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4' is-4! ;. v 4 y y- I -if!, V i f 1 'rj.v v- VOL. II, ,c; :f; ia on'OYiN;' 'N0;":I5. -.- -'1 - i'SI'IbI' 4 I.l r I" k,- iM.V i W i" ,'"""' , ' , " '- fenced ty the ereat faeajc V-vrttich.1 they 4? ,f;Nw;VVondef in the Heaven. d S: Mitchell, adJuBCtsprofes8o of astrbhotor.ni Columbia umversny, cas- "Tv. (-en.tr ,the amount oi pcK things that science will study Jrom this' fippeatancWToe comet 'Will pas ffpr. close to .Venus 'and 'careful 'Db- servations virllf bemade, ta "See if it disturbs! to an1 appreciable" extent, the nrhit of Venus herself r Comets have ; whose generous i worda in Tne pMsSd-clpse to Jupiter dt .times but de of Monday threnew light on .both v Zu iA iSn. - remarkably small the Cook-Pary, .controversy .and tne & appreCiable influence on the- k , , characier oi uiumuuu.c ZJ''"Z I planets is hard to detect.;- , oifinAt nf-festronomers Amenv - Ti-wvi nrt?iiiP?! 1 r"vl" T J . .J CUUltl UU uua .nyv.J-, ' . . proaucea.i-iu " -1 4 "it ' is -not - scienuncany miyusuo '! . 1Imiui .lonil -rririPtS DT.' MltCneil I . isi,Ti- nna in almrxst has made '? a wide reputation mn an r . of; chances. 5 enduring foundation. - He is a oocrar , ,HaUeys should V of philosophy of Johns Hopkin s Unl- strike thQ:worid hatwould be ihe . verslty; a member of the Beta, i new ltr, . , v , . u Pi fraternity, and oi tne nonow -r ft idle to specuiate on a con- nkt 'Tan . 13atA VI. ; . .. . '.I . i ; kn. m..o'k' -iiirrod .. 11 n In 1900 Dr. Mitchell went as - wnirt donbtless be f extin- r -ber Of .the United States, soverament certainly on the side re party to Georgia to observe the total m f tlie comet. -iJLn- f h nn. best visible from ce""5i -i t,0 nnpstions - T iqoi acrain as a-member oi tnei , i,aTr, Oro ai tn tli r.harac- - .Amniwinn sent out- bv the United I . .j. i. t,iTo thn tAit. . States government, he . went to tu- h u t n always points away from L 'matra. in the Dutch East , Indies, to wny i, gravity 4 on the witness there to best mtmui6 comet, tHe amount of perturbation on - otner ultc, theT)lanets causeu ujr il - meir-uf i Av.;i. otters. Tne ormt ui i-ma was also a member- whicb 'How do you. hope. to determine the W !f.?rK oomTooT'ie corner enn nn Aueust 30. - The trip . . Ationtin was ; made on a ; This Spring Dr. Mitcneu wm eu w CMcago to the Yerkes observatory, where-by means of the largest tele scope in, the wurld,vbe will make a special study of Halley comet. ' In view of this fact, and of his own .,a .r . MimotR and his scientinc rohievements in his chosen field of as- trnnnmr anything he may say apout nmPthme - about the thecoming comet is of vast interest, . movements of the comet.' and rewarding this comet he was quw Hn11pv.s romet moves in a great . tloned by. a representative . ot iue m stretching out beyond-the or- Chronlcle prior to his departure Tues- emp, une Qf aU CQmets "day for eolumbia- Universl, periods less than 80 years. Hal- "When can the comet first be seen nr.lv one which moves Rv means or-a spectroscopw hoc Hieen highly imnroved since the root visit rtf a bie comet. -This will be one chance to test it." . ... "Whnt do vou think will D6 tne ei- planatioh :of the tails always flaring away from the sun?" s ' Tt will nprhans be found . due to some : pressure, exerted by the sunlight. , on the extenaea voiauie tan . to .best, advantage .wiia tu ua- ... ;retrogracie motion, that is, in eye?" he was asked the direction opposite to the motions On Mav 19" he replied; "then no the ' jecuou vv Tnia man win neeu u " 0 lia the comet s own motion, al for- it will likely be an oDject 'i . i. hTiiiinnnv fiamine luMiie . western sky immediately after sunset. At first it will be quite near the hori zon, but each day when the subsets it will appear higher and -higher up - "How