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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04
Gov. Robert Demosthenes Taylor.

Coy. Robert Demosthenes Taylor, of
Tennessee, is living refutation of the
statement that American oratory is of.
the past. With periods as round as a
ball, an imagery as poetic as a mind
reared on loesy can command aud a
delivery as good as any pitcher of the
league, he proves that American ora
tory is not only not dead but Aourishes
triumphant.
II have gathered welcomes from a
million hearts in Tennessee" says
Gov Taylor to the assembled hosts at
the Nashville Exposition, "and have
pressed them into perfumed bomb
shell of smiles and kisses. light the
fuse and toss it from my lips; it ex-
plodes above this beautiful audience
and scatters in the air q million sweet
fOrget-me-nots and they come floating
down and fall into the hearts of all who
love their homes and their country"
1t is not for the unpoetic to ask by
what process Gov. Taylor presses q
million welcomes into perfumed
bombshell of smiles and kisses, for it is
none of his business. Nor how smile
is perfumed, for it is we'll known that
after a man has taken smile in Ten
nessee he gets the perfume from a
small dish at the end of the bar. These
questions, we say, are not to be asked
by the unpoetic, while Coy. Taylor is
gathering the welcomes and pressing
them into shape for the Tennessee
market.
But all can understand the modus
operandi employed by Gov. Taylor to
light the fuse. He is equipped with an
automatic ignittiug cap which is lighted
by spark from the poetic fire raging
within his midst. This fire burns with
awful fierceness and were he not con-
structed on purely poetic lines his
whole internal economy would be con-
sumed before an alarm could be turned
in. By a device peculiar to poets the
spark that lights the fuse also ignites
the tosser attachment which, with q
beautiful pyrotechnic display, tosses
the fuse from the governors perfumed.
lips. The explosion follows and foI
miles around the air is filled with moi
one million but several trillion sweet
| forget In the south these are
often mistaken for the northern lights,
while we up north easily confound them
with the milky way.
In lifting American orator and poetry
to their former altitude Gov. Taylor
should exercise great care. By the
slightest mishap to his fuse lighter anG
tosser Gov. Taylor wonld be blown in
to one million boquets of forget me-
nots with such terrific force that b,
would float down and fall into th,
hearts of those who hate their homel
and despises their country. This would
not only be set back to American ora
tory but put Tennessee to the expens,
of electing new governor. .-ChicagC
News.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04
Prison Sunday, November 28, 1897.

On February 20, 1884, about no min
listers in New York, impressed with the
necessity of broader and more intelli-
gent interest in matters touching the
cause and effects of crime and the best
methods of the treatment of the crimi-
nal classes, by resolution, set apart one
Sunday in every year as Prison Sunday,
to be observed by all the Churches in
New York. Much good has come of
this movement. 1t has been a means Of
disseminating intelligence regarding
crime and criminals, and increasing in
terest in the most modern theories con-
corning the purposes and uses of i'm
prisonment, and the most wholesome
methods of preventing crime and re-
forming criminals. The church will
not forget the saying of her Lord: 81
was in prison"
What say the ministers of the
Churches in Tennessee to observing the
fourth Sunday of November, 1897, as
Prison Sunday?
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04
The University Exhibit.

Among the many attractions at the
Centennial of which Tennesseeans may
Justly be proud, is the exhibit of their
state university. Scarcely visitor en-
ters the educational building that is
not attracted to this, Perhaps about
one visitor in ten registers, and yet we
are told that there are over1O, 900 names
on the registration book. of which up
wards of 1900 have been students of
this institution. A graduate Of one Of
the leading educational institutions of
this country, who was closely connected
with, and made very careful study of,
all the educational exhibits at the
Worlds Fair, recently made the state
ment that the one which the Univer-
sity of Tennessee has at Nashville, was
the best educational exhibit he had
ever seen.
The beautiful model of the University
"Hill, the relief map of the state, the
dynamos, etc., made by the students in
the machine shops, the splendid ex-
hibits presented by all the departments
of the institution, and especially the X
ray exhibit, are we'll worth the atten-
tion of every one who visits the Cen
tennial.
! A vest improvement has been made
in the University of Tennessee in the
last ten or twelve years, and we, as
Tennesseans, may we'll feel proud Of
the work now being accomplished a
this institution, --4A
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04
CONDENSED NEWS.

