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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-03-07

There was man on our list,
He was regular sub
Scriber to our weekly sheet,
And said he'd pay the pub
Usher the paper for,
As soon as ever he could,
And II he conldn't raise thepash
He'd bring us some wood
The clouds arose, the snow came on
The wood il never came.
The mamie takes the paper out
The Office just The same,
So he does.
Rutherford Banner.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-03-07
General Harrison has settled upo

General Harrison has settled upon
several of the foreign appointments.
Fred Grant will go to China John G,
New will 60 TO Austria; Whitelaw
Reid will be made Minister to Eng
land, and it is probable that Murat
Halstead will succeed McLane to
France. General Wallace, OF Indiana
will have foreign mission, and it is
probable that Ex-Governor Porter will
also be sent abroad.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-03-07

SHILOH'S COUGH and Consump-
tion Cure is sold by us on guarantee.
1t cures Consumption. For sale by
Mcfarland.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-03-07

WILL YOU SUFFER with Dyspep-
sia and Liver Complain? ShiloRs
Vitalizer is guaranteed to cure you.
For sale by NJ A. Mcfarland.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-03-07

sLEEPLEss NIGHTS, made mis-.
ersble by that terrible cough, shi.
loh's Cure is the Remedy for you.
For sale by Mcfarland.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-03-07

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoris.
When she was Child, she cried for Cassoria,
When abe became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Cassoria.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-03-07

GROUP, WHOOPING COUGH and
Brnnchitis Immediately relieved by
Shiloh's Cure. For sale by McFar-
land.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
Official Courtesy at Washington

All through the Government ssrvise, as
in private business establishments, we,
of course, find the relation of superior
and subordinate, and from this relation
necessarily follow certain distinctions of
grade, or official Classification, and GER
tain rules of courtesy governing the
business intercourse between agents of
equal or unequal rank. The President is
higher than Secretary Of Department, a
Secretary higher than q bureau chief, a
bureau chief higher than clerk. An
officer, issuing instructions or commands,
5isregards the conventional or compIi-
mentary forms observed by him when
communicating with officers of equal or
higher grade; subordinate, correspond
ing with one above him in authority, is
more or less defereptial in his address,
This complalsance, however, extends
chiefly to such harmless expressions as,
ITO the Honorable the Secretary" and
Il am, with great respect, your obedient
servant" at the beginning and ending of
letters; and is only Objectionable when
it becomes indiscriminate or extreva
CANT. In district propfiety, official Gem
municetiOns should be addressed TO the
"ofice''-not TO the name OF the individ-
uaI holding the office; and q public Office
receives no augmented dignity by reason
of mere wordy additions. This was the
view taken by the House of Representa-
tlves at the beginning of the Government,
when the Senate desired to style the
President CHS High Mightiness." or by
some other senseless title: and the SEN
ate, by submitting to this view, estab-
lished q precedent applicable to every
subordinate Office.
In writing to high official or mem
Der of Congress by name, the prefix
"Hon." is permissible on grounds of gem
eral usage; but the employment of this
title in addressing minor officers is
meaningless, as also is the phrase, "To
His Excellency the President; yet, this
and other errors of overfusion are fire.
quently made by correspondents both in
and out of official circles.
In ranking the Presidsnt as head of
the Republic We regard him only in his
public cape ,ity. His preeminenoe is the
prominence Of his Office, and his Office,
as we have said, was intend &c TO exercise
business funotions.-From "The Routine
of the Republic" by Edmund Alton, III
st. Nicholas for March.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
CODkling and Sherman.
Cincinnati ENQUIRER.

