employment altogether; which will so overcrowd the farm hands and labor market, as to compel those laborers to work for a mere pittance, or remain unemployed and starving.

Before the election last November it was asserted that the high tariff and the McKinley Bill made the hard times; since the election it has been the Sherman Silver Purchase Bill that is to blame for so many banks failing and the depression and stagnation in trade and business.

It may appear singular to some of my readers that the four "schemes" that have produced such widespread distress in France and England were all true Americans. It is true that the first was represented as being in South America; the second in what is now known as New Orleans, Louisiana; the third in Central America, and the last again in South America.

That some super-mundane influence has been in operation of late in the United States, which has in some way affected the mentality of man, I think cannot be denied. The stagnation in business is phenomenal, and the failing of banks and the breaking up of business houses, which first commenced in Australia, and which is now spreading over almost all parts of the United States, is certainly remarkable.

Things will continue to remain in this unsettled condition, or at least no permanent improvement in business, until Neptune leaves the ruling sign of this country.

The stagnation of business and the tightness of the money market is in some respects equal to the panic of 1873, when the United States Government demonetized silver, which had a marked effect in depressing business throughout this country and other parts of the world.

On September 16, 1893, Neptune (before turning retrograde) stands at 13° 34' in Gemini. On July 28, 1893, the President of the United States called an extraordinary session of Congress to meet on the 7th of August, the hottest part of summer, to devise means to relieve the stagnation of business and the panic in the money market, which has caused so many failures of banks and business houses.

As Neptune gets further into Gemini (after it turns direct) things will grow worse instead of better, more especially during the first four months of 1894, when Saturn will be in square to Mercury's place in the horoscope of this country. I look for more business houses and banks failing than there have been during the spring and summer of 1893. From May 1, 1894, to April, 1895, Jupiter will be in the ruling sign of the United States. Business then will be better than it has been for several years past. Afterwards things will continue unsettled until Neptune arrives to 280 of Gemini.

In the year 1900 Saturn will come to the opposition of Neptune in Gemini. Then I look for another epoch in the history of the United States, in many respects similar to the one from 1861 to 1865. In the latter part of this volume I shall treat of the events of the United States.

THE SIGN TAURUS RULES IRELAND.

In the forepart of this volume I mentioned that Aries rules England and that Ireland was ruled by Taurus; and whenever there has been an evil planet in that sign, or in evil aspect to it, Ireland has suffered more or less. The planet Neptune entered the sign Taurus in the spring of 1875, but did not get far into the sign until the summer of 1876, when the disturbances commenced to be felt in Ireland. In 1879 it arrived at 100, when the Irish Patriots organized the Land League, and riots and evictions multiplied. But the most serious boycotts occurred in that country when Saturn also entered Taurus in 1881, when Charles Stewart Parnell, John Dillon, and hundreds of other prominent Irishmen were arrested, and trial by jury was practically abolished. But in the spring of 1882 Saturn and Neptune began to approach each other, and in May they both formed a conjunction with the Sun and Mars in the ruling sign of Ireland.

At that time I was expecting some serious commotion or riots to occur in Ireland, when Lord Frederick Cavendish was murdered along with his Secretary, Thomas Henry Burke, on May 6th, 1882. Saturn continued to afflict Ireland's ruling sign until May 21, 1883, but Neptune did not leave that sign until the spring of 1888, when there was more peace and fewer evictions and imprisonments than there had been for many years.

Is it a coincidence that now while there are no evil planets in the sign Taurus, but on the contrary the benevolent planet Jupiter is there, that Ireland is more peaceful than it has been for many years, and the British Parliament appears likely to grant it its own government, now while Jupiter is in its ruling sign? This is certainly very singular. Jupiter entered Taurus in the early part of this year, and will remain in that sign (except during the month of September) until April, 1894.

After Jupiter gets out of Taurus and when Saturn and Uranus are both in the sign Scorpio, in opposition to Taurus, I look for serious disturbance and riots in old Ireland. The years 1895, 1896, and 1897 will be particularly unfortunate years for that country. No doubt we shall have another exhibition of the Kilkenny cats in that island, which will continue until both Saturn and Uranus get out of the sign Scorpio, or from an opposition of Taurus.

THE PERSONAL DESCRIPTION OF A MAN OR WOMAN DETERMINED BY THE PLANETS.

Persons can almost always be described in their personal appearance, even without the Astrologer seeing them, by the sign on the eastern horizon and the planet having the most influence in the sign rising at their time of birth. This may be discredited by a number of my readers, as they will say that a child has always a similar personal appearance to either his father or mother, and that the signs and planets have nothing to do with it.

