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Show A Skeptlo Convinced. For the past six weeks public interest s been centered on an old house two tiles south of Mount Carm, Tex., which s said to be haunted. About a week o it appears, a crowd of people went lt night to see his ghostship and met th quite a laughable adventure. One ding man named Bud D., who pro-wed pro-wed no belief in spooks, went ahead of ie crowd, and, after climbing upon the P of the house, sat down, expecting to advancing crowd to take him for the tost. He did not have long to wait lie crowd came up and their first words nt a thrill of terror through the bogus Snout, for a voice was heard saying: ! "Why, there's two of 'em to-night." Bud looked around, and, sure enough, Mrs sat by his side a simon pare ghost " was dressed in long, flowing robes, not :Dlike a shroud for the dead, and its eyes teamed like two coals of fire.:' To say 'tot the ghost personator was scared 'wild be expressing it mildly, for, with l?ell that would have been sufficient to (ke the dead, Bud sprang off the house, H as he afterward expressed it, "hit a ground a-running.". The crowd, loroughly alarmed at tha -ghost's" tion, made tracks tor Mount Calm, !'kile the "ghost" begged his friends to j 'it for him, but the faster he ran the . der the crowd ran, and was at least j hundred yards ahead when it reached Iotnt Calm. There- were twenty-two ; Ple in the crowd. St.. Louis Globe j |