The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-11-12

sources. The Jack tars capacity for
jghostseedng is Of course, proverbial. I
should say that peaceful military life Is
mere productive Of ghosts than the
average civil occupation. It is all due to
the same cause which makes the country
folks see more 'hauats' in winter than in
summer. In summer they are all active
out of doors, working in the fields and
getting good and tired before going to
bed. In winter, on the Other hand, the
spooks swarm in the country because
these honest hewers Of wood and drawers
of water are comparatively idle Idleness
is the root of superstition as we'll as Of
evil. No. / should not say, either, sir,
that this war business is going to cause
a great scarcity of ghosts. The people at
home are seeing more Of them than usual,
even II it is summer. They are worrying
about the thousands of men down in the
West Indies whose lives they imagine are
hanging by a. thread liable to be cut any
time. Every change of the wind is some
sCmen,s and every time there is battle
tt ere is almost sure to be a score or so
of wiseacres who surely knew it all just
while it was happening
But ghosts, str, are growing out of
style nowadays. There are new things
occult coming IN every day. Look at this
evidence about Faces and Figures in the
Dark Yes, something entirely new.
what YOU are after. Here is a st. Louis
woman who says she attains, while wide
awake, the same kind Of uncomfortable
concentration she expe riences while
dreaming. Her most frequent experiences
| occur just after awakening from a short
sleep and before she opens her eyes, In
a bright yellow light as though against
the inside of her eyelids, will appear the
most beautiful decorative patterns
! FINALS, she says, curves, spirals leaves
blossoms, etc, all in black lines. The
drawing Of these comes as natural to her
| writing
| We find that for several generations back
her ancestors were decorative engrav-
| ers. She appears. to have inherited inn
pressions upon her optic centers result
ing from their life work.
'Then, again. Here, sir, we have a
committee investigating some new-fang-
led machines now out for testing mans
| cerebral force or psychic action of the
| WILL These, you see, consist essentially
| of light body suspended in glass bell,
jar by means Of silk in some,' or other
FIBER in others. The " eight hangs so that
a very slight force exerted upon it from
one side or the other causes it to- rotate
about the point Of suspension. Now one
OF these is placed on some stable founda-
ton, and as a person approaches it the
pendulum will begin to move. This some
times occurs when the hand alone is
brought near. Now the theory is that
the more the suspended body is moved,
the greater is the psychic force Of the
subject. Captivating idea. isn't it7 Think
sacking of the Tuiller1es ana afterwards
! sold a public auction. The case is OF the
l finest rosewood, ornamented with ormo-
! lin, while the keys are made of mother
! of-pearl and tortoise shell. Napoleon s
taste is shown by the fact that one OF
| the five pedals works a drum and triangle
| attachment
The wedding dress Of the unfortunate
Queen Marie Antoinette has lately been
I discovered in the ancient church OF kenu-
veg, near Vienna. It has, for many gen
kerations been the custom for Austrian
| brides to present their wedding dresses
1 to a chusct for the adornment of an image
| Of the Holy Virgin, or to be made into
| Vestments. s-
The mirror before which General
Washington made his daily toilet has for
the last thirty-five years been hanging IN
house in Warrenton, Virginia. 1t was
t purchased at the sale Of the personal eff
fects Of Lawrence Washington, great
nephew of the first president. The glass
! IS framed in Silt, and at the top. in back
! ground of white and black enamel are
1 Washington's coat-of-arms engraved In
| gold, with his motto, "Exitus acta pro-
bat" -Ir g.. aF
Another Washington ! ellie is sage
1 pal!rg belonging to the w! site house. The
! present head gardener ha; looked up its
history and verifies the fact that is was
presented to General Washington by a
Baltimore merchant who got it in Cuba,
when it had already obtained a respect
ahla age. The plant was for a long time
at Mount Vernon, but one day Washing
ton presented it to fair visitor who ad-
mired it. The plant was an heirloom un-
til about fifty years ago when with other
} things it was sold at auction and secured
by the head gardener of the White house.
1t is thought to be two hundred years old
lr-older than the government. .H
Between the windows of a Chicago din
ing room hang three crossed weapons
each has it's history, but the one which
most attracts attention is the Damascus
blade in a silver scabbard because it once
belonged, to the poet Byron Before his
death at Missoloughi, he gave it to
q young Greek captain: he sold it after
wards at auction and twas secured by an
American. Colonel Miller, The letter. Is
and coronet are engraved upon the hill
4 of the sword and a sentence in Arabic
which has never been translated