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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-05-25
Millions Given Away.

1t is certainly gratifying to know of
one concern in the land which is not
afraid to be generous to the needy and
suffering. The prOprietors of Doctor
Kings New Discovery for consump-
ton, cough and colds, have given away
over ten million trial bottles OF this
great medicine, and have the satisfac-
ton of knowing it has absolutely cured
thousands of hopeless cases. Asthma,
bronchitis, hoarseness and all diseases
of the throat, chest and lungs are sure
ly cured by it. Call at drug store
and get free trial bottle. Regular size
SOC. and 81. Every bottle guaranteed,
or price refunded.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-05-25
Robbed the Grave,

A startling incident OF which Mr..
John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the
subject, is narrated by him as follows:
81 was in a most dreadful condition.
Ny skin was almost yellow, eyes sunk
en-, tongue coated, pain continually in
back and sides, no appetite-gradually
growing weaker and weaker day by
day. Three physicians gave me up.
Fortunately, a friend advised trying
Electric Bitters;' and to my great joy
and surprise, the first bottle made de-
cided improvement. I continued their
use for three weeks, and am now q we'll
man. know they saved my life, and
robbed the grave of another victim. "
None should fail to try them. Only
so cents a bottle at drug store.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-05-25
COL. BRYAN is JUBILANT,
Democratic Party in Better Shape Than
Last Year.

Last 1tdI.
Omaha, Neb., May 14.-Bryan has
returned from his eastern tour and was
given an informal reception at the
quarters of the Jefferson Club, in order
that the leading Nebraska democrats
could get his opinion on the situation
He said he was the bearer ofgood news
from the eastern country, where moth
ing stirred up so much enthusiasm as
reference to the Chicago platform. He
said that New York has four times as
many Chicago platform democrats as
has Nebraska, and so has Pennsylva-
mia. There are men of great wealth
there, but there influence is manifested
through the papers rather than with
the voters. There are democrats there
quite as enthuslastic'a as those here, and
they ale entitled to more credit because
they are fighting against greater odds.
He said that the democratic party is in
better shape now than it was q year
before the last national campaign, and
the platform is stronger than it was in
1896
"No one man can assume to speak
for the party, but we can have our ideas
of what will be done," said Col. Bryan.
1T is my belief that none of us will
live to see plank taken out of that
platform. New questions will come up
and the platform will be added to but
nothing will be taken away. Nineteen
hundred will see more men drawn out
of the republican party than ever be-
fore in any one year, not only that, but
we will bring back many who left us in
1896. Those who knew why they went
out and left, when the battle line was
drawn up against plutocracy, will not
and ought not to come back, for they
would be as leprosy in the side of the
party. But I believe that the large
majority of those who went away did
not understand, while others were in
duced to go by those to whom they
looked for leadership. They have since
studied the matter for themselves, and
have found that the leaders were wrong
and the majority of the party were
right. What has there been since the
election Of 1896 to make those who left
us proud of their action in helping to
elect the present administration? 1t
has been principally disappointment,
and there are some who say they are
still against us on the money question,
but that other things have arisen that
demand correction; that they are COM
ing back for that reason. [ have not
insisted that they shall accept every
part of the platform, but that they shall
accept it as whole. l do insist that
if they want to come back into the
democratic house, it shall not be foI
the purpose of throwing out those who
are in the house. and that they can moi
expect the killing of fatted calf il
that is their purpose.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-05-25
NEGRO BISHOP ON LYNcHING.
Denouncing Crime Which Leads to Mob
Violence.

