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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-11-25

some jewelry, and beg her to raise the
veil and strike him blind by her beau
ty. Sometimes he is struck dumb by
her ugliness, for he never looks on her
face until after the wedding.
When babe is born in any house
there is great rejoicing if it be boy,
less il girl. The wife is proud for
while; but Turkish women are not
good mothers. They are too child
like themselves, When girl is born
to Sultan, they fire seven guns; when
boy, twenty-one. The boys die ear
ly; the girls are more apt to live,
This is supposed to be divine inter
position of Providence to prevent too
many claimants to the throne. Ba-
bies are dressed like mummies in
swaddling-clothes for six months /;
then the boys are put in trousers,
sometimes in generals or colonels' I'M
iforms, regularly made.
When the Sultan takes a wife no
cermony is considered necessary
more than to present his bride. The
new Sultan inherits all the widows and
slaves of his predecessor. and every
year Of his reign, at the feast of the
Ramazan, he receives a new one from
his mother, and takes any other girl
or woman to his harem who happens
to strike his fancy. Slaves who be-
come mothers are instantly promoted
to the rank of Sultana. Six months
before the feast of Ramazan the Va
lide Sultana orders that all the young
candidates be brought to her, and she
chooses fifteen and sometimes more
OF the lot. These are Immediately put
under diet and training, and at the
beginning of the great feast she again
| GlOOSCoj anu blllS lllllG IllG CuOlCt il
final. At the evening of the appoint
ed day the Sultan, upon retiring
finds his new bride standing nude
with folded hands and lowered eyes al
the foot OF his bed. After he has re
tired she must lift the bed-clothes Al
the foot and crawl into bed in tha
way as sign of subjection
Girls arrive at legal majority a
nine years Of age, and are frequently
married at ten. Children of twelve
and thirteen are often seen with ba
bies of their own. They are old a
twenty-five. The old Turkish womel
have hard lot of it. Beyond res
pect for age they contriye to inspir,
by tooth and nail among other wiye
younger than they, their lives are no
happy. Still, they are provided fol
and as long as man lives he feed
his family, one and all alike.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-11-25
A Tramp's Little Scheme.

Mister, do you want fine article
in your line that won't cost you much?"
said very seedy fellow with d market
basket as he approached the proprie-
tor of popular sample room.
"No, not to-day"
"Better not be too quick to make up
your mind, mister. I've got a case Of
extra dry that I'd like to git rid Of"
"Got it with your"
eyes, sir. Been carryin' it around
for about two days now"
"Well, ] guess / can take itoff your
hands. How"
"Thank ye, sir. I'll take little
Bourbon"
"What for?"
"Why, ter git rid OF this case of ex
ira dry I've been dry time an agin
but this is the extra-est case Of dry
ever saw. All, thanks"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-11-25
Engratitude 30 Parents.

There once was a father who gave
up everything to his children-his
house, his fields and goods-and ex-
pected that for this his children would
support him. But after he had been
some time with his son, the latter
grew tired Of him and said to him /:
"Father, | have had a son born to me
this night, and there, where your arm
chair stands, the cradle must come.
Will you not, perhaps, go to my broth
er, who has larger roomp
After he had been some time with
the second son, he also grew tired of
him, and said "Father, you like a
warm room, and that hurts my head.
Won't you go to my brother, the
baker?" The father went, and after
he had been some time with the third
son, he also found him troublesome
and said to him :"Father, the people
run in and out here all day, as if il
were pigeon-house, and you cannot
have your monday sleep. Would yor
not be better off at my sister Kate's
near the town wallY"
The old man remarked how tht
wind blew, and said to himself, eyes
| will do so / will go and try it will
my daughter. Women have softer
hearts" But after he had spent som,
time with his daughter, she grew
weary Of him and said she was Away
SO fearful when her father went t,
church or anywhere else and wa
obliged to descend the steep stairs
and at her sister Elizabeth's ther
weer no stairs to descend, as she live,
on the ground floor
For the sake Of peace the old MAJ
assented and went to his other daugh
! ter. But after some time she, too, wa
!, tired of him, and told him by thir
9 person that her house near the waite
e was too damp for aman who suffere
t with gout, and her sister, the gray,
j. digger's at ST. Johns had much drit
r lodgings. The old man himse
e thought she was right, and went ou
q side the gate to his youngest daughte
d Helen. But after he had been thrt
h days with her, her little son said to h
n grandfather, "Mother said yestcrds
g to Cousin Elizebeth that there was /
It better chamber for you than such
E. one as father digs" These wore
h broke the old mans heart so he sal
l. back in his chair and died.-Mqrt
S, luther.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-11-25
Concerning Indecent Lam
guage.

