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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30

when IL meets The 81 ontr ench
measure il now passed The better for
the country. The people are expect
ing tariff revision and wauttp know
1.-THE earliest day what the changes
are to be. When tiis is known doubt
and uncertainty will disappear ANY
protracted discussion sr delay would,
as in the case Of silver r, peal. prolong
the suspense and hav, An injurious
effect
lite also Of vital impar snce that the
law should not go into operation for
from three tn ak months after its pas
sage, Contracts and dealings affect. d
by 1t are in many Cases made an de-
termined upon months ahead. Not
only our own importers aud m 'rufaG.
turers, hut al foreign manufacturers
should have ample nntir # it's rrovis.
ions in advance. Such notice is
essential to safe business transactions
and to avert disturbance of markets
and values.
On such lines must The coming
tariff revision proceed If the financial,
commercial and industrial interest of
the country Are to be safeguarded.-
New York Herald.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30
The Tariff Must Be Revised With
GaHa


Now that the Silver law, whose
operation disturbed the business Of
the country so much, has been le-
pealed the work which will confront
Congress when it meets next month
will be that of tariff revision.
This is to be done with care and
judgment. The revision must be
moderate and framed with careful re-
gard TO the interests Of trade and in
dustry. The country has just escaped
a panic and is now emerging from a
period OF depression which has taxed
it severely. Any reckless tariff legis-
lation, any sudden or sweeping
changes, would unsettle business and
industry and bring on q panic. The
effect OF this would be the return Of
the Republicans to power in 1896
with overwhelming majorities.
Nothing touches the prosperity OF
the nation 80 vitality as tariff legisla-
ton. It affects trade and industry,
markets end values, employment and
wages in every State OF the Union. A
judicious tariff system means finan-
cial, commercial and industrial pros
perity. It brings abundant employ
ment, good wages and fair prices. An
i'll advised tariff works the contrary
results. It produces business troubles
and hard times. As our entire finan.
cial, commercial and industrial fabric
is affected by change in the tariff it
is obvious that the change must be
made gradually and moderately. 1t
must be dictated by patriotism and
craftsmanship, not by politics or mar
row party considerations. Any pre-
cipitate or extreme action would
quickly disturb industries, upset
values, demoralize business, close
factories and throw workingmen out
of employment. Exorbitant protec.
ton is an evil that has cursed the
country. But it is an evil that can
not be reformed hastily without
disaster. The Mckinley law is not to
be repealed or protection swept away
with a blow. The Democrats must
bear these principles carefully in mind
If they want to frame q measure
beneficial to the country or satisfac-
tory to the people.
There is no reason why iudicious
bill, carefully drawn, should not be
ready for presentation to Congress
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30
Secretary Carlisle on the Currency.

Secretary Carlisle on the Currency.
A melancholy interest attached to
Secretary Carlisle's speech at the
Chamber of Commerce dinner last
evening because it recalled the tragic
incident attending Secretary Win
dom's address on the same subject
and on a similar occasion a lew years
ago.
His dying prophecy as TO the dang
ers OF steadily injecting silver into the
currency has unfortunately been since
fulfilled. Happily for the country the
battle for honest money has been
fought and won, and it is very crafty
ing to find the present Secretary under
q Democratic administration express.
ing as strong convictions as his Ia
mented Republican predecessor on the
necessity for sound currency.
Secretary Carlisle's speech does not
supply any hint as to the probable
amount of the government deficit, nor
any expression of his views as to tariff
or other revenue legislation, and be
makes no allusion to the possible
necessity of replenishing the Treasury
by an issue of bonds. He confines his
remarks to the currency, vigorously
unfolding q single standard of value
the yellow metal, upon which alone
the international trade Of the civilized
nations is based-asserting that no ma
ton can honorably discriminate be-
tween different kinds of currency il
puts into circulation, and declaring
that the question whether the obliga-
tons of the United States will be paid
in coin current in all the markets Of
the world has been settled for all time
-NeW York Herald.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30

THE Worlds Fair will not be per-
mitted to live only in the memories OF
those saw it, and in the files of news.
papers. The Bancroft Company, Audi
forum Building, Chicago, have in
preparation what they call The Book
Of The Fair, which will be a perman-
ent and illusi rated chronicle Of the ex-
hibits. The text is by Hubert Howe
Bancroft,and the Illustrations profuse.
AS pointed out in the preface, tie ex-
hibition of 1851 was contained in a
single edific OF one million square feet,
while the space occupied at the
Worlds Fair of today is eight or nine
times as great
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30
The price Of Steel Rails.

