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ZEB'S GHOST STOEY. V - ? THE OLD HUNTER'S EXPERIENCE WITH A SO CALLED SPOOK. He Relates a Tale of How He Pan- : ished a Critter Who Almost Fright- j ened His Wife and Himself to Death i Several Years Ago. [Copyright. 1902, by C. B. Lewis.] VT was a gusty October night on I the Cumberland mountains as I sat with Zeb White before liis big kitchen fireplace, and now and then the wind wailed among the pines in a way to make one feel a bit creepy. "We had roasted and eaten tne cnesinuts and lighted our pipes for a smoke when I asked the old man if it wasn't a good night outside for spooks. "It's jest the right sort of a.night," he replied, "but I ain't skassly expectIn' one to visit us. One did call on me one night, though, six or seven years ago." I begged him for the story, and as the doors and windows rattled and the ; wind moaned in the big chimney he continued: "I got home one evenin' to find my ole woman so skeered tiiaf she was "the ghost WAS TjOOKtL' through that ! WEiDEK AG'IN." whiter'n snow. I reckoned sbe had been strnck dumb for awhile, but bime by she got the use of her tongue and j sez to me: "*Zeb White, git out that Bible and begin to sing and pray, fur our time has surely come to leave this airthT \ "'What's bin a-gittinT sez I. > * " 'A ghost! I sot in the open doah, t waitin' fur yo', and a ghost walked j out from behind-the mewl shed and j stood and looked at me. Zeb. the Lawd j has sent a warnin' to git ready!' "I don't believe> no sich talk," said the old man, "but she was so sot that she had seen a ghost and was powerful skeered. We went to bed. and 'long j about midnight she yelled out and woke me up. f Then I seed the ghost myself. He was lookin' inter the windei over thar, and fur two or three minits I couldn't move a finger." "Then it was a he ghost?" I asked. "Yes, I reckon it was. Yes, as nigh as I could make out it was a he ghost. It had a ta^e like a man who'd suddenly met a b'ar and got dreadfully skeered. His eyes was rollin' and his j fejxpR wnrkin\ and 1 felt chills co over me as I said to the ole woman: 44 4 'Pears to me that our time on this airth is powerful short but I'm goin' to git up and make a fight fur it with ! the ax!' 44 4Don't do It Zeb.' sez she as she I shakes from head to heel. 4If yo' make ; that ghost mad. we're dun fur fur suali. Look at his eyes, will yo'!' 44 Tm a-lookin'. but 1 ain't gwine to lay yere and let no critter of a ghost make up faces at me even if he's ten ; feet high!'" ,4Wheni.l got outer bed, the ghost vanished, but I didn't sleep no mo' that night. The ole woman was fur beiievin' that death was at band, and most of the next day she was readin' the Bible and singin' hymns. I didn't take it as no sign sent by the Lawd. but I was mightily puzzled to know 'jest what it was. That evenin' I sot in the doah with my rifle till 10 o'clock, but nuthin' showed up. Then we went to bed and mebbe it was 2 o'clock in the mawuin' when my o!e 1 woman hooted sich a hoot that every li'nr nn mv h#?nd riz on pndL Th# ghost was lookin' through that same i winder ag'in, and I was that upsot j that I couldn't stand up when 1 rolled i outer bed. Beto1 1 could git my rifle i the thing wks gone and the ole woman | was In a fit When she Cum8 out of it j she begins to sing and pray, and I reckon 1 was almost us big an idiot as ! she was. All 1 could do was to stand and stare and wonder if these old mountings had finally come to turnin' out spooks and ghosts as well as b'ars and wildcats. Birneby, when she could speak, she was fur runnin' away and leavin' the house and everything behind, but I was glttin' riled up, and I sez: " 'We don't stir a foot till that ghost proves hisself a bigger man than 1 am. Yo' kin huddle up on the bed, and I'll watch fur the critter the rest of the night out' "That's what I sez, and while she whimpers and groans I sot down on a cheer and kept my eyes peeled and my finger on the trigger." A *t/\m K/\linvo/1 If troc O crhr?ct duu ,(U U Utl?IVU IV 11UO u SUVUV. I asked. "Can't skassly say what I believed," he replied. "I had heard heaps of talk about spooks and speerits and 1 reckoned one might hev bizuess with me. "When it cum daylight and the ole woman was too upsot to git breakfast, 1 begun to git real mad. She wanted me to sing and pray with her, but I jest walked out and went over to Sam Smith's