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A Free Ticket To Texas

would cost you more via other lines than u
ticket at regular rates via the old reliable
Memphis and Charleston r. R because you
go straight through without the long lay-overs
that you would have via other lines but our
rates are as low as the lowest.
Do not buy your tickets before getting our
rates Avoid wearisome night changes ofcars,
long lay-overs aud troublesome transfers hy
purchasing your tickets via the old reliable
NJ. a. Ry.
H. 4. Allen, passenger agent Norri.,nwu
Tenn.
c A. Desaussure, c. P. A., Memphis, Tenn
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-02

A great many of the unsupplied are
of the opinion that the president should
return to Washington and remain long
enough to shake the tree a few times.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-02

The Coliseum at Rome was built by
Vespasian to accommodate 100, 900 spec
tators. 1t covers five and half acres,
and was 1870 feet high.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-02

Beware of prejudices. Aman's mind
is like rat trap; prejudices creep in
easily, but it is doubtful if they ever
get out again.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-02

Professor Moore of the weather bu-
reau says there in much more crime in
hot weather than in cold. For once the
weather bureau is correct,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-09-02

No 3 Pullman Sleeping car Bristol to Knox.
vile, knoxville to Chattanooga and Chatta.
nooga TO Atlanta
NO o. Pullman Sleeping cars Bristol to
chattanooga and New Orleans. also PullmaI
Union Slee per Chattanooga to Shreveport
NO II, carries Pullman Sleeping car Morris.
towa TO Chattanooga, and from CHAT lnoogt
TO Atlanta
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:, Tennessee & Western n. C. R. R

In effect June It'll 1897, at7;2O o'clock "a. M
WESTWARD EASTWARD.
No4N0. 2lMls STATIONS No NO,S
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A companion that is cheerful, and
free from swearing or scurrilous dis
course, is worth gold. 'Tis company
and not the charge that makes the feast.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11

which he, too, could be cooped up, the
commanding officer came toAthe conclu-
sion that the young man was too warm
a member for army service, and to
prevent the complete Reorganization
and ruin OF half of one of the best ar
tillery regiments in the army, the
Kelley graduate received a without
hour" Not until he had been escorted
TO the gate by a file of the guard was
discipline restored.
The only son Of a rich banker in Den
yer made an unwise marriage d few
years ago, and to wiggle out of the
responsibility of il after his people had
abandoned him, he enlisted in the
army. He was a proficient cornet
player, and was therefore assigned to
one OF the infantry bands as a musi-
clan. His people in Denver were so
pleased with the young man for hav-
ing adopted this novel method of get
ting rid of the obligation TO live with
the woman he had married that they
sent him all the money he asked for.
The band to which ne was attached
was at Angel island, an hours run by
boat from san Francisco. The young
man from Denver proceeded to make
life bearable, not TO say hilarious, for
his fellow wind TANNERS. He couldn't
do this in the post, and thereby made
himself and his "swaddies" liable to
get into trouble. His original liberality
took the form of providing an average
of three banquets a week in San Fran
cisco for his fellow musicians. He saw
that they were all provided with even
ing suits, which they donned after
reaching San Francisco from the is
land. and he acted as master of cere-
monies of the revels, which took place
in a private supper room in one of the
best hotels in the city. By the time
the young man from Denver had been
at Angel island for couple of weeks
the officers of the post began to notice
that the band was furnishinln music OF
an exceedingly inferior quality. few
weeks later the whole band returned to
the post on the government boat on a
morning after a regular banquet night
in such d condition that the music the
band furnished for morning guard
mount was like that heard in a Chi
neSe theatre, and the adjutant ordered
them all in arrest. The Denver recruits
connection with the exceedingly eva
music could not be officially traced. al
though the officers, of course, knew all
about it, and so nothing could be done
TO him. The band was disciplined with
little or no effect. The music remained
atrociously bad, and the musicians be-
gan TO grow so stout that some of them
could barely waddle.
Then the officers of the post. includ-
ing the commanding officer. an exceed
ingly pompous> old gentleman, who is
now a brigadier general. began to run
across the Denver recruit, done up in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11
Finances Abroad.

