Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-04-24

ms HlNlllIt OF Tue llCttIlCdl dilu
the commonplace affected me strange
~. ! listened more attentiycly.
"When | have been able to examine
the still warm hand of a dead person
for death soon causes the Line OF
Life to disappear-l have never been
led into error in making my observa-
tons. ! have made mistakes regard
ing the other lines, because their inter-
probation is no doubt more difficult and
less certain. Make the experiment,
Take me to some hospital, where YOU
have friends among the physicians,
and show me the still warm hand of q
dead person, but without allowing me
to see the face or any portion of the
body, If | do not tell you his or her
age | agree in advance to sell all !
have here, give the proceeds to the
poor and to become myself an inmate
at the Petits Manages.
"Show me the palms of Your two
hands. | select the right hahd because
the Line of Life on il is more distinct
than on the other, See here' Look at
this line which begins between the
base of the index finger and the thumb,
a little below the two great transverse
upper lines of the hand line whose
name | shall not eve tell YOU for leo,
of distracting your attention. hi,
third line, which ordiaslilv forms the
upper stroke 81 the letter M, to be
seen "a the palm, passes around the
base 81 the tleshy part of the thumb ~
far as the wrist, much as a brook
which flows around the foot of a hill,
when the Tine of Life passes
curved, clear, distinct, without inter
ruptiOn, behind the icshy part of the
thumb it is "A sigh OF 4 long life with.
out serious mi,fortunes, | will show
Won IN a moment how this lint can bt
interrupted Ivy branches, crosses, cavi
ties " by abrupt termination before
reaching the wrist.
"You may not believe in Me science
of cards, Very well. Perhaps you dc
not even believe in the thumb with it
three Joints-the one with the nail, thu
good one, the middle or the ordinNt'
one, and the third, the besttal une. II
spite of your disbelief when you nee
a mar OF 4 woman with a small mai
Joint and n large lower one let me I'D
wise YOU not to take the one for
friend or the other for a wife
| laughed. He took me still close
to the window.
He studied nv hand attcntively 70
some time by the aid of large magn
tying glass and by the declining ligt
of the autumn day proceeded to sketc
my life,
At a certain point | shuddcred whe
he said;
About the age of thirty-cight 20
met with a loss through death-a yer
severe loss, which for a time darkene
and shattered your. life
1t was true, but, entirety skeptica
wa convinced that he had gained ii
knowledge of the fact in some othC
way than through his so-callcd scienc,
The veteran astrologist noticed m
expressions of doubt.
"You think that doesn't prove an
thing, Very we'll; | will now max
YOU read for yourself in your ow
hand what have just told You.
I Here, then, around the base of II
T thumb is the Line Of Life.
= "With a pen, or rather with ink,
divide it into eight equal portion.
each representing a decade of r6t
life. Take the glass AVID divide eac
of these decades into two parts. Thi
l of con"se reduces them to periods
five years each. Glance along IL
Line of Life from the highest point
u the curve.
e "The frat decade-that Of childhoo
1 is clear and distinct; at the end
the second decade there is a slight i
: terruption-probably some childish ii
, ease or u%nimportant accident. Tn,
l the line becomes clear again. II
however, not so compact as before, b
J is composed Of several smaller lines
threads, which continue with but slig
" interruptions-aS ut the end of Il
fourth half decade, where occur &c
: tain contingent events, fortunate
l. the reverse, which YOU have expeI
u enced about the time YOU were thirt
d Finally, after the third decade, OF
" little after the seventh half decade
} that is to say, when you were abo
thirty-eight-yOu see where the Ii
= stops and does not appear again I'm
!; the fourth decade, have read a gre
u misfortune there, and you can read
e as we'll as l."
| was dumbfounded, my sight |
=, came misty, rubbed my eyes as o
= rubs glasses that have grown dim.
slowly went over the events of my PIT
=. life, | recognized that the strange {
y, man had given me almost the We
", dates of the various pieces of good a
III fortune hat had come to me, and
I, which all lives made up.
- | handed back the magnifving gl,
! and said thank YOU He closed t
~ window.
u left him. In the street ! regain
l.; my common sense and my shepti,
-. spirit,
=. From time to time | said to myse
!; at is, perhaps, as stupid not
:. believe in this Line of Life AS to belle
- in it,
n 1t is for this reason that | have W,
70 ten down my experience the rea,
# may dream ove it, OF laugh at it.
a. cording to his fancy. must not. he
a ever, dismiss the kindly old wizard
n. the Latin Quarter without recalling
70 remarkable prediction of his. which
p now so well known and so genera
,s accepted that it would be the mer
atfcctation to seek to deprive NJ. ID
+, barolles of whatever credit may alta
to the achievement. In 1868 the chi
# mancist predicted at Rodezv that Cha
the wcll-known artist of Chdrird
rs would die of lung trouble, when
that time the latter was enjoying
rudest kind of health and moth.
seemed more improbable than the p
,e dicted event.
ma NJ. Pierre Veron, the popular 10
nalist, was present at the consulate,
M and his account of the affair is as
o.. lows: Cham was at that time a
hearty fellow, who seemed to defy
N physical ailments, and to laugh at
~ flight of years.
Vi ! seem to see him yet with Ri
under his arm-his inseparable do
10 holding out his right hand to Dcs
ROLES. The latter, studied, frowl
and thon lifted his nvohrnwS nc tho,