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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-03-25
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General of the United States, says;
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or whether he subscribed for it originally or
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ply in other business transactions between man
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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-03-25

Reliable men and women to sell our
absolute household necessity, Sells at
sight and is reliable. Good profit, not
hard to learn.
The FINISH MANUFACTURING Co.,
All Marshall street,
Philadelphia, Pa, U. S. A,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-03-25
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.

The following lots in the East Park
addition can be bought VERY CHEAP:
Nos. 1862 and III on Alton street, No.
81 on Claiborn street, No. 50, corner
Grover and Chestnut. Title perfect.
For prices and terms call on
H, w. LYLE,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-03-25

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They are guaranteed 10 be perfectly free from
every deleterious substance ard TO be purly
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but by giving tone to stomach and bowels great
| ly invigorate the system. Regular size 7sc pei
box Sold by Mcfarland & Co druggists.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-03-25

LAXOL is the best medicine for children
Doctors recommend it in place of Castor Oil.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-03-25

The city council met last Thursday
night. Mayor Faw was present and
presiding. Members present; Cam
eron, Jackson, Collette and Wofford
Absent: Boring,l Beckner, Persell,
Martin and City Attorney Jennings.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-03-25

On Saturday of last week the Super
intendents of the city Sunday schools
met in the office of J. w. Crumley, to
make arrangements for the Conyentica
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23
A RAPID GROWTH.

Oklahoma Territory Making Long Strides
In Population and Wealth.
WASHINGTON, Oct. JS.-In his report
Gov. Barnes, of Oklahoma, says that in
seven years which have elapsed since
Oklahoma was made a territory it has
had greater progress than most COM
monwealths have had in three times
that period of years. At the election
last fall SO, 900 votes were cast, IL, 900
more than in Florida and 22, ZOO more
than in Delaware. The proportion of
citizens of foreign birth in Oklahoma
is smaller than it is in any state of the
union. The population, as returned by
the assessors for 1896, was slightly in
excess of 275, 900. No enumeration has
been taken this year, but the flow of
immi gration has been steady, and Gov.
Barnes thinks the population can now
safely be estimated at 5000 The as
sessed valuation of the territory has
increased during the past three years
from $19, 937, $40 to $32, O34, 752. Gov.
Barnes says that in majority of the
counties the property is returned for
taxation at very much less than it's
real value. He estimates the taxable
wealth of the territory at from $780,
900, 900 to $40, 900, 600.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23
TELL HEARTRENDlNG STORIES.
Persons Rescued from . Sunken Spanish
Steamer Arrive In Havana

Persons Rescued from . Sunken Spanish
Steamer Arrive In Havana
HAVANA, Oct 18-The gunboat Ma
ria Christian, which left this port Sat
urday for the scene of the wreck of the
coasting steamer, Triton. bound from
Havana to Bahia Ronda, Pinar del Rio,
which sank between Dominica and
Mariel, has returned with AZ members
of the lost ships company. The where
abouts of the others of the company is
unknown The Triton struck rock
during heavy rainstorm- Her
cargo shifted and Is minutes later
she sank in 40 fathoms of water.
Those who were rescued tell heart
rending stories of the scenes during
the terrible quarter of an hour before
the Triton sank An army captain, his
wife and daughter went down to-
gether, locked in last embrace. A
mother with twins Is months old
drifted helplessly away on the crest
of a great wave. All the other ladies
and children were drowned. just as
the Triton was sinking. Capt Ricardo,
her commander, committed suicide by
shooting himself with a revolver. 1t
is impossible to give the exact number
of those who were lost, but it Is esti-
mated that they were no fewer than
$50. No passenger list has been found.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23
RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.

Figures Taken from the Annual Report OF
the General Superintendent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-An abstract of
the annual report of the general SUI
perintendent of the railway mail serv-
ice follows:
At the close of the year there were 1, 1874 rail-
way post office lines, manned by g. 54 clerks; 80
electric and cable lines, with 102 clerks: AZ
steamboat lines, with 81 clerks, making
total number of lines 1889, and total
number of clerks lob In addition to
these there were 311 clerks assigned to
duty at important functions and depots
and 23S detailed clerical duty in the various
offices of the service making a grand total of
1852 clerks The miles of railroad covered by
railway post office car service 154, 225; of
electric and cable, 3o3, and of steamboat lines,
7459. There were $50 casualties during the
year, in which IA clerks lost their lives Thirty
three were seriously and rs slightly injured
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23
THE DOME OF PICTURES.