One of the treasury officials for many
years was recently telling me of Conk-
ling's reception of him when he went up
on an GRAND in the interest of Senator
Sherman. Sherman was then in HAYES
Cabines,ssand he was very anxious to DE
nominated for President as representa-
tive of the administration. New Yor%
State gave him a great deal of trouble.
Either by request or of his own notion
my informant called upon Mr.. Conkling,
whom he knew fairly well, and made some
proposition looking to promises of pat
rorage if New York would get into the
Sherman column. Conkling, VINO never
lost an opportunity TO perpetrate an in
suit, soon saw what was in the wird. Said
he, in his most witheripg manner:
IF you will be kind enough to go 10
your master and tell him to attend to his
own business and that he may be salts
fed that shall attend to mine, you will
have served the only use you can be to
your master AMI TO me-
My informant says that he never told
Sherman what Conkling said, as it might
hurt his feelings. 1 heard Conkling once
say, or rather nod, that Blaine was man
of great ability. ] made the suggestion
and Conkling closed his lips and nodded
his head several times, yes" Ex-Sena-
tor Spencer tells me that the man whom
Conkllng expressed almost unqualified
admiration of among all the men whom
he had ever known in Congress was Henry
Winter Davis OF Maryland. At that time,
however, Conkling was on better terms
with himself than when he had been
spoiled by q redunant Federal patronage
unaer Gen Grant He Was the last M N
in the world to adorn pros perity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
SUNDRIES.

The greatest enemy Of the bird is the
family cat. She kills tbs young as soon
as Matched, and does much of her work of
destruction at night.
ScaIded oats and bran is a splendid
feed for young stock. After pouring on
the hot water, cover and let stand in a
warm place from one feed until the next.
Cover the soil around the rose bushes
with well rotted manure now, while the
ground is frozen, and you will have ap
abundant crop of roses when the season
arrives.
Cut out the old can from blackberries
and raspberries while the ground is froz-
Ell. Trim the grape vines while the
weather is cold. If the trimming Of grape
vines be deferred until spring it will be
unwise TO cut them at all.
practical test will convince the dairy
man who has tried it that his COWS are
capable of consuming and digestipg a
much larger amount OF food than the
usual allowance. Experiments of this
kind will soon denote which Of the COWS
pays best by noting whether the excess
of food is converted into increased guam
tity Of milk or converted into flesh.
When you order young trees one OF the
most important points TO observe is not
TO allow the roots to he exposed to the
snn or wind. & few minutes exposure
may do irreparable injury. If you can
not plant them Immediately on arrival
'heel them in until you are ready, and
before beginning the work let the holes
be dug and all preparations made to
avoid.
White clover is one of tke best pasture
grasses for sheep, and as it is hardy, as
well as being adapted to nearly all kinds
Of soils, it should receive more attent ion
than is usually given il. Sheep are close
troopers and dislike long grass. White
clover is rich in lime and other mineral
matter, which places it among the most
valuable kind for ewes, and especially for
young stock.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21

character and habits also more clearly
indicate his Habraicl origin.
ALFRED.
Alfred de Rothschiid is also very regu.
lar N his attention TO business in ssthe
lane" He is not generally credited with
any PARTICULAR aptitude for playing the
great game of finance, bat has charge of
the routine business of the firm. Almost
any morning on the stroke of IL his neat
brougham may be seen pulling up at the
corner of Cannon street and S.. SHith-
ms lane, whence its elegantly attired
owner proceeds on foot TO his office. He
Is handsome man, OF medium stature
and dark complexion, and his features
are only slightly indicative of his Semitic
origin. In private life he is something
of symbarite; his taste in works of art
is highly cultivated; he is q liberal patron
of some of the first painters of the day,
and an ardent and discriminative collec-
tor of old china and brio .s-brac.
LEPoLD.
Leopold Rothschild does not resemble
MS brothers in his features or mode OF
life. Tue younger brother takes bat
little part in the business of the great
house, and rarely puts in an appearance
delicate looking man of fair com piexion,
with a mild, kindly face. A liberal patron
of the drama, he is rarely absent from
MS box at the opera hoase or his stall at
the theater on first nights" and he
numbers among his friends many OF the
leading members of the profession. He
is in the Prince of Wales's set, and is on
terms of intimacy with the heir appar-
ent. But as an owner of race horses shat
Leopold de Rothschiid Is, perhaps, best
known to the English people. While
lacking his late uncle's enthusiasm in
his pursuit of the national sport of Brit
ons, he maintains a large stable of
thoroughbreds at Newmarket, where he
has also a residence, and it may fairly be
said that there are no coIors more popu-
lar or the turf than the RothschiId blue
and yellow.
One estimable characteristic of the
English Rocthsbild's may be noted as the
common possession of each of the three
brothers. Their charity knows no limit,
their sympathy once enlisted on behalf
of a worthy object. Their names are
never missing from any public subscfip-
ton list, while their private benevolences
are ever dispensed with open hand and
presumably open heart.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
Weed the Stock.

