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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-17
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N0aTH AMERICAN REVIEW

Is erscnuai To every American reader
VINO Wishes 10 keep up with the times
Ioe Nc@ York sun says of it,; "rhe
North Amcric n Review constantly of
iers to the public program of writer's
and topics that excite the reader and
crafty the intellectual appetite. In
Jnis respect there is no other magazine
that approaches the North American
Review Its neither partisan nor
sectarian publication,
BUT ALL SIDES OF ALL QUESTIONS
in which intelligent readers are inter-
ested are promptly discussed in it's
pages, and facts and arguments are
presented with all the ability and log.
zeal force of the most eminent writer's
in the world, Among contributors To
early numbers will be
THE RT, HoN. w. e, GLADSTONE,
His Emineuce, Cardinal Gibbons,
Hon David B. Hill, Hon. Thomas b.
Reed, Hon. r Q, Mills, Col. II. G, In
gersoll, Archdoscon Farrar Professor
Rodolpho lauciani, and other dstin.
guishCd writer's.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-17
BUT AlL SIDES OF ALL QUESTIONS
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.

gulshCd Winters
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

An ingenious arrangement has been
designed to enable a stream of water to
be thrown in any direction by means of
a pump worked by the feet of the per
son using the arrangement. A small
platform is provided, on which two
pedals are fitted in such a way that the
heels of the user can rest upon them,
and by the pressure set up and slight
muscular action a small pump is ope-
rated. This enables the water to be
drawn from vessel detached from the
main device and elected by means of a
nozzle. This device is adapted for sew
eral purposes, one of which is a porta-
BILE bath.
In this application the platform is
placed in the middle of tray, in which
the water can be received after use, and
the outlet pipe terminates in COM
bined brush and rose. The chief feat
ure in this arrangement is that it leaves
both hands free, the mere swaying of
the body being sufficient to give the
necessary power for pumping. The
contrivance is also being applied to
such purposes as window cleaning,
garden sprinkling and carriage wash
ing.-New York Commercial Adver-
tiSpr
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

A funny mistake about America oc-
ours in even so well informed period
ical as w. T. ,Stead's Review Of Re
views. In making some allusion to
General B. f. Buffers autobiography in
the New England magazine, The Re
view of Reviews speaks of the hero of
battles and of many forensic scrim-
mage besides as General Butler, Breast
Butler of the American war" New
Orleans would never recognize here the
gentleman she hated so cordially during
the Federal occupation of that city that
she gave him the name of Beast But
ler." But even New Orleans forgave
the old general long ago, and in the
United States the name has been almost
forgotten. 1t would be very bad taste
to revive the appellation now.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

In spite of our solemn warnings they
will do it. We have begged men and
women who loved each other not to
write letters to each other when in the
worst stages of the attack letters that a
cold and unfeoling world would jeer at
when the lawsuit came ON afterward.
But it seems as if an evil power hypno-
tized unfortunate lovers just at the
wrong time. "Hypnotized" is a fash
ionable word now, and writers with any
pretensions to style lug it in wherever
possible. m>consequence of being hyp-
Noticed thus, lovers continue, in spite of
our fearful expostulations, to write
letters such they would give one ear
could they recall. This is particularly
apt to be the case if man loves an
other mans wife, or if a single woman
loves married woman's husband.
Such was the hapless hypnotisation
case Of John and Lena We need not
characterize them further, for has not
their tale of woe gone abroad on the
paper wings of cold print? Il locks bad,
n story like that does, when it faces You
in cold print Here is the letter from
Lena TO John that was read in an unfeel-
ing court when Johns wife sued for a
divorce:
NY DEAR JoHN-I am glad to hear YOU are
getting better. ! was beginning 10 despair
every day, | hear YOU have such bad nights.
As for being lonesome, | am always wishing
for you. II YOU could only come In the shop
thon could talk 10 you, but am living In the
hope that you will soon be. | am always
thinking OF you by day and droam OF you at
night II II were possible that | could love
YOU more | would do so.
love you better than any ono livlag. would
give you l00OO kisses, my dear hu16y. Aonr
got downhearted. | love you, aud yoa need not
care for her. She will get her daa some day IL
thero Is God. IL We could only I've in peace
a few years | would never Ae u,,l, Il / had
you all 10 myself u Is them that make me so
now.
! VIII say goodby, dear hubby II could
only give you one kiss it wOild make you well.
We have a lot 20 make NJ for Il uai Is good
end makes you woll which pray he Will. My
avn dear John your loving I.ENA.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

