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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-12-12

The new House officials are, Reed,
OF Maine, Speaker; MCPHERSON, Of
Pennsylvania, Clerk Holmes, of Iowa,
Sargeant-at.Arms Adams, of Mary
land, Door keeper Wheat, of Wiscon.
sin, Postmaster and Rev. G. R. Rams
dell, District of Columbia, Chaplain.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-12-12

Col. J. H. Rathbone, founder OF
Knights Of Pythias, who has been u
ing i'll for several weeks at Lima,
Ohio, died there last Monday evening.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-12-12
Music Box.

The largest and finest music box
ever displayed in Johnson City-play-
ing 10 tunes. Call and see it, at Geo.
r. Browns.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-12-12

improved and unimproved Real
Estate, both business and residence
property any kind, and any price, in
any part Of the city.
Apply to w. G. 81. A. MATHEs.
Room No. l, Opera House.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-12-12
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Important Change.

From this date Nov. 90 1899 / will
begin to do a spot cash or pay down
business. Will therefore open no
more new accounts and will close up
all old accounts as rapidly as possible.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-12-12
BUSINESS LOT.

2Sx7613 feet on Market st., in heart
ofbusiress center, offered for a few
days at $1,000.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-12-12

o fbusiress center, offered for a few
days at $1,000.
RESIDENCES.
Elegant s room frame residence first
class throughout, on Watauga venue
for $2500.
Good house and large lot in East
End $3.50.
ACREAGE.
3 acres on High St., will make IA
lots 50x150 feet offered for a few days
$500. (Bargain.)
So acres in East Carnegie about 70
lots $500.
7 acres strip in Carnegie addition
$4,000.
8 acres tract adjoining Carnegie
Land Co., at $75 per acre.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-12-12

lam FORCED TO ADOPT THE
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-21
THE ORCHARD AND GARDE1
Horticultural Hints

Sow THE lawn grass seed early, so as
to give the young grass q chance to be-
come we'll rooted before summer.
DON'T be afraid to cut out the canes
from raspberries literally, and cut them
low down. Too many canes in hill
will not produce as we'll as few strong
and stocky ones.
WHEN trimming grape vines let them
be cut and trained SO as to admit of the
air, and sunshine. Too much shade is
sometimes the cause of rot, as it invites
moisture. Trim the vines while the
weather is cold.
The continued warm weather for this
season may cause the buds to prematurely
swell, only to be caught by the frost
later on. The best preventive is the use
Of mulch, which prevents the ground
from warming before spring.
IF the fruit trees are split by frost
good plan is to heat grating wax, spread
it over a piece of muslin and place over
the wound, tying in place with strips of
the same material wrapped around the
trees! The strip covered with wax
should be sufficiently large to entirely
cover the wound.
MUhCHING prevents the early flow of
sap by preventing the ground from
warming too early. AS the frost may
catch the trees and vines after they be-
gin to send out shoots, the importance
of delaying the flow of sap should not
be overlooked. Mulching is more es-
sential during an open winter than at
any other time.
A CHEAP remedy for grape rot is to
begin early in the season, and scatter air
slaked lime freely over the vineyard,
busting not only the ground but the
vines. 1t should be repeated at least
once month, or after each rain. The
work is not as laborious as may be sup
posed, and will be more than regained
in the crop. Such is the recommends
ton of New Jersey horticulturist.
WHEN you order young trees one Of
the most important points to observe is
not to allow the roots to be exposed to
the sun or wind. A few minutes expos
ure may do irreparable injury. If YOU
cannot plant them Immediately on ar
rival heel them in until you are ready,
and before beginning the work let the
holes be dug and all preparations made
to avoid delay.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-21
THE DAIRY.
Bad Ventilation of Stables.

