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Buying
Beauty.

~ | OGs only gOOd-lookiHg, is the
wish of many a woman to-day.
1t never occurs to mostWomen that there
Is a beauty obtainable at little trouble. II
IL the beauty Of rosy checks and ruddy
health. Most women lose il through in
digestion, biliousness, disordered liver,
etc.
If you want to transform sallow COM
plexion into the glow of health you can do
II by cleansing the system from Impurities
and causing the liver to work effectively.
No single medicine can accomplish all
that is needed A liver pill win merely
arouse the liver it will not purify the
blood, or repair TIE waste, or tone up the
system. For this you must follow your
liver pill with some powerful, invigorating
touie.
The best, and also the least ex-
pensive preparation, is RaHmOn's
Tonic Liver Pills and Ra-
mons Tonic Pellets. You
get these tue medicines iii separate
boxes at the cost of one-0nly %
cents. Your druggist will tell you
that this is sure cure for bilious
ness and constipation.
A&all dealers, or mail, for 25c., boxes $t.oo.
BROWN MFG. CO., New York.
FOR SALE BY WEXFORD & co., DRUGGIST
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Change Of Firm.

In the firm Of Summers & Lyle one
good man goes out and another good
man comes in, H. H. Lyle being the
outgoing man and w. ]. Barton the
incoming man.
BY this change the firm remains as
Mr.. Lyle lett it-stropg and popular,
just as it stood during the whole term
OF his connection with it. Mr.. Barton
is an old and valued citizen of Wash
ington county, whose friends are nu-
merous, and whose business qualifca-
tons are first class.
Everybody knows Jim Summers
he's all right except that he's got to
get married yet, but then he's doing
some very pretty work along that line.
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Il May DO as Much for You.

Mr.. Fred Miller, Of Irving, Ill, writes
that he had Severe Kidney trouble for
many years, with severe pains in his
back and also that his bladder was af-
fected. He tried many so called Kidney
cures but without any good result.
About year ago he began the use of
Electric Bitters and found relief at once.
Electric Bitters is especially adapted to
cure of all Kidney and Liver troubles
and often gives almost instant relief.
One trial will prove our statement
Price only Soc. for large bottle. Al
Mcfarland & Co.'s Drug store.
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All1Along the Line

| heard praise fDr. Hale's Household
Ointment Mrs. Is. Jacobs, ofsaFarm-
ington, Name, writes that she suffered
Ave years with varicose veins and two
running sores on her leg, and was com
pletely cured BY the its use. D. s. Filley
Salibury, VT, writes: ave cannot
live without it; itrelieyes my sister Of
asthma at once;!it cures a burn or hurt
ofany kind almost instantly" Under
date Of May 30, 1892, R. H. Simpson,
Leroy, N. ", writes: used Hale's
Ointment for rheumatism three years
ago and have not been troubled since
1t is the finest ointment in the world
for general use.s &c. and SOC, per box
For sale by Mcfarland & Go.
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| am now prepared to pay the high
est cash price for good poplar, oak,
ash and walnut logs, delivered at the
.awmill in Carnegie. Parties desiring
lumber sawed to order, can have same
dine with quickness and dispatch.
For prices and specifications call on or
address JOHN g. CHAPLIN.
johnson City, Oct, 20. 5S8 II
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THE COMET

