewer are to be found. An early frost he will cause all leaves to turn to a dead brown. Crimson and scarlet autumn leaves—the most becutiful of all—are more abundant in the cooler pertions of this country than in any other place in the world. Europeans who have coveted the luxury of our au- tumn foliage have frequentiy planted cut- tings from such trees in their native coun- tries, but without success. When these trees are deprived of their native soil they patriotically refuse to make beautiful the landscape of other nations. Botanists also find that trees in the eastern portions: of this country are much more productive of beautiful autumn leaves than those of the west. The reason for this is that the soil of the east is humid, or damp, whereas that of the west is arid, or dry. ‘Trees Cast Off Dead Leaves. It is interesting to notice how trees finally cast off their leaves in the ‘ate fall. The falling of a leaf ts brought about by the formation of a little thin layer of vegetable tissue at the point where the leaf stem joins the branch of the tree. After a leaf ceases to make starch and sugar for the tree thi: tissue begins to grow, and actually cuts the leaf off. It is therefore not a mere breaking away, on account of the wind’s bending the dried stems, but an automatic severing of the member, no longer useful. After = leaf has fallen the sear left In the end of each twig becomes entirely healed over. The falling of fruit when ripe is dependent upon the same pro- cess. Botanists have learned how to make a tree shed its leaves artificially. By making the surrounding air very dry, so that the evaporation of moisture from the leaves is too great, the plant may be made to cut off leaves in a very short time, even early in the spring. On the other hand, if the soil be made too moist, and the roots be- come smoti -red or drowned so that they cannot absorb moisture, the same Zallnag will occur. Those who wish to br highly colored autumn leaves have but an easy task. Select the branch of a tree which contains the most beautiful leaves. Cut the branch and plant it. When the tree finally mathres it will be filled with the same variety of leaves each autumn. Most of our .highly variegated foliage plants, such as. have-been produced in this manner ugh many generatio1s. Mr. Woods preserves leaves of various kinds, each of which may be kept for mazy years as an object lesson illustrating some particular symp‘ ef plant disease. He therefore can ive some valuable sugges- tions to those who have the fad of collect- ing autumn leaves, To Dry the Leaves. Soon after they are gathered, he says, they should bejdried by pressure hetween two sheets of blotting paper laid fiat on a table and heldGown by heavy books. Afi of the moisturé ‘Stiould be taken out in from three to four, hours after they are first subjected to thisttreatment. After this pro- cess they will retain their color for years, provided they are not subjected to the di- rect reys of the sun. Ji leaves are not theroughly dried, however, they will soon turn brown all over. {t is a remarkable fact that almost the whole weight of leaves is due to the water which they hold. For instance, in one hur- dred pounds of fresh meadow grass there is often as much as eighty pounds of water. One hundred pounds of lettuce or cabbage leaves Rave been found to contain some- times ninety-eight pounds of water. All of this must be pressed out if the color of the leaves is to be preserved. An interesting experiment lately discover- ed by botanists is what is known as “leaf photography.” Take a leaf and soak it In sicohol until all of its green color disap- pears. Afterward goak in a water solution cf lodine and the starch grains will become blue. After this-dry the leaf, and it will eppear trenslacent. By holding over sei tive paper it may be used as a nega and will print beautiful photographs of the original leaf when held in the sunlight. —— BLOOMERS Are ALL RIGHT. And the Bieycle is the Emancipator of Feminine Thraldem. From the Philadelphia Record. The picycle girl who has been in doubt as to the propriety and modesty of the bloomer garb need have no further quiverings of conscience so far as this matter is con- cerned, for the Fellowship for Ethical Re- search has set its stamp of approval on the much-disctssed garment, which some cy- cling women wear, and others wish to don, but iack the coufage. The momentous question of the “Moral Influence of the Bi- cycle” formed the subject of an address which Dr. Isaae Hull Piatt of Lakewood, N. J., delivered before the Fellowship for Ethical Research last evening in Mercan- te Library Hall, Dr. Platt said cycle and the bloomer were all r! that settles it. The wheel was heralded by Dr. Platt as the emancipator of feminine thraidom, and he was e: warm in his comrmenda- and in her champion did of into a di: net allow himself to be drawn n of the relative merits ef divided si the compremise sho skirt and