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barrel, guaranteed.
OK. Lide & Co.
IF. Crumley made flying visit to
Shelbyville last week.
Read the new Sunday law in an
other column.
Jobe's Livery stable has been light
ning-rodded.
Postmaster w. K. Rhea has just
returned from visit to Scott county.
G. G. Seaver has an immense stock
of Old Dominion Nails and is selling
them lower than ever.
Several johnson City people will
go to Knoxville Monday to hear Gil
more's band.
From the cheapest TO the best quail
ity queensware and glassware sold
cheap at H. w. Weiler's.
Buy your Groceries, Dry Goods
and Notions at the cheap cash store
of kirkpatrick & Co.'S.
Hon. w. P. Brownlow, candidate
for Congress from Jonesboro, was il
the city Tuesday.
Farming Implements Of all kind
can be found at q. C. Sewers. II
has just received large stock.
Mrs. J. S. Penn, of Bristol, spen
spent several days with her sister
, Mrs. G. h. Lide, last week.
G. G. Seaver's is headquarters fo
doors and sash and all kinds Of builC
ers' hardware.
!. CRYSTAL ICE COMPANY, Kno1
vile, Tenn. Ice made from pun
Spring Water in 200 pound blocks.
DR.. Savage, Of Covington, KY, le'
lured at the NJ. E. Church, South la
: Tuesday night.
Oliver Chilled Flows and Reape
and South Bend Flows and Reape
= at G. c. Seaver's.
Mrs. E. D. Hoss and daughter, Mi
Bonnie are visiting Mrs. w. M. Pa
ton at Bluff City.
OK. Lide g. Co. have the large
~ stock builders hardware in East TIE
nessee, and sell cheaper than any bod
Hon. Isaac Hampton, OF Dansvil
N. Y, arrived in the city Tuesd
night and will remain unit. Saturds
Don't fail to call and buy yo
goods of Kirkpatrick & Co. a
'e' save big money.
Miss Birdie Jobe come up frC
Messy Greek last night to spend
days with homefolks.
Miss Nellie Hoskins and Miss N
dred Smith spent last Wednesday
.nA Bristol
Jake Bewly climbed over a freiI
train this morning, end went W
see Recorder Lusk
-=- Maj j. J. Weller went down
Athens yesterday to attend meet
Of the Grand Encampment G. A. +
H. w. Weller deals exclusively
queeEsware, glassware, lamps, &c.
sells cheaper than any man in
and city.
Mr.. ]. E. Crandall has begun to
down the old Range building and
erect handsome bank building in
eao, stead.
Large lot OF Bay State boots
TO shoes just received, the best goods
the market, sold only by Huntt
ware Brown.
Mrs. H. A. Tolhelm, Of ShiPp
for burg, Pa, arrived in the city Tue
night. She ia sister to Mrs
- ~ NJ. ChritZman.
'" The poles are being distributed
liam the electric lights and the work o
line will be completed as rapid
|, 70 possible.
rs. Crumley Bros. are nov prepare
49, do all kinds'of tin work on shor
tice. Their shop and store room
Spring street, opposite John H
AIDES, Call on them for anything in
line.
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Mass Meeting.

The citizens are requested to meet
at Jobe's Hall Friday night, at 80.
The propriety OF issuing bonds for the
improvement Of streets and sewers
and Strengthening the creek will be
discussed
w A DIrKINSoN
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Conference Meeting,

The District Conference OF the NJ. E
Chnrch, South, meets in Johnson City
on the 18th OF May. 4 full attendance
is desired,
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To every purchaser of Suit of clothes from op we will pres,
with good stylish hat worth ST. $2oo This Hat does not
will be compelled any extra Proh on
ne sri
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The HOMES? TRUTH!
IRREGULAR CUT-THROAT YEAR
In Prices Of Clothing for 1888.

honestly propose and will sell you Suit of Clothes Pair OF
Pants from 81 to S. cheaper than any house in the city
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Nnils,N nll.!! NalIs!.!

We have large stock OF steel nails
cheaper than any body
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l& and ?SM al over VlWa--vaM Come % Vs
Cement! Cenent!!