Mrs. DIR. Ellis, the Indianapolis as
trologer, is dead.
The second Luetgert trial will begin
November 18.
Senator Quay and Dave Martin have
buried the tomahawk.
A 12-pound son was born to ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland yesterday.
Morehead, KY, is to have bank,
which will begin operations January 4,
1898.
The strike in the mine Of the North
Jellico Coal Company, at Grays, KY,
has been settled.
The Armor Plate Board will inspect
no more sites, but has set to work to
complete its report by the time congress
meets.
The sons of George M. Pullman de-
clare themselves satisfied with theil
share Of the estate and state that they
have no notion of contesting the will.
The grand jury at Wilkesbarre,
Penn, has indicted Sheriff Martin and
his deputies ON the charge of murder
for shooting into the strikers at Lati-
mer and killing nineteen men.
Seventy-five thousand people cele
brated John W. Thomas day at thu
Centennial. OF these 49, 800 were from
points outside of Nashville. II wa
the banner day of the exposition.
The sealing conference at Washing
ton participated in by representative
of Russia, Japan and the United State
is said to have reached agreement on
proposition which contemplates tn
Limitation or entire suspension O
pelagic sealing.
Joseph Howard, supposed to hav
been drowned in the Ohio river, ha
written letter to his wife stating ths
he is in Hamilton county. Tenn, aliy
and we'll, and that he will be hom
about November 1. The body foun
still remains unidentified.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04

The "woman question" will be con.
ridered this month at st. Louis by the
synod of the Southern Presbyterian
church. A case has been appealed tc
the synod from the st. Louis Presby.
terry, which took upon itself to censure
churchfor allowing women to conduct
religious services before a promiscuoul
body. Apropos Of the growing disin
clination Of women to keep silent in the
church, the Presbytery expressed itsel
as 'grieving over this bold disregard
of the word Of God, this infidel i'm
pugning of His wisdom and His be
nevolence. Tribune.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04

A little child of j. r. Hays, living
near Colquitt, Ga, overturned a pot Of
boiling water, scalding itself so severe
ly that the skin came off its breast and
limbs. The distressed parents sent to
Mr.. Bush, merchant of Colquitt, for
a remedy, and he promptly forwarded
Chamberlain's Pain Ealm. The child
was suffering intensely, but was reliev-
ed by single application of the Pain
Balm Another application or two
made it sound and we'll For Sale BY
Ward & Priberg The Bee Hive.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04
OUT OF THE RACE.
Henry George Drops Dead and the Name of
His Son is Put on the Ticket

Henry George Drops Dead and the Name of
His Son is Put on the Ticket
New York, Oct. 26.-Henry George
candidate for the mayoralty on the
ticket of the Jeffersonian democracy,
was stricken with apoplexy and died at
4:50 o'clock this morning in his room at
the Union Square hotel. Mr.. George
retired feeling in his usual health at
about o'clock. At about 3 o'clock
Mrs. George awoke and saw her hus-
band sitting in chair by the windows
He said that he did not feel well! He
rapidly grew worse, soon became un.
conscious and passed:aw without re-
covering his senses.
He made four speeches the night be-
fore he died-one at Flushing, one at
Whitestone, one at College Point and
the last, very brief one, at the Central
opera house in East 9th street in this
city, From the Central opera house
Mr.. George was driven in closed car
riage with Mrs. George, who accom-
panied him throughout the evening, to
the Union Square hotel, where he had
o light supper in the hotel dining room,
and then retired. In the adjoining
room slept Henry George, Jr.
TAKEN SUDDENLY ILL.
Nearly two hours later Mrs. George
awoke to see her husband sitting in a
chair near the window with his hands
to his head. She asked what was the
matter, and Mr.. George replied that he
felt ill, and thought it might be anoth-
or attack Of indigestion, to which he
was subject Mrs. George rang for the
bellboy. Mr.. George grew worse and
his wife assisted him back to bed.
Henry George, Jr., was called, as also
were G. Frank Stephens, Philadel-
phia single-taxer, who came to this
city to aid Mr.. Georges canvass, and
Edward Ross, who occupied room
near by. Mr.. George felt somewhat re-
lieved by this time and he would try
and get little sleep. Mr.. Stephens,
however, was sent by Mrs. George tt
bring DIR. James E, Kelly, of III East
seth street, who has been Mr.. Georges
family physician..since 1881 After Mr.
Stephens was gone Mr.. George sank
into unconsciousness. DR.. Kelly ar
rived at about 4:30 o'clock, and did al
in his power to restore the dying maj
consciousness, but he died at 4:5(
o'clock without recognizing anybody il
the room.
AS soon as Mr.. Georges death wa
make known the flag on the hotel wa'
put up at half-mast. The rumor spreat
like wildfre in that part of the city tina
lies about Union square,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04
A Good Hot Dish.

