The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-03-07

No people are more superstitious IN re-
gard to signs and portents and their re-
lation to the future than royalty. Many
of them attach great importance to
dreams. The Czarina, the Emperor OK
Austria, and the Kaiser insist that
dreams have furnished them with pre-
have overtaken them
The Emperor of Austria has peculiar
forebodings of imminent disaster. and for
some months before the assassination of
his Empress Elizabeth at Geneva, in 1895,
he was a victim of ominous PRESENT.
ments, and frequently exclaimed, ''Oh, if
this year were but an end The En-
press was a fatalist. What is to be
will be-" she once said. 1T has been
predicted that 1 and my two sisters will
all meet with violent deaths. Person
ally, L do not dread a sudden death"
And, curiously enough, after the assassi-
nation of the Empress, her sister, the
Duchess d'Alencon, met her death in the
terrible bazaar fire in Paris, while ex-
Queen Sophie of Naples, the third sis
ter, anticipates meeting as vloIent a
death as that Of her two sisters.
II 10 d CuIlOuS IdCl lIldI LOT some DAYS
before the Empress was murdered. and
on the day OF her death, a large black
raven was observed constantly flying
near her bedroom window at the hotel
where she was staying. And it is a ira
dition of the Austrian royal family that
black bird and a white lady always
foretells death.
It is also said that when member Of
the reigning house of Prussia is about to
die the white lady" supposed to be the
spirit of Countess Agnes OrIamundo who
murdered her first husband and her two
children, as they constituted an obstacle
to her marriage with one OF the ances-
tors of the Kaiser, always appears
The white lady appeared to Frederick
the Great on the eve of his death and
in 1906 she came to Prince Frederick of
Prussia before his death at the battle of
Saalfeld. A number of officers also saw
her. the prince being at the time in their
company.
The present Kaiser is firmly convinced
that he will die by the hand OF an as
sassin. This has been predicted to him
several times, twice as a young man by
Hungarian gypsies, when he was visiting
his friend, the late Crown Prince of Aus
tria, in Galicia- 1t is said that this con-
viction forms a constant topic OF con-
versation between the Emperor and his
friends.
Like the late King Edward VII. the
German Emperor is also very apprehen-
sive of the number IS in connection with
any entertainment, and more than once
a subaltern on duty at the palace has
been commanded at a moments notice
to join the imperial party to avoid. thir-
teen being at the table.
Many members of European royalty
consulted the writer of "Recollections of
Society Clairvoyant," among them be-
ing the late King Leopold, of the Bel
CLANS, Queen Nathalie of Servia, and
King Humbert of Italy. 81 did not feel"
says the author, concerning King Hum
bert 'that I could tell him what I saw.
It was shortly before his assassination
and did my best to warn him against
perils on a journey. He expressed HIM
self very pleased with some private IN
formation I gave him, but laughed at
my warnings and told me that he would
wait and see." He did
A few years ago the same clairvoyant
was consulted by q pretty fair-haired
girl. who was accompanied by an elderly
lady. when I read her crystal" he
says, 81 could see a brilliant marriage
IN store for her, but could also see that
her wedding day would be a day OF sud-
den death for others. I told her this
and also that her home would be far
away from England. among strangers
In race and religion. You win have
six children, 1--WE boys and one girl" /
concluded. My pretty client was quite
delighted. and she went away in high
spirits. I was talking about her TO a
lady who q persona grata at court and
she remarked automatically that Prin-
cess Ena always had been . little uu-