Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-18
Mother ShiptOn's Prophecy.

70 pass.
Carriages without horses shall 60,
AID .ccideuts I'LL tue world with woe;
Acuuud the ~uil I'D thoughts snail ny
la the twiukllng vi eye,
W>teis shall yct more wonders do;
NJ" strange, yet shall be true.
The ~orld UPSIDE down saali be,
Aud gold w iouud at root VI tree.
Tuiou,u nlils nun sntil ride,
AIS no horse or ass BE al Ills SIDE
Uauer water Men shall Walk,
Sail Iide, slA sleep sh4ii talk;
In the ar men snall % s5;n,
In white, IL black Or green.
lrUu IN water shail noLt,
A etsy rs d wooden boat.
GJlu shall DO tOuud aud found
La laud thAt's not now Known.
FIRE aud water suall wonders do;
Il iKIaud shall ADMIT d J ".
Tue world to an end suall come
Ii eighteen Duudr aud eisnty-one.
The Republican Democrat has hereto
fore placed the above production i'll Its
columns. rather as u qualut literary
curiosity than to entertaining any be-
lief In It's prophetic character. IL may
we'll 10 doubted whether such perSen
AZ " Mother SuiptOn ever lived at any
period OF the worlds history. She Is
much more likely to be- u similar char
acter, AMI instead of having uttered
acr prophecies in tho tittee lth century,
the getter up of the same was blessed
with hiud-sight," Rather than with
foresight. having made the predictions
after the events referred TO have trans
pired, rather than previously, with the
exception of the last two liues Of bung
ling rhyme:
"TIs world to an end shall come
Iu rlghtsen hundred aud eighty one"
This is the nub of the whole thing,
for which the other predictions are
elaborated, and yet it remains to be
fu filled, its fulhllment, if genuine, be
ing nearly at the door. But is it gen
uiue? 1t would seem, perhaps, in one
sense. that this pletuorlc world OF ours
Is bad enough, aud wicked enough, a.
IN the days OF Noah, to DO wlpei out ,
out the above prophecy netwtthstand-
Ing, it is not likely to ct its deserts IL
one short year.
Nevertheless, Mother Shipton's
Prophecy has gaiued widespread NO
toriety, and has produced no little I'M
easiHess and apprehension, and indeed
..larm, III the minds of many. 81 dis
tresslns has been the effect produced IL
| cert ,in quarters that al elaborate anu
,ucce,siul effort has been put forth to
| show that tue prophecy Is OF modern
| and not OF ancient origin.
| So great has been the mischief anu
| distress produced i'll certalu circles III
England. that Prof. Piozzl Smytn an 4.
sidney Ii ali have addressed them selves
t. Its retutatIon. The result of theii
| hArn hvt. H. mi |
| seems to have first been published six
teen years ago. aaI nro'i".-A Inucn eA
clteHeut aud even consternasion, anu
mas Continued ever since to produc,
more or Less damaging and unhapp.
effects in upsetting the min Is and de-
,troylhs the peace of many. Hal the
authenticity OF these utt,rAnces besn
published, say the Investigators, We
SHOULD have been brought face to face.
with sufficiently startling ph9nome
non; for We should have been CON.
PEELED to believe that with no apparent,
moral or spiritual purposes to fulfil, h
woman of whom little or nothing Was
| known, and in language which could
not be explained away, forst0ld no,
only the wonders wrought On land anu
sea by the invention OF the steam Oh
| CINE, but even AN event OF 30 small i'm
porsance as the erection of the Crysta,
palace. The claims, however, of thes.
Y~lsi predictions to antiquity, We're
not supplemented by title of EVIL
dence, and they manifestly bore Oh
them ear marks Of impudent deception
Rsal prophecy belongs to God alone.
1t was gravely asserted that No her
| Oh ltuinr in toI, :
England. in the latter part of the iii.
teenth century, and that her prophecies
we're first published in printed book
in the year 144S, which book it is now
alleged is in the library of the British
museum. Another statement Was thai
a man ascript in the British museum
contains the prophecies. Investigations
shows that the library of the British
museum contains no such book OF
manuscript.
In the year 1862, Charles Hindley, Of
Brighton, England, published wha,
purported to be MOtaer Shipton Is
prophecies, and here for the first time
were given the rhymes of which 81
much has been said. It is certain thar
the so-called prophecies are all of them
receptions, written after the events t.
which they refer. The matter, how
ever, is completely set at rest by tn,
following paragraph from the pen OF
the editor of the Leeds (Eng) Me'-
curry, published in his paper "Mr.
Charles Hlndley, of Brighton, in let
ter to US. has made q clean breast OF
having fabricated the prophecy with
some ten others, included 10 his re-
print of cheap book, published il
1862"
Tale Mother Shiptonl-R1uenna TO-
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