Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1910 — A Gloomy Outlook— Mme. Thebes’ Prediction. [ARTICLE]

A Gloomy Outlook— Mme. Thebes’ Prediction.

Among the gloomy prophecies made concerning the comet the most famous is that of Mme. Thebes, the Frenchwoman, who has attained distinction by her prediction of some notable public events. Mme. Thebes’ cheerful outlook contains these statements: “The year 1910 will be one to look back to with trembling. The earth is under a terrific strain from comets and planetary revolutions. Human is red. That means blood. Political events are black. Terrible changes are imminent. This winter France will be swept by floods. Paris will be under water. The influence of form changes in other planets and the coming of the comet will affect us for the worse. “The strain of the stars will be most severely felt in America. The people of America will have to pay dearly for all their riches and sudden prosperity. With the coming of another comet disaster will descend upon America. A financial crash Is impending, to be followed by a long string of suicides. Black ruling us, men will commit all manner of crimes and knaveries for money. The times are swaying toward degeneration. We are swinging within the evil influence of a strange orbit. Our souls are jarred from their proper bearings. I dare not say all that is revealed to me. It would be too terrible.” Mme. Thebes would seem to have quite enough. Her predictions have amused the astronomers, who point out that the comet can not possibly affect us and who recall all the comet scares of the past to emphasise their point that we are in no danger whatever. Before a vast audience which filled every corner of Royal Albert Hall in London, the Royal Geographical society Wednesday night presented Commander Robert E. Peary with the special gold medal of 'the society, and through its president welcomed the American explorer as “the first and only human being who had ever led a party of his fellow creatures to the pole of the earth.” Latest style type faces and the best paper stock used In printing it The Republican office.