The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-03
Woman Stands In High Favor al
Russian Court
DAUGHTER OF 4 FIELD AB0RER
ZENOBIA GALATSCHKA GETS $1,000
AYEAR FOR PRoPHESYING
FOR NICHOLAS.

Strange stories of a sorceress at the
uuainted with the internal affairs of
the cars household. The cars ten
dency towards mysticism is we'll
known, and it has caused him to be-
come the dupe of several successive
hypnotists, spiritualists, fortune-tellers
and such persons. At one time it was
a French hypnotist named Phillips
who contrlved to gain such remark
able ascendency over the car. and at
another time the despotic ruler Of $780,
100000 subjects was entirely under the
influence of a quack weather prophet
named Demptschko. At present a
sorceress named Zenobia Galatschka
is in high favor at the Russian court,
is the story that comes from st.
Petersburg.
Zenobia Galatschka was introduced
to the cars notice in a curious way.
Previous to her appearance in ST.
Petersburg she resided at a remote viii
lage in the Russian province Volhynia,
where she earned a living by foretell-
ing the fortunes of the ignorant peas
ant inhabitants. A Russian nobleman
who was hunting in that district of
Volhynia heard of the fame of the for
tune teller and went himself to hear
his fate from her prophetic lips. Zen
obia Galatschka, who appears to be
woman with exceptional powers of
observation and unusually sharp wits.
told the young aristocrat so much about
himself that was true that he became
a believer in her reputed supernatural
endowments When he returned to ST.
Petersburg he related his experience to
the car, who was keenly interested in
the story of the Volhynian sorceress.
The Royal Summons.
Within "a hours Zenobia Galatschka
was visited by two police officials of
her district who communicated to her
the surprising intelligence that the car
had summoned her to St. Petersburg.
They had orders to arrange her de-
parture and to provide for her COM
fort on the long journey. The news
of the unusual honor conferred on
Zenobia Galatschka by the emperor
spread quickly throughout the district,
and an immense crowd of rustic adj
mrers escorted the fortune-teller to the
nearest station, many miles away.
On her arrival in ST. Petersburg Ze-
nobia Galatschka was taken to the i'm
perial palace and lodged there in
suite of elegant rooms. At the first
interview which she had with the car
he was delighted with her powers of
penetration and divination, and she
was Immediately installed in his favor
Since that day Zenobia Galatschka.
whose father was a field laborer has
been the trusted adviser of the car
who seeks her opinion on questions of
state policy, on problems of military
strategy and on all sorts of other i'm
portant affairs. She occupies a suite
of six gorgeous rooms in the palace,
which bear a striking contrast to the
miserable one-roomed hut in which she
first saw the light of the world. She
is waited on by a staff of eight domes-
tic servants. and has probably for
gotten that she herself was trained to
do the toughest kinds of mental work
in her humble home. The car has
granted her a salary of $4,000 a year
out of his private purse, and other
members of the imperial family honor
her by seeking her advice.
She Has a Rival.