In the year 1893. when foreigners
from AL the nations come to take part in
the Worlds fair and view the great
naval parade, they will open their eyes
at sight Of one of our ships, that recently
launched, the armored cruiser New
York, $3.50 tons, coal capacity 1900
miles, twin screws, propelled by four
vertical, inverted, direct acting, triple
expansion engines, each having 1900
horse power. The New York is $50 feet
long at the water line. She will carry a
complement Of 475 officers aud men.
She will have three complete decks and
an additional protective deck. Some
thing Of her fighting capacity may be
learned from the fact that she is TO carry
thirty cannon. large and small. and six
torpedo tubes. The armament includes
twenty rapid firing gums and four Cat
lings. The New York is protected by a
partial belt Of ar1nor. placed amidships
and by complete belt Of water exclud-
ing material.
uC nCW ID DutlL OObh lOl StbtS-
ing and fighting Her heavy barbettes
and the almost impenetrable armor that
constitutes her gun shields will make ler
formidable enemy for the best of Ell
ropenn ships to grapple. The New York
is the largest, finest cruiser yet turrsd
out Of an American shipyard, the most
magnificent vessel Of our new navy, and
we point with pride to her. At least we
shall do so when she is al finished and
gets her machinery ard armament. That
win take year yet That is to say if
emergency arises, it can be completed in
four months. But If the hired laborers
of Uncle Sam spin out the work as they
usually do in order to get the most out
Of it and mike it last as long as possible,
then it will require a year and IA half.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21
Political Corne-outers.

Speaking Of the Farmers Alliance in
the fall elections, the New York Sun
recalls something of the history of indc-
pendent political movements in the last
eighteen years.
The Sun lays it down as n general
statement that in the year midway be-
tween presidential elections an indie
pendent movement rises like wave,
temporarily overwhelming a portion Of
the political world, and then subsidies.
The Grangers made strong showing,
The Sun remarks, in 1874. By 1870,
presidential year, the Granger wave as
political factor fattened out--sank into
the respective bosoms of the Republican
and Democratic parties again. In 1878
the Greenbaclr movement swept over
the country. 1t secured $4,000 votes
even in Pennsylvania. But presidential
year, 1880, the contest was once again
between Republican and Democrat
In 1882 came the Independents. Dur
ing that year many Republican votes
were lost in the elections, but with 1884,
behold, Democrat and Republican pitted
against each other come up smiling into
the ring again. In 1886 1t was the DEM
ocratic party that was threatened by
the great labor demonstration, and the
Labor candidates polled a large vote in
many places. But who ever knew a
Democrat TO go back on the old party
when critical time camep In the
presidential year of 1888 it was the same
two old contestants, Democrat and Re-
publican, that fought for tho presidency.
In 1890 the Farmers Alliance move
ment made profound impression on
tho elections, But The Sun believes that
history will repeat itself in 1909.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

