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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. -S 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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