The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-02-27
PROPHECIES EVIL.

A Pennsylvania man who claims
to have the gift of prophecy. has
sent out his bunch of predictions
for fhe year. According to him
things are going to be about as bad
as they can be this year and proba
bly, will be worse next year. The
fact is that according to this seer
the old world will be put out of
business entirely before very long.
If we were choosing a business
we would never be prophet even
If we had a chance to be the real
thing. 1t seems 10 us that about
The most unsatisfactory thing that
we can imagine would be the pow.
or to look into the future 20 years
and see just what is coming. The
real sure enough prophet in the east
always saw the tough things that
were going to happen. No wonder
the most OF them tasted a good deal.
1t would ruin any mans appetite
we should think to look ahead and
see the calamities of the future.
OF course there are always o lot of
good things miXei up with the
bad, but the prophet does not seem
TO see them. That is natural.
When there is fire your whole at.
tention is ATTRACTED to that and
while the fire lasts you never see
the flower beds that may be right
near where the FIRE is. When there
Is a runaway team going down The
street at the rate of 30 miles an
hour with prospect that they
will run over dozen people and
smash things up generally that
team is all that the spectator can
see While his eye is glued OH
that runaway he has not time for
the delights OF life.
Beautifully decorated windows
do not attract his attention and he
could not be attracted by the most
magnificent picture that was ever
painted That is the reason we
take it why all of them had such
bad digestion. They could take a
look ahead and see all sorts of ca
lamities and of course they had no
time to look at the good things
that were i'll the future We would
NJ have been in old jeremiah san
ials for a salary of $50, 900 a year.
We imagine that nothing tasted
good to him. He had it a trifle
worse than the rest of the prophets
but none of them were bubbling
over with joy.
Every once in while we hear
some person say that he wishes he
knew what is going to happen. 1t
might be convenient at times but
On the whole we are satisfied that
t is better the way it is. Once in
a while all of us think that we can !
figure out pretty accurately what
S going to happen. We can see or
hink we can, where within a given
lime we will be up against the real
hing and trouble will come to us 9
n bunches. Did you ever notice j
low much more you worry over Y
hese troubles that you think YOU c
AN see coming than you do over 4
he troubles that come on without /
much or any warning? Usually a t
ro4ble ism quite as bad as YOU v
it will be. We think that
will be tough to have to die, but
he probabilities are that when we c
ctually have to cut loose and try a
he unknown that we won't mind |
so much after all We are not s
aking great deal of stock in the
of the Pennsylvania
eer Plenty OF things will hap
'en no doubt before the year is end f,
d but we are of the opinion that
hey have not been revealed to the S
man. We do not &
mink that he Is getting any direct 81
ps from Destiny But even if he s.