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In these tones when our Newspapers
are flooded with patent medicine ad-
vertisements, it is gratifying to know
what to procure that will certainly
cure you. If you are Bilious, blood
out OF order, Liver inactive, or gener-
ally dobilitated, there is nothing in the
world that will cure you so quickly rs
Electric Bitters. They are a blessing
to mankind, and can be had for only
fifty cents It bottle OF DR.. j. B. Hash &
| Son.
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Bristol homo Will 90.

Farmers desiring to improve their
land and increase their crop should
use Pure Raw Bone Meal which can
only be had at your reliable home
mill. Address
A. D, REYNOLDS, Treas.
Bristol, Tenn
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Don't forget the play tonight |
Wagons Wagons at Hunt & Lide's,
Gen. Wilder was in the city this
week.
Gainsford buggy agency at Hunt &
Lide's.
Work has begun on the Harris
block.
Sugar, coffee, tea, rice and soda, at
Sellers 4 scalfs.
Miss Sallie Hunt, Of Eola Chucky, |
is visiting Miss Ida Patton.
There was large attendance the
last day OF the Fair.
Groceries Grocesies at Hunt &
Lide's.
Eb. Reeves went down to Knoxville
yesterday.
A full line Of groceries at Sellers 4
Scalf.
Our local advertising has brought
to tho city good deal of trade.
Mr. David Swingle has returned
{ from Chuckey.
Vinegar. syrup and cider Mt Sellers
q Scalf.
Builders hardware at Hunt q
Lide's.
Mrs. Ed Harr has been very sick
for several days and at last account
was no better.
Jno. and Chas. Taylor, of Buffalo
left for Southern California on Thurs
day morning last.
Cash paid for chickcns, butter, eggs
and all kinds Of produce Mt Sellers
Scnli. p
Pumps! pumps! pumps!! Mt HIM
4 I4ide'p.
Monk Brummit, Of Buffalo, lost hi
wife last woek. She was sick but
hort whilo.
9ovcn candidates are now in til
iald for President. Can you nam
hem?
Glass and putty Mt Hunt & Lide's.
Canvassod hams, and everythin
God assellers 4 scalis, Prices low.
We were absent last week when Il
,spct vent to rrcss, and the print
aade us spell badly.
Thos. Curtain went down to Kno
lille Thursday to attend the Stipren
ourt.
Will 8. Dickson and Thos. Kane,
Iorristown, were in the city Tuesd
light. .Ia A'~ ' .-,
Salt FISH always on hand at Sellt
ScaN.
Celebrated Lancaster rifles at Hu
E. Lide's. "a hJtf; ava e#
A Domestic Sewing Machine
lie at THU OoMEr Office. Call on
Re can give you bargain.
Mr.. Sam McAdams has little ch
at is not expected to live. 1t
zen sick week and gets no better
Bacon, butter, eggs and cheese
oilers & Scalfs,
Pure prepared paints at Hunt
de's. @ss
rev stock OF goods coming to j.
III. p. King. You will do well
lit and examine bis stock.
The johnson City Dramatic G.
my will give an entertainment
hes Hall next Wednesday night
Best flour at Sellers & Scalfs.
Call at McNoil 4 Wolfe's and ex
] their stock Of Gonos, oil pa
70 and comic oleographs.
THE COMET is an excellent I'D
nAmcdium, II has circula
ger than any cOonty paper m
81 h of the State.
spre Lnseed Oil 1T Hunt & Ii
Ion. Sam Randall John I. Hi
alter r, Staples, spoke at Br
ursday, TO a very large audienc
cross Gut saws at Hunt & Lido
I'M Eakin, our depot agent ret
IS q INKS to the managers of the Il.
n. G, r, r. for kindness.
yrup, tea and sugar at HUI
: s. - es. per w
yesterday We saw . list of SO n
aylor Republicans living in
civil district, who will not su
z.z!ss|=..'.@z= lbone.
re Observation-Disclosures
Il Odd Fellows, Jobo's Hall,
hight, Oct. 18th, 1884. Com
all
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COMET is ONLY 25 CENTS TILL AFTER
TIE ELECTION. SEND AT ONCE AND
GET A LIVELY PAPER.
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EsubIic Speaking.

