Show COFFEE FEE CARRIE A serviceable FUTURE AT BO 80 CENTS plenty of treating victim tho the of coill og fortunes Is ii very simple and nd a trifle cagne sho she Oell Itell Ted eved anil and chaw vp up tier her jot job V OT a stones throw from herald square lives a ady whom wo we will avill call cottee coffee carrie says the new york telegram she calls herself a clairvoyant but to escape any objectionable attentions from the police she only professes to sell coffee ind and she throws a peep into the future as makeweight make weight into the bargain at coffee carries establishment a good serviceable future may be secured tor for the modest sum of SO 50 cents long life BIN happiness and success in business are guaranteed lor for fl 1 true love Is the most costly article at coffee carries fate factory tor for to insure this according to that clever lady the planets have to be ruled and it is an expensive and difficult job interfering with the fixed habits of the universe when I 1 visited coffee carrie I 1 explained that I 1 did not want her to upset the whole echeme of nature on my behalf I 1 only just wanted to know all about everything that was going to happen to me during my future life that was wag all when I 1 was ushered into the waiting room of coffee carries den I 1 found a few other clients tor for cottee coffee and clairvoyance sitting on hard wooden chairs and looking very uncomfortable fo for they might have been dentists patients about to undergo a a painful operation all appeared to be working girls except one man or rather male creature a weak eyed knock kneed youth of about twenty with red hair round futures fe tures and white whiskers one at a time at intervals of halt half an inch all over his face next please came in a cracked voice from the inner room as a young girl exceedingly pretty and well formed with the unmistakable halo balo ot of innocence surrounding her very pres ence emerged through the open door the male thing slid in and the girl commenced to tell her waiting friends friend the good things that had been promised her 1 I shall do it she said 1 I shall shake the store this very night the wise woman told me I 1 was tr truly uly loved by a dark man who only panted my consent to cover me with diamonds and I 1 am to be it a great lady and ride in my carriage all I 1 have to do Is to get 10 so that I 1 can have my planets ruled I 1 heard beard no more tor for it was my turn to face coffee carrie it was a sultry aultry night but the sorceress sat la III a great arm chair beside a hot stove and behind a little table on both of which were articles pertaining to the brewing and drinking of coffee carrie could lay no claim to beauty eyes and teeth she had but one of each her hair was unkempt and matted flowing disorderly over her wrinkled neck and face iter her hands were wonderfully ugly long thin and withered never still but incessantly ces twitching nervously and with nails like the talons of a bird I 1 drank some gome coffee such coffee she took the cup and shook it round and round muttering over it for halt half a minute and then she held it over the dirty floor until every drop of liquid dribbled out of it next she brought the cup to the flickering light of an tallow candle and peered into it with her single eye while screwing her mouth and puckering up her features into horrible contortions she then chuckled not in her throat but somewhere down in the depths of the arm chair looked at me and said young man you were born to be lucky while few are lucky to be born your path Is strewn with roses white and red beneath your tread huck them while you may you are surrounded with stars which will rain blessings on you in the shape of a large family but unless your planets are ruled they will bring your gray hairs in sorrow to the grave that will cost you 5 extra wealth will be wafred wafted you from oer the sea but beware of the green eyed iti monster onster in the shape of a dark woman she che crosses your path in the fifth meridian and brings trouble and a letter in her wake the woman you love is with your thoughts but trust her not when jupiter is behind a cloud venus takes her light from mars your rival Is a soldier and the coffee Is a dollar next please II I 1 d did d not go again to have my planets ruled and my gray hairs are still growing but the little innocent fair hatred haired girl evidently returned to the old hag with the necessary 10 tor for she ab maj may alow now be seen nightly around herald square |