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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-19
PARAGRAPHS WITH POINTS.

The gold hunter who starts for the
Klondike now will be just in time to
freeze up with the country
Maybe the sun is losing his heat, as
the astronomers say, but he does not ap-
pear to have begun economising on it
yet.
Farmers have four seasons to contend
with in making their crop; the cyclist
only looks forward from one fall to the
next.
An exchange says there are too many
scraps in the republican party. Well,
there are hungry republicans enough
to absorb all the scraps.
The senate amendment to the sugar
tariff last long enough to make a turn
in the stock market, and that was what
the speculative senatora wanted.
The police department of Kansas City
began day or two ago to make women
prisoners work on the rock pile. And
Kansas City claims to be civilized.
1t is estimated that the Christian En-
deavors left about 1000, 900 in San
Francisco, They could have done O
great deal of Christian endeavoring
with that sum.
Secretary Seward, it now appears,
made a great mistake when he purchas-
ed Alaska, that he did not insist.on hay
ing the boundry line run few miles
farther east.
A book agent in Missouri was robbed
Of 5000 recently. Times are getting
right. Money is easier when q book
agent can talk it out of a stocking OF
old trunk in the garrett,
Chicago is getting ready to dedicate
the finest Jail ever built in the west.
This is considerate of the boodlers who
are accustomed to living in the fine
houses and would be Inundated if com
PEELED to live in any other surround
ings.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-19
Natural Hot Water for Heating Town.


1t is said that in the vicinity of Boise
there is store of szbtsrrane&z hot
water which is being used to heat that
city, and with excellent results. The
water was discovered about six years
ago, and when first tapped gushed to a
height of forty feet and almost scalded
to death the workmen who were boring
an artesian we'll.
The water was found at a depth OF
about 400 feet, and has natural pressure
enough to raise it to top floors of ordi-
nary buildings, whence it will flow
down through coils of radiators, heat
ing the whole building. The water is
said to have a temperature of 40 de-
grees. Butte Daily Inter Mountain.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-19
Is BEOoNIEs oAMIPoTzxF.

Except with the rich and powerful be-
fore the law The crying need of wo-
men on the farm is security in their
lives and in their homes. Strong, able
bodied men have told me they quilted
farming because their women folks
were scared to death if left on the place.
If poor maidens are destroyed in land
that their fathers died to save say the
shame lies with people who fnil to be
protectors for children of their dead
comrades. [ simply say heathens are
at your door when our young maidens
are destroyed in sight Of your opulence
and magnifcence, and when your tenn
pies of justice are put to shame by
lynchers' ropes. If your courthouses
are shams and frauds, and laws delay
is the Villains bulwark, then | say,
with due respect to all who listen tC
me, that as long as your politicians take
colored men into your embraces on
election day and make him think he is
a man and brother, so long will lynch.
ing prevail, because the cause of it will
grow and increase, for familiarity
breeds contempt"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-19
No Daunting This Young Woman.

The Kansas City Journal tells how
Miss Ethel Hoskinson the other day
started from Corning to Seneca to take
the examination for teachers. Reach
ing stream which had been swollen
by the floods, her horses and buggy
were washed away. She kept her head
however, and the horses managed to
swim out on the other side, after float
ing quite distance down the stream,
though all the time the buggy was so
far below the surface that the water
came up to her armpits. Once on the
bank, she drove hurridly into Seneca,
borrowed some dry clothes from an &C
quaintance, ran over to the courthouse,
took the examination, and triumphant
ly bore off graduate certificate.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-19
STATE NEWS.

