Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-12-19

The strange chronicler continues
The first shall, too. the second be,
1T the Fates tell Truth as even he:
Where sits the sire shall sit the son,
But not the sons son,
And ere the son shall ruler he
One place shall send three
Three with one shall make her four al.
And there shall be no more.
Reference y undoubtedly made to
General Westinghouse proverbial
truth telling, in the second line, and
to the succession OF John Quincy
Adams TO the place of his father, in
the third sBut not his sons soo,''
seems to point TO Mr.. Charles Francis
Adams, who has universally failed in
his aspirations to become President.
Between the Adamses did come three
from Zone place." { Virginia, who.
with the accidental John Tyler, made
the fourth nor has the "Mother of
Presidents" eince born son distin-
gnished by even nomination to the
Chief Magistracy. The prophecy
proceeds
The first sprung from these fecund loins
In death his predecessors joins:
Who beneath his son shallpasa
And in house that different was.
The next one shall have peace and war;
The third shall brook nc kingly star :
When the quarter centurys run,
Where sat the sire shall sit the son.
1t is difficult to interpret a portion
of this extract Jefferson and John
Adams, it is well known, died on the
4th day of July, 1926, their simultan
eous death forming one of the most
remarkable coincidents in history !;
but the meaning of the clause, "And
IN house that different was" is
rather vague. The venerable Ex-
President died on the floor of the
Capitol but the latter building was
part of the original one erected at the
seat of Government Mr., Madison's
Administration witnessed both the
war with England and the period of
peace and prosperity which followed
1t; while the quarter century, reckon
ed from 1900, saw the inaugural cers-
monies of the younger Adams.
Here several lines in the paper al Q
so obliterated or defaced thatthey are
unreliable.
Then come who should have been before,
A soldier who shs, not nave any war.
"Old HickJry's' record seems to
bear this out, especially the last line.
The vigorous manner 10 which he''sat
down" upon the Nullifers of that day
deferred" so MIR. Bancroft says,"the
approaching civil war for many
years." The prophecy continues
Q,2) After the fox the lion shall
Be lordly ruler over all
But death shall in the mansion wleli
Sword surer than the tented field.
t3) After him there comes anon
One who had friends, but shall have none.
(4) The hickory shall sprout again;
A soldier come from battle plain,
But shall not long remain,
Nor shall his heir bear sway again,
90 Then youth shall follow, who tsic)
All shall know, though none knew.
Taken in their successive order, the
above lines ought to apply first, to
Martin Van Buren, { but why should
he be called fox?) second to Geuer-
al Harrison, who died almost immedi-
ately after his Inauguration; third, to
Tyler, whose conduct caused rup
ture in his party; fourth, to Polk. who
was popularity known as Young Hick-
DRY. See Benton's "Thirty Years in
the Senate" l. p. 374, and fifth, to
Franklin Pierce. the youngest up to
that time, and whose selection was q
surprise to everybody.
Wbbailaaf 'btf he fdle,
To-morrow's sage is this days fool:
There shall be trouble manifest,
North and South, and East and West.
The stronger man shall the weak be-
friend,
Bot il shall not be the end;
Under the net Lincoln1 shall the widows
mourn,
Thousands be slain, but millions born;
Death, in the strife, shall pass him BY,
But when the peace cometh, he shall die.
A soldier after him shall be,
Who shall see his century.
The hero of Appomattox is here
undoubtedly referred to, and the Gen.
tennial celebration at Phladelph ia.
But the most remarkable part of this
prophecy is the following:
Rule afterwards shall be got
BY the one whose it was not
Men shall roar and rage and rave
But he shall have who should no; have,
When the tide of storm is over
-Four shall make and not a.
He who shall be no more,
And all 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
ln a political sense, when it is. taken
into consideration the recent EIector
al frauds. Can the last two lines by
any possibility refer to the sage of
Grammercy Park, and the systematic
d,spatching he has received at the
hands of the Tribune.
But Columbia shall again
Rise and tarer be than then tsic),
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 10 brazen ears,
That shall be mouths in after years,
Words spoken shall be sent through post,
So no syllable Ue lost;
drop of..water shall have then
The force of many thousand men.
Ii does not take very fanciful i'm
agnation to draw from the above a.
clear indication of Professor Edison's
numerous wonders of invention. The
alleged motor of Mr.. Keely, the Phil
adelphia mechanic. claims to utilize
ga drop of wateL" with such effect
that thousands of pounds of pressure
| are obtained.
Much of the next paragraph is
senseless, and clearly written in imita-
ton of the old weirds. Whether the
rain falling s'as men ordan" might
not be taken TOR the modern weather
predictions, is question for the indi-
vidual reader to pass uDon.
Ghosts shall guide the plow and rain
| And snow shall fall as men ordain
| The commonest of stone or stick
| Other shall be than long broad, thick.