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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 30. 1902.

FRANCE A SWINDLERS' PARADISE, MRS. TINGLEY 'S "LOTUS BUD CONSERVATORY AND THEOSOPHICAL CENTER A QUEER PLACE Operations, of the Eoenbtrg Fam'Iy, Wnba Have Just Ocme to Light, Almost as Extensive as Those of the Humberts of Odious Memory, ley, saj "Mmo. Blavatsky died at 19 Ar verne road, London, in 1892. One third of her ashes was sent to India, another third remains in. London and the remaining third came to this city.

They were in an urn that stood in a niche at the headquarters, then at 144 Madison avenue. Finally, when Sirs. Tingley got possession of things the urn was thrown In a closet in the rubbish and the library of theosophical works was thrown into hoxes and barrels and put in an areaway. No one ever knew what became of the urn or the ashes. The empty niche in the wall was hidden by a piece of furniture." Among the theories that Mrs.

Tingley promulgates according to L. F. Fitch, one time bookkeeper in the; Universal Brotherhood's institutions, i. that the marrrkge of to day is wrong in spirit and that the true marriage should be one of entire purity. She teaches that when people have reached Ihe proper stage marriage as it is known in the Marriages Most Alluring, A GROUP OF LOTUt BUPc AT POINT LOMA ENTRANCES fr I t) fSj 1" Wtt'l HOrAESTS AD.

(T ij: hb CONSIDERABLE attention lias been attracted 10 the Ting 4ey. brand of thcoso phy ami to its set tlemcm on the coast of Southern California, by the detention Ellis Island of i cloven little Cuban children, whom Mrs. Katherine TingHsy. I head of the settlement, had imported, with a view 10 stocking her California "home Etead" with "Lotus Judge Vernon M. Davis, head of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, inter lered and the children, detained at Ellis Island for nearly a i.ile r.idc Sam "was investigating, have become the storm center or a si tni rellgious controversy that rased from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

to Mrs. Tingley. life holds no fca'ppier fate than that of a child chosen to he a theosophical "Lotus bud." According to Judge Davis, a "Lotus bud" stands a mighty poor chance of blossoming into the sort of manhood and womanhood that makes desirable citizens. According to Comoiir.sionc: Williams, the children had better stay out. 3.3 AcRordin? to the Secretary of iho rcasury.

to whom Tingley. having a inly brought all sorts of pressure to bear sppealed, Williams was probably justified in decision. the colony had better be officially investigated before the children were cent back. And. according to the chil who have enjoyed a brief but eventful stay just without the gates or this land of liberty, being a storm center is not, on the Vnole.

hi had fun. Coniniir.sloner General Sargent of the Bu of Immigration was sent out to investi Pi'lc the Point I.omn colony and particularly the Raja Yoga School. The result of his irivestigr Uon he declined to make public until he had first reported to the bureau. With hiiti went clfrt Daniels. With him was to hpve gone Mr.

White of the California Society for the rrcvention of Cru 'flcy to' Children, but he failed to arrive in l.tirgo in tiiiie to accompany Mr. Sargent. rd whsn he applied alone was de n'ci admission to the colony. It. is rather expected that Mr.

Sargent will loport favorably. Certainly Mr. Daniels, who was with him. npnears to have found the colony all it should be. About six years ago William Q.

Judge died, and Katherine Tingley declared herself head of theosophy in America. Thcosophy in America was immediately disrupted. Since then there have been two theosophics in America, each claiming to be the only and original, cr.ch denouncing ihc other as a Jake. About, five year? ago. backed by wealthy i theosophists pnd acting, as she claimed, by "occult direction.

Tingley established ksFBPlt on the coast, ot Southern California. Mrs. Tingley is probably the only person living who ever found anything "occult." about Judge Dr. vis. Vet it seems to have been he who was mainly responsible for her reaioval to t' alifornia.

According to evidence given before Commissioner Williams. Mr. Tingley tried to Hart "Lotus" plantation right here in Xew York and appealed t.o Judgo Davis to indorse her scheme. I Ie Investigated and replied that, far from indorsing her, he might find himself under the painful neccFsity of prosecuting her if she continued her operations in New York. She didn't; she went, to California.

