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By John C. Kirkwood
One of the stunts of New York's
World's Fair was a Marbles Players
Tournament. The competitors - more
than 150 in number - were local,
champions from all parts of the
country. A girl won the New York
City title. The national winner was
a youth from Pittsburgh.
Botanists are not agreedas to the
total number of species in the rose
genus: The majority •recognize over
100 species, yet some contend that
there are up to 4266 species in
Europe and Western Asia alone! The
American Rose Society lists 3414 var-
ieties that were not listed 25 years
ago - an annual average of 155 list-
ings.
China and Tea roses were introduc-
ed into England in the seventeenth
century by officers of the East India
Company. The rose, it is said, is
an index to civilization. Borneon the
crests of migrations and spread by
trade, culture and religion, the rose
has an ancestry that is as mixed as
the nations who welcome the flower.
Roses have been woven into the
tapestries of Persia, have been car-
ried in ecclesiastical ceremonies in
mediaeval days, and have been sung
by the poets down through the ages.
Here's a poem which has the rose as
its theme - written in the fifth cent-
ury B.C.-
The rose is the perfume of the gods,
• the joy of men.
It adorns the Graces at the blossom-
ing of Love.
It is the favored flower of Venus.
The rose revives the sick and em-
balms the dead.
It defies the hand of Time, and is
lovely in its old age,
As it keeps forever its first perfume.
-may
The war has,brought new oppor-
tunities for Canadian history. Britain
is taking from Canada somethings
fornnerly obtained from Continental
Europe. Also, Canada has to pro-
duce for the home market many
things formerly imported. Thus, for
example, Canada is producing medi-
cinal and liver oil, formerly obtained
frons Britain, Norway and Newfound-
land. The Dominion's domestic out-
put o'f`cod liver oil has been for the
feeding our poultry and for the tan-
ning industry. Pine tar is another
product in demand by Britain, India,
Australia and South Africa. It is
used for the distilling of tar. and for
the rubber industries, formerly the
countries wanting it got it from Pol-
and. Thin paper for the wrapping
of fruit is in demand by Britain.
Scandinavia was formerly the chief
source of supply. Charcoal, formerly
obtained from Scandinavia, Germany,
France, Belgium and the West Indies,
is now being obtained from Canada.
Great. Britain will need double her
usual requirement of 100,000. tons.
Charcoal is used in the industries of
armament and artificial silk, Brazil
is looking to Canada for furs. Despite
hes tropical climate, Brazil has been
importing annually a million dol-
lars worth of furs. Mexico - a cath-
olic country - is taking large amounts
of Canadian dried codfish - fish for-
merly obtained from Norway.
days of whaling were reached long,
long ago - and so they have in cer-
tain waters and ways. Thus, time
was when the whales in Northern
seas.- particularly in the region of
Spitzbergen - were so numerous that
a hundred ships might go to work,
in a crowd, boats jostling one anoth-
er, and the only thing, lacking would
be stowage room for all the products
of the fishery. Now one ship may
have the whole field to itself and
travel home with a deficient cargo.
It was excessive slaughter which
destroyed the prosperity of the horth-
ern whaling industry.
The best records, available show
that in 1846 American whalers kill-
ed no more than 7500 whales. Prob-
ably the whole kill for the whole
world, of all kinds of whales was
not more than 12,000. For real
slaughter one must turn to modern
times. In 1937-38 54,664 whales were
killed - the largest number ever re-
corded for a single year. Between
1919 and 1938 a total of 546,522
whales were reduced to meat,' blub-
ber and oil. s'
Whales are hunted more assiduous-
ly today than ever before because of
the industrial uses to which their
bodies are put. The Japanese eat
whale meat. The Germans catch
whales for the production • of food -
fats and whale-oilmargarine. Amer-
icans and Britons import whale -oil to
make soap out of it.
Happily for the whales, the war
has diminished the whaling industry.
Yet the whale would seem to be
doomed to virtual extinction. It is
said, authoritatively, that the number
of whales being slain is at least four-
times what the oceans can supply - on
a long-term basis.
About 75% of all the diamonds
mined are not worn on fingers, or
necks, or bosoms or ears'or hair, or.
wrists; they are used industrially. In
industry diamonds, because of their
hardness, are used in the making of
aeroplanes, tanks, battleships and
munitions. Properly set, a diamond -
pointed tool can wear away two big
'emery wheels a foot and a half in
diameter and an inch thick, before
it shows any wear itself, The Ford
Motor Company uses about 1000
diamonds tc turn machine parts.