Touching the use OF indecent Ian
guage and coarse jests there can be
but one opinion. They defle the
mouth that utters them and the mind
that is not closed against them. I'm
fortunately, thelatter half OF Pope's
couplet-
1mmodest words admit of no defense,
For want of deoeney is want of sense
is not wholly true, Too many men
who cannot be accused Of a plentiful
lack of wit" beguile their leisure hours
in the interchange of low, immodest,
and obscene stories, To such an ex-
tent is this carried by some eagerly
sought companions that their trail
through society can be traced by the
suppressed merriment over Mr.. So
and Sos latest story.
If man once enters on the role OF
a narrator Of indecent stories he soon
loses all distinction between what is
bright though offensive and what is
offensive without being bright. The
mind of retailer of questionable
tales becomes so befouled with its
filthy store that his whole mental and
moral tone becomes tainted and i'm
pure. Indecent language and coarse
jests are habits acquired in hours Of
idloness, in school days, and in the
early associations of manhood. Even
among circles of educated men--men
studying law, medicine or even theol
ogy-he is often considered the best
fellow who tells the broadest story OF
cracks the coarsest Chicago
NeaoS
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-11-25
.HzoNIE, SWEET HOME.
As Sang by Jennie Lind in tlle
Presence ofRsayne.
Brooklyn Magazine.

Brooklyn Magazine.
Perhaps the most thrilling quarter
of an hour Of John Howard Payne's
life was that when Jennie Lind sang
Home, Sweet Home" TO him. The
occasion was the Jennie Lind concert
in Washington, the night of Decem-
ber II, 1850. The assembly was, per-
haps, the most distinguished ever seen
in a concert room in this country.
The immense National Hall, hastily
constructed for the occasion on the
ruins Of the burned National Theater,
was filled to overiiowing. Among
the notables present and occupying
front seats were President Fillmore,
Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Gen.
Scott and John Howard Payne. Jen-
ME Lind opened with the "Casta
Diva" and followed with the Flute
Song" (in which her voice contested
rivalry for purity and sweetness with
a flute in the due0, then the famous
Bird Song" and next on her pro-
gramme the Greeting to America" :"
All the pieces were applauded appa-
rently to the full capacity of an en-
thusiastic audience, and Mr.. Webster.
who was in his most genial after-din-
ner mood, emphasized the plaudit by
rising from his seat and making Jen-
ME profound bow, as if responding
for the country to her Greeting
But when the Swedish Nightingale"
answered the encore by turning in the
direction OF John Howard Payne, and
giving "Home, Sweet Home," with
all the wonderful tenderness, purity
and simplicity fitting both the words
and dSair Of the immortal song, the diff
ference was at once seen between the
mechanical applause called out by a
display of fine vocalization and that
ELECTED by the "touch of nature that
makes the whole world kin" Before
the first line of the song was complet
ed the audience was fairly "off its
feet" and could scarcely wait for s
nallSa To give exnression tO its enthu
siasm. People ordinarily of the un
demonstratiye sort clapped, stamped
and shouted as if they were mad, ant
it seemed as if there would be no enc
to the uproar. Meantime all eyei
were centered upon Payne, a small
sized, elegantly moulded, gray hairec
gentleman who blushed violently a
finding himself the center of so man.
glances
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-11-25

