OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 17, a I VE r'a4ir-5 about the do ings of congress, aia tcl O-rk of the S- Reckiess. Only there aren't any to speak of." It gits past m8 ""r "ou ran fil" for dry "tuff like that." said the Housf De tective. There are too many Ilkeyo'l. ala.-. raid t!ic Hotel C!rk. "The greatest curse of this country, except eight or pine thousand o.her curws that any So cialist would h- glad to tell von about. ii that it's f'l" of Ignorant lant-hejds 1 k you. Larr. thit aV- through with daily paper when they've ril the sporting to whether any of their friend go licked and thn rrsd the crime department to i"ce If any other friends (tot pinched. But a for rue. when I'm tired out by the cares that infest the day. Just let me put my feet up on a. heater and turn to the Wash ington specials and before you'd hardly notice it I'll be drifting off Into a peace ful slumber that any babe might envy. Nothing- gives me more real pleasure than spending an evening with Congress and I know of nothing more restful to ttw mind. If It stays quiet and nobody conies in and wk. me up I can spend many a refreshing hour that way over the proceedings of the great law-giving tly from which we derive to much wis and beneficial legislation that the fiupreme Court knocks In the head a soon as It can get around to IL For Congress giveth and the Supreme Court taketh away, and thus the course of fJovernment takes Its sway, except, of course, when T. Roosevelt happen 1 be President. "Tes, sir. Larry. I like to keep posted rn Congress. Tlx re used to be an up state member of the House that s-nt me all his printed speeches on ,ne t economic topics of the day. such as the Panama Canal and the tariff and the Ml! to appropriate C.0WO to make Mink Creek navigable at all seasons of the year except from'May to October. whn If goes dry and from December to March, when It's froxen up. They were great speeches, too. Larry, take It from me. with interruptions like this (laughter) or else this (continuous applause stuck through them, like the studs In a dreA shirt. I got to thinking that the Hon orable Wilbur J. Wfdewindor must be the greatest orator th's country has pro duced since Daniel Webster, until one time when I happened to run up against Mm addressing the Rutland County ChantanTia. and Livestock Breeders' As sociation. Ho had one of those cream separator mustaches, you know the kind that hangs down In thin, drooping lines MANY WHO STILL WORSHIP IDOLS Man-Eaters Are Powerful Gods to the Savage Dweller by the South Saa. IN VIHW of the wide distribution of sharks and their strength and fero-v Ity. qualities which appeal to the aavugc mind. It Is not strange that the cult of shark worship should .have iilsen. Tills worship Is especially com mon In the South Seas. In the Solomon Islands living sacred ob jects are chiefly sharks, alligators, snakes, etc. Sharks are In alt these lilands very often thought to be the abde of ghosts, as natives will at times before their death announce that thty will appear as sharks. Afterward any shark remarkable, for sixe or color which i observed to haunt a certain shore or rock Is taken to l'C a ghost and the name. of the deceased Is given to It. Such was thf .ase of Sauiahimatawa a; L'iatia. a dread man-eater to which rfferiiiss of porpoise teeth were made. At Saa ccttaiu food, such as eoeoanuts from certain trcs. is reserved to feed fU'-h a gliost fhark. and there are cer tain men of whom It is known that after leath they will be In sharks. Thee, t!:?rpforc arc allowed to eat such food in tne sacred place. In Saa and In I'lawu if a sacred aliark had attempted to 'lie a man and lie had escaped the people would be so much afraid of the shark's anter that they would throw the man back Into the sea to be drowned. These sharks also were thourht to aid lu catch ing the bonito. for taking which super natural power waa considered necessary. In the Banks Inlands a shark may be a tangaroa. a sort of familiar spirit, or Its abode. Some year ago Mannrwar. ton of Mala, the chief man In Vanua Lava, had s'ich a shark. He had given money to a Manwo man to send It to him. It was very tame and would come up to Mm wheri he went down to the beach at Nawono and follow along In the shore. In the New Hebrides- some men have the power, the natives believe, of changing themselves into shark. Tie Samoan native believed that his sods appeared In some visible Incarnation, sod the particular thing in which it was In the habit of appearing