Show B tl j the prophets who foretold king edwarda failure to ibach tho full height of his ambition may lo 10 thoroughly discredited before many weeks tho king is improving and give signs of an early recovery then the prophecies will lo 10 heard of no more the words of prophets have about tho same bearing on life or death as the howling of dogs the ordinary canine can be depended upon to howl once a day but some one has said that a dogs howling is a sure sign of death it is juit so certain a sign but no more sp as tho setting of the sun each day for each occurs daily everything within the range of possibility lity is predicted by somebody though taji thousand prophecies fail of realization alio one guess that proves to be 13 spoken of as wonderful and is attributed toa supernatural power it is like fortune telling this guessing affair called prophecy the fortuneteller declarer you are to take a journey a letter is to come bad or good is tu befall you a dear friend or near relative is dead and so on through a lang list of everyday every day happenings if the romancer or necromancer hits the mark once in other titan gen cral ties he is looked upon with awe and aston although in a dozen i statements he be entirely wrong it only goes to prove that people like to bo humbugger humbugged hum bugged |