The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 19, 1899, Page 24

NCISCO CALL UNDAY, MARCH 19, 23 e = diiornia's Great Weather Gauge, Mount Tamalpass the thermometer the top of Mount Tamal will shortly afterward ame all over the State ermometer amalpals it nt Tamal- weather r for the come to be a sort of t O S sman e SO @it SHE IS TRAVELING AROUND THE WORLD And Is Earning Her Own Living at the - Same B s s S 2 = FORECASTING RooM. .se facts that prompted the s Weather Bureau to estab- fon on the top of the moun- s really been in work- g order but a few weeks, and in that time it has increased the percentages of correct forecasts at least 3 per cent. But the forecasts that depend on Tamalpais entirely never fail. T makes it the most wonderful weather signal service station in the world. It was United St D . ] Time. Interesting Life That Lina Boegll Sketched Out for Herself and the Singular Adventures She Is Having Trying to Live the fall of 1881 pretty Lina Boegll of Berne, Switzerland, was as happy a girl as there was in all the world. She was the 1dol of a widowed fath- er, the pet and pride of two manly brothers and the promised wife of a man whom she loved and who adored her. Educated in the famous college of Neuf- chatel, Lina spent her holidays and the unfettered year or two that her father insisted upon claiming for himself after her graduation in traveling with him thre h the different important countries of Europe. Russia, Germany, Italy, France, Spain. Portugal and England were visited in turn, each trip adding to the young girl's linguistic acquirements and ~broadening the mind, already a marvel among the conservative matrons of her own land. Then came a time when she was willing to cease roaming and ettle down,” like the most conservative of them all, in a home of her own; and her father consent- ing and her brethers wishing her joy she began planning her dainty trousseau and building castles in the alr, girl-fashion, wout the future. By some strange caprice o Boegll was suddenly bereft of nearest and dearest to her. Ac sickness had done their worst, alone. She rallied from the almost overwhelm- ing succession of calamit and deter- instead of settling down into hope- = ¢ fate Lina all those dent and and Lina mined, less and dependent melancholy, to make something of herself and her life. The story of how she made and carried out that determination is best told by her- self. o eice In July, 1892, T was visiting some friends in Cracow, Poland, and, having recov- ered a little from the first shock of my multiple and complete bereavement, W beginning to feel that it would soon be fitting for me to make some plans for the future which would render me indepen- Up to It. dent of the kind offices of'those who loved and pitied me, but on whom I had no real claim. An article in a paper concerning Aan Austrian Prince who was, with his retinue, making a tour of the world, at- tracted my attention and gave me in- spiration. Then and there I made a compact with myself. I would start upon a trip which should last exactly ten vears, and about which I would write a book. Ten days from that Sunday of decision I started on my journey. From Cracow 1 went to Vienna and thence to Trieste, and when in the latter city I found m self for the first time in my life absolute- ly alone among utter strangers my cour- age almost failed. I was on the point of giving up the whole thing and going back penitent to my friends, when I- happened car the name of the steamer on which to embark the next day. It was nce,” and I accepted it as the best of omens. From that day to this I have known neither fear nor repining, and the book on which I am engaged is to be named for that steamer on which I made my first sea voyage. I took no letters of introduction, but instead carried my diplomas and educa- tional certificates, and wherever I wished to stay for any length of time these never failed to secure me remunerative employ- ment. I taught history, literature and modern languages, and soon paid® back the amount 1 had borrowed from my small heritage. I taught in four different schools in Australia, besides preparing classes for the university; but as teaching with me was only a means to an end and not the end itself, I took holidays when- ever possible for the purpose of mingling with the people outside schoolroom doors and seeing for myself just how they lived. Every onme was more than kind to me and I made long visits into different parts of the country. I spent conslderable OUTDOOR 1N WHICH INSTRUMENTS ARE KEPT-... There {z not very much to the station Jocated above the clouds, but what there 18 18 of the best quality and most ap- proved patte High on the apex of the peak is the wind vane. The top of th over half a n bove sea level, w the wind has uninterriipted sweep from all directions. Two hundred feet bg low, on the mount . is_the station proper, which cons prétty shingle butlding for offices. ¢ d an’ outdoor shelter for instruments. With these three after and directly con- 1 the offl the service Is a most per 1 Hammon thinks it lition ever made to the weatl he t