soon can it be seen -with a small telescope?. . . . t n hp seen with a six-inch tel escope now.and it is largely a matter of eyesight as to wueu n ble to those possessing small tele n ' ' . "When can it first be seen with the akedeye?" . . "Amateur astrouomssi b,-.' ww ia its annarent motion as n from the tiny earth, which itself I is in motion about the sun?" . "The ' movement among tne siai s i on.it nf nthpr two motions,- At the comet is travel- incs westward among the stars, tne sun in the opposite uuetuwu, ". Wards, t The "angle between them will ipnntfrniaiw decrease till about March 25 when the sun will pass between diagram giving the paths of earth and comet, it will reaany ue the comet becomes a moving ; object i in.9 9PS! its amruiar f-wsuiuw froni tSe rutt: ' Oir'ApTit'19 the -eomet '-7 v friVmflT- A Hii'--' J.v, 7 V;.ife,s7 ft tij ilri DEATH OF ; HARK?: TWAIN. Reddiiig Conn., April 21 Sam- liel' Langhorn - Clemens,. tXMarfe: joined hia brotner UnoBi, wo naa ' y received1 an, appoinitanent. as pec- rPtarv! of the Territorv, of Nevada.- ; . Vd bjs" first 'bbokJi;Tlieumping p '1 T7I... - n.l.V,..nn ' 'Anhr-" ' "ha re-- Twain died painlessly, at 6-? Frog;0f Gaiayeras County;'.' "The o7c1ock tonight oi angima pecuri-j nooJr ..mad 'fqraie at ,snr ."i- vuul . j. s . He' lapsed into coma at 3 o'clock part of. the, country, but oQly. f ou?,'':, 5; ; this1 afternoon ani never recover: thousand copies were sold.- litotr. , ed consciousness . ' It was the end of a mati '.outworn by grief and acute agony.ol body r . Vw - 'The buriil will be in' the .f am ilyplot at'Elmira, N. Y., where I Europe and the Orient trated the ; attention however.' of; the editor of-.The Atlav Calif ornian, ) who ; sent," t the author 4 out as a -newspaper - correspondent,. 1 .cla' a k - steamship,. excursion pi soutntrn- 4- frf lie ' already ' his wife, his two daughters, Susan' and . Jean, and his infant son . Langho'ibe. ' . No date haVyet been set as the f amil is stiUiundecided""whether or not there shall be . a public funeral first in New York City. . tctaight that .Mr. Paine said Alark Twain had put his affairs in perfeet order : . and that he died well off,?: though by no means a rich man . He leaves a considera- blbe numbbbf of unfinished1 mann- His letters were published'from time to tiineand-in 1869 the an- k ; thor revised, them and. published them ila book form, under the title of 4 rThe Innocents Abroad. ; This . .' work made Mark Twain, famous, and ' comnelled his reeOenition as ? " America's foremost humorist. In.' tht first, sixteen, " months, 1 35,000. v" volunies were sold, but matey more j -f subsequently r ' - ' During his last years; all of the ;l humorist's - writings1? were under the control of Harper & Brd., His autobiography, which app?r.'d in " . scripts in all stages of completion and of all characters many, of them begun years ( ago . and put aside as unsatisfactory..' Mrs. Gabriloswitsch will aid Mr. Paine i'a the final decison as to what use shall be1 made of these. , Samuel I ; Ianghorne , Clemens, magaane. audi Some U. S: Senatois Who Are Candidates for Re-election. t enough to possess a telescopy . of ihpliOT1 and closest to the. sun, must waiti nearly three ontns unui r conBeQUently is moving with its tha nnmet tiasses by the sun m m-hit Five days March and comes out from the suns g i headed in the direction of rays in April. The comet win uwu & h b t th orld slips by un- IfL hvtctrl the bub. and consequently tne earm uui Us in be seen only shortly before sun- tne sky and De. rise a much less convenient time . to move direct or eastwards, at observe It than win ue x first slowly and then with quicicenea in May. - ... . a. On th evening of May 18 the "After April the) comet will rapiaiy p eg 14f000j00o miles increase in brightness ; ana of tne earth, and this near approacn BOONE'S TRAIL. a ereater angic - - - 15tB, When lt.SUaaemy vue,- "T ' -ir. onH will draw m quickly towarda?he"su: The comet is due to will be' 6 P. M. Pacific time, and the eun will not have then set. wnexn er the comet will be big enough to be eeeirSt transit is an interesting ques t5n There is no authentic account of a transit ever having been seen to have Actually taken place, though many-notably the Biele -.comet : in S26--were calculated to have done 80"What will be the apparent size of nAmot in the heavens?" "About Uie' width of 50 full moons, probably a mosi uiaBu." "Probably 100,000 miles across the head and 8,000 times the bu,lk of the toeaa'-J:. 0.h attenuated matter 1 Jir i:n infinitesimally JHuTlt does not equal one hundred thousandth art of the weight of this "Of what does it coiisist?" "The central nucleus of the head consists, perhaps -K rous and sensitive to the suns rays. The coma, or golden hair of the comet S liSeTiaseous or finely divided mat ter Whit constitutes the ta 1 of the comet is one of the things that science U ager to investigate and hopes to Sscoler as a result of this visit of th"HSw is the tail attached to the iffs not attached, but is left be hind in space. The tall is constantly a ne tail; the comet consumes itself Snd ponltantly supplies th e com I does not flow out behind exactly like - ???l-frnm a locomotive, because ihe smoke from a locomotive always drff tHackward, but the tail of the comet always points rawyfromUie sun,As the comet passes the suUTthe "r'f'f'T . aina- and after it sSiun: theukil goes ah. or Amoves through space tail first. It m I be in this position when we see It at Its best' , . close aoes.n. tuii distance (Then and Now.) One hundred and forty-one years ago, At least history tells us so, A hardy woodsman struck a trail, About which thangs an inspiring tale. causes a tremendous apparent motion among the stars, ana m tne ihmli hours and for several days thereafter it moves eastward as mucn as ao yi cent, each night. Consequently on M 14 thprfi will be no need to ask, Where is the comet: ah may " is a magnificent object appearing im mediately after sunset, n W1" uo higher up in the western sny eacu uaj when the sun sets. We have not "had a brilliant comet in nortnern laiuiuuo since 1882, and it is aitogetner piyu Kio. that waiiRv's will be just as mag nificent, though of this we can not be certain. . , ' "The 'man in the street has been rather disappointed with the comet because it has not blazed forth bright ly long before this. The reason is not hard to find. At the first return since the 'prediction was made by an Eng lishman,' in 1859, the comet was dis 78 davs before it passed the sun, in 1835, a period of 102 days elapsed before discovery and perihe hAti nas'saee. By lone exposure with a sensitive photographic plate, Max Wolf found Halley's comet on Septem Trihelinn nassaee. If the same num ber of days only etapse aato . woodsman was a hunter bold 1835, on January 1, 1910, Halley s com- . C1, VTWU.v. .iT. 'Twas on the balmy first of May, AY hen earth was wrapt iu ver dure gay, And song birds sang in chorus grand, Filled with rhapsody from na ture's hand. Pond ones stood in silent maze, Untouched by the charm of the glad spring days, For the hardy woodsman sought to roam , ' Among the hills, far, far, from home . Amid laughing rills, and roaring streams, , And danger-haunted wildwood dreams. " On toward the west, marched the woodsman plucky, Until he stood on the banks of the rolling Kentucky, There in wonder, he gazed and pondered, Upcu ,the beautiful landscape into which he had wondered wolf or red-skin With nerves of steel and aim un erring, No panther, fearing, A glad, free life the woodsman led For two lcng years without salt