New York, July 1O.-The Financier
says: Coming after the unprecedented
expansions noted for the week ending
July the bank statement for the cur
rent week exhibits but modest changes.
There is still a demand for money as
the increase of $1,0S7.165 in loans clearly
shows. A comparison of the returns Of
90 clearing house banks individually
reveals the fact that So have increased
and % have decreased their loans, the
changes, with one or two exceptions,
being unimportant- But while loans
are increasing, deposits for the week
have exceeded them in volume, the gain
for the past seven days aggrega ting
S2,69S,S00. The banks also hold $642. :
500 more in cash than on July s. The
effect of these operations has been to
hold the total reserve almost station
ary.
The situation. however. is of more
promise than indicated by the state
ment. The banks having a large BUSH
ness throughout the south and west re-
port a good inquiry for rediscounts
The money on call in New York is
much more concentrated than usual
and it is said to be a fact that one of
the largest institutions has nearly $20,-
100000 cash outstanding in this way
This is not important, except TO show
that the market may be sensitive to
control, once the changes in rates be-
gin. Bankers. however, do not antici-
pate material advances in money
rates for the present, as the supply of
funds not only in New York but else
where as well, is far in excess of the
demand.
1t is worthy of mention. not as hav-
ing bearing on the statement. but
as breaking a long decrease, that the
circulation Of The New York hanks
show a small increase this week OF
steady shrinkage of eight months. dur
ing which there has been a loss Of
about s.. 900. 600 in this item alone.
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23O pounds OF sinew and bone, until,
fiattened, they announced their acqui-
sition of a little temporary wisdom.
The Rochester man whose wad was
creating all this trouble, was tied to his
seat with stout cords by the sergeant
half a dozen times before the train got
to Chicago; but the moneyed recruits
comrades cut the cords every time and
more liquids appearing at the next
stop, riot invariably broke out afresh.
BY the time they reached Omaha and
had kicked all the windows out of their
special car. the sergeant gave them up:
each of the recruits having acquired
one or pair of black eyes before the
Missouri was crossed, and the sergeant
himself being tired Of mauling them.
50 he settled back in his seat and let
them so ahead, reTnarking that when
they arrived at the post for which they
were bound he would prefer charges
against every one OF them: which he
never did. The eX-keeleyife from
Rochester thereupon loaded the car up
with bottles from the saloon shacks of
Council Bluffs, and the tumult went on.
At Glenns Ferry, Ida, the train was
hemmed in between two washouts for
five days, one of the days being st.
PatrckS anniversary. The recruit
from Rochester hired the biggest shack
in the place on St. Pa1rick's night, and
save = bdil " TIE SICtD HGfQtTE-
wound up in scraps and gun-pIays,
though no one OF them was killed
When this interesting mob of rockies
arrived at their post, every man of
them was a wreck, in shape 10 be
patched up by surgeon, except the
son Of the Rochester ex-mayor. He was
as fresh as a daisy, as became an ex-
Keeleyfte.
He found more money. sent by his
folks. awaiting him when he got TO his
post, and he Immediately set out to win
the affection of the six batteries in his
regiment by taking all hands to the
canteen in relays. Inside of a week
the soldiers had practically sacked the
canseen, and about one-half Of them
were in the guard house. The young
man from Rochester couldn't be
touched. He got through with his duty
and missed no calls. The canteen
couldn't weigh him down a particle.
The commanding officer was puzzled
He closed the canteen. The command
ing general of the department ordered
him TO open il again. 1t was no sooner
re-opened than the Rochester youth
conveyed the whole enlisted force of
the post there again, and again illus
trated his complete inability TO get
under the weather from the effects of
army beer, while his comrades in arms
were being marched off 10 the clink in
sets of TOURS. When the major portion
of the enlisted force was in the guard
house, and the Rochester man persisted
in declining to present any handle by
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Chicago Grain and Produce.