and sez to him:, " 'Sam, I'm a-wantin' a drink of co'a juice outer that jug of yo'rs, fur mebbe J*'"' ' ' ' I'm not long fur this world and I want to go out of it with the taste of good whisky in iny throat.' "'Bin hevin' dreams?' scz Sam as he brings out the jug. " 'Wuss?heaps wuss. I've seen a ghost.' " 'Shoo! Did he leave any tracks?' "Waal," said Zeb as he reached for his pipe from the mantel and looked a bit foolish, "I went on to tell Sam all about it and when I had liuished he told me jest what to do. When I started fur home, I was carry in' his big b'artrap. When I flings it down at my doah, the ole woman crawls out to ax me what I was gwine to do. " 'Cotch the ghost,' sez 1. " 'But how kin speerits be cctched?' " 'Can't rightly say, but I'm gwine to 'speriment a leetle.' " 'At' yo' a-defyin' of the Lawd, Zeb White?' she asks as she begins to weep. " 'I'm a-defyin' of nothin', but jest waitin' fur that ghost to cum.' " 'Yo'Il burn an' burn forever fur not heedin' the sign.' " 'Mebbe I. will but yo' keep quiet an' don't skeer that ghost away.'" "And did it appear?" I asked as the old man took a long minute to lill his pipe. "Fur suah," he answered. "Yes, sab, bimeby the ghost showed up. He was gwine to look inter the winders, same ns hefob but he chanced his mind when he stepped inter that b'artrap. I used to be sunthin' on the yell myself, but the way that ghost hooted beat my time all holler. The ole woman fainted dead away, but I got outer bed and lit up and dressed myself and wasn't in no great hurry either. The hootin' kept up, and arter about ten mmits I went out to see what a ghost looked like. Thar was a bed sheet lyin' on the airth, and with one leg cotched in the trap was a man. I knowed him to once fur an onery critter named Piny Green, livin' furder up the mounting. He was sorter down on me kase I wouldn't naybur with him, and he waa playin' ghost to spite me. When 1 axed him what he was doin', he purtended his darter was sick and wanted camphor. I left him right thai* and went in to my ole woman and nursed her up and told her what I had cotched in the trap. I never seen her so mad befo' or since. She'd bin layin' it to the Lawd, and it was only that pesky Piny Green. I went out and cut some on/1 tVion T hair) tlifl pondla B V> LL\~LlK;Of auu cutu *. UVAVA LUV vuuvaav while she licked the varmint till he couldn't hoot another holler. Then I got him outer the trap and let him go, and he jest limped off to No'th Caroleeny and never cum back." > "And what did Mrs. White think about ghosts after that?" I askecL Before old Zeb could answer me Mrs. White appeared in the kitchen door and said: "What yo' critters dun talkin' 'bout at 10 o'clock at night? Better git to bed or yo' won't be fitten to hunt that bee tree tomorrer!" M. QUAD. Brain Food Nonsense. Another ridiculous food fad has been branded by the most competent authorities. They have dispelled the silly notion that one kind of food is Deeded for braiD, another for muscles and still another for bones. A correct diet will not only Dourish a particular part of the body, but it will sustain every other part. Yet, however good your food may be, its nutriment is destroyed by indigestion or dyspepsia. You must prepare for their appearance or prevent their coming by taking regular doses of Green's August Flower, the favorite medicine of the healthy millious. A few doses aids digestioo, stimulates the liver to healthy action, purifies the blood, and makes you feel buoyant and vigorous. You can get this leliable remedy at Kaufmann's Drug Store. Get Green's Special Almanac. 51?32 Something Doing. First Burglar?Look, Bill! De lady's left her di'inon's on de table right near de open winder. Second Burglar?Dat's good. Let's go an' see her press agent an' find out wot's in it fer us if we swipe 'em.? New York Journal. Worth Knowing:. "Oh, my friends, there are some spectacles that a person never forgets," said an orator recently after giving a rapid description of a terrible accident he had witnessed. "I'd like to know where they sell them," remarked a stout, elderly lady on the outskirts of the crowd.?Glasgow Evening Times. A Liberal Offer. Tbe undersigned will givi a free sample of Chamberlain's Stcmach and Liver Tablets to any one wanting a reliable remedy for disorders of the stomach, biliousness or constipation. This is a new remedy and a good one. J. E. Kaufmann. to ~ c~ "breathe. The consumptive dies ": n without lungs to breathe the air, .. ' or of lungs, rendered incapable of breathing ov disease. The blood as it flows in and out of the lungs indicates the consumptive's pro| gress. t As the lungs grow weaker ?less oxygen is inhaled and the blood changes from scarlet to purpi pie. Oxygen is the life of the 7 blood as. the blood is the life of I the body. I The effect of Dr. Pierce's Gold/ m Medical Discovery upon weak 1/ / lungs is to strengthen them, to enU I able the full oxygenation of the I j blood, arrest the progress of disI 1 ease, and heal the inflamed tisR I sues. Lung diseases have been I an(^ are being cured by"Golden A ufr.5: Medical Discovery," in *cases wbere deep-seated cough, frequent liernorrhage, emaciation, weakness, and night-sweats ^^^^^have all pointed to a fatal termination by convrih 14 "Some years ago I was almost a helpless victim of that -i dread disease?con^ Wfe^ti~g*^Jg=;as= sumption." writes ^ x Mr. Chas. Fross, [i P. M., of Sitka. White Co.. Ind. ''I was confined to my room for several months; my friends and neighl>ors had given up all hope of mv recovery, until one day a friend advised me to take Dr.*Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, and after I had taken the contents of the second bottle I began to improve. After taking six bottles I was, I honestly believe, delivered from the grave and entirely cured. I am now a strong aud hearty man." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cleanse r the clogged system irora accuiuuiiiicu impurities. "THE BADDEST BOY." I wonder if ali boys when they Don't do just what they're told Get punished or else, anyway, Must hear their mothers scold? Whenever I run off or climb A fence or tree my ma Locks sad at me and tells me I'm The baddest boy she ever saw. It's hard to always Just obey, And if you tear your clo's To have to hear your parents say, "That's how the money goes." ' ifeJ 1 lif i iiI WV^MSU It seems as though I'm all the time Provokin' ma or pa, And every day they tell me I'm The baddest boy they ever saw. Fm sorry when I've run away; But boys don't think, you know. About the things their folks'll say Before they start to go. I wonder when I die some time And leave my ma and pa If God'll sadly tell me I'm The baddest boy he ever saw. ?Chicago Record-Herald. Advised tke Court. Jim Webster, a colored gentleman. was brought up before a western judge for fowl stealing. After the evidence had been given the justice with a perplexed look said: "But I do not understand, Webster, how it was possible for you to steal those fowls when they were roosting right under the owner's window and there were two vicious dogs in the yard." "It wouldn't do yer a bit of good, jedge, for me to 'splain how I cotched dem chickens, for yer wouldn't do it yerself if yer tried it forty times, an' yer might get yer hide full of buckshot De best Way for yer to do, jedge, is for yer to buy yer chickens in der market, like udder folks do, an'when yer wants to commit any rascality do it on de bench, whar yer am at home!"?Washington Times. A Fine Liver Cure. Greenville, Tenn. I have thoroughly convinced myself that Dr. Baker's Blood and Liver Cure is the finest medicine made for Indigestion and Constipation. (I have tried them all) and was cured by the use of this medicine, after all others had failed. I most cheerfullv and unhesitatingly endorse it. Yours truly, H. N. Baker, Mayor. For sale at the Bazaar. The Real Fret. "Do your debts worry you?" asked the sympathetic guy. "What I owe other people?" said the willing spender. "Well, I should say not It's what other people owe me that bothers."?Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Altogether BnsinenMlike. First English Lord?Did you propose to Miss Porkpaeker? Second English Lord?No?to her father. 1 hate to have any business deal> ings with a woman.?Nashville Amer ican. <9 Thig gtgnsture is on every box of the genuine Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablete the remedy thrt cures a coJd in one day / . . .-4 Mollifying "the Old Man." "I am afraid. Bobby." said bis mother, "that when I tell your father what a naughty boy you've been he will punish you severely." "Have you got to tell him?" asked Bobby earnestly. "Oh, yes; I shall tell him immediately after dinner." The look of concern on Bobby's face deepened. "Well, mother." said he, "give him a better dinner than usual. You might do that much for me."