The Washington herald., 1909-01-03

Z they have missed
4 For the benefit OF the uniritiated il
may be stated that the beginning Of
every year certain prophets" tell US
what's going TO happen Occasionally
/ somebody hits It right. and then he en-
( Joys reputation says the statistician OF
the New York World
/ The greatest pTOphets-if predicting
events gives thai Utle-haye been Lee J.
/ Spangler. Edmund Scrfbner Stevens. Gus
tav Myer Of Hoboken, The Nations
( Counsellor" ZadkieI, "a mystic; MINNIE
/ de Thebes. CT Paris. William Maccabee,
and the weather mans friend. A J
+ Devoe.
Now what has been predicted and what
has happened?
I The end Of the world has been predicted
so many times that even patient people
are tired The first recorded prophecy
was that Of the Bishop Of Hippo. in Sg5
( A D. Since then there have been hun
dreds o. dates set. including 1905
Now for the prophets.
I This from l. J. Spangler- grocer ard
f prophet. issued on December Q. 1896, and
f repeated a year ago.
+ Trouble and disaster viii beset the
nations Of the earth throughout 1917 and
lsoS. until. al the close OF the second
year. the wrath Of God VIII descend
{ upon the earth and il wiz dissolve
At the end Of 1905 New York. the
4 greatest city in ghe world. VIII be- de-
stroyed- followed almost Immediately by
f.rl ~ or
sink. Il viii require less than an hour
Z for the destruction o. New York
/ Well. New York IS still here
Il need hardly De mentioned that King
Edward was doomed. as well as the Gar
They seem still 70 be on the job
Whole World to BE Changed.
Prof. Edmund Scribner stevens cor
tented himself with predicting that the
whole aspect Of the world would be
/ changed
: Among those doomed were the Sultan
. Of Turkey. Emperor Francis Joseph Of
+ Austria. and the Empress Dovager or
+ China ali OF which was 70 break the
peace Of Europe Now. i may he said
/ that Pref. Stevens Is a great prophet the
+ Empress Of China really did die, she be-
+ ing close on II eighty years Of age. But
F what a greater prophet Prof stevens
would have been II he had predicted the
death Of TIE Emperor Of China who vas
only forty years old,
( Passing On 10 the nations counselor.
( who resides in modest little house n
HobOken. Mr.. Gustav Mayer. We get q
( more moderate prophecy for 1905 He hit
. II riEht every time, hats Of 20 Meyer,
. re predicted a financial panic-it was on
a. the time he prcdicted-hank failures.
rohberies riots. strikes calsmities below,
on and above the earth. loss OF life and
E property on land and sea. and ship
wrecks. ali Of which events have duly
happened. Just as they did last year and
+ the year before. ard wal happen next
year and in years 90 come
L Mr. Meyer has coUnseled tie nation
only thus far he would have wor out,
but. unfortunately. he went farther
F President R0oSeveIt's life was 20 be in
4 Jeopardy our regular mortality was 70
F be tremendously increased. there were
/ 10 be earthquakes and great fires in
T vo!vinS tremendous loss OF life. and New
7 York vas 20 bear the br-.nt OF the fires.
+. Gar 90 BE AssasSInated-
/ He also predicted that there wouldn't
be any war with Japan. Bully for Meyer,
( Not stopping. he went on
I fear that the car Of Russia will BE-
/ assaSsinated during OF not later than the
summer OF 1915. and at the same time I
fear that the Emperor OF Germany will
/ he n grave danger of passing away.
brought about through cancer
( We now come 10 Zsdkiel. who also pre-
diets He lives IN London and makes HIS
/ living bv outlining the year for Us all by
aid OF the sun. moon. and stars
b Passing aside all the fires. railway ac-
cidentS. shipwrecss. race riots. and Ia
I Dor troubles predicted-au OF which we
! have regularly. as does every other civil
I lied nation on eaTtb-we come 70 more
+ definite things. Said ZaGkieI. with ap-
prOpriate warnings
T In ali the years that I have been
I studying the stars tneir influence has
never been more sinister than il is for
/ I91S. The year VIII be one that will live
/ long in the memory Of man BY the
middle Of January WASHINGTON viii be
/ greatly worried over the disloyaI attitude
i Of a British colony, the Intervention OF
one OF the great European powers in the
/ quarrel, and the possible necessity for
war"
What was the coIony2
And:
1T is highly probable that a formid-
able foreign feet viii make its appear
/ ance on the Atlantic coast. and that
doubt as TO its purpose viii result in
hurried mobilization OF American mill
/ tary and naval forces"
Came Loaded with Champagne.
No feet appeared here. but several for
eign ships did slip into New York Bay
with abrupt notice that the American
naval officers stationed in the city should
forthwith come aboard and have all the
champagne they could drink. The Amer
leans took their orders very seriously and
meekly obeyed the beIligerent foreigners
And the military certainly were mobil-
! lied. All the regiments in New York
ana Brooklyn went to camp as scheduled.
and Unanswered. too. II cost the State
| quite something 70 pay for the blank am
munitiOn that was fired of at our own
men.
The floods for New York for April. as
predicted by Zadkiel. passed the city by
There was to be a strike and the dvna-
hitting Of the Panama Canal. with great
loss OF life. Earthquakes in the South
eastern part Of the United States were
due for October. as well as strained rela-
tons with Japan
II these things happened the World
failed TO print them. It did print the
! fact. however, that the United States
has entered into a peace compact with
Japan, which event none Of the prophets
foTesaw.
The poor Pacific feet started out most
unauspiciously. Il was 10 be badly bat
tered in storm. and several Of the bat
tie ships were 10 be given up as lost for
days
"Only By the narrowest of margins will
Admiral Evans great feet finally reach
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