Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04
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THE MOONS INFLUENCE.
HOW FAR DOES IT EXTEND OVER
THIS GLOBE AND IT'S OCCUPANTS

THIS GLOBE AND IT'S OCCUPANTS,
Recalling Recent Warning of the Antroi-
ogers-Its Effect Upon the Tides as shown
by Comparing the Present with the ce-
oiogist's Long Ago.
Within two short years the pseudo SCIENTISTS
anu would be smart Alecks" have allowed
tneT opinions to undergo -adical change.
In predicting the ultimate fate of the earth
tney no longer calculate that the suns fires
VIII gradually burn out, and that the tempera-
ture Will cool until the enlarging glacial zones
drive shivering humanity towards the equa-
tor, where the remnants of the mighty ma
tons viii be crowded out of existence OF
perish from excessive cold. Neither do they
profess TO believe now, as they once did, that
our water supply viii eventually become ex-
haIsted. We are no ionger bounded to death
with the idea that the surface Of the earth is
diminishing and that the earth will subse-
quently be devoured by the restless roll of the
ocean. The astrooger who q few years ago
warned Us Of the impending danger TO which
we were being subjected on account of the
perlhellon of Uranus, Saturn, Neptune and
Jupiter is, however, now in ms element. 1t
was IN 1880, l believe, not farther back than
1878, at any rate, that this occult seer promised
Us fifteen years of suffering and death Count
ing from the last date given, the time during
which the atmosphere, according TO his opin-
Ton, will reek with baleful Influences. is not
finished by over three years. Hear what the
communer with the unknowable says in re-
gard TO "Perihelion and Pestilence:"
TRYING TIMES
During the fifteen years following the
year 1850 the vitality of every living thing
will be put to d severe and trying ordeal.
Evidence in abundance points to great disas-
ters in the immediate future
There VIII be excessive heat, unexampleCi
cold and a prevalence of food and disaster in
all directions We do not write to alarm anv
one, nor TO make sensation. Readers can
Judge for themselves what Importance to at
tach 10 the subject. That the conioint peri
heiion o$ all the large planets OF the solar
system, one of which, Jupiter, is 900 times
larger than our earth, must disturb our at
mospere and temperature very considerably
Is probable, that this disturbance must be in
furious to health and life is certain, and tha
these periods have hitherto beep pestllential
Is a matter of record. How much we shall
suffer during the next twelve or fifteen wears
depends very much upon how nearly we live
In accordance with the laws of life"
IN the estimation Of the superstitious the
majority of the human race come under that
heading, education and boastei Nineteenth
century enlightenment Notwithstanding the !
prophecies of this unknown seer have to a |
degree at least, been startlingly fulfilled. 1
Surely we have had atmospheric disturb |
ances enough TO be considered Notifications /
of the widest imaginings of tins prophet of |
evil"
The most disastrous foods and most vio-
lent tenlpests OF the last thousand years have
occurred since the ''Perihelion and Pesti-
ience" prophecy appeared in The Science Of
Health. Earthquakes have claimed e0000
victims, and other disasters twice as many
more. Seven comets ''shook their fiery
names" during the season of 1881, followed
by a period of red suns and
blue moons. What effect, if any, the ex-
.raofdinary aspect of our sun setting in
'ea of fire, or of the moon hiding her face
behind a ceruisan veil, has terrestrial in
labitants the writer viii not attempt to say;
hat III her normal condition she exerts a
mighty influence for veal or woe he does not
loubt
TIE MOON AND THE SCIENTISTS.
The great scientists and astronomers concur
II the opinion that only the ignorant common
people believe the moon TO exercise an infiu-
nee over human affairs: only TO tell us On
he next page of monstrOus tides ;nviSibly put
n motion and induced by the very agency
neered at in preceding chapter. That our
lrtendant satellite does exert a powerful in
luence over our little globe may be inferred
rom what W i-lGw of its tide producing
'ower alone. A. or planet sweeps along at
il unthinkable ,ate Of speed it is drawn to-
ward the moon very perceptibly, enough to
'roduce tides on opposite sides of the earths
urface at the same time.
If these great mountains of water can be
nut in motion by the pale white orb of
light" Why should we not attribute it to
MINOR influences even though they be of a
detrimental or peStilential character. De
ylng The truth III the case can never help
Matters But how can the moon be the
ause of tides In America and in China at the
ame time" some one says According TO
he best authority on the subject of tides,
hat part of the earths surface which is 5
urned away from the moon or sun has a
mailer degree OF attraction than the side {
ext the iuinlnary exeTting the pulling
over; thus, IN effect, leaving the water be- {
ind, and producing tide on the opposite, as
'eil as upon the side acted upon directly by
he force OF gravity.
The moon Is now 30 600 miles away: geol-
Slsts and astronomers tell us that there was
time when it was only 900 miles distant,
My cne-Sixth of what it IS at the present {
loment The tides of today average all the
ay from three to fifty feet. Say that they .
re now three feet at the Eads jettieS at the
louth of the Mississippi; what would he the
esult of tlse moon being brought five sixths
carer, or back to the old mythical 40 .0G0
iie nark9 Instead OF tides being three feet /
the mouth al the parent of waters. they
ould rise 70 a height OF 6iS feet, ThevHhoie /
the Mississippi valley would present the
]pearance OF a vast beach; 81. Louis would
covered out of sight, and waves forty
-ht feet high would flow through the streets
Chicago into Lake Nichiganl The writer d
noe an astrologer,s astronomer or Sooth-
yers71 10 knows rpf4liis5s Of ~divinat.ons" or a
lck arr; docs not even profess 10 believe
lat we are on The eve of a residential viSl- e
uon, but viii not deny believing IN moon