The climate of New York does not lend itself kindly to "Lotus" culture Nn California be picked out an i.le.il site Irom ihe Mexican bounaary tine. lne bay Is almost landlocked. It protected from the sea. by a narrow sand spit, almost six ciles long, which broadens out tit its northern end, into the plateau on which is C'oron arlj Beach, one of California's famous watering places. The entrance to the bay is by a narrow deep channel, whose northern shore Is formed by the; rugged cliffs of Point Loma, a peninsula twelve miles long, which puts out into the sea and.

curving southward, forms a massive barrier between the Pacific and the harbor. On Point Loma, commanding the harbor entrance. Uncle Sam has built. Fort P.osccrans. On Point Loma.

too, Uncle Sam has built (he lalles: light house iu the world to sleep by day and wake by night and mark the way for the etorni mariner. And on. Point Loma, about half way toward the mainland Mrs. Tingley has built the Homestead of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society, which devotes itself among other things to the culture of "Lotus Buds." Mrs. Tingley.

or the Universal Brotherhood, owns about acres here. Five yejrs ago much comment was raised by sundry purchases nt land on "the Point." The name of the was not inttde public. Much mystery urroundod the transactions, possibly as a of the mystcty that was to surround the place in future. Finally the natives learned that this was I ONE OP THE' TO POINT LOMA Scheme to Have rope Annul Eagle Bureau. 53 Rue Cambcn.

ARIS. November Id France seems to bo a peculiarly fertile field for the operations of confidence men of original ideas and energy. The doings of the Rosenberg family, which have just come to light, show that they were nearly as expert at luring money from the pockets of the credulous as the Humberts of recent mmory. Louis Rosenberg was born in the Duchy of Baden, and married a Catholic girl, who converted her husbaud to Catholicism, and his entering the church was the occasion for great rejoicing. They moved to Tours, where Rosenberg taught singing, having all the old aristocracy as pupils.

Thirteen children were born to M. and Mme. Rosenberg, of whom ten are living. The one who plays the principal part iu this swindle was baptized with the high sounding names of Stanislaus Jean Marie Rosenberg. He was one of the brightest scholars In the seminary of Tours, and after he was ordained, thanks to his father's influential circle, he became a preceptor in the richest, and most families.

After remaining in that capacity for some years in the families of marquises, counts, dukes and princes, and after having become canon of the cathedral of Touts, for which honor he paid 512,000, he came to Paris to take the position of chaplain and preceptor in the house of the Marquise de B. This marquise, the si3terTin law of the Countess d'Albu fera, is a rich and influential woman, and had the utmost confidence in Rosenberg. It is due to their liberality that Rosenberg began to see the value of money, and determined lo undertake enterprises of a doubtful character, and by means of them make his fortune. Ho succeeded in founding a colony in Manitoba, Canada, called Fanny Stelle. which really prospered for a time; established an orphan asylum in Malmaison, of which his sitser, called Sister Marie Joseph, took the management, and founded other Institutions such as one to obtain the annulment of marriages by the Pope, and getting money under many other false pretenses.

During the last ten years Rosenberg was obliged to change names and homes quite frequently, to keep out of the hands of the law. His last home was in Ableiges, where he changed his name to Montrose, and where, under the disguise of a heard, goggles and a cycling suit, he lived in a bouse with two so called foster daughters, a blonde Irish girl and a brunette from the south of France. He was living there very unquietly, for he was afraid of arrest every moment, until Madam Civet went to law, declaring that Rosenberg and Gaelobert, his accomplice in Paris, had swindled her out of $14,000, with the promise that her marriage would be annulled by the Pope, and that she was swindled out of over $100,000 by the banker Malleval and his accomplice, Guillaumin, with whom she had depcslted the money. Malleval and Rosenberg have left for unknown parts, and their accomplices, Guillaumin and Gadobert, plead not guilty. How can a little simple woman of the bourgeoisie, who has suddenly become very rich, help from falling into the hands of persons whom she thinks are all the more eminently respectable, worthy and honest, in that they have the confidence of titled families, which ought to know who is who? There are thousands! of these simple women of the middle class, who are only too easily flattered by new acquaintances, and who have to do with people who move among the envied aristocracy.