No. l Black Diamond at 1896 pei
barrel, guaranteed.
TX. L;de & Co.
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propose sell Goods year cheaper than the cheapest and
don't you forget this
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ISAAC HARR,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,

johnson City, Tennessee.
VIII practice in the Circuit and Chanoe'y
Courts of East Tennessee and the Supreme
Courts at Knoxville Collectors especially.
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Johnson City, Tenn.
VIII practice Ia the Law and Chanc0ry Court
ofthe counties of Washington, Sullivan, Carriers
Johnson and Unicoi. Collections made any
where in East Tennessee
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LII WYERS.
BURROW,

ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN
CHANCERY,
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w. A. DICKINSON,
Mayor
, 1888-03-17
nn..lan rondnrs. Tor pI.pIny.

There Is no people on earth so fond Of
display as the Russians. The imperial
family sets the example with the money
wrung from the poor the princes and
mobiles follow, and of course the private
citizens must keep up the fashion. Their
hospitality is proverbial. 1t is their great
est pride. Strangers are always enter
tanned in the most lavish manner, and
one who carries to Petersburg or Moscow
letters of introduction from influential
people, is sure to be wined and dined as
long as he remains.
But behind all this o~stentatious display
IL practiced nm economy which the people
try TO conceal MS If they were ashamed of
It,. The private portions of the gorgeous
homes, the living rooms, are usually plain
aud comfortless, and the cost of n dinner
party is sufficient to keep the family for
II month or more. 1t is so in all the royal
residences. The show rooms are gor.
geous but the living rooms do not keep up
the standard. They are plain and poor
enough to make a fair average. The
ladies of the ordinary household have
their party and Inner dresses from Paris,
but the garments in which they appear
when not on dress parade are made by
their own servants at home-always plain
and often shabby.-William Eleroy Curtis,
, 1888-03-17

Any man thinks he csn teach school.
The college boy teaches In the intervals OF
lis vacation To bring in n little money, or
Ilakes IA pnstime of IL for a year or two
fter he gets his diploma, and while he is
deciding upon II profession. The man
who can do nothing else feels that he can
always fall back upon teaching. 1t is no
d-isparngement to the many able and con
scientious instructors to say that there is
a large number of i~ncompctents in the
profession, men and women who are not
qualified either by natural gifts or train.
ing for their work, who, while they may
have the technics knowledge required,
lack entirely-and This is the worst OF all
that warmth OF nRtur that would
enable them to kindle the sacred fire OF
pure aspiration in the breasts of the
children under their care. They have
nothing in them, and so they give nothing
out.
How many teachers there are of this
~type-empty as drums. You knock at
the door Of the soul, and get nothing but
sound back for your pains. In some re-
spccts the teacher is invested with n
Erayer responsibility than the preacher.
These young minds are so many fresh
tablets on which the first impressions of
lie are to be written down What shall
they bef Shall they make for intellectual,
End above all moral growth, for geueros-
ity, nobility, manliness and womanliness,
g. shall they crnmp the soul as well as the
lnind, and leave the better part of both
inertf 1t is largely in the teachers power
to say. There is n responsibility to make
the conscientious man trembic al times,
aud yet how many men there are who set
about teaching with ms little thought as
other men set about saving wood.-New
York Tribune
, 1888-03-17

The use of reading is to Tighten the
load of life and to open vistas of thought
which otherwise would be closed no us.
Nobody who has any sense wants to go to
school again and ''stodge" himself with
mere information. There are, of course,
persons who yearn to learn the names of
the kings of Judah in their proper order,
and to hear how backing is made; but
they are no better for it when they have
acquired the knowledge, even if las often
happens) they are not seized with n dis
tressing desire to impart 1t to their fellow
creatures. 1t has been whispered to me
by persons moving in intellectual circles
that the effect of even 1.-THE higher cult
uren is not necessarily exhilarating. 1t
may improve the mind without improving
the man, and as n companion in fact il
often leaves him duller than it found him,
lecause he has been educated beyond his
wits. The mind of man is very curious
md cannot be catered for without ones
ilquiring into its character.
What makes me laugh in my sleeve is
u see the fury INTO which preachers and
teachers and lecturers all lash themselves
because nine ont of ten will persist in
taking fiction out of the lending Libraries
instead of 'improviDg literature 1t
seems to be quite ineXplicable 10 most Of
them, though some, l see, attribute it to
original sin In connection with this sub
jcct it is pleasant, but by no means sur
prising to those who are really acquainted
with it, to learn hat Darwin was a de
Nourer of novels. After middle life he
lost his taste for music, painting and even
poetry. 'On the other hand" he writes,
novels, which are works of imagination
and even those which have nothing re
ilarkable about them-have for some
years afforded me prodigious relaxation
md p1auurrp md I nftap b1agg tho rnra
OF novclists. A large number of novels
lave been read aloud to me, and l love
them all, even if they are only middling,
especially If they end well. a law ought
10 be passed. prohibiting them to end
ldly.'-Independent.
, 1888-03-17

