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_,S I-T`\POSSIBLE for us to conceive
 _ that a white woman, beautiful, educat-
ed, wealthy, the loving wife of a mod-
ll"1l millionaire, ‘could develop, by slow and
Frreiistible evolution, the soul of an aban-
'doned, crinlinal, ignorant negressf ~
:N V/filo, if such a thing is not only possible
of conception, but literally true infact, what
nvornan living, however high her morals, her
 position, can assure herselfaof
dllnlunity from the abhorrent obsession of
‘tonne other appalling identity, as terrifying
lotlle normal mind and spirit as this of the
Wgraded negress, which has fastened upon
Million! Evelyn Roinadka, the wife of the
millionaire trunk manufacturer of Milwau-
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The convicted accomplice of Chicago's
Olgfo burglars and sneak-thieves, she is now
sewing the indeterminate sentence of from
one year to twenty years, to which she was
condemned, upon her plea of guilty, by I ad ge
Urentano. '
The _physicians who attended her in
prisowagree as to the obsession; and one of
 goes so far as to declare his conviction
fldtlihd case is one long relegated by science
I0 'i‘he_'_liinbo of antiquated superstitious, that
.led away when demoniacs and sorcerers
iodine the laughing stocks of enlightened
u1_naiu'_ty._ -
- ` Evelyn Romadka's fall, from the heights
If refinenient and happiness to the depths of
llsmez, and degradation, has been made no-
lirrious throughoutthe length and breadth _of
_lie land. But the mysterious and terrible ln-
'fpmpy-fhat h`as clutched her in the midst of
het' wealth and her happiness and has encont-
passedfher destruction h`f1~f,_'h'“ fafl faflfd uf'
lerly to be comprehended in the full measure
'[,i,,_,1da,.k._,ig,,,'/i¢;ance‘to the rest of mankind.
iblL¥ by th/e adducing of many other cases. \lP0Y\
()i,_'_t.he` authenticity and genulneness ot which
.v ` .¢|°|\¢. mp ag-read. can the modern intellec
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- °*““P°l ““°".‘° "dm" 'U muah “hulls llllszul
";_»v,y__qr\_tb¢ horrible phenomenon of wbie el
sm. lzbnlselu. ls ul. victim. _
Religion throughout all the centuries. hll il\l|l¢°‘|
_gn nat llterely the possibility of falls from 82°:
wit ,vil-tllefbot uom'th‘e»esruillly or lnevnsllls es 1
Ito lie without divine intervuntlon and constant hu-
§‘%"§`t'il`vlll`g"`towsrd an ideal of pori;ctl:n;‘I;:1l;l::
.“'F;f“A"lf‘qa l.. nr bnok n tm Mwith exorcism
‘°'°"l“"'m‘-"!"' °°'"“‘°.n by‘d‘°mo'n.|` :ter of com-
gr 9,. of them out, ‘was a mo
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“_” ;“¢¥__|f-nowadays many deny it was a me er
u` e ` 0 .
 ‘fur | long and total denial of the suP°f'
of the pretsrnutural-has of into found
in-pwrl narrow limitations. .
upon cuttlnt the wonderful U10
out of reli¢\°“- l* '|“""" “°"
gg glsaql-ll all of them into itself. Sa!!
Flammsrlon. in his latest wprk.
plysllls lrer’eea" in which ns seduces the
patient tnvostlgatlons of Bir Wliiilm
ashls
we are to treat are
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meeting _of physicians some years previously by Dr.
S. Weir Mitchell, ot Philadelphia, of the New England
mechanic who shed his personality. one night atlhls
New England home. as a snake sheds its cutlcle.
tramped southward to Phllsdolpllla. and for half a
generation conducted a business trtally different from
his 'own trade. under ll totally different name, and
with a totally dlllorent personality. so for as his
knowledge of hlmsclf was conscious of ills person-
ality. '
Mr. Myers adduced many other cases of llndenl-
ably dual personality. and still others of multiple per-
sonality... 'I‘h_o'g-gplllt, Wagga intense recrudescence of
interest ln the wholo general subject, with the speedy
publication of the most remarkable of all cases, be-
causoreported’ directly, and in complete scientific de-
tail, by the physician ln attendance. ~
'1`h0 Sllblect was a young, pretty. cultivated. mor-
ally supersensltlve American girl. who was obsessed
‘ by another personality tllnt forccd hor to do all man.
ner of undlgnlfled and ill-bred notions, repeatedly
overcoming the most desperate efforts of hor normal
nature and will. and dlsnlflylng extremes of passion,
petty malice and distinctly vicious lollllcnclcii. Under
treatment the girl actually developed a third person-
“The newspaper stories giving graphic accounts of
crimes made me want to rneet real crooks. I had an
idea that I would be absorbed in the stories a real live
burglllr could tell.
