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Show SENSATIONAL GHOST WHICH ENJOYS E000 Rural District in ('hint Thrown Into Commotion by Resurrected Resur-rected Celestial. PEKING, .Tunc 30. A "ghost that cats" has thrown the towns at the Siang-fu district of China into a commotion. com-motion. The facts as related in the North China Herald arc remarkable. The thirty-year-old son of Tzi-luug, a school teacher, was thought to have died of typhus fovcr. His family being be-ing very poor tho body was placed in a frail wooden cojn and buried only a few iuches in the soil outside the western gate of the town of Siang-yang. Siang-yang. Ten days later a man put his horse out to graze near the spot. The beast found good grass near the grave near the grave and brought its foot down ou the soil above the coffin, the lid of which was broken. Tn a little while the owner of the horso snw a gaunt white arm thrust through the hole ma do by the hoof of the horse. Thinking the dead man's ghost was about to rise to avenge the insult offered of-fered in the Jbreaking of Ihe coffin the watchor hurried up an began shoveling earth into the hole to keep tho ghost down. A muffled voice expostulated and begged lo be freed, claimiug to bo tho living son of Tzi-luug. The watchor fled in terror to tho town, where he told cverj-ono that he met of what had happened. The. " ghost s" father urged that the "ghost" should bo let alone and not further disturbed, the city SH RDLSIIRDLU 1IRDIAJ A large crowd, however, went out of tho city to view the wonder. The "ghost'' kept begging most piteonsly to be let out. Ono man had courage enough to unearth the coyer of the coffin cof-fin completely, thus allowing the "resurrected" "resur-rected" man ti sit up. Rice soup and wine were brought and ravenously devoured de-voured by the "ghost," still sitting upright in his coffin, embedded in the earth. Finally- the unhappy "ghost" was released re-leased and confined iu a temple until he is able to prove that he is a living man and has a right to be regarded as aliye. |