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UNDER SPfLl OF
HOODOO OPAL
A Jewel That Made Trouble
for Those Who Wore It.
BROOKLYN FAMILY’S BAD LUCK STONE
Opal Thai May Beat the Record
ol Evil of the Hope Diamond-
Bad Luck Galore—AH Sickness
Laid to It—Cant Give It Away.
New York.—An opal that may
beat the record of evil of the Hope
diamond is blamed by superstitious
persons for the ills that have be
fallen in the last eight vears the
family and friends of Horace D.
Tracy, rtianager of a manufacturing
company and living in Brooklyn,
according to'The World.
Mrs. Tracy, • refusing longer to
brave the seeming potehpy of the
jewel for evil, disposed of it to • a
friend in the jewelry business for
f)0 cents, just one half ; of 1 per
cent, of its' actual value. A con
sideration was named because pre
vious efforts to give it away had
been followed by added evils.
The Brooklyn opal now has to its
credit three cases of whooping cough
one of double pneumonia, one of
hemorrhage, one of erysipelas and
one of acute Bright's disease, the
believers in hoodoos say. Also it
is charged with a mild panic amrng
•women in the Kings Highway sec
tion. Its career of evil has extend
ed over the entire eight years of its
ownership in the Tracy family. Re
cently finding it “got away” suc
cessfully with its assaults on human
kind, it has increased vastly in
wickedness.
The opal’s final alleged activity
in the production of bad luck begad
five weeks ago when Mr. and Mrs
Tracy returned from a visit to Pine-
hurst, N. C., each with a severe
case of whooping cough. Mrs.
Tracy had no difficulty in tracing
the origin of the trouble. Hadn’t
Tracy worn the opal as a tiepin on
the trip and therefore hadn’t the
opal given him special attention?
The whooping cough was compli
cated with double pneumonia and
heart trouble, from which he is now
recovering. The greatest improve
ment was noticed on the day that
the stone was taken away.
After the whooping cough warn
ing Mrs. Tracy determined to get
rid of the sinister jewel and so gave
it to Mrs. Anton S. Rice. The opal
spared the Rices probably because
it found living at their home two
dear friends of the Tracy’s, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Raymo, and it got
so busy with- them it could not
bother with other persons.
Mrs. Raymo at once got .the
whooping cough, Those prosaic
doctors said Mrs. Tracy had com
municated it to her in a kiss of
greeting on her return, but Mrs.
Tracy knows better, It was the
■opal, she is positive.
This evidence of the power of the
opal was too great a strain on the
friendship of Mrs. Rice. She told
Mrs, Tracy to take the old thing
back, for she wouldn’t have it in
the family another minute. Mrs.
Tracy reluctantly accepted the re
turn of the jewel, feeling she was
dooming herself to more bad luck.
She was right, Last week Tracy’s
mother came to see how her son
was getting alorig. She was sent
back to Greenwich in the care of a
doctor and a trained nurse, suffer
ing from a complication of erysip
elas and Bright’s disease.
That was too much for Mrs.
Tracy. Rather than bring illness
or financial disaster to a friend
through a gift of the stone, she is
trying the experiment of letting the
jeweler keep it in his safe. * He is
the person who paid the fifty cents.
He did not really buy the stone;
rather, he is acting ns custodian.
If he succeeds in training the mal
evolent thitig in the Ways of virtue
it will be received 1 again into the
bosom of the Tracy family. But
Mrs. Tracy does not express much
hope of its reform.
“I am positive it is the cause of
all our recent troubles,’’ she said.
“Mr. Tracy bought it for me eight
years ago, but 1 never would wear
the horrid thing, and so he had it
made up into a, tiepin. It wasn’t
long after that until wo began to
notice that every time he wore it
something happened. At first it
wasn’t anything serious—just a bus
iness deal that didn’t come out
right or something of that kind—
but we both got so superstitious
about it that he scarcely ever wore
it.
“He put it on when he went on
the Pinehurst trip, and now see
what’s happened! And just the
minute, yv-e got it out of the house
Mr. Tracy began to improve.’’
SITTING BULL IN METAL
Old‘‘Warrior Glares from His
Pibay In Paris Exhibition.
ijgaris.—The statue ofSitting Bull
the'Indian chief. in the work of
Walter Winans, the Baltimore sculp
tor, proved one of the sensations of
the annual exhibition of lire Nat
ional Society of Fine Arts, which
was opened, Friday. The blood
thirsty old chief of the Dakotas is
dipicted mounted on an Indian
pony. The material of which the
statue is made is very costly, being
a mixture of silver and bronze.
