Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1910 — NATURE AS A PROPHET OF EUROPEAN WAR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NATURE AS A PROPHET OF EUROPEAN WAR

tUCERNK, Switzerland.—The local peasantry are much exercised over what they regard as a certain sign that a great war is soon to break out in Europe. For the first time since just before the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 the Lake of Blood has assumed the deep red color which, according to popular superstition, presages a sanguinary conflict. This <■ "ious phenomenon is observed only at long intervals and is due, the scientists say to a small Alpine plant of re? hue growing all over thy bed of the lake. The Lake of Blood is not far from this city and is attracting hundreds of tourists.