The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-01-20
cardboard WOMAN
TIE MAl,cN INFLUENCE OF A NUT"
nv CASE FROM EGYPT

o,ence of Fatalities ana
nd IuclS Experiences That Ap-
neared to Be Unhappy Les"e
rbo.e Interested In Its CUSTODY
In q corner Of the first Essptian
room at the British museum ueninu
the crouching body of the prehlstoie
chief who lived before there were
nharaohs in Egypt or pyramids Oh lne
Nile, stands q woman moiueu ,ion
.omea ancient form of cardboard. enels
merely q shell, the cover OF a mummy
case. Her hands are crossed aoo'e
her breast, and her dark eyes STARE
forward into vacancy.
According to the catalogues sne 10
No.. 22542, a problematical royal per
sonage and a priestess of the Coiiese
Of Amen Ra. She lived in the mlgny
CITY of Thebes some 1900 years oelore
Christ.
And about this same coffin cover
there hangs as terrible q story as eve
an Edgar Allan Poe or a Balzac OF
Kip]ing produced from a gloomy mag
ination.
If YOU question the attendants IN the
first Egyptian room they will snake
their heads and say nothing. but
there is a famous professor In the
museum who knows that the facts are
true, though whether they be a ooinci-
dence or a manifestation Of supernat'
ural power who can say? He says:
For three months l 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 the anger Of the p%riestess OF
Amen Ra. But for the sake Of friends
and relatives l have been requested to
suppress the names.
"About the middle Of the sixties OF
the last century a party of five friends
took ship in a dahabeah for q trip up
the Nile. They Travelled to Luxor on
their way to the second cataract, and
stayed there to explore the ruins Of
the great and wonderful city Of Thebes,
with its n Of sphinxes and rams.
tn vast hall of columns and its temple
to Amen Ra, which is unequaled on
earth in the sublimity Of it's ruined
m~agnifcence.
Zone night an 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
case. Both he and his companions
were impressed by its remarkable
beauty and by the curious face Of the
woman portrayed, a face that was
filed with a cold malignancy Of ex'
preston unpleasant to witness.
"They had agreed that being al
interested in Egyptology, they should
apportion their finds by lot, and so
though Mr.. D. had been the cause Of
it's discovery, he lost the mummy cover
which passed to a friend, whom ".
will call MI. w.
1T was on their return journey tina
the series Of misfortunes commenced
MI. DIS servant was handing him +.
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;
third was shot, while MI. W., the own
er OF the mummy case, discovered OF
bis arrival in Cairo that he had lost ,
large part Of his fortune. He died sooI
afterward. The priestess Of Amen RI
had signiled her %displeasure in a yer,
convincing manner.
From the date It was shipped o.
board the steamer Mr.. D. lost sight o.
the mummy case for several years
he did not at the time in any way
associate the misfortunes that had &C
CURED to the party with its discovery
but when he next heard of it and ha6
full Information of the disasters which
mad been subsequently associated witt
Ans possession he began to suspect tina,
n was not merely chance, not merely
. coincidence, that had brought 80 sin.
oA WuO udu Oeau0RE
With b priestess Of Amen Ra.
"On the arrival Of the case in Hnp.
land 1t was given by its owner, Mr.. ",
% q married sister living near London
From the day the case entered the
mouse misfortune followed misfortune
Inc family suffered large losses, and
the end came with painful troubles
which need not be specified.
THE lady while in possession of the
ease received one day a visit from
NINE. Blavatsky. The great theoso.
pn1st became very disturbed on enter.
ing the room, and after a few minutes,
conversation told her hostess that there
was something in her house possessed
Of a most malignant influence. She
asked to be allowed to search the hon.a
ana on discovering the coffin lid an.
pealed to her hostess to send awav an
OBJECT which she described as of ~
utmost danger. Her hostess, however
selused, laughing at what she imagined
ton. superstl-
Some time afterward the ladv aen,
.ne case to a well known photoeranha.
IN Baker street. Within q wea,.