Chop finely an onion and fryin lit
tie butter, add half a pound Of boiled
rice and ounces of shredded ham sea-
sound with salt and pepper. Fry all
together till hot, then serve piled on
fried bread. The secret of the goodness
of this dish is to serve very hot,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04

Every person who has ever used DIR.
BELLS PINE TAR HONEY pro-
nounce it the best and quickest cure
for coughs, colds, grip, lung and
bronchial troubles. 1t is a harmless
guarantee against sleepless nights.
One dose stops the cough. Druggists
sell it,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04
1t often happens that the doctor is

1t often happens that the doctor is
out of town when most needed. The
two year old daughter of j, Y, Schenck,
of Caddo, Ind. Ter, was threatened
with Group. He writes "My wife in
sisted that l 60 for the doctor at once,
but as he was out of town, I purchased
bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Rene
dy, which relieved the child immediate
ly. A bottle of that remedy in the
house will often save the expense of a
doctors's bill, besides the anxiety al
ways occasioned by serious sickness.
When it is given as soon as the croupy
coughs appears, it will prevent the at
tack. Thousands of mothers always
keep it in their::homes. The 25 and so
cent bottles for sale by Ward & Fri
berg g-The Bee Hive.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04
Yellow Fever Germs

breed in the bowels. Kill them and you ,gFS
safe from the awful disease. Cascarets destroy
the germs throughout the system and make it
impossible for new ones to for. Cascarets are
the only reliable safeguard for young and old
against Yellow Jack, 1Oc. 25c. SOC. all druggists
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04
F, j. CHENEY 8 CO., Toledo, o.

F. d. NEbNE & w. Ioleuo, ".
We the undersigned, ha .e known p. j. Chene,
for the last IS years, and believe him perfectly
honorable In all business TRANSACTIONS and Fl
uanoial'y able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggist. Toledo o
waiding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale rrug
gists. Toledoto
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the b God and mucuous sur
faces Of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price 7sc per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04

have used Smiths Sure Kidney Cure
and it has made permanent cure.
MRS. WIN. PURYEAR,
Jonesboro, Ark.
For sale and guaranteed by local druggists.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04

How very few men appreciate having
the woman they love as much loved by
some one else.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04

To remove the smell Of new paint lay
bunch of hay in the room and sprinkle
it with little chloride Of lime. Close
the room for several hours.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04
DENTYS7RT.
]. @. KING. D. D. 8.

Once in the old Rankin building. The
pioneer In Crown and Bridge Work teeth with.
out plates). Teeth extracted painless with
Eucaine, new, safe local anaesthetic. Gas
used when desired A perfect fit in plates by 4
new process. Prices way down. Work guar.
anteed
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04
HOw's This.

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any
case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04

MeGdGche and Neuralgia cured by DR.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04

bless DR.. Niles Nervine.
DR.. Niles Remedies
are sold By all drug
gists under q positive
guarantee. first bottle
benefits or money re-
funded. Book on dis
eases Of the heart and
nerves free, Address,
DR.. MILES MEDIOA
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-11-04

DR. MILES MBDIoAL CO.. Elkhart, Ind.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-10-19

