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

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way to sorrow are sacredly kept, but
the effects are seen in every Mormon
house. TRUFAx.
COLUMBIA's PROPHECY.
I'VE publish the following prophecy"
by request. EDIToR.]
The production was recently brought
to light by correspondent of the New
World. 1t was found in an old scrap
book of Abby March. dated Nov. 10th,
1909, and published in the .New World
June 5th. 1873. Mr.. March, the pro-
prietor of the book, says Abby's prophe-
cy was family joke whenever Presi-
dent of the American Republic was
elected. There are some remarkable
coincidence between the prophecy and
the correspondents commentary, which
makes it interesting to the observer of
the times. Hemena0ay.
"CoLUMBIA's PROPHECY"
have taken the liberty to change any
spelling that does not accord with our
modern ideas, and to place my comments
with the lines suggesting them, not in
the more cumbrous form of foot-notes.
Thus it begins
Columbia, home of liberty,
Shall not twenty rulers see
Ere there shall be battle SMOKE
Ere peace shall seem to be broke
And in waves of peril tossed
The ancient order be deem'd lost
Mr.. Hayes, observe, is the nine
teenth President there has been "bat-
tle-smoke," and the present political
agitation may be taken as fulfilling the
rest of the prediction.
But Columbia shall again
Rise, and farer be than then.
Wonders great all men shall see,
Coaches without steeds shall be,
Air shall burn, and water fly
Swift as eagles cut the sky
These lines would seem to relate to
railroads and gas illuninators. The
telegraph 4fl alssz,s ssaan steamers. 4AlAntrin
Brother shall with speak
Whom he hath not seen a week;
Letters shall go meath the Deep
Likewise Ger the mountains steep;
Boats shall sail against the wind.
Or sailors, leave fleet ships behind.
The ensuing six lines seem to shadow
forth those wonderful inventions of Prof.
Edison, the telephone and phonograph,
and-though this latter point may strike
you as fanciful-the alleged motor of
Prof. Keely:
Men shall speak to hrazen ears
That shall be mouths In after years;
Word spoken shall be sent by post.
And no syllable be lost.
A drop of water shall have then
The force of many thousand men.
The prophecy" then continues
Ghosts shall guide the plough, 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 foreign cline
Men shall be at the same time.
Bread folks shall from ashes bake.
Ice they shall to diamonds make.
And the salt seas his (ther) thirst shall slake.
Much of this passage is senseless, and
clearly written in imitation of the old
weirds, to which l have made allusion
above. Whether the rain falling ''as
men ordain" might not be taken as pre-
dieting the modern weather reports, is
a question for the individual reader te
pass upon. The sastral bodies" Of
which I have repeated mention (see alsc
notes to Sir Walter Scott's poem, "Tht
Lay of of Last Minstrel" canto III.)
might fill the conditions of another
couplet, while 'sthe commonest of ston,
or stick" etc., reminds me that an En-
glish journal speaks of discussion OF
possible fourth dimension of space
that is, something beside length, breadth
and thickness. These, however, ar,
rather forced constructions to place upol
what was manifestly nonsensical imi
tation. | resume:
Fish shall be where fish are not;
Wells of fire shall be sought;
Women shall be turned to men.
May I satisfy these conditions witt
the artificial cultivation of food fishes
the oil-wells of Pennsylvania and ou
petroleum area, and the agitation 70
female suffrage and equal rights con
Quoted notably in the United States?
Women shall be turned to men.
All 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 eightyone,
All these marvels shall be done.
This looks very much like the tim
when 1.-TWO Sundays meet," or "to-mol
row come never; but have chance
upon a singular explanation-"Whe
nlnety-two are eighty lone" Washing
ton took his seat as President In 1889
add ninety two, and you have eighty-on
QS81). This 1881 is also made up {
ones and eights, forming mines in II
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