"OLD MOORE"

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 85, 30 September 1911, Page 2

"OLD MOORE"

PROPHECIES FOR 1912. It would not be good for lis to know too much about the future, and "Old Moore," in liis customary annual performance, bears this great truth in mind. The most sensitive person may read the almanac through, and after absorbing all the predictions go about his business with unshaken nerves. Even if you happen to bo "a notable merchant king and noble philanthropist," and see your doom pronounced for February, there are so many men whom that description would fit that it may very easily be some other than yourself.

Among "Death's. Harvest" also is "one who has done much for his country, although somewhat misunderstood." The name of the country is not mentioned, and there are so many misunderstood people in the world that the label is particularly vague. It will not surprise anyone to hear that in January the football field will witness accidents. Moreover, a club will be muck upset by one of its players coming to grief, which will greatly affect its cliance of getting into the final. "It looks as if we have to lose one of our prominent men," is the next prophecy, but whether this refers to the footballer or to "a jockey who is seriously injured" (not unusual this in the steeplechase season) is not disclosed. "The masses will be in very contented humor, plenty of work with good wages being the order of the day." This is ' the good news for October. On the whole, the "hieroglyphic" is the best part of the almanac, though it breathes of disaster in six chapters. There is a railway accident, a coal-mine [accident, an Alpine accident, a fire, "a death in a royal family, and a death by lightning. All those* things will oeri tainlv happen next year, as they liap- | pened last year, anil the year before that.