Show THE MAN IN THE MOON DO doe lie or of 1 oe if ito nast influence ter rec triAl affalee Aff alre A greet great many people particularly farmers and illi v agers believe that mary everything thing from a wedding wadding to a husking should az b limed timed according to certain phases of tho the moon the adman man in tho the moon must bo be consulted whan it comes to planting potatoes butting setting fence posts or building a chicken coop the family biblo bible will last for generations in some fanning farming localities but when tho the alet slet of Doo december omber comes t tho he years almanac always looks ae as if it bad had accidentally been run through the threshing machine still there Is not nearly so much belief now in tho the moons potency in human affairs as there was in the da i e of our grandfathers A hundred years ago the majority of people in england germany and in our own country consulted tho the moon not only la in matters pertaining to farming but also in III respect to business enterprises enter prisM taking medicines to too pro prevent vent diseases and so on aeu is their any ground for the belief that the moon Is 18 really a factor in the concerns of the human race to start with we know that the mooar attraction causes th the hides elides and that chese tides are somo tim very destructive to property it Is admitted by scientists also that ut U t the te arthe atmosphere mo moo sphere phero la is to so son extent affected by the dorce spree of the moon and also of the sun we know too that taGa of animal matter goes on more in the molla than in the daril darl and there cases of cebral anju y ito persona as a consequence of sleepily sleeping jn in the moonlight word lunacy or moon craze came from the belief that he the moon exerts an on the ebman mind bet lirt science gi vestus very little help in dho effort to olvo the problem scientists have tried to demon that tho the moon exerts a marked upon of the earth and thel 0 ie is p probably round for belm that this is lin in a measure raca aure true but aa e fact that as with the natios in regard to dunan influence on kanand is in about tho the proportion of one oae tain iain of wheat to bushul of chaff it Is not strange that these traditions still find rny r ny believe beU overs re for they ate nate buk back to tho the beginning ct f tier history nad much of the non benm waa was indorsed hv hr writ writers erf repute in the L faist st century abe I 1 lea hea that our aca cod has to do wab the o called luck in business and other fairs of individual life la Is too to bo be tak tolerated eted gent peaple in our day iday it may do among cople that owe not yat fully felt the awaken ag of this aga 0 f on en In India the that tenoy 1508 a hare in the mom instead of tu adman ann ia in the foon zoo matix soup with A IL spoons that our almanacs therefore tho the lure is a merel animal la in and india la an and d thare are aravy penalties lor for killing it |