Rogersyille has typhoid fever spi-
demic.
The Tennessee crop reports continue
encouraging.
Unitia, Loudon county, has new
Touring mill
A mineral map of Tennessee is max
ing n hit at the centennial.
From Hartman to Clarksville is the
cry of the Tennessee Central.
Chattanooga will build a light
draught boat of $50 tons capacity.
A crane measuring seven feet from
tip to tip was shot near New Tazewell.
A cluster of nine ears of corn was ex-
hibited at Jonesboro one day last week.
Chief Wolfe, of the. Bristol police
force, has purchased two bloodhounds.
Seyier county Jail has just four pris.
oners now, the smallest number in its
history.
The latest Hamblen county enter,
prise is roller Touring mill near
Morristown.
Book receptions are the order at Har-
riman, for the benefit of the new city
library.
Elijah Without, of Cardiff, was placed
in Jail at Kingston, on trivial charge
and suicided there by taking opium.
The Morristown Telephone company
has completed connection with the wires
of the Peoples company of Knoxville.
Two little boys at Tazewell fought
with pen knives and one was with diff
Guilty prevented from bleeding to death.
Dech Kerr, of Sewer, pardoned on
of the penitentiary by Turnsy, Is in Sc
rious trouble in Georgia. He cut {
mans throat from ear to ear.
A whole family residing near OLE
Town, Claiborne county, were poison
cd by boiled custera made in brass
kettle.
The old Liberty Bell will be brough
from Philadelphia and exhibited OF
Pennsylvania day next month at tn
Tennessee Centennial,
W. r. Hubbard, man fifty years o
age, was arrested at Cleveland for hav
ing run away from Dalton, Ga, will
13-year- old Ada Leonard.
The Jellico Electric Light and Tele
phone Company has put in an electri
light plant and is now at work on tn
telephone exchange.
Dayton, lockwood and Spring Cit,
merchants brought the G. S., road dow
from seventeen to ten cents freight rat
to Chattanooga. They did it by patron
izing the river.
The jury in the case against ]. W
Dawn for the murder of Mrs. Marth
Givens, at cambridge, rendered vel
dict last Friday for involuntary man
slaughter and he was sentenced to tn
penitentiary for twenty years.
The La Toilette people will celebrat
the event of the completion of the raj
road to that place September 1 by
grand excursion from Knoxville an
probably Jelico, and also with a bi
barbecue, and perhaps with some bi
speech making.
Thomas Carroll and George Carol
brothers, were committed to Jail {
Blountville, the former being charge
with the murder of Wiss Taylor, and th
latter brother, George Taylor, havin
been arrested on suspicion of being a
| accom- Mira in tho murdar
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-19
SPEAKS UP FOR LYNCHING,
One of Georgia's Prominent Ladies Gives Mol
Law For Certain Crimes Her lndorse-
mpnt,

Hotel Tybee Island, Ga, August 13.
The Georgia State Agricultural
Society, to which nine tenths of all the
farmers in the state belong, is in ses-
sion at Tybee Island, Ga. There have
been several sensational speeches before
the body, but it remained for a woman
to make the most sensational of all.
This speaker was Mrs w. II. FELTON,,
of Cartersville, wife of ex- Congressman
FELTON,, and member of the Woman s
Board OF Governors, of the Columbian
Exposition, being chairman of the agri-
cultural committee. The subject of
her address was: "The Woman on the
Farm. But she concluded by giving
lynching for certain crimes her
UTMOST, UNQUALIFIED ENDORSEMENT.
In this connection she said: "Wake
up the men of Georgia to the crisis now
upon you. These white girls are COM
ing mothers of a white race in sight of
heaven. / bring this note of warning
and entreaty to you. What means all
this lynching on our borders? You
never heard of it in years past aud
gone. We must redeem this country
from the cloud of shame that rests upon
it. When there is not enough religion
in pulpits to organize a crusade against
sin nor justice in the courthoses to
promptly punish crime, nor manhood
enough in the nation to put shelter
ing arm about innocence and virtue; if
it needs lynching to protect woman
dearest possession from a raving human
beast, then | say lynch q thousand
times o week if necessary. The poor
girl would choose any death in prefer
ence to such ignominy and outrage, and
a quick rope of mercy to a pest COM
pared to sufferings of innocence and
modesty in land ofBibles and churches
where violence
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-19
Everybody Says So.

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won
derful medical discovery of the age, peas
ant aud refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on Kidneys, liver aud bowels,
cleansing the entire system. dispel colds,
cure headache, fever, habitual constipation
and biliousness. Please buy and try box
of g. G. c. to-day; 10, q, so cents. Sold and
guaranteed to cure by ali druggists.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-19
UNION TEACHERS AGENCIES Of AMERICA
Rev. |. D. BASS. D. D.. Manager.

