New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-26

eternal sleep OF the prelate. entreating that
not one bone should remain with another, but
that they should be swept to the sea, so as to
render the reconstruction Of the body impos-
sible
Walter Ingram made fun OF the curse at the
time. But he probably thought of it more seri-
ously when a year later he was being trampled
to death in East Africa by jufuriated ele-
plant which he had only wounded instead of
killing. His corpse was buried near the scene
of his death. in what seemed TO be sort of
stony valley. But when some months after
ward a properly equipped expedition sent
by Sir William Ingram from the coast to brins
home his brothers. remains. not a vesIiSe Of
them could be found save a single bone and
few buttons of his garments scattered among
the stones near the place where the body had
been buried, The fact was that the valley was
nothing more nor less than the bed of a river,
dry during the hot season, but a raging torrent
during the rainy months. Thus had the curse
of the Egyptian high priest been accomplished:
for the bones Of poor Walter Ingram must lie
strewn along the bed that river to this day.
if they have not been, as it is firmly believed
by many carried out TO sea 10y the mighty rush
OF the waters.
A West African juju is believed by many
of the relatives and friends of the late Presi-
an influence upon his destiny quite as fatal us
that of the mummihed high priest upon the lot
of Walter Ingram. These julius are wooden or
stone monstrOsites which are believed by the
natives all along the west coast of Africa and
FAR away into the interior of the Dark Cont
nent TO be possessed Of supernatural powers of
evil Even white people who have lived on the
west coast unable divest themselves Of
j certain i'll defined, uncanny feeling with re-
gard to these hideous idols. and have hair rails
ing and blood curdling stories to tell of the
mysterious maleficence with which they seem
to be endowed insisting that, whereas they may
be destroyed with impunity any white person
who carries them off. retains possession thereof
merely initiates them will surely be over
taken by disaster.
The traveller and explorer l. Bon ridiculed
these tales. and on returning 20 France took
along with him particularly hideous wooden
juju as a souvenir Of his wanderings for his
friend President Caruot. The latter set it up
in his workroom at the E,lyste Palace and two
months afterward was asassnated by Cesario
at Lyons His widow, the late Nine. Carnot,
was one Of the most learned. level headed and
sensible women that l have ever known. the last
woman in the world, in fact whom one would
have ina Sined capable Of according any atten-
ton to superstitions concerning inanimate OBJ
jects. Yet so imhued did she become with the
conviction that the possession OF this African
juju had in some way contributed TO the tragic
death OF her husband that she insisted on is
being destroyed q considerable time before her
death.
Stories such as the one told of President
Carnot's juju have their counterpart NJ almost
every court Of Europe Thus the widowed En-
press OF Russia when toward the close OF 1891
she was looking through the drawers " a desk
that had only occasionally been used by her
husband, happened to find a peculiar looking
ring, consisting Of a heavy band OF gold, in the
centre OF which was set extraordinarily
beautiful opal, hanked by two diamonds OF the
finest water. 1t Vas contained in an envelope
which Alexander III had written that the ring
which had been by his father on
the little finger OF his left hand When that I'M
fortunate sovereign blown 10 pieces by the
nitroglycerine bombs OF the Nihillsts in 1881
his entire left hand vas shattered with the ex-