or bread. Where in those days the blue serial form- ita,' a several attacks- on Christian Science were his latest important worksk, t "' . He 'also wrote a book question--irig the authenticity of Shakes-' peare 's works, which "caused cbn siderable commeint ; ;- "J 4 liVhere' Mark Twain chose to Amerca's humorist and known the I spend his declining years" was the world over ai Mark Twain, was I first outpost of : Methodism in New. born in the little tOTvIa of Hanni- England, and it was among the bal, Mo., on November 30, 1835 hilla of Redding that GeJn. Israel IHs father, John Marshall Clem- Putnam of ;6tvoIutionary lame, ens, came from an old Virginia mustered his sparse ranks. Put- family and with his young wife, nam park now etacioses tne mem- Elizabebth Lamptdin, a desetndantory of hiscamp, , . " v of the early settlers olKentucky.be , TVIark Twain first hr,ard of it at f joined the sturdy band of pioneers the dinner givdn him on his 70th v c a nDH . Kiroi. h a : A 1 birthdav when a fellow ffuest, wno gahies in the early part .of the last lived, . there,, mentioned, its oeau-. -century and settled' along the ties andadded. hat there wa3 a' vacant .nouse .aagoming nis ovra,,.-,,; .Vtth3nkoujwaybj house for me, saia MarK i,-wain. i Sherwood Place was the deleptr able name of .that old house and r where it ' stood Mark Twain reared the white walls of the- Italian villa he first named "Innocence at Home, ' ' bust a first experience of 'i si' bamks of the Mississippi river.; Jtn-the -uncouth rj.yirohment Of the hardy woodsmfan in days the then little frontier town, Han- far back . mibal, the famous author spent his boyhood days. 'Here he fished, Cities and towns now dot the plain hunted ahdjlounged along the river banks with nis sturdy com panions, living a healthy : outdoor existence, which undoubtedly ac grass ram In t Jny rivulets sought the stream, couned f or long fa the wkt a New Bngand. winter storm Gurgling on as m a dream. f of his many afflictions. can e m its wmtest iury quicy He attended the" little school, caused nun to ennsten it anew. . .1. ' . . - . u I RnrmflolT But the mighty changes that have but not being or a verv siuaious - happened since, This woodsman; of the woods was prince ! Affect not, his sleep profound, T -4-44 BRADLEY TO GO SOUTH. disposition, he learned far more from contact with. the rough com panions whom he immortalized in But Cook's One Time Backer is No I later years as Huckleberry Finn As he reposes beneath his blue, and 'Tom Sawyer, and others, of "How earth?" - . ' .imi ..olana nnsflPS at a of about 14,000,000 miles, but so large is the bulk of the comet that the i eartn will pass through the tail of It pu we Sht of May 19 beginning at J o' SSck There will probably be a beau tiful display of what is known as 'fall Jng sSS The same night is the one 1 when it will first appear gloriously In llsterly-danger to the earth . . . . .it. 4V. n nnmot'd tail? ; from contact wnv ; - "Knne The atm6sphere of the earth -XhprvSr that it is practical- i"rrM to the extremely at- y " nnated ' eases that SSSS thT.comers UU Howeve Ae will be .no;war, pestilence, death J S scourge on account of the passing ,W scoui6 comets often ' coinctde, because there are about halt coincide, " jtllAnwii MP.h year. most ' of them ; visible to tne approached must possess our souls with a little patience, for the comet will not disap point us. During January 4he comet m mnvfi from the constellation of Aries into Pisces, and at the end of the, month will set about a r. m. "Halley's is not the only comet now visible. On December 6 Mr, Zaccheus nonioi at Princeton, found the fourth comet of the year 1909, with a five and three-quarter inch telescope, and it is consequently visible -4n a small in strument. Though Mr. Daniel is but 30 