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one to visit the islands with no capital
on the mere chance of obtaining en-
rloyment, many of those who have so
arrived being compelled to return dis
appointed. Wages on the plantations,
including house and fire wood, or room
and board, range from $125 to $175 per
month for engineers and sugar boilers,
$50 to 800 per month for blacksmiths
and carpenters, $40 to $40 per month
for locomotive drivers, $100 to $175 per
month for bookkeepers, $50 to $40 per
month for teamsters. In Honolulu the
rates are SIS to SO per day for bricklay-
ers and masons, $8. so to So per day for
carpenters and painters and So to So
per day for machinists. Cooks receive
from $3 to $6 per week; nurses, house
servants and gardeners, $3 to $12 per
month. Retail prices of provisions are
as follows Hams, 16 to 80 cents per
pound; bacon, 16 to 20c; flour, $3.50 to
So per hundred pounds; rice, 1926 to
$5 per 100 pounds; butter, 25 to 3Oc per
pound; eggs, 25c to SOC per dozen; ice,
13c per pound.
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INTERESTING ITEMS.

Great Britain has 294 torpedo boats
and torpedo boat destroyers.
Philadelphia is to experiment this
summer with vaccination schools.
Spain has sent to Cuba 1000 tons of
medicines, ETC., in three years.
To escape from Ceuta Jail, prisoner
must swim the Strait of Gibraltar.
One acre of land will comfortably
support four persons on a vegetable
diet.
The demand for cavalry horses has
reviewed the equine industry in Wyom-
ing.
The emperor of China has to fast
sixty-four days in each year for the
sake of religion.
OF the inhabitants of London, about
$50, 900 are of Irish and 10000 of Scotch
parentage.
Redlands, CAL, has a giant moving
machine, which cuts strip of wheat
fifty feet wide.
The sword of Napoleon was laid un,
sheathed on the pillow where rested
his lifeless head.
During the siege of Paris no fewel
than %, 900, 900 letters sailed out of th,
city in fifty-four balloons.
The average duration of human lif,
in European countries is greatest il
Sweden and Norway, and lowest il
Italy and Austria.
The Marquis Of Lorne has a passion
for music as we'll as for the pen, and i
never happier than when using the lat
ter in the service Of the former.
1t is my pleasure, and duty owe to the al
hicted, to bear my testimony to the fact tha
Smiths Sure Kidney Cure will do q
and more than you claim for It. Aside from be-
ing sure kidney cure" it will cure any nna
nation wherever located. As remedy "a
piles, sOurness in the chest, stomach and bow
els, IL affords immediate relief and effects
permanent cure.
s. o. HEMENwAY,
South 2Sd Street, St. Louis. M
or sale by losal druggists
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-08-11

Good looks are really more than skin
deep, depending entirely on healthy
condition of all the vital organs. If
the liver is inactive, you have a bilious
look; if your stomach is disordered, you
have dyspeptic look; if your kidneys
are affected, you have a pinched look.
Secnre good health, and You will sure
ly have good looks. Electric Bitters"
is good Alternative and Tonic. Acts
directly on the stomach, liver and kid
neys, purifes the blood, cures pimples,
pies, blotches and boils, and gives 8
good complexion. Every bottle guar
anteed. Sold by Druggists. 80 cents
per bottle.
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The opportunities for travel between
the United States and Hawaii are de-
scribed by Consul General Haywood,
who says that the bulk of the steam
passenger and freight traffic between
San Francisco and Honolulu is controll-
ed by the Oceanic Steamship Co.,
their rates being $40 cabin passage and
$95 steerage, though a number of fine
sailing vessels, which make regular
trips between Port Townsend and San
Francisco and Honolulu, with limited
passenger accommodations, charge $40
for cabin passage. The time for pass
age between San Francisco and Homo
lulu by steamer is from six to seven
days. Freight rites from San Francis
CO are: BY steamer. IS per ton and !
per cent. primage; by sailing vessels,
SO per ton and per cent. prmage
while the rates of to Atlantic ports are
from So to 81 per ton, with per cent
primage, and the duration Of the voy
age between Honolulu and New York il
from SO to 1874 days. On the islands
there are three railroads, which, how
ever, are used principally in carrying
products of the plantation to the vari
GUS points of shipment, and aggregat,
about seventy miles in length.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-08-11

A Maine man offers small prizes to
the school children in the intermedi-
etc grade Of his town who take the best
care Of their teeth during the summer.
In the cotton-seea industry last year
not less than 100000 tons of cotton
seed were consumed, the total value Of
the resultant products aggregatipg
$1S0, ,00O, 600.
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The Best Remedy For Flux.

