The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-09-07


and that inside a year she would be
married to charming prince. She
would live in splendid palace, and
have horses and carriages, silks and
satins, and loads of diamonds. Just
as the Gypsy was pretending to see
beautiful little prince and a charm
ing little princess, with heavenly blue
eyes and golden hair, the cruel po-
liceman put in an appearance; the
fortune teller was led off to the po-
lice station and "put in the Jug for
a month, for obtaining money under
false pretense. On the following
Xmas a grand pantomime was start
ed in Drury Lane Theatre, and
among the players was a young man
who took minor part and received
E2 week. His sweetheart, to whom
he was engaged to be married, was
also in the same pantomime, but re-
ce1ved IS week. Both were Irish
and devout Catholics. Unfortunate
ly the young gentleman was afflicted
with consumption. He was rapidly
getting worse all of the time, and
after few weeks the progress of the
disease was so rapid that he had to
give up the job, but he was supported
by his sweetheart at an expense of
G3 a week, which paid for his board
and his doctors bills. He died after
a few months suffering, and it was
then that the other actresses at the
theatre sympathized with the young
lady, telling her that had he lived
she could not possibly have thought
of marrying man with consumption,
and that now the poor fellow was out
OF his suffering she should cease to
worry, and would soon be able to
pay Off her debts. But the young
lady was not alto@e-1e" eatisfe7;
she went to the priest to find out how
Patrick was getting on il tie oti.oI
world, and she was greatly astonished
to find that Notwithstanding that he
was very good and devout Catholic
he had not got into Heaven, but had
been landed in Purgatory, and the
priest told her that he was in a very
painful and dangerous position. He
said, so long as he is in Purgatory we
can do something for him, but once
he Is out Of Purgatory we can do
nothing. He, therefore, advised the
young lady to lose no time, but to
make a determined effort to get the
soul of her lover out of the fires of
Purgatory; SO we find that for
months the young lady was contrib
uting ga week to the priest for this
purpose. Therefore it cost her more
to take care of poor Patrick after he
was dead than it did while he was
alive. If the poor Gypsy fortune tell
err, with baby on her back, was put
in prison for receiving a sixpence
from servant girl, and for telling
her story that made her extremely
happy for the whole week, certainly
on the same scale Of justice the priest
would have received a life sentence
for extorting money under false pre-
fences from the actress; especially as
the actress, unlike the servant didn't
get any fun out of it at all.
have friend who is a magistrate
in Ireland. We will call him Mr..
June, not because that is his name,
but because his name is the same as
one of the months of the year.
Mr.. June is a Protestant and it so
happens that the Roman Catholics
in Ireland do not like to trust their
co-religionists in money matters. 1t,
therefore, follows that my friend, Mr..
June, has acted as the administrator
Of many estates belonging to Cath
Olics. On one occasion the deceased
left 800 to pay for Masses for ex-
tracing his soul from the rather high
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