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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-08-19

The late Session of Congress covered
period OF seven months and twenty
eight days or 241 days, exclusive OF
Sundays. During that time there were
introduced in the two Houses 12,202
Bills. The greater number were meas
ures Of a private nature or of local i'm
portance only. The total number Of
measures that passed both Houses was
1,101. OF these, 1906 were received by
President, and of that number, 814
were approved; 157 became laws with
out the Presidents signature 115
were vetoed and nine failed for want
of signature at time of adjournment,
ten days not having expired since they
reached the President.
Gan introduction to Robert Brown
ing's Poetry is in press. But what
the great mass of people could do with
it after an introduction was obtained
is among the mysteries.
Cutting is likely to be partially re-
venged, The people of new Orleans,
excited to frenzy by the reports from
the Mexican border, are organizing to
make reprisal on Mexcan orchestra
that has been vexing the quiet Of that
town.
Luthers home as child at Mans
field, in Saxony, has just been restor-
ed to its original condition when the
Reformer's parents dwelt there four
centuries ago. The old house viii be
inhabited by body Of deaconesses,
who will nurse and care for the sick
and poor of the town.
Cassius NJ. Clay is very old man and
was supposed to be "flickering in the
socket" But somebody having ques-
toned the truth OF a passage in his
"Memoirs," has called to life again the
old fiery and impetuous spirit which
made him famous in the political
strifes OF long years ago.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-08-19
VOL. III.


'Tis years since first we met,
And we were young and free from care,
BY not single doubt beset,
And friends were round us everywhere;
But one by one they fell away,
Like blossoms when the summer ends,
And we are left alone to say
From first to last we have been friends.
They tell me you are changed, my dear,
Your hair has lost its golden hue,
On face and form Times marks appear,
And faded are those eyes 50 blue.
But Love has such glamour cast
Before my sight, fail to see
These changes, since from first to last
You've always been the same to me.
From first TO last our hearts have been
United by affections bond,
Aud in this world we seemed to win
A fOretNste of the world beyond;
And as within the sunset glow
We sit, and all the past review,
How sweet, how precious It's to know
From first to last we have been true!
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leat HIM. lie came within few
votes of being nominated in one of
the largest conventions the State ever
held. When he was "a years old he
was nominated by the State Demo-
cratic convention as the Cleveland
elector for the State at large. In
this convention he was nominated by
acclamation, and made brilliant
canvass with Sam Hawkins as his
competitor. Hawkins is man of
great ability as a speaker, but young
Taylor held his own and had the lar
gest vote on the ticket. His nomina-
ton yesterday proved conclusive that
he has hold on the people which no
other young man has eyer had in the
State. This young man is not a
great orator like Mr.. Clay, but most
pleasing and entertaining speaker; in
fact, among men he is prodigy-his
makeup is simply inexplicable. A
man who sees him never forgets him
indeed, men almost fall in love with
him as they would with charming
woman. His magnetism is felt by
all who come within his reach. He is
a man of fine size, OF easy, familiar
and graceful presence, of good educa-
ton and of good habits. If the old
Democrats will take no offence-and
we suppose they will not, as to state
it may make few votes for our young
candidate-we will say that Bob Tay-
lor is the son Of one of the noblest
wings the grand old party ever had
the Hon. Nat Taylor. Through all
trials Of that celebrated twenty years
from 1910, 1874, 1S4S, 1852, 1856, and
1870, Nat Taylor was power in the
land. When he crossed the noun.
tains from East Tennessee and came
into Middle and West Tennessee the
whigs met him and followed him and
honored him until they parted with
| him when he retdrned to his noun.
tain home. He was among the most
gifted and eloquent Of all the public
speakers of that day. The mother ol
Bob is the sister of the distinguished
Democrat and great orator-Landon
G. Haynes. There are many people
, in the state that ike to know when a
man enters public life what has been
his religious training. Bob Taylor
was brought up by Christian parents
His mother is a devout Christian, and
his father is a Methodist preacher, has
been for more than forty years, and
when he took hand for the ole
wings he at no time besmirched his
his character as q Christian minister
doing what but few men could
preach the gospel and make public
speeches and maintain at the same
time his reputation for Christian
piety.-NashViHe Union.
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The Champion knights OF
Pythias Division.

