The evening world., 1889-12-19
"Tho Evening World Will Give a
Gold Double Eagle for the
Best Ghost Story.
Everybody May Enter the Lists,
so Send in Your Experience.
1t Will BE an Interesting Contest
and in Keeping with the
Christmas Holidays.

Did you ever zee a ghost7
THE EVENING WORLD has a hankering de-
Eire to see that ghost through your specta-
Cles.
Did the spirit of some departed one ever
haunt you in your waking hours and perch
on the footboard of your bed while you
slept?
The EVENING WORLD would like to hear
you describe your shadow.
Since the earliest lays of history ghosts
have played a more or less prominent part
in the affairs of men. 1t was the ghost of
his father which kept prodding the con-
science of the muddy-nettled Hamlet, and
the ghost OF Banuuo, standing ever at the
back of Macbeth's banquet chair, persist
emily refused to down, while it is q matter OF
recent history that though Dan McGinty
has gone down to the bottom of the sea
'steen thousand times or more, his ghost
pe%rambuiates the Dock Department just the
same, dressed IN his best suit OF clothes. y
Have You seen Mctiintvs ghost?
All, what all interview McGinty's ghost
could favor II reporter with!
Away back IN the far-away days, when
Santa Claus was a reality-ot the imagina-
tiOn-and the moon was really made OF
green cheese; when the end. OF the world
wa. Just at the beginning of the next block,
aud 4 dark closet was q bottomless abyss
surely in those dark ages you must have
met a wrath face to lace!
EbeneZer Scrooge was az, matter OF tact
as any man you might number alnong your
acquaIntanCeS, NO Dickens assures us. aud
Jacob Marley had been dead many years,
dead as a door nail. yet S~crooge, who had
thought of nothing but {. +. d. since he be
came a man-ScroOge. who could not be ac-
cused of too much. imaginatlon-saw the
ghost of Marley a. plain as he could see his
bedpost.
1t was at Christmas time-in fact, it was
the night before Christmas, when all
through the house not n creature was STIR
1InY mot even a mOnkp. Indeed. lnrlHtmnH
time seems to he Just the most prop!tiOus
for seeing ghosts, and The EVENING WORLD
boldly offers the proposition that there are
Just as. many ghosts knocking about o
nights i'll TINS year OF grace 1850 As there
ever were in the most ghoatly age OF the
Just as many shutters are ratified by in
visible hands; just as many haunted
houses: just as many crOuching, covering,
terror-stricken children Ill their darkened
The nurse-girl has filed the mind of her
baby charge full of gObilnS and spooks and
bogies, Just as her mother and grand
mother and great-Grandmother filled your
and your fathers and your grandfather's IN
their turn; and the nurre-glrl's male cousin
her spinal marrow with more prodlglous
ghost stories, just a. other generations of
male cousins have thrilled other generations
of n~urse-glrlss since the world began.
Beside the great fireplace sits the grand
dame. c%roning the story OF, her own expert
snce with ghosts, and IN short, there seems
w 10 "a 1NA ~ ~ Va bNNiAS
have been on speaking, not to say intimate,
terms with spooks aud bodiless spirits.
These fortunate people are, now addressed
by The EYI NING WOHLD. They shall be the
favored class during the holidays. They
shall have all EvENING WORLD contest all 70
Themselves, and one of them shall have
golden double eagle to begin 1890 with,
The EvESINO WORLD offers a,twenty-dollaT
I gold piece 10 that reader who sends to the
editor the best account of his or her personal
intercourse with a ghost.
The ghost story must not be more than
200 words long. written on one side of the
paper only, and addressed to the Ghost
Editor.
1t has been limited that ghost stories were
diRressionS from the truth In every i'll
stance. This would be equal to saying that
4 lac who tells u ghost story is a tibbcr. OF
course The EVENING WORLD does not III.
dorse this sentiment at all, but IT may bt
stated here properly that THE EVENING
WonLD will not hold itself responsible for
the truth of the stories told in this contest.
Twenty dollars il a good deal of money!
Send on your ghost experiences! The
contest is now open.