I knew Madam Civet personally, and remember vividly the call I made on the Civet family one autumn day about seven years ago, with the Baroness de St. Didier. The Civets, of wjiom there were quite a number, had the good luck to possess in the Department of Oise great tracts of land, in which were discovered deep strata of that gray stone of which the whole of the city of Paris was built. In the neighborhood of Paris, near a railroad line, the quarries became more valuable than an inexhaustible gold mine; and when you see great building stones drawn to Paris by five or six strong Normandy horses, you are sure to eee the name of "Civet" written on them in red chalk. At the time of our call I was much interested in the surroundings of the place.

In the tuidst of deep holes and crevasses in the quarry, in a most barren, lonely country, stood a solitary, magnificent Renaissance chateau of such recent build that the gray Benistamm's Statue of Rubinstein. Te Krceted Iu the Ouservntory of t'l. I' btUi'. im wKHflmt wrfBwnffflBiriyfifw wiriMiyiWiCTrciwwwiffi 1 a stones looked as if they had been scrubbed, "Hot: much better a nice, modest modern house would look than that pretentious cas tie." said I to the Baroness, as we wa'kcd to the house; "who knows but that in their ambition to have a correctly constructed chateau, they. neglected to have modern improvements put in." It was the case, in a great measure.

The castle, too. was furnished with loud appointment, which showed that If there was money, there was no taste in that house. Madam Mourlcbon, who is now caileJ Madam Civet, her maiden name, for she is a divorced woman, was present with her two sisters, who were stiil single, and the married sister, in the conversation, led the Baroness to understand that their parents would not be averse to having them marry men with titles. Madame Civet, the lady In question, is a pretty bourgcoise with bright eyes and at (he time of our call was very contented with her lot. She now wishes to have her mar riage annulled by the Popo, probably in order to be able to marry a man with a title who will probably make away with her money faster than the swindlers did.

The conversation that Madame Civet had with a reporter will show you what simpletons there are in the French bourgeoisie, who never widen their circle, nor read enough to get information. "What could those people have said to you to obtain such an unbounded influence?" "Why, Guillaumin was preceptor at No gent to the son of a servant who has been at our house for years. He often came to the house, and one day he asked to be presented to me. He seemed to be well con nected, to have money of his own. and one I of the reasons why I had confidence in him was that he has a brother who is a judge at the court of Rennes.

It was he who introduced me to the hanker Malleval, and I thought him the most honest of honest people. Now, as to Gadobert. he knew I had taken steps at the residence of the arch bishop to have my marriage with M. Mouri chon annulled by the Pope. How he found it out I cannot guess.

He wrote me that he could be of service to me. I paid no attention to tha. letter. He wrote a second time, and, after looking up his references, and finding them excellent, I saw him. He spoke to me of the Canon.

Rosenberg, and I found that he was all that he boasted of being. How eould I fail to have confidence in a canon general of Tours? Beside this, Rosenberg in a flue, distinguished looking, sympathetic society man, who has great conversational powers. How horrified I was when I found him out. I think I did right in denouncing him; I owed it to justice and to my son, who is now 13." Madame Civet, in all this affair, deplores the fact that she stands alone. Her family seem to blame her for having put herself before the eyes of the public.

The bourgeoisie here have a holy horror of scandal, and I am sure if she had called a meeting of all the members of her family and asked them what she should do, they would have preferred giving her the money she lost with the swindlers, to seeing their name dragged Into the papers and before the court3. Beside, poor little Madame Civet is not inured to all this publicity. Indeed, French women of all classes shrink from publicity and very few of them care to face it even for the sake of a principle. The Russian sculptor, Leopold Bernstamm. who has lived and worked all his life in Paris, and has made statues and busts of a great number of French and Russian celebrities, has just finished a fine life sized marble statue of Antoine Rubinstein, to be placed in the conservatory of St.

Petersburg. Bernstamm personally knew the great pianist; he had made a bust of him about twenty five years ago. nnd having afterward repeatedly seen him, he was able to study the model and the statue has therefore turned out to be one of the most striking ones of contemporary celebrities, so far as likeness and demeanor are 'concerned. Rubinstein stands with head slightly bent downward, as was his mood when about to perform at one of Ills concerts. He has one hand resting on a music stand; his attitude is one of great ease: it is the same ae I'saw him take many years ago, standing near the mantel piece of Madame Matchcsi's class room, when he refused to give his autograph to the young women of the opera class.