leggings, out-and-out bloomers, or the extreme of costume as cxemplified Mary Walker trousers. He confined his at- ks to the unwieldy skirts, which shackle in general and the bi- hain on a pri and discre left the mooted question’ of trousers or compromise skirts for after cons'deration. inly as he would have the t n..ctothe herself. When he hig Bot say It was a s ‘ber ceased to in: By when society on wheels, oh rks that t women moved around | -¢gneeded that they were eds, half the Wetory for rational dress was achieved. “I believe that pncre is no single influ- Kk Whith is doing so much for tjon Of woman as use of ~ygPiatt declared. “In so Ses ft, it takes her from the metony of the continual hes cook stove to the sink. It beguiles he intd, the open air, and under the sway of enfrgnchising and ennob! Induences of yatuie. mt fidence aud. iny Syst importance, it prom- meant leg point in much as she maddening journey from ‘i fo no mears of the -ises to give ber 4,ratlonal costume by at last relegatingjihe skirt into innocuous de- suetude, Thaty a -geasonable human being should ever edgpt.s long skirt as.an artic! of.x parel is gneredible. It znust ha been forcgd upon woman in some pre! toric age by her lord and master to her servitude, and to act as a shac hamper her movements and prevent as a ball a: her 4 chain are of a prvi r. Im- gs about his daily avoca- tion in a lens rt. “I suppose that every individual over the age of two years and not an idiot is aware of the fact that a normal woman has two legs. and yet for seme reason, utterly un- accountable, it has beea the convention for count] ages for her to go through the shallow farce of pretending that she has none. Now that she has learned to ride a Dieyele, she finds the skirt more incos- venient than ever before, besides being dangerous and modest. In a fit of des- peration she js discarding it, ard it would seem before long that she will stand before the world as the equal of man, a free and acknowledged biped. If the bicycle shoul! have no other moral influence than this, it would be far from little.’ - Dr. Piatt, who is an enthusiastic bile: himself, advan many other reaso: ments lo prove that the b: tle moral influence. Its exercise, amusement, utility of serv its demeccratic tendencies in making men equal on a wheel,” were am which he pointed cut. ——— The Mystery of the Dimes. From the Chicazo Tiwes-Herila. Dimes had disappeared in the most re- markable way, and the head of the house- hold was mystified. He could not under: stand it. If he laid a jittle change on the table the dimes would disappear. Nickels, | pennies and quarters were safe, but dimes vanishe: His wife complained of the same trouble. If she left any change out for the milkman or for any tradesmen who was Ikely to call all the dimes in-it would vanish as soon as her back was turned. They even Gisappeared from her purse. j This was the state of sffairs one morning when the head of the household. found he was short of change. In fact, he needed car fare. He had some Dilis, but met a nickel. He went to his wife for assistance, but she was in the saine predicament that he was. Then it was that the sev old boy came gallart “IN give you a dime,” he said. You!” exclaimed the father. Yes, I've got a whole lot of money,” re- plied the boy. “Where The boy went down into his pocket and produced one cf the old-fashioned dime savings barks that his father had bought and brought home when those annoyir things were all the raze. “There’s most $2 in it.” explained but it will take $3 more to open i! * exclaimed the father, | yes ® wél, papa,” persisted the to the rescue. he boy. ou kn4w You cannot open it until there is $5 in It.” 7 . “Yes, I can!” Heturned the old man threateningly.? “Why, no, papa, “I say yes." And when he réturned from the ‘wood- shed with the bank it was discovered that an ax could ogén it as easily as dimes. ——3_| see “old Siang. From the San Franciseo Post. ‘A young man from the mission was showing his cOuntry cousin about the city. He told him ‘alt ‘the latest stories, had sprung all the Jatest gags, had shown him all the sights that are supposed to interest the bucolic visitor; and in the meantime was dropping alf of the latest slang phrases. He emphasized each and repeat- ed it a time or two, tn order to impress it upon his protege. “I notice that your ‘you——" 1 elty people use &@ great many old slang phrases,” remarked the countryman. “Well, you're a good thing, I don’t think. We are—’ “There you go again. If that ex- pression isn’t an old chestnut I don’t know what is. Why, Dickens wore those out half a century ago. Noddy Boffin regarded bimself as a good thing, and Tom Pinch, quoting John Westlock, said: ‘I am a nice man, I don’t think.’ It strikes me you are a few years behind the times.” The young man from the mission decided to read Dickens and find something new. FOR BRAIN-WORKERS. Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Dr. LEE W. BATTLE, Durham, Cc, ‘My work and experience with it has been and results very good among brain werkers, givi satisfaction in every lastance.”” OCCULT PHENOMENA Some Wonderful Visions Reported by a London Society. STORY OF A PERSISTENT SKELETON Marvelous Mind-Reading by a Child of Five Years. DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS OT EVEN THE best-informed readers in this country hear of the many weird and strange cases in- vestigated by the famous Society for Psychical Research— that mystic assembly which holds regular seances in Westmin- ster Town Hall, Lon- don. This society now has quite an ex- tensive American branch, which ts rapidly growing in num- bers. It metudes many of our well-known jentists and literary men and women. ‘The writer had the good fortune to be granted an interview” with one of these American members a few days ago, who acquainted him with the very latest and st striking cases now under considera- tion. The testimony regularly presented to these explorers’ into the realms cf mys- tery contains the most vivid- ghost stories and tales of occult phenomena to be glean- ed from any part of the world. Almost every strange happening which cannot be readily reduced to a material hypothesis Is referred to these sages for unrayelment. It is scientifically considered only on cor- roboration by several authentic observers. A Gruesome Caller. Probably the strangest case under con- sideration is that of a lady living at Manor Park, Essex. Th2 evidence presented is One night, while in her twen- tieth year, she was terrified to see a tall human skeleton enter her bed room, drag- ging at the end of a piece of old rope a ecfin, which*it brought very close to her. Over its right arm was hung a pall, which it threw over her, while pointing into the coffin, as though entreating her to examine its contents. This pall, when put over her, caus2d a fecling of suffocation, which left her in 2 very weak coadition, after which she invariably fell into a heavy A Gruesome Guest. sleep. She testifies to the society that previous to this vision she did not believe in supernatural occurrences, had always been of a lively disposition, enjoyed exce!- lent spirits, never was in better health of mind and body, had never seen a real skeleton nor the representation of one, nor had she any dread of death. This horri- ble phantoin continued its visits to her boudoir every night for two years. It always appeared about 10:20, while she was preparing for bed. Her room was lighted on every occasion. The coftin ap- peared to be one that had been used, and although entreated each night by her ter- rible visitor to look into it she never found the courage to do so. At the end of the space of two years the skeleton ceased it: visits, until one autumn night, five years later, when its victim was confined in a hospital, suffer- ing from a_ shattered constitution, due eaves to its former long period of visi- ation. When seen in the hospital, it was gazing in through a window opposite her bed. She aid not mention the occurrence to any one, but presently heard an exclamation from a fellow patient—a woman occupying the bed next to hers. Without pretending that she had also seen anything, she asked this neighbor what was the matter. The latter replied “That thing all bones!” A doctor on entered, and glancing in the direction of the two women's eyes, became frighten- ed and Jeft the room. although not told by either woman what they had seen. About an hour jater a nurse came into the ward la2ughing, being amused at the doctor, who, she said, kad been scared at something, and had asked her to accompany him into the dissecting room, where a subject was lying dead, for he was afraid to go alone. He told her that he had had a dreadful scare in the ward about an hour before. but would not tell what it $s, being, in all probability, afraid of ridicule. The society has its evidence from the principal per- sons © erned. Here were three of them, each seeing the same phantom at once. without either telling another what was seen. A Triplicate Ghost. Another case, of which cerroborative evi- dence is given, is that ef a young man of New College, Oxford. Just before Christ- mas he went to Liverpcol with his brother and sister. It was a bright, clear day, and the streets were thro 1 with shoppers. While on one of the principal thorough- fares he saw his uncle, whom he knew but sYightly, but whom he astinetly recos- zed. The uncle in question was an old lame man, and, strange to say, following him came two other shapes, each hobbling by in the same manner, all three appearing altke. The young man was hot at all alarmed ct this strange sight, but turned to his sister and told her that he had just seen his uncle's ghost and that he felt sure The Skeleton Again. the old man was dead. Both brother and ster ridiculed him for the remark, and rone of the young people thought more of the episode