The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-31
PROPHET TO ROYALTY.
Her Predictions Have All Come True.
The Katser's DOIefuI Future.
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Madame de Thebes, the fortune teller
whom Emperor William consulted at
Berlin, is no ordinary soothsayer, but Is
a Partisan lady Of BIRTH fashion and for
tune She has become an adept in the
science of chiromancy as professed by
Desbarolles from a mere taste for the
art. She does not charge any fee, and
the money which is sent to her she turns
over to charity.
A few days before the last departure
of the Marquis de Mores from Paris Ma
dame de Thebes happened to meet him
at dinner party given in his honor, and
when the conversation turned on her skill
in reading hands he urged her, after ris-
ing from the table, to read his. The re-
suit was startling. For what she saw
there induced her to entreat him to aban-
don his projected expedition across the
African desert to Khartoum, and 1t was
only In the hope of being able to dissuade
him from the trip that she eventually told
him and those present what she had
seen i'm the lines of his hands-namely,
his tragic death in the desert. She even
predicted it's mode and its epoch. and her
prophecies We're fulfilled to the letter.
It is not true that she foretold the as
sassina&ion of President Carnot, nor the
demise of Queen Victoria, for she never
had an opportunity of examining their
hands. But she did foretell the sudden
death of President Faure, who had COLI
suited her only a short time previously
while she likewise predicted the assassin
alton of King Humbert' during stay al
Rome.
A number of fetes were given In honor
of Madame de Thebes by the members
of the old aristocracy at Rome, especially
by those acquainted with the late Alex
ander Dumas the younger, who wrote so
enthusiastically about her marvellous
skill; and at each Of these entertainments
her science was called into requisition.
OF all the patrician hands which inter-
ested her the most was that OF stout,
rather short, woman, who came to call
l,r,on her at her hotel one evening toward
dusk and asked as a particular favor TO
be permitted to retain the heavy black
veil which concealed her features. There
was but one woman in. Rome who would
have dreamed Of asking such favor, and
brt one to whom II would have been ac-
corded. for Madame de ThBbes. as stated,
above, although an enthusiast in PALMS.
try, is not a professional. IL was no
other than Queen Marguerite herself who,
alarmed by the sanguinary disturbances
which we're then taking place In the
f,,tIIre. determined to consult the sooth-
saver on taking her departure she in-
formed the latter that what she had Just
heard conceded with her own gloomy
forebodings, for Madame de Thebes saw
I'm the lines of the Queens hand that she
was doomed ere long to become a widow,
and that through a tragedy, and on re-
turning to Paris, while reticent about her
royal visitor, she did not hesitate to de-
f~sa .Au hAN "a
he eve of something terrible" and that
ere long Italy would be plunged into
mourning"
IL is easy to understand. therefore, that
the Kaiser should have been glad to aVail
himself of her presence at Berlin to Sc
cure a consultation, and that he should
nave been exceedingly disturbed by her
predictions. For It is said that she proph-
esied to him. not death, but insanity, rev.
olution, the disruption of the German EN-
pire and the loss. not only OF his throne,
hun also of his liberty