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LUCERNL Hclcl ilea Lal.mces et Believue. LAUSANNE Hotel Pension Aseau Scjour. aLloN SUH MONTKKUX Urand Uoic I Victor! world wul not be necessary. "One man i told me that she herself is the only one of I the brotherhood yet eligible for this perfect marriage." Just what the children are taught ap i pears to be something of a mystery, except that they are all taught the tenets of and iraineu i0 membership in the Universal Erotherhood of which as Mrs. Tinglev once niaiiua, uuuutiH, Mohammed and Quetzalcoatl were members." But.

in spite of this goodly fellowship the children's society seems to doubt the desirability of the children's being brought up as members. Commodore Gerry suvs its teachings have been picked up piecemeal from India. Egypt and similar countries and is "a repetilion of the mysteries of Isis and Osiris and one only has to stndv history to learn the full intent of their "moral depravity." Also there seems to be conflicting testimony as to the financial solvency of the community. Louis T. Fitch testifies that it is supported mainly by contributions from private individuals, that the sources of income are precarious, that the property is mortgaged, only enough having been paid down to secure the land.

On the other hand a correspondent on the spot, writes, "Mrs. ungiey is rortunate in being unhampered by financial considerations. She could probably fill out a check for $600,000 without being embarrassed in any way." And such men as Albert Spalding of Spalding arc willing to vouch for and indorse her. And of the community of which she is president, Frank M. Pierce, formerly president of the Pierce Miller Engineering Company of 20 Cortlandt street, is nominally secretary am really the business head, and August Xcro shelmer, formerly a well known merchant here, is treasurer.

The woman herself must De a marvelous personality with a rare talent for organization and leadership. She is described as short, heavy and swarthy, au accomplished student of human nature, and mistress of rare oratorical powers a most inpressive speaker. But it is said that she is given to trailing ardund in a loose flowing purple robe, and that must be hideously unbecoming co a "short, heavy, swarthy 0INT LOMA PEOPLE LIVE FOR AN IDEAL. As showing how the Point Loma colony impressed an unprejudiced observed, the following letter from Mrs. Lydit Avery Coonley Ward is of special interest.

Mrs. Ward Is a Chicago woman, prominent socially and intellectually, a woman of wealth, who delights to houor brains, a woman who has seeD nearly all the world has to show. She has been president of tho Chicago Woman's Club, an organization that stands for much in the line of reform, philanthropy and intellectual activity in Chicago. She is an active member of the Fortnightly Club and of tho Little Room, a club representing upper Bohemian ism, to which br'aiDS and good fellowship are the entrance qualifications a woman of catholic tastes and wide interests. She writes: To the Editor of the "Rroolrlvn TCur hllVi iSrtnrt fflllflh ntnwnn.A.l I viilUU 111 L11U Ut eision regarding the Cuban children brought over by Mrs.

Tingley, the theosophist of Point Loma, and my indignation is aroused at the course taken. There seem to me here no direct charges; (here are insinuations which are slanderous: but doubtless so skillfully introduced as to avoid prosecution for libel. As for honoring dogs, however exaggerated this may be, I wish we could get a fraction of the spirit into our own people, so that the poor dogs would not suffer as they do from cruel treatment in pounds and hardships and indignities too numerous to mention. They may reverence animals, but we certainly err in the opposite direction, and a happy medium might be found. I think that in their extreme regard for nature wo might learn a lesson and not be careless of public and private property in grass and flowers, as we often are.

There are worse things than to believe in the soul of nature. However, I am not defending the Point Loma people against these accusations, for I know nothing of the truth of them, nor have I any special interest in theosophy; indeed, I have given it no thought whatever. Last June, however, I was in California, and while visiting at San Diego. I spent a day at Point Loma, where I was surprised and delighted beyond expression. The people there are certainly living for an ideal, and I am thankful for any one who docs follow an ideal; it is not in the least necessary that It be our ideal, or any definite one, but only that it be some ideal.

"The magnificent grounds of the Point Loma homestead, tho exquisite climate and superb buildings, all aroused my wonder, and to that was added delight when I saw the children they have in charge. I believe there are over 100 of them and I must have seen nearly as many. Never anywhere have I seen a large body of children as handsome, as healthy and as happy as they. They are being taught by masters in their line. The music which I heard, both instrumental and singing, is of a high order.

