Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-05


been.
Could she have been indulging in
beautiful prophetic day dreams Of the
wireless telegraphy and telephony OF
the present era when making the pre-
dictiOn that:
Around the world thoughts shall fly
In the twinkling of an eye.
Possibly steam locomotives and other
varieties of steam engines were in her
thought as she expressed this coming
event:
Water and fire shall wonder do;
Now strange, yet shall be true.
The excavation of the ruins of Pom
peii and other ancient cities long buried
beneath volcanic ashes, was foretold
thusly:
Houses shall appear in the wales below,
That for years were covered with soil
and snow;
Cities be found-that for years were
lost,
And be disinterred-at q Nations cost.
1t was not so many years ago that
the wooden vessels sailing the oceans
of the world were superseded by iron
and steel boats both as battleships and
passenger craft Mother Shipton
glmpsed this marvellous change in
water transportation away back in her
time when she said:
Iron in the water shall float
AS easy as wooden boat.
Motor Cars Foretold.
7 wonder if it was the Immortal
bard" William Shakespeare, the lady
OF the future was thinking Of in this
brief verse:
A great man shall come,
Whose works shall live to the end OF
doom.
The tunneling Of dozens Of mountains
in all sections Of the world for the pas
sage of railways is quite sufficient an
swer to this puZzling prediction:
Through hills men shall ride.
And no horse or ass be by their SIDE.
One OF Madam Shipton's choicest pre-
monitions was that in which the mil
lions of motor cars of today were fore
told in these amazingly truthful lines:
Carriages without horses shall go
And accidents fill the world with woe.
The invention of the submarine, the
tunnels beneath rivers and the diving
apparatus have followed this poetical
Under water men shall walk
Shall ride shall sleep, shall talk.
The issuance Of the proclamation of
emancipation by President Abraham
Lincoln was preceded hundreds OF
years with the following phophecy
from the lips of the Shipton lady.
Far over a wild and stormy sea,
A race shall gain their liberty.
Visions of George Washington, Ben
jamin Franklin, Valley Forge, Mon
mouth, Princeton, Yorktown, the cross
ing Of the Delaware amid cakes Of
floating ice, and many other historical
scenes of the Revolutionary War Will
instantly be visualizcd by the reader
with this early hint of Americas in
dependence:
A distant land in the west countree
Shall fight for and obtain her liberty.
Warn of High Take
The present worldwide agitation for
n reduction of taxes and the limitation
of armament was vaguely hinted by
Mother Shipton thuswse:
Taxes for blood and war
Shall come to every door.
Persons who have read Darwin's
work on the origin of the human race
will eagerly read this effusion by the
lady with the century piercing eyes:
An ape shall appear in leap year,
That shall put the human race in fear
And Adams origin in dispute,
BE brought by those Of great repute.
It required nine lines for Ma ShiptOn
to depict some of the future woes and
worries of France:
Three times three shall lovely France
BE led to dance n bloody dance:
Before her people shall be free,
Three tyrant rulers shall she see.
Three times three the peoples hope Is
gone.
Three rules in succession see.
Each spring from different dynasty,
Then shall the worser fight be done;
England and France shall be as one.
But alas, and alack, old Mother Ship
ton made just one prophecy too many.
Had she quit while the quitting was
good, her record as a phophetess would
have gone down into history register
ing a perfect score of 100 per cent.
She fell down, and fell hard, when she
wrote:
The world then to an end shall come,
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one.