THE YEAR 1914.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 99, 30 August 1913, Page 5

THE YEAR 1914.

"OLD MOORE" PREDICTS.

A (JLOOMY OUTLOOK

Old Moore' h'as made.his appear-

unco wu.i Ins forecast—a gloomy one, in all conscience—for 1914.

In the first, quarter of the year th

deatn of a ro.yal personage is predicted, while towards the end <;f the year there is to be public mourning for "a death in high circles" and a fruitless

attempt to shoot an unpopular Minister. To add to thesa misfortunes, there is is to be a national strike and the downfall of a great institution.

The prospect is equally gloomy for foreign nations. The Turkish Empire in Europe is to be sponged off the map, a new rebellion is to break out in China, a horrible massacre cf villagers is foreshadowed in Asia Minor, Italy

is to experience the horrors of a great volcanic eruption, war between Germany and France will only narrowly ba averted, and an international dispute in West Africa will be productive of much trouble in Europe.

Among the few people who will have occasion for rejoicing in 1914 will he t:o suffragists, who, it is said, will come into their own. The year will Ik 1 a marked one among enthusiasts for women's votes, and it is predicted that iii March or April a measure will he

passed whereby tax-paying women will be enfranchised. As a result, the appointment of females to public positions will be a marked feature of the year, particularly during the month of December

The list of disasters is appalling cinematograph fires, the partial destruction of a hospital, the burning down of a Government building, mining explosions, numerous earthquakes, another volcanic eruption in Krakatoa, destructive gales, bank failures, aerial disaster, train disasters, cattle- pestilences, are but a few of the alarming incidents that will ocucr in hJli. There i-., however, one bright interlude. September 8 .to 12 are peculiarly favour-

able l days for love affairs. Proposals *i those days will be accepted, and marriages effected on them will turn

uTt to bo happy unions