Many a volume has been written TO
encourage and inspire boys. and many
boy sitting by the wood fire in a coun-
try farmhouse has felt his heart burn
within him TO be gone and enter the bat
lie Of life. fight his fight and come off
victorious. So oftentimes he has fought
and conquered, inspired all through his
successful career by the words he read
at the country fireside. Books are
plenty showing how youths have started
in life poor errand boys, or filling some
other position of the humblest, and gone
on till they have become millionaires
"by their own efforts, as the story books
always say.
But nobody has hitherto performed
this service for poor girls thrown on
their own resources. Nobody has seemed,
to think girls wanted any inspiration to
cheer them along rough and aphill
road. Perhaps nobody thought girls
were worth it till devoted friend Of
her own sex, Mrs. j. &. Croly denny
June) wrote just sucb a book for girls
as the story writers hitherto have al
ways made to encourage boys. 1t is
probably the most helpful book for
working girls that has ever been writ
ten. In per long experience as house
keeper, journalist and club woman the
author has met with hundreds of in-
stances in real life that are deeply inter
esting and instructive to those for whom
this little volume is written, the girls
"Thrown Upon Their Own Resources"
That is the name of the little book.
These facts are literally sprinkled
through the work. We know when we
read these stories that they are true, and
the half discouraged working girl will
say TO herself: "What other women have
done, / can do. will not give up"
Indeed, one of the wise sayings of the
volume is this, ''Half our misfortuues in
this world come from giving up just
when we should have perhaps gained our
object by holding on"
In the chapter on Concentration of
Energy is this: "a great secret Of success
is concentration of energy in any given
direction. All the great successes in the
world are marked by this quality. Gen
eral Grant possessed hardly any other
that was remarkable" The chapter on
"The Genius Of Work" is full of the
strong, sweet inspiration of happy en-
and is good to be read by man
or woman. But Mrs. Croly thinks we
must drop from our vocabulary such
expressions as working woman" or
working girl" What girls who are
thrown upon their own resources need
is sympathy and recognition on equal
terms of their womanhood. ''To be a
worker is to be part of the ministry of
God on earth"
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21
First Fraud. Tben Failure.

An epidemic of failures has ragged
throughout the business world during
the past year. There was the Barring
embarrassment in London, owing large
ly, it is said, to the bankruptcy of the
Argentine Republic. Then came series
of bankers and brokers' failures in
America. New York was struck heav-
lily, so were Pennsylvania and Massa-
chusetts, and New Jersey did not es-
cape. Failures large and small have
followed one another in quick succession
in Pennsylvania and New York. Smaller
failures have occurred in many of the
states of the Union. Then, as the year
neared its close, came the great Berlin
crash. The ripples from the great Berlin
wave OF financial disaster have not yet
ceased, but continue to topple over
smaller concerns than those which first
went to the wall and startled the bust
ness world of Europe.
II the causes of these failures are
traced, they will be found almost with
out exception to have originated in
fraud. Those intrusted with the fnan-
cial affairs of others or the officers of
business houses want more money than
they have in order TO make greater dis
play Of luxury in the manner of living.
II is this that tempts ninety-nine men
out of hundred to ruin. They appro-
pirate TO their own use other peoples
money, expecting to replace it. They
cannot replace it and must steal more to
cover up the first theft. Then at last
comes detection, sometimes followed by
fight, sometimes by suicide and always
by disgrace TO the thief and his family.
1t is really very highly developed
man morally who has tho backbone to
remain honest in the face of all tempta-
ton. Yet honesty is after all tho only
way, Sixteen ounces TO the pound, thir.
ty-six inches to the yard, dollar in
pocket for every dollar of debt, the power
to look every man bright and square in
the faee-this is what it means to be
business man fit TO be trusted with great
interests.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21
Plated with American Armor.

Only two of the competitive armor
tests by the United States had been
made at Indian Head, Md, when it was
discovered That American made armor
for protecting ships of the navy was
beyond doubt the best in the world.
Six competing plates were set up to be
shot at in the trials. The three plates at
the second competing trial were each
10I inches thick, 8 feet high and feet
wide. Behind them was "baclling" of
the kind that would be in use when the
plates were employed to cover the sides
of war vessels.
The difference in the plates used for
the trials was one of composition. The
result of the shots proves that an armor
made of an alloy of nickel and steel.
highly carbonized and chilled by the
Harvey cold water jet process of surface
hardening, is the best in the world, and
it is made here at home in the Bethlehem
iron works, in Pennsylvania.
In the best foreign ship ar1nor hereto
fore known the projectile has left
bulge of five to six inches at the back of
the plate, where it has not actually pene-
trated the backing. In the American
armor the same kind of bulge is only
one-fourth of an inch. The facts DEM
onstrated at the Indian Head trials are
extremely gratifying. The new navy
will now be pushed more rapidly than
ever. In very short time the United
States will rule all the seas on this side
of the globe, and can dictate her own
policy to European powers on such
points as, for instance, ship canal
across the Isthmus between North and
South America.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21
Peary's Christmas.