Tamal- pais ed. who has a great deal t eping track of t and reporting s mak- wind ather iron support h about thirty feet d or foot would me fatal fall to the rocks below. to be done in a other instruments good ack of the ant, but it requires ind. judgment to be re doing. Official Ham- mon goes to the peak at regular intervals to make for and during unsettled weather he often remains there several Keeping t is not unple memory and s of just what the P e S S i e i e g ar——— =N £ e e R o TS T P e e e e e e e A e e e time in Sydney, Tasmania and New Zea- land; visited the Australian mining dis- tricts and passed six long weeks in the bush, 800 miles from the coast, among the squatters and ‘“sclectors” in a mirage- haunted place that I shall never forget. The family whose guest I was were Eng- Jish and owned over 2,000,000 acres of land, and although they lived on the edge of the desert and ate mutton and potatoes three times a day the year round, the whole family “dressed for dinner” punc- tiliously every day, the father and sons in dress suits and white cravats and the mother and daughters in decollete gowns. In New Zealand I stayed for quite a while in the geyser district, near a Maori village, and the old chief-a reformed SHELT] TEHE ER days to keep tab on all of his instruments and the vast expanse of sky at the sarge time. “I find,” he said, “that the indicat! from the summit are most reliable even when they disagree with the reports re- celved by telegraph from other points. “You see, from the summit there is an uninterrupted view fifty miles out to sea, and this is almost good as having a station out there. Sometimes the clouds that appear on the wes! gon are really over 200 mil aw when we have a tab on the th ter, barometer and wind vane on th mit and k the there by we can com close to t at is going to happen. “I never dc signg on Tamaipals, because they When a cold wa am sure the tk 1 over the Th chan midsummer ugust I found at of the season. of this T am ow is that it al- nd ped us out to a all our forecests. In the una ways s h great exte in near future, when I get the Kites to working, T ¢ ct to get greater perfec- tlon in forecasting rain; but I may be deceived. In regard to fogs Tamalpais is always reliable, because from the top we can see them coming over the horizon in the west. It is all these things com- bined t Tamalpais the most won- fce station in the world, that has really paid for tablished only a few i weather to the s and warning them to prepare for : sts. In the latter instance alone it has saved the people of the State thou- sands 1ol STRANGE DREAMS That Crarme True. OBODY will Mr. Meltor Pr we 1 war corre- f the Illustrated London vis- apparently owing to stive pencil still plies. on t German, going out to the Zulu war, twice dreamed of an experienc not strike him cheerfully; h shot dead and attended his own funeral. Naturally this dream, being repeated, m im- pression, and when, soon after arriving at Durban, the artist reccived a letter from his mother, relatin precisely sim- flar dream which had come to her and b ag him not to go to Etchowe, he I 1 to consider the m “It is a very curiot Prior, “that out of the S R SO S From Life. cannibal—grew very fond of me. He told me in a burst of confidence that he ‘“had eaten many white men, hut never a white woman,” and ‘“regretted much” that he had not included at least one in his bill of fare before swearing off on that kind of food. The last Prince of Wallangra also became very friendly with me and told me many storles of his people and himself, gallantly declaring that, had I come to his land before his glory had de- parted, he would have made me his Queen. In Samoa I was the guest of a London mission, and had a most delightful visit. I found the natives most gentle, kindly and courteous, and can believe nothing of the tales told of thelr ferocity and cruelty. Princess Fa'amu, a daughter of ' unusual fashion. tles I have been present at and witnessed and sketched, such an idea as ‘keeping out of it' never occurred to me.” On this occasion, however; the idea seems to have occurred pretty vividly; so much so that personal; and imaternal warnings won the day and the artist engaged a substitute, an efficient amateur, who was willing to take sketches on the spot and send them down to Meltan Prior to be retouched. Whether the substitute was aware that he was taking the place of a man doomed by vision and laughed at the risk we are not told. Anyhow, the war artist made no secret of the contract, but wrote to the proprietors of his paper, to whom he com- municated all the details. Mr. (now Sir) Willlam Ingram answered by cable: “Regret your not going into battle at Etchowe. Perhaps our special artist is preserved for better things to come.” The cablegram sounds sarcastic, but the conclusion to the story s tragically sug- gestive: “The man who went up for me was one of the first killed in the fighting!” Now the question arises: What had this poor substitute done that he should not also be warned in a dream? A later story comes with all the fresh- ness of novelty as showing that the dead may hold