Protectionists have for years been
vere fond Of talking and writing of
steel rails, for reason that little his.
tory makes very obvious. Formerly
steel was very expensive. Sir Henry
Bessemer, "Blarsted Britisher," liv-
ing in free trade country, invented
and patented a process which made it
possible to produce steel at a greatly
reduced price. While the patents last
ed the consumer got the benefit of
only part of this reduced cost, but
when they expired there was an I'M
mense decline. Even before the pat
ents expired steel began to be used for
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30

rAils, hut ait-rSard there WAS an inn
mense increase. Other improved pro-
es Tor steel we're invented, aud he
decline III price went on Tor a number
70 Years.
A high tariff having been placed on
manufactures Of steel, the protection
ISIS saw their opportunity Of claiming
that III, de- cline Of price in this coun-
try Was caused by protection. They
have b~sn claiming that for MANY
, care, always suppressing the fact that
there had been corresponding de-
cline in England, and that prices in
the latter country have generally been
very much lower than in America.
The Mckinley Bill reduced the duty
on steel rails from $17 to $l3 Al per
ton. This looked like concession, but
it was not The difference in the labor
cost of rails here and abroad has been
ascertained not to exceed$3.7S per ton,
20 that with the existing duty it is
easy for the domestic producers to I'M
dereell imported rails, anu still exact a
large tribute Rails have been selling
here since 1890 at $50 to $31 70 per ton.
The price in England at present is
about $182 %. II we add the duty to
this, we get $Sl So as the lowest price
at which they could be landed here.
with freight and charges to be added
1t will be seen, therefore, that the
manufacturers In the United States
have been taking nearly all the
amount OF the duty. How they have
done this may be apparent from the
explanation OF the recent decline in
rails which is given in the following
extract from the New York Tribune;
THE recent break in the price Of
steel rails Is said 70 be due TO the
action of a Pittsburg concern which
refused 50 enter the agreement be.
tween the mills (for the maintenance
Of stated value for rails) when it ex-
pires on the Let OF January, and i'm.
mediately started into cut prices. 1t
il believed, however, that this cut will
stimulate buying movement among
the railroads, which will put mnch
needed life into the industry. The
roads have been sadly in need OF rails
for three years past, but have refused
to buy, both b cause they lacked the
requisite money and because they OBJ
jected to pay the exorbitant price de-
mandcd by makers Sixty pound rails
sold yesterday in Pittsburg at $2l,SC
per ton, the lowest ever known iu this
country. This is equal to $23 at tide
water"
For some reason the combination
between the manufacturers to keep uI
prices has been broken. With the
cessation of the agreement among the
domestic manufacturers, rails have
dropped to a price but little in excess
of the English price with freight and
charges added.
What, then, was the effect Of SO high
duty as 1874 ton on steel rails
Evidently, to enable the home pro
ducers to exact eight to ten dollars 9
ton excessive profits SO long as they
: could maintain their combination
With the failure of the agreement
prices dropped in spite of the tariff
: but in the meantime the work o
plundering the people has gone on iol
, a series of years. Unless the tariff be
reduced the combination may be re-
newed and prices put up again
| Conripr-IOnrnal
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30

The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Foundry
and Pipe Works has just closed con-
tract to furnish 5000 tons of iron pipe
to Waterbury, Conn. the total price
being reported at $4,000. Southern
industrial enterprises are steadily
pushing their trade into the North and
West, and it will not be many years
before the balance of trade" will be
reversed, and the South will sell to
other sections more manufactured
goods than it buys from them.-Man.
ufacturer's Record.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was never
apparently in better health than at
this time. Since he moved his family
from his country residence to the
White House he spends about an hour
every day in walking around the
extensive grounds in the rear of the
White House and he is almost invari-
ably accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland,
who is again the very picture Of health
while the nurse and the two babies
are usually not far off. Owing to the
presence of an unusual number OF
cranks and tramps in Washington
these grounds are closed to the public
most Of the time, but there is no
truth in the stories printed of Mr.,
Cleyeland's being followed around by
lot of private detectives.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30

