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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-01-23
shiIoh's Catarrh Remedy.

ShiIoh's Catarrh Remedy, a marvel.
Gus cure for catarrh ,diphtheria, ,canker
mouth, and headache. With each
bottle there is an ingenious Nasal In
jector for the more uccessful treat
ment of these complaints without ex-
ira charge Price 80 cents. Sold by
Kirkpatrick & Wofford, Druggists.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-01-23
Harris Hssa! Annual ae 1870! F!
Seventy two Pages.

Seventy,two Pages.
240 MISUNDERSTANDING Articles
of Interest and value to all Growers
of farm and garden crops, fruits,
flowers, etc
We want one reader Of every family
where the COMET is taken to have u
copy OF the RURAL ANNUAL for
1890. 1t will be sent FREE. If you
want the best Seeds, Plants, Roses,
&c, we hope to get an order from you.
Address JOSEPH HARRIS SEED Co,
Moreton Farm, Monroe county, N. Y.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-01-23

Louisville Times: II will be OBJ
served that Grover Cleveland has
bought some more land in Washing
ton City. It is onlyone OF a thousand
pointers that Ben Harrison is only
keeping 0leveland's seat warm for
him.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-01-23
DIR. Acker'S English Pills

Are active, effective and pure. For
sick headache, disordered stomach,
loss of appetite, bad complexion and
billiousness, they have never been
equaled, either in America or abroad
Sold by Kirkpatrick & Wofford.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-01-23
WATAUGA BANK.
nIRECT0RS.

s H. Yocum, II. Gildersleeve, J. F.
Crumley, w. P. DUNCAN, ], W. Hun
ter, Win Harr, G. G. Taylor, Isaac
Hsrr, O. X. Lide, f. K Mountcastle,
Judge John p. Smith, A. B. Bowman,
Transacts a Conservative Baking
Business. Buys and. sells exchange,
discounts notes and enjoys the conf
dence of the entire community.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-01-23

The Memphis Avalanche says: "If
every county in the state OF Tennes-
see were to vote from two to five hun
dred thousand dollars for the building
Of good county turnpikes, the money
thus expended would return untold
interest. Madison county, Alabama,
is realizing this. That county has al
ready voted $150,0O0 for the building
Of turnpikes and is so well pleased
with the prospect that it has decided
to double the investment Every
town in the State OF Tennessee could
profitably follow this example.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-01-23
shlloh's Consumption Cure.

This is beyond question the most
successful Cough Medicine we have
ever sold, few doses invariably cure
worst cases Of cough, Group, and bron-
chitis, while it's wonderful success in
the cure Of consumption is without
parallel in the history of medicine.
Since it's first discovery it has been
sold on guarantee, test which no
other medicine Can stand. II you have
cough we earnestly ask you to try
it. Price 10 cents, so cents, and 81. II
your lungs are sore, chest or back
lame, use Shiloh's PoHnps Plaster. Sold
by kirkpatrick & W0Nord, Druggists
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-30

bank defalcatOr."
ooh, come, now; won't you give a
fellow chance?" uttered her CON-
panion. GAS the school books say,
Strike, but hear I've. nobody's
money but my own, and none too
much ofthat. Idon't know nything
about your banks nor their defal-
Gators. I've been only two weeks III
your country and l think it is
the snowiest climate going. My
name is Ernest Tinsallon, and l was
to have been met at the station by
Col. Copley of the 4OOth cavalry
Eunice Barlow gave a little shrek
of amazement. ''Sir Ernest Tinsal-
lon!' she cried. "The Englishman
who was coming out here to hunt
buffalo and follow up the line of the
Pine river? But you have alighted
at the wrong station; you should
have stopped at the Pine Barracks,
seven miles from here"
II heard the conductor bawl out
something about pine of one sort OF
another" said the young Briton. 81
was dead asleep, and did not stop to
discriminate, and scrambled off
So I've made a mistake, have 1? But
all the same, it's awfully good of you
to offer to conduct me to place o.
christian shelter"
"And have made mistake, too, .
said Eunice with gasp. Gust be-
fore your train came in there was g
message Big Pine station
"a message to detain bank rob
Der who was said to be on the
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-30
Little Mixed.