was to him an object of veneration. Many worshld the shark in this way. and while they would freely partake of the rods of ethers they"flt that dratTi ould be tho penalty shon'.d they eat their own god. The. god was supposed to avenge the in sult by taking up hli abode In the offend er's body and causing to generate there the verr thing which he had eaten until It produced death. In one village. Taemao. the war god was present In a bundle of shark's teeth. Therr curios ities were done up in a piece of native cloth and consulted before going to bat tlie. If the bundle feit heavy that was a bad omen, but if Jight the svn was good, and off they went to the fight. In the Fiji Islands Viavla and other gods claim the sharks as their abode, and their devoteee must never eat of that !sh as If they did they would be partak ing 'of tne god himself. In the Caroline Islands the natives honor their gods un der the guise of some special bird, dsn or tree In which they are supposed to re side and with mhlch they are identlned. These they style their "Tan-waar," lit erally canoe, vehicle or medium. Here t shark typifies most appropriately the K'i of war. It was In the Hawaiian Islands, how ever, that shark worship reached Its greatest perfection. Its worship was quite common on the Islands. e--h Island hav !! a special shark as It ancestral god. This worship of iarks was due lanjely to the fact thut the belief In the trans migration of souls Is quite general among the Polynesians, and the Hawallaoe would feed their dead to the sharks un-d-r the supposition that In thla way the soul of the dead would enter the ahark and so animate the latter as to Incline them to repect the living. Each of these shark gods had a special keeper, or kahu. who was responsible for its care and wurahlp. The office of kahu ae hereditary, and was handed down from parent to child for generations, or until the family became extinct, when It like those warnings for a low bridge that you see at a railroad crossing, and his eyes were bright, quick orbs that looked something lik- a couple ot reamed clams, and he. seemed to hare about on.- separate andlisinot thought every chango of the moon. After listen ing to him for a few minutes my heart went out in a great burst of pity to his private secretary and the members of h's immediato family. And I don't en thuse any more when I strike those con tinuous applause things. In a franked copy of his latest discourse, because I know now that he must put "cm In with a patent button-hole machine." "I notice a lot of poople here lstly have been ssyln' Congres ui coward ly for not toln' after Teddy on account of what ho wild," ventured tbo House lxttivc. "That !- a base libel." said the Hotel Clerk. "Congress is not cowardly, Lar ry. It's merely cautious. In the ex treme. You take tbo House for exam pic Thero's a great cautious, delibera tive body for you. About all tha -members of the" House are afraid of is the President and the W. C. T. V. and Uncle Joe Cannon and the committee on rule and the ways and means committee and the general public and each other and the opposition, and what tha papers will say and what the papers won't say and their constituent and tha canteen question, and all other question! what soever, and the young fellows that are growing- up back home with hanker lufcs for office, and the district, state and national organization, and the first, second, third and fourth-class Postmasters, and the local bosses and some other things like that With those few exceptions, the member of the House are so courageous that they actually verge on the daredevillsh. and the Senators are eeen rhore'so, being elected for a longer term and having nothing to distract them from the per formance of their high and sacred duty except to keep one eye at all time carefully on the home Legislature arid the other on tbo nearest atorm cellar. Those Srnators are certainly i derring-do lads for you. Larry, make no mistake about it. Nick Carter had nothing on them when -It comes to in nate courage, but as J say they .are cautious at times. -To be eure. I wouldn't go so far as to say that Congress, for Innate dash and total disregard of consequences. Is quite up to the Impetuous standard of an Old Maids' Home. I doubt even If It has quite aa much of that reckless contempt' for peril aa characterises Girls' Hla-h School, or marks the course and conduct of the Inmates of the in- I would be taken up by another family. Intimate relatione were generally sup posed