Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 35, 22 December 1919 — Page 13

hoosier Farmer foretold every LDDERN EVENT, 40 YEARS AGO

. (Indianapolis Star) i Does any one In Indiana recall ; a prophecy published. In this state some thirty or thirty-five years ago, purport' lag to be a vision seen by a farmer living near a small Indiana town, -who went out one day to a rise of ground Hear his ' house to ' look around him and, while standing there, the events lie predicted passed before his eyes, a parently against the distant sky? The prophecy was printed in pamphlet form, bound in light blue paper, by the . local newspaper press, and was prefaced by a letter signed by the councilmen of the town certifying that they knew the narrator to be a hardworking, truthful man and good citiren. This was followed by an explantation that he farmer had never before had any occult experiences and was so frightened by this vision of events-to-come that he was afraid for several days to speak about It, lest he should be thought to be losing his mind. He finally told his wife, however, and to his relief she seemed to take it seriously and urged him to write out just what he had seen. Later the account. A copy of the pamphlet fell into the hands of a woman, a resident of another state some fifteen years ago, who lost It without noting the name or town. . So much of the prophecy has come true in the Interval, and so much of it seems imnendine in the hurried march of events of late years, that The Star Is asked to make this Inquiry in the hope of finding some clew that will lead to the recovery of a copy. The story of the possessor of the pamphlet, how lost, Is told herewith. v j mnt va. : III... M u sent to me for safekeeping during a protracted absence some boxes of nooks and pamphlets. In the course of a few months, desiring to rearrange tny store room, I came upon the open box of pamphlets and a casual inspection convinced me that they had probably been hastily gathered up in packing, were not all valuable and that I might safely weed them out and make them more compact. Because I was, in a sense, taking a liberty in doing this, I examined each carefully; and presently I found myself reading one narrow, oblong and bound in light blue paper, as I recall it which purported to be a prophetic revelation given to a farmer dwelling near a small town in Indiana. The pamphlet was from the press of a local newspaper, I remember, and bore as a preface a letter signed by the selectmen of the town, certifying that the narrator had long resided in the community and was known to be a thrifty, honest truthful man and good citizen. An introduction followed this certificate, explaining that the farmer, who had never had any occult experience before in all his hard-woring life, went out one day to a rise of ground Hear his house to look around him, and there suddenly saw, passing before him against the distant sky, the events he here related. Could Keep Silent No Longer. When he came to himself he was so frightened by what had occurred to him and what he had seen, that he returned home fearing he must be losing his mind and afraid to tell anybody. After bearing it in silence for several days he felt he would Indeed ko crazy if he did not confide in somerone, so he told his wife; and she, to his surprise, instead of being alarmed, seemed deeply impressed and urged him to write out all he had seen Just as he had seen it. This he did at that time, and later was persuaded by friends to have it published in pamphlet form. Now. the date of this published iprophecy was about fifteen years or so jbefore the date of my perusal of it fn Uny store room, and noting that in that interval the first two events prophesied had actually occurred the seige lot Pekln and the Spanish war I became really Interested, and sitting down beside the box I read the entire prophesy through. If two things had ;corae true, why not the others? I had Inot paid much attention to the man's name or the name of the town, but the lhe vision he saw fascinated me. Predicted World War. As I remember it, he saw, following the Pekln unpleasantness and our war with Spain, the Armenian massacres and the Balkan troubles, in all their horror, and then a great war beginning which Involved all Europe a iterrible war, and after that war was over and settled he saw coming toward iour Pacific coast, the vast extent of which we could not possibly guard, R he ships of Japan, followed by the Chinese who were to have our Pacific coast as their part of the spoils, and (behind them both, Germany! Landing where they would, these hordes of little yellow men swept irresistibly across our country, pillaging as they went, and we were panictetrlcken. unable to stop them. The "only way we finally did stop them was by the use of a bomb, liberating a gas which rendered whole regiments helpless, enabling us to take them prisoners, and this bomb was the Invention of a woman. (Years afterward when I read that Miss Krupp, head of the great Krup Gun Works of Germany, had permitted reluctantly the manufacture of the first gas bomb, knowing what a terrible engine of destruction it was, I wondered if this could be the "woman"' of this prophecy.) England to Our Rescue. - At the height of our crisis with these enemies from the East the seer saw coming to us out of the West, crossing the Atlantic to our succor the Cross of St. George England! After this invasion of America was put down wars seemed to cease all over the earth, and the prophet pictured a most wonderful era of universal peace and progress. I can not .recall all the details, but certain points tand out in my memory. Fifteen years ago, the time of my reading, not one heavler-than-air machine had yet flown; and thirty or thirty-five years ago, the date of this prophecy, flying was a staple newspaper Joke; yet this farmer told of great airships that would pass through the sky, their portholes alight at night like those of the great shipa at sea a time when all the passenger and aa.A AAtja MNTyl Ka n alw tt AitYv llCAliT LT nvUiV w m auv wuj the heavy freight transported on the ground by rail, as now. Even fifteen years ago wireless was Unknown, yet this prophecy spoke of a small Instrument about the slse of a wtch which men would carry In their

