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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-04-17

n II q LORRAINE CHAPTER, No. 80.
W liz D. Regular Communications, nrst
and third Monday evenings in each month.
Mrs. EVA l.. MERHELL, W. NJ.
DIR. IL. YANT. Sec.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-04-17

a AZ. & A. NJ, Delta Lodge No. u
~ - Regular communications, hrst ana
. ~ third Saturday evenings In eacn
M month. &. Il. FREEMAN, W. NJ
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-04-17

i. W. NTOUTt
CYPRUS CHAPTER No. 63, X. A. M, meets
In Masonic Hall every 2d and Attn Thursday.
Visiting brethren cordially invited
p. A. SIMMONS, III. +.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-04-17

I. o. q. F.. Pioneer Lodge q
No. l79.-Regular meetings
every Tuesday evcn.ng.V 8
itingbrethrening in good stand
ing cordially invited.
X. NJ. WOODWARD, N. u.
IN. DEAL. Sec.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-07

Col. FRED GRANT vans the Chinese
mission, and makes no secret of the
fact, but he SAYS: 81 I'M not making
any effort TO secure the position. nor
do l intend to DO so. 1 would like to
go to China, because / think l could
do more good there than in any other
place. Nv fathe 7, as You know, was
greatly liked by the Chinese Govern
ment. They apprecia' ed his kindly
policy toward them, and showed this
when he visited China in his 10 r around
the world. While with him there 1
made the acquaintance Of many of the
leading Mandarins, whish I'm sure
would be valuable to me and % our
Government"
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-07
Wages of Westinghouse.

In the twenty-five largest cities in the
country II, 427 women who earn their
living by work were interviewed by Gov
eminent agents. They make ON an
average 1851 per week, and they repre-
sent $40 vacations. Their average age
is twenty-five years seven months, and
their average engagement in work four
years nine months. OF the 17,427
womon, 1887 are single, 14,91S live at
home, 1854 give their earnings to home
life, 1881 are educated, II $500 are in
good health, 12,020 live comfortably,
and only 1900 do not go to church.
There is a good deal of food for interest
ing comment in the figures that have
been collected. They show that the
IN who earn the highest wages are
absent from work least, which proves
that intelligent employment is best for
health as well as for money. Another
point is the moral condition Of working
women. Mr.. Wright finds them "as
honest and as virtuous as any other
class of citizens" This is eminently
true. Employment teaches the value of
uprightness, and people who work are
the people who lead the most correct
lives. -BaltimOre american.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-07
Something About st. Thomas.

Correspondence of the Picayuns says:
The name of the little city on the island
of st. Thomas, Danish West Indies, is
Charlotte Amelia. 1t was once a strong
hold Of BluebeaId's pirates, who for
years were the terror of the West India
waters. The port is very easy of access,
and is q coal supply station fora number
Of vessels of all nations. 1t is supplied
with a large floating dry dock for the re-
pair of disabled ships. 1t is the central
point for the distribution Of mails for
all the West India ports. Its length is
thirteen miles east and west, with the
average breadth of three miles. There
is n mountain ridge extending the whole
length of the island from 1,400 to 1,500
feet high. To the south lies the island
Of st. Croix distant forty miles, and
Porto Rico thirty miles to the west. Ii
was discovered by Columbus in 1893,
during his voyage TO the West Indies.
The island is now inhabited principally
by Danes.
A strong garrison is maintained here
by the Danish government. In 1867
there was a strong talk of the island
being purchased by the United States,
but through some serious obstacle the
negotiations were not concluded. The
island and st. Thomas forty years ago
and now are totally different. Then the
island was dotted over with palatial
houses situated on immense tracts of
sugar cane. Sugar, molasses, rum,
fruits and a certain kind Of lumber
were among the exports. The town of
Charlotte Amelia, the capital, -four
ished and clusters Of houses with
their brilliant red, fiat roofs which arose
(the houses are low and all built Of a ma
tive sandstone; the roofs are made of the
same material painted red or given a
coat Of whitewnsh; these stones are cut
entirely by hand, and the
houses stand for years, every
poor man has his stone palace from the
SUBMITS of three hills projecting from
the sides of a dark range of mountains,
forming n noble background, and is still
a marvelously beautiful sight No finer
picture, it has been truly said, for an ar
lists pencil exists anywhere than this
little town, which descends to the
waters edge lined with wharves and Jet
hes. But, with the abolition Of slavery
IN 1S4s the planters and most Of the
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-07
Gigantic Crabs.

