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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-02-15

Said sale will be credit of months and bar of the equity
of redemption and will be made satisfy the due upon said
parcels Of land to said County and State for the 1892 with the
and accrued thereon if paid the
ch will be made known day Of SALE Notes. drawing
day a with good personal security will be required of the
chaser purchasers lien will be retained the property
"a further security. This January 80, 1894.
W. F. YOUNG, c. M
By G. w. HODGE, D. c. M.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-02-15

CHARLESTON, CINCINNATI& CHICAGO R. R.
N. hOleswOrth, Superintendent.
Samuel Hunt, Ag't for Purchasers.
IN EFFECT ON THE 18th DAY OF NOV, 1898.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17
FAMOUS HYMN WRITER.
The Bventfll and Useful Life Of
Mrs. Fanny Crosby.
Although Seventy-Four Years of Age, Her
Fancy and Her Pen Are as Ready as
Ever-Her Work known All
Over the World.

Wherever the religion of Christ has
found Judgment the countless songs OF
Fanny Crosby have brought comfort
to Christian hearts and stirred up in
spiration that will abide as long as life
shall last. From the depths of her
great atfiictiOn-she has been sightless
nearly all her life-she has brought
words of cheer, so sweetly phrased
that they have been translated into a
dozen other tongues, that their balm
may not be denied to any nation.
And now, though "a years old, her
fancy is as fertile and her pen as ready
as ever in her busy life. She is an
active worker, despite her age, and
seldom does a week pass without she
turns over to her publishers five or six
of her faultless compositions. In writ
ing she does not wait for what young
authors sometimes style inspirations"
but having selected her subject, she
Immediately sits down and writes
readily and without hesitation. Very
often she is given a certain theme upon
which to write a hymn, such as an an
niversary, and the song is completed
and ready to set to music within two or
three days.
To write poetry, when dissyllabic
words are allowed to fill out the meter,
is one thing, but in the hymn, where
the memorable recurrence of the cesura
will not allow of any license whatso-
ever, is quite another thing.
Fanny Crosby-for by that name she
will always be known in spite of her
marriage-was born in Southeast, Put
nam county, n. v, March "a, 1920. She
was the daughter of John and Mercy
Crosby. When she was only six weeks
old she became blind, and ever since
has been in total darkness. The family
went to Bridgefeld, Conn, when she
was years old, and remained there
for about four years. In 1888, when
she was Is, she was placed il the in
stitute for the blind in New York,
where she stayed for % years. She
was very bright child and an apt
pupil, and made wonderful progress.
In lS47 she became an instructor in the
institution, teaching English grammar,
rhetoric, Greek, Roman and American
history.
While still in the institution, during
the summer Of 1852, she wrote several
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17

eral club committee on compulsory ed.
ucation. She raised a fund for the
women's buildings at the Chicago uni
versity.
Miss Sweet was the first president Of
the Municipal Order league, is a men,
Der of the Civic federation and a di-
rector i'll the recently organized Column
bian Ambulance association. She has
devoted much faithful work toward
alternating the conditions of the I'M
fortunate. Through the efforts of her
self and other good women the cOndi-
tions of the women's department at the
county Jail were improved, and ma
irons were placed in charge of the fe-
male prisoners. Through the same
agency the better quarters and attend
ance were obtained for the insane
awaiting trial, and finally the deten-
ton hospital was established. For ten
years she has worked to obtain sep
arate quarters for arrested women and
girls in the police stations and the APP
pointment of matrons. Shearaised the
money to build the first ambulance
used by the police department, and in
many ways she has been friend to
the poor, the suffering and the dis
tressed. Miss Sweet, since 1883, has
conducted pension claim Office in Chi
| cago with great success.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17
FIELD MARSHAL COUNT YAMAGATA.