Aldininus - alloy pistons and other
parts are best trued on a lathe with
a diamond -pointed tool. In every
automobile factory there is a special
`diamond cleric' who checks diamond
tools out and in.
Diamond dies - a die is something
with a hole in it - are used for the
making of wire: the metal is drawn
through the hole to thin and round
it to wire form and size. The metal
Passes from die to die, each smaller
than' the preceeding one, until at
last a wire is obtained of the requir-
ed fineness, So hard is the diamond
that, from 300 to 400 tons of copper
can be drawn through a die without
enlarging the hole.
In South Dakota is an area about
100 miles x 60 miles which is truly
a wonderland - perhaps unmatched
in all the world for the variety bf its
features of interest and attraction.
And to those of us who can become
thrilled by stories of the Old West
its romance, its perils and its op-
portunities - this 6000 square .miles
is a whole library of enchanting
tales, In it are the highest peak 'of
the Rockies, desert country covered
with the yellow and pink blossoms
of cactus, rushing mountain streams,
the grotesque rock formation: of the
"badlands," gold' mines, relics of Ind-
ian days, and sculptures by man un --
paralleled the world over. Also, there
are modern hotels and tourist homes -
which seem to be out of joint with
what Nature has provided. Also,
there are highways - a veritable
tangle of them:, and a spiralling rail-
way which winds its way up 1700
feet of hillside, crossing in. itsascent
a creek 105 times, and 'making four-
teen complete circles in a distance
of 35 miles. Here is Custer State
Park, of 128,000 acres, containing
the largest buffalo herd in the
world. On a hill - on its rocky sur-
face T are five giant figures sculpt:sr-
ed from the standing rock a trach-
edon, a triceratops, a tyrammosawrus-
rex, a brontosaurus and. a stegosar-
us - prehistoric creatures which once
flourished in this amazing region, In
Rushmore Paris, in this same area
are the huge carved faces - carved
'on the mountain -side - of Washing-
ton, Lincoln, Jefferson and Theodore
Roosevelt.
Frere" are stockades dating back to
the days of Indian wayfaie, In, the
town of Deadwood in the cemetery
are the graves' of Wild Bill Hickock
and Calamity. Jane. Here is' the loco,-
tion
ocation of the Homestake Mine, largest
g
producingolcl' mine in the United
States.
The foregoing, is but a partial
Mauling of what makes,this part of
South Dakota so immensely alluring
to tourists.
Many o£ us think, that the peak
CONSTABLE P. McCOY
DIES SUDDENLY
Heart Attack Proves Fatal To
Popular Provincial Officer
PHIL OSIFER' OF
LAZY MEADOWS
By Harry J. Boyle e
"CIGARS"
This might be called a cigar -smoke
reverie. As usual, it's raining this of
tenoon .. and having that for an,
excellent excuse yours truly is install
ed in a rocking chair on the side ver-
andah inhaling and exhaling on a Cig-
ar that an implement' salesman, left.
• Watching the smoke eddying up in
blue -grey masses... and then gush-
ing up under the eaves to be pelted
into nothingness by the driving force
of the rain ... the idea is suggest
ed . "Whq not write a column
about cigars''
Where • and how they're made is
foreign to me. Cuba . or some
strange, far off place. Wrapped by
dusky, brown -skinned men singing
native songs a.s they rock back and
forth . but enough of that.
There's something about. a cigar
that makes men feel important. It
must be a throwback to the days
when all bankers smoked stogies and
the flashy gamblers with long, thin
cheroots and derbies stood inside
hotel windows and watched the par-
ade of men and women go by.
Have you ever noticed that the
aroma of a cigar lingers on in a
room. Walk into a room and notice
that nose -tingling sensation of to-
bacco flavor. You'll notice too, how
women will sort of trill .and say, "My,
but I like the smell of a good cigar",
or if they're ultra sophisticated,
they'll say "the odor of a good cigar."
A cigar brings to mind what Aunt
Appleby always said. All her life she
had pined for the day when she could
meet a really important man, and one
who would keep her in comfort for
the remainder of her life. Then Jim
Moliwain came . . . with his shiny
traveller's case ... his big, checked
tweed suit and his derby and cigar
▪ and gold watch -chain. She was
clerking in the Murphy Emphorium
• and first thing the folks knew
she was going with a "travelling
salesman." Aunts clad in shiny black
taffeta and meek looking uncles with
side -whiskers, bore down on her fath-
er and mother and "cluck -clucked" .
