The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-04

/ tack by some malignant disease, per-
haDs a widespread epidemic, which
would account for the virulent character
of the threatened interference. The
planetary conjunction seems, however,
10 Indicate that it is an aVoldable eVll,
and l would advise the utmost care IN re-
gard TO your personal health and safety
at this time and until the danger passes
over, as it seems likely TO do after lew
weeks.
/ give the words of this wonderful doc
ument as nearly as / can from memory
General Garfield returned while MI
Nichol was reading. / held the chart IN
my hand, tracing the indications alluded
TO in the text.
What do You think of it?" he asked,
as the reading concluded. l replied. that
it interested me greatly, but knew
nothing of such matters, and at the pest
would not put any reliance on this, since
TO be forewarned was to be forearmeQ'
AS to the rupture in the party, mace
light of it, thinking the astroioger nau
drawn his conclusion, not from the
aspect of the stars but from the shadows
cast by the clouds visible in the polltlcai
world.
Taking the horoscope from MIR. Nichol,
4 General Garfield sat down opposite US,
looked il over a moment and said;
DO you know, this man has been send
ing me things of this sort for years
have never paid any attention TO lhem'
but some of the things he has foretold,
have come TO pass in very curious way
| first heard from him while l was sit
ting on the F'itz John Porter court
martial in 1852. He then predicted GER
tain things SO unlikely to happen, that
I thought the man simply lunatlc ana
threw his so-called horoscope into the
waste basket without giving II
thought"
Il remember among Others" was the
reply, that he predicted that l would De
promoted to high rank after great re-
verse to our arms; would resign soon
afterwards and would not again enter
the service though the war would con,
tinue for several years. rms seemed
impossible, but it was all SO, as you
know After my election as senator,
which he also predicted, he wrote me IN
the very words you oddly enough greet
ed me with when We met at chicago Iust
before the convention,-"Gl thou art
and Cawdor and shall be king. 1t was
this coincidence which called the moro
scope TO my mind when l saw you come
in today"
/ asked him if he intended to preserve
this document. and he said:
No, indeed: l do not believe in sueh
things. The issues of life are IN the
hands of God and l don't care TO specu-
late about what the future kindly hides.
You know Caesars saying about the
pleasantest death-That which IS least
| expected
Then you had better let me have
this / suggested.
Y
welcome to it..
for a day or two to show to some one
that he named, I have forgotten VINO II
was. but promised to mail it to me in
short time / related the incident 10 my
wife that same evening, and the next
day to one or more Of my publishers.
Hearing nothing more of II, ABOUT the
time of the Maine elections being at Gen
eral Garfeld's home in Mentor o., re,
ferred to the matter and was Informed
that Mr.. Nichol had mislaid the papers,
but was again promised that they shoulu
be hunted up and sent TO me.
In the latter part Of June, 1881, between
the Goth and 18th of that month, | had a
conversation with Hon. Joshua r. gas,
kill Of Lockport, N. Y, an Old friend
whom l met at the commencement OF
Rochester university, which. called the
matter very forcibly to my MIND. haq
Just returned from Washington, Where
had gone on the invitation Of the presl-
dent MIR. Gaskill. asking how he was,
replied that he looked much worn ana OUT
of health and that l feared other predlc-
lions of the horoscope might be fulfilled
as one had already been, adding that l
seriously doubted if he would live out his
term.
Less than week after this conversa-
ton. President Garfield fell by the hands
of Cuiteau. who fitted the astroioger 5
prediction of strange malign force.
The general verdict of science perhaps
would also sustain his forecast tnat 1t
was a preyentable or avoldabIe evil II
the le- Roentgen process had been available
at that time the bullet might have, been
located and removed, his life saved and
the s.maiign purpose failed. At least
the fulfliment of his predictions have
been so striking as to make it a matter
of regret that the horoscope and the &C
companying chart was not preserved, OF
at least copy taken. 1t is possible that
it may some time be found among Presl-
dent Garfield's papers; but that seems
unlikely after SO long time.
ALBION w. TOURGEE.