Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1898 — Prophecy Fulfilled. [ARTICLE]

Prophecy Fulfilled.

In fulfillment of a stranger’s prophecy, Joseph B. Young, night manager of James B. Campbell & Bros.’ restaurant, 414 West Madison street, has met his cousin, Edward Hall, G 4 Elizabeth street. Neither knew the other was on earth until recently. The mothers of the two had not heard from each other since before the war. The other night a young man entered the restaurant, and while Young was waiting on him the stranger asked Young if he had not seen him somewhere before. A conversation developed the fact that Young has an uncle, Joseph Evesfield, a hardware dealer, in Mattoon, 111., who was also an uncle of thd stranger. “What is your name?” asked Young. “Hall,” replied the young man. i “And your mother’s name?” “Lizzie Heron”’ , “Why, my mother’s name was Matilda Heron,” replied Young. “Did you ever hear of any one by the name of Young?” “Yes, yes,” answered Hall; “my mother told me before she died that I had a cousin, one Joe Young, but as she had not heard from his mother for over thirty years, she did not know whether he was dead or alive. I guess you and I are first cousins. Slmke,” and Hall extended his hand toward his newfound cousin. Then Young related an experience of three months ago that sounds like a tale from the “Arabian Nights.” Three months earlier, to the hour, a Btranger had stopped in the restaurant and asked for a glass of water. Something prompted Young to give the man a meal, which he ate with avidity. Then he astonished the restaurant man by addressing him by name and telling him stories from Young’s family history. At last he told Young that within three days, three weeks or three months he would meet a relative of whom he had never heard. Hall’s appearance fulfills the prophecy. The stranger refused to divulge his identity, and, although penniless, exhibited a Jeweled rosary and crucifix in gold and diamonds, given him, he said, by his Spanish mother, and probably worth slo,ooo.—Chicago Tribune;