OF the crab family, one of the largest
and most remarkable specimens is to be
found in Japan, where it is highly es-
feemed MS an article of food. Its chief
claws are each five feet in length, meas
uring from ten to twelve feet between
the nippers, and presenting an astonish-
ing spectacle when entangled in the
nets and hauled aboard the boats. The
body is almost triangular and compar-
ativelysmall. The crabs have there mark
able habit Of leaving the water at night
and crawling up the shores of the coast,
presumably to feed, and there they are
sought by the crab hunters. A story is
told Of a party of fishermen who had
camped out on the river bank, and one
of whom aroused the others in the night
by wells and screams. Running to the
spot they found that one of these mon
ster crabs, in wandering oyer the flats,
accidentally crawled over the PROSTATE
fisherman. He awoke with the great
claws moving about him, and it would
be hard to tell whether the man or the
crab was the more terrified.
But the robber-crab of the Indian
Ocean, surpasses even the japanese
crab in strength. 1t is called the palm
crab, because it lives in the c%ocoanut
groves. making its nest in a hole under
the tree. 1t subsists upon the fruit,
tearing the husks from the nut with its
claws, and carrying it to its bed as a
lining. The Malays often pillage the
crabs nests and get the snreds of husk
to calk their vessels, or for the manufac-
ture Of mats and other articles. These
crabs are very intelligent, for they
always open the end of the nutthat con-
tains the eye spots, and hammer away
at the eyes until an opening is made.
Sometimes n will secure so firm hold
upon a nut with its large claw, that it
a dash it against n rock untilthe shell
is Observation-Disclosures Times.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-07
Menaces to Health in Africa.

A veteran African explorer says: "The
greatest danger to health in tropical
climates, or at any rate in tropical
Africa, occurs from catching cold. Two
other ~imprudences next to be guarded
against are excuses of any kind in eat
ing or drinking or exposing ones self
too much to the direct RAYS Of the sun.
Errors in diet are promptly and piteous-
" punished with sickness, and as Euro
peans are all the better in health for
taking a good deal Of exercise, they are
easily liable to get sick if they expose
themselves to the suns rays without the
protection Of an umbrella, which is fire.
quently done by newcomers out Of fool
ish bravado."
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-07

merchants left and sold out. The mag
niicent country houses and plantations,
once the pride of the country, are now
used, some as coal kilns, and others for
purposes too numerous to mention. OF
late years the island has been slowly but
surely regaining its lost prestige. The
island is an excellent resort for those
troublediwith Brights disease and should
be visited only during the winter
months. A few months up in the
mountains cannot fail to prove beneft-
cial. The population of the island is
10000. There are plenty of good schools
and, under a good local government, ed
ucation is making rapid strides forward.
-Picdyune.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-07
French Police Appalled, by a Mob.