converse with the living in very ‘We know all about the family ghost who frightens his descend- ants out of their lives at unseemly hours with no apparent object. But we are not familiar with the artistic ghost who takes his proteges in hand and regulates their proceedings on the platform. Yet one of these benevolent spirits appeared in pub- @+ PRO lic only the other day and in that most unromantic quarter, the busy, bustling city of Liverpool, England. Miss Regina de Sali is an American singer who is rapldly acquiring European distinetion and who not long since returned to Eng- land from a successful tour in Germany. Apparently while there she had become strongly imbued with the spirit of Handel and the grateful musician was determined to reward her in the most appropriate way. The “Messiah” was in progress, Miss de Sales was singing the principal part, and the audience was enthustically apprecia- tive. The conductor alone was not satis- fled. Again and again he gave the Ameri- can singer the beat, only to find himself absolutely ignored; she grew intensely ex- cited, forcing the time here, retarding it there, following her own sweet fancy as though she had never heard of conductors and batons. In the greenroom the inevitable storm broke. “Why did you not follow my beat?” cried the incensed leader. “Why, indeed?’ cried Miss de Sales, “pecause Handel himself was present in the hall and he gave me the correct tempi. I saw him.” Now Handel's costume, head and his- torical wig were not likely to be dupli- cated by anybody sitting in that fin de slecle audience; evidently the American songstress was suffering from some femi- nine delusion which must not be treated serfously; the conductor laughed good humoredly at the fancy of an hysterical woman and there the incident closed, as he supposed. — But that night Miss Edith Martin, the harpist, sleeping beside Miss de Sales, was wakened by a loud cry of “Bravo!” Sit- ting up suddenly in alarm she caught her breath and trembled, for there, standing gravely at the foot of the bed, was Handel in person, wig, frills and etceteras all complete, vigorously conducting with the roll of music in his hand. The frightened girl turned round to rouse her companion when lo, shock the second came. Miss de Sales s likewise sitting up, but with no manner of fear upon her. In fact she was still fast asleep. But her hands moved, her throat quivered, her lips worked, her mouth formed the correct singing oval; in short she was evidently rehearsing, in soundless fashion, a singihg part. This uncanny pro- ceeding lasted some time, till at last the gentleman of the wig took his departure, the singer lay down calmly, as though nothing had happened, and Miss Martin bided the dawn with as much nerves as she could muster. She sald nothing at first; probably sha was afrald of being laughed at; the aver- age listener eyes rather superciliously the young woman who owns to extraordinary night visions while wide awake. But at breakfast Miss Martin heard Miss de Sales recounting some experience with considerablg animation; she listened, and behold, the singer was telling of the won- derful dream she had had when Handel came to the foot of her bed and carefully put her through her part for that day. Then Miss Martin considered herself -free to speak as an independent and greatly scared witness. A. R. ROSE-SOLEY. R e e S S PHECIES REGARDING PARIS IN 1900 The Death of the Late President Faure Foretold Among the Other Singular Predictions. ARIS, March T.—Paris is to run red with blood in 1300. Anclent prophecies threaten the end of the century. Modern clairvovants and astrologists agree in predicting a terrible upheaval that is to begin in France. There is not the slightest doubt that Mme. Thebes, the celebrated astrologist, and Mile, Couedon, the no less celebrat- ed voyante of the Rue Paradls, foretold the death of Fellx Faure during the pres- ion of Mme. Thebes ent year. The predic was published in the Gaulois on New New Year's day. That of Milg. Couedon, which has been several times repeated, was first given to the world more than a vear ago. Both these present day § agree in insisting on the bloody through which France must pass. “Yes, it is true t the death of Felix Faure, id Mme ebes yves- terday In a short but very sensationgl in- terview. “But do not forget t I also announced deaths by assassinations. The astral influences of th are deplor- able. It will not pass without great and terrible ey e More t 1 this the general public will M: not learn from Thebes, the high pric of arl horoscopes, . the prophetess of modern times. Couedon, on the s of Mile. i the public unre- to servedly. character is re- T Jle that ‘the greatest skeptics are astonished at them. The uncer| y of the French future i w of the pres- ent troubles has prepared the minds of m to be influenced by these two strange women. It is remembered that the old-time prophecies of Nostradamus, Orval and the Christian Kabbalists agree with their forebodings of the century's end. “there may be all.” test of prophec If the is that the thing should happen, both Orval and Nostrada- ought