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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14
JUDGE NOT"


1.-THE nurse who saved the lives of
hulAeds of the sufferers in that time
were fallen women. When all others
turned pale with fear and were unable
to help themselves or others these wo-
men quit their lives Of shame and be-
came ministering angels. Hundreds
of them went from every city in the
United States to lose or redeem their
lives in the great epidemic. They
were the only reliable nurses and they
proved to be heroines indeed. Many
of them died. None of them ever re-
turned to their lives OF ame-Remi-
niscence of the yellow fevG epidomic
Of S-E1cAAsss.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14
LOVELY HOUSE GOWNS.

House gowns are rich, soft and love-
ly this season, and are made of the
handsome materials used for evening
gowns. The more elegant of these
graceful robes are of plated crepe de
chine. Over this is placed an over
dress of lace attached to the waist. with
chain of jewels or metal. Some OF
them have color introduced in kind
of court train suspended from the shout
ders, and bordered down the sides with
zibeline. These trains are also made
of crepe de chine in bright orange or
any vivid tint; but the orange is the ia
vorite this year, especially when the
color is little toned down with dark
fur.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14
YouF Intelligence.

Your Intelligence is questioned by the drug
gists who tries to influence you to let him bot
tie anything when you ask for DR.. Bells Piue
Tar Honey. No druggist can put this up for
you-he cannot put up anything ike it-it is
not to be had in bu' k-it Is TO be had only ia
2se soc and 81 bottles. There IS nothing ''just
as good as DR.. Bells Pine Tar-Honey. Avoid
those substitutes with similar sounding names
When you buy. DR.. Beirs .Pine-far- Honey see
that the bottle has never been opened and that
it bears the picture and testimony Of Good Old
Granny Metcalfg' and the name of the (
Switzerland Medicinecompany, Fountain Park.
Padueah, Ky. ria., eass
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14
markable as the parted couture.

The afternoon tea table is now get
ting dressed up in its prettiest china
and nanery.
No matter how aAttering a photo
graph may be, 1t never quite suits the
one who sits tori
Headaches may never kill us, butthey
can make a really interesting play APP
pear as dull as ditch water.
Why is it we are so seldom thorough
lY in love with the persons who are
thoroughly in love with us.
The all-fur jacket is not deemed half
as modish as the cloth or velvet one,
trimmed fanciful with fur.
To find out just who are your frien is
needs only a long spell of illness or a
short spell of financial depression.
With the rage for violet stationery
there is a jarring note in the read stamp
which has to be used on the envelope.
Many man who hasn't stinted him
self one iota during his vacation will
growl when his wife asks him for
money for new autumn frock.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14
A Common Experience.


Scene I.--Mr. johnson is obliged to
give up work, remain in the house
and take care of himself on account
of a dreadful scrofula sore one of
his limbs.
Scene H.-Mr. johnson reads testi-
monial which tell of scrofulous
troubles cured by Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla. He resolves to try it, sends
for bottle and begins taking it.
Scene III. Mr.. Johnson has taken
six bottles of Hoods Sarsaparilla.
His scrofula sore is cured. He is
feeling stronger, has a good appe-
tite and isable to work. He writes
a testimonial telling his expert
ence with Hoods Sarsaparilla, and
recommends it to others.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

The average woman argues about the
way she eats green corn.
There are very few women who could
make an agecting death scene in
bloomers.
Probably Delilah has a suspicion
that Samson was thinking of being a
piano player.
A man feels kind of mean and low
when he introduces his wife to a girl
who once proposed to him.
AS soon as man shows signs of get
ting away girl begins to write him
letters in which she calls him "my
own"
The Lord commanded folk to love
their neighbor because He knew it
would keep the women out of mischief
trying.
The woman Who 10 GIwayt talking
about how much useless money 4 man
spends on cigars often pays lotfor the
silk in her big sleeves. -New York
Press.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14
RECEIPT FOR cHowoHow PICKLES.