a certain barber in this beautiful city
has been veNed in spirit because some of
his trade seemed in n fair way TO slip
away from him. The manner of IL is this:
He has among his customers n large num-
Der OF Yale freshmen of tender years.
These frisky youths insist upon being
shaved, although their chins may be as
smooth rs the surface of a billiard ball.
Tn barber saw that in order to keep that
class of trade he must convince IT that 1t
had hair on its face, so he b%ethought him
self OF "A scheme. He took n very fine
razor and honcd It down to a very fine
edge. This accomplished, he so manipu-
lated the DOL that when it was drawn
along the smooth flesh 1t made a noise as
II the points were being scrnped off u
barbed wire fence.
He tried it on the first freshman that
came in, and the man went away looking
ns pleased as if his mother-in-law had just
died. The tonsorial Rrtis: now hourishes
II the freshman goes on his way rejoic-
ing.-New Haven News.
, 1888-03-17
spanish Americans in New York.

Latin America is always well repre-
scented in this city, though South America
gives us more permanent residents than
the central American republics. Both
countries send many Students to the col
leges here. Medicine, dentistry and en-
cheering are the professions oftenest
chosen by the Spanish speaking scholars.
Business between those countries and this
is growing more active every year. They
send us fruits, hides, fine timber, india
rubber, wood for dyes and sarsaparilla,
muchisimo sa~rsaparilla. Great quantities
of silver and gold bullion also come from
the rich mines which are now attracting
the attention of the world. From April
until September New York is full of
Spanish-Americans, who come simply for
pleasure or tarry n while on their way to
Europe, perhaps. These do not patronize
the Spanish hotels so much as they do the
most expensive American ones, for which
they have the most unbounded admira-
tion.-New York Press Every Day
Talk.
, 1888-03-17

The common bean was cultivated by the
ancient Egyptians, but their priests re-
Earded it as "unclean." The Old Tesla.
ment mentions the bean twice, and it is
certain that the Hebrews knew Of its eX-
istence Mt least 1000 years B.. C. The
ancient inhabitants Of Switzerland and Of
Italy, in the age of bronze, cultivated n
small fruited variety Of this plant. 1t
was also known to the ancient Greeks and
TO the ancient Latins, and it grew wild in
northern Africa in the days OF Pliny.
Tit first cultivation of the bean is pre-
historic. 1t was probably introduced into
Europe, say DE CandOlle, by the western
Aryans tCelts and Slavs) at the times of
their earliest migrations. A century be-
lore the Christian era it Kent into China,
and still later into Japan, and only re-
Gently into India. There were probably
two places where it grew wild before cul-
tlvation-south Of the Caspian sea and
the north Of Africa. The bean would long
ago nave become extinct had not man cul-
uvated it-GoOd Housekeeping.
, 1888-03-17
The Flat Headed Indians.

The custom of fiattening the heads by
pressure was about universal among the
Puget Sound Indians. 1t was done in in
fancy with a hat made of cedar bark,
beaten, pressed steadily on the forehead.
IL has been SO often described by numcr-
GUS writers that no further description is
here necessary. School teachers here have
been unable to see any difference between
the intellect of those whose heads have
thus been tlattened and those which are
natural. Some or the Indians, however,
believe that 1t has caused numerous head
aches among them in after life. Very few
infants are thus treated now.-American
Antiquarian.
, 1888-03-17
Friction In City Life.

