Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-06

and czarina Serafm As appealed to Tor ad-
| himself.
] If the car has turned to occuitism the
reason must be looked for very much IN his
loss of faith in the high clergy. who prom
| ised victory to his holy cause and the high
| clergy naturally defend Themselves aileg-
| ing this or that tack OF devotion.
| Hero we come on the baby czarevitch
| again. Father John OF Kronstadt. for
merry so revred by the imperial family
| and now actually forbidden approach to the
| car, Is saying that things cannot go bet
| ter until after the recovery OF the Black
Virgin of Kasan, stolen for the jewels in
| its frame and the hope of a great reward
| on August IA. 1904 Perhaps half the force
| been feverishly engaged in seeking to re-
/ cover X since that date, the desire being
| rather to punish the offenders than reward
| them Father John criticises this system,
| arguing that the holy icon ought to be re-
| deemed at once at no matter what price
venerated Picture of Black Virgin.
| What is certain Is that since the time OF
| Ivan the Terrible the Russian imperial
cause and family has been supposed to be
under the particular protection Of this
Black virgin-before which. carried as a
banner. the invading Poles fled in 1612-the
| most critical date of Russian history.
| Since the time of Peter the Great every
| newborn Romanoff has been made to kneel
| before this venerated picture. even before
| it can lisp the words of the prayer which
its father Tor mother, lacking father says
for it. beginning Jealous Protectress.
\ Mother of Our Lordr' The consciousness
that this ceremony remains unaccomplished
! for the little tsarevitch adds not a little TO
| the cars hesitations.
| month before the birth Of the prince
| royal of Italy impressive old peasant
| woman presented herself at the Quirinal
| and demanded an audience with the king.
At that moment all Italy was hoping that
| the baby would be born a boy
| What will Won give me II / assure
| you 1t will be a boy?' the old peasant in
quired of Victor Emmanuel Ill
You shall have his picture set in bril-
| liants," he promised: whereupon she told
| him the secret of her tip. which she de-
clared to have been handed down from
mother to daughter in her family from an
| cient Roman times. Anyone can try Ii.
You never foretell the sex OF the
| first baby" she said to the king, but to
| foretell the sex of those that follow you
have only to note the state of the moon at
| the moment of the preceding confinement
| If the moon changed within three days fol-
| lowing the delivery the sex changes; other
| wise it remains the same"
Victor Emmanuel III thanked her.
| Your last royal infant was a princess.
| continued the old peasant; be sure there
| fore that as the moon did change within
three days following her birth the next
! child will be q prince.
| 1t happened just so; and here is the royal
| babes horoscope, drawn up by the cele-
| brated VanlIi:
Horoscope of the Prince Of Piedmont.
at IL pm. of September 49, 1904. the
hour and date OF the princes birth. the as
| poets and positions. of the planets were con-
| Trajectory. Mercury presided. from which
he is master of the offspring. and Jupiter Is
| the dispenser of nfe-that is to say. when
| he meets evil planet the HE or the
I prince will be threatened.
Jupiter and Mercury. which have a cap
| ital Importance in the life of the prince. are
| retrograde. from which they lose a part of
| their power; but. as again in the Theme,
! they are well placed. especially Mercury
| who is his throne and In the fourth
| house. they recover the lost power, but in
| another sense.
Mercury also presides over the intelli-
| gence. He is close to the sun. in posi-
| ton called burned" which, according to
| the ancients, tends to produce an impede
| ment in the speech. Nevertheless the fac
ulties will be good in spite of the fact that
| the retrograde Mercury's nearness to the
sun will bring about in the prince a strange
| mixture of energy and slowness.
The position of Saturn in the ninth
| house indica tes that the prince will be
! strong in philosophy; but this planet
| is opposed to Mars, the quarresome. he
| will also be given to wordy discussion
Furthermore. the aspects of these two bad
| planets. especially of Saturn In the ninth
| house. furnish a strange presage; either
| be absolutely opposed to all religion, prob
| ably the latter.
Again, the oppositions indicate serious
! plots. sedtions and revolts True, Jupiter
| and Venus, by their good aspects, weaken
! the bad effects. and if at the dangerous
| moments Saturn should arrive in the sign
| of the lion, in good relation to Jupiter, the
| dangers will pass.
According to the sign of birth the Vir-
| gin, and the dominating planet Mercury
| the temperament of the prince will be dry
and bilious. The sicknesses that threaten
| him will have to do with the lungs. stom-
| ach. liver. heart and the nerves connected
with the heart. Apart from these the par
| ticular dangers will be found in~traveling-
and in this sense dangers from animals
are to be feared.
The princes marriage ought to be early:
because If it be retarded it will be wi h
very young princess and unhappy. Be
cause, while the aspects promise the prince
favor from women. they also announce
dangers and unhappiEess by women"
Failed to Please Queen Helena.
This horoscope failed to please Queen
Helena by reason OF Its lack of detailed
predictions. On the other hand, the la
dies OF the court know they do well 10
consult for their own account a strange
little hump-backed clairvoyant calling him.
self Zacapo. and who. coming in restitution
from Naples. is now handsomely estab-
lished in Rome. Two months before tbs
birth of the little prince. Zacapo made the
following prediction to the queen:
The Queen of Italy will have two more
reign will be glorious and heroic Queen
Helena will be tried by intimate sorrows
and a grave Illness. She will. nevertheless,
survive the king and Will be raised to the
regency. Then her son will mount the
throne and accomplish great things. He
Will bring about social reforms and protect
religion. Also he will win new colonies
for Italy"
AS for the king. his belief in horoscopes
is strengthened by the fact that the death
of his father. the late King Humbert was
exactly foretold. and that early 1885.
in Magon de Grandselve's Horoscopes of
Twenty-four Soverelgns." paris, Dentu)
On page les. after drawing up a minute
horoscope of King Humbert. he predicted:
1T is. therefore, at the age of flfty-six
years and IN the year 1890 that the term
of this existence is fixed. And it Is be-
tween May % and July "a that the fatal
date will be found
Now. the tragedy of Monza took place
on July %. 1909 In the first lines of the
horoscope it is also affirmed violent death
threatens'-so that when in the horoscope
OF his infant son Victor Emmanuel III
reads when Jupiter. the dispenser of life.
meets evil planet the life of the prince
will be threatened" he has but to remem-