Chop up peck of green tomatoes,
half "a peck of ripe tomatoes, cab
bages, dozen green peppers, half doz-
en- onions, 8 red peppers and sprinkle
over them teacupful of salt. Drain
them for a day and night in a coarse
cotton strainer. Then put them into
the kettle, with three pounds of brown
sugar, a tablespoonful each of ground
black pepper, ground mustard, white
mustard, mace and celery seed ::and a
half tsacup of horseradish. Pour on
vineager to cover all and boil until the
pickle looks clear.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14

Well, this story was told me by Mrs
Hermann, wife of the late wonderful
magician.
A few years ago the late Bill Nye
and also the late Herman, the magi-
clan, met for the first time IN small
Ohio town. Each knew the other very
we'll by reputation aud personal charac-
teristics, but they had never been intro
duced. BY chance they stopped at the
same hotel on the occasion referred to
and were given seats at the same table
in the dining room.
They bowed politely and began talk
ing about the weather, each believing
that the other did not recognize his
vis-a-vis.
Just as Nye raised his knife and fork
to cut dish of lettuce salad Hermann
uttered cry of protest and surprise.
Nye stopped in establishment.
Excuse me, sir, remarked the wiz.
ard, ''but thought saw something
queer there in your lettuce"
The humorist carefully looked over
the salad, leaf by leaf, but found moth,
ing, and again raised his knife to cut
it. Again he was stopped by sharp
cry from Herman, who added apollo.
getically:
81 beg thousand pardons, but I
surely could not have been mistaken
that time. There is something there.
Excuse me-" And he pointed to large
lettuce leaf, raised it and disclosed IN
derneath magnificent cluster ring
worth several hundred dollars.
Nye slowly picked up the ring, and
without the. slightest manifestation OF
surprise drawled out;
"This sort of thing has gone fan
enough. I'm shedding diamonds wher-
ever I go. Day before yesterday I lost
a solitaire in sugar bowl in Pittsburg,
and in Cleveland this morning the maid
in sweeping ont my room found three
or four more. 1t is positively giving
my brain flag to keep track of these
things, and I am going to give it up as
a bad job"
BeckOAiag to q waitress he skipped
Herrmann's ring into her hand and
said:
Here's trihe for you. Keep it to
remember me by; its yours.
1t took Herman about half a day to
recover it, aud it cost him several bot
ties afterwards.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14
FACTS, FADs AND FANCIEs.
THE MONOGRAM FAN.

The summer fad which is likely to
last through the winter is the mono
gram fan. The fan, to begin with, is
like any ordinary folding fan of plain
paper or satin with the folds made into
box plaits instead of side plaits. The
monograms are cut from the tops of
letters. programmes, envelopes, etc, and
are fastened on the fan with mounting
paste. Do not use too much paste, and
dry under heavy weight. Ifdone neat
ly the fan can be opened and closed
without rubbing off the decoration.
After the warm season is over these
fans will make interesting wall orna-
ments, each monogram having .associa-
tions for the collector. Rare stamps
can be used in place of monOgrams.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14
A POETIC CUSTOM OF THE TYRon.

A touching and poetical custom pre-
walls in the Welsch Tyrol. When q
young maiden is about to, be married
Immediately before she steps across the
threshold of her old home on her way
to the church her mother solemnly
gives her a new pocket handkerchief.
The bride holds in her hand through
out the marriage ceremony, using it to
wife away her tears. So soon as the
marriage festivities are ended the
young wife lays the handkerchief aside
in her linen closet and thereit remains
as long a. he lives. Nothing would in
duce Tyrolese wife to use this sacred
handkerchief. 1t may be half > cen
fury or longer before it is taken from
its place to fulfill the second or last
part of its mission. When the wife
dies, perhaps as gray old grandmoth-
er, the loving hands of the next-of-kin
place the bridal handkerchief over the
face of the dead and it is buried with
her in the grave.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14

