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Show v Do you believe the war will end this year? If you do, and run across some friend who doubts it, you can prove it to him by a new prophecy which rests on the wizardry of figures produced by the Kansas City Star. When you meet the doubter, tell him to take certain statistics of the rulers of the Allies and figure it for himself. him-self. Here they are: Took Years Born. Office. Served. Age. Total. President Wilson 1856 1912 5 61 3,834 President of France 1860 1913 4 57 3,831 Kink of England 1865 1910 7 52 3,834 King of Italy 1869 1900 17 48 3,834 King of Belgium 1875 1909 8 42 3,834 Emperor of Japan 1879 1912 5 38 3,834 King of Serbia i844 1903 14 73 3,834 King of Montenegro 1841 1910 7 76 3,834 The list establishes the fact that 3,834 is the magic figure. But your doubting friend will at once say it is incomplete, in-complete, because Russians left out of it. You can show him that the deposed czar was born in 1868, ascended to the throne in 1891, had served 23 years when the revolution revo-lution unseated him and is 49 years old, and that these1 figures, too, add up to 3834. To determine when the war will end, just divide 383 1 by two and you get 1917. Simple, isn't it? Of course, if your friend is smart he will scratch his head and go to figuring, and at once he will find that no man's date of birth and his age will equal 1917; and if he is a little smarter than the ordinary he will proceed by analysis to discover that the date any present ruler took office, added to the number of years he has served also will make 1917, and finally that 1917 and-1917 make 3834. L Goodwin's Weekly. |