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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-28

" I can't see how any family lives
without Chamberlsin's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy, says J. R.
Adams, we'll known druggist, of
GeneAva, Ala, in letter inquiring the
price Of dozen bottles, that he might
not only. have it for use in his own fami-
ly but supply it to his neighbors. The
reason some people get along without
it, is because they do not know its val
ne, and what vast amount of suffer.
ing it will save. Wherever it becomes
known and used, it is recognized as a
necessity. for it is the only remedy that
can always be depended upon for bow.
ell complaints, both for children and
adults. For sale by Ward & Friberg
The Bee Hive.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-28

To be dragged down to an early grave
by the neglect of trivial ailment is not
an enviable fate, and yet thousands
submit to this fate without struggle.
People can not learn too soon that
coughs and colds and affections of the
throat and chest can not be safely neg
lected. The most fatal disease known
to physicians have their inception in
these disorders. 1t is easy to cure a
cold. 1t is impossible to cure con-
sumption. One follows the other as
surely as night follows day. DIR. Bells
Pine Tar Honey is a sure cure for
coughs, colds, throat and chest trou-
bles. Druggists sell it.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-28
Herbert Landrum,s Poem on the Yellow DeatI

Herbert Landrums Poem on the Yellow Death
The story Of Herbert Landrum' g
heroism in the Memphis epidemic OF
1878 was told in the Constitution OF
September 18th. He was on the staff
Of the Memphis Avalanche, was striok-
en with yellow fever, but remained in
bed only one day. Then he went back
to the Office and with the aid of one
printer got out the paper. Young
Landrum had relapse and died in q
few hours.
The day he worked he wrote some
verses on the scourge. Rev. NJ. H.
Lane, now of Atlanta, has furnished
The Constitution with copy of the
verses. Rev. Lane came to Atlanta re-
Gently from Forsyth. In 1878, when
the fever appeared in Memphis, he was
in Tennessee. He was on the the train
with George Landrum when the latter
brought DR.. Bogg's children home to
Georgia. George Landrum died few
days after his brother. Herberts poem
referred to above follows:
DEATH IN THE SUNSHINE.
The sunbeams drag their gold. The
smiles of happy life beam on the face OF
nature; the birds carol where soft winds
move gently the green foliage of the
trees. 1t seems strange that charnel
house-on grand home of the perish
ing-should be lit up by brilliancy OF
light which marks the ballroom, not the
hospital of life.
Great God! What mockery Of light
That gilds with dazzling ray;
And with Shimmering Sunbeams bright,
In smiles enwraps the day.
From the unbroken blue on high,
Cerulean setting deep,
Glares, CLEANS and laughs the mocking eye,
As DER dead our people weep
Laughing, Sneering ieering 1t beams
In smile damnably bright
yellow face OF demon 1t seems,
Grlnning satanic delight.
What paradox of life and death.
Life of life in nature there!
While here we struggle for breath,
Choked with the foul deaths air.
Ghastly and ghostly as Golgotha
The sunlit streets appear;
Death and sunshine bend together,
And concoct for dire despair
Down they shoot, so thick and fast
Shafts Of the grinning sun
For death and light together claspt
Make of their quiverS one
These shafts they shiver on the floor,
And break in waves of light;
To show to death the fated door
At which to hurl his blight,
AS our cities in ashes sit,
The heavens should darllened be,
For why should sunbeams dancing fit
In train OF death and misery?
God seems to have placed the torch
To gnide Death on his way,
That none here left escape his touch,
In this doomed town today.
Oh come, thou darkest blacklist night,
With deep sepulchral gloom;
Throw thy Egyptian shadows might
Ger this, our common tomb.
september, 1873.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-28
Chas. A. Dana.

Charles A. Dana is dead. Ordinarily
the life of man is no more than that Of
q moth or mosquito, but Dana was an
extraordinary man. Dana meant some.
thing. We all warred at Dana, but we
all realized that he was the last refuge
of editorial individualism. Dana com
mitted number Of errors to convince
us that he was human; but he was a
great man, great in genius, great in
work, great in all things pertaining to
the effectiveness of individual opinion
he has died and he sunk into the shad-
ows Of silence, whittier we are all trend
ing, but this life's work has left its i'm
press upon current history in a manner
that shall not soon be forgotten. Dana
and his genius shall be lost in the dumb
dead years, but we will all admire his
talents and revere his memory. We are
only custondians Of the fugitive years,
but when such o man as Dana dies we
will pause and say requiescat. t.-Com'
mercial-Appeal.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-28
Yellow Fever Germs

breed in the bowels Kill them and you are
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. 5Oc all druggists
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-28

