The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-08
PSYCHE PROPHESIES.
The Immediate Downfall of Our
Social System.
GOULD HASN'T A SINGLE PENNY
Anarchy is Close at neutrality-suspicious. Police
men and Mixing Crankiness With Shrewd-
ness = His Psychic Vision.

New YORK, Feb. 6, 1S91.-[Special cor
respondence of The HERALD. IL stopped
at the Continental hotel on my way down
town this morning to ask Mr.. George
Francis Train if he knew the whereabouts
of man who had been swallowed out of
my sight in New York's tossing and bub-
bling.
81 can't help you in the matter" said
Citizen Train, "but don't think you need
trouble yourself. We shall all be swal-
lowed up almost Immediately.
''If you owe money, don't pay it; if any
body owes you money collect it promptly,
for we are on the eve of frightful con-
vulsion.'
] thanked the citizen for his little finan-
cial tip, but noticed that his roses bloomed
freshly, undisturbed by the startling de-
claration. There were three reat cream
corored blossoms as big as peon les pinned
against his coat lapel. Mixed with these
were stems of heliotrope
THE whole social structure is rotten"
he continued: ''the props are honeycombed
with worms; everything will crash down
in the night, perhaps within month, per
haps within seven days 1t will carry us
all with it, and the sun will rise in the
morning on what an awful wreck of a
world
The citizens bronzed complexion kept its
healthy color and his hair the unruffied
~ gloss of its short white curls. He
I'M stood in an easy attitude and
~ spoke as if imparting some piece
III II OF secret and highly important
III but not especially distressing in
telligence His hands did not
withdraw themselves from Sc
THE rene repose in his pockets. His
nerrT. ..autf lNvar 7 heA
HORSESHOE. caught him on the steps-was
mistaken by any throes. The citizen
looked unusually at peace and well condi-
toned.
l asked him what in particular seemed to
be going wrong with the system of things
'Come and sit down. he said, land I'll
put the situation before you. Then do you
write out the truth as l give it TO you, and
the editor will red pencil it and blue pencil
1t, and if you are paid on space you won
get enough out of it to buy cup of coffee.
There is only one step that could bring
about genuine editorial reform and that is
the abolition OF editors.
The hotel parlors were crowded but the
citizen found two chairs by a window over
looking Broadway. Here we spoke in low
tones like two conspirators, and a couple OF
lovers wondered at US aud an old gentleman
frowned over his newspaper. a baby tum-
bled into the citizens hat beside him on the
noor
by psychic power 1 see the coming de-
struction; l feel myself drawn into it as
into the great m8lstrom off the coast OF
Norway. l hear voices; they call Train
Train
''The other night L went to the Old Guard
ball 1t was beautiful, beautiful, with tbs
lights and the uniforms and the dresses
but L saw corpses and tombstones anC
skulls. | could give you the names OF three
hundred men who are about to die, but i
wouldn't be fair to shock them by announc
ing the fact prematurely."
Here the small girl held up gsily dressed
doll. Eyes, it's pretty" and Train pulled
her curls and smiled
81 went away" he continued, because
cav the storm gathering. That was the
real reason l went round the world. l hav,
never before told that to anybody. L staiC
i've months on the Pacific coast because By
psychic insight had knowledge Of the ca
tastrophe and wanted to keep out of tbs
storm centre; but what an ignorant 10
they are out there in Tacoma: they dom
know enough to go in when it rains. Jus
as sure as there comes a big shower tn
boys take their dinners out of doors and 81
on wood piles TO eat them. If they dom
get wet enough to satisfy them they star
IN a baseball game"