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VOLUME 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, AUGUST 3, 1852. ' NUMBER 62.
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I * PEACE IN BELIEVING.
BY HANNAH F. GOULD.
I "Take head, brethren, lest there be in any of you
l?an evil heart of unbelief."?Hebrews, in 12.
I The tree that yelds our cares and grief,
t..-- Is from the root of unbelief;
nript-intr thnmc. tbe arrows fierce.
BK^Our spirit and our flesh to pierce?
I The grafts that spoil our vineyardfe fruit,
[ Are from that bitter evil root,
PC. The branch that hangs with clustering woes?
The flag-staff of the prince of foes?
The tares that mar our golden sheaf,
r -All, all spring up from unbelief;
And Hope, the victim of Despair,
Poinls, dying, to the poison there,
But in Belief we've joy and peace,
^ Of faith and power a'sweet increase;
From burning skies a safejretreat,
A shelter safe from tempest's beat?
P Fresh balm of Gilead for our grief?
For every wound a healing leaf.
V "Belief smooths down our thorny cares,
With shooting grains uproots the tares,
[ Our harp from off the willow takes,
I And every chord to music wakes,
No Till Hope, laid icy in the tomb,
, 7 Springs up with life and beauty's bloom.
' .- When night comes murky, drear and damp,
^ ' Belief will screen and feed our lamp,
; Upon our feet her sandals bind,
Hf" About our waist her girdle wind,
T . Then, lend a staff, and lead the way,
'Till we walk forth to beaming day.
Jj^ When all the fountains of the deep
^ Seem-broken up o'er earth to sweep;
r. While billowy mountains toss our bark,
f.' Belief's the dove, from out the ark,
Across the flood to stretch her wing,
And home the branch of olive bring.
[ V.
[ Belief hath eyes so heavenly bright,
^ As on the cloud to cast their light,
Till fair and glorious hues shall form
~ From drops and shades that robed the storm,
: Bent o'er our world in peace to show,
1 God's covenant sign, his unstrung bow.
When through a dry and thirsty iand,
r " The oilcrim treads a desert sand,
f Belief brings distant prospects near,
With fruit, and bowers, and fountains clear,
Where, when he strikes his teht, he'll be
An heir of immortality.
While Unbelief would ever bring
A chain about our spirit's ring, '
Belief will plume it o'er the grave?
Above the swell of Jordan's wave?
To fly nor droop'till gently furled
In that sweet homo, the spirit world!
AFFECTION RESTORED.
A BY MIIS. M. A. DEX.VISON.
u You don't love my mother," said little ElCrosby,
slowly retreating from her father,
E^Bth her hands behind her, and her lips quivered
What do you mean pet?" he exclaimed,
Bffpringing after, her and drawing her resisting form
Howards him ; " that is a very strange thing for
f a little girl t<? say ; what put it into your head
K that father don't love mother ?" he continued,
smoothing back her soft hair, from her white
forehead, and looking earnestly into her downBecause
when mamma went away from the
^H&ble you spoke cross, aud said she was always
j^pick and she has .got a headache," added the
p^child earnestly, while the tears trickled down
Lher cheeks. "I have been sitting beside her all
the afternoon, and rubbing her forehead; and
she is sick and tire?l very often, and you never
FT tell her you are sorry, nor kiss her as you do
Charles Crosby drew his little girl closer to
Lhis bosom. Her artless words had fallen like
liie linnrt Tin fnlf. inctnnflv flint, lm I
I1IIX3 ujyv/A* ?v .v.v.... j ......
[had spoken harshly more than once to the gen60
being who had never given him .an unkind
word. Seven years of his wedded life had passed
calmly and fleetly. Being young and a most
impulsive creature when he married, he could
hardly appreciate the deep, holy love which his
sweet bride treasured for him and him only.
After the romance of the affair, as it seemed to
him, had settled into a quiet, perhaps, monotonous
reality, his-tCstless spirit yearned for some
fresh novelty^^fo work through the day, to
come hom&at'-riight and spend the evening
*
hours, by the side of his wife and infant child,
whose beautiful face gleamed like a< rosebud
upon the' white pillow in her little wicker basket
cradle, became tiresome to him. He wished his
Ellen had more vivacity, more brilliancy, forgetting
that these might accompany a variableness
of temperament that would truly have made his
home unhappy.
