The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-31
YOU'RE NOT SUPERST|T|0US- oh, N0!|
Tell Clair
Faster Than
a Jan the STUFF.

Say!
You don't believe in fortune tellers
clairvoyants. card readers and the like?
OF course not.
No one does
To hear them tell it.
Yet it's strange that every fortune
teller. clairvoyans. card reader and the
like in Butte is getting rich. .s-.
Getting rich fast, too.
Steal the money?
No.
Its paid to them by people who say
in public they do not believe in such
humbugs.'
Queer, is it not?
Don't smile
Ninety-nine persons out of 100 have
just enough superstition to believe in
such things.
That's gospel truta
And you know it.
Their Faith Sublime.
The faith some people have in the
alleged power of clairvoyants and the
like is really wonderful.
Let me tell you something.
Here it is
It's true, too:
He was an elderly man. His almost
pure white hair and gray beard. his
wrinkled face and faltering step be-
tOkened to a close observer that he had
long since passed the biblical allotted
age of man-four score and ten years.
His clothes. while OF fairly good
texture. showed by their fit they We're
of country origin.
Although they were somewhat worn, it
was evident they We're his sunday"
clothes. There was no Disgusting the
fact that he was from the country.
Very far back.
He had evidently come Ito town. on
some specific mission, but being a
stranger in strange land" he did not
know just exactly how to proceed about
his business.
He made several attempts to speak to
pedestrians as they hurried past him as
he stood in front of the Thornton hotel
in Broadway, but he could not muster
up sufficient courage to attract their at
tention in vocal way.
Insurance Man Appears.
AS the man stood on the sidewalk
looking up and down the street. closely
scrutinizing people as they passed him.
or reading the signs to be seen on every
hand evidently hoping to find solution
to his dilemma in one OF them, fire in
surance man came out Of the hotel en-
trance and stopped alongside of him.
The farmer looked him over from top
to bottom.
He evidently thought the time for in
terrogation had arrived, and, stepping
up to the insurance man, said to him:
Can you tell me where l can find :,
clairvoyant:"
"A clairvoyant.'' said the insurance
| man, repeating the word, "a clairvOy-
ant. You want to know where you can
find one?'
Yes" sheepishly replied the stranger,
! as he noticed the man he addressed was
| observing him closely.
What do you want Of such a per-
SOM"
Il want to find out who stole my har-
ness, and where it is"
His Mind Easier.
The confession seemed to please the
man of town, for smile crept over his
face and twinkle entered hts eye.
80 you lost your harness, did you?'
Yes"
And you can't find it?"
Mo-
Where do you live?"
ION the Anaconda road, long ways
from here" replied the tiller of the soil.
and you came all the way to Butte
| to hunt up a medium and have her tell
| you where your stolen goods are?'
That's what l did. I haven't got
much time. for I must catch the first
| train back home"
why don't you go to the police? They
| can find your harness. if anyone cam
"Shucks!" disgustingly replied the
| farmer. Police Amt no good. VIVA.
you want when your stuff is stolen is a
| clairvoyant. They can find it for You
every time