to ex!t between the god and his keeper, and In return for a pig or a fowl the shark was believed to be ready to aid and assist him should any danger threaten. Should the kahu be upset In a canoe and be In serious peril the faith ful shark would appear Just In time to take him on his back in safety to the nearest shore. The largest and most celebrated of the shark gods was Kuhaimoana, a male whose mouth was said to be as large as an ordinary grass house-. Second In sixe and power was Kamohoalll, elder brother of the goddees Pcle, Like many of the other shark ods he was able at pleasure to assume human form. When In human form he usually made Ids lioine in pro found solitudes near the volcanoes of Mokuaweoweo and Kilauea on Hawaii, and Haleakala on Maul. In his shark form he Is still said to roam at large in the deep waters around Maul. The principal reason for the affection shown by the people to the shark god was the fact that so many of the fish as serted human parentage and claimed to be related by ties of kinship to their kahus. Such was the case with Kaliu pahu and her brother Kahluka. the two famous shark gods of the Bwa Lagoon, on Ouhu. These two when stt'.l In childhood wan dered away front their home and mysteri ously disappeared. After a fruitless search t',i - parents were Informed that they had lieen transformed Into sharks, and they soon became the apeclnl ob jects of worship of the people in tho vicinity of their old haunt". According to tradition, after a time the m.in-eattn shark Mikololou. from the Island of Mui. paUI them a visit and en Joyed their hospitality until he re proached them for providing him with his favorite human flesh. Thla they in dignantly refused to give, whereupon, in spite of their protests, he made a raid on Ills own account upon the natives and se cured one or more of their number to satisfy his apputije. Jvaiiupab'i and h--r brother promptly gave warning to their fi-:ends on shore and rrepard as cheme for his destruc tion, before he could do further damage. Ttiey Invited their ur suspecting guest to a feaft In his honor i tlnir favorite re sort tip tho WalpahU Fiver, where they fed hlni sumptuously and at length stu pefied hiin with. Bwa, a native Intoxicat ing drink, which they supplied in gener ous quantities. In the meantime their frl"nds, who had come in great numbers from tho sur rounding country- were directed to close up the mouth of the river with their fish net.', while the sister and brother at tacked him In the rear. Roused by his danger, the shark attempted to braak through the cordon of nets In order to regain the sea and safety, but failed, and the people dragged him on shore and burned his body to ashes. Unfortunately a dog got hold of his tongue, and. after eating a portion, dropped the remainder Into the river, whereupon the epirlt of the man eater revived again, and as a tongue, now re stored and nllve, made his way to the coasts of Maui and Hawaii. pleaing with the sharks of Uie E Lagoon. Anticipating this action the latter se cured the aid of Kuhalraoana and other notable sharks from the Islands of Ka hoolawe. Niihau. Kauai and Oahu. It was a grand s.ght wheu tlieso mighty hosts began the great shark war. This combat has long been the theme of the native bards. Kahu"xhu and her friends were vic tors in" the first great battle, but the struggle dragged on for years with vary ing success. The Hawailans say that she Is now dead, while her brother lives In tls old cave In the sea. A shark named Moaa'.ll was famous as the marine god of Molokai and Oahu. Many temples were built on promon tories In his honor and to them the first fruits of the fisherman's labors were ded icated. When victims were required to be sacrificed In honor of this god. or he was supposed to be hungry, the rrlests 1 . i$h!&' curable ward of a hospital for paralyt ics. But this much I will say. that X regard Congreas aa being every tit as foolhardy and defiant Of danger as the bold and hardy buccaneers of Wall street, and those same . Wall-street par ties are, I may add, about the gamest would sally forth and ensnare with a rope any one they could catch. The vic tim was Immediately strangled, cut In pieces an4 thrown to the voracious ani mal. Ukanlpo was the shark god of Hawaii. He seems to have been of a compassion ate nature at times, as there are extant several traditions showing kindness he had --done to certain of his devotees, espe cially lovers In distress,'' All the shark gods were not beneficent, however. Apukohal and Ubumakakalkal were evil shark gods who Infested the PRINCE OF WALES IS IN TRAINING FOR SUCCESSION JO THE DUTIES OF KING ' Assumes Some Official Functions and Prepares to Assume Others When Necessary. i e-s-rt-, - . , , , fcTi.