"Julia, my pension has been vetoedW
"Well, Aleck, don't see but what
you'll have to go to work"
Oscar Wilde says: II can't write
poetry when / have eaten anything"
Some benefactor Of his race should in
vite Oscar to dinner every day.
Mr.. Moen, a rich manufacturer, ex-
plains under oath that he paid $780,
900 in ten years to a blackmailer who
accused him falsely, Gosh!
The fight between Ryan and Sulli-
van, at San Francisco, was not so sue
cessful as was hoped. Neither Of the
pugilists was killed.
Senators Sherman, Edmunds and
Allison are about the only big Repub
lican Senators who have already tax
en- up their winter quarters at the cap
itol.
The editor OF the Pittsburg Brodc
Are, paper for negroes, asked Gen
Beaver during the campaign to sub
scribe. The General said that ht
would, and handed the colored editor
a $40 bill Instead Of getting $40 il
change, the Gubernatorial candi
date received a receipt for TWEEN
ty years subscription to tho Broad Aa
the editor assuring him that if he die,
'the paper would still so on"
Mrs Noorich-Benjamin, ! wish yor
would inquire into the antecedents G
young De Twirliger, who comes her
so often to see Jane.
Mr.. Noorich-What's the matte
with him? He seems to be a gentle
3 man.
e $50 he is, Benjamin; but what ,
+ his family? know his father was
e the Legislature, and that is all l d
s know
e @Well, my dear, we might overloo
!, that il the Young man is honest hin
self"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-11-25

Full returns from the recent elec-
tions show how little foundation there
is for the Republican expectation Of a
break in the solid South in 1888. In
North Carolina there proves to be a
Democratic majority Of probably 15,-
900 on the State ticket, and the Re-
publican gains in the Legislature were
due to "still hunt" by that party and
to apathy on the part Of the Demo-
Gratis, so that there is no possible
grounds for expectation that the State
will fail to go Democratic on a full
vote two years hence. In Virginia
the Republicans have simply repeated
their victory OF 1889, when on a small
vote like this years they elected the
same number Of Congressman as now,
butthere is no reason to doubt that on
full vote the Democrats will carry
the State, as they did for the Legisla-
ture in 1888 and for President in 1884.
The Republican gains in the South
this year have plainly been the result
of accidents, and the idea Of counting
any Southern State as doubtful" in
1893 is absurd.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-11-25

Martin Gomez has deposited $15,
600 in a New Bedford Mass bank
under rather curious circumstances.
He recently reached that place from
San Francisco, and is bound for his
home at Fayal on ship which sails
this week. While in San Francisco a
friend gave Gomez lottery ticket
which he had grown tired of carrying,
On reaching New Bedford Gomez dis
covered that the ticket had drawn a
$4,000 prize.
The records of the Post-0ffice De
partment at Washington show that
Roswell Beardsley has been Postmast
er at North Lansing, Tompkins Coun
ty, n. Y, since June, 1923. He is
therefore, the oldest postmaster in the
service. When the postofice a
North Lansing was first established
he was appointed postmaster at al
annual salary Of $3.50, The compen
sation for his services has always re
mainded the same
A charming young Vermont wo
man, arrested on charge OF forginI
wealthy old gentleman's name to
check, astounded the Court by declal
ing that he had given her permission
to use his name in that manner.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-11-25
Nail Manufactures.

PITTsBURG, Nov.-Nov. 1.-THE
nail manufacturers of the West held
meeting at the Monongahela House
this morning in response to the call
sent out by the Western Nail Associa-
ton for a general gathering Of the
nail men of the West. There was a
fair representation at the meeting, del
egates being present from Wheeling,
Chicago, Steubenville, o., Bellyille, ILL.,,
Bellaire, o., Ashland, KY, Ironton, O.,
and all the Pittsburg factories. A gen.
eral review of the market was made,
in which it was shown that large ad-
vances in the price Of pig iron and
steel, which are used in the manufac-
ture of nails, have been recently made.
1t was then decided to advance nails
to 1926 card, which is an advance
of 5 cents per keg on the old card.
The meeting then adjourned.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-11-25
BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT.
A letter 10 "a Young Lady ON
Ihe Eve of Marriage.

