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OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1910. 3 r FATHER 80 two trying winters neitner ot them had a cold, and were able to walk farther and do more than for years. I think Vinol is perfectly wonderful. It certainly is the greatest blood-making, strengthening tonic for old people I ever heard of." -- We want every feeble old person in this town to try Vinol. We will return tlseir money without question if it does not aceompISsn ail we claim for it. HAMILTON DRUG CO., Oxford. r An Endless Chain of Savings An endless chain of Savings, ilike other things, requires a start, but once started builds itself up if not interrupted by adding new links, interest credits, at frequent intervals; each link adding strength to the chain ?and assist ing in the work of adding still other links. Start your chain of savings by a deposit here and get yourself headed right on the high road to financial success. We pay 4per cent in terest on Savings accounts. 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I THE TRANSIT OF AN EXPERT ASTRONOMER'S STATEMENT OE WHAT WE MAY EXPECT FROM THE VISIT OF THIS WONDERFUL, AWE INSPIRING CELESTIAl MONSTER TO OUR SKIES. The Earth Will not Collide With its Head, Its Tail Peculiar Radiance That By FREDERIC CAMPBELL, Sc. D., (President of ' department .of astrno my, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.) The visit of Halley's comet to our skies is an event for whch we have been waiting' for thirty-seven years and more, for in 1873, when it had been retreating into the depths of space ever since its last preceeding appearance in 1S35, it was at last brought up "with a round turn" by the sun's attraction and compelled to start back. While every mile of the way in withdrawing from the sun's light and heat it had equally withdrawn from its restraining power, yet even 500,000,000 nifties beyond our farthest known planet that power wjas still real, though immensely reduced, and momentum so that it was forced to turn back. It did it, like a runa way child, reluctantly, and, althoug with eaclh mile of its return it has felt increase of attraction in the sun and has thus, been obliged to quicken its pace steadily, it has neverthe less refused to rush traight to the sun's bosom. Still retaining a frag ment of the original momentum iwitih whicih lit came into our system ages ago no one knows from where it has persistently andi continually ENCKE 3 SHORT fsmoD COMET, ms VIEW OF HALLEY'S COMET IN CELESTIAL compounded that force with the force of the sun's attraction, and the resuli is the beautiful curve of an ellipse. Now, it is because of faithfully fol lowing the elliptical path that the com et "will not drop into the sun's fiery depths and go up in a puff of gas. In stead it swings around that body at a safe distance of 54,009,000 miles at the nearest and then proceeds to withdraw into space on the opposite side of the ellipse. It is there that it is going to meet the earth; there that it will pass us, the two bodies going in oppositf directions; there that it will "come the nearest; there that it will appear tht largest: there that it will shine th- brightest; there that its head wis transit the face of the sun: there thai the earth will plunge headlong througr its tail. We are therefore coming tc the most important days of this come tary visit. So well had the great astronomei royal, Sir Edmund Halley, and oth ers learned the ways of this sky mon ster that Professor Max Wolf of Hei delberg. Germany, knew to just wha! quarter of the heavens to open hit camera for the long exposure of Sept 11 last. When, after hours of waiting he again closed it and went into the dark room and developed his plate he knew that he had rediscovered Hal ley's comet, and so he telegraphed to all the principal observatories of the world. In a few days the astronomers saw it in their powerful glasses, and they have been following it ever since with an interval of a few weeks ex cepted, when it passed the sun the last of March and removed from tht evening to the morning sky. "Will Not Collide With the Earth." On the 19th of April the comet passed "perihelion," nearest the sun, was going its swiftest, 1.S7S miles a minute, and determinedly rounding the curve to push on toward the earth, as if to drive straight into our orb and end all things for both bodies. At he same time the earth was coming around its curve in the opposite direction and HALLEY'S COMET but Will Plunge Harmlessly Throngh May be Seen in The Heavens. llmost as eagerly rushing toward the cornet, its speed being about 1.150 miles a minute. And though the two, on the 10th of April, were still 95,000, 000 miles apart, the combined move ment of earth and comet has been steadily filling up the great gap at the rate of forty -three miles per second, and the great events that are to fol low the middle of May are consequent ly at hand. That there will be no collision is as evident as that an elevated train may safely cross a surface road above or a subway beneath. When the comet crossed the earth's path early in March for it is even now within our orbit it was 15.000,000 miles above us, and when it will pass out beyond the same. May 20, it will be G,000,000 miles below us. Professor W. H. Pickering esti mates that on the 18th of May we shall be 14,300,000 miles distant from the comet. From these figures a mil lion or two may be clipped in the day or two following. The brilliancy, too, of the