The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-08-28
Wonders Of the Solar System is
Barlow Mans Theme.
WE OF EARTH ARE "SMALL POTATOES"
pog Days OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Plexus
Punch at President Roosevelt.
commends Captain Howell
In His Race for Mayor Of
Atlanta.

| will answer briefly that there are no
dog days 1t is nothing but super
stition that has come downtto us from
the ancients. The Dog star or Sirius
has Its time to appear in the heavens
and rise and set like other stars, but II
is very irregular time and SO what
We call dog days may begin the first
Of July or many days later. The rising
Of Sirius in line with the sun begins
now on the Sd OF July and will con-
tlnue until the 18th of August. Those
forty days were believed by the an
clients to bring very hot and sultry
weather and many malignant diseases,
but this has been disproved by modern
astronomy, for the appearance Of ST.
RUS is very uncertain and in the
course Of time 1t will rise an the win
ter. Now a little more about this
wonderful star. You know that we
have eight planets that belong to our
solar system. They all revolve around
the sun Just as the earth does and the
nearer the planet is to the sun the fast
er 1t travels. Neptune. is 100000 of
miles distant and 1t takes 165 years
to get around.
But Sirius is away outside Of our
solar system ant is 120,OOO,OoOOOo Of
p4les from us and gives 400 times
more light thap,o our sun. 1t is the larg-
est and brightest star in the heavens.
1t is called the Apog star because 1t ap.
pears to be Ia Che tail of the constella-
ton that the, ancients named Major
CAMS or the Big Dog. They were a
smart people and we still keep their
map Of the hebyens and their names
OF the stars, but they had no tele-
scopes and did not know that there
were any starsor suns except those wo
see with the naked eye.
But. now young people listen, 1t is
now established. and proven that there
are millions OF stars and solar systems
afar of In space and that ours is the
smallest and the most Insignificant Of
them all. We are nothing and less
than nothing in the scale Of existence.
1t has always been a mystery to me
why the Creator Of the boundless uni
verse, that has no limit, should have
chosen this little world Of ours for His
greatest work, the Creation OF man in
His own image, little lower than the
angels, man who sinned and fell and
was redeemed by the sacrifice OF the
Son OF God. don't understand 1t.
cannot comprehend 1t. This little world
Is no bigger than cannon ball com
pared with some Of the planets and
stars afar out In space. It has but
one little moon that does not conde-
scend to show us but one side of its
anatomy, The other night we went
out to Mr.. Changers beautiful home
to look at the full moon through his
great telescope that cost S5,O00-and
is mounted in high observatory with
a dome that revolyes as the earth re-
wolves. II was a magnificent specta.
Gle, but the view of Jupiter with four
moons and Saturn with his rainbow
ring and seven moons was much more
beautiful and impressive. OF course
these planets must be inhabited, for
the Creator would not have surrounded
a dead world with such luminous and
beautiful satellites. We don't know
anything hardly, and 1t fills me with
disgust to see young men strutting
around like peaoocks-acting like they
made themselves and knew every.
thing apd expected to live always
when the truth is they don't know
where they came from nor where they
are going and can't add an hour or a
day to their existence. / have but lit
tie hope for vain or conceited man,
and a vain woman is no better. A
conceited man Is close kin to an idiot
and woman vain OF her beauty
should sometimes remember that she
had no hand in creating II for it was
God given or inherited "oh! why
should the spirit Of mortal he proud?"
OF all the faults Of which humanity Is
guilty, that OF seq e1ncelt * the last
to be torgiysH AZ y hardest to re-
foIs.
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Wien read whs Roosevelt said in,
his spetch 81 NJ n q Fl0lnt Ihe editor
who publisher an ~ lm as our
well means president.