Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-16
WAR BRINGS UP THE
PROPHECIES OF OLD

The Italian, Swiss. German, Russian
and French newspapers are full of
prophecies of dire calamities. The
be accused of uperstition-writing
Of the prophecies which inundated
France and Germany just before the
war of 1870, said:
For centuries past, on the eve of
grave events, vague rumors, some
times precise and almost always
realized. have warned the people of
dangers which threatened them. We
can only recognize this mysterious in
stinct, without being able to explain
it,"
So, last February, when all Europe
was perfectly quiet and there was not
a sign of these conflicts rumors of a
great general war threw disquiet into
the towns and countrysides of Suabia
and Franconia. Even up to the prov
inces neighboring on Berlin and where
credulity would seem to have less hold
the famous prophecy of the Monk of
Hehnin was remembered. Three CEN
turtles back it had announced the es-
tablishment of the HohenZollern en-
pire and 1.-The lamentable end of the
third Emperor of that family"
In Suabia the popular singers and
inspired tramps who are so we'll treat
ed in the villages recall the Song of
the Woman of st. Inghbert, "all of
whose verses have come true" except
the following:
When Germany shall be her great
est; Then the fall must come; l see
waves of blood; The horses of the
Cossacks; Drink in the Rhine and
Elbe"
In Bavaria, a professor of Wurtz-
l.urg University brought back from
Italy a prophecy perfectly we'll known
in the south of France. 1t is that of
Rosa COLUMBIA, notable village girl of
Taggia, on the Riviera, who died in
1887. Rosa COLUMBIA, who had but a
short life, was of such angelic beauty
and goodness that, from the age of
Is, she was called the human angel"
Cardinal Manning himself admitted
that she had foretold the fall of Louis
Philippe, the defeat and exile of
Charles Albert of Sardinia, the resto-
ration of Plus TX "by a Napoleon" the
defeat of Austria, and the establish
ment of the kingdom of Italy. A last
prediction of Rosa COLUMBIA remains to
be accomplished. She announced an
other revolution in Italy, and a gen.
eral European war, in which (strange
detail!) Russian soldiers will bed
their horses in the Church of the Con-
vent Of Taggia"-which, / repeat, is
on the Riviera!
In Russian Poland the excitement
turns on the discovery, last March, of
the ancient crown of the Kings of Po-
land. The facts were published by the
Paris and Berlin papers at the time.
During violent thunderstorm a VEN
cradle plane tree was split to its roots !;
and among them, wrapped in moulder-
ing cloth of-gold, was found the 10th
century crown. Glittering with dia-
monds. rubies and sapphires. it was
sent to the bishop of Cracow. Now,
all the old Polish songs and sayings
deal with the mysterious loss of the
crown, and the establishment of
the kingdom, when il shall be redis-
covered
The Burning of Paris
In France they are worrying over
Nostradamus, the prophecy of Orval
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temporary successes French arms NAV
achieve, it remains that % prophets
COLLECTED in 'Demain," by Baron de
Novaye), beginning with Nostrada-
mus, predict ''the burning of Paris
Woe to thee proud city," begins
the verse of Orval-which had such
political effect in 1914, when the pro-
phecy was transcribed in the Belgian
monastery, certified by high authori-
ties and used by the partisans of
Louis XVIII. The times were not
then ripe.
Nostradamus, greatest of them all,
died in 1856. Enriched by Henri II,
he nevertheless foretold his death lin
gold by iron"-rumors and predic-
tions-which happened in his jousting
helmet by Montgomery spear. He
foretold that Montmorrency would be
'beheaded by Tercin"-which was
neither the name of any governor,
noble, captain, judge nor executioner.
Ten years later, Montmorrency taken
in rebellion, on the point of being ex-
ecuted at Nevers, was rescued by his
party. recaptured, and summarily be-
headed in a nearby village. The
headsman not being present, a COM
mon soldier volunteered-and did it
neatly. What is your name?" they
asked him. "Tercin," was his answer
A German mathematician has calcu-
lated that the chances against a mere
coincidence are "as the stars against
a grain of sand"
Well. the "Quatrains" of Nostrada-
mus, from 1912 into the future, and
not yet finished, has been strangely
borne out by events. and they char
acterize 1918 as 'the Year of Perils."
Note, it is 1918. and not Delivery
curious, as will be seen.
WOE to thee, proud city," runs the
Prophecy Of Orval. Behold the kings