The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1900, Page 10

THE SUNDAY OCALL. al De at this maledy to write to him, A NEW "MADON vofed io Seasickness. some way or other s ali sufferers from NA. explaint m.mmmmcnmq.-u.u: ON THE WAY TO " NEISHRORS . OHRINE- In verr precise file and they are very earnest bent upon thelir visits. e whe children exist and afforded is found a worshiped at and m ¢ fror * immediately ries its ap- he right of the shepherd, on h of Christ, and every an remember there has her on the Christmas to one of the families street. Those who have vs seldom or never get a ne @ it Sl ors are Madeuf info intends to collect especiall se of scientific val in regard X and t he hopes to bLe ) formulate a plan by n rizes may be offered thos companies which succeed In g their vessels ®0 that pas- engers on them will be ¢ s com- fortable and as free from this a malady es they would be on land, to those inventors who may &% as well succeed TOR THE OFRINE _° In Stucovering infallible remedies for mal de mer, A A Deluge N one of the famous Babylonian © tablets appears an Inscription of surpassing interest, the fuil import of which only become manifest. And yet the inscription simply informs us that Capricorn was the r sign in the zodiac at the time of deluge—not a startling statement in t nor one likely to attract much attention from antiquarians and Quite recently, however, a copy of the in- scription fell into the hands of an Ori- ental scholar In London, who is also an amateur astronomer and astrologer of no mean repute, and he at once saw that a | wide fleld for speculafion was here opened | to him, the enigma to be solved being the | question: In view.of the fact that a great deluge occurred when Capricorn was the ruling $ign In the zodiac; all ‘the planets belng congregated In this sign at the time, is it reasonable to expect that another deluge will occur when the zodiacal con- dftions arc similar? Within a few days every noted occultist { and astronomer in England had heard of | the strange Inscription, and ever since | they have been pondering over it. The | data which they have to guide them to- ward a solution of the problem are few but important, To quote Dr. Frank Close, late president of the Tacoma Academy of Sclences, “What are known as the Baby- lonlan tablets are a set of inscribed plated book leaves, written thousands of years before the Christian era, in which is given an account of the Noachian del- uge. These tablets were exhumed ffom the ancient city of Nineveh and are now in the British Museum in London.” Now, Berosus, a Chaldean astronomer and one of the ablest men of his time, wrote a history of the Babylonian emplre, in whbich he not only quoted the Babylo- nian tablets, but also declared that an-. other flood would.surely take place when- ever the sun, moon and planets again oe- cupled the sign Capricorn. That this strange prediction is of unusual interest to persons now living is evident from the has now archaeologists. D ! li I Predicted fact that in December, 1901, the sun, Mer- cury, Mars, Jupjter Saturn will be lo- cated in the sign of Capricorn, as required by Berosus, waile the moon and Neptune will be in the opposite sign. Cancer, to- ward the end of the month It may be argued that the conditions at that time will not be exactly the same as those’ which prevailed at the time of the deluge, since” neither Venus, Herschel, Neptune nor the moon will be in Capri- corn. The reply to this is that Herschel through quotations at second and third | and Neptune were unknown at the time band. e e S of the deluge and that /consequently, even Since a cylinder of Antiochus, e f they had been fn Capricorn, nefther Be-, Soiccus, has feen found inseribed in Bavy- . - lonian cuneiform, while bilingual frag- rosus nor any other astronomer could ments in cunciform and cursive Greek of have chronicled the fact. Ye: more- the Seieukld aze have also been discov- over, a minor planet and of little im- portance in such a matter, and as for the moon, though she may not be in Capri- corn while the other planets are there in close conjupction, she will certainly be there for st’ hours about thai time. Th question, therefore, which mary persons are now asking is, Will a second great deluge take place during December, 19017 To ‘such an important question scientists or occultists of international reputation are very loath to reply, but a fair esti- mate of their views may be gained from