Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1876 — The Wiles of a “ Fortune-Teller." [ARTICLE]

The Wiles of a “ Fortune-Teller."

It is not in Chicago alone where simple folks fall victims to to the wiles of fortune-tellers-or sorceresses, and a trial which has just taken place in Massachusetts shows that the.people of*New England are as gullible as the most credulous toL >' V’estevmdupeai .Mrs. Lambert, .whm jhAs 11 een two months’ imI risonmonfogid to what maybe (Called liigfc.ar*ij»Jtba practice of her profession, mesmerism and .somnasjtbblfoni, she confined herself to apactisf .cards,, ■ A young servant-girl was anxious to . know whether Tier sweetheart would fnlfill his promias* *d» marry-Herv and this ’Mrs. Lambert, on consulting the cards, foiihd that he wbtriJ be “Involved ftl a lawsuit about a dark girl." This aflnbyed •the servant-girl, vtho happened to be a blonde, but the prophetess reassured her by saying that this catastrophe could be •averted by boiling a sheep’s heart in holy ‘water, and sticking thirteen plins into it. Upon another occasion Mrs. Lambert predicted that a death would occur in the girl’s family, and a few days afterward her brother was actually "killed. She only paid tile woman half a dollar for each consultation, and was not, therefore, so good a customer as a -railroad porter who, finding some money which had been left him by will "was not., forthcoming, asked tlie “ fortune-teller” to write for it. She didso withput success, but on consulting the cards fold him, that it would be paid the next day, and so.it was, much to the delight of the porter, who gave her ten dollars as a fee. A retired peddler, called Jones,went to Mrs. Lambert to have his fortune told. On dealing the cards s|ie informed him that he had lost his wife’s affections. This witness ingenuously declares: , “ I did not w ant to hear any more, aud left the room.”' But Mrs. Liambert was hot to be got rid of so easily,'and she gninfcd the wife’s confidence by foretelling the precise hour at which jie would have his next epileptic Attaick, gratifying her spite at the same time by saying that the faithless J6nes had given a foir young lady twelve dollars to buy a new bonnet. Another young woman consulted her to kuOV the'tneaning of a dream in which she had seen her son rid mg on a camel, wfith a monkey pceehedtm -his head, and Mity? e'ev.cr * Tlivider was at noloss to explain this as a porjtcnt of evil onien. These are a few cases alleged against Mrs, Egbert,, and tfoty proye that human nature is muqfi everywhere, and that educqtioh has pot yet said its last wopl ip h\ew, England.— (Jliicago Journal. , .