The undersigned candidates for
Representative for Washington coun,
ty, will address the people at the fol
lowing times and places:
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Bristol Tenn.
DEAR SIR You will please ship
me 6 doz. bottles of Eye Water OF the
same. 1t is the greatest thing L ever
heard of. am selling it from Is to
20 miles round. Send at once.
Yours Respt., l.. II. TAYLOR.
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A good cook TO do work for a small family
Ipply At THE COMET Office.
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(serm0n CnrD for Sale,

Address Hyder Bros, Hyder, Tenn,
or N, G. Hyder, Johnson City, Tenn.
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sleeping-car Service.

Sos d 2 have Pullman Sleeper, between Mem
phhi and New York, via Shenandoah Valley
route. Also Pullman sleeping Cars between
Cleveland and New Orleans via Calcra ant
Montgomery.
nos. 81 have Pullman Palace Sleeping car
between Chattanooga and New York, vie
Shenandoah Valley Route; also Pullman
Sleeping ears between New Orleans an.
Washington, via Atlanta, Cleveland an,.
LyncADuIg.
ALSO Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars between
Knoxville and Louisyillc OH Nos. IS and 81
via jellicO.
a. POPE G. p d 4. Agt.
Knoxville Tean
| T. X. IirGER, supt., Knoxville, Tenn.
| JOSEPH GOTHARD, A. q. T. a. Knoxville TEN
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j. T. CRUMLEY,
GROCER, AND PRODUCE DEALER.

Will pay cash for the following ar
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PAINLESS Rye Water.

Reynolds, Ga, Aug, 10 81
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No rain.
Still hot.
Butter scarce.
MONEY searcer.
News items soarcest.
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County Court Clerl
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Walking and talking and resting
aud eating end drinking and kissing
and trotting and pacing and racing
and shooting and riding and fddling
and dancing and signing and crying
and smiling and laughing and cussing
and fussing and smoking and joking
and lying and buying and crowding
and pushing and elhowing and busting
and brushing and auctionecring and
electioneering and advertising and
cheating and dead beating and yell
ing and believing and flirting and
counting and promenading and parad
ing and fighting and hacking ant
waiting and headaching and leaving
declaring never 60 go again, and that
lair
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02
PLANTS FOR THE WINDOW GARDEN

Most housewives try to raise too many
house plants. Four or five good, strong
plants of geranums, which will make a
compact shew in the window, are usually
preferable to single plant of each OF half a
dozen different varieties. variety is the
spice of life, however, and to certain ex-
tent, it is true of the window garden.
from six to eight different plants in an ordi-
nary window. For winter blooming, the
following plants will be found desirable
One rose geranium, one heliotrope. three
Chinese primroses, one sweet alyssum, one
cala. two azalea Indica. one English or
German ivy, either Agrippina red or Her
mosa pink. The Chinese primulas are es-
pecally desirable for winter, as they will
thrive with less light than most other plants.
The roses need much light, and, unless it
can be given them, their place had better be
filled by primulas or other plants. Bou-
vardias, if we'll grown, are usually favorites,
and as they endure the dryness of living
rooms, one plant might be substituted for a
rose or primula in the above list. 1t has
been our experience, that housewives do
not have the best of success with bouvar-
dias. Fuchsias are desirable for spring
blooming, but, as usually managed they are
not success. Azalea Indica is a fine win
dow garden species, and under ordinary
treatment will give mass of bloom during
the entire months of March and Apr ill.,
Mo, Hort RsDort
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02
WHAT DO YOU RIDE IN?

