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Show Houso Haunted? Low Rentl When alien Immigrants arrive In this country they often bring with them n stock of misapplied ingonulty. The tennnt with a ghost Is a game that Is being played by foreigners In various parts of tho United States, and, what Is more, It Is being played successfully. The newcomer takes a house, and, after ono or two payments of rent, complains that tho premises are haunted. Quaking with simulated fear, he tells a tale of horror of a headless man seen Btalklng from the coat cellar, a lady In whlto or of something some-thing Invisible but groaning. Now, a ghost Is the average landlord's prime aversion. Spectral visitors afford Bplondld subjects for gossip In the neighborhood, and prospective tenants ten-ants seldom fall to hear and Kbe warned off by the story. Anxious thnt tho report shall not get about, landlord confors with tenant, ten-ant, and In severnl such Instances the result has been this the tenant ngrocs to stay on, to say nothing about the matters to others and to put up with the ghost, providing tho rent Is substantially reduced. , |