The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-02-27
PROPHETS OF YESTERDAY.
Things of the Present We're Not Hid
den to Great Souls.

Literary antiquarians are finding
all kinds of prophecies covering
events of today, and some of them
are enough to awaken the spirit OF
marvel in view of the remote contln-
gency as to the day of fulfillment.
For example, what could have put it
into the head of George Sand seven
ty-two years ago, that American
forces would ever occupy French
soil? Mr.. J. S. N. Davis sends to the
New York Times this literary find:
George Sand, in her novel, Maui
pratt written in 1916, put into the
mouth of Bernard Mauprat, in about
the middle of the fifteenth chapter,
the following words:
In his (Macasse's) dreams he
used to see an army of victorious
Americans disem barking from num-
berless ships, and bringing the olive
branch of peace and the horn of
plenty to the French nation etc.
''Mauprat in his old age is telling
the story of his life and was here
giving an account of himself and
friends, their doings and thinkings,
while in. America with Lafayette
fighting for American freedom.
TT would be hard to find more
literal fulfllment of any written ex-
preston
Tennyson's '3Locksley Hail. places
its author as a safer guesser in view
of the declared determination of sci
ence to conquer the physical uni
verse; but the Catholic Citizen (Mil-
waukee) thinks his vision of seventy
years ago an almost uncanny fore
cast" not only-of ''the present world
upheaval, but even the instruments
of warfare developed in it's course,
and the result to follow Armaged-
don" 1t quotes this passage:
For dipped into the future, as far
as human could see,
Saw the vision of the world, and all
the wonder that would be;
Saw the heavens filed with COM
8 merce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropp-
ing down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens fill with shout
! ing, and there rain'd a CHASTITY
dew
From the nations airy navies grap-
ss ping in the central blue;
Far along the worldwide whisper OF
the south wind rushing warm,
With the standards of the people
plunging through the thunder
storm;
TIL the war-drum throbb'd no long
.k er, and the battle7fags were
furl'd.
In the parliament of man, the Fed
GRAFTON of the World.
The cue being given, another del
yer, writer to the New York Sun,
finds that in 1S49 Victor Hugo, ad-
dressing the Peace Congress in Par
is, foreshadowed the Omitted States
of Europe Mr.. Isaac Markens
Comments before quoting the French
poet that "Germany's subsequent
role in the history Of nations, more
especially in the theft of Alsace-Lor-
faine in 1871 and her Draconian
policy of the past four years, leaves
no doubt of Hugo's attitude with re-
3spect to Germany's representation in
4 the proposed confederation, were he
living today" Hugo then said:
# GA day will come when you,
France, you, Russia, you, Italy, you,
England, you, Germany, all you ma
tions of the continent, shall, without
losing your distinctive qualities and
your glorious indiYidualities, blend
in higher unity; and form Europe
an fraternity, even as Normandy,
Brittany, Bergundy, Lorraine, Al
SAGE, all the French Provinces,
blended into France.
ga day will come when war will
seem as impossible between Paris
and London, between Petersburg and
Berlin, as between Rouen and Ami
ems, between Boston and Philadel-
phia.
GA day will come when bullets
and bombs shall be replaced by bal
lots, by the universal suffrage of the
people, by the sacred arbitrament of
q great sovereign senate, which shall
be to Europe what the parliament is
to England, what the diet is to Ger
many, what the legislative assembly
is to France.
"a day will come when a cannon
shall be exhibited in our museums
as an instrument of torture is now,
and men shall marvel that such
things could be.
"a day will come when we shall