-V. BCWCI . nS?" . . X v-V'a '-.. - 1 ! ssm II ! 1MIIIIMM P P ll W i v. - NICW YORK, Jan. 16. (Spe l.) The illness of tho King of England may be exaggerated, but it is credibly report ed that the Prince of Wales Is assuming some of his official duties, and tnis un doubtedly with a view to having the Prince on hand and prepared if any thing should happen to the King. There la no questioning the King's wonderful vitality. As a young man. he went the pace with an earnestness that won for hlin the admiration of his cotemporaries. When he came to the throne It was freely predicted that he would not live more than a year or two. At the time of the coro nation, shopkeepers and' standkeepers took out Insurance on his life In the fear that he might not I've to be crowned. Of course there was no serious question of his health at that time and to insure against the death of any public man la a common form of gambling In England. An Interesting-fact in connection with this Insurance was that no one Insured against the Kings Illness. Now the Ui nessof the King made Just as much im mediate difference to the shopkeepers and the standownets as would his death. And It is also an Interesting reminiscence that the British courts decided that standkeepers need not refund the money paid them by American tourists (among others) for seats to witness the corona tion parade on the grouud that the stand- J24fy SlEMfiZZS J3M?JlJf0rMT buccaneers that aver d buccaneer-and-m lng dancing on the lid of a seri ous situation. I suppose you know something of the grim and matchless courage of our resident captains of finance, Larry. When droad panic looms upon the horizon or crawls out waters of Kauai, and the fishermen were compelled to propitiate them with offer ings. . , , Should a fisherman by an unlucky acci dent Injure or destroy a shark held sacred by his family he was bound to make a feast to the god. There are many old superstitions about sharks. In parts of New England. In order to cure a toothacho a dogfish, a species of shark, is hooked, and the boni that projects from the back Is cut off, after which the fish is thrown back alive Into the water. Place the horn on the tooth and as the animal swims away so will the toothache. Shark's teeth rubbed on the gums help children In teething. Washngton. P. C. Post. That Piny When You exchange. A man who has been In an amateur en tertainment never hears the last of It. VS. BaSBBBnTi- , ...... .. . " ". J t: v - - T VCt , , J - Wa.ll street do? Jumps up on chair and pulls her skirt up to her knees and shrieks for help. And when rienoslta berln to shrink and tho popu laoe takes its foot in its hand and lights out for tho deep woods, with its Knur chunira in Its shoe, don t we Una those fearless bankers and brokers and railroad promoters all standing brave HOW "PROPHETS" ERRED INJ908 ... , .. t . . 1 i -zzz " s Some of the Tragedies That Were Predicted, Including the End of the World. THOSE who have survived the awful year of 1908 may well be thankful they hardly know the terrors and horrors they have missed. For the benefit of the uninitiated It may be stated that the beginning ot every year certain "prophets" tell us what's going to happen. Occasionally somebody hits It right, and then he enjoys a reputation. The greatest prophets if predicting events gives thai title have been Lee J. Bpangler. Edmund Scribner Stevens, Qus tav Myer, of Hoboken, "The Nation s keepers were not responsible for the postponement. Neither were tho buyers of stand tickets and the standkeeper could have Insured himself against the King's illness as easily as ajainst twins. The Prince and Princess of Wales, when they tome to tho throne, will change the aspect of affairs In the United Kingdom considerably. The Prince of Wales does not like his present job he is engaged largely in laying cor nerstonesand ho looks ' forward with anything but pleasure to the succession. If reports are true, he Is a man of quiet, rather domestic tastes. He. was pitch forked into the '-ip around the world, which he made, some years ago, for the purpose of getting acquainted with the colonies. He was driven Into the mar riage with the fiancee of his dead brother. Altogether, he hasn't done much that he wanted to do and it looks as though