The administration has never been
more dignifed than during all Of the
senseless excitement and cfitlcism
which followed the publication ~
Secretary Gresham's recommendation
concerning Hawaii 1t had mapped
out its programme before Minister
Willis left Washington and notwith-
standing numerous contrary state.
ments it has not made the slightest
change in that programe or in its
instructions to Minister Willis 1t
has from the first been convinced that
its course would be fully endorsed by
thu unprecedented public when the
facts upon which action was taken
become known, and it has declined 10
allow public clamor to cause it to
change its plans as to when these
facts should be made public. That
feeling is as strong today as it eyer
was, and when the proper time comes
the people will be taken into the con,
fidence Of Mr.. Cleveland and they will
endorse what he has done, as they
have so often done before, and then
his would be critics will be sorry they
did not wait awhile.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30

The God-and-Morality Party which
is prating 80 much of the virtue of de.
feating Judge Maynard in New York
because he was accused of stealing a
Legislature is tearing passion to tat
ters because the Administrator has
refused to allow the God-and- Morality
Party to steal Hawaii.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30

CLEVELAND will not, we are in
formed on good authority, 60 into the
Hawaiian matter in his annual mes.
sage further than to say that it will be
fully treated in special message lat
er. He prefers to wait until the epis-
ode is closed before dealing with it in
a message to Congress.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30

WHY shouldn't the U. s. govern
ment print its own postage stamps?
Chief Johnson OF the Bureau of En-
craving and printing isn't the first
man who has asked the question, but
he has asked it in very practical
manner, by submitting figures to the
Postmaster General showing how
much cheaper the Bureau
Of Engraving and Printing
could do the work than any
Of the private parties who haye submit
ted bids for printing the stamps dur
ing 1894. An unofficial estimate is that
the government could save at least
$4,000 year by printing its own
postage stamps. There is a doubt it
seems as to whether the Postmaster
General can under the present laws
give the contract to the Bureau Of En-
craving printing, and the matter is
now being considered and will in a
few days be decided.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30

The Herald and Tribune says Jones
boro has never experienced town
lot boom. We are inclined to the
opinion, however, that it would not
have to Hunt below the cotton mill
in Jonesboro to find persons who have.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30

The navy of Mello, the rebel Admiral
is said to conslSt of ten men of war,
twenty armed merchant vessels, sever
al torpedo boats And 5000 devoted
men. He is reported to have pledty OF
ammunition and provisions and To be
in no fear of Peixoto's newly purchas.
ed ships.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30

SOME slick rascals stole a coop Of
turkeys from Dave Bashor's wagon
on the street last Saturday morning in
this city. That's more than they could
have done from us, while we were
asleep.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30
DOwn.TOWn Ohice.

For the convenience Of its patrons
The COMET has established down.
town Office at the book store OF Lyle &
Cos, next door to the postoffice
Copy for advertisements and orders
for job work and subscriptions may
be left there and receive prompt at
tention.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30

SEVERE storms are predicted for
next month. One OF the worst issched-
uled for the 22nd. We give this to
Postmaster Martin, for what it is
worth.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30

STEVENSON will in all probability go
from Vice to President. Reform will
do most anything, especially Tariff
Reform.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30
Notice Of Removal.

The COMET has moved into the
Hoss & Hodge building on Market
street near Roam street.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30
OUR CLUBBING OFFER.

The Conner has arrangements by which it
can offer the following newspapers aud period
Gals in connection with THE COMET at the fol-
lowing rates. for cash in advance:
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30
ATTORNEYS.
ROBERT BURROw.

attorney at Law and Soicitorm Cboncerg,
John'on City, Tennessee.
VIII praatice in the Law and Chaneery Courts
OF the Counties ai Washington, Sullivan Carter
Johnson anu Unlcoi Collections made anr,
shire in East Tenness Q
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-11-30
ALBERT E. CLoYD.

Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Choacsy.
E~-Special attention to land titles and
commercial claims.
ON Elm Carr Buildir g. Boone Street
Johnson City, Tennessee
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-06-03
DO YOU WANT A HOME

Monthly reutP
1t all
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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-08-10
A Caution.

The Union Signal, the organ Of the
Woman's Christian Temperance union,
warns all young women and girls anx-
ious to pay their way" to the worlds
fair by securing employment in Chicago
to be on their guard against tempting
advertisements for help
It appears that agents and purveyors
for certain infamous establishments in
that city are sending our their lures,
either under the head Of Wanted" in
the public press or by private circulars,
and directing applicants to certain lin
telligence Offices or employment bu-
reaus," which are simply traps for the
ignorant.
TO insure safety and honorable treat
ment, young girls seeking situations are
cautioned to pay no heed to these adj
vertisements, but to apply directly to
the Bureau Of the Columbian Associa-
ton of Housekeepers, the employment
agency Of the Young Woman's Chris
tan Association, or that of Hull House,
which last is Il free bureau.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-08-10
Plucky BOY Soldier.

In the recollections of * Man of
Letters Under the Empire and the Res
toration," story is told Of French
poet, Marquis de Saint-Marc, which
would do credit to some Of the military
heroes Of history.
When Saint Marc was fifteen years
old he was. ensign Of a troop of cav
airy in the French army, and took part
in the battle Of Fontenoy. The first
charge Of the English columns scat
tered and overthrow the first line of
Saint-Marc's regiment, and the boy
seated on his horse and unframed.
was left alone.
In that terrible moment" he said.
speaking of it afterward, II remem.
bered nothing except that I had been
told not to finch, and always to hold
my standard upright I did that with
all my strength. Then the second line
rushed forward. Before l quite UNDER
stood it was urrounded with friends.
who wrapped me up in my flag and
carried me to Louis Nv, who en-
braced me and made lieutenant then
and there"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-08-10
LOVE WINS AT LAST
MARRIAGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES
IN MINNEAPOLIS.
The Girl Locked Up and AftcrNvnrd
Arrested ny Being Insane and Her
Lover Is Also Are. ted, but They
Are Finally Married.

Aug. 5.--A marriage under
rather romantic circumstances was per-
formed by Judge Steele i'll the probate
court to-day. Some time ago Louise
WhitnoE the step-daughter of S. W.
Dunn, II brakeman living at 3O4 Irving
avenue north ran away from home,
going to the home of her lover, who hal
been forbidden to come to the house Of
the Dunns. Tbc step"fathcr finally went
and urged the girl to come home, which
she utterly refused to do unless they
agreed to her marris sc. This was finally
agreed upon, and the ceremony was to
take place ut the house of Dunn. Yes
teriay when Thompson came to the
house of his future wife, he was not per-
mitted by the parents to enter, nor would
they let him see Louise, who had been
confined in a room upstairs. AS Thomp-
son was persistent and said that he
would not leave the place except in COM
pany with the young girl, the father
went to police headquarters and had a
warrant sworn out for his arrest on the
charge of dsorderly conduct. This
morning the lover. after spending the
night at the lookup. was set Free as
the charges were rot sustained. He at
once went and found the girl Together
they went to the court house to procure
Il license. but while the marriage per-
init was being made out, the step-father
had gone to the probate court and pro-
cured an arrest for the girl on the ground
that she was insane The girl was
taken in charge by the sheriff and the doe
tors sent for at once. After Il careful
examination by the physicians. she was
pronounced mentally sound after which
Judge Steele was called to perform the
marriage ceremony. The stcp-father.
when he saw he had been outwitted in
every way, departed from the court house
crying like babe, while the newly ,nar-
ried couple left with the beanlng faces
OF those who had conquered. Young
Thompson has charge of the state fruit
farm ut MINI: etonk:.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-08-10
FOUND A FIOATER,