AT the present prices every farmer should
own either light buggy if his family is
small. or light spring wagon, if his family
is too small for light buggy.
Many farmers who are very particular to
obtain all 'he most improved kinds of ma
chinery to use on his farm, who keeps the
best OF stock and is well able to afford
something easier and better. have nothing
but two-horse wagon with il spring seat to
go to town or to church. and no matter
how muddy the roads. or how few there
are to go, the team must pull the heavy
| wagon back and forth.
There was time in the past when light
wagon or huugy cost so much that only the
rich could afford to own one. That was
when the work had all to be done by hand,
and 1t took long time to manufacture a
single vehicle, and the cost was ne. .,essarily
considerable. But at the present time Il he
greater portion of the work is done by ma
chinery, and a buggy, carriage or spring
wagon, the equal if not superior to hand
work, can be done and at very decided
difference in cost, not only to the manufac-
turer but to the purchaser.
light spring wagon, tor either one or
two horses, is very convenient vehicle for
the farmer. He can go to town and take
his produce. butter and eggs, or potatoes,
etc., or If he wants small grist few bush
els OF wheat can be taken much easier and
better than in the two-horse wagon.
With such a wagon to ride in, the wife
and children enjoy going to church, or Wis
iting, much better than in lumber wagon.
To woman who is not used to riding, a
few miles riding over common country
road, is nearly as tiresome as walking the
same distance, while with light wagon or
buggy such a ride would be not only a
pleasure but healthy exercise
Farmers wives, as rule do not visit
enough; do not ride out enough to keep
their health. A change FROM the routine,
where woman is confined so close to the
house, is more beneficial than a dose of
medicine. besides the pleasure. Taking
health, time and convenience into consider
alton. such a vehicle is as economical an in
vestment on the farm as any other imple-
ment required to cultivate or till the SOIL
And at the prices they are sold at, and the
many different styles they are manufactured
in, there is no reason why every good farm
er should not have one at least, and when
you purchase it, make up your mind to use
it, and enjoy yourself as we'll as doing
something to please the wife and children
PLoaDnsan. ..z
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02

some pleasant occupation when he becomes
man. But, if they seek real pleasure
from childhood to old age, think they
make sad mistake. On the farm there is
quietude and Independence known to no
other profession. The farmer can be, and
should be, the most independent man of the
world There is no reason why he should
not be man of culture. On his desk should
be found the best journals of the land. In
his library should be found the best books
ever penned by man, the choicest literature
of the day. He has more time to read and
keep alongside with the advanced thought
of his day than any man of any other pro-
fession. While in the crowded cities men
strife with might and main for money and
position, the farmer can have the finest of
horses, good carriage, and take pleasant
rides along shaded hedgeways, far away
from the crowded and dusty streets. He
can commune with nature in all her robes
OF glory while his crops are growing. He
has more time for rambles through gardens
and well-cultvated fields, with wife and
child, kinsman and friend, than any man of
any other trade or profession. Lite on the
farm, in my opinion, ought to be, and can
be made, the most pleasant of all occup a.
tions.-Cor Western Plovnsan
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02
No 47.

oyster shells andsof small shells, are gener-
ally found in our columns. So far as we
know the wares of our advertisers in this
branch of industry, have uniformly given
good satisfaction to poultry keepers.
Those who live so far in the interior that
freight from the seashore is too high, can
resort to the nearest town OF considerable
size in their neighborhood and engage from
a restaurant whole oyster-shells which ac-
cumulate from time to time, so that a wag-
on-load or more may be carried away at
once. When they are hauled to the poultry
keepers's premises the problem is, how to
reduce them to a suitable size? Given a
sledge hammer and flat rock, and pair
OF strong arms will do the business; but
there is a better way than this, if quite a
number of fowls are kept. Scatter your
oyster-shells on roadway, on or near your
premises. The winter season when the
road-bed is frozen over is the best time. In
few days or weeks they will be pulverized
completely, when they may be taken away
and carried 10 the fowl-house. 1t matters
little how finely they may be ground, for
the fowls will pick up the smallest particles.
Bones are useful to serve the same pur-
pose as shells, both containing lime in the
form OF carbonate; but there are some OBJ
Jections to lime in this form. If the bones
are perfectly fresh and sweet, as they NAV
be in winter weather, the animal matter
which they contain is no objection. but
rather an advantage, as fresh bones contain
both albumen and fatty matter, the latter
predominating, and therefore form quite
nutritious item in the fowls diet. Such
bones may be pounded with sledee-ham-
mer, as recommended for oyster-shells, and
fed before the morrow becomes rancid. Rut
in warm weather the bones soon spoil and
are worse than nothing for the fowls. The
remedy when bones have become rancid is
to burn them, when the Objectionable mat
ter is consumed, leaving the carbonate of
lime in such state that it will keep for an
indefinite period.
A few words about old mortar. such as
may be procured in quantities. when a
dwelling-house is burned or pulled down.
1t is we'll enough to have a quantity of this
in the fowls yard, when it can be procured
without much trouble, but it is doubtful
whether it is capable of being assimilated
to very great degree, for the formation of
eggshells, as the lime is not in a suitable
form tor this. 1t will do the fowls no harm.
however, for they are fond of swallowing
small pebbles and hard substances of anyy
kind. all of which aid their DIGESTION -Poui-
try World.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02
Uhe Don$ehnld

