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K \" > LOOK OUT FOR IT HaOey's Comet Will Begio Sweepof the Sky on the First of April WHEN IT CAN BE SEEN In the Morning Heavens Just Ahead of the Sun, but Later it Will Pass to the Western Heavens ami lie Seen for Several Weeks There liefore Moving (In Into Spare. Now that Halley'B comet is rapidly approaching the earth and Is soon to become an object of great populai interest, the public will desire to know the leading fapts couce-ning this farnout celestial visitor, and to learn something of its eventful history. In just what part of the heavens it is at present, when and where It may be seen best, when it will lie nearest the earth, and what danger If any, is there of a collision with our globe, are some of the questions that are naturally psked. The comet is at present in the constellation Pisces, about half way from the zenith down to the western horizon at dark, and about 3 degrees west of the planet Saturn. It is not yet visible to the naked eye, and as it is approaching the sun, it will soon be lost in his rays till abbut April 1, when it will reappear in the morning sky ahead of the sun. On March 24 it will be on the opposite side of the sun from us, and on April 20 it will pass its perihelion at a distance of 54,000,000 miles from the Bun. From that time till May 15 it will be a glorious spectacle in the morning heavens. On May 18 it will pasB directly between the earth and the Bun, when it will be only 12,000,000 miles from us. As it Bweeps ra.Vdiy from the morning to the evening skv again, and after a few weeks it will bid us adieu for its long journey into the depths of space, not to return to n nrn 1 r? in tli r/wi f r\ n l\ n a# a AAA _ tury. As It rushes by us on May 18th It will pass directly over tho diBC of the sun, and a fine opportunity will be afforded to test by observation the size and character of the nucleus. If it consists of solid particles of considerable sU11 or of dense, aggregation, it will be projected as a dark mass against th^ bright face of the sun, but if it Is composed of gas only, or of very smai: particles, widely diffused, it will pass across tno sun as an invisible mass It Is not improbi ?'e that the earth at that time may be: one involved in the nebulosity of its tall, but the matter composing the tail is so extremely tenuous chit the earth will In all probability pass through it without any seuu'.t'.e effect. The transit of the comet across the face of the sun will tak? place during the night on the weslunt hemisphere, and hence we could nor. see it any way, but astronomers on the opposite side of tho earth will doubtless abserve this phenomenon with great care. The orbit of Halley's come' is a very elongated ellipse, exteudi i< out Into space 500,000,000 miles beyond the orbit of Neptune. At its perihelion Its distance from the sun Is i 54,000,000 miles, or somewhat less than the distance of the planet Venus. It makes a revolution around the 3un In about 75 years, though owing to the disturbing effect of the lorfffir ttl'i tinfo rtn \ta nwdUt. fkU ? jf m iiwo vu no juiii mil, i ii in period may vary one or two years. Its motion In Its orbit is retrograde; that Is, it moves around the sun In an opposite direction to that of the planets. Its orbit is Inclined about 18 degrees bo the plane of the earth's orbit, and these orbits are bo related that a collision between the earth and the comet is impossible. Halley's comet received its name from Edmund Halley, a distinguished English astronomer, who observ, ed it in 1682 and who predicted its return in 1759. His prediction was based upon the fact that its orbit in 1682 was nearly identical with that of 1607 and 1531. He also found In history references to remarkable comets In 1456, 1301 and 1066. As tne Interval between the returns of these comets was about 75 years, he concluded that they were one and the samo body, and this conclusion proved to be correct. The history of Halley's comet, as It has been traced back through the ages by its period of 75 years, is quite eventful. In 10G6 is was regarded as the forerunner of the victory of William of Normandy. Its size then waB equal to that of the full moon. In 14f?6 Its tall reached from the horizon to the zenith, and the wildest excitement prevailed. Indeed, at every return of this remarkable comet the nations of the earth have looked upon It with awe. Its first recorded appeanence was 130 B. C., when It was supposed to herald the birth of Mlthrldates. At this return the conditions wl'l be very favorable for a magnificent view of this historical celestial visitor, and the impressions made upon the minds of those who behold It wi>) doubtless remain throughout life. B8 , * ! L. I LOYAL TO BRYAN AND DON'T PROPOSE TO SEE HIM SHELVED NOW. Promoters of a Washington Banquet Accused by Indiana Democrats of Trying to l)o This. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says as a counter agitation to that which actuates the "amity" feast, which a number of Democrats of prominence in the District of Columbia are arranging for Jefferson Day, to be given in Washington, a banquet is sched uleded for the same date and time at Indianapolis. Arrangements for the Indiana attraction are well under way, and so far Governor Marshall, of that State, and former Governor Hoke Smith have been listed to appear among the chief speakers. The local dinner was intended to include the national Democracy ant" Incidentally a gathering of Democratic Presidential possibilities. The Indianapolis affair is a bolt out of what otherwise seemed to be a clear sky. !t is learned that prominent Indisni Democrats are dissatisfied with ihu sanction given by Norman E. Mack, chairman of the national com mitt-", to the Washington dinner. 1 hostDemocrats assert that the dinner is a scheme of the "conservatists" or "reactionaries" to capture the organization from Bryan and his llsuti nqnts. It is to offset this move that the Indianapolis dinner is to be given. One of the moving spirits in the counter demonstration in John M. Kern, the recent candidate for VicePresident. It is he who is gathering in the speakers, big and medium, from different sections of the country. It is also probable that when the dinner does come off Mr. Kern will be responsible for some pertinent oratory himself. In a recent interview the former vice-Presidential candidate predicted a complete reorganization of political parties in the near future, forcasting a situation in which the Bryan partisans would gather under the banner of Senators Cummins and Lafollette, and Democrats of the variety of Senators Bailey and Daniel would become co-workers of Senator Aldrich and Speaker Cannon. Inquiries among the Democratic members of the Indiana delegation at the Capitol brought forth the reply that none of them were lining up on either side. "The fact of the matter is," remarked one of the Representatives, "we are not exhibiting any great Interest in either dinner at this time." SUICIDE AT COLUMBIA. Voting Man Kills Hiinset; in House of IlMlopute. Leaving a note sa/:og: "I love a Spanish girl. She Dasn't !ove m?. I would rather he deal than alive," J W Padgett, Jr., Wednesday afternoon committed suicide in a house of ill-fame in Columbia. Padgett entered a room in this house ahout 1 1 o'clock in the morning and when a woman entered the room in the afternoon, he was strangling and gasping for breath. Physicians were summoned hut it was too late to save the life that was almost gone. Using opium and morphine, and a half-pint of one star whiskey, the dose taken was enough to kill, and in spite of the efforts of two physicians Padgett died about 5:30 o'clock. "The Spanish Girl" referred to in the note left, is an inmate of the house. Padgett was 25 years of ago. and lives at I.ykesland, nine miles nbovo Columbia. t t t FIF.XDISII ACT OF A BRUTE. An Old Man Assaulted a littile Three Year Old Child. At Dallas. Texas, Allep Brooks, a negro, f?8 yeras old, >vas arrested late Wednesday, carped with assaulting Mary M. Buvens, a white girl, 3 years old. The child was found n the barn In a critical condition. The negro was arrested in the basement of another house, where he wsa locked in. The negro was safely lodged in the county jail. According to the statement of the authorities, the assault occurred in the second story of the barn in the rear of the Buvens home, at the corner of Pearl street and Ross avenue, the centre of one of the most fashionable residential districts in I the city. Hrooks was employed at the Buvens home, and the officers say he lured the haby girl Into the barn and carried her Into the loft. Shot by His l>??g. At Albany, Ga., Paul H. Jon^s was accidentally shot Saturday an 1 may lose a hand and part of an arm ns tho