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THE STORY OF THE STARS.
[WHITTEN POR THE "DAILY PRES).")
BY CHARLES JH. HALCOMBE. Author of "The Mystic Funvory Land,”
"Children of Far Cathay," etc.
"Stars teach us well as ehime. At Nature's birth Tans thoir curomienion ran Be kind to man. Whore art thou, poor benighted travollar, The stars will light the, though the moon should
fail.
Where at thou, mero benighted, muro netray i In ways immoral? The stars cult theo back; And, if play'd, their counsel ente thee right. This prospect fast, what is it !. Weigh'd'aright 'Tis Naturo's system of divinity." And every student of the night inspires'
Tin older scripture writ by God's own hand:
Sorig taro authentie unerrupt by man. Young. Ar we gaze back through the di vista of agos-back to the dawn of human intelligence we picture to ourselves primeval man sitting The following Pi: nos are thoroughly sound in the solemn silence of night and looking up steadfastly into the starlit doma of the heavens. and reliable, and are
Their vastness andmagnificance appeal strangly to his untatored intellect, holding him spell- bound with awe and wonderment. He forgets bi mandane surroundings and the sordid stroggle for existence; and white vague fancies fit ihrough his mind, hashing it into contom. plutive repose, bis sluzboring soul awakes 10 an indoieribabis yearning for the infinite-for UPRIGHT PIANOS the great unknowa shadowland which llos
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Chaldean astronomy, and they were arranged in accordance with the length of their poried fallotra-1 Saturn, 2 Jupiter, 3 Mars ✦ the Sun, 5 Venus, 6 Morenry, 7 the son The twenty-four hours were dedicated in succession to these orbe, aud, whatever planet began the day, the cycle of seven was repented thrice, the Brat planets completing the 24 hours; that the first bour of the next day was ruled by the fourth.planet of the cycle thus begun. Like the Chinese, the Egyptines had certain days which were considered very unfavourable to any undertaking. Thers fell ou do follow ing dates: January, 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 15, 17, 19, February, 7, 10, 17, 27, 28, March, 15, 16, 28: 10, 22, July, 15, 20; August, 1, 19, 20, 29, 30 ; | April, 7, 10, 10, 28; May, 7, 15, 20 June, 4,
September, 1, 4, 6, 7, 21, 22 October, 4, 16, 24
November, 5, 6, 28, 29; December, 6, 7, 9, 17 17, 22,
AN UNDERPAID ARMY.
WHY THE BRITISH OFFICED IS RESIGNING.
Last year over 1,500 officers holding com missions in the British Army sent in their papers. The significance of this fact, cannot be over-estimated. For what is the ronson of this officer of some fifteen years' servics, and his dissatisfaction? I put this question to an answer came pat cucugh: We are not paid a living wage," he said. "Here am I after fifteen years service drawing £200 a year, with a prospect of, perhaps, an additional hundred for a few yeara-after that, retirement on a beggarly pension, and unless somoting tarnz, up in the shape of a civil appointment remote contingency-a life of enforced and straitened And this when I am in the prime of life, and could be of some real service to my profession."
"But this is as it always has been," I said," in the British Army, and does not explain
offlears."
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The conditions are alterad," ke mail" Ta- the old days we had not much to complain of;"
I mean they knew they were not embracing a on wont inte the Army with their eyes open- lucrative profession, and they knew they would not be called upon to do more than a ̈eorros- ponding amount of work for money received. The
Army was regarded more as a playground than
subool. It afforded mors opportunition Amusement than any utler for
at in face of this Profire and amu
We could not acknowledged fact complain of being underpaid. Now all that has been changed: We are expected to work as hard as, if not harder than, umbers of other professions at the anma vats of pay as before. Hero a L, at the age of thirty-five, about to undergo astiff examination of four days duration. What etuer profession subjects its members to such an ordiend at my time of life?"
"But the conditions are different in most
Throughout Biblical history we find that frequout allusion is made to the heavenly bodies and to astrologers and shsayers.
The Stars in their courses fight againat SinerIL. -----
- Judges V. 20. The King cried aloud to bring in the Astrologera. the Challeaus anil the Sunthyora.--Daniel V, 5.
There shall be signs in the san and in the moen and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of and the tha A4L nations, with perplexity: waves rouring. --Lake XXL. 25.