The French Police are not at all
effective in managing street mobs.
When they have an overwhelming show
Of military in Paris they can keep the
people in check, but when the ordinary
police force or municipal soldiery are in
sole charge, the officers are entirely in
efficient. When Boulanger took his seat
in the Chamber a great crowd of about
fifty or sixty thousand people assembled
near the bridge which crossed the Seine
to the Chamber of Deputies. Then, as
now, the Partisan authorities underesti-
mated the strength of Boulanger with
the populace. They supposed that there
would not be more than a casual gather
ing of a thousand or two of people, and
there was a small force of police on hand.
1t is %proverbial that n big crowd of
Frenchmen is likely to develop into
almost anything, and perhaps the nerv-
usnes of the police was not without
cause They tried to keep the principal
drive from the bridge to the Madeline
open, and made q thousand other efforts
to keep the crowd in order. After the
first hour, however, they were absolute
ly powerless, and all the available mem
bers of the force were called together
and placed in a groupe at the entrance
of the bridge. They decided to hold
that point at all events, and to keep the
crowd from rushing across the river.
After a time Boulanger's carriage came
along. He received magnificent ova-
ton, finally passing through the ranks
of the police to the bridge. There, after
an immense effort, the authorities sue
ceeded in holding the mob back, but
their success was very closely allied to
failure. Half a dozen New York police
men would have held the bridge with
ease, while several hundred Frenchmen
were almost carried away. There would
have been a great many broken heads,
perhaps, but then that seems TO be a
specially of the New York force.-N. Y.
Star,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-07-11
Is Our Climate Changing ?

We are inclined to ask this question
by reason Of eur hearing So many re-
ports from the country, this summer,
OF diseases which have not heretofore
prevailed tosuch an extentas they are
doing From all quarters we hear OF
Diarrh@a, Cholera Morbus and kindred
Bowel Complaints. We therefore warn
our readers that, il they would avoid
serious sickness, to shun all unripe fruit
use no vegetables not fully matured,
and above all, to be provided with a
bottle of Lytle's Elixir and bottle OF
DIR. Harris Relief, so that, if attacked
with this disease, you can cure your
self at once, for in sickness of this
kind delay is especially dangerous.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-07-11

A big convention Of ex-Confederates
was held in Little Rock, Ark, on last
Thursday to devise ways and means
for the erection and maintenance of a
home for disabled Confederate SOL
diers. An association was formed, a
large sum of money subscribed and ar
rangements perfected for pushing the
project to speedy accomplishment.
Capt Joe Turney escorted Joe Cole
from Jonesboro to Nashville last Sun.
day. Cole has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for life for killing young
Burchfeld in Unicoi county about a
year ago. Cole tried to escape by
jumping through the car window
while the train was moving 80 miles
an hour, but was caught and hauled
back.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-07-11
Wiley N. CHRISTIAN,
Johnson Gity, Tenn.

If she does you may set it down she
is all right, but if she does not try to
get her to do so as a matter of economy
for yourself and philanthropy to
othersn
She can get her a new dress at the
very bottom price that any other man
will offer the same goods to her for
CASH, and the cash will knock the bot
tom out SO as to get a little below.
And she can get her pair of Ziegler
Bros Shoes that will outwear all 9TH
ers, and it's economy to buy the best,
for the best of anything is none too
good.
Embroidered dress fronts or hounc-
ing, with the profits cut off, is the way
we now sell.
Atwood filling Jeans fresh from the
factory, and full s on. in weight, at the
low price OF % cents.
Coffee, Sugar, Meat, Meal and Flour
sold as low as they can be had any
where, and owing to the fact of the
closeness of the margin and that the
goods are CASH goods, we must ask
our friends to remember that these
things can only be sold for pay down
in other words, these are
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-07-11
How 70 CHOOSE A WIFE.

