The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-13
DRIVE OUT FAKIRS| ]
Clairvoyants, Palmists and Astrolo-
gers heartily in Favor Of
Driving Out Frauds,
Some Who Regard Their Business
as Legitimate, Say Fakirs
Are Their Bane.
| am fortune tellin' man:
l can read the future by loekin, sin YOU han. :

p Fortune telers. >palmists, trance me-
diums. clairvoYints. let i'd onne genus,
profess themselves entirely satisfied with
the announced determination of the police
to drive fakirs from the city. A Number
of these people. seen this morning, adj
mitted that the town was overrun with
fake mediums and seers and said they
would like to see proper safeguards thrown
about the business. One professor" who
will throw fit for a dollar a throw and
the price of wheat or. the whereabouts
of lost watch with equal facility, Of
fered the following observations:
They is too many faflirs in this bust
ness now. could always see things from
the time / was born and before. A man
must be born to it to be any good. Some
times these mediums that amt on the
square tell people things that could never
happen, and that any one might know
could never happen, jest to get. their
money. They hurt business and they
ought to be. drove out. With which
profound. if somewhat =. ungrammatic
statement Of the facts, he turned his at
tention to a rather pretty Swedish girl
who had come to ask the professors ad-
vice regarding a love affair.
DR. Claynlont. clairvOyant who says
she has practiced in Minneapolis for ten
years, and who conducts an intelligence
office in connection with her other work
-
fortune-telling business. She informed
az J ourn.al representative that she had
always advised her husband in business
matters and that she always knew what
was the best course for him to pursue
A minute later she said her husband had
lost all his money and her own IN the
State Bank and that the banks failure
had led her to take UP clairyoyance as
means of making a livelihood However
her chief business. she said, was the CIV
ing of massage treatments ana nursing
She, too, claimed to have been born WIN
her powers of divination fully deVelopeo'
and stated that she never went INTO a
trance, insinuatin that trance mediums
were all fakrs and that the trance was
designed merely to impress customers.
A Royal English Gypsy Palmlst, on
! Hennepin avenue, said she had hearo
nothing about fortune-telling other IMAM
the science of palm reading, which, she
said, had been taught her by her mother,
who had it from her mother, and so pack
to the time before England was a ma
| ton -. She claimed to be able to- tell the
! past and foretel the future, but laid no
| claim to being infallible.> ~
| Professor C.. Charlson, sthe great mag
| netict healer,,'S said he had nothing What-
ever to do with fortune telling and knew
| nothing about the, future, so he thought
he would not come under the police rul-
ing. His business, he. explained, was tue
cure of the sick by the laying on OF hanos
Like the others, 5she admitted that 1aklrs
were numerous; and said they ought &c
| be either driven away or made to abandon
swindling people.
| Tn one house on Seventh street, house
too which was once one Of the most ex-
elusive in the city and was occupied DS
| one Of Minneapolis Oldest families, there
are no fewer thai three in the business
One is a magnetic healer, one a plan
fortune teller, and the other a trance
medium clairvoyant and all-around prog
i nosticator. r The medium was confined t
his bed by illness; this morning. and L
was noteworthy that he did not call thu
heal Ter to his aid.
The business of tune-telling seems t.
be in a. f1ourishing condition, despite tn
complain Of it's votaries. In some as
! tricts of the city fortune: tellers ar
i thicker than dandelions in May. Thel
+ methods range from tie reading of palms
to the reading Of cards In South Min
neapolis there is an astrologer who vii
cast your horoscope for 81, and who as
serts most convincingly that the star
never lie" Psychologists flourish also
and fortune telling by moles Is practices
by at least one seeress; Who also claln
to possess an esoteric knowledge OF tn
Significance of white spots on the finger
nails. = ~. 's-
The patrons of these charla tans rang
in class from the most ignorant irnm1
grants to. the superstitious business me-
who occasionally take flyer on tn
| market, and who go to a medium for he
: advice ere" they place their orders with
broker. In one case it is said that
successful market medium has mad
| arrangements with local grain fir
whereby she gets commission for ever
customer she sends to the house.
2 A feature of the business seems to b
the Success which attends .seers who Sc
: cure a location i nclose proximity to an
2 one of the numerous intelligence office:
E and who make their living by playin
upon the credulity of servant girls. I
several instances. one of which has al
ready been referred to, the .proprietres
t of the intelligence office is herself
q prophetess. =. ~; SO. vi, $c.E