• and Aunt Appleby stood them
all off with the one answer ... "I
knew by the smell of his cigar that
he was a real gentleman," Contrary
to general prophesy they were mar-
ried ... and lived quite happily too.
As a result "travelling salesmen" are
held in much higher esteem now than
formerly in our family.
Salesmen who come to sell farmers
various articles are foolish to smoke
cigars. There's simply nothing quite
so irritating. as to have to sit on a
fence and have cigar smoke come
trickling along on the breeze in front
of your nostrils. On the other hand,
if a salesman gives you a cigar you
are too busy, concentrating on how to
smoke it without choking . . . and
remain in appearance as if you smok-
ed one after every meal to concen-
trate on what he was saying.
As a boy, I remember a cousin of
my father's who often dropped in for
Sunday evening dinner. He was a
banker . . . and a pompous gentle-
man who looked out from white whis-
kers over a well fed stomach and ate
with a concentration that was amaz-
ing. After dinner he would reach in-
to his vest pocket ... select a cigar
and then after biting the end off it
• . and lighting it , . . he would dip
in and bring one out for father. We
used to sit and watch him smoke and
be fascinated by the smoke rings he
was so proficient at blowing.
We never knew why father disliked
him. He just didn't seem to like any-
thing about him. In later years as
head of a household of ray own, the
realization came as to why father dis-
liked him, That was a condescending
attitude he had in handing the cigar
over, just as much as to say . . ,
"Well, you don't very often get a
cigar so try this one."
Widely known throughout Western
Ontario in police and court circles,
Provincial Constable P. E. McCoy,
47, died at his home in Goderich late
Wednesday afternooh from a heart
seizure thought to have been brought
on by an attack of typhoid fever,
from which he had been suffering
for three weeks. He was thought to
be well on his way to recovery .and,
was sitting up in bed talking to a
visitor when the end camewithout
warning.
A native of Madoc, Ont., Percy E.
McCoy was a veteran ,.f the first
Great War, in which he was severe-
ly wounded by shrapnel, the wound
giving himmuch trouble in recent
years. He had been 16 years in the
provincial force in Eastern and
Northern Ontario, and at Kitchener
before going to Goderich seven years
ago. He was high county constable=
of Huron County.
Held in the highest regard by hun-
dreds of fellow officers throughout.
Ontario, for his thoroughness and ef-
ficiency, by his superiors and by the
citizens of. Goderich and Huron Coun-
ty generally, for hisfairness in
police work, Constable McCoy was a
modest man anal talked little of him-
self or his exploits in his profession
or during his war services. He was,
Jcnobtvro to his intimate frienes as a
"equaie shooter."
Said Crown Attorney Dudley E.
Holmes: "He was one bf the most
conscientiousand capable officers I
have ever met. Not only' had he ab-
ility, but lie used rare tact in dealing
with the aP public."
Cohstable McCoy's hobby was
hunting and fishing and it was on,
this subject that he was "at home."
Ile spent his annual holidays and
spare time in the bush and at fishing
streams, and had a rare collection.
of firearms and fishing tackle and
took great pride in it,
ACCIDENTS DURING MONTH
CONTROL LAWN ' eEDDS
BY. PLANNED PROGRAM
The first step in controlling lawn
weeds is to follow a maintenance pro-
gram which will result in relense,
vigorous, healthy turf. Important
features of this program include jean-
cious fertilization,, proper mowing
and watering and timely reseeding. 'Lt
is recommended by the Division of
Forage Plants, Dominion Experi-
mental Farms Service, states J. H.
Boyce, that lawns receive two ap-
plications of a complete fertilizer
each year, one as soon as possible in
the spring and the other in the early
fall, about' September let, Fertilizers
containing from 4 to 6• per cent of
nitrogen, 8 to 12 per eent phosphoric
acid and 4 to 5 per cent potash are
recommended for most situations.
These fertilizers should be applied at
the rate of 15 to 20 pounds per 1,000
square feet.
