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Show CHOST WHO 2UxSieY TYPEWRITER te the girl of heartless : n trying to prevent nim from Writing to tell her bis love Miss Yawkey showed the note to the manager, who was annoyed. He declared that he would dis- night watchman of the bullding and and the sértibbers to watch the office they eared to tell. Despite the efforts of the manager to keep the facts quiet, and thus facilitate the investigation he had set on foot, the story of the sigenat got about and the "Gnost" became an office character. Mr. Walker determined upon drastic measures lie employed a detective to watch the office at night The man watched the door for two nights without any development, but on the third night the ghost wrote again. ed. Wasnt BE iy dad het eC Oe RALeRECOE and report'to him any one who entered or left during the night or early' morning No one Saw any person enter the real estate office during the time. Yet the next morning there was another letter in the typewriter, and this was signed " Your Spirit Lover." left the office, yct there was a long love letter, two full pages be sides the half finished one in the machine. It was one of the most beautiful love lette ever a girl reeelved, but Miss Yawkey was bbatrinieen to be frightened, especially as one part of the letter con- , Hi LOUIS has a ghost that plays a typewriter, and writes long and interesting letters on a machine locked inside an office desk The ghost-or whatever it is that writes the haps only letters -Is an a frequenter, inmate of the - a cover who it was that was writing the letters and picking the locks of desk That afternoon he personally closed and locked the girl's desk and asked permission to keep the key until the next morning. oo a or peroffice of Then he told the the elevator man one of the largest real estate firms in is striving by every means known to ihe city, which it to keep the story secret and to solve the mystery. The pecullar feature of the case » is that the ghost apparently is able to write only upon one typewriter, or at least it has confined its writings to the machine in the desk of Miss Grace Yawkey, one of the four stenographers Although there are five other stenogspirit stenographer never has raphers in the office, the touched one of them. The beginning of the mysterious writings was ‘bout five months ago Miss Yawkey, who is 19 MS ane tions paid to keepers, who the firm, and tained a to write self that Miss: ‘yn. her. writing declarec 1 should ould years oe Kirls eae pi riect with blonde, @ small pretty, idi'and time been figure, had at that and a beautiful oriklon employed in the office for about fiVe months two, of the other girls that one, perhaps is no doubt in the office were jealous of her because of the atten- a Girl Not Frightened, But Angry. ae a - o not frightened. She was angry. I iat ‘ outrage, . it wa a in and that: she F : bones) 1: ete pre behe protected from the , anonymous writer. Also pose She hinted in the that more office than Knew probably about more some the of the other % . ° e * Vain. mm Desk On Sits Defective . That night a detective sat on the top of her typewriter desk all night; at least, he declares that he never fell asleep He vowed never left the desk an¢ that he heard nothing, yet the next morning there was a note, a curt, anery lover's note, full of vague threats upon Uttman, who was of vengeance upon her and mentioned for the first time than matter her by Samuel Uttman, one of the bookwas the best liked man employed by besides that the handsomest Typewriter Gin Wins velled threat of something worse if she failed to the Spirit Stenographer, as he signed himtime Yawkey answered, She left .a short, curt note machine, requesting the Dereon: whe Varma to cease annoying her with his letters Admiration. From the first day that Miss Yawkey appeared in the office the admiration of Uttman was pro nounced Although he had general charge over all the work of the stenographers and copyists, even the most jealous of the girls could not complain that In the office work he showed Miss Yawkey any favors Ile treated her in the same manner that he treated all the othets, except that after a few weeks he rode with her and once or twice took her to the home theater. There was nothing to which the other girls could tak iny exceptions-and therefore some of them did, beca ause -the newcomer had apparently "cut them out. It would appear-and the detectives who worked on the case each thought so at first-that the spirit stenographer was the direct result of the admiration of Mr. Uttman for Miss Yawkey, and each and every man who has tried to solve the mystery has gone to work on the theory that some one who was jealous of the handsome young girl was striving to frighten her away from the office And yet, despite the unanimity every one of the sleuths, after vigilant of opinion, it not work, has abandoned this theory and declared only Improbable but almost impossible that any one eonnected with the office should have had a hand in the mysterious writing. Startling as it may seem, four trained detectives have worked upon the case and each one has abandoned It, declaring his belief that it was Impossible for the writing to have been done by any human agency Spirit The first a Writes as Love manifestation was early in the fall. of Letters spiritual For several stenography mornings Miss Yawkey had appeared annoyed wher she opened her desk, and finally one morning, when she threw up the top preparatory to going to work, she flushed red, and then pulling a sheet of paper from her typewriter she walked into the office of the manager and laid the paper before him "Mr. Walker," she sald, "for several days