a higher rank. When still in his teens
he was the head of the Chosin cavalry
forces and led them against the army
of 10000 men sent in 1864 by the
shotgun, then the reigning power, for
the chastisement of the feudal lord of
the Chosin province. With the insig-
nificant force CT scarcely two thousand
men he CHECKED the advance of the
enemy and completely defeated them
before they could invade the Chosin
territory. Hisstrategy and tactics on
that occasion were masterpieces in
skill and precision. There has scarce
ly been any fighting since the war of
restoration in which he was not active
ly engaged.
1t is the general opinion of japanese
that Marshal Yamagata is the ablest
general Japan now has. There are
four field marshals in the Japanese
army, and Count Yamagata is the only
one who is not OF princely birth. The
other three are Prince Arisugawa and
other high personages of royal blood.
Marshal Namagata has in his staff
in Corea Lieut.. Gen. Nodsu, as vice
commander, who has had as brilliant
a military career as the marshal him
self. They have been together in pre-
vious battles, and know each other
well. 1t is not likely that there will
be any disagreement between them as
to military operations.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17
MISS ADA C. SWEET.
The Popular President Of the
Chicago Woman's Club.
She Was the First Woman Appointed to
Dfsburse Money for the United States
Government-Her Record As
= Phiianthropist.

Gentle, soft-voiced and kind, as best
becomes woman, yet gifted with the
forceful mind and energetic intellect
that mostly belongs to men, is Ada
Celeste Sweet, president of the Chicago
Woman's club. A leader among her
sex; a woman of the advanced" type;
q woman of affairs; a speaker, writer,
thinker; successful competitor with
masculine opponents for place and pre-
ferment, this woman is happy in all
the charms of femininity. A woman's
ideal leader of women and yet a
woman in whom the loudest declaimer
against the woman's rights, woman,
could find nothing at which to cavil.
Philanthropic, generous, broad-minded,
yet not altogether free, possibly, from
some of the weaknesses that affect
most characters, Ada c. Sweet tries
honestly to do good for her sisters. If
she seeks the elective franchise for
women, she does not forget those
whom society and the law have thrust
out. She can address a political meet
ing with force and eloquence, and she
can whisper words of encouragement
and cheer to the poor outcast in the
underground cells of the police
stations.
Miss Sweet was born in Stockbridge,
Wis. Her father was a gallant soldier,
Gen. Benjamin }. Sweet, whose dear
est companion she was, in camp and at
home. When he was pension commits
sioner she was his secretary. When he
died she assumed and fulfilled the du-
ties of his Office for time She served
as pension agent at Chicago during the
administrations of Grant, Hayes, Gar
field and Arthur, and was the first
woman appointed to disburse money
for the United States government. In
womans work in Chicago Miss Sweet
has taken an active and prominent
part. She entered the philanthropy
department of the Woman's club in
1888 and served as chairman of that
department. She has been during the
last four years at the head of the gen.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17

walking; and the next Is at 81, when
the same phenomena appear more
markedly. With regard to the sexual
distribution of disease, one may say
that ordinary kidney, lung and brain
diseases, accidents of all sorts, scarlet
fever and late consumption are most
prevalent among males, and cancer,
diphtheria, typhoid fever and early
consumption among females. The most
distressing case of nerve breakdown
among unmarried women is that sud-
den change of circumstances that en-
sues when father dies who, through
carelessness or improvidence, has neg
lected to make adequate provision for
his unmarried daughters.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17
in the Arms of Jesus. "

in the Arms of Jesus"
To enumerate the good done by her
songs would be impossible, but few
instances will prove interesting. There
is one told of Pass Me Not, o Gentle
Saviour" in which it is said that man
who had been a stranger to church
for fifty years heard group of little
children singing:
Pass me not gentle Saviour
Hear my hu nble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
The man paused and listened. The
cry seemed to come from his own heart.
He tried to reason with himself that he
had no clothes to go to church in, but
the argument would not hold. At
that very place he dropped his old life
and took up the better one he had laid
down fifty years before.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17

