The evening times., 1898-10-12
FORECASTS OF FATE.

Since the Psychological Research Socie-
ty was organized to investigate many
mysterious happenings that have been
foreseen, more people have become more
frank about relating their experiences.
There are any number of authentic in
stances where fate has been foretold. In
the London Mail are mentioned several, as
follows:
Just previous to the assassination of
the Empress of Austria the Emperor was
heard repeatedly to remark: i fear some
thing awful is about to transpire. l. wish
the jubilee year We're safely over This
brings to mind other instances of fore
casts fulfilled
Just over thirty years ago a visitor to
Edinburgh was being shown over the high
court of justiciary. He made some re-
mark concerning the dock and it's duties,
and in reply the official Jokingly said the
visitor might one day be sentenced to be
hanged in that very room. The sightseer
was the notorious DR.. Pritchard; two
years had barely passed when in the dock
he had so closely inspected he was DOOM
ed to death for poisoning his wife and
mother-in-law.
TO many watchers of the political
weathercock the rapid rise of Mr. Asquith
to renown as a statesman was little short
of miraculous: to the late home secretary,
himself. however. it was but the natural
outcome of his own resolve. When a youth
at the City of London School he inform
ed all and sundry that he meant to take
high honors at Oxford, enter the House of
Commons, and become an influential mem
Der of the cabinet.
The Earl of Rosebery. so 1t is histori-
cally recorded while passing his boyIsh
years al Eton. foretoId that In the coming
years he would win the Derby and more
important still. be prime minister. Both
Lord Rosebery and Mr.. Asquith prophe-
sled the things whereof they knew.
"A gentleman conceived the idea that
he would only live a certain time. so he
made a nice calculation of his fortune
which he so apportioned as to last just
the same period as he guessed his life
would extend to.
Strangely enough his calculations
| came correct to the letter, for he died
| punctually. at the time he had previous
| ly reckoned; he had 50 far exhausted his
| estate that, after his debts had been dis
| charged. a solitary pair of slippers rep
| resented the entire property he left.
! His relatives buried him, and a repre-
sentation of the slippers was carved on
| the tomb; today in a churchyard at Am
sterdam his grave may be seen, the only
| inscription on the stone being two Flem-
| ish words: Effen nyt Uhat is. 'ExactlyO.
THE late Mr.. George Moore came to
| London from Cumberland poor. friend
| less boy. He entered a great commercial
| house. and from the beginning declared
| he would eventually marry his employ
| ers daughter and become his employers )
! partner. He accomplished both ambi-
| tiOns. became very wealthy and man
| of whom his generation might we'll be
! proud
| "When Warren Hastings was a lad his
| great grief was that his family had lost
| their paternal estate at Daylesfo:d and
| he was constantly heard to say: / win
| buy it back He grew up TO make both
/ history and a famous name, and he died
| at Daylesford
Among the many records of Harrow
! School is that of boy the son of poor
| local tradesman in very small way of
! business His schoolfellows often taunt-
| ed him about his family poverty: their
thoughtless jeers, although hurting his
| feelings. drew from the lad the retort:
| L intend before ! die to ride in a coach
| and four
The years sped by and 10 and behold
| the poverty-strickeu youngster of Har-
row had developed into DR.. Parr, the
| greatest scholar Of his time, whose GUS
| tomary and favorite means of locomotion
| was a coach and four.
| The seventh child of the German En-
| peror and Empress IS a daughter their
| six other children being sons. The house
| of HohenzollerH has a tradition that in
| one year three emperors of that house
| will reign in. Germany: the third win
| have seven sons and will bring ruin TO
| the nation as well the empire to an
| end.
This direftll prophecy has seen the full
| fillment of its first part; whether the ar
| riva! of a seventh son will bring the ca
| lamities predicted the future will show"