while in Liverpool. On arriv- ing home, however, their mother’s first words were the announcement of the same uncle’s death on the same day. The young man testifies that he had no previous knowledge of his uncle's iliness, nor had he been thinking of him before seeing’ the triple vision. Both his mother and sister have corroborated his testimony, and he is identified by the society’s agent, who in- vestigated the affair, as a man of “perfect good faith.” Another Vision. Still another ghost story, which has been deemed deserving of the attention of these mystic philosophers, comes from London, One day in the summer a young lady, ac- companied by a friend whom she was Visit- ing, went to several of the suburbs to visit @ number of old churches. While in one church her friend, another young woman, reluted the case of an old doctor, a very dear friend of the family, who was buried im the churchyard, and who had left a cer- tain sum of money for the purchase of a window to be erected in the church as his memorial. The person inheriting his for- tune had neglected to carry out his wish, and appropriated the sum for himself. Ac- cording to the young lady’s testimony, on hearing this story she became angry, and remarked that had she been the old doctor she would rise out of her grave. Imme- diately after saying this she turned erourd, only to see an old gentleman, in ancient dress, standing behind her. Thinking that Three of His Uncle's Ghosts. he likewise was examining the church, she took no further notice until her friend, on perceiving the same figure, exclaimed that they must come away, 2s that was the old man of whom they had just been speaking. Upon hearing this the young lady thought rer friend must have been suffering from a spell of some sort. The former was not a believer in apparitions, so continued to gaze at the old man,-who appeared to van- ish into space before her eyes. She afterward observed that no one could have possibly entered the church without passing her and her friend, both of whom stood in the cnly aisle leading up from the entrance. The o'd man had stoed in the portion of the church furthest from the door, at which end there was no opening. The church was undoubtedly empty when they entered it. She carried a vivid mem- ory of the old man’s face and dress, and when she reached the house of her friend she at once identified his photograph,which the family had in their possession. The so- ciety has Getalled evidence of the entire occurrence. Wouderful Mind Reading. The society’s attertiof has lately been called to ceses of thought reading by young children whose ages would dispose of theo- ries pointing to premeditated trickery. One of the most interesting of these cases was that of a child who, when only five. prom- ised to rival the feats of the most success- ful mind readers on record. So noteworthy is his case that rumerous foreign’ doctors and specialists have examined him, devot- ing reports to the phenomenon. The boy hes excellent health and his parents are entirely free from nervous disorders of any kind. When his mother began to teach him the multiplication table she found that he could say it as well as she herself, al- though he had never looked at it before. le gave correct answers to the most com- plicated problems in mental arithmetic withoct pause. Some cf those who exam- ined him found that he could translate any sentence In English, Spanish or Greek merely on hearing it spoken, although he hed net hitherto studied those languages. After thorough examiration, however, it was found that all of these feats were due merely to mental telepathy. He generally failed to give the proper answers unless his questioner’s mind was fixed upon the same answers before he gave them. It was quite natural that they should do so, hence‘ he unconsciously bafiled every one for a long time. He also could repeat equally well anything that his mother happened to be thinking about. It was a very difficult matter to teach him to read. When his mother looked upon the page at*the same time, he pronounced the words =s they met her eyes, not he saw them himself. Upon the advice of the doctors the mother has since striven to break him of these mind-reading tendencies for fear that his intellect might’ become permanently de- pendent upon hers. From this case it would appear that thought reading can be innate in some persons and is not necessar- ily cultivated. That the mother had the most marked influence over the child's mind would suggest that the telepathic affinity might be due to physological causcs. Prophetic Vision. Another case of mind reading, or rather prophetic vision, on the part of a child is that of an English girl who, on being taken to a strange place, or on seeing strange ob- jects, frequently experienced the sensation that she had seen them before. The facul- ty was noticed by her parents in early childhood, and during her attendance at school. Recently, on