The Monroe journal., 1922-04-25
AN INTERESTING STORY
ON GHOSTS WHAT Amt"
Nose Wasn't Skeered Of the Ghosts
What AM" But He Felt Uneasy
About Dem What Amt
JONAH HASN'T HAD FAIR
DEAL IN MODERN TINES
Just Because He Happened TO Be a
Hoodo One Tine We Wan; 10 Lay
Many Things at His Feet

Many Things at His Feet
The ghost stories that have re
Gently been published by great man,
papers of the country have sc
tongues a-wagging and have brough
out a number Of local stories. Blu
just at the opportune time here come
most interesting article appearin,
in the American Magazine tellinl
about "the ghosts what amt"
was written by Ellis Parker Butle
and follows:
| wrote a story once about littl
black boy whose name was Nose
and one Halloween he had Just abou
the awfulest time any little blacl
boy ever had in this world. Their
was party at the cabin ana hi
nanny sen. him TO get pumpkin
to make a jack-o- -lante-n. II wa
mighty dark night and the. littl
black boy had to go past the grave
yard and through the wood and dow
the hollow, and when he reached tn,
pumpkin patch he was scared almos
while. He reached down to grab |
pumpkin, and a great big headles
ghost shouted at him to drop it
that it was his head. Little blacl
Nose was so scared the ghost wa
sorry for him and gave him som,
sound, comforting advice:
"Don't you ever be afraid O
ghosts" the ghost told him, "becaus,
there amt no ghosts"
So little black Nose started hom,
and he picked up a stick.
Lego that; that's MY leg!' al
awful ghost voice said. and then tina
ghost told little black Nose the sam,
tn ng:
Don't you ever be scared 60
ghosts" that ghost said; ".there ain
no ghosts "
And presently, when he was goins
past the graveyard, he met all tn,
ghosts in the world holding a con
vention. There were millions of them
and every one told little. black Mos,
the same thing:
"Dey amt no ghosts!"
When little black Nose go. bacl
to the cabin he was so scared he wa
blue-white, and everybody at tn,
party told him he was a foolish littl,
black Nose to be scared of ghosts
because, they tlod him:
"Dey amt no ghosts"
Little black Nose allowed the,
were right, bu. waen it came tim,
to go to bed he Just hung around an,
hung around and didn't want to &,
up there in the dark.
"Git erlong wild yo!" his MANN,
said. "What yo skeercd OBJ when de,
amt no ghosts?"
'1Sain't skeered OBJ de ghosts wha
am" little black Nose allowed.
"Den what am yo skeered OBJ
his nanny asked.
"Nffn'," said little black Nose
'but | JUS feel kinder cneasy abou
de ghosts what amt"
Just like white folks! just lik
white folks! We don't have any rea
ghosts TO be afraid of, and so W,
spend half os our time inven;ing
imaginary spooks.
| am as bad as any of you. Ac
ccrd,ng to my latest census ! hav,
OH my staff just about five hundred
and sixty-four ghosts what amt tha
| have made for myself out of moth
ng. That is enough for one man
and few over. Seventy Eight ghost!
what amt are enough to handicap
anyone. Three or four are enough t
make an ordinary man miserable anC
any more than that are a nuisance.
Jonah was a good example of {
man with ghost what amt; | NEAR
the Jonah who had to take a triJ
in whale, whether he could get {
lower berth or had to take Upper
Ten and make the best-of it.
BY GHOSTS what ainf | mean the
hesitations and fears we put on our.
selves which prevent us from get.
ting the best out of life and out oil
ourselves. They are the imaginary
whiffenpoofs that make us s;de-steI
and hesitate and back away, just as
Jonah tried to get out of that triI
to Nineveh.
don't think Jonah has had faii
deal. We call everybody with bad
luck a Jonah, and everybody who
brings bad luck a Jonah, and il isn't
fair. Noah built the ark and, after
the food, got thoroughly AMI com.
pletely intoxicated, but we don't cal
every drunk Noah. And then there
was Solomon. Solomon built the TEN.
pie and had one thousand wives, but
we don't call every bigamist Solo
mon.
But because poor Jonah happened
to be hoodoo once in his life we
can't forget it. As soon as | have
time | am going to start society
to be called the Society for Giving
Jonah a Fair Deal.
Now the real facts about Jonah
are as follows: Jonah was in the
prophet business, nd his job was to
GO to wicked municipalities and howl
calamity unless they reformed and
behaved better. One day word came
to Jonah to go TO Nineveh and cry
against it because it's wickedness
arose to heaven. Uneven was actually
worse than Greenwich Village pre-
tends To he Ry all accoupts II tyac