The lawn sould be cut frequently,
with a sharp mower. It is desirable
that the grass be cut to a height of
1Y/a to .2 inches. Mowing to lower
heights encourages the growth of
certain types of weed's. Where it is
available, artificial watering may be
used to great advantage during the
dry :summer months. The lawn should
not receivewater, however, until it
shows definite .signs of needing it
and then the soil should be" moisten-
ed thoroughly to a depth of at least
four inches. Frequent light water-
ings are undesirable since they en-
courage the growth of shallow -root-
ed weeds and tend to restrict the
roots of the desirable grasses to the
upper layers of soil, thus reducing
their feeding range and making the
turf even more susceptible to drought
and heat injury. Any bare and thin
areas in the lawnshould be reseeded
with suitable grasses in the early
spring and again in the early fall,
during the last two weeks of August.
It is important that all possible
sources of weed seeds be removed.
The most common sources of weed
infestation are adjacent weedy areas
from which weed seeds are carried
by 'wind, water and animals, dres-
sings of fresh or partly rotted man-
ure or other weed infested materials
and cheap mixtures in which there
are weed seeds. The obvious method
of preventing contamination of the
]awn is to remove the sources of weed
seeds by killing weeds in adjacent
areas, as well as those which may
already be present in the lawn, by
making sure that no materials con-
taining weed seeds are applied to tbe
lawn and by sowing only the best
Grade No. 1 seed.
WIDE RANGE OF VACATION
1 OFFERINGS OPEN UP THE
CANADIAN TRAVEL SEASON
Total accidents reported to the
Ontario Workmen's Compensation
Board in June were up 1,000 over the
same month last year 40 6,206, ac-
cording to the Industrial Accident
Prevention Associations month] y
memorandum to industrial executives.
No information on increased employ-
ment during that period was given.
Fatalities to industrial workers
covered in this report were reduced
from 33. to 24 during the same period.
During the first six months of 1940
more than 33,000 industrial accidents
have been reported., as agaiust:near-
ly 27,000 for the first half of 1939.
Fatalities at the end of June,' 1940,
were down 144 from 158 at the end
of June, 1989.
DEFENSIVE DRIVING
Defensive driving is safe driving,
'cleclares the current Industrial Ac-
,,eident Prevention ,Association's bul-
letin, andoutlines four simple rules
for defensive driving:
1. Maintain an area of safety in
front, behind and on both sides of
your car.
2. Forget about who bas the legal
right-of-way and elo the common-
sense thing by keeping out of the
way of the other fellow.
3. Adjust your driving epeed to
meet conditions of road, general traf-
fic and visibility.
4. Assume that the other driver
knows little about treffie laws and
that the pedestrian may be deaf or
blind or perhaps just "dumb."
This is a Canadian travel year
and an ever increasing number of
Canadians who would normally be
travelling outside Canada for their
annual vacation are planning to
spend it in the Dominion this sum-
mer, according to C. W. Johnston,
general passenger traffic manager,
Canadian National Railways. "A re-
cent survey shows that thousands of
Canadians have become conscious of
the fact that there are many beauti-
ful and interesting sections of their
own country which have never been
visited by a great portion of the
travelling public and consequently
they are going to spend their vaca-
tion in Canada this year."
"So far as Quebec is concerned,
resorts varying in charade;.. and type
from the ultra -fashionable watering
places to the modest place of sojourn
`in the country are found all over the
province. including such attractive
areas as the Lower St. Lawrence,"
Mr. Johnstmm said. "Among the 10.-
teresting items in travel itinerary
this summer and fall are conducted
tours around the Gaspe Peninsula
and the' Lake St. John district, in-
cluding the Maria Chapdelaine
country.
"In Ontario this beautiful vacation
province has its Kawartha Lakes,
Thousand Islands, Algonquin Park,
Muskoka Lakes and Lake of Bays,
Lake Simeoe and the Georgian Bay
district, all of which are noted for
their outdoor sports and splendid
bathing facilities. Here are great re-
sorts and famed camping rounds, in-
viting the vacationist. Turning east-
ward are the lovely lands of the
Maritime Provinces containing many
regions of scenic beauty and pastoral
loveliness, blending recreation with a
wide diversity of sports, including
delightful bathing in salt water of
pleasant temperature at The Baie de
Cbaleur, Youghal Beach, Prince Ed-
ward Islam] and numerous other re-
glens. A popular arrangement by
the railways this summer is the sale
of tickets at special reduced fares
from points in Ontario and as far
east as 1Vlontreal to centres in the
Lower St. Lawrence and Maritime
Provinces," Then, of course, those
desiring to go still further afield,
have as a choice the Canadian Rock-
ies, stated Mr. Johnston, containing
such great :natural playgrounds as
Jasper National Pal?lt, or a trip to
the Pacific Coast and an Alaska,
Bruise.
