Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
SIR WILLIAM HOPES
FAMED PROPHECY
FOUND TO Be HOAX
Investigators Say 1872"
Writing in Book at Library
Was of 1888 and 1896.
BAD GUESSING SEEN
IN LATE PREDICTIONS
DR.. Prince Of Boston Sees Hand
of Washington Woman or
Friend in Affair.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

have been written in 1882 by an eccen-
| trio Scotch baronet with a flare for
[ astrology and to have predicted with
some accuracy the elections Of various
American Presidents from George
Washington to Herbert Hoover, is q
forgery.
| Such is the conclusion of DR.. w. r.
Prince, investigator for the Boston
Society for Psychic Research, and
Frank w. Vedder, local investigator Of
occult phenomena, after O painstaking
study of the time-stained manuscript
which is resurrected from the Library
vaults on the eve of every presidential
election. Last Fall it was interpreted,
making proper allowances for chances
(; in the calendar, TO forecast the election
of Mr.. Hoover.
The two Investigators have accumu-
lated a mass Of evidence to show that
the prophecy, instead of dating from
| the eighteenth century, actually was
written between 1888 and 1896 by some
person who learned to write between
1910 and 1850, who probably was an
| ardent partisan of James @. Blaine. and
who was known and trusted by Library
Of Congress of1cials. 50 thorough was
| this bit of psychic detective work that
| the two Investigators intimate they
| could lay their hands on the very
person responsible for the forgery.
Guesswork Not Success.
The stars indicate with absolute
accuracy, they point out, the course OF
events before the prophecy was written.
After that 1t was matter OF not very
successful guesSwork. If Mr.. Smith
had happened to have been elected last
| into the framework of the prophecy just
as well as the actual outcome Of the
election.
The prophecy was written by hand
! in what is supposed to have been the
| authors COPY Of Hope on Dueling,
which was issued In 1924 by Sir Wnnam
| Hope, O worthy of the reign OF Queen
| Anne. It is signed William Hope and
dated 1882. It first was discovered IN
! 1000 bv Miss Elizabeth B. johnson, q
| Washington woman who wrote on Dis
| trict antiquities.
The prophecy follows:
This day is Graded far beyond the
One starred by fate to rule both
bond and free.
Add double four, thus fix the des-
tined day
When servile knees unbend meath
| freedoms sway.
Place six for ten, then read the
Whose deeds shall link him TO
deathless fame,
Whose growing love and ceaseless
| trust wrong none
And catch truths colors from Its
( glowing sun.
! Deaths doors shall clang while yet
| his century waits,
! His planets point the way TO others
pending fates,
| Till all the names OF freedoms
scroll shall fade,
Two tombs be built. his lofty ceno-
taph be made.
| Full six times ten the years must
| onward glide,
Nature their potent help, q con-
| slant, prudent guide,
| Then fateful seven fore seven shall
sign heroic son
! Whome Mars and Jupiter strike
down before his work Is done.
| Whome cruel, fate shall pierce
! through arteries Of its sword,
Who leaves LIES glowing stage with
out one farewell word.
A softly beaming star, half yelled
| by Mars red cloud,
Virtue, his noblest cloak shall form
his fitting shroud.
Then eight fore eight a later gen.
Grafton rules,
/
PROGRESSES schools:
| Then six again with added six shall
rise,
Respondent ruler, good and great
| and wise.
Four skies hold the glittering star
| that one his way shall shine,
| And twice four skies mark his years
from birth to manhood's
prime.
These truths prophetic shall COM
| pletion see
| Ere times deep grave receives the
| nineteenth century.
| All planets, stars, twelve signs and
| horoscope,
Attest these truths foretold by VIII
| liam Hope.
Coincidents Of History.
George washington, 1t is pointed out.
was born in 1892, the Declaration OF
Independence was signed A years later
| his first and family names were OF six
and 10 letters, respectively, he died just
at the close of the eighteenth century
| and he has two tombs and monument
| Then so years later, as foretold by the
prophecy, one, both of whose names
had seven letters, Abraham Lincoln,
conducted the country through great
war and was assassinated. Thence
| everything CIlcCkS VCIy WCh MhOASA HAAS
administration of Benjamin Harrison.
| From that point on the old swords
mans stars seem to have been playing
mean tricks on him, and 1t Is hard to
| check his predictions with actual hap
penings In the first place, DR.. Prince
, points out, in Sir William Hopes day
| all writing was with quill pens, while
| q careful examination Of this script
| shows that 1t was produced with q steel
| pen. Also there are certain styles OF
writing characteristic Of periods. In
| Sir william Hopes day the old-fash-
toned S." with q long loop above the
| line and another below, was almost uni.
versal, and almost every one terminated
| the final ID" Of q word with an upward
| and backward stroke. None OF these
| characters are found in the manuscript.
| The writing shows several minute
peculiarities that indicate 1t was pro-
| duced by some one who learned to write
Just before the introduction OF the
Spencerian system in American schools,
between 1880 and 1910.
The, spelling "Amerika" appears in
the foreword to the prophecy. This is
an abortiye effort to give it an antique
/ appearance, DIR. Prince says, because
the spelling then was precisely the same
as it is now. Also the capitalization Is
exactly the same as 1t would be today,
| while in the early eighteenth century
1t was the practice to scatter capital
letters literally through copy. The book
itself is undoubtedly the work Of Sir
william Hope and long was o standard