WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1921. » AE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Sm British Museum { Has Ghosts F skulls, 'mummies, sacrificial stones, and murderous imple ments of all kinds can attract , Spirits, then most assiredly the British Museum should te Sannted. And, if rumor speaks truly, haunted tis. To begin with, there is the notor~ ™ tous mummy-case that brings bad "Huck to whoever attempts to move Or in any way insult it. The mummy . Mself Is not there. The latter is sup- Posed to have been that of a lady of "She College of Amen-ra, at Thebes, but nothing definite has ever been Ascertained about her--not even her | PRECIOUS METALS. to Palestine? All through the ages precious stones and the precious metals have been used In religious and. national ceremonial, and for personal adorn- ment peasant and princess alike have had a passion for trinkets. In a recent volume on the subject of antique jewellery and trinkets, Mr. F. W. Burgess makes the inter- esting speculation that ancient Brit- ish gold found its way into Palestine, and is mentioned in the Old Testa- ment, and also refers to thé Phenl- cian traders who came to our islands for copper and tin. In this regard mention should also be made of the wonderful island race, the holders of sea power four thousand years and more aged, the Cretans, who in all probability taught the Phcenicians their seamanship, Did Early British Gold Find Its Way | 1 Crete, that romantic island which strikes Lhe historical imagination, the meeting point of three continents, de- Rame, The series of accidents are said to |Veloped a high civilization long be- Bave begun the moment the mummy {fore Homer's Troy. Exquisite paint- was disturbed in its original resting- | Ing, statuary, pottery, architecture aces The person who first removed | Which includes even the pointed arch, f is alleged to have committed sui- |representations of musical instru- olde; and his to have gone in- |Ments which disprove the theory of sane. Bad weather 80d minor éalami- [the Greek Terpander's lyre -- these . Wes pursued the vessel that brought | have been unearthed by Sir Arthur She case to England's' shores. Evans and the other excavators, Eng-. An aceldent qvertook someone who | ish, and American, and Italian. At tried to photograph the ease, and | Knossos there was a system of drain- when the latter was brought to the | 28, with inspecting chamber, ete. Museum, misfortune is stated to have | i0 the English fashion, as the Italian overtaken the driver who had the | Professof Halbherr said, like nothing = temerity ta convey it in his carriage, | between those days and these. ._ Nor did the mishaps end there | ADd jewellery! Who that has People who visited the museum and |9een, In the Ashirolean, the golden @8sed disrespectfully at the ouse are |®Mgy of a woman with wasp walst, Fumored to have been visited with | Puffed sleeves, and accordion-pleated unpleasant aceldentd after- | skirt, has not had his imagination wards, and the writer of this article | Stirred and his humor tickled? That ean at least testify to one such | WA one of the finds of 8ir Arthur happening. Evans, and on his frst expedition he A few years ago a lady who was |92W Cretan women wearing necklaces strolling round the Egyptian gallery | Of the ancient, engraved seal stones. halted in front of the mummy-case, | Very many have been found, the and, knowing the story in connection | edriler with purely ornamental de- with it, out her tongue at it, at {I808, the latter with pictograms of | the same time making some absurd | Datural life. And rings, and beads, remark. Some minutes later, when | #0d diadems, and wonderful work ih she was about to quit the Museum, &0ld are among the treasures retriev- ~ #he recalled the ineldent to a friend | ®d from prehistoric Crete, y Of hers, laughingly observing that| There are thousands of written re- K ow she was in for it, and would Borda, Sut the language Jaa not yet 'a been deciphered, thoug deems un- Baguredly Meet with a mishap. of doubted that the Hellenes, through me kind or other. et ome | words Tags scarcely out of | the Phesnicians, derived part of their her lips before she caught her feet, | #lphabet from the Cretans. 1s it too in some inexplicable manner, in the ! much to hope that the searchers will Stonework of the pavement, and, in | At last be rewarded by the discovery falling, 80 hurt herself that she had | that these forerunners of Greece, who 10 be taken home in a taxi, Need-|d!d so much, have also left us a jess to say, she has never been anx- | literature? = ---------- Jous to repeat the experiment. . By the side of the case is a photo Carr's Comments. " : » 6 'e a 9" Non-skid "Dominion of it, and there is something very | There was an occasion when | remarkable about the photo; for | James Whistler, the famous artist, | - "§ Whereas the face that looks at one | accused J. Comyna Carr, the brilliant | , from the case is merely wooden and wit, dramatist, and art critic, of mak- | ¢ ® 99" . |. Painted, obviously a thing of fnani- ing a joke at the expense of a cer- | €« ai 6 » | mation, § mere dummy, the face in | tain friend. xX n or oove 3 the Photo has something decidedly | "Well," replied Carr, "I ean make | "eonscivus™ about it, especially in its {a friend most days, but I can only > eyes. make a good joke now and then." | ? 