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Show m 9mi WAR PROPHETS "Tho war will end In sixty days," I h wiso mnn said a year ngo, "for I Germany Is out of spuds, with hnm nnd eggs a getting low. Old Kaiser Hill has shot his wad, tho crown prlnco has boon killed, with French nnd Hubs nnd Englishmen, Berlin will soon be filled. Then Germany will ho cut up, Just llko a big estnto; es-tnto; u slice for (leorgo, n hunk for Nick, while Frenchmen bnfflo fate, and satisfy tho old tlmo grudge of Alsaco and Lorraine, by oddlng halt of Germany unto ths French domain. do-main. " Another proph. declared ono night, tho date I don't recall, when ho told all about tho war down In the city hall that England and her allied friends were Just about to croak and that In less than thirty dnys they'd wear tho kalocr's yokoj that Germany Ger-many could lick tho world, without a single doubt, nnd that within n few moro weeks tho world would find It out. Thus war prognostlcators screech and howl both day and night, that wo mny know far In ndvnnco tho outcome of tho light. Mothlnks It I should prophesy about this blooming wnr, I'd uo It on n wiser plan, a safer ono by far. I'd wait till ono side yelled, "Enough," and laid down spear and gun, and then, whichever sldo that was, I'd Bay, "Tho other's won,Kred Waldo Crockett, Salt Lake City. |