Mr.. John Matthias, we'll known
stock dealer of Pulaski, Ky, says;
"After suffering for over week with
fux, and my physician having failed to
relieve me, / was advised to try Cham
berIain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, and have the pleasure of stat
ing that the half Of one bottle cured
me-" For sale by r. s. Bolton.
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Commodore seeler,s Quickness.


Commodore Sch!ey is about the
quickest thinker I was ever shipmates
WITH" said an old ex-man-o -o-war's man,
now messenger in the navy depart
ment. II was a bo'sun's mate with
him when he was the commander of one
Of the old windjammers. We were on
the South Atlantic station. We pulled
into the harbor of Montevideo for
fresh provisions one morning, and Com
mander Schley's gig was dropped to
take him off to the beach to see the
American consul on some business.
5chley. when the gigs crew pulled her
along side the gangway, stepped into
the boat with good deal of difficulty,
for Montevideo is the roughest harbor
in the world, and with the motion of
the ship and the rocking of the gig it
required some seamanship to get aboard
Of the running boat. The cox'un Of
the gig gave the order to shove off q
bit ahead of time, before Schley had
get aft to his seat. Just then a big wave
struck the ship on the port side and she
keeled over, while the gig rose almost
leyel with the starboard gun'ls. A big
gun was hanging with her snout direct
ly above Schley's head when this hap
pened, and if he hadn't done bit Of
rapid thinking his skull would have
been crushed like an egg she'll. He
just happened to take in the situation
out of the tail of his eye, however, an(
dropped into the bottom of the gig OF
all fours in the nick OF time to save hi
life Washington Post.
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Curiously, the productions OF the
islands are aim ost entirely class of
articles for which the people of the
United States have in the past been
compelled to send money outside of
their own borders. Sugar, coffee, tropi-
cal fruits and rice, for which we send
abroad more than 5000, 900, 900 annual
ly, are the chief productions of the
islands, and, while the quantity so pro-
duced amounts to less than one-tenth
of this sum, it is belived that it may be
materially increased, and to this extent
our expenditures for this class of arti-
cles will be in the future kept within
our own borders and among our people.
Of sugar, of which 1t is said the Ha-
waiian islands are much more produc-
tive in given area than those of the
West Indies, the expectation increased
from 294, 7S4, $40 pounds in 1896 to 500, =
1853, 992 pounds in 1897, and for 1893
will, it is expected, be considerably in
excess of last year. Of coffee the ex-
portation increased from 3,O51 pounds
1891 to 337, 1853 pounds in 1897. OF rice
the expectation increased from 8, 1853,
1852 pounds in 1895 to 5,499. 400 pounds
in 1897; and in pineapples the increase
was equally striking. In the matter Of
imports, as above indicated, nearly all
of the necessities of life, aside from
sugar, fruits and vegetables, are i'm.
ported, the products of the United
States being given the preference in
nearly all cases.
Washington, July, 2S. W. B.
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SECRETARY DAY
WILL RETIRE
FROM THE CABINET AS SOON As THE WAR
Is OVER.

New York, Aug. S.-A special to the
Herald from Washington says: In con-
nection with the probable selection of
Secretary Day as one of the peace COM
missioners it is stated that hewill at an
early date retire from office as secreta-
ry of state and after concluding his la
bors as o member of the commission
will resume the practice of law in Can
ton. Although this is the first public
announcement that Secretary Day in
tends to retire from public life, it has
long been known to most intimate
friends that when heaccepted the port
folio Of state he did so with the under
standing that he would resign his Office
Immediately after peace had been re-
stored between Spain and the United
States.
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OHIO RIVER 3 {. RAILROAD.
old and Will Be Extended to johnson City.

AsHEvILLE N c., August 4.-The 0. K. & c. Rail.
road was sold at Marion at public auction for $o8oIo
1t was purchased by committee representing new
company, which assumes the bonded indebtedness of
the road
1t is expected that the purchasers will extend the
road at least far Johnson City, Tennessee in the
spring
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SPEAKING OF FoRMALITY.
With Just Dash Of Tenderness or Endear
ment Interjected.