In a little house keep pictures suspended;
it is not fixed house,
It is round, it is only few inches from one
side to the other:
Y ct behold. it has room for all the shows of
the world. all the memories!
Here the tableaux of life and here the
WALT WHITMAN.
All, each man bears his Dome of Dreams
A picture dome
Wherein are painted homely cares.
Defeats and triumphs and despairs:
A gallery thronged with wider themes
Than those of Rome.
The pictures of this Dome of Dreams
Are memories
Young Barefoot wandering through the
dew,
Through dafsied fields when life was new.
By woodland paths. by lilied streams
And bloSsomed trees.
The picture of maid at school
With floating hair;
TRANSPORTED in the mist is she
On that dim shore of memory,
Life's dewiness about her. cool
And pure and fair.
The picture of a road that leads
From an old home;
A boy that from wooded swell
Looks through his tears and waves fare
Then down through unknown hills and
Altar to roam.
The picture of the long, long way
He Travelled far;
Fair fruited hillside slanting south,
Baked herblets upland sInit with drought,
And night paths with CLEAN of day
Without a star.
And pictures of wide-s1eeping wales
And storm-tossed waves;
OF valleys bathed in monday peace,
OF sheltered harbors of release,
Blue inlets specked with sunlit sails:
OF open graves.
And pictures of fair islands set
In golden foam;
And pictures of black wrecks upcaSt
On barren crags by many blast
But on Life paints more pictures yet
Upon that dome.
Sam Walter Foss, in N. Y. Sun
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23
FINANCIAL REFORMS.
The President Will Make This the Burden
of His Message Congress.

The President VIII Make This the Burden
of His Message to Congress.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-The president
will not discuss in advance what his
recommendations to congress will be
when that body shall reconvene, but
it is understood that he will favor the
consideration of financial reforms. It
is expected that the administrations
policy will be to do all in the power of
the president and the repu blican house
of represen tatives to secure needed
legislation to establish a currency sys-
tenn which will be beyond the reach of
periodical attack, and, having done
what can 1egitimately be done, to let
the opposition take the responsibility
of defeating it if they shall choose to
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23
PERlLS OF AUTHORSHIP.

MI LDRED'S pretty face wore a new
lvl expression as she toyed with her
teaspoon and tried to finish her roll
and coffee. John had just left for his
Office. They had been married three
months, and the serious aspects of life
were for the first time presenting them
selves.
II wish L could do something to help
john" thought Mildred, she gazed
abstractedly out of the window. "He
has to work so hard" and she gave lit
tie sigh.
What can 1 do?" she pondered.
<'What can 1 do?' she asked herself
again and again, as with deft touch she
Strengthened and arranged the dainty
apartment.
Suddenly her face looked as if door
had opened and flooded it with sun
light.
81 know what I will do; 1 will write
a story. 1 know 1 can if I try. People
do not have to be awfully clever to
do that. 1t is knack, not talent.
heaps of money; and her stories are only
poor trash-all of them. John says So"
Before another hour had passed the
outline of a plot was dancing in her
excited young brain, and soon as
she could get the time she sat down
with pad and sharpened pencil. Then
came pause. How shall 1 begin?"
She drew little geometric figures on
the margin of her paper she reflected,
her thoughts seeming to revolve in a
circle, returning ever to the place from
whence they started. Finally she
wrote:
I'm small village on the banks Of"
"Oh, that is so commonplace. No;
hot Il, Oh Off = \,
first sheet of her pad and reflected
again, then wrote:
Frank Atwood was the only son of
a"
NO, no; that is too stupid and the
second sheet of the pad went into the
waste-paper basket.
She recalled what John had said of
the superhuous first three pages, which
might with benefit to most stories be
eliminated-for John was a journalist
and literary critic, and his standards
and ideals were just on the measure of
her own. So she thought with great
Difference of what he had said about
tedious preambles-
He is right" she said, with decision.
''It is the personal interest in the char
acters which we are looking for in read
ing story. All that comes before that
is tedious superiority.
81 will dash right on with a letter
from the heroine, which will at once
explain the situation So with the con-
fidence which came from feeling herself
at last on the right track, she wrote:
Dear Frank-I return herewith the let
tiers, which of course have now no right
to keep. need not tell you what it cost me.
Il have reflected much upon what you
said Yesterday, but / am at last resolved.
will not see you again Any attempt to
make break this resolve will be fruit
less. God knows you have only yourself
to blame that this marriage has
please, ma'am," said the cook, com
ing suddenly in upon the young author
ess. please, ma'am, the butcher is
here. Win you come and see him and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23

MysteriousIy Murdered by Her Sweetheart
While Out Driving.