Ellen was a most excellent wife ; her's was that
inward purity which stamps upon the features
a loveliness far beyond mere beauty; nobody
hesitated to call her handsome ; her ways were
winning, her form slightly and fragile; withal
she hail so much prudence and was so good a
manager, that from the time of his marriage,
Charles Crosby had been accumulating riches.
Rut she needed affection and much aire ; she
was delicate, and so sensitive that a word of reproach
from one she esteemed, would cause almost
a serious illness. The language of her full
blue eyes, as they were sometimes fixed upon
the noble face of her husband was, love me; oh!
how I yearn for your full, unrestrained love ! then
they would fall to the floor while the consciousness
that he was not towards her in manners as
he had once been, and oh, she feared, not in
heart?would send an icy thrill through every
fibre of her frame. Of late, Charles Crosby had
often become an alien to his home, until the
midnight hour; he had found, as he thought,
choice and congenial spirits, and with them " the
spirit of wo," that is " the spirit of wine." But
alas! his fine manners were disappearing; his
home was not an earthly paradise to him now?
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jit! imu grown very com ana wonuty ; inueca ne
knew not the extent of the change in himself.
He worshipped his lovely child; and called her
by the swec-t names of " fairy," and "pet," and
"darling," she was in truth such an one as few,
very few parents are blessed with ; a child of
neither ordinary beauty or intellect; and but
for her mothers judicious care and teaching,
her powerful mind might have too swiftly expanded,
and ripened quicker than the growth of
this world will allow, unless the rare exotic is to
be transplanted into heaven.
Charles Crosby sat with his cheek resting
upon little Ellen's head ; the dear child once or
twice unconsciously sighed, and these sighs were
arrows to the wounded spirit of the father.
" Darling, you speak strangely," ho said after
a long pause, during which conscience had been
busy ; " father has a great deal of hard work to
do, and comes home tired and perhaps a little
fretful sometimes but then?he?he does?love
your mother," ho said slowly and wondering
what become of the glowing delight he had once
icit at the mere mention ot licr name.
" Do you, do you really love her then ?"' asked
the child, sitting upright 011 his knee, and fixing
her full, beautiful eyes upon him, " how strange;
I liy ^wIaaa* mrnnmu nfmt
her almost."
"Bv what mamma saidexclaimed herfath
er hastily, while a feeling of anger shot, through
his heart the sudden surmise that his wife had
been striving to alienate the child's affections
from him " what did mamma say Ellen T he
demanded sternly.
" Don't look so hard at me, father," she replied,
pressing her snowy hands over his eyes,
"mamma didn't tell me, but she told God."
More and more astonished, Charles gazed
upon the child without speaking, and after a
moment's pause, sho continued, " I went into
mamma's room this afternoon, before I knew she
was sick, but I'heard her talking, so T went on
tiptoe. She was kneeling down by the bed and
praying to our Father in Heaven ; and she cried
and sobbed its I do sometimes when I am naughty,
but I knew she was never naughty, good, dear
mamma, was she ever naughty, papa ?" she asked
artlessly, and waiting for a reply.
"She never was?to yon or me:" answered
the father, choking down his emotion.
" Well, then I hoard her pray; I know she
wouldn't care if I did, because she takes me
with her sometimes; and she asked the dear
God if he would make her husband love her: and
said that ho went away from his home and liked
other people better: and she said her heart was
breaking too ; and oh! she cried so bad,"?continued
the child, giving such a mournful emphasis
to the hist two words that the father's lip
trembled and the tears came into his eyes.
" And then she turned round and saw mc; and
she called me to her and hugged me tight, a.id
said 1 was a precious child, and kept asking mc
if I was sure 1 loved her?very, very sure till the
wild light in her ayes almost frightened me. I
kept telling her she was my blessed mother, and
I loved her better than any body in the whole
world except my father; and then she told
me that I must love you dearly, for you were
a kind father to me and perhaps she would
not live long; and if they did put her into
the cold ground, I must make you forget it by
my goodness and affection; but I never could
forget it, could you father, if they put my own
sweet mother into the cold ground ?"