Their food is carefully looked after by trained professionals. The conditions under which they live are ideal, and no one who sees tho children can for a moment, doubt their happiness. Those who are accustomed to children must also note there a wonderful absence of self consciousness. When we consider that these children are almost all waifs from the streets of various countries, it is a matter of thankfulness that any one has rescued them from lives promising all evils and set them in conditions developing good citizenship. "Universal brotherhood is the ideal aimed at.

in tho Point Loma homestead. I met a number of the men and women living there: they are highly educated and cultivated and interesting in a rare degree. The work they do is done for love of it and of humanity. Upon the whole place there are only three who are paid for service, and they are three Japanese servants. These New York proceedings seem to me to rest on a foundation of spitefulness.

It is not proposed by those who forbid the children to go to Point Loma to do anything for them except to return them to undesirable conditions. "Among the children I saw at Point Loma were many Cuban reconcentrados. One mother, with her two daughters, was rescued by Mrs. Tingley after' the father and third child had died of starvation; the mother, with a sad, beautiful face, is now a teacher at Point Loma and the daughters are among the scholars. One little girl, now 2 years old.

was taken from an ash barrel, where she had been left to die. To see children like these under what are apparently tho most eleslrablc conditions possible to childhood and think from what they have been rescued makes one thankful; and after seeing them to find people apparently paying little attention to the testimony of men belonging to the Point Loma Brotherhood and their accredited representatives, but approving the testimony of those who have little that is definite to say against it seems to me a very reprehensible proceeding. "For myseir. of course, I know Point Loma only from the one day there, but I heard much of it in the neighborhood and nothing to Its discredit. I saw no animals, but I do uot believe the testimony given in these reports.

If one does believe it it ia not very difficult to match the dressing up and petting of dogs in ridiculous degree among the New York Four Hundred. "I have no interest in this matter beyond the general one of seeing justice done. I certainly think it is a crime to send children hack to bad conditions, and if they arc not allowed to go to such a place as Point Loma. where people arc eager to care for them and teach them in ways which are right, then those who forbid that sliould see that some other persons v. ith ideals have charge of LYIMA AVERY COONLEY WARD.

November 2G." fnWJ )) WJ OF SAN BAY BE VP MP only granted on condition that no change shall be made iri them after they have been revised within the walls of the Homestead. The Raja Yoga School shares in this all pervading mystery. Its theory is beautiful; its practice is not made public at least not by Katherine Tingley or any of her follow ers. To guard against the intrusion of strangers from the outside world, buglers are posted at the entrances to the grounds. Their silvery notes publish at once the fact of an alien approach.

The stranger is not put out vi et armis; but he is met with a guarded hospitality, and watched with wary eye. I Questions are not encouraged. He finds that i the main building of the settlement is an ira i mease rectangular structure, three stories i high, surmounted by a great dome. It is built around a center court and is in turn completely surrounded by a wide veranda. Tins building is so placed that every room receives direct sunlight.

Part of it is used as a hotel for such guests as are 7iot too i inquisitive. The accommodation is first 1 class in a plain, wholesome way. In other parts of the building are Mrs. Tingley's offices, an oriental rest room, the apartments oi' teachers and students and other depart mcnts from which the public is excluded. Close to this building and connected with it by an arched causeway is the recently built Aryan Temple, a beautiful piece of architecture and a memorial to William Q.

Judge and H. P. Blavatsky. There are, beside tha Itis Temple, housing the Isis Conservatory of Music and smaller and insignificant houses tents, many of them known collectively as the Raja Yoga School. Music is a great feature of the Tingley brand of thecsophy and the Isis Conservatory aims at a "comprehensive theoretical and practical musical education, embracing not only the ordinary methods and lines of teaching, hut also unique and original features designed to give music its proper place and power in the world." Mrs.

Tingley believes that the perfect development of the voice depends largely upon a healthy body and harmonious? mental eondi t.iun.7. She believes also in the character forming element of music. To give greater scope lo her efforts she recently bought the Fisher Theater in San Diego, one of tho largest and best appointed on the coast, and renamed it the Isis Theater. In it she gives free public entertainments, consisting of music and readings, every Sunday evening. The iiou' is generally well filled and when Mrs.