years old, ne nas aiscuveieu uuw comets. The new Daniel comet, which is5 in the constellation of Aurigais moving" northward and has no tail". "What is the mstory ui iub uiswip ry of Halley's comet and of the dis- "In 1680, Sir Isaac Newton, the greatest scientist the world has pro duced, as a result of the study of com ets announced that comets obeyed the laws of gravitation and that they mov- pd about the sun Bui wiui men always away rrom it, anu saiu iuni oaths Of comets qouiu ue icuivi Wniipv tne ineuu auu yuoit m Newton, took up . a historical study, of the records of tne ' - appearauuea ui comets. He discovered records .show- inK the appearance oi comeu uu that of these, mree pa :uK - path about the sun. The one then vis ible had appeared n 1531 and again in 1607. The. path and' the Interval were thus indicated and -Halley pre ,i?ntorf that in the end of 1758 or the hpetnnine of 1759, -after a period, of 75 years, the comet . wuum iiy agaih and called upon candk posterity to verify the truth that tis claim had first been" madej by tne Cingusu man. - , . , . 174Z ana as noie y etu the keenest interest Who regarded Vneither storm nor cold, Xrd forest wolf, and mountain bear, y Heard his steps and sought their lair. - Back at home in old Rowan, Loved ones pined for the darmg V man J Trembling in fear, lest he had died Victim of the red miXi s hate and .pride . The eulnning red skin with treach erous mein, , In the path of this woodsman was never seen, But? lurked with the stealth of his cowardly race, l XTpon the woodman's trail, but shunned his face. - ... ; Across the hills the woodsman trod, Amid the glad free wilds of na ture's god, Buft as they sat, and pined, and yearned, The mighty woodsman, one day returned, All ao-low, with zeal and zest, . For the goldc glories of the golden west. With heroic hand he opened wide, The western portals for the com ing tide, Of civilization, bold and strong t v,iirtht its commerce, its na iiiuiih"") : - . story, sortg. v . grass mound. Pennsylvania gave him birth, In Carolina he had his hearth, Missouri claimed hifn when he . aiea, While in old KAituck his re- mains abide. To the Yadkin's banks, tomor row we go, '" Our regard for the memory of the woodsman to show, To "Devil's Den," on. the rocky f hill, (The tangled wildwood is wild there still.) Proudly we go to commemorate, The deeds of this woodsman of il.. . 1J XT CH-nt-n me uiu. iurin otaLc, their type. At the agt of 12 vhis meager school education was brought , to i a suddeta close by the death of his father. His older brother, Orion S Longer in Pole 'Business. (Asheville Citizen. T . - Mr: John R. Bradley who is' well . known in this city and. who is -inter- r nationally . well ; known . also , as the ; backer of Dr Cook in his polar :expev' dition has ' prepared to make an ex-; k tensive hunting trip through the West : " and Mexico. He has' purchased - fifty horses for the expedition and is stock-: Clemens, was the proprietor of a ing up for a six months trip. . .. , nj Starting a poin . in Northern printing shop in the village, and Mr Brey , young. Sam Clememv began nis wln go OVer the mountain; range un- iournalistic career there as a til the Mexican border line is reached.; printer's devil. In the course ot in qu6st 0f woiyes and bears; He has ... a few vears he learned the trade Invited six friends to accompany mm .. . 