\ Dung man, you may not have
the nerve TO tell any one that Won
want to make such a choice, but Il
is not necessary for you to do so. IA
little study of human nature and the
experience of all older persons is
such a commentary on your thoughts
that all know that your thoughts run
in this line, though youhaye not said
so. A good wife is the greatest boon
with which a man can be blessed,
and assuredly, if you want wife at
all, you want good wife so, then,
we presume you want to know how
to choose a good wife.
Don't choose one simply because she
is pretty, though that is not an obiec-
ton; nor because she talks fuentIy,
Tor she may, after the honeymoon is
over, be entirely too fuent nor be-
cause she dresses stylishly, though we
admire good taste, yet unless your in
come be something handsome, style
may keep your nose to the grindstone.
Don't choose her from the fact that
she is roigning society belle, for soci-
ETY. bellies are not always content when
not in society, and it might not suit
your business to be all the time in so.
tciety, and you might not want to en-
trust your wife to the care of some so.
ciety young man, while you stay at
home and work to pay for the ball
dresses and the slippers which she is
wearing out while dancing the german
with young manwho owes the tailor
for the suit he wears.
But choose her ior her gentleness
and goodness of heart. Choose her fol
her amiable disposition-for her kind
ness to her mother, for her industry
and for her tidy, neat appearance a
home as well as in society for be-
kind, gentle disposition to her broth
ers, sisters and home folks; for he
habits OF economy and frugality, for i
is often said that a woman can throw
more out at the window with spoeI
than her husband can throw in at .ht
door with shovel. Then ascertain i
she trades with
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-07-11
A GRAND SCHEME
Wisely Planned and Wen Executed.

About eighteen months ago there
was organized a plan OF work that,
when carried out, would employ hun
dreds OF men and women and cover
a vast field of territory, 1t was the
organizing OF the Southern branch of
the National Garment Gutter Compa-
ny's business. The general manager
of this great company decided to put
the cutter into general use in the
Southern States. Being a native OF
East Tennessee, he was well acquaint-
ed with the people and country. The
first step taken was to send workers to
Knoxville, general headquarters for
the South, designing to send men from
these into all parts OF the Southern
States and work the entire country.
In order to do this large force had
to be organized, equipped and drilled,
A few men came from the North and
began work. These were experienced,
we'll trained men, able to teach and
properly organize; but these men
were too few in numbers to accom-
plish so great a work. This made a
want in the work that must be sup
piled from some source. The man
ager intended supplying this want
from native talent, knowing that good
workers could be obtained in this
country. There was school organ
| lied in Knoxville at first, which was
very successful, having an attendance
OF probably a thousand pupils. The
press of the country began speaking
of the work, and the people who haC
taken instructions were loud in thu
praise of the cutter, and, as result
the fame OF this wonderful invention
spread all over the land.
Large forces were employed to g
into the various States and countie
to teach the work, giving employment
, to many that needed work and teach
! ing thousands OF people knowledg
that is worth to them many time
J more than the cost. The success of tn
enterprise has been phenomenal, W
might say, unparalleled.
But the success is constantly on tn
increase, and right here in our ow
, community dozens Of own people ar
e going into the work as business, all
some of these people are among tn
Y shrewdest business men Of the place
The next part of this vast pro
4 gramme is to send hundreds of worl
e ers through the cotton belt just 9
soon as the crop begins to move an
thoroughly organize the work in thes
e States.
J. The plan was vast one and require
e courage and pluck to undertake it, bV
/ our Tennesseeans are not deficient
e the qualification, and Mr.. Doran, til
o manager, has shown himself equal
k the emergency.
6 Many of our people leave for the
y fields in a short time, and others wi
n soon follow. The best wishes of Til
e COMET go with them.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-07-11

GREAT is the force of example.
Commissioner of Pensions Tanner a
short time since made his daughter
his private secretary at a salary Of ST..
500 year, now the new Commission
er OF Indian Affairs, Thos. j. Morgan,
of Rhode Island, has his wife for pri-
vate secretary at salary of $1,000 a
year, Seeing the action OF these Off
cials DR.. Dorchester, Superintendent
Of Indian Schools had his wife APP
pointed Special Agent, This enables
her to travel around with the doctor,
when he visits the different Indian
schools and gets her expenses paid
and salary of 5000 a day from kind
old Uncle Sam. All this time there is
a law against the employment ofmore
than one member OF the same family
hy the same department.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-07-11

The young men of Cleveland have
set on foot a scheme to erect a hand
some and costly monument to the
memory of w. G. Steed, j. NJ, Hard
wick and Will f. Marshall, the three
lamented victims of Cleveland who
lost their lives in the terrible Norfolk
and Western disaster, and are meeting
with genuine success, having already
subscribed over $1,000 This shows in
a substantial way how highly these
young men were esteemed by that
community. 1t is believed that $4,000
can be easily raised.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-07-11
Consumption Surely Cured.

