Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1915 — Gales of GOTHAM and other CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Gales of GOTHAM and other CITIES

Western Farmhand Visits Chicago Gypsy Queen

CHICAGO— Stuart Peterson, a Nebraska farmhand, stepped out of the Desplalnes street police station, where he was a complaining witness against Dr. A. W. Faulbaum, and visited a gypsy fortune-telling parlor on

Madison street. It is not often that Peterson gets to visit town, but when he does it’s a lively day. When he went into the fortune-telling parlor, the adventure with the doctor which cost him |BB for two bottles of medicine was still fresh in his mind. . He did not intend to be “slick sd" again. As‘he stepped inside of the curtained doorway, the gypsy queen was sitting before a table gazing at a crystal ball. She raised her head and Peterson noticed a far-away look in

her eyes, as she nodded her bandanna-covered head in welcome to him. “I want my fortune told," he said. She waved him to a chair. Then she looked at his palm and told him to cross it with a silver coin, preferably a half dollar. Always accommodating, Peterson did so. Just then the queen looked suddenly at the celling. Peterson looked also. When he turned his eyes back to his palm the half dollar had disappeared. “Dern it, the trick was did quicker’n scat,” he explained later to the desk sergeant the Desplaines street station. “The queen said she didn’t know where it went, and told me that I would have to cross it again with a piece •if sliver. I wasn’t going to be did again, so the next time I just pulled out a dime. Dog my cats, if that dern dime didn’t get away just like the half dollar! “ ‘The spirits are angry,’ she told me. ‘You’d better try It with some paper money. They’re mad because you stood on the door sill when you came in.’ ” “The smallest piece of paper money I had was a two-dollar bill, so I put it in my hand. Then she told me that a whole lot of beautiful women were after me and that I had a bright future. She said I had enemies, but that in the end I would leave them all behind. Then she began to go through some hocus-pocus movements, and when I looked at my hand the two-dollar bill was gone. She said the spirits got it! “ 'Now ain’t that funny?’ she asked, and got me to cross my palm with some more money. I got to thinking about what the boys told me about town slickers and it didn’t look right. I just decided that she had went too !ar, so I came over here to see if it was all right." The desk sergeant advised him to swear out a warrant.