Not long since a young clergyman
was called to attend funeral in a
neighboring town. Not being at
home when the messenger called, he
did not have opportunity to inquire
concerning the deceased and, by some
means or other, got the idea that it
was the mans wife that had died.
When he addressed the mourners he
spoke very teelingly to the afflicted
husband and sympathized deeply
with him in the loss of his wife. Our
clergyman noticed several times, how
ever, during the discourse, that the
audience seemed a little uneasy, and
he was almost Mortified once to think
that he perceived some of them trying
hard to repress a smile. When the
casket was opened and permission
given to review the remains, our
preacher stepped forward and--prestol
it was an old gentleman, and, he soon
learned, the father of the young man
who came for him to attend the funer-
al, while the healthy looking wife by
his side had been listening to her own
funeral sermon. = Lewist on (Me. }
Journal.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-30
The Doctor and the BEAUTY.

fashionable doctor having a house
on Fifth avenue, New York, prides
himself, says a Boston Herald cores
pendent, upon the favor with which
he is regarded by women. In this
respect he is decidedly unadmirable,
but his skill as a physician enables
him to rank high in his profession
despite his conceit. The other day
he received a summons to call on
young woman famed for her beauty.
She was a new patient for him, and,
as he arranged his cravat with extra
precision before entering his carriage,
he fancied himself on the brink of an
unusual conquest. Reaching the
house, he was shown into the recep-
ton room, where, moment later,
he was joined by the beautiful girl
whom he had been called to attend.
"Ah!" exclaimed he, rising to greet
he-, "you are not, then, i'll enough to
be IN bed.'
ooh! l am not ill at ALL" cried the
girl.
"Some other member ofthe family?"
asked the doctor, rather disappoint-
ed.
"Well," said the young girl, 1--WE
call him one of the family. You see,
it is my little fox terrier, Dixie He
has bone in his throat, and thought
you might be able to remove it,
With freezing dignity the doctor
got out of the house as quickly as he
could.
"Hehad expressed a desire to meet
me, said the beauty, speaking of the
matter afterward to a friend, land
he did so in a very insulting way. 1
was told of it, and | decided to give
him an opportunity to form my &C.
quaintance."
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-30
The Congo Forest.

One of the most striking passages
in Mr.. Stanley's letters, received before
he himself emerged from the center
Of Africa, was that in which he de-
scribed the vast, gloomy forest ofthe
Congo. In the parliamentary pa
pers'' upon the Emin reliefexpedition
ust issued, containing Stanley's re-
port, there is another remarkable oe-
scription of this wonderful region,
says the London News.
eve can prove" says Stanley,
that east and north and northeast
Of the Congo there exists an immense
area of about 100000 square miles,
which is covered by one unbroken,
compact aud veritable forest. A
scientific writer, Prof. Drummond,
as late as 1888. writes that the fairy
labyrinth of ferns and palms, the
testoons Of climbing plants blocking
the paths and seeming the forests
with their flowers. the gorgeous cloud
Of insects, the gaily plumaged birds,
the paroquets, the monkeys swinging
from their trapeze in the shaded
bowers, are unknown to Africa.
"With due Difference to the profess
or, these are precisely what are every
day seen within that area of25O,OOO
square miles, through the core of
which we Travelled for thirteen
months, and in whose gloomy shades
so many scores of our dark followers
haveperished. Ourprogress through
the dense underground of brush and
am bilious young trees which grew
beneath the impervious shades of the
the forest giants, and which matted
by arums, phrynia and amona, mesh
ed by endless lines of calamus, and
complicated by great cable-like con-
volvuli, was often only at the rate OF
400 yards an hour. Through such
Instructions as these we had to tun-
mel a way for the column to pass.
The Amazon Valley cannot boast a
more impervious or more umbrage-
Gus forest. nor one which has more
truly a tropical character than this
vast upper Congo forest, nourished
as it is by eleven months of tropical
showers
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-30
A Grateful Legislator.
From the New York Star,