st. Paul. Aug. Sat noon yesterday
the badly decomposed body of n laboring
man, apparently thirty-tiye years of age,
was found by some railroad men floating
in the river near the mouth of Phalcu
creek. Coroner WEitcomb was notified
and had the body removed to the city
morguc. No one, as yet. has identified
the body. The st. Paul police authori-
ties have no mon reported missing who
answer to Il description of the body, and
it is thought that the man was drowned
at some point on the river above ST. Paul
and tloatcd down stream to rise to the
surface here. Coroner Whitcomb said
that the body had evidently been in the
water about nine days. His feet were
cncaScd in heavy workingmen's shoes,
with hob nails in the Soles, and the cor
oncr thinks he was Il rivcrlnan.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-08-10
THE Bitter rs BITTEN
ARMv WORMS IN MINNESOTA ARE
DIFFERENTIATED.
Pests in Kfttson County Which
Threatened to Devastate. Every
Field of Grain Succuulb to n
Parasite.

Grand Forks, n. D., Aug. 3.-l'r0f
Otto Luggen, Minnesota State etymolo-
gist, who was sent to Kittson county to
investigate the threatened ravages OF the
army worm in that section, in an inter-
view stated that the army worm swooped
down upon Kittson county prepared to
devour everything in sight, and would
undoubtedly have done so had not its de-
signs been frustrated by parasite. When
it reached the scene of it's ravagcs sew
eral days ago the worm was apparently
in good. healthy condition, and ready for
its work of destruction. He went to Il
field where it had already commenced
operations and in digging up Il little piece
of earth less than n foot square found at
least 100 of these pests. So numerous
were they that in less than Il week they
could have destroyed every spear Of
wheat in the whole county. He took a
number of specimens and submitted them
to a microscopic examination. Upon
nearly every one of the worms a pHra-
site. so small that it could not he dis
tinguishcl with the naked eye. had fast
nncd itself and was slowly but surely eat
ing out its life Prof. 1.uggnn, as soon
as lie discovered this fact, went to the
county commissioners. who were in Sos
sion prepared to do what they could to
prevent the ravages of the pest, and told
them they need give themselves 10 further
uncaSincSS or trouble: nature had taken
the matter out Of their hands and w:S
dealing with it in its own way. They
were incrcdulous. especially when he
81 ns of
would not be Il live army worm in the
whole Northwest. Yet such was the case.
The next day he made another examina
ton and found ut least 80 per cent of
the worms had already succumbcd to the
inevitable. and yesterday afternoon Id
per cent more had climbed the golden
stairs. To-day not on" of them is to be
found alive.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-08-10
A CIRCUS CLOWN DIES.

Black River Falls, Wis, Aug. 5.-'Some
time ago Il circus exhibited here and one
of the clowns was taken i'll. He was
cared for at one of the hotels until his
money was gone, when he made appli-
cation for aid and was admitted to the
county poor house. He fingered n few
days and died. He gave his name as
Van Vose, bct acknowledged that it was
assumed. He refused to divulge his real
name or give the names of any friends,
as he said he did not want them TO
know he had been in the poor house
SO he was laid away in the paupers'
grounds, without Il friend or an acquaint-
ance at his funeral. He was Il very
bright, we'll educated man, and claimed
to have wealthy relatives, who will proba-
bly, never know what has become of him.
He travelled one season as clown with
Ringlng Bros circus. The services
were conducted by the Methodist Episco-
pal pastor of this city.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-08-10
pOr171IsT ADDRESS.

Chicago, Aug. 5.-Thc executive COM
mittee of the Populst party who have
been in session here since the adjourned
meeting of the silver convention to-day
issued an address to the people OF the
United States in which they speak IN
glowing terms of the recent silver conVeh-
vention, and say that the convention was
great victory for the principles EN-
bodied in the Omaha platform. There is
no safety for the people of the United
States except in the triumph OF these
principles. and victory is not far OFT. 1t
is signed by H. Il. Taubeneck. chairman;
j. H. Turner. secretary; NJ. G. Rankin,
treasurer; Ignarius Donnclly. Minnesota;
]. H. Davis, Texas; George Il. Wash
burn, Massachusetts: V. Stricken, Nc
braska; George f. Gather, Alabama.