Tomato Satad.-Chop fine one onion. one
green pepper and three tomatoes; add a
little salt, one tablespoonful OF sugar and
one-half cup of vinegar.
Cucumber Salad.-Two cucumbers, one
small onion; chop together very fine. Salt
and pepper to taste; one-half cup of vinegar
and one tablespoonful of sugar.
Egg Bread.-Two quarts of corn meal.
two quarts of buttermilk, two eggs, two
teaspoonfuls of salt and one teaspoontul of
soda. Bake in pan or in muffin rings.
Apple Custard.-Take nice sweet apple
sauce, flavor with lemon, line a pie plate
with rich paste, halt fill with the apple
sauce. Pour over nice custard and bake.
Corn Dodgers.-One quart of corn meal,
one teacupful of cold water, two teaspoon
fuls of salt and one tablespoonful of melted
lard Make into oval shaped ''pones'' and
bake.
Potato Pie.-Have ready a rich crust, Law
in slices of boiled sweet potatoes, and thin
slices OF mellow apple, then spread thickly
with sugar and butter, coyer with a crust
and bake nicely.
Sea Foam.-Take eight eggs for family
of six, beat the yolks light, add one large
cup of milk and little salt; beat thorough
ly. Place on the stove in shallow pan,
with one teaspoonful of butter. When hot,
pour in the yolks and milk, and set on the
back of the stove to stiffen Beat whites
very light, stir in little salt, and pile it up
ON the yolks. Place in the oven few min
utes; when taken out, cut in diamond
shape with sharp knife; lift out separately
with an egg turner.
Delicate Sponge Cake. One and half
pounds of sugar, Ia tablespoonfuls of water,
IA eggs. Set sugar and water on the stove
to boil, beat whites of eggs to stiff froth,
then add the beaten yolks, salt to taste
when well beaten stir in gradually the boil
ing water and sugar, beat until cool, add
/ very gently one pound of flour sifted, flavor
with lemon. This will make one rolled
jelly and two plain ones. The jelly cake
must be turned upside down on cloth as
soon as taken from the oven spread with
jelly and roll Immediately.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02

THERE is no reason why the farmer
should deny himself the many good things
he could procure from his garden, says the
New York Herald. He should enjoy all
the early vegetables and lay by late crops
for the winter. The strawberry, raspberry,
currant, gooseberry, grape and blackberry
can find locations therein for his benefit.
The Bartlett pear, Gage plum, and Craw-
ford peach should favor him with better
selection of fruit than those that come from
chance seedlings and unknown varieties.
The value of the products of the garden to
the family is much more than the cost of
production, to say nothing of the enjoyment
to be obtained from their use. People who
live in cities are compelled, through circum-
stances, to purchase vegetables that are
stale and unsuitable for food. and they envy
the advantages possessed by the farmer,
who is able to grow what he pleases and OF
any variety preferred. It is hard lot to
live on a farm and subsist on limited va
rietv only, when better could be had, and
the farmers sons realize this when they
laova the farm and find the inhabitants of
the cities enjoying better food than that
GROWN at the farm, and yet the farmer
could live like prince if he saw mt to pro-
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02

So FAR as we have been able to observe
past season is larger, smoother and appears
better than the seed sown. 1t is little
brighter IN color and the grain is plump and
smooth. Some farmers express the belief
That it is softer and that it will continue to
grow softer from year to year. This, OF
course cannot be determined until several
years of experimenting.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02

