Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-19
THE TERRIBLE YEAR AT
HAND.
THE END OF THE WORLD TO COME IN
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY
ONE - MOTHER sHIPToN's
pRopuECY-oMENs AND
EXPLANATIoNs OF
THEIR FALLACY.

ONE - MOTHER SYMPTOMS
PROPHECY -oMENs AND
EXPLANATIONS OF
THEIR FALLACY.
The world to an end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one,
Mother SAiptons Prophecy
IL would be difficult to describe all
the sinister predictions that have, as
by common consent, been concentrated
upon the coming year. The sooth.
sage OWNERS, oracle makers, astrol-
Ogers, and wizards seem TO have COM
blned to cast theirspoil upon 1t. Super.
stitlous people OF every sort, and some
who are not willing TO admit that they
are superstitious regard the year 1881
with more or less anxious expectation
and dread. As the earth, on New
Y ears Day, swung out into another
round about the sun, it went to meet
a host Of evil omens. twill go cursed
by theomaucy and bibliomancy Aoro-
nancy and metooromancy will glare
at it from comets and shooting stars.
Oneiromancy will intercept its path
with visions OF evil and nomancy will
shake the ominous, backward reading
numerals 1881 before it, IL will be
beset with scare crow figures by arith-
nancy, and with menaclng phrases by
stichomanoy. Yet there is no reason
why persons OF good digestion did
not 60 to sleep on New Years night
confident that, after having encounter.
ed the average quantity OF storm and
sunshine, the one horse ball that we
call the world will bring them safe
through the perils OF its tive hundred
million mile flight round to the start.
ing point again.
TIE GHIZEH MARVEL.
Timid persons first began to look
forward with some alarm to the year
that is about to open, when, several
years ago, tho key to the somewhat
prophetic symbolism of the Great
Pyramid Of Egypt was made public,
backed by the name and reputation of
the British astronomer, Pia1Aa 5my tn.
Others, using Mr. Smyth observations
and measurements, have gone much
iurther than he did in drawing start
ling inierences but no one can read
his book without perceiving how pow.
erfully it must affect those who have
the slightest leaning towards supersti-
ton or creduity. Besides, this record
of explorations and experiences in the
heart OF Egypt's greatest marvel has
all the charm and interest Of DIR.
Schliemann's descriptions OF his dis
coveries in Homer's Troy. Such
book could not well be neglected by
the world Of readers and, by the ma.
ture of the human mind, many Of its
readers were sure to be imbued with
its ominous dogmas. So the belief, or
at least the suspicion, spread that the
secret chambers Of the Great Pyramid,
under Divine guidance bore the most
mystical character in all history Mel
chlsedek, King of Salem, foretold,
among other things, that the Christian
era would end in 1881.
MOTHER sHIPToN.
In spite of our belongings and our
contempt, and because this Is the
year Of 1881, the majority OF news.
papers published in the English
language have felt that their read.
ers had a right to see some por-
tion OF Mother Shipton's prophecy,
and have given it to them generously.
Indeed, 80 many various scraps OF
this precious document have been
printed at one time and another that
II one should put them together it
would take almost as many years as
Mother Shipton lived in order 10 read
them and we cannot help thinking
that ingenious penny a-liners have sup
piled verslcles to the good dame to help
her out, with a noble disregard OF au.
thenticity, and discreet knowledge
that four hundred years and over are
likely TO render anything of legend
AIRY character more or less corrupt and
incorrect any way.
1t is d curious document, this old
lady's prophecy But since one Of the
features failed to fulfill in the year 1929
she having declared, it is said, that
London streets should be deluged in
blood when the dragon OF Bow church
and the grasshopper OF the Royal Elk.
change should meet, which event hap
pened, without the expected result, at
Il time when both OF these vanes lay
together in stone mason's yard
awaiting repairs--since that time peo-
Pile have not expected 10 much OF
Mother Shipton as they once did.
"Aroupd the world thoughts shall ay
In the twinkling Of an oyej
Water shall yet more wonders do,
Now strange, It shall be true.'
runs one OF the quatrains in q copy
that may be as doubtful as all the rest,
prophesying after the fact.
"Througa the hills man shall ride,
And no horse or ass be at his sidei
Under waters men shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep. shall talk"
runs another and although she skips
the telephone and the phonograph and
the pbotophone, she winds up with
something having rather special in
terest to our own generation;
'Fife and water shall wonders do,
| England shall admit Jew;
And the world to 40 cad shall come
In eighteen hundred aud eighty-one.
As England has, with considerable
emphasis, aud more than once, accept.
cd tho remarkable son OF old Isaac
Disraeli for her Prime Minister, this
| has been taken as a tuliillment OF the