comet will be greatest on the 19th, no less than G.DGG times what it was when discovered by Professor Wolf. But the ISth of May is the great day the day of the transit and the day of the earth's plunge through the comet'3 tail. Nothing can transit the face of CHESS AUXS SIX' : TAILED COMJST, 7W 1U10 AND 1S35 AND TWO OTHER WONDERS. the moon unless it be a tieeting me teor, for the moon is the nearest celes tial body. Only three bodies can trans it the face of the sun namely, the moon, thus causing an eclipse of the sun, and the inner planets Mercury and Venus. The last transit of Mer cury occurred in November, 1907. The last transit of Venus was observed Dec. 6, 1882, and the next will be seen June 8, 2004, this entire century pass ing without that most interesting and significant phenomenon. But the head of the comet will transit the face of the sun on the ISth of May. Where the Transit May Be Seen. This is made possible by a remark uble combination of circumstances. For four months the comet has been north of the sun. On the very day that it passes it in going back from the morn ing to the evening sky it also passes south of the sun. This brings it di rectly across the sun's face. Professor See says that this will take place be tween 7 p. m. and 1 a. m., eastern time. Professor Pickering names 9 p. m.. eastern time, as the hour. "Popular Astronomy" says that 11:19 p. m., east ern time, is the exact middle of the transit, but that it lasts in its en tirety from 10:50 p. m. to 11:4S p. m. The center of the comet's head will pass about four or five minutes of arc above the center of the sun's disk, the diameter of the entire disk being thirty minutes. Now. it is manifest that, vastly im portant as this event is, it will be en tirely invisible to a large part of hu manity by reason of the sun's being below the horizon at the hour named. France, England. Germany, Italy. Spain and all the eastern part of the United States will then be in the shadow of night. Only on our western borders is there hope that the transit may be witnessed, and in the Hawai ian Islands there is a much closer ap proach to certainty. Professor Barnard has estimated that the size of the com et's head as seen from the earth will be more than sufficient to cover the sun's entire face. It would therefore seem that a remirkable phenomenon is at hand, very closely approaching: an eclipse in character. Mass of Meteorites In Its Head. So it would be If the comet's head were solid, like the moon; but, though we are convinced that there is solid matter in it, being probably made up of a mass of meteorites held together by their mutual attraction, still we know it to be much more largely gas eous in its nature aud shall have to wait and see whether it be sufficiently opaque to darken the sun or whether it is so transparent that the sun can shine right through it as though a thin cloud. With a telescope having an object glass of fifteen inches in diameter a body of seventy miles in diameter at the distance of the comet would show black against the sun, and with high er power one of ten miles diameter would do the same. But it may be that those most favorably situated geographically will see just nothing at all. In all history there is but one re corded case cf a comet transiting the sun's face, that of the great comet of 1S32. When it reached the sun it disappeared entirely. And it seems likely, therefore, that in the present in stance the sun will be darkened but little, if at all. Yet all comets are not alike, and some spectacle altogether unsuspected may present itself to the admiring gaze of all beholders. Earth, comet and sun being in one perfectly straight line at the time of transit, were the comet's tail straight the earth would be involved in it at the same moment since it sweeps back from the sun into space, no matter which way the comet is traveling. But the tail is curved so that it will come sweeping upon the earth possi bly a few hours later, and by that time the relations of the two bodies will so have changed by reason of their swift passing that we shall not pass through the middle of the tail, where it would measure at least 1,000, 000 miles across, but through a por tion where a smaller distance must be traversed in order to make our exit. The Question of Banger. The first question is, of course, that of danger. Will the earth and all things therein be destroyed, as the 30, 000 inhabitants of St. Pierre were laid low in three minutes by the poisonous fumes of Mount Pelee? Our answer is that if the earth should graze the comet's head possibly its vapors would so fill our atmosphere that nothing could thereafter live. But at a point in the tail 14,000,000 miles from that head we are perfectly safe, as we should be indeed half or one-fourth that distance. The comet's tail is lit erally next to nothing. The little that it is will not affect our atmosphere in any unpleasant or harmful way. There is as much danger in a searchlight or a rainbow and infinitely more in the fumes of the chimneys and automo biles of a city. It is true that it is of a gaseous nature, but so extremely thin that the faintest stars can be seen through a million miles of its volume. The next question pertains to the spectacle. If the transit may prove invisible, will the plunge through the tail prove equally so? It may, for in 1S19 the earth went through a comet's tail without any one knowing it, and in 1SG1 it did the same, though it was remembered afterward that