pockets in the future age and talk out and apeak into when they wished to communicate with a person at a distance. (As I write, a new invention, the "Pony Wireless Telephone" Is being announced for practical personal use which certainly points .directly toward the possibility of the predicted device.) Education by Travel.

I recall that the prophecy said that educators of that coming day would look back upon ours as a dark age in education, when teachers tried to com press within the tender brain of a lit tle child the rudiments of an educa tion that must be finished within the rst eighteen or twenty years of life. J Education in this age to come was to : extend all through life; and, In order that no one should grow up narrow and bigoted and insular, eduatlon in cluded a trip around the world on a ticket provided for students by the government, with stops at hotels internationaly maintained for the purpose, this exchange of students going on so that every nation came in con tact witn every oiner nation and a new understanding was established among the peoples of the earth (An exchange of students has already be gun in oru colleges.) But the most vivid thing pictured in the socialistic state of which this edu- ; cation was a part, was that there would be no money, but every one ' would give four hours work a day (a provision being made for shirkers, I remember, which made work preferi able to its alternative) and in return 'for this four hours' work each would draw out from the storehouse of the nation the supplies needed for his living. The remaining hours of the day were to be free for the enjoyment and development of life. All would work and all would have leisure. There ; would be no marrying for aught save love, for there would be no money. The condition of one family would be ' the same in posessions as that of another. There would be no incentive to j greed. cheating, dishonesty or profit eering for the root of these evils money would be lacking! Many Prophecies Fulfilled. This is as far as I ran renal! the nrp'dictions of this strange pamphlet; yet I must note that not only have the first two events come to pass, but since I read it fifteen years ago have also occurred the Armenian massacres, the Balkan situation, the great war involving all of Europe, airships rapidly becoming vehicles of travel, wireless communication, and a bomb liberating a paralyzing gas was used by Germany in the great war. Even the inconceivable thing which I derided most, the idea of a moneyless society, and of which I never expected to hear more, is being whispered in the world. One day this very spring of 1919, listening to a lecture on "current events" at my woman's club, I was startled by hearing the speaker, in commenting on an interview with Lenine, prominent in the news of that morning's paper, state his "remarkable theory of no money, but everything to be paid for with service!" .. ... I certainly am not in sympathy with Lenine or Bolshevism, but I was impressed to hear this most chimerical of all the statements in my lost prophecy enunciated on earth as the socialistic theory of anybody of my own day and generation! Yes. the prophecy was lost! and I am writing this account, spurred by the rapidly-moving events of the past few years, in the desire to find it again. The day after I found and read it in my storeroom, I went in town, and on the train I related to a friend, who chanced to sit beside me, the story of this prophecy which had somehow gripped my mind. "Do let me'read it." she begged; and so when I went home, without retreading it I sent it to her, and she lost it! In vain I tried to recall the name of the prophet-farmer or of his town. Only "Indiana" remained clearly with me. I even searched the Atlas list of Indiana towns, hoping one would suggest that of the pamphlet; but nothing resulted. I questioned my mother on her return, but found she could not place the pamphlet or tell how it came among her papers. A member of my household who had been in the store room with me and to whom I had read aloud the pamphlet could recall not more than the prophecy it contained. In fact, the matter has passed through my hands and was gone, leaving no clew, save "Indiana." Was It From Kokomo? Some eight years later, about 1912 in the New York Sun, I think I read a paragraph dated Kokomo, Ind.-. tell ing of an odd character living near there, who claimed to have had revela tions and was quite noted among his neighbors for his occult gifts. I wrote to Kokomo at the time, but the postoffice returned no Information. Of course, I was merely curious then and riirl not nursiiA tho rmpKf fnrthpr. fnr up to that time nothing more out of the prophecy had happened. The marvelously rapid developments of the past five or six years have made me eagerly desirous of finding a copy again of this (so far) curiously true document, and if this should meet the eye of any Indianian who rememb?-s the prophecy, or knows its writer, or where it was printed, I hope he or she will send the information to me through this paper. Some one is undoubtedly living still who worked in that newspaper office where it was gotten out, or knew those select men of the town who sighed the character certificate or who has seen a copy and remembers more about it. Thirty or forty years are not so long ago in a live country like this. I have strong hopes of the Kokomo lead, for it is not likely that Indiana can boast two farmer-prophets, and one sems to live In the vicinity of that town. PLENTY OF COAL CARS. COLUMBUS. O.. Dec. 21. Officials of the State Public Utilities Commisj sion stated Friday they do not antici pate any coal car shortage in Ohio for three weeks or more, if a shortage actually develops. All mines have been receiving 100 per cent supply, and they said they have no reason to believe this supply cannot be kept up for some time. DRIVEN TO WRAPPING PAPER. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec.1. 22. Owing to a shortage in news print, the East St. Louis Journal, an important daily paper, announced that beginning Monday it will print its daily on wrapping paper. The paper was issued on book paper Sunday.