To quote from Mr. Porno Old's interesting beyond, the boundariva of human life and con- and scholarly article in the February issue of xeiowaces of which the divins part of his the Oczell Review. It is evident that the Chaldaie Science mast have passed through nature ceme to have strange precognition:
Some bright star particularly attraete Egypt, singo Moses was brought up as a prince his attention, and night after night he of Egypt, teceiving, as such, initiation at the watches for it and fellows its progress until it bauds of the priests of Isis. And the traditional { 480 becomes a part of his very life and he idont fies knowledge must have bean perpetuated in Baby-ether professions," I said. "The Army is, or 526 it with bis destiny. He fests that it is in lon till the days of Daniel, for we read that it ought to be, progressive, and must keep up with the times. And there are profossious whero a 450 sympathy with his and ho weares around it was from books that he studied the cycles of man, although he may not have to pass examin ...ations, has yet to study outside his actual hale of romance and superstition, eruutually the planets and the numbers of the years. cozening himself with the belief that it is in. The Feast of the Passover instituted by Mosas practice to succeed in that practice--a doctor
for instance," habited by all-powerful intelligences whose aid after the axodus from Egypt is evidence of 450 he invokes by prayer. Should he be setting out some approach at least to exact sstronomical 300 on a warlike expedition, he observes the observation-by-the great-law-giver for the appearance of this tutelary och and if it Hebrew word pesach (Paschal signifies a 500 shines brightly he fools convinced that it transit, and has apparent refersace to the pha. angurs well for him, and, being thas inspired nomenou of the equinoxial preesssion Moses GOO
with fatalistic confidence, he faren forth bokily corrected the traditions un calendar of I-rasl, 500 to the fray. When a child is born to him, by the institution of the Feast of the Lamb at 700 he eagerly marks the position of this guardian the time of the Famoyor. And this is taken to
"But," I said, "If the Army is to be main- C00 star or chooses another higher and brighter refer to the precession of verual equinoa from Lust obtain a sufficient return for work doas." ruited at a proper rate of efficiency it must planet in the middle heavens; and the fate and the Sign Taurus to that of Aries, Left to character of his offspring, together with the themselves during the period of Moss com-work; it must have officers who know their 650 circumstances of its nativity, form a precedent munion on Monut Sinai, the people of Israu basiness. Surely that was the lesson we were 750 which is imprinted upou the memory of its naturally reverted to the worship of Apis supposed to have learnt from our experience in
kindred and is handed down to posterity.
Le sacred black bull of Memphis called in South Africa," 750
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The case is not on all fours," he replied. "A hurd-reading doctor is repaid for extra study by increased remuneration; we have to work. harder for a barely living wage. And this is the reason why so many of us are resigning. The Army now is for the man of brains, but the clover man does not into the Army. because he prefers to put his brains to better |ase elsewhere, while the men of average brains rusigns canse he did not enter the service to. lead the life of a student, and because he does
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Then lot the officers be properly paid," "The present conditions will not do they prevent the right sort of mon entoring the Army: they fill with discontent those who THE joined nuder the old regime. And as to the
time of good that is being done by the assays and schemes that we are continually being called upon to write and draw up, you may farm your
I tell in opinion when you that half of them are done by Army coaches and their assistants for the very moderate charge of two gairess. Apropos of this subject I will tell you the xperience of a friend of mine.
700 for good or bad, of these stellar bodies, the sun's entry ints Tauras. A consideration nod baving discorared that all earth of the known mean rate of precession affords a life is swayed by thom-espacially by the action very close approximation to the Septuagint 750 of the sun and moon-be sets about to ascertain chronology as regards the exodus, sufficiently the law which governs Celestial phenomena. close, at all events, to institute a firm ground 12065
By patient observation and Fathematical for the belief that hors, as in other matters calculation ho divines many of nature's guarded already referred to, the Israelity leader was worsts and, in time, is thus enabled to foretell influenced by his astronomical and astrological coming events and predict the fate of persons knowledge in most mafters of legislation and
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and nations.
Being a conscientious man, and really keen on his profession, he took the greatest pains with the scheme that had been sat hint, reading all to books on the subject and devoting all bis spare time for a period of two months to work- ing it up.
What was his reward? He was severaly reprimanded because his scheme was good as that of a brother officer who was not known to be less mautally endowed than himself. his brother offear, for the sum of two guiness, had received an elaborate type-written schiene from an Army coach.
The
is rollen. The Army la whole system Duither
one thing nor the other. It has neither the eeprit-de-corps of an amateur boily nor the proficiency of a professional one. It is dissatisfied. Give Us a living wage. The British ratepayar annually subscribes a sum of £30,000,000 for our maintenanes, & sum quite sufficient to pay us liberally according to Staff appointments which go by favour, and our alciency. Do ausy with all the useles not by merit, and which are such a drein not the our resources. Why should Army be asonged like any other great public acorn-like the railways, for instance? The public money supports the one as well as the other.
From Egypt the flood of astrological scienco steadily pressed on westward to Greece and Rome, the Grecians dividing their months into purieds of ten days, Kinga and great nobles had their favourite astrologers whom they invariably consulted before embarking upon any enterprise. From Italy this maystic lore passed through Spain and France, and we ura told that Louis XI. attempted nothing without the advice of Morlins Galeotte, a famous the Court of Corvin, King of Hungary; and in the eighteenth cantory the Count of Bouleinvilliers won much repute through his astrological learning. Of lato years astrology has been rescued from oblivion and raised from the ashes of longreglect to the status of an exact [sic, Ed] science. By careful calculation truly wonderful results have
In a few years I shall be on the retired list. bon obtained; and no sane person can dispute
the testimony of such men as Mr. Stead, Mr. C. that is to say, that I shall find at the end of Arthur Pearson and Mr. A. G. Trant as to the the road on which I have spent the best years genuineness of this science. In that case, our of my life ne prospect of a wider field of activity. sanity is here called in question. Ed. The latter ne frait of laboure, but a cul-de-sac. Had I gentleman, by citing well-known historical facts, followed any other profession I should, at the Conclusively proves in his pamphlet, The Soul age of forty, be reasonably expecting to be and the Stars a scholarly treatise in defence resping my harvest, not throwing aside my of astrology-that our physical constitution is toola. 1 do not disputo the fact that the British very susceptible to planetary influence, and that officer should werk. I am merely showing why marked traits of human character have recipro he is dissatisfied.” cal relationship with certain planetary phases.
