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Show Halleyfs Comet1 J H Ualloy's comet is with uang.ilu 'H uftor Its voyage of seventy llvo1 yoBrs H Into tho rcglouB of tho unknown; v H In September of 1900 Prof. Mux H Wolf Heidelberg, Germany, dleaovor- H od Hullqy'n onmot, nnmlug toward ub H yot 200,000,000 miles away. H Quito dlllcront Ib Its reception now H from thut it iouked down upon during H medeaoval times. Tho youth who tioea mU it for tho Urpt tlmo now bubbles ovor M with enthusiasm. Ilo knowfl now that mU It doen not portond war or pnatllonoo M or famine. Nolthor doosho thluk'lt M nn omen of euoccBS or failuro. M In 1082 Edmund Ilalluy, n friend H and coworker cf Sir lsano Nowtou, In H veotigntcd tho comet, then ngitntlug .H tho colontlllfl world mid thru his in- JH vcBtlgations cumo to tho oouuluslou M that tho comet then iu view had np poured r.evoral timea before uud pro- M dluted that It would again appear iu H 17ri0, sovonly soven years honco. It H apponred Iu 17(38, howovor, nnd was H flrit noticed by annmaturonstrouomer mU Palotzsoh. It appeared ognlu In 1835 H and lu 1801 Pontoovulant flgurod out H that it would appear again in May, H 1010. This shows protly uocuruto H figuring: dono entirely thru the H kuowlodgo of astronomy. H Tho aomot will bonenrefitthosnn in H May of this year. Lust Uoptombor It H waa 25,000,000, mlloB from tho eattb. H It Is moving about 1000 miles u mln- H uto, nnd IttokoB it from eovonty-flvo - B to eovonty nine years to mako its trip l leB around tho suu. H Whon Unlloy made his observations H ho know ho would not llvo to soo his . H predlotlonu fultllled but mado tho fa- H otouus remark "Wherefore, if it H should rottirn nooording to our pro- H dietlnno nbout tho yonr 17G8, linpar- H tlnl posterity will not refuso to no- M knowledge that this waa 11 ret dieoovor- M ud by au Englishman. Posterity or M what is as well, a grateful world has M acknowledged his luboro In naming tho M oomet Hulloy'B nomet. M Tho dates of the comot'snppoaranoo M has boon tnbtilnted fairly well back of j M A. D. In 1000 thn comet appeared M und William of Normandy took its np- . H pearuueo rb h favorable omeu, just Illy- H log him in his attempt on England. ' H Tho reat of the people of Europe jvero H in dread of the comet. In ldDG tbo H Pope Issued a Bull ogainet it and tho H Turks, uHboth being HmbB of Satan. H I It was obaorved nt Cedar Olty Jan. " ;'fl 20th 1010 about G:30 p. tn. for tho UrBttimo. X., f J |