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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-17

The Presidents message has recelv-
ad more attention than any other liter
,rv production of the same length In
this country tor the past ten days. II
is remarkable how many people seem
intensely interested In it, when
in real truth they neither feel much in
te,est in it nor know much about what
IS discussed after they have read it. 1t
;s something like 1t was with many
ersons who visited the Worlds Fair.
Many would ask of friends Ibid you
see such and such, and so and SO:
Wasn't it fine!" When In very truth
,hev had very little idea about the
pieces to which they referred. so VIII
tho Presidents message. "Have yol
.o,d tho message?" "How did th'
message strike you?" "What do yo'
, tbinl of the Presidents message| II
} many cases one answer will do just
vol, as another, for the interrogator Ia
not read it. himself. It takes somethln
more than the prompt OF idle cur
os;tv to make man read thirty thou'
and words of Presldent-message logic'
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-17

DESIGNS sen, 10 any address FREE. in
wr,,,ns ior item ulee+a give "-e "' 'e-
ce,sed and some liro,t as TO piiea' -A'i
,,or, warranted strictly iirs.-c'"s, 'fo
.;.a.,,v 81 Iy
Work Delivered af AIRY Isepot'
MENTION THIS PAPER.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-17

Halifax Criminal court last week bad
r,ore than a hundred cases in all, ana
in conversation with Judge Meares we
oslod him what per cent. OF the cr'm'-
no, cases is due either directly or 'nd1-
roct,v to the influence of strong drink.
ua said that large majority OF the
t,oht,ne scrapes and homicides are the
,os,lt of whiskey; but not so many
cases Of larceny come from liquor.
Sometimes. he said, cases OF larceny can
be traced to the influence OF whlskey.
1ndee Meares' opinion is In accord
un;, Lord Chief Justice Hale's OF En-
.land. only Judge Meares put his pei
.,,+ mnch lower tnan Justice Hale
who said m, re than two hundred years
ooo that with twenty years observation
NV reason of his position in the king
dom he was satisfied that four-fifths O
tho criminal proceedings IN the En-
o,;sh courts we're traceable to excessive
drinking.
There is no doubt that the hquo
4 traffic and its attendant evils draw
more heavily on the States resource
i fhan any s,ther single thing With Whlcl
= -
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-17
THE EDITORS LEISURE HOURS.
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

Cuban liberty is the subject OF
thought and expression throughout the
country The war has been raging two
wears and more, and the Cubans are be-
ing butchered like so many cattle wher-
ever the Spanlards get a chance to do
50. 1t sickens one to read the accounts
OF these merclless atrocities pract1ced
upon people struggling to be free.
The question before the public mind ls'
What will the United States do In the
matter? There is a general feeling
that the United States ought not long
or disregard Cuba In this terrible con-
fiict.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-17

We heard two men discussing the
condition of the country a lew days
ago. They were both intelligent men,
but took opposite views on the subject
under discussion. One said the coun-
trv generally is IN deplorable condition,
the people not having the necessar'es
Of life and property being OF little yal-
tie. The other said that is mistake.
He said at his town the people are as
we'll off as they have ever been. The
loss in property value, he said, Is made
uo n the thousand and one things that
people enjoy more than they did tor
mar)v. He mentioned bicycles, horses
and buggles, and referred to the time
wnen only few men in township
,ad :, buggy.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-17

A really brave deed always arouses
an+bpsiasm and not all brave deeds
call for blood. With the hoarse pulsa-
ton If the drum in his ear, the rattle
If the musketry on every side, the
frenzy Of martial music IN his ve'ns' ;
swept onward by the enthusiasm ol
shouts and Of numbers, the solo'eI VIII
rlory II tbroWing away bis lie Ike 9
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-17
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Business.

