I came across a Chinese. tract the other day put forth by the Vegetarian Society (Shan Tang), with the following prophecy in real old Moore's Almanac style:—
1 In the third and fourth months (urlar) of this year, pestilence will break out among cattle and largo numbers will die.
2. In the fifth and sixth months, disease and pestilence will appear amorist man and women of all ages, 3.In the seventh and eighth months, death will be busy in the haunts of men and heaven will have stricken down the greater part of the population.
4, So that by the ninth and tenth months there will be super-abundance of rice everywhere and no one to eat it. There will be roads everywhere and no one to walk along them. To avoid these evil consequences, the people are exhorted to pay earnest attention to the worship of heaven, especially on the 1st and 15th of each month and to perform good works in the shape of repairing temples and roads and building bridges.
Now for the fulfilment. The pestilence was certainly pretty bad syanng the cattle in the months stated, though happily the worst seems to be over now. A Christian dairyman whom I know well lost 12 cows in the fourth month and is about bankrupt over it. The second period of the prophecy is new with us and there is undoubtedly lot of infectious disease and death about, but whether the prophecy will be fulfilled to the hilt or no still remains a secret in the lap of the gods.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.