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t DIRECTORY . or THE FRATERNAL ORDERS GRANDE, ORE. M. W. A. I Grande camp No. 7763 meets very Monday each month at I. Q. 0. F. HalL All visiting neighbors are cordially invited to attend. FRED B. CURREY, C CAL JORDON, Clerk. 0. E. 8. Hope Chapter No. IS, 0. E. &, bold, atated communication the sec . end and fourth Wednesdays ,o! acli month. "Visiting members cor dially Invited. Paollne Lederlee, W. U. Mary E. Waralck, Secretary. L0.0. F EacampmtnL ' Star Encampment; No. tt, L 0. 0. I, meets every second and fourth Wednesday m the month In Odd Fel lows halL Visiting patriarchs always welcome. ' EE, COOLIDQB, G. P. W. A. WORSTELL, 8crlt. La Grande Lodge Na 1M, W. 0. W, meets every second and toarth Tuesday evening ta C of P. hall In tn Corps butldlnr AU visiting asa- NERI ACKLE8, Omnul Commanfler J. K. KEENET, Clerk. L 0. 0. Fr-Snbordtaats. La Grands Lodge No. 16, meets Is their hall every Saturday night. Visi ting brothers eordlally invited to at tend. Cemetery plat may be seen at tf " rtitaaraat GEORGE GROUT. N. G LK. SNOOK, Rec Secy. W. A. WORSTELL. Fto lecy. I Poultry SuppHes 4 EGGS A-PLENTY If you give your hens the right sort f feed. We have good wheats, oats, alfalfa meal, flax seed meaL POULTRY TONIC, EGG PRODUCER, OYSTER SHELL, GRANULATED BONE GRIT, ETC. . VVaters-Stanchfield Produce Co. FLOUR, FEED. WOOD 1 141o Adams Ave. PHOHES: Black 121! " Independent 1 G. E. Tungsten Lamps Make Electric Light Much Cheaper. They have two and a half times the efficiency of the or dlnary carbon lamp hlthei to In general use. The fila ment Is made of a rare m tal called Tungsten, which yeilds an Intense brilliancy at a low cost In shape and she the bulb Is Just like any otter Incandescent lamp. Why not b a Tungsten lamp for your self I Get one of the 40-watt and use It some where In your house In place of one of your carbon lamps. Then observe the great diff erence. Note the clear white light exactly twice as bril ' l'ant and costing yon one fifth less for electricity. Gen eral electric Tungsten lamps are destined to displace all others, for both store and house lighting. Eastern Oregon light And Power JCompany Foresters of America. Court Maid Uarlon No. It meeu each Wednesday night in K. of T hail. Brothers are Invited to attend BKN HAISTEX, 0 LEO HERRINQr C S. O. J. VANDEHPOSL, F. 8 A. F. A A, SL . La Grande Lodge Na 41, A. f . K. 11 holds regular meetings first an third Saturdays at 7:89 v. m. JJJO. S. HODGTN, W. M. A. C. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Alights ef ryttlas. Red Cross Lodge Na 27, meet v ery Monday evening in Castle halt (old Elk's hall). A Pythian welcom. to all visiting knights. J. F. BAKER, C. a R. L. LINCOLN, K. of R. A 8 B.F. O.E. La Grande Lodge No. 43S, meet) each Thursday evening at 8 o'clock ii Elk's club, corner Depot street am Washington avenue. Visiting brother! are cordially invited to attend. H. E. COOLIDGE. Exalted Ruler. HUGH McCALL, Rec Sec j .. ,. .. ...REBEKARS. CrysUl Lodge No. (0 meets every Tuesday evening l the I. 0. O. F HalL All visiting members are in vited to attend. Mrs. Cora Fitigerald, N. 0. Miss Susan Mcriroy. Secretary it. LEY'S COill DESCRIBED B'f A LA III SAVArf John S. Hodgins Goes Into Scientific Phases of Pheuomenon Using Lan guage Comphehensible to Amateurs By Jno. 8. Hodgln. Several weeks ago I promised to give the Observer a paper on Hal ley's comet, which la beginning to create great Interest throughout the country, and as I promised a popu lar article free from technical lan guage, wjll say In the - beginning, that I have in mind such readers as have Borne general elementral knowl edge of astronomy, more especially high school Btudents. and to such It i la a pleasure to talk about some thing besides "shop", If one whose occupation, generally presumed to be very earthy, may aspire to dis cuss things celestial. j Of all heavenly bodies comets have j created the moat popular interest and are least understood, and it is natural that the return of Halley's Comet, afte an absence of 75 years ! should arouse renewed Interest, es-! pecially so, In view of the fact of. the discussions that have been go-' ing the rounds of the presB of more' or less accurate and startling na- ture.. ' The comet has been In the field of view of the larger telescopes for several months. This comet has made 29 appearances recorded In his tory, from about 240 years B. C. and we have no way of determining Tiow much longer, perhaps untold centuries. Some comets return ev ery few years, and others require many centuries to make a revolution around their long ellptlcal orbits and return to where the sun and earth are. The beautiful comet Been in the spring of 1882, Just, before sun rise, will be back in about 800 years and Donatl's comet seen Just before the Civil War was here about 150 years before the Christian . era, and will be here again abount the year )S8E8 Bid we will have plenty of time to get ready and Improve our present Instrument for taking a peej) at It. And still other comets that suddenly appear revolve in such curves that they never return, but pass on to other systems of worlds, that Is, unless they should happen to come so near a big planet that their courses would be changed Into elipses and thus be captured and at tached to our system. Comets are composed of cloud-like or gaseous substances, and usually conslsit of three parts known as the Uucleus, coma and tail; though It is probable that there Is solid mat ter scattered throughout the necleus, like aerolites which are found wan dering through space, and quite fre quently are attracted to . the earth, the emaller ones being consumed by the friction of the atmosphere be fore they reach the ground, and are called shooting stars, and the larper ones reaching the ground where we find them. While most of the comets are from five to ten times as large as the earth, their weight is ex ceedingly light thousands of times lighter than the atmosphere at sea level and the smaller ' stars are seen through, the head of the comet, which Is the denser part, their light ness is apparent from the fact that the largest comets exert no appre ciable effect on