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will not recover her reason for many
months to come.
In the summer il was announced that
lie court would spend the winter in ST.
Petersburg, for the first time for many
years The visit to France and England
was 10 be followed by one 10 Italy, by
way of the Black sea and Dardanelles
The autumn maneuvers in the Crimea
were to represent the invasion of that
peninsula. and all kinds of festivities
were to follow. Even then people who
frequent the court shook their heads and
said they feared ii would tax the car
mas health too much To take part in
50 many functions.
Now. all these engagements have been
cancelled. for the cZarina is incapable of
seeing nybody or taking interest in any
hing. The doctors, who have been sum-
moned from all parts of the world to
attend her are divided in their opinion
as 10 the gravity OF her malady. Some
saw that as she is only thirty-seven. she
will be cured; others affirm that, as her
husbands life is always more OF less IN
danger. she will never be quite well for.
a. soon as she RECEIVERS little. anxiety
for her sons and husbands safety VIII
cause a relapse This is the secret of her
naiady. Day and night the thought that
they will be killed hauntS her.
This nervous condition began with the
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Edinburgh. Brousham received "a letter
from India announcing G.'s death and
stating that he had died on the 10Th OF
December. Singular coincidence"'
Quite as uncanny was the fultillment in
1850 of such a compact between Lieut..
Oliver Colt of the British army and his
younger brother tafterward captain. G.
+. Russell Colt. While divers regiment
was before Sebastopol he wrote low
spirited letter to Russell in England.
Il said i'll answer that he was to cheer
up" records the latter. but that if any
thing did happen to him he must let me
know by appearing to me in my room.
The awful manner in which the request
was granted is told by Russell Colt in an
account of strange do!ngs in his room the
night of September s. 1850. He says:
That night / awoke suddenly and saw
facing the window of my room by my
bedside. surrounded by light sort of
phosphorescent mist. as it We're. my
brother lneelirs. The apparition
turned round his head slowly, and again
looked anxiously and lovingly at me, and
! saw then for the first time a wound on
the right temple, with red stream from
it,
At that same date his brother fell at
the storming of the Redan from bullet
wound in his right temple, and his body
was found kneeling when picked up on
the battlefield. The surviving brother was
still living a few months ago at Coat
bridge, y. i.
Similarly startling in denouement was
a death pact made between Senator Carlo
FenZi and his brother, the Chevalier
Seba stino FenZi, of Florence, Italy. One
June day while they were driving together
and discussing the immortality of the
soul the senator stated that if he should
be summoned first he would endeavor to
prove to the chevaIier that life continued
beyond the chasm of the grave" and he
asked his brother to make the same
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promise, in case the latter should be the
first to go. About three months later.
while at Fortullino. a villa on a rock in
the sea, seventy miles from Florence. the
chevaiier. while wandering along over the
rocks near the suddenly looked up
and saw his brother approa ching him
and scarcely q stones throw away. he
was running to meet the senator. when
the latters form mysteriousiy disappear
ed Returning bewildered to the villa
where he was staying. he met man
with a message from Florence. stating
that his brother had died that morning.
And here is an American compact case.
Mrs Isabella L. Bird Bishop, the well
known traveller and writer, while in Col
orado some years ago gathering material
for her book. "A Lady's Life in the
Rocky Mountains went on horseback to
Estes Park, where she met a local char
acter known as Mountain Jim. On the
day she left the park they had long
conversation on the subject of Immortal
lily, at the conclusion of which Jim eX-
claimed.
II may not see you again in this life,
have said to ME / shall never forget, and,
dying l swear 1 shall see you again.
