The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-16
GHOSTS DON'T LIKE
 SMELL OF LIVING Live Ones As Objectionable to
 Them As Dealers RAISE A GREAT KICK No Pleasure to Them to Go to Those Spiritualist Seances-PsyehicaI
 Societies What Even the
 Savages Know.
From the Boston Herald.

T lOiil tllc DOSlOH I1tTdlO.
 Somehow or other the ghosts have sell dom met with fair play. They squeak and gibber in the Roman street, on busi- ness. In moated grange and ancestral manor house they moan and clank their chains, specific performance of contract. henzollern they appear in solemn warn ing to reigning princes. it is their duty
 What manner of reception do they meet? Humanity always says, What a nuisance these ghosts are' Humanity has other symptoms-horripilatio is the succinct term for them in scientific ter minology; goosehesh, hair standing on end. voice sticking in the gullet, trem- bling at the knees, sinking at the pit of the stomach. In other words the yellow streak. That's what ghosts do to men.
 But the instinct of fairness demands the inquiry into the feelings of the ghosts toward men. Live ones are quite as ob- jectionabie to dealers. Thus only can any school of psychological interpretation account for the conduct of the spooks when the entranced and inspired medium in the snuffy circle of believers succeeds in bringing them down to the earth plane. It's no such great pleasure to the spirits to be in touch with so many humans all alive. They resent 1t as best they may; the flick of an icy hand Is mark of dis approval, the groans from the cabinets are but so many signs of disgust.
 If Little Bright Eyes and Sagamore John and Katy King and the rest of the spirit controls who do such lucrative business In mystery could only be to tal1 ha fhav UoIIld make 1t clear that the living are highly objectionable to those who have passed over.
 Particularly obnoxious seems to be the smell of life
 Live Closer to the Spirits.
 This appears to be new contribution to the Knowledge of spirit phenomena. It rests not upon the compiled data of the societies for physical research, but upon the intimate acquaintance of simple folk who live closer to the spirits than those of wider culture are quite willing to &C., knowledge. The dearest disclosures of this important fact is in the beliefs of the rude people of New Britain, whose faith has just become matter of study.
 You are going about your ordinary bus mess in the jungle. Somebody says a word of greeting, some equivalent oi howdedo or good morning. You start to bring your spear into action, or your club, as you would do ordinarily when some stranger passed the time of day. It's sweet to be anthropophagous and have your dinner come to you on the hoof. and a merry fight in settlement of the initial uncertainty as to whether you dine or are dined. But it proves to be a ghost who greets you and not a potential food supply.
 So you and the ghost get quite chum- my No horripilation in your case, for you are but a simple savage man and have not advanced beyond words of one syllable, certainly not beyond two sylla- bled ideas All day long you and the socialble ghost go proving through the jungle, observing the beauties of nature and things in general.
 When evening comes you turn toward home, for even if you haven't found any body to eat the women will have fish and yams and bananas and cocoanut puddings baking in the oven, and the hot cobblet will not be forked out of the smoking pit until the head of the house comet back. / In parting from the companion of your days wanderings you find that the ghos' has taken quite a fancy to you. He in vites to better acquaintance.
 Suppose you come down with me some time,' he says, and meet the rest of thu | fellows x
 Fine" say you in savage curiosity nothing would give me greater pleas 1 ure''
 Why not come pow?" the ghost asks and having absolutely nothing that eve really must be done from your first birth day until you become ghost yoursei you are perfectly willing.
 First of run home and get some fisl or a piece of pig the ghost directs. Tn not inhospitable. but living folks can eat our stuff and you'll havest to brinl your own.''
 Set of With the Ghost.
 So you stuff green cocoanut baske with light collation.. eight or ten pound of whatever the women have cooked You and the friendly ghost set off to gether. Just where you 80 is not quit | distinct, but it's somewhere down beloy the surface of things.
 When you two get there the other spir l It's have not yet como back to ghostland Your host blows up the smouldering fir and bids you make yourself quite q home. showing you place where yo can sit and be In nobody's way. Of rathe in no spirits way. Then the rest of tn spirits come trooping in from their da on the earth plane
 They open the shadowy baskets of thei peculiar food. tho mat plates are heape high and a pleasant spiritual time
 under way. You, off in your corner, ar gorging on pork and pudding and thint