Chicago. July 10.-Wheat got weak
start because Liverpool sent lower quo
tations September, which closed yes
terday worth 65A, started at 6515 to-
day.
In preparation for the weakness
which usually follows the publication
of the government report-one being
due today-tlne traders were indis-
posed to carry much over till Monday.
and the price got to its lowest near the
end. September sold down to 651s, and
closed at 653s.
In corn, tine general rains west ana
the cooler wea tlher were the considera-
tons, and there was considerable Sep
TENDER for sale at the opening at 267s,
at a decline of y cent. This liquida-
ton caused a decline to 261s, but liz
uidatiOns soon set in again and con-
tinued to the close.
fairly good business was done in
oats. though mostly at one quotation.
Provisions ruled heavy, with quite
general selling and liquidation.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
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A Dizzy Whirl Above the
River.

features of a swing in the cars. The
lower platform. which Will be used for
this purpose, viii have a capacity OF
200 passengers and will rise to a height
of 24O feet.
The arms on which the cars will be
hung viii be each 10 feet in length.
The hosting and revolving machinery
will be placed inside the vertical stand
ard, and steel cables viii run from the
cars at the extremities of the arms to
the counter weights within the stand
ard. The power will be supplied by q
dynamo, and the whole affair viii be
electrically lighted. including the cars
and the summit of the standard, from
which a high-power searchlight VIII
flash. 1t is counted upon making three
trips an hour and giving each batch Of
passengers ten-minute whirl at the
top.
All of the ordinary features of a great
exposition viii be included, such as the
Midway and kindred amusements, and
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Weekly Bank Statement.
Our Hop Crops Good.

New York. July lot is altogether
likely that the surplus stock of hops in
the United States held principally by
brewers, will have some serious in
roads made into it this year for export
to England, because of the smallness
of the crop there, the acreage being
the smallest known in 20 years ard with
an average yield OF 500 hundred weight
per acre which is above the average,
the product Will probably reach 100000
hundred weight and the chances are
that this will be reduced by the raw
ages of vermin which are reported
plentiful in all the hop gardens of
England. If the insect pest holds until
towering time the yield will be still
further curtailed.
Louis r. Searles, one of the largest
dealers. says that even with the most
favorable crop reports in England that
can possibly be made there must be
large impOratiOns from the continent
and the United States and the brewers
Will be obliged TO use up considerable
of their surplus of two years ago.
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they can look down almost 900 feet to
the flowing river below.
In ingenuity of construction, the
whirling umbrella rivals all things of
its kind. The standard will be placed
in the center of a circular pavilion, on
the edge of which the Is cars viii rest
when the umbrella is closed. Steel will
be used entirely in the construction of
the standard and it will be firmly an
chored in a stone and concrete founda-
ton 80 feet deep and 10 feet square. The
standard will be 30 feet in diameter and
126 feet in circumference, and along its
whole length from the base to the top
viii be 40 rails. on which the sliding
machinery which sends the arms to the
top viii work.
Built around the standard are two
platforms, to which the steel arms
holding the cars will be attached. One
of these platforms viii also be used
for the conveyance of visitors to a
high point on the standard, but an as
cent on this will lack the heart-quaking
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WONDER OF Of1AHA'S EXPOSITION.

the site, and 70 of these are being laid
out so as TO form a permanent park.
In this tract will be erected the art
building, which will also be a -erma-
nent structure. The principal buildings
a great lagoon and the main entrances
will be located on a 60-acre tract, and
the remaining so acres will be used
for the agricultural and live stock dis
plays
OF the many features already ar
ranged for is one which promises 70
eclipse the Eiffel tower OF Paris, the
Ferris wheel CT Chicago and the giant
see-saw of Nashville. This is an i'm
mense umbrella shaped affair (which
VIII suspend the visitors 575 feet above
the waters Of the Missouri and twirl
them about in a way that win eclipse
all previous nerve-shakers of the kind.
This structure win cost $4,000 to
build and a number of Chicago cap
italists are in the scheme, led by the
inventor, r. Z. Sherman. The site
chosen for the giant umbrella is on the
edge of the bluff, which rises to a
height of 225 feet above the river. The
vertical standard of the affair will be
$50 feet high, and when the cars con-
tanning the visitors are raised TO the top
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there will be others of pronounced orig
inality. The women of Nebraska. to
whom much OF the success of the sub
scription list is due, are taking an act
i've part in the management of the fair,
and their building will exhibit many
characteristic examples of womans
part in the upbuilding of the west.
Mrs. Winona S. Sawyer is the presi-
dent of the board of woman managers.
Gurdon w Wattles is the president of
the exposition company and Dion Ger
aldine the general superintendent.
The national government has appro-
priated 100000 for the national build
ing and exhibit, the signing of the ap-
preparation bill being one of the last
official acts of President Cleveland, and
when he affixed his signature to the
document he said that it was the last
measure for federal and state exDosi-
tons that a president of the United
States would ever be called upon to
sign. The future will show whether
Mr.. Cleveland is true prophet.
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.SCAPEGRACES IN BLUE.
Worthless Sons OF Rich Men Make
Trouble in the Army.

