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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-01-14

Paducah, KY, may we'll ieel proud Of some of
her enterprises. Messrs. D. Wilson h Son. Of
Kimble, KY, write to the e. E. Sutherland
Medicine Company as follows: "Wewrite this
to certify to the wonderful and grand good re-
suits from your DR.. Bells Plne-Tar-Honey,
which is selling faster than any medicine we
ever sold. People who never traded at our store
have heard of it and come from adjoining coun-
ties for it. One case in particular is that OF
Mrs, Smith Woodbridge, of this place, who was
so afflicted with her throat for over two years
that see could not speak above whisper. AZ
ter she used the first bottle Of DR.. Bells Pine
Tar-Honey she could talk as well as ever, and
the case is such wonderful cure that hei
neighbors come in to see for themselves, ant
are astonished to hear her talk
| Forsale by Mcfarland & Bolton, druggists.
/ IA
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-01-14

WANTED-Energetic, pushing men
to solicit insurance for the Farmer s
Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Tennes-
see. The most liberal commissions are
paid. Write the company for particu-
lars, Knoxville, Tenn, 652-4t.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-01-14
The Dreaded Consumption Can be Cured.

The Dreaded Consumption Can be Cured.
Editor OF The COMET Il have dis
covered reliable cure for consumption
and all bronchial, throat and lung di-
seases, general decline, loss of flesh
and all conditions of wasting away.
By its timely use thousands of appar-
emily hopeless cases have been cured
So proof-positive am I of its power to
cure, that to make its merits known,
will send, free, to any afflicted reader
of your paper, three bottles of my
Newly Discovered Remedies upon re-
ceipt of express and postoffice address.
t. A. SLoCUM, M. c., 9S Pine St., N. Y.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-01-14
E. e. Sutherland Med. 90

E. f. Sutherland Med. Co.:
Gents-Ship us six dozen DR.. Bells Pine
Tar Honey, small; three dozen DR.. Bells Pine
Tar-Honey, medium. She's seller
Yours truly,
B. S. HUNT g. Co., Druggists,
Mayaed, Ky.
For sale by Mcfarland & Bolton.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-01-14
Geld Dust flour-best made.
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
SUMPTION

DT. NlnB'S view discovery TOT NOn =
sumption.
This is the best medicine in the world for all
forms OF coughs and colds and for consumption.
Evers bottle is guaranteed 1t will cure and
not dlsappoint. 1t has no equal for whoopine
cough, asthma, hay fever, pneumonia, bron-
Ohitis, la grippe, cold in the head and for con-
sumption 1t is safe for all ages, pleasant &c
take, and, above all sure cure. 1t is always
well to take DR., Kings New Life Pills in con-
nection with DR., Kings New Discovery, as they
regulate and tone the stomach and bowels. We
guarantee perfect satisfaction or return money
At Mcfarland Bottoms drug store. Regular
size so cents and el.00
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-01-14

NERVOUS Troubles are due to
~ impoverished blood. Hoods Sar-
saparilla is the One True Blood
Purifier and NERVE TONIC.
Dr.. Miles Pain pills cure Neuralgia.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-01-14

S. B. White means to close out all
heaters and he has cut the price 30
every one who needs stove can buy.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-01-14

At meeting of the board of mayor
and aldermen last Thursday night
Policeman Upton, who had been sus-
pended on a charge of drunkenness,
was reinstated, as the charge was not
proven.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-01-14
His biography, written by his wife :.


The results of the campaign of 1896.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-26
A GOOD RECORD.

All things considered, the special session
of Congress just adjourned was a very sue
cessful and fruitful one. 1t might have
criticism is almost silenced, and consider
ing the Importance of the work DONE
no Congress has ever made better record
To properly appreciate the value of its work
one must recall the circumstances under
which it assembled. 1t had not merely to
revise the tariff system, but to reconstruct
it from the foundation, not merely to re-
try, but to rebuild them. The passage of
the Wilson-Gorman tariff was preceded by
year of agitation, and the bill itself took
effect Aug. 2S, 1894, The three years pre-
ceding the inauguration of Mckinley We're
among the darkest in the history of the
country. Hundreds of manufactures had
closed and hundreds of thousands of work.
men had been thrown out of employment
wages had been reduced, the American
market had been surrendered to Foreigners
the government revenue was short of its
expenditures, a deficit was accruing every
month, confidence was destroyed and bust
ness was paralyzed. The country was in
the throes of a commercial CONFUSION and
panic such as it had never before expert
enced Under these circumstances the
President called a special session of Con-
gress, and, to his great credit be it said
he did not lose a day in doing it. However
the Republicans in the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress had anticipated his action and did
some important preliminary work before
his inauguration. BY direction of the House
caucus the ways and means committee took
up the work of framing a comprehensive
tariff bill, to be submitted to the new Con-
gress as soon as it should assemble. The
committee began before Christmas to give
hearings to the representatives of indus
tries affected by the tariff and the hearings
were continued into the present year. AS a
result of this preliminary work no time was
lost in submitting the bill at the extra
session. The Presidents proclamation was
issued March 6. Congress met on March is,
the Dingley bill was introduced the same
day and passed the House March 81 The
only delay in the procedure has been in the
Senate, and that was partly due to the
constitution of the body and partly to the
obstructive and dilatory tactics of oppo-
nents of the bill. If the Republicans had
known as much at the beginning as they
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-26
THE GRAVE OF LINcoLN's MOTHER

