The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-04-05

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Il :. loft handed moon before in forty
Il The moon has been passing
,r,h A cycle of years, and is just
in, back TO go the other way,
q !l,.5 Ike the sun when if crosses the
Il ,oi makes the cquinoctial gales.
nd that's the reason" says, he,
sr everything is out of joint both
8,ts heavens above and the earth
q ,.,b for the moon is pulling one
4 4, and the sun is pulling another.
Il; that accounts for the extraordi-
i weather and the storms and floods
Il; ,ycloueS; and this left handed
4 /, seems to affect the people, too,
4: 30 we are having a hullabaloo
y u, the Jug and whisky business,
n 4 they have got it down so fine now
if a rattlcsnake was to bite man
& soud die before they could get
DIT Of whisky to save him. And
n is all this devilmont going on
ss,t mobs killing up the niggers,
II to my opinion it's all owing to
81, ft-handed moon, for you know
a, when mau goes crazy they call
4 lunatic, and that word came
81 Luna, the moon, and so l reckon
a, about this time we are all crazy,
IL or less, and don't know it; I am,
how, or else I would have sold my
.saeu when it was at the high-water
s1k, and | didn't.
81. Baker is an old-fashioned phi
8Svher and has his opinions and
superstition about the moon, and
. about screech owls and grave
rabbits, and the like; but he is
ng about the cycle Of forty years.
likes the moon only eighteen years
}omplete its cycle, and / remember
a eighteen years ago we had very
spring, and never got chance to
III up the land at all, but had to
it in April and plant anyhow. We
DEL good crop, though, and SO we
trust in the Lord, who said that
% time and harvest should not fail.
Ibis moot business has perplexed
} my life. [ can't keep up with
cant foretell whether the next
will set fat and hold water or
up and down and spill it, nor
8 lher it will ride high in the zenith
}Ourse low down in the southern
1t is the most mysterious orb in
heavens, and its movements the
complicated, but to the astrono-
81 tits the regularity of Irregularities.
evolves around the earth in twen-
sfyeu days, but as the earth is
E3dng around the sun it takes the
6 twenty-nine days to keep up
81 it and make the circuit. It's
"a is an ellipse, and sometimes it
szsSasar us and sometimes more remote.
81 ebbles and has a new path around
earth every time for nine
81, and then gets back again in
years more. It has its librations
latitude and longitude and its
n and aspides, and with all these
= fllcations, no wonder the people
their signs and superstitions, and
17aye in wet moon and dry moon
\ eft-handed moon, and see bad
in looking at the new moon over
i left shoulder or through a brushy
top, and almost everybody has
~ about planting in the light or
lark Of the moon.
ht if the moon ever does make
fics it is making them nowadays,
I've are deepl. concerned about
northern Methodist preachers
A8ee from the New York papers
44OO Of them recently held a con-
Jon, with Bishop Andrews at
81 head, and listened with approval
n 81 u.terances OF Rev. Mr.. Cadman,
~ metropolitan church, who de-
"a that the time had come when
|lnly test Of religious faith should
pllst and his teachings, and that
r.: e miracles of the Old Testament
III be discarded as fables and as
ary to human reason. "Wc must
I to believe,'' said he, ''that
M opened a. way through the sea
81 Pc children of Israel to pass over,
tPt nc made water to gush from
s fock, or that Lots wife turned
I : pillar Of salt, or the tower Of
IS story, or that Daniel went into
hons den, or that Shadrack,
pack and Abednago walked
2sh the fiery furnace, or that the
s. stood still at the command Of
ua, or that the whale swallowed
p and so forth. The papers say