FANNY CROSBY.
songs for George F. Root. These In
'cluded some which have become widely
known, among them "Honeysuckle
Glen" "Hazen Dell" 'Rosale, the
Prairie Flower" Proud World, Good
By, I'm Going Home" and There's
Music in the Air" The words Of the
,cantatas, pilgrim Fathers, and the
Flower Queen" were also written by
mel at about this period. Previous to
this time she had published two vi
nmes of her poems, The Blind Girl,
and other Poems" in 1914, and Mont
cry and Other Poems in 1919. A third
volume: "a Wreath Of Columbia $
Flowers" followed during the year of
her marriage.
On the 5th of March, 1873, she was
married to Mr.. Alexander all Alstyne,
and left the institution. She began
writing Sunday school hymns in 1864.
Her first one, the opening lines of
which are:
We are going, We are gcing
TO home beyond The sea,
was written in the PontOn hotel in
Franklin street, in February or that
year. This hymn was published by
William b. Bradbury, who published
by far the greater part Of her work.
Since then it is estimated that Mrs.
Crosby has written nearly 5000 hymns,
of which about ., 500 have been used by
Mr.. Bradbury and his Successors.
Although Mrs. Crosby is Methodist,
the majority of her hymns have APP
peared in the hymnals Of other denom-
nations, principally the baptist and
Presbyterian. They have found espe-
cal favor with evangelists and work
erS in the lecture field.
Her first poem was written in 1928,
when she was but years old. Here
it is:
Oh, what a happy soul am,
Although l cannot see;
am resolved that in this world
COntented l will be-
How many blessings l enjoy
That other people don't
To weep or sigh because I'm blind,
cannot, nor l won't.
This has continued to be her philOso.
ply, and is the secret of her sweet
beautiful life, which, though shut out
from all other light, hasa radiance and
a sereneness of its own. Her favorite
hymn of her own composition is; Safe
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17
THE JAPANESE MoLTKE.
Field Marshal Yamagata and His Fine
Military Instinct.

The present commander in chief of
the japanese army in Corea, Field
Marshal Count A. Yamagata, who has
just brought the Ping-Yang campaign
to brilliant close, has been called the
Won Moltke of Japan, and his brilliant
strategy at Ping Yang would indicate
that he deserves the title. In stature
he is tall and slender. He is about
forty-seven years old.
Socially he is very quiet and silent,
and here his resemblance to the great
German general is brought out in bold
relief. His influence and popularity
are immense, especially in the army.
He comes of very humble origin, his
father being one of the Ashigaru caste,
the lowest of all the Samurai classes,
who, in feudal times, could not under
ordinary circumstances be promoted to
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17
Age and SEX in Disease.

There are three periods in adult life
when one seems more liable to go
wrong than at other times. The one is
at SO years of age, when thin people
tend to become fat, and fat people thin;
the next is between As and so, when
the appetite fails, nervous diseases ap-
pear, when one no longer likes to stoop
mach and begins to prefer riding to
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17
Qualifications of Canadian Voters.

In order to be entitled to vote in Can
ada one must be male British sub
ject, 81 years old, and have lived in the
Dominion at least a year lie must
also have been the owner of real estate
or the occupier of a rented house or
business property for the same time.
If he owns real estate it must be worth
$500 in cities, 500 in towns, and $50
elsewhere. If one neither owns nor
occupies real estate as a tenant, he can
vote if he earns $500 a year or if
he be the son of farmer or real
estate owner and live at his fathers
home. An Income voter" is not re-
quired, as all other voters are, to live
in the district where he wants to vote
a year. but can register any time
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17
One rhou..nd Dollars Anieos

The wealth of the United States Is
estimated at $50, AIS, 900, 900
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17
French Tax on BICYCLES.

France derived $4,000 francs last
year from the tax on cycles, the mum
Der of machines being 1872, 276
seventy years old, works continuously
upon her suit. Never a day has sh'
wavered in the belief of her ultimati
success.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17
Queer Russian Court Decision.

The Russian courts have reversed the
assumption of the American tribunals
that when a husband and wife are
drowned in the same disaster the wife
dies first. The Russian doctors have.
testified unanimously that the man
would be the first to die, because the
woman is more agile and keeps herself
longer above water.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17
Matrimonial Item.

$50 the marquis gave you those
flowers?"
Yes: and O. Maud, he actually said
life without me meant nothing"
YES, dear: everybody says you are
his Ia "hr~s, "-TnvaS Sifting.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17
The Reverse.

She-You married me for my fortune.
He (bitterly)-SO | thought. But I've
found out it was for my misfortune
Trplth
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17
willing to Compromise.

Bright Boy-The paper says there's
a doctor in the city who makes long
noses shorter, big ears smaller, and 1
don't know what all.
Father-Well?
Bright Boy guess you'd better send
me to him to have my legs shortened,
if you can't afford to buy me larger
bicycle. food News.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17
Whore Soap Is Legal Tender.