One day while at Interlaken, SWltZer
land, Mrs Bishop looked up from letter
which she was writing and saw Noun
tain Jim looking at her. He said very
slowly and distinctly, Il have come as
/ promised and then he waved his hands
at her and saying Farewell" disappear
ed. The date and time OF day were I'M
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his brother savauts, who. because of his
Spiritualistic views. came to regard hin
as a fantastic visionary, he made a sol
emu ante-mortem compact to place him
self, after death, in definite communica-
ton with his felloW-members of the Milan
Society for Psychical Research. And he
arranged that his communications should
be made through that celebrated Italian
medium with whom he has been expert
menting for the past fourteen years. Eu-
sapia Paadino the despair of science
who arrived in New York the other day
=, This woman of mystery. now white
haired and obese of figure. was born in a
small Italian town some fifty-ive years
ago. and after having been orphaned and
abandoned on the roadside she was re-
ceived as nursemaid in a well-to-do
family Like Joan of Arc. she suffered
from girlish Authorizations and mani
festations.'' She complained of strange
raps on her bed. declared that the bed
clothes were sometimes stripped off hel
by invisible hands and claimed that she
saw ghosts. At length an Italian attend
ing a seance in London received com
munication from an alleged spirit claim
ing to have living in Naples a daughter
who was a skilled medium. This man
thus found Eusapia III Naples and
attended a seance at the home where she
eight. and so extraordinary became the
manifestations in which she partic-
ipated that she gradually gave up nursing
for professional mediumship. And finally
Lombroso commenced his experiments
with her, in which there co-operated with
him some OF the master minds of Eu-
rope.
Her mysterious power has held these
men, even since she became white-haired
and obese. and although she was ignorant
of book-learning and vulgar of speech. At
times they caught her in the very act
Of perpetrating clever frauds during
seances. But at other times they got
equally good results, after she had al :
lowed them TO search her. change her
clothes, bind her. hold her hands and
feet and turn on and off. at will, the
light of the seance room Still she
would cause the seance table to float in
the air and would even cause herself to
rise TO the top of it while still seated
in her chair. These feats of levitation
Lombroso thought to have some relation
to a mysterious breeze-like current of all.
alleged TO issue from scar on the lett
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arrived at TSarskoe Seo half dead with
cold and fright.
health occurred year later when plot
TO kill the car in his bed was disclosed
by CoSSack on guard. The officer who
had charge of the duplicate keys to the
rooms had joined in the plot and given
the keys to the revolutionaries. When
the czarina heard this she threw herself
on her husbands neck and implored him
to leave the country.
Here. she cried we are never safe.
Everybody pursues us"
The third great shock was the attempt
to blow up the imperial yacht, the Polar
Star, when the car and his family were
cruising in the Gulf of Finland in Sep
TENDER. 1907. One evening a terrific re-
port was Eeard-the lights went out and
the yacht began to fill with water. The
fears of that night brought on the state
of nervous prostration which lasted for
many months, only to return at stated
intervals, and which has now become SO
grave.
When the lights went out on the yacht
the little cZarowitZ could not be found
1t was some time before lights could be
procured. and meanwhile panic ard dark
ness reigned. The cZarina thought her
son had been done away with during that
time. He was. however. quite safe. on
the bridge, in the arms of faithful
sailor, who was about to swim to shore
with him, but the mother never reccv-
cred from those terrible moments. OF
course, the attempt to wreck the yacht
failed. but, as she said, another one might
be successful and. during the voyage to
France and England. she was in hourly
dread of a similar attempt.
Now things have got bad that she
knows nothing of what is going On around
her. This nervous collapse cannot pos
sibly be due to overeXcitement, for
few women lead quieter lives than Alex
andra Feodorowna. When people read of
the splendid Russian palaces. with their
museums and picture galleries, Of the
winter palace in ST. Petersburg, with it's
thousand rooms, and of all the wealth
of the fifty crowns comprised in the car s
title, they are apt to think that he lives
the life Of magnificence that character
lied his forefathers. This is by no means
the case. For many years the Russian
court has lived in the greatest simplicity.
and the most simple part of the court
is that devoted to the czarina. For seven
years she has avoided living in st. Pc
tersburg. where, round the winter palace.
the massive iron ratings can be seen
which her grandfather. the old King of
Denmark, gave her. so that the children
might have an inclosed garden to play
in Needless to say, they have never
used it. as it looks on some of the city $
busiest streets, whence a bomb could
easily be thrown by any one nimble
enough to climb the ratings.
