Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-01-25

would nave risen, but the riYeted
gaze of the being before me rendered
volition impossible. | essayed once
more to address her. but my tongue
had become paralyzed A new in
fluence, mysterious, potent, irresist-
able, took possession of me. All |
could do was to gaze steadily, vacant
ly, at my unknown visitant.
Gradually the surrounding atmos-
phere seemed as though becoming
filled with sensations and grew lum-
nous. Everything about me APP
peared to rarity, the mysterious Wis
itor herself became more airy, and
yet even more distinct to my sight
| than before. | now began to feel as
one dying, or rather to experience
the sensations which | have some
times imagine accompanying dissolu-
ton. | did not think, | did not rea-
son, | did not move; all were alike
| impossible. | was only conscious of
gazing fiXedly, vacantly, at my COM
| panion.
presently | heard a voice saying,
| Son of the Republic, look and learn!
while at the same time my visitor ex-
| tended her ERIN and fore finger east
wardly | now beheld heavy white
vapor at some distance, rising fold
upon fold. This gradually dissipated
and | looked on a strange scene. Be-
| fore me lay stretched out in one
vast plain all the countries of the
world-Europe, Asia. Africa and
America. | saw rolling and tossing
between Europe and America the bill
| lows of the Atlantic and between
Asia and America lay the Pacific.
Son of the Republic, said the
same mysterious voice as before,
look and Learnt At that moment
! beheld a dark shadowy being like an
angel standing, or rather floating in
mid-air, between Europe and Amer
|
in the hollow of each hand, he
| sprinkled some upon America with
! his right hand while he cast upon
Europe some with his left. Immedi-
ately a dark cloud rose from each of
the countries, and met in mid-ocean.
For a while it remained stationary
and then moved slowly westward, UNI
! til it enveloped America in its
murky folds. Sharp flashes of light
ming now bleamed through it at in
! teryals, and | heard the smothered
groans and crys of the American peo-
pie. p second time the angel dipped
from the ocean and sprinkled it out
as before. The dark cloud was then
drawn back to the ocean. into whose
heaving waves it sunk from view
A third time l heard the mysterious
voice saying, Son of the Republic
look and learnt
Il cast by eyes upon America and
beheld villages, towns and cities
springing up one after another, I'M
til the whole land from the Atlantic
to the Pacific was dotted with them
Again | heard the mysterious voice
say, Son of the Republic, look and
learn!
"At this the dark shadowy angel
turned his face southwark, and from
Africa | saw an ill-omened spectre
approaching our land. 1t fitted
slowly over every village, town and
city of the latter, the inhabitants of
battle array against each other. AS
| continued looking. | saw a bright
angel, on whose brow rested a crown
of light, on which was traced the
world Union, bearing the American
flag, which he placed between the
divided nations and said: 'Remem-
Der ye are brethren
Instantly the inhabitants, casting
from them their weapons, became
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the national standard.
Again | heard the mysterious
voice saying, Son of the Republic,
the second peril is past-look and
learn And | beheld the villages,
towns and cities of America increase
in size and numbers, till at last they
covered all the land from the Allan
tic to the Pacific, and their inhabi-
tants became as countless as the
stars in Heaven or the sand along the
seashore. And again l heard the
mysterious voice saying, Son of the
Republic, the end of a century COM
eth-look and learn.
"At this the dark shadowy angel
placed a trumphet to his mouth and
blew three distinct blasts and taking
water from the ocean, sprinkled it
out upon Europe, Asia and Africa.
Then my eyes looked upon a fearful