"So no matter what particular va-
cation trail, Canadians follow, they
are assured of a most satisfactory
holiday in their own country," stated
Mr. Johnston, "and our survey shows
that thousands of Canadians are now
planning to spend their vacation in
some part of the, country they have
never seen before."
•
DID THE MONK JOHANNES
MEAN THIS WAR?
Prophesy Made in 1600 Might be
Applied to Present World Plight
Hitler is Pictured as the Antichrist
and Mussolini as His Partner-.
Will be Crushed Like Straw
on the Floor
4.444.4.4-74444447 ew}.e,
(Published in The Tillsonburg Liberal
in 1917, and re -printed in the Till-
sonburg News Past week.
NOTE -According to a note .added
apparently by the translator, France
is figured by the Cock; England by
the Leopard; Russia by the White
Eagle and Germany and Austria by
the Black Eagle and the other
"eagle." This explanation we can
easily accept in view of the refer-
ences in the text, remembering too,
that the leopard Was originally more
in evidence than the lion as the badge
of England.
"David as Ward writes to a Harro-
gate newspaper: I received through
the kindness of a Belgian judge
whom I met in London, a copy in
French of an exceedingly interesting
old prediction made in 1600 and evid-
ently referring to the present war
(1914-18) raging on th e continent,
and, thinking it might interest some
of your readers I have pleasure in
forwarding it for your perusal. As a
proof of its genuineness I may say
this gentleman assured me he had a
copy of this prophecy as far back as
the Antwerp Exhibition. Some of
the French words used are, I believe,
very old, this being also indirect
testimony to its age. Your readers
must, of course, allow for the relig-
ous preconceptions of the author, as
altogether apart from this, its preeise
detail is, to say the least, remark-
able.
1. Several times has one seemed to
recognize him, because all slayers of
the Lamb resemble each other and
all the wicices are the precursors of
the beset Wicked One.
2, The veritable Antichrist will be
one of the monarchs of his time, a
son of Luther; he will invoke God
and call himself His messenger.
3. The Prince of Lies will swear
by the Bible; he will call himself
the arm of the Most High, chastising
corrupted people.
4. He will only have one arm, but
his innumerable armies, who will take,
as their motto, "God is With us,"
will seem like the infernal legions.
5. For a long while he will act by
ruse and treason; his spies will
spread al]. over the ea>•th, and •he.will
be the master of the secrets of those
in power,
Ile will have theologians inhis pay
to certify ' and prove his celestial
mission.
7. A war will furnish hien with
the reason for lifting the mask. It
will not be one which he will make
against the French monarchs, but an-
other which will be easily recognized
by the fact that in two weeks' time
it will have become universal. •
8. It will call to aims all °h ist-
ians, all Mohammedans, and even
other very distant people. Armies
will be formed in the four parts of
the world.
• 9. For men's minds will be opened
by angels. and in the third week they
will understand that this is the Anti -
Christ and that they will all become
slaves if they do not trample down
this conquering one.
10. The Antichrist will be recogniz-
able by several /narks. He will chiefly
massacre priests. monks, women and:
children and old people. He will shote
no mercy; he will pass along holding
a torch like the barbarians, but in-
voking the name of Christ.
11, His false words will resemble
those of Christians, but his acts will
be those of Nero and. the Roman
persecutors; there will be an eagle in
his coat of arms, and there will also
be one ih that of his confederate.
12. But this one is a Christian and
he will die cursed by the Pope Bone-
dictus, who will be elected at the be-
ginning of the reign of the Anti-
christ.
13. Priests and monks will no long-
er be seen confessing and absolving
the combatants, because for the first
time priests and monks will fight
with other citizens; and also because
Pope Benedictus having cursed the
Antichrist, it will be proclaimed that
all those who wage- war against him
will be in a state of grace, and should
they die, will, like martyrs, go
straight to heaven.
14. The -Pope's "bull" proclaiming
these things will make a great sen-
sation and will cause the death of the
monarch, tire Antichrist's ally.
15, In order to conquer the Anti-
christ snore men must be killed than
!Lome has ever held, It will require
an effort from all lands, for the
cock, the leopard and the white eagle
would net suffice to overcome the
blaek eagle if they were not helped
by the prayers of all the Roman
race,
16. Never befon a has humanity
been in such peril, for the triumph
of the Antichrist would be that of
the Demon in whom he is incarnat-
ed (1).