Pittsburg, Pa; Toronto Canada; New Orleans,
La; New York, N. Y; Washington, d. c.;
San Francisco, Cal; Chicago. H.. St
Louis, Mo. and Denver Colorado.
There are thousands OF positions to be filled
within the next few months
Address all applications to UNION TEACHERS
AGENCIES, Saltburg, Pa
6sl-6m.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-19
Your 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 like tit is
not to be had in bu'k-it is to be had only in
25c SOC and 81 bottles. There is nothing Gust
as good" as Dr. Bells Pine arHoney Avoid
those substitutes with similar sounding names
When you buy DR.. Bells PineTar Honey see
that the bottle has never been opened and that
it bears the picture and testimony of Good Old
Granny Metcalf" and the name of the + +.
Switzerland MedcineCompany, Fountain Park.
Paducah, Ky.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-19
letter, saIt-Rheum and Eczema.

The intense itching and smarting, Incl
dent to these diseases, isinstantly allayed
by applying Chamberlain S Eye and
Skin Ointment. Many very bad case,
have been permanently cured by it. Ii
is equally efficient for itching piles and
fayorite remedy for sore nipples,
chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites
and chronic sore eyes. % cts, per box.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-19

Nos | and II carry Pullman Sleeping
Cars between New York and Nashville Vi
Asheville
Nos, Is and 10 carry Pullman Sleepers be-
tween Norfolk and Nashville and New York
and Salisbury
All trains run daily.
w. II GREEN, Gen Supt Washington, D. C,
J. M CULP, Traf Mgr Washington, D. c.
w. A TURK, G. p. A Washington, D. C.
C. A. BENSCOTER.AGPA.C Chattanooga Tenn
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-19

No ,. Pullman Sleeping car Bristol to Knox.
vllle, Knoxville TO Chattanooga and Chatta
nooga to Atlanta.
NO D, Pullman Sleeping cars Bristol "a
I1Inaattanooga and New Orleans, also Pullman
Union sleeper Chattanooga to Shreye port
No H. carries Pullman Sleeping car Morris.
Town TO Chattanooga, and from ChattAnoogt
to Atlanta
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-19
{. Tennessee & Western N. C. R. R

In effect June 9TH, 1897, at 7,2O o'clock a. m,
WESTWARD EASTWARD.
NJ NJ, o,n,,., 4, a. q, ri,T,SNt Is, ", - a
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23
NlYtl,s of Yend1nnh

Charles dc Kay, consul general to
Berlin, writes of Vendland in The Cen
fury under title of ''An Inland Venice. ;"
Concerning the strange myths of tho
Venda. MIR. de Kay says: Tho water
nlHy is dangerous to young women who
wade into ponds to cut reeds for thatch.
The sandman has his female counter
part. When n boy mods, it is Hermann
that has come; when Il girl gets sleepy
over her spinning, it is Dremotka.
Reapers who fail to rest for an hour mt
midday are i'll danger of ragged fe.
male demon called Pshespolniza. She
comes with n sickle bound to u pole and
cuts off their heads She seems to have
been sunstroke personified, but is now,
like Scrpowniza, only a bugbcar used to
brighten children away from growing
crops.
Here in the Spreewald exist many of
the suporstitions common to Ireland and
Scotland-the changeling, tho whirl-
wind, Will O. the wisp, kobold, lepre-
chawn and good little people generally.
Here are the crafty spirit of the lake and
tho demon that springs on mems shout
ders mt night. Hero especially is the
banshec. Indeed no less u family than
tho Hohenzollens have private and
particular white lady who appears i'll
the unsentimcntal vicinage of the
schloss, i'll the heart of Berlin, and walls
round the battlcmcnts when death is
to occur i'll the family. Connection be-
tween the British islands and tho lands
drained by the Elbo and the Vistula has
tecn constantly renewed by migration
and conquest In remote periods the
race seems to have been alike III both
countries
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23
Realism In Literature,

1.-The movement for realism in htera.
ture has given to the best current fiction
a verify and value as a reflection of the
times that the novels of no other era
possess, " writes Droch in The Ladies'
Home Journal. "This is not saying, by
any means, that our novelists arc great
er than any of previous cpochs. But
never before could Il reader of fiction &C
cumulate vivid, true and varied pic
ture OF so many sides of human nature.
so many conditions of actual life. 1t
therefore broadens the horizon of ju-
dicious reader i'll way that books Of
travel never did. 1t ought to and often
does broaden the sympathics of the
reader SO that the prejudices Of class
and nationality are broken down. and
there is more charitable Judgment of
human nature which can't help being
different. ="
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23