to be venerated. The proph- f Orval, which has alwa ad great in France, fs attributed to Philip us, a Cistercian monk, whose man- uscript Is sald to have bcen ed 1544 The monk never hesitated to give date: dates gave 't as they did gree, to that of Nostradamus out the centuries his dates ith remarkable ercian monk has to the ear to God, Poy to have had presentiment of the action of the masses only in a confused and agi- d way, so that his vision becomes the more obscure the more people them- selves force their way. About 1848 the y with which he had foreseen the made the wi ippe admiration and fall of L in matter of gene Ps papers. Orval had set down the events for 1850, as s dealt in de- cades, not in The cock shall blot out white flower,” the old Latin text . “The imself king the peo- I be great commotion ns, because the crown all be placed in the hands of the work- ar in the great ingmen who have waged cities.”” Nothing could be more exact than this prediction of the fall of the Bourbon lilles, the rise of the citizen King, who was not calleg “King of France,” but “Rol des B e et e e oy IS THE GAME WORTH THE GANDLE. King Malietoa, and the only native I met who dressed in European costume, grew very fond of me and we were much to- gether. It was laughable, however, to see her sit down flat on the ground in all her finery and drag off her shoes and stockings when we were alone together, in order, as she said, “to have a little comfort now and then.” In conclusion let me say that if I thought on the 14th of July, 1892, that I was attempting something rather heroie I have long ago found out my mistake. 1 have found it all so eas all has gone S0 smoothly, and people everywhere have been so kind, that I have not once been in a position where more than ordinary courage and strength of will was nec- essary. - Francals,” and the popular revolution which drove him out, to found a new re- public. > “The refgn of evil men shall increase,™ continues the text, “but let them hasten. The thoughts of the Gaulish Celt will clash together.” They have been clashing ever since. Orval put the Franco-Prussian war down for 1870. “Woe to you, great city. he said, speaking to France. “‘Behold the kings armed by the Lord! Already the fire brings you to the earth. Yet the just shall not perish. God has listened to them. The place of crime is purified by fire. God loves peace. He has still blessed vou during fourteen times six and six times thirteen moons. Then God will tire of having given merey.” Fourteen times six and six times thir- teen moons makes seventy-eight moons, or fourteen years. This brings us to 1887, and the rise of Boulangism, French col- onial expansion, anarchy and anti-Sem- , the seeds of all the present trou- This is the last clear vision of Philip Olivarius, the Cistercian monk. The light begins to blind his eyes. Quite out of his ordinary habit, he sets down a terrible event for an odd year, 189%. *In the year 1896 Paris will disappear, to reappear no more. There will be much evil and no good.” For the events to follow, the text, almost finished, is composed of obscure phrases, each of which would need pro- found study, as his latest commentator, in 1539, admits naively. AS a conclusion, the monk evidently fears for this fin de stecle a new cataclysm like that which w erroneously, foretold for the year 1000. His prophecy ends with 1893. ‘“Let everything become separate. The century of the end has begun. God fights for his two just ones, but the man of evil pre- vails. But it is done. The high God erects a wall of fire which dazzles my un- derstanding, and I see no more.” In occult circles it Is well known ‘whom the evil man is. He is Antemos, alive to- day, 44 vears old, and already directing, from his secret place, those forces which shall upset the world a few years hence. ‘As will be seen, the venerable Holzauzer, Who wrote in 1638, is perfectly clear about The antichrist of Cnristlan revela- him. tion, every interpreter of St. John has fixed his date, approximately, at the end or the beginning of the Nostradamus, an as- trologer pure and simple, with no claim to supernatural vision, had a glimpse of him. The predictions of this Frenchman, Michael Nostradamus, who wrote some- Where about 1570, are so well known and ible in libraries that his triumphs own future in our past need no tal Essentially French, he dealt rzely with the fate of his own country. Two hundred years before the French revolution he told that great upheaval to the very date. For 1792 he wrote: “Beginning in this year there will be the greatest persecution of the Christian Nobles and Bishops shall be de- of the nineteenth twentieth century. s0 over his church stroyed. The fair land of France shall be desolated by fire and sword. These es will cause a renewal of the s to last a hundred year: At the expiration of this hundred years the troubles are to recommence. “The Jand will be torn apart. Brother shall strive against brother. A great and evil genius rises, who shall contend with the stars themselve The occultists of Paris have what they conslder a perfect answer to the objec- tion