Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-09

When the quarter century's run,
G.. Where sat the sire shall sit the son.
Here are my Interpretation l. WASH
ington was his own successor, and his
truthtelling was proverbial. 2. John
Adams is clearly indicated. His son
also attained to the Presidency, "but
not his sons son. though Mr.. Charles
Francis Adams has often been spoken of
as an available Presidential candidate.
If this prediction" was written in 1918
as | have guessed it was. Munroe and
John Quincy Adams would be known as
rising politicians. quite likely to attain
the honors of the Presidency. If they
did, SO much the better for the prophet;
if they did not, his untitled vaticination
need be awakened from its dusty slum-
ber. Between the Adamses did come
three sons of Virginia, who, with the
accidental John Tyler, 'made her FOUR;
nor has 1.-THE mother of Presidents since
borne another thus distinguished son.
8. Jefferson and his predecessor passing
"under his son" John Quincy Adams,
'.in different house" I believe it is a
historical fact that the venerable ex-
President died on the floor of the Capt.!
oil. 4. The war with England was be-
pr fG- al :ls,sJea .5ssak no kingly star not
doctrine" If it has not, I am at loss
for a translation. 6. John Quincy
Adams entered the White House at the
quarter-century, in 1925.
Z. Then comes who should have been before,
soldier who shall not have war.
This undoubtedly will fit Jackson,
who should have succeeded Mr.. Munroe
at the election of 1924, and whose Wig
orous treatment of the Carolina Nulli6er
deferred the civil war so many years.
There are two lines here that cannot
be made out. The slip of newspaper
was pasted over a wrinkle in the brown
paper of the "scrap-book, and it has
been frayed and blurred till the charac-
ters are illegible. The couplet began
with "men," sthen." "when,' or some
word ending in "en," and half way
across the second line is climb" or
"climb'-I think the latter. The alb
sence of this couplet makes the whole
passage incomprehensible to me.
8. g. After the fox the lion shall
Be lordly ruler over all;
But death shall in the mansion WELD
| Sword surer than in tended field
The lion, finding in his "mansion" q
'sword surer' than that he had escaped
in the ..tented field, "-"Master Mage
had an omniverous digestion for met
aphor; would not suit badly with Har-
rison, who survived the perils Of war to
die almost Immediately after his acces.
sion; but can any one suggest any rea.
son why his predecessor, Mr.. Van Blu.
rem, should be alluded to as ''the Fox''!
TO- After him there comes
! One who had friends, but shall have none.
/ IL. The hickory shall sprout again.
H. l3 soldier came from the batte-plain,
But he shall not long remain.
Nor shall his heir bear sway again.
H. Then youth shall follow. who
All shall know although none kuew.
10. Mr.. Tyler. whose conduct brought
about rupture in his party. IL. Mr.
Polk, [ learn from Benton's "Thirty
Years in the Senate" l., p. 374, was
spoken of by his popular admirers az
"Young Hickory" II. General Taylor
died year after his Inauguration. Is
Mr.. Fillmore was beaten subsequently
IA. Pierce, the youngest of the Presi
dents (to that time). whose selection
was such popular surprise.
Is. While the next doth bear the rule
To-morrow's sage is this days fool
There shall be trouble manifest
North and South and East and West.
The strong man shall the weak befriend,
But it shall not be the end.
This seems to indicate Buchanan
stormy administration, sectional troub
les increasing, the North taking an ac
tive interest in the slaves (''the weak }
and-though this is little far-fetche'
the successful abolition politicians 0
the near future being derided as mad
men.
49, Under the next shall widows mourn.
Thousands be slain. but millions born