17. For it has been said that 20
centuries after the incarnation of the
world, the beast in his turn would be
incarnated and would threaten the
earth with as many evils as the
Divine Incarnation had brought it
gr eery
*118. Near theyear two thousand the
Antichrist will appear; his army will
surpass in mmnbers anything before
imagined; there will be Christians
among his hordes, and among the
defenders of the Lamb there will be
Mohammedans and savage tribes.
19. For the, first time the Lamb
will be entirely red; in the whole of
the Christian world there will not be
a space that will not be red; and the
heavens, the earth, the water and
even in tine air will be red, for blood
will flow in the sphere of the four
elements at the' came time.
20. The black eagle will throw it-
self 'upon the cock, which will lose
many of its feathers, but Will strike
heroically with its spur. It would
soon be annihilated were it not for
the help of the leopard and its elaw.
21. The black eagle, whole will
come from the land of Luther, will
eurpi-ise the cock by another side
and will invade one half of the land
of the cock.
22. The white eagle, which will
come from the north, will surprise
the, black eagle and the other eagle
and will completely invade the land
of the Antichrist from :ode end to the
other.
23. The black eagle will be forced
to leave the cock to fight the white
eagle, and the cock will pursue the
black eagle into the hind of the Anti -
Christ to help the white eagle.
24. The battle waged until then will
be small in comparison to those that
will take place in the land of Luther.
Becausetheseven angels will at the
same time pour fire from their burn-
ers en the impious land (image taken
from the Apocalypse), which means
that the Lamb will order the exter-
mination of the Antichrist's race.
25. When the beast sees he is lost
he will become furious; during,
months the beak of the white eagle,
the claws of the leopard and the
spurs of the cock will harass him.
26. Rivers will be crossed en step-
ping -stones et corpses, which in some
cases will change the course of the
water. Only great noblemen, superior
officers and princes will receive bur-
ial, for to the carnage caused by
fire -arms will be added the piling up
of those who perished by famine and
plague.
27. The Antichrist will several
times ask for peace, but tbe seven
angels who preceed the three animals,
defenders of the Lamb, have said
victory shall only be accorded on the
condition that the Antichrist be
crushed like straw on the threshing
floor.
28. Executors of the Lamb's jus-
tice, these three animals cannot stop
fighting so long as a soldier remains
to the Antichrist.
29. The reason the sentence of the
Lamb is implacable is that the Anti-
Christ
ntiChrist has pretended to be a Christ-
ian and to be acting in His name, so
that if he did not perish the fruit of
the redemption weuld be lost and the
gates of hell prevail against the
Saviour.
30. It will be seen that it is not a
human combat which will be waged
where the Antichrist forges his arms.
The three animals, defenders of the
Lamb, will exterminate the Anti-
ehrist's last army, but the battlefield
will become as an altar of sacrifice
larger than the greatest of cities, and
the corpses will have changed its
shape ley raising in it chains of
mounds.
31. The Antichrist will lose his
crown ons will,die demented and
alone. His emire will be divided
into 22 states, but stone willhave
either a royal house, an army or
vessels.
32. The white eagle, by Michael's
order, will chase the crescent from
Europe, where only Christians will
remain. It will occupy Constantin-
ople,
33. Then an era, of peace and pros-
perity will eommence for all the uni-
verse and there will be no more war;
each nation being -governed accord-
ing to its wish hnd' living in justice.
34. There will be no more Luther-
ans or Schismatics. The Lamb will
rcigri and the joys of humanity will
commence. Happy they, who, escape
ing from the perils of this prodig-
ious
rodigious time, can taste of its fruit, which
will be the reign of the Eternal Spirit
and the sanctification of humanity,
only to be achieved by the defeat of
the Antichrist.
CANUCRS FO'R'
FRENCH WARSHIPS
According to Canadian Naval.
Headquarters it is possible some of-
ficers of the Royal Canadian Naval
Volunteer 'Reserve now in England,
at the disposal of the British Admir-
aty, may be ass;gned'to French war-
ships taken over by the Royal Navy.
These officers were recently com-,
mended for "keenness and bearing,"^
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Able Bodied Men ...Willing to Work on Farms
for Two or Three Months :.. are Available for
Haying, Harvesting and General Farm Work
i
The Government of Ontario is ready and willing to help Farmers
who need exira workers. Realizing that farm crops are vital to Canada's
war effort, the Ontario Department of Labour has formulated a plan
to register workers who will be available to harvest these crops.
