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Show Saw Comet Years Ago Another Ocdrn resident recalls the proxlous viit rf ilallpyV crrrnt To rs ago. and htis bern much Intor-o.td Intor-o.td )u Its fiLrn to our solar tya- K'lii .Mr.-. Susan I. Adams, ks.'i Tw?nty-slMh Tw?nty-slMh str'-t, srutd yfstr-rday that yh'i cnnld rorall porfoctly the fn"mifr vimt of this hravenly wandrfr whilo r.hn was n vlil of nlii..- years, rfsldlog in . rt nifiiit. I mn now .sr. yr-ars of ase," said Mr... Adamn, 'and It sf-rnis a Ions tun" blnoi' thr- nlpht our nr'iKhborhooJ was arouNcd by the upponruncc of th' tonift. It rfsemblod a Kn-al dull star ri'h a 1. n.' Ktr'an)ln: tali, which x-tend' x-tend' (I across the .Uy, and nan vy I rntv. "( in euro that t Iim cornet's visit wji accompanlod by n wonderful nio-ti nio-ti oiic display, as I p'tix-mbcr lylK In br d with my oUIr r sinter and watching watch-ing tin' thousand of "slumi ln Ktara" as wi- rall 'd thoni In thone days. There wan a perfect slmwc-r of these meteors, mete-ors, and we were ncmewhat frlghl- nt-ij. remember that we tried counting count-ing them for an hour or more, seeing wh.. could coint the greater numler, h' t lbe came so fast that we could nri loop track of them, and fell al." p. " l:mkI many people were uulte ap-pr ap-pr ii ise recardiir; tho comet, a Its iiplicnrance was uuheraldi-d In our lo-rality; lo-rality; In fact, the llrst to notice It wan on of our iieiiibbors, who liappi ni-d to be up with a sick child. "S'liie peoole tliouKht the world WHS coining to an end, and onn llltln boy vif lued nearby, anil who had been pl"lim marble "for keeps," became be-came proMtly perturbed over his wrnUKdnl.iL;:. riayln? "for keeps" was cn'.idered a deep nln In on'- strict HaptNt community, anil after heariiiK !be "rrown un.V talklnK about the dreadful cornel an 1 a poxslMe end to n'l thlnes earthly, this little boy crept out of hli bed and taklriK hlR lll-j;o'-ten marbles threw them over the fence Into his father's meadow. "With true Yankee scepticism, bow-ever, bow-ever, he took care to throw the marbles mar-bles In I he vicinity of a bl tree, and the next dav, wlw-ii the sun came out bright and reassuring, he recovered his iieasnres and ner told of the Incident until many years afterward--when he became tnv husband. I think that was one of IMh first confessions.' "I also recall the Northern Lights in mv childhood. One nlurht my father fath-er tool; my mother and lift children out to the Uoor and shewed us the fearful fear-ful red sky in 'h" north. It was the color of blood and we were fearfully rkhtened. The snow which lay on the icrotmd as far as we could see reflected re-flected the deep crimson olor, and In fact eerythlnp, even our faces and trulllcy nlKbt powns, trok . n the same torrid hue. Teople considered It an ill omen, and many a sinner returned temporarily to his prayers." Mr. Adams has on several occasions occa-sions during the past week arisea at an vsirly hour to lcw the comet from I hej- heme. j |