Tingley herself is to speak it is crowded to oi the race with a view to the ultimate salvation of the whole. The methods, according to the superintendent of the children's department, are "something which cannot be communicated on paper, but they excite the enthusiasm of the young volunteer teachers." In writing of the International Children's Lotus Home, as it is called, the superintendent further says: "One of the surprising things is that only about one third as much food is given as is usually considered necessary and yet the children gain rapidly In weight, health and strength." It is curious how differently the same facts impress different people. Part of the evidence submitted to Commissioner Williams by the Society for the Prevention Cruelty to Children, in arguing against allowing the Cuban children to be taken out there was In the form of a letter from Mrs. Mary E. Green of whose two little grandsons were only rescued from the Raja Yoga School by habeas corpus proceedings.

Mrs. Green finds no difficulty about communicating the methods on paper. She writes Id part My iHiiKli. it. Mrs.

.1. Hnhti. whs i rf7. liypnu; l7.fil i.y this woman and lic inn unto no.vs men jtjiiik Mr. rinhn inlrnitl fverythini: in ln.

lr.s'.l cromuls. nla isyt il wilt 1 si i. (ind well cnnrfleil The SvipiYiiu 'nlirt 'ulire habeas corpus to tnfcc the children, the case was trff in IjOs Angeles and the children were removed from Point I oma and given to the father. According to tho statement of these little boys, childrnn fill sleep in tentif. about twenty boys and Brtrlai in a tent, on bunk.

Every night a Rirl about fourteen yars old comes ond tics their hands together, then fastens them about their No child is allowed to talk loud and only to whisper ubcut necessary things. All children are made to stand up when visitors come say. like our lotoa Mother and are glad to be riilldren have meat only once a week; Tor noonday lunch they are given a cracker and an appli the biggest boys getting two crackers. Thus aro children cared for. Mv grandchildren were there six weeks: they never saw their mother except as she marched by with a white robe on at sunrise, holding up her hand as they are sun worshippers.

Katherine Tingle Is hifih priestess and all followers bow dowp and worship her. I spent some time in California, where the general impression and belief Is that roint Loma is an immoral plaee; yet when people onoe get there they are powerless to get out; the grounds are fenced, all Rates guarded and the greatest secrecy prevails. The temple of Jsls is a most mysterious place. The children were half starved when while mv daughter, their once devoted mother, did not bathe them or eat with them or put them to bp but was marching about with a white robe on. barefooted, at sunrise, worshipping the sun.

Such is the story of her two little boys who were made to call Katherine Tingle "Tjotos and to stantl up and say to all visitors, "wo love our Lotus Mother And are glad to he From Irene Willis of Hannibal. the society had a letter charging grossest cruelty. She aavs: My private opinion of Mrs. Tingley Is that she is a woman who a strange power over weak minds. My slstpr fell into her nmver.

found her. my sfs tor. Mrs. Freeman. starved, dying.

rclcsatcU when so broken and abused that sbe could no longer assist Mrs. Tingley to a wild place among the chaparral, winch they call the "Colony," deprived of food fit to ti eaten, even by the strongest, coarsest people, and forbidden to bny other food, lest it reflect upon the institution. No one was allowed to assist or eomfcrt her. Willis Freeman, her son. of IG, was at work ten hours a day.

then kept on guard two hours every night a. young, growing lad. who had never handled a gun or firearms of any description two hours In the middle of th? nijht, on half rations and leps of tlila miserable food, bread made of beans and pennuts Kround together, and not allowed to buy a fresh eg or bottle of milk for his dying mother, although there wa plenty of bolh for sale by Ihe residents of Point just outside the Coicny itotep. The students. colletl, of this abominable place are all hypnotized.

They torm rings and circlep and gaze with a stupid somnolence into this women's fac Ulss her hands, her ffarmonts. call her Queen oT the World, swear to worship her through this life and nil lives hereafter. know this Is hard to believe, but it is true. Mr. Tingley Is fcorfully afraid of assassination from without, and every male member of the society or Inhabitant therein, from 10 years to 70, has to take turns in watchins.

guarding nnd protecting her life night and day. The only education given tho children or for which she seems to care Is military drill. Plt Is apparently trying" to raise up an army for her bodily protection. Manv of Iho children are badly treated always, believe, if they show the least resistance to her authority or if they do nut succumb at one; to her domination. One little girl has been Isolated from all beings except a demented, one eyed RrasK widow, who nets ns her jailer.