I do not think that modern civilization
as it is embodied in city life, is an aid to
longevity. In the country, as people learn
how to live better, it is possible to spin
out n longer existence. Because there is
more friction in city life than in country
life, and friction acts upon the human
machine as much as it does upon a ma
chine of iron and steel. City life takes
more out of a man han country life.
What call the mechanical features of
city life affect longevity. For one thing,
we AVE taller buildings in town than in
country, and there is more going up and
down stairs. There is less repose in the
city. Thos who live longest vegetate the
most, and "A v%egetative existence is posi-
BILE only In the country.-Physician in
Boston Herald.
, 1888-03-17

1t is stated that another attempt is be-
ing made In Europe to popularize the
beverage known as 'yerba matey," so
popular in Paraguay and Brazil. 1t Is
said to max n non-intoxicating, aromatic
drink, and both as touching its chemical
qualities and p~hysiologic effects is not I'M
iii tea and coffee. That is to say, ''yerba
matey" arrests waste; 1t does not form
flesh. 1t enables people to go a long time
without food, and the inhabitants of Bra
iii and the valley of the River Platte drink
enormous quantities of the beverage for
this very purpose New York Tribune.
, 1888-03-17
SWEET, SHY 3

Oh, sweet, shy girl, with roses in her hel-t,
And love light in her face, like those upgrown,
Full OF still dreams and thoughts that, dreamlike,
start
From fits Of solitude when not alonei
Gay dancer over the thresholds of bright days,
Tears quick to her eyes as laughing to her lips;
A game OF hide and seek with time she plays,
Time hiding his eyes from hersin bright eclipse.
Oh, gentle souled how dear and good she is,
Blessed by soft dews OF happiness and love,
Graded in tenderest armsl Her mothers kiss
Seals all her good night prayers. Her fathers
smile
Brightens her mornings. Through the earth shall
move
Her child sweet soul, not far from heaven the
whilel John James Piatt.
, 1888-03-17

Every one speaks Spanish here and
every one smokes cigars. Young men and
maidens, old men and children, are SEEM
ingly never seen without a long roll of to-
bacco in their mouths. They are an easy,
indolent race, as a rule, and between the
Cubans and Spaniards an armed truce
always exists. The latter dc not like
Americans, rs a rule, and are not partial
to their visiting here. The former, on the
other hand, think highly of Americans,
welcome them with open arms, and get
just as much money out of them as pos
sible .-Havana Cor. New York World.
, 1888-03-17

ait is II good thing to keep an account
of your small expenses, - ex-Minister
John Bigelow once said TO an acquaint-
unce, as he entered an item in his note
book. His listener smiled at the remark
but took il to heart. In recently telling
the story of his experience he said that,
up TO that time. he had never thought Of
the amount il cost him annually for cigars
and drinks and treats and other sundries.
He began to itemize the cost daily. He
was amazed at the end of the year when
he footed up the sum at $3.50. A change
vas wrought In hin lie determined
That, for the next year, he would keep
such expenses down to Oue-third Of the
sum in question. "And now he said,
within ten years / nave proGtcd by Mr..
Bigclow's advice to the amount Of 50. 600,
which / have handed over to my wife to
keep for hard times. And | have not be
come mean, either."-New York sun.
, 1888-03-17

The science of electricity, by the way,
has already been pressed into the service
of fashion. When, Mt a dance or dinner
party, a glittering dewdrop seems sud
denly to sparkle among the flowers on a
lady's shoulder, or "A diamond light flare
draws attention to her pretty couture, the
admirtng observer may take it for granted
that the possessor of the dewdrops and
the starry light in her hair is secretly
pressing II tiny battery, ingeniously con-
cealed about her person, and by means of
which the electric spark flies up, to the
danger perhaps of the beholder, if not Of
the possessor.-Pan Mall Gazette.
, 1888-03-17
DR.. Vagaer&cp.
sPBCIAL1srs

We offer no apology for deyoting 30 much time
and attention to this much neglected class OF
ity is too wretched to merit the ympathy and
best services of the profession to which we be-
long, as many are innocent sufferers, and that
the physician who devotes himself
to relieving the afflicted and saving
them from worse than death, is nc less a
philanthrophist and a benefactor to his race
than the surgeon or physician who by close APP
plication eXcels IN any other branch of his pro
fession. And, fortunately for humanity the day
Is dawning when the false philanthropy that
condemned the victims Of folly or crime, like
the iepers under the Jewish law to die uncared
for, has passed AWAY.
, 1888-03-17