“Albert Jonas. the negro man, came to do some
cleaning for the woman from whom I rented u. room.
I saw him and asked hlm the time. He drew from his
pocket a womnll's watch, nnd with lt, inadvertently, a
womnn's diamond ring. He glanced at ms surrepti-
tlously and stealthily put lt back into his pocket.
“A strange tllrlll crept over me, and I did not hear
hlnl tell tho time. I was thinking fast. Hero wad l
face to taco with my dreams, so to speak. I became
calm, but with n sort of ccsiucy. We wcria at the door
ot my apartment. I pulled lllm into it.
_ "'I believe you are ll crnol<,' I said, and then
stopped ll'iln as bowels about to speakuand' move away.
.“‘Stuy here; I said. 'I have wanted to meet a
burglar or something- for a long time., I am lntorelted.
I wl:.nt to know you. I will not give you away.”
"‘1 can tell you some stories about stealing that
will make your hair stllnd on end,' Jqnos told me, or
sonlothlllg like that. and that ws; tho way we be-
camuacqunlnted. V
"l talked with hlm. gettlng`t.hs stories ut first
hand and not from the 'yellow' newspaper any more.
Than I planned with him to try my own ilalld."
The noteworthy fonturo of Mrs. Romadklfs confos.
sion is thut she is absolutely 'unconscious of lllly other
persrlllnllty controlling her normal nature. Silo snw.'
Whe" 311° 11111110 lt- OHIY W/itll hor own nnturul brain
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and lplrlt. blaming herself, giving a. perfectly natural
and lucid account of the fall of a soul, such as a peni-
tent might have given _ln the confessional.
Such complete forgetfulness of the agencies of ob-
session ls typical of many subjects. The discovery of
their peculiar form of obsession is usually made by
the nurses and physicians in attendance. as lt was
made in the instance of Mrs. Rolnadka.
Ill prison, after her arrest. she ravcd and pleaded
for the companionship of negroes, talked the lowest
und vllcst negro dluloct. and referred constantly to
her llusband as “poor while trash." Dr. Alex Gue-
tafson. an experienced ollenlst. who attended ilor there.
was positive in his diagnosis.
"I am lure," said the alienlst, "that this woman ls
possessed by an Ethiopian spirit, which has absolute
control over her actions. Bile ls absolutely innocent of
wrongdoing, except when this spirit overpowers her
will uud forces her to do its bidding."
Dr. Sheldon Leavitt, a well-known practitioner.
connected with many medlcul societies and several
Clllcugo hospitals, called into consultation. found him-
self coilstrlilncd to lldmlt that tho case of Mrs, Ro-
mndkn conllrmod his belief in xlhnses of nlcntallly
which are still disputed hy the majority of his pro-
tension.
This ls the first exulllple of obsession, or of "pos-
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Y LI. Italy tllrninglits apprehensive gnzo
upon diovllntli Giolftti, tlle`pl'llne min-
ister, now qunils in the terror of the
belief thlltllo .possesses thc. ovil eye.
Italy, where belief in the evil eye is lls firm
as faith in the existence of ll porsollul devil, has
had its most cllronic, its most abiding supersti-
tion aroused into a drund whicll refuses to allnto
by'the long series of deaths nnd shocking mis-
fortunes ~tllut have descended upon succcssive‘
members of the prime minislcr’s cabinets.
` The recent nnd of thc minister of public
works, Emmsrluclo Gianturco, in the prime of
life-for he had gust passed the hlllf _century-by
the agency of t at lnbst repulsive of diseuavs.
cancer, marked the scvqlltcclllfl num upon whom
ll blight of como sort-l>y'lll:lll_v regarded as the
prime mlnistcr’s_‘de_s'tructiv`c glnuce-has fallen.
' Italy 'is afbihg ,lt§_eLf: "Can this evil eye:
whigldclgerloolls \'iulldl.lto‘all¥l;ireDot` th; noting, have
cur te; 17 on l s oeegt assert ytrem-
ble and vomvlt forth its lava ill-e. because he zllsos
upon it too dtedlylf _ _
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osuorucaws ‘seelnumea is lsbll almlly lm.
the syes of_ every human belns. they face-q
‘ on lllu»sQlll£»ll. lm or l'mllinllllllr|‘¢aul-nge ss ll
ms originally re rded. uns descended lo'llle
4 levol of e asllollal-.lNl_t.lf| lseltnlnlltlofs-eyes or all de-
scription' mishaps. Nosllsq ss llls psaullsriy evil sys,
lmeuso le  ssuslnl
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habit, no the connoisseur cl! eyes.