What will il be, in Prudhoe Land
west coast Of Greenland, n degs. As
min. north latitude, with the night OF
arctic darkness enveloping the daring
explorersy Mrs. Peary is the first woman
who ever spent winter in a latitude as
Ear north Very few men have ever
done so. Magnificent opportunity for
studying astronomy the party win have,
with the stars shining above them night
and day. What splendid midnight land.
soapes win show up when the aurora
bore'slis plays upon the snow and ice
with ITS rainbow oolors.
Thechanees are that their fellow coun.
trymen win never soc Lieutenant Peary
and his brave wife aud friends again.
Still there is hope. At any rate they
have abundant supplies 10 last them tin
spring, II they are in good health, they
can have some pale reflection perhaps OF
home Christmas. with the means Of
good cheer at hand. and with strong
effort TO keep their spirits up in the
awful darkness and Loneliness Next
spring, when the sunlight comes back.
Peary viii attempt 10 reach the northern
coast Of Greenland overland. A ship
must be sent to bring him home. how.
ever starting ~ soon as the Toe breaks
up--if il finds anything m Pradhoe Land
20 bring home Meantime may Chrs;
mas 10 the PoaFy party b as merry az
Christmas can possibly be 70 anybody
under ench circumstances
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21
What He Was Trying to Think Of.

The doctor had been called to see a
German who hadn't been able to retain
anything on his stomach. In the ex-
amining interview he was telling of how
he had tried milk in lime water and so
forth, but he could not remember what
kind of milk it was.
ooh, how l do wish | cud tole vot
kind of milk dot vasl" he exclaimed.
Wasn't cow'sp
mo"
"Goatsw
"No."
''Maybe it was mares milk.
'NO; oh, how l do wish | cud tole
vat kind OF mix dot vas, anyhow"
Then after studying awhile he sud
denly turned to lis wife and said:
"Vivo, vat vas der shackasses' vifes
name@
That was the kind of milk he was
trying to think of.-Atlanta Constitu-
tiC'r
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

The secret of Mormon prosely yters is
not hard to understand. They go among
the poorer classes in Europe and Ameri-
ca. tie people to whom plenty is only a
far off dream. The many wived elders
preach TO hungry stomachs Of land of
abundance, where want is unknown, and
where even luxury may fall to the lot of
the poor man. What wonder the ignorant
flock in droves to the land of promise,
where they find abundance at length, it
is true. but an iron despotisln that makes
them work for it whether they will or
not, and earn it before they get it. The
Mormons are always prosperous wher-
ever they are. This much is to be said
in their favor. They will take the most
unproinising soil and turn it into a gar
den by thrift hard work and good man.
agement Shrewdness and industry
would accomplish the same results for
the Mormon victims anywhere else if
they had these qualities.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

How rapidly the new Ueited States
navy is growing can be judged from the
number of first class new warships
which this country could have ready
FOR action in months time in case Of
wiz with Chill. Altogether there are
ave already in Pacific waters. They
are the San Francisco, the Baltimore,
the Yorktown, the Boston and the
Charleston. The old wooden ships Yam
tic and Essex can be added, making
seven in all In two months this num-
Der could be increased by Admiral
Walkers squadron of evolution, consist
ing of the flagship Chicago, the Newark,
the Bennington and the Atlanta; and
IN addition Admiral Gherardi's squad
ron in the West Indies, the fine cruisers
Concord and Philadelphia, and the old
wooden ship Kearsarge. All these ves-
sells except the wooden ships named are
of the approved new steel naval vessel
nattern
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

1t viii cause sort of sickly smile to
rise TO the countenance of those who re-
member how the English sparrow was
fostered and nursed into being in this
country fifteen years ago to read now
how the young Illinois boy slaugh.
ters him by the thousand and collects IA
bounty on the head of every individual
Of the dirty, brown coated tribe, Fif-
teen years ago we in America could not
get enough of the English sparrow. We
feared this climate would be too inclenl-
ent for him. Sympathetic ladies took
the little birds in by the fire and nursed
them back 10 life when they were half
frozen. Every means was taken 20 prop
agate the bird, for we thought IL would
free us from tree caterpillas, And now
we find the little beast is no good against
caterpillars, but he drives out the other
birds that do eat the tree worms, aud
not only that, but he devours hundreds
of bushels Of ripe grain every summer.
Dec. was Sparrow Day in Illinois
the day when the state bounty on spar
row heads went into operation--and a
grand day 1t was to the small boy of the
Sucker State,
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

