The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-18
onel really had worked out the details
or his mourning so well.
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mi COMI.Trs OWN DAY.
Tonight is the night, and unless sci
%entlsts have been deceiving the worlt
for the last six months. the earth passes
through the tail OF the comet befor,
another day dawns. Precisely at 11.2l
O'clock, according to the astronomers
the earth and the comets all will come
together, and about two hours will pas
before the earth escapes from the com.
cts embrace and goes on Its way re
joicing. These two hours will probably
be spent very u%neasily by a great many
n spite of all that scientists have said
about the harmless nature of the com.
cts tail. We do not have such an eX.
perience every week, and we want oul
moneys worth this time.
From all accounts, however, the pas
sage tonight Will hardly be notice
able to any one. Chose who have been
anticipating dire things Will be disap-
pointed, and those who have been
thinking they would pay all Of theit
debts n settle all their earthly ac-
counts tonight will wake up in the
morning with the balance on the same
side of tho ledger. There is a prospect
of electrical display, which may inter-
fere with telegraph and telephone
wires, and 1t is not unlikely that the
wireless service will be suspended for
a few hours. Some optimistic astron-
oners even promise thai we shall have
a splendid meteoric shower and a bril-
unusual phenomena. This is about all
that the most enthusiastic scientists
will promise, and the chances are that
this is more than the comet Will fulfil.
comet will ask TO be excused from
performance tomorrow, and Will not
be visible again until Friday evening.
At that time it will be brilliant and
easily be seen from sunset. 7:l5,
until late in the evening. 1t will be
at It's best about tho asth, when the
will have waned and when it
will have no opposition in its attempt
TO make darkness light. 1t can be seen
every evening until late in June. when
1t will disappear altogether and Will
not be seen again until 1885. BY that
time most Of the present dwellers in
this Earthly Paradise will have passed
though it is hard to sec how
people can ever die when they live in
After all. this has been a very we'll
behaved comet, and II it fulils tho
promises OF its press agents, the astron-
omers. during the next few weeks, it
viii have deserved the thanks of the
earth. Barring the discussion of the
railroad bill and the death of King Ed
ward. it came at a very dull season,
and it has served to amuse the public
and to help the newspaper men, with
out injury to any one.
OF course, it would have been a little
better IL the comet had made its first
appearance at some other time than
the early morning, because its advent
at . A. NJ. has made observation a little
announcement for ambitious star-gazers.
Even here there is a consoling thought,
because, coming at such an unearthly
hour. the comet gave a few sleepless
souls a chance to parade their astro-
nomical lore and to tell their helpless
friends all about it.
1t will be here tonight and it will
be yondcr tomorrow. and it will not
be back home again for seventy-tive
years; so those of US who are alive
thank Heaven that We are here
to sec it and to bid it godspeed on its
TO other worlds,