The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-11-05

What lay Rnsue During the Next
Seven Years-A Period Of Suf.
fering and Death.

From the Silence VI Health
If there is anything in "astroloeica
criology." We are approaching one oI
the most pestilential periods Of the
eartl,'s history. Since the commence
ment Of the Christian era the perihel,s
Of the four| great planets Of the solar:ys
tem-Jupiter. Uranus. Saturn ana
Neptune-have not been coincident.
But this is about To occur. aud. in the
language Of DR.. Knapp. who hs,
traced the history Of the greatest cpl
denies that ever afflicted the human
race to the perihelis Of these planets,
there will sooo he Lively times fol
doctors." The theory is that ~hen
one or more of the large planets j.
nearest the sun. the temperature and
condition Of our atmosphere are SO dis
turbed rs to cause injurious vicissi.
tudes. terrible rains. prolonged
drouths. ETC.. resulting in the destruc
ton If crops and pestilence among
human beings and domestic animals.
DR.. Knapp has collected a mass Of
statistical data. all going to show
that periheli"n data have always heeu
marked by;unu>ual mortality. and sick
ness and death have invariably cur
responded with the planets in perihe
lion at the same time. The revolution
Of Jupiter round the sun is accom-
plishe,l in n little less than twelve
years of Saturn in little less than
thirty years; Of Uranus in about
eigthy-four years. II il he true. there
fore. that the peTihelia If these planets
occasion atmospheric conditions un.
favorable to life. pe-tilential period:
should occur once in q dozen years,
and aggravated and still more wide
spread epidemics at longer intervals
In tracing the HISTORY Of epidemics for
more than 1000 years. DR.. Knapp
finds the facts in ali cases to validate
the theory. Thus in the sixteenth
century, three Of these planets were
coincident in perihelion. and thoee
we're the mHst Perilous, times Vi
the Christian era.
But sum we are to have. for the
first time in two thousand years. all
four Of these planets against US. They
will be ut their nearest approach "a
the sun in or soon after 1880. so that
for q few years. say from 1880 to 1885.
the vitality Of every living thing will
he put to severe and trying ordeal.
Some persons think they see in the
signs Of the times evidences OF the
great disasters in the immediate
future. The excessive heat. the un.
cxampled cold. the prevalence Of food
and disasters ut sea, the general failure
Of the potato crop. the Widespread
chill fever among human beings. and
the equal presence Of the epizoosic
among animals. are mentioned as
among the premonitions Of the rapidly
approaching perihe'isn.
Well. '.fOrewarned Is Ia be fore
armed" Accidents excepted, we know
very well that the persons Of more
vigorous constitutions aud more nv
gienic habits will have the better
chance to survive whatever adverse in.
Auences the extraordinary perihelia
will occasion. 1t is we'll known to
physicians that. in all pestilences.
plaques, typhus, small pox. cholera,
murrain, ect., the Incorporate, the
dissipated, and those whose sanitary
conditions were bad, furnished the vic
tins.
We do not write to alarm any one,
nor to make a sensation. We state the
facts which all history at.ests. Readers
can judge for themselves what i'm
portance to attach to the subject.
That the conjoint perihelion ofall the
large planets Of the solar system. one
Of which. Jupiter. is . thousand times
a. large as the earth, must disturb our
atmosphere and temperature very con-
siderably, is probable that This dis
turbance must be injurious to health
and life, is certain and these periods
have heretofore been pes,ilential, is .
matter Of record. How much We shall
suffer during the next dozen or fifteen
years. depends very much upon how
nearly we live q life in accordance
with the laws OF life.