Correspondents will please sign theil
names TO their communications, not
IoI publication, but as an act OF faith.
Tie true name of correspondent will
not appear in the paper if it enclosed
in pArenthesis.
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Go to either or both yards and get
some Of their clean forked coal. We
have. On assortment, and some times
two kinds do 'well4 mixed. Prompt
and polite attention and fair dealing
is our motto. G. A HEUsER & Go.
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Drugs at the Bee Hive.
Lard cans at S. B. Whites.
Women's shoes at Bee Hive.
Go to S. B. White for stoves.
A lot of hats At 25 cents at the Bee
Hive.
Custom made suits and pants at
Wares.
Boots and shoes made and repaired
by Will l. Hart 4 Co., in west room
Of the Faw block.
G. W. Carr has returned to his home
in Missouri, after having spent a
pleasant week or so with kindred and
friends.
The weather has been remarkably
fine during the past two weeks, part
of the time it being warm enough 10
dispense with fire.
WANTED-Reliable man to open
small Office and handle my goods.
Position permanent. Stamp and ref.
erences. A. T. Morris, care this pa per.
We have had quite q number OF
marriages to take place in this section
lately, and one happened Nor day
night, but we can't find out who in
the thunder it is. Seems to be = &C.
cret.
III 'clar' fore Gawd, dat niger look
like he jes looked fer Geo. Campbell
aud den. run. fool like, rite inter da'
mans armsl He orter been cotched p
That's one higgePs opinion about the
matter.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cloyd, Mr.. and
Mra. Robt. Read, j. Bird Miller, John
K. Byerley, Frank Brown, and Misses
Alice Patton and Mollie Cloyd, all O
Telfoid, were attending conference il
this city last week. F
1t is something strange to us thai
our butchers can afford (?)to Suy bee
at rme and hall cents per pound anC
sacrifice it at the retail price OF sever
to ten cents. We don't see how the,
live on such scAnt margin.
The meetings OF Holston Oonferenc,
were indeed largely attended. o.
several occasions il has been impossi
bio to seat the large audience, or ever
for some Of those who desired TO do q
to get upon the inside OF the building
Yesterday morning we heard Ruff
Hickey give some Of his 'possnm hun,
ing exploits to another 'possum hunter
but he talked so rapidly We couldn
tell whether he got "old Rover" or tn
'possum Nv the tail after he cut tn
tree down. -
/ ]. Bennett, pawnbroker, Chats
nooEa, is in Johnson City selling d
kinds Of ieweffy, such, az watcher
clocks, diamonds, etc, at auction. N
Bennett is reliable and strictly bus
ness man and guarantees his good
Mr.. David Rauch, State auctioLee
does the crying. su
, The lad es OF the Second Presby i
. rian Church will hold : fair some tin
before the holidays, and would iii
for the ladies Of Johnson City to wal
before buying presents, and look
9 the fancy articles, center pieces ,doilie
i etc, already worked, very cheap.
d An editor works 1854 days per ye
v to get out fifty-two Issues Of pape
that's labor. Once in 9 while som
+ body pays years subscription thai
! capital. And once in a9while sou
! son Of a gun Of . deadbeat takes Il
), paper a year or two and then vanish
:, without paying for it; that's anarcA
= But later on justice viii oyertake t
!, last nsmed creature, for there is
!. place where he will get his just I
= serts; that's helI.-Eschaage.
Tinware at the Bee Hive. a,a
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Dr.haIe's Household Tea.

1t is pleasant herb drink which
positively cures dyspepsia. liver com
plant, and all kidney diseases. One
dose day taken atbed time does the
business rs and 80 cts, per package.
Get 1t to day at Mcfarland & Cos
drug store.
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Leave your measure with Ware for
your fall suit.
$500 all wool trousers made to your
measure at Wares.
See Will l. Hart & Co., in west room
OF the Faw block. for saddles. harness,
brides and halters.
Miss Ella Anderson, one Of Rogers.
vile functions charming young
ladies' is visiting Miss Lila layler, on
Pine street.
The good Lord never lent to man.
kind a more beautiful and desirable
day for religious exercises than last
Sabbath was in this section.
During the session OF Holston ( on.
ference the street cars resumed their
regular day runs and up to yesterday
Kept 1t up, when they discontinued
and are now running, as has been the
custom Tor some time, only from five
O'Clock in the evening until nine.
The members of Antioch Church
Will giye supper at the church, al out
two miles west Of this city on the EN-
breville railroad, on Saturday night,
November 3rd, to raise funds to com.
plste the building. johnson City
people are invited to be present and
help a laudable undertaking.
d. N. Reese, our worthy Watauga
correspondent, was in town last Sat.
urday armed with his account book
and note against cullud gemmen
prepared 10 make him "fork over" bul
the man Oh color lodged payment by
continuing the case until next Mon
day.
The present chestnut season ha,
been productive Of super abundance
OF the nuts, and in conse quence tn,
town is flooded, and the street lounger
ii he is not too trifling, can emplo,
his time by gathering these nuts an,
filling his capacious paunch BY thi
means it is hoped that the crop O
worms may be greatly diminished.
Will Gentry and Scott Porch wen
'possum hunting Saturday night.
must have been the feet footed bree,
they we're after. as they were botl
mounted upon two OF the swiftes
horses in SCOTS stable. We wer
promised an account OF the hunt, hu
We Judge they didn't catch Mr.. 'Po,
sum, as we have not been favored wit
the account.
Il A lot OF the divires and members {
: the Holston Conference, accompanie
ny citizens OF the town, we're !reate
to . trip up the narrow gauge last Sa
urdsy, aud returned with their ne,
sons and apparel unsoiled, which wa
IN strange contrast to the besmoke
and besmntted Synod excursionist
. "ho took the fame kind Of a tri
some few weeks ago.
!, II is stated that somebody has lie
ss to where that bullet struck Saturda
night when it was fred at Bailey, til
negro watch thief, but that is certain
= mistake. A liar in johnson Gil
would be a curiosity. We try to te
:. the truth about our city, and il an,
body thinks We lie when we say Ii,
, in johnson City is a curiosity, WI
he is liar; that's all.
AT the Kellar sale OF stock, etc, la
Saturday milk COWS sold very we
!, but the dry cattle went at bargains
the purchasers. One old bull, Repu
: lican-like, who lorded 1t over the b,
ance OF his kind just because he hl
: the power to do SO, brought only TO
= dollars. So much for his meannel
: One good mule with harness on hi
sold for $26, and pretty good chul
OF a horse went Tor $24. The balan
Of the stock and articles sold at corr
pondingly low prices for cash in har
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PERSONAL MENTION
And Local News Of the Town and VI.
entity Briefly Told.