Sh has been thus Isolated for two years, while her wealthy father and mother an slslers (younst r) boar.l al a fabulous exnense with Kate Tingley and approve of this Incarceration of their pretty Ilttls daughter over at th Colony. Mrs. Tingley and her associates make great capital of an alleged indorsement by President McKinley, Generals Wheeler, Shatter and others for work supposed to have been done at Monlauk Point, where the Purple Mother claims lhat she and her assistants ministered to 11,000 soldiers, only one of whom died. President McKinley is no longer in a position to eleny the allegation and defy the allegator, but inquiries directed to General Wheeler and General Shatter and to the Secretary of War, have brought forth disclaimers of any recollection of these remarkable services or of Mrs. Tlngley's presence at Montauk.

Some of the men who were there, however, do remember a small tent by the roadside, over which floated the banner of the Universal Brotherhood, but not as an important factor in life there or one whose work was considered seriously. Weird talcs are told of a dog given Mrs. Tingley by the late William I. Judge shortly beforc'his death. It seems that Mrs.

Tingley Claims that the spirit of Judge now inhabits the dog and directs the doings of the order. He is alluded to as the "Purple Inspiration." and is an object of reverence approximating worship. One of the peculiar ceremonies is the daily march to the Holy Hill to sec the sun rise. The majority only go as rar as the fence surrounding the hill, but a certain baud of the elect go within. They all wear loose white robes and go either barefoot or wear stockings.

Only. Mrs. Tingley is allowed to wear slippers "inside hrr stockings'." It. is claimed Hint Mme. Blavalsky's ashes ore hurled on this Holy Hill.

As to thai. Harold W. I'ercival, head of the Theosophi ial Soeieiy in New York the other theosophical society that discre'dits Airs, Ting to be the "world borne of theosophy," which was not particularly illuminating; and later that here was to be founded a school which should "revive the lost mysteries of antiquity." On the western or higher half of the plateau, which runs along the whole peninsula, a quarter of a mile from the sea on the one side, three quarters of a mile from the bay cn the other, and looking across to the town of San Diego, eight mil 03 away, is Katherine Tingley's School of Antiquity, familiarly known as the Rajj Yoga Schooi. Its corner stone was laid with much ceremony and in the presence or some of the lending theosophists of the country, in February. 1SH7.

Its pupils are poetically known as Lotus Buds. JtiEt why Is not apparent, except that the name smacks of the and of its creeds. But for thai matter Hie whole place recks of the Lotus. To the bcl lever, die homestead is known as the Lottis Home. Mrs.

Tingley is known as the Lotus Mother, though to be sure she has any number of aliases. She is also the Wise Soul, lite Great T. the Mahatma, atvl most frequently the Purple Mother, because all perfection for some inscrutable reason is supposed to be purple. By whatever name she goes Mrs. Tingley is cinpnaucaiiy "sn? Who iwust Be Obeyed." i ihe doors.

She is the absolute autocrat of all that per As to the Raja Yoga School that is one of tains to the Universal Brotherhood and the mysteries of the settlement. Public cu Thcosophieal Society. Moreover she keeps riositj. as to its methods goes perforce uninformed concerning almost every detail of satisfied. In it are trained young children each branch of the work of the various do gathered from Ihe United States and foreign partments.

She has her cabinet of advisers I countries. It train soma selected snecimens and officers, and the Brotherhood has its national centers in America, England. Ireland. Canada. Sweden.

Holland. France, Germany, Australia. Xew Zealand and India. Its objects sound well in print. They arc "to teach brotherhood, to study ancient and modern religion, science, philosophy and art and to investigate the divine powers in man.

It seeks to help men and women realize the nobility of their calling and their true position in life, to educate children of all nations in the tenets of the brotherhood, to assist unfortunate women, and those who have been in prison, to promote a closer relationship between civilized and savage races, and to relieve suffering by famine, flood, war or other calamities." Fine, oh fine! But the unfortunate part of it is that there c.fists a wide difference of opiniou whether or not it is accomplishing these things. To be sure the general public is not in a position to know what goes on at Point Loma. for the general public is cnrofulh excluded. Newspapers arc given interviews, but the interview. are carefully edited by the Purple Mother or some of her lieutenants.

vYjiai it is desired that the public shall know is told, not. what the public, perchance, desires to know. Interviews arc.