There is no danger that the world will
become overpopulated as long as Gallant
ties occur like the earthquake in central
Japan, Oct. 90, in which 1900 persons lost
their lives. China is the most thickly
populated country on the globe, yet dis
asters like the inundations of the great
Yellow river snuff out 5000 human be.
ings in half an hours time. The tire
mendous volcanic eruption at KrakRtoa,
in the straits of Sunda, in 1888, de-
stroyed no less than $4,000 lives. Such
wholesale catastrophes of nature have not
yet occurred in the historic period in Eu-
rope or America. 1t is not impossible
that they might do so, however, by the
time these western continents become as
thiokly populated rs Asia now is.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

Charles l.. Tiffany, of the New York
jewelry establishment, has beon married
and lived happily with his wife for fifty
years. On the occasion of the oelehra-
tion Of the golden wedding the Tiffany
employees presented to the fine old
couple q gold medal richly and ar,is-
tically engraved, containing on one side
medalllon portraits OF Mr.. aud Mrs. Tif-
fanny. This is we'll A husband and
wifo who live peaceably together for
nifty years in these days Of divorce as-
serve a gold medal.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

Avolume of the pious sermons preached
by Emperor William II last summer,
during the cruise on which he was said
TO have got so frightfully drunk, is to
be published soon. It will be called by
the curious name of the "Voice of the
Lord Upon the Waters" This may be
all right for Germany, but it sounds like
blasphemy in America.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21
The wyoming Irrigation Laws.

1t is likely that the agriculture of the
future will depend more on artificial
watering and less on natural rainfall.
1t has been found that even in states
where the rainfall is normal, the pro-
ductiveness of the soil can be increased
threefold by good system of subsurface
irrigation.
In several of the richest of the new
western states irrigation is prime ne
cessity. Such difficulties, lawsuits and
even fist fights over water rights have
arisen, however, that at length the states
have been obliged to take the matter in
hand and pass laws distributing tho
water supply as justly as might be
among claimants. Wyoming is so far
believed to have the best irrigation laws
of any of the new states that have been
obliged to legislate on this question,
without any precedent to guide them,
for the older states never needed any
irrigation laws.
Wyomings new law divides the state
into four great water districts that fol-
low the natural lines of photographic
basins. The districts are put in charge
of the state engineer, who takes care
of the water distribution. Inspectors
watch constantly that no man in any of
the four basins gets more than the fixed
water supply, which is rated at the
amount of one second foot to seventy
acres. All individual rights are deter
mined by the state board of control.
Thus long and vexed question in
Wyoming has been satisfactorily set
tied.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

The newest fad among rich people is
to have q houseboat built, fitted with
all the appurtenances of luxurious
modern home, and then cruise in this
boat up and down the shores of river
and sea. 1t is the only way in which
one can be exclusive any more.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

Secretary Jerry Rusk recommends a
greater diversity of farm crops as one
important means of bettering the condi.
ton of farmers. Where all produce one
article the price of that is bound to be
low
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

democracy must rest for safety on
the education of the people, said Jeffer-
son. True enoughi but the number of
accomplished rascals now in ward poll
tics, not to speak of penitentiaries, shows
that the education must DO something
more than mere book learning. II must
extend to morality as we'll.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

Mrs. Liverlnore declared in one of her
addresses that it would be far better 10
open the gates of the Worlds exposition
at Chicago on Sunday to the thousands
0f visitors than 10 close them and leave
these visitors 10 the tender inercies Of
Chicago saloons. whose gates are always
open.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

An ingenious Chicago inventor has
adapted tho niekel-in-the-slot principle
70 the telephone and made an instrument
whereby, by dropping nickel into its
mouth, he can ring up the telephone and
communicate directly with any part of a
town on city.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-21

The farmer who would not be cheated
By middlemen must take a good news
paper and keep himself informed of tine
market prices Of the products he has to
sell.