Some Difficulty in Taking a Vote of Fortune Tellers Six hundred blind fortune-tellers held a meeting in the Tung Loh Chun teashop last week and organized themselves as a union. fifteen persons whose prognostications have proved unusually correct have been elected members of the conimittee of this union, and three of these, hardly ever known to have been wrong in horoscoping native youths, chosen as Standing Committee. Officials elected, the blind fortune-tellers divined a set of 14 rales, by which they will be bound until' farther notice. One of the rules, it is reliably reported, refers to "lightning strikes.'
The election of officials took some there not being a whole eye in all the 1,200 present, a show of of hands was impossible, while equally the reading of the ballot papers was a difficulty. Proposals that the count should be left to those with. powers of second sight were frostily received by those who didn't have it. This snag sure mounted, however, the meeting passed a resolution petitioning the Nanking Government for permission to carry on their profession og usual, and recommending that lie sympathy be sought with a view to. permitting members to practise their arts and earn enough to fill the rice bowl regularly. These resolutions will be forwarded ta Nanking.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.