he would li-e a life full of disappoint ment which is ono of tiiu Ironies of fate. An unwilling King looks to tho average man as a rara avis. Just possibly they are not so rare. Measurement of Bores. Atchison Globe. There Is Increasing complaints be cause of the bores. The bores are nearly always men of small congruence who iack politeness. Look yourself over: Are people talking about YOU? Voir may think you are all right; but, what do others say about you? HOTEL GLtirBV-l ly out in the open, urging everybody to show renewed confidence by puttiug their savings right back into tho banks, to replace tho private accounts which the said bankers, brokers and railroad owners have carefully withdrawn prev iously and buried in the back yard? We sure do. "And In Its particular sphere Congress is Just as game and, gritty as Wall street and just as much imbued with the fame Indomitable spirit which prompts it to never say die or anything else that Is llablo to bring on complications. Just look at what happened when the W. C. T. U. rame along sometime back and called .upon Congress to abolish the can teen, which was an institution where a nrimtA soldier misrht zo of an evening and sink his soul in the hideous debauch ery of seven-up at o cents a corner, ana 10 cents a setback, and meanwhile poison ing his system and destroying his better nature with as many as two long glasses of that accursed brew which is common ly known as larger beer, except in the Spring of the year, when many reter to It as bock. The enlisted men thought nrattv well of the canteen, and the offi cers said that if It was a. secret alliance with th devil, as stated, they couldn t figure how the silent partner was mak ing much profit out of the business. But Congress took counsel with Itseir, iook ln at the DroDositkm from both sides, which Is an easy thing to do when you are sitting straddle of it, watching which w to lumo. which Is Congress cus tomary position in such cases; and Con- frrM said to Itself. "These ladles navo not votes. It is true, but many of them h.va liiishands. and if we're any judges of human nature, which we must be, or we wouldn't be here, those same hus hunri. will voLe the way their wives want them to vote, or else go to the hospital. And, anyway, what rights has a guy wno works for sixteen, dollars a montn ana Ms grub?" 'lMrnr hn emboldened, the C 1- V. called on Congress to abolish its own little canteen down in the bowels or tne Capitol. And the House passed the buck to the Senate, and the Senate passea tne hiwlc to the fienate. and the Senate passed the buck right back to the House in ac cordance with Its usual courageous yet cautious custom, and that explains why, Larry, that a 6nug corner of the Capitol basement which was formerly quite popu lar L now comparatively deserted, and also why so many members bring a hot walor bottle or a flat dark half-pint ffask labeled 'cough syrup' to their labors with them of a morning and leave in in the cloakroom in the care of a trusted at tendant that had taken the Keeley cure. While, as for the humble enlisted man, down at the fort, any time he feels the Counsellor." Zadkiel. a mystic; Mine, de Thebes, of Paris'. William Maceabee, and the weather man's friend, A. J. Devoe, Now what has been predicted and what has happened? The end of the world has been predicted so manv times that even patient people are tired. The first recorded prophecy was that of the Bishop of Hippo, in 3S3 A. D. Since then there have been hun dreds of dates set. including 1B08. - Now for tho prophets. This from L. J. Spangler, grocer and prophet. Issued on December 23, 1906, and repeated a year ago: "Trouble and disaster will beset the nations of the earth throughout 1907 and 190S, until, at the close of the second year, the wrath of God will descend upon tho, earth and it will dissolve. "At the end of 190S. New York, the greatest city In the world, will be de stroyed, followed almost immediately by the destruction of the world. Boston will sink. It will require less than an hour for the destruction of New Tork." Well, New York Is still here. It need hardly be mentioned that King EMward was doomed, as well as the Czar. They seem still to be on the job. Prof. Edmund Scribner Stevens content ed himself with predicting that the whole aspect of the world would be changed. Among those doomed were tho Sultan of Turkey, Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, and tho Empress Dowager of China, all of which was to break tne peace of