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 to rule the first hour of Sunday (from sunrise); Moon that of Monday; Mars, of Tuesday; Mercury of Wednesday; Jupiter on Thursday; Venus on Friday; and Saturn that of SatuadaySaturday [sic], each day beginning with sunrise. The order of the planets in this scheme is supposed to run thus; Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and beginning again at the Sun. We cannot imagine why this order is used, nor why Uranus and Neptune it not entitled to a place, and should advise all to test it before accepting it.

Dr. Reed, in a late work entitled, "Cyclic Law" advances the theory that the ebb and flow of the tides form the negative and positive parts of each day; the flow producing the positive period, while the ebb produces the negative. He claims to have verified this from considerable experience and observation. The tides may be calculated for Chicago as well as for New York (the influence) when it may be expected to act. However true the tidal theory may be, such is not so powerful as the rising sign, but should we get a rising tide, with a sunrise on