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i ins was 100 inucn ; unaries enosoy siuneu
from his chair, ;ind placing Ellen on a low scat,
strode rapidly through the room. The tears
were raining down his face, but he kept them
hidden from the little one, who sat timidly still
on her cricket, almost afraid to move for fear
she had angered her father. Not so. A flood
of the old tenderness had rushed back upon his
heart; instead of the demure and gentle Alice,
his memory pictured an angel of whom he had
! been all unworthy; a pure, radiant, spirit, who
had sat by her household hearth in loneliness
and sadness; with a slowly, surely breaking
heart?a heart yearning and dying for lovo; unappreciated.
lightly esteemed, seldom addressed
in the language of affection, and yet returning
smiles for cold looks; never complaining. Oh!
had such ait one blpsscd his dwelling and he had
not drcanieiHiow priceless a treasure ho pos
sessed ? Bitter\\^kl?i> self-accusation, hot and
copious his tears. Suddenly Jio paused before
her portrait, the young wife in the rohe!T^f^tho__
bridal seemed so joyous, yet subdued; just as
j perfectly happy as she had appeared on the day
he could first call her his own. Now, only one
thought echoed and re-cchoed through his brain.
" Should she die?oh ! should she die."
For sometime he stood transfixed, striving to
i check the bursting sob that was almost stilling
I him, when he felt a slight pull at his coat by
j Ellen, with her pretty lips half parted. " Papa"
she half whispered, " mayn't I go up stairs and
tell mamma you do love her dearly V
lie caught her to his breast and clasped her
with the warmth of his new love close in his arm ;
he kissed her again and again, blessing his Male
or thsit. r>t' the months of babes and stink
lilies he has ordained praise :"then releasing the |
oelightcd child he said, " yes, darling, you .may
if you wish to."
The child fltnv up stairs, while her father followed
more slowly, "mamma," she screamed,
bounding into the room, "you won't cry any
j more, nor have a headache now, father says he
i loves you dearly, my own dear mamma."
The poor woman sprang to her feet; she
could not comprehend the scene; she was bewildered
; her pale cheeks flushed and grew pal
lid by turns. She looked first at her husband,
and then at little Ellen, who had expected her
mother to laugh out-right, and appearc as gleeful
as she; little innocent being.
"Alice," said her husband in faltering tones
" our child is our peacemaker; she has made
me a better man ; I do love you, Alice, will you
forgive me for my coldness and neglect ?"
With a low, thrilling cry of delight the wife
fell within her husband's arms. " He was forgiven"
she was happy; in that moment old barriers
were broken down, old associations forgotten,
and lie solemnly resolved, with the help of
God, to bo no more an alien from home ; to remember
the vows lie had taken, and become
worthy of the confidence reposed in him.
Little Ellen danced around the room, tossing
her yellow curls and clapping her hands as she
shouted,il oh ! I am so happy, I'm so happy,
mother won't cry any more,"?then under a
childish yet holy impulse, she knelt reverently
down and lisped the Jittle prayer she had repeated
every night since she was about two years
old:
God bless my darling mother,
My darling father too,
And may we lore each other,
As Christ's dear flock should do.
Think you there were no blissful tears shed in
the little chamber, as they listened to the petition
of the artless babe ?
The parlor was a right cherry place that evening
; little Ellen sat up later than usual, because
she was too happy to sleep; the astral shed
a flood of rod light over the neat, well-ordered
room : the table was filled with books; the piano
.forte, opened and giving forth sweet sounds as
wife; and a* note was sent to the old rendezvous,
in which Charles Crosby declined the honor of
beiiiir made President of the L Club.
He never met with his old companions again,
nor did he, fiom that time, quaff the soul destroyer,
' sparking wine."
Littie Ellen is now large Ellen but as happy
and bright and beautiful as ever. She will soon
criva bar band to one worthv of her: and she
remembers, as if it were but yesterday, the darkhour
when she found courage to tell her father
that "he did not love her mother." Still vividly
does she recollect the wild and joyful feeling
with which she ran up stairs," father says he
loves you dearly, mamma, you won't cry any
more!"