The Graphic News, the great West
ern pictorial paper, will, in its issue of
August 21st., devote double page to
the Kokomo Qndiana) Division OF the
Knights Of Pythias, who captured the
first prize in the drill Of that body re-
Gently al Toronto. The men will be
shown in full regailla, and picture Of
Howard Douglass, the Supreme Chan
cellor Of the order and Grand Com.
mander or the Uniformed Divisions,
will occupy the center. Every Knight
of Pythias should get copy Of this
edition.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-08-19
The President Has Another
Narrow Escape.

"Daniel."
eyes, madam"
"In cleaning out rooms, ETC., prepar-
atory to finding places to hide away
canned goods for the winter, / find in
one of the wardrobes this great heavy
pair of rubber boots, with such long
tops. Whose are they?"
"The Presidents, madam"
"Down in the leg of one of them, ]
find this black bottle, with a high
cork. What is that for?"
"Bait."
"And in the other leg is an old pack
of cards wrapped in an oilcloth.
Whose are they"
"Ohl see. They are a pair left
over by President Arthur"
"Thanks, Daniel"-from the adj
joining room.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-08-19
Some summer Girls.

N
The unlucky girl who is one of six
or seven big sisters,
The giddy girl who wears short
skirts, tight shoes and dotes on Sara
toga.
The elepantine girl who bowls twice
day in an Intellectual effort to reduce
her weight.
The engaged girl who, with an anx-
ious air, is always expecting a telegram
from "him."
The enviod New York girl who has
more stylish dresses than any one
else in the house.
The subdued girl with older sisters,
who wishes they would marry off and
let her have n chance.
The particular girl at Ocean Grove
who will not permit herself to be hug
ged anywhere but in the ocean.
The lively Atlantic City girl whose
craze is caramels, and who thinks the
sweetest thing in life is dancing on
their pier.
The sensible modest girl who be-
haves herself and will be married well
when all the raging bellies have be
come old-maids.
The ingenious girl who, in the alb
sence OF young men, flirts with the
hotel clerk and bathing master just
to keep her hand in.
The smart New England girl who
goes botanizing in the mountains and
and paralyzes the young men with
long Latin names.
The shapely girl at Narragansett
Pier who looks best in her bathing
suit and spends her afternoons in the
water or lounging on the sand.
The inexperienced girl who is tick
led by the attentions of II played-ou
beau, and thinks the other girls are
jealous when they advise her to dis
courage them.
The flirtatious girl who goes boating
with gallants without chaperonc II
Lake George, and has been doing st
for successive seasons without any ap
preciable result.
The desperate girl nearing thirty
with an extra bottle of Bloom of You'll
Isand " trunk load of juvenile sashes
who feels that "now or never" is tn
time to decide her fate.
The sentimental girl who carries
yellow covered novel to the breakfas
table at Cape May, and whose stock c
conversation is confined to rehas
| of the latest silly fiction.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-08-19
he people of the State,

the people of the State,
1t endorses the platform adopted by
the Democratic National Convention
in 1884.
1t endorses the action of our repre-
sentatives in Congress in their efforts
to redeem the pledges of the party
made at Chicago, by attempting to
secure reformation of the tariff laws
and reduction of taxes
w.
Holding fast to the teachings OF
Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and
Polk, the Democracy of Tennessee re-
CARDS a national debt as national
curse, and declared it crime against
the people, to hoard money, raised by
taxation, in the Treasury, rather than
pay it ON the matured interest-bear-
ing indebtedness Of the Government.
1t demands that the surplus revenue,
now or hereafter in the Treasury,
whether gold ar silver, be applied to
the extinguishmento Of thepublic debt !;
and it denounces any effort of Con-
gress to appropriate the revenues Of
the Government for any purpose not
authorized by the Constitution, as
subversive ofthe rights of the States
and the people thereof
V.
The Democracy, while recognizing
the supremacy of the General Govern
ment in the exercise of the powers
delegated to it by the Constitution,
has ever upheld and defended the re-
served rights of the States; therefore,
believing local self-government to be
the only method, by which free peo-
pie can maintain their institutions
and secure system Of laws adapted
to their wants and necessities, it cor
daily joins American citizens Of Irish
nativity or extraction in their sympa-
thy for Ireland in her struggle for
home rule.
VI.
We favor the maintenance and i'm
provement OF our system OF public
schools and the education Of all class
es of our citizens.
VII.
We oppose the farming out of con-
victs so as to bring them in eompeti-
ton with the honest labor of our
State, and favor the enactment OF
such laws as will terminate, as early
as practicable, such competition.
VIII.
Recognizing the Sovereignty ol
the people, in responce to their de
mand made through their representa-
tives in the last General Assembly, we
favor submitting to them, for their
adoption or rejection, the proposed
constitutional amendment prohibiting
the manufacture and sale Of into1icat-
ling liquors as a beverage in Teanes-
see.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-08-19