the smallest aster olds, though they themselves are greatly disturbed by the Influence of the planets, and sometimes have their orbits changed by such Influ ences, often making it difficult to compute with any decree of exact ness their revoultlons. Some shine by their own light, , others by the, reflected light of the sun, and Bome by both. Why bo rare a gas as a comet's tall is luml- nous at such a distance, scientists and astronomers have not yet been able to determine. It Is only within the last few years (since most text books have been printed) that the scientific world has been able to reach any reasonable explanation of ' the phe qjomena accompanying the comets, and this has been due to the develop ment . and the use of spectroscopy and photography in the study of ce lestial bodies. The uncleus as it approached the sun from the far off distant parts of ita orbit becomes heated o nthat side next the sun and streams of gaseous substance, called the coma, as if boiled out by the heat, "are seen Issuing, and,, being driven back by the repellant Influ ence of the sun's rays, envelope the uncleus and form the coma, and be ing further driven off into apace by that mysterious influence from the sun called radiation pressure, the gas becomes more rare, and forms the tail or tails, which sometimes .ex tend millions of miles and assume a variety of shapes before the gas be comes visible. The tail is always in the opposite direction from the sun being behind the comet as it approaches, and before it as It re cedes from the sun. The coma and tall are seen to develope as the com et comes into more heated region. tor at the Lick Observatory showed the beginning of a tail to Halley's Comet, and by this' time, a good glass would show a conBiderabye co ma and tail, for it is rapidly ap proaching the sun and will Boon bt visible to the naked eye. .The tail.i are constantly changing, like the wa ter of a river what we see todav is gone tomorrow and this comuut expulsion of matter is grad mil diminishing the size, so that eaih succeeding return will show a leia n ed bulk, until finally the whole ma-.s will be disintegrated, for there Is i. i doubt that Halley'B comet will in time become .extinct like " Bie'.i't. Perhaps, to my readers, It seems Hkf a contradiction to speak of the sun attracting and at the. same time re- pelllng, yet such la undoubtedly the case the gravity acting on the solf l contents, and the radiation pre.,ti.;rc on the surface of matter. It Is a well known mathematical law tha a& matter is divided Into extremely fine particles the nolld contents di minish faster than the surface, un a point is reached where the rein'. Ihnt power acting on the surf ac will ovescome the power acting fr the solid; and this point Is reached in gaseous substances driven off from comets, as has recently oe J shown by the great physicists,' t rhenlus of Sweden and Lebedew n( RusBla, through radiation pressure described as the elect ro-magndf power of light, was shown to n by Clerk-Maxwell a half a cent . ago. Just when Halley's comet will r come visible to the naked eye Is hard to determine, though It will not be long, and a good field glass ought to be able to pick It up now. Ac cording to the ephemerls made by Father Searle, and given In a re cent number of the publications of the Astronomical Societies of the Pacific, the comet, on the 11th day of February, will have a right as cension of 50m and 29sec, and a declination of 8 degrees and 1 min ute north, and by reference to a ce lestial chart I find this point near a cluster of three small stars a little east of the middle of a line drawn from Alpha Andromldae (Alpheratz) south to another bright star of the second magnitude 50 degrees from the first, and at 7 o'clock p. m., the comet will be about 40 degrees west of the meridian, and It is. moving west about one degree a day, so it will set Just after the sun, and then pass Into the glare of the eunlight and become invisible for a season, and while swinging around will pass the closest to the sun about April 19 (its perihelion) and then will be gin Its return, reappearing In the morning, and rising before day; and at this time will approach with in ten or fifteen million miles of the earth, and, no doubt, will be a mag nificent spectacle. The inclination of the plane of its orbit to that of the earth's and the place of crossing (nodes) being inside the earth's path renders a collision between the two bodies Impossible, yet It, is possible, and there is some probability, that I the tail of the comet driven before It and extending millions of miles' beyond the comet's path, will fall across the earth's path about the time of its arrival at that point, and ' the earth will pass through the com et's tall, for the computed ephe merls of the comet shows that it will be about that place on the 18th of May, two days before its nearest approach to us. Naturally the question arises, what will be the effect on the earth? It ia not probable that there will be any appreciable effect, If we pasB through the comet's tall on the 18th of May. Possibly we will have a harmless shower of meteors or a glow In the atmosphere at night. The tail being : a subBtance so attenuated that ev- en if It did possess poisonous gases, as some predict the amount which would accumulate In the earth's at mosphere during Its passage through it would hardly be sufficient to do much damage, though this is a med ical question and I am incompetent to discuss It It is hardly prob able that any Boltd matter sufficient ly large to do us much harm by a liombardnient would be expelled this far from the nucleus. So far. as I am aware the constituent materials of Halley's comet have not been de termined,' for when It was here be fore the science of spectroscopy was not sufficiently advanced to do such work, but no doubt they will be fully analysed this 'time. On the whole I think we can rest easy so far as any danger is concerned, notwlth- paper reporters to write up some thing startling. Who will te the first in La Grande to see it? 0 New BE PATEIOTIC OKDEBI.Vfc) SUGAB AlfD I5SIS7 CT09 HAVING DOME MADE. 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