The age-herald., 1900-08-18
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Astrologer RaphaePs prophecies for this day, Saturday, August IS. 1900; Do not travel and avoid women" Thou art threatened with heavy losses, l and an unsettled year for thy business; see l that thou dost not speculate, nor run any ! risks.
 "A child born on this day will be quick l and clever, but fond of company, and un- | settled in disposition and generally poor.' 'If a female, unhappy in marriage Hire menservants."
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Sun- day, August 19, 1900:
 Ask favors in the evening"" Thou wilt have a favorable year for thy | business, and it will increase; those in ! employ will get promoted"
 "A child born on this day will be very | successful in employ, and will be clever l and fortunate.'
 Seventy years ago this morning there | came into the world weeping an infant | whose coming was a world-event and the announcing heralds so proclaimed 1t to mankind. Some five and twenty years later | the infant born to imperial purple came | into the splendid heritage of the first fam
 
 | to q noble old age reigns still the Emperor | of Austria. Vast events depend upon that l great old mans beautiful life of human l love and imperial splendor-the most splen- | did in the world save only the splendor of | the Tsar.
 An old print shows Francis Joseph and | young Elizabeth, most beautiful princess in Europe," in their coronation robes, and l very happy they no doubt were. From that | hour both consecrated their lives to the | good of their people, and in this time there | is perhaps no national sentiment in the l world stronger than the love of Francis | Joseph by the people over whom he reigns. l The Empress Elizabeth was equally be- | loved yet she was murdered in her de- | fenseless old age-she who had spent all | her days in doing deeds of charity. The l old Emperors only son, Rudolf, heir to | the illustrious house of the Hapsburgs, old- | est of all families of which there is a per- | fectlv clear record, died through what was | either murder of self -slaughter-died for | woman who was not his wife-but the | Emperor is not childless at seventy all ms 1 subjects are his loving and dutiful chil- | dren.
 | Of the monarchs of Europe, only two are 1 tenderly and personally loved by thelr
 peoples-Francis Joseph and Victoria. The l Germans extravagantly admire their Kaiser; but they fear him. The Tsar Is | nrofoundlv reverenced by the Russians; in l fact. he is adored by them as their Little | Father" temporal and spiritual, the direct l representative of Christ upon the earth. 1 God and the Tsar!' is ever the lips of | every Russian who has not murder in ms | heart The late King Humbert was loved
 almost passionately, after the manner ot
 the warm Italian nature; and, like Eliza | beth of Austria, he was murdered because | he he was good.
 These simple facts about "effete mon-
 archies'' are easily discoverable even by
 the globe trotter doing" Europe in hur- | ", if he be observant.
 | The titles of the greater monarchs are | an interesting study to the sociologist. | Victoria, who reigns by consent of perhaps
 the freest of all peoples but does not gov
 ern at all, is by law Queen of Great Brit
 ain, not Queen of the British On the | contrary William, who reigns over and
 governs Germany by consent of the Ger
 man States, is the German Emperor, not
 the Emperor of Germany; though he is
 the divine right King of Prussia. Francis | Joseph, another divine right" monarch,
 is not the Emperor of the Austrians and | King of the Hungarians, but is Emperor
 of Austria and King of Hungary. Nicholas
 is "Tsar and Autocrat of all the Rus
 sians,' absolute and unqualified despot. | The Napoleons never assumed the title of
 Emperor of France, but were Emperors of
 the French.
 The student readily perceves the differ l ences of these distinctions, except as to
 the Queen of Great Britain. In that proud
 title bestowed by free people he will dis
 cern a thousand years of English charac- | ter document now here in this news | paper workplace signed in the upper left | hand corner ''Vivtoria R. L." reads: "Vic- | toria, by the grace of God, of Great Brit | ain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the | Faith, &c., &c., Empress of India-Tor all | our loving subjects collective and sineu- | lar'-and so on. If one did not know the | English character, that Grace of God'
 and Defender of the Faith would seem | farcical. The Queen of England "by Grace
 of God' defending the Catholic Faith is
 the most audacious of all imperial fiction!
 While this summer holds out to burn
 wretched wanderers may return; and tim
 canned turnips and squash will fall as | boarders fly, b'gosh
 speaking of sinners-no, hot weather.
 which makes sinners-it remained for yes-
 terday morning to surpass every one of all
 past mornings in sultriness, hotness, op- | pressiveness. One might have cooked an
 egg in the sunlight or whole basketful
 of eggs, as for that matter It was mad
 weather, masters, and it drove men to mad
 ness; likewise other animals About noon.
 showers began falling at intervals, and the
 temperature fell several degrees The
 greatest sufferers were persons who had
 returned after vacations spent in higher
 lattitudes or by the seashore For them the | oppressiveness was frightful