Don't turn from the cold, white being
With much fear marked on your face,
AS though you were really fleeing
From the scourgethat's swept the place
Don't shrink from the humble coffin,
From the har DIS crossed DER her breast,
AS though you were only scofing
At the thought OF her at restl
Don't think of the life she wasted
Ina world Of shame for years!
But think of the woe she's tasted,
or her heartaches and her tears,
Who can say how she nobly battled,
When her soul was pure and white2
Who can tell how much she was tempted
From the path Of truth and right.
Hers may not have been the shining
Yet the penance she must pay
Oh, what may she not have suffered
Since that awful other day ~
Think how, when the dead and dying
Cried out with faltering breath
For some gentle hand to aid them, ff5
How she braved disease and death.
From the gilded halls OF serfdom ...r
She came at their pleading cry,
Ready to bear their burden,
Ready for them to die.
And her woman S heart meier waVered
As she entered in the fray
So her life has paid the forfeit
And she's lying dead today.
Let her memory wear the laurclS
81 That her sacrifice has won, III.
. Speak of her now with reverence,
For the noble work she's done,
Don't condemn her for her errors
Nor for what she may have been
She has made great attonement
That should wash away her sin.
Now the battle dire is ended,
And she's numbered 'mong the slain,
Would you when the roll-calls sounded
Place blot upon her manner @ 3a
Would you spurn noble martyrs? yr f
Is she even rest begrudged?
God the Father has it written
Judge not that We be notjudged,;"
.Dla II H. ARNOLD.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14

"Many have said their children
would have died of Group, if Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy had not been
given" write Kellam & Ourren, drug
gists, Seaview, Va. "People come
from far and near to get it and speak
of it in the highest terms" This is
equally true of this remedy in every
community where it is known. Buy a
bottle at Ward& Friberg 's-The Bee
Hive drug store and test it for your
self
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14
Blu okIen's Arnloa salve.

The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, letter, chapped
hands, chilblains. corns ana all skin eruptious
and positively cures piles or no pay required.
1t is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price p cents per buN,
For sale by Mcfarland s Co.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14

DR.. Bells Pine Tar Honey is different
from all other cough remedies. 1t cures
by sllaying the inflammation and Civ
ing tone, strength, vigor and vitality
to the respiratory orgaHs
ALI druggists sell it.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14

Few men in this country are better
or more favorably known to the drug
and medicine trade than E. ]. Schall,
buyer in the proprietary medicine de-
partment of the Meyer Bros. Drug Co.
st. Louis. He says: my boy came
home from school With his hand badly
lacerated and bleeding, and suffering
great pain. l dressed the wound and
applied Chambsrlaip's Pain Balm,
freely; all pain ceased, and in a re-
markably short time, it healed without
leaving scar. For wounds sprains,
swellings and rheumatism, / know of
no medicine or prescription equal to it.
I consider it a household necessity. "
Sold by Ward & Friberg-The Bee
Hive.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14

Green seems to be the favorite tint
in upholstery this autumn.
The plain skirt looks almost as re-
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14
I'm effect July 4, 1897.

No 8, Pullman Sleeping car Bristol to Knox.
vllle' KNOXVILLE to Chattanooga and Chatta,
nooga to Atlanta
No. B, Pullman Sleeping cars Bristol tc
Shattanooga and New Orleans; also Pullman
Union Sleeper Chatta noopa 70 Shreveport
NO. ii, carries Pullman Sleeping car Morris.
to Atlanta "
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-10-14

The Recognized Route to the
Finest Farming, Grazing and
Timber lands, Prosperous
Towns and Cities of the West
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-12-23
Holiday Bargain Sale:
The Big Store is de-
termined to cut down it's large
stock before January /, 1903.

the shallow eGge OF the spring Instant
ly there came from the man in the straw
hat the quiet and imperious order. Take
your foot out. The sergeant, irritated
beyond endurance by what he regarded
a trifiing matter. turned and said mso-
lcntly Mind your own business. sir.
| viii have no quartermaster's clerk
giving orders to me.
"As though he had been a part of the
man the splendid horse made one jump
toward the spring and toward the SER
geant, and the man in the straw hat
said, with increased emphasis and i'm
periousness. Take your foot out, and
the ~bewildered sergeant recognized the
commander III chief of the army. He
stepped back and saluted. and then Gen
eral Buell. said quietly, looking down
with a sort of sympathy into the dis
mayed face: Fill your canteens. but
be careful. Thirty thousand men must
take water from this spring before
night.
"Those who remembered what a
mudhole a thousand men make of a
spring understood why General Buell.
stood guard IN that day. Chicago
Inter Ocean
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-12-23
Duration of Human Life.

