The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-03
COUNT c-Aa11osrRo.

COUNT cAGLIosTRo.
The Worlds Greatest Impostor DESCRIBED
by Dsnsdstti.
National Review.
Presently Count Cagliostro appeared,
and Benedict remarks: HE is a man
of middle height, stout, with an air of
sinister cunning and a suspicious eye,
exa:tly as he is represented in the por-
trait I have of him. He was followed
by his wife, a handsome, well proper
toned woman, with a vivacious express
sion" After q few preliminaries Gag
liostro seated himself in a tripod and
began to speak as follows: cit is right
that 1 should relate my life to you, re-
veal my past, and lift the dense veil that
prevents you from seeing-harken to
my words-the boundless deserts spread
around me; gigantic palm trees cast
their shadows on the sand. 1 see
the quiet course of the Nile; the
Sphynx, obelisks, columns stand in
their majesty before me. Behold
these wondrous walls, these numer-
GUS temples, these mighty pyramids,
these labyrinths! It is Memphis. the
sacred city! Behold the glorious King
Tothmes III. makes his triumphant en-
try after subduing the Syrians and Can
aanites! l see--but now I pass to other
lands. Here is another city here is a
holy temple Dedicated to Jehovah, not
to Osiris. New gods have overthrown
the old. I hear voices-they proclaim
the Prophet, the Son of God. Who is it?
1t is Christ! Yes I see him; he is at
the marriage feast of Cana. He is
changing the water into wine.n And
hereupon Cagliostro started to his feet,
crying: mot he alone can perform this
miracle. I, too, a perform it; will
show it to you all. will reveal the
mystery; nought is concealed from me.
I know all. I am immortal, aptedilu.
Wan. Nothing is impossible to me.
Ego sum qui sum-" Then Selling a
vessel of pure water, he showed it to
the company and after making all taste
it, poured something into a huge crystal
goblet and added to it q few drops of
another liquid from a small vial. In
stantly the water assumed u golden blue
and became a sparkling wine, like Or
veto. This, he said, was the Falerni-
an used by the ancient Romans. Many
present drank of it and found it excel
lent. Cagliostro then continued his
raphsody, and spoke as with inspired
accents of his famous secrets, balsams,
his elixirs. He produced a bottle of
elixir, which, he said was potent to pro-
long life and to restore youth and
strength. And to prove his words, he
administered doses Of it to the Oldest
persons in the assembly. Certainly it
gave color to their checks and bright
ness to their eyes; but, adds Benedict
ii, "it struck me that a glass or so of
Moutefiascone might easily produce the
same effect" The count then men
toned his power of enlarging precious
stones, and offered to make on expert
ment on the spot. Cardinal Bernis
gave him the fine diamond ring that he
always wore, and it was thrown into a
crucible and various liquids poured
over it. Thereupon Cagliostro recited
an Incarnation, composed of so-called
Egyptian and Arabian words. He
then added several powders to
the mixture in tie cruclble, and
in q few minutes drew out the ring and
restored it to the cardinal with O bril-
liant almost double the size of the or
iginal stone. Bernis put on the mirac-
ulous ring with great delight; but the
abate's opinion was that the cardinal
had been very cleyerly tricked: that
the ring was quite different from his
own, and set with a crystal instead of
a diamond. Cagliostro next introduced
a young girl whom he called his ward,
and made her fix her eyes upon a glass
bottle filed with water. She said that
she saw a road leading from one great
city to another, and vast crowd of men
and women running forward and shout
ing, down with the kingw Cagliostro
asked her what place this was, and she
answered that she heard tile people
crying, "To Versailles !" and that there
was n great gentleman among them.
Thereupon Cagliostro turned to us and
said: my ward has prophesied the
future. Before long Louis XVI. will
be attacked by the people in his
chateau at Versailles, the mob will be
led by the duke; the monarchy will be
overthrow, the Bastile destroyed the
tyranny give place to freedom" "Dia-
mine" exclaimed the French ambassa-
dor, "you predict i'll things for my O v
ereigh~ Unfortunately they will all
be verified" replied the count. To this
L ort Benedict appends a note dated
Oct. 10, 1888: "Cagliostro spoke truly:
On the 9Th inst. a mob, mainly COM
posed of women, and headed by the
Duke d'Aiguillon, attacked the king at
Versailles" This strange prediction
caused great excitement in the assembly
at the Villa Malta. Some cried out that
the count was an imposter, others that
he was q prophet and a man of wisdom.
II listened and looked on" writes
Ahate Benedict, "and then L rose and
asked C%agliostro in what his science
consisted. He replied: The learned
Layater, who came from basle to Paris
on purpose to see and interrogate me,
asked me the same question. You shall
have the same reply that I gave to him:
In yerhis ar harbiS