The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-02

During the eight years that have elapsed
since ] took up. actively and practically,
the science of cheirosophy | need hardly
say that many strange and weird incidents
have occurred as the immediate outcome of
my study.
When | began to be professionally iden-
titled with the science, laid down for my
self two laws as immutable as those of the
Modes and Persians. The first was, never
to remember ten minutes after had seen 1t
ANYTHING about any hand that was shown to
me- The second was, never to oetray in
any manner the confidence of such persons
as should submit their hands to me, profess
sionally or otherwise. The vital necessity
of such a course becomes more and more
apparent as ones knowledge of the science
advances. for at a very early stage of the
study one recognizes the truth of what has
been claimed for it. namely, that in the
shapes of the hands and upon their palms,
not only are the mental capacities and in
tellectual faculties clearly denoted; but even
the events Of the life, past, present and fu-
ture, are writv=I as If with pen in indel1-
BILE characters, and may be read like an
open book by the expert in cheirosophy.
1t is therefore obvious that just as the rela-
ton existing between doctor and patient
would inevitably come to grief if anything
should arise to shake the confidence OF the
patient in the integrity and discretion of
the doctor, and again, just as the confess
sional would defeat its own object were any
thing to suggest to the penitent a possibility
of the fracture of the seal placed upon the
lips of the confessor. so the cheirosophist
becomes the Theoretically closed repository
of many strange mystery. The book of
my experiences, therefore, will never be
. written but now and then there have oc-
Cured incidents in my experience which,
dealing with a variety of persons and re-
curing more often than once, may be re-
counted without violating the confidence of
those whom it principally concerns.
Besides having abandoned permanently
the practice of the science as a profession, |
feel myself to a certain extent emancipated
and can therefore recount one at least OF
many strange experiences that will ever re-
main salient upon the tablets of my MEM
DRY.
Suffice it to say, that one day, as very
frequently has happened to me, gentleman
called to have diagram and description
made OF his hands, refusing to give his name
and address, and evidently laboring under
some considerable mental excitement. His
hand told the old, old story, which IS the
same which has occurred to all OF us, wheth-
or at Naishapur or Babylon, whether in
wind-swept San Francisco, or sultry semi
tropical New Orleans, whether in Yucatan
or Southern Italy, whether at the Cape OF
Good Hope or in Labrador; and as he was
evidently man OF considerable intelligence,
and also evidently interested beyond mere
curiosity in the science which was expound-
ing, traced out his lines for him carefully
and told him the story of his life. How he
had left his home at such and such an age,
how woman's influence had come into his
life, an influence in some respects very
good, in others very bad how an Immediate
ly consequent journey had brought with it
a heart-worry of the most serious descrlp-
ton, how the influence Of that woman ran
through his whole life up to the present
moment, and was on the verge, unless he
took himself very strenuously in hand, of
landing him into terrific trouble.