Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-01-04
The Voice OF the stars for 1852.

heavens have not rolled together like a scroll.
Nor has the universe been swept through by
tial-waves of elemental fire, making a tenn
pestuOus chaos Of the Cosmos This failure Of
the final confagraton to come off as advertised
ought not to be set down to the discredt of
podcrn astrology, for the most accomplished
etar-rPaders of ancient times were in the habit
Of using this as staple prediction. 1t is a
proof, indeed, that the mOderns follow the ira
GitiOns OF the golden age of Chaldean science.
and AN astrolO9er would be marked as an heter-
Odox and sienderly equipped prophet if he was
not able TO foretel the end of the world as often
D. once year. And there never was year
when so many portentOus signs blazed legibly
In the sky Not to speak Of the fam
ing procession of comets which have
strramcd one after another into our sys
TEN from the dark abysses of the north
tine three cOnjunctiOns Of major planets in the
b;iieIui and bcastly sign OfTaurus would seem to
have presigniiied the beginning of woes. if not
universal wreck and ruin. And upon the whole
II has been a year of riot and contempt for law
among the elementary forces of Nature 1t
began with devastating tempests in Europe and
Overw helminr floods in the west, and it closes
with tOrnadoes chasing each other across the
Atlantic. thousand lives swallowed ua i'm the
burning theater at Vienna. and pestilence
threatening many portions of our own Country
IT has been marked by such sweeping catastr0-
phes aS the Michigan forest fires and the great
been
shaken by earthqIakes-the one at Scio costing
nearly 5000 lives and the foundations of social
order have been stirred by the assassination of
a Gar and President, by wars in Asia. Africa
ami South America, by sedition i'm Ireland and
the Hebrew persecution in the German enpire
Altogether the bit of cOsmic dust which We
innabit seems to have run narrow chance dur
ing the critical year we have just escaped from.
and the astrOlOgers are now inclined to think
that the world will be i'm no danger of collapse.
xal.Csi g.,
The almanacS point. however to the fact that
during this year Uranus and Neptune will follow
Jupiter in nearly synchrOnOus perhelia. Saturn
sweeps closely after, and therefore for two or
three years To come the earth will suffer from
such focusing of maiefic planetary influences
~ she has not experienced for several thousand
years The prophets all agree that our planet
will emerge triumphantly from her various be
lca@uering woes somewhere between the years
1885 and 1887: but their foretengs for the i'm
mediate future are strangely i'm conflict. Zad-
kel Tao Sic warns everybody to carry prOl,hy-
lactic hurse-chestnut in his pocket againt yellow
fever. black death and some other hi yhy cOlOred
diseases; but he makes light of them and
seems to- think that horned cattle will be the
most serious sufferers from murralnS of one sort
or another. To Professor Grimmer the outlook
is more gloomy. He fOresecs showers of gore
commissions in the earth and sum- fumes of
sulphur belching from volcanic chasm ships
rottin@ on Shiny ocean. raging pestience and
the uncoilined dead shoyelled by multitudes in
to trenches. The vaccination question hOwey-
err will be finally settled i'm midsummer of 1885
when prevailing fires will destroy every disease
germ, thus abOshing smallpox and zymOtic
plaques IN general. and leaving purified earth
surrounded by positive and healthful electricity.
in which human life will BE- prolonged and
human happiness reach its flood tide All this
is in harmony with the revelations which are
symb0lized in that stone miracle the Great Pyr-
amid. According to every trust worthy comDu-
tatiOn OF the prophetic elements and measure
ments of this marvellous structure where the
entire sweep of human history is visibiy Dor
trayed aud enblemed in imperisfabe rock the
year 81 is to be the dawn of the Millennium
when the lcTig passage through those everlasting
granite walls once more will point straight to
Alpha nracOns-again on the meridian. but be-
low the POie-tO testify that the Old Serpent
Il put down at last and forever.
Ii must be allowed that comprehensive propbe-
eylngs OF this sort lack the element of personal
interest. and the world longs for the advent of
another bold astrologer like Isaac Bckerstatf
the contemporary OF Jonathan Swift d. d. Even
ct this day it would be hard to find any more
delightful reading than Mr. Bickerstafs s.Pre-
dietions for the year 17O9, wherein the month
AMI day ~ the month are set down. the persons
named and the events of the next year particu-
lary related as they will come to pass" No
doubt Mr. Partridge. the almanac maker-the
ZaGhlel OF his day-was astOunded when he read
this slccnc prophecy concerning himself: II
have consulted the star of his nativity and find
that he viii infallibly die on the 29th of March
about III O'Clock at night, of a raging fever
Therefore advise him to consider of it and
settle his affairs i'm time" And when after
the day of doom had passed, and Partridge
was goaded to assert in print and with
some natural violence of language that
he still lived, Mr.. Bckerstaff turned upon
him with dignted rebuke for his .sscurriity
and Passion" and advising him to consider
what would be thought in foreign universities
Of such ungenerous behavior from one man of
Science ~ another, proceeded to prove by in
yncible demonstration that i'm spite of the de-
NAL. and by the very terms of that denial. he
actually was dead, and did die within half an
hour at fUrthest of the time foretold A fresh
perJsai of this old prophecy and its sequela will
convince anyone that astrological science
Reached IFS eliminating development i'm the
time oI Dean Swift 1t is true that ZadkieI did
predict with some creditable circumstantiality
tiiaJ New York -theater would burn I'D on
thursday evening of last week. But Mr. Bick-
erSt4.I W u!d have named the theater and the
hour. and made out complete list of the
Killed and wounded and by this time he would
nave been able TO Oyerwbelm any skeptical vic
tim with demonstration that he had been
duiy ineinerated as was fOredoOmed by the
stars
1t Is but a sorry and spiritless substitute for
engaging prophecies Of this sort to be told
that the tenpestuous terrOrs of a universe i'm
It's leaiA throeS have beenindefinitely postponed
Ana what does it profit after all to escape
IOin the wilderness of fire prepared by the
astroo@er and theOlogian only to be frozen up
III the senturies of ice foreordaned by the
@eci0Gist and astronomer? The rigid computa-
Tons cf mathematical science mark out upon
tiie map the lines Of perpetual congelation
winch Will be reached in the Years to
Come "a the awful winter creeps down.
Na-d from the Pole Long before the
eartns orbit reaches it's maximum eccen-
iHc'ty cur short, hot summer will avail
sut mite To melt the spreading snow cap and
pe-vfe Boston becomes the ultimate station for
Arctic exploring parties the earths center of
gravity WlilshiIt toward the accumulated weight
Vi zee. anu Antarctic continents will once more
emerge nom southern seas to be the theater of
hc'' cNil!Ziton And in the intense midwin-
UT Oh inns frozen IOn summer tourists from
soite iuNufloHs capital in Falkland will be cool
Ei@ themselves of in front of tue great cOnti-
rental glacier whose southern limit will cross
tae hali-subinerged island OF Manhattan or
hunting among the rocks of the terminal
iaoItEe where once was Central Park for blocks
ei marble and granite from the Albany capitol
when have been carried down in the slow but
leie.tieSs current Of flowing ice The winter
s"Suee OF this secular glaciation will not he
ee'!tl a year beyond A. ID. sol 1903. This date
y would Oe well for astrOlogers and others tn
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