In view of the fact that there is a scarcity y of farmhelpwe ask for.
your co-operation. Many willing workers have registered for work
with the Ontario Department of Labour and are now ready for
immediate' employment. Farmers who need extra help' should apply
to the nearest Ontario Employment Office ... or write direct to
A. Maclaren, Director Farm Training, Department of Labour, Parlia-
nlent Buildings, Toronto.
ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
HON. N. O. HIPEIj
- Minister of Labour
N-lio
DID THE MONK JOHANNES
MEAN THIS WAR?
Prophesy Made in 1600 Might be
Applied to Present World Plight
Hitler is Pictured as the Antichrist
and Mussolini as His Partner-.
Will be Crushed Like Straw
on the Floor
4.444.4.4-74444447 ew}.e,
(Published in The Tillsonburg Liberal
in 1917, and re -printed in the Till-
sonburg News Past week.
NOTE -According to a note .added
apparently by the translator, France
is figured by the Cock; England by
the Leopard; Russia by the White
Eagle and Germany and Austria by
the Black Eagle and the other
"eagle." This explanation we can
easily accept in view of the refer-
ences in the text, remembering too,
that the leopard Was originally more
in evidence than the lion as the badge
of England.
"David as Ward writes to a Harro-
gate newspaper: I received through
the kindness of a Belgian judge
whom I met in London, a copy in
French of an exceedingly interesting
old prediction made in 1600 and evid-
ently referring to the present war
(1914-18) raging on th e continent,
and, thinking it might interest some
of your readers I have pleasure in
forwarding it for your perusal. As a
proof of its genuineness I may say
this gentleman assured me he had a
copy of this prophecy as far back as
the Antwerp Exhibition. Some of
the French words used are, I believe,
very old, this being also indirect
testimony to its age. Your readers
must, of course, allow for the relig-
ous preconceptions of the author, as
altogether apart from this, its preeise
detail is, to say the least, remark-
able.
1. Several times has one seemed to
recognize him, because all slayers of
the Lamb resemble each other and
all the wicices are the precursors of
the beset Wicked One.
2, The veritable Antichrist will be
one of the monarchs of his time, a
son of Luther; he will invoke God
and call himself His messenger.
3. The Prince of Lies will swear
by the Bible; he will call himself
the arm of the Most High, chastising
corrupted people.
4. He will only have one arm, but
his innumerable armies, who will take,
as their motto, "God is With us,"
will seem like the infernal legions.
5. For a long while he will act by
ruse and treason; his spies will
spread al]. over the ea>•th, and •he.will
be the master of the secrets of those
in power,
Ile will have theologians inhis pay
to certify ' and prove his celestial
mission.
7. A war will furnish hien with
the reason for lifting the mask. It
will not be one which he will make
against the French monarchs, but an-
other which will be easily recognized
by the fact that in two weeks' time
it will have become universal. •
8. It will call to aims all °h ist-
ians, all Mohammedans, and even
other very distant people. Armies
will be formed in the four parts of
the world.
• 9. For men's minds will be opened
by angels. and in the third week they
will understand that this is the Anti -
Christ and that they will all become
slaves if they do not trample down
this conquering one.
10. The Antichrist will be recogniz-
able by several /narks. He will chiefly
massacre priests. monks, women and:
children and old people. He will shote
no mercy; he will pass along holding
a torch like the barbarians, but in-
voking the name of Christ.
11, His false words will resemble
those of Christians, but his acts will
be those of Nero and. the Roman
persecutors; there will be an eagle in
his coat of arms, and there will also
be one ih that of his confederate.
12. But this one is a Christian and
he will die cursed by the Pope Bone-
dictus, who will be elected at the be-
ginning of the reign of the Anti-
christ.
13. Priests and monks will no long-
er be seen confessing and absolving
the combatants, because for the first
time priests and monks will fight
with other citizens; and also because
Pope Benedictus having cursed the
Antichrist, it will be proclaimed that
all those who wage- war against him
will be in a state of grace, and should
they die, will, like martyrs, go
straight to heaven.
14. The -Pope's "bull" proclaiming
these things will make a great sen-
sation and will cause the death of the
monarch, tire Antichrist's ally.