Here is a note for coin collectors. It
is probable that no hoy who has col
lected the tokens of various nations
has ever before heard of the circulating
medium which Mexican traveller once
discovered while travelling through the
great republic on its southwestern
borders. AS the story goes, the travel
err bought some lines, and gave the
girl who sold them one dollar in pay
ment. BY way of change she returned
him forty-nine pieces of soap the size of
a sweet biscuit After expressing his
surprise, police-officer whowitnessed
the incident informed him that soap
was a legal tender in that country.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-20
.spos1eo AS LOST.
Belgian Assamer DC Ruyter Not Sighted
Since March 13.

Since March ID.
ANTWERP, April 1.-THE Belgian
steamer De Ruyter. Captain Meyer,
which sailed from this port on March
~ bound for Boston. and which has not
been sighted since she passed the Lizard
the following day. has been officially
posted as lost. The De Ruyter was
built at Glasgow in 1873, was 319.7 feet
long, 36.2 feet beam and 800 feet deep;
she registered 1850 tons net.
She carried crew of 20 men. Henry
Meyer was the captain. His brother is
commander of the Belgian steamer
Hermann of the same line as the DE
Ruyter and another brother, who was
chief officer of the Dutch steamer Am
sterdam, was drowned with five others,
Jan. 4, by the capsizing of lifeboat
while endeavoring to rescue the crew
of the Gloucester fishing schooner
Margie E. Wells.
The De Ruyter was heavily laden and
her cargo, which consisted largely Of
beet sugar in bags and cases of window
glass, would make it extremely difficult
to keep afoat in the event of her being
stove-in by ice.
1t is possible, however, that her ma
chinery may have become deranged or
that she has lost her propeller, and in q
helpless condition she may have drifted
to the southwark, out of the track of
European steamers. which would ac-
count for her not being spoken by some
one of the recent arrivals.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-20
STEVENSON PRESIDED.
Meeting of the Members of the Lincoln
Memorial Association.


WASHINGTON, April 10. = Several
members of the Lincoln Memorial as
ISOLATION had their annual meeting
Saturday night in the old house on
Tenth street, where President Lincoln
died. Vice President Stevenson pre-
sided in the absence of Chief Justice
Fuller. DIR. Tennis S. Hamlin, presi-
dent of the association, made short
opening speech Addresses were also
made by Secretary Herbert, Senator
Henderson, General Thomas NJ Vim
cent, who was at Lincoln's deathbed,
and John q. Nicolay, one Of Lincoln's
private secretaries.
Letters of regret were also received
from Lamont, Secretary Smith, AS
sociate Justice Shiras, Assistant Sec
rotary Hamlin, Chief Justice Richard
son of the court of claims, Governor
Flower of New York, President T. r.
Eckert Of the Western Union Telegraph
company, Whitelaw Reid, Rev. DR..
Parkhurst of New York city, DR.. Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Senators Allison,
Cockrell, Gordon, Henderson, Nc
MILAN and Sherman, and Rrepresenta-
tives Wheeler and Wright.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-20
A GENERAL AMNESTY.
Peixoto VIII Grant 1t to All Rebels Except
the Leaders.

BUENos AyREs, April 17.--Advices
have reached here from Montevideo to
the effect that President Peixoto of
Brazil has informed the Uruguayan
government that his government is pre-
pared to pay the quarantine expenses
and the passage money OF all Brazilians
who quilted their country ON account
of the instruction and who are now
desirious of returning to their homes.
1t is reported that general amnesty
will be granted to all insurgents, with
the exception Of the leaders of the re-
belliOn.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-20
Left His Family.

NILES, April 17.--Harvey Blimke, a
farmer residing near this city, and Mrs.
Sarah Swartz of Niles, are missing, and
it is supposed they have gone away to-
gether. Blimke has heretofore had a
among the best in this vicinity. The
husband of the Swartz woman is serv-
ing term in state prison for larceny.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-20
Died of Heart Disease.