result. Ho was riding to a hunting field in an automiblle, when his dog pressed the trigger of a shot gun with its paw, sending tho load into his master's arm. Horse Hroke Wlhdow. * A horse jumped through a plate glass window of a store at Clio, S. C. Several show cases were broken and the horse was badly cut. 4 THEIR EXILE ENDED THE MODOC INDIANS ARB ADLOWED TO GO TO OREGON. f Forty Yours Ago They Murdered PdnKe atiil Ifor L^lnu rOt* Thomas, a Commissioner. The Modoc Indiai s in Oklahoma are going home?not to the lava beds in California, whence they were taken to the Quapaw Indian reservation nearly forty years ago, but to the Klamath reservation of the Modocs in Oregon, where they will get lands in exchange for their allotments in Oklahoma. It is a pecnlarity of the Modoc that he desires to die on the spot where he was born. The Modocs have been homesick ever since they went to Oklahoma, and their return to the northwest is the result of their constant appeal to the authorities at Washington. The removal of the Modocs to Oklahoma followed their defeat after their bloody campaign against government troops in the lava beds, where they were commanded by Cap. tain Jack. They assassinated and butchered all but two of the peace commission sent to them by the secretary of war. When the Modocs reached Oklahoma there were 39 men, 54 women and GO children, many of whom were sorely wounded. Among them were such notable leaders as Scarfaced Charley, Steamboat Frank and Shacknasty Jim. Their arrival in Ilaxter Springs <s well remembered by old citizens. Ace and disease have cut down the Modocs until only sixty remain. Nearly all their old leaders have died. In going to the Klamath country, from which they fled when they entered the lava beds in California, these Modocs will be nmong the Klamath Modocs, whom they thoroughly hate and despise because of the arroganace of the Klamath band. The Oklahoma Modocs were moved from California to Oregon, only to have their Oregon kinsmen say to them: "You can stay here, but it is our country. Your horses can eat the (rrtlec hut If la aiiw V>?.. ? ? ? 0i t?dof uuv aw ao uui aao, x U U Uilil catch fish, but they are our fish." This waB more than Captain Jack and his people could bear, and they stole away and returned to their old haunts in California. When the federal government tried to make them go back to Oregon the Modocs began fighting, and sought refuge in the inaccessible lava beds. The commission established camp about two miles from the retreat of the Modocs in the lava beds and midway was pitched a tent at which the council should be held. No sooner had the commissioners assembled in the tent than they found that death was at hand. Captain Jack suddenly shot General Canby, adviser of the commissioners. Canby's throat was cut and his uniform stolen . The Rev. Eleazer Thomas, a commissioner, also was slain and his body robbed and mutilated. Two of the commissioners escaped. The United States government then put a large body of troops In the field and the Modocs were pursued night and day, until they surrendered October 2, 1872. Captain Jack. Black Jim, Boston Charley, and Schronchln Jim were hanged at Fort Klamath, Oregon, for the murder of Canby and Thomas. Soon afterward the California Modocs were taken to Indian Territory. - - - 1 BOARDER WAS BEATEN. Returned from Hospital and Killed llis Assailant. . The robbing of the postofflce safe at Raleigh, N. C.. in December, 1008, led to the killing in New York on Thursday of John Leonard, who had been sentenced to the federal prison at Atlanta for a safe blowing job. Leonard's young wife obtained his release from prison three months ago on an alibi and they came to Brooklyn and opened a boarding house. Thomas Barnes, boarder, angered Leonard two weeks ago by referring to him as an ex-convict and Leonard gave him such a thrashing that te was not able to leave the hospital until Wednesday night. Barnes called at the Leonard home early Thursday morning and when Leonard appeared at the door he shot him dead. Should Be Punished. During the recent race conference in Columbia a colored man who called himself Dr. J. S. Murray, of DKll?Ar.l?LI- * - - i ii i iiiuti pit lit, iook part, and seemed to have made a terrible maBl on some of the colored women who were in attendance. Murray Anally drifted down to St. Matthews, where ho married an Intelligent, respectahie young colored woman, whom he | robbed and deserted. Such scoundrels as Murray deserve the sever' est punishment. We hope ho will be caught. Ynrdnmnn Defeated. The two houses of the Mississippi legislature met Thursday and unanimously elected Leroy Percy cf Greenville United States Senator, succeeding the late Senator McLaurIn. The new senator's term expires March 4, 1913. 