The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
BOASTS OF KAISER IN ENGLAND HUMOROUS How Ezekiel "Foretold" h.
 vasion of Belgium
LIT E RARY GOSSIP
Countess Von Arvino Becomes a Brit ish Citizen-Secret of Her Identity We'll Preserved-Wrote Eliza
 beth and Her German Garden
By HAYDEN CHuRCH


 London, October 17.-tSpeciaL)-No adays there is nothing too bad to be said about the Kaiser William the Second to None has been called a modern Attila, butcher, a super-Ananias. blasphemer and goodness knows how many other ter rible things. But the limit has now prob ably been reached by an English pamph- leteer, who declares, quite seriously, in an eight-paged brochure that has just been Issued at the price of l penny. that the ! German Emperor is undoubtedly the fam ! ous beast described so vividly in Reve- i lations. as well the Cog whose un- { doing Is foretold by Isaiah and the Luci- . fer whose dethronement is propheszed by Ezekiel. All these fearsome beings are the Kaiser. it seems, under other names. Like most people with bug" the writer of this pamphlet shows not little Ingenuity in proving" his weird conten- lions. The famous beast of Revela- lions, you may remember, possessed seven heads and 10 horns, and upon his horns } 10 crowns, and upon his heads the name { of blasphemy. Well, now" says this pamphleteer, 'It is perfectly clear that this beast, with its seven heads, 10 horns and 10 crowns represents the 27 Kingdoms, arch duchess, principalities and dependen- cies of the German empire, and hence must be accepted as foretelling the ex- ' istence of the same"
 There was also, you will remember a dragon which gave power to the beast" and also a second beast with two horns on it's head. The first. according to the rac t1 1otn clast," lis symbolical of the German army" while the second beast, with the two horns upon its head. representing mill itary and civil authority, and which ex- ercises all the powers of the first beast and caused the earth and those that dwelt on It to worship the first beast, is clearly indicative of the Kaiser Wilhelm II and his methods
 After this, the pamphleteer comes out with a bit of head work worthy of the Z late Sir Edwin Durning- Lawrence (who proved that Bacon wrote Shakespeare by nndlng all sorts of references to pigs and sows in the latters works) himself.
 Some Brilliant Reasoning St. John wrote, Let him that hath m derstanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred three score 4 snd six"
 !. Regarding this Che pamphleteer gravely onserves:
 N,edt may be ronted out that the figure J&s-the number of the beast-represents total of IS, 1. e.,6 plus plus 6, which in @turn, represents the number of letters in the words Der Kaiser Wilhelm IT. A pointSof secondary importance maybe, but significant all the same"
 However we are rather getting ahead of our author, who begins by saying tnat,
 As many people are doubtless we'll Aware, attempts almost innumerable nave been made from time to time to Identify some leader of mankind with the beast alluded to in the Book of Rev. telation.
 The pope of Rome and the Emperor Napoleon l have been the most illus ktrious targets of attacks for narrow minded bigots on the one hand and the enemies of France on the other but 4 Tn neither instance have the theories I of their traducers been supported by. arguments that have approached the point Of being accepted as conclusive.
 No pope, for instance, can serious 1y be regarded as a military command CT; while Napoleon, whatever his faults may have been, refrained from offen- sive and and blasphemous allusions to the Almighty.
 Brings in Revelations
 As consequence the unenviabIe distinction of being accepted as the subject of the prophecies of Isaiah Ezekiel and Daniel, and as the embodi- ment of the visions written by St. John In the Book of Revelation, cannot be regarded as having, correctly, belonged to any human being up to the present Recent events, however, suggest the probability that at length the beast in 3all its hideousness has burst upon the O Q n peror, Kaiser Wilhelm IL"
 In quoting Ezekiel, to prove that the Kaiser is the Cog of that writer, the { f'pamphleteer recalls passages that are not without a certain applicability. These for example:
 "Thus said the Lord God Thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou and many people with .hee a great company and mighty army
 And thou shalt say, T will go up to the land of unwalled villages. l will go to them that are at rest. that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates.
 To take a spoil and to take prey to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited %" 8 And l will turn thee back and leave put the sixth part of thee
 And I will smite thy bow out of i thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right ! In the above extracts" says the j writer, "are to be found some most Extraordinary prophecies which might J llmost be taken as recapitulating the precise occurrences and tragedies of he past few weeks"
 I All of which shows how easy it is n almost anVfhinp