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A Monthly Journal of School Life , Devoted to the Interests of the Students of the Austin High School .

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Edited by Representatives of the Classes of the High School .

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THE COMET , MAIWH , 1898 .

now that they may force the Spanish cabinet to declare war . Excitement at Madrid is at fever heat and preparations for war are everywhere visible .

If war should come now we should be very well prepared for i ". Our ships are in better condition than they have been for years . Recent inves i- gations s hcw that there are in the United StaLes 10,000,000 men capable of bearing arms . All our coast cities are well detenced and the batteries are being strr ng henr d all the time . While it is to be hoped that war will not come , for war between Spain and our country would probably mean war among all the nations and would involve the desruc ' Ion of billions of dollars worth 01 ' property and the loss of

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ABa ' T 1HE MAINE . ( Continued from First Page .)

She was built at the Brooklyn navy yard in 1890 , at a cost of $ 2,880,000 . She is 318 ft . long , 57 ft . broad and

.. (; 682 tons displacement . She was in first class condition and one of the most powerful and perfect fighting machines ever launched .

THE MAINE DISASTER .

On TUEsday night , February 15th , the Un i ed S aces battleship Maine wa s blc ' wn up in Havana harbor and 260 of her crew killed . Opinions as to what caused the disaser vary a great deal . E " ome think that it was an accident ; ot . hr rs think that it was a dastardly

s . If it is discovered that the l \ f , ire was blown up by ~ paniards i ' will mean war , for President McKinley wi ll demand $ 15,000.000 in demn itv and the treasury of Spain cannot proruce that amount now and besides this the people of Spain are eo excited

The students of the High School do not take sufficient interest in the Libra ry . The periodicals especially are neglected by a majority olf the studen ' s . and Wille of the best periodicals are neg lec . ed al . ogether . The " Outing " and the " Cosmopolt . an " are read more than all of the other periodicals pu ' together ; the former , doubtless , for its ' account of athletics , the latter for its stories , Surely this is not as it shculd be . The student should evince an interest in the happenings of the great wor ld ; and iher e are sta ' ed and rom me !' ' ed uron in a mo ' t attrac i V ~ ar d most wholesome f ' or m in t . he " Cut look ," " Public (' pinion ," " Hr r- per ' s \ VeeklY ," and : he " R view or Reviews ." ThEY should be cs pable of appreciating the review of current literature such as are provided in the " Li ' erary Digest " and the " Book Buy- Er ." The students of Civics should certainly read ' the comments on governmental rr f ' orrns in t l e " Review of Reviews ," the " Outlook ," and " Public C nin ion ." As it is we read up politicpI ' Copies in the per iod icals on lv as We arc r-omr e . Ic d to debate on them in the Seriely and the r-udent body are not sufficiently informrd to appreciate the r ' ebates when produced .

How " Harpr r ' s Round T ' a ' ble " can be neglected is abso . ucelv incompreh ensible , No , periodica 1 can be found that contains so much unique , attractive , and , at the same time , perfectly wholesome ma ter for High School boys and girls as this . Last session this pe rtod lcal was almost fought over as soon as it arrived , and after it had gone the rounds , it usually looked , Ircrn its tattered appearance , as if the stude rr s had tried , and very nearly sue-

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FOR ALL IKDS OF ' FANCY TUR " - lKG , SCROLL WORK , ETC .

ceerle d . in d igee . Ing the very p ~;.. cr . The magazine-for s uch it may DClW very properly be ca lied-has been very much improved by being changed from a weekly to a monthly , which makes he present neglect of it all the more ir excu-ab le . Take a dip In ; o it , studr nt , an d I predict that you will find i '. a perfect spring of good thing s .

For my own part , I believe tha .' even such journals as the Allan ic Monthly are not beyond the depth of a HI y great many of the students of this school . The stortes cer la in ly are

, DC " and they are always ef the r ur est tone and of the highest charac-

' CT ". Mary even of the cri . tcisms sno cs = ays are not beyond our depth , nn + w i + hstand ing the strain of phil-

I r " cphy of ' en running through them , pro could be read with tnnnte profit .

L8 ' In rediscover our Library , n- recially the pcriodica l department of it .

ITALY ' S NATIONAL BIRTHDAY .

I ' a ly is now celebrating the anniver- P ? ry of her national birthday , although the r-rcsen t kingdom came into exi = t ence on that historic day in 1860 ,

I when Garibaldi , victorious over thp , ? rIT ' Y of the Bourbons . hailed Victor

I Emmanuel , " King of Italy ." The festivities began on Jan . ] 2th and will last until March 7th .