4 SUED BY THE STATE HIGHLAND DISTILLERY COMPANY MUST COIOII VP. Half Million Dollar Claim Made Against the Cor|M?ration by the State of South Carolina. The State of South Carolina has ?f n..U ?CAA AAA veil liuiai- VI dlliv LXJl f UVV,UVV agaiust the owners of the Richland Distillery company, and $29,000 against th* owners of the Carolina Class company. Under the act recently passed by the general assembly, this action means that neither one of these concerns can dispose of any property in this state until the final settlement of the issues. The dispensary commission was to have met Wednesday, but only three members were present, and no statement was ei.en out. Dr. Aiurrav and Messrs. Patton and Wood were in Columbia Wednesday afternoon. The suits were filed with the clerk of court of Richland county. 'Col. T. II. FehlTr of Atlanta who has been assisting the commission in ferreting out graft, stated that he had read with interest an editorial in The State last fall in which article it was inquired why the glass company had been pushed so much more vigorously than the Richland Distillery Company. "This Richland Distillery company has been our pet," he declared, "and we were saving the best for the last. The revelations we will make in this case will amaze the people of South Carolina who were not informed of the net work of power and Influence of this corporation." ERISTO ltlVEll PROJECT. Nothing Can be Done Until the Money is Voted. In speaking of the "Edisto River Project," the Charleston Evening Post says: "Capt. E. M. Adams, corps of engineers, U. S. A., in charge of the river and harbor work in South Carolina, will take up the matter of the proposed survey of the Edisto river and connecting canal with the Ashley, shrotening the distance by water to Charleston as soon as the river and harbor bill passes. "Some impatience has been shown by certain parties in Orangeburg at the progress in the matter, but as a matter of fact until the bill 1b passed and the funds become available, nothing can be done to carry out the proposed improvements. When the bill Ib passed Capt. Adams will probably be glad to make an appointment for a hearing on the matter ant^will do his part in hastening the work to completion." HIT HTSHAN1) IN FIX. And Then Discovers Tliut He Had Committed Suicide. At New York when Mrs. Peter Smith, wife of a longshoreman, looked behind the door of her dimly lighted kitchen last Friday night after returning from a neighbor's, she saw the huge form of her husband. Peter, pressed close to the wall in an evident attempt to conceal himself. lteing somewhat of a practical joker herself, Mrs. Smith seized a broom a'nd playfully whacked her husband's back and shins. He made no outcry and she stopped in amazement. Then her eyes widened for she saw that her husbands feet were not tOUChine the floor nml thnt lio was swinging to and fro. Smith, who was thirty-four, had hanged himself to a gas-pipe, using an old cloth trunk strap. He was out of a job and despondent. ? ? SHOOTS I'HHMIKIl OF KGYIT Student of Nationalist Party Indicts Superficial Wounds. At Cairo Boutros Pacha Ghali, the Egyptian minister of foreign affairs, was shot Saturday by a student, who was arrested after the shooting. The student shot five times, three of the bullets lodging in the premier's body. Two of them, however, inflieted only superficial wounds. The bullets were extracted, and It Is practically cer tain that the premier will recover. The crime wns entirely of a political nature, the would-be assassin claims I to be a Nationalist. He declared t It '1 f Vtlo 1 I'O ??">" i ,1 /?.. t * ? vmmi. uia illuimg vvuo i lit; Ut*8iru IU avenge various acts of the government. which the Nationalists attribute personally to Boustras Ilhali. Ilurt in Bargain Sale. At New Orleans Mrs. Mary Bonchon, who was hurt in a bargain sale, wants damages. She says in her petition that she was carried o<T her feet and "her body walked upon by the crowd." She seeks to recover from the firm which