LOST don't know where, | can
tell when. | don't see how-somethlng Of
great value to me, and for the return of
which | shall be truly thankful, viz: a
good appetite"
FoUND.-'Health and strength. lure
blood, an appetite like that OF a wolf, reg.
nlar digestion, all by taking that popular
and peculiar medicine, Hoods Sarsaparil-
Ia. want everybody to try it this sea
SON.. 1t is sold by all druggists. Que
hundred doses one dollar.
, 1888-03-17

Revivalist-Uncle Rastus, why don't
you give up your evil ways and become n
Christian
Uncle Rastus-Tse tried 1t, sab, Use
tried 1t. Use 'sperlenced religion NOR
wunce, but faint no use.
Revivalist-What seems t. be the
trouble'
Uncle Rastus-I specks Use too fond o.
chicken, sah.-The Epoch.
, 1888-03-17

President Rockefeller, of the Standard
Oil company, seldom makes n public
speech, and is, in fact, averse to such II
thing, He prefers brevity and cleaves to
business. And yet Mr.. Rockefeller might
condense a speech into compact form
thus: 'fm monarch Of oil l survey
Pittsburg Bulletin.
, 1888-03-17
Advice to

Mr. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. 1t
soothcs the child, ~softens the gums, al
lays the pain, cures wind collie. and is the
best remedy for diarrhoa. twenty-five
cents a bottle,
, 1888-03-17
SONo

Sowo the Children. They are rs
oNSS pecislly Liable to suddcr
Colds, Coughs, Group. Whoopiug Cough.
etc. We guarantee Acker's English
Kennedy a positive cure. 1t saves
hours of anxious watching. Sold by
DR.. w. N. Hunt.
, 1888-03-17

The largest stock of fnes ~brandies, old
whiskies, choice GqueurS and super6ne
cigars at George Masten's well known
house. corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets.
, 1888-03-17

In the year 1876 co, buffalo robes
were shipped ron Benton, NJ. I. their
value being $500, 600. This year only a
dozen or so were procurable there, the
buffalo having become almost extinct
Chicago News.
, 1888-03-17

Peculiar in medicinal merit and WON
deriul cures-Hood's SarsaparilIa, Now
is the time to take 1t, for ow it will do
the most good.
, 1888-03-17

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the
fashionable man is only veneer. j. G.
Holland.
, 1888-03-17

He who has less than he desires should
know that he has more than he deserves.
, 1888-03-17
LE- MEN.

There are many men of the age of 30 to 60 who
are troubled with too frequent excavations of
the bladder often companie by a slight
smarting or burning sensation and a weaken
ing of the system in "A manner the patient can
NOT account for. On examining the urinary de
posts a ropy sedimen will often be found, and
sometimes small particles of albumen viii APP
pear, or the color will be of akin or milkish
hue, again changing to n dark and turbid APP
pe4lrance. There are many men who die of
TINS diniculty ignorant of the cause, which is
the second stage of seminal weakness. DIR.
wagner Will guarantee n cure in all such
cases and n healthy restoration of the genito-
examination and advice. $500.
See the Doctors additional advertisement in
the Daily Denver News and Tribune-Republi-
can.
All communications should be addressed
DIR. WAGNER & co.
lilI Larimere street. Address, Box 27S3, Den
yer, Colorado.
Cut this out and take along
, 1888-03-17
YOUNG H:N

Who may be sutfering from the effects OF youth
full follies or indiscretions, will do well to avail
themselves of this the greatest boon ever laid
NER Will guarantee to forfeit five hundred dol
lars for every case of seminal weakness or pri-
vate disease of any kind or character which he
Undertakes and mills to cure
, 1888-03-17

Our Facilities for doing Job Work are
UnexceIled.
The Springdale news., 1888-09-28
Where the twilight nues are nitting

Where the twilight nues are hitting
 h the co)l and silent shade:
 There You see, at twilight gloamy
 From the dark green swamps arise,
 A ghastly form of dewy vapor,
 With cheeks of death and hollow eyos-" "How much more of that have youH' in- terrupted Alen.
 "There are tiftv-six pages in all" You had better bring it out in book form.n
 II thought I would first run t in the UeStei7, Hepu6}ien
 But our paper is not copyrighted, and some interruptions publisher might steal this from you.'
 His reasoning was so clear that the poet became alarmed, and, closely rolling hia manuscript as if he feared the precious treasure might be taken from him, hurried home to lock it up. Smiling at his success ful ruse, Allen finished his salutatory and, gathering up what news he could about the