Show CAME DIRECT I FROM I HEAVEN ti Pretty Belief Existing in India Concerning Con Con- the Origin of the Beautiful Beau Beau- Beautiful Emerald Scientists say that I the emeralds emerald's I lovely I green grass color is derived from froma II a compound t t. t of silica I magnesia soda water and some organic organ t ic it matter unknown I others say that it Is simply t a I. I compound of carbon and j hydrogen resulting from t organic matter but the ancient I Inhabitants t I of India I knew better than the modern scientists They believed the emerald II I r-me r c me from heaven Says Pays Forbes In his Oriental I Memoirs Memoirs Me Me- A person was I watching a swarm irm II of t fireflies In an Indian grove r j jt one moonlight night After hovering j n a time in the moonbeams t one lir firefly more brilliant than the rest f. f on nn the th grass and there re- re mane-i. mane A spi ator struck by Its c i and app rn ching to ascertain tin th r cause found not nn an Insect but nn en enem c em omi raid h he appropriated nn earl P rn ou r- r rin In a ring and md e er e er after the In i dums I I believed th it t the fireflies wf-e wf sacred inserts w hi h upon dying on the grass I turned to r m n for the adorn anent of nine m U ud J the glorification of J L That is r the reason in why the i priests of regard the emerald 11 I with such b veneration Of 01 ourse no firefly can now make an emerald but CZ emeralds certainly do make the money y 1 |