ment Interjected
ST never have been able to get it
through my head," she said as the
lights burned low, (which is the more
formal in beginning a letter-'dear or
my dear OF course / mean preced-
ing name"
"It depends upon circumstances to
large extent" he replied.
"But dear is unquestionably term
Of endearment," she protested.
"And yet," he asserted, its alb
sence may make an endearing phrase -
loye message, If you will-doubly
significant.
''I fail to see how" she returned,
blushing prettily merely because of the
course the conversation was taking. 81
should say rather that it became the
more significant as one approached the
superlative degree"
''In measure it does, he admitted
"but much depends upon the circum-
stances and the persons involved. If
an old gentleman writing to you ad-
dresses you as Dear Miss Brown, that
is distinctly formal, while if he says
MY Dear Miss Brown, it seems trife
patronizing and fatherly, and to that
extent is more friendly. But if young
man uses Dear and MY Dear the
conditions seem to be reversed"
"I don't see how"
"Then let me illustrate" he said.
Suppose I should address you as My
Dear Girl That would seem rather
pat onizing. would it not, as if l were
about to point out some little error OF
bit of foolishness? But if I should soy
Dear Girl, how about that? Does il
mean more than the other in my case?'
"While you are about it," she sug'
gested, again blushi1g, "why might
you not svy, Dearest Girl?"
"The superlatives are used so mucl
by some Americans" he said, "tha
they lose.much Of their force and ofteg
do not seem to have the strength fOunt
in lesser denrees. As lOve terms
Dear Heart and sweetheart hav'
stood the test of years and any attemp
to put them in the superlative, a
Dearest Heart and Sweet Heart, in
stead of being more effective, would b.
simply farcial and would detract from
] rather than add to their significance.
, 'But how about Withdrawing tn
/ word dear entirely?" she asked, for
being woman, it was only natural tina
she should wish to make study intri
. cacies Of these terms. "You spoke 0
that, you know"
Certainly" he answered, Sand
: can prove the truth of what / said
| Again let me illustrate with you. I sa
4 to you, MY Dear Mamie. 1t ma
r mean much; it may mean little. 1t de
. pends upon circumstances. 1t ma
: seem patronizing, or it may not. Tha
b also depends upon circumstances an
a the tone. But we take away the wor
g dear and then l say to you, "M
Mamie. What do you say to that?"
e "Why, II guess I am," she re
J.. piled, blushing q deeper red than b.
8 fore, ''but you might have found OF
}. whether l was or not ,,,ithout adoptin
n any such roundabout method" ="
n Nevertheless having proved his cas-
O and accomplished his purpose, he PR
n ceeded to take possession .-Chicag
Post.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-08-11

The Rev. W. B. Costly, of Stock
bridge, Ga, while attending to his du-
ties at Ellenwood, that state, was at
tackled by cholera morbus. He says
"By chance I happened to get hold Of
q bottle of Chamberlain's Cello, chole-
ra and Diarrhoea Remedy, and I think
it was the means of saving my life. II
relieved me at once" For sale by r
s. Bolton.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-08-11

About one month ago my child, which
is fifteen months old, had an attack OF
liarrhoea accompanied by vomiting. l
gave it such remedies as are usually
given in such cases, but as nothing
gave relief, we sent for physician and
it was under his care for a week. At
this time the child had been sick for
about ten days and was having about
twenty-five operations Of the bowels
every twelve hours, and we we're con-
yiuced that unless it soon obtained re-
lief it would not live. Chamberlain q
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhna Remedy
was recommended, and | decided to try
it. I soon noticed a change for the
better; by it's continued use complete
cure war brought about and it is now
perfectly healthy. &C, l.. Boggs
Stumptown, Gilmer county, West Va
For sale by b. s. Rolton.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-08-11

The currency Of the islands is of the
same unit of value as that of the United
States. The gold is all the American
mintage, and United States silver and
paper money is in circulation and
passes at par The Hawaiian money is
paper, the paper being secured by sill
yer held in reserve. Banks keep two
accounts with their depositors- silver
and gold and checks are so worded
that the depositor may specify the
account from which the check is to be
paid, though, in case the check does
not state in what currency 1t is to be
paid, the law provides that the holder
may demand gold if the amount is over
$40. The Hawaiian silver money
amounts to 81, 100000, Of which $500, OOC
is held by the Government to secure 3
like amount of paper. The total money
in circulation is estimated at $3, 800, 900
The rate of exchange is II per cent. OF
Eastern cities of the United States ant
per sent. on the Pacific coast. Cole
is at premium Of l per cent. The all
nual taxes average SO. AS per capita; th,
total revenue from all sources, so, 1913,
070 lin 1866; expenditures, S2,1S7, 900
and the public debt, $4, ,174, bear
ing interestat 8 and 6 per cent. Com
mereial travellers are, under the la1
now in force, required to take out Ii
cense costing at Honolulu, for th
island upon which it is located, $57O
and on each of the other islands s255.
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Gen. John s. Poland Dead.

