Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-08

a lens about twelve inches in diameter.
The inside of this literally dazzling dis
play is amphitheatrical in form, If l
may be permitted to use such a term
you might say it is shaped like a cup
with the bottom knocked out.
Il don't know how he does 1t, but
from what he has told me in snatches
of conversation from time to time
have learned that these mirrors are
so arranged as to concentrate a series
of enlarged reflections on the central
mirror, the result being exactly the
same as that produced by a great tel
escope, except that the mirrors mag
Nifty many more diameters than the
largest regulation telescope. in the
world
professor Nelson told me fatty one
day not long ago that in a certain
given area in the sky-I can't repeat
his scientific terms, of course-he found
number of stars never reported be-
fore. He used almost these exact words
two or three days later, as I recall
them:
1t is very powerful lens they
have at your Lick observatory, DR.. de
la Saeuerwein. and great glasses they
have too on Mount Wilson and on
Mount Lowe. but what l see through
my looking glasses, as you call them,
other glasses as a dinner plate is to
a ten-cent piece of American money.
Why, doctor, l have to smile for my
self some nights up here all alone
when I think how 7 can see Mr.. Hal
ley's comet, very big and very clear,
almost two months before the news
papers say he was discovered.
d" And what the Professor Lowell
over at the Flagstaff in Arizona say he
see on the planet Mars-oh, doctor, it
is indeed so funny! He certainly try
things that l know nobody ever see,
because they are not there-not on the
planet Mars. Maybe in Colorado and
here on the Indian lands, these little
creeks men make-oh, yes. canals-bnt
not on the planet Mars, doctor, not on
the planet Mars! Oh, nor
Conceals Something Startling
"And then he went to a corner Of
his outdoor room all cluttered up with
books and maps and mathematical
paraphernalia, and sat and laughed
quietly to himself for a minute. When
he came back to me his face was
very serious i'm its expression and he
begged me to forget what he had said
-intimated that it was only an idle
Jest. But as sure as fate he has some
/ tullE llttt lldl Will cause lllt Stltll-
tific world to suffer from the creeps
until the first shock of the intelligence
is over"
To return to the Navajo just in
from the reservation:
The agency Is located at the settle
ment called Ship Rock, near the great
natural monument called by that
name on account of its resemblance.
from afar, to a full-riggeg ship at sea,
and the Indian, who is known here and
is generally regarded as reliable, de-
clares that Professor Nelson has told
Dr. de la Sauerwein. and that the doc
tor begged him to bring the informa-
ton to me with all possible speed, that
he has discovered, by the aid of his
wonderful magnifying mirrors, that
the Haley comet is changing it's
course and is now heading directly for
the earth!
Full of dreadful omen as this an
nouncement is, the worst remains to be
told. The comets tail, the constitu-
ency of which has been the subject of
so much controversy among scientists
and speculation among laymen has
been found to be composed of a vast
array of gigantic air craft of strange
design every one being equipped with
monstrous searchlight In the van
is the greatest of them ALL an armored
craft flying great banner bearing
this inscription:
Tho for Los Angeles. the Center Of
the EARTH Aviation Week, January,
1910. Watch our Star Dust!"