Show Prophets of Evil By Ih 1 Ella Wheeler I Republican Special Service CuP Copyright I iso Oi Many seers and prophets of or evil I Iare are making nervous people miserable I Iby by their forecasting of terrible calam calam- lUes Statisticians are arc adding to the thc worry by enumerating the tho extraordinary I nary mmary nar number of earthquakes fires and amid hurricanes which have visited the earth during urh 1 the last year But no one of these theo statisticians seems to see seo the tho weak link In his bli chain of or evidence that last year was tho the worst year ar In the history Without doubt there have been man many more mOIe earthquake tidal Udal waves and hurricanes In mi other years ears but the they have occurred in uninhabited portions of or the globe nn and were not recorded m One Ono who travels tra over the thc earths earth's surface finds continual evi 1 evidences dences of oC earthquakes es and eruptions of volcanoes of or which there ro are arc no data conserved con by history I Unrecorded DisH 1 The Instrument which records earthquake earth earth- earthquake quake shocks is of or comparatively modern modern mod mod- ern cnn Invention In In Asia Africa Egypt the arctic regions and antl In mi the thu temperate temper temper- ate zones 8 there are vast ast tracts o of uninhabitable un un- inhabitable lands and amI forests tremendous tremendous 1 dous shocks s and niI convulsions of or nature na nn- ture have taken place In thc these e localities beauties beau beau- ties lies and amid had hall there been human life in those regions these convulsions would have become calamities Hall Had thele thel been len no mo city on em the sites of San Francisco and anti Kingston the earthquakes earth earth- quakes cs would woul have havo been mere macre incidents inci dents passing without comment as fiS havo Innumerable others Thou Thousand of such shocks shoel s have havo occurred oc oc- oc- oc all over O the lie earths earth's surface for millions of or years and amid still human beings beings beings be be- ings multiply The oldest o est inhabitants of if the earth can no doubt douht remember when in his mis youth tho the near dissolution Lion tion of or the world was predicted by I seers an and prophets An Anti And yet et the tho world goes oes on It will continue to go on 01 III for Cor many man more millions of years It of time info for a n planet to decay lle a In its turn ours OUIS will perish and its lis material will ill bo he work d over py y tho U Great Gnat Chemist into new mien worlds worl s. s There is 11 little sense o In lying awake nights or becoming despondent ent luring during tho ho days over oyet the anticipated Uil of or orI I the thc earth There is no logic or reason In spoilIng spoil spoil- I In Ing og today by h 1 fear of or tomorrow V Death the Death the transition of or the soul from tIme the body Is body is Inevitable I Why lay Fear lath Death V I And It is n as desirable ns as Inevitable To o live Jive on forever in this same tamo body hody would bo he the lie most monotonous and dreary of fates Variety makes Hf life Interesting New lW scenes scones new experiences experiences' enc nce now clothes new amusements an new pursuits new Ideas these Ideas these are what render life liCe agreeable So n a new mew ho body body body-a l a a liner body In body in aten anew a ten now sphere In a new state of cx exist exist- t- t I once ence V Is to be desired rather than I Whether tho the end of or this phase comes through h sickness sickness' old ago age a an nn automobile a railroad a a. bicycle or 01 earthquake a n. tidal wave or a n. hurricane burn hurri cane it is inevitable I The on one omit thing to lo do is to realize I that it is only tho time end of or one phase and to live livo In lii such I a mental condition that th the tho transition will be a happy one olle and mill the opportunities for fOl usefulness enlarged d. d Tills is Ig not mint achieved by hy j keeping Iho tho mind In a n state stale of or fear I an and nervous terror terrol over n a l possible Calam calam ca- ca lam lamity Sly Ity What Is to lo be he will ill he be Go about your yom business s and perform your lilly duty and enjoy your recreations a as I If no such uch thing as an had ever been heen V Xo XI Cau o for Anxiety 4 Realizing that the the transition called death awaits you ou somewhere down the road and remember that you ou cnn can take lake nothing with you ou save the tho character character char char- acter actor you build day uy It by day clay but hut do 10 donot not hot wn waste te one ono hour In Iii anxiety t about the tho cause day or oi manner of oC your exit Leavo It all with God Goll It leall really does not hot matter mailer very ery much If you stop slop and consider tho the subject Had lInd there been no eruption of or Vesuvius Vesuvius Vesuvius vius in 79 B. 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C VV not ono of li those peo plo pic who suffered death then would be bc living living- on earth now You will not bo ho living ono one hundred years ears hence If there are V no earthquakes earthquakes earth earth- quakes ces no tidal waves wave no contortions of nature Why hy then lien fret yourself into a state of nervous Prostration over ovel the tho fear of or some sonic possible catastrophe Keep Keel busy your own character character char char- acter actor Into beautiful form Corm and let God twist the thc earth as Ho lIe will Character alone survives sUr and endures en- en I I dures Ules through all the multitudinous changes of nature M Make J t of or I III r. r U tU ft t boi W-v W bo be for 01 ultimate to good oo V con of tho time 1 Perhaps future ulmo generations will vili willIt It learn V urn tho the lesson the earthquake I Is tryIng try try- rY 1 Ing lug to teach tench that perhaps it is trying to leach teach an and avoid building crowded Clo cities Perhaps time they will wilt learn lean how necessary y it is to reclaim the earth anti and scatter themselves over larger sace spaces But Bui even If JC the they do all nIl must eventually even even- lually pass from front earth eaith More 1 people died iel of oC accidents of or travel by automobile horses railroads boats last year eaL than died 1101 in earth earth- quakes Yet let et us not nol be he afraid to travel or to stay at homo home in iii conse conse- quence Let us not nol be of or those Who Vimo all their lives os through fear of death are ore subject to lo bondage V Live wo work rk asp aspire I cc rejoice rejoice and and when death comes be real ready hour lOur lOuron But do lIo not rush i forth I every on oil the wings o of fear to lo meet moot It I |