The sun., 1900-11-18
iSTROLOGY THEN AND WOW.
The Fasir Of the Middle Ages wes >o' In Il
WITH The VI re Modern Nari-t.

f'"' Nf N,U W ans Itttt S-'O ii" 'r'
Astr.osy A. i profession IA ~ % ya>JH
NOR" f,unshing condition to-day th'r 1. va
In the middle agcs declared a we-hroNu
, cotton future broker OF this city. VI. lm
not iokug" he went ON earnestly; us y cold
fat Back In ihc sixteenth century au i>-
trooccr generally ran his telescope foundry
In som" rickcty old tower with . black ca;
as -de partner and Was mighty lucky II
he succeeded in lodging the stake as n Nind-up
Vt present he has a suite Of rooms in 4 metro
polan sky sctau.r. dictates h- CORES rnnd-
encc "a beautiful typewriter hours and docs
land Office business in marke, forecasts ~
- Il hoad postage prepaid II seems incredible
know bu. millions OF dollars arc undOuhtrdv
invested every year under TIE Immediate
direction Of fskirs who pretend to read the
future in tho stars
My attention wa, first attracted Ia the sub
ject In 'os. through the peculiar orders began
to receive from an old customer who had been
taking an occasional flyer In cotton ever since
| had been in business IIc know nothing
about the intricacIc> Of the market himself
and generally asked my advice before investing
All Of sudden. however. he changed his 'ac-
tiCs completely and would come ~ with pre-
ciSe and definite instructions, which he in
sisted on having carried ouI to III" letter "
the ~ame time he switched from the bull To IN"
hear side Of the market inferred. Of clurSr
that he had bc"n irve1tns IN sore ~ NJ"
r"1dy-madr 'tTs' that ar" haNked about Tia"
country, and. being curious IN know IN" source
of his information. ! subjected him 10 \ It'll"
pumping iIc finally admitted IN rather
-iianl"-faced fashion. tina, he had become
client Of Boston astrulOger who called HIM
self '/obari1' and snnt him q Weshly letter
of advice supposed to be compiled from ch-
servations Of the planets looked over the
more amazing 10, of baldcrdash never laid
ewes on u wa: weird tumble Of as'rononi-
Exchange slang. and defy any human being
to tell what he was driving a, That was
probably the thing 'ha, made 1t impressive
Il tired TO point out thc gross aD-lrGity
of the whole rroNo'i 'iiiol, continued tho broker
This f,kir.' siid |. i. tllkiuS nhou, planets
that are thoIss1ds OF tmcs large ihan this
billions of mi "a away aud rush through spAce
n orhit' nf lminr,'irab!e va't 'ess. Tho
/. that the, nave been following out some
great universal lav since the beginning of tlrn
,.e' here i litt!" tIppeay. he'rrTny coan-
de lcc m'l in Boston who asks Won to believe
that this s'lpendoIs procession OF worlds
If " b,1d n m}"f % to S2'"r" ,G me nsLnn%n.
pool sd New orl"T1s' ~ tho cra-ost sid
most comlcal id"s ever bror"hed outside OF
shoilders He's hi, Il rirht a rowsrfni lol
Of time'. ho replied gave him ~ n hone
les- ca1e. hut The Incident caused mo 10 look
int" the m1'tnr. and nuon litte inquiry
found eighteen or twenty sreculators here IN
the CITY WHO were investing their move, rec-
ularly o1 ihe advice Of Zohiris and other pro-
fesSior,l a-tro'ogers of the same st1inp. or
course they ropre-ented n mere fraction "
tho tNt1l 1,irb.- nt local clients. The rakirS
s"nt ont lips o. cotton, sugar. rico. wheat and
l. about the same wsy. For example. 7 h1d
Mrs in the nsce Ido1t. indicating irrrcndinr
ohaTgo Uranus eHd Jupiter in Tho third Ulaoc.
indicating rising market, Sirius cor Joins left
wing Of lat hnr0soor-, and 50 on AID 30 on.
II il hard n believe that some people crr ros~i.
bly, swallow such m p1hA fraud but found
10 my surprise that good many Of The dupee
were mon AID women ~ superior, educ1'io".
ard, annnre 1tlv. uo-r than average irtclliccr 30
u ater on had n clerk in my ofllce who had
FORMERLY worked for m rstrologer of some rote
IN \ow York City. and he told me many amusing
ihtnrs about tho business behind the scrnos
His boss wa m ev-redicinn man who for
years had managed big tent show IN tho West
for liver regulator company Uc h1d picked
up a SInslte:lng of scientific terms in 'h. rile ~
bright follow hit on the 'as'rolocv craft ne he
called II, and lauuchnd out for himself He cot
the forms for horoscopes from m old English
almanac or 'ephewer1.' and a. business in
ont all the ti'no NJ vounr man told me ,h,t
his mail was erOr'roIs and that most of his
Dimes were residents cf ~"'1ll towns in 'he South
and Wca' The eN-medici"c nan WAS shcwd
CROUCH rover 20 accent rnv rorev for jnvosi-
mont himself. but confined his operation.
strictly IN giving advice. for which le charged
g. letter Tho market 'ips vcrc prepared
Tor IN" concern nv pic'nrcsuule drsor'ariac
WHO us"d ~ bn n prominent fCnrc on 'lIange
but had ror" 20 tho dogs and wn- clad 10 pick
M an odd dollar wherever he could Bein- an
expert his orinior- h,d so,nc r"'l value, and
ne frecne' " hi, II rirht. That was II" gang
We arc living in forgot 70 mention ,hnt The
OLD gentleman who pAtroni1es /obrria is n
ranpant scer'c as ~ relisyior IIe savs he
wants some positive evidence before he accents
M. NJ ire mi