Congress has passed a joint resolu-
ton accepting from Mrs. Grant and
w. II. Vanderbilt objects of value and
art presented by various foreign Gov
ernments and rulers to General Grant.
A constitutional amendment will be
voted upon at the coming State elec-
ton in Georgia, under which the Leg
islature will be enabled to place maim-
ed Confederate soldiers on perma-
nent pension list.
The experiment of making the
Great Eastern a floating home of nau-
tical drama is a great success at Liver
pool. The manager will take heI
around English ports, and then to
Australia and Canada, and perhaps tC
America.
The prospect for good supply ol
fine peaches this year is as good as in
any season for the last ten years.
According to present estimates 1851,
600 baskets will be shipped from the
Eastern Shore of Maryland and Della
ware by rail.
The Bill increasing the pensions
given to veteran soldiers wound
ed in the arm, hand, leg or foot, pass
ed both Houses of Congress before it
adjournment. The increase is from
90 to 25 per cent, and the enactment
OF the Bill will add $615,204 to the an
nual cost of the pension-roll.
The trades unions, the Knights 0
Labor, the Central Labor Union, an(
all the German and Bohemian labo
organizations Of Chicago, are about t,
enter the political field in earnest.
legislative ticket will be nominated il
every district Their example is like
ly to be followed in other cities.
The President has approved the Bill
to tax oleomargarine on the groun,
that the tax will still allow the com
modify to be manufactured and soil
at fair profit, while the necessity Q
putting stamps on the packages vii
probably prevent bogus butter iron
being sold as the pure product OF tn
dairy.
An exchange suggest that James G
Blain and Rollin NJ. Squire woul
make an excellent Presidential ticke
for the Republicans with a platform
"for vindication only" That's an e1
cellent idea, except that the platform
might be condensed to the words
"Burn this letterp
A young lady who shook hand
with the President at his reception o
"Wednesday last held up her glove a
Ishe left the White House and said
al am going to have it stuffed"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-08-19

Dark blue shades are again very
fashionable.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-08-19

1t endorses the action of our repre-
sentatives in Congress in their efforts
to redeem the pledges of the party
made at Chicago, by attempting to
secure a reformation of the tariff laws
and reduction of taxes.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-05-12
Points for Wives.

Don't disturb your husband while lie
is reading the morning or evening pa
pers by asking foolish questions. He
NAV be reading the latest scandal or
divorce suit. but he is Just as much In
terested as though it were foreign news
or market reports. BE patient, and
when he comes across anything he
thinks You can comprehend, perhaps he
viii read il to you.
Don't put the morning paper at the
bottom of the pile, and don't have a
dozen different places for the button
hook.
Don't monopOlize every hook in the
closet. GraciouSly tender him one nail
for his very own-and then in mercy
hang your Mother Hubbard, your peler-
inc, yoUr shopping bag and your bonnet
in some other place.
Don't ask him where fe has been the
moment he enters the house, or where
he is going if he starts out for walk
before breakfast. 1t nettleS him, and
men hate to have such pointed questions
sprung upon them. Besides that, we
live under free flag.
Don't indulge in flights of temper
when your husband suggests how his
mother did. If he objects to having
eggs boiled in the teakettle, and prefers
them washed previous to cooking, en-
deavor to please him by indulging him
in his fancieS. In the meantime bring
your SONS up as carefully as you can.
and when they are married you yourself
will doubtless be held up as an example
of Yirtue-and revenge is sweet.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-05-12