1t is a singular fact that in nine -tenths
of the cases, the fresh air is let into the
stable at the rear of the COWS, instead Of
IL front of them. The result is that the
cold air drops down behind the COWS, in
Its way to their heads, and sweeps along
with it the odOrs from the smokin g
drOppings, added to the constant exhala-
tions from the cows bodies, for them to
lnhale at every breath. Some have even
argued that this is the correct way of in
Producing pure air because animals turn
their tails to beating storm! They
forget that the animal seeks to protect
its eyes, and to avoid strong current
whi:h interferes with breathing, while
its head is still in the midst of plenty of
fresh air. The cases of COW in a storm
and a COW i'll stable are not the same.
Any animal closely confined will in
stinctively turn its face to the light and
its nose to the fresh air. Usually there
is some upward draft in front of the
COWS, but often there is none, while few
make a free use of absorbents or deodor-
izers. On entering, the air is loaded
with offensive effuvia and almost suffo-
eating. And then the dairyman wonders
why his milk tastes and smells Of the
stable!
NO d1hOuuC VI CAREFUL mixing ana
handling ofsthe milk will prevent this
mishap under such circumstances. The
odors and flavors which have been in
hailed by the COWS have mingled with
their blood and poisoned their bodies,
and the milk secreted from the blood is
loaded with these odors and favored be-
fore it is drawn. See that ventilation is
perfect.
Which is the more convenient, to turn
your cows heads to the wall and feed at
the sides, letting the droppings gather
in passage way between them in the
rear. to be taken out on q sled or cart
driven through, or to havethe COWS face
together, SO that all are fed from sim
gle passage way, while the droppings
are scattered along the two sides, occu-
plying twice the space needed? Or do
you want to shovel them out through
the window holes in piles against both
sides of the stable. to stand until they,
are drawn out in the spring. when you'
are in hurry with your work, or to be
left all summer rotting and teaching,
while your crops suffer for la.k Of
them? Would it not be better to put the
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-21
WINTER-W HEAT CROP.
Fair Average Prospects Notwithstan ding
the Unfavorable Winter

The following crop report is complied by the
Farmers Rouie,c, of Chicago:
March, the regnum between winter and
spring, is probably the most trying month of
the year TO the winter-wheat crop. This wear
owing to the lack OF snow in many of the States
and the remarkably mild, open winter expert
enced thus Tar, the season is particularly crit
ical Should a sudden freeze take place the
damage would be very great. As it is, quite O.
percentage of the crop i'll several States has al
ready been winter killed. Making all due allow
ances however, for these reports, the general
average condition for the winter-wheat belt as q
whole is fair to good and the prospects for
crop by no means discouraging. We summarize
the reports of our correspondents as follows:
In Ohio five counties report condition good
twenty counties IS to 20 per cent. damage from
freezing and thawing, others slightly damaged
from same cause; Marion County reports 50 per
cent. damage from Hessian fly, three other coun-
ties slight damage; two counties suffered from
fall drought; general percentage Of condition for
the State as compared with average, 89.
In Indiana nineteen counties r. port condition
good to very good, ten counties 10 to IS per cent
damage from winter killing three counties
slight damage from Hessia- fly: general average
of condition for the State, 93 PEI Grt ,
In Illinois thirty-three counties report the
condition good; eight counties 10 to % per cent.
Damage from winter killing; seven counties 10
to 70 per cent damage from the Hessian fy:
general average of condition for the State 94L
per cent
I'm Michigan six counties report condition
good; q number of other counties are still COW
cred with snow and their condition is presum-
ably good; ten counties report 10 to % per cent.
damage from drought and winter killing; one
county slight damage from wire-worns general
average of condition for the State ST per cent. T.
in Wisconsin, as in Michigan, some counties
are still snow-covered; nine counties report con-
dition good ten counties report 10 to Is per cent
damage from fall drought; general average of
condition for the State, S715 per cent. !
Four-ffths of our Kentucky correspondents
report condition good or prospects the best in
years No damage from any cause reported GEN
eral average of condition for the State, 9S15 per
cent
in Kansas the majority of our correspondents
report condition good nine counties report 10 to
20 per cent damage from drouth and winter kill
ing; general average Tor the State 9714 per cent,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-21
Nothing Better Than Farming.