1Drn uiu mil reals tt a via. :. i""." as a compositor, and. in lboo", he part cf. May. ; - left his bative town and began a I' Negotiationa are . now-on,. between ; - :. . , . tt . I iM.r. uiauwjr .uu me v uicy nwmwoi wandering existence . i He jour- . JsanDunif jonn., for twenty . wolf- ;, ed from place to place, .working at hounds for the hunting trip. Mr Brad-. ; cu iivm t ,f .. t , i pV.; voe. ornnlftvfvf nina '.exnerienced ' his trade in New York and the des who are now in Colorado mafe . ' nrinoioal cites of the middle ing all preparations for the trip which , principal te VA tn hfes1n riT ln June. Mr. Bradley west. - ; . has spent considerable time on hunt- , But while he gained a . vast ing trips ih Africa, Asia, Alaska, and ,iui. b j in-the Arctic regions. - TTislname we'll honor at night and amount of experience during nis Does Jonn -Temple Graves imagine travels, which The brave old hero, Daniel greatest value in tne preparation the Hearst' support of the Democrat- Boonel . of some of his works in later party on "ja tt i. T. L . SPENCER. vears. this period was rather xm- cies is no new proposition. It has been r , ' c. a flmjiTifmf i?tftnd J made before and rejected though the Daniel Boone was born in profitable, trom a financial stana-j Dem0crats ot New York didl0noe ac- Berks county, PeiJasylvania, Au- potot, ana ne was uuaajr iu.- cepi jar. aeuni ed to return xu ui uumc however, the Democratic party gust 22, 1734. The family moved to North Carolina and, settled on The Anglo-Saxdn his wealth has Uue tanks of the Yadkin river, in Med .1 what is now pavioson . eounty, Tn this wondrous region once sc jlav 1st. 1750. Boone started on bankks of the great river, in rath- all the supporting, but that was . ' j ' . i New xork poiiucs, ana uie uauyuM ed straitened circumstances. " -n v te d for .it Peters-: ... . ... . - ' ... i r . . . "... . . '. , . . -. The idea s or nis Decommg an purg maex-Appeai. i ' ' A. . had never entered his author Savannah, Ga., April 15. Hon. Beek-: was shown in the scientific world in the reappearance of the comet The comet was observed iu one month of the predicted time, the first opmet in .the history of the world to apTear on a foretold schedule. It was earned for the 'man.whp discov- a fart of its Deriodicity and rtat of rail comets. It returned again pn schedule in l3t ana waa u- ed by-photograpny .agai" ber 11; 1909. - r ' . ' - "Improved photography and the re a -mnviorn Rner.tToscooe should re veal much of interest to -the scientific world from the near appryauu ui ley's comet this year to the, earth.. - No The silent bosbm of. the tranquil knight. " , ' , wild. . t his first trio west, into what is now mnd at tnai ume,.uui ie ttan winthroD. assistant secretary, of . more' do red men's yells af-i Tennessee an Kentucky, May 1st ed enough of the pilot life to' en- Une navy, who -reached the city yes- ; . 1 ' r-- ., . . .i ' ' i " . i t J JliHfRnnl- 1 n l tSolnir wall outer. fright - - 1769. He died iu ltau at tne able mm w.ueswme.uw umwur wu. HU.uWU - : hnm of his son Major Nathan ties encountered in guiding a D"p -. "Boondvat Clarette, Missouri, aged along the great river in nis inxe annaa business men he took a trip L' ;tt ; l'aA -hMA liis Alon the' Mississfppi 'Biver,r down the harbor in the -revenue cut- , du jcaia..iiC,io .u.u : i - - . - 1 ter yamacraw this morning. He was . wife , Rebecca, in Frankfort, Ken- which he wrote many years ago. .lter given an' automobile ride over tucky i . His parents are buried ml. At the outoreaK 01 ine civu war . steambpaWng came to a stanasui .jnan whar aint got a:- neW f and'young ,Clemens enlisted in .the gpg :dre ok bout;ez oleV' Confederate army. A. soldiers n - vWs-bVf ' " i; j :.: .. v: . a " T ' 'li.l- lr 1 . v . ... -, . . - . . r life, however, wasoot 10 nis .liKHQgj and after, a fewweeKs service ni t Now teeming millipns. marcn to . and fro - '(- As about civilization's tasks tthey go," ' Where" w once was" heard the rifle crack, . , 'trJ: Jorma cemetery,' Mock"ayille,.N. G Daniel Boche's wife ancl daughter were the . first . white women in Kentucky. Editor r- V" ! ? ; --Cooleemee Journl.- 4- ' js - t 7 4.1
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