Atlanta, Ca, May 15.-In sermon
delivered here, Bishop Gaines, of the
African Methodist Episcopal church,
voiced his sentiments against mob law,
yet condemning in severest terms the
negroes who commit the crime of rape.
The bishop deplores the fact that SO
per cent. of good colored people are
disgraced time and time again by an
inhuman per cent. The sermon was
delivered in negro church, yet many
white people listened with much inter-
est. Among other things Bishop
Gaines said:
"Our country has been excited from
one end of this continent to the other
by the recent terrible crime committed
at Palmetto and the awful punishment
that was meted out to the criminal.
81 want to say today that he who
apologies for the crime of rape, or has
any sympathy for the inhuman mons
ter who commits this crime, be he
black or white, is an enemy to God and
q traitor to his race.
SIN all the catalogue of crime, can
imagine no deed more dastardly, nc
fend more foul and internal, than the
beast who would outrage virtue and
take from q good woman the treasure
of honor, brighter and more priceless
than any jewel that ever glittered in the
crown of king. can find no words
to express my detestation for such {
crime and such q criminal. Perhaps i
a man were charged with rape and
had an X-ray from heaven turned OF
him so that l knew he was guilty,
would be willing to turn him over Il
the mob
"It has been said that the negroes o
this country have not spoken out a
strongly as they should have don,
against this outrage and against tn
monster that committed it. want t
say in my place that 90 per cent. of on
people stand ready to openly denounc
such crimes.
"We want the world to know that W
will not sympathize with such an in
human monster. We will not rest IN
der the imputation. To do so we woul
be advertised to the world as a race c
rapists and monsters"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-05-25
"SHAME AND DISGRACE"
How a Kansas Soldier Feels About "This
Great Political War"

Caloocan (March 14) letter from AL
bert Brockway, of Company M, Twen-
tieth Kansas, to his father, j. p. Rock
way, OF Vining, Kas., published in the
Clay Center (Kas. Dispatch, May 4.
l have not heard from you since 1
wrote last, but / know that it is the
fault of the ''mail route" and not of
your negligence in writing. Our regu-
lar mail from Hong Kong will probably
be in some time this week, and / have
been waiting for it before writing, but
at present there seems to be O strong
probability of move before that time,
and l thought 1 had better write at
once.
We are located on the same old hill,
which we haye christened Port MacAr-
thur, in honor of our division COM
mander. We have been here since the
18th of February. During that time
the insurgents have tried every kind of
tactics, from sharp-shooting, which is
their favorite, to fairly we'll conducted
charge, with an artillery accompani-
ment. In every case they have been
repulsed, often with great loss.
Now, of course, like any young fool,
/ am enthusiastic and anxious to scrap,
just for the novelty and excitement, but
| expect and deserve "rebuke" from
home-not as an individual, for it was
impossible for any man or commander
to avert the inevitable conflict" but
as an atom of our glorious republic, the
champion of freedom. We must all
bear our portion of the shame and dis
grace which this great political war has
forced upon us. Unless speedily RENE
died, it will be, or at least it should be,
the death-knell of the administration
To those who intend to make the army
their profession and have more regard
for personal interests and glory(?) than
for the country's welfare it is grand
opportunity.
l wonder how reports are given in
the United States of matters here. The
press censorship will not allow our pa.
pers to publish accounts of deaths, etc.
hence, we, on one end of the line,
scarcely know how the others are get
ting along. / have not heard from
Charley Wyss since the trouble began.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-05-25
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

The disappointment felt in admins
tration circles over the failure of the
expected surrender of Aguinaldo to
materialize is so acute that it can not
be hidden, and officials who have been
so glib for several weeks past in pre-
dieting the speedy finish of Aguinaldo,
can not now be coaxed to talk about
the probabilities oyer there at all.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-05-25

There is little fear Of serious trouble
in carrying out the distribution of the
$4,000, 900 to the Cuban army. Gen.
Gomez will issue a manifesto, in which
he will advise the Cuban army to dis
band. Cuban officers are holding
meetings to declare their opposition to
the surrender of arms by the Cubans,
but the agitation is regarded as super
fetal, and it is not believed any forci-
BILE measures will be needed. In fact,
the American officials are said to have
determined not to resort to force or to
any repressive measures.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-05-25

Admiral Schley has accepted an in
vitation from ex-senator Manderson to
pay him visit at his Nebraska home,
and will leave for the west at once. He
will probably take advantage of the
opportunity, while in that section, to
visit number of other western points
TO which he has been cordially invited,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-05-25
WhOoping Cough.