There are certain class of farmers
who are never satisfied with the results
Of their labor, and they look upon the
mercantile business as something to- be
envied, and to be got into as soon as
they can raise the necessary capital.
They seldom consider how the success
full merchant has striven to establish
himself in the way of making money,
and how watchful he has to be to sus-
tain himself; still, there is no reason
why the same processes may not lead to
as great successes on the land as in the
store; indeed, it is a common experience
that it is so. Hundreds of men every
year make money to their entire salts
faction out of agricultural or horti-
cultural pursuits. They are not so we'll
knOwn-do not make as much show as
neutrality-suspicious. are too much
scattered to make this imposing apnear-
ance; but the profits we speak u are
as surelv in the one case as in the other.
These successful businesses are SIM
ply the results of series of experiments
us to what can best be done. Hardly
business that we know of, that may be
pointed out as illustrative of great sue
cess, achieved that success in the line
marked out for it at the start. A general
knowledge Of some one thing might
have suggested the enterprise, but one
after another, as some parts would be
understood, the least profitable would
be dropped, and, in many instances,
firms that began dealing in a dozen ar
ticles would end in only a few. We
have frequently pointed out the fact,
and urged on cultivators that this is the
only way to get into the special crop
business. There is scarcely district Of
country in the whole United States but
is able to grow some one thing or few
things little better than another thing.
1t should be continual subject of ex-
pertinent on every farm as to what will
grow and thrive remarkably we'll; and
having found this out, what would be
the prospects of good market for it,
1t is rare indeed, that any one who raises
just exactly what his neighbor does,
ever makes a great stride in the way of
wealth. He makes out of wheat, or corn,
or pork, fair, average living price; and
if he is little more intelligent than
some to the niceties of cultivation he
may make more than his neighbors; but
the rich farmer is generally he who by
careful observation and cultivation is
able gradually but surely to get out of
the beaten track.-G Germantown Tele-
graph.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-21
THE FARM.
The Best Fodder Corn.

Too little attention is given by many
farmers to the kind OF corn they plant
for fodder OF ensilage purposes. A rank
growing Southern corn used by many is
perhaps the best, on account of its great
tendency to produce abundant leaves.
These are the agencies by which carbon
is extracted from the air, and changed
to sugar and starch in the ripening pro-
cess. Cut just after it gets in tassel,
the stalks of this variety Of corn are very
sweet. 1t is very generally known
among farmers as the B. and w" corn.
Those who have tried it will pay an ex-
ira price rather than use any other. The
seed should be procured from Virginia
every year, as Northern grown seed is
not so good.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-21
Unexpected Greeting.

Many a mortified traveller can doubt
less recall the experience of having
stumbled along In some barbarous ira
vesty of foreign tongue, only to be
smoothly answered in his own Ian
guage. James Ferguson, Scotchman.
who entered the Russian service in the
first part of the eighteenth century,
was depUted at the. END of a war with
the Turks to treat for peace with the
Turkish Grand Vizier.
The two officials met, with two inter-
prefers, Russian and Turkish, between
them. Their business was satisfactor-
lily concluded, and they arose to separ-
ate. Gen. Ferguson, hat in hand, made
his bow and the vizier his salaam. Then
the latter, the official part Of the inter-
view being at an end, turned suddenly,
approached, and taking Ferguson
warmly by the hand, declared, with a
broad Scottish accent, that it made
him ''unco' happy, moo that they were
sac far trae hame, to meet WI country
man In his exalted station"
Ferguson stared with establishment.
and the turbaned vizier went on to ex-
plain:
MY father was the bellman of Kirk
caldy IN Fife, and [ remember to have
seen you and your brother occasionally
passing" QE4
Another similar surprise, which was
due to other causes, befell a Scotch
man named Wallace, who, while travel
ing on the great plain that lies between
the Sea Of Azoy and the Caspian, was
astonlshed to find ON his map place
marked Scottish Colony" On making
inquiries about it at Stavropol, he was
referred to a venerable man with fine
features, coal-black eyes, and long
beard that would have done honor to a
patriarch, who, in turn, asked him why
he wished to know about it.
Because" said Wallace, II myself
am Scotsman, and hope to find fell
low-countryman there"
Ills establishment was extreme when
the Circassianseeming patriarch re-
piled, In genuine, broad Scotch, 90
mon, I'm Scotchma1l, tae; my name
is John AbercromhV. Did We ever hear
tell O John Abercrombie, the famous
Edinburgh doctor?",
The explanation of this homogeneous
name and personality was a simple one.
In the first part of our century band
Of Scotch missionaries went to Russia
to convert the Circassian tribes, and re-
ceived from the emperor grant of land
on the frontier. Here they lived and
finding the older Circassians obdurate
during their teachings, bought from
them Circassian children, that they
might bring them up in the Christian
faith
In 1906 a little boy named Teoowa
was purchased with money by Doctor
Abercrombie, and consequently was
baptized with that gentleman's name.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-21