a strange aurora-like appearance had been ob served at the time, a certain yellow ness of sky, which was even thought worthy of record, though its connec tion with the comet had not been sus pected. It is not unlikely that we shall have an experience somewhat like that. In the morning of May 18, before sunrise, the tail is likely to be seen extending from the eastern to ward the western horizon. In the evening of the 19th, after sunset, the tail is likely to be seen extending from the western toward the eastern hori zon, but late during the night of the 18th the entire heavens are likely to be seen carrying a faint and peculiar radiance, due to the fact that we are immersed hundreds of thousands of miles in the comet's tail. The chief thing to militate against the spectacle will be the moon, which that night is ten days old and will not set till 2:45 in the morning. But inasmuch as the peculiar sky radiance in 18m was seen even in the daytime we may bo;:e that fair Luna will b? good enough, sine? she is generously granted half th." nights of each mouth, not to spoil the marvels cf so extraordinary an occa sion as this. When this jrrr-rit clay of thr cornet has passed it will l.e seen for some time, night after night, in the wester:. sky after sunset first at about Its lar gest, then rapidly growing smaller a? it retreats into the depths of space and becomes once more invisible, not again to charm the eye, awaken tht wonder and stir the awe of mankind until most cf us have been long for gotten in our humble graves. NOVEL MOTOR BOAT SHOW. Craft to B? Exhibited In Water and. Under Canvas. A novel motorboat show and water carnival under the direction of the Motorboat and Water Carnival associa tion will be held on the pier and plaza jit West Ninety-eigWth street. New York, for one week, beginning on May 21. The exhibits, many of which have already been arranged for, will be noused on the pier under canvas, and there will be three floats. 100 by 30 feet each, from which exhibitors maj demonstrate their boats. There will be several days of racing on the Hud son, in which fast boats from most cf the clubs on the river will compete for the prizes oStered. Free Remedy For Ueali ijoivefs There are two forms of bodily cleanliness, the external and the in ternal. The one is for your pride in yourself; the other for your life and health. Both are important, but of vastly more importance in the lonff run is the internal cleanliness. This Is one point that all should watch about their body the cleanliness of tha bowels. Keep them clean and free front obstructions. To do this you must havo one or two movements of the bowels each twenty-four hours. If your system does not do this naturally, in the process of eating: and drinkiner. then you must obtain aid of some kind. After finding out that cathartics, salts and such things relieve you for a day, but bind you up worse than ever the next day. then try a simpler and more natural remedy ilka Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin For the skeptical the best way to be pln 13 to send your name and address to rr. Caldwell for a free sample bottle. Lse it as directed and If it convinces you that a brief continuance of Its use. will relieve you permanently that it will train the stomach and bowel muscles to aain work naturally at certain hours then buy it of your druggist at fifty cents and one dollar a bottle. Just as so many others are doing. They began with a sample bottle, then bought a fifty cent bottle, and now. fully convinced of its merits, they buy the one dollar family size. All the members of the family cam use It down to the very youngest. A brief use of thi3 grand laxative tonle will cure constipation in its worst form, indigestion. liver trouble, sick headache, sour stomach and such ailments and keep you in continuous pood health at a very small cost. Such is the experience of many families like that of Mrs. Oscar Fleener. Unionville. Ind.. J. F. Daniel Baron. Tex., and hundreds of others that could be named. Dr. Caldwell personally will be pleasec to give you any medical advice you may desire for yourself or family pertaining' to the stomach, liver or bowels absolutely free of charge. Explain your case in a letter and he will reply to you in detail. For the free sample simply send your name and address on a postal card or otherwise. For either request the doctor's address is Dr. W. B. Caldwell, R.500 Cald well building, Monticello, III. For Sale by CRENWILLO DRUG CO- SALE OF HOUSES AND LOT. Under and by virtue cf power con ferred upon me by the last will and testament of Woodson Reavis, decease ed, wherein he directed the sale of the following describe" d houses and lots and appointed me executor, I shall, on MONDAY, JUNE CTII, 1910, sell to the highest bidder for cash at the Court House door in Oxford. at 12 o'clock noon, the following descri'j ed lot: )n town of Oxford, f-fuiity of Gran ville, State of North Carolina, on the East Side of New College or Gill lain s'reet, near the old Hundley Found ry, hounded on the North by the lot of J. P. Floyd, on the East by Tiie lot of G. C. Shaw, en the South by the lot of E. T. White and o:i the west by said street, on which said lot is situated two houses. Will be sold in two lots. Time of Sale 12 m. Terms cash. W. J. II. BOOHER. Executor of Woodson Reavis, de'ed. This May 7th, 1910. Graham and Devin, Attys. CHICHESTER S PILLS TIIK DIAMOND It RANI ft J,alU-s! 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