The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-16
FREAK WEATHER IS
CHARGED To STRANGER


NEW YORK, June 16.-All the
freaks of nature which people have
been remarking lately are due, accord
ing to Edwin F. Naulty, to the new
comet which he and DR.. Brook, of Ho
bart College. announced to the world
three weeks ago. This behavior
threatens to become worse until such
time as the comet shall pass the earth
and its light reaches US by recession
instead of by DETECTION. as now. That
means that June will continue to be
as little like its old self as were the
earlier months of the year. BY July
| the transit ought to be made and let
the weather swing back to the normal.
Meanwhile, says Mr. Naulty, watch
out for more marine disasters. The
two that furnished startling news last
week are only the beginning of
series. Ship compasses have gone
| WINS AlOLI llllo SNlI Influence, MI.
Naulty says, and mariners find the
| guides that have always been their
main reliance running to all sorts of
error. Since Wednesday last. while
the morning skies have warned peo-
pie to carry umbrellas and fog and
mists have often justified the warning
the local barometers have held stead
lily fair.
The FAULT has not been with the bar
ometers, but with the comet. which
has so suffused the atmosphere as to
make people think it cloudy when the
overhead appearance was due merely
to shafts of comet light.
The doubt that has beset the masses
Of late and kept winter clothing and
camphor apart beyond their period of
habitual conjunction has also been due
to the same baleful influence. In swish
ing around the artic regions it has
driven polar. air southwark. causing
periods of abnormal cold As these air
pulsations slow down heat returns.
That process may be expected to CON
time in manifestations of streaked
weather until the comet shall pass by.
Earth tremors in the Middle West
and in Europe and forest fires will
come along for the same period as
they have of late.
Mr.. Naulty says that in respect to
this continent the danger zone NAV be
covered by foot rule on an ordinary
map, one end at Galveston and the
other at S. John. n. B. A tornado re-
ported Friday at Dallas, which killed
II and injured many and which blew
a Mexico and Orient train off the
track, shows what the comet has nj.
ready done in the South: it has de.
stroyed by fire timber stretches in
New Brunswick. where there has been
no rain in more than a month. This
town is in the heart of the danger
zone.
so Adi tHC tOIlitl uedu mas Kept on
of sight. There is a chance that on
Thursday next, when the body of the
moon will thrust itself between the
sun and earth at nightfall, the sky may
be so suddenly darkened as to reveal
the head of the comet in the North
west. should that not occur the head
will probably appear in natural course
early in July. 1t will then have pro.
ceeded beyond the earth and from
then on it will trouble other spheres
than this. After passing the earth
the light it will throw back this way
will give il the appearance ofhavi ne
three tails instead of two as at pres
ent.
Mr.. Naulty advises those who wish
to see real comet light to- get bits OF
amber or yellow glass. Look in tht
east in the afternoon. If the sky
seems thick or misty that will be as
good time for a view as any other
Thy to make out lines of light radiat
ing from a point generally eastward
They will be comet light.
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