Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-13
POWER OF PLANETS.
Theory Of Professor Totten as to q
Crisis in the Year 1892.
HISTORY WILL REPEAT ITSELF
Jupiter and Saturn viii Make Their Peri
helion Passages Then.
An 0NINOUS PROPHECY FOB 1899

'The Coming Crisis" is the subject Of q
series of articles by Prof Totten now
appearing in F1-a,sk Leslie's Weekly In an
article which appeared in the issue of yes
terday he outlines his perihelioa theory IS
follows:
Once in every - years the planet Jupiter
makes its perihelion passage; that is, goes
over that portion of its orbit which lies
nearest to the sun. The entire duration of
this passage extends over several years, and
philosophers have noticed that coinci-
IDENTIFY with these periodic returns to solar
proximity we have an accompanying return
of abnormal seasons with all their varied
consequences. The central year OF the last
perihelion of Jupiter was 1880 A D., and
that Of the current passage will be in 1892.
We are already well into it! And, If we
represent its central instant by the 70
stand how and why 1t is that its influence
Cike the heat Of q summer day which cul-
minutes at P. M. rather than noon) will
extend for several years after 1921
Two Great Planets Pulling at Once.
Again, every 20 years the planet Saturn
(whose orbit lies far outside of Jupiter's)
makes its own perihelion passage, and a
similar Saturnian period of solar activity
has been noticed extending proportionally
longer upon each side of its central year.
Saturn's last passage was in 1885 A. D., and
so great is its orbit that we are still under
this baleful influence, and will be until
after 1892 which, SO to speak, is its o'clock
mark. Hence the abnormal influences of
these two monster planets overlap, and the
wave of the one rides as a crest upon that
through the "tide-rip' or "the race" in
Long Island Sound will appreciate our illus
tration, and will easily understand how the
meeting of two such gigantic tides will
s'chop" the waves upon which our little
sphere must strive to ride!
A cycle composed of five periods Of Jup-
tier and two of Saturn, although it does not
exactly bring about the same confguration,
does so pretty nearly, five periods of Jnpi-
ter being 21,663 days. and two of Saturn
being 21,519 days. Thus every alternate
return of Jupiter into perihelion passage is
commensurate, or comedies with that Of
Saturn, and it has been particularly noticed
that by the combined wave Of influence,
activity is SO noticeab,y augmented, or
raised above its average, that a $3.50 year
period of responsive physical and mental
disturbance is recorded in the world Of
medicine, politics and jurisprudence.
The Influence Of tho Stars.
Indeed, man is the creature of the planet
ary system which bears him onward, and
''the stars in their courses" influence our
general and particular destiny beyond all
question. This is undoubtedly one of the
Creators means Of purging the human race
as regularly as by the tidal recurrence due
to the moons influence He keeps the sea
alive.
Five Of these commensurate periods of
Jupiter and Saturn have occurred in the
past 300 years The last was in 1885, and
timed the dreadful Irish famine which e1-
tended from 1842 to 1S5S-that is, in Miller's
dayl The preceding one occurred in 1897
as a central year, when the plague, accord
ing to Webster, devastated many parts of
the Old World, and yellow fever was epi-
demic at every American port. This was
the time of the Napoleonic craze. and
France, insane, denied all forms of God!
The next preceding commensurate perihelia
was in 173S, the center, according to Web
ster, of long and very pestilential cycle.
These were the days of Wesley and White
field. and of widespread evangelization in
England.
But let us 90 still further into the past.
One of the severest plague eras of history
covered nearly the whole of the sixth CEN
tury, and each of its years of marked NOR
tality were commensurate perihelia of Ju-
piter and Saturn, with Uranus and Nep-
turn both assisting in the cycle! These
were the days of Justinian and Bonitace II.
-Four Planets at Perihelion.
fFinallv, Noah Webster, in his "History
of Pestilence," remarks that "the mortality
of the sixteenth century was equal to that
of the fifth," and DR.. Knspp's analysis of
this long period shows that all four Of the
superior and exterior planets made their
perihelion passages about the middle of
that century-Uranus in 1916, Neptune in
1858, and Jupiter and Saturn their commen-
surate one in 1560-61. These were the days
of Luther, the ninth hour in the Savior's
parable, as we have already pointed out.
Now the current perihelion of Saturn is
the central one between its two which are
commensurate with Jupiter, but it has the
remarkable feature of commencing at about
the central year Qss0) of Jupiter's last pas
sage and extending over to Its next in 1892. It
thus spans the two, and centralizes with the
descending modal passages of the latter.
This modal period is also historically noted
Us oue oi SJedt ulstuTUdlce LII Tue Iuean- /
time, Uranus, entering into perihelion !
passage in 1871, made its central record in |
1882, and spans its influence also over to
1892, while Neptune, as the straw which |
breaks the camel's back, began its passage |
way back in 1868, centred in 1881, and will |
not pas beyond its maximum sphere of in
auence until 1899-a year already ominous
enoughi Examine the history of each of |
these eras independently and you will find
unusual and abnormal excitement in every
department. of mans affairs