From the New York Star.
1t is related of one of the most rug
ged of the rural Empire State sena-
tors that he was in New York City on
Saturday with his wife, shopping
He did not like the business, and he
stood outside on the sidewalk while
his spouse leisurely turned over all
sorts of wares in one of the biggest
dry-good stores. As usual she lin
gered, and he grew more and more
impatient and angry. He walked
up and down in front of the store,
and began to swear to himself.
Presently stalwart policeman laid
his hand on his shoulder. "See here,
my man." said the officer, "you'd
better move on. GIVE got my eye
on you"
"What for?" asked the Senator.
Don't handy any questions, -
said the officer. "You are a suspi-
cious character; that'senough."
'1?' cried the senator, in amaze
ment, II? Why, l am senator,
of-County, and here are my Gre
dentials," and he pulled out a bunch
of letters and passes with his name
on them. 'And my wife is in there
shopping, and l am waiting for her. -
The officer saw at once that he
was wrong, and was further convinc-
ed when the senator's wife came out
and addressed him by name.
81 see that / was mistaken" said
the officer, in apology, land hope
you will excuse me. / did not know
you, or OF course would not have
applied such an epithet to YOU"
"You think l am not a suspicious
character?"
Certainly not"
'I'm glad of it," said the senator,
with burst of gratitude. "That's
the first tribute to my honesty that
I've got since entered the Legisla-
ture, six years ago."
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-30
Couldn't Blow 1t Out.

One of the young men from Colum-
bia, Mo-, here attending the intercol-
legiate oratorical contest, remained
over in the city last night, says the
Kansas City Times. He stopped at
the Centropolis Hotel, retiring about
10. Atmidnight the Mailman noted
a peculiar odor, rs if from burning
cloth. Together with the night clerk
and a police officer he made an exam
ination, and finally located it in the
room of the young collegian. After
five minutes of hammering on the
young fellows door he was brought
to his feet. He made his appearance
to the searchers in a half-dazed sort
of a way, wanted to know what was
the matter.
As soon as the night clerk entered
the room he saw the cause of the
trouble. The young man had wrap
ped thin towel around the incande-
scent electric light globe, and it had
become scorehed.
"What on earth,' exclaimed the
night clerk, "do you mean by this?''
"The light hurt my eyes and I
wanted to hide it, explained the
young fellow.
"Why didn't you put it out then, -
SWELL" he said, in an apologize
fashion, 81 blew and on the thing till
l thought I'd 60 to pieces, and then
gave it up"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-30
An Adroit SWindIer.

He was detective, yet there was
nothing that indicated his calling.
II have had many fruitless hunts for
criminals" said he modestly to a
Boston Globe reporter. '"There is
not single detective but who if he
told the truth, would be compelled
to admit the same.
II remember one case where was
employed to hunt down a swindler
who had victimized many wealthy
people in England, but I failed. 1
think, however, frightened him out
of the business, for he stopped his
crooked work.
ellis name was Haven. He sub
scribed to a number of English,
Scotch and Irish newspapers, and
purchased a copy of 'Burke's peer
age When a notice of the decease
of a nobleman or a wealthy COM
moner appeared he would read the
obituary notice, study up the family
in the 'Peerage,' or if it was not
there he would do the best to find
out what he could of the man, and,
having done this, he would dictate a
letter to the dead man, his confed-
crate beinga beautiful young woman.
"The letter purported to be from a
woman whom the dead man had
ruined and sent to America to live,
and the letter would state that she
had not received her usual allowance
for SO longsa time, and that as a
consequence she and her child were
suffering. At the close she would
say that if she did not hear from him
very soon she would return and ex-
pose him.
cit was a cruel scheme, and in nine
cases out of ten worked successful lily.
The relatives, rather than have the
name of the deceased dragged in the
mud, usually sent what money was
asked andthen, after telling the wom-
an that the gentleman was dead,
would negotiate with her for settle
ment.
"Haven secured many thousands
of dollars in a couple ofye ars. Only
On two occasions did relati yes cross
to the states to investigate. On
these occasions Ravens mis- tress
acted the part of the wronged wom-
an, borrowing a child to accom-
pany her. She was clever, but on
one of these occasions she slipped,
and the young man from Europe,
suspecting the conspiracy, employed
me; but Haven had disappeared"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-30
How the Typewriter was In
vented.

