The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-03-22

most remarkable prophecy was
made by Count Leo Tolstoy In 1910.
concerning European war and what
would follow it. At the time the
czarina was Ill, Tolstoy, the great
author, was requested by the car,
through Countess Nastasia Tolstoy to
compose message intended for him
self, the king Of England, and the
Kaiser OF Germany, the two last men,
TONED having suggested 1t, and a news
paper reporter was commissioned to
visit Tolstoy and take the vision from
his own lips. This was done, and
few months later the great novelist
passed away 1t is well known that
Russian royalty believes in spirits and
messages from powers beyond our
knowledge, but this message has made
world wide impression. Following
Is the vision as told by Tolstoy to the
reporter:
This is revelation Of events of a
universal character which must shortly
come TO pass. Their spiritual out
lines are now before my eyes. | see
floating upon the surface of the sea Of
human fate the huge silhouette of a
nude woman. She is-with her beauty.
her poise, her smile, her jewels--a SUI
per-Venus. Nations rush madly after
her, each of them eager to attract her
especially. But she, like an eternal
courtesan, fiirts with all. In her hair
ornament of diamonds and rubies is
engraved her name-"Commercial +"
As alluring and bewStching as she
seems, much destruction and agony fol-
low In her wake. Her breath, reeking
or sordid transactions, her voice OF me-
taliic character like gold, and her look
or greed are so much poison to the
nations who fall victims to her charms.
And behold! she has three gigantic
arms with three torches of universal
corruption la her hand. The first torch
represents the flame of war that the
beautiful courtesan carries from city
to, city and country to country. Pa
triotism answers with flashes Of hon
est fame, but the end is the roar of
guns and musketry.
THE second torch bears the fame
Of bigotry and hypocrisy. 1t lights the
lamps only In. temples and on the affairs
OF sacred Institutions. 1t carries the
seed of falsity and fSmaticism. II
kindles the minds that are still in era
dies and follows them to their graves.
The great confagration will start
about 1912, set by the torch OF the first
arm In the countries Of southeastern
Europe. 1t will develop into a de
strnctive calamity I'm 1913. In that
year ! see all Europe in flames and
bleeding. l hear the lamentations Of
huge battlefields. But about the year
1915 strange figure. from the north
ia new Napoleon--enters the stage
Of the bloody drama. He is man OF
little militaristic training. q writer or
a journalist, but In his grip most Of
Europe will remain till 1925. The end
Of the great calamity will mark a new
political era for the old world. There
win be left no empires and kingdoms
but the world win form federation
or the United States of Nations There
will remain only four great giants
the Anglo Saxons, the Latins, the Slavs
and the Mongolians.
after the year 1925 see a change
In religious sentiments. The second
torch Of, the courtesan has brought
about the fall OF the church. The ethi
cal idea has almost vanished Human
ity is without the moral feeling. But
then great reformer arises. He will
clear the world of the relics of mono
theism and lay the cornerstone of ths
temple of pantheism. God, soul, spirit
and Immortality will be molten in q
new furnace, and see the peaceful be
ginning of an ethical era. The maj
determined to this mission is q Mon
golian-Slav. He is already walking
the earth--a man Of active affairs He
himself does not now realize the mis-
sion assigned to him by superior
power.
"And behold the flame of the third
torch, which has already begun to de
stroy our family relations, our stand
ards of art and morals. The relation
between woman and man is accepted