Asheville, Aug. 8.-Brigadier Gen
eral John s. Poland died here today of
fever contracted at Chickamauga. The
remains were taken to his home in New
York state.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-08-11

A plain spoken Surrey parson re-
Gently advised his male hearers not to
be afraid Of bagging their trousers or
his lady hearers of bursting their silk
stockings by kneeling in prayer.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-08-11

The statement is not such as to en-
courage those desiring to seek employ
ment in Hawaii. The market for all
kinds Of labor, it says, is overstocked,
and it would be very unwise, in the
opinion of the Consul General, for any
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-08-11
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
VIRGINIA COLLEGE

For YOUNG LADIES, Roanoke. Va.
Opens Sept, Sth, 1898 One of the leading
Schools for Young Ladies in the South Mag
nihcent buildings, all modern improvements
Campus ten acres Grand mountain scenery
in Valley OF Va, famed for health European
and American teachers. Full course. Superior
advantages In Art and Music, Students from
twenty-five States. For catalogues address
the President
MATTE p. HARRIS Roanoke, Virginia.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-08-11

A meteoric stone weighing four tons
fell on a warehouse in Flume. Austria,
and set it on fire. The stone crashed
through the house and was found
buried in the cellar.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-08-11

The broad headed horses are the
cleverest. In the British household
cavalry horses with broad fOreheads
learn their drill more rapidly than the
others.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-08-11


for Dr.Mlles' Remedies,
DR.. Miles Remedies
are sold By all drug
gists under q positive
guarantee, first bottle
benefits or money re-
funded. Book on dis
eases OF the heart and
nerves free. Address,
DIR. MILES hiEDIOA
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-04-02

two days. While the senate was In se-
cret session there was great deni OF
war talk The subject under debate.
the acquisition OF the Danish West IN
dies, served MS a text for the discussion.
On the house side. the members gath
cred In groups and talked OF the WIlr---
Tor they seemed to have the impression
mat such an outcome was Inevitable.
The Associated Press bulletin an
nouncing the reply OF Spain was read
with much Interest, scores of members
llstenlrg while one would read aloud
the Dispatch. The foreign relations
committee OF the senate or It's stib-com-
mlttee was ir session nearly ull day con-
sldeflng the Maine disaster MS part OF
the Cuban question, as well as tho re-
ply OF spain, which had been furnished
the committee early in the day.
Nothing OF importance was actually
accomplished at the capitol, but the
continent showed plainly that II the
PRESIDENTS message Is for intervention
he Will receive hearty support. There
Is q disposition IN some quarters OF
congress 10 merely recognize tho indie
pendence Of Cuba. The reComneuVlu-
ton OF the President will carry great
weight. II the President should simply
report that diplomacy - ut an end and
leave the determination Of the future
course with congress, 1t is probable that
immediate intervention viii be recon-
fpcAIel
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-04-02

r.. i j / I
Tested In all the speeches AMI cyer.rodc
the rarGl committee Itself by incrcas.
Ing the number OF torpedo honts and
torpedo boat dcstroyefsIto twenty four,
the blll AZ rcported providing for but
twelve, The amendment OF Mr. Can
non. chairman OF ftheupprUprlation Com
mittee. TO reduce the number OF batte-,
ships 10 one. was buried under an over
whelming majority The PROVISION re-
la,lng to armor plate, which In ordinary
times would hayc procip!tated a debate
OF several days, was disposed ot In ten
minutes, a proposition to decrease the
price agreed 10 in tho bill from $500 70
$500 per ton being drowned In q perfect
chorus OF noes. ssH
Mr., Cannon during the course Of The
day announced the belief OF q rnaJoritS
ofthe members tina, war would be upon
ius within a week. and Mfr. De Almond.
of Missouri. made notable speech de-
clarlng that II hostilItios We're 10 come
1t was our duty 10 strike the first blow.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-04-02
SPAIN PREPARING
Tor tho Conflict ThatAppears TO be Ine-i-
table-Troops Ordered to tho Canartes.
Funny Break About Warships.