Worthless Sons OF Rich Men Make
Trouble in the Army.
Every year a certain number of
seapegrace sons OF wealthy and infiu-
entail men drift into the United States
fighting establishments. The army is
especially afflicted by them. They rare
~ make good or even passahle soldiers.
Few of them serve a complete enlist
ment.
Rich mems sons in che army gener-
ally contrive 10 keep in ferment the
outfits to which they are attached. The
son Of an eX-mayor of Rochester, y.
Y. enlisted in New York City a few
years ago, afIer several visits TO a
Kelley cure Institution and inebriate
asylums, and with a record in general
FOR utter iuccrrigibility. He passed the
army surgeon who examined him for
enlistment with the greatest ease, for
despite his dissipation, he was as sound
as a dollar. He was sent to David's
island when thar post was a recruit
ing station. for three months drilling
in the awkward squad before being as
signed to a regiment. His relatives
sent the young fellow so much money
that ne was able to keep himself in
trance most Of the time. The captain of
young man belonged. noticing the bad
start the lad was making, and i'm
pressed with the brightness and apt
ness he exhibited during his lucid in
tervals, decided THAI I would be best to
fire him off TO a regiment for disciplin-
airy purposes before he had beer at the
recruiting station a full month So
the young fellow was drafted to pro-
coed with a batch of 80 recruits under
the charge of a sergeant, TO an artillery
regiment stationed on the Pacific coast.
He notified his relatives Of the move he
was about to make, and by return mail
got money from each of them.
From the hour the batch of recruits
left New Rochelle TO take the train at
the Grand Central station for the west,
until they turned up in various states
of dilapidation on the Pacific coast u
days later. the sergeant in charge of
the gang had his hands full. None of
the other recruits besides the Rochester
man had a cent, but he had money in
plenty, and his disposition was large
and generous. Half way across the
continent the sergeant, a dignif1ed man
and an old-tim in the service, found II
necessary, every ten minutes or so,
night ard day, to pry the recruits loose
from one another, and go- chem down,
one by one, in the middle of the car
aisle, there to sit upon them with his
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about the work for boom" purposes,
as the reactionary sufferings of other
cities have shown the futility of such
methods. OF course. the city and state
expect to derive benefits from the eX-
position and the big outlay of money;
not in direct profits, but by Indirect
and slower means. None of the sub
scribers have been promised dividends
on the exposition shares. That is q fall
lacy that has been exploded several
times. But they do expect that the
exposition VIII materially advance the
general prosperity Of the state and in
fuse new energy into all branches Of
industry.
Work upon the exposition grounds
has been going on since April last. and
the army of men employed Indicates
that everything VIII be in readiness in
good time for the opening. The site Is
located within mile of the center Of
The city. on the edge Of the high bluff
overlooking the Missouri river. one
hundred and nfty-three acres comprise
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The following are the sales in detail,
New South Wales, APIS bales;
secured. 71sdq1s I'D; greasy. 5d@11d.
Queensland. isis bales; secured. 10d@
Is 2isd; greasy. 61sdGS1sd-
Victoria, 1859 bales; secured. 6iad61s
i'd: greasy. TdGSd-
South Australia. 219 bales; secured,
69<dGls I'd; greasy, 5hd@63sd.
West Australia, 412 bales; greasy,
4s4dG63td.
Tasmania. 2.711 bales; greasy. 5Ad@
Is led.
New Zealand. 2.025 bales; secured.
715dG11d: greasy, 45sdG9d-
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the height of weH-fashiored evening
clothes and glittering with diamonds,
every time they went over to San Fran
cisco for a night at their clubs. This
was uflendura be. 49,.
He is only a soldier, you know"
said young officer, expostulating
about the matter.
True was the reply, aren't your
Three months after the young man
had joined the army he received his
discharge without honor" whereafter
the music of the band soon became fit
to be heard, and the officers met the
Denverfte in tiae drawing rooms of San
Francisco, no longer as a corner player
in a regular army band. but as
harum- scarum young civilian against
whom was pending a sensational di-
Vorce suit.
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A Giant Umbrella, $50
Feet High.