WHAT next? Duncan Mcmillan, of Nc
Donough county, Ill.,, has patented ma
chine for shocking grain in the field by ma
chinery. By means OF the proper machn-
cry, he proposes to build the shocks on a
platform of a travelling machine. and then
drop it on the ground. There is probably
no field of mechanical enterprise where
labor-saving appliances are receiving more
attention at present than they are in agri-
cultural machinery. We plow with an
improved machine, sow wheat with ma
chine, cut and bind it with a machine and
thresh with machine, not one of which
had been so much as heard of fifty years
ago. And the wheat does not stop here. 1t
goes through the manipulations of ma
chine in transportation, grinding, boiling,
packing in barrels, and in baking. In fact
about everything to be done in the wheat
business is the work of the machines.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02

WE have always advocated liberal SOW
ing of winter wheat. but it is now too late
for that. The next thing then to insure a
crop next year is to plow the land and have
1t ready tor early seeding next spring. The
wonderful success of spring wheat in this
climate renders this almost, if not quite, as
advantageous as fall sowing.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02

WHEREVER it is possible farmers should
save their own seeds of vegetables for plant
ing. 1t has been demonstrated that the
seeds from plants grown in this climate are
better than those even grown in the same
latitude in the States. They grow more
rapid and mature earlier. Melons, cucum-
bers. tomatoes and squash should be cover
ed SO as to protect them from the frost and
allowed TO remain until thoroughly ripe
before they are pulled. TO improve the
variety something may be gained by select
ing the seeds when taking them out. Only
the largest and most perfect seeds should be
saved. Most of the vegetable grown from
from seeds grown here mature from two to
three weeks earlier than from seeds pro-
cured from Eastern seedsmen.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02

IHE numerous roller mills that are being
built in Montana will greatly advance the
farming interests. In few years Montana
flour will in all probability be as eagerly
sought by high livers outside of the Terri
tory AS the Minnesota flour was the past
year in the Territory.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02
ADVERTISING RATES.

Transient advertisements PAYABLE in advance.
Regular advertisements payable quarterly.
Twenty five per cent. added for SPECIAL advertise
ments.
Remittances by registered letter, post-oftce
order or draft at risk; but not at expense.
Any one failing to receive his paper regularly
should notify us promptly by postal card.
subscriber desiring to change the post-otice
direction of his paper must communicate to the
name of the post-ofice to which it has previously
been sent, otherwise may be unable to comply
with his request.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02

SPREAD about two inches of light, fresh
stable manure over the strawberry bed in
October, and do not remove it in the spring
as it will enrich the land and in measure
prevent the growth of weeds as well as pro-
tect the plants from freezing out this winter.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02

THE Farmer and Manufacturer says ''it is
probable the United States will carry over
to next year quite one hundred million
bushels of wheat. This after liberal estl-
mate for home consumption and export. A
lower price tor wheat than has yet been
reached would seem inevitable"
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02

ABE NEwBURY, of the Prickly Pear val
ley. raised over 500 gallons of currants and
gooseberries the past season, and should
next year be good crop season, his yield
will be increased four fold.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02
PLEASURES OF FARM LIFE.

We hear remarked that the farmers life is
one of ceaseless toll and dfudgery. And
we often hear the farmers boy make the re-
mark that he will leave the old homestead
and the scenes of his childhood, and seek
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02
A-N--z1

ONIONS will lie in the ground all winter
and grow in the spring as if they had never
been frozen. 1t is well, however, to mulch
them with fine stable manure, although
they often do well without any care what
ever,
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02

A FIGURING mill is being built near Lew
iston, this county. 1t is to be run by water
power which is ample for large amount OF
machinery. 1t will greatly enhance the
farming interests of the Judith country.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02

HAY ricks should be retopped now that
they have settled. in order to prevent their
leaking.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02

IT is reported that naturalists in Russia
claim to have made "a discovery of great in
terest in reference to the epilobium plant,
or 'wllow herb,' which has hitherto been
solely cultivated for the flower, which
grows from the top of its pod. 1t is claimed
that this pod can be made to yield fiber
possessing many of the valuable qualities
of cotton fiber. In the experiments already
made this fiber has been ginned, spun, and
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02

Sow at least a few acres OF timothy in or
der to be able to see the difference between
wild and timothy hay.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02

Strawberry beds planted OFT two weeks
ago now have a nice start. and will bean
nicely next season if mulched properly this
fall.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-10-02

LOSE no time in digging and storing pe
tatoes, but do not close the root house door
until it becomes absolutely necessary to
prevent the roots from freezing.