The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-07-01
TOTTEN PREDICTS WOE.
Soon All the Planets VIII Be on the Other
Side OF the Sun.

whose interpretations Of the Bible
and prophecies have won him fame IN
the past, thinks tina: the END of the
age is at hand and that the st. Louis
tornado, the political situation, and
other present conditions prove that ne
is right. Ina statement Of his views,
which he has just issued, he says:
1t will not be denied that if
magnet revolves in circular orbit
about central core that is in connec-
ton with register, tae register will
indicate no variation during the revo-
luton, w lie, if the revolution be &C.
centric, as, for instance, in an ellptl-
cal orbit, the register will inevitably
indicate maxima and minlma, as the
outward magnet draws near to and
away from the central core. Now,
the earth is Just such magnet, re-
volying about the sun, which Is anoth-
er, and rotating about its own axis.
Hence the needle points to the north,
because OF the thermo electric action
of the sun upon the whole magnet.
As the earth orbit it is well known
scientific fact that we have pc eriods Of
maxima and minima in electrical
phenomena, during both the dlurnal
motion and the yearly revolution as
we'll as q secular rise and fall.
so with all the planets. When
they are at their nearest to the sun, or
in periheia, We have a maximum,
and the reverse obtains at their apshe-
liza When two or more planets are
in coincident relation the cosmlc re-
suitant is increased.
Let it now be noticed that we
(human beings are the denizens of
of our own terrestrial magnet, its
subjects, so to speak, are bound to
show forth it's influence in our collect
i've capacity. And not only we, but
bat the atmosphere and the sea, and
the depths beneath, yea, and the phys
ical currents in the human body and
all that this implies must and will and
do respond TO the varying influences
Of the solar system, as a whole, and as
expressed at the solar centre, and then
telegraphed outward to all of its ele
ments.
Now, I am advancing no new the
ory, but one founded on the works of
no less authority than Noah Webster,
| whose, disquisition upon storms, pes
tilences, their history and periodicity,
was considered important enough by
our ancestors, to be published at
Government expense about 100 years
ago. He was followed by Dr.. Knapp,
of Chicago, who, in 1882, propounded
the peribelian theory, and anticipated
all that is now going on in the solar
syestem. So also Benner, famous
among all stock brokers, fnanciers,
and grain merchants for his prophe-
cies as to the cycles of trade, the rise
and fall of prices, elaborated the idea
from another standpoint, and a host
OF other specialists have treated it
along the whole range OF religion,
politics, business, crime, insanity, life
and morality.
Twice in the Christian era three OF
the greater planets exterior to the
earth have been in coincident perihe-
liza, in the sixth and sixteenth century.
| They were famous eras of plague, pes
thence and perturbation among men,
and now for the first time in the his
tory of man all of the planets, exterl-
or as we'll as interior, superior as well
as inferior, are approaching 8 coincI-
| dent period of ominous and cannot
but believe malifc influence. It will
culminate only at the very end Of this
century, and may extend well over
into the next. At that time all of the
plants will be in line, conjunction,
Juggling together at the sun, while the
earth, upon the opposite side of the
sun, will be subjected to their united
action. l speak II general terms and
upon premises that have been broad
ly published in standard journals.
From the physical standpoint alone
this condition of affairs cannot but
result in widespread disaster. express
ed in all the terms that nature knows,
cyclones, earthquakes, tidal waves,
etc, and among men, such an un
balancing of the normal condition as
will try to their deepest foundations
the institutions upon which the false
system OF modern society lives and
moves and has its being.
Already we can hear the mutter
of the cosmic powers that are consplr-
ing against US. I would have no diff
iculty of convincing a st. Louls!an
of this. I probably will be branded
as bald headed fool by some Eastern
paper, whose locality IS reserved for
parallel disaster in due time.
The world is in confusion, and l
cannot escape the firm conviction that
it is to be worse confounded as the
years roll on, aud also believe that
man, who has wasted his resources
| and belied his mission, is responsible,
both individually and as nationally
collected. for his institutions, and
will be held responsible for their fail
ure in the comidg crisis
The probable result OF having all
the planets on the other side OF the
sun Juggling away is thus stalled by
Lieut.. Totten:
Il have never posed as a prophet,
| nor do | believe Luat the end of the
world, or of the nation, is 1t hand;
| but 90 OelleVe LnaL Lney are W Oe
tried to limit, and Strengthened out,
and that then The literal rule of the re-
turred Messiah is to usher in an era in
| which the poor, The true, the good,
the honest, the simple minded, will
inherit the earth, and new order OF
ages will be set up by Him in person,
who is the desire Of all the ages.
Aside from the concert OF history
and chronology testiies as to the ap.
preaching end OF the age, is the prin-
ciple of economy in the universe,
which never pats off until tomarrow
what can be done to-day. In other
words, the entire energy OF the system
weinnabit conspires with prophecy as
narmonized to history in offering
such an opportunity at consummation
as will not be repeated by the cycles
for ages and ages, and it is toward