Europe. Now, it may be said that Prof. Stevens is a great prophet; the Empress of China really did die, she be ing close onto So years of age. But what a greater prophet Prof. Stevens would have been if he had predicted the death of the Emperor of China, who was only 40 years old. Passing on to the Nation's counselor, who resides in a modest lime house In Hoboken. Gustav Miiyer, we get a more moderate prophecy for He hit it right every time; hats off to Meyer! He predicted a financial panic it was on at tho timo he predicted bank failures, rob beries, riots, strikes, calamities below, on, and above the earth; loss of life and prop erty on land and sea, and shipwrecks, all of which events have duly happened, just as they did last year and the year before, and will happen next year and In years to come. If Mr. Mayer had counseled the Nation only thus far he would have won out, but. unfortunately, he went farther. Pres ident Roosevelt's life was to be in Jeop ardy, our regular mortality was to be tremendously Increased, there were to he eurlhquakes and great fires, involving tremendous Iofs of life, and New Tork was to bear the brunt of the fires. lie also predicted that there wouldn't bo any war with Japan. Bully for Mayer! Not stopping, he went on: "I fear that the Czar of Russia will be assassinated during or not later than the Summer of 1903, and at the same time I fear that tho Emperor of Germany will be In grave danger of passing away, brought about through cancer." We now come to Zadkiel, who" also pre dicts. He lives in London and makes his living by outlining the year for us all by aid of the sun, moon and stars. Passing aside all the fires, railway ac cidents, shipwrecks, race riots, andjabor troubles predicted all of which we have regularly, as does every other civilized nation on earth we come to more defi nite things. Said Zadkiel, with appro priate warnings: "In all the years that 1 have been study ing the stars their Influence lias never been more sinister than It is for 1905. The year will be 'one that will live long in memory of man. By the middle of Jan uary, Washington will be greatly worried over the disloyal attitude of a British colony, the Intervention of one of the great European powers In the quarrel, and the possible necessity for war." ' What was the colony? And: "It Is highly probable that. a formid able foreign fleet will make its appear ance on the Atlantic coast, and that doubt as to U purpose will result in a hurried need of a slight retieshment, all ho ha to do is to run tho guard line and he II find a quaint little chalet nestling Jurt beyond the reservation, that is presided over by a hospitable member of the Red Leary O'Brien gang, who keeps a.barrel ful of a temperance mixture made by himself from a private prescription out of wood alcohol and brown, sugar, th?t will bring results almost instantaneously. "But I doubt if Congress was ever so wrought jip as It was hero a few week? ago, when the President handed out one of his characteristically phort and con cise messases in which he stated that in his humble opinion Congress was op posed to an increase In the socret ser vice staff for the tamo reason that the Humpty Jacksons abhor the Idea or ft larger police force. There was tremend ous excitement. It seemed certain thBt Congress would do something desperate. It was freely predicted thai Senator Till man was going to utter a few remarks that would make "Uhe Last Ravings of .Tnhn Modilloirh' sound like a vomie child cutting his milk teeth on a rubber teeth ing ring, wlille over in the House every body felt morally certain that tho Jani tor would have to take down the chande liers and reinforce the skylight from the outside when Congressman Oily James arose to give vent to his sentiments and tlie sentiments of his outraged and In dignant colleagues, irrespective of party ties. In the aroused condition of Con gress no one could safely foretell what the next 24 hours would bring forth." "Wot did the next It hours bring forth?" asked tho House Detective. "Well." said the Hotel Clerk, "the Sen ate met pursuant to adjournment and dispensed with the reading of the min utes, and the House omitted the rollcali and took an adjournment out of respect for a deceased member from the state of Florida. "It's a great system they have down here at Washington, Larry. A young member comes up with the Idea that about tho second day he'll kick the com mittee on rules In its esteemed bread basket, and that If L'ticlq Joe Cannon tries