THE new round pins Just out, in
which gold and platinum are associated
with pleasing effect, promise to supply
not only a unique ornament for those
In search of something novel, but is a
very attractive brooch for conservative
people as well. These pins are wrought
in elaborate designs, that exhibit
platinum and gold In chased and Roman
finish, all in one specimen. With 9TH
er patterns appears the favorite knot
design, which is peculiarly adapted to
this attractive combination OF orna-
mentatioE. The same idea is carried
out in cuff buttons, and the result is
both pleasing and novel. In addition
to the brooches and buttons just de-
scribed, are Queen chains and brace
lets, showing alternate links of plat
inum, and plain or satin finish gold and
antique chasing. This triple decora-
tion is also carried into scarf pins and
sleeve buttons for gentleman's wear,
with pleasing results. Mention must
be made also of the double or Charles
Dickens. CHAINS, in platinum and gold,
WHICH show sometimes alternate links
of the two metals, or, again twisted
links, in which these metals appear.
Mrs. CatharIne Baker, of Taylors-
vile, Va, who has ju entered upon
her hundreth year, takes from SIX to
eight cups Of coffee day.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-05-12
HoUSEHOIA

THERE are no articles of furniture
In room more conspicuous than its
doors, or more difficulty to keep out Of
sight, excepting, OF course shading
doors that are never closed. We might
indeed, do them up in brown linen
wrappers with red tape trimmings, as
tidy hOusekeepers sometimes serve their
piano legs when they are too ugly to be
exposed; and the chairs, when the up
holstery has become faded and shabby
but such a br0adside Of canvas or
cambria would be worse than the native
pine. That beautiful designs, rare and
elegant materials, should be layished on
chimney pieces, book cases, cabinets
and other stationary furniture, leaving
the doors in the stiff and formal ugli-
ness of common machlne-made shop
work, is among the unaccountable in
cOnsistencles of house building. We
do, indeed, sometimes see the outside
of the entrance doors to protentious
house laden with ornaments hung on at
all available points, ard this is the very
situation where they should be avoid
ed. The main entrance may properly
be distinguished from the rest of the
outside finish by finer workmanship and
richer materials; but it should not hold
out promises of elegance which the in
terror fails to fulfil-like rich and ar
tlstic cover on a volume of cheap wood
cuts and literary trash. The rule that
the front hall should strike the key note
of the rest Of the house does not apply
to the outside of the front door.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-05-12
FACETIA.

AFTER the passage of the ordinance
prohibiting drays from going at a
greater speed than walk, Miggs went
to one of the councllmen and said:
"Say, If you hear of any one who
wants good dray horse send him to
me-"
Have you got one to sell?"
"You bet I've got the boss! He'll
never violate the ordinance and stick
his owner for a fine."
"Why, what sort of horse is hep"
"Well, l started with him IN a
funeral procession yesterday and was
distanced by the entire gang before 1
had gone five blocks. On, he's a daisy
for an Atlanta dray horSem
And Mlggs left the councilman in a
brown study whether Miggs was in
Jest just joking
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-05-12

BOILING MILK.-The souring of
milk is caused by the change of the
sugar of milk into Tactic acid. Now,
if milk be put into bottles which, after
being well corked, are placed in pan
with cold water, and gradually rising
to the boiling point, and, after being
allowed TO cool, be taken out and Kept
IN a cool place, the milk will keep per-
fectly for more than half year. IL
the milk be exposed to the air after
boiling, the caseine gradually recoyers
its power of converting sugar into Tactic
acid. In this case the boiling has to
be repeated every day OF every second
day, and milk may thus be kept fresh
for two months or more. IL access of
air he prevented, only one boiling, or,
rather, heating to the boiling point is
required. The action of caseine in pro-
ducing Tactic acid may be rendered
very slow by a reduction OF temper
ature. If milk be kept at low tenn
perature-approaching freezing point,
for instance-it will not turn sour for
several days.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-05-12

