Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-11-14
Z Washington's Dream

of me. All | could do was to gaz'
steadily and vacantly at my un
known visitor. Gradually the sur
rounding atmosphere seemed filled
with sensations and grew luminous
Everything about me seemed to rari
| ~, the mysterious visitor herself be
coming more airy and yet more dis
tinct to my sight than before. | nov
began to feel as one dying, or rather
to experience the sensation which
have sometimes imagined accom-
panies dissolution. l did not think
| did not reason, | did not move; all
were alike impossible. | was only
conscious of gazing fixed and vacant,
ly at my companion.
"Presently | heard voice saying,
Son of the Republic, look and learn!
while at the same tim my visitor ex
tended her arm eastwardly. | now
beheld a heavy, white vapor at some
distance, rising fold upon fold. This
gradually faded away and | beheld a
strange scene Before me lay spread
out, in one vast plain. Europe, Asia,
Africa and America. | saw the At
lantic rolling and tossing between
Europe and America, and the Paci-
fic lay between America and Asia.
"'Son of the Republic said the
same voice, look and learnt and at
the same moment | beheld a dark,
shadowy being, like an angel, floating
In midair between Europe and A.
merica. Dipping water out Of the
ocean in the hollow of each hand, he
sprinkled some on America with his
right hand, while he cast upon Eu-
rope some with his left Immediate
a dark cloud rose from each of
these continents and joined in mid.
ocean. For a while it remained sta
tionary and then moved slowly west
ward until they enveloped America
in its murky folds. Sharp flashes of
CLEANED throughout it at
and 1 heard the smothered
groans AID cries of the American
people.
ga second time the angel dipped
water from the ocean and sprinkled
it out as before. The dark cloud
was then drawn back to the ocean,
in whose heaving waves it sank from
view.
A third time | heard the mysteri-
ous voice saying: "Son of the Repub-
lie, look and learnt" / cast my eyes
upon America and beheld the vii
ages, towns and cities springing up
as if by magic one after another un.
i'll the whole land from Atlantic to
Pacific was dotted with them.
Again | heard the mysterious
foice saying: "Son of the Republic,
he end of the century cometh; look
md learn"
At this the dark, shadowy angel
urned his face southwark. and from
Africa | saw an ll.omened spectre
approaching our land. 1t fitted
lowly and heavily over every town
md city of the latter, the inhabl.
auts of which presently set them
elves in array against each other.
saw bright angel, on whose brow
ested crown of light, on which was
raced the word "Union," bearing
he American flag, which he placed
between the divided nation. and said,
Remember, ye are brethren" III
family the inhabitants, casting from
hem their weapons, BECAME friends
,nce more, uniting around the Stars
nd Stripes.
"And again heard the mysteri-
JUS voice, saying: Son of the Re-
public, the end of a century cometh;
ook and learn
"At this the dark, shadowy angel
'laced a trumpet to his mouth and
'lew three distinct blasts and taking
SINE water from the ocean sprlnkled
t upon Europe, Asia and Africa.
hen my eyes beheId fearful scene.
from each of these continents arose
hlck Clack clouds, which soon Join
q in one, and throughout the mass
here cleaned dark red light, by
yhich | saw hordes of ar medImen,
Tho. moving with the cioud. march.