Ou the world-forgotten plains of Eastern Asis, these occult mysteries became intornovon into the lives of the nomadic Mongol tribos which afterwards instructed the progenitors of the modern Chinese in their lors. To a remarkable extout the latter improved upon the knowledge thus acquired, one of the cardinal principles of their astrology being that oach hour was ruled by particular star; and since they attached peculiar superstitions to buman life, the time of a child's birth was a matter of astrologer from deep haport. This led to an almanso being made in which the four quarters of the year were represented by four deities, each having twelve borary characters 'apon various parts of its person, the forehead, broasis, shoulders, abdo me, legs, etc., and from these hour marks of the diagram the parents were able to cast the infant's horoscope. This reminds one somewhat of the theory expounded by Larator and his predecessors Agrippa, Cocles, Bogria Lescot and David l'Aigneaux, namely that the human body is under the direct influence of particular planets, the Sun governing the head, the Moon the left arm, Jupiter the stomach, Mercury th right foot and Saturn the left foot.
Ye atars! which are the postry of Heaven! If in your bright leaves we would read the fato Of man and empires, 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspiratione to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal etsta And chai a kindred with you, for ye are A beauty and a mystery, und orante
In no such love and reverence frota afar That fortune, fame, power, life have Named themselves a star."
CHARLES J. H. HALCOMBE.
NO UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM AT
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There are few unemployed Americans in the islands Anyone who can do anything can find something to do, though it may not be his first choice of work. As nearly every man comes over here with his position secured in advance, there has been no tras emigration from Amerien to the Philippines. Death, sick leave, resigns. tions, and discharges for eau e havo made vacancies as fast as men could be found to fill them and as a result we have a class of unemployed in Manila,
Why did you join the Service?" I asked. "Not to work for nothing," he replied. "What do you propose, thon "
"Conscription. Let every mun have his turn
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Then so is an efficient azmy."
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The Chinese selected a number of days in each month which were considered lucky or nalucky; and as the moon's phases changed overy soren days, the soventh day was said to possess certain mystic and inauspicions ele- ments which rendered it unsuitable for work or amusement, consequently it was marked with the charactor Mih, signifying silent or secret. It is a noteworthy fact that neither the Greeks nor Romans used the wosk, which was essential-
The secretary of this company, in the course of a circular he has issued to the shareholders, ly of Oriental origin. (It was not until the time of the Empress Theodosins, in the fourth
says:-"The directors, after the most careful century, that the Romans divided their month
consideration. have satisfied themselves that a large portion of the freehold and leasehold into four weeks.) Again the 365 days of the year
property belonging to the company--including were divided into twelve-day sootions, sach under
the premises in Fleet-street, which were recently the influence of a certain planet, of a terrestrial
acquired and rebuilt by the late proprietorn element and of one of the lunar mansions, and
cannot with advantage be used for the purposes of the business. Much of this portion is com- each section had its lucky or malacky days,
pletely isolated from the main building, and For instance, in a given month-the month
would, thereforts, be a sonres of mach dolay and inconvenience in daily working. Negotiations to these beginning with the new moon it might bappou
The one possible exception is in the case of are now in progress with regard fbat the 6, 7.9, 11, 18, 23 and 30th days were very the American seaman. It is the custom of the premises, which, if satisfactorily completed, will unlucky, while the 2, 3, 5, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 22, American consale at Chinese and Japanese ports produce a considerable revenue to the company. work of reorganization has been 24. 27 and 29th enjoyedļa happy medium, aericans to Manila as the rearost part under steadily precoded with. bat progress bas of
sond all unemployed and troublesome The general though the 1, 8, 13, 20 and 25th days were the stars and stripus. These men land here necessity been slow. The directors were of most propitious. In the Celestial cosmogony unemployed and destitute auth, in individual
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Consideration to all employea, of the Chinese [Universal. El] the sun cases, are a serious menace to the peace and would be that although increased expenditure
of whom with facilities for taking care of these men many female. The emperor is represented by the and finding them employment. The present for many years, and to endeavour to adapt them probationary period has san and his subjects by the moon, while the five institution in San Nicolas has been entirely to new methods. The pro planets stand for the highest civil ranks: duke, inadequate to the situation, but with the pro- passed; and the editorial and mechanial or
The it ought to be in a position ganization is now practically posed enlargement, it
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