STORIES OF ROYALTY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 18 March 1911, Page 10

STORIES OF ROYALTY.

"The Recollections of a Society Seer," published by Mr. Eveleigh Nash, contains some very curious stories, told from "crystals." Here is one describing "The Czarina's Dream":— She firmly believes in dreams, and the following incident is sometimes related to prove the truth of her theory: During the Coronation festivities she was resting one afternoon and had fallen asleep. The Empress then said she had been troubled by a bad dream. An old Moujik covered with blood had appeared to her and exclaimed : "I have come all the way from Siberia to see your day of honor, and now your Cossacks have killed me." The dream was so vivid that the Empress sent to know if any misfortune had occurred during the day, but the Czar laughed at her apprehensions, and to ease her mind, he telephoned to the Minister of the Household and asked how the open-air banquet was progressing. From him came news of the terrible disaster, which resulted in the loss of over 2000 lives, the catastrophe being aggra-1 vated by the attempts of the mounted Cossacks to restore order by riding into the crowd and using their whips and swords against the terrified Moujiks. The Czar laughs at dreams. "I put my faith," he says, "in God alone." The Kaiser, however, is said to be superstitious. The following story is told of tl>e lato Empress of Austria: She was introduced to the author as "one interested in clairvoyance":— "Do you believe in omens?" said she. "In my family a black bird and a white lady always fortell death."

"Certainly, I believe in omens, madame," I replied, "and speaking of a white lady, you, of course, know the tradition about the White Lady of the Hohenzollerns ?"

I have heard of it, but I should like you to re-tell it," he remarked, "as I have forgotten many of the details." I then related how the White Lady appears at the old Palace at Berlin whenever death is about to overtake a member of the reigning house, and how the late Emperor Frederick, who was interested in the subject, collected all the evidence he could about the White Lady for the purpose of placing it in the family archives.

"The legend comes back to me now," said tlic lady in black. "I wonder, Mr. 8. if you can foretell my future. It has been predicted that I and my two sisters will meet with violent deaths. I personally do not dread a sudden death; far better that than to live and sorrow unceasingly. T am a fatalist," she said musingly. "What is to me—will be." "All, madame, yours has been no ordinary life," I friedi for I felt she had been predestined to trouble. "Sadness has encompassed you for a long time, and grief unutterable has been your companion. This T tell you, but T cannot tell von more."

"You will not," she said, with touching sweetness. "T know that you can see evil in store for me, but T respect your solicitude, and T will not ask you to' disclose what you can see."

Another interesting experience the seer had indirectly concerned the late King Edward. At the anxious time of the postponed Coronation a lady came to see him. She handed him a gentleman's glove and asked him to "sense it." He said the person was dangerously ill, but would get better, though he would only live about ten years longer. The lady before she left said that the glove which he had "sensed" belonged to Kin* Edward. D