Show GHOST THAT CREATED TERROR IN A LITTLE NEW JERSEY TOWN newark N J five miles out fioti this city in the little town of nutley gawe of deep overhanging elms marks the intersection of grant and passaic avenues not a house is in ight for blocks around A gateway leads into a field across which a path takes you oft into the backwoods few biens of civilization are visible from brant and passaic avenues looking down through the avenue of overhanging elms in the direction of the methodist church one can see where the elms end and the firs be gin low stunted fir trees with fantas tic shapes and outstretched fingers which appear to reach out ready to clutch the timid passer by after dusk it Is an ideal lurking place for a ghost so at least thought elsie symonds daughter of george symonds the civil engineer and her brother royal royal is 15 there Is only a year or so difference beewen his age and his sister s and this combined with the fled from the terrible alpar necessity of living in the suburbs somewhat off the beaten path made excellent chums of them always eager for the excitement which rare ly came to nutley and always ready to invent a new amusement when things got fearfully slow returning to the intersection of grant and passaic avenues it did not take miss elsie and brother roy al very long to notice this as an ideal lurking place for a ghost and to de cide that the spot was worth devel their home is not tar away from there it is the nearest house to the corner in tact so the children had every opportunity to carry out their plans without much fear of de first it was only a simple little ghost story they told royal supply ing the curdles about a wild flap ping specter that moaned and shrieked somewhere down near the stunted firs that was several weeks ago no body else had seen the ghost alq the story dian didn t make the slightest imbres sion even in nutley at first A few nights later two young men belonging to that race which above all others feeds upon superstition came across the path in the field leading from the backwoods passed through the gateway and thence down through the grove of overhanging elms to ward the stunted firs an so ah says one of them was saying mist small ah says ah cain t see why yo carries dat rab bit foot she cahnt do you no good nor keep off no hoodoo ah done come to de exclusion dere aint no such thing no way as a hoo oo 00 oo 00 lordy the two young men had fled in ter not three feet from where they had stopped turned tail and vanished stood a ghost it was medium height very shapely and dressed in white the draped arms flapped somewhat mechanically as the ghost turned from side to side to the ac compani ment of most curdling croaks presently the ghost grew tired of flapping its arms the two negroes were miles away maybe and prom ably still going silence reigned again in the vicinity of the stunted nr but it tor very long whist ling gayly as he strode along came one of nutley s most prominent young unmarried men somewhere in the dark shadow of the fir something seemed to whisper to something else that it was mr so and so on his way to call on miss sew and sew yes the two some things in the shade seemed to say in unison let s see what happens to him the ghost arms flapped excitedly and mr so and so stopped whistling and sank down then he sat up and yelled once twice then he too vanished in the wake of the ably still running colored men silence was restored once more in the vicinity of the firs and overhang ing elms halt a mile away miss sew and sew sat alone in the best parlor and expected company that tailed to show up after two evenings of this sort of thing butle knew all about the pas ale avenue ghost some believed others dian didn t among the latter was chief knabb of the nutley police de apartment part ment on the third evening thomas brandreth sexton of the methodist church was walking home from pray er meeting when the specter es sayed to scare him sexton brand reth Is a good man he let go with a right swing and banged the ghost in the eye down it went for the count a tangled mass of white linen bed sheets overspreading one of those nice plump wire dummies on which the dressmakers dess makers alt gowns for display then sexton brandreth after addressing a few words of ad vice in the direction of the stunted firs went home and that was he end of the nut ley ghost caught with the goods on them as they made their way home that the two symonds con aspirators spira tors laughed at the joke they had had at the expense of some of the most prominent young people in the town it Is even afe to assert that if she only would miss elsie could give a list of young men who are mortally afraid of ghosts no mat ter how brave they look in daylight but she wont tell neither will the victims |