Mrs. HI. Young, Littleton, N. H., writes:
Last fall found myself in an extremely
nervous and dcbilitated condition and greatly
troubled with sleeplessness. My condition
was caused by overwork. 1 was often obliged
to get up at night and sit up for long while,
then go to bed and sleep awhile, then get up
again and sit awhile longer, and in this man
ner failed to get much needed refreshing
sleep. Hearing of many cures, my husband
blood and nerve remedy. l got bottle and
tried it, and received SO much help that pro-
cured second bottle, and now find myself
entirely cured. J. can truly say that DR..
an excellent medicine, and cordially recon-
mend it to all. will gladly answer inquiries
as to my cure"
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23
DID YOU EVER

Try Electric Bitters as remedy for your
troubles? If not get II bottle now and
get relief This medicine has been found
to be peculiarly adapted to the relief and
cure of all Female Complaints, exerting a
wonderful direct influence in giving
strength and tone to the organs If you
have Loss of Appetite. Constipation,
Headache, Painting Spells, or are Ner-
vous, Sleepless, EXcitable, Melancholy or
troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric Bit
tiers is the medicine you need Health
and Strength are guaranteed hy it's use.
Fifty cents and $l.00 at Massie's Pharm-
acy.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23

DIR. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remc-
dy is the peoples guardian of health, which
wards off disease and gives the sick and ailing
renewed health and strength. The spring is
the best time to take it., for everybody needs q
spring medicine. DR.. Grcene's Cathartic Pills
are the sure cure for sour stomach, bilousness
and constipation. 1t is the best, surcst, cas-
lest pill to take. Small, sugar coated, pleasant
to act.
DR.. Greene, 35 West 18th St., New York City,
the successful physician in curing diseases,
can be consulted FREQ, personally or by letter.
Nothing to pay for consultation, examination
or advice, and the low prices of his wonderful
health-giying medicines place suro cure in
reach Of everybody.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23
I'col. out tl.c ss..cl,.

William Il. CARTS, taa newspaper
2arreai:ondcn5, tells the following s,osy
Of & Washington colcrcd woman: THE
VIE OF naval officer in this civ.
whose husband has Just returned from,
a long cruise is fixing up her home here
and sent hcr Lace cultan.s TO colorc<
woman to be 'dcno up The wasiiafiy'
returned tEcni on the day agreed upon,
but arolcs:zod because they were so
'limpsey and offered to do them over
again if she were allowed & few days
time. L had en- ius as stiff rs you
like, Honey, She remarked to tho naval
officers Wife but my husbands niece
by his fust wife died jus at the time
got 'cm ironcd, and nutl:in'll take tho
starch ont of things so much rs Il CORPSE
i'll 4 house" Another trial was given
her.
The first submarine telegraph wiro
was laid in 1850 from England TO
Franco. Two years latsg Scotland and
Iceland were cJlaectod
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23
WAN PUM.
What It Is and How the Indians Used to
Make 1t.

MAKE e..
When Columbus discovered America.
he found the Indians carrying Oh trade
from tribe TO tribe with wampum. Any
thing that has value may be used MS
money. In ancient Syracuse and Britain
tin was used as money, and we find that
iron was so used at one time in Sparta,
pieces of silk i'll China, cattle in Rome
and Germany. leather among the Car
thaginians, nails in Scotland, lead in
Burma, platinum i'll Russia, cubes of
pressed tea i'll Tartary, slaves among the
Anglo-Saxons, salt i'll Abyssinia, etc
Wampum is from an Algonquin word
meaning white" The Indians have
ever been fond of ornaments particu-
larly of beads. They used to make beads
of seashells in the following way: A
fragment of stone was with much caro-
worked down" to the size of small
nail, having one end quite pointed, and
it was then fastened to piece of cane
or reed. With this simple tool tho Ill
dian workman Clipped off bit of the
inside of a conch shell or part Of the
shell Of a hard clam and rubbed it down
TO the size desired This bit of shell no
held in his hand, placed the sharp end
OF the stone against it and then turned
the stone around and around until u
hole was drilled entirely through tho
she'll
The shell beads thus tediously manu-
featured were called wampum. These
beads were either white or of a purple
color, the last being valued much higher
than the first. 1t was the very laborious
way of making wampum that gave it
value The wampum was artistically
strung upon hempen threads and used
as necklaces, bracelets and rings. Often
1T was woven into bolts about inches
III width and 2 feet in length.
The wanpum belt served many pur-
poses. 1t was sent from tribe TO tribe
with solemn promises and messages. it
was used i'll making peace, in asking for
aid i'll time of war, for personal adorn-
ment and also as circulating medi-
um. The coast tribe Indians were tho
wampum makers. The interior Indians
spent their time hunting and exchanged
game of all kinds for the wampuln made
by the coast tribes.
For long time after white people
had settled in the new world small
coins were scarce and wampum was
used as change" Finally the "pa!c-
faces" SGT up latlies by tread!os for the
purpose of making wampum quickly,
and soon tie Indian wampum makers
were, as We say nowadays. tout of q
job. '-Philadclphi Times.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23

