THE COURIER.
A GHOST STORY.
cave vaa haunted, and being over
mastered by a desire to seo a real liro
ghost, he wont there to eleop.
c Down Bouth of Lincoln, perhaps a half This ia what ho said about his experi
tnilo this tide of tho penitentiary thero ence:
is an old cavo. Thero aro all sorts of i Went down to tho cavo about 11
etories as to its origin. Some say that o'clock. I was alone. I took with mo
it was dug by robbers, others Bay thut
counterfeiters burrowed into tho hill
and made bogus now money. Tho
more prosaic say that it was dug by
brewers who Jhad a brewery there
and that the care was a collar whero
tho beer was kopt in great vats. This
latter conjecturo may not be bo romantic
as the robber or the counterfeiter theory,
but it has more probability about it,
and 6omr of the oldest inhabitants, are
tin ones who aro most positivo abuut
tho brewery.
There may be some grown people in
the city who do not know thero is a cavo
what is milk
The most perfect food in the world is milk. Nature
has provided that the youngest and most tender child shall
have this food. In milk there is a generous supply of oil, or
fat. This exists in the form of minute globules, or tiny
littlo shaky r1rnTv; Tliov nro sn sninll flint it takes hours for them to
aboutthekneesaslnearedthocavo.lt i " ., r..f w m:il,: ,l
list: LU LilU bUliilUU, U I.1UUU. V t aa) , illlliv id till siuur
siou," because the oil is in-this finely divided condition.
EOQio blankets to pprcad on tho lloor.
I must confcs3 that I felt a
was a bright moonlight night, but it
looked desolato around that cave. Tho
wind blew a mournful chant among tho
dead weeds, and to heighten the creepy
feeling, I heard a dog in tho dis
tance, howl forebodingly.
"However, 1 had corao down to Bee
tho ghost, and I was not going to lot the
howling of a dog deter me from my pur
pose. I lighted a small candlo that I
had brought, stooped down and went
into the hill. A bat flew by my head,
down mere, out me email boy Knows just mrazimr mv check, and out tvont mv
alt about it. It is just such a placo as light. I groped on in tho dark, and
tho heroes in many a dime novel inhabit, soon felt myself falling forward, and
and there is always an element of the then remembered the old well that I
dime novel in tho eoiall boy. So the had Been onco before when I was in tho
cavo has beon explored times innumer- cave, and gave myBelf up for lost, but I
able by gangs of bojs bent on ad- sion touched bottom and found that
SccrtiS rrw!steru
of Cod-liver Oil with, the hypophosphites, has the cod-liver
oil in these line globules, thus making it an emulsloru Boys
and girls, as well as delicate invalids, can take cod-liver oil
when prepared in this manner. In fact, it is well adapted to
young children. The hypopliosphites give strength to
the nervous system and needed material to growing bone.
Learn from nature : take cod-liver oil only as an emulsion.
y cis. aaJ Si u bottle. SCOTT & D0WXE, ChcmbU, New York.
venture.
Tho place is a desolato one. The
fields of dead suuilowers that surround
it and tho wind sighing through the dry
cornfields near by, mako an uncanny
sound. Three yawning mouths in the
eide of the hill mark tho entrances, to
the cave. You must stoop a little as
you enter, but after .ou are in the cavo
is high enough. There are three long
tunnels that lead into tho hill, gothic
roofed, having been dug out of Eoft
eandstono. Tho tunnels are connected
with each other by narrow and low man
holes, black as an old hat, and it takes
the small boy to explore them as he is
not afraid of lowering his dignity by
crawling on his hands and knees, and
was never knows to bo tho least bit
afraid of Boiling his clothes.
The walls are hieroglyphiced with in
numerable initials and rudo drawings,
and in one of tho tunnels eome pious
hand has carved in bold letters'Though
your 6ins be as Scarlet, they shall bo
white as Snow." Tho floor is covered
deeply with the sand that is always
wearing from the sides, and there aro
old wells half filled, which make a
blacker hole in tho already black place
and you shudder a little as you think
what a lonesomo placo it would be down
in an old well, with tho tcadss for com
pany. Tho placo has not been inhabited for
a long time save by bats and trumps.
It is a paradise for tramps. The rail
road is but a step below the mouth of
the cave, and the Weary Willies and
tho well had been tilled up go that it
was waist deep. I scrambled out and
went on to the end of the cave, spread
out ray blankets and prepared to go to
sleep. Tho mouth of tho cavo looked
small to me from whero 1 lay, the bri
rauuniigni mauo it wok UKe a rou
plate of silver with one golden star shin
ing near tho center.
"Some way 'I could not go to sleep. I
was as wide awake as I could bo. I had
gotten all over my nervouEnesa, but
still I had no desiro to sleep. Tho bats
flew in and out, and their squealing and
fluttering must have kopt me awake. I
do not know how long I laid thero in
tho dark watching the glimmering
mouth of tho cave, but after a while tho
cave began to change Tho place began
to fill with dark shadow?, and soon the
long narrow room had a row of big vats
along the side. I saw other shadows
along the walls of things I did not know
tho use of, and piles of grain sacks and
kegs and bottles.
"By and by I heard some one moving
about tho entrance. I saw a man enter
with a light, and after him came more
men carrying a shapeless mass. The
men were hurried and panting as if they
had ran and they cursed as they
pulled and tugged at their burden. At
last thoy climbed up on a ladder by the
side of one of the great vats, and lifted
their burden high and I could seo what
it was. I nearly screamed aloud as I
saw that it was a beautiful woman with
long golden hair hanging like a silken
ehroud about her. Tho men swucsr her
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the Dusty Pete, always find a welcome back and forth and then flung her over
awaiting them in the side oi the old hill, the edge of tho vat. There was a heavy
a coo! placo in summer and a warm one splash that sounded hollow in the
in winter. No matter how hard the wooden walls of the great tub, a gurg
blizzard may hlow outside no blast is eo ling half smothered cry, a few struggles
strong as to reach intothe depths of the and then silence. The men looked at
old beer cellar. And so tho old place each other a moment with scared wide
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and thither, till they find a narrow home
at last in the ground where no police
man cries "Move on," and wher,o per
haps no judge pronounces sentence.
They say that tho old cave is haunted.
Did you ever know of any Buch placo
that was not? It is a shaino to let such
"Up to this time I had been turned
almost to stone, incapable of making a
sound and almost paralyzed, but as I
Baw tho men leaving the cave, with one
supreme effort I moved and screamed.
Well, the bats were still flying a little.
up in the top of tho cave, and tho plate
a place go witnoui some gnoai 10 nauni Gf silver at tho south had changed to
its dreary depths, and so thero is a one pi gold with no stars in it."
ghost wandering through the tunnels. This story rather pleased mo and I
And strange to Bay, the ghost has to do th6ught if a night in a cavo would only
with the least romantic story of the bring ghostly dreams that I would trv it
origin of tho cave, that of tho brewery, myself. Well, I got my roommate to'go
They say that the placo is haunted by with me one dark gloomy night in No-
a beautiful young woman who wanders vetnber. Tho wind blew a wild fanfare.
througn u wrinKing uer nanus tfce forerunner of tho storm that I
and 6obbing. She is always dressed in
long robes of white and her long tawny
hair wraps about her liko a robo of cold.
A friend of mine who has, I must con
fess, a nervous temperament, and a well
dfevtloced imagination, told mo that he
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sure was coming as wo wended our way
to the cave. We had some blankets
and were prepared to spend a comfort
able night. We got to tho cave without
any mishap, and as there were two of us
wo did not feel nervous. We chatted a
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