But mlrlo that-'lla will clynjllre up-the piercln1;. hlack.
close-set eyu which hc thin ke of first. or the polo. chill~
ing, habitually us-ltagonlstlc l' e. or the slant-lldded. glint-
lng_~secrotl\'aly_lnsolen`t°ey'b grdch hu lnstlnctlvoly recug»
nlzes aotrcaclnrouo-will bathe cvll eyc of which Italy
stands in llwe. l
Nh one' hns yct lived wllv could dollno the evo eye
in wllrcis of color. 'form or ui prseslon. lt is there when
It ls lhuru-that is all. _ 4
lt may bo ol-llllllnt 'and round; lt mny be long and
0l’°lnly oi' r°A’ll‘|ll |i,may be black or brown. behind
lashes scant or sweeping. Yet `;‘ll Its bllghtlng depths, al-
though thafeoul of it# llnfortun te owner be o well spring
of lnve fill his kllfl, lurks so le evll. blighting genius
whost- ultelence every liallsn \ lntnillvely feels. whose
mtlluvulundl ls vlmed upon all who sustain ms rum-
less glances long.” \
'rlls sys or Premier- olollul ’;:-il a broad. level orb.
under lids Zalgnllcnnt of egual; Quinn and tlltelllsenee.
it ll'w‘he'¢fa t~Y.even|fp might he - called "an eminently
human eyel" beaming: with pacepdlvencse, lambunt with
actlve'lllo\||ht. lllnlllpd alhtlys with some spark of the
genial lhsl.‘ma.ltee sr‘nll|l likable. '\ '
it iswpmelsely tra quality of "iilalllenese" which has
elsllnmlmlsa all nn- mlloutullatu will have been dean-lee
to ésrl-y_ smut will., olsnt' rmlnel-ual male lo merciful
mvel llaiswrul lmlilell as their svn windows us me
soul. 'rlleylbllve had countless rrlellle: they have in-ell
dsvoledly loved: ‘end 'dl\U‘tlev\"_belseM thoel who loved
them bcsmfwhiln beet tlhylelssl. perish before' _tllelr
lelllsl eyes uf tn. any luvellétngtlleousslnl-sa aumsnlnrs
noblest osulen. ‘ ‘ . _
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temperament are cllpable of awakening nmong mén of
nll classes, his career us prlmo nllnlstcr of Italy must
have cndcd with tha llrst suspicion thllt he was cursed
with Jcitlxlurn. or thc qllalltlcs of the cvll eye.
lt hus llowever_ happened that. as the list of the un-
forlunutos ln direct association wllll lllm grew long, he
found lncrcllstng difficulty in roplllclng llloee whom un-
expected dcnih nr grave, proslrutlng illness took away
from their duties rf stnte.
Among the victims was the postmllslcr general, Stel-
lutl Scllln. whose sudden death shoclu-ll nll his colleagues;
Slgnor Gallnj scarcely inducted into his labors as minister
of julsllpe when ho Wai found rlcnd ln his bod; Blgnor
Rosanne, anbtiler mlllletor of justice, who committed
suicide, und Mlssslmllle, minister of llnnncc, who died of
paralysis ln the Chamber of Deputies, stricken with ln-
elant death ln the midst of an lmportpnt address.
Slgnor Glnnturco, whose death of cancer has startled
Italy. illmself succeeded, in the ministry of public works,
n mlnlstcr upfln whom henrt disease fastened, forcing
hlm lntn private lifo. The most famous of minlstcrs of
flnfinco, Do'Bro}llt*. hiln boon crippled by ao'ute` rheuma-
tlsm; llle successor, Wollamborg_ is insane.
MAN AFTER MAN SUCCUMBS
Only a short tlms has elilpscd slncc another minister
of illlance, Majorunp, selected by thc eyc of Glolllll es-
pcclnlly for his youth and eirerlgth, was dcbarred from
his post by A sudden cancer, ngnlnst tho dire ravages
of which he llsl struggled. hoping against the hope that
failed Giunturco.
