Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1912 — England Gets Rare idol. [ARTICLE]

England Gets Rare idol.

Delhi. —In memory of the imperial durbar, Mr. Schwalger, the well-known connoisseur, has determined to present to the British museum toe famous incised steel peacock, which was the idol of the Yezidis in Mesopotamia. ''’V \- These men are worshipers of Lucifer, from the curious belief that the detU has now regained his place as the. highest archangel of God. Twenty-five years ago toe South Kensington museum vainly offered the previous owner SIO,OOO for this strange and exquisite work of art