Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-08-22
FoRTUNE-rELLrNo.


Is IL O Devise of the Devil or a Gift
of God, or what Is IL?
There is no gainsaying the fact that the
people of the present day are farther ad-
vanced in the arts and sciences, and all
that pertains to a higher and more whole
some state of society than were our fore
fathers ; but has this advance in our intel
lectual being and broader civilization lone
away with the superstitious notions of
years ago., or have they merely taken diff
ferent form and shape? True, the day
has long since passed into oblivion when
sorcerers were burned at the stake and
witchcraftery has lost many Of its once
accredited close connections with the angels
of darkness and power with the Creator.
But though less arbitrary and cruel in its
workings, is not superstition as generally
INDUCED in now as ever? Where Is the
person that has not a lucky or an unlueky
day, and will begin no new scheme or pro-
ject on Friday? Where are those who are
not Influenced by the different seasons and
changes of the moon Do they all num-
Der with the dark ages Of the past or are
they now as numerous as ever-though,
perhaps being less public in their belief ?
This leads US to say that a few months
ago there came to this town a lady who
profcssed to be in close communion with
the spirits, and by a manipulation of cards
OF various designs, and covered with hero
glyphics, could read in those ~lifeless pieces
OF pasteboard the destinies Of man and
woman. To-day you might take a course
all through town, and few would there be
found to acknowledge ever having crossed
her palm with silver yet she has lone q
good fortnne-telling business, and many
are those who have sought the knowledge
supposed to be held in her cards. Some
have needed her predictions and others
have not. Men and women have alike
sought her, and strange as it may seem many
Of her predictions have come true, as is
well known by q score Of our citizens.
Two days before the last flood she told
her ncighbors that she had had communi-
cation with the spirits, and that on the third
day following there would be a big freshet,
and to prepare for it. ALI. Chartz crossed
her hand and she read in his palm his
future, and told him that inside of three
months he would shoot a man and would
be tried for his life, and receive sentence
Of life in the penitentiary. Ed. Kicker, a
short time before the unhappy affair that
caused a feeling of sorrow to spread over
the community, sought her counsel, and
was told that very shortly he would die a
violent death, but not instantly. In all
these predictions there appears to be
something more han guess work, and
which we must acknowledge inability
to account for.
The history Of this fortune-teller is rath-
er checkered and interesting. She is a
foreigner by birth, though went to New
York when quite young, and in that city
learned telling fortunes by cards, and only
a few years since has had what she terms
visitations from the spirits. She claims to
be a firm believer in the Bible, and feels
much hurt to be linked with sorcerers and
witebcraftery. Her conversation is intel
ligent and sprightly, but when asked if she
believes in her own stories, a serious ex-
preston comes over her otherwise laughing
eountenance, and with the slightest brogue
declares her faith in what she reads from
tie cards and the spirits tell her.
That her fortunes toldhaye come too true
several OF our citizens know, but is there
some superhuman agency through which
she draws her knowledge Of the future, or
is 1t all bosh? OF one thing we are GER
certain, there are at least a large number
Of Eurekans who believe in her c%lairvoy-
aney enough to cross her palm with gold.