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Show MUCH INTEREST IN GHOST STORY CONTEST 0 Storiea Already Are Pouring Pour-ing in to Contest Editor More than usual Interest is being man-frsted man-frsted In 'The Telegram Ghost Story" contest and s'.orie are beginning to coma In In Increasing numbers daily-It daily-It Is not only the money r!res offered, but the novelty of the contest that Is attracting attention. What with the delving- Into the realm of metaphysics y eminent scientists, Edison trying to perfect a machine to communicate with! the departed, the public turning a willing will-ing ear to the discussion of so-called spiritualistic manifestations and the reported message from Jake L. Hamon, from beyond the border, to the girl accused ac-cused of his murder, interest in the contest is reaching fever heat. Son of the. stories received are not only of a high literary order, but paint pen pictures of earthbound spirits whose presence is either seen or felt by i r the authors, In such vivid rolorltiR and In such earnest belief that lissil King's tory 'of a spirit chained To" earfTi unttT lie Is sent onward by forgiveness and love will not-seem to be purely hnag- inative. Basil King, himself. Is a firm believ-er believ-er in a continuance of life and his story visualizes his conviction that the spirit lives, and functions In a land beyond. J The storlea already received makei good reading and show the trend of the public pulse in regard to metaphysics. They will be published from day to day and Indications are that many wierd experiences will be recounted visitations that. If told about only a few years ago. would have been laughed . at as figments of the imagination. |