The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, November 11, 1904, Image 2
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WHO IS SHE?
Solid Gold Watch
WALTHAM MOVEMENT
ABSOLUTELY FREE
To the. Prettiest and Most Popu-
larSLady in Cherokee County,'-'
Married or Single.
Kvcry one of C’oupm No. 1 out from The Lodirer :ind sent in to tills office entitles
you to :t vote for the Indy of your choice. It matters not how many you can (tot just so
they are cut fiom this paper as they appear between nowand New Years l»uy, I'.'U).
COUPON NO. 1
THE LKDGEIf. Gaffney. S. O.
Gknti.kmkn: 1 vote for M
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I believe she is the prettiest and most popular lady in Cherokee County.
Signed
P. O. ..
No votes will be accepted after the last day of this year. All votes must reach this
office on or before the last day of December, lMl. The lady receiving the largest num
ber of votes cast will receive the watch. It will he ready for delivery to her at The
Ledger office January 1st. 1H03. Should there be a tie In the vote between two or more
the tie shall be settled between the winners themselves. The names of the ladies and
the number of votes they receive will be printed in The Ledger every week.
The watch is a good one. solid gold, and can be seen at Tlios. II. Wesirope's jewelry
store. Mr. Westrope guarantees the watch to be solid gold and the works to be of the
best.
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THE LEDGER, Gaffney. S. C.
Coffin Lid
Al Hoodoo
Pfrtmmy Case Said to
Ha-Ve Caused J^timer-
ous Misfortunes.
Jl Once CovJered an Egyptian
driest css Who Has Heen
"Dead O'Oer Throe
thousand years.
Few tales of occult fiction have heen
more extraordinary than the weird
story of a mummy case at the British
museum and its supposed death deal
ing powers, which lias just been told
by B. Fletcher Robinson in a London
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\ visit to the house one day. On cross
ing the threshold her manner became
greatly perturbed, and she told her
hostess that there was some strange,
malignant influence in the house ami
requested permission to examine the
various rooms. When she discovered
the cofiin lid she declared it to he a
lip»fit dangerous possession and be
sought its owner to send it away forth
with. This the* lady laughingly refus
ed to do, attributing Mine. Blavatsky s
fears to foolish superstition.
Shortly after this, however, site sent
the case to a studio to be photographed,
and, as already told, the photographer
discovered that his camera had repro
duced the features of an apparently
living woman. Shortly afterward he
died suddenly and mysteriously. Soon
after this happened Mr. D. turned up
In London and meeting the lady who
owned the cofiin lid learned of the mis
fortunes that had befallen her family
since it came into her possession. He
urged her to get rid of it at once, and
convinced at last that the thing was
a terrible “hoodoo” she agreed. A car
rier was fernnd to transport it to the
British museum. He died within a
week, and the man who assisted in re
moving it to the museum buildings met
with a serious accident.
Now, apparently, the misfortunes
which have heretofore attended the
possession of the mummy case have
ceased. The learned gentlemen who
preside over the room in which it rests
have not boon troubled by its presence.
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thinking about
the thieves who might break in and steal it. Be
sides, he knows that his money working for
him all the ime, sleeping or waking.
GAFFNEY SAVINGS BANK
Will take care of your money and start it work
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PAID ON ALL DEPOSITS at
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Offers for sale UulhilnK Lot» In thl» llonrlHhlrijf town, Gaffney; a I ho Parma ne
by and li) reach of the ScBooIh of Limestone rturtnizH and of tills place. In lots of i*
to 100 acres on liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lamia to rent for Farm purpose*
For full particulars apply to
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N. B.—All persons are forbidden to enter on. walk or rlrtc I hrouuh or ov> r t lie lauds nf im.
ompuuy, cutting and removing timber or llshlng, hunting, under penalty of law.
HE OFFERED To HEDI, HIM A BEAUTIFUL
MUMMY CASE.
newspaper. The narrative’s truth, how
ever, is vouebed for by the writer, who
is au intimate friend of Sir A. Conan
Doyle.
The cover of a mummy case is now
reposing in a corner of the first Egyp
tian room of the museum which once
lay above the embalmed renjains of a
priestess of tbe college of Amen Ru,
and who lived in the mighty city of
Thohcs some 1,(500 years before Christ.
