Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-30
AsTRoLoGY FOR 1912.
What Three Venerable Prophets Find
in the Stars for This Year

There are still people who believe in
astrology and good many others who
like to know what the stars say. even
il they think they don't take any stock
in the sayings. The annual prophecies
of those venerable prophets. Old Moore,
Raphael and Orion are out. The millions
of people in all English-speaking lands
who wait with impotence the appearance
of the entertaining almanacs that bear
the names of these pet eonfidants of the
heavens now have the material on which
to plan their lives for 1912.
Will it rain on the Fourth of July?
Turn to page Il of Old Moore. Will it
snow on Christmas? Page 50 of Orion.
VIII the grounding see his shadow when
he energies from his hole? Page 6 Of
Raphael. Shall l marry on February s.?
Not If know it, for Raphael says,
Avoid females and keep thyself quiet
in the evening"
Juggling with the stars, these mimi
table magicians foretell wars and pesti-
lence, earthquake accident murder, sick
ness, and the course of legislation. a
draft of the Milky Way, taken out of the
Big Dipper, inspires a line of sage adj
vice to statesmen. They spin August and
f3tGfHiDtT OH their mdiuS, anu lOEtcdSl
the life of each child born throughout
the year. Playing follow-your-leader
with the planets over the cusps of the
several houses they announce the
dates on which to bake, to wash, to
plant. to sow, to reap, to brew, to set
chickens. to hire servants and to slaugh-
ter hogs.
They pick prophetic cards from the I'M
opened pack of the months: they touch
April with their magic wands and make
1t blossom into fateful events. They keep
the vernal equinox guessing as they ex-
tract its secrets and they send the sum-
mer solstice gasping to its place after
a feat of mind-reading that puts Khal-
dab to the blush.
Like other magcians. they generally
play safety in their predictions. For ex-
ample, Old Moore foreteIIs with great
confidence that accidents on the foot
ball field will occur in January-the
height of the football season in England
and that "a club will be much upset
by one of their players coming to grief.
which will greatly affect their chance of
getting into the final"
Old Moore learned this from Taurus,
but that perfidious bull never told Raph-
aeI and Orion about it, Perhaps this is
due to the fact that Prophet Moore is
old, so old that he is not ashamed to
call himself Old Moore. However, Tau-
rus and his friends told Raphael ana
Orion a whole lot of things that they
kept concealed from Old Moore. The for
mer sees a serious political crisis In Eng
land, and the defeat of the government
seems imminent. Orion sees poiiticai
sauabbles very embittered about the
home rule bill. Both see strikes ana
riots in large centers of industry ana 4
good deal of socialistic agitation among
the people of England. Orion also Tore
tells much cruelty to women and emil
dren. and both he and Raphaei predic.
that death will be busy among the great
and aged Raphael being a little the more
specific and saying that Judges ana ai-
vines, literary and scientific people anu
the fair sex, will be especially victims,
"Death." says Orion, lays his unspar-
ing hand upon wealth and beauty.
"a notable merchant king and noble
nhilanthropist will pass from US anu
leave an imperishable monument III Tue
annals of peace" says Old Moore ~
he is writing of British AFFAIRS, a certain
apostle of peace who displays ms name
ON the fronts of libraries need not worry.
..some noted scholar will pass to the
Great Beyond," is the way the stars IN
their courses told it OF Raphael.
Orion sees financial panics in London
Belgium and the United States in Au-
anst, Raphael predicts panic on the
Paris bourse. All foreteli accidents 10
shipping, especially ON excursions.
Orion hands out notable discoveries in
the scientific world, financial panic, IN
crease of socialism, violent scenes IN the
1Ynited States. Raphael sees strikes, ac-
cidents at sea and on railways, inter-
national complications, warllke Demon
STATIONS in Austria and Japan
There is to be an earthquake In Italy
c;o;,, and the crackers of a criminal
will be aided by wireless.
Not one of these seers gives any dope
on the. presidential election.
According to Raphael, everything De-