t@f al = 5C4iotAC ~hcStluSS were
begun at the Church last Sunday
evening, Rev. George H. Perry,
of Pocatello, assisting. Meetings
will continue during this week
and next.
George Garbutt, editor of
the Wallace Press, was stricken
with paralysis Saturday night.
He had just walked through the
Press Office. and fell almost inn
mediately after passing through
the back door. His partner,
! George Warren, heard sound
as OF vomiting, and stepping to
the door to see what was the
matter, found Garbutt half sit
ting and half leaning against the
building, conscious but helpless
and speechless. He was immedi-
ately carried to his room and a
doctor summoned. AS soon as
the trouble was determined, he
was taken to the Providence
hospital, where he still lies in
much the same condition as when
first stricken.
Senator Heitfeld is accredit-
ed with having raised II, 900
bushels Of wheat this year. That
is the kind of a senator to rep
resent the producing classes
the people who work for living.
Moscow Star.
An exchange has the fol-
lowing good story with a moral.
One evening last winter an old
couple sat before wide old
fashioned fire place in their
humble home. A cat and dog
lay sleeping before the fire, the
cats head resting on the dogs
body. 1t seemed q true picture
of happy family. Presently
the old LADY stopped knitting and
said Jacob. just see the cat
and dog, 50 peaceful like. Why
cant we live so p Jacob knock
ed the ashes from his pipe,
leaned back in his chair, gave q
knowing look and said ..yes, but
yon just tie 'em together and see
EN- fight"
The United States Board Of
Geographic Names, which meets
at Washington, d. c., at stated
intervals. has just rendered de-
cisions determining the spelling
of 149 geographic names. These
include a number in Alaska, sig
nifcant at this time in view of
the Klondike excitement. Many
variations OF nomenclature for
the same place are encountered.
and the Boards action settles the
uniform usage. Following is a
summary Of action taken relative
to the places conspicuously men
toned in the gold stories AS
to Klondike, the decision is to
spell it as here given and not
Clondyke, Klondyke. Chandyke,
Chandill or Deer. Reindeer,
Thorndyke, nor Thorn Deuck.
One OF the lakes of the upper
Yukon was named Lebarge by
the Western Union telegraph
expedition in 1868, after Mike
Labarge. a member of the ex-
p.oring party. who is now living
somewhere near Ottawa, Canada.
Late publications have fallen
Into the error of spelling it La
barge, but the Board adhere to
original form Lebarge. There is
a Lebarge river in Alaska. When
lSchwatka descended the Yukon
in 1883, be named one of the
lakes on its waters Lindeman,
after DR.. Moritz Lindeman, now
vice president of the Bremen
Geographical society. This
sometimes appears enormously
as Lindemann, or Ljnderman.
The Board adopts Lindeman.
The inlet. river and villages at
the head Of Lian canal, which
now appears ia the newspapers
as Dyea, is an Indian word. The
Board adopts the form Taiia.
For the lake and river varioasly
called Hcotalinqua, or Hotalinga,
or Tesiin,Hina. or Teslin- Too, the
Board adopts Tesiin.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-10-19

Board of Trustees of School Dist.
No. 1, Challis, Idaho, notice is
hereby given that all pupils at
tending public school in said
District whose names do not ap.
pear on the census roll of 1897,
the parents or any person OF
persons having in charge such
child or children, will be requir-
ed to pay a monthly tuition fee OF
81. 90 for each month that said
child attends school in said Dist.
No. 1. H. F. Powell. chairman,
M. M. Sweet, Clerk; ]. L. Eb.
berts.
AS there are great many
Of the tax payers that do not
understand why their taxes are
higher than the notices of as
sessment that were issued on
July 1st would indicate. 1t is
occasioned by rise on assessments
made by the State Board OF
Equalization which metin August
last. j. E. Wilkinson, Assessor.
Quite a number of witnesses
arrived in Challis last Wednes-
day from Houston.
Attorney Bruner came over
from II; iley last Wednesday to
attend court.
Our warm weather has taken
"a severe cold.
They have a boiling hot art
esian we'll at Vale. The flow was
struck a few days ago. and the
Silver Advocate says it is not
only continues to spout boiling
water but the flow is increasing.
It is the only bot artesian well
in Oregon. Boise Democrat.
-"Ahom !" said the king, Il
have an interesting sum for you;
it is q trial in mental arithmetic.
Think Of the number of the
month of your birth"
Now. the professor was sixty
years old. and had been bora two
days before Christmas, SO he
thought Of -, December being
the twelfth month.
yes" said the professor.
Multiply it by two,n contin-
ued the king.
YES"
add FIVE"
"Yes." answered the profes-
sor, doing so.
Now multiply it by So"
Yes"
add your age"
Eyes. "
'"Subtract $685."
yes"
add 115."
Yes"
"And now, said tie king.
might l ask what the resultis?1
1880" replied the professor,
wonderingly.
Thank you," was the kings
response.
so you were born in Decem-
Der, sixty years ago"
why, how in the world do
know" cried the professor.
The storm raised in London
by the agI cement of the Bank of
England to keep one-ffth of its
reserve in silver under certain
conditions, refuses to quiet. The
protest of the bankers of the
London Clearing House against
the bank entering into any such
agreement has raised the bimet-
allists OF London into activity.
Lord Aldenham and Mr.. Gren-
fell, the leaders of bimetallists
In London, threaten to carry war
into Africa, to work for the open
ing of the Tower Mint, in Lon
don, to free silver coinage; to
marshall the bimetallists OF Eng
land with that purpose, if the
gold mouometallic bankers of the
City of London refuse to live up
to the Hicks Beach compromise
contemplating the reopaning of
the Indian mints and the keeping
of one-ffth of the Bank of Eng
lands reserve in silver as Eng
lands contribution to the estab-
lishment OF international bimet-
allism. Meanwhile we are told
that Senator Wolcott is impatient
for an answer to his proposals
made on behalf of the commits
sion he heads, coacurrently with
proposals submitted by the
French ambassador. And in the
north of England, where the
bimotallic sentiment is strong,
strong because the divergence
in exchange between gold aud
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-10-19

