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PROPHEGIES TELL ITHING ECzEA OF COMING EVENTS These Fellows Know Just What Is Going {o Happen in 1918 JUTIGURA HEALS In Ankle. Was Like Water Blisters. Became a Sore Eruption, Terribly inflamed and Swollen. Could not Bear to Have Bedclothes Touch It, Jan. S.—For sev i London the irs have been playing false with “] had eczema on my ankle for about tix months. It was like water blisters, | the¢ astrologers—or else the astrolo- and began itching so that 1 could not ors have lost their skill in reading * : stand it and I scratched | !the star ht. But, studiously si- until it became a sore | lent on their failure to foretell any eruption. My ankle was . of the great events of the last three terribly inflamed and | ycars the modern magi continue their ! swollen ‘and I could not jannval budget of prophecies. bear to have the bed- Tn spite of the utter collapse of \-Im[;_es u,\u‘rha the prophesving business, there are ““Then I used Cuticura till, strange as it may seem, persons j.r,xp ard Ointment, and | who in this sort of thing. » ~hm 1 had used them about fc urwmk: he s of the last three years (v i“'l“q'q% hmx]:d]_ ‘sifn"bd)\\l'r: have been #o world-shaking that one _\71 1 Box 35, East Burke, Vt., ould have thought the astrologers 1916. ‘ T ht have read at le some of them |r.m~,scnrm~.r-.<w s with tendency Yet no. Not single ss or roughness should foresaw the outbreak of "‘“ ]‘-“P‘”t‘ “"’””(flll‘ var; although a New York hy not use on c ne that Ms he God face, and for every-day toilet purposes. | fying Shat e e 028 i & riding with “the great Cuticura, a pure, andv soap, touching | o e il o s 5 tion 2 > 2 1 !J,?,,"J,:“,;‘}4,’{,",\‘;’,'.‘3'5 or irrita | predicted it just a month before 1t v jcura T took place For Free Sample Each by Return | > i Non of ore « 2 G ynfa + Mail, address post-card: *Cuticura, | Nome of them foretold the downfall Dept. R, Boston.” Sold everywhere. | 1 7 nd the break-up of Rus- {sia In fact, at least one of the four b e e g jold reliable astrologers of Jingland foretold last year all sorts of rosy = | things for the Czar. The four British astrologers whose | " B | annual almanacs have been house- | p “- | hold words for at least three genera- [ 9} i tions are “Old Moore, ‘“Raphael,” . s ) i-m-mu ind “‘Zadkiel.” “i ! | Sepharial, the official prognostica- IOt Old Moore's Almanack,” con- ‘eniently ignoring the total failure of It Sonthes a]“d I\C‘ eves Like a Vis \mmlw«.\n»q for 1917, returns un- % . dismayed and almost as cocksure as Musterd Flaster Without | cver with the following for 1918: | the Burn or Sting i is the year of reparation, or Musterole is a el white ointment, | restitution, of reconstruction. The , raade with the oil of mustard. It d il | horizon of the political world still the work of the old-fashioned mustard |looms red and lurid and threatens to rain red ruin on the Western shores. plaster—does it better and does not bl ter. You do not have to bother with a | But peace is with us for a time. cloth. You simply rub it on—and usually | irenicon is signed. Germany is par- the pain is gone! titioned, and instead of Prussia hege- Maay doctors and nurses use Muster- | mony we get a Federal Oligarchy. The ole and recommend it to their patients. | Ottoman empire i relegated to the They will gladly tell you what relief it | josition of an exiled malefactor. Fur- from sore throat, bronchitis, croup, gives ther to the Bast she will attempt a stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, congestion, | reconstruction of her Asiatic edifice. pleurisy, rtheumaticm, lumbago, pains “France, T regret to say, falls foul and aches of the back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet, colds of thc chest (it oiten pre- vents pneumonia). of the best counsel of her friend while Russia and other Allies agreement, are 1n France stands out to her I S { detriment. © Many inteinal evils 30c and 60c jars; hospital size $2.50. A ! Dy nistanlans within her boarders, and the process lof reconstruction and rehabilitation | | will be attended with geat feuds, many s and nefarious plots. ‘Greece, who looks to come out of the war victorious as fickle, will ‘mc‘e( with a summary judgment and I condign punishment. Intestinal strife FIRST GERMAN PRISONER OF WAR TO ARRIVE IN THE UNITED STATES Philipp 8. Page of Brookline, Mass., l In a recent surprise engagement on With Kopf, 2 German Red Cross dog | a German trench Kopf was found in captured at riszons. Kopf was | his kennel and made prisoner. 