?Pittsburg Dispatch. Soured on Decorating. "I suppose," said the enterprising merchant, "that yop'll decorate a lot during the week of festivities in town?" "No, I won't," replied the grumbling chap. "I don't think the authorities nnnrccijito efforts in that direction. A few nights ago I started out to paint the town red, and 1 lauded in the police court.'**? Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Roundabout Reasons. "What makes you so anxious to go to Europe to live?" "My patriotism," answered the quizzical person. "I am not a man of superabundant means, but I like everything that is American, and I want to go abroad where I can purchase American products at the least possible expense."?Omaha News. A Slip Xoone. "Give him plenty of rope," quoted the stranger, "and he'll hang himself." "Mebbe he will," returned Alkali Jake, "but out here we don't take no obnnoos Tf wo <rivo him the rone. vou bet we'll make a sure thing job of the hanging."?Chicago Post. 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"I do think," muttered the mortified monarch, "that on an occasion like this I might be spared the fierce light thai beats upon the thrown."?New XorK Times. The New Variety. Mr. Gas well?Young Mobe keeps up his horseless carriage craze even In his sleep. Mr Dukane?How can that be? Mr. Gaswell?He has horseless nightmares?Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. . The Early Riser. Ev'y time I kin' o' gits tcf dozin' an' tc dreamin* An' has my 'tention 'stracted f'um dc fightin' an' de schemin' 'Long comes de bell wif its voice so big an' strong, Tellin' all de workin' folks it's time tc move along. "Well, well! I'ze gwinter tell"? Jes4 about as cheerful as a graveyahc] knell. SflTT^tlmps it'? de whistle, wif its note SC big and deep, Dat wakes me when I'ze only gittin' stahted fob to sleep. Its remahks is not extended; it couldn' say much less, Eut dar's no misunderstandin' what it's tryin' to express. "Who, who, Hab work to do?*' An' dar ain* no chance for guessin', 'cast de answer's "you!" ?Washington Star. If the Baby is Cutting Teeth. Be sure and use that old and wel tried remedy, Mrs. Winslow's Sooth ing Syrup for children teething. I soothes the child, softens the gums allays all pain, cures wind colic anc is the best remedy for diarrhoea Twenty-live cents a bottle. It is the best of all. Thoughtful Tommy. Mrs. Mann?Tommy, you have been a very naughty boy. When ytrar papa comes home, I shall tell him about ycu. Tommy?I think, mamma, it will be more interesting if you remind him ol those happy days when your loves were voune and fresh. A man likes tc hear sweet things when he comes home at night tired and weary. Rousrh on Father. Perdlta?If you continue much longer to play cards with my father, I won't marry you. Jack Dashing?If your father continues to play cards much longer with me, I won't need to marry you.?New York News. If a man has a new story, better let him tell it and get it over with. lie will not be satisfied until he does.? Atchison Globe. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. I MR.S. L. S. ADAMS, I Of iialv?ston, Texas. "Wine of Cardui is indeed a blessing I | to tired women. Having suffered for | seven years with weakness and bear- | jj ing-down pains, and having tried sev- a | eral doctors and different remedies I with no success, your Wine of Cardui I nwas the only thing which helped me, I and eventually cured me It seemed to I Duna up me weax parts, strongmen ag the system and correct irregularities." I By "tired women" Mrs. Adams 8 means nervous women who have | disordered menses, falling of the | womb, ovarian troubles or any of a these ailments that women have. I i You can cure yourself at home with 8 thi3 great women's remedy, Wine jg of Cardui. Wine of Cardui has 1; cured thousands of cases which I doctors have failed to benefit. Why 8 not begin to get well today? All | druggists have $1.00 bottles. For I any stomach, liver or bowel disor- 9 der Thedford's Black-Draught' I yshould be used. jradviceandllteratnre,address, giving I iptoms. The Ladles' Advisory Depart- B it, The Chattanooga Medicine Co. 21 kttanooga, Tenru ^ yf lNE?'CARDlilj uBirmr?r* I LANGUAGE OF CIGARS THE TERMS USED IN THE TRADE ARE GREEK TO MOST SMOKERS. [ Some Refer to Size, Some to Shape and Others