The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-12-11
Prophecies
About the War

The present war in Europe is so
unprecedented in it's dimensions.
so bloody, so terrific and volves
issues so enormous, that it not
only excites the Imagination of
beholders, but makes the mind
hospitable to all forecasts and
prophecies that tell how it is COM
ing out. There are prophecies old
and new that bear on it. One of
some reputation is the prediction
of Fiensberg. When Crown Prince
William, aiterward the first Ger.
man Emperor, was in Baden, IN
1S49, putting down revolution
against his brothers government
he saw, the story goes, the wise
woman of Fiensberg, and asked
her what was in store for him.
| She wrote down the year 1S49
Under the nine she wrote the
figures l., 8. 4, and 9 in a perpen-
dicular column. Added up, the
FIVE figures gave 1871. In that
year, she said he would be crown
ed emperor Proceeding III the
same with 1871 (adding /, 8, 7,
and y, she got 1888. In that
year, she said, he would die.
Dealing as before with 1888, she
got 1913, and that year she gave
him as the date OF the disruption
OF his empire. This forecast has
had favor and wide circulation in
France.
Then there is the Latin proph-
ecv, dated in 1900, said to have
been made by an unknown prop
het, and transcsibed by the
"Monk Johannes The Paris
Figaro lately printed it ininstall-
ments, and it came across the sea
by cable. 1t says that Anti
christ will manifest himself about
the year 2OOO," and goes on
about the enormous war between
the Black Eagle Germany and
the Cock (France), in which the
Leopard England land the White
Eagle (Russia) help the Cock
and the other Eagle austria
helps the Black Eagle. Anti
christ is TO be beaten in a last
battle, fought where he forges
arms, and his empire will be div
ided into twenty-five states, none
having any fort, army or vessel.
+" Tolstoy's Vision, which
seems to have first been printed
; about four years ago, has beer
widely reprinted since August Isl
: 1t forecasts vast war in Europe
growing out of commercialism
starting about 1912; it picture.
; "All Europe IN flames and bleed
= ing" and tells )f "the lamentat t
ions OF hugh battle field About
y the year 1915 "a strange figure
from the north" appears. and
takes charge for ten years. There
ensues new political era for the
Old World, in which the king
doms are replaced by federation
4 of the United States of Nations.
? Madame Thebes, a French asst
!. rologer, has been much quoted
a She seems 20 be foreteller Of con
4 siderable reputation, but she fix
ed the date of the Kaiser's deatl
+ as September 20, 1914. and, sc
r far AS reported, got it wrong
|, She has since explained that sh.
h has found an error IN her com
: putations. and fixed November {
n AS the date on which William L
|, would abdicate his throne.
VI Many persons who do not as
4 pire to be credited with power,
n of vaticination have predicted th'
n war because they saw it coming
and some OF them have hit very
accurately on its starting place
in the Balkans A prophet o
) special professional competence
was General Nogi, who is quoted
AS saving at the time OF the sieg'
OF Port Arthur that he believed !:
great war was comIngin Europ'
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