When you are suffering from Catarrh
or Cold in the head you want relief right
away. Only 10 cents is required to test
It. Ask your druggist for the trial size
of Ely's Cream Balm, or buy the Soc.
size. We mail it.
ELY BROS, Sc Warren ST., n. Y.
City.
] was afflicted with catarrh last au-
tumn. During the month of October I
could neither taste nor smell and could
hear but little. Ely's Cream Balm cured
it.-Marcus Geo. ..Shanutz, Railway,
N j.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23

came heavier, both packers and commits.
sion houses selling freely. The close
showed declines from Saturday on all ar
ticles. May pork lost 12 12c; May lard
Ice; Nav ribs Zoe
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23
" EA K, TIRED vi OMEN.
The Fairy OF Health Who Brings
Happiness into Our Homes.

brought into the homes Of sorrow and suffer.
ing the light of peace and joy, SO the wonder
full Dr.. :Greeue's Eeryura blood and nerye
remedy, the grand medicine which makes
people well, cures the Sick aud ailing, and re-
baaIs and strenstb IL tho mouern rv psi hcl,
brings into homes dark With the sorrow and
encouragement of disease, tho blessing of
hone, health, happiness.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23
Generous.

g "You said that when VIC were mar
ried you would refuse me nothing
"I'll be still more generous. I'll not
even refuse you nothing. I'll give it to
( you. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23

When dentist i'll China is pulling a
tooth for q patron, All assistant hammers
on gong to drown the cries of the
victim.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23

Hay $40 per ton this week at j. a.
Hoover's, PA Salem avenue W.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23

WANTED Furnished rooms centrally
located. Apply to BONNER'S RESTAU-
RANT
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23
Y THE WORLD II FINANCE
NEW YORK sToCKs.

New York, March 22.-There was n
falling off i'll business at the stock OK
change to day, the sales aggregating only
t65. 2o4 shares Frmness characterized
the early trading, the absence Of unfavor-
able news from the Levant and the steady
absorption of the Vanderbilts being the
main fuctors ut work. In the case of
Newl ork Central it was again stated that
the banking syndicate was making pro-
company's indebtedness, and on this the
stock rose to 1902.
A sudden break in Jersey Central from
81 IA to So destroyed the gool feeling,
however, and the Improvement was gen
orally lost The decision by the United
States supreme court in the trans Mis-
souri, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. case. affirming
the constitutionality of the Sherman
ANTITRUST law, was another unfavorable
development. and in the afternoon the
grangers were sold in moderate amounts
on this action of the court.
-, In the industrials, Rubber and Leather
were weak, Sugar firm and Chicago Gas
strong. Rubber declined 1-2a1 l 9 per
cent. on the talk of increased competi.
ton, while Chicago Gas was in demand
on rumors of favorable developments
shortly. The last named rose ito 81 IA,
the highest point of the year. Sugar re-
covered to ia 3 on the decision rem.
dered by Judge Morris in the NYoolsen
Spice Company case, which is in favor
of the Havenleyers. Just previous to the
close The market took on Il firmer tone
the result of II sudden rise in Western
Union to 81 ga
Speculation closed firm in tone. Net
changes show losses of l. 4a1 per cent.
outside of Sugar, Chicago Gas, New York
Central, Western Union and Omaha,
which gained 1.Sa1 l 2 per cent. In the
total sales Chicago Gas figured for 23,20O
shares; Burlington and Quincy for 49,.
200; Sugar for II, 700, and New York Cen
trail for 1920.
The bond market was firm. The sales
footed up$1 $40, 900.
Treasury balances: Coin, 1881 ,OsO, 500;
currency, S67. 5O7, 1911
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-23

Tits just as well to know that ophelia,
q ,lcW color, is q pale mauyc.