DR.. Bells Pine Tar Honey is different
from all other cough remedies. 1t cures
by allAying the Inflammation and Civ
ing tone, strength, vigor and vitality
to the respiratory organs.
All druggists sell it.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-28

Prospectors for Klondike gold are
having a hard time of it, according to
returning miners.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-28

as II by a miracle"
DR.. Miles Remedies
are sold by all drug
gists under a positive
guarantee, first bottle
benefits or money re-
funded, Book on dis
eases OF the heart ant
nerves free. Address,
np MIIEC MEnICA
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-28
HOw's This.
F. ]. CHENEY s. CO., Toledo. o.

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
f. j. CHENEY s CO., Toledo, o.
We the undersigned, haze known F. J, Cheney
for the last IS years, and believe him perfectly
honorable i'll all business transactions and f.
nancial able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm
West & TruaX, Wholesale Druggist, Toledo o.
walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the ood and mucuous sur
faces of the system, Testimonials sent free.
Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Jacob We'll, prominent merchant
who was injured in the collapse of the
Robinson opera house at Cincinnati
last week, died, making the fifth victim
Of the accident.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-28

l have used Smiths Sure Kidney Cure
and 1t has made permanent cure.
MRS. WIN. PuRYEAR,
JoneSboro, Ark.
For sale and guaranteed by local druggists.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-28

WALL P. BABCooK. of Avoca, N, ", a
= veteran of the 3rd N. Y. Artillery and
for thirty years of the Babcock s.
Munsel Carriage Co., of Auburn, says: ~
write to express my gratitude for the mirac-
lous benefit received from DIR. Miles Heart
Cure. suffered'for years, as result of army
life, from sciatica which affected my heart
in the worst form, my limbs swelled from
the ankles up. bloated until was unable
to button my clothing; had sharp pains
about the heart, smothering spells and
shortness OF breath, For three months /
was unable to lie down, and all the sleep
got was In an arm chair. was treated by
the best doctors but gradually grew worse.
About year ago commenced taking DR..
Miles New Heart Cure and 1t saved my life
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-28

Mayor and aldermen of the town of
johnson City VS.. Charleston, Cincin-
natl and Chicago Railroad company,
Washington county. Caldwell, J,
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-06-22
Wolves I'm Russia.

When they cry wolf in the govern
ment of Saratoff, Russia, it means
something During the last two years
the wolves there have devoured. ac
cording to the official returns. IL 900
horses, 10000 horned cattle, 80, 900
sheep, 5000 swine, 1000 dogs and l 8. =
600 fowl. They have also during the
same period attacked sixty-eight per
sons, devouring two on the spot and
lnflicting fatal wounds on twelve others.
In France it is estimated that 500. 600
OF these animals exist and the damage
inflicted by them is set down Mt about
10000, 900 francs annually. A regular
body OF men, numbering 1000, called
the Louveterie, is maintained to keep
down wild beasts, and the force has
certain efficiency, but is UNEQUAL to
Keeping the country clear of them.
From time to time high bounties for
wolf scalps have been paid, as much rs
700 francs in the case of a known man
eater, dreaded there AS the man eating
tiger is in the Hindoo villages; but the
animal Is never extirpated. : go some
years his ravage is greater andsxz;
others less, but he is always in sesi5
dence. In this country he has bean
pretty well put down in the inhabited
parts. A few days ago prodigious
wolf-drive was set on loot in Atchison
County, Kansas, five square miles be-
ing covered and TOO persons participa-
ting. They rounded up 200 jack rab-
bits, but not single wolf Consider
ing his fierce and predatory character
abroad and his resistance to all efforts
to destroy him, the American animal
must be set down as rather n meritori-
GUS creature, easily amenable to ex-
tinction, even where it continues to
maintain a foothold New York Tri-
bune,
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A CHAMPION LirhtweIrht.

