| Show lm AN There Is 11 a it 1 curious story stor In a n St Louts LOllis dispatch to tho thio Chicago to the time effect that the Iho earthquake which shook St on Friday last Ins I was predicted pro by a 1 mysterious man who into claimed to have 1110 obtained ell n it 1 1 of the tho occurrence through supernatural means About a II week previous the nun Who bo gnu guvo his hll Paine nama as Dryer walked Into tho the Associated cities and told his story stor There Thero will win be nn an earthquake ho ito sold said next Friday and an anthe the tho Friday l following In which millions ot live lIe will be lie lost lOll and you and I 1 Imay may mu be numbered 1 among tho the dead He Ito claimed 1 to have been Jeen forewarned of ot tho the event The Tue United States ho continued may hIlY be up III In Inthis this terrible cataclysm He Ho could not Ilot nay lIay for tor certain whether the main shock would come como on Friday l the of or this month or the this Friday following He lie n also Inserted 1 an tin advertisement n In the papers stating staling that there would woul 1 b bon M be Mon beon on earthquake on one of or the Ih Fridays Indicated 1 rho story tots goes gp 3 on to my say that two distinct shook shocks were felt In St Louis rouls Louisa a II few minutes before I 5 In the morning meriting on Oil last lut Friday Frida Pinions woke oko up UlI and left l lt their beds heel The rhe buildings reeked nod and a II rumbling round was heart The ho disturbances were re observed 1 as ns asfur fur r f north as at Quincy and end west let to Kan Kansas l 1 sn n ins sas City It In several other oilier places shocks attacks were 11 observed tint and now people are n wondering whether the man ln tam n really h d had hat a II revelation or whether the lie fulfilment of the prognostication was wae merely n a 1 coincidence They Ther are per perli lr li bps ps wondering too whether the theIn In will be Je the day of o great greater er judgment since the mysterious pro Intimated that he ht did hot kaow the main shock would come comA l t Friday or a II week weak later The prophecy has hat certainly not been fulfilled In all nil Its III details NO so tar far The Theroan Theman roan man sail the disturbances would be b fait fht nil all over the world suit and that many ny live Ivi 1 would be lit hint This did dill net nt nap hAp pin pan The T In tanu of oC ninny many parts of ot th Ih the states of Illinois and Missouri wets were badly frightened 1 but no great N damage Was Wn t the IIi calam ealam calamity ity Iti la Is yet yot to 0 como coin or the tho prediction pr wax was nH false It Is remarkable though In lii an nn ego ago In which It In is h oon n A mark markot of ot orthodoxy to ui deny ony the tho possibility of at deriving any 11 Information Int front from super sources source II tho lie ol to tn oem com communication with wHit nn an world ivorid sire ara to multiplying nn 01 nil all sides side In proportion Ion tion as Ie limo tho world refuses 8 to tu accept tho the genuine coin counterfeit currency so soto Soto 0 to shook Is offered It Il from ninny many And that lut Is I It n Just to the tho systems claim to bo be orthodox For It If there thero lit III i no genuine gold old iI w can eon timerS there ho bo o n counterfeit Tho The of or Illinois Missouri by Ly the tho way i whore there In the lie early days clays was no room fur for the Church have linn had hlll their of ot minh M and antl I prophets of ot various |
