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Page Twenty-On a LET 'ER BUCK East Oreg'onlan Round -Up Souvenir Edition Pendleton, Oregon, Friday, September 19, 1019 COMET COMING NEAR THIS YEAR AFTER ABSENCE OF 70 YEARS FROM OUR MIDST Second Traveller Will be Due Within Year; Comets are Tail leas Now, Oases Beng Frozen- MARKETS BUREAU HAS GATHERED FACTS AS TO ' COST OF PRODUCTION la the year 184, the year Leverrler dlscovered the plunet Neptune, Dl VI co, an ltallun astronomer, detected a fulnt patch of llKht which proved to be a comet on Ita way toward the sun, writes W. H. Knight In the Brooklyn Eagle. , It cams from distant space, arriving at Ita perihelion between the earth and the Bun In Murch of that year, and was vlHlble for 10 weeks, jtk orbit was computed by Dr. Pierce of the Ilarvurd observatory and It wus found to have a long period of 74 J ears and consequently it la now near ly due to muke Its reappearance for the first time since that orbit was de tunntned. ' Hu. ley's comet, which shone mag nificently In our skies In 110, has a period of 76 years, and both Hal ley's and Dl Vlco's comets have their aphelion, or farthest distance from the sun, a few million miles be yond the orbit of Neptune, a giant planet on tho outpost of our solar sys tem. These are wild to belong to the Neptune family of comets, the theory being that comets coming from distant apace on their way towards the sun. If they happen to approach near that great planet, will be swerved from their course by Its powerful attraction and will ever fefler revolve In a new and closed elliptio orbit. J Now, according to these calculi tlons, Dl Vlco's comet must be tra versing an orbit similar in extent to Halley's, in which can It will be due to return to this part of the solar ys- I tern some time during the years of 1919 or 1920. The reason the exact time of Its reaupearanee can not be made more definite at the present , time, la that Is precise path of ap- , prouch toward the sun. Is not accur- i atnly known, und if It should lie near the great planet's Jupiter or Hatura I's velocity would be either accelerat ed or retorted in accordance with cer tain luws governing two heavenly bod- 1 lea moving near each other In space. Tailless Now. Dl Vlco's comet should now be within 800,000,000 miles of the sun. but at that distance away lta gases are frozen solid by the zero cold of distant space. When, however. It ap proaches as near the sun as the earth, I the vivifying rays of that luminary I will melt and expand those gases and set up connective currents among them, some of them boiling up to wards the aun, and others being driv en back by the Impact of the sun's rays, thus forming that weird thing a comet's tall. The comet Itself will probably have a bright nucleus, surrounded by a hazy, nebulous envelope of gases, which the telescope will show as per meated with clouds of Illuminated dust,. swirling and streaming In .a state of violent agitation. , In anjf event it will be an interesting object for astronomical Investigation, and if its course should lie within a few mil lion miles of the earth, it will be a fine spectacle for the unscientific observer. . There Is another comet belonging to the Neptune family which will be due a year later. It Is Brorson's cot et of74 years. It may be delayed a year or so, or It may arrive in ad- vance of its predicted time, and come Into our skies at the same time. When It does make Its next appearance it will be studied with better Instru ments than any which existed three quarters of a century ogo, and by means of that are boiling within Its furnace of seething commotion and what other new branch of chemical and optical science spectrum analy sis we shall be ubte to determine what .ninls luminous particles aro being twit with the velocity of light far out Into the distant confines of our solar system. It is a fascinating study. The Federal market bureau has data that will be placed at the dis posal of congress when that body be Kins investigating the high cost of liv ng will be Information gathered dur p tho pnt six years by the city mar kets Its' ch of the Bureau of Murkets. This section of the department of agrl. culture is chiefly concerned with the estubllHnjng of economic urban dis trlli'. t ion t, stems for all classes of produce. , Beraupe o the character of Its-work and for want of authority to enforce the adoption of Its plana by commu nities, the division of city markets has to cr.inlne Itself to advising munici palities and groups of citizens con cerning the means of eliminating ex pensive overhead charges and thus re ducing cost standards. Principal among the recommendations of the di vision will be permanent terminal pluns, reduction of return hauls, and sunltury and regulated market facili ties, and these suggestions, it Is said, ean e worked out so as to materially reduce living costs. It is not claimed they will have any effect on the pres ent emergency, but that they will sta ble future conditions and so stand ardize conditions In the locality where ; they are put into effect as to make ' living costs room easily regulated bv state end municipal laws and ordinance. wioilier feature of the Bureau of Varkctr fight against the high cost of living is the produce inspection serv er, i.ow In the second year of Its "n- forcement. This servio is intended as a protection by producing shippers middlemen and railroads handling produce shipments. Under the in spection service shipments to all principal terminals and cities are in- j spec-led on request and their condi-! uon ou trrival Is reported. On this report, accepted as prima facie evi-1 dci.e In the- dourts. the producer o- j the c-.i-Rli'ncu adjusts claims for dam airo and spoilage of produce In tran- 1 sit. - j HARNESS We Carry a Full Line of Harness, Collars, Saddles and Chaps We Specialize in AUTO TOPS, UPSIOLSTEnitJG IM REPAIR-HC Opera House Corner Pendleton, Oregon Phone 773 Let us put a Plate Glass in your car. It will be classy and serviceable HERE IS HOW RUSSIAN B0LSHEVIKI CONDUCTED ONE CONFISCATED MINE JEWEn COLLECTION OF ANIMALS AND BIRDS, - LOCATED IN PENDLETON, 17 YEARS VORK (Continued froip pace 1.8) so responsible for the habitat groups of 8otith America which are a valu able work as an employe of the U. able exhibit in the museum. .Since 6. Biological Burvey, also for the' 1912, when he became identified with Field Museum of Chicago. and for the 'the Biological Survey, he has obtained 'state. He spent seven months in j for the government 844 birds and 2, south America where he found 700 411 mammals. For the state he has birds in the tropics which have been obtained 1000 mammals and 1000 placed In the Field museum. He la al- ! birds. Antinterestlng object lesson of the way the simon-pure brand of Russian i Bolshevism in industry really works , is afforded by Carl Ackerman In htB j book, "Training the Bolshev:ki," Just, published by the Scrlbners: "I recall meeting the manager of a goldmine: near Ekaterinburg, an American who had lived at the mine years representing the foreigners who had bought and developed It . When the Bolshevikl controlled the local i Soviet, they decreed him out of office, I and decreed the mine the property of the goldmine. Their dreams were realized. They were no longer la borers; they were owners! "One might have thought that wor. kers suddenly made point owners of i a rich mine would have organized and developed it. but they didn't. The mine was their property. 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