The herald., 1895-02-18
MRS. WHITES OBJECTIONS
Has to Pay Monthly License
Into the City Treasury
THE PLANT OF A PIANIST
Presents Petition to the Council Asking
for Relief
THE PLANT OF A PIANIST
Wants to Feel the Bumps of the Finance
Committee Which Recommended the
Filing of the Petition

Mrs. Mary A. White is a phrenologist
and palmist. She reads the past, the
present and the future in the lines of the
hand or tells a mans character from the
bumps that grow on his head.
She came from San Diego to this city
for her health and opened here an infor-
nation dispensary, where she advertised
to delve into the long forgotten past, or
pry open the lid of the future at stated
sum per pry.
Everything went well about the place
until one unlucky day the City Tax Collec-
tor on his rounds discovered the estab-
llshment of Mrs. White and demanded of
the lady that she pay into the city treas
llry the sum of $40 per month for the
privilege of removing the lid from the
coffin OF the dead past or going ahead of
the returns on things as yet uncreated.
1t required but casual glance from
Mrs. White to discover that the bumps on
that Tax Collectors head had been mis-
placed. The bump of generosity was evil
IDENTIFY mixed up with IA lot of other
bumps, and wasn't doing the work it
ought to do.
She didn't pay the license. In the lines
OF her own palm she discovered time
in the immediate future when the city
Will cease to require seers, astrologers
and clairvoyants to pay license, and in
order to hasten this happy day and make
her representations fit the case, she
wrote Il petition to the CITY Council ask
ing that she be allowed to deal in futures
unlicensed by the city.
In course of time the petition came be-
fore the Council in open session and Mrs.
White was present. 1t was all right, she
said, to tax the fakirs; these unprincipled
people who unscientitically guess at the
should not be classed with these. She
has science for an ally, and the bumps
and lines of the head and hand reveal to
her things that TO others are as a sealed
book
The Council listened, heard all the lady
had to say, and referred her petition to
its finance committee. The finance com
polite but gentle way OF killing it, and it
was filed.
On Saturday Mrs. White called
at the City Hall. She had
heard that the finance committee
was to meet there in the morning But it
was not to talk that Mrs. White came the
time for talking had gone by. She merely
of these men who would attempt to license
science, these men who would try to de-
stroy the power OF one who brings the
things of the has been face to face with
the now and reaches out into the yet to
come.
She wanted to see if she could not discover
perchance new and as yet unclasslhed
bump on the thought temples OF these city
officials, who disregarded the disciple of
science; some sort of an enlargement, as
it were, that would be interesting to the
student of the occult. But the finance com
mittee begged to be excused. Mr.. Stockwell
hadn't noticed but what his hat fitted
him all right and Messrs. Snyder and
Blanchard declined to serve in the inter
terests of science on the ground that
science had never done anything particu-
larly great for them and they didn't pro
pose to do anything for science while they
were supposed to be working for the
city. r au
Sorrowfully the lady departed with an
eye on the future, the other on the past,
finding nothing in the present worth
looking lat from a scientific standpoint.