The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-03
A NEW SEER,

Perhaps it is the hard necessity of liv-
ing that compels Lieut.. Totten to dis
charge for a season the mundane duties
of the chain of military science and tao
tics at Yale. Certain it is, however,
that his PROFESSIONAL labors are a mere
incident, a side-show, in his earthly ex-
istence. For the gallant officer has a
mission-a divine mission, he believes it.
To HIM it hath been granted to discover
the identity Of the lost tribes Of Israel.
To his own entire satisfaction he has
proved that the English speaking race
should wear the mantle of the lost ones,
and that the scepter of David, after
many strange vicissltudes in Ireland,
has passed into the hands of the prince
of Wales and baccarat. But the lieu
tenants claims to prophetic vision do
not rest there. Writing on the first day
Of commencement week, he expresses
his sense Of JOY that This testimony has
gone forth with no uncertain ring"
The heavens themselves are aiding their
divinely gifted son. The Associated
press, under stress from Cod" has af-
forded him unequaled facilities for
reaching the entire Anglo-Saxon race
with his testimony. "The end Of mans
hap-hazard, irresponsible methods and
systems draweth nigh" The "iron
crown" will soon be reft from mortal
brows. whatever that may mean, and an
''iron rod in immortal will direct such
human affairs as survive the coming cata-
clysm. "Once more [ assert with deep
concern and fully conscious of every re-
sponsibility involved, that there are but
eight years left to this generation, and
that this very year is the final n OF
grace of prayer and Of repentance, for
the seven that follow it will be hurry
ing ones and will be loaded with the
bosom of Jehovah's Judgments"
Of the proper method of loading a
bosom we have to confess the blankest
ignorance, but it seems to us that this
is a matter in which the public is di-
rectly interested. If they are going to
be cut off in 1899, or possibly sooner,
there is a number of deals and schemes
to which many of US must give pause.
Harrison might, it is true, be DESTROYS of
a third term of office, to secure the
honor of being the last president of this
country. Some men cede him that
title now. But Bardsley and others
of his kidney will receive the lieuten-
ants message as tidings of comfort and
OF joy.
In our search in the public interest
for the grounds of these latter day pre-
dictions, we regret to have to announce
on the lieutenant's own admission that
his mumbo-jumbo occasionally leaves
him in the hole. Mumbo-jumbo worked
the unbelievers of the Associated press
most satisfactorily, but, when he entered
on a wider field, a decided hitch occur
red. Naturally enough, Lieut.. Totten
is seriously annoyed, and he does not
hesitate to give his annoyance words;
1.-The generality Of men have not needed
my calculations a whit, or their collat.
eral warning, which was of far more
moment. Our scientific doctors have
smiled in conscious superiority, and al
most to a unit have declined either tc
controvert or to endorse them. But at
least one watcher in Israel is awake and
at the post of duty and makes supplica.
ton on behalf of those who sleep"
How can those scientific doctors smile:
1t must be hat they have not studied
the published revelations of the 'watch-
or in Israel" But we shall confound
them with an apt quotation. TO the
modern seer Of Yale, no literature is
common or unclean. See what he car
extract from the nursery rhymes OF
childhood: SIN the inner sense which
recognizes that there are no accidents in
human life-and on this basis do We
pen these studies-these fables of oul
youth conceal the deepest wisdom oil
our ancestors, and this, p~erchance, is
why they do not die; they certainly have
historical applications Of deep portent
and they have lessons to impart Of the
deepest beauty and solemnity." Or
Little Jack Homer he expends a vas
amount of biblical erudition with thi!
result: GAS q matter of fact, we have
in this rhyme condensed into a nutshell
the very gist and philosophy of Israel
present favored circumstance among tn,
nations of the EARTH Israel, be it re
membered, is the plum picker, and hi
corner is the corner land of Europe
old England. at clearly represents he
as the little stone kingdom Of the son
of Isaac, seated in the angle of tn
earth, eating in gladness her Christina
pie" That calculation kills the smiling
scientific doctors. Nextl
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