The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-01-20
OUR FORTUNE.

who is now stopping "for a few days
only" in Winchester, has told us our
fortune, and we, like all other editors,
must say something about it in our
paper. Our fortune! We've a seri-
Gus notion to tell everything she told
us. It's mighty hard to keep from 1t.
Well, on Monday night we uent down.
The Madame conversed with US
awhile about the different places to
which she had been and to which we
had been, and, marvellous as it may
seem, we had both been to the same
places, and both of us had seen the
same curiosities. But our curiosity
was to have our fortune told. Now,
our visit, de Gacto, was to see her in
regard to having an advertisement in
the Journal and having some bills
printed, the weather being too inclcm-
ent for her to get out. After an hours
conversation she produced the pack
of cards, and told us to cut three times.
We did so. She then commenced ex-
aiming the pack-one card after an
other. And--must we tell! Shalt
nc teW Well, here goes: We will
tell the best part first. She said we
loved a girl of light complexion,
with black hair and blue eyes. TLen
she said that there was a girl who
loved US! Olcre we felt mighty
good.) Then she said we would be
married at "a. (This didn't suit US,
for we had desired to wed long before
then.) Then she told US "a heap OF
things which we have not time now
to relate, all Of which, made US feel
"sorter curious"
But before saying more, allow us to
observe that we have about AS much
faith in what she or any other fortune
teller may predict as W. have in hob
gobbIins and ghosts. Still, it interests
US a little just to. hem what they have
to say. Madame DcMark says that
we are ''going to Congress'--that is,
she means, we reckon, that we will
go to Washington some day as a u;si-
tor, to see Congress in session. She
surely must have meant that, and that
is one Of the 'leading events of life"
which she proposes to have the power
to iortell.
Now, we don't intend to solicit any
ones vote, for she has said we were
going to Congress and OF course we
are going. Already we have begun
to read the speeches of celebrated
congressman and mediate upon the
best policy to pursue in order to win
the plaudit: "Wcll, done thou good
and faithful servant And when we
get there we Shall vote for a pension
for the Madame just because she has
predicted so good for us.
Now, Madame DeMark knows that
there is II vast amount of foolishness
and crcdulity in the world even yet,
consequently she makes her knowl-
edge in this respect quite lucrative,
for lots of people are foolish enough
to go and pay her charges for telling
their fortunes, and credulous enough
to believe what she says. She is a
"worId-renowncd, independent, clair
voyant'--in other words, a genuine
humbug, who can, "by the aid of hca-
vcnly bodies, tell what diseases one
Is subject TO. She ought, at her
death. to be defcd, like Janus of old,
as one endowed with the double attri-
butte of a knowledge of the future as
well as the past.
Madame DcMark's "usual charge"
for telling ones fortune is 81, but ow.
ing to the hardness Of the times she
has reduced the charge to SO CENTS
However, she did not charge as, as the
fortunes of editors are told gratis
Consequently we give her a little
''pulf" gratis. and when we get to
Congress we'll do any other favor she
may ask of us. IIurrah for Madame
DeMark!-hurrah for US!