The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-19
MENACE oF TIE STARS.
b 1901 Formidable Conjunction Will
Occur.


Occur.
ew Orleans Picayune.
The great clock of the universe has
Measured of another year for this old
arth The days, hours, minutes and Sec
nds have been licked away one by one
pom the titanic mechanism that turns Il
kOrld upon it's axis every twenty-iour
ours and carries it around the sun once
b 1855 days.
But the measuring of year ior this
(arth OF ours IS but "a mere incident in the
YORK Of the great clock whose wheels
re mighty worlds. IN comparison to which
Purs is mere mote floating in the sun
hine, and whose years are ten, twenty
tehty and one even one hundred and
Eighty times as great as ours, as they go
ushing with inconceivable swiftnvss
bround the sun.
1t may well he imagined that there was
time when all. the planets assembled
feady to commence their wonderful march
hround the great luminary which gives
Them HE, 30 that viewed from this little
farth Of ours, they would appear to have
been gathered into a brilliant cluster, gilt
erng together in the clear ether of the
Early morning as the most astonishing
Constellation ever seen in the sky, and
Seen only that once.
Then, AZ The nat of supreme command
Prom tho Maker and Master of that
Pnighty mechanism, the fiery wheels OF
this clock of the universe were set In mo-
I'ion' and they began to tick off the sec
Ionds, minutes, hours. days and years OF
|that immensa duration which has been
|denominatcd time. And SO the wheels
fhave been turning ever since. and while
they mark off for each planet Its day,
|iisht and its year, they are also telling
me seconds Of the great year" the year
|oi the universe, which is measured By the
""e required for all the planets again to
range themselves in line and in the order
enat they stood when they first started
lon thelr grand march through the heav-
ems RMS will require hundreds OF thous-
anus OF our years, and yet that viii be
Fnly mere point In the enormous con-
uhnity Of duration.
I ihese beliefs. nagnified by superstition
Una wrought by the human imagination
i i many fancful legends, have been
.snerl'ed or adopted into the mythology
VI every primitive People. and have ex-
,l'ed more or less influence upon their
human thought and even belief so that
~ poslt IONS and aspects of the heavenly
ooneS nave been supposed to furnish
rhusurles or human destiny and of events
Garth '''''' " INV
o,rSlfonomers have busted themselves In
nroona,ip,Ilcated calculations TO determine the
nos..lohs % the planets nj periods of mo-
,.'Vus concern TO the human race. and
,an' nave claimed 10 have discovered a
soi relations which furnish prophetic
ttth,eC CASTS Carrying their calculations into
ture' they have beer able to discover
nosi., lne planets win again assume the
and ",S which attended past calamltous
y, .,nor momentous occurrences
~ llllS connection, ts ao...
ca,i,t TO note prediction made by n
taIIornla astronomer, or astroloror. Or
is,,'nN ~ Close, as printed In recent
sor,s vi me San Francisco Can. Ie as.
pahs, mat the clay cylinders dug up a,
IT, Siot'' ana upon which are impressed
br :. .uheiform writing which was I'm use
M. ~ uhclent Chaldeans. and form what
h,s;, f considered library OF Babyloniai
Tho ~, rellglon and science, state that al
ana tn OF the Noachian deiuge the sur
VII u we nVe then known planets. Mercury
" nus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. were nj
,bo luhctlon in tho sign Capricorn. Will,
OF the sun
ar also set forth that Berosus. a Chal
ina. astronomer aud historian whose writ
,nns are extant took notice of the con
rora'i oh OF the planets named In Capri
fnr., az the time OF the denge, and h,
thosa HrNiareu that whom the sun anC
toInaa same planets should again be con
terrss.i Caprlcornus, some tremendou.
esr sesstrial cataclysm or calamity to oul
~, VIII again occur.
aha,' ,ailtornia astrologer mentioned
forr.t mas been figuring out when thi.
ana A Lanie conjunction will occur again
Chr,a. ands the date to be the day after
Hi Nj In 1901, Just six years away
say; P"p''shen III the Na4i
prn, 49, now the planets are rapidly ap
VIII hns mat position in which the eartf
res, ne on one side of the sun ard all tn,
Us, ,n OF the planets on the other All RANGED
man, straight line, To such arrange
trena,. ne bodies OF 1.-THE solar syss en- ar,
one The majority are now there. th'
. p rapidly falling into line.
hhihs on December ., 1901. and unit