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Show I FORETELLING FUTURE July will be a month of big news Important happenings, also those less Important events that are more interesting. inter-esting. .You can bank safely on this. No vlfehcraft Is involved in the forecast, it will be the inevitable reaction from the dull. uneventful conditions I throughout the world which j ou W have noticed lately in reading the newspapers. News has been 'running quiet,' w j xery little "breaking" except rouiine 1 events. So quiet. In fact, that even I editorial writers who usually lind no difficulty in saying much about noth-I noth-I ing have been hard put to it, for B something to comment about. B When born newspaper men observe B the news running into a slump like B this, they begin to sniff the air. In- B stinct tells them that a wave of big B news is about to "break." B This instinct is so highly developed B In some newspaper men that occa- B 8ionally, when things are dullest, they B suddenly get a premonition that B something important Is on the verge I of happening. Then they sit tensely, watching the telephone and telegraph. H M I. MMMa U WVA. It'r r.llko n H feast or a famine. A long, dull streak I always is followed by such a congest- I ed and sudden outburst of events that I the big problem becomes one of eliml- I nation determining the 50 beBt bets H out of 100 good ones. I You have observed these waves in B the past crime waves, suicide waves, B the recent waves of brokerage house B failures, etc. B The Impending wave of news may B arrive before July any hour. B Mysterious undercurrent are con- B stantly at work all through man's B civilization and in what psychologists B I call the social mind, or composite B brain of the masses. B L4fe is an endless cycle of action B and reaction. B The highest prices come just before H die panic and smash. The dullest ex H litence is on the eve of exhilarating excitement. The blackest hour is JUBt before dawn The hour of contentment content-ment and bliss precedes monotony. All this is part of the wihp scheme of things contrast without which, life would be dull and boresome. The ocean tide runs out Just so far, then it turns and starts back, so on forever. So, too, with the mental and emotional tides that pulsate through ( humanity. Confidence, like pride, ! cometh before the fall. Discouragement Discourage-ment Is the forerunner of bettor things. . An |