to Color? Few Tobacco Users Know Them Ajiart, and They Arc rdacli Jlisnsed. i k Whenever the average untutored tobacco lover wishes to indicate to his envious friends that he is in possession l of a cigar of the first quality, he usualf ly says that he has a perfecto. By j perfecto he means the best cigar ob| tainable, and as a rule he applies the name to all products of theyllavana ! factories. But in truth, declares an j intelligent writer in the Kansas City 1 Journal, a good many cigars that ? never saw Havana are genuine perfectos, and a good many made in the most famous factories of the Cuban capital are not The word, as a master of fact does not refer to the quality ^ of a cigar at all. It Is simply a term used to describe the shape. A perfecto mnr enst SI nnd it mnv cost 2V> cents. There are half a dozen cigar terms L thus misused by the average smoker, * and there are several times as many words of the same sort whose rnean' ins he Is utterly unable to fathom. What native, corn fed smoker, for instance, knows the difference between i a panetela and a Eeina Victoria? And how many know whether there is a real difference between a maduro and an oscuro? Yet all of these terms are the common property of cigar makers all over the world. Like many cigar brand names, they are of Spanish origin, but the wanderings of Havana 1 tobacco and Cuban cigars have taken . them into all countries and all languages. 5, The great majority of cigars are put , up tifty in a box, with thirteen on the top row, twelve on the row next to the top. thirteen on the next and twelve I on the bottom row. When a londres cigar is packed 100 in a box in two bundles tied with a ribbon, it becomes 1 a Reina Victoria, which is Spanish for Queen Victoria. Early in the late queen's reign a Cuban manufacturer invented this method of packing and , called the resultant bundle after Great Britain's sovereign. The name has remained ever since. , The word perfecto is a term indicating a certain shape in cigars. A per- I fecto is a smoke having what is generally called 'the "cigar shape"?that is to say, it is swelled near the end j which is lighted and tapers gradually J down te the point or head. The end - of a cigar which a smoker puts in his t mouth is known among cigar makers ? a 8 the head. The other end, that j which is lighted, is called the tuck. I When, as often happens in a perfecto, the tuck is very small, it is called a needle tuck or feather tuck. All others follow these lines more or less closely. A thin, straight cigar, with little more thickness in the middle than at the tuck, is called a panetela. The average panetela is slightly longer | than a perfecto, though the matter of i size has nothing to do with the shape. ' l'anetelas are esteemed because they ( burn more regularly and are usually . better because more easily made. The virtue of the perfecto is that its smaller tuck lights more readily, and its more artistic curves give it greater beauty. a irmrtrps is n sort of cross between i the perfeeto and the panetela. It is a perfeeto from the head to the thickest part, and from there on to the tuck ' it is betwixt and between. Usually the slope from the thickest part to the tuck has a gradual curve. The tuck as a rule is as large as that of a pane' tela. A partegas is a cigar shaped much like a londres, except that the slope from the thickest part to the head is usually not so rounded. It is a shape I not now as fashionable as it used to be. and even when cigars are cenu'ne parcels rue dox 13 seldom stamped with the name. A conchas is a small blunt cigar. As a rule it is a very satisfactory suuoke, ' and usually it lasts as long as a perfecto. This is because that thin tuck of the latter burns down rapidly. The opera is a very small cigar of any standard shape. It derives its name from the fact that it is designed for a short smoke between the acts, and very often it is called on entr-acte. The d brevas is a large, clumsy cigar, good * for an hour's puffing. The largest size j of all is the Napoleon. Sometimes Havana Napoleons are six or seven inches in length. The blacker ones are positively terrifying. The better grades of cigars are usu- | ally made in several shapes and sizes. lliere may be, for instance, tne La. Flor de Habana perfeetos, the La Flor de Habana panetelas, the La Flor de Habana operas, the La Flor de Habana pnrtegas