Omaha. Neb., July 9.-It would seem
q hazardous undertaking in these times
of depression in the middle west to IN
dertake the vast outlay necessary to a
worlds fair, but Nebraska has tackled
the problem boldly, and with so much
energy that already it has s1,25O, 900
pledged, although the opening of the
Trans Mississippi exposition is IL
months distant. Two millions have
been fixed upon by the managers as the
needed sum to show the world, between
June 1 and Oct. l of 1898. the manifold
resources Of that section of the coun-
try. The east, the north. the south
and the far west have all had great
expositions during the past 20 years,
beginning with the Philadelphia GEN.
tennfal, but the middle west has been
neglected.
Profting by the experiences of these
ventures, the Omaha men are not going
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Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, July NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
in nearly all cases were steady range
of prices. few native beef steers SELL
ing at 4.20G475.
Hogs-Common 10 prime lots sold at
3.2OQ3.6215, with sales largely at 1850
$50; prices were about 1715 cents higher
than week ago.
Sheep were saleable at 2.O0G3.75. with
prime natives nominal at 3.S0G3.S5;
westerns sold at 2.50GS.60; lambs sold
at 3.50q5.5O. yearlings being worth 1856
q4.25: common sheep and lambs sold
slowly at low prices.
Receipts-Cattle. 400: hogs, 1900:
sheep, 1000
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11

Sptritualism-Mr. Milton A. Pontenger,
of the Brotherhood OF Magi. will speak 10
SpiriSualtsEs und oSner occusS students to-
n.ghE in 4. O. L. w. hall, Gladstone
building, III South 8Iatn. BY request Will
answer the following questions: First
How do you know TINS life is not dream
and what we cali the dream state the real
existence? Second-HoM can you COM
bsne The so-called spirifualism with oc-
cuiE science or medlumstlip WITH eneoso-
ply?
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London Wool Sales.

London. July 10-At the wool auction
sales today S,621 bales were offered. of
which 500 were withdrawn. The selec-
ton was good and met with spirited
bidding by the continental and home
buyers, the former taking New Zea-
land and Tasmania greasy Merinos at
extreme rates, and the latter buying
secured Merinos and cross breeds at
full rates. The tone OF the market was
very firm. There was no American
support.
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Kansas Citv Live Stock.

Kansas City. Mo-. July 1O.-Cattle-
Receipts. $50; market steady, I'M
changed.
to shade lower: bulk of sales. 3.S5G340:
heavies. 3.3712G3.4 sis: packers. $3.50
S.S71s: mixed, S.s5@S. 421a: lights, S.150
s.S5: workers, s.S21Sq3.S5; pigs. 5000
SO
Sheep-No market.
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Condition of the Treasury.

Washington, July 1O.-Today's state
ment of the condition of the treasury
shows Available cash balance, $685.
500, 7O2; gold reserve, S142, 016,O51
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market.
Specie Shirments.

New York. July 1O.-The exports OF
specie from the port of New York for
the week amounted TO SS72.47 in silver
and S9.302 in gold. The imports were:
Gold. $S7 $50; silver. $49.4 general
merchandise, $S,S72,974; dry goods, Si,-
429,SO7.
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First Presbyterfan-Corner Second East
and Second South streets. Morning ser
vice az II O'Clock: Sunday school at 1920;
Junior Endeavor meeting at 5:l5; Young
Peoples meeting ar $50; evening service
at S. Rev. J. W. Graybill breaches morn
lie invited.