And Local News OF the Town and VI.
entity Briefly Told.
Oysters at JAckson's.
Cheapest at Bee Hive.
Buckwheat -four at Jackson's.
Get your lamps at S. B. Whites.
Boots at 80 cents at the Bee Hive.
Good goods cheap at The Bee Hive.
All kinds fresh meats at Jacksons.
A suit Of clothes for 1884 at the Bee
Hive.
Leave your measure for pair oil rs
pants at Wares.
just received $50 cases Of canned
goods at JAckson's.
You always get the best and r'sh-
eat goods OF Jackson's.
Try a.package Of whole wheat flour
for breakfast cakes at Jackson's.
Now is the time to get new suit.
Trousers made to order cheap at
Wares.
Robt. L Hale, who has lately Travelled
over a great part OF Texas, return' d
!. last Thursday.
That smile which Jim Cox usually
wears has been broadened. It's a boy
and he weighs nine heavy pounds.
w. A Erwin, Of Minneapolis, N. O.
accompanied by his daughter, Miss
jamie, were in the city last week visit
ing relatives. u
Cheap Jim, the widows son." hal
m we'd into the Old Morley stand from
thu one between Press and the Stat
office entrance.
The firing Of pistols alter nightial
has OF late been quite frequent pas
time fr somebody. lt's . great pit!
they cant be caught in the act.
The family Of Geo. A. Ross has beer
enjoying rural visit in the lowe
edge OF the county for the past weel
or 10. They returned last Saturday
DR. s. R. Miller left last week 70
New York. He will take POSTCARD
uste course ia one of the leadin
medical colleges OF the city this win
ter.
Do you travelf Are you shipper
The "Rand.McNslly Railway Guild
and Hand. Book" contains all pert
nent information. Ask your news
dealer.
Walter Combs, young farmer VIII
lived about two miles west OF Johnso
City, left last Saturday for Orans
Springs, Fla, where he will make h
future home.
Mrs. J. B. Lady will make dress
this winter in the Y. Nj. @. A. ha
over NJ. Jackson's store, door opp
site Mr.. CArgille's art gallery, ar
will be pleased 10 wait on all her lac
friends.
G. A. Heuser. one OF the partners
the firm of G. A. Heuser & Co, WI
attends to both of their coal and wcC
yards, is almost stranger in this col
munity and yet he wishes to infor
the public that he has been in busine
forty years in Virginia and Nor
Carolina, and desires, by fair dealing
to merit the patronage Of the peoT
OF Johnson City.
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A NARROW ESCAPE!
How it Happened,