of vagueness in the ancient prophets and astrologists. They say, first, that the predictions are not vague because the dates are given. The old seers beheld the future in broad lines. If you want prophecies with clearer detalls, dealing more minutely with the present tlmes, you have but to consult the utterances of Mile. Couedon. Every one will remember the first excitement over the voyante of the Rue Paradis in 189, when she was consulted by- personages as diverse as Charcot, Zola, Felix Faure and the Arch- bishop of Paris. Being chosen, according to her firm conviction, to warn her con- temporaries of great events prepared for te near future, she has never ceased to prophesy. Her foretelling of the fire of the charity bazaar is admittedly inexpli- cable on rational grounds; while her pre- diction of the death of Felix Faure and the voting of the retroactive law which is to remove the Dreyfus case from the jurisdiction of the Criminal Chamber are circumstantial enough to satisfy the most exacting. 1t was in May, 1896, during a visit of the Comtesse de Maille and several other fashionable ladies, that Mile Couedon fell into a trance and repeated the following verses: “Near to the Champs Elysees, I see a place that is not high, That is not for piety, But approached for charity— Which is not the verity.... I see the fire lift itself; I hear the people screaming.. 1 see flesh grilled And bodies calcined— 1 see them by shovelfuls.” Interrogated by the ladies, she declared that none of taem should perish in the fire. This turned out as true as the sinis- ter prediction itself, for in May, 1807—a year later—on the date of the catastrophe two of these ladies were traveling, while the Comtesse de Maille made a miraculous escape from the burning shed itself. The prophecies of Mlle. Couedon are given to the world in doggerel verse of such monotonous character that no vio- Jence 1s done to it in a simple prose trans- lation. Her rhymes almost invariably end in “e” or “er,” the commonest French termination, which may be compared to “ing" in English. It is as if a poet should write: As I was walking 1 heard some one talking. Her first intimation of the taking off of Felix Faure and the térrible tragedles that are to follow was published in May, 1868, when she said: “France will be chas- tised. Paris will be the city the most tried. Epldemiecs and catastrophes of all sorts will desolate the country at the end of the year. The war will break out. I see people massacred and the Seine red with blood. At this moment Fellx Faure will have been put down. Natlons will be dismembered.” All these chastisements unhappines world, which are to have no other end than to prepare for the return of royalty. The successor of Felix Faure will not remain long in office. Civil war will intervene. Then a man whom the people will take for the savior of France will impose himself upon the people. But he, too, shall pass. Can it be Antemos? Most bellevers think that one of the Napoleons is indicated. In July, 1898, Mlle. Couedon again re- ferred to the successor of Felix Faure and foretold with exacgpess the voting of the ex-post facto law. "It is to be noted that the law—which has not yet passed the Benate—{s mentioned after the succession of the Presidency and not before it. “One will succeed to him that you see. But he will only pass. Then a law will be voted, and you shall be terrified.” Revolution is in the air: *I see them revolting. Peo- ple’s minds are mixed up. I see knives Nfted.” It ds, however, at the end of this remarkable prophecy that she sees most unmistakably the death of the late Presi- dent. “For him we should pray. He can- not remain. He cannot remain. He can- not remain. His life is to efface itself. God has, as it were, removed him for a ;x'l;.l y. All Is premeditated by the Divin- To the occultistsof Parisit isnot strange or contradictory that modern and ancient astrologers like Mme. Thebes and Michael Nostradamus should be in agreement with modern and ancient prophets speaking in the name of religion, like Mile. Coucdon and the Cistercian Olivarius. These cho- sen ones may be compared, they say, to bits of stained glass, misshapen and per- haps sgoiled, through which the light struggles, variously colored and perhaps deflected; but it is still the light. Pere Necton, who died said: ‘‘Paris shall be entirely ved.” Sister Ma- rianne, of the Ursulines of Blois, who died in 1504, prophesied the same thing. A certain Trappist of Notre Dame des Gardes, in 1815, saw the capital burning. The Seer of Belley, who dled in 1820. inlgz “Babylon is reduced to cinders. Unhap- {ness to you, accursed city. The Abb Boutrrant, * who dled in IA8, also - pro- claimed: ' “The great Babyion shall be overthrown. Pa shall be destroyed.” The !heserdess-prnphetc*s. Marianne Gal- tler, said: “‘The great prostitute shall be destroyed by fire, but God will warn the just of Parfs.” And in our own day has not Marie Martel foretold that ‘‘Paris shall be burned, but Montmartre shall be preserved"? STERLING HEILIG. B R e e e THE POLAR BEAR, THE SKATES and the BUMP That Shook the Polar Regions. 55 )