Tor tho Conflict ThatAppears TO be Inevi-
Z table-Troops Ordered to tho Canartes.
Funny Break About warahips.
LONDON, April o.-The Madrid cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says:
Spain, acting on the principle, 81 Wis
Paeem Para Bellum' (If you wish peace,
prepare for war;, continues her prepa-
rationg for possible hostilities with
America. The coast defenses OF the
peninsula are in an efficient state, rather
more so than two years ago. When the
seizure OF the Competitor by Lieut.. Gem
eral Weyler brought the two countries
to the verge Of hostilitles, these defenses
We're inspected by an eminent Spanish
general, and the necessary works have
gone on quietly ever since.
'rrhe buying OF warships By the
United States causes no uaeasiuess In
this country (Spain). The few offered
for sale were rejected by Spain on tech
nical grounds; and, besides, the WASH
ington authorities with their appropri-
alton OF S50.00O, 900 came rather 100 late
into the market TO get good value Tor
their money.
Besides the two battallons OF in
fantry and the battalion of engineers
ordered to the Canaries, half q battalion
OF artillery and a regiment OF marines
VIII be sent there. The bishop OF the
Canary Islands, In sympathy with the
patriotic movement In Spain, Is prepar-
ing his own palace and seminary build
ings for conversion into barracks and
lodgings for the troops. One OF the reg
yiments OF marines expected from the
Philippines will be sent to Porto Rico
with Iartlllerymen and additional In
fantry, and possibly some guns"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-04-02
PATRIOTIC ouTByRsT
,ofspaniarls at a Benefit Performance I'm
lSlf a Madrid Theatre. ~

or Standards Mt BENEFIT Performance in
Madrid Theatre.
AfADRID, April 1.-Displav OF patriot
ic .ervor at the Royal opera last night
was really thrilling. The whole assem-
blase, numbering about 5000 persons,
was profoundly impressive. The queen
regent, who was accompanied By the
Princess OF the Asturlas. and the 1nfan-
Ia Isabella, vas the object Of repeated
ovations.
Most OF the young ladies, especially
chose belonging to the higher ranks Of
the arlstoc.acy, wore ribbons Of the
national colors in their hair. When the
orchestra played the national hymn, a
wave OF intense enthusiasm swept over
the asscmb!agc. Tho queen the prin-
.cesses. the ministers, the Srandees. ev-
'rrv one in fact, rose spontaneously anu
gave vent to 4 great shout OF viva 'Es-
tnana,', followed By shouts OF Long
live the queen, Long live the queen"
3 on the stage the chorus was compos-
ed OF the leading singers OF t'Spain, With
whom were grouped the principal mu-
slcians. painters anu artists OIL the
country, while the orchestra was REIN
forced by. military hands In full uni
form. I, "a. 81 7ii
+ III the midst OF The excitement two
regiments OF infantry marched In sim
Gle tjlc across tile stage md so appear
ed 10 be an endless body OF men, where,
upon the national anthem was sung
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-04-02
ORINOEPENDENCE OF CUBA.
The Senate Committee ON Foreign Reia.
li tions Resdy TO Report-wui Also Con.
4 slider Maine Wreck Sufficient Cause for
!. War.

The Senate Committee ON Foreign Reln.
b lions Ready TO I.oport-wuI Also Con.
y slider Maine Wreck Sufficient cauae for
War.
SwAsH1NGToN, D. c.. April 1.-THE
subcommittee OF the senate committee
on foreign relations appointed to draft
a report and prepare form OF resolu-
tion outlining a course OF action which
this government shall pursue towards
Spain with reference 10 Cuba, so far
completed its work to-day that 1t will
be able to report 10 the full committee
at Its meeting tomorrow.
Z THE SUBCOMMITTEE WILL
RECOMMEND THE ADOPTION OF
"A RESOLUTION DECLARING, IN
THE FIRST PLACE FOR THE REC
oGNIT1oN OF THE INDEPEND-
ENCE OF THE CUBAN REPUBLIc,
AND IN THE SECOND FOR THE IN
TERvENTIoN BY THE UNITED
STATES WITH HER ARMY AND
NAVY FOR THE PURPOSE OF AS
sIsTING THE CUBANs TO SECURE
INDEPENDENCE IN CASE SPAIN
CONTINUES TO REFUSE TO CON-
gCEDE IT.
The! committee will treat the rescind-
ing Of the order for the concentration
of the Cuban non-combatants as, q sub
y
not the present treatment Of thess IN
.fortunates; will detail the Maine incl
dent and attempt to demonstrate that
/ 1t is q sufficient cause for the declare-
Stion OF war IL this country were desir-
gous OF making 1t such, and also will
touch upon the Injury to American in
tterests caused by the Cuban struggle as
"a full justification for our Interference.
The committee will report upon Mon
day unless It is then made evident that
1T has been impossible for the President
\ to complete his promised message 70,
lack OF time.