New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-11-20

| Who shall see his century.
The hero Of Appomattox is here un-
doubtedly referred to, and the Centennial
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 rave
But he shall have who should not have.
When the tide of storm is over
-Four shall make and not 4,
He who shall be no more,
And all that's past not make a 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 nine
teenth President; there has been sbattle
smoke enough in a political sense, when
1t Is taken into consideration the recent
Electoral frauds Can the last two lines
by any possibility refer to the sage of
Grammercy park, received at the hands
of the Tribune.
But Columbia shall again
Rise, and farcr be than then (sic).
Brother shall with brother speak
Whom he hath not seen week:
Letters shall go meath the deep,
Likewise over the mountain steep:
Men shall speak to brazen ears,
That shall be mouths in after years,
Words spoken shall be sent through post,
SO no syllable be lost;
Adrop of water shall have then
The force of many thousand men.
It does not take very fanciful imae-
ination to draw from the above clear
indication of Prof. Edison's numerous
wonders of invention. The alleged motor
of Mr.. Kee!y, the Philadelphia mechanic,
claims to utilize "a drop of water" with
such effect that thousands of pounds
pressure are obtained.
Much of the next passage is senseless,
and clearly written in imitation of the old
weirds. Whether the rain falling cas-
men ordain:' might not be taken for the
modern weather predictions, is question
for the Individual reader to pass upon
Ghosts shall guide the pillow, and rain
And snow shall, fall as men ordain:
The commonest of stone or stick
Other shall be than long, broad, thick.
Here and in a foreign cline
Men shall be at he same time.
Bread ye shall from ashes bake,
Ice they shall to diamonds make,
And salt seas their thirst shall Stake.
The conclusion, which looks very
mchh like the time when 1.-TWO SUNDAYS
meet" or tomorrow come never,'' runs
as follows:
All these things shall happen, when9
1heV shall h2DDen-nOt before
Six years shall be reckoned four
Thirteen shall be thirty nine;
This shall be the certain sign;
NINE and nine rehersing take,
SElght and one The nine shall make.)
when nlnety-two and eighty-one.
All these marvels shall be done.
A singular explanation of this apparent
~ unmeaning riddle has been suggested
by mathematician named Townsed.
"When ninety-two are eighty-one.:'
Washington took his seat as president in
1889; add ninty two and you have eighty
one QsSD. This 1881 is also made up Of
ones and elghts, forming mines in revers-
ed order. "The thirteen may be taken
as abiding to the original number of
States, which the rhvmer (remember that
she is stated to have written in in 1889.
not in 1912 or 1879 would have in her
mind. The recent introduction of a bill
into Congress proposing Constitutional
amendment to extend the term of the
Executive to six years, may cover the
line
Six years shall be reckoned four,
Mr.. Marsh considers the document as
genuine, and is able to produce a cepy
OF the green mountain (Vt) Chronicle
published in 1913, which contains an al.
most verbatim copy.