In connection with friend, Sam
uel W. Soule, printer and inventor,
c. L. Sholes was engaged in Milwau-
kee during the winter of 1866 and
1867 in developing a machine for
printing the numbers of pages on
the leaves of blank books, after the
books were bound, and for printing
the serial numbers on bank notes.
Carlos Glidden, a friend of Sholes
with an inventive fancy, took great
interest in the paging machine and
asked why a similar contrivance
could not be made that would write
letters and words instead of figures
and numbers. The three men work
ed together upon this idea, but Sholes-
evolved the main part of the ma
chine. He suggested pivoted types
set in a circle. The principal con-
tribution of Mr.. Glidden was his sug-
gestion that such a machine ought
to be made. In September, 1867, a
machine was finished and letters
written with it. The invention was
far from being perfect writing ma
chine, but one of the letters, sent to
James Dinsmore, Of Meadville. Pa,
so interested him that he offered to
pay all the expenses up to date for a
one-fourth interest. His offer was
accepted. Soule and Glidden subse-
quently dropped out, leaving Sholes
and Dinsmore sole proprietors.-
Kansas City Star.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-30
BEHIND THE MASK.

Behind tho mask-the smiling face
Is often full OF woe,
And sorrow treads restless pace,
Where wealth and beauty 60.
Behind the mask-who knows the caro-
That grim and silent rests,
And al the burden each may bear
Within the secret breast?
Behind the mask-who knows the tears
That from the heart arise,
And in the weary fight of years
How many pass with signs?
Behind the mask-who knows the strain
That each lie may endure,
And oil the griefand countless pain
That wealth can never cure?
Behind the mask-we never know
how many troubles hide,
And with the world and fashions show
Some spectre walks beside.
Behind the maskvsome future day,
When all shall be made plain,
Our burdens then will pass away,
And count for each his gain.
Good Housekeeping.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-30
SpOOkeS and The Picket,

For the past six weeks public inter-
est has been conferred on an old house.
two miles south of Mount Calm, Tex
as, which is said to be haunted
About week ago, it appears from a
dispatchin the ST. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat, a crowd of people went at
night to see his ghostship and met
with quite a laughable adventure
One young man named Bub D., who
protested no belief in spookes, went
ahead of the crowd, and, after climb
ing up on the top of the house, sat
down, expecting the advancing crowd
to take him for the ghost. He did
not have long to wait. The crowd
came up and their words sent thrill
of terror through their bogus ghost,
for voice was heard saying:
"Why, there's two of EN-: tonight -
Bud looked around, and, sure
enough, there sat by his side simon
pure ghost. 1t was dressed in long,
flowing robes, not unlike shroud
for the dead, and it's eyes cleaned.
like two Goals of fire. To say that
the ghost personator was scared
would be expressing it mildly, for with
a yell that would have been sufficient
to wake the dead Bud sprang off the
house, and, as he afterward expressed
it, shit the ground a-running." The
crowd, thoroughly alarmed at the
GHOSTS action, made tracks for
Mount Calm, while the "ghost" beg
ged his friends to wait for him, but
the faster he ran the harder the crowd
ran, and was at least 200 yards
ahead when it reached Mount Calm.
There were twenty-five people in the
crowd.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-30
Economy of Heat and Fuel,

From the New York Commercial Advertiser.
Recognizing the fact that scarcely
more than Is per cent. of the theo-
retical power of coal used under Or
binary boilers is recovered in the
steam engine, and that quite IS goes
to waste in the shape of smoke and
gas andescaping heat, a big manu-
featuring arm are training their fire.
man to use fuel in the most advan-
tageous way, spreading thin layer
when it is needed, and avoiding ehok-
ing and smoHhering, by which fires
are cooled rather than intensified,
and fuel grievously wasted. The
firm have arranged to reward the
man who saves the most fuel, and
supply the place of those who shovel
recklsss'y.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-30
Forgot His SWeetheartS' Name.