That the human being was intended
for greater length of life than Is usually
attained IN our artificial existence is
probable from the fact tina: he does not
reach his full and complete development
until his twenty fifth year The life Of
most of the low animals is reckoned 10
be about FIVE times their maturity in a
natural condition, and. although dis
turbing causes interfere with human
life in the present day. yet within GER
tain limits man is subject TO the same
laws as every other type OF existence in
either the animal or the vegetable k'-g-
dom.
Nature has assigned 70 him "A certain
period during which he should attain to
a sound physical and mental maturity,
and any attempt TO cur;ail that period
by early forcing is and must be neces-
sarily productive of lamentable results
The boy Oh girl may be developed under
system of steady Examining into q
highly accomplished. man or woman.
long before full ageshns beers REACHED.
but il may be accepted as an axiom in
almost all instances that the earlier the
development the earlier the decay The
lesson { be learned from the records of
those who have 2ived 70 advanced years
is that moderation in all Things. whether
physical or intellectual. is the secret of
long life. and hat il is easy by system
atically violating this rule TO produce an
artificial old age Nineteenth Century
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-12-23

The Professor Heard Governor Trough
Make His Last Speech With Head Barred
General Buell. and the Sergeant Crazed
With Thirst at the Spring.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-12-23

A quaint wedding custom still pre-
walls in many OF the little country
towns and mining villages in Scotland.
When a wedding is held. the contract
ing parties make their guests pay ia
full for the eating. drinking and dane
ing facilities which are usually pruvid
ed on snch OCCASIONS The practice still
seems to survive even IN Glasgow. A
correspondents observed u notice posted
up in the Cowcnddens-a low class
Glasgow Observation-Disclosures tine
public that a soldier would shortly en-
ter into the bonds Of wediock. and that
twopence would be charged for admis-
sion 10 the ceremony and an additional
s~ixpence imposed for attendance at the
wedding feast The practice seems to be
peculiarly Scotch. but sixpence~ certainly
seems moderate enough for q marriage
supper. Westminster Gazette.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-12-23
o AND POLITICS
A Scheme With Real Estate Trimming
That Won In Oregon.

Speaking of schools in relation to
politics, +" said the ex-boomer from Ore
eon, always reminds me of campaign
In which ! was interested some years
ago. The Douglas county representative
In the Oregon state Legislature, realiz-
ing that his popularity was not exceed
ingly great, had been talking of build
ing a new state normal school, presum-
ably at Rosebnrg, the county seat and
his OWE home. This caused great o
sternation amcng the $50 inhabitants
of the little city o. Drain, who had been
profiting by the courtesy title OF Drain
Academy and Oregon State Normal
school, under which the school there
mad been run since 1883. The postmas-
ter. who kept a drugstore and sold
school supplies, took counsel with his
sist~er-in-law, who dealt in millinery
and ran a boarding house fer students,
and she sought the mayor, at whose
general merchandise emporium she was
the principal customer.
1.-The mayor was a man who thought
slowly, but to a purpose, and, having
set himself the task of devising some
way of circumventing the member
from Roseburg. he passed the next three
days in profound cogitation. He con-
ceived a scheme whose various elabora-
lions and notifications were toe diver
dfed for him to handle alone. and he
came to me for help had just gained
considerable influence In the county
through backing a projected railroad to
the coast, and also as a real estate deal
er and sawmin owner. With my bust
ness methods and tie mayors knowl-
edge of the conditions confronting us
our plans were soon put into operation
First, we suggested the candidacy OF an
ambitious young Drainite. q dealer In
leather goods and hardware. for mem
Der of the legislature. taking all the
wind out of his opponents sails by
heartily indorsing the talk in favor OF .
new normal school. Meantime we had
8 large grain field Of the mayors. which
had begun to lose its fertility on ac-
count of generalization. surveyed into
city lots, and as soon as our candidate
nad received the regular party nomina-
tion we put the town site Of East Drain.
with its streets named after conspicuous
men of the state. ON the market and
gave one Of its centrally located blocks
for the new normal school
"Well. everything Came 60 Pass ex-
actly as we had planned Our candidate
was elected. and the building OF the new
normal school ON the site We gave was
authorized We sold q sufficient num-
Der Of East Drain lots to more than pay
for the land and all expensea The con-
tractors on the new school were men
who had aided the Legislation authoriz-
ing 1t. and they got their supplies from
the mayor. their hardware from the
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-12-23