Remarkable in many ways, the
"tule gnat" of the far West is the most
curious for it's almost total lack OF
weight. The little insect has a nearly
microscopic body, but relatively huge
spread of wings, which gives it the APP
parent size of mosquito.
In some parts Of California "tule
gnats" swarm so densely about burn
ing lamps that several times during an
evening the dead must be cleared away
TO give the light chance. In bright
ly-illumined stores the gnats are
yeritable pests, and it was in Lake
County (Cal. drug store that curious
experiment was recently made. AS
many gnats were collected az could be
heaped upon pan Of the apothecary's
scales; the smallest weight in use to
measure the most delicate drugs was
then put upon the opposite pan and
was found to overbalance the mountain
Of gnats New Orleans Times Demo.
Graf
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Each square inch of the human skin
contains no less than $500 perspiration
pores.
The Bureau of Ethnology in wash
inSton has mt present about $500 vol
umes on anthropology.
An actress in Stockholm. who lost
her power of speech and memory, was
hypnotised, and went through her part
accurately and naturally.
Nicola Tesla disputes the Roentgen
theory of the cause of the effect of the
y rays and ascribes il to a Longitude
nal disturbance of material nature.
The sound of thunder may be heard
for twenty or twenty five miles; with
the ear to the ground much farther.
Lightning is reflected for $50 to 200
miles.
When gold is vaporized it is depos-
tied in the condensing tube in the
shape of powder of brilliant purplish
hue. The French chemist who found
this out is not likely to be troubled
with imitators.
DIR. Aoki, OF the Japanese navy, says
that it has been found that the disease,
known rs beri-beri, is caused by an ex-
elusive rice diet, and has been over
come in Japanese vessels by the intro
duction of mixed diet.
A writer in the London Lancet saws
that since the reintrod uction into In
dia of ipecacuanha in large doses as n
remedy for acute dysentery, the death
rate from acute attacks has been re-
duced from IL per cent to less than 5
per cent.
According to observations made at
the Royal Botanic gardens, London.
1t seems that the rainfall in England
during the first three months of this
year exceeded that of any of the totals
recorded since 1887 by more than two
inches. The fall was double that of
1895 and 1896.
DIR. p. Penta has studied the fingers
and toes of 1900 criminals, and finds n
deficiency in the size or number of toes
quite frequent among them, although
very rare among ordinary men. He
has also observed that prehensile toes,
marked by wide space between the
great toe and the second toe. is a con
dition quite common among criminals.
also n webbed condition of the toes. an
approximation to the toeless feet of
some savges.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-06-22
PITH AND POINT.

The Cynic-''Men don't paint their
'aces. The Fair Observer-"And
women don't paint the town. Puck.
Don't you think, Grumpy. that Miss
Harshly is n beautiful SINCERE" Very
But she can't sing. Detroit FIR,
Press.
He-"You girls seem to be awfully
fond of sweets" She-"And you seem
to be awfully fond of sours. Cornell
Widow.
She looming up suddenly)-''wher
did that wave go?" He coughing and
struggling)-'I swallowed t."--Dub-
lin World.
Tramp lat dentists door)-'I'd like
my teeth filed" Dentist What
WITHHOLD or silver?" Tramp-(eag-
erly)-"Oh, just plain bread will do"
Pick Me-Up.
when Fratters played Hamlet
down Mt San Frustino did the audience
egg him on when no reached his
heroics?" mot exactly. They egged
him of. Judge. -
Becker-'T see by the posters that
Footlights, the tragedian, travels un-
der his wife's management. Decker
$50 do most men, only they don't adj
vertise it. London Tit-Bits.
Briggs-"I'm thinking of moving
over to your boarding house" Griggs
What for?" Briggs-''My doctor
told me not to eat anything with my
meals. Detroit Free Press.
They had been talking about the
Sandwich Islands care you in favor
Of annexation?" the young man asked,
aud the maiden replied coyly: 'Oh,
George, this is so nr'--Twin-
kles.
"You don't even dress me decently,"
she cried. "I'm going home to papa. -
"All right" replied Doolits; "you
might say to him also that / need
new suit myself" - Philadelphia
North American.
Crane" Shippers seems all broken
up. / wonder what's the trouble?"
Polk-"His wife has engaged in
double dealing; she presented him
with twins this morning. "-Philadel-
phia North American.
Every father should buy savings
bank for his children. It's possession
Is sure to encourage habits OF economy
in them; and, besides, it is handy
place to go when he wants small
change. -Somerville Journal
Author-"You have no. idea how
many stamps / use posting my N
scripts to various editors" Critic
VERY likely. j think there ought to
be excursion tickets for manuscripts Mt
reduced rates. London Tit-Bits.
He-"Do you remember when first
we met? The dew was on the grass.
the air was full of summer scents.
and" She--"Yes; and now there's
no summer, no dew, no grass and no
sense. BY the way, have you heard of
my engagement?"--Det Free Press.
81 hurl my defiance into your very
teeth" she exclaimed with heaving
bosom. "Ha! hal" sneered her perse-
cutor. For hers was crude age, and
women were not as yet received Mt
those seats of learning where they play
basketball and things and become
adept at throwing. Puck.
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An interesting story is told concern.
ing some of the jewels belonging TO
the Empress Of Germany. She owns
very fine necklace, made of large
pearls, we'll matched in size. and
singularly pure in color. The neck.
lace, however, had been laid aside for
some time away from the light and air.
and rs a natural result the color of the
pearls had suffered considerably. In
fact, when the Empress took out her
necklace it was so discolored that she
found she could not possibly wear
it in its then condition. The court
jeweler, when appealed to, gave it as
his opinion that nothing would restore
the pristine purity Of the pearls ex-
cept very long immersion in the sea.
glass case was accordingly made.
with holes in it 90 admit the water.
the pearls were deposited in it. and Il
was sunk "full fathoms five" in the
waters Of the North Sea, says Madame.
The spot chosen is close 10 the shore.
and 1t is said that sentries are on duty
there night and day.
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:" SONG oF.THE MODERN GREEKS.