cows heads to the walls, giving them
the benefit of fresh air, with proper
ventilation from their rear up through
the roof of The barn? Wouldn't it
make the cows healthier and the pro-
duct sweeter? Then would it not be
better to have the droppings altogether
behind and between the two rows of
COWS, and haul them out at least once a
day, either spreading them where they
will do the most good, or pulling them
on your manrre heap, under the manure
shed to rot?-F. d. Curtis, in Practical
Farmer
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-21

IHE Postmaster of New York saws
that If tho rates paid by the Govern
ment for carrying the mails on the
railroads of the country were reduced
in the same proportion as the compa.
MES have reduced freight rates TO pri-
vate parties, one-cent rate for letters
could be Immediately inaugurated with
out increasing the present postofice de-
felt.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-21
Just His WAY.
graph.

"There goes a singular man." OBJ
served Woodward avenue grocer as an
old gentleman passed out with pack
age under his arm.
"How Singular"
He always begins business by ask
ing If we have any strawberries. In
season we say yes, and out of season We
say no. Ii we have em he doesn't buy; if
we don't have 'em he looks disappointed
for a minute and then gives his order.
His trade is worth $4,000 year to me.
| lost it once and had to apologize to
him.
"How?"
Il had a smart Aleck of clerk who
replied that we had no strawberries but
lots OF chestnuts, and the old man walked
out as stiff as ramrod. I apologized,
discharged the clerk, and he returned.
He's my strawberry as long as we use
him we'll. "-DetrOit Free Press.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-21

Three eggs, one and a half cups of
sugar, one-half cup of water, two cups
of -four mixed with two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder. Beat eggs and sugar
thoroughly five minutes, add water and
-four alternately. Bake in two oblong
tins in a quick oven
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-21
Chicken Pot Pie.

Wash and cut chicken, and boil for
fifteen minutes, then take out and put
in a kettle with several slices of salt
pork, and two or three pints of water,
one tablespoonful of butter, q sprinkle
of pepper, and add dumplings. Let
cook about an hour.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-21
THE KITCHEN.
A Few Hints on Soup.

Soup should form a part Of the daily
fare of every dinner table, and, if care
fully made, will cost nothing, or but a
trifie. The water in which beans, caul-
flower, rice, celery, or onions are boiled
should always be kept to make the
foundation Of purees and soups. Every
kind Of liquid which has extracted the
flavor of vegetable or animal matter is
too valuable to waste. They may be
thickened and favored for dinner soups.
For example, when beans or rice is
boiled for dinner, brown two ounces of
butter, add two tablespoonfuls of -four,
brown again, and add the strained rice
OF bean water Zone quartz stir contin
ually until it boils, season with salt and
pepper, take from the fire and stir in
hastily a well-beaten egg. Or suppose
there is cup of mashed potatoes or q
turnip, or very little chicken left over,
rub them through a puree sieve, blend
with milk, or stock, or both, thicken
with butter and -four, and season with
bay leaf, salt, pepper, and little onion
juice. A quart and pint will serve six
persons, when the soup is only part of
the dinner.
Meat soups, such as bouillon and con-
somme, are too expensive for ordinary
IauIly use, DuG all WnlCo or cream soups
can appear on the list. Cream of fish,
caulitlower, rice, Turkish, tomato, dried
pea, clam, carrot, lentil, etc., are also
good.
Take the bones left from roasts and
steaks, cover them with cold water, add
an onion, sliced, and a bay leaf, and
simmer for one or two hours, strain,
season, and add the beaten yolks of two
eggs, and you will have an inexpensive
Turkish soup.
All of these soups should be made at
a cost Of from 5 to II cents per dinner,
allowing one and q half quarts for six
persons, which is an unusually large
portion. Give variety to your seasons.
For instance, if you use onions one day,
use celery the next, making appetizing
novelties, of rather the same founda-
tions.-Mrs. Rorer, IN Table Talk.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-21
Fruit Cake.