leaving school, her mother took her to travel in countries which she had never visited before. and with which she was in no way indirectly familar. One day, while staying at a re- sert on the Lake of Thourne, they heard that by climbing a certain hill, previously unknown to them, they might enjoy a beau- tiful view of the surrounding landscape. ‘The walk to the hill top was by way of a narrow path. During the entire ascent the young lady was struck with her apparent familiarity with evéry tree or other object passed. Finally she became so positive that she had been there before that she told her mother, as a means of proof, that on reaching the top they would pass a tree bearing an odd notice printed on a sheet of tin. On reaching the place spect- fied, both the tree and notice were found. exactly as described. In addition to full testimony from the young lady herself, the scciety has that of her mother, who cor- roborates it in every detail. This case ap- pears to be an excellent one for theoso- phists to use as evidence that persons souls have previously inhabited the earth in different bodies, sometimes those of the lower animals. An Explosion by Telepathy. Thero are as many cases reported from America as from other countries, but they are not generally as striking as those con- cerning foreign subjects, probably for the reason that Americans as a rule are not generally visionary. One of the strangest of these apparitions was seen by a man living at Lima, Ind., who was a large stockholder in a bank at Coldwater, Mich. In the middle of one night he was awaken- ed by a supposed explosion, arose and walked all through the city to locate it, but found that he was inistaken. The next day he heard that the bank at Coldwater, in the other state, had been robbed at the same hour of his dream, the safe being blown open with dynamite. His money was doubtless uppermost in his thoughts going to sleep, and hence the estabiishment of a telepathetic or telegraphic line between his mind and the money vault. From its branch in this country the so- ciety has also received testimony regard- ing the supposed medical value of hyp- notism. This includes the case of a young New York school teacher, who from wit- nessing an accident received a severe men- tal shock resulting in paralysis of the {face and Hmbs. Ey making hypnotic pass- | es over the afflicted parts a physician made it possible for her to walk abcut in less than three weeks. At the same time she recovered her senses and did not remem- ber anything which had havpemed since | the day of her fright, which she calle] | “yesterday. On her fuather recovery the doctor found that she was what hypno- tists call “a sensitiv She could feel nis presence when he was not visible and could distinguish objects held between her hand and his by their tastes coming to her mouth. Water over which hypnotic pass- es had previously been made tasted to her like mincral water, and could be distin- guished from other water not so treated. Two Distinct Consctousnesses. A member of the Royal Chemical Society, London, has recently demonstrated to thé Scciety for Psychical Research a proof that man possesses two distinct conscious- nesses. This he explains by the fact that persons under the influence of anaesthet- fes, while not apparently conscious at the time of operations, are somettmes able, after a few days, to describe the exact de- tails of the operation, Instruments used, etc., although not informed as to these before or since. What he calls the “work- a-day consciousness” was absent at the time, but the “subliminal consciousness’ that which was present during the oper: tion, and which not only felt but saw what was going on. Hence, anaesthetics would seem to. postpone rather than destroy the furctions of the latter kind of conscions- ness. If some persons have two sepai forms of consciousness why can’t one form remain with the person while the other is far away in a distant corner of the earth? JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS, Jr. RAILROADS. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Btation corner of Gth and B atreets. 5 In effect September 9, 1895. "“alcentig” ning Stouing “and Ohoeyration Care . a a om Harrisburg to Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Cleveland and ‘Toledo, " Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. 10:30 A.M. FAST LINE.—Pullman Buffet Parlor 4 Car to Harrisburg. and Dining Cars, 3:40 PAL CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS — Pullman Buffet Parlor Gar to Harrisburg. Siccp- Cincinnati, Louisville ‘and Chicago. 7:10 P.M. WESTERN EXP! tat Car to Chicago. 7:10 P.M. SOUTHWESTERN EXPRESS.—Pullman Sleeping and Dining Cors to St. Louis, and Sleep- Harrisburg to Pitt ing and Dining Cars, Harrisburg to St. —Pullman — ing Car to Chicago and Harrisburg to Clev ing Car Herrisburg to Cincinnati. 10:40 P.M. 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