Weed out the stock with rigid hand
There are altogether too many inferior
animals found among the herds AID
focks Of the common farmer. These
pull down the average income seriously,
and in far too many cases wipe ont the
profits entirely. This aplies to stock of
every kind found among the farmers.
Note the difference between the returns
from the best and compare il with the
other extreme This is all the argument
needed.
It sometimes seems like a waste to dis
pose of the inferior animals ct the small
price they will sell for, but better far to
destroy them outright and without return
than to keep them when they DO not pay
their way, and are only q tax On tbs own
er. With every animal on the farm e
good one Of its kind, and if cared for and
fed in conformity with the best practices
of the day, there is no trouble about the
profits. Young farmer, if you are in debt
and desire to make the farm pay, see to
it that no inferior animal is fed at your
expense. Weed them Cut.-Maine Farm
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
EGYPTIAN WOMEN.
PecuIiarities of Their Looks, Dress, Manners
and Customs.

and Customs.
In youth the women of Egypt generally
have lovely forms-plump, supple and
elegant. An excess of flesh is rare among
them. Graceful curves, an upright car
riage and finely moulded hands and feet
are common characteristics. Their faces,
too, are usually pleasing and often beau
tiful, with the richly tinted softness of
the south. So sweet is the ex ession of
these faces, so bewitching are the chances
of their dark eyes, that an experienced
traveller declares they are the most per-
feet women in the world.
The eyes of nearly all are large, black
and almond shaped; their soft express
sion, still further heightened by long
lashes and the universal use of "Kohl"
with whi,h they bIacken the edges of
the lids. They have oval faces, some
times little broad, and clear olive COM
plexions. Their lips are usually quite full; ;
the nose is straight though little wide.
Glossy black hair, with eyebrows that
form lovely arch, com plete the features
of these sirens, famed since Cleopatra
for their beguiling beauty.
They dress their hair in an elaborate
fashion. It. is cut short over the fore
head, but on either side of the face hangs
q full lock, often curled or braided. The
rest of the hair is arranged in numero
bralds, usually from eleven to twenty
five, but always an odd number. Three
black silk cords bearing little ornaments
of gold are generally fastened to each
braid, hanging down the back in gilt
tering shower. The head dress is com
pick arrangement. 1t consists of a kind
of turban, round which is commonly
bound gay 'kerchief or a long strip of
muslin folded into narrow band. The
latter is usually black or rose colored.
The central part is ornamented for sever
al inches with spangles that fall over the
forehead, while the ends are decked with
gay edging, and tassels of colored silks,
above which a few more spangles are
sewed. On the crown of the head dress IS
worn a ro1nd, convex ornament called
the "kuss." 1t is about five inches in
diameter and as costly as the wearer can
afford. Wealthy ladies and even the
wives of some small tradesmen wear
those composed of diamonds set in gold.
Others wear pie golden kurs, silver
being seldom seen, even among servants
| The head veil consists of a long piece of
white muslin embroidered at each en-
with colored silk and gold or of eolored
crepe, oruamenSed with gold thread ard
spangles. This is drawn well forward
upon the head, while the long ends hang
down behind nearly to the ground. The
face veil, always worn in public, is a
simple strip of white muslin, fastened
Just below the eyes, from which it falls
nearly to the feet. 1t completely hides
all the features except the eyes, but as
these are commonly the greatest beauty
of the Romen it serves rather TO height
en- admiration than to queil is.-London
Tputb
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
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SCIENTIFIC ELEANINGS.

Steel, when hardened, decreases in spe-
cihc gravity, contracts in length and in
creeses in diameter.
The Engineer says there is no properly
recorded instance of locomotive ever at
tanning greater speed than eighty miles
an hour, and quotes Charles R. Martin as
saying that higher speeds are mythical.
4 Vienna engineer named Fischer has
just taken out patent for new smoke
abating process. He proposes, by means
Of electricity, 70 condense the solid part
of the smoke as it arises from the coal,
the carbon thus solidifed falling back in
to the furnace.
Austrian engineers speak fayorably OF
Giezi's pilot engine for preventing rail
way collisions. It is worked by electrici-
ty. under the control of the engineer, and
is run any desired distance in front of
the train, which it stops automatically on
encountering any obstacle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
Too Much Familiarity.