CINCINNATI, April 17.--Henry S.
Carter, a travelling salesman for Jaffees
& Perkins, New York, dropped letter
to his wife in the Office box at the
Burnet House, then went to supper
with friend and dropped dead while
sitting at the table eating and convers-
ing with his companion. He was about
his business during the day as usual
and cheerful as ever till he dropped
dead from heart disease.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-20
Destroyed by the French.

PARIS, April 16.--The governor of the
Boudan has telegraphed that the French
forces at Timbuctoo have completely
destroyed the troublesome Touareg
tribe A series of defeats was inflicted
upon the natives and the French capt
nred nearly all their flocks and herds.
In one conflict the Touaregs left 100
dead ON the field.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-20
A MISPLACED LETTER.
1t Caused the Arrest of an Elk NIailcarrier
For Robbery.

For Robbery.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, April 49, Edward
Boone, an ex-mailcarrier, who recently
resigned, was arrested and arraigned
on a charge of robbing the United
States mails. But for an accident it is
likely that his guilt never would have
been discovered and that the robbing of
mails which has been in progress since
last July would never have come to
light.
Boone recently moved. The owner
of the vacated house found letter and
money order addressed to the county
treasurer lying on a shelf. On the
strength of this Boone was arrested. 1t
is believed he may implicate others and
clear mp the robberies which have mys-
titled the government inspectors for so
many months.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-20
sentenoed TO Five Years.

BAY CITY. April 14.-C. w. Newkirk,
the young Ascending clerk of the Bay
County bank, was sentenced to five
years in the Detroit house of correc-
ton. His wife and relatives were pres
emit. but none showed any signs of sur
prise or distress. Newkirk was ex-
amined privately by Judge Maxwell
previous to the sentence and had moth
ing TO saw in omen court.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-20
A PILOT DROWNED.
An Attempt To Rescue Henry Devere
Proved Futile.

Proved Futile.
New YORK. April 10. While trying
to board the fruiter Banan Pilot Henry
Devere was drowned
He was one OF the men stationed on
the pilotboat Fanny, which signalled
the Banan off Cape May. Boatkeeper
Ed Menter and Seaman Edward Con-
don manned the yawl. which was MAX
ing good progress toward the steamer
when the frail craft was lifted on the
crest of big wave and capsized. The
upset was witnessed by the crew of the
steamer and the first officer and two of
the crew launched a boat and picked up
the two sailors. The pilot had drifted
far astern. He. too, was picked up. and
was alive when taken aboard, but died
a few minutes later.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-20
was Instantly Killed.

FRANKFORT. KY, April 16.--Doc
Bradley shot and instantly killed Mon
roe Bean in the Craw district. Both
men had been drinking and during
quarrel, which ensued. Bradley drew
his pistol and shot Bean. Bradley
made his escape.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-20

SPOKANE, Wash. April 17.--Minnie
Westerman, II years old, fell into the
Spokane river and was swept over tho
falls and lost. She and Oracle Trapschuh
were playing on log boom and both
fell in. The latter was rescued.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-20
Ludington Wants the school.

LUDINaToN, April 1S.-Ludington
taxpayers, by vote of $50 for and IL
against, decided to bond the city for
S10,O to aid in locating the Epworth
League training school here. The Flint
and Pere Marquette railway and sew
sral private citizens give 1900 more
for the same purpose.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-20

BENTON HARBoR, April IS. Thayer
e. Adams, agents for the Brookings
Lumber company, have made contracts
for handling for transfer over the Big
Four railway from the Lake Superior
region, via boat, 100000 feet of lum-
Der per month during the season be-
ginning May 1.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-20
The Jury Disagreed.

LANSING, April 16.--The jury in the
case of John w. Jochim. charged with
classifying the canvass upon the salaries
amendment of 1878, has failed to agree,
standing six for conviction and six for
acquittal.
Secretary Jochim was disappointed.
He had hoped for an acquittal.' He
simply said: This means more
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-20

which is Ayers Pills. Purely vege-
table, sugar-coated, easy to take and
quick to assimilate, this is the ideal
family medicine-the most popular,
safe, and useful aperient in phar-
macy. Mrs. M. A. BROCKwELL,
Harris, Tenn, says:
ayers Cathartic Pills cured me of sick
headache and my husband of neuralgia. We
think there is