Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-07-14

their foul emanations. No fish
nor animal food should be
eaten from 1882 to 1885, for the flesh
of nearly all the animal kingdom and
the fnny tribes that inhabit the riv-
ers, streams, lakes and oceans will be
diseased, and therefor those who par
take of the flesh shall poison their
blood and be taken away shortly after.
The poison that enters the system
by eating diseased meats is just as
deadly as to be innoculated with the
plague. Farmers will be so stricken
with fear that they will cease to till
their farms, and gaunt famine will
step in to make human misery
more wretched; fanaticism will
spring up in many places, and
bloodshed will result therefrom; muir
derers and robbers will ply their hel-
lish work with IMMUNITY, for there
will be little or no law; everybody
will be absorbed with their trying task
of keeping alive; people will be
buried in deep trenches, uncofined;
the Judge will be stricken from the
bench, the pleader at the bar, and the
merchant and customer will be seized
with the fatal malady while trading;
death will come slow and lingering
in some cases, but in most it will be
swift and terrible In seaport towns
thousands will be buried in the bays
and harbors, the law to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
In many countries vast districts
will be deserted, and even in Europe
some portions will appear so near that
condition as to appal the traveller. One
may walk whole days over hundreds
Of farms without seeing living thing.
On ali the large tracts Of land that
were once animated with animal life,
not vestage will be seen. The hous-
es on the deserted farms will show
signs of disarrangment and negli-
gence that plainly tells of the hurried
departure of the owners to the popu-
lous cities. Let a traveller pursue his
way till be comes to the small villages,
many Of which will contain a single
living thing Let him look into the
houses; let him pass through the
doors that stand ajar and witness the
Sickening spectacle Of whole families
dead. Let him still wander, if he yet
have courage, through the country
stricken with black death, and in the
fields, on the hillside, and in the dark
canyons of the mountains, and he will
see every phase Of this terrible mala-
ady, till the eliminating point of death
is reached-the end of all attracted
with this uncurable disease.
The country people will fee to the
crowded cities for aid, but unless
they are rich the physicians will give
them little or no attention. The poor
will die by the tens of thousands
without a ministering hand to sooth
their dying agonies. The doctors will
be in universal demand and exorbit-
ant in charges for their services.
Bear in mind, no doctor or medicine
Can give you any more aid than you
can yourself The disease cannot be
cured, but unless your system is too
weak to impure, copious draughts of
warm water and vegetable diet will
prevent the disease poisoning the blood
in the process Of digestion Ami
NAL food will poison those who con-
tinue the use Of it. Fine cotton or
sponge dipped into spirits of camphor
and kept in the nostriis, and frequent
ly changed, will prevent the blood
from becoming poisoned through the
organs of desperation. Many people
will think that the total destruction
of animal life will occur during this
era plague. After the black death
there will be two years of fire which
will rage with fury in all parts of the
world from 1895 to 1887 These fires
will be the means Of annihilating every
germ Of disease. In fact, every city
or portion of the city in which the
plague appears should be burned to
the ground. This will distroy the
scourge. Nothing but fire can do it.
Those who pass through those terri
BILE years of woe will have greater ca
pacity for the enjoyment of the plea
sures of the earth The earth will
yield twice as much as formerly All
the animal kingdom will be more pro-
life and life more prolonged. The
average duration of life is said to Be
thirty three years now; after the year
1887 it will be just twice as long, or
sixty-six years. The reason Of this
prolongation of lite is owing to
the healthy electricity or magnetism
that will surround the globe. From
1880 to 1887 the electricity of this
earth will be deadly. owing to the ma
life influence of Saturn and Uranus
on our atmosphere During the black
death the most wonderful celestial
phenomena will be seen. For weeks
the sun will appear as red as blood,
and terrible convulsions will appear in
that great body, The sun will dis
charge oceans of flaming hydrogen
gases, that will roll in tumultuous bill
lows hundreds Of thousands of miles
from the centre. The moons action
on the tides will be spasmodic and If
regular. Tremendous showers of me-
teors will fall to the earth and remain
in an incandescent state for hours.
Dense black clouds will veil the sun