Critics declare it to be a very daring
work, and it was the center of in
terest for the great crowds that took
advantage of the Good Friday holi
day to attend the inaugural of the
salon to-day.
Walter Winans, the sculptor, well
known in the'society of both America
and Europe, and is a sportsman, an
all-round-horseman, a hunter of big
game and a crack shot. It was only
recently that he supprised his
friends by breaking into art, and
the statue of Sitting Bull in his first
ambitious work.
Augustus Eddy of* Chicago and
Amos Van Wart of New York are
other American amateur artist re
presented in the salon. Van Wart,
who is a grandnephew of Washing
ton Irving, has entered a figure of
“The God Pan,” which is highly
praised.
DR. D. K. PEARSON AT 91
CANCELS HIS “DEBTS.”
Given
SELLS FLESH OF
MEN TO CHINESE
Perserved Tongues Found.Toast-
ed or Salted Human-Meat
Causes Arrest In Manchuria.
Seattle, W'ash.—Human flesh is
being sold in Manchuria, where the
plague continues to abate, accord
ing to advices brought here - -to-day
by the Japanese steamship Kama
kura, which departed from Yoko
hama on March 28.
Kuamatao Hisahara, in charge of
the crematorium in Kudzuya, was
arrested March 23, charged with
selling human flesh. According to
the Kokumin and other Tokia papers
a search resulted in fmding a large
quanrty of human flesh either toasted
or salted and ten human tongues,
pe,served in pots.
Lawlessness continues in Man-
chura . Six Japanese were killed
recently in a village on the Chinese
Eastern Railway.
While a party of Russian soldiers
were proceeding along the border
near Harbin they were fired upon
by 200 Chinese troopa. The Rus
sian fled.
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Multi-Millionaire Has
Away Big Fortune.
Chicago.—Dr. D.. K. Pearson, of
Hinsdale, a suburb of Chicago, Fri
day'celebrated his 91st- birthday by
the distribution of $300,000 to
educational and religious institu
tions. This brings his total chari-
tablo disbursements of recent years
up to about $5,000,000. Most of
this big fortune has been distributed
amongstnall colleges. Dr. Pear
son refers to his gifts as “debts”
as in most cases they are fulfill
ments of his pledges of certain sums
when certain stipulated amounts
shall have been collected. The
birthday distribution Friday was
distributed as follows: American
Board of Foreign Missions, $100,-
000; Berea College, Kentucky,
$100,000; Roane College Nebraska,
$25,000: Northland College Wis
consin, $10,000; McKendree College
Illinois, $10,000; and Highland
College, Kansas, $10,000. Other
smaller gifts amounted to $45,000.
“Iam celebrating my birthday
by getting out of debt,” said Dr.
Pearson, “and Good- Friday seems -
an especially appropriate time to do
that. A yeai* ago I gave notice that
I would be getting old by the time my'
ninety-first birthday rolled around
and that a youijg man of that age
had no right to be in debt. I shall
go to bed to-night for the first time
entirely free from debt. I haye had
these out standing pledges for many
years and worked them off one after
another as the instutitions met their
obligations.”
Dr. Pearson was one of the early
settlers in Chicago and bought much
real estate at a time when it was
worth only a 'small fraction of its
present price. The increased values
of his holdings made him a multi
millionaire, but almost all of his
fortune has been given to chairty.
TELLS OF KILLING
OF 35YEARS AGO
Slayer Died Recently—John
Cason Slew Hunter Pope at
Madison, Fla.
Adel, Ga.—Recently a Pensacol 0 ,
Fla., paper published the story oi
the death at Troy, Ala., of John
L, Trotman and stated that he was
none other than John Cason, who
had killed Hunter Pope, a brilliant
young lawyer at Madison, Fla., 35
years ago.
Cason and a relative of Pope’s had
a difficulty and Pope remonstrated
with Cason. Pope was killed and
Cason fled, going West, but in a
few years settling at Troy, Ala., and
changing his name to Trotman. . In
a Methodist revival some time ago
Trotman is said to have revealed his
identity. He was highly esteemed
in his town and was never arrested
for the crime, lie died recently.
F. M. Cunningham of Adel well
remembers the tragedy, which cost
Pope his life. Mr. Cunningham
went hunting with Pope the day
before he was killed. Mr. Cunning
ham says he was a dashing, brilliant
fellow and left a beautiful bride of
only three weeks. He says Cason
left at once and he bad never heard
of him until he read the account of
his death referred to above.
Although thirty-five years have
passed and Mr. Cunningham is
getting along in the evening of life,
he remembers the tragedy as well as
if it were yesterday. He is probaly
one of the very few persons yet liv
ing who was a warm personal friend
of the young lawyer, Pope.
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