Much depends upon the horoscope of the person as to whether these numbers will be lucky or unlucky, but grouping undoubtedly adds strength to the number. With the few hints given everyone should be able to read combinations in numbers and the numbers covering the best part of your horoscope should be the luckiest numbers for you. If your 1st and 7th is good then one and seven should be fortunate numbers, and so on. This is one of the points for you to watch. As an example of reading numbers take the house number 4423, whose sum is 13; this brought unexpected changes. Two ladies living here were called to take a long journey to attend the deathbed of a parent. Neither ever returned to live under the same roof. A change of house number frequently indicates a change in the working of fate. Those who change house numbers frequently should have a very eventful life.

A peculiar case connected with a literary club in Philadelphia is reported. The election of the hundredth member was followed by death four times in succession. Nine stands for books and writing and two nines double the strength of the number. The number 100 seems to have been out of place. The members were evidently weak in the 1st and 7th Signs as ladies were not admitted. The 3rd and 9th Signs were probably very strong and 99 would be a powerful number for a club of that description. It would be assuming too much, however, to say that a number would kill a man. This calls to mind another strong number connected with writing; the prison number of Donald Lowrie, the author of "My Life in Prison" which was 19093. It would almost seem that he was brought to San Quentin for the special purpose of writing this book. Afflictions frequently drives us into paths of which we never even dreamt.

CHAPTER XXV.

Dreams.

In this age of materialization striking traces of supernatural influence are seldom found. Body, mind and soul are so constantly absorbed in the things that pertain to this life that it precludes spiritual development to a great extent. God said that he could servant Moses and if

talk face to face with this there was a prophet among them he could reveal himself by vision or dream, but to the ordinary man it did not seem that he could reveal himself.

In the central and southern portion of Europe which is the cradle of tragedy and of art, ("Tears and art are close akin"), the strongest evidence of the presence of the supernatural will be observed. Joan of Arc and the wonderful revelation vouchsafed to her has already been considered; other instances may be cited from the biography of the beautiful Empress Elizabeth whose life was enveloped in tragedy. Her soul, through suffering, became as she herself expressed it, "dead to the world," and was therefore a fit subject to become a medium between two worlds. It is said that on one occasion she awoke in great alarm, for she dreamt that her cousin had met his death by drowning. A perfect picture of his dead body appeared before her and so vivid was the dream that it was long before her maids succeeded in calming her. On the day following a messenger brought the news that her cousin had died by drowning on the previous evening about the time of her vision as she had retired early. Elizabeth had also written a poem upon the raven, the bird of ill omen that had made its appearance in divers strange manners before tragic events occurred in the family. Two days previous to her death, at the hands of an assassin, she was sitting

on the lawn with a companion when a raven flew down brushed her face with his plumes, and snatched from her hand a peach that she had been eating. Evil influences in the 11th and 12th Signs are here indicated-eating under the 12th and birds under the 11th. Her experiences with children show her 11th Sign

to have been bad.

The Bible gives some of the grandest examples of dreams and their fulfillment. Joseph's dreams which he related to his brethren being especially interesting. His 12th Sign was evidently working very strongly; he dreamt of wheat and his brethren cast him into a pit and from thence sold him into Egypt. They stained his coat in the blood of a kid to make his father believe he had been devoured by a wild beast. Food, enemies, and animals come together. His 3rd Sign also was very strong, indicating brethren and traveling. Many years afterward in Egypt his 12th and 3rd are again strongly in evidence, brethren and food contributing to form one of the most touching scenes recorded in the literature of the world. He also dreamt that the Sun, Moon, and stars did obeisance to him. This is a metaphor connecting the twelve tribes of Israel with the Solar System. Just here we would say that it is altogether likely that there are more planets in the Solar System than we have any knowledge of. Vulcan betwixt Mercury and the Sun has become a fixed fact, and there may be other planets beyond Neptune. We can only deal with those of which we have definite knowledge.

Many more prophetic dreams might be mentioned. Pharaoh also dreamt, foretelling the famine in Egypt. The dreams of the chief butler and chief baker differ from the others inasmuch as they were fulfilled in a short space of time. In many cases our dreams of the present day would be prophetic but we do not keep a record of them and unless something occurs to re

mind us of them within a very short time they are entirely forgotten. You dream according to the position of the planets in your horoscope just the same as you think in line with the position of the planets.

It is probable however that dreams are often exaggerated by physical conditions; a feverish brain or a disordered stomach is liable to develop a trifling incident into a tragedy, so that it will be well not to attach too great importance to dreams. In a general way they may be read just the same as events in our horoscopes. While the Moon is in the 1st Sign you should dream according to the indications of the 1st Sign; when in the 2nd you should dream according to the indications of the 2nd Sign, noting also the position of the Earth, and conjunctions that occur. If any point in the chart is very strong you are liable to hear from it at any time, for it rules the horoscope. Detective Burns in his sketches on "Crime" relates the following: He said to a prisoner, "How did you chance to meet this man?" "I began to dream continually," said the prisoner, "of being in a locality unfamiliar to me, and soon had occasion to visit a strange town. I recognized the street as seen in my dreams, and when I beheld a hitching post in the form of a Negro boy holding up a ring I recollected that there should have been a man there; he was not there and I came twice to see him and the third time he was there. I walked up and said, 'You are waiting for me.'" After some conversation each discovered that he had found the man he was looking for. Had it been a good deed they were planning it might have been called a case of providential guidance. It was a criminal proceeding, however, and the influences were evil. Uranus stands for foreigners and a hitching post for the 12th Sign. Uranus and enemies are here indicated. Such an incident gives a very vivid picture of the power of dreams and unseen influ

ences.