The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-02-10
THE lola REGISTER.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1898.
ASTROLOGY AS A FAD.
It Seems to Be Gaining Ground
An Over the World.
People who Consult the Planets for Aid
in Solving Perplexing Mundane
Problems The Growth
of SpIritism.

Astrology seems to be gaining in pop
ularity and many are turning to it for
pointers concerning the fate that is in
store for them. Meteorologists are con-
sulting the planets in relation to
changes in the weather, and scientists
are seriously discussing the probability,
or even possibility, of the larger plan
cts exerting an influence on the earth
sufficient to affect conditions of life or
health.
Astronomers do not believe in astrolo-
gy, but are willing to give the unique
science credit for assisting to develop
the science of astronomy, says the Pitts
burgh Gazette. Long before there was
an interest taken in astronomy there
were many careful observers of the
heavenly bodies. The names chosen by
these men for stars and consultations
remain unchanged.
Astrology may be the fad ere long.
If not the astrology OF the ancients,
then a modern adaptation of it. Not a
few of the great men of Europe consult
stars, and seek answers to grave ques-
tons in the stars.
It has been stated recently on what is
said to be good authority that repre-
sentative of the Prussian government
asked of a French astrologer the proper
time to pick quarrel with France.
After carefully comparing horoscopes
of high officials he answered: Any
hour in the afternoon, as near as posi-
BILE midway between the 9th and 14th
of July, 1870.
On the 18th of July William snubbed
Benedict, the French emissary, and on
the 18th friendly relations ceased.
Astrologers, like fortune-tellcrs, are
largely patronized by those W.. are in
love or who want to be, and by those
who are anxious to get into matrimony
or get out of it. In addition to these
there are not few business men, spec
ulators, politicians and craftsmen who
consult them.
The seer of Charing Cross road, Lon
don, was often visited and consulted,
says Edgar Lee in the Arena, by the
late prince consort, Lord Lytton,
Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Lord
Beaconsfeld, and many other notables.
The seer of Kings Cross also became
quite famous through his predictions
relating to the celebration of the
queens jubilee, in which he foretold
the failure of the anarchists plots and
the injuries that befell the marquis of
Lorne.
There are two kinds of astrologists-
those who are intuitive and those who
rely solely on mathematical calcula-
tons. The latter meet with the greater
favor among educated and thoughtful
people, while the superstitous and I'M
reasoning have as much, # not more,
respect for the seer who knows it simply
because he knows it.
Ruthiel, of Baltimore, who has been
consulted by so many in this communi-
ty, belongs to the mathematical class.
He will not give names, but says he is
being constantly consulted by men
who rank high in business, political
and social life. While he does not say
that astrology is science, he allows it
hits entirely too often to be a mere
guess or coincidence.
What are we coming to? Never in
the previous history of the world have
PCODlC Will 50
puzzling questions. We boast of our
enlightenment, of our ability to solve
knotty problems, but the solution of
one only leads to another more difficult.
Hypnotism, spiritism, theosophy and
many other things pertaining to
psychology and biology are occupying
the attention of brainy men and women.
We may pooh-pooh these as much as we
please, the fact remains that they are /
steadily forcing themselves on our at
tention.
You can hardly realize the growth of
spiritism within the last few years, and /
if il were popular to be an avowed spir-
itualist you would find them in every
congregation, not excepting the Roman
Catholic and Presbyterian.