SEND Your ADVERTISEMENT IN Now.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
EvERY YOUNG MAN

should be possessed of certain informa-
ton without which millions contract
pernicious and most destructive habits
habits which make young men pre-
maturely aged, pale, haggard. listiess.
devoid of ambition, easily tired. Ian
guild. forgetful and incapable; fill mad
houses and swell the lists of suicides.
separate husbands and wives; bring
untold suffering to millions, even unto
the third and fourth generations. Pa
rents, guardians and philanthropists
can do no better service to the rising
generation than to place in their hands
the information and warnings contain
ed in little book carefully prepared by
an association of medical men who
nave had vast experience in dealing
with the grave maladies here limited
at, and who feel that they owe it to
humanity to wan the young of the
land against certain destructive hab-
It's which are far more prevalent than
any layman can imagine and which, if
persisted in gradually undermine the
constitution and health and destroy the
future happiness of the victim. Cut
out this notice and enclose it with ten
cents in stamps ito pay POSTAGE to
worries Dispensary Medical Associa
ton, Invalids' Hotel and Surgical In
stitute, Buffalo, N. y, and the book
VIII be sent, secure from observation
IN a pain scaled envelope.
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salon, both in France and in England
where 1t had its existence, although it
was never the literary and political
power that it was abroad. The decay
is, Of course, mainly attributable to
the fact that society is no longer the
exclusive thing it was in France in the
early part Of this century, when adj
mittance to a salon meant not neces-
sarily high birth, but the possession
Of some intellectual distinction. Nor
was it enough for a woman to be rich
ana weH-born and fashionable to be
the star of the salon; indeed, the most
successful among them, Madame de
Stael, Madame Recamier, Madame Def
fand, AIademoiselle L'Espinasse. Mad
anne Girardin and others, belonged to
the middle class and lived in very mod
est apartments. But the whole secret
of the triumphant social intercourse
OF those days lay in the fact that the
hostess circle was confined to a GER
tain number Of intimate friends who
knew one another and between whom
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

When lads act as the leaders of Yale
and Harvard have acted in the dispute
which has ended in arrangement they
simply need to be switched as other
unreasonable and unruly children are
switched. Talking TO them doesn't do
any good; indeed, talking does harm or
rather 1t is the harm. They have all
talked too much and they now de-
serve the corrective and curative kind
of punishment which made the parrot
in the story change her opinion as to
the value Of her own loquacity.
Ytle not being able to have q contest
on the Yankee Thames has decided to
go to England and take part in the
Henley regatta. Her crew is now get
ting into preliminary shape and Bob
Cook llas been requested to try all he
knows to arrange his business so that
as coach he can put the finishing
touches ca the crew before the young
gentlemen sail and then also go with
them to England. The idea among
Yale men is that If only Bob Cook can
do this much. then Yale will be in
vf1Icible. Yale had a fine crew last
--ear, but three of the best men-Cap-
tain Armstrong, and AIessrs. Holconlb
and Dater were graduated in June and
ara no longer available. Five of the
others are still eligible; but two of
these, Messrs. Beard and Cross, will
probably decline to train, as they feel
that they have done enough of that
sSnd of thing and should devote this
their last year exclusively to their
books.
This leaves only three OF the last
years crew, AIessrs Treadway, Long
acre and Langford, for the venture on
the English Thames. Snd makes It
necessary to select five new men.
These five new men promise to be
Bailey, Rodgers, Marsh, Brown and
Whitney. AS at present arranged the
veterans will occupy the first three
seats IN the boat, Langford being
stroke, Captain Treadway No. Z and
Longacre No 6. OF the new men
bailey is something Of a veteran. He
was 10 have been stroke last year
when he was taken i'll and had to re-
tire; Rodgers played tackle in the foot
ball team last year; Brown is a famous
shot and hammer thrower and rowed
at st. Paufs school before entering
college; Whitney, q son of ex-Secre-
tary Whitney, rowed In last years
Freshman crew as did also Marsh.
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Few people have clear idea as to
eft the opinion OF Professor Young is set
forth as follows: 'tA comet is nothing but
a sand bank that is, it is a swarm OF
solid particles of unknown size and widely
separate say pin heads, several hundred
feet apart, each particle carrying with II
an envelop of gas, largely hydro-carbon,
in which gasltght is produced, either by
electrical discharges between the particles
or by some other light, the evolving action
due to the suns influence. This hypothesis
derives its chief plausibility from the
modern discovery of the close relationship
between meteors and comets"
Another astronomer on the subject of
the makeup of comets says:
1T is not a solid body like the earth
1t is made up of minute bodies. We might
size it compares with the earth, there is
no comparison in the Solidity of the two
So far as we have been able to learn,
there are no large particles of matter in
a comet. They are made up of atoms of
dust of iron, nickel, or some other metal.
Our atmosphere is practically impervious
to such a body. Seventy or eighty miles
above the earth, where the atmosphere is
so rare that the vacuum is almost as
good as that of a CroOkeS tube, there is
still enough resistance to diStntegrate and
destroy body like a comet travelling
with the swiftness with which comet
travels. The particles would become in
fnitely fine, no larger than the ultimate
atom of matter. They would ultimately
reach the EARTH
There is certainly much difference in
opinions regarding comets by comet ex-
will probably result in great popular in
tereSt being taken in the subject of as
tronomy on and after Saturday, March
H. next. GRANTLAND GRIEVE.
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MERELY AN OPINION.

