Show LOOKING FOR THE COMET I Chicago Journal Iri In a few weeks ev everybody e everybody will wUl be talking about the com comet comet comet et Already the th astronomers are sweep ing the heavens with their 6 to catch the first glimmer Ummer of its radiance and the cameras are to focus its head bead and tall tail As yet nothing is visible visible Isi Isible ble but the scientists bl have told us that the comet is ie coming and science knows what hat It is talking about It was Ed Edmund Edmund Edmund mund Halley an eminent English as astronomer astronomer astronomer who first Identified this comet with one that had bad appeared In 1531 1831 i Ito Iii and 1682 Ie He predicted that it t would re reappear reappear p appear in 1788 1758 and it did a in 17 the delay as had been fores tn n being due to the planetary attraction The last Jut appearance of comet was In 1835 1 Thus it has been estRa estah by scientific observation ob and hy hypothesis that the sequence of this conf conI comet t is b 75 is years some sopie of o those tho e who kok hok upon it this year may have stood sto at graze gaze In the splendor of its presence v when hen ft It flamed across the northern sky in 1836 1635 but OOt not many of the millions who ho will wiH see It t next month will ill live to say that they were here the last time it I came How insignificant is the brief span of human life Ufe in comparison with witha a comets orbit The circumference of this orbit is be 00 beyond beyond yond ond comprehension and the figures that symbolize It are meaningless to the hu human human m man Intellect The comet is 1 rg at a rate of miles mUes a day which is i s going some when you stop to t think about It especially if you reduce the sp speed ed to the rate per second which is 29 miles mU the average speed of a ra train in an hour Now multiply by the number of days In 75 71 years yeara 21 a RI Ili and the length of the orbit is com computed computed computed in eleven figures miles At the present time the comet is less than th n miles from the earth It will be visible to the naked eye shout a the middle of September r It will be t e at Its brightest t In May 1910 The periodicity of this comet has been traced as far as to 40 B C and was vis via ible Just before the Norman Invasion of England which the prophets who prophesy with their hindsight declared presaged the event the dread r of Saxon woes No doubt things ill ilI happen coincidentally with the coming of or the comet this time that will be os s g scribed ed to the malefic influence of the great flying star Superstition is still stUl a moving factor In human affairs and arid signs and portents are as pregnant pre of occult meaning to us now as tile their were when a comet lighted a II midwife to the th of the moth mother r of Caesar and sheeted ghosts gibbered in the streets of Rome |