Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-18
head Of Mr.. Lodges barrel has already
been knocked in
In Great Company.

In Great Company.
In the citations given in a similar man.
ner under other words throughout the
pages Of this enormous volume are ref
erences to the Archangel Michael, to st.
George, who killed the dragon; to st.
Francis. to George Washington, William
Wilberforce, Beelzebub. the Roman en-
peror Caligula and other real and
imaginary characters, including Senator.
Lodge.
| While he must feel fiattered at finding
himself in such distinguished company, 1t
| may not be agreeable to him to go thun-
| dering down the ages as an example OF
corrupt American politicians. don't sup
pose he will pay any attention to the
| matter.
| 1t is fortunate that when his friend,
| Theodore Roosevelt, was made doctor
i Of laws at Oxford last summer and was
| the eyes of about twelve hundred stu.
dents he did not disclose the fact OF
| their personal and political intimacy. II
| may be taken for granted, however, tnde
| if Theodore Roosevelt had known that
the oxford University press had cast
| such reflection upon the senator from
Massachusetts,. whom he Is accustomed
! to call "Cabby," he would nave cor
rected the false impression In ms Gus
tomary way of dealing with such Things.
Handwriting OF Christ.
In the vaults of a Vienna bank, care
fully preserved between two sheets OF
| glass, is a small slip of yellow parcn-
ment about six inches long and four
inches wide covered with twelve lines OF
| quaint characters of the ancient Hebrew
language. which the owner believes were
written by the hand of Jesus Christ. II
| is dated in the eighteenth year OF the
| Roman Emperor Tiberfus. Whicn Wa
| about the time of the crucif1Xlon, ana Is
addressed to His disciples. who were eF1-
IDENTIFY in hiding, and asks them to come
| to Him at once. as He had an important
message for them
| This manuscript was found in the attic
| of an old house in an obscure village OF
| Transylvania, formerly the Roman prov
| ince Dacia. 1t is much soiied ana s1aiheu:
and was cleaned with vaseline because II
| is so brittle that it would have crumoieo
| under the touch and would almost dis
| solve in water x
| 1t was submitted to the curators oil
| the Semitic departments of the libraries
of the University of Vienna and the Uni
versity of Berlin, who found it difficult to
deeipher because the Hebrew characters
are mixed with Arabic. The experts
| who have seen the manuscript are con-
WINGED that it is very old. and probably
| dates from Roman times, but there IS
not a particle of evidence to sustain the
pretension that it is an autograph OF
| Jesus.
In the first place, there is nothing to
| compare it with. Although we know from
| the gospels that Jesus was able to wr1te'
| He, of course. left no manuscripts.
| The owner is poor illiterate man.
| Some one has evidently imposed upon
| him. He values the manuscript so hignly
that he demands a thousand dollars for
even photograph, and wants. a hundred
thousand dollars for the original.
"The Street Of Blood.'
| While I was walking one morning in
Vienna with a friend we came to "Blut-
Strasse"-the Street Of Blood. and
| asked him the origin and significance OF
that name. He replied that the street
| was so called because 1t was once the
site of the residence Of Hungarian
Countess Nadasky, who lives In Austrian
poetry and romance as Die Blut-GFann.
She lived about three hundred years ago
and was convicted of the abduction ana
| murder of eight hundred and fifty girls.
| who were bled to death at her house on
| the "But-Strasse" or her castle at Czeith,
Hungary, In order that she might use
| their blood to whiten and beautify her
skin This is the number of her victims
according to the officials reports.
1t is believed that the real total was
| larger still, but for the discovery Of her
crimes and her arrest by the governor
| of the province In which her castle was
situated, and who, by the way, was her
| first cousin.
The Countess Nadasky was assisted in
| her murders by Helen 10 and Catherine
| Benetzky, her serving maids, and a
| dwarf called Fierko. who was possessed
| of the strength and the disposition Of
| demon.
The maids were accustomed to go about
| the Hungarian province in which the
castle of the countess was situated. Sc
| lecting strong. healthy peasant girls.
| whose veins were full OF blood. By Offer
| ing them lucrative situations in the fami-
| lies of the nobility, they would induce
them to go to Vienna.
There the dwarf Fierko would bind
them and bleed them to death. He would
| then dispose of their bodies by placing
| them In a pit and covering them with
| lime. The blood was kept carefully in
| tub in which the countess took her daily
| bath.
Cousin Places Crime on Cousin.
About eight hundred and fifty young
peasant girls were enticed to Vienna
| this manner. In no case had their par
ents been able to hear any tidings from
them.
The commotion thus aroused finally
stirred the governor to make an inquiry.
| The clues led to the castle Of his cousin
An investigation disclosed the horrible
facts.
After due trial the Countess Nadasky
was sentenced to Imprisonment for life In
| the dungeons Of her own castle, where, 1t
| is said, she starved herself to death
| within few weeks after conviction.
| Helen 10 and Catherine Benetzky were
burned at the stake. The dwarf Fierko
was broken on the wheel and his body
afterward burned to ashes.
| The Vienna palace of die Blut-Grafn'
was RACED to the ground by official Or
der, after formal confiscation. The name