negotiations get this far we will
see what sort of faith the Nc
Kinley administration will keer
with the Wolcott commission
We fear in such case little good
faith will be shown. But what
ever else the Wolcott commits
sion has done or failed to do, il
has stirred up discussion il
Englond, discussion on the
economic side of bimetallism, the
sppinners of Northern England
on one side, from self interest,
the bankers of London on the
other. that must be of value.
w. W. West is quite poorly
with rheumatism.
The case of Mrs. Salix VS..
The Blackfoot, Houston & ChaI-
lis Stage Co., was continued to
next term of the District Court.
The grand jury found an in
dictment against Rob. Moore for
the killing of one Frank Meier
ren at Houston, recently, and
also against Elmer Halford as an
accessory to the crime. The case
is now on trial before the District
I Court.
The grand jury is composed
of the following named gentle
men
Geo. B. Baldwin, foreman.
Amos Franklin,
Jas. A. McFadden,
Julian Bodard,
Wm. Wells,
Con. Sullivan.
John Dale,
Henry Treon,
Con. Hurst,
Willis Chambers,
Duncan Cameron,
Len Peck,
Walter Baxter,
Clay Vance,
Robt. Davidson,
Jas. Hanrahan.
The HALEY Times reports a
very sad accident. 1t says
John Flynn, the barkeeper at the
Alturas Hotel, died shortly after
midnight, Tuesday morning the
18th, of injuries received in a
runaway accident about O'Clock
Saturday morning, the 9th. The
decesed, Walter Kingsbury, J.
Styles. and Charlie Judge went
to Bellevue Friday night to at
tend ball. Just as they were
starting for home one of the
single trees broke, and the hors-
es ran away, the tongue dropped
to the ground, and Flynn was
thrown out. He landed on his
head. and Thomas Brashear, who
saw the accident, went to pick
him up. As soon as the team
could be controlled it was brought
back. hay rack was gotten, and
Flynn was brought to Haley by
his three companions, and car.
ried to his room in the Alturas
hotel. About z O'Clock Arthur
Smith went to call him. and he
answered that he would be down
presently. Mr.. Smith did not
notice that the man was hurt.
He believed that he was only
tired or in stupor from the ef-
feet of liquor. About dark Flynn
not having come down he was
called. 1t was then seen that he
was suffering. A physician was
called, but the sufferer was past
help. Blood was issuing from
his ears and nose. and ne had a
jagged hole in the skull, through
which the brain could be seen.
He died shortly after midnight.
The deceased came to Idaho
about six years ago, and worked
in the Coeur d Alene mines. After
the strike there he came to Gus
ter county, worked in Bayhorse
and Yellow Jacket, and two years
ago came to Haley. Not getting
job as a miner he went to work
as bartender in the Combina-
ton saloon and later at the AL
turas. Last summer he was Of
fered a Klondike stake but re-
fused it. saying that he would
not leave town until he paid his
debts. He was a quiet, honor
able man. and % years of age.
The deceased is a native of Des-
PLANES, MINI, where he has a
sister living. He is not known
to have other relatives. His
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-10-19

PRoFEsSIoNHL cRRDs.