The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-30

which was about disappearing below
the roofs on the right, exclaimed:
Il swear by this sun that / speak
truthfully."
This mixture of the theatrical and
the commonplace affected me strange
". listened more attentiyely
''W hen have been able to examine
the still warm hand of a dead person
for death soon causes the Line Of
Lire 10 disappear have never been
led into error in making my obsefva-
tons. / have made s,istakes regard
ing the other lines, because their inter-
probation Is no doubt more difficult and
I 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 a
dead person, but without allowing me
to see the. face or any portion Of the
body, 1T / do not tell you his or her
| age 4 agree in advance to sell all
have here, give the proceeds 30 the
/ poor and TO become n2vseH an inmate
90 the Petits Menages
"ShoW me the palms of your two
I hands. L select the right hand because
! the Line of Life on it is more distinct
/ than on the other. See herel Look at
this line which begins between the
base Of the index finger and the thumb;
little below the two great transverse
4 upper lines OF the hand-a line whose
name l shall not eva, tell you for fear
1 OF distracting your attention This
1 third Tine, which ordinarily forms the
upper stroke of the letter M, to be
seen on the palm, passes around the
base OF the tleshy part - The thumb as
/ far as the wrish much as a brook
! which flows around the foot of a hill.
when the Line of Life passes
/ curved, clear, distinct, without inter-
/ ruption, behind the fleshy part of the
/ thumb it is a sign of a long life with
/ out serious misfOrtunes. | viii show
I you in a moment how this line can be
/ interrupted by branches, crosses, cavi-
ties or by abrupt termination before
| reaching the wrist.
you may not believe in the science
of cards. Very we'll Perhaps you do
mot even believe In the thumb with its
three ioipls-the one with the nail, the
good one, the middle or the ordinary
one, and the third, the bestial one. In
spite of your disbelief when you meet
a man or a woman with small nail
joint and a large lower one let me adj
wise you not to take the one for a
friend or the other for a wife,
L laughed He took me still closer
to the window.
He studied my hand attentively for
some time by the aid of a large magni-
flying glass and by the declining light
of the autumn day proceeded to sketch
my life,
AT q certain point l shuddered when
he said:
T. 4sAl,~,,A tI,r 80 &c Il, ;,.t,- - = 49,,
met with a loss through death-a very
severe loss, which for time darkened
and shattered your life"
To was true, but, entirely skeptieaI,
was convinced that he had gained the
knowledge of the fact in some other
way than through his sO-called science,
The veteran astrologist noticed my
expressions of doubt,
''You think that doesn't prove any
thing. Very well; / will now make
you read for yourself in your own
hand what 1 have Just told you.
''Here, then, around the base of the
thumb is the Line of Life.
''With a pen, or rather with ink,
divide it into eight equal portions,
each representing a decade of yOuI
life. Take the glass and divide each
of these decades into two parts. That
of course reduces them to periods oi
five years each. Glance along the
Line of Life from the highest point Of
the curve.
The first decade-that of childhood
is clear and distinct; at the end o.
the second decade there is a slight in
rruptiOn-prObably some childish dis
ease or unimportant accident Their
the line becomes clear again. 1t is
however, not so compact as before, bu
is composed of several smaller lines Of
threads, which continue with but Sigh
interruptions AS at the end of the
fourth half decade, where occur Ger
tain contingent events, fortunate OF
the reverse, which you have expert
Dnced about the time you were thirty
Finally, after the third decade, or
little after the seventh half decade
that is to say, when you were abou
thirty-eight-you see where the lin
: stops and does not appear again unit
, the fourth decade. / have read n grea
misfortune there, and you can read
as well as /. ~
/ was dumbfounded, my sight be
came misty. | rubbed my eyes as on
rubs glasses that have grown dim.
slowly went over the events of my pas
life. | recognized that the strange oil,
, man had given me almost the YER
, dates of the various pieces of good ant
/. iii fortune that had come to me, and o
which all lives made up.
/ handed back the magnifying glaS
/ and said "thank you" He closed tn
window.
1 left him. In the street I regaine,
, my common sense and my skeptica
spirit.
From time to time I said to myself
1T is, perhaps, as stupid not t,
believe in this Line of Life rs to believ
/, in it."
1t is for this reason that I have writ
, ten down my eXperience-the reade
! may dream over it, or laugh at it, &C
cording to his fancy. must not, how
, ever, dismiss the kindly old wizard o
the Latin Quarter without recalling
, remarkable prediction of his, which j
now so we'll known and so generall
, accepted that it would be the meres
affectation to seek to deprive NJ. Des
barolles of whatever credit may attacl
to the achievement. In 1868 the chiro
f mancist predicted ut ROdezy that Cham
the well-known artist of ChdrjUdT1
g would die of lung trouble, when a
that time the latter was enioVing tn
, rudest kind of health and nOthin
seemed more improbable than the pre-
, / dicted event.
. NJ. Pierre Neron, the popular ioul
nalist, was present at the consultation
! and his account of the affair is as TO
/ lows: Cham was at that time a big
! hearty fellow, who seemed to defy al
/, physical ailments, and TO laugh Mt tn
flight of years.
/ / seem to see him yet with Bio
/ under his arm-his inseparable dog
, holding out his right hand to Desbs