Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-17
END OF TIME, IN
1916, IN RAISED
SCRIPT ON EGG
Whole Town Is Arguing Over
Genuineness of Mysteri-
Gus Symbol

NlliLS SSB may De
means of making McKees Rocks
Pennsylvania, U. S. A. the most IA
nous historical spot in the universe
for centuries to come. There are
those who believe so. There are
those who do not. Both sides have
plausible arguments in support of
their contentious.
If those who argue in support of
the veracity of the egg are correct,
McKees Rocks will become known as
the place where the dawn of the mil
lenium was foretold to the world in
1916 and as such will quite supplant
the Garden of Eden as the most ia
nous of places in the worlds history.
On the egg in raised scrip runs this
legend:
The End of Time, 1916
This remarkable egg was found by
Miss Harriet Francis in a nest in the
hennery owned by Mr.. and Mrs. James
Francis, 627 Frederick street, McKees
Rocks. At first the inscription was
not noticed but the egg was laid aside
because its surface was rough and
only smooth surfaced eggs are Of
fered their patrons by Mr.. and Mrs.
francis. 1t was on Tuesday that the
inscription was deciphered by Mrs.
Francis. She told her husband the
secret of the egg when he came home
from work that night.
Egg Taken to Museum
on Friday, Mr.. Francis took the egg
to the Carnegie museum and display
ed 1t to Rouglas Stewart. Meanwhile
the story of the egg and it's wondrous
inscription spread from one end to the
other of McKees Rocks. Yesterday
the authenticity of the inscription was
debated pro and con, in the nickel
odeons in the stores, in the shops and
on the street corners, in fact every
where where people gathered.
Minister Takes Issue
There were those who insisted that
the egg actually bore to the world
the news of the millennium. There
were those who argued that the in
scription was the work of some wag
employed in the chemical department
of the Pressed Steel Car Company. The
Rev. F. A. Wight, pastor of the Nc
KEGS Rocks Christian Church, who
went to Carnegie museum to see the
| egg yesterday at the earnest solicita-
ton of the advocates of the former
theory, said last night that he was
! not prepared to question the veracity
, of the inscription by any means" He
! showed from Scripture that the year
1915 might well mark "the end of an
age, dispensation," as he put it,
which might be mistaken for the
end of the world"
> "Of course" said Mr.. Wight, "the
end of the world is a much -misused
expression. What the Bible actually
means by the end of the world is the
end of this dispensation. Christ will
come back to the world I believe and
He will come within short time now
He will come in spirit after this ter
rible war, which will be the last of all
wars, but not until after four years
of socialism have followed immedi-
ately upon the close of the war. With
the fall of that system, which cannot
last long, Christianity will rule COM
pletely. Meantime Christ will have
lifted His church from the world, as
the Bible tells, and will appear with
His church supreme at the conclusion
OF the utter failure of men to govern
themselves without God"
Takes Scientific Stand
Mr.. Wight took a scientific as we'll
as religious stand in defense of that
attitude.
"At the museum to-day someone
was inclined to make light of this"
said he. II at once stated that the
!. true scientific attitude was not one
) of ridicule and that 1t forbade a stand
against the accuracy of the inscrip-
ton on the egg until a thorough in
veStigation had been made. Further
more, as the egg is the source of life,
what better means could the Lord
employ to convey the news of the sec
ond coming?
This inscription was not engraved
on the egg shell. 1t was embossed
thereon. The letters were raised
That is what has puzzled folks so
Now. Mr. Stewart said that he could
duplicate the inscription. If he does
so, and shows that the hand of man
can accomplish this, then / shall tell
all inquirers so and I shall be inclined
TO the theory that the inscription was
done artificially."
Stewart Embosses Inscription
Mr.. Stewart was asked last night
labout his assertion that he could ac-
complish the same thing with an egg.
Il did 1t to-day" said he There
is nothing wonderful about it. I took
an egg, wrote with parafine on the
shell, gave the egg q muriatic acid
, bath and then put it in water. I took
off the parafine and there / had the
inscription embossed"
The End of Fakes, 1916"
What was the inscription that YOU
wrote on the egg shell?" Mr.. Stewart
was asked.
The end of fakes. 1916" he replied
smilingly.
Where is that egg?" he was asked.
"On its way by parcel post to the
Rev. Mr.. Wight" he replied "IIe will
get it tomorrow"
Mr.. Wight announced that the egg
would be responsible for a sermon that
he would preach this Sunday night in
his church on "rhe End of the
World"
The egg rested unostentatiously in a
niche on a shelf in the Carnegie mu-
scum yesterday. And so, whereas, an
apple gave the Garden of Eden un-
dying fame. it may be that an egg
will bring renown to McKees Rocks.