The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-19
THE STARS TELL IT
Your Fortune and Your Fate Can
be Read.
PSYCHOLOGISTS AS PROPHETS
Large Fees Paid by Successful Men for Their
Horoscopes-Things which Have
Come to Pass.

JFor TEE SUNDAY Neutrality-suspicious.
1t is earnestly insisted upon by some
highly imaginative dreamers, who fancy
themselves scientific materialIsts, that the
light radieted from the printing press mas
banished superstition, to very great ex-
tent, at least from among civilized peoples.
Some inherited regard for trivial signs and
omens. they admit, still fingers among
women and rather eeblemlnded men, but
they felicitate themselves that they have
kicked off this terrene ball, out into the In
finity of space, all the countless multitude
of fairies, trolls, sylphs, undines, gnomes,
ct al. never to return, and with those
s'viewless creatures of the air." have got
rid of the congeneric socalled occult
sciences, including magic and astrology.
Perhaps they have---not-
1t may possibly be mildly surprising to
them that astrology has to-day not only
more believers but more who understand
good deal of its strange and difficult COM
putations, laws and iargon, than nave ex-
listed at any one time within at least three
hundred years. Such is nevertheless the
fact Several years ago, New ork
Sunday newspaper established an astrologl-
cal department, devotlng column eacn
drawn by thoroughly competent astrolo-
ger from
THE HOROSCOPES OF IvIDUALs
sending in simply the place and exact time
of their birth and statement of their sex.
The applicants for attention to that column
were from one 20 five hundred week.
Only a very small percentage of them
could obtain the desired favor, rarely
more than one-fourth of the smallest num-
hos
continued up TO the present time, and the
letters received are in themselves sufficient
demonstration that those who ask the cast
ing of their horoscopes are Dy no means the
ignorant and vulgar, but In great major
of cases persons Of intelligence, education
and culture.
A couple of years ago ST. Louis paper
undertook to do the same thing, but in its
brash inconsiderateness of liberality was
rash enough to promise to do up the
horoscopes of all who applied. In few
weeks the editor found he would have to
give his entire Sunday issue up TO horo-
scopes, with heavy encroachment on
Mondays space, to make his promise good,
and unable TO see any way OF compromise,
saved himself by stopping the department
altogether.
OF course il will be said that those facts
only demonstrate the existence of a great
deal of idle curiosity, and perhaps leaven
of credulity, such as prompts many per-
sops to
PATRoNIZE FORTUNE TELLERs.
Let it 60 at that There are better evil
dences of the hold astrology has as a FIN dlI
steele fad In New York and Boston there
are numbers of shrewd, practical men,
spectators in the stock, produce and cot
ton markets-particularlyi in the first men,
tioned-who pay regularly s. per month for
forecasts of the DAYS and even the times Of
DAYS, when operations are advisable and
when il will be best for them to carefully
refrain from doing business. And they
govern themselves accordingly. One of
them said to the writer:
~ knew friends who were getting point
ers for every day in the month rom an
astrologer in Boston, and l made applicas
ton for the same service. He was so busy
at the time that he could not add me to his
list, and had to wait several months TO get
In. Then 1 sent him the place, date and
minute of my birth, from which he con-
structed what understand is called q map
of my nativity, showing the positions of
the planets when l was born, and on that
as a basis, taken in conjunction with the
relative positions of the planets each day in
the month.
he MAKES HIS FORECASTS
of probabilities You comprehend that he
does not ensure my winning or guarantee
thai | will not loose. He simply tells me
the precise time when | am most likely 10
win or lose, as the case may be. He makes
always three and sometimes as many as
five specific divisions of each business day,
giving the chances in each. How have
came out of itp Away ahead. | haven't
made one serious bad deal since began
working his system, except when | tried a
fiier or two, just by way of experiment,
against his advice. i have not made any
thing like so many operations as l would
have in the same time if | had not been
steering, but the eventual outcome | am
satisfied has been better. 1t may be all
humbug. but j have learned that it isn't
good medicine for me to buy when he says
SELL or to sell when he says buy or try
20 do anything when he advises me to keep
still Yes, | know several men who get
his tips as | do. The regular rate
Is 50 month. Understand itn
Thunder No. In general way,
] believe one should not engage in