A Georgia correspondent sends Us this
account of q young man oral examina.
ton for the bar by a local committee
before an old Judge. who was also an
old acquaintance of the candidate. Be-
ing asked, What is arson.' he scratch
ed his head and finally said. II believe
that's pizon. amt it,
On this the old Judge. to help him
out, says Tut. tut, Jim. Suppose 1
were TO set fire to Your house and burn
it down, what would that be-
With quick and emphatic reply Jim
says. II think 1t would be a dad drafted
.mean trick"
But although this answer was not
technically accurate Jim was in the
hands of his friends and was h~onorably
admitted. Case and Comment
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-12-23
General Lee Tells n story of the justices
Abserfmindedness.

General Lee Tells a story of the Justices
observation-disclosures.
General Lee tells this story of ex-Sen-
ator Lamar. while the latter was o
member of the United States supreme
court
HE was in a herdic one day. said
General Lee, land. as was not unusual
with him when not actively employed.
was almost entirely ob~liviouso of his mr.
roundings He was a deep thinker, you
know Well. he forgot TO pay his fare
The driver rang his bell, and finally an
other passenger called his attention 60
it.
They re ringing for your fare, /
think, said the man 10 Judge Lamar.
touching him ON the knee.
lis that SOP asked the judge. start
ing up Il had forgotten all about it,
He then pulled some silver pieces from
his pocket and selecting a dime dropped
il into the box.
THE passenger who had observed
his action. said 3 the Judge as he re-
sumed his seat: Didn't you make a
mistakeg The fare is 5 cerss
why. so it is. Excuse me, replied
the Jurist. and again making his way TO
the cash box be put in a nickel. after
which he took his seat. confident that
he bad discharged all his obligations. as
he had. indeed. and more.
And so far as | know. continued
General Lee. she never realized his
mistake The best part of the story is
that it is true Goodby Iget of here. =
Washington Star
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-12-23

Married life isn't what it is cracked
mp to be, remarked Mrs. Grimesleigh.
when | married Daniel, / thought il
would be so handy 70 have a man about
the house; bat. Lor', that's all it amount
ed TO He's never az home when he's
wanted for anything. and If he is he's
tired or busy or something Or other, M
so | have to go to work and do the thin,
myself. 8 far as l can see. men ar.
only in the way when they are in TIN
house and nj of the way when they'r
wanted. Boston Transcript
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-12-23

member ana their Iumper Trom me NY
mill also Supplied lumber for other
buildings in East Drain. including a
new boarding house for the millinar.
who has prospered ever since The post
masters increased business soon war
ranted his moving into of the two
brick buildings in the city of Drain. and
the former dealer IN leather goods and
hardware is still member of the Oregon
legislature. New York sun.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-12-23

The sc,ara. a wormIike insect Of foI
ests of Hungary and Norway, Is only
tenth OF an inch long. yet III migrating
in July or early August. the creature
are said to stick themselves together i
. serpentlike mass often 40 TO 90 fes
long aud several inches thick
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-12-23

Instructor-wha is it that gives to
the blood its bright red color?
Little Miss Thavnoo-I know. It's
the corpuscles But ours amt red
They're blue Mamma says o -Chi-
cago Tribune.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-12-23

$50 your wife won that suit about
her real ~estate?"
''Of course You didn't suppose that
such little obstacles as a Judge. = law
yers and 10 Jurymen could throw her
OF the track. did youy'-Dctroit Free
Presa
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-12-23

ever attempted in this county.
Every department is a store of
bargains and no mercantile event
lever transpired to SO thoroughly
appeal to The public's interest as
doeSSthiS mammoth offer of bar
gains in goods of all kinds.
75c. Your choice for 25c.
it it would be a shame to ask them cheaper.