They spend the summer i'll the crlmea'
OF Two ne ISaTSkOG
Selo, small town some fifteen miles
from st. Petersburg, where there are two
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a secret password, which he has COM
municated to no one, but which he say.
he has since received in communications
through not only Mrs. Piper but the
mysterious medium with whom he has
later been experimenting-the clergyman 5
wife to whom he has given the false
name Mrs Smead.'
Now, all of these cases are most inter
esting. to be sure. but those very trou-
blesome personages, the hardened skep-
tics of science. will not accept them.
What these unconvinced ones demand i
test data from persons other than the re-
clpients themselves, and such a check as
would be imposed by what is termed the
"sealed-letter test
This sealed-letter test is indeed the most
rigid of those resorted to now by persons
arranging to try the Spirit Wireless. 1t
is worked in this way:
You write letter containing some Sc
cret symbol or password or some in
formation known only to yourself and
the contents of this you agree to CON-
municate after your demise. Without re-
Neallng 1T to any one, you then seal il
carefully and deposit it with circle OF
friends who are to open il, only in the
PeSeHee OF one dnOthef after your COM
munication is alleged to have been re-
ceIved by one of them or by some person
specifically designated If the message
reveals what is in the envelope, the test
is q success.
Sealed strong boxes in the Headquarters
of the American and English Societies
for Psychical Research in New York and
London contain collections of such let
tiers. many of whose writer's still live and
some OF whom are already dead.
The three noted English psychical re-
searchers, Edmund Quincy, Frederick w
II. Myers and Frank Podmore, who col
Elaborated in writing the noted work.
'Phantasms of the Living each placed Il
sealed letter in the safe OF tie London
society. Quincy and Myers have both
been dead now for some time and the
Quincy letter sat last accounts still re
manned Gnsealed But the Myers letter
was opened. some time ago when a me-
dunn claimed to have reproduced the test
information that it contained. But tile
medium communication seemed to show
no similarity to the original letter and
the London researchers were greatly dis
tressed.
Ihus. YOU see. the skeptics of science
are quite as eXactin9 of Spookland eN-
plorers as they are of polar explorers
When it comes TO tangible data
SO the scientific world now awaits some
tmna convincing from Lombroso. Will lie
give IL The evidence for which ii has long
peeh ravenous or must the case still rest
upon the present testimony with its so
many ways that wind and wind?
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS
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revolt three years ago. A natural in
clination toward melancholy was much
aggravated by the anxieties of that ter
Iible time. When the fleet at Cronstadt
mutinied the court was at Peterhof. q
palace on the Gulf of Finland. within
sight of the scene of the troubles It
seemed as though nobody but the mutt
neers had any power left Suddenly a
messenger came 10 the palace with the
news that the sailors were starting for
Peterhof TO aSSaSsinate the car and his
son. The history of that eventful da Y
has still to be written. What really hap
pened as follows: The crews got
drunk and their leaders lost their heads
Had they carried out their plans and
crossed the gulf to the white palace
within a stones throw. the dynasty of
the Romanoffs would have ceased to be-
The shots and cries of the mutineers at
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night and rushes to his room, crying
that he has been murdered stolen
away. She always knows what part of
the house or gardens he ought to be in
at a given moment and becomes wild
with terror if he is not in the exact
spot where she expected to find him.
The czarinas anxiety for her son is
only equaled by that for her husband.
She breads the most ordinary court func-
ton. and declares that she would rather
be killed outright than again live through
the agonies she endured when they Wis
tied France and England last summer.
She has never taken any interest in roli-
tics or in the questions which occupy her
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eral comes TO pay his respects to the I'M
perial nursery.
This is no place for girls he says. and
sends them away. He is full OF hie and
enjoys every pleasure that comes his way
to the full. Some time ago. before he
quite realized the difference between lit
tie children and grown-up people, he
made an amusing remark to MS mother-
She wished him to sit up to the table in
a high chair.
