Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-03

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blood which keeps 1t going is fluid goh
And Just now there seems TO be lots of
fluid gold for American opera and Ameri-
can singers. Let us hope that the move
ment will extend TO the encouragement OF
American composers, also. The new
scheme embraces an American school OF
music for training singers.
| If II hsd not been for King Louis OF
Bavaria Richard Wagner never could have
achieved his great works. And II II had
not been for his predecessor Munich
would not have had It's great school OF
painting and sculpture. True, the pres
ent Louis of Bavaria has become insane.
But men who build big hotels are apt TO
go crazy, too; and on the whole, people
who develop art by liberallty perform a
better service to manhood than those
who build big hotels What we need In
| the United States is few more men and
women with big brains, big hearts and
big purses, who-whether sane or other
wise--will determine to build up ma
tional literature as well as national
school OF music and painting, by Offering
money prizes and abundant opportunity
to native talent.
VIII the American opera succeedY |
think so. IT has Pauline L'Allemand,
Emma Juch, Jessie Davis, Mathilde Phil
| lips, william Candidus, William II. Lee,
Myron Whitney and other artists OF re-
pute and ability to depend upon, and will
! doubtless develop new geuiuses OF the
| first rank ] saw them rehearse Goetz's
'sTaming OF the Shrewn a few evenings
ago, and on the whole the performance
was excellent The chorus was except
ionally good. There Is no toleraticn OF
''starp supremacy, and the result will
probably be representation marked by
eyenness and artistic quality throughout.
-.
A iortune-teller who styles himself
ndoctor'' was recently locked up for OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses. New
York is full of these fellows, and 1t is sur
| prlslng to think, In the present state of
the worlds development, that there are
fools enough TO make their calling steadi-
| ly lucrative. A successful practitioner of
the mysterious art of fortune telling may
build up profitable business and estab-
| lish reputation among class of people
who Will consult him in regard to their
affairs, aud repose even greater confidence
in his predictions than they do in the'ad-
vice of regular physician. Moreover,
the astrologer always does cash busi-
| ness, which gives him the advantage over
his authorized brethren in the healing
art. The "doctor,n who was arrested
the other day, occupied an apartment on
| the second floor of q house on Sixth
avenue. Those who sought advice re-
ceived it in little dark room adorned
with charts of the heavens, skulls and
other paraphernalia suggestive of mys-
terry. The astrologer sat behind table
covered with writing materials, and
always wore a bright red flannel robe and
a red cap with horns. All this was re-
vealed TO the visitor by a dimly burning
| lamp. The ''doctorn was always ready
to give advice on matters of love, busi-
ness or health. In the words of one of
| his disciples, he could 'cast your horo-
scope for so cents, tell YOU your past or
future for dollar, and for a five dollar
note he'd peer heap into your future
and give you your past from way back
! There is another fortune-teller in New
York who does a very large business, and
| that, too, without the aid of red robes,
| skulls or other mysterious appurtenanoes.
| A friend of mine took me to see him once.
We found him in the basement of an old
| fashioned house in a part of the city
! which is fast crumbling into decay. His
reception-room was a decidedly matter
of-fact place--as much so, in fact, as II ii
had belonged to dentist. The walls
were decorated with chromos. l noticed
among others copies of those famous mas
terpieces, "Fast Asleep and Wide Awake,
! 'tThe Orphans Dreamn and "I'm a
Grandmother Now" The only picture
that was at all suggestive of the true
character of the place was one represent
ing disheveled female clinglng to rock
! and entitled "Faith."
There were perhaps half dozen people
| In the room, and we had TO wait fully an
hour and a half before our turn came to
be admitted. These people were chiefly
women. There were also an immistaka-
BILE gambler, with dyed moustache and
keen, hard eyes, and tallow-faced
youth, with weak mouth and long hair,
who might have been a dry-goods clerk
with poetical aspirations. One of the
women vas middle-aged and OF matronly
| appearance. Another wore green bon.
net and was Enthusiastically an Irish serv.
ant. The shop girls giggled and chatted
together about the last ball of the clone.
some Coterie" and their love "affairs y
The most attractive person in the room
was lady of evident refinement, whose
features were hidden by a veil, and
who sat quietly in an obscure corner OF
the apartment. At last we were
admitted TO the wizards private Office
which was cosy and cheerful and warmed
! by CRATE fire. There was books on q
| shelf, curtains at the windows and q
student lamp on the table at which the
fortune-teller sat. He was stout man,
rather gray, and his eyes were bright and
keen. He invited us TO be seated, and
then, ina brisk, buslness-lilSe manner, be-
gan TO 'cast our horoscopes My friend
told him the exact time of his birth, and
then he made various calculations and set
for u few moments in deep thought. He
paid no attention to us, apparently,
but seemed to concentrate his thoughts
on the signs and hgdres which GOV.
cred the little chart. Then he began To
talk confidently and seriously about the
planets which were In conjunction at the
moment of my friends birth, and then re.
marked; ~ think you had severe mis-
fortune when you were quite young--lost
a near and dear relative--your mother OF
father, perhaps,n My friend nodded, and
the wizard proceeded to give more in
formation concerning his past, followed
by predictions concerning his future. He
spoke of letters which he might expect oil
people who would come to see him from
over the sea, and indnlged In other Gypsy
like prophecies. A great deal that he
said was true, and other thugs might
easily have been true, but there was one
of his prophecies which, in the light OF