CHARLESTON, s. c., March 12.-Capt. f.
W. Dawson, editor of the News and Cour-
Ter, and agent of the Associated Press in
this city, was murdered this afternoon
by l. B. McDow, physician of this city,
It seems that Mellow, who is a married
man and father of a family, had been
too familiar with Swiss maid in Capt.
Dawson's family, and Capt. Dawson
visited Mellow at his Office to
demonstrate with him. Words and blows
followed and the encounter ended in Nc
DoW's shooting Capt. Dawson through
the heart. The murderer then locked up
the office and went out. Three hours
later ne surrendered himself 60 the po.
lice, and the body of the murdered pan
was found lying in MoDow's office. The
murder caused intense excitement and
there is talk of lynching.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
Farm and Home.
A SLEEPY LITTLE SCHOOL.
MALCOLM DOUGLAS.

A funny old professor kept a school for little
boys
And he'd romp with them in play-time, and he
wouldn't mind their nose;
While in his little schooI-ro0m, with its head
against the wall,
Was a bed of such proportions it was big enough
for all
Its tired for little pupils" he explained, 'for
YOU will find
How every wrong indeed Is to force budding
mind:
Whenever one grows sleepy and he can't hold up
his head,
make him lay his primer down and send him
OF to bed!
"And sometimes it will happen on a warm and
pleasant day,
When the little birds upon the trees go tooral-
looral-lay,
When wide awake and studious it's difficult to
keep,
One by one they'll get a-nodding till the whole
class Is asleep!
Then before they're all in dreamland and their
funny snores begin,
close the shutters softly so the sunlight can't
come in;
After which put the school-books in their order
on tue shelf,
And, with nothing else to do, I take little nap
myself!''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
FAITH.
AMERICAN MAGAZINE

sat and unused;
| felt so weary with the strife
asked myself the question, rs the prize
| strive so hard to win,
Worth all the toll. rebuff and pain,
The jostle and the din?"
And voice, from where knew not, came
And to my heart it whispered:
THE prize heed not; that aim would selfish
Work thou with all thy might and mind,
And leave the rest to me-
But who art thouf'' I asked.
: Thought the prize to be a stimulaHt to urge me
To elbow through the crowd; to lead;
To trample under foot all that oppressed,
And thus make greater speed.
The voice replied
IF thou wouIdst learn my name, heed my be
Think naught of self, nor what will be thy gain;
Relinquish not one whit of toll whatever be the
pain
Musing my eyelids dropped;
/ slept, ami dreamed;
| saw a spheric form. with primsy hues
Float in the azure blue;
A castle was within. painted with suntint rays
1t seemed SO real thought my dream were
true.
Spurred by ambitions Iusts,
So eager to possess forged my way
Through swamp, up craggy height, Ger desert
sands:
1t seemed within my grasp; | reached;
And 10! woke with empty, clenched hands.
Walking, looked me round; demolished was the
castle
That buiIded in my dream; only saw
Instead of it the wrath;
/ had naught left me but to learn the name
OF him who spake; followed as he babe me.
And found his name Faith.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
Poe,s Portrait nr A Sweetheart.