Rising from the bat lie soil Of Heilas
Liberty, we know thee by thy sword.
by thy reckoning, by thine eyes that tell n q
Thou art worthy still to be adored.
Chorus.
Hail thee, hail thee spirit: linger. hover
Over Salamis and Marathon,
TIL each hero's heart that called thee
lover
nlso with thee to lead the patriot ON
Slumbered Hellas long in shame and sad
ness.
Waiting for voice to call her forth:
flushed the infants glee, tho mothers
by the brutal tyrant OF tho North.
Chorus.
Hail thee, hall thee, spirit; etc.
Long. too long, she dwelt with buried he
roes,
Cherishing the glories she had known:
Her Caligulas, her hooking Neros
NOT by pride or tears could be DER
thrown.
Chorus.
Hail thee, hail thee spirit: etc.
But at last, uplifted by thy presence
Floating on before her like n cloud
Every arm, the princes and the peasants.
Struck. and Greece once moro was free
and proud.
Chorus
Hail thee, hail thee, spirit; etc.
hh, bW there are brothers still whose
weeping
Comes from over sea and land
WINE they moan shall we again be sleep
ing
We whom thou hast wakened with tLy
hand?
Chorus
Hall thee, hall thee, spirit; etc.
Hasten, Liberty, and and we will follow
unto suffering Crete and Macedon
Striving till, some happy dawn. Apollo
Find fair Hellas come into her ownl
Chorus.
Hail thee, hail thee, spirit; etc.
The Outlook.
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Henry Russell, who was born a.
Sheerness ON December o. 1912, it
the oldest living English composer.
He has composed and published more
than 800 songs His song, "Cheer,
Boy, Cheer" is the air played by the
Guards Drum and Fife Band when 9
British regiment leaves for abroad,
and "a Life on the Ocean Wave" wa,
in 1889 adopted by order Of the AL
miralty as The special march of th,
Royal Marines. esr1e =
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Sources of English Wealth.

What we drink and what we wear
loom largely in the lists of British
wealth, but not what we eat. The
business instincts Of the people do not
permit them to let any manufacturer
OF eatables become more than half q
millionaire. and only two have reached
that estate since 1SS7-Mr. Perrin, Of
sauce celebrity, and Mr.. w. J. Bel
vile, partner in Keen's mustard fac
tory. Flour, bread, biscuit, tea and
beef, on however huge a scale they
may be manufactured or provided,
lead, i'll the figures with which this ar
ticle deals, TO lesser level of profit.
The rich men of tho liquor trade are
many. Three of it's four milionaires
have been mentioned among the baron
cts; the fourth, Mr.. Henry Page, was
maltster Of Ware. Six others left
estates valued ut half a million ster.
ling. Lord Hindlip ranks among the
Peers, aud four others were brewers
Mr.. Robert Courage, Mr.. Richard
Vaughan, Of Bath; Mr. w. H. Worth
ington, of Burton on Trent, and an.
other partner in the Allsopp firm, Mr..
Henry Townshend. - Contemporary
Review.
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Horse-BreedIng in Tennessee.

