The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-03
SEPTEMBER IS MONTH OF
 HARVEST FESTIVALS.

From ancient times, September has been celebrated as the month of the harvest, and has been marked by fes-
 tivities and general rejoicing. In the calendar Of the ancient Saxons, this month was called Gerst Mont, or bar ley month. as the barley crop, from made was then being gathered. The SwisB still call September Herbst Monat, Or harvest month.
 Among the harvest month festi- vities this year will be the Frontier Week and Calgary Stampede celebra-
 ton, which was ushered in Sunday in Aiberta's fiourtshing metropolis It of Canada to the pioneers who have carved an empire out of what was yesterday wilderness. Cowboys and real Injuns will take part in the fes- tivities of the week, which will be modelled somewhat along the lines of the Frontier Days celebration held annually in Cheyenne, Wyo., for the last sixteen years. In, Calgary, as recently in the Wyoming city, the
 linen with the bark on'' will be hon
 o1ed fer TSe1 oh viii Then aah the 6oIfsb p9lGS
 his club and order the old cowmen to move on.'' September will also wit ness this month a revival, Digger and famous Mountain and Plain Festival, with it's accompanying spectacular pa | rades and pageants, including the pro- cession of the Silver Serpent.
 September's holidays began yester-
 day with the observance of Labor Day
 throughout the United States and
 the world will celebrate New Year, beginning at sundown on the eleventh. which marks the beginning of the
 year 5673. Tom Kippur, the Feast of
 Tabernacles and other lasts and feasts will also make the month a notable one for the Jews. Germany | will cerebrate today as Sedan Day. | Brazil will observe Independence Day on the seventh, and the Central American States will hold similar fiestas a week later. Mexican Inde- 1 of the month, and Chile will be en fete | two days later. The occupation of l Rome, on Sept. 20. 1870, will be re- | membered as Italy's national holiday. l President Taft will celebrate his fif- | tyfifth birthday two weeks from yes | terday.
 the constellation Libra and passes | the equator in it's southward journey | This constitutes the Autumnal Equi-
 nox, marking the passing of the good
 this year on the morning of the twen-
 ty-third. Three days later there will
 be an eclipse of the moon, visible i throughout the West.
 l Mercury will be seen as morning
 star between the twelfth and eigh- | teenth of September Look for g
 point shortly before dawn, and yor 1 will see the smallest of the prfncfpa. 1 planets and the one nearest the sun l Venus and Mars will not be brilliant | this month. Jupiter becomes an ev-
 ening star during September. Saturr l will be in conjunction with the moor | on the third. Occultations of stars
 by the moon during September will bt | as follows: Tauri, Sept. 5, in the ear Ily morning; Spica, Sept 13, shortly before sunrise, and Antares, Sept. 16 | in the early evening.
 Incidentally, it may be remarked
 that the thirteenth of September vii fall on a Friday, the first time thi! | t:hoodoo'' combination of Friday the I thirteenth has occurred this year | The Mahometan month of Ramadan | the period of fasting for the entire Mohammedan world. will continue tC the twelfth of September, and will b' ] followed by Schawall, a festival per iod for the followers of the Prophet.