If a child has a sign rising at the time of its birth which will describe a person like its father or its mother, then, as the physiologists say, “it

takes after its father, or is like its mother." But if the sign rising at birth describes a person different to its father or mother, then the child does not resemble them, or, in other words, it does not take after them. I have known this remarkable coincidence to be verified in my own practice in thousands of instances, and without any exception, and all other Astrologers have had a similar experience. For instance, if a child is born with what Astrologers term a "tall sign" rising, and the planet having the most influence in that sign be in another tall sign, that child so born will be tall, no matter how short both its parents are. It is the same if a child is born under what is termed "short," or stout," or "slender signs.' The child always follows in its personal appearance the description of the sign and the planets it is born under, and when the man or woman does not coincide in personal appearance with the sign rising and the planet having the most influence in that sign, we always know the time of birth given is not correct.

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I could give thousands of instances to verify this statement, but will give only one, which occurred in my own family.

My brother's son, who resides in England, came on a visit to New York, and he requested me to cast his horoscope. He stated that his mother had told him that he was born on a given date at 12 o'clock at night. After the map of the heavens was erected for the time given I told him it was impossible for him to have been born at that time, as the sign rising would describe a tall, slender, light-complexioned person, and he was short, thick-set, and dark. On his return to England he asked his father for the exact time he was born. His father stated that it was at 6 o'clock in the evening. The son wrote to me, giving his corrected time of birth, and wishing me to write his horoscope. After the figure was set I wrote back that the time he had sent was also wrong, as it did not describe him. The son then visited his sister, who resided in another part of England, and who had the family Bible. He found it written in the Bible that he was born at 7:10 P. M. The sign then rising and the position of the planets described him correctly in every particular.

I might go on filling a large volume with such facts were it necessary, and yet people who have no knowledge of the science of Astrology tell us that there is nothing in it, and some of them have repeated the falsehood so often that they have come to believe it themselves.

THE AFFLICTING PLANETS DESCRIBE THE ASSASSINS

IN REMARKABLE MURDER CASES.

There is another remarkable coincidence which I have noticed, ana for a long time: that is, that when anything occurs in mundane affairs which attract widespread attention, such as murders or any serious accidents, there is always a remarkable configuration of the heavenly bodies. Generally, if not always, the persons having committed such murders, etc., can be described by the afflicting planets.

I have examined a number of charts of the heavens for the time that a remarkable murder or other crime has been committed, and I have

often been astonished at the striking configuration of the planetary system at those times, and how clearly the heavens portrayed the person or persons who committed the deed.

Possibly a few horoscopes of some of the assassinations or murders which have occurred in the last twenty or thirty years may not be uninteresting to the general reader. They certainly will be interesting and instructive to the student of Astrology, if he examines them carefully. The first I shall notice is the assassination of President Lincoln.

The above chart of the heavens represents the position of the planets at the time of the assassination of President Lincoln on April 14, 1865, at 9:30 P. M., Washington time. If the Astrological student inspects the position of the planets in the above figure, he will see that the afflicting planets are Mars in Cancer in the 8th house (the house of death), in exact square to Neptune, on the cusp of the 5th house, in Aries. Also, he will notice Saturn in the 11th house in opposition to the Sun, also in the 5th house in Aries.

The assassin is indicated by Mars in Cancer and Saturn in Libra. The books say: "It describes a person above the medium height, slender, with comely dark hair, oval face, prominent nose, large eyes, dark but clear complexion, and good looking; one opinionated of himself, prodigai of expense. Also, Saturn in opposition to the Sun, if Saturn be significator; the person is ambitious, overbearing, hating control, subject to the frowns of people in power, and often meets a violent death." It may appear singular that Saturn in the house of friends indicated that a false friend did the deed: also the 5th house (where the President's planet was situated) indicates a theater or some place of amusement, etc. The Sun and Neptune are both in Aries (which sign rules the head), indicating that the President would be injured or

wounded in the head. [President Lincoln was shot in the head in a theatre.] The close square of Mars to Neptune from the 8th house (the house of death), indicated certain death, and that the assassin shot with the deliberate intention to kill.

The above map of the heavens was set for the time President Garfield was shot by Charles Jules Guiteau, July 2, 1881, at 9:25 A. M., Washington time.

The student will notice that the Moon and Uranus are in the ascendant, also that Neptune in Taurus is in mundane square to the Moon, and the evil planet Saturn in conjunction with Mars, in mundane square to Uranus. The assassin is indicated by Neptune and Saturn.

The books say: "Saturn in Taurus describes a person of middle stature, but in no wise comely, one who has an awkward appearance, not well made, rough in carriage, sordid, and vicious. Saturn in conjunction with Mars denotes a rash, turbulent disposition, one who is generally unfortunate, engaged in some calling of a low order, and frequently ends his days in prison.

The Moon and Uranus in Virgo, in the ascendant denotes where President Garfield would be injured or wounded, as Virgo governs the lower part of the body and the intestines.

Saturn and Neptune in the 9th house (the house of long journeys), indicates that Garfield was on a journey. [N. B. The President was just going to the train, intending to travel with his wife and family, whom he expected to meet in New York, throughout the greater part of the Eastern States.]

*No doubt Mars in conjunction with Saturn caused Mr. Guiteau to be much lighter in complexion and thinner than what is regularly described as a Saturn in Taurus person.