The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-04-15
UNUSUAL GROWTH
OF VEGETATION
will Be Produced By The
Coming Comet.
Our Correspondent at Narrows
Gives Valuable Suggestions
in Consequence.

Editor Republican, take 1t that
your readers will be interested in
any reliable information about the
approaching visit of Halley's Comet;
now visible in the early morning
twilight
Much speculation has been indulg-
ed In by amateur astronomers, and
dire predictions of untoward results
have alarmed the animated to state
bordering on frenzy. After painstak-
ing observations and careful analy-
tical deductions l am able to give
assurance that no alarm need be felt
before the approach of the wonder
full spectacle. Not only will life be
in NO danger of extinction or dis
comfort, but the effect of the Com
etic visitor will be to invigorate an
imal and vegetable lifeeo an extreme
of intoxication. The increased warmth
which however will no way result in
human discomfort, produced by the
passing visitor viii augment vegeta-
BILE growth to an excess never before
witnessed even in the tropical regions.
Farmers should make every possible
exertion to clean their fields of weeds
early DIN the season for by June first,
the growth of vegetation will be so
luxuriant that it will be impossible
to remove it with the farming i'm
. plements in common use, since heat
and light are the most essential ne
eessities of vegetable growth the
vast addition of these supplied by the
comet will sent the corn stalks to a
height of twenty or thirty feet. The
grass of the later cut meadows will
fall in lengths of yards, and tobac-
co must be topped early If the farm
ers hope to be able to reach the top
which will be out of reach early in
July. Watermelon hills should be
planted wider apart than usual lest
the melons pile upon each other and
ripen SLOWLY and imperfectly.
Those ladies who have the famfl
lar custom of training creeping vines
about their doors should root out
their stocks at once lest the vines,
from sheer exuberance of growth,
should crush the house CT close the
doors and windows to the extreme
OF suffocating the inmates. The
leaves of the forest may be expected
to grow to startling proportions. In
the thick set woods the darkness Of
a starless night will present an
awe inspiring spectacle. Fruits Of ev-
cry kind will grow to wonderful sizes.
Apples will approach the size of pump
kns and blhckberries will hang like
ears of corn. Cherries will grow and
grapes hang like cluster of red
balloons at a county fair.
But the real sensation is reserved
for May 18th when we pass Through
the fiery tail OF the great serpent of
the ethereal deep. There viii be no
parchihg of fields, boiling of rivers
nor suffocating of life as learned as
tronnmers have alarmingly told us
The gas of the comets tail is close
ly allied with the laughing gas of
dental notprdety, only many times
more celebrating. For two hours,a
space all too brief, the whole world
will be intoxicated-drunk this
subtle stimulant brewed from the
fields of boundless space. During
this brief space, for the first time
since chaos ran to form peace and
good win will pervade the world. All
drunk with rapture, none will dare
perwert the hour, all shout, all cheer.
all song. For once the stoughtest
prohibitionist will yield TO an hilar-
ious condition he never before know
or has long since forgotten and the
old topper will set wishing that some
prop2net like Joshua of old would arise
to command the comet to. stand eter-
nally sti1l. For a couple of hours
ecsacy Will reign upon the earth and
then comes the sleep from which the
real danger OF Cometic visit will arise
Such season OF exhilaration cannot
pass without leaving the customary
exhaustion and every animate thing
on earth will sleep. Sleep sleep
that will be near unto death. A
sleep 80 profound that grave danger