The evening world., 1911-04-22
"HANTS" GOT HIM
! BY THE TROUSERS,
v HELD HIM TIGHT
Little Emancipation Boiling Gus
It's Matthews Took a Nap at
Moving Picture Show.
WOKE UP IN THE DARK.
Clothes Caught on Hinge in
Flight and He Thought
4. Ghost Had Him.
WOKE UP IN THE DARK.

There was a time in the lite ~ young
Manclpation Boiling Gusts Matthews
called Nance for short-vaen he didn't
believe In 'ha nts." His mother does.
and before the family came ~ from
Essex Court House, Va, she grounded
the belief into her OFFS ring Win all the
fcrNor that descended. from a long line
% coal black negroes.
hut the teachers IN the New YORK
pubic school who took Young Nance n
maud called 1t foolish superstition and
they succeeded In chasing Il from HI.
'cn-year-old mind. To-day. however, all
inc logic they could muster would have
IN ef"at ~ Mancipation Boiling Gusts
MattAcws- he knows that "ha'nts' eN s.,
because no has heard them. and. WA
is more. fet them-and this Is TIE way
1t happened:
Fo.i eman O'Brien was walking along
Wcsi One Hundred and Tnirty-s,xth
street In the curly hours ,o-dlv trying
tho doors o. ;hc shops. As no turned
Into g." door ~ 40. rs which g.. a
lvi'e moving picture theatre. he heard
a mlsh'y rafting OF bolts and a
series O, shri,i slrieks tina; suggested
that some one WAS having a Waipurg,.
festival all TO himself.
He Pleads With the Ha'nt.
"Lcmme out - lemme out 90 - de
lswdS sake. femme out. Don let m
cit me--don' le, i'm ketch me on.
please sub, Mister liant, please sub
J ain done nothing
The cries pierced the quie. OF the
street. Policeman O'Brien ratified the
door and the yells doubled in v!gor.
Grab loose n me-grab loose o. me!
] ain done nothln'-I won deny YOU no
mo'-'deed WON'T
Convinced that murder at least was
heins done, O'Brien threw his weight
against the door and forced It. Hs
stepped into a pitch-dark hall with a
ray from the electric light across the
street making one bright patch jus, be-
yond the threshold. II showed a very
small and very black and frantic hoy.
the seat o, his trousers caught on the
hince OF the door OF the ticket-seller's
booth, elaNlng the air with hands and
feet and squaNling with all his hisht
WHAT'S tho row." asked O'Rrie1. a.
he gathered The sohbing bundle into his
arms, hut all he got was a hysterical
whisper OF 'ha'nts -ha'uts!-ha'uts"'
SO he carried the boy 20 'he West one
HUNDRED ana Tv cnty-ffth street station
and there, after a little wn.ie. 'Msncipa-
ton Boiling GUSTS Matthews tod MS
story, lie lad entered the moving pit
Ilrc show after supper and after 4 pro
any Of films showing The Ken.
lucky M%ouushiner's Revenge" ~ Raid
90 tho ku klux KAN Ills Fathers
Ghost and a few others OF SIMILAR M.
Ter" 10 had dropped asleep IN n rear
corner. Several hours later Nc aNoke 70
ina ne place dark, the picture ms chine
s.uppcd ana everybody CONC home,
Then He Heard Noises.
Emancipation stumbled around In the
dark. trying to find tho door. Then ne
boral 70 hear noises the benches
.rcaked, the joists groaned. a dog
. hovtci and all the tale. his nanny"
Lad told him OF raw haid an bloody
:rnneS" and Jack - lanterns who en-
,iced little BOYS !n,o sNaWns and att
them came n,rk To hlm vividly.
At eng u he reached the doov " 'pe
= hC,-se!lcr's booth and q little S'ramh-
Ing a"oVrd ~ IFS narrow confines
brought 80 to tickets uut ~ the rl"E
in a s.rrcr ohou, lis h"1l. II wits
tlcn ina Po.ccman O'Brl'n heard MS
cries.
luunsiuc around to g, out OF tho
huotl. M1uriystiou found the door
again and iolted through 1t. Bat his
trousers caught OF n Aiagc and there
lie hung. zig I and fast. and couvin cd
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