One sometimes finds gem among
the castaways of forgotten years.
The following congratulatory letter to
young lady on the eve of marriage is
venerable, but good
81 am holding some pasteboard in
my hands-three stately pluckings
from the bush of ceremony. l am gaz-
ing upon a card and upon a name
"a name with which your gentle life
began, a name with which your throb'
bing heart was lost. There is nothing
strange about the card. The maiden
sign still looks up from it calm and Gus
tomary, as it looks on many a friendly
visit as it lies in many formal bask-
ct.
81 am gazing, too, upon a card
where the nearer parent tells the
world she will be at home one day.
and that is nothing new. But there is
another card whose mingling there put
tongue OF fire into that speechless
pasteboard. 1t tells us that these
cards are but the heralds of coming
crisis when a hand that has pressed
friends hands and plucked flowers
shall close down on one to whom she
will be friend and flower forever af-
ter.
y 81 send you few flowers to adorn
the dying moments of your single
life. They are the gentlest type of a
delicate, durable friendship. They
sprung up by ones side when Others
have deserted it, and will be found
watching over our graves wien those
who should have been there have for
gotten us.
ut seems meet that past so calm
and pure as yours should expire with
kindred sweetness about it; that
flowers and music, kind friends and
earnest words should consecrate the
hour when a sentiment is passing into
sacrament.
"The three great stages OF our being
are birth, the bridal and the burial
To the first we bring only weakness
for the last we have nothing but dust
But here at the alter, where life join
life, the pair come throbbing up t.
the holy man, whispering the deel
promises that arms each with the 9th
er heart to help on in the life struggle
Of care and duty.
"The beautiful will be there, boz
rowing new beauty from the scene
the gay and the frivolous will lool
solemn for once, and youth will com
to gaze on all that its sacred thought
pant for--and age will totter up t
hear the old word repeated over agai
that to their own lifes have given tn
charm, Some will weep over it as if
were tomb some will laugh as if
were joke; but two must stand by
for its fate, not fun, this everlastin
locking OF their lives.
"And now, can you, who hav
queened it over so many bended form
come down at last to the frugal di'
Of single heart2 Hitherto you hay
been q clock, giving your time to a
the world. Now you are watc'
buried in one particular bosom, mar
ing only hours and ticking only
the beat of his heart, where time ar
feeling shall be in unison until the
lower ties are lost in that higher we
lock where all hearts are unite
around the great central heart Of all
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-11-25
WHOLE NO. 1873
THE u. y. SENATE OF 1857.
Wherein There Is a Possibility
the Democrats May Tie
That BODY.

The Uuited States Senate has, with
a brief interval of two years excepted,
been controlled by the Republican
party for twenty-six years. There are
in the present Senate forty-two Re-
publicans and thirty-four Democrats,
chasing the Virginia readjusters, Rid
dleberger and Malone, as Republi-
cans. Five States in which biennial
legislative sessions are held have al
ready elected successors to their Sem
ators, whose terms will expire March
3, 1887, and only one political change
has taken place. John w. Daniel,
Democrat, succeeds Malone from Vir-
ginia. The Legislatures Of twenty
other States will also elect Senators
this winter. In ten of these the Re-
publicans have safe majority on
joint ballot, and in seven the Demo
Gratis have unquestioned control.
The only States at all doubtful are
New Jersey, Indiana and California,
and in these the Legislature will be
Democratic by small majorities unless
changed by future recounts and con-
tests. If these three States send Dem
ocratic Senators to Washington the
upper branch will comprise thirty eight
Republicans anu the same number OF
Democrats. Bat the disaffection of
Riddleberger, who has quarrelled with
his Republican colleagues, and the in
dependence of Van Wyck, who it is
very probable may be elected by
Democratic-Republican combination
in the Nebraska Legislature, may pos
sibly give the Democrats control Of
the Senate after March 4, 1887. In
this possible event the election OF
Democrats in three doubtful States is
OF national interest.
Under the circumstances it is to be
expected fierce post-election strug-
gle should be waged in these doubt
: full States. In New Jersey and Indi-
ana is the principle battle-ground. In
! both these States the Democratic mar
gin is SO slight that the change of a
: single vote would destory the chance
= of electing a Democratic Senator. In
= Indiana the Democratic majority on
. joint ballot is figured at two. In New
Jersey it may depend upon non-com-
initial Labor member OF the Assem-
bly,, who was. however, endorsed by
: the Democrats and whose sympathies
are believed to be with that party on
the Senatorial question. But the Re.
> publicans do not yet despair of OBJ
: tanning a majority sufficient to re-eleci
= Senator Sewell, even though the la
y y Dor member should go with the Dem.
= ocrats. They have enough recounts
:. and contests still on hand to win and
: lose and win again. The like of it was
i' never known in New Jersey before
and Jerseymen who take an interest
" in politics are on the tiproe Of expect
ancy and are regaled with some new
. political sensation almost every day.
% The strangest thing in the whole
- affair is that the complexion of thu
United States Senate may be determir
1t ed by one vote, and that not the vot,
a a Of Senator or even member of {
Legislature that is to elect Senator
but single ballot that was thrown
n somewhere in New Jersey on the 2nt
le Of November for a member of tn,
;. > House Of Assembly.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-11-25

