The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-11-14
doubtedly referred to, and the Centen-
NAL celebration at Philadelphia. But
the most remarkable part of this

prophecy is the following:
Rule afterward shall be got
BY the one whose it was not;
Men shall roar, and rage, and rare,
But he shall have who should Eot have,
When the tide of storm is over
Four shall make and not a.
He who was shall he no more.
And ell that's past not make score.
This will seem almost incredible to
many, but it is proved beyond doubt
that the lines were in existence, and in
one instance published, before Grant
left the Executive Chair. Mr.. Hayes
is the nineteenth President; there has
been battle smoke enough in po'
litical sense, when it il taken into con
sideration the recent Electoral frauds
Can the last two lines by any possibil-
ity refer to the sage OF Gramercy Park,
and the systematic dispatching he has
received at the hands of the Tribune
But Columbia shall again
Rise, and iairer be than then (sic),
Brother shall with brother speak
Whom he hath not seen a week;
Letters shall so meath the deep.
Likewise over the mountain steep;
Men shall speak to brazen ears,
That shall be months in after years.
Words spoken shall be sent thro' post.
So no syllable be lost;
A drop of water shall have then
The force of many thousand men.
1t does not take very fanciful i'm
agination to draw from the above a
clear indication of Professor Edison's
numerous wonders of invention. The
alleged motor of Mr.. Keely, the
Philadelphia mechanic, claims to util-
ize "a drop of water with such effect
that thousands of pounds pressure are
obtained.
Much of the next passage is sense
less, and clearly written in imitation
of the old weirds. Whether the rain
falling 'as men ordain' might not be
taken for the modern weather predic-
tions, is a question for the individual
reader to pass upon.
Ghosts shall guide the plow. and rain
And snow shall fall as men ordain;
The commonest of stone orstick
Other shall be than long, broad, thick.
Here and in Il foreign cline
Men shall be at the same time,
Bread We shall from ashes bake,
Ice they shall to diamond make,
And the salt seas their thirst shall slake.
The conclusion, which looks very
much like the time when two Sun
days meet or tomorrow come ney-
er,' runs as follows:
And these things shall happen, when?
They shall happen-not before
Six years shall be reckoned four,
Thirteen shall be thirty nine:
This shall be the certain sign;
Nine and nine reversing take
(Eight and one the nine shall make).
When ninety-two are eighty-one.
All these marvels shall be done.
A singular explanation of this ap'
parently unmeaning riddle has beer
suggested by mathematian named
lTownsend. When ninety-twO are
eighty one. Washington took his sea-
as President in 1889; add ninety-twe
and you have eighty-one QSSD. This
1881 is also made up of ones and
eights, forming mines in reversed or
der. The thirteen may be taken al
alluding to the original number o.
States which the rhymer (remembel
that she is stated to have written il
1889, not in 1872 or 1879 would have
| in her mind. The recent introduction
of bill into Congress proposing S
Constitutional amendment to extend
the term of the Executive to six years
may cover the line
Six years may be reckoned four.
Mr.. Marsh considers the docuInen'
as genuine, and is able to produce
copy of the Green Mountain (Ver
monD Chronicle, published in 1913
which contains an almost verbatim
copy.