to tnwart him he'll swarm up his fi-umft tost thrt fume as if Uncle Joe war a grape trellis. He has a mental picture of himself climbing Uncle Joe like he was an extension ladder, and sitting on the top round with his feet hnuglni: gracefully over.' Instead of which he's taken in hand right aw;jy and taught more different ways of lying dead ami Jumping over and begging for hones than tho clown dog in Gentry's troupe of trained poodles ever li arnen. "There may have been a time. Larry, when Congress declared war to the kr.ifo on somebody or something, but now" "Now wot?" asked the House tK-iec-tlve. "But now wo live in the era of the safety razor," said tho Hotel Clerk mobilization of American mlliiary anil naval forces." No fleet appeared here, but several for eign ships did slip Into New York Hay with abrupt notice that the American naval officers stationed In tho city should forthwith come aboard-and have all the champagne they could drink. The Amer icana took their orders very seriously und meekly obeyed the belligerent foreigner?. And the military certainly were mobil ized. All the regiments in New York and Brooklyn went to camp as scheduled, and maneuvered, too. It cost the state' quite something to pay for the blank ammuni tion that was fired off at our own men. The floods for New York for April, as predicted by Zadkiel, passed the city by. There was to Iks a strike and the dyna miting of the Panama Canal, with great loss of life. Earthquakes In the south eastern part of the United States were due for October, es well as strained rela tions with Japair. If these things happened, the World failed to print them. It did print the fact, however, that the United Slates has entered Into a peace compact with Japan, which event none of the prophets fore saw. The poor Pacific fleet started out rnoft unauspiciously. It was to be badly bat tered In a storm, and several of the bat tleships were to be given up as lost tor days. "Only by the narrowest of margins will Admiral Evans' great fleet finally reach a harbor In safety." said Zadkiel. The fleet's great trouble was In getting away from a harbor in safety, so enthu siastic were each country's greetings. It may be added that the rlet is still fleet ing, though liars. Venus and Jupiter had it in for every ship. Professor William Maceabee wont deeper into detail about those lt devoted battleshlpe. Said he in sodlacal language: "At the timo of the departure of t h United States fleet the zodiacal wien Pie ces was rising and the evil planets. Mars' and Saturn, were, in the ascendant, with Saturn In an anfrle. Thin is eun.'ildered In astrological jurisprudence a most evil as pect and foreshadows troublous experi ence for the fleet. This is particularly true owing to tha square aspect of tha sun in tho midheaveu angle to Saturn." Thereupon Professor Maceabee went in show how we were going to have troubk with Japan. He warned us thusly: "A more unfavorable time than Decem ber 16, 19W, could not have been chosen for the departure of the United Stater warships on their voyage to the Pacihc." Professor Maceabee predicted a change of partus at election because of i he itar at the opening of the polls on November 3, 9?S. Tills is how I. i: proved to nn mind: "Tho ascending sisn at this time it Libra, and the tirst testimony to be noted Is that Venus, tho lady and the ruler of this house. Is in tho sign S'H'rpio. -Tl de grees and W minutes. ' That is to say, Venus Is going out of one smn. Scorpio, and EnlnS into another. Sagittarius," ah of which proved Bryan's election. Anyway, Professor Maceabee accurate ly predicted the character of the next President: "A man of great natural abil ity, great ambition, regard for the rigliif of others; a man in whom all tho peopla will have confidence." Mme. de. Thebes, tho great French prophetess, had this to say at the be ginning of 1905. blaming it ail on the planet Mercury: "The year lfcOS will be a mt fatefni mid disastrous one. for the United Slates of America. Poor America! She has see': her best days, and they will never com: back any more. I see nothing but an archy, defeat, ruin and bloody defeat fot lier. "November will see the inevitable reck oning between Japan and the United States. Poor America!" After this, the death of the German Emperor, the loss of a vast number ol warships, the full of Germany, a mob attacking the Vatican, an uprising of the hordes of Islam against the Christians seem trifling. But Mme. de Thebes pte dieted all this New York World. T