The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-05-10
PLANETARY INFLUENCES.
New Aspects OF AstroIegy and Astro. Me.
teOrology.

In connection with the lamented death
of Princess Alice, London newspaper
recalls an astrological prediction respect.
ing the British royal family during the
time of William the Third. The throne
was declared vacant on Saturday, Feb
rusry is, 1888, and it was prophesied
that every sovereign would die on Satur-
dsy for three hundred years. The vsti-
cinstion bids fair to be fulfilled vii
liam the Third died on Saturday, March
s, 1902; Queen Anne died on Saturday,
August 1, IVA; George /. at midnight
on Saturday, june 10, 1927; George the
Second on Saturday, October 25, 1850;
George LII. on Saturday, January 10,
1920; George Nv on Saturday. June 6,
1880; the Prince Consort on Saturday,
December IA, 1861; and the Princess
Alice on the same day as her father, also
q Saturday. There is something singu-
lar to say the least, in these condolences
OF course sall intelligent people affect
smile at superstition, and believe them
selves to be wholly free from the absurd
belief in omens, unlueky days, and as
troiogical predictions. We use.the word
"a6ect," for it is very doubtful whether
anybody is wholly free from a faint of
superstition in some Of its manifold
manifestations
There was published in London year
or two since remarkable book, entitled
The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer"
which contained some of the most won
derful predictions Of that strange High
land seer, with particulars OF their literal
fulfllment at least q century afterward.
The following relative to the Macleod
family, which was uttered and recorded
in black and white" 106 years plior TO
it's accomplishment, is youched for by
the Rev. DIR. Norman Macleod himself:
When Norman Mscleod-the third
Norman-the son of the hard. boned Eng
hsh Lady shall perish by an accidental
death; when the Maidens Of Macleod
certain well-known rocks on the coast)
become the property OF Campbell;
when fox brings forth her young in one
OF the turrets of the castle; and when
the fairy-enchSnted bower shall be for
the last time exhibited, then the glory
of the Macleod family shall depart, o
great part Of the estate shall be sold to
others, SO that q 'curragh "a boat
will carry all the males of the clan
Macleod across Lake Dunyegan !" but
in times far distant another John B1iac
should arise, who should redeem the
estate. The present Norman Macleod's
famous father relates that while visiting
Dunyegan in the summer of 1899, an
English blacksmith told him in solemn
secrecy that be was going to the estate
to force open the iron chest containing
the fairy flag" A few days after this
event, the melancholy news of the death
OF the young and promising heir of Mac
leod reached the castle. Norman, the
Shird Norman, was o lieutenant of I'll. M.
:. Queen Charlotte, which was blown up
at sea, and he persisted with all hands.
At the same time, the rocks termed Mac
leod's Maidens Were sold in the course of
that very week to Angus Campbell, of
Eusay, and they are still in possession
OF his grandson while q fox in posses
sion of Lieutenant Maclinn, reading in
the west turret Of castle Dunyegan, had
young. Thus, much that was foretold
in the prophecy has been literally ful-
filed, although the family still enjoy the
ancestral possessions, and the worst por-
ton of the prediction happily remains
unyerifed. 1t is said, however, that the
Macleods believe themselves to rest
under the shadow of this irreyocable
doom. Still stranger predictions, and
their actual accomplishment, might be
quoted, did space permit.
There are many men of profound at
tainments in science, who are of the
opinion that there is something more in
planetary influences than it has been
the fashion of recent years to acknowl-
edge. Thinkers there are who regard the
phrase in the song Of Deborah and
Barak, "'The stars in their courses fought
against Sisera," not as poetic hyper
bole, but as literal truth. With abso-
lutte scientific accuracy the same phra-e |
uay be employed with respect to many