The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-30
WAS A WISE ONE
MORE ABOUT THE MISSING SATN1
GERMAN.
THERE IS A REAL COUNT.
While the Bogus Nobleman Was separ-
ating Butte People From Their
Dollars, the Genuine GERMAN Was
in Chicago-Chicago Publishers Ex-
pose the Impostor. -<i

"Compte c. de Saint Germain." has
come and gone and with him went the
fond recollections of the great bargains
ne drove while sojourning in the city. It
IS just possible that the good cash of
some of the residents of the town also
accompanied him in his flight for shores
where money is not quite so plentiful as
1t Is in Butte. He has been gone about
three weeks. and as the circus crSer
would say, mo one knows whence he
came or whittier he has gone but he has
gone just the same.
The Compile c. de Saint Germain," or
whatever his title may be, floated into
Butte during the second week in April
and gave it out cold that as a reader of
character by the lines of the human hand
he was entitled to the cake. He could
look at the paw of either man or wo-
man and tell what he or she had for
breakfast and what would constitute the
evening meal of there was any meal in
sight. He could tell a man whether he
would live day, week, month or year;
whether he was having trouble with his
mother-in-law or preferred the dips and
angles of a Wagnerian opera to the
bleating of a billy goat. In fact there
was not anything the compile could not
diagnose in short order, no matter wheth-
er it sprang from the past, doomed up in
the present or intended to make it's de-
but In the future. The Compile was a
whole team and a dog under the wagon
and no mistake. -
There is a read Compile e. de Saint
German an dhe is very bright man In
his line of business. He is the author
Of work known as Practical PALMS.
try" copies OF which are kept on sale In
several Butte news stores. He was born
in Paris, but is now a resident Of Chicago
and, according to letter written by the
publishing house Of Laird & Lee Of that
city, he has not been away from Chicago
for eighteen months.
The man who played an engagement in
Butte represented himself as the real de
Saint German. On one occasion he en-
tered a stationery store. picked up a
copy of the book written by the real st.
German and told the proprietor he WAS
the big Injun whose genius had given
the works to the world. He then said he
intended to deliver a lecture on thf
science Of palmistry and subsequently
made arrangements to carry out hi3
programme, but the wonderful man was
temporarily in financial distress and--we4
for some work he had done in the u terri
est Of his proposed lecture he referr2 ID
a merchant and had him assume a pork
tion of the financial responsibility. The
complete lecture, however. either did not
pan out as he had hoped it would or else
somebody eloped with the door receipts
for the Compile left town without settling
up in full. 20
The Compile was in Anaconda either be-
fore or after he left. From that city he
wrote the publishing house Of Laird &
Lee a letter asking for terms on 100
copies of practical Palmistry,' which
books, 1t is presumed. he intended to sell
while representing himself as the author
Of the works. In the epistle he signed
himself &C. d. st. Germain." In an
swer to letter of inquiry sent from
Butte the 0rm Of Laird & Lee pronounce
ed the new professor rank lnpester.