THE COME ' r, APRIL, 1898.

A Monthly Journal of School Life devot d to t ' he interests of the s-tudents of the Austin High School.

Edited by Representatives of the Classes of the High School,

All students are requested to hand in contrtbutions O ' f a newsy nature.

WM. H. MOORE,

Editor-in-chief. HALLIE WALKER, NATHANIEL BLACKBURN, IT ' HA ROBERTS,

Assistant Editors. ARTHUR WOOLDRIDGE,

Business Manager.

MARY COPES,

Chief Reporter. HOWARD KEY, ' 99. AMELIA FOIJSOM, ' 99. WILLIE JOHNSO, ' 99. JOHN PERKI S, ' 99. STEPHEN WHITE, ' 00 MORA McCOMBS, ' 00. EARL MADDEN, ' 00. CLARA EWTON, ' Ol. BESSIE CALLA WAY, ' 01.

Assistant Reporters.

RESERVOIRS UPON THE NILE.

The Khedive of Egypt has made a contract with engineers to bui ' ld two dams across the Nile. They are to be done in five years at a cost of $ 20,- 000,000. The principal dam will be

5000 feet long, and the reservoir which it creates will hold 1,400,000,000 cubic yards of water.

NAVAL PREPARATIONS.

The British have made a call for $ 127,000,000, which is the largest total in English history, Russia ' has ordered $ 58,000,000 for bOilding ships:

Germany $ 22,000,000.

The Russian national hymn, the English " God Save the Queen," the German " Watch on the Rhine," anrl the French " Marseillaise," are the four finest national anthems in exi istence.

There is an old saying: " In time of peace prepare for war." If the United States had oarried out this policy, she would have been read,' for any emergency.

The treaty for annexing Hawaii has been abandoned in the United States Senate. The que tion will come up later.

The Marquis of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the British Government, has, on account of ill health, left the charge of affairs to Arthur Balfour.

Our Spring Line Of $ 3.00 Shoes

is the nobbiest we have ever shown, and you know What that must mean. All the new Toes and Colors, Sizes 5 1-2 to 9 1-2.

KING & WRIGHT.

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M ' OONALO ' S MILL ~

The editors of the Comet have been unable to discover the author of the following. but we ' eel sure that all will be proud to know that we have such a genius in our midst:

TO THE: READERS OF THE COMET.

An entirely new staff has been elected for tbe Comet, and as this is our first attempt in this line we are anxious for your hearty co-operation. We think that one of the best ways you could aid us would be to offer your criticism on any point that you deem necessary of correction. We do not ask this thinking that there will be no chance for fault-finding; but because we know that our faults can be corrected best when they have been shown to us by some one interested in our work.

It takes a good Walker to keep up with the Comet now. It ' s a Perky paper! No other Copes with it. Tbe jokes Madden the crowd of eager readers with curiosity until they discover the Key of wit of which the Comet contains a Newton. Its excellent and thrilling stories, which Callaway the mind from dry text books and refresh the High School students as nothing else could, make the eager reader long ror Moore and Moore.

Russia has obtained the lease of peer Island, which lies at ' the entrance of the harbor of Fusan, ttre ch ief port of commerce with Japan, Tbe possession of this island brings Russia wttlhin forty miles of Japan,

Two Arotic expeditions, under American leadership, are to start about the first of July. One is to be under the leadership of Peary, and the other under ' Walter Wellman.

As we ' have been paying very little attentton to Astronomy recently, we were ignorant until a few days since, that there is another Comet in tbe heavens. However, as the orbit of that great ' aerial body in India is far more extensive than our own modest little pathway, we have no fear of anything like a collision,

The dingy old rookery Where the scholars all meet,

Across from the court house On Eleventh Street.

Stands like an incubus, Gloomy and black,

Hp: ldy to tumble Wi ~' h 3. crash and a whack.

When the sun shines bright On street and on ditch,

The class roam we sit in Is blacker than pitch.

The low dusky ceiling

V oks chilly and damp, The sun light denied us, Wf ' study by lamp.

Will these in authority Please be so kind As to build us a tent

Before we go blind.

liiyl ' us God ' s sunshine, Givr us fresh air,

And don ' t keep us he-re In this rrall ot despair,

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