The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-07
werneck James Price.

Let us not too >joyfully welcome 1906. Mme de Thebes says 1t is to pc a strange, mad, incomprehensiole year.
 ''she is right. Was not she who foretold that fearful fire at the time of the Charity Bazaar"
 "Yes, and the assassination or the unhappy Carnot."
 And remember she was the diviner accredited at the court of the Second Empire" : so do the Boulevards bolster up their faith in one of the strangest charac- ters in Paris-a city of strange char acters. Madame de Thebes lives toaay as a link with that yesterday when the third Napoleon ruled brilliant court: when Eugenie was yet in the nrinne and power of beauty and happi- ness De Thebes was a -name 10 con lure with in the sixties, but Mother Shipton's are scarcely taken so serl- ouslv nowadays and the venerable pal Toist.secress is l. lrd of seldom, save as she marks each<recurring January with another prediction-always gloomy and seldom right in retrospect.
 Dunas and Zola used often to con suit her. say the gossips, adding that Bernhardt and Calve place confluence in her pronogstications' that hostaho has been known to ask her advice up on his nlans for the future, as do. foo the monarchs of at least two of tba continental powerS-Germany and Snain Then is repeated the latest ad- vance bulletin of woes to come and French superstition takes another lease of life.
 The Outlook for TweIve-MOnth. Tha news dispatches from the .capl- +.i of the worlds fads and fashions Nave of late been telling what 1906 is to hiring forth, according to this NJn,e de Tbebes Europe is to be dis oroanized Germany is to meet the pravest of her crises, with death busy smonr her royal family-Austria Is to develop "an outbreak with an unlookeo- | for seoueI'-South America Is to be In aii sorts of trouble (the safest of assesO-England is to be involved in SnHIr failures and financial panics-in the limited states there Is to come an | "unconouerable epidemic. 1 If is all very ill-sounding. Small l ,,,1rdar that the timorous and credu- ,sI,n So.tfate to enter upon undertak- | 4'''-.a.as iy,nortance. But how have the Ite ,l,nnbecies of this Madame de Tbabas fallen with the years happen i.ss as seen through "Hindsightg T.s1o things invariably have been true of her pronunciamentoes-they have been unfalteringly threatening ana +ba,t nave been most vague and mysti- my HTroD, this last 1t follows that tSev ni have occasionally hit close to the rney Sy,,Wclever H@l gossip could readily Translate very general at tSs3 expression
 into definite nasbpt Ut tha! ds TSebes mhleg ranord naa id'si shows these lucky" guesses to rysontiops recot1 which rather prove the rule e1efps'0dig eS tPe aged dlviner's unreliability.
 Her Mistakes in 1905.
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