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WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE MEETING WITH In view of the movement for a Roosevelt memorial, William Allen White has written in the Emporia Gazette this story of his last meeting with his friend, Colonel Roosevelt: I was going to Europe in December, 1918, and I bad written to Colonel Roosevelt that I should be passing through New York the day before sailing He sent an invitation for me to come to see him at noon, so at noon I appeared at Roosevelt 'hospital. Mrs. Roosevelt was exceedingly gracious. She frankly explained that the colonel had taken a narcotic and was dosing more or less heavily to make up for loss of sleep the night before, and that be might sleep all the afternoon, and so I went to a luncheon engagement at 1:30 and at 2:30 appeared at my club to get my trunk and go to my ship with it. But at the office of the club thee lerk met me with great, excitement. . "Please call up the Roosevelt hospital," said the clerk. "They have been calling here every ten minutes for an hour!" But it could not be done. The trunk had to go to the ship. As I came down the stairs and passed the desk in the club ten minutes later, the clerk again hailed me and said: "Colonel Theodore Roosevelt at Roosevelt hospital says he must see you this afternoon before you leave town" Riot When Date W,as Broken. But a ship is a ship and a colonel is after all, only a colonel, so I took the taxi with the trunk to the dock. At 4 o'clock it was aboard and the taxi was taking me up to the Roosevelt hospital. The purse took me quickly to Mrs. Roosevelt, whose eyes twinkled with appreciation of the situation, and explained what she did not need to explain to me who knew the colonel. She told him rather casually that I had called, and he remembered rather vividly that he had an appointment. It was not that the appointment was with me. With anyone else it would

have been the same. His word was his word and he stirred up the whole hospital to make it good. When I met the doctor, he said: "Man I'd rather see you than a million dollars; come right in here and calm this riot!" In the room, a rather bleak hospital room, propped up in bed, he sat not the ruddy, active, exuberant creature which the world knew; but a pale Colonel Roosevelt, a bit subdued, somewhat giving the i.npression of a chained but untamed lion. He was not fretting, but was taking his captivity with philosophy. He was still full of babble and chuckle and falsetto glee! But he seemed to have no taste for his enemies; generally he smacked his lips as he gulped them down! In this new repression of the natural instinct of a salubrious hater, he seemed to be under the shadow of his approaching doom. But he was none the less gay and felicitous in ardor which he poured upon life. His fountain of joy in life was still flowing strong. Pride in Soldier Son. First of all he sent for a letter from the colonel of one of his son's tegiment. The letter told the father what a fine officer the boy was. I met that colonel later in Germany and told him how his letter had given the keenest joy I ever had seen in the fathers face. Proud? why all that Theodore Roosevelt ever achieved In the White House or in politics was as nothing and it has been my good fortune to see him in great moments of success compared with the pride with which he read that letter from his son's colonel. His eyes brimmed and he beamed like one who has received a great benediction. Then we fell to talking politics, and finally he rang a bell and produced an article which he had just written, the first of a series in his mind. This series was to call the attention of the country to the fact that we must not expect to return to the good old times before the world war, but that we shall have to make new issues for the new times. The first article, which was to be published some time in January or February, prepared the people for a program which should consider: An 8-hour day in industry. Old age pensions. Unemployment insurance. . r -

