The age-herald., 1900-06-01
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Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for this day Friday, June l. 1900:
 "Very uncertain all day.
 Most unfortunate influences prevail this day and heavy and serious troubles will befall thee in thy business and domestic affairs; avoid speculation, run no risks, do not quarrel, and avoid new enterprises Females must be exceedingly careful as the day is full of treachery and deceit.
 "A child born on this day will meet with many reverses and much opposition all through life; it should keep in employ If female, she will lead a very unhappy life and meet much sorrow and misfor- tune"
 This day will be stormy. Some terrific storms may be expected this month";
 Venus will be on the meridian, which denotes festivities and merry-making, pleasure and conviviality. Venus will shine with great brilliancy
 Tt will be favorable month for roy atty" This apparently has reference to the British triumph in South Africa.
 ''rhe opposition of the Lights and hler cury to Jupiter and Uranus denotes dis
 
 in short, the time is rapidly approaching when the simple orthodox Religion of the Church of England will be rent to pieces, and the majority of the clergy will gravi- tate to the forms and ceremonies of the Romish church, and the priest and con- fessional be in vogue once again
 '"rhe position of Jupiter and Uranus on the cusp of the Srd denotes a busy time
 
 are likely to be much in evidence, not only for pleasure, but for business purposes.
 Deaths will be very sudden and painful, and more than one celebrity will go to rest with his fathers"
 ''The money market will be in an unset tied condition all the month"
 Bake; brew; hire maidservants; go a-fishing"
 It is interesting to figure out what Raphael says of the eclipse of the sun last Monday, concerning which astrono- mical event everybody is still talking, and men of science will talk for ages to come perhaps. Raphael says in precise words, applicable especially to his own country of England:
 This eclipse will be a very important
 
 | and lasting. Occurring as it does in the humane sign of Germini, and near the cusp of the 9th house, it points to great changes | and scbisms in the Church. It will toll | the knell of the Protestant Church Its | young clergy. intoxicated with forms and ceremonies, foreign to the simple worship l of Deity, will bring about it's separation from the state, and the inauguration of | credulity and priestcraft. The thinking | portion of mankind, being disgusted, will | turn away from the Church, and embrace | other creeds, or no creeds at all. Material ism will increase, and the minds of men | will become debased All this will not | happen at once, but this eclipse will set | the ball rolling. This will be the more certain as the eclipse occurs in close op- position to Jupiter and Uranus, which de- notes the great changes it will produce in l the ndnds of men,
 | Truly is Raphael lugubrious this day.
 
 ''The iron market is in a somewhat ', stive condition," said D. l.. Cobb of Chi eago, salesagent of the Sloss- Sheffield com pany, and one of the noted iron experts of the country But it seems to me that any considerable slump in prices is scarcely possible. Labor strikes effectng certain iron manufacturing industries have | caused the general production of pig iron 1 to slightly exceed the demand; but that is of little moment. There is hardly any | store iron and none at all in the Birming ham district. If there is anything like a general strike of iron-workers in July, as some persons seem to fear hardening of prices will result, for there will cer- l tainy be a>serious falling off in produc ton, and the scarcity of pig iron will be- come as great as it was when the recent | rise in prices began. Furnacemen who | have made contracts can only fill their en- agreements as the iron is produced: they haven't any iron stored If production be stopped, prices must harden And those | who look for a fall in prices evidently lose | sight of the unprecedented foreign demand | for manufactured iron. and the steady pressure from abroad for pig. Structural iron and steel were never before in such | pressing demand as now and the re- 1 establishment of peace in South Africa | and the feeling of universal security sure to follow will increase greatly that de- | mand."
 q have tried all day to beg, buy, or bor- | row three carloads of coke, and I have l failed" said Walter Smith of the Trussvlle l furnace. "The coke was required to meet a sudden emergency that was certain to pass within day; but nevertheless the | fuel was badly needed. It is is extremely | difficult to obtain coke in the Birmingham district, and furnaces are hard-pressed. | They are unable to obtain even small extra | supplies to meet emergencies; they burn all | they can get. The demands upon the Ten nesse company, for example, are very great. | The price of coke is now five dollars a | ton, as compared with two dollars and | quarter in 1S97-9S | "I have been about fires a great deal, | having sold firemens supplies for some | years, and being therefore somewhat direct | ly interested, and l never saw fire better 1 y,,opaoed than that one in the NaberS MOr-