St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-11
or you'll come near losing your life

for you'll come near losing ycur life
again."
Having passed this fatal era of my ex-
istence several years ago, | smiled with
the satisfaction of having fooled one
woman about my age, and watched her
take the cards. .'This pack belonged to
my grandmother" she said. beginning
to shuttle them before l cut for my
future; ''she was in the business fifty
years; she was WITCH" From the
dingy aspect of the cards l could readily
believe they had lain i'll the Islands OF
time" for three generations of dirt were
me dreadful things about Charley.
s'He had great many sweethearts be-
fore you married him." she said with a
wicked look.
"He didn't any such thing! We were
engaged when we were Children
Eyes he did; these cards cannot lie.
You were not with him all the time.
One of these women loves him yet, and
he likes her, too"
"That's not so! Boo-hoo-ho-o!
You don't know Charley. He is the
best man that ever lived. Boo-hoo-o!"
eyes; but all Charleys are alike. I've
told too many of their fortunes not to
know, and the name never fails to turn
one Bad.
Here l slammed down the greasy in
dicatOrS of my fate, and declined to
draw further the veil of the future.
"All men are mean." she continued.
81 had a husband myself, but he died
he was very well educated and high
minded, and never worked"
''Do you make your living entirely
this way?"
"Oh. yes; make about $1,000 year;
but advertising is SO expensive [ don't
save much.'' Just then the door
opened and lean servant girl entered
timidly. Haven't you got the
chcken?' savagely asked the oracle.
mo, ma'am,' was the meek response.
Il couldn't find any-that is, not any
| like you wanted"
"Well, You go and do what tell you.
and don't bring me an Did hen either,
do you heart" She fixed her eyes upon
the ceiling, grasped the amber necklace
with one hand, and with the other
| Sprinkled some water from the little
glass upon the floor. ''You go down the
street six blocks and then turn to the
| left and walk two blocks and take up a
| Go on now. Stay! Bring me some tea
| too, a sample package for Is cents-make
| haste!"
| The lean girl disappeared and I
! Strengthened my face and felt a little
consoled about Charley. Glad of the
depression from my own miserable
| future L asked: ''Do you not find it I'M
comfortable anticipating your own ill
| fortune sometimes?"
''Oh. no, wear charms to ward off
bad luck. | never allow bad things to
happen to me. Would you like to look
at s0me?" declined and came away
without any comfort whatever, for it
was not as pleasant and edifying an in
terview as had had in the South with
q darky woman who used to come
around to solicit contributions for cake
walks, and in return would tell our
fortunes. She would always say: Eyer
gwine hab mighty good luck, and hab
heap O. beaux. Gwine handle heap O.
money, and ride On wheels" in return
for which information she would ask a
dozen eggs, a pound of sugar aud
| enough butter to make the cake.
told Charley what Madame Scaria-
WITT said and he turned very red. and
then | said it was guilt, and he stamped
up and down, and swore some and
called me goose when [ cried, and
now he says he is going down there to
punch her head. JOHANNA.