I'VE use no oleomargarIne here, "
was the allurIng sign displayed in front
of restaurant that attracted hungry
traveller. But there was no miStakng
the fcticious nature Of the butter placed
before HIM, and he angrily addressed
the proprietor:
"I thought you said you used no
oleomargarine?"
Neither do l." placidly replied the
restaurateur.
whats that them"
''OleomaTgarine."
''Then you acknowledge that you do
use it?"
mo, sir, don't. L give it to my
customers to use.''
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-05-12

"YoU used to live IN one Of the
quietest parts of the city. remem-
Der well how you boasted that you
could leave all your doors and windows
open at night with perfect security"
"Yes, but that's all changed now.
Why, it's as much as my life is worth
to walk out to my gate after dark -
: "What caused this changer"
"a policeman passes my house twice
in the night"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-05-12

"I'Sf afraid of these coachmen," re-
marked one old gentleman to another
in a Broadway stage.
"How so?i'
They are always running of with
ones daughter, and all that sort Of
thing. Amt you afraid?"
"Not particularly
'How do you manage it? Do you
hire a married MANI"
mo"
''Do you hire companion to watch
your daughter?"
''No. L don't think there is any
danger in my case"
"Oh! 1 see; you have no cOachman. :"
mo. No dauQhter.n
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-05-12
y good man is kinder to his enemy
than bad men are to their friends.

IHAvE been afflicted with catarrh
for 20 years. 1t had become chronic,
and there was constant dropping Of
mucous matter from the roof Of my
mouth. 1t extended to my throat,
causing hoarssness and great difficulty
in speaking, indeed for years was not
able to speak more than thirty min
utes, and often this with great difficulty.
l also. to a great extent. lost the sense
of bearing in the left ear. and of taste.
By the use of Ely's Cream Ba,m have
received more relief than from all other
remedies beside. All dropping of
mucous has ceased and my voice and
hearing are greatly improved.-Jas.
W. Davidson, Attorney at Law, Mon
mouth, Warren Co, Ill.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-05-12

An old physician, retired from practice, having
had placed In his hands by an East Iodla mission
airy he formula OF simple vegetable remedy for
the speedy and permanent cure OF Consumption
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma, .ad al Throat and
Lung Affections, also positive and radical cure
for Nervous Debility and al Nervous Complaints,
after having tested It's wonderful curative poweri
In Thousands of cases, has fet II his duty to make
known 10 his suffering fellows Aciuated by this
motive and desire TO relieve human suffering,
VIII send free OF charge, TO al who desire n, this
recipe, IN German, French or English, with fnll
directions for preparing and using. Sent BY mall
BY addressing with stamp, naming this paper, w.
A. MOVES, l49 Potcer's Block, Rochester, n Y.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-05-12

The GRAND SECRET of female beauty is
health-the secret of health is the power
to eat. digest and assimilate a proper
quantity of Wholesome food. Take
VINEGAR BrITERs. 1t will cleanse the
stomach, tone the vital organs, give a
perfect digestion, purify the blood,
clear up the complexion, and produce
state of genuine female loveliness,
with which no cosmetic can compare.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-05-12
80, 1t was PitifuI.J,

or course it was He tried one remedy
after another, and finally gave up and died,
when his life might have been saved by tax
ing DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discoy.
ery"-the great Consumption Cure
which, if promptly employed, will soon
subdue all threatening symptoms, such as
cough, labored breathing, night-sweats,
splitting of blood, etc, and restoring wan
ing strength and hope, effectually stop the
poor consumptive's rapid progress grave
ward. Is it not worth trying? All drug
gists
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-05-12
'tBe wise with speed;

A IOoI az fOrty IS IOOI lndeed 7!
So said Young. Straws show which
way the wind blows, and there are a score
of symptoms any one of which shows the
existence of catarrh. Neglected, it will rob
the blood of its purity and the system of its
strength. Get DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
1t cures even long standing cases, as thou
sands testify, and should be used for colds
in the head, which often result in confirmed
catarrh.