The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-22
LAYING OF A GHOST
BY EvELEkA RASBuRY.
lcopyright, l9ls. western Newspaper Union.

Copyright. 1913, Western Newspaper Union-)
"Press yoh organdle Lawsy Music,
after de 'sperience / had las night,
here you comes a wantin' er organdie
prested! How's never you set under
de shade out in de yard, an I'll press
it-bein's it's you.
Honey, seen er sight las night as
war calkerlated to make me hate de
vanities Nv dis we're sin-soaked worl'.
I've hearn of sperits what sneaked
| 'roun' an showed deyselves to lone
.pussohs; but, chile, las night morn
hundred Nv us saw de ghos' NV Pan
ter graveyard.
"You member | tole you Canaan
chu'ch had new elder dis yeah? Well,
| he sho am fine loOkin' man, and de
sisters, day am as one voice 'claimin'
him good servant In de moral vine
yard.
about de time de elder, Broder
Jones, coined to US, Sister judy Man
ions time war out on de farm whar
she war sent fer usln' fame language in
de temple; an bein nifty 1iglous, she
coined right up to de front an polo
gized to de chu'ch, to de deacons an
to everybody fer castln' shame on de
| Shepherds flock. We insulted ober de
mattah, an 'cided to fergib her back
sliddin' an took her back in de busum
Nv de congregashum.
''Her an dat good-fer-nothin' gal O.
hern, Pearl, got house bout a mile
frum de chuch, an she went to wurk
fer de cause. She worked early an
late, an wus wunst more de piller of
| de chu'ch. 'Cose such 'yotion could'n'
'scape de preachers eye, an he war
purity often 'roun' dar helpin' Sis Judy
wild de wurk, an tryin' to 'suade Pearl
to wax In de narrer PAT.
"Hows' never, we did'n' fine out tell
week fore las dat in his zeal he war
| thinkin' Nv mahyn' Pearl to save her.
Dat scanlas 'ceedin' call'd fer er
ehu'ch meetin'. So we jes' up an toll
de brudder we war'n't gwine had him
| jine In matermony wild err sinner, givin'
scandal TO de chu'ch. Sis Judy cried
tears as she 'splaned, while Pearl wuz
her chile she warn't fit TO hop up de
repatriation NV a elder In de chu'ch.
"Brer Jones he looked at de imper-
dent, good-lookin' gal an asked: 'Spose
she jine de fole, howcome we can't
mahy denr
isis Judy's patience was bout
'sausted, so she ups an tells how Pearl
done jlne de chu'ch four summers han
runnin'-day jes' warn't no 'ligion in
her. Pearl few up at dat, an said as
how she amt got no husban' In de pen
like some folks presen' had. Everybody
knowed she 'luded to her nanny, an
she looked so VICIOUS wild her snapin'
eyes, de elder jes got ober his 'fatua-
ton, an said he war wlllln' to be guild
ed by de flock's wishes. De chu'ch den
chosen Judy, as more suitabler help
meet fer de elder dan sinner oman.
De elder glanted Judy home, an de
mex day we hearn of de 'proachin'
weddin'.
"Judy was fer err chu'ch weddin',
but de elder wus obstinit an said he
didn't want no rival traction to de big
meetin' he wus 'ductin'. So we all
fetched up at Canaan an dat elder sho
did wort an preach one more powerful
fine an 'vincin' sermon. Oar wus some
twenty odd mo'ners, an when Sis Judy
got happy in a good weavin' way, an
flung up her hans an started:
"'High up in heaven,
High up in heaven,
Asittin on de bench wild Jesus
dar wus one of de torn-downest shout
ems you ever hurd In yoh born days.
1t sho wus a gran time. Som'e'rs bout
midnight he dismissed de crowd wild
err blessin', an tole UNI him an Sis
Judy Manion gwine er beIn' broke he
| specially 'vited dem to foller de
Scriptural junction a jine hans in de
holy ban OF wedlock, an de meetin'
form In 'cesslon, two an two, march
down de road to Sis Manion's house,
whar de knot would be tied.
dat ole man Able started, Hark
from de TOM, cause it's all de chune
he knew, an everybody took ct up but
me, an de dark ole swamp on de lef'
rung wild de music. Al-to-once it popt
into my haid dat we got to pass Painter
graveyard.
"All Nv err suddin' de 'cession stopt
stone still, de singln' dryin' in ter sing
ers' necks; den rose de awfulest
screechin' YOU eyer-heerd in all yoh