The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-17
evening, hoping to see the rose dis
appear, but II did not.

A TEST.
After a conversation Of several hours,
about midnight the company began to
break up, and, talking with one and
another very gTaciOusly, in a few min
utes Madame reached our end of the
room and / had few minutes very
pleasant conversation with her. i
stated that while never having had an
opportunity to- test the so called power
of looking into the future, or Of calling
mp the past, at the same time | had
always felt much interest in IL and
would be very much pleased II she
chose to give some exhibition of her
power. She said that she would do 80
and asked il she should give me some
statement OF myself.
Knowing or believing that / was an
absolute stranger 70 her, / said this
would give me great pleasure. Where
upon she took one of my hands, exam
ined 10 carefully and made a number
of statements with regard to my char
acter, and various matters about my
self which I believed to be correct.
She then placed herself in front Of me
1--WE were both standing) and took
what looked 10 me like an oval gutta-
percha or rubber frame or plate, either
slightly concave or convex, i could
not tell which, and, placing one end
against her waist, with her hand
brought the other end out about right
angles to her body. Then, looking
into this black mirror, for such it was,
being highly polished, she slowly
stated correctly the date of my birth,
also under what star or heavenly sys-
tenn L was born. She then gave num-
Der of incidents with regard to my past
life which found reasonably correct.
She stated that / was not American
born but came from a foreign country,
and then said, as nearly as can recOl.
lect:
81 see young man sitting at table
reading" (She then described his APP
pearance which certainly correspond
ed with my own at that time, and as 1t
was upon an occasion which might
have been what she desdribed.)
"He reads while; then throws
down his book with an expression of
uncertainty and discomfort; then reads
again he goes to the window, looks
down upon the lawn below apparently
watching some people playing some
thing with balls and sticks; then he
reads again, but finally throws down
his book and says, I'll read no more
of it, and, putting on his coat, goes
out and joins the players"
HER ABILITY ADMITTED.
AS it did present an exact reproduce
ton Of what had occurred only few
days previously, / was compelled with
considerable surprise TO admit that 1t
might apply very well indeed. Con-
tinuing TO look into her mirror, Ma
dame made several other observations
with regard to my future life, and
finally closed by saying:
"The crown of your life is very near
at hand but a dark shadow comes
across in your twenty-ninth or thir-
tieth year." with which she closed.
was interested to learn what the
dark shadow was but failed to do So
She only shook her head gravely with
out giving any information. L then
asked Madame il she would allow Mr..
Judge and myself to take away the
revolver for a careful examination, as
we were anxious to ascertain whether
or not it were in fact in perfect order.
With rather an impressive manner,
she replied:
"Oh, certainly; take it, you will
find that everything is all right, and
/ am very glad to have you make the
examination" after which we with
drew.
The next day Mr. Judge, his brother,
now a lawyer in New York City,
young man by the name of William
Learn, and another whose name L
have forgotten, and i, during the fore
noon in the law Office took the revolver
to pieces as carefully as possible but
could discover nothing wrong, where
upon MIR. Judge rather triumphantly
said:
"You would better have believed
Madame last night for you see nothing
is wrong"
"Oh, wait" replied, "none of us
are gunsmiths; let's have this thing
more carefully looked into. Well
take it to the Remington Arms Com
pany, (which had an Office and sales
room just above on Broadway, and
let them look at it." Putting it
together as carefully as possible,
we all went up there and, hand
ing the weapon TO a clerk, asked him
IL anything was wrong. Handling II
with the precision of a skilled opera
tor, he replied:
ayes; something is the matter with
the half-cock, but / will make it all
right in moment" whereupon he
ran down stairs to the work shop. L
afterward regretted that some one of
us did not go with him. but we did not
think of it at the time. In a minute
or two he returned and, handing us
the revolver, said:
at is all right now. The fine hair
spring that controls the half-cock was
broken; here it is" and he handed Us
the broken spring. This satisfied my
curiosity as 10 Johns foOling with the
pistol, and we returned the weapon
with a note, thanking Madame for her
courtesy, by the hands of a messenger
boy.
ANOTHER CASE.
A few days later, at Mr.. Judges in
vitation, we again called upon Mad
anne Blavatsky and found an interest
ing company present. Mr.. Judge was
greeted with much effusion. Madame
then turned to me and her eyes flash
ing fire, she angrily said:
perhaps you think, Mr.. c., that my
spirit was not with you and that did
not hear your scornful and contempt
mana rornnrEa hnnf that nisfnI hnf Il