Maxims or D?. Fiianklin*.?If pride leads the
van. beggary brings up the rear.
Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
Mary's mouth cost her nothing, for she never
opens it but at other's expense.
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most
noise.
Tarts-words makes no friends; a spoonful of
honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
f Beware of little expences, a small leak will sink
a ship.
A mob's a monster; heads enough, but no
brains. .
Nothing humbler than ambition when it is
about to climb.
When prosperity was well mounted, she let go
of the bridle, and soon come tumbling out of the
saddle.
A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more
than a change of the moon.
A false friend and a shadow attend only while
the sun shines.
If you would not l>e forgotten as soon as you
are dead and rotten, either write something
worth reading, or do something worth writing.
Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
Kings and bears often worry their keepers.
lie's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
Hunger never saw had bread.
Great talkers are lille doers.
The poor have little?beggars none?thft rich
?. ? -i. ?.? :
iuu iiiUL'ii?niv^ii-u, ituw wiiui
Mankind are very odd creatures. One-halt"
censure what they practice, and the oilier half
practice what they censure. The rest always say
1 and d<? as they ought.
Old buys have their playthings as well as
young ones; the difference is only in the "price."
Tut Ci.ock at Lt'nden.?'J'lie Cathedral at
I Lurtdcn, in Sweden, is a inagnificient structure
i and has a very lofty spire which serves as a mark
j for sailors, being sec at a considerable distance,
i The altar of this church is a vcrv beautiful piece
of work; but what most engages the atttcntion of
strangers, is its curious c.'oclc, which from the
number of its movements and figures, may vie
with those of Lyons and Strasbourg. Every
liour two horsemen came out and encounter and
a door opens with discovers the Virgin Mary sitting
on a throne with her divine infant in her
farms and the magi with their retinuo marching
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iii order and presenting their gifts, two trumpets
sounding all the time of the procession. The
clock, besides the hour shows the month and
day and every festival throughout the year.
From the Southern rrcss.
Recognition of Hayti.
A memorial was prcescnted the other day to
the Senate by the Hon. John Davis, of Massachusetts,
which will be found in another column,
from about fifty merchants of Boston, praying
the recognization of Hayti. We predicted soon
after the Compromise measure passed, that this
would be one of the next steiw of the North. It
is now about fifty years since the actual independence
of Ilayti, .and about twenty since it was
recognized by France, the previous ruler. Within
that period it has for the greater part of the
time been a republic nominally. But it has been
governed by such men as Toussaint, Pction and
Boycr who had considerable claims to public respect.
In all that period, however, it has never
been recognized by us. I3ut now when it has
become an avowed despotism by the usurpation
of Solouque, it is thought to be an appropriate
time for us to acknowledge its independence,
and establish diplomatic relations with it.
This presents the question whether Ilayti is entitled
to the rank of an equal and independent
nation among the civilised States of the world.
It never has been the principle or practice of
the civilized nations of Christendom, to recognize
the equality or independence of inferior or barbarous
races. England has not so treated the nations
of Asia, although the East Indian people
and governments are far higher in the scale of
civilization, than the Hytiens. There are no
English ministers at the Ea?t Indian courts.?
Russia has not so regarded the Tartar tribes of
Western and Northern Asia. American has not
so considered any of the Aboriginal races on this
continent. Spain never admitted the national
equality even of the partially civillized States of
Mexico and Peru, on their discovery. And
when France held nearly all of North America
comprised in the valleys ot the bt. Laurence and
Mississippi, she never pretended to recognize
any rights of sovereignty among the Aborigines.
Turkey and China have been treated otherwise
?but they have been among the most powerful
States of the world, and have attained a considerable
degree of civilization. No community of
tho Negro race, has ever been recognized as a
sovereign State, by any enlightened nation, before
Hayti and Liberia.
The custom of recognizing States, and of keeping
ministers resident at their courts, is of modern
origin. It was adopted to promote international
friendship and peace, and to protect the
commerce property and persons of their peoplo
respectively. But the usage has been almost in..
