The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-20

not particularly i-favored old witch when I
met her In 1884 Remarkably small. pretty
hands and feet for such a corporosity, though
with long, dirty nails: suspicion OF pug In the
saucy nose: pale. restless eyes: fossy yellow
hair tending to kink; Tartar face with high
cheek bones fat chops, and dewap the lat
tor always hid by hand or fan In her photo
graphs; stature medium: weight perhaps $50
pounds: harsh, strident voice: conversation
profane and witty; temper abomlnable; odor
OF tobacco abiding: dress q sort Of compro-
mise between the robes OF a Norma and robe
de nuit-such is the general impression she
made upon me in 1884. when she was about So.
She appears to have married very early the old
Russian whose name she still bears, and Is
said to have left him at once.
Nothing definite can be gathered from SIM
nett's memoirs. We get vague impression
Of an adventures skipping wildly about the
world-nowin Mexico. now in Japan. or Ceylon.
or where not. and for some years nowhere
This fiction was invented, first, to give the
false impression that she was long under the
mystic guidance OF some Thibetan adopts in
occultism: second. to locate her at any give
time elsewhere than on tho scenes OF her ac-
tual scrapes and escapades. How did she live
all this time. do you ask? How do young
woman rovers live by their wits3 l am sure
do not know.
THE first definite Information have OF or
Is in this extract from letter OF the late ID. d.
Home. the noted English spiriualistic mo-
dunn. written to Mr.. W. f. Coleman Of San
Francisco. This locates her in Paris in 1857 or
'5S as demi- monder in liaison with the Prince
Emile de Wittgenstein. by whom she had de-
formed son. who died in Kiefr in 1863 The
interval is blank OF any definite information
till 1870, when she turns up in Cairo. Egypt.
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ciety, which proved abortive. Not so. how
ever, her other industries. Here Is etter
from DR.. Richard Hodgson. Secretary OF the
Society for Psychical Research. indicating that
Blayatsky shared the fortunes as the phrase
goes of q certain Metrovitch In Cairo about
1871 or 1872. A person cognizant OF this In
trigue was Nine. Z. Coulomb, subsequently
notorious in the Koot-Hoomi exposure in
Madras. India. This fact Is the key to the
power Coulomb had over Blavatsky. Thel latter
was at the mercy OF the former A letter in
evidence is one from Blayatsky to Coulomb.
mentioning Metrovitch. and begging Coulomb
to blot that page of her life out
Here Is a private letter. signed by Madame
Coulomb, written In 1885 TO Col. ohm c. Bundy
Of Chicago, but suppressed at the time. No
tice this fine feminine stroke: Nine. Bla-
vatsky is not Nine. B!avatsky She is MN O.
Metrovitch. have known her husband In
GP6 Hen to no sE
she could. am not bound 20 be secret any
more Afterward Blayntsky Is SAID by Sinpett
But tf IN poin. Of fact she was expelled from
Egypt by the police or other Goyernment au-
Eugene Schuyler. our Consul General at Cairo.
could probably procure q copy OF the Official
to do so by tho State Department This affair
foreshadows her hasty retreat from probable
arrest 81 Madras India IL lsSP when en, she was
posure. Early in 1878 she went to Paris, where
she remained about two months Seeking
aSSn Has landed at New YORK July fs75
Her real business as that time was y In TIC
spy and she was Instructed. as usual, to play
any part that would divert attention from the
IN We to da
for the same political purposes. The Punch
and Judy show She, set up in India
the people and conceaisd her real do
signs. Had she, succeeded ;, in polt-
She failed. was s exposed, disGracod. had her
pay stopped, and was as usual incontinontly
tion Of this Is that to this day she flies into her
worst RACES Whenever the hus .t Spy, mat
%h s nnd Ths q S R0o
pinches her pot corn, not. that she shonld DO
accused OF being a Russian spy, hut that she
promptly ignored. But / am anticipating.
Whatever Tho nature o. the i1strY I from
Ing spirltualism then. MS before and since.
present purpose after she, had mot olcott In
Vermont in tho tall Of l37t; and been written
3p ~ R EY IN yen She eh mared ean
ely, This man was to;eiEner believe from
TIllis, in business in thiladelnhin: have seen
TSi $ q%EnSant TO Of Tor GSIoT ara stqrmy
lawyer who acted in thu speedy divorce suit.
This affair WAS short, sharp, and disastrous to
sPs oG tHe 'nroyerba Mussa and c%uGht
tho very cream OF Tartar mink II lasted only
% 'A rent Em to ecart nor ar o
The legal aspects of the case, are OF
course on pH66i record IN WIN n'i tsiS 4
worth while to take tho trouble This inntr,-
monu episode Is cpLio4- GhSe OF y woman a5
hymenc6l halter ,yef5, early n ii'o, md never
mittrl TO Ia h'illed IN affairs e tho heart ~
this time. IA we have R"6n. Mrs, BlhNMsky-
SbnieG no GHH9S ~" he S' rs siny cx-
plotting as u Srlr'tuhliS,ic mrdaHH, sel,ih ia
arr in Jew York by noa Ann o'SulIivhn bet
Ter known nE The Dis, ioh!r woman IN laGt
'ilireeah D.mnr ana touI,"75 Pr" INA
prucyitieg thougg one went g. 'aii for lacH on
wits which have Cor, IN. oihSr "ns s, ~ tlS 10
episode. BlaSAt-Ly rivals Hie- Debar ~ rr0-
ducirg sririt pictures from her real SKIN with
'''' At tho limo Of which speak namely In
1915, her most tnmI ar, 5rook WA a ghosty
aupwoscd 10 have been II pirate, condemned
Ior ms atrocities 10 serve rArth- hound Tor a
farm OF year. and TO present himself NJ ma
teriniiylnK : nnnGs on call. ANY medium
Who personatcs this ghost, put, On n nG rcy
n'd ta,G, in somlchrll rh"'l TONES. Jnhh -
is Funlprd AMI rte,i2.;' E"|'i a., as pr r.III
~ moIiui4s roth ia Europa ans America;
Keep MIN ~ stock, mEs "itGn zen ~ Wos 81!
Member the names Of Our late Minister to
Portugal Mr.. j. Ohulliyan, has bhotoEIhg
81 E,ii lan9Ih nOatlR In ButtUB, holding