3 "Ha, ha!" laughed Whistler. "I Dominion "Nobby" Your dealer can supply you with Dominion Tires 'at these prices:-- 16.50 18.75 20.00 re ces e-- c-------------- nn talning this case is another relic, | wish I had sald that myself!" likewise said to be haunted, albeit | "Never mind, Jimmy; you will," in not such an unpleasant manner. | retorted Carr. It is the mummy, of one Katebit, a This illustration of Carr's wit lady of the College of Amen-ra, and! might be followed by other stories his | most probably of high extraction and wife tells in 'Stray Memories." ~ me afi sonaidarabie beauty, The mother of a pretty young girl i © years ago, according to re- | whom Carr was openly Sattering ask- Someone was looking at her-- | pq him, laughingly, whether his in- : } rather, at her mummy--when, to tentions were serious, to whieh he re- thei infinite. alarm, it suddenly | piieq, "Serious, but not honorable, #hook its head. as if in Strong dis- | madam," Approval, and ever sincs that hour Once he was reproved by the man- Bh sald. to' have been haunted. |sgement of a, theatre for making his wds came to see it, and many de- | party laugh immoderately in the | ared they saw a repetition of the stage-box at a sorely dull farcical Stine phe adn, Eventually, I be- comedy. ©, the authorities were foreed to "Pray present my compliments to fjetvens, and of late years K g.ebit | the manager," said Carr, suavely, to been left in comparative peice, the attendant who had brought the There is yet another baunted |' message, 'and assure him that we Pp SAMIR Y-tare. It stands close to | were not laughing at anything on { t, but has no name, only a long | the stage." . Dumber beginning with u "3." Ope There was also an occasion when, 3 Junot Belp noticing it because of the while enjoying a pienic with some Eh Sa Sover. which 1s arrestive friends, » combative young curate, 1 on Stinotly unpleasant way. claiming to have secured the spot, : Plé walking past it Just, before | swooped down upon the party with En elosing-time, at a 86ason when the | pig Sunday school flock. Merrily Carr | Asse Why purchase "seconds" or "firsts of doubtful mileage," when you can buy these superior tires at the above prices ? p whilst & sound something like |W very faint malicious chuckle has nights set in early, and 'the great whispered, "N , ' . bullding fast becomes peopled with b 4 ores Jind, ve on : Shadows, declare they have seen the am Sesarding to his cloth} ' ; --_-- eyes glitter and the painted lips African Forest Timber, - A reinforcement for the world dee #eemed to cOme from somewhere | M8ad for lumber is preparing in Brit : On Friday, April 13, 188, Dr, [ties for expGriing the forests, The E {Wynn Westcott was confined to bed | P®St Wood is suitable for wheels . . With a feverish catarrh. He was | Mokers and wa on-builders and the |! 3 much annoyed, because be had Pros Baking of Woo block ving, rails eR RR { Mised to meet two friends of nis 'at | F984 ties, bridges, ox yokes and axe, Forgot the $25,000! 8 susrter to claven that morning fa Blak, and Joni Readies, It also makes | Glerth, an aged inventor, has Ne = vorin : ' : i. rary of the British Museum. i ot 8 aad ling boards, lived in poverty for nine years, for- srithin it. ish East Africa, where thers are be Judge of his asto me there are new sounds in But apart from its haunted cases, | tW9e0 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 acres fhe museum has at times possessed | Of Woodiand to draw upon, and a new other aver, when, on going Some of the African forests, the |SOtting that he had $25,000 credited rhythm of the woodman's axe, the | t0 his account with the Fidility Trust one of the best authen. | Industry, very infantile at presen buzz of the sawmill, and the puffing | Co, of Newark, N.J, tionted i which was the apparition a apssiad to grow so rapidly tha ; » Wynn Westcott, the famous Oscars now considering § Rondon coroner yo MAOUS | plans to improve the hecho facile Ns lay with the remark: of under-sized | ti u ay, or is it not? % ocomotives on the He Anturally Rel bor Sout she TArrow-gUASS tracks that are pene- | Olerth now anxiously awaits de- meant, and in learned that at Hating Tom the main line of rafl- | ¢isfon of the vice chancellor as to ways lato the woodlands. And many | Whether or not he can draw the the very time he was lying 1 at : fretting at mot being able to | ® Workman, no doubt, will some day | money. His claim was opposed by his appoint , ho had been | US tools whose handles grew in aa | the bank and several individuals, Sten by several people, including one | 'African forest. : Among the latter is Inglus Uppercu, y officials, walking round aud BT met------ an automobile dealer, who declared | roun the library WE"it in search of The Lion's Share. the money was obtained from a chee J Someon 3 On roan Biteq lo Ris propensity que he gave Gerth for $2,600 in ee es an his fair share [ 1912, - Condensed Wisdom. of anything that was going, arrived | 900 Ne a Tased to 3 " The searcher for wild flowers of | home to dinner the othor day. cused at the time tn eae vould be richly rewarded by | His wife was busy in the: kitchen deposited, it ean oA the pages of "My lady of | Snlahing the Preparation of the mea], | S°POSIted, as Jared, and no ow of the choo ner" Here are a 90 the head of the household proceed: | C/I bad previously been entered. of the choice blooms to be found | ®d to pour himself out some beer | The Inventor suffered a loss of there. "A cup of sorrow | from from a jug. 8't 80 bad, Jamie, when there's | eame his wife's voice: meniory several years ago, and lost to drink It" "A good thought | "Now, then, don't drink aii that; all track of the account until his ou travel as fast an' as far as a | waht the lion's share for once in a | tontion was called to it by a el | wal if it gets th' right start." in the bank, - Loy himan who skims th' surface hen she entered she was aston. | Will be held June 20th. the strikes no stones, dear, but | 18¥ed to find the man finishing oft because he jen't ploughing | the last of the beer, I" "There's only wan kind of "That's your snare he replied, ty, Jamie, an' that's ¢* have no | Siniflcantly, pointing to an 3 fn th' heart." "The hope\| ©1438. "Lions don® drink beer. ro ove avers, s Chile taat The first stagocosch 1n Am every as fal oach in Ba 34 Mer | started from possess a, ------------ Humane Cause, Humane roatinens oe anituals. bes Sets qualities of = self-respect and | where the : : : Si : : hist ditness that are well worth cul arated an. p ve ' : A % HUGE HANGAR : AIRSHIP. pany of us are genuine misers 0 PRE airy ip hangar a dpe oh bir ns ns ot as : ong, i b oug es LT he structive is 11000 f t long, 318 wide, and 200 feet high,, and big enough to N » x