During the war soldier who took part
in a foraging expedition found a bottle
of whisky, and proceeded forthwith tc
console himself for the hardships he haG
endured during the campaign. On return
ing to camp he was placed in the guard
house, and his condition reported to the
captain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

made the discovery astronomers in all
parts of the world have been in a feverish
state of excitement. S. w. Burnham of
the Lick observatory, famous as the
greatest observer and discoverer of double
stars that the world has yet known, is
excited. So is E. e. Barnard, the renown-
ed dlscoVerer of the fifth satellite of Ju-
plter and of innumerabIe comets. and
whose planetary observations and photo
graphs OF neoulae and stars are of un-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

Copyright, 1896. by S. S. Mcclure.
Limited)
At this season of the year the ath-
Ietes at the various eastern colleges are
getting ready for the contests that will
come off in June. There appears to be
less wrangling than usual though
doubtless as the spring advances the
smart alecks and the embryo lawyers
in the various colleges will manage to
get up some pretty little disputes so
that they may have an opportunity to
show how unsportsmanlike a sports
man can be when he tries with all his
might The professors at the various
colleges have Of late been discussing
what an amateur athlete is. The def
milton which has been agreed upon is
quite satisfactory and if the under
graduates are compelled TO live up to
it strictly we shall this season escape
many Of the scandals which have been
so common in former years.
These professors say that an anna
teur is one who takes part in any sport
for the love Of the sport. When he is
Influenced by any other consideration
than love, then he ceases to be an anna
teUr and has no right to participate in
college sports. This debarring Of pro-
feSsionafs would include any man who
had accepted any kind of compensa-
tion, even for coaching. Some of the
colleges have recognized that SUI
premacy on the water, the track, the
baseball diamond or the football field
was the best possible advertisement for
the college that won and the authori-
ties have ignored practices dishonora-
ole in themselves in the hope that
these practices would contribute to this
end. If the writers on amateur ath-
letics viii tell the plain truth about
such practices, they cannot continue
much longer. The difficulty is that
most Of these writers are themselves
college men and are SO partisan, this
one for Yale, that for Harvard, and
another for Princeton, that each takes
the ground that his college can do no
wrong. This is absurd to be sure.
They all do wrong of one kind and an
other every year. In boating, which
IS freer from professionalism than any
other college sport, one college, Penn
sylvania, has been accused, and with
good reason at least for suspicion OF
employing men to row for the honor
of the Quaker university. A victory in
such conditions would be more dis
honorable than defeat.
CONTESTS ON THE WATER.
The water contests between the east
ern colleges promise to be very lively
Va June Harvard and Yale are on
bad terms and no race between these
colleges will come off this year. This
interruption Of a long series of races, /
races which excited more public inter
est than any others in America, is be
cause the birch is sadly needed both
at New Haven and at Cambridge.
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poor Mother Earth completely into smith
! Greens, or merely push her into another
| part OF the universe is a question.
This comet is estimated to be nine hun
dred million of miles long. The exact
number of millions has not been figured
out yet, but even if it were only one hum
dred millions in length. it is sufficient to
appal any one who has been in a rail-
road collision where the contending trains
were only one hundred yards long. What
chance this little earth, which is only
about eight thousand miles thick at the
biggest part, will stand against a monster
whose length is measured by hundreds of
millions Of miles, is too severe for the
imagination to picture.
a RARE PRIVILEGE.
Besides, some SCIENTISTS claim that a
comet only hits the earth once in fifteen
hundred million years. If that is so, no
one else viii enjoy the sensation until the
year 150O,001, S96. Some ancient histories
go back a few thousand years, but none
of them attempt to cover the period when
the last comet hit the earth. SO the peo-
pie of this generation are absolutely with
out any precedent as to how they shall
act when the comet comes booming along.
What to do, and how to do it, must be
formulated by the individual Jot of hui
manity at the critical time.
The exact hour of the day on which the
comet is to crash into US has not yet been
determined, for the reason that it is trav-
cling toward us at the rate of 100000
miles a day. This means that it is flying
through space at the rate of 1900 miles
an hour, or 1,200 miles minute, or twenty
miles a second. Under these conditions 1t
is quite impossible for even the most
learned SCIENTIST to determine the exact
hour Of It's arrival.
For the same reason no one knows
whether it viii hit US in Africa, Eu-
rope Asia or America. But that does
not matter much, because comets have
habit of looping around everything they
hit, like a big boa constructor encircles
its victim. The comet Keeps on coiling
and coiling until it's hundreds of millions
of miles of length are all wrapped around
whatever it hits.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