15, In order to conquer the Anti-
christ snore men must be killed than
!Lome has ever held, It will require
an effort from all lands, for the
cock, the leopard and the white eagle
would net suffice to overcome the
blaek eagle if they were not helped
by the prayers of all the Roman
race,
16. Never befon a has humanity
been in such peril, for the triumph
of the Antichrist would be that of
the Demon in whom he is incarnat-
ed (1).
17. For it has been said that 20
centuries after the incarnation of the
world, the beast in his turn would be
incarnated and would threaten the
earth with as many evils as the
Divine Incarnation had brought it
gr eery
*118. Near theyear two thousand the
Antichrist will appear; his army will
surpass in mmnbers anything before
imagined; there will be Christians
among his hordes, and among the
defenders of the Lamb there will be
Mohammedans and savage tribes.
19. For the, first time the Lamb
will be entirely red; in the whole of
the Christian world there will not be
a space that will not be red; and the
heavens, the earth, the water and
even in tine air will be red, for blood
will flow in the sphere of the four
elements at the' came time.
20. The black eagle will throw it-
self 'upon the cock, which will lose
many of its feathers, but Will strike
heroically with its spur. It would
soon be annihilated were it not for
the help of the leopard and its elaw.
21. The black eagle, whole will
come from the land of Luther, will
eurpi-ise the cock by another side
and will invade one half of the land
of the cock.
22. The white eagle, which will
come from the north, will surprise
the, black eagle and the other eagle
and will completely invade the land
of the Antichrist from :ode end to the
other.
23. The black eagle will be forced
to leave the cock to fight the white
eagle, and the cock will pursue the
black eagle into the hind of the Anti -
Christ to help the white eagle.
24. The battle waged until then will
be small in comparison to those that
will take place in the land of Luther.
Becausetheseven angels will at the
same time pour fire from their burn-
ers en the impious land (image taken
from the Apocalypse), which means
that the Lamb will order the exter-
mination of the Antichrist's race.
25. When the beast sees he is lost
he will become furious; during,
months the beak of the white eagle,
the claws of the leopard and the
spurs of the cock will harass him.
26. Rivers will be crossed en step-
ping -stones et corpses, which in some
cases will change the course of the
water. Only great noblemen, superior
officers and princes will receive bur-
ial, for to the carnage caused by
fire -arms will be added the piling up
of those who perished by famine and
plague.
27. The Antichrist will several
times ask for peace, but tbe seven
angels who preceed the three animals,
defenders of the Lamb, have said
victory shall only be accorded on the
condition that the Antichrist be
crushed like straw on the threshing
floor.
28. Executors of the Lamb's jus-
tice, these three animals cannot stop
fighting so long as a soldier remains
to the Antichrist.
29. The reason the sentence of the
Lamb is implacable is that the Anti-
Christ
ntiChrist has pretended to be a Christ-
ian and to be acting in His name, so
that if he did not perish the fruit of
the redemption weuld be lost and the
gates of hell prevail against the
Saviour.
30. It will be seen that it is not a
human combat which will be waged
where the Antichrist forges his arms.
The three animals, defenders of the
Lamb, will exterminate the Anti-
ehrist's last army, but the battlefield
will become as an altar of sacrifice
larger than the greatest of cities, and
the corpses will have changed its
shape ley raising in it chains of
mounds.
31. The Antichrist will lose his
crown ons will,die demented and
alone. His emire will be divided
into 22 states, but stone willhave
either a royal house, an army or
vessels.
32. The white eagle, by Michael's
order, will chase the crescent from
Europe, where only Christians will
remain. It will occupy Constantin-
ople,
33. Then an era, of peace and pros-
perity will eommence for all the uni-
verse and there will be no more war;
each nation being -governed accord-
ing to its wish hnd' living in justice.
34. There will be no more Luther-
ans or Schismatics. The Lamb will
rcigri and the joys of humanity will
commence. Happy they, who, escape
ing from the perils of this prodig-
ious
rodigious time, can taste of its fruit, which
will be the reign of the Eternal Spirit
and the sanctification of humanity,
only to be achieved by the defeat of
the Antichrist.
CANUCRS FO'R'
FRENCH WARSHIPS
According to Canadian Naval.
Headquarters it is possible some of-
ficers of the Royal Canadian Naval
Volunteer 'Reserve now in England,
at the disposal of the British Admir-
aty, may be ass;gned'to French war-
ships taken over by the Royal Navy.
These officers were recently com-,
mended for "keenness and bearing,"^
{