conducted the sale the sum of $5,000 \>r her alleged injuries. Several Killed. Tt is reposed that two magazines have exploded In the Bremen oil field in Ohio and that several people were killed. % GIVEN BY THE LADIES A HANDSOME FLAG MADE FOK THE SOUTH CAROLINA. Is the Gift of the Various Chapters of the 1>. A. R. in the State anil Will be Presented Shortly. The official battle flag for ilie battleship South Carolina, which will be presented to that good ship during her stay in Charleston harbor, between April 10th and 15th, is now in the posession of Mrs. A. C. Llgon, state vice regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The flag, which is the official flag of the State of South Carolina, is a magni?icient piece of workmanship. The field of the flag is made (^f gorgeous navy blue silk with gold fringe. The palmetto tree and cresent are hand embroidered in w hit.e silk with shadings in grey. The flag is nine feet long and six feet wide, the official size of the battalion flag of the United States navy. The presentation of this flag from '.he State chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution, will be made by Mrs. Rratton. state regent, on the game day that the silver service will be presented front the State of South Carolina by Gov. Ansel. Captain Fechteler of the United States navy, commanding official of the battleship, will receive the flag. Although this flag will be given by all the Daughters of the American Revolution chapters in the state, the movement to get this emblem was initiated by the Moultrie Chapter of Orangeburg. The movement really began when the State convention was held in Sumter. A committee to gather funds for the purpose v.as appointed from the Orangeburg Chapter. The members of this chapter, which is one of the first in the State and from which sprung the other (Eutaw) Orangeburg chapter, have all worked dilligontly to make the purchasing of this flag possible. Soon after the Sumter convention was over, Mrs. Ligon with others made a list of all the Daughters of the American Revolution in this State and contributions poured in j/i u-i ava. The banner, which has handsome accessories, cost almost $200 and will make for the battleship a beautiful souvenir from thiB historical society in the State for whom she is named. The above is clipped from 1 he State, and was furnished by its Orangeburg correspondent. KOllllEKY STOPPED. Two Safe ltlowers Are Soared OfT by Two Small Hoys. At Atlanta two small boys, Thomas and Joseph Steen, ;yted thirteen and fifteen years, respectively, prevented the vobbery of the safe in the German Cafe on last Sunday night. The boys were hunting rats and noticing a light in the cafe peered behind the clos< d blinds and saw two yeggmen just ready to blow the safe. ' I'll bet they are yeggs," whispered Thomas; "let's run and get a cop." By the time the boys returned with a policeman the robbers had fled. It. \V. Mitchell and Fred Sisk w? re later arrested and made a confession. saying they were frightened away by hearing the bo., s l?:uv.? the building. About $1,000 was in the safe. .-i* nr? K.\I!ME]S. Exporters Action Against an Aiken Man. Suits continue to be brought up against farmers for failure to observe their contracts in the delivery *>f cotton at the prices which were contracted for last summer before the big advance of the fall months. J. \V. Lybraud, of Aiken county, is | the respondent in two suits brought | by cotton firms of the city of Augusta, Saiinas and DeVaughn md JJtrrett and Doughty. Hoth firms contracted for delivery of cotton in the fall months on prices which had been agreed to by Lybrand, according to the bill of complaint, and nowalleged that as a result Lybrand's failure to deliver the staple to them they have been damage in varying amounts which they are now suing to recover. IiOave the State. Agreeing to leave the State and cease his attentions to a 1 4-year-old girl, he claimed to love, D. L. Me Queen, a young white man, held at fjreonville on the charge of abducting the young daughter of Postmaster J. A. Cannon, of Fountain Inn, was released on Saturday. McQueen and the young lady attempted f.o elope several days ago. Four Die in Collapse. At Frederick, Mo., four m$n, three white and one negro, were killed by the collapse Of a wall of a burning fmllding Tuesday. Two buildings were destroyed with a loss of $"?0,000. The dead