With a conscious smirk, amid the titters of the room and the sharp raps of the ruler on Miss Berham's desk, Solon swaggered offensively to the seat that enshrined my idol, and flung down the scarlet treasure before her.

Shall I hear raps and knockings when I return to my solitary chamber, and sit a powerless beholder of damaged furniture, which the spirits will never have the conscience to promise payment for, when my landlady's bill comes in?

Before long, the presence of Spiritual power becomes manifest by raps on the table, or by vibratory movements of the table, more or less violent, and by spasmodic jerkings or twitching of the Medium's arms or body.

Each Medium, generally, has some peculiar mode of manifesting Spiritualistic power; it is a peculiarity of this Medium, as has been before stated, that the completion of the Spirit message within the slates is indicated not by raps, as is frequently the case with other Mediums, but by the sudden and marvelous appearance on the top of the slate of the little fragment of pencil, which had been securely fastened up within.

Just before adjournment the Medium laid her hands upon the table and tried to produce "raps," but did not succeed. Has been a Spiritualist for nine or ten years, but has always been possessed of unusual powers.

Three raps.

Three raps.

Mrs. Kane then tried standing at some distance from the table, with her hands on the back of a chair; there were some raps seemingly near or under the Medium.

Raps were produced as members of the Committee stood with the Medium around the desk in the library, and close to a book-case.

Raps were produced according to the Medium on the glass door of a book-case, upon which Mr. Sellers placed his hand.

The raps are immediately repeated with more distinctness.

We are conscious that they are raps.

The Medium: I could name a great many tests, but they might not be satisfactory to you; for instance, the one of standing on glass tumblers, where the raps are produced on the floor.

After a pause of ten seconds, three light raps are heard.

The answer was three raps.

Three raps are here again instantly heardthe characteristics of the sounds in this instance being rapidity and energy, or positiveness.

Mr. Furness: The freer the raps come, the better for you?

Mr. Furness and Dr. Leidy station themselves in the corner of the room, diagonally, and most remote from the pine table, at which their associates remain seated, with their hands upon the table, and 'their minds intent on having the raps produced at the corner indicated,' as requested by the Medium, who also remains at the table.

The Medium (repeating for the information of Mr. Furness): Somebody proposed a glass and there were three raps.

Just before calling attention to the alleged rap or raps the Medium grasped with her right hand the woodwork of the side-board as if for support.

(Assuming a stooping posture for a more prolonged scrutiny, he adds): We will see whether the raps will be produced now.

Mr. Sellers: Will you communicate with Mr. Pepper by raps or by writing?

Will you communicate by raps?

Mr. Fullerton states that he heard the raps.

The Medium, however, professed his ability to distinguish between the two classes of sounds, and remarked that some of the sounds heard by him were such as would be made by a person touching the table and causing it to make the raps; that such sounds were not from the Spirits; that when the raps were genuine they caused a peculiar sensation, a sort of tremor, in his breast, and, therefore, he could tell when the raps were spurious.

Happily our carriages and servants with our wraps were waiting in one of the inner courts, and we got away easily enough, but the evening was disastrous to most of the company.

There was a bundle of warm wraps to be put together for Babette to take with her.

Once the door of a house across the street was opened, with a widening gush of amber light wherein he saw three women fitting wraps about them.

" So, laughing and excited, the girls obeyed her, putting on their wraps hurriedly and laughing at Laura when she got her hat over one eye.

But now that He is not present with His bodily presencenow, medicine and advice and other good things are just the packets in which He wraps up the healing He sends; and the wisest doctor is but the messenger who carries to the sick as much of healing and help as the Great Doctor sees fit to send.

[During the following scene HECUBA gradually takes the garments and wraps them about the Child.

[She wraps herself carefully in her mantle as the courtiers pour in.

Not far away does that bright city stand, 'Tis but the mist o'er its dividing stream, That wraps the glory of its glitt'ring strand, Its radiant skies, and mountains silvery gleam; Oh, often in the blindness of our fate We wander very near the city's gate.

Now the winds breathe softer music, Half a song, and half a sigh; While twilight wraps her purple veil Around us silently, And our thoughts appear like pictures, Pictures shaded wondrously.

Fetters are broken, so the fern-leaves fall, A richer growth is budding, wondrous fair, The flower of liberty shall bloom for all, And all shall breathe the healing of the air; The blessed air that wraps a people free, Within that glorious Time that is to be.

This is no healthy sleep that wraps her now, Else would she waken at my anxious cry; 'Tis death-sleep, wretched man.

Ah! where art thou, hid in light That haunts me, yet still wraps thee from my sight?

Come to the sleigh at once, he will see to your luggage," said Sophie, painfully conscious of the antiquity of her array as her eyes rested on Emily's pretty hat and mantle, and the masculine elegance of Randal's wraps.

" "Nor I;" and Saul and Sophie smiled at one another as they saw how carefully Randal arranged Emily's wraps.

Every one hurried to the railway, but Helen paused to gather a handful of blue forget-me-nots, saying to Hoffman, who waited with her wraps on his arm, "It has been a happy night, in spite of the danger and discomfort.

As he places the plates, the tablecloth catches fire and wraps itself around him.

Each Countryman ties a gourd around his ankle, wraps his blanket round him, and lies down.

I When Hilda's cab turned, perilously swaying, through the gate into the dark garden of the Orgreaves, Hilda saw another cab already at the open house door, and in the lighted porch stood figures distinguishable as Janet and Alicia, all enwrapped for a journey, and Martha holding more wraps.

It was Smithson who handed Lesbia into the boat and arranged her wraps, and hung over her tenderly as he performed those small offices.

Scarcely would the fair maid reach her destination and get her wraps hung up, when a rattle of gravel on the window would attract her attention, and outside she would see, with swelling heart, another knight-errant, who crooked his Russia-iron elbow and murmured, "Miss, may I have the pleasure of this escape with you?"

With two wraps instead of one; one was mine, and the other belonged toI don't know who it belonged to.

The slate colour of the sky did not seem to change, and yet the night grew visibly denser in the park; and there had come the sensation of things ended, a movement of wraps thrown over shoulders and thought of bedtime and home.

It being Sunday, the banks were closed, but a kindly shopman cashed me a cheque for twenty pounds in the most confiding manner, and enabled us to get the few odds and ends we wanted before going up countryamong them a couple of "resais" or quilted cotton wraps and a sola topee for Jane.

What a cold drive it was, and how bitterly we regretted that we had not brought our wraps from their bundle.

But in Brown's little bedroom, donning furry wraps, Helena Forrest spoke in Sue Breckenridge's ear: "I can't bear to go till we know how it comes out.