The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-05

this country.
Then we went to another fortune teller
a stern looking lady with half her nose
gone. She charged higher prices than the
hrst, but then, as she told you, with
look on her face that meant determine
ton, Il am forced 10 use a fresh egg with
each one. l would have liked her better
II she bad had more nose. She broke an
egg IN a glass, then looked in it and told
ne; You win have a sotrowful life. You
VIII never be rich. (By the bye, this
wasn't news to mel If you marry. you
VIII be a childless and unhappy wife,
She wanted NE to buy a package of some
kind of beautifier at IS per package and
SAID If used it as directed my entire
life would be changed. l don't know
about my life but / was sure about nv
face l would be greasy horrid looking
thlhS, with suggestion. 10 the world at
large that l counted soap and water of no
value and thought much of her old CO.'S
metic.
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 from
the truth in regard to other things that
these various children of destiny made
1t clear that, while they might have in.
tercourse with the spirits. thew did NOT
even have little heaven of common sense.
know a woman who goes 10 fortune
teller every week She says it makes her
feel easier. l may mention that she is :,
klnd soul who runs boarding house. and
If a dose of fertune-teiling is any pleasure
10 her think she should be allowed to
have it. &c.
BY the way. in a curious old book that
tumbled over l read a story of Louis
XIV having his fortune told He went
with Nine. de Maintenon to this man,
VINO was absolutely ignorant of who the
people were who stood before him. but
he burned perfumes and offered prayers,
and then in. some awe-inspiring invoca-
ton ne adjured the powers of hell to an
sWer him. A frightful sound filled the
whole building, and the King and his
wife, for she was his wife then, were
almost fainting with fright The sooth-
saver told the King that he would sue
coed in all his undertakings and thar
upon. this very day one of his children
had been called to the inheritance of a
great fortune Then he gave him
tiny package wrapped in parchment and
said: The day in Which you form the
fatal resolution Of acquaintng 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 pin into this tails
man SO that the point shall pass direct.
ly through it. Observe this, and you will
be perfectly happy all your life"
The king accepted the fatal present and
sWore never to open the package. Soon
after he got news that on that very Oct.
2, 100, the King of Spain had died and left
his successor and heir, Philip of France,
just such an enormous inheritance as the
astrologer had predicted. After
awhile, talking to the great
Bossuet about the magic and
sorcery, the King, told him the story
! of the package, and his confessor insisted
that he should show his contempt for the
/ talismanic properties of the package by
! opening il 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 a consecrated
wafer that had in it as many pins as there
| had been saints day since it had been re-
! ceived. The King was filled with great
remorse and underwent severe penances
and long days of fasting before he felt re-
/ HeVed of the crime he had committed. But
/ this was only the beginning of the trouble.
| To those in the secret of this affair it was
known that the King lost from that time
as many male descendants as he had stuck
| pins in the holy wafer.
| 1t seems funny that the stately Main
! tenon should have encouraged Louis to
/ take dip into the future, but l believe
| from Eve down to Marie Bashkirtsef.
! Yvette Guilbert and Sarah Bernhard wo-
man has had a 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 TO hap
! pen? Confucius says that what woman
! wills God wills" Therefore the future is
| in our own hands.
And, jesting aside we DO make our fu-
! lures. They are mirrorlike pictures of our
! pasts. Go TO the Child Of destiny if you
want her to tell you the same old story
| that a handsome man is dying of love for
you; that you will have beautiful children,
happy home and plenty of money. 1t is
! feminine to like this sort of thing, and
! between you and me I have even known a
! masculine somebody to go 10 a fortune tel
! Ter. He always said he went to find out
something about the condition of his liver.
| Perhaps he told the truth.
But the fortune teller wanted just at
! present is one who is going to say, with
! absolute truth: "Our brave boys will win
| the fight Columbia will rule the wave
And that's the only fortune teller who is
going to get any of the ducats belonging
! TO Bah.
Wires for TeIegraphing.
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