Astronomers and scientists in general
are trying to figure out what will happen
to this little earth of ours Saturday,
March IA next. If they know what they
are talking about, that day should be a
red letter one in the worlds history. They
claim that a great big comet is going to
smash into US. Whether it will knock
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

Flow. did you get into that conditiong'
asked the captain
He captured bottle of whisky"
+ How did he manage to do that?'
:, am not sure, SIR said the sergeant,
put L think he surrounded it."-Harper's
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
NOW WATCH
FOR THE CLASH
Comet is Due to Hit US on the
Fourteenth.
IT MAY KINDLY GO BY.
IT IS ONLY NINE HUNDRED MIL
LION MILES LONG.

Various Ideas as to what would
Be the Result Were the Monster
to Come Into Contact with the
Earth-COmet Is Great Big Sand
Bank Moving at the Rate OF
100000 Miles a Day.
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ASTRONOMERS EXCITED.

observatory is responsible for this comet
that is, he discovered it, and it will go
down to posterity, if it does not annihilate
all chance of their being any posterity, as
Perrine's comet. Since Professor Perrine
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

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THE SALON AND IT'S DECAY.
NJ. Edouard Rod draws attention to
the decline and disappearance of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
ATHLETICS AND
EASTERN COLLEGES
Preparations on Foot for the
Coming Season.
PROFESSIONALS BARRED,
YALE,s PROPOSAL To ROW IN TRF
HENLEY REGATTA.

The Four Cornezed Contest on the
Water Between Harvard, Cornell,
Columbia and PeansyIvania-The
Base Ball Teams.
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snlarr you have only to make him imag-
inc that you think he is smart.
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Papa has found the proper place to
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
Now Is
The Time

To have healthful sport and were the
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Come and see them, and get a compli-
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We have others that we would like
you to see. The Tribune, Remington
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We have a superb line of Ladies' and
Gents Sweaters. Leggings. etc.
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Tfvaied excellence. The same can be said
/ of j. E. keeler, who stands at the front
in astronomical spectroscopy.
1t is not often that the mental balance
of these weighty scientists is moved suffi-
ciently to allow OF the emotion of excite
ment, but at this time it is nevertheless
true OF course all these men differ as to
what VIII happen when the comet hitS u.s.
Some Of tnem are kind enough TO say
that there is a possibility of the comet
Sheering away and not hitting US at all,
or, it 1t does, it may be only glancIng
blow which may shake US a bit, but do
no serious damage.
ANOTHER DANGER.
But there is still another danger, even if
1t does not hit us, and it is more unnerv-
ing to contemplate it than the original.
Professor G. A. Young of Princeton is
well Informed on comets, and ne AYERS
that there is some danger of the Perrine
comet slipping by us and falling into the
sun. This would be real catastrophe,
for all learned astronomers acknowledge
that If a comet fell into the sun 1t would
produce such an increase OF solar neat
that we would all be broiled or frizzled
or fried up With this danger staring the
world in the face, 1t seems that II the
matter were left to a popular vote the
people of the earth would elect TO nave
the comet hit us and take the attending
chances rather than have it fall into the
sun and burn us UP.
Other astronomers who wish evidently,
to reaSSure the public claim that IN 1871
a comet several times larger than the one
now heading for US hit the earth while
travelling at the rate of 10000 600 miles
a day and nobody knew 1t. How they DIS
covered it SO many years AFTER they re-
fuse to make plain. But II tnsse dSlfon-
omers are telling the truth 1T places the
other astronomers who say that comet
only hits us once in fifteen hundred mil
lion years in an awkward position. Clear
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

" either one set of astronomers or the
other is making terrible blunder.
WHAT A COMET IS
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IN EFFECT NOVEMBER IS, 1899.