Prenetll, foreign minister. stricken with the hemor-
rhage of upoploxy; Tlttenl, foreign minister, stricken with
ordinary cerebral hemorrhage-mon aftdt mon, they have
succumbed.
ls it lc the curse of Glolltti's jettatural All Italy
says so-explalninl the discrimination in the natures of
the amlctlons sustained by different individuals. IDI! U10
intensity of tnedvsrlous pllgllts to which they have been
reduced, by the oommonly accepted hella! that while
few, if any. human bclnn are totally immune against
Jettetura. all have various powers of resistance.
No ons blames the unfortunate premier-all concede
his motives to he above reproach md his Nowudlv
mslevolllrlt Influence to be involuntary.
But, with the people st lsrge beginning st length to
imagine they dlsosrn some relgvsney between his alleged
evll ere and the succession 'er misfortunes thot ‘lan
befsilelrthe country, lt seems to them new ls' though
Nature herself were under the eul-se at some meestal'
she snelol.
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by me mlauvcs, but :ln local qos-t has
vane. ' '
manufacturing plants
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from 11|! te Bile uid
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session," as Dr. Leavitt prefers to define it. of a white
Woman by the spirit of a negro".
Can it be that. in every white individual. there re-
mnllls enough of the common nnceltri. deduced 51
science from the discovery of isle specimen Munson-
thropus Krapunsllsls. to permit of an unforeleel.
overpowering uprising of the germ qt a conquering
negro soul? And can it be hoped that science. in \¢l` li
broad and oeneneenl range. will -ultimately one um
means of safeguard? `
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Some Curious facts _ _
l>uBl.lca'r1uN recently' lsiuse oy 'lbs central D-<
A perontlst omoe in Paris shows that there 'ue Q
Esperanto societies throughout the world.  L
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thirty-eight Journals are published specially dwrotd _
the propagation of the language.
Jnly one on an average, out of every tboulalll 
ried couples live to celebrate their golden weeding. ' '
The empress of Japan is a great advocate of the
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spread or education 1n`hor nusl>alsd's dominion; """""' ,gi
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Turkish women do not come ilio control of tbdl if l
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vale fortunes until after marriage. They can then ll@&
of one-third of It without thc llush:\nd'e consent. '
Bignmlsts in Hungary are compelled to submit toil
odd punlshnlclll, Tllu mnn who has married two INK
is legally forced to live with hotb of them ill Ihfloi*
house
The throne of Persia, known as the Wonderful
' _ cock Throne. is probably the most costly in the `
_ , 1 It le literally covered with jewels,` and il Yallflfll 
_ _ ' ’ tween $l0.000,0000 and $15,000,000. _ ‘
- ‘ ' what is considered lo be me largest telegraph eil* ¢
' K ` . cult ln daily operation ln the world ls that between Ian-
' , . don and Teller-en, the capital of Persia. which ls ltr
` 4000 miles ln length. The llno is divided into twelve ser
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There are no ncwsboys in Spain; women sell newe-
pnpers in the streets.
The queen or Norway takes a great interest in book-
The first envelope ever meds le kept in the British
Museum.
In marriage announcements ln Spain the ages od lei
parties ure gh en, 1
The avernpn weight of ivory obtained from s lillll ni is
elephant ie about fifty pounds. l ,l
The llcen-la lnw in Sweden forbids any one to buy
drink with--ful llllying something to oat at the same till. M
The machine which cuts up wood to make matehi , l
lurns our 4o.ooo '-splints,-» u ulsy are cause. is s slash l l
mlnuia. .
History l~ unlgm to young children at s Isbell ll
Brussels by means of dolls. which represent great lei
and women ln cnnrscteristlc altitudes.
In parte of francs It is net an uncommon OUUIPCOI
for entire wedding uuzflts, including the bridal t il
to he hlrcd, many firms makinl I llhdllll °¢|
such articles.
A curious will dispute has just bein Ili*-\IG
court ut Rcllfl, lll the department of the Axdinmn
"me up .l grllllnmsn or independant means md
what occsnillr llubils committed suicide D1 "
solf in his housn ut Doumley. A search among
failed to disclose any will lsfstll. linda! lb
piece of sheen iron. wse found ohalked the
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words: "This ls my last will and tjtumtnt.  ;.,‘ _
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all my property to the borough o!,Ardenne, on
that the Mayor and Borough Coulsoil give D
of the local fire brigade for a beantut t
Ulm as aslblo." This extraol¢nar! will
Nmll cmllll. nursing Mlsmpll.
in tlle furniture-making business. 'ns is-pn.
of this business in till southern shts has K
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remstksllle.
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