| Show IS JS IT 11 Olt 1 s V Inclines to 10 the Ilio Former As ts to 10 Delta Colo Cob Feb 16 16 I ITo To tb the Editor On the tile Ird 2nd of or February laet t I was wu medItating m on the nr prevalence of ot th the tradition oT of hears 1 day aar or day flay anti ami nd Indeed till the day of ot all hibernating I Almost AI mOlt Ir nation cod and every people n nIn and In white while man Inn hob hold 10 to this thin t r 11 II 11 There must mulct surely urel bo be b nine inure than mere fancy In tile the matter mattw I 1 have upon sen n tin thu tracks of the grizzly more mON than nn one Wt p on OIl that d jr U is Cac e county Tub th and there th wag wa AI a cl allo lidl tI he Indians a bt bear r arid and brought it Into camp on that thaI day In ache Ah While I 1 WM Wa thinking th over oer the co cv incidents incident on 00 the day la after the last 1181 very ver storm Pears day I Il a i Id turned to an tAil article In an nn old magazine In relation to Chinese c astronomy u lit in which It stated that tho ho Chinese e reckoned their year from rota n es point midway be between between tween the winter solstice and amid the ver er equinox new nL by II adding 4 days dos to the winter solstice It will como come on the 2nd of ot February or lr Bears day tin IK 1st not tIlls time the true beginning of spring and the tho wild animals know from corn In when spring wring begins tl IJU And time the had discovered this ap III apparent potent parent fact fatt thousands of years ago In so long n ago 1110 o as RI when the time vernal equinox was wu wit In lit the tile middle muddle of the sign anti time the solstice In Now No the question arises whether the midway point occurred on Feb 2 or Hoars day ln or some other day tiny It It is well vell known that lint time the Ia months anti and yours Y rIl have liase hn been by hy different nations but to extent It Is IB hard hardt to t estimate but can ran ive se II not nol trace the time point to May Alay 1111 day dR celebrations Ions Ion Valentine day e April fool and amid lAter lAtor to as II a the time vernal ornal Is I moving through the signs and one on nation after an 1111 celebrated till the tIme tIm win When n the sun IUa III crossed tro 1 the hl equator Into th Ito n ihei and anti when spring be begin t gin In that distant past pact Vo We W reaul ral rr 8 that time the fiut ilu ut Apis or time th sacred hull bull wIh Ih a 1 i Int between lila his horns to Indicate that the sun still had entered I U tbt Irn Taurus the bull bult and atil also tint thIt the Hindus celebrated ted pus paa pa loge ope of ot time ho sun still over the We e squat r hut but It wall In the Sign that th tim vet ver vetAl 01 Ofil MI Al wag wal found and lila was WaR WaRman many man thousand yeses year torl till f ISo Uan era fro hut htmL w e h vo n on nt that tells t u us that old came caIne out to In KM see the weather and ond If U It was WIM stormy and ond cloudy he lie would stay tay out and fill II III I conclude the had It lid came am In Ilk Ilka IlkI like I a it lion and nil would Ko out HUe hile n it limb i truly trill tru S 51 M 1 |
