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Show A Valentine's Ghost. i Kditoi-s Herald: Ti.o 14lh day of Fo ruiuy, St Valentine's tiny, hns :.i?-aptl , and t you are not glad I am certain tlm' some of the residents .f the 12th ward are, for during the lust ten Cluyn there haa been nothing thought of among the little folks but valcniincH, and all the door bells in my neighborhood neighbor-hood have bepn kept rimiing every evening much to the annnyanco of domestics aud others. Soma twenty-five twenty-five or thirty of these youngsters were collected together about 10 o'clock Tuesday evening making thuir rounds ringing door bells and wailing to HC-e itiotno one come to tho door to receive one of those horrid looking, cheap pictures called a valentine, when suddenly there appeared iu the crowd a real ghost. Prohably some one who had hoen victimized too often by these urchins concluded to makn his Appearance Ap-pearance again upon the earth and break up the delivery business. It succeeded admirably, for you never heard of such a scampering aa there was among the little girls and boys as the appearance of c Him, fciiusi mauw. fxime oi mem were so badly frightened they turned aa 10 pale as the ghost itsell. Two little a- boys, whom, if I am not mistaken, ,. they call Carey and Bertie broke for jf homo, but fell on the atps of the house, and had to be taken in by their mother. They declared it was t some twenty feet high, and could not -1 get into any houao in town without tf being doubled up. They are not anxious to see any more such ghosts, and I hope it will learn them a lesson r in future; not that I am opposed to a sending valentines I consider it a j mark of afiection, which haa been indulged iu tor years past among 1 young persona, and like the custom s even now but I think such little fellowa as I have been trying to j meution should not be out after dark for fear of those horrid ghosts coming when they are not expected. 1 12m Ward, |