The following remarkable event In a lady's
life will interest the reader: Fora long time
had q terrible pain at my heart, which nut-
tered almost necessarily. / had no appetite
and could not sleep. would be compelled
to sit up In bed and belch gas from my stom.
aeh until thought every minute would be
my last. There was feeling Of oppression
about my heart and was afraid to draw
full breath couldn't sweep a room with
out sitting down and resting; but, thank
God, by the help OF New Heart Cure all that
Is past and feel like another woman Be
fore using the New Heart Cure | had taken
different so-called remedies and been treated
by doctors without any benefit until / was
both discouraged and Disguised. My husband
bought me bottle OF DIR. Miles New Heart
Cure, and am happy to say never regretted
1t, as l now have splendid appetite and
sleep we'll, weighed lbs pounds when | be.
gan taking the remedy, and now weigh l3OT
Its effect in my case has been truly marvel
GUS. Itfar surpasses any other medicine !
have ever taken or any benefit j ever re.
ceived from physicians. Mrs. Harry Starr
Pottsvllle, Pa, October IL, 1892.
DIR. Miles New Heart Cure Is sold on posi-
tive guarantee by oil druggists, or by the DR..
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind, on receipt OF
price, 81 per bottle six bottles s., express pre-
paid. This great discovery by an eminent
specialist In heart disease, contains neither
oDiates nor dangerous drugs.
For sale by all Druggists. nov 90 03lyr
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Go to the wood and coal yard at the
Johnson City Foundry and see how
much better clean forked coal is after
dirt, dust and steam coal is left in the
yard, instead of your coal house.
G. A. HEUsER & Co.
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FOR RENT-House with 10 rooms
barn and water, on Unaka avenue.
j. E. BRADING.
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Don't fail to keep your property in
sured. Insure through Crandall &
Wofford with reliable companies.
Office in First National Bank building.
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DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds FaIr Highest Medal and Diploma.
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We will exchange harness for corn
and hides at market prces. gali'
'ss Will I. HART & Co,
West room Faw block, Market street.
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For sale by ell Druggists.
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the examination will probably continue until
Tuesday or Wednesday next.
The mode of examination Is as follows: The
examiners chnOse six charts Of different dates
for a days examination. Each date Is repre-
sented by hye maps showing the weather on
that date. The dates are drawn by lot. and
each man makes a forecast Tor the same date,
one at a time. To narrow tue field of
the examination. the examiners choose Ave
representative States for each date. This makes
the examination more difficult In MANY ways, for
the reason that there are many local influences
that are not always easy TO account for. Each
man has twenty minutes to make the forecasts
for all hVe States. At the end OF that time they
all move to the right. each man taking the place
Of another. Thus with six charts the m
ton takes two hours. But by common consent
the examiners are " doubling up" the exAmipa-
tons, and so virtually two examinations . day
The examination Is conducted by a Board con-
sisting Of Profs. +. H, Bigelow and II. A. Hazen
and MIR. ii. 4. Williams, chief clerk OF the
Forecast Division. The marking will be by
States on : scale OF ten, and the temperature
and weather Of each state separately on a scale
Of ten. BY this means, II a man Il a weather
expert and is less skilled IN temperature, tie
weather Is evened up In the marking. There
are threz places created, but IL Is not known
whether all three appointments will be made
from the successful competitors at this exami-
nation or not. IL appears, though, as a man
who guessed" IS times Out OF 100 and better
what the weather and temperature In hye States
would be, 10 say nothing about !caqtionary and
cold-wave signals, would certainly deserve some
kind Of an appointments
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when I was a youngster we all ulster get here Fri
day night. Then we'd all have eEood dances
good drunk, and a good fight. Next day we'd
have our salt water wash, and ] tell you we just
felt fine"
but none Of the bathers changed their, clothes.
Nor did they until evening, for nearly every
cusable excess IN view OF the lnfrequency Of the
opportunity. Most Of the pilgrims ate their
meals in OF near their conveyanGeSs, out ocSa-
supplies, and in the loneliness Of q crowd In wet
bathing clothes, sit on the sand. satisfying their
souls and stoDachs synchronulislN, silently.
bathing suit consisted Of n pair OF shortened
woollen trousers and an outing shirt. was walk
ing toward the water when he was, stopped by
a friend. who noticed that the Others watch
chain dangied from his shirt Jacket, -,
"Yc Amt goin' In with your watch, Hiremf"
Hiram replied. after q long pause; mo, I'm
roin 10 give II to Bill Ramsdel. After another
pause he added: " Seen Bill ~
The other seemed to think and was silent q
long time, and then answered slowly: seen
Each regarded the other silently for a minute,
and then the man with the watch. said with
painful deliberation: This mornin'. eh 2" and
thus they separated.
Apparently every Ti mar mo sheT nop1 oGSsP pnr s 3
was a paper imitation purse which, the fakir,
with much speech, seemed to MI with a variety
carriers. and the like. and then; after extracting
half OF its contents. sold the lot for 25 cents;
4 4 man HS,V Who ran this dealer a close second in
popularity sold an iced liquid he called
nrangeade. IL was made In n barrel, the inside
Of which was stained a bright yellow by the
mineral dye used for the, orange effect. What
ever was offered was sold, and the nature of the
interest taken in the fakirs' goods suggested TO
the outsider that not even, a pack peddler pene-
trates TO the unknown wilds from which those
people come.
Beginning with sunrise makes a long day, and
Il was not surprising that the second meal was
sought from the wagon hampers before noon.
Here is what one woman took from various
hiding places when she was preparing that meal
for a family party Of six: A gallon stone jug Of
cold tea or coffee; one loaf Of bread, two loaves
of cake, old fashioned cake with lots OF egg,
sugar, and cream in II: n jar Of pickles, a Jar Of
preserved plums, = dozen cold roast pork sand
wiches-yOu can tire yourself counting the KINDS
of sandwiches not 50 good as cold roast pork
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this competition Mr.. Meade Is pltted against
men who have been In the service from ten to
twenty years and whose practical experience in
forecssting all over the country especially fits
them for an examination in practical forecast
ing" as this is called.
Z. b. Dunn of New York eity-Sergeant Dunn,
As he Is still oalled-is well known throughout
the East. II is he who for several years past
has been providing the weather for Gotham.
and he has filled the place 20 the entire salts
faction OF the bureau. New York may have
grumbled At the rain or the heat once In a
while, but there never lived a forecaster who
went through lifs with the approval Of the
whole world. An average public is inclined
10 hnd fault with 3 weather man on prin-
cipls, mainly because that public thinks
the whole business Is a big guess. 1t
Is = guess, but = gueSS so regulated
by previous correct guesses, By = knowledge Of
the results OF certain lows" or highs" shift
ing from one position to another, the effect OF
prevailing winds, and a hundred other facts,
that the guess Is no longer = guess, but q prac-
teal science.
Forecssting Is ons Of Secretary Morton's s-
pecial hobbies, and he has taken = great interest
In this examination from the beginning. The
appointments might have besR made from
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SALT WATER DAYA At T AMBoY.
Farmers Take Their Yearly Ocean Bath
An OId-rashioued Baseball Game.