some one has. been opening my desk and writing on my typewriter, leaving the writing in the machine. Until today nothing personal has appeared; now I find this." She laid the paper ter addressed to' her deed, the denly. letter before him. It was a love letNo name was signed, and, in- appeared The manager, would investigate, to have after reading and he made been tion, thinking that the fact that the firm had taken notice of the affair would be sufficlent to stop tne writing. A few days later there was another love blushing note in the machine, and again Miss Yawkey, and angry, reported the matter to the manager broken off sud- the note, said he cursory Iinvestiga- Changes Lock to Circumvent DEVIL DANCING IN GRACE TAWKEE Miss Yawkey was frightened She wanted to resign, but the firm, upon the urging of Uttman, persuaded her to remain. Since that time every effort has been made to unmask the writer of the letters, but without avall The case became so strange that a spiritualist wa consuited, who carried on a correspondence on the typewriter with the Spirit Stenographer without, however, learning much except that the mysterious writer dered him to put a new lock on the then presented her with the key, continued to declare his love for Miss And Miss Yawkey confided In one laughed: admirer, "I Miss But it letter full guess that Yawkey." did of will stop girl's desk, saying, as your and he mysterious that she almost could love the ful letters if they were written not, for the next morning there was a complaint and recrimination, accusing -FROM yj a Miss Ghost. Ther wis nothing wrong with the note, except that it had been written on még typewriter while her desk was locked It Appeared that some one had a duplicate key to the desk and was using It. Walker that day called every employé of the office into his private room and questioned them guardedly been to discover if they knew of any one who had using Miss Yawkey's machine, but he learned nothing. Two days later there was another letter, and Walker determined to act. He summoned a locksmith, or- a. INDIA, SIREN. WOODEN > LEG. ROBINSON THE L jP j She refuses to show them to be published, them, or, although Yawkey of her friends writer In the for his beautiright way: and at least, permit she has recelyed any of dozens. ~ FAR. SSSSSSSoSSss Se fess CRUSOE. BEER. Sarr Eee AND Strance SuRPRIZING ADVENTURES ROBINSON CRUSOE, Of TORK, Martner: Who lived Eigitsnd Twenty Years, BRET allalonein an un-inhabited Ifland on the f AMERICA, near the Mouth of This the Great River of O ROONOQUE; Heng RIO a is the a way meee , the wht and No, 2 for dark eee s6e yeast vi for Sibi beer looks under ria ad the CHINESE SOLDIERS. a microscope. DOG No. 1 Is that Be) a for TONGS OW! I = H The siren of Neapolitan folk lore Is a browned woman in a flowing robe who rides a seahorse which has two feet anda fish's tall. On an old vase in the Naple museum she appears thus, riding above the rushing waters of the River of Death, having been sent to Hades by Neptune in search of Proserpine, SQUARING A cc we ONDON Printed for W, Tavon - the ie in Pater-Nafter~ OCKLX lacsimile of title page of first edition of Robinson Crusoe that was sold for $1,500 TRIANGLE. 29 This Jammu. picture shows a devil The performance was dance given before by the FIRE ALARM. the prince and princess monks from Lada kh, EXECUTIONER'S of Wales Lift a9 ftrangely dehod by PYRATES Writer by Hi wei FOR RED NOSES. at SWORD rhe instrument is formed of a bunch of needles which are used for pricking red noses to restore healthy color DOG-SHEARING Athletic sportborrowed from the White race : are popular with the modern army of China. The sketch by a French artist ane them trying the pole vault. NOVELTY IN PARIS. - ae } | 2 vies wots 2 ae Lines when you re- EL oo > d the fire alarm is givenCn by ring E eae a e y c copne Oe 1. ee e endsnlof aease theae Une seth What Is the geometrical fAgure * What is the geographical figure? BRITAIN - VOTING. Cher ee only two pairs of " dog te aaa in existence, those depicted being care fully prese rve d in Bangor cathedral, They are known to have been in use duriae the seventeenth century for removing from churches dogs who had aecompanied thelr owners MAKING MAPS a >. the Hne A B, then form & reg space geoThe position of the linea placed perpenchanged, These short lines er 3 a | | tine, ee eee | ll oe cre n The istage hows the British~ annie of the DP ballot,"' s a conservative candidate y being shave in the act of recording vote. On the banks of the Seine recently Se verambulatin, _ motoror f ef eee b 1 doOgs. power and can shear six dogs an hou ed means of, ,of clipping will be an ataile adop 3 ae Russ weIn oa ; Ht ll hh 4 4 of be tte abap oes Place the line C 0 as a continuation metrical Ngure with the line thus forme dicularly to the lines A Lb C D must not ‘ Pa. . The leg' grew on a tree in an old redwood -tree near Eureka, Cal,, and was sawed off by G. C. Barton of Los Angeles Its shape and size conform with the hu- ENIGMATICAL LINES. li st bit By cutting alone the heavy can produce fou r pieces which, arranged, will form @ square, This curfousinstrument was the @wordof the official executioner at Lhasea, In Tibet nae i ee surprise has been caused by a ne ig two and one-hs AL if horse ts"iittle doubt that before long this Four colors at most are needed to dis tingulsh the surfaces of separate districts on any plane map, so that no two with a common boundary are tinted allke On this diagram A, B, and C are adjoining districts, on a plane surface, and X borders, in one way or another, upon each It ig clearly y impossible to introduce ea imp fifth aren which shall so adjoin these four districts as to need another tint. |