The Journal would call the attention of
it's readers to the effort which is being
made by an organization representing all
the veteran associations and their auxil-
iaries in the State to raise a few hundred
dollars to put the grave of the mother of
Abraham Lincoln and the lot in which it is
located in a condition creditable to the pa
triotic spirit of the people. The plan pro-
posed by the officers of the Nancy Hanks
Lincoln Memorial Association is a most
commendable one. 1t is that contribu-
tons of not exceeding 81 by each con-
tributor be sent to the treasurer of the as
sociaton through the Indianapolis Journal
This plan was devised to the end that the
acknowledgment of the receipt may be
made public
1t is not probable that each person who is
DESTROYS of contributing dime, so cents or a
dollar to the object will rush to do so with
out some system of local cooperation. To
that end it is hoped that a few persons in
villages neighborhoods and patriotic or
CARNATIONS will make systematic effort to
raise subscriptions and send the names of
the subscribers and collections to the Jour
nal. 1t is understood that the department
commander of the Grand Army, the presi-
dent OF the State Woman's Relief Corps and
the Loyal Legion will bring the matter to
the notice of those organizations in their
next circulars or orders. Several weeks will
pass ere these official notices will be issued ;
meantime let those who have seen the ap-
peal of the association for contributions
lead off in the matter in their circles at
once and thus start the good work.
Some time during the next month the
executive committee, of which Governor
Mount is chairman, will visit Lincoln City
in Spencer county, and confer with the peo-
pie there as to what it is necessary to do
to put the spot around which so many in
teresting memories cluster in a condition
that will show that the people of Indiana
highly appreciate the fact that Abraham
Lincoln sDent the days of boyhood and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-26

The decline in the deficit is enough in
itself to prove that the advance agent of
prosperity is coming up TO expectations
-Laporte Republican.
Both the great parties make promises, the
only difference is the Republican party full
fills it's promises and the Democratic party
Press.
1t is an American tariff, enacted eXclu-
sively for American interests. Foreign
countries can think and say and do what
ever they please.-Elwood Call-Leader.
From all over the State there are reports
of bountlful crops There is no surer indi-
cation of the return of prosperity than such
a crop as will put money into the pockets
of the farmers.-Seymour Republican.
1t is taking larger and larger hunks of
silver to pay for smaller and smaller guam
titles of wheat, and this is the kind of a
rocky road the white metallists are travel
ing nowadays.-Terre Haute Express.
1t is the opinion OF close observers that
aggregating the four principal crops. wheat,
corn hay and oats. Montgomery county
will this year have the largest yield in her
long and prosperous Interpretations
vile Journal.
In manufacturing there is little doubt
that all the factories in Grant county will
be in active operation early this fall Mer-
chants who are buying goods for fail trade
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-26
CLUSTERING.

The British papers. which are just now
making as much buster about the United
States as few months ago they did in ref
erence to Germany, are attracting no at
tention in this country, Even the predic-
ton Of the London Times that there will
be war between the United States and
Great Britain will arouse no hostile feeling
because, in common with the rest of the
world, the people of this country are famil-
lar with these unseemIy performances
The same is true of the more general
charge that the United States is anxious to
engage in war, to prove which the "epi-
sodes" with Spain. Japan and Great Brit
ain are referred to-
What about these episodes? For more
than two years Spain has been laboring in
vain to suppress an instruction in Cuba
During that period, more than any other
government ever did, the United States has
striven to observe the obligations imposed
by international law by using its navy and
its courts to prevent Interference in behalf
of Cuba by Americans and Cubans in this
country. Our ships have patrolled our
waters, blockaded our own ports and cap
tured our own citizens to the end that there
might be no interference with Spain. Some
of these same newspapers in England that
are now declaring that we need blood let
ting" have criticised our compliance with
the wishes of Spain.
The affairs with Japan and England do
not rise to the dignity of episodes. More
than four years ago a treaty of annexa-
ton was negotiated between the United
States and Hawaii, but it was not ratified
No protest was made then, but now that a
similar treaty has been negotiated Japan
has given notice of objection. The secre-
tary of state caused the instructions of that
department to the American ambassador to
be put in plain language. BY some act of
bad faith the instructions were made pub
lie. And this is an episode of the magni-
tude of war
The whole thing is too ridiculous for ra-
tional consideration. War is the last thing
the American people desire. If they had
desired it they could have had it long age
with Spain. AS a nation we have never
forced a quarrel with any one Arbitration
has been our policy. and will continue to
be. Forbearance has been our weakness
and if it shall cease in regard to Spain, as
it would long ago with any ether nation, it
will be BECAUSE with the rest OF the world
we have come to the conclusion that it is
no longer virtue
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-26
A PARTY THAT REDEEMS ITS
PLEDGES.

