Show DEAD STILL LIVING some curious beliefs about some of the deceased celebrities Is general gordon of course tharo can be only uno answer to that solemn question an equally solemn nevertheless it is a curious fact that there are living at this present moment some millions of people who firmly bc it va the question should be an n the negative all ncr the southern and central sudan the natives are quite certain that the heat white pasha is only biding his own good time to reappear and 4 rule over them once more and even among iho belief is by no means extinct that gordon when khartoum fell escaped the anas and retired into tho roaden wilds of western kordovan Kor dotan it is precisely what he would chave daae say many ot those who knew him best disgusted with the treatment out to him by a government ho regarded as faithless to its trust he determined to efface himself ratter than return to england thousands of irish peasants hold a somewhat similar belief with regard to their great leader they argue saw that the cause he had at y heart was for abo time being irretrievably lost so ho a pretended death and a sham burial intending to return to life and his temporarily abon cloned task whenever the timo should bo i sufficiently opportune ridiculous you say of burse it is hut the belief is widespread and unshaken among an otherwise shrewd and not particularly imaginative people very weird and very pretty h the atory which has grown up in burma rc pr arding ding her late queen victoria Vic torii it is only a legend of course but it is a which is being today told seriously to their disciples by thousand of buddhist priests in hundreds ot buddhist monasteries queen victoria they aver wai once B burmek maiden and they explain their extraordinary allegation in this i ie early in iho nineteenth century there lived an fn rangoon a gill verv poor but very pious who devoted her life to holy i why they will add confidently and confidentially fidentia lly no englishman has been permitted during the past forty years to enter lhasa lucli is the story all that can be said is that if nana bo really living in lhasa today he must ba a very old ann for he waa nearing his fortieth year when the mutiny broke out it is of course the eastern doctrine of the transmigration of souls which causes eastern lands to teem with stories of dead people dead that is to the world at large who aro yet averred to be very much alive to those who see them with aho eye of faith A striking instance ot how deep rooted is this belief was afforded by the presence at the delhi durbar tho other day of an old hindu who claimed to be none other than the reincarnated incarnated re general nicholson Nichol Ron of mutiny fame nor were cither persuasion or argument of adv avail against his flogged assurance the old clial had been orderly to the general and had soothed his list moments after he had fallen mor tally wounded in front of the cashmere gate when nicholson died in the flesh the other Xi cholson the soul spirit call it what you will passed into the body of his servitor how else asked alie veteran simply was it that I 1 a simple rose ere the war ended to ba su badar waa it I 1 aforetime a timid man who afterwards was always in tho forefront of the tattle xo my master the form and the features were mine but tho spirit was the spirit of nicholson sahib and in the end to humor him place and was given liim in that gorgeous stately procession amid ra jahs and princes hollars hol kars in nizam you might live in constantinople many years without hearing aught concerning the masked prisoner of the yildiz kiosk for the turk is naturally secretive and the spies of the government are nevertheless there is not a native but has heard of hiim and is as sure of his identity as of their own he is so they aver none other than alii new lut is made of black and straw braid awn in shells anro awn ivov auh othar the top ia in plaque shape black velvet fh bon bowdon top ot brown anil over brim at lacfi lack nud under bairo borks and known far and wide for r and her gentleness eventually llcy in dohi good v ich her faaea and her abstinence from in order eliat she nubit devoir more time to prayer undermined der mined health hie felt to be ayin nn iffa faer last brea th ablio prayed buddha that when pie should in it should bo where she bould bo enabled 0 o do the nati muni of greatest num v ier 0 her fellow creatures was on kiy 1810 bud liivat lii ayea the world sent the toul t of hia disciple t aro land acea to tendon into the body of the all of the duchies Du clies of kent then born an fn her cradle in kensing los of alio anim dahib after the of the indian mutiny tho question rould be correctly would xin lock one nf the moat and interesting te of modern historical mysteries all that is known for certain ia that titter alio fall of delhi lie retired northward ti following that lift win attacked in alio norvah maxs by ir hope biant in may ia and that lie was afterwards reported aft aft in dorco in on alio frontiera fronti cra of audo dur tho of the feame year when however on thia latter oica sion a reconnoitring party was dispatched liap lie suddenly oud denly ini vanished nor that day to baa aught definite been of hint alio indian gave out liter ulfat he look to tho jungle and died auy tivisa tivi sv elds was a convenient mid theory but thero was no jut or title of proof in substantiate it ani lid ilia authorities really abdi eap in it w i pried ed by the lac fc thai they jon to affer periodical re ward for hi capture and eliat eo lato ns 1871 ti baid to be he but waa disprove adm o arrested by their order al ga irr kor do iha of india credit it indeed they arp practically room in thai lie willi i biall following into Thi brt where ho priest and rot lo 10 be a fiort 0 fand principal princ ad viar to ahe giand dair and that 13 that aielt who rey ned a sultan from egl to 1870 bcd who on juno ati of bic tatter year was raid to have committed suicide ly opening with a pair of seis isora the veins of his arms they as a fairy laic b BIM present sultan abdul in lie is said to have acon murdered but this acain abe populace mill not believe in they in dinst st he lias lia s been nil confined eon fined the viila of palace prison none diac his t with no oue iland yet alive and over lii fea turon lie wears a rii ask cunningly in alio lilen ws ot hia mirnd alic he foltan who wals after a reigie lasting exactly tarca uon lh alii it it if the babble of alie constantinople is to be believed vas really murdered by midhat iasha and lil accomplices ana fu ordera cover up the foul crime tb truly oriental plot was conceived which decreed unit a man said to bo dead but reilly albie should per Bonato n man said to be but in reality cload |