Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-16
NO. 81.
A. Good as a Ghost Story.

THE WONDERFUL THINGS MHE. BLAyATsKY
AND coli oiCoTT ARE DOING ~ INDfA.
PROM the Friend Of India Calcutta.
The following remarkable statement
has been forwarded to US for publication:
On Sunday, the ID Of October. Mt Mr..
Hume's house, at Simla, there were
present at dinner Nr. and Mrs. Hume,
Mr.. and Mrs. Sinnett, Mrs. Gordon. Mr..
+. Hogg, Captain i. }. Maitland. Mr..
Beatson, Mr.. DAWSON. Colonel Olcott
and Nine. Blavatskv, Most OF the per
sons present having recently seen many
remarkable occurrences in Nine Bla.
vhtsky's presence, conversations turned
on occult phenomena, and in the course
OF this Nine. Blavatsky asked Mrs.
Hume II there was anything she partic.
ulariy wished. Mrs. Hume at first hes.
Itstcd, but in short time said that
there was something she would particu.
larly like TO have brought TO her, name.
ly, small article Of jewelry that she
had formerly possessed, but had given
away TO person who had allowed il to
pass out OF their possession. Nine. Bla.
vatsky then said if she would fix the
image OF the article in question very
definitely in her mind, she, Nine. Bla.
vatsky would endeavor to procure il.
Mrs. Hume, then said that She yividlv
remem bered the article, and described
1t as an old.fashioned breast brooch set
round with pearls. with glass at the
front and the back made TO contain
hair. She then, on being asked. drew
rough sketch of the brooch. Nine.
blavatsky then wrapped up a coin at.
tached 10 her watch. chain in two cigar.
ette papers and put it in her dress and
SAID that she hoped the brooch might
be obtained IN the course Of the even.
ing. At the close OF dinner she said to
Mrs. Hume that the paper in which the
coin had been wrapped was gone. A
little later, in the drawing room, she
said that the brooch would not be
brought into the house, but that it must
be looked for in the garden, and then,
as the party went out ACCOMPANYING
her, she said that she had clairvoyantly
seen the brooch fall intoa star-shaped
bed OF flowers. Mrs. Hume led the way
to such bed in a distant part of the
garden. 4 prolonged and careful search
was made with lanterns, and eventually
small paper packet, consisting Of two
cigarette papers, was found amongst the
leaves by Mrs. Sinnett. This being
opened on the spot was found to con.
tain brooch exactly corresponding 10
the previous description and which
Mrs. Hume identified as that which
she had originally lost. None OF the
party, except Mr.. and Mrs. Hume, had
ever seen or heard of the brooch. Mr..
Hume had not thought of il for years.
Mrs. Hume had never spoken of il 10
anyone since she parted with il, nor
had she for long even thought of il.
She herself stated, after it was found.
that 1t was only when Madam asked
her whether there was anything she
would like to have that the remem.
brance of this brooch, the gift OF her
mother. flashed across her mind. Mrs.
Hume Is not spiritualist, and up TO
the time OF the occurrence described
was no believer, either in occult phen.
omena or in Nine. Blavatsky's powers.
The conviction OF all present was that
the occurrence was Of an absolutely
unimpeachable character as an evidence
OF the truth OF the possibility of occult
phenomena. The brooch is upoues.
tionably the one which Mrs. Hume lost.
Even supposing, which is practicable
Impossible, that the article, lost months
before Mrs. Hume ever heard of Madam
BIavatsky, and bearing letters or other
indication of original ownership, could
have passed in natural way into Mad.
anne Blayatsky's possession, even then
she could not possible have foreseen
that it would be asked for, as Mrs.
Hume herself had not given it a thought
for months. This narrative, read over
to the party, is signed by A. q. Hume.
NJ. a. Hume, Frederick r. Hogg, A. =.
Sinnett, Patience Sinnett, Alice Cor.
don, p. J. Maitland, William Dawson,
Stuart Beatson.