One cup brown sugar, half-cup butter;
beat together one cup sweet milk, half
cup molasses, two eggs, three cups -four,
one teaspoonful each of allspice and
ground cloves, one tablespoonful Of
cinnamon, half a nutmeg, one pound of
raisins, one cup currants Grub them in
-four before using,) two tablespoonfuls
of cream tartar, one of soda.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-15

States. This industry represents many
millions of dollars, and seriously af-
ects the future prosperity of our State
If this problem was left to the orange
growers of the y. S. it would not be hard
to solve, but when we get to market we
find ourselves confronted with formid-
able array of foreign fruit. Thepast year,
ending June 30, there were imported into
this country 1865, ,S55 worth of oranges
and lemons from the following countries,
list of which has been kindly furnished
me by the Treasury Department at
Washington.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-15

Mrs Phoebe Chesley. Peterson, Clay Co.,
Iowa, tells the fo lowing remarkable story,
the truth of which is vouched for by the resi-
dents of the town Il am 70 years old. have
been troubled with kidney complaint and
lameness for many years; could not dress
myself without help Now am free from
ali pain and soreness, and am able to do all
my own housework. l owe my thanks to
Electric Bitters for having renewed my youth
ana removed completely all disease and
pain" Try bottle. so cts and 81. at W. A.
Allen & Co.'s. a
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-15

Now these countries can place their fruit
on our market for less money than we
can ours.
Jamaica, right at our own door, has a
soil and climate, that is SO well adapted
to the growth OF these fruits, that in
many places they do not give them any
cultivation, only planting the seed, and
with the present rate of tariff, can
but be a formidable rival. IIow often
have many of us received postals this
winter, saying "price low, market flooded
with Jamaicas"
On our own continent, Mexico claims
our attention. The freight they have to
pay, from most of these countries, is 15
to 20 cents, often less. Duty, 25 cents a
box on oranges, 30 cents on lemons, cost
ing, duty added, 40 to 45 cents per box.
have to pay to get my fruit to the
same market 55 cents, all rail 65 cents
The wages paid for labor in these coun-
tries are very much less than we pay here.
They pay from 10 to 25 cents per day
We pay ST. to $1.25 per day. Cost of
fertilizer is not so high as here At the
same rates, leaving out the cost of fertili-
zers which is in their favor, if it costs
me $1.55 to get my box of oranges to
market, it costs them but 65 cents, a
difference in their favor of 80 cents. a
Mr.. President, It is a general law of
trade, believe, that the man thattan
produce the cheapest is the one that con-
trolls the market, provided his goods are
equally ais good, and it is useless for us
to say that they do not grow as good
oranges in other countries as we do. [
have corresponded with many of the lead
ing fruit dealers they claim that such is
the case.
Mr. President, it seems to me that there
is great discrimination on the part of our
government to give our market to for
eign countries, to people who do nothing
to support our government, are not in
terested in common with us, in our insti-
tutions, our homes, and general pros
perity. In view of these facts the ques-
tion arises, Does it pay to be an Ameri-
can citizen? Mr.. President, it would
seem to me that Americans living in this
country, who have to pay taxes here,
to support the government in all it's
branches, having their families here, their
children to educate, spend all their money
here, and would be called upon to defend
it in time of war, should have the first
privilege of our markets.
may be selfish, but | believe it is my
duty as a good citizen to look after the
interest and welfare of my family, before