ToTHE EDIToR-Please inform your
readers that have a positive remedy
for the above named disease. BY its
timely use thousands of hopeless cases
have been permanently cured. shall
be glad to send two bottles of my rem
edy FREE to any Of your readers who
have consumption if they will send
me their express and postoffice address.
Respectfully, T. A. SLoCUM, M. c., 1871
Pearl street, New York.
222-283,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-07-11
THE COMET.
Johnson City. Toun.. JulyI1i, 1889.
WHAT Is TO BE AND WILL BE.
A Forecast Of Some of the Things in
Store for Johnson City.

WASHINGTON, July Gen. J. T.
Wilder has just returned here from
New York, where he has been in the
interest OF various Johnson City enter
prises. While East he perfected ar
engagements for five blast furnaces to
be located at johnson City with ca
pacities of $50 tons each. He also ar
ranged for a nail mill that will give
employment to / 200 hands. The ma
chine shops of the Three CPS road will
also be located there, and in one way
and another Gen. Wilder will super
intend The expenditure Of half mil
lion dollars for the company.
Gen. Wilder returned from New
York yesterday. When asked about
the above article he said that it was
perhaps a. little premature, but ar
rangements bad been made and thu
matter practically settled to erect fou
blast furnaces and the fifth one almos
assured. He feels sure that three o
them will be built within the mex
year. The nail mill is also assured
All this shows that the iron men o
the North are looking toward johnson
City, and, as soon as the Three G.
road is finished, will come here ant
locate. Woodworking men will ais
come, and in year or two johnson
City will be manufacturing tow
with a population OF 10000.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-07-11

Mary Ann ugherty whose attempt
to break int the Treasury with fraud
ulent pension claim was exposed by
President Cleveland, has been given Il
berth in the Department of Agriculture
by the present administration, "appar-
entity" says the Republican Pittsburg
Dispatch, upon the grounds that she
was exposed by President Cleveland
as somewhat OF hard character"
The Dispatch adds that this "shows
the value of notoriety when partisan
ship is at work. President Cleveland s
exposure OF this female did not by any
means show her to be an angel, but il
seems to amount to the same with the
Republican administration"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-07-11

THE registration of Gen. Jos. E,
Johnston Railroad Commissioner, has
been accepted to take effect the 10th
inst. This resignation has been in the
hands of Secretary Noble since early
in March, but it had been generally
understood that Gen. Johnston would
remain where he was, Gen. Sherman
having made personal request of the
President to that effect.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-07-11

Stratton & Stratton shipped the last
car OF material for the depot at Cleve.
land, on the Clinch, in Virginia, this
week. They have the contracts fol
three depots on the N. & w. exten.
sion, and as soon as this one is com
pleted work will be commenced on
the others. The material is all being
worked in their factory here and
shipped out, ready to be put together
This firm is also building house in
Virginia for the G., 9. & G. R. R. Co
In addition to all the work done fol
parties outside the city, this factory
gets its share of the city work and il
doing nice business, keeping twenty
five men constantly employed. They
have just added a lath-saw to thei
establishment and have ordered fou
new machines.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-07-11

Mr.. Harrison has reappointed as
Governor OF Wyoming Territory,
Francis L. Warren, who was displaced
from that position by President Cleve-
land for stealing public land and in
closing it as cattle rancho. Judge
w. w. Peck, Republican member of
the Supreme Court Of Wyoming, is
making it very unpleasant for Harri-
SON and Warren by bringing charges
ofperjury and land theits against the
latter, and supporting them by docu-
mentary evidence, taken from official
records, showing that when Warren
swore that he had lived ON the land the
whole OF the next six months preced-
ing his application for patent he was
then, as before and since, a resident OF
Cheyenne, and had been actually and
actively serving all that time as a
member Of the Cheyenne Common
Council for the Second Ward.--Amer-
Jean.