men were volunteer firemen. / I r GIRL IS FOUND " Pathetic Letter To Her Mother Tells Where the Runaway | WAS ALONE IN ST. LOUIS Tlit* Strung Story of Miss Ethel Johnson, a Sixteen Year Old School tiiii of Spartanburg, Who Was Induced to Leave ller llomo by a >lan and Woman. The Spartanburg Herald says Miss Ethel Johnson, who so mysteriously from her home, 530 Magnolia street. last Tuesday morning week ago, has been located In St. Louis, Mo. Mr. J. \V. Johnson, father of the young lady, left Sunday for St. Louis to bring her. back home. Mrs. Jlohusou received n letter Sunday from her daughter in St. Louis. In speaking with a Herald representative last night, Mrs. Johnson said that the letter she had received was one of the most touching appeals she had ever read. She said her daughter had expressed herself in the letter as believing that her father would not take her back home, but that if he stoutly refused, she asked her mother t:o send her the money to return on, and that sho would work for her until she had paid it back. "I atn alone in a great city, among strangers," said Miss Johnson in her letter to her mothe; but I have always asked to be shown to good boarding places along tho line." Mrs. Johnson said the letter was full of assurances that her daughter had kept herself pure, and that she believed her. Albert E. Hill has been retained as counsel for the prosecution in the case against Kate Parham and Walter Johnson, under arrest on tho charge of abducting Miss Johnson. Mr. Hill will ask for a continuance until Mr. Johnson and his daughter arrive. Miss Johnson will bo placed upon the stand, and it is believed she will tell the whole story in connection with her disappearance. The story of Miss Ethel Johnson's disappearance is one of the most clouded mysteries that has ever happened about Spartanburg. A young girl, sixteen years of age, she was going to school dally and seemed to be happy and contented. Some time ago she was noticed occasionally with Kate Parham, a grass widow, who has rooms over Sharp's market on Magnolia street. Tuesday morning a week ago she left home with her books, presumably for school, instead she took passenger train No. y ana went to Asheville. Immediately tho Parham woman was connected with her disappearance. Mr. Johnson and a police officer searched Kate Parham's apartments over Shame's market the next night after Miss Johnson left and they found there her school books. The Parham woman declared she had nothing to do with her disappearance but that she had been asked by Miss Johnson to accompany her as far as Asheville. Walter Johnson, of Inman, a cousin to Mr. J. W. Johnson, had left a ten dollar hill at Maddux dr.tg store for Miss Johnson. This bill Miss Johnson called for just before she took the train. The conductor on Xo. 0 states that Miss Johnson handed him a ten dollar bill from which to take her fare, and that when she reached Asheville she asked concerning the connections to Knoxville. Accordingly Mr. Johnston. in tracing his daughter, went at once to Knoxville. However, he failed to find any trace of her. He returned home on Saturday afternoon. He determined he would offer !? reteo-e '? 1 - .. .vniiiu nil uur re. covery, but Sundny Mrs. Johnson received the letter from her daughter. As soon ns Mr. Johnson road the letter and learned that his daughter was in a strange city without money he wired to her to let him, know how much money he should send her. Directly he received a telegram asking for a small sum. This he sent, and then took tho train for St. Louis. Miss Johnson will tell the wliolo . story when the case for abduction conies up against Kate Parham and Walter Johnson. It is said that tho story she will tell is one that wi.l startle the community, and that it may result in placing somebody in the penitentiary. Almost Treble Tragedy. Aroused by a baby's cries, dwellers in an apartment adjoining that of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley on Went Church ^ street, Louisville, Ky., made an investigation late Thursday night. They found the father and mother of tho child had been overcome by escaping gas and it was not until physicians had worked over thcnj for three hours that they were pronounced out of danger. A Fatal Mlxfnre. At Pittsburg, Pa., ten m*-n 'and a hoy were Injured, three fatally, when sparks from a cigarette ignited two cans of dynamite. t