Yes. mother. but you must sit in a
high chair. too he said
But I am grown up. SO | need rot:
was the cZarinas answer. me child
thought it over and then asked, with
bright smile:
And when will you be little, mummie?''.
He is very fond of playing with the
sons of some OF the officers attached to
the court One day he wanted to- give
an order that his father wears to one of
them. The sailor who looks after him
explained that he could not. The caro-
WITT was very much surprised and said:
Why. isn't my friend, Ivan, going to
be car, too, when he grows up"
He is, Of course, too young to begin
lessons. SO he spends the whole day i'm
the open air and his sailor nurse. has
strict orders to let him do anything he
likes. He may be persuaded. but must
never be forced to obey and the young
sailor has, as may be imagined. all his
work cut out for him. The car has
made up his mind that tne child will
rot be able to rule unless lie learns to
rule from the very beginning The gen
eral idea is tina; those VINO are to rule
must first learn to obey. but the car
says this principle IS wrong.
He must. lean tiat he IS an autocrat
as early as possible the car once said
to an old general who ventured to give
a few hints about discipline. IF he
does that he win know what course to
take, instead or asking half dozen
peoples advice and wavering between
them all s.
Some courtiers say that their imperial
master is afraid the czarowitz will
grow up like his father, who listens to
everybody's advice-and. therefore,
changes his mind half a dozen times a
day. 1t is an open secret that Nicholas
II hopes in this way to make his son
grow up like his great grandfather.
Nicholas I, who. though a cruel man,
was just one, and. above all things,
knew what he wanted.
This future car is watched with all
possible care. His rooms are carefully
searched every day lest some explosive
may be left there and he is not allowed
out of the sight of faithful attendants
for one moment either by day or night.
His food is tasted by trustworthy peo-
pie before being given him. and. after
that, put into covered dishes and seal
ed. Very often the empress herself
insists upon trying it. saying that she
is sure that somebody has tried TO poison
him on that particular day. She never
allows him TO be put to bed before she
has examined the cot and The bed
clothes. Many times the unfortunate
lady wakes up in the middle of the
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TTtdt NUS Prove ItStII lInmOrtaI 10 TIE
satisfaction OF the hardened skeptics,
1gnostics and infidels of earth?
When fifty-f1ve years old this great
alienist and criminologist of Turin still
believed spiritualsm and all that per-
tanned thereto TO be low tomfoolery."
Then he was taken off unwillingly TO at
tend the seance of some spiritualist me-
dunn; and the other day, at the age of
Seventy-three, he died believing in the
survival of human personality after bodily
1eath. To prove it to the hundreds of
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side of Eusapia's forehead and also from
her left leg. He claimed that an object
touched by her skirt when the latter was
blown outward by this current from the
latter source would either draw back OF
rise in the air. But some of the most
wonderful of Eusa pia's alleged feats were
the receipt and transmission OF messages
from the dead, such as the Turin society
now expect her To dispatch for the eX-
pectant shade of Lombroso.
AS to how she will work the spirit
wireless, if the message does come over
the circuit. Lombroso gave an linking in
a description of her actions at such
seInces. First she will enter the trance
state, with tears falling down her cheeks.
She will pant for her breath, her limbs
will jerk and become rigid, she will turn
CHASTITY pale her eyes will roll upward
and inward and she will laugh and ween
with violent Mysteries. Now the strange
currents of air will issue from her skin
and il will be time for her to transmit
the message from Lombroso. Then
awakening from the trance she will cry
out with pitiful wall and throw off the
spell.
One of the first of these death-compact
tests of record was that entered into by
Lord Brougham. afterward the noted
lord chancellor of England, and his most
intimate Doyhood friend, 'G, with whom
he attended the university.
We frequently in our walks
discussed and speculated upon many
grave subjects. among others on the i'm
mortality of the soul and on future
state" says the chancellor in his me-
moirs. This question and the possibility
l will not say of ghost walking, but of
the dead appearing to the living were
subjects of much speculation; and we
actually committed the folly Of drawing
up an agreement, written with our blood
to the effect that whichever Of us died
the first should appear to the other and
thus solve any doubts we had entertained
of the life after DEATH" This chum en-
tered the civil service in India and seldom
wrote to Brougham. who after few
Years almost forgot him.
