Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 174, 11 July 1901, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

Stirring times are in store for the the world if Pro*SATAN’S feasor James 11-. RETURN. Fulton is to be lieved. The Pro-

fessor has devoted “thirty jbarS of his life* and as many thousand dollars,” to the elucidation of the Biblical mysteries, and a Chicago journal has just announced his final conclusion* “The Aiv.iChrisfc lives in Chicago/’ it tells us. “ His headquarters are on Michigan Avenue. His name 13in the directory, and it reads*- ‘ John Alexander Howie-. * He is the precursor of Satan, who ruleß' in the planet Saturn,” Professor Fulton’s case is stranger than that; of must of the great company oi religious cranks, for he is a Mastt f of Arts of Edinburgh, and a keen critic of the Bible. He was fCfmerly Professor of Oriental Languages in the Itoyal University of. Athens, and in the I:u----p-n i.tl University of Vienna. He

speaks eight languages, and isi finishing his book in Chicago,! At present only the merest oiitrl line of bis discovery is given tol ihe world. The seven years oil ; physical darkness- spoken of byl St. John it seems, will begin iul I9J2j and are due to a deluge that! occurred in the planet Saturn iul 1858. It takes light 81 years tol travel from Saturn to so the discover tells us; and cou® sequeutly the stoppages of light® from Saturn will not be notice® on the earth until 1942, whiclfi shows how hopelessly imtnlM science has gone in decent .years® Satan* who abides in Saturn, hafl for yeari been preparing for thfl great struggle with the HeavonM Hosts in 1950. He will be defl feated, and will come on earth* but Professor Fulton has -ndS made clear the ultimate career ofl this orb after that date. The kefl with which the various problems® has been solved seems to havfl been the number eight, The® were-eight people in the Ark, aufl 1950 marks the close of the eight® cycle through which the worlfl has run, so that the number fl important, The “Ass’* upoiH which the Anti-Christ will ridtfl according to the Professor, isa®| abbreviation of “ Anglo-Sa.xfii® speech,” and it is notewoitbfl that John Alexandt f Dowie sp» alfl English. Among tne many thin« one would like to know aboifl® this new discovery* the inoS interesting is what the man oH Michigan Avenue thinks abouH I

Sydney Truth is just now el gaged in exposing! simple number of swindle! swindles, that prey upon tl public, and is col ducting the campaign with I wholesome earnestness char* teristic of John Norton, never by any chance terms! spade an agricultural impli-w* in his last number, says a wr* in Dunedin Liberal, I see exp(* |the silver chain and free wall i swindie, and as the advert* ; meat circulates in this colo* and even in this town, 1 helpS the good work by sending* exposure along. The advert* ment states that the Engl* Watch and Jewellery Compsi* in order to introduce its busio* into every household in A* tralasia, undertakes to give - a** one of its * world-famed £2l* solid silver keyless Luo* watches ” to every reader ff* sends the correct reading of tfl puzzle;— A A I B*L*l> I S*LV*B I W # l -H® Ct**N . J *F | I I OV**3 | **G=*X { $ | OH**N, ■ < ’ * The puzzle 11 fliiMiiM

pimple that anyone with half rn eve cO'hlti guess it at once, and J’ot some are foolish enough in and post the answer, i reply they receive the following letter Dear Sir (or Madam, as the case may be), —We have to announce that the solution of our puzzle forwarded by you is •the correct one.

,On receipt of the sum of twenty-five shillings and six'pouce (25a 6d), being the price of our special sterling silver chains, we will forward both watch and chain by registered post, securely packed, in terms of our advertisement.

A solid gold brooch, English hall-marked, may be had instead of the chain for two shillings extra ; that is, 27s Gd. When remitting please state whether lady’s or gent’s watch is required, and be sure to give full jpostal address. John Willis, Manager. If the victim is hooked by the letter, 25s 6d is sent along, and there comes in return a very '-or linary watch and a paltry piece of tinsel in the shape of a chain, the total value being £1 at the very outside. The “ solid gold ” brooch can be bought at any B')NA FIDE jeweller’s for 7s 6d. This is the explanation of an vertisernent that has attracted in ny fools.