The Washington herald., 1907-01-20
PARTISAN PREDICTS DISASTER
French Prophecies Issues Her An
nual Forecast.
Draws Gloomy Pictures-Sfme. de
Thebes FOreteIIs Many SOm5er
Events to Take Place.

Paris. Jan. I9.-The Partisan prophet
ess. Nine. de Thebes. who made the
sensational prophecy Of King Edwards
coronation illness. has just issued her
annual forecast Of the worlds events Of
the new years She paints a somber
picture Of the immediate future. King
Edward is to figure as peacemaker in a
pitched battle between the Lords and
the Commons. France and Germany
are to have very bad times. the latter
with financial catastrophes and all
sorts Of scandals. Many royal houses
viii be in mourning The Emperor of
Austria viii not leave his crown to his
/ expected successor. Belgium Will go
through political and social upheavaIs,
and the United States is to enter upon
a period Of misfortune.
At the end Of last year Nine de
Thebes prophesied that South America
would have serious trouble in 1906
which may or may not have referred to
the recent earthquakes at Valparaiso
and Santiago.
When King Edward was III" says
the prophecies, journalists came to me
and asked me If he would die. No 7
replied. he will not die. I saw his
hand. and I know that he is a man Of
great determination. He viii not die,
because he has the will to live His
majesty was crowned within a few
/ days OF the date I mentioned in my pre-
diction." Prior TO this Nine. de Thebes
had announced his majesty's coming i'll
ness.
A month before President Faure died
she said. The president will die very
soon" The prediction was laughed at.
but he died within the time she speci-
| fed. One day a woman. heavily veiled,
came to madame's residence in the Ave-
nue. Wagram. She was greatly agitated.
When the prophecies looked at her she
| exclaimed: Madame. there IS only one
thing I wish to know. Is it likely that
I win be sent to PRISON." The prophet
ess replied: Madame, am quite sure
that you are to go into hospital or
some similar place of detention"
The woman was Nine Humbe-t. Nine.
de Thebes also predicted the Boer war.
the great charity bazaar fire in Paris,
the Servian massacre, and the discov-
cry Of radiUm.
Nine. Thebes has assisted the French
police In solving great mysteries. In
more than one murder I have read the
hands OF the victims and of all persons
connected with the crime, and the re-
suits have been startling. I have read
hands in prisons. in hospitals. in most
of the courts Of Europe. l have told
more than one sovereign of Europe his
weaknesses and his good points"
Alexander Dumas fils, her godfather. said
| to her: You have wonderful natural
gifts" and so Nine de Thebes made
palmistry a profession. 'T am a clair
voyant with the hands," she says. There
are no silly occult tricks. however. see
hand, face. and 1 can tell at once
what that person should do. what he
should not do, whether he is good, bad,
or Indifferent. It is the result of keen,
constant observation and the application
of scientific principles"
Partisan doctors often send her pa
tients. They examine the pulse she the
palms. and her deductions assist the dag
nosis. Nine d. Thebes is a friend even
of the medical profession, which is so
quick to discountenance the unorthodox.
She was a personal friend Of Dumas,
Adolphe Brisson, Jules Claretie. and Er-
nest Daudet, while to-day the worid-famed
astronomer. Camille Flammarion, fire.
quently hOnOrs her salon.
The prophecies, cUriously enough, pro-
tests that she is anything but supersti-
tious. Indeed. her whole appearance and
surroundings run contrary to the tTadi-
tional afTectatiOn of the sorceress She is
a handsome woman of middle age. with
the frank, open cOuntenance of an upper
middle-class housewife, and she Is sty-
lishly dressed, without q suggestion of
leccentricity. Her salon, too, is simply.
though richly. furnished.