Augustus Van Cieef in Harper's Maya
zine for March: s'Mr. Poe was about five
feet eight inches tall, and hal dark, al
most black hair, which he wore long and
brushed back in student style over his
ears. 1t was as fine as silk. His eyes
we're large and full, gray and piercing.
he was then, think, entirely clean shaw
en-. His hose was long and straight, and
his features finely cut. The expression
about his mouth was beautiful. He was
pale, and had no color. His skin was of
clear, beau iful olive. He had sad,
melancholy look. He was very slender
when | first knew him, but had fine fig
ure, an erect military carriage, and a
quick step. But il was his manner that
most charmed. 1t was elegant. When
be looked at you 1t seemed as if he could
read your very thoughts. His voice was
pleasant and musical but not deep.
He always wore a black frock coat
huttoned up, with a cadet or military col
lar, low, turued-over shirt collar, and
black cravat tied in loose knot. He did
not follow the fashions, but had style of
his own. His was loose way of dressing
as If he didn't care. You would know he
was very different from the ordinary run
of young men. Affectionate! l should
think he was; he was passionate in his
love.
MY intimacy with Mr.. Poe isolated me
good deal. In fact my girl friends were
many of them afraid of him, and forsook
me on that account. l knew none of his
male friends. He despised ignorant
people, and didn't like trifiing and small
talk. He didn't like dark skinned peo-
pie. When he loved, he loved desperately.
Though tender and very affectionate, he
had quick, passionate temper, and " g,
very jealous. His feelings were intenses
and he had but little control Of them. He
was not we'll balanced; he had too much
brain. He scoffed at everything sacred
aud never went to caurch. If he had had
religion to guide him he would have been
a better man. Re said often shat there
was mystery hanging over him he never
could fathom- He believed he was born
to suffer, and this embittered his whole
life"
The same writer, speaking of Poe's
home at Fordham: 1.-THE cottage was very
humble, you know; you wouldn't have
thought decent people could have lived in
! it; but there was an air Of refinement
about everything. There were vines
growing all oyer the house, which had
been fixed up for them by the owner; and
| Virginia loved flowers. So there was q
bed in front Of the porch. Over door
in the parlor stood on bracket plaster
cast of s bird. I suppose it was raven,
but it might have been parrot. 1t was
the only piece of sculpture in the room.
[ when Eddie was composing poem
he walked up and down the floor of the
little parlor, with one hand behind mis-
back in his usual way, biting the finger
nails of the other hand till the blood
came. When he got what he wanted he
would sit down and write the lines, an
then begin walking again. I have hea-
it said that at times, after Virginia!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
AncientIPopulation of Our Southwest.

Frank Cushing's find of a vast cemetery
in Arizona bids fair TO be Of greater i'm
portance than was at first supposed.
Over 100 skulls being examined prove to
be of the broad or round type, and not
one of the long or dolicho-cephalic sort.
There fragments of remains of arts and
industries in the graves which enable
scientists to reconstruct quite fairly the
state of civilization of the natives of
that land when the cemetgry was in use.
But, most important of all, those who
were sent on from Washington to aid Mr..
Cushing have discovered that in the jaw
there is invariably a popularity almost
unknown to our race. The problem of
the ancient population of our Southwest
now seams near solution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
Dynamite in Warfare

Naval warfare evidently enters on a
new and unexplorsd fed through the
use of dynamite, says the Boston Herald.
Perhaps Zalinski's marvellous gun will in
the end also prove helpful TO human
interests by making the operations of
war vastly more destructive than ever
before, By bringing the loss of life and
property to q point where neither patrio-
tism nor self interest will lead men to
battle. Zalinski's gun projects a charge
of dynamite in the fashion of rife shot
By means of compressed air. IL is i'm
possible to drive this explosive in shells
Of any form by means Of gunpowder, for
the reason that the shock Of firing will
explode the charge. At first it did not
seem possible TO give by means of con-
pressed air a sufficient range, or to attain
q sufficient precision of fire to prove
really seryiceably ia war. It now seems
clear that the latest Improvements Will
propel the missile to the distance Of one
mile with something like the accuracy
attained by ordinary ordnance. The
shots weighing about 450 pounds have
been driven distance of over 1000 yards,
the maj GRITTY of the shots falling within a
rectangle $50 feet long by fifty feet
wide. The effect arising from the expto-
sion of one such charge against the sides
of our modern war ships is likely TO be
overwhelming. If the vessel were not
sunk by the shook, it seems certain that
the result would be to disable the crew by
the effects of the commissions upon the
nervous system. The suddenness of the
explosion in dynamite produces a blow
vastly more violent than that which arises
from the explosion of an equal amount
of gunpowder. Those who have had q
chance to observe on their own persons
the effect arising from the firing of even
a pound of dynamite near their bodies
must have observed the peculiar disturb
apce of the nervous system which it
brings about.