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TELLS OF LAST THEODORE ROOSEVELT New attitude towards transporta tion. Generally bringing the Progressive platform forward to the level of social and industrial progress in Europe during the war. Plans for 1920. This article was to go out as a feeler, perhaps as an entering wedge, and he read It with great gusto. And we chuckled at what the Republican standpatters would say about it. And he squeaked back to my question: "Well, if they take me they'll Wave to take a bigger dose with me than they refused in 1D12." He was in a happy frame of mind politically. He knew what we all knew that the Republican nomination was his for the asking. And he realized what we all realize that if the Republicans nominated him, the Democrats, whose convention always is held after the Republican convention, would nominate Wilson on the theory that the third term Issue would be raised by neither side. And he was eager for the fray. He did not seem to care so much about being President again, but. like the war horse, "he sniffed the battle from afar." It was a Joy to see him revive under the expectation. And it was all so natural, so eternally youthful, so genuinely human the glory of the trumpet's call in his ears! The doctor appeared and his appearance seemed a signal to depart, and so we parted. As far as I -could see him through the door his hand was waving and his voice was calling "Good-by" with the emphasis strongly upon the first syllable. "Good-by Good-by" came the cheery voice not lusty as it was in the old days in the White House, when it would ring down the long corridors, nor as it was found trom the traintaiis when great crowds would hear it and could see the ruddy face fade past the water tank. Then the colonel would dive into his state room to ram his nose just as lustily into Euripides as he injected his personality into the campaign. Diversion, But No Rest. There was the whole trouble physically, with Colonel Roosevelt. He never relaxed. He put the same steam, the same heart strength, the same blood pressure, the same spiritual energy into birds and bugs and Greek dramatists and big games and Icelandic sagas and the history of the Medicis that he put into the consideration of the faults of Penrose and Crane or whoever for the moment might be worthy of his distinguished opposition. He changed his interests, but never the degree of his interest. He took diversion, but never rest. And lying upon the bed of pain, and it was a bed of torture he never let down. Always he was writing, talking, thinking, loving, hoping, dreaming with full head of steam on. The engine always was on the high gear! What consternation among the placid angels in the haven of rest he must have made when his indomitable spirit burst through the door into Nirvana! TWO KILLED IN WRECK By Associated Press) ST. JAMES. Mo., Dec. 22. Two persons were killed and forty-eight injured when a Frisco passenger train was derailed three miles east of here. Fashion Shop 613 Main Street Just what she expects for Xmas, a beautiful Blouse The very newest arrived this morning. and you save $2.00 to $5.00 by selecting here.

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CLEARING HOUSE FOR LIVESTOCK PLANKED DY FARM OFFICERS INDIANAPOLIS, Ind Dec. 22. A movement is on foot toatered by officers of the Indiana Federation of Farmers Associations, which, if carried out with success wllL mean a saving of thousands of dollars annual-1 ly to the farmers of the state wno raise live stock for the market, eliminate guess work on what prices they are to receive for their stock when it Is ready for shipment, and save them much time and labor in the final disposition of same. At an executive board meeting of the Indiana Federation of Farmers Associations President John G. Brown outlined a plan for establishing a central clearing house for live stock producers whereby a system of eliminating -the use of stock yards and encouraging direct shipments from farm to the packing; and slaughter houses would be followed. He expressed the opinion that the federation could establish a livestock department which would keep in touch with the various county representatives, and that useless freight, commission and yardage charges, which come off the producer, could be greatly reduced. Mr. Brown said that he expected to rail a meeting of live stock producers within the next two weeks for the purpose of submitting his plan for their consideration. Maurice Douglass, second vice-president of the federation, was appointed to select another representative aside from himself and the committee of two go to Nebraska to study and make a report on a cooperative live stock shipping commission company reported to be saving farmers many thousand dollars. Dutlng the last week, William Bosson, treasurer of the organization, represented the Indiana federation at a big gathering of farmers held at Robinson. 111. Many farmers' meet ings about the state are scheduled for immediately after the holidays, which will be attended by officers from the state body. ' BULL KILL8 KENTUCKIAN LEXINGTON. Ky., Dec. 22. John Geter, 70 years old, while crossing a field on Layton Ramsey's farm, near Lexington, was gored to death by a bull. ANSWER THAT "GIFT QUESTION" WITH A NUSBAUM GIFT CERTIFICATE When in doubt give a Nusbaum Gift Certificate. It is such a simple satisfactory solution of the Christmas "Gift Problem" that more people every year are giving them in lieu of something that perchance the recipient may not need. Nusbaum's have Issued these merchandise certificates for the past few years and the persons who use this form of a gift can never fail in pleasing. They are issued in any amount and are redeemable in merchandise from any department at Nusbaum's at any time during the year. Many husbands find this the most appreciated gift imaginable in figuring out "what to give my wife" and we especially recommend them. n HOSIERY Holeproof Hosiery The finest Hosiery for men and women is the famous Holeproof make. He or she would appreciate Holeproof Hose. Suggestions Bath and Lounging Robes, Men's House Coats, Handkerchiefs,, plain and initial; Underwear, Hats and Caps, men's and boys' Pants, Gloves, Belts, Soft Collars, Collar Bags, Jewelry.

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