Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-04-29


to be inoculated with the plague. Far
mers will be SO stricken with fear that
thew will cease to till their farms, gaunt
famine will step in to make human misery
more wretched; fanaticism will spring up
In MANY places; and blOodshed will result
therefrom; murderers and robbers will ply
their hellish work with lmpunity, for there
will be little or no law, everybody will be
absorbed with the trying task of keeping
alive; people will be buried in deep
trenches, uncofined;s the judge will be
stricken from the bench, the pleader from
the bar, and the merchant and the custom
er will be seized with the fatal malady
while trading; death will come slow linger-
ing in some cases, but in most it will be
swift and terrible. In seaboard towns
thousands will be buried in the bays and
harbors, the law to the contrary notwith-
standing.
The disease cannot be cured: but unless
your system is too weak or impure, cOpi-
Gus draughts of warm water and a vege-
tartan diet will prevent the disease poison
ing the blood in the process of digestion.
Animal food will poison those who con-
tinue to USE it. Fine cotton or sponge
dipped into spirits Of camphor and kept in
the nostrils and frequently charged, will
prevent the blood from being poisoned
through the organs of respiration. Many
people think that the total destruction
of animal life will occur during this era
of the plague, After the black death there
will be two years of fire. which will rage
with fury in all parts of the world from
1885 to 1887. The fires will be the means
of ann1hilating every germ OF disease. In
fact every city or portion of city in which
the plague appears should be burned to
the ground This will destroy the scourge.
Nothing but fire can do it.
THOSE WHO WILL LIVE THROUGH IT.
Those who pass through those terrible
years of woe will have great capacity for
the enjoyment of the pleasure the earth.
The earth will yieldtwice as much as for
merly. All the animal kingdom will be
more prolific and life more prolonged. The
average duration of life is said to be thirty
three years now; after the year 1887 it will
be just twice as long, or sixty-six years.
WHAT AN PSYCHOLOGIST SAYS.
The New York ''Sun" has che following:
In the course of the day the reporter vsi-
ted several astrologers. 1.-The astronomers
have made grave mistake, said q Fourth
street astrologer, "for, instead of the con-
junction taking place tomorrow, 1t really
took place last Monday. Zadkiel's alma
nae places it on the 18th of April, which
was Monday. AS all the planets are evil
that come together here, it follows that
their effect will be evil. predict fear
full blight in the fruit crop. Again the
conjunction occurs in Taurus. Now, as
Taurus represents the throat, it follows
that the Threats OF mankind will suffer.
Diptheria, bronchitis, and the like will
sweep off immense numbers of our people,
and fevers will be prevalent. The East
will suffer greatly too
Of the half dozen women aStrOlOgerS
visited, none had heard that there was to
be noteworthy conjunction of the plan
ents, and two or three became somewhat
alarmed whep told that such an event was
to occur.
WHAT ANOTHER SCIENTIST SAYS.
Professor Mees, the well known scientist
Of Louisville, KY, upon being asked what
he thought of the prophecy, said:
GAS far as the prediction is concerned
we can say nothing, but consider all such
predictions to be the most absurd nonsense.
There is nothing in the conjunction or
perihelia of the planets concerned; there is
nothing caused by them except some at
mospheric disturbances. have not look
ed into the relative position of the planets,
but it is my impression that we have pass
ed the time when the greatest number of
them are in conjunction. We ara Deepen :
dent upon the sun for our climatic posi-
tion, SO do not think it would affect us in
any way as far as atmospheric changes are
concerned. We might have some insul-
alton of the atmosphere. but that would
not amount to anything. This is a very
fertile time for such silly predictions, be-
cause we have had such severe weather
this season, and people are likely to take
up anything at all and make mountain
of it. There is nothing in science which
could lead any one to make such silly
prediction as that. At the present rate,
allowing for the greatest revolutions, the
sun could not possibly cool more than one
degree in seven years, or increase more
than one degree IN 100 years, so there is no
possibility of any such remarkable things
coming to pass.''