Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-05-06

makes mistake. Hor terms are low. II
You are in trouble or distress, through love
or business, call on her at onc0 and have
your mind set Mt rest"
have said that women have monopoly
Of the professional prophecy business. There
Is ono department. however. In which men
stand pro-ominont, thnt Ia in what ono adj
ycrtIaor calls "Tho Magical Mathematical
Field Of puro Astrology." 'Aatrology" is u
generic name applied to tho profession US u
whole. but by reason of It's supposed knowl-
edge Of the higher mathematics aud the fact
that most OF the women who exercise thia
calling havo only imperfect knowledge OF tho
ono language which thoy speak, tho depart
mont OF astrology proper 10 given over wholly
TO men. The astrological method OF divlna-
tion Ia as old gs history, and, while Il ia not
no generally believed In nor It's professors
10 well paid IA they worc two hundred
years ago yet tho professors OF astrology.
where they understand tho business, make
a great deal Of money, aud havo among their
patrons people OF intelligence, who look down
with contempt on palmlsta, cup tosacrs card
cutters, seventh daughters OF seventh daugh-
tors, and even enocr ut tho professors OF III.
magic cau The methods OF tho aatroiogei
are, and always have bv'n, such MS to appeal
powerfully to the credulity OF tho ignorant
lie Is popularity supposed 10 know all about
the stars. not only from an astronomical
standpoint but also 20 DO eble 10 rcad their
occult influences on the human race. Tho
ASTROLOGICAL may DO eaid To be tho Calvnist Of
tho professional prophets. diycn tho hour.
dry and year OF birth. ho calculates or casta
tho horoscope Of II person. proves tho influ-
onccs that direct his life, and show that he
IN really the creature Of an memorable fate,
nom which no effort Of his own eau froc him.
Tho astrologer ia necessarily n fatalst; hope
Is eliminated from his methods and rcspon-
slblllty Is cast 10 tho winds. All no can do is
TO show tho good or tho bad influences that
control the llfo md fortunes OF the eubject.
Tho modern ahtrologints. however, In order
TO supply the needs OF tho market take care
that there Ia more good awaiting their clients
tlan owl. Like the popular story In tho
popular melodramR, tho popular fortune
teller, no mnttor whit troubles no or she may
forecast, must In the end reward virtue and
punish vice.
There arc a number Of negro voodoos III
Now York, principally mon and. IN might
DO expected their methods differ very
greatly from those that are popular and
potent with other races. Thoy believe in
charms, the casting OF spells. the power TO
bewitch or bedeyll others, and their ability
to separate or unite loycrs. The purpose Of
the yoodoo Is not 30 much 10 forsts what
win happen AZ. through certain occult infu-
oncoH TO compel things TO happan. by means
Of nominations. and charms compounded Of
blood. oalcined spiders and toads tongues.
and such ingredients as the witches Of Mac
beth threw into the cauldron. they eau pro-
duoe any result their clients want. It might
DO supposed that tho patrons of those VOC.
doc doctors wolld DO tho most ignorant peo-
plo OF thcir own color. but such IN not tho
caso. Ono Of those men, known ~ Doctor
Ross, clears. tits aald, over twenty thousand
dollars year. His clients arc among the
most fashionable women In New York, and Il
Ia not unusual 10 see carriages with arms
blazoned on them, aud liyerled coachmen.
drawn up before the dusty. dingy lIttio ahop
ia which he manufactures his charms aud
back OF which Is his private consulting room.
In addition TO all these, there are In tho