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Show M Victim for Each Building. The liel'of, illustrated In tho ballad nf "Tho llrldgn.of Aria," that a human Tlctlm Is required to Insure thu eta- Mllty of a bridge or building survives in Orooco today, J. A. Lawson says. There Ih no murder now. It HUfllcoB H to obtain, preferably from an enoray H or an old person, a hair, nail paring, B shrod of clothing, old shoo or a thread or stick marked with tho person's height or footprint measuro, and bury tlicao beneath tho foundation stono. Tho victim dies within a year, but tho H building Ih safo H Evon a shadow- will do Mr Law- son wan hlmsolf drnggod bnck by a H friend In Santorlnl so that his shadow fl might not fall across such a fatal H spot; and tho mayor of Agrlnian told him that his four predecessors had all dlod from tottorlng their shadowu H . fall on foundation stones lnld by them. |