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cos from this association. Tlie proposition now
made is to change that usage and policy.
Nations have hitherto by common consent, or
a sense of obvious propriety, thus recognized the
moral distinctions of races and communities: and
have asserted no!* only an exclusive social system,
but a right to rule, in the superior over the
inferior. It is true the distinctions between them
are not always clear or easily defined?but nei
ther are those between vice and virtue, between
respectability and disgrace. But the universal
equality of men is now contended for: and if
that be right, the equality of all nations follows
of course. The proposition to recognize Uayti
proceeds on the doctrine of the solidarity of human
rights.
If we begin with this jicw system we shall
have uuiqji to do. We ought at once to recognize
the independence of every Indian tribe, not
only without but within our limits. Wo ought
to renounce the claim we have hitherto asserted
of being the exclusive purchaser of their lands,
they ought to be at liberty to sell to any body.?
In the several acquisitions of territory we have
made, we have been guilty of assuming control
over a hundred tribes without their consent, and
of prohibititing them from selling these lands to
any bod) but us, which means that we take it
at our own price.' All this is in violation of the
new principles of the universal equality of men
and of races. Why have not the Abolitionists
turned their attention to this outrage? Why
lmvn Uinv iXMifinm] tlinir l.nvi llir> Xfrril 1-.'UV?
Even John Quiney Adams liimsolf argued tliat
the Indians had no good title to this county
against the whites, because the Indians were not
civilized?because they hunted for a living, and
did not plant or spin.
If we are to admit all the various nations,
tribes, and races to a national equality with us,
and receive their ministers and ambassadors, wo
shall have a great increase of our population at
Washington, and a great change in its fashions
and customs. For the minister of every people
will have the rntrcc of society here. Foreign ministers
were expected to attend the President's
levees, where all the society of the city, resident
and visitant, appears. Foreign negroes and attaches
are invited of course to the parties of all
the cabinet officers : and also, to all the public
assemblies. Now, if Havti is recognized, and
Liberia, (for Liberia is better entitled than llayti,)
then we are to see the wives and daughters of
Secretaries, Senators, and Representatives, conversing,
and dancing, and waltzing and polking
with negroes ! Will Southern gentlemen and ladies
unite in such parties? If not, there will be
a sectional disunion of society here at the scat
of the Federal Government. Tho South will l?c
excluded. The Ab"litionbts, the federal functionaries,
and the whole diplomatic corps, will
constitute the mixed and motley crowds that till
the cast, room of the White House, and the
fashionable saloons and boudoirs of the metropolis.
The South?the people who have achiever
some rcpatntion both at home and abroad, foi
elegance of manner* and social superiority, wil
have to isolate itself. Well perhaps the Soutl
deserves it. The people who consent to be ex
eluded from their own ternary on account o
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their institutions, deserve 011 the account to be - V
excluded from society. AVe told them that if '
they commenced the career of submission there.
was not only no end, but no interval, no re- * As
for tlie Abolitionists., we admire their consistency.
They are distressed and mortified at
the admission of slave States into this Union; at
i the presence of slaveholders in Congress; at the ' - '^Ila
election of slaveholders for President.. So tliev
, want to purify and dignify the court of Washington,
by the presence of a gang of negroes, the " ' ' WiSj
, representatives of the august despotism of a stuI
pid negro usurper. g
The argument on which they rely is, however ' <??[
: rather too jocular. It ought to have been spared
us. We are told in the memorial of the Yani
kecs that the exports of United States to .Hayti '
! amount to the enormous sum of not two million
! per annum. Less than two millions out of an j
aggregate export of nearly two hundred millions,
is the iciii]-t;itiuii these Yankee traders suggest ?
