Connecticut western news., 1896-06-18
BISARA OF PURI.

Some natives say that 1t came from he other side of Kulu. where the Il nch temple sapphire is; others that it ,as made at the devil shrine of Ao- hung, in Tibet, was stolen by Kaffir, tom him by Gurkha, from him again Lahouli. from him by khitmat-
 T, and by this latter sold to an Eng ahman. so all its virtue was lost, be- use. to work properly, the Bisara of uri must be stolen-with bloodshed possible, but at any rate stolen.
 These stories of the coming into India @ all false. It was made at Puri yes since-the manner of its making ould fill small book-was stolen by
 @ of the temple dancing girls there her own purposes, and then passed from hand to hand, steadily north ard, till it reached Hanla, always bear
 ! the same name, the Bisara of lri. In shape it is tiny square box
 silver, studded outside with eight oall balas rubies. Inside the box, nich opens with spring. is little eless fish, carved from some sort of
 k, shiny nut and wrapped in Q shred faded gold cloth. That is the Bisara [ Puri, and it were better for a man } take a king cobra in his hand than to Juoh the Bisara of Puri.
 All kinds of magic are out of date, nd done away with except in India, here nothing changes in spite of the iiny, toy scum stuff that people call civilization. Any man who knows bout the Bisara of Puri will tell you hat it's powers are, always supposing at it has been honestly stolen. It is only regularly working. trustworthy we charm in the country. with one ex- option.
 (The other charm is in the hands of a ooper of the Nizam's Horse. at place lied Tuprani, due north of Haidara- .d.) This can be depended upon for 8 ict. Some one else may explain it.
 If the Bisara be not stolen, but given bought or found, it turns against its Sner in three years. and leads to ruin death. This is another fact which ou may explain when you have time. Ieanwhile you can laugh at 1t. At resent the Bisara is safe on an ekka .ony's neck, inside the blue bead neck GO that keeps of the evil eye. If the .,ka driver ever finds it and wears it or ,ves it to his wife, am sorry for him.
 A very dirty hill cooly woman, with otter, owned it at Theog in 1884. It ime into Simla from the north before hurton's khitmatRar bought it and id it for three times its silver value to ;hurton. who collected ouriosities. The srvant knew no more what he had ought than the master. but a man joking over Churton's collection of 1riosities-Churton was an assistant ,mmissioner, by the wayAsaw and cid his tongue. He was an English nan, but knew how to believe-which hows that he'was different from most inglishmen. He knew that it was dan- srous to have any share in the little OK when working or dormant, for un- ought love is terrihle gift.
 Pack-"Grubby" Pack, as we used ) call him-was in every way Q nasty title man who must have crawled into le army by mistake. He was three lches taller than his sword, but not salf so strong And the sword was 5C billing, tailor made one. Nobody liked i'm. and I suppose it was his wizened. ess and worthlessness that made him Ill SO hopelessly in love with Miss Iollis, who was good and sweet, and fivs rot seven in her tennis shoes. He wal ot content with falling in love quietly ut brought all the strength of his miser ble little nature into the business. Il a had not been so objectionable, one night have pitied him. He vapored anG retted and fumed and trotted up anc town and tried to make himself pleasing Miss Hollis big. quiet. gray eyes nd failed. It was one of the cases thai ou sometimes meet, even in the ooun y where we marry by code. of really lind attachment all on one side, with ut the faintest possibility of return diss Hollis looked on Pack as some sor vermin running about the road. Fl, .ad no prospects beyond captains pay nd no wits to help that out by on, .nna. In large sized man love like hi would have been touching. In a goot man it would have been grand. He be ing what he was, it was only nuisance You will believe this much. Wha you will not believe is what follows Churton, and the man who knew wha he Bisara was. were lunohing at th' Simla club together. Churton was com plaining of life in general. His bes mare had rolled out of the stable dowl the hill and had broken her back. Hi decisions were being reversed by the up per courts more than an assistant com missioner of eight years standing has right to expect. He knew liver and fe yer, and for weeks past had felt out O sorts. Altogether he was disgusted an, disheartened.
 Simla club dining room is built. a Ill the world knows, in two sections | with an arch arrangement dividin them. Come in, turn to your left, tai the table under the window and yo cannot see any one who has come il turned to the right. and taken tab on the right side of the arch. Curious enough every word that you say can heard, not only by the other diner, b' by the servants beyond the scret through which they bring dinner. Tn is worth knowing. An echoing room
 trap to be forewarned against.
 Half in fun and half hoping to be b | n Al ~ &s