Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-31
MOTHER SYMPTOMS PRopHEsY

and Tri-Weekly Journal.
"Mother Symptoms Prophecy"
Carriages without horses shall go.
"And accidents fill the world with
| woe,
around the world thoughts shall
fly,
I'm the twinkling of an eye;
| waters yet shall more wonders do,
| Nov strange, yet shall be true,
| THE world upside down shall be
| And gold be found at root of tree.
| Through hills, men shall ride
"And no horse Or ass be at his side,
| Under water menNshall walk,
Shall ride-shall sleep-shall talk
I'm the air men shall be seen
! "In white-in black and green,
Iron in the water shall float
| LAS easy as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found and found
In land that is now not known
Fire and water shall wonders do,
England shall at last, admit Jew,
1.-THE world to an end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty
one."
She predicted automobiles and
| railroad cars, also the telegraph and
the wireless. Men ride through tun-
| nels by electric force. She predicted
| the submarine and iron ships. Gold
was found in Alaska, and in South
| Africa, and other places, then un-
| known.
England did admit a Jew in
D'Israeli, in my time, to the pre-
| miership. And America put a Jew on
| the supreme court bench of the Unit
| ed States in Justice Brandies, by the
70 xTn1 Of Dynci6art
| This good dame, Ursula Shipton,
| missed the figure in the last line.
| Eighteen and eighty-one was, how
| ever, fraught with political dangers.
| President Garfield was assassinated
| in the railroad station in Washing
! ton city, although he was surround
| ed by scores Of guards and detec-
tives.
1t was also an era of graft in ma
tional legislation, controlled by Pa.
cific railroad magnates, hitherto un-
| paralleled in the history of civiliza-
ton.
Mother Shipton was a wonder her.
self, for she lived in a time when
Womenkind were rated very cheap.
She was also a Wonder-maker in
predicting the world war, which
filled world with VICE."
When / Joined Forces with the
Semi-Weekly journal
On the twenty-fifth day of August,
in the year 1899, my first contribu.
ton to the Country Home Journal
appeared in the newly organized
semi-weekly Atlanta Journal.
That seems a long time ago from
viewpoint. The years have passed
ioIy hot Sc. ~ Eax 1ff
to this old SCRIBE who is now serv-
ing you lin her eighty-eighth year,,
and quite as willing and nearly as
active as she was nearly a quarter OF
a century ago. Ex-senator Hoke
Smith was the controlling force on
the daily Journal at that time. He
wrote me the letter appointing me
to the service of the new paper, the
agricultural branch of the great At
lanta Journal.
1t was a success from the start.
am not informed as to it's circu-
lation in this good year. 1922, but
I was told a very few years ago that
it had, then reached one hundred
and ten thousand subscribers.
My correspondence with it's read
ers has been voluminous. Some
| times l am crowded so greatly that
| / cannot reply to the queries and
commentators that are written tC
me, personally. I feel as if I must
| here ask pardon Of many, many
readers because my other duties
have so crowded upon me that my
physical strength was not equal to
a complete fulfillment of my CORE
spondence affairs.
But am trying to do my best and
feel in my heart that you will be
kind in criticizing my failures and
imperfections On this line I get
frequent letters from many parts of
the United States, principally from
North and South Carolina, Alabama,
| the Tri-Weekly covers Georgia "like
the Dew" 1t goes to many states
north and west, crosses the oceans
and is known IN Japan and Brazil.
1t has had wonderful existence,
and I have keen satisfaction IN the
thought that I could thus visit the
home of tens of thousands of
homes WI. ere women and their chill.
dren could read and enjoy the read
ing. / may be mistaken, but 7 do
believe that Mrs. Lizzie Thomas and
myself are really better known in
Georgia and to Georgia people, than
any two women press writer's now
| living; especially in the rural homes
| and among the quiet home-loving
people of this country. And I am
sure Mrs. Thomas feels as I do that
1t has been sort Of pulpit to us
both where we could encourage
good efforts and do faithful service
to others and try to help along in
saving the world to righteousness
and peace.
1t is a great thing to be able to
stand upright and try to say the
right word in the right place and
to praise our Heavenly Father for
His goodness and preserving mercy!
The Bible says: "In all thy WAYS
acknowledge Him, and He shall
direct thy paths"
OF all the things in this known
world that we all need most is the
guiding hand of Almighty God in
the nation and the state and par
ticularly in the home, and I esteem
It. blessed privilege to unite loving
words and affectionate counsel to
the thousands WLo read this Tri-
Weekly Journal.
Having lived out my three score
and ten" a good while ago and feel
ing as l do that four score has been
nearly covered, I wish at this time
to emphasize the experience of a
lifetime, to say on this occasion that
our young people should remember
that nothing is safe in this world
OF change and death save right liv-
ing and devotion to duty. General
Lee once said, DUTY is the greatest
thing in all the world"
Disappointment is the lot of man
kind in earthly affairs-seasons of
gloom will come to one and all, time