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Show AFTER THE "EVIL EYE." rhe Marquis of Bute Backs the Society Fof Psychical Research In a Little Flier. The Society For Psychical Research, at the moment when the supply of ghosts and the society's funds were falling fall-ing short, has had the felicity of finding find-ing a new field of inquiry and the money mon-ey with whiob to explore it They have to thank the Marquis of Bute for both favors. The marquis is a solid, solemn, millionaire paer and a devout Catholio who has always taken a languid interest In spooks. Seading recently a newspaper paragraph para-graph describing a case in the sheriff's court at Oban, in which the defendant was said to possess "the evil eye," he wrote to the secretary of the society offering $500 toward the cost of an inquiry in-quiry into that malignant optio in particular par-ticular and the questions of second sight and other Scottish superstitions in general gen-eral The society greedily snapped at the offer and forthwith organized an expedition, expe-dition, which is now wandering abouP Scotland on a lookout for evil eyea, seen, witches and such like. Reliable Information as to the progress mad has dot yet come to hand, probably because be-cause a selfish reporter, who wants to score a beat with a complete story ia attached to the expedition, but it is rumored ru-mored that the Oban defendant with the evil eye was tracked to his lair and gave the investigators a remarkably warm reception, from the effects of ! which they are still suffering. It is said also that the marquis has been rebuked by his spiritual advisers for displaying unseemly and premature curiosity in ghostly things, but that is probably a libel li-bel upon his lordship and his chaplains, London Letter. |