Farmers Take Their Yearly Ocean Bath
An Oid-fashioaed Baseball CANT.
How or when began the celebration OF Salt
obscurity, but tradition carries back the OBJ
servance of the second Saturday in August In
honor of saltwater bathing far beyond the
Revolution, and the feast has now developed into
one of South Amboy's greatest local holidays.
Beginning early yesterday morning, wagons.
buck boards, and various other conveyances.
many Of them quaint and curious, kept rolling
all day long into the little New Jersey town.
bringing the farmers and their families from
fifteen miles around. all possessed of the same
intention, 10 have a good time and take their
yearly ocean bath.
This last occurred In the afternoon. when the
great majority OF pleasure seekers in all sorts
and conditions of costumes disturbed the peace
full waters of Raritan Beach Bay and made
merry at each others expense.
there were boat races In the bay. a number CT
plcnics, and two baseball games. One game
was at the Star grounds, between the o. N T.
Baseball Club of Newark, n. j.. and the Eagles
the old rules at the First street grounds by the
Raritans and the Pactics, two clubs which
nourished twenty years ago and played theLr
last game In 1879, Most Of the old players are
jority of them are nearly 80 years Of age.
The picnic. under the auspices OF the Catholic
Church OF 81. Mary the Virgin, was wound up
by a fair in the parish hall, at the conclusion Of
girl who had sold the greatest quantity OF her
No arrests were made by the police, and the
constabless sworn in for the occasion, who were
very much put out because they had TO stand
guard for nothing and missed all the fun
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The list of the applicants is as follows: b.. S.
Payne, from Portland. Or; Z. B. Dunn, from
New York city. r. Z. Keokam, from New Or
leans; Park Morrill,, from Atlanta, Ga, and Il.
II. Clark, from Little Rock, Ark.
In addition to these local forecasters'' the
bureau has asked Alexander Meade OF the
Agricultural Department to take the examina-
ton. Mr.. Meade is All expert In electrical
work. and at the department has made himself
especially valuable by his Investigations in and
photographs Of lightning and electrical phe-
nomena. It IA recent exhibit at the Cosmos
Club here he showed a number of interesting
photographs Of different kinds OF lightning,
which from q scientific point OF view have
proved valuable to the department as well
US 10 scientific bodies, as affording some
definite and practical means for the classlhca-
ton of lightning. He also knows something
about thunder. At the department he is some
times referred to as the Thunder and Light
ming Man." or "Dunder and Bitten" But in