Forgot His SWeeth hearts Name.
Rather a singular thing occurred
at the county clerks office q day or
SO ago. A young fellow came in and
got a license to marry young dam
sci and departed after going through
the necessary preliminaries. He had
been gone about an hour or so when
be returned in great haste and con-
fusion and said he had made a mis-
take in the name and was thinking
ofanother girl at the time he got the
license. Their first names were the
same. but their last names were un-
like as they could be. The name was
corrected and the absent minded
swain depsrted.-Des Moines Leader.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-30

Terre Haute Express: First Tramp = Bill,
what would you dc II you had thousand dol
lars? es1e
Second Tramp-rd give yous de cold shake.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-24
Sold His Own Coat and Hat.

An absent minded auctioneer is a rare kind
of phenomenon, even in France, and the
worthy knights of the hammer are undoubt-
eddy alert and busnesslike persons as class.
An exception, however, must be made in the
case of a commissaire priseur well known i'll
the salesrooms of the Hotel Druot, Paris, who
had to auction off miscellaneous collection
Of clothing He placed his own overcoat and
hat by the side of the effects which were to
be sold, and after he had satisfactorily com
peted his work henoticed that his two articles
of personal wear had disappeared. He sus-
pected thieves, and accordingly commune
Gated with the commissioners on duty, who
found the hat and overcoat Al the possession
of worthy dealer, to whom they had been
offered for Il few francs by their owner, who
in his fit of abstraction, had amalgamated
them with the ''job lot" of general apparel
which had been put up to auction. The
dealer, of course, made no objection to return
the effects for the cash he had paid for them
but the adventure of the absent minded
auctioneer served to throw note of gayety
into the usual somber and severe atmosphere
of the salesroom London Telegraph.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-24

The Marqu:se de Mores, daughter of
prominent New York banker, is described as
a very attractive, rather diminutive brunette,
wholly devoted to her harum- scarum, duel
ing husband She was his companion in the
wild west on many hunting and venturesome
expeditions, winning the admiration of herds
men and cowboys by her bold equestrianism
and great skill as u shot. Hers was familiar
figure dashing wildly over the plains, with
an eagle plume in her hat, and rifle slung
from her saddle She has killed several bears,
and is credited with causing the death of a
huge man eating tiger while hunting with
her husband in India.
She is named Medora Ortmes, 6fter her
aunt, once famous beauty, who was the
second wife of the late classical, cpicurean
lobbyist, Sam Ward. Despite her amazonan
accomplishments, she is said to be very deli
cate and dainty in person, dress and manner,
and is as well known in London, Paris and
Rome as in New York. Laramie and San
FIR, ncisco. As American heroines are so
much the fashion mt present with native ana
European novelists, the daring, bewitching
maruuise might furnish n fresh novel for
study and representation. In the west they
say that her glance and her aim are equally
dangerous, and the Indians have given her a
name which, freely translated, means the
delightful little devil on horseback.-New
York Commercial Advertiser,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-24
Are There No Grandmothers Today?

There are no longer any grandmothers. Az
least not in what we call First circles" and
''polite society" The dear old lady who once
sat in the corner content torock and knit and
tell over her romances to her gay young
granddaughters is no more
The old and elderly ladies of today are run"
ming the social and intellectual affairs OF
womankind Sixty and seventy is not bent
of spine and dim Of eye. 1t stands as erect
and moves with the lissome ease Of the girl
1t wears fashionable gowns, and its snow
white hair is coilfured la mode. These erst-
while grandmothers preside ut receptions
edit magazines, recite poetry, sing and play
pianos, and from the platform stand for tho
progress and rights of women.
Who would dream of addressing this sort
of woman us grandma Who would even
think it in the presence of Queen Victoria, or
our own Mrs. Grant and Logan, or Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Susan b. Anthony, or Julia
Ward Howe? When we want the dear Old
dame, who croons her old time hymns and
reads her large print Bible on her knee, we
must 90 back to history or penetrate the
rural districts, or search among our foreign
peasant population. Railroads and tele-
graph higher education, equal rights,
Christian science and theosophy have evolved
a wondrous woman but they have annihi-
lated the grandmother.-Cor Washington
Post