The work is still in a beautiful state
of preservation, and the painting on it
depicts a woman of singularly baleful
expression whose dark eyes stare into
vacancy as though seeking there some
clew to the riddle of the universe, while
her hands are peacefully crossed upon
her breast. .V London photographer
attempted to obtain a picture of the
strange face shown on the coffin lid. ,
To the man's amazement, when a print ]
was taken from tin* negative it reveal-1
ed not a dead face, hut apparently a
living one, with wide open eyes and
the baleful expression of the painted
effigy heightened to one of intense ma
lignancy.
Robinson declares that lie lias care
fully investigated the evidence of the
afflictions which have befallen those
who had the misfortune to incur the
enmity of this Egyptian priestess, who
died .‘5.500 years ago, and t i.vs lie lias
obtained abundant proof of the truth
of the statements made to him.
It was in the middle of the sixties
that a party of five friends chartered
a dahabeah for a voyage up the Nile and
tarried at Luxor to explore the ruins
of Thebes and the famed temple of
Amen Ra. which, even in its decay and
desolation, is still probably the most
sublime monument of antiquity extant.
One evening an Arab, who said lie
had heen sent by Mustapha Aga. call
ed upon a member of the then happy
little party—Mr. 1). he is culled to con
ceal ids identity and offered to sell
him a beautiful mummy case which he
declared lie had Just found. It was
the priestess' mummy case which lias
now found * final resting place in the
Britisli museum. By what sacrilegious
means the Arab obtained possession of
it. or what became of the mummy, is
not known. Mr. 1). bought it. But us
ull Hie members of tin* party were
keen Egyptologists it had been de
rided that the ownership of their re*
spective finds should lie determined
by lot, and thus it came about that
the case fell into Mr. W.'s hands.
It was on the return Journey that
the series of misfortunes so strangely
associated with it began. While one
of Mr. D.’s servants was handling a
gun ii exploded in some unaccountable
i manner, the < barge lodging in the
man’s arm, winch had to be amputat
ed. A second servant died in poverty
I within the year, and a third was shot.
When Cairo was reached Mr. W. dis
covered that Im hud lost the larger por
tion of ids fortune. Entertaining no
suspicion that the mummy case was
in any way connected with his finan
cial troubles, »r the mishaps that had
attended the party since it was ac
quired, he gave it to a married sister
living near London. Hoon afterward
he died. But from the day that the
effigy of tin* dead priestess entered Its
new abode 111 luck dogged the family.
It chum-ed that Mine. ItlcvaHky, the
l IgU pr.o itcss ( f ti e theosoplih ts,.paid
Fierce Fight Delbueen "Big "Bird
and a Monster Sturgeon
In the West.
We had been camped for a few days
at a point on tbe upper reaches of the
Pic river, says a writer in the Gate
way, waiting for a few of the party
who were running a side line. A source
of amusement was watching the de
scent of a large baldheaded eagle in
the eddy back of the point.
He would strike the water with
great force, coming down from an im
mense height. At times he would
dive under the surface to reappear a
moment or two later, generally with a
fish clutched in his claws, when he
would fly, freighted with his fish, to a
very high mountain, on the overhang
ing crest of which the nest with his
mate and young was quite visible to
us with our field glass.
I had noticed his success and jour
neys to the nest for two mornings. On
the third morning a shadow coining
across the sun’s rays caused me to
look up, and there was the great bird
at his usual hunt to supply the young
eagles with breakfast. With his keen
eye piercing the river depths lie poised
over a particular spot for a few mo
ments and then shot down with the
velocity of a cannon ball.
The waters parted, and the eagle was
lost to view. I watched and waited to
see him emerge with his prey, but mo
ments lengthened Into minutes and
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THE
KINO OK KIHII AND KINO OF HIKDP
HAD MKT HEATH.
minutes into n quarter of an hour, but
tl e surface of tho water remained un
disturbed.
What could it mean? Even if lie had
struck himself against Home hidden
foil: an 1 1mon killed (he body would
have floated to tho surface. It passed
my reasoning powers to solve the re
sult of that pi.mge. Then fur down,
fully a quarter of a mile off, I saw the
great bird struggling either to carry off
a heavy burden or to fn*e himself from
one. The waters were lashed into foam,
and the bird again disappeared, and all
was still.
Tills lushing of the water and dis
appearing were repeated again and
again, eacli time farther down stream.
A bend In the river prevented my
seeing the final result, (’ailing one
of our four men from the tent, we
embarked in u canoe and started down
the river to view l he strange proceed
ing closer. When we hud doubled the
point below, 1 saw lodged against the
bench in a small bay something that
did not look natural to the place. We
puddled down and found It was my
eagle fast fixed to a sturgeon fully
six feet long. Both were motionless.
The king of fish and the king of birds
had met death
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