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Show AN OLD LADY'S PROPHECY. Tbe Seventeen Year locusts and Boy Bablefr a Sure Sign of War. X met an interesting old lady in os& of the Hudson river cities recently. She Was in her ninety-third year and was much interested in a telegram which reported re-ported that farmers in the vicinity o$ Nyaok were plowing up thousands of 17 year locusts in tho grub form, the first appearance of these inseots, it waa stated, since 1877. Giving her speota ales a little nudge, the old lady looked ap from, her paper and exolaimed: "Herel That means war I In 1860 flocks Of these locusts great big, clumsy things were found all over the country, and va the wing of every one of them coultf be plainly seen the letter ' W. ' The greaJ war of the rebellion 'followed. I teU tou we'll have war cither hero or ia Europe if those cnttora come around again. "Ahother sure sign," she added, "1 the fact that all the babies this year art boys. I read in an old history when I was a little girl that in the days oj Rome's snpremacy the approach of wa wss always plainly indicated by thf great birth rate of male children. Loot out for stormy times," said the old lady, as she gavo her spectacles another udg, New York Mail and Expwos. |