: to us, besides that of decorating our society with ' W
a dozen or so of blacks ? i
Bat if Hayti is recognized, Washington is /
not the only place to be blest with negro digni;
taries. Consuls must be received at all our sea a
ports. And the moment we have a commercial ;vy. ' ffjg
I treaty, for that is to follow, then we are to re- dfl
ceive free negro merchants, sailors, pedlars, and ?
travellers an over ine country on tne looting 01 '--3I
, the most favored nations. Then comes the con
flict between federal treaties, the supreme laws *-j|
of the land, and the police laws of the Southern ' XjfS
States concerning free negroes?laws essential to
the safety of their firesides. ,;
Now we know that diplomatic relations, and .
treaties of commerce and atnity are usually re!
garded as great contrivances to promote the .<
J peace of the parties. Let the experiment be
! tried with Hayti and it will not only produee ' .
i war with her, but additional discord among our- t
j selves. 31
However, according to the prevalent theory of :B
! liberty, ot the Constitution, and of human na- ;
; ture, Ilayti must be admitted. "We only feel
bound to make our incidental protest.' We don't ' ' *
i expect to arrest tlie foolery of the times. PerI
haps it is not better to retard it The sooner it '
, runs its course the better. Besides, we are real- ly
curious to sec what length the North will go,
| and how much the South will stand. After
Futexdsiiip.?Cold indeed would the world
be, and solitary our position, if it were not for
the sweet delights of friendship. Man must
live; he must link himself to some being, for his . . v"
own happiness depends upon it; otherwise he .4 \
grows sordid and selfish, and tastes not the joys ' b ' " ' J*'.
j of life. It is true that we have misapplied the
' wi . ! f' i'.rdslnp. for v^^ t.C.'?i F'
j thus applying the idea and deceiving ourselves,
1 as we have not yet proved him as a friend. Wei
avvart kr- rtUf r\wr\ r\? irm ora/1
I UlV.(llV 11 VV< > VUl UTl li UVM VI lliuicviviivtlj uuu
then assign to others the cause.
True friendship is built upon the highest powers
of nature; there exists between two hands " ' /f
j joined together in honest friendship an indisso- v
j iuble attachment, that neither time, place, nor
j circumstances can destroy. How noble is that
! friendship that seeks the elevation of its object,
| and how poor must that heart be that never exI
panded beneath the rays of that genial sun ; that
1 never let an act of pure disinterestedness animate
its cold and icy soul! Friendship hath greatness
in it, and great is he who hath so curbed
the workings of his selfish nature as to" become
a friend to his fellow-man, and he who hath battled
gloriously against the obloquy and contempt
of the world, as to be worthy of the laurel wreath.
But, alas! how- seldom do we find true friendship
in this world.
Goon Manners,?It has been said that "a
man's manners form his fortune." Whether this '
be really so or not, it is certain that his
manners form his reputation, stamp upon him,
as it were, his current worth in the circles where
he moves. If his manners are the products of a
kind heart they will please, though they may bo
destitute of graceful polish. There is scarcely
anything of more importance to a child of either
sex, than good breeding. If parents aud teachers
perforin their duties to the young faithfully,
there will be comparatively few destitute of gqpd
manners. v
Go into a family where the parents arc civil
and courteous toward each other and toward all
within their household, whether as dwellers or
guests, and their children will learn to talk, from
imitation. But reverse things order of this concerning
parents, and the children learned manners
just as in the former ease, they learned good * .
manners by imitation.
Train children to behave at home as you
would have them act when abroad. It is almost
certain that they will while children, conduct
themselves when abroad, as they have been in
the habit of doing under like circumstances, when
; at home. "Be courteous," is an apostolic iniunetion
which all should ever remember and
obey. Then would good manners be the com'
moii inheritance of mankind.
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ISFLTTEKCE OF TIIF. MoON* UPON* THE WEATHER.
?A Paris astronomer has published the results
of twenty years observation upon tho influence
of the moon upon the weather. From tho new
moon to the first quarter it rained (during the period
of twenty years embraced iiwtho calculations)
704 days; from the first quarter to tho full moon
1 it rained 815 days; from the full moon to tho last vi
quarter it rained TO 1 days; and from the last
llm imiB mnnn if. rsiiiififl HOfi rlfivc ?1 ^
l l.iv ..v... .? .
So that during the moon's increase.there were
L I.G09 rainy tlays, and during her decease only
r 1,457?a difference of 152 days. The difference
1 is more likely to have been accidental than the
i result of any natural cause, and the conclusion
- which wo derive from the statement is, that' the
f moon has no influence upon the weather.