1t is related in Buffalo that a young
married man of that city, going home
very early the other morning and en-
deavoring to steal quietly to the spare
room without awaking his wife, was
fairly paralyzed by clear, wide-awake
voice saying: "What was the limit,
GeorgeY" She had sized George up.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-11-25

Brooklyn Magazine.
All weddings in Turkey, among
Turks, whether in provinces or cities,
are arranged by old women, and are
complicated, tedious affairs. The
bridegroom holds several fete days at
bis home for his friends, and the pros
pective bride at her home with her
young friends-girls of course The
night before the wedding the married
women of her acquaintance come and
eat the married woman's dinner with
her, which consists principally, as Sam
Weller would say, of "swary' of leg
of mutton and trimmings. The next
day the bride is taken to the bride.
groom's house in a sedan chair, with
a retinue of slaves carrying her we'd
ding presents on trays on their heads
covered with eolorsd tarlatan. Tht
procession is sometimes quite impos
ing, The brides female relatives arr
also there in the new harem unit
nightfall, and they yretire to their home
leaving the bride sitting on sort 0
throne, yelled. The bridegroom j
then admitted, and he is to throS
himself OF the brides feet and offe
her his wedding present of some hand
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-11-25
Mrs. CIeVeIamd's EndefinabIe
Charm.

Boston Post.
Decidedly, the Presidents wife made
most agreeable impression in Cam
bridge. OF course every one expected
to see a pretty woman, but most peo-
pie were taken by storm by what is
hard to describe-the indefnable
charm Of sweet unconsciousness and
the graceful simplicity of her bearing
Little kindly ways denote "a heart at
leisure from itself" and it was pleas.
ant to see at Mrs. Eliot's reception the
evident sympathy Of some of the most
attractive of the young married wo
men for their fair guest OF day. As
they were grouped about her in in
stinctive good fellowship, Emcrson''
chest attire OF beauty" came to ones
mind. The unanimous verdict 0
young and old seems to be that Mrs
Cleveland is very charming woman
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-11-25
MAID AND MATRON.
A Column of Choice Miscellany
for the Women.
ROMANCE AND REALITY,

ROMANCE AND REALITY.
BEFORE.
"You're an angel, he said
"Bat cannot bake bread,
She sighed with sweet little sigh,
"Ah, my sweetest, my own,
Let those gross things alone,
IT'S love, only love, was his cry.
AFTER,
"Well, my dear, this is rough
Heavy bread and steak toughp'
He said with bang and slam,
"If my thoughts I'd express,
would plainly confess
AS breakfast it amt worth d."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-29
The Mirror

is no flatterer. Would you
make it tell a sweeter tale2
Magnolia Balm is the charm
er that almost cheats the
looking-glass.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-29
Monument to Ola Tippecanoe.

To the Surviving Voters of the Whig Party of lSiO
The Tippecanoe Club, of indianapolis, Ind,
having adopted a resolution favoring the erec-
ton of suitable monument to the memory Of
Gen. William Henry Harrison over his grave at
North Bend, and having prepared and officially
signed q petition to the Congress of the United
States, for an appropriation of money sufficient
to erect such monument, and having forwarded
the same to United States Senator John Sher
man, of Ohio, to be by him presented and urged
on the attention of Congress-; and it
being believed that IL this movement
of the club is properly seconded by
old Wings everywhere, rs 1t should be,
it will be successful; the club in furtherance
thereof issues this appeal to such surviving
voters wherever living, and urges them, indi
vidually and in bodies. to send in their petitions
to Congress asking tho appropriation. Let them
be sent by hundreds and thousands demanding
a compliance with the wishes of the signers.
Address them to Senator Sherman. Washington,
d. c., and they will receive prompt attention.
And the club respectfully asks the newspapers
of the country friendly to the movement to pub
lish this, and to cali the attention to it of those
to whom it especially is addressed, and urge on
them the duty Of giving to the movement their
earnest support If the Wings yet living it is
confidently believed. shall do their duty, the ap
preparation will be made and monument built
that will do honor TO the memory of their idol
ICED leader of long ago, to one Of the most dis
tlnguished men of :he West, to one Of the purest
and best men the Nation has yet produced.
VIM. FL. WIsHARD,
President of the Tippecanoe Club.
INDIAN APoLIs Nav %.