The Republican party is maintaining its
reputation as a party that redeems its
pledges. The Democratic party came into
power in 1892 on G. platform that denounced
protection as a fraud and reciprocity as a
sham, and demanded the repeal of both.
Everybody remembers how tin utensils
We're peddled during that campaign and
sold at fictitious prices to prove that tin
could not be successfully manufactured in
the United States, and farmers will re-
member also how they were promised $1.25
for wheat and larger foreign markets un-
der Democratic rule The mere recalling
of these incidents of the campaign of 1892
is sufficient to remind the public how COM
pletely the pledges then made by the DEM
ocratic party failed of fulfillment.
The last campaign was made mainly on
the tariff and money questions On the
former the st. Louis platform declared as
follows:
We renew with emphasis our allegiance
to the policy of protection as the bulwark
of American industrial independence and
the foundation of American development
and prosperity.
We denounce the present Democratic
tariff as sectional injurious to the public
credit and destructive to business enter
prise. We demand such an equitable tariff
on foreign imports which come into COM
petition with American products as will
not only furnish adequate revenue for the
necessary expenses of the government, but
will protect American labor from degrade
ton to the wage level OF other lands. We
are not pledged to any particular schedules.
The question of rates is a practical queS-
ton, to be governed by the conditions of
the time and of production; the ruling and
uncompromising principle is. the protection
and M m
industry. The country demands a right
settlement, and then it wants rest.
1t is we'll enough to recall this declara-
ton because it was at once an indictment
of the Democratic policy of free trade
which had been in force nearly three years
and pledge by the Republican party to
substitute the policy of protection. In adj
dition to the foregoing, the platform
pledged the party to such protection "as
will lead to the production on American
soil of all the sugar which the American
people use," and it added:
To all our products-to those of the mine
and the fields well as to those of the
shop and the factory-to hemp, to wool as
well TO the finished Woolens of the mills
we promise the most ample protection.
These pledges have been fullyA redeemed
by the enactment of a tariff bill which ex-
perts say is the best one ever framed and
which has been passed in less time than
any ever was before. Protection and reci-
procity, twin measures of Republican
policy, under which the country formerly
enjoyed so high a degree of prosperity,
have been restored. No other party ever
redeemed a campaign pledge on an impor-
tant issue fully or in so short time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-26

The most effective argument presented to
farmers last year was that the prices of
wheat and silver rose and fell together. The
late Professor Coin" falsified the statistics
of public reports to sustain that bald
theory. Having fixed the falsehood in the
minds of many people it was difficult to
eradicate it.
To-day the heresy of connection of wheat
and silver prices has been destroyed by the
memorable logic of a stubborn fact Silver
bullion has reached the lowest point in
value ever known its latest quotation in
New York being 5915 cents an ounce. This
is decline of ten cents an ounce during
the past year. While silver has been SELL
ing at the lowest price it ever sold for in
the country, and has been falling steadily
for twelve months, wheat has been advanc-
ing. One year ago it sold in New York at
6312 cents bushel, but on Friday the New
York price was S65s cents. Take the fig
ures so as to get the force of the lesson
July o. 1896, silver bullion sold for 69A
cents an ounce and wheat for 631a cents
in New York-the ounce of silver being
worth 594 cents more than the bushel of
wheat. July %, 1897 the ounce of silver sold
for 1912 cents and the bushel of wheat for
S65s cents-the wheat being worth IT'S cents
more than the silver. During the year sill
yer lost 10 cents an ounce and wheat
gained 231s cents bushel
With such facts before aim the farmer
cannot again be deluded with the sophis-
tries and forged figures of Professor
Coin" or the charts which the advocates
of the cause of the silver mine owner ex-
hibited in SO many hundred schoolhouses
last year. The heresy is exploded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-26