How this compact was weirdly fulfilled,
Lord Brougham thus tells in his journal
of December 49, 1889: II had taken, as l
have said, a warm bath; and while lying
i'll ii / turned my head round. look
ing toward the chair on which j had de-
sat G.. looking calmly at me- How l got
out of the bath / know not, but on re-
coverins~ my senses l found myself
spra wiling on the floor. The appa:'itiOn, or
whatever ii was that had taken the like
ness of c., had disappeared
All OF this occurred during visit 10
London and soon after his return to
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palaces. The large one. built by the En-
press Catherine, consisting of a score or
SO of rooms on each fioor-of which there
are tWo-opening into one another without
any corridors, SO that the unhappy cour-
tier who lives at the end has to pass
through nineteen rooms before he gets TO
his own, is only used on state occasions.
A much smaller building of stucco with
large verandas is used by the imperial
family. Besides the family only guard.
few servants and the equerries and ladies
OF honor who happen to be on duty live
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VOUS Breakdown
l y Caused by the State of
Terror in Which She Has
Lived for Years - Doctors
Fear That She May Never
7ully Recover Her Reason
Life Devoted to Guarding
Her Little Son, and If He Is
Out of Her Sight a Moment
She Suffers All the Agonies
That Would Be Caused by
His Actual Assassination
Car and His Family Really
Splendid Prisoners Instead of
Rulers of a Great Nation.
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A ND Fulfill His Agree
{ i ment Other Deaf
Compacts Made by Noted
Persons = That of Lord
Brougham Written in His
Blood-How It Was Full
flled-Strange Case of the
Colt Brothers-Sinilar Pact
Between the Fenzi Brothers
Two Woman Writers Who
Kept Their Ante Mortem
Agreements-One of Them
Is Now the Julia" of Editor
Stead's "Julia's Bureau" or
Spirit Wireless Telegraph
Office.
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Driven Mad by Terror.
Czarina. whose mental breakdown was caused
by fear for her husband and
in it. The rest of the court, from cham
berlains to scullery maids. live in houses
scattered about the park.
The rooms where the family live are
simplicity itself. The nurseries. with
their white enameled furniture and iron
bedsteads, might belong to any English
or American children. The toys of course,
are costly, but the less complicated ones
are first favorites. One which the caro-
witz is very fond of Is a small motor
car. just large enough to hold him. 1t
goes by electricity and is perfect in every
detail. His four sisters, the little Grand
Duchesses Olga. Tatiana. Marie and An
astaria, though older than he. are kept
very much in the background. for in spite
of his being but five years old he is fully
aware of his superior social position and
makes them obey him in everything. If
they argue about it he stamps his little
foot and tells them to remember he will
be car one day and they nothing but
his subjects lie is especially angry il
they linger in the room when an old gen.
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ILL Lombroso the
shade make good
the p r o m j S e of
LON broso the man
to call up Turin on
the spirit wireless
and tell what is
OF II e on over
there upon the far
bank of the inky
Stygian stream?
Can the soul of
L U m b TO so the
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Cronstadt could be heard at the palace
The members of the royal family
when they learned what the noise
meant We're terror stricken. Many
of the servants had already fed
but Baron Fredericks. grand master of
the court of ceremonies rushed to the
stables. ordered horses to be put to a
couple of carriages. put the car and his
family in and had them driven post haste
to the station. couple OF miles away
Thence they fled to Tsarskoe Selo. As
they left their ears were filed with the
booming of cannon at Cronstadt and the
cheers for the revolution. Not much
as u handbag had been talarI and they
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| MORS concerning
h G a n as
health, whispered
through st. Peters
burg and Moscow
during last winter.
nave now taken
definite form. The
unhappy lady. after
years of anxiety
and months almost
without sleep. ha s
fallen into such a