Blue grass, native to the soil, Is
gradually predominating in n State
where every square foot o. -
=, - -, II, "a .he courts Of Calhon
this territory TSfs5i ne-Ss.,'"tes 'ma
housed only two mo- ll.eelres the
affords ideal conditions for %Snu0ys
yation of live stock; and althoui - =,
three millions of acres of good pastur-
age in the State are unfenced and
scarcely utilized, Tennessee is famous
for the extent and perfection Of it's
stock farms. One establishment alone
for breeding race-horses, is valued at
two and half millions Of dollars, it's
oldest stallion at a quarter of a million,
and at its annual sales yearlings aver
age two thousand dollars head. Run
ming, trotting and pacing thorough
breds lead the industry; yet the num-
Der of registered kline in the State is
exceptionally large, and Tennessee
wool took the gold medal over all com
petitors at the Worlds Fair, London,
in 1851 Century.
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"what do you advise me?" she said

"What do you advise me?" she said,
abruptly.
Then there came just the least sus-
picion of n twinkle into his merry
brown eyes as he replied quite as
laconically, MARRY me-"
If he afterward added some sort of
nonsense, even men as correct as the
dictionary are often betrayed into that
sort Of thing, and our Esther. new wo-
man that she was, was quite too wilted
to resent or resist. The Home Queen.
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The Democrncr of Greoce.

"Our country is certainly more dem
ocratc than the United States" the
Crown Prince Of Greece one said to me.
in the midst Of conversation about
the political institutions Of his coun-
try. He was surely right, if the re-
mark be applied TO the social aud poll
teal instincts of the Greek ! eooIe. No
more naturally and unafTectedly dem
ocratic people exists under the sun
than the Greek Not only are there no
aristocrntic titles, but there is no M.
parent consciousness, in the ordinary
life and manners, Of the existence Of
social barriers. The village demarch
sits placidly and comfortably with the
other villagers and the peasants in the
cafe or bakali; the cabman who served
you yesterday does not omit TO give
You from his box n graceful salute as
he passes you on the street: no hum
bleness Of occupation or of presumed
station in life deters one man from
greeting another whom he meets on the
road or in the square, or from begin
ming the frankest and freest converse
ton. The reserve and cautious. il not
bashiul, self-respect Of the Anglo
Saxon commonly interprets this Greek
freedom at the first as bald efTrontery.
In the judgment of the newcomer the
Greek commonly gains the credit of
being what the American colleRian
would call decidedly fresh. " In
reality, IT is part and parcel of the Ma
tional courtesy, tinctured and con-
ditioned, to he sure, by the equally
National curiosity. Democracy is no
affectation. The bashfulness which
springs from suspicion of barriers is IN.
known. Century.
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One of the most agreeable mixtures
for chapped hands is composed of one
ounce of glycerine, one ounce of rose
water and twenty drops of solution of
benzoin. The mixture should be rub
bed in after the skin has been washed.
but before it has been dried. .s~w :,
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ADVERTISING RArEa.

Advertisement. viii ~ inserted q sas asylsH
Per s9sars Tor The Ara inssrtiea "a Az
ise>i, Busineos And 6pSsisi net,ees -
than sss dollar.
Legal advertisements viii b inssrSsa a
sAs sasss allowed b Law aad vill. 1. eli sasss
p n.y. = ne attorney. and payment WI
C1AneD Ion ANNouMcRMnNra.-f
0esnI s0eess. %; State and Congress, $40.
Terms for Gaming advertisement nsds
e,1vn e. application 70 the publishsr.
ShrINo executed With nestnsss and
pss0D4 a1tsntsea.
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Wilbur Stevens, six-year-oId
youngster Of Garlandulle. NY. fell
into the river while flying his kite. A
big st. Bernard dog named Samson.
which was assisting at the ascension.
plunged into the water after him. The
banks Of the river were too steep for
the rescuer to climb, and he was
obliged TO swim long distance down
stream before he could land his little
burden. The boy was none the worse
for his ducking, the dog having kept
the boys head above water all the
time. New York Mail aud Express.
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II is said that some time ago a small
potentate in Afghanistan offered a
British collector $40, 600 for a complete
set Of stamps Of Afghanistan
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A NEW WOMAN,
ny J. sABgESr.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

) L III E r LIT =
tlejohn was n
lady of uncer-
tain age.
But that sort
of thing is out of
style now!
III t W @ n t V
y Q n L s ago it
nnnant .n III