and the La Flor de Habana conchas. The label is the same on all of the sizes and shapes, but on J the front of the box the name of the A shape is stamped. fl On one end of each box of cigars will be noted another word. Sometimes it is coloradp. sometimes it is claro and ^ at other times it is maduro. This indi- * cates the color of the cigars within, or, as uninformed smokers say, the "strength." The lightest of all cigars are a yellowish brown. They are called claros. isext in order come tne Colorado claros, which are a darker brown, and then come the coiorados, which are about midway between black and yellow. After the coiorados come the Colorado rnaduros, which are a dark 1 brown, and then the maduros, which are well nigh black. P'orinerly another color was in vogue. This was the oseuro. and it was a shiny black. But of late the fashion has beeD for light A cigars, and the word oscuro has almost dropped out of use. - > He Learned a Great Truths It is said of John Wesley that be once said Mistress Wesley: "Why do you tell that child the came thing over and over again1?" "John Wes1 ' 1 f i a nnf jey, oeuauwe uuvjo icmug < uuw enough." It is for this same reason that you are told again and again that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cures colds and grip; that is coun' teracts any tendancy of these diseases to result in pneumonia, and that it is pleasant and safe to take, j For sale by J. E Kaufmbnn. i , BRAIN WORK. Eta Effect L'pon the Body and the Kind of Food It Demandi. The changes of tissue in the brain that take place during study and thought are very important and very rapid. It has been estimated that three hours of brain work cause as great an exhaustion of the forces of the body as an entire day of manual labor. This waste must be replaced by abundant food, but its selection requires careful consideration and often self denial, for many things which the physical worker can eat with perfect impunity are slow poison to the brain Tvnrkpr who exercises the brain at the expense of the body and rarely gives the latter sufficient exercise to counteract the mental strain and keep It in condition to resist disease. Bear in mind that, while the waste of the body is much more rapid, the deprivation of physical exercise encourages torpidity of the voluntary functions and renders them sluggish in eliminating these wastes; therefore it is of the utmost importance that the tasks imposed upon them should be light. Brain workers require the most concentrated and easily digested foods. They should eat fresh beef and mutton, fish, eggs?cooked in many forms, but never hard boiled or fried?oysters and crisp salads, lettuce, chicory, tomatoes, watercress, etc., with mayonnaise or French dressing. They should begin the day with fruit and make it form the principal part of luncheon and be very sparing in their use of cereals, eschewing entirely white bread and oatmeal. Their ideal luncheon, which a. v.~ <9 +Viott to tVOrk LLiUSL LtC IlgUli II lutj uu W.V. ?~ in the afternoon, is a glass of milk or cup of hot chocolate or, better still, a glass of fresh buttermilk, "with two or three graham wafers 01 a bit of toast and some fruit, an apple, figs or an orange. His Life in Peril. "I just seemed -to have gone all to pieces," writes Alfred Bee, of Welfare, Tex., "biliousness and a lame back had made life a burden. I couldn't eat or sleep and felt almost too worn out to work when I began to use Electric Bitters, but they worked wonders. Now l sleep like a top, can eat anything, have gained in strength and enjoy hard work." They give vigorous health and new life to weak, sickly, run-down people. Try them Only 50c at J. E. Kaufrrnna'a drug store. j A Curious State of Affairs. v You must be very cautious how you i treat your neighbor in Isle of Jersey, 1 for he can have you arrested on the slightest pretext and if he has a grudge against you can bring about sucb a calamity by simply giving a fio | tional account of your misconduct to the nearest lawyer. The latter will demand a fine, and should you decline to pay it he will cause you to be thrown into prison to await trial. Then, even if you are acquitted on the ground that the charge is unfounded, you have absolutely no claim against your persecr- < tor, though you may have suffered a couple of months' imprisonment for nothing.?London Tit-Bits. Baker's bread at the Bazaar. t