Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1914 — A Few Hours Before His Death, Count Tolstoy Wrote These Prophetic Words. [ARTICLE]

A Few Hours Before His Death, Count Tolstoy Wrote These Prophetic Words.

This is a revelation of events of a universal character, which must shortly come to pass. Their spiritual outlines are now before my eyes. I see floating upon the surface of the sea..of human fate the huge silhouette of a nude woman. She is—with her beauty, her poise, her smile, her jewels—a super-Venus. Nations rush madly a Ler h ei ‘. each of them eager to attract her especially. But she, like an eternal courtesan, flirts with •11. In her hair ornaments of diamonds and rubies is engraved her name: ’Commercialism? As alluring and as bewitching as she seems, much destruction and agony follow in her wake. • ■ , And Behold, she lias three giaantie arms with three torches of uni 7 ver.-al corruption in her hand. The first torch represents the flame of war, the second torch bears the flame of bigotry and hypocrisy, and the third torch is that of the law. ' The great conflagration will-start about 1312, set by torch of the first arm in the countries in the southeastern Europe. Jt will develop into a destructive calamity in 1913. In that year 1 see all Europe in flames and bleeding. I hear the lamentations of huge battlefields. But about the year '1915 a strange figure from the north a new Napoleon —enters the stage of bloody drama. He is a man of little military training, a writer or journalist, but in his grip rnost'of Europe will remain till 1 925. ‘ The end of the great calamity will mark a new political era for the old world. I here will be left no empires or kingdoms, but the world will form a federation of the United States oi Nations. There will remain only four great giants—the AngloSaxons, Hie Latins, the Slavs and the Mongolians.” .