Mr.. w. j. ArkelPs claim to the Klondil<e
gold mining region by right of discovery
looks large and plausible on paper, but it
does not bear scrutiny. Even if the gold
field were an island in the sea, it's original
discovery by an American citizen would
not give him any individual claim to own
ership. The ownership would be in the
United States government. In this case,
however, the alleged discovery is in the
British possessions, and the discoveries
could only have at most what the law al
lows as an individual claim.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-26

know now the bill would doubtless have
been passed many weeks sooner than it
was. and the government would have been
largely the gamer thereby, but even as it
is the record is highly commendable. Less
than five months have passed since Mr.. Nc
Kinley was inaugurated. and yet care
fully constructed protective tariff has been
substituted for a tariff of disaster and def
cts. and the country has been lifted out of
a slough of commercial dependency and
started on the high road to prosperity. 1t
is record of which the Republican party
may be proud.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-26
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
A woman's Attack ON woman sumrng,


Mrs. Helen X. JOhnson's Book.
1t is somewhat remarkable that the most
vigorous arraignment of and attack upon
the woman suffrage movement should come
from a woman. Most men are opposed to
it, and most women take little interest in
it. Helen Kendrick Johnson sees nothing
but mischief and evil in it. She discusses
the subject very fully and from every point
of view in Woman and the Republic Cd.
Appleton & Coz The work is a compre-
hensive survey of the woman suffrage
movement in the United States, and discus
sion of the claims and arguments of its
foremost advocates. the authors conclu-
sion being that it is mo good" In success
siVe chapters she Attempts to show that
everything that has been done towards the
betterment of womens coRdition or the
accomplishment of reforms in which they
are interested has been accomplished out
side of the suffrage movement. if not in
spite OF Its influence. she holds that wom-
an 5 true sphere and highest influence do
not include the right TO vote or engage in
pOllucs. She concludes: The American
Repubnc depends finally for its existence
ana its greatness upon the virtue and abil-
lty of American womanhood. Ii ideals
are mistaken or unworthy, then there Will
DC ultimately no republic for men TO gov
ern or defend. When women are Buodnists
the men build up an empire of India.
W ilSi4 NOlIlSH are Inc men
construct an empire of Turkey. When
women are Christians, men can conceive
ana bring into being Republic like the
United States Woman is 10 implant the
falth man is TO cause the nation faith TO
show itself in works. More and more these
duties overlap, but they cannot become in
Interchangeable while sex continues to divide
the race into the two halves of what should
become perfect whole. Woman suffrage
aims to sweep away this natural distinc-
ton and make humanity a mass of indi-
V1duals with an indiscriminate sphere The
attack is now bold and now subtle now
malicious and now mistaken; but it is at
all times an attack. The greatest danger
with which this land is threatened comes
from the ignorant and persistent zeal OF
some of its women. They abu~e the free
dom under which they live, and to gain an
impossible power would fain destroy the
government that alone can protect them.
The majority of women have no sympathy
with this movement; and in their enlight-
eminent and in the consistent wisdom of
our men lies our hope of defeating this un-
patriotic, unintelligent and unjustifiable as
Sault upon the integrity OF the American
Repub1c. The argumentatiVe part of the
work is marked by decided ability, and
the woman suffragists will have all they
can do TO answer il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-26
Essays on social TOPICS.

Essays on Social Topics" is the title of
a volume by Lady Cook, from the Rox-
burghe Press, London. Lady Cook is better
known in this country as Tennessee Clafiin,
sister of Victoria Woodruff, and the essays
embody the peculiar views which helped
to make the two women odious to the pub
lie at one unpleasant period of their lives
1t is probable that but few people knew at
the time what these views were, merely
assuming that they were immoral and
corrupt because of the outcry raised
against the eXpounders. AS matter of
fact, the substance of the teachings as here
set forth is simply series of the protests
against the multiplication of the unfit and
various ggestions-wholesom if vision
ary-as to certain social reforms tending
to improve the moral and physical status
of the race. There is nothing especially
new in the book, but a good many facts
and statistics relating TO social evils are
presented with a clearness that must
arouse thought even in the mind of a care
less reader. The prejudice against the
writer will interfere with the influence her
book might have, but some day the same
ideas Will be put forward by other teach
ers who will be hailed as great reformers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-26
Taught Him IA Lesson.
Kansas City Journal.

hdISds Guy
A Fifth district Kansas boy who was re-
Gently appointed to West Point has writ
ten home an account of the first hazing
of which he was made the victim There is
a rule at the academy that requires the
cadets TO battle every morning few
days after the Kansas boys arrival he was
asked by one of the upper class boys If
he had taken his morning bath. For some
reason he had not and frankly stated so.
He was at once seized and stripped and
forced to march along a line of 1l6 cadets
each of whom doused him with a bucket
full of ice cold water. 1t taught the Kan
like a marine when he had broken rule.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-26

The auditor of Brown county. Indiana,
is sending out an annual report which
closes with an exhibit of $37, 81 of delin-
quent taxes and a statement that if they
could only have the wave of prosperity
that free silver would give, all that tax
could be collected and the county be out of
debt. This is about what might be expect
ed from the auditor of a county without a
mile of railroad in it and which gave Bryan
$50 majority