Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-29
DAY BREAKS LOOSE! ELECTRIC FAN TALKS!
Head of Syracuse University Weird and Woozy Doings in
Denounces Roosevelt. Government Office.
VENOMOUS HATRED OF S. O. SP00KS BUSY IN DAYLIGHT
Practical Side of the Books FALL Bells Ring and Spirit
President Messages Appear
"DEGENERACY OF DEMAGOGY" THEOSOPHISTS MADE HAPPY
Foraker a in porter
Chief Departed Outside Aid
Weird and Woozy Doings in a
Government Office.
SPOOKS BUSY IN DAYLIGHT
Books Fall, Bells Ring and Spirit
Messages Appear.
THE0s0PH1sTs MADE HAPPY
Then a Mean, Materialistic Star Re
porter Discovers That the Dear
Departed Have Outside Aid.

| There are more things in heaven and
earth. Horatio, than are dreamt Of in your
philosophy"
| Shades of the Immortals,
| Spooks in a government department..
One expects to find spooks on a real
dark night at the strrroke Of twelve
in the Old Churchyard. Even when the
big, old-fashioned house that sits away
back among the Moaning Pines on the hill
has to be entered after dark when all the
folks are away. Things in long. white
robes are part of the landscape and are
not minded by anybody.
But it's different in government Office.
and in broad daylight. too. Indeed. the
spirits ought to have better manners. But
they haven't. and that's how this story
| came about.
List to This Weird Tale.
A Star reporter heard about the Mys-
| FERROUS Manifestations He went right
around to see them. Oh. no the place can't
be told. at least not yet. That wouldn't
! do at all. because 1t would result in hum
dreds-perhaps thousands-of people flock
| ing around right away to see. too. and,
of course. everybody knows that would
stop the work in the Office. Uncle Sam
wheels of government mustn't be blocked
in that way.
The Spirits of the Dear Departed decided
| to make their Visible Manifestations be-
\ cause there were Scoffers in the Office.
Anyhow. that's what everybody in the
| Office believes-that is. nearly everybody.
It's way the Spirits have. you know.
| Mrs. Mack-which isn't her real name at
all-is a leading theosophist of the Dis
| trict. and she always has been kind of in
terested in Astral Bodies. and that sort of
thing. She and Mr.. Flower-its not his
! name, either-often used to talk about
| Such Things in the office. OF course every
body else scoffed. They used to laugh so
hard they nearly cried when Mrs. Mack
| and Mr.. Flower whose desks are right
to try to make a Convert from the Sphere
| of the Material.
well. just you watt they'd say to the
laughers Maybe some day you'll find
| out different. and them
Hear the Scoffers Scott.
! But the unbelievers never found out
what would happen to them after they
found OUT about the spooks. because
they always began to laugh so hard that
Mrs. Mack and Mr.. Flower couldn't make
| themselves heard.
Somehow or other. though. the days and
weeks passed on without. anything hap
|
| Mrs Mack and Mrs. Flower didn't know
| exactly why no spirits ever appeared to
the unbelieving clerks when they were at
home in dead of night. but they didn't.
Psychic Current. which. colliding with the
Dual Identity. interfered with the Percipl-
ent Activity and induced Psychicism.
| But last Wednesday 1t came! And in
| the office. in broad daylight. too.
Just as Mr. Flower was passing the
| Electric Fan in the corner Of the room the
| Fan began to turn. 1t hadn't been a bit
| warm for several days In the ONCE. and
the Fan was beginning to get real rusty
and dusty
Thinking, of course that somebody must
have turned it on for joke while his at
tenton was distracted. Mr.. Flower in
quired who it was.
Gee! Spooks Get Busy.
Every single person in the room and all
the adjoining rooms denied having turned
it on. Mr.. Flower hadn't ever thought
| about Spooks in the Office. so that expla-
nation never occurred to him. He sat
| down at his desk, however. and began to
| look in fascinated sort of way at the
moving Fan.
All Of a sudden it stopped!
Mr.. Flower rubbed his Eyes It surely
had stopped. He leaned over to Mrs.
| Mack and whispered something. They
both then fixed their Eyes on the Fan.
|
"Ah!" sighed Mr.. Flower
| "Ah!" echoed Mrs. Mack.
Whats the matter?" asked a man who
was standing behind Mrs. Mack's chair
| looking at a Map on the Wall.
Look" chorused Mrs. Mack and Mr.
| Flower.
| 600, That Funny Fan.
| The man behind Mrs. Macks chair
looked. And he saw. too. Mr.. Flower
got big crowd around. and there, sure
enough. was the Fan starting and stop
ping without any Visible Power any
where near it.
There" said Mrs. Mack and Mr..
| Flower. I'VE told you"
All" sighed everybody
Now we'll see who it is, said Mrs.
Mack.
That's what we will" said Mr.. Flower.
And everybody listened-and watched
| intently.
| Addressing the Fam. which had now
stopped, Mrs. Mack said. in a solemn
voice:
Are you trying to show the Unbeliev-
ers that they are Ignorant?"
Almost before the question was finished
the Fan began to Buzz.
You see announced Mrs. Mack.
that means Yes
Then Mr.. Flower. visibly affected. asked
the Fan who was moving 1t. OF course.
| he didn't ask it right out this way. Who
| is moving YOU FAM"
It Answered Questions.
First he asked the Fan if the Dear De-
parted So-and-So was moving 1t. There
| was no turning. Everybody knew that
meant No" After while the fan said
! Yes wnen the name of a Former Chief
of the Office was mentioned Later it
was learned that several People who had
Died were talking through the Fan. One
| of them had been Dead long time
| something like thousand years.
In discussing it with The Star reporter.
Mrs. Mack didn't like to say much about
| tina. one. She looked Real Mysterious
| and invited the reporter to study I'D
| bit. so he could understand. you know.
| That was how it all started Ever
since the Disembodied Spirits have Just
| kept Crowding into that Room all the
| time All kinds of Notes have been found.
| addressed to Mrs. Mack and Mr. Flower
nearly all of them-and other strange
and supernatural Things have happened
| like books falling from the tops of book
| shelves when nobody is near and files.
too.
! Mr.. Flower hung a Bell by String
| in the middle of Chandelier in the little
| anteroom adjoining. so that it is per-
| fectly visible from his room. And. sure
| enough. 1t has rung often all by itself
All these things The Star man Saw for
| Himself.