The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-08-24

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Observation-Disclosures.
Aecordingsto fhe#cataIogues she Is
predetermined royal per-
souagean a8priestess OF the College
or AnensRa She lived in ttleSmighty
$city8of Thebessonne goo years before
Christ
And about this anne coffin cover
hangs as terrible q story as ever
AN Edgar Allan Poe or q Balzac OIL a
Kipling~ produced from a gloomy mag
ination.
sIfSyou question the, attendants in the
FIRST Egyptian o they will shake
heads and say nothing. But
there Is Ia famous professor in the
museum who knows that the facts are
true, though whether they be a coinci-
dencesorS a manifestation of supernat-
ura1 powerwhoscan say? He says:
j, three months I have been gath
ering the tangled threads Of evidence.
I have now in my possession proofs of
the identity Of all those who suffered
from anger Of the p~riestess of
8AmensRa. But for the sake Of friends
relatives l have been requested to
suppress the names.
about she middle of the sixties of
the last century q party of I've friends
took ship in n dahabeah for a trip up
the Nile. They Travelled to Luxor on
their way to the second cataract, and
stayed there 90 explore the ruins of
the great and wonderful city of Thebes.
with its venues of sphinxeS and rams,
it's vast hall Of columns and its temple
to Amen Ra, which is unequaled on
earth in the sublimity Of its ruined
maEnifcence.
Zone night nm Arab sent by Musta-
pha Aga came to one of their number,
Mr.. d., as we may call him, saying
that he had just found a mummy case
of unusual beauty. What became of
the mummy the man did not explain
The next morning Mr.. D.. bought the
SooSs Ao 4s@ 41S " oAN A&o
were impressed by its remarkable
beauty and by the curious face of the
portrayed, a ace that was
filled with a cold malignancy of ex-
preston unpleasant to witness.
They had agreed that, being all
interested in Egyptology, they should
apportion their finds by lot, and so.
though Mr.. d. had been the cause of
its discovery, he lost the mummy cover.
which passed to a friend, whom we
will call Mr.. w.
..It was on their return journey that
the series of misfortunes commenced.
Mr.. DIS servant was handing him a
gun, when without visible cause 1t eX-
ploded, the charge lodging in his arm,
which had to be amputated; a second
died in poverty within the year; q
third was shot, while Mr.. W., the own
er of the mummy case, discovered on
his arrival in Cairo that he had lost n
large part of his fortune. He died soon
afterward. The priestess Of Amen Ra
had signifed her displeasure in q very
convincing manner.
~".From the date it was shipped on
board the steamer Mr.. D.. lost sight of
the N case for several years.
He did not at the time in any way
associate the misfortunes that had oc-
Cured to the party with its discovery,
but when he mex heard of it and had
full information of the disasters which
had been subsequently associated with
its possession he began to suspect that
it was not merely chance, not merely
u coincidence, that had brought SO sin
lister q fate on all who had dealings
with the priesteSs of Amen Ra.
"On the arrival of h case in Eng
land it was given by Its owner, Mr.. W..
to 4 married sister living near London.
From the day the case entered the
house misfortune followed misfortune.
The family suffered large losses, and
the end came with painful troubles
which need not be specified.
The lady while in possession of the
case received one day a visit from
Mime. BlavatSky. The great theoSo-
phist became very disturbed on enter
ing the room, and after Il few minutes.
conversation told her hostess that there
was something in her house possessed
of n most malignant influence She
asked to be allowed to search the house
and on discovering the coffin lid ap-
pealed to her hostess to send away m
object which she described as of the
utmost danger. Her hostess, however,
refused, laughing at what shei imagined
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