The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-05

world s chief man Of mystery. Thls
was none other than that human cuig-
ma, 'Count AlcsSaudro di Cagliostro.' -
Mysterious knowledge Of Death.
hush fell upon tho gayciics of tho
court Of Louis NNI November 20. 1850,
when Count CaglIostro, the lion of
Paris society, gravcly announced that or
that day and nj the moment named
Queen Marie Anioincttc's S mother, the
Empress Maria Theresa. had died in
Vienna. Now, there was no telegraph
or telephone at that time. and the fleet
est messenger could make Paris from
Vienna in no less than FIVE DAYS. Of
course, the vast majority of courticrs
merely thought that Cagliostro had
taken big chances on n bold guess, and
they shifted obviously Then, early in
December, messenger appeared with
n dispatch from the queen, and Paris
stood agapc TO note that tho count S
grim prophecy had been fulfilled TO the
hour of the day.
Ambassadors, mobiles, princes were
now ready to believe some Of the most
eNtravagant claims concerning Caglios
tro-that he could manufacture gold; ;
that he could summon even kings from
their graves; that he had renewed the
youth of his wife. who was really a
very old woman with a son of 30; that
he was of divine origin and could make
himself invisible at will. II was thought
also that he had lived for ccnturies-
that he was, in fact, the Wandering
Jew.
81 Am He Who Is"
He awcd Europe with his hypnotic
feats and by his healing of the poor,
from whom he would accept no pay
ment. He instituted a sort of masonic
cult, into which he drew thousands of
initiates, many of them women. He
foretold the lucky numbers of the gov
ernment lotteries and dispensed his
elixir of youth, the "wine Of Egypt. -
He lived like a noble, travelled with the
cnteurage Of prince, showered money
upon charities, assumed majestic man
ncr which forbade familiarities.
Once when someone made so bold
as to ask. ''Who are you9'' he replied,
81 am He Who Is" AS in the case
of ST GERMAN, no one could learn
whence he had come or whence he had
obtained his title. But whereas ST.
Germain spoke all languages equally
well, Caglostro spoke them Fequally
badly The Prince Cardinal dc Rohan
declared that he had seen the count
manufacture gold aud diamonds FL
nally, after he had become implicated
scandal of the queens diamond neck,
lace they locked him up in the Bastilc,
whore he uttered the prophecy, "Thc
Bastile shall be destroyed and the pco-
pie shall dance on its site
An this prophecy was fulfilled com
pletely. within three years. But by this
timo Cagliostro had been acquitted and
was drifting about Europe. Having
reached Rome, however, he was con.
demned by the pope as a dangerous foe
to religion and sentenced to life i'm
| l., !
in 1895.
His past was then laid bare and il
was learned that his real name had
been Giuseppe BaIsamo. that he had
been the son of poor Sicilian peasant
that he had been expelled from school
and then placed in a monastery, where
while working IN the monk IS apothecary
| shop, he had learned the secrets OF
| chemistry. 1t was also learned that
he had had TO leave Sicily to escape
punishment for fraud and that his
beautiful bride. Lorenza Fclciane, had
been really girl Of twenty.
But although proved swindler and
quack. no one ever satisfactorily ex
| planned TO the people of his time the
secret Of his psychic fcats, such a:
guessing the successful lottery numbers
and announcing the death of the queen :,
mother They were the foundation o,
his reputation as tho greatest man oil
mystery Of modern times.
Made the Empress swoon.
"My fate9' asked Napoleon III.
''Lilc minc-discrowned and death in
exile, replied the shade Of Napoleon |
whcreupou the empress swooned anc
the emperor himself fell back in hi:
chair as if about TO faint.
/ The scene was the Tuillcries, where
the French court now lionizcd its thirC
man of mystery, upon whose broa(
shoulders had fallen the mantle of st
Germain and Cagliostro. This man wa!
Daniel Dunglas Home, born near Edin
burgh in 1888 to William. natural sol
of the tenth Earl Of Home,
"Sccond sight" was an alleged anccs
tral "gift' to this child. and many
weird phenomena are alleged TO hav,
been connected with his childhood. Whel
he was about nine an aunt adopted hin
and took him to Grcenville, Conn. Thi
was about 1912. but soon aftcrward II,
was turned ont of doors because of dis
annt's home, Then such men as vii
liam Cullen Bryant, Justice Edmond
of the United States Supreme court AM
Professor Wells of Harvard took tn
yonng man up and youched for him
At the home Of Ward Cheney, nca
Hartford. Conn, when he was 10. Hon
4 is said to have been first ''levItatcd
into the air by some unknown force
He grew to be tall and red haired, wit
4 frcckled face. slate-grav, rcd rimme
A cyos, sharp teeth snub nose and colo
! boDy fingers His body was describe
as like an iron cross on which some on
A had hung n coat, Indeed. he was ratho
uncanny to look upon. In 1855, whc
J %. he went to England. wherc he bC
gan giving scauces, such MS Paladino I
whore there were mysterious rapping
4 table fittings gbostly appearances AN
n feats Of deviation.
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