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LOOKING INTO TiIE FUTURE.
What An Old Man Predicts Will Happen
In the Future.

| LOOKING INTO fiE 'FU URe.
What An Old Man Predicts Will Happen
In the Future.
"You can depend upon it," said an
old gentleman who has seen the frosts
of many winters, "that we have some
rough weather ahead. I have noticed
for forty years that the best indication
as to the coming weather is furnished
by the peeling of apples. I live in
the apple section of North Carolina,
and we can always judge when the
winter is going to be severe, the peel
ing is thick and very tough. I have
nsver seen it tougher or thicker than
it is this year. Take a timber. twig or
pippin and the peeling is as thick this
year as the King apple of ordinary
years. You may depend upon it, we
are going to have some rough weatn'
err"
This old gentleman's observations
may not be accurate, but they are
strangely in accord with a recent as.
Economical forecast, which says that
the coming winter will be the severest
since 1918, and colder than can be re
called by the Oldest inhabitant. This
forecast makes the still further un'
promising prediction that the South
and West will especially suffer; that
we are to have unusual rain and snow
storms and many meteors will fall.
But this noted astrologer, who sees
such terrible weather in the stars, sees
more wonderful things. He bases his
predictions on the fact that during
this month the majority of the planets
are centering IN the mystic and &C.
cursed sign Scorpio. AS result, we
are 10 have one surprise after another
until the world is stirred from centre
to circumference, the catastrophes
coming directly after the lunation OF
the moon. Political upheavals will
sweep the land at home and abroad.
England is to mourn the death oi
her noble Queen, who will not sur
Vive the winter, and the passing away
of this wonderful woman will mark
the greatest change in the annals ot
the English Parliament since the days
of King George III. War will be
rampant. The downfall of Spain and
the freedom of Cuba are to come
Turkey will be disposed of and Russis
will assume a dictatorial front, with
the result that the English govern
ment will lose some of its valuable
concessions.
There will be more unrest among
the great foreign powers than fol
many years. Deaths of prominen
people will occur, and under peculia,
circumstances. Daring robberies viii
take place, and there will be an ava
lanche of crime OF a shocking ant
heinous nature. During this month
of November stocks will advance rap
idly and commodities of all kinds wi.
command higher prices, but will re
cede again and trade will not revive
until after April, 1892. New ant
startling discoveries will be made ir
science, and with the incoming o.
spring we will have made wonderful
strides in the modes OF travelling or
land, water and in the air.
Besides the Queen, the planets fore
tell the death of England's brightes
man and the mortality among th'
learned men of the world will be sc
we're. In this month Of Novembe1
will be born a ruler whose power viii
be long and mighty. There will b.
extreme suffering among the poor IL
the cities, and acts of lawlessness ant
deportation from them will be fire
quent; never in the history of living
man will there be recorded in so shor
a time such carnage, wreck and ruiz
as this present year will live to tell
with the worst yet to come.