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Toledo, Ohlo, | “nld by all Drusgists 75c. | | will do more effectively that which her inconstancy doserves at the hands of Nations, “Russia augments her victories by | a wise administration of her affairs and greater freedom will d the growth of that democratic spirit which well disposed of the bureau- Fler sons and daughters who ! fought for freedom will now begin to taste of its jovs. | “Portugal suffers and will continuo | to suffer from strife among her Army and Navy services “Of Belgium 1 can say no than it is subjected to many disasters and great strifes and finds its foreign ations to be bristling with thorns. | ustria, by reason of its fate rath- er than its deserts, gains more by | | peace than by war, and rests content- | | ed in the domination of the East. | | “The United $tates have more than | enough trouble on hand during the and her counsels are fraught ) elements of the most dangerous more re “Of Great Britain I have only this to say: She will become Greater Bri- tain by the institution of a perman- | ent Imperial Council and her strag- gling tendencies will be bound up to- l[:u'hi-r for the strengthening aof the| ine. Treaties of the greatest impor- | tance will be ned and our political | ally in the Far «t will afford a link to bind us to the ancient edifice. | “Imperceptibly and through much | | stress there will he created a political | democracy and spiritual humanism | which will bring classes together and weld the comity of nations as threads calors are woven into a gar- | ment for the service of man. Women | will receive their franchise. Thrones | [ will fall and kingdoms will be divid- 1 ed and by many changes and chances | | the people will find their lost inherit- | | ance.” | ‘ Last vear Sepharia had the United | States in an invidious position be- | J cause of nonparticipation in the con- ! | fiict; the Pope transférring his resi-l | | | | | | | of many | dence to France; Russia victoriously | sweeping over Turkey: Mexico in re- and the great war ended. | But among the spécific forecasts | that can be picked from his vague | prophecies for 1918 are the follaw-; volt | ing: i great naval disaster on Jan, 20. The overthrow of the DPresident of Mexico in the first 10 days of Febru- | ary. The fall of the Ottoman govern- | ment and the burning of Constanti- ope in the last days of March. The conclusion of the peace treaty in April, with greater glory for the Bri- tish Bmpire. Release of the prison- ers of war in May, Riats and confla- grations in Budapest in June and an- avchy rampant in Vienna in July. rance the victim of lawless anarch- ists and Poland free country in Au- A great international crisis with France and Russia seriously in- | volved and existing alliances gered in Octaber while Berlin is giv- | en over to violence and disorder. | November he secs as a most dra- | matic month, with a tragic crisis in! France, anarchy in Spain, the Rus- sian government falling and its demo- cratic party triumphing Having missed hin mark in most important matters in 1917, he is | shrewdly vague in his prognostica- tions for 1918, contenting himself generally with such words as “trouble to rulers, disturbance and unrest among the populace,” ‘“increase of | crime and lawlessness “‘unsettled weather in April” (!) “great activity | in shipping circles,” “notable persons in danger af death “society scandal of considerable magnitude,” ‘an ac- | tive time for railroads.” But he says “the blessings of peace | will now begin to manifest themselves thus implying that the war will end | before the year is out. Raphael is freer with his advice to statesmen than he with his forecast. | He warns “Lloyd George and his tee- | total nds” to take a lesson fram | Russia, where “the tectotal policy™ | was the chief cause of the trouble. | | And he calls for a general election so | as to rid His Majesty of the milk-and- | water politiclans who are a source of | wealkness to his Empire.’ “The Kaiser still lives,” he writes, “but it is said in more than one quar- ter that he is dying of cancer and | head trouble. Should he survive 1917 he will still be unfler even more un- favorable influences, and an end may be put to his life and his relgn at any moment.” He warns President Wilson that “evil lurks in his nativity and may | burst through at any moment.” In his hicroglyphic for the year he shows a picture of the Kaiser in a | mass of flames, fed by a pair of devils. Orion’s Almanac 15 even vaguer than the others. One has to search arcfully for a prediction that 1s con« crete. He forsees labor troubles, disaen- tent among employes af the British railway and postal services, a new era dawning for Russia, a closer bond | of sympathy comenting Great Britain | | and her colonies, the nccessity for'| | prduent statesmanship to keep Eng- | land free from complications brought about by the wily diplomacy of her | foes. H He foretells a ational crisis” in Austria, man troubling France | or Austria or both, Germany throwing obstacles in the way of an equitable settlement and trying to cause dissen- sion between the Alies. He thinks an armistice may be pro- posed in July: he hopes King George will escape the deaths and accidents that threaten crowned | heads in September, but says the con- ‘ } figurations of the planets in Novem- ber “augur well for peace and a sm.j and Italy, o war either in Germany | i and sickness tlement of hostiliti and that *a endan- | . HEART BADLY T “Fruit-a-tives” 3oon Relieved This Dangerous Condition | 632 GrrrArD ST. East, “For two years, I was a victim of | Acute Stomach. Z{eart and I had pains all over my body, 50 that I could hardly move around. I tried all kinds of Medicino but none | of them did me any good. At last, I | decided to try “‘Fruit-a-tives’’. I bought the first box last June, and | now I am well, after using only three | boxes. I recommend ‘‘ Fruit-a-tives” ! to anyore suffering from Indigestion’’. FRED J. CAVEEN. 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25c. At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruite | a-tives Limited, Ogdcn buxg, N.Y. ; - | ToroNTO. | Indigestion and Gas In The | 1t afterwards atlacked my | halt called and a rest from the ! S saughter.” { Zadkiel, who was the vaguest of all the prophets in his interpretation of the message of the stars for 1917, is | a little more s this year. He says it is brobable “the Central to SRR s s i . PAREL S 3 ; : >owers will sue for peace on our and our Allies’ terms at the end of 1917 or carly in 1918; the relative positions of Jupiter and Venus presignify a vie- torious peace for us.” Again, “at Berlin, Vienna and Con- stantinople the indications are thos of widespread suffering, mortality, epi- demic nd defeat; and mor over of misfortunes, if not overthrown, the rulers of the Central Powers. At Petrograd the sun in the 10th favorable to Russia pa ticipating in the vietory of her Allies, dis mansion is | | but only after very hard fighting. I | sidious enemies and anarchists will | cause grave internal troubles.” | He is “inclined to anticipate” that.} a victorious peace will follow soon af- | | ter the total cclipse of the sun June 8« In the summer he foretells a great sttuggle of the socialists of German: against their rulers, “in which it not very likely to succeed,” but the will be great misery among the mon people of Germany and m ickness, which the highest @ { will not escape. - E In reading the horoscope of German emperor, Zadkiel points® that Mereury being in quadratury the moon. direct, 59 degrees. 2 mj utes, in Kebruary, indicates the de opment “in such a criminal an attad of ‘acute mania,” while “the direet of {he midheaven to the parallel / the declination of Alpha Arietis, | the combined natures of Saturn aj Ma by threatens absolute ruin or de violence. “These two directions will begin operate at the end of 1917 and will main in force for the first quartes 1\ AW VAV W A AW AW AN N AWAWAWARAWAWA AWANAWAGAWAWAWAWA I AWANAWAWAWAVAVWAW IWAWAV VAN, AWAAWY . 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