While Out Driving
MACON, Ga, Oct. 1S.-A special from
Albany, Ga. says: Near Faircloth,
Mitchell county, yesterday afternoon,
Miss Hurst, the beautiful 16-year-old
daughter of Planter j. B. Hurst, was
shot and killed with a pistol by her
sweetheart, Mack Lewis. The bullet
passed through the young lady's heart,
killing her instantly. The whole county
is in a fever of excitement. The young
couple were out for a drive, and, &C
cording to Lewis statement, stopped
to practice pistol shooting at a target
In taking the cooked revolver from
Lewis hands it exploded. Both fami-
lies are prominent.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23

There is complaint that many of the
new state schoolbooks, although in
use but few weeks, are coming to
pieces The fault does not appear to
be with the paper, but in the manner
in which they are put together, as the
leaves fall out
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23
Bryan's Gift to a School.

BENTON, Ill, Oct 1S--Because of his
mothers former connection with
Ewing college, w. j. Bryan has made
gift of money to il, the principal to
be invested and the income only used
for a prize for the best essay on the
science of government 1t is to be
salled the Mary Elizabeth Bryan prize
fund.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23
over Three Thousand Made Homeless.

HALIFAX, n. S., Oct 1S.-Historic
Windsor, one of the most beautiful
towns in the province, was devastated
by fire yesterday morning. OF the
400 or more buildings occupying the
section, barely half a dozen scorched
structures remain. No Nova Scotia
town has ever been visited by con-
aagration of such dimensions OF the
$500 people that inhabited the place
few have homes of their own to-day.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23
Mr. Costigan Makes a Discovery.

Walter j. Costigan, of Ottawa, claims
that the present railroad law has a
provision which, if enforced, would
prohibit the issuance of railroad
passes He has called the attention of
the state board of railroad commits
sioners to it, and an effort may be
made to test the matter.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23

The faculty of Baker university at
Baldwin, the largest Methodist college
in the west, has prohibited football as
an athletic sport
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23
Got away am Riehl

An enUerprising thief at Salina who
wished to leave the country stole a
horse, wagon and harness from three
different parties and lit out
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23
They FAVOR john brown.

Nearly all the school-teachers in
Kansas are voting for John Brown in
the greatest Kansan" contest.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23

Secretary of State Bush has refused
to have prin ted for circulation the an
nua1 address delivered on the opening
day of the state university by William
A. White. In years past the opening
address has always been printed in
pamphlet form and distributed by the
state. Mr.. Bush says the appropria-
ton is insufficient.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23

The populist handbook, which has
been prepared by Chairman Taylor
Riddle, of the state committee, with
the assistance of state officers and
others, has been completed and thou
sands of copies will be sent out in a
few days. Its purpose is to show what
the populists have done since they took
control of the affairs of the state last
January.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23


On account of domestic troubles the
young wife of Charles Senter, of To
peka, left home recently, taking with
her $500 of her husbands savings.
Senter at once had her arrested for
grand larceny, but when the couple
appeared before a justice, the husband
backed down and paid $50 costs to have
the case dismissed. Mrs. Senter paid
back the money but refused to go back
home with Senter.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-02-18
The Georgia Wonder.

Georgia has had several electric women,
but a little girl just discovered is able to
discount all their performances. Her name
is Fannie Hester, thirteen years old, and
until three months ago did not differ from
the commonplace type Of Georgia country
girls. Last November, by simply
the visit of tramp painter, the little girls
miraculous muscular power was discover
ed. The painter entertained the family
with tales of spirit rapping, or table talk
ing, and Miss Fannie tried. 1t was seen
that her hands impaired some inexplica-
bic force to whatever she touched. 1t
was at night when the discovery was made
and on going to her fathers bed to tell
him oft she touched one Of the posts
with her hand. The post promptly left
the floor and thumped two three times.
The bedstead weighed eightysix pounds.
and the man reclining on it no. Miss
Hester appeared at the court house in that
place before large and incredulous aud
fence Tuesday night, and went through
her regular performances. Various tests
are made. A man is asked to take firm
hold on tin pan. The young woman
touches the palm of her hand against the
bottom ofthe pan, and the pan moves and
twists in spite of the mans utmost efforts
to hold it. A stick or steel rod held at
the ends by aman gyrates and seesaws, no
matter how great the resistance.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-02-18
APPOMATTOx SHEEP FARM.
Proposed Use to Be Made of the Historic
Battle Field.

