Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-06
CALAMITIEs PREDICTED.

With the new year comes, as usual,
various predictions relating to the inn
mediate future. The world has several
individuals claiming the gift OF clair
voyance, and they are generally heard
from about this time of the year.
What the prognosticators hope to gain
by their predictions that generally fail,
is not quite apparent, but they never
neglect an opportunity of pretending
to know the mysteries OF the future.
One OF these forecasters of coming
events Is Mr.. Spangler of York, Pa.
According 10 the New York World, his
forecast for 1908 Is rather gloomy.
Large cities of the United States are
to be destroyed; the sea Is to boil with
against kingdom and call plaques that
are written in the Bible will be brought
forth" There shall be great wrath
among the people"
MIR. Spaugler has predicted some
things that seem 10 have come true.
while he has missed the mark just as
often. In December, 1906, he said:
MANY men In the business and fl
nancial world will commit suicide be-
cause of their wrong-doings
"The year 1907 will be filed with
warnings to the whole world of its inn
pending doom.
People I'm many countries will be
killed by thousands by hunger, illness,
the sword and the beasts OF the earth.
There will be earthquakes in divers
places. Islands will disappear and
mountains no longer will be found"
These predictions came near enough
the truth to command attention. But
the following missed the mark entirely.
unless labor Is responsible for the
panic;
"The United states will become in
volved I'm another war, but will be vic
torious. Labor will rise up and bring
business 70 a standstill. Revolution Will
spread from shore to shore. The Sul-
tan of Turkey and the Car of Russia
viii be killed"
Mr Gustave Meyer belongs to an
other class OF forecasters He is an
astrologer. and he, too. finds that the
year will be one OF disasters. 'Trhere
win" he says, "be financial pamcs
failures OF banks, bank robberies. riots
and strikes in all trades calamitles be-
low, on and above the earth, and great
loss of life and property on land and
sea, and shpwrecks will be quite num-
orous"
There viii also, he says, be consid-
crable number of earthquakes, vol
canic eruptions and disastrous at
at
win do much damage all over the coun'
! try, and great fires win sweep tn,
| country. especially the East and West
and New York win bear the brunt. Thu
militia viii be called out TO suppress
strikes and riots, causing much blood
shed and bitterness.
Concerning the world outside thi
country, he says;
Great uprislngs viii occur in Rus
STA and In Germany, and the star g
Russia is positively setting, and pre-
dict that within ave years Russia vii
be a republic. Turkey Will follow II
the footsteps OF Russia. l fear that III
Car of Russia viii be aasassinatei
during, or not later than, the summe
OF 1905 as he has reached the mos
critical period In his career, and at Tn
same time / also fear that the Empero
Of Germany will be IN grave DANCE
OF passing away, brought abou
through cancer
The remarkable feature is that man
persons who positively refuse 10 bellev
divine revelations, eagerly accept IN
pretended revelations OF astrologers an
soothsayers. though many OF them ar
proved TO be false. During the Mosai
dispensation false prophet forfeite
his life II he predicted oalamit
In the name OF the Lord and II faile
to come TO pass. he was certain OF Sc
we're punishment. When Ahab contem
plated the siege OF Ramoth- Gllead. Nj