the following statement in Coming Events, a London occult journal: “The term flood or deluge,” says the writer, “does not necessarily mean the total extinction by submergence of all the living creatures of the earth, but rather the submersion of a continent. such as happened in the case of the lost Lemuria and Atlantis, traditions of w h all nations and people seem to possess. Necessarily, such a huge submersion would cause fearful tidal waves In all other lands, and to such phenomena the Noachian record probably refers. ‘Whether partial satisfaction in Decem- ber, 1901, of the conditions specified by Berosus will produce even partially sim- ilar results is a matter we may safely leave to the consideration of students.” Many persons will naturally ask, is Berosus a reliable authority on such a subject? and therefore a few words about him are necegsary. Professor Sayre of Oxford, the well known Orientalist and I lf. lamb.” They rejolce over even one littls voices. They pray their own prayers, 5 print of Christ or a saint—a oly ple- y furnish ure”—thgp will decorate their poverty- 1hile. oun stricken shrine. 2 Gy S Alettd and her sisters and brothers live cus ine and the In a big house, for their father left his best mass, even otimes flower peddling in Naples to come West ow other men raise 2 s for him. His ch r shrine {n the round bay ndow of and t have wreathed holly bove and about it, and ha bower of the corner -arefilly draped the table ana Upon the cent the Christ-ct 3 gtands near and innumerable lambs and Virgin shepherd dogs are tly looking on. gathered Holy about, ap- pare ctures adorn Some of the shrines in the rick bouses beyond are no more than a soap box stood on end. upholding one image and one candle. For everywhere must the candle be lighted, and in the richer houses there are sometimes rows upon rows of beautiful long wax tapers. “Ave Maria!” sounds in children's liarly Jensiti lants Peculia y Jensitive Plants. T is now well known that the sharp prodvu and broad distincilon formerly o || ®etween animals and plants doe conform to th 8 The ¢ plants, like those of animals, are entiated Iin function are grouped to form special organs of nutrition, respira- tion, excretio tion of ight. The well-develor certain t y 23 of plants serforms th a liver. ation of resting. On the on green stems w author of “Ancient Empires,” says: “Ber- was a priest of the Temple of Bel t Babylon, and Is said by Eusebius and 1 to have been a contemporary of Alexander the Great, and to have lived into the reign of Anticchus Soter. He had, therefore, special cpportunities of | knowing the history and ronomy of | his ccuntry, upon which he wrote ln{ Greek. Recent discoveries have abun- | dant tablished the trustworthiness of | this Manetho of lon. whose works, unfortunately, are known to us only ered, andl a contract in Babylonian cunei- form dated in the fifth year of the Par- thian King Pakoros, the contemporary of Domitian, exists In the museum at Zurich, there is no reason why Berosus should | not have equally well acquainted ) with the Greek language and the old lit- | erature of his own count And in spite | Lee of the fragmentary and corrupt state in which T gments have come down to | us, we know that he was so. His ac- count of the deluge, for ins e, agrees éven in its details with that of the cunei- form texts.” Since the time of Ptolemy” each of the gns of the zodiac has been sup- | influence over certain cities and coun and the ex-| perience of ceaturies, it is claimed, proves that misfortun Iways come to those cities and countries wh er malefic | planets are In their signs. If this be true, | and there should be even a partial flood | in 1901, India. the Punjaub, Thrace, Bos- | nia, Bulgaria, Albania, Hesse, Mexico, | Lithuania and the city of Oxford would | be most lkely to suffer, since they are the | places over which Capricorn is said to| hold sway. Cancer, however, will be af- flicted at the same time by the presence of Neptune, and by the opposition of the other planets in Capricorn and, as this sign is sald to rufe Africa, Scotland, Hol- land, New Zealand, “Amsterdam, Cadiz, Constantinople, Venice, Genoa, New York, Milan and Manchester, occultists clatm that these places will also ba seriously af- filcted in December, 1501, Qui vivera verra. "ALITTLE SHIPPER end closed by +wo movaily are th fl?l. Thess chlorophyll grains and the appearance of L ey \Smation of passages particles of red coloring matier em t