Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-22

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condition: He must be careful not to fix
the exact time for the fulfillment of his
predictions, especially if they are bad
Ones. One would have expected that SO
astute an observer and philosopher as
Professor j. Rodes Buchanan would
have minded this little condition; but
even he has slipped up here.
We have before us a thrilling pam
phlet from his pen entitled, 1.-The Coming
Cataclysm of America and Europe The
thread of the argument is that the rich
Of this United States are going to be-
come so rich and overbearing that the
poor who are their fellow citizens will
endure it no longer, but will rise in
their great laundering power and put
down all the mighty from their seats,
and there will be such a reign of terror
that Vanderbilt will be glad to hide
himself in coal heavens garb, and an
Aston could even wish that he were
dead. The beginning of it will be that
the Republican party will be hurled
from power and scarcely know what hit
it. That will come with the end of this
presidential term. The Democrats will
succeed in power, but they will please
the great people no better than the Re
publicans have done, worse luckl Then
the labor party will come in and have
its whack. But about that time the
great moral and political cyclone will
strike us and we shall be whirled into
war compared with the horror and ter
ror of which that of 1851 was a mere
scrapping match. These tough times
will begin about 1909 and last till 1916.
But that is by no means the worst. If
it werel In these times when our repub-
lie is rocking to and fro like a swing
dog churn and threatening to go over
ever minute, finally gsing over practi-
cally, nature will set in and run an op-
position show which for diaboIical fury
will go ahead of anything since Lucifer
was pitched heels up and head down
over the battlements of heaven. Vol
canoes, earthquakes and subterranean
fire and birthstone will run in fringe
all along the coast of the Americas and
wipe out a million millionaires in the
great cities, For some reason the doc
tor has an especial grudge against Jer-
sey City, and predicts that she will be
regularly drowned out.
After our cataclysm the people will
gather up the fragments that are left
and begin to run things themselves.
But their power will be gained at an
awful cost. Europe will have her cata-
clysm, too, but it will not begin to cat
till ours is done.
AS an earnest of dread things to fol-
low, the doctor predicted at the time he
wrote the pamphlet the things that
were Immediately to come. The PAM
phlet was published under date of May
IL, 1890. He prophesied at that time:
'Queen Victoria may not survive 1890,
but it is possible her vitality will carry
her into 1891. July will be dangerous
month for the health of the pope he
will not last two years, probably not
one. Neither will Gar Alexander be in
existence two years from now. Less than
three years will end the official career
and personal existence of the two who
stand at the head of the Republican
party"
Please the powers, these distinguished
individuals are all yet alive and in their
usual health, and promise to continue SO
for years to come. The professor ought
to try again. With the following thrill
ing warning which he issues to all the
world we dismiss the cataclysm:
To those who have faith in my Judgment, es-
pecially the readers Of my works, would say
do not remain more than fifteen years on the
lowlands OF the Atlantic coast south of New
England. Keep fully five years between your
self and the great calamity to be absolutely
safe.
But there viii be no important emigration
from the coast. The great cities will go down
with all their splendor and wealth, poverty
and crime, and fierce men in the interior win
rejoice in the calamity and death of million
aires.
But the continent with its new seacoast viii
be safer from convulsfons, and seventy-hve OF
eighty millions can spare one million without
arresting their march to power and dominion.
The Russian government has written
a letter to manufacturing firm In Ber-
lin asking full information in regard to
microphones which can be secreted in
the cells Of political prisoners and record