Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-02-15
PLANETS INDICATE A CALAMITY.
Conjunction Similar to the One Preced
;no +be VlooJ WI Occur N 1901.

CONJUNCTION Similar to the One Preced-
ing the Flood W.ll Occur n 1901.
Astronomers have busted themselves
in complicated calculations to determine
the positions OF the planes Al periods
CT mGmentaus concern 10 the human
race and they have claimed 10 have c-s-
covered a law Of relations which tur-
u.sf prophetic forecasts. Carrying the,r
calculations into the future, they nave
been able TO discover when the planets
viii again assume the positions whlch
attended past calamitous and ether mo-
mentOus occurrences.
In this connection Il 5 G. some cur
;cus interest to note prediction made
by a California astrolCge,, or astrono-
mer. Dr.. Frank NJ. Close as printed IN
recent issue Of the San Francisco Gail.
He asserts that the clay cylinders dug
M at Babylon. and upon which are
impressed the cune:form writing which
was IN use by the ancient Chaldeans,
and form what may bs considered a
library of Babylon,an history, religion
aid science. state that at the time OF
the Merchandising the sun and the
five then known planets-Mercury, We
nus. Mars. Jupiter and Saturn-were all
in conjunction n the syn Capricorn,
while the earth alone was on the oppo-
site side Of the sun.
II is also set forth that BerOsus, a
Chaldean astronomer and historian,
whose writings are eXtant. took notice
OF the conjunction OF the planets named
in CapricoUnus a. he time Of the del
uge, and HI further declared that when
the sun and these same planets should
again be ccnjo.ne1 in CaprcCrnus.
SOM tremendous terrestrial cataclysm
or calamity % cur earth VIII again oc-
cur.
The California astrolOger mentioned
above has been figuring out when tais
formidable conjunction will occur again,
and he finds the date to be the day after
Christmas. in 1901, just six years away
HIS conclusions, published in the Call
say:
Just now the planets are rapidly
approaching that position N which the
earth will be on one side of the sun
and all the rest Of the planets on the
other,all ranged in nearly a straight
line. To such arrangement the bodies
of the solar system are tending. The
majority arc now here the others rap
idly falling into line.
Beginning on December 9. 1901, and
until the 26th of that month. the sun
and all the planets will be in direct
line; only the earth will be alone at one
side Of the sun at the end Of the line,
and the balance of the planets on the
ether side OF the sun, and the entire
solar system, sun and planets, will oc-
cupy esTonOmically the zod.acal sign
Of Cap- iCornus.
Whether the conclusions Of the Bah
ylcn.sn astronomer prove correct re-
mains to be seen. The fact exists that
the planetary conditions viii obtain
The Hebrew Scriptures declare that
the next terrestrial calamity will be by
fire, The physical philosophers gen
e-ally stlll hold that our globe Is mass
CT molten matter covered by a crust
more or less thick, but probably capa-
BILE Of beng broken by some mighty
shock, or possibly by an interior tidal
wave CT fire drawn Up by the combined
attraction CT the sun and all the planets
pulling agains. tAe molten sea under
the crust.
Heoa 10 only field for speculation; but
= viii be interesting 70 know II tAe
same conjunction Of the heavenly bodies
which attended the Ncachi1n daluge
VII be again seen after an interval Of
thousands CT years, whsthenH VIII bring
with it another cataclysm or not