The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-06-14

the sea and would come when | least
expected him. | hope he won't appear
when he is got up as Richard, for IT
might make me nervous, ana L want -
be at my best at that time. 10 he quite
truthful Mansfield seems to be my fate.
dropped 10 cents in the slot down ut
Coney Island one year ago to get u pic
ture of my future husband. and Mr..
: Mansfield was Their to the fore. | am
forced to think What does this mean
although Mr.. Mansfield has a wife, and
bigamy is not yet recognized as quite the
thing in this country.
Then we went to another fortune tell
er. a stern looking lady with half her
nose gone. She charged higher prices
than the first, but then, as she told yol,
with a look on her face that meant deter
mination. Il am forced to use Il fresh
egg with each one | would have liked
her better if she had had more nose. She
broke an egg in a glass. then looked in 1t
and told me: You will have 4 sorrow
full life. You will never be rich. (By
the bye. this wasn't news to me- If
YOU marry. you will be Il childless and
unhappy Wife" She wanted me to buy
a package of some kind of beautifer at
81 per package and said if | used it rs
directed my entire life would be changed.
| don't know about my life, but | was
sure about my face. | would be q
greasy. horrid looking thing. with a sug-
gestion to the world at large that
/ counted soap and water of no value
and thought much of her old cosmetic.
But it was funny. Our little party
went to five women. and not one of them
could tell who was married and who
was not. while they wandered so far
fro,,, tn. 4r,,tJ -, ~ ri 70 nfhnr fhinfr e
that these various "chiIdren of destiny
made it clear that. while they might have
intercourse with the spirits, they did not
ever have 4 little lcaven of common
sense. | know Il woman who goes to 4
fortune-te.er every week. She says it
makes her feel easier. may mention
that she is a kind soul whit runs a board
ing house, and if n dose of fortunc-telling
is any pleasure to her | think she should
he allowed to have it.
by the way, in Il curious old book that
| tumbled over | read Il story of Louis
XIV having his fortune told. He went
with Nine. de Maintenon to this man,
who was absolutely ignorant of who the
people were who stood before him. but
he burned perfumes and offered prayers,
and then in some awc-inSpiring invoca-
ton he adjurcd the powers of hell to an
Swer him. \ frightful sound filled the
whole building, and the King and his
wi e, for sh. was his wife then, were
almost f~ainting with fright. The sooth-
SIyer told t." King that he would sue
coed in all his undertakings and that
upon this very day one of his children
had been called to the inheritance Of Il
great fortune. Then he gave him Il
tiny package wrapped in parchment and
said: "The day in which you form the
fatal resolution of acquainting your
self with the contents of this package
will be the last one Of your prosperity.
If you desire to carry your good fortune
to the highest pitch, be careful upon
every great festival-that is to say,
Easter, Whit Sunday, the Assumption
and ChriStmaS-tO plunge Il pin into this
talisman so that the point shall pass di-
rectly through it. Observe this, and YOU
will be perfectly happy all your life"
The Kim accepted the fatal present
and Swore never to open the package.
Soon after he got news that on that very
October ,. 100, the King of Spain had
died and left his successor and her,
Philip of France, Just such an enormous
inheritance as the aStrOloger had pre-
dicted. After awhile. talking to the
great Bossuet about the magic and sor-
Gerry. the King told him the story of the
package, and his confessor insisted that
he should show his contempt for the
properties of the package by
opening it at once. The King did not fan
cy doing this, but he had got a bit
scared. He obeyed the command and
opened the magic parcel. In it was Il
consecrated wafer that had in it as many
pins as there had been saints days since
it had been received. The King was fill
ed with great remorsc and underwent Sc
we're penanccS and long days Of fasting
before he felt relieved of the crime he
had committed. But this was ONLY the
beginning of the trouble. To those N
the secret of this affair if was known
that the Hing lost from that time as
many descendants as he had stuck pins
III the holy wafer.
1t seems funny that the stately Main
tenon hould have encouraged Louis ia
take a dip into the future. hut believe
from Eve down to Marie Bashkirtscf.
: 1vette Guilbert and Sarah Bernhardt
woman has had Il desire for knowing
that with which she would better have
had no acquaintance. After all. what
good does it do to know what is going f.
happen! Confucius says that what wo-
man wills God wills" Therefore the FIJI
ture Is IN our own hands.
And, testing aside. we do make our FIJI.
lures. They are mirror-like pictures of
our pasts. Go to the "child of destiny
IL You want her to tell YOU the same ole
Story-that a handsome man is diving Of
love for YOU: that You will have beauti-
full children, a happy home and plenty Of
money 1t IS feminine to like this SORT
of thing. and between you and me have
even known n masculine somebody to 90
TO a fortune teller. He always said he
went to find out something about tbe
condition of his liver. Perhaps he told
the truth.
BUT the fortune-teller wanted inst If
> present is one who is going to say. wifi
absolute truth: Our brave bows will win
the night. Columbia will rule the wave )
And that's the only fortune-tellcr who
is gong to get any of the ducats helonm.
nus Bah.
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