The Famous Appomattox battlefield
is to be turned into sheep farm. That,
at least, is the present purpose OF Maj.
a. Armes, who has just become the pos
SCISSOR of this historic spot, comprising
about 5000 acres. Major Armes became
the owner of Appomaitox battlefield, in
Guiding the famous apple tree, by a real
estate deal.
A syndicate of gentlemen, mainly res
idents of Washington, purchased Appomat-
tox battlefield few years ago as spec
ulation, paying about $4,000 therefor, and
since that time various bills have been in
troduced for the purpose Of having the
government acquire the property and
create a national park there, the same as
has been done at Gettysburg and Chicka-
manga. One of the bills proposes to APP
propriate quarter of a million dollars for
that purpose. Regarding these measures,
Congress and the committee to which these
DlIlS nave DGSIl I6lCilSNi IlSNS CiiOhli I" Wy
laggard spirit, and one by one the mem
bers of the syndicate have gradually drop
ped cut, until Messrs. Burdett and Bryan
became the sole owners.
Major Armes has acquired an extensive
tract of land at about Sl3 an acre, which
it is hardly probable will be worth less than
that sum, and which Congress may at
some future time, when the treasury is full
and patriotic spirit again rife, decide to
purchase in perpetualicommemoration of
the final scene in the great civil war.
A bill is now pending in the Senate
which proposes to appropriate sum suf-
ticient for the erection of a peace mon
ument on the spot where Gen. Lee
surrendered to Gen. Grant, April 8, 1865.
If this historic spot had been north of
Mason's and Dixon's line it would long
since have been converted into national
park, and maintained at government ex-
pense. But it is in the South, and that is
why it has not been done.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-02-18
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
Reasons Why Such Department Should
Be Established.
Washington Star" (Ind.).

The report comes from several sources
that prominent business men when calling
on Mr. Mckinley improve the occasion to
advocate the establishment of q new de-
partment, to be called the Department Of
Commerce and Industry. 1t is likewise
stated that MIR. Mckinley lends favor to
the suggestion. and the opinion is expressed
that the matter will take practical form at
an early day
There is a great deal to be said in sup
port of this proposition. Despite recent
paralysis and embarrassment, the commerce
of the countrylhas grown to enormous pro-
portions, and is safely in line for greater
things. Its easily entitled to consideration
on its own account, and to have its in
terests carefully looked after. There is a
Department of War, and it has great uses,
despite the fact That Il standing army OF
any size is repugnant to the wishes of the
peopleand to the genius ofthe Government
and is never maintained. But the interest
Of the army, small as they appear to be ID
times of peac care of the highest Importance
and could not he neglected or subordlnated
without grave consequences to the country
There has been no attempt to run a line
for the new department. That, however
will not be difficult if the department is
created. Business now transacted by other
departments, some of which have their
hands full, would be transferred there,
and much more of nature useful and
necessary would speedily develop. There
ia every reason to believe, indeed, that the
step, if taken, would completely justify
itself
Such objection as may appear may lie
expected to take the old familiar form.
There are people in the United States who
who are unable to follow the country's
growth or grasp its needs. They resent all
progress and the claims growing out of
progress. Apparently they would Try to
conduct the affairs Of a great empire ex-
panding with its opportunities and the
necessities Of its being, after the fashion
of Il small province. They objected to the
creation of the Department of Agriculture;
and it is still the employment Of cheap
wit TO deal with that department as though
it were humbug. But the fact remains
that it has in every way justified its ex-
istence that agriculture in many ways
has been much benefited by it, and that
it could not be abolished, or even ham,
pered, without heavy loss falling on the
agricultural interests. The department
has come to stay, and it is worth all that
is required to support it.
Elbow room. Is something very essential
to affairs in the United States, and as the
public interest increase and ramify they
ought to be cared for in proportion TO their
enlarged requirements.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-02-18
A Little too Much.

The Spanish Minister at Washington
labors under the delusion that it is he and
not the United States Government that
determines whether any individual is a
citizen of the United States or not. His
evident desire to have Scovel, the cor
respondent, punished as severely as mar
tial law or corrupted civil law will allow
suggests that his zeal is somewhat on the
order of Weyler's. 1t does not look as if
the alleged unjust hostility of the Ameri-
can people toward Spain's representative,
which the Minister is said to feel keenly,
affects his attitude toward American news
paper men. While there has been no per-
sonal hostility, anysign of heartlessness on
the part of the Minister will certainly
not prove conducive to his popularity. A
Weyler in Havana and Weyler in Wash
ington too, would be a little too much
Philadelphia Press.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-02-18
SMALL NATIONAL BANKS.

A bill introduced in the House of Rep
resentatives, by Mr.. Erosius, permitting
the organization Of national banks in
places of less than 1000 inhabitants, and
with as small capital as $4,000 strikes
us as being measure Of great merit and
ought to be passed without opposition
Under existing laws regulating national our
banking systems small banks in small towns
are not permitted. Tie result has been
that in the South and Southwest there are
very few national banks, and large area
of the United States is practically without
banks or currency. If the bill introduced
by Mr.. Brosius becomes law small
national banks will spring up, in the South
and Southwest where they have not here
tofore existed.