I had a little boy who was nearly
dead from an attack of whooping cough.
My neighbors recommended Chamber
lain's cough remedy. / did not think
that any medicine would help him, but
after giving him few doses of that
remedy I noticed an improvement, and
one bottle cured him entirely. 1t is
the best cough medicine l ever had in
the house. = J. L. MOORE, South Bur
gettstown. Pa. For sale by r. S. Boil
ton.
Simmons Squaw vine wine or tablets
often, relax and expand muscles in
volved, decreasing labor pains and
shortening labor.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-05-25

I have been a sufferer from chronic
diarrhoea ever since the war and have
used all kinds Of medicines for it, At
last found one remedy that has been q
success as cure, and that is Chamber
lain s collie, cholera and diarrhoea reme-
dy.-P. E. GRESHAM, Gaars Mills, La.
For sale by r. s. Bolton.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-05-25

R Representatives of the united mine
workers of the states of Tennessee,
Alabama and Kentucky held meeting
at Chattanooga and agreed upon q
scale of wages which will be demanded
of mine operators.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-05-25
"Courage and Strength
in Times of, DANCER. I"
Read the qUarning bet1veen

Read the qUanning betqveen
the lines. What Is that 1vam-
ing2 It IS of the danger from
the accumulation of badness
in the blood, caused by the
usual heaVy LfVing of the
Winter months. Spring IS
the clearing, cleansing time
of the year; the foreranner of
the brightness and beauty of
glorious summer.
Follow the principle that Nature lays
down. Start in at once and purify your
blood with that great specific, Hood 8
Sarsaparila, II meVer diSdppOints.
Grip" Sixteen weeks OF grip made me
weak, but after all else failed Hoods Sar.
saparilla cured me- Later overworked,
hIu dyspepsia anu CdllkcI III IlOutn anu
stomach bothered me took the Sarsapa-
rilla again and it completely restored me-"
Mrs. ELIZABETH FoMAN, Exeter, N. II,
Rheumatism myself and a friend
both suffered from severe attacks OF rheu-
matsm. HOODS Sarsaparilla cured both.
We would not be without It," WIN. H.
LESTER. 65 Leonard St.. Fall River, Mass.
Head and Back - " For one year pains
in my back and head prevented my house
hold duties. ! took Hoods Sarsaparilla and
am well woman. II also cured the grip
IN our family" MRs MATTE HENDERSON.
Cor. First and Franklin Ave-. Columbus, Ind.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-05-25
CITY BARBER SHOP

The American Barber Shop,
located two doors south of Hotel Pied
mont and in front of Southern depot,
IN. P. Brewers old stand. III. Long
ley, the handsome Manager, and Nat
Hyder, the congenial and accommo-
dating BARRIERS, will be found as assis-
tants.
The record-union., 1899-09-06

the jib down. The headsail being off.
the helm was put hard down, and the
sloop came in the wind with a bound.
While shivering there, but moment
though it was, l got the mainsail down,
and secured inbUard, brokens boom and
all. How l got the boom in before the
sail was torn I hardly know; but it is
a fact that not "a stitch of it was brok-
en-. The mainsail being secured, I
hoisted away the jib, and, without look
ing round, stepped quickly to the cabin
and snatched down my loaded rifle and
cartridges at hand; for / made mental
calculations that the pirate would by
this time have recovered his course and
be close aboard, and that when / saw
him it would be better for me to be
looking at him along the barrel of a
gun. The piece was at my shoulder
when / peered into the mist but there
was no pirate within a mile. The
wave and squalL that carried away my
boom dismasted the felucca outright. i
perceived this thieving crew, some
dozen or more of them, struggling to
recover their rigging from the sea.
Allah blacken their faces!
The record-union., 1899-09-06

Book Notes" INDUCES in the humor
OF saying that Mark Twain has created
a widespread demand for the book upon
which he is now working, by announc-
ing that it will not be published until
one hundred years after he is dead.
Just how a demand could now grow
up that cannot be gratifed for g. CEN
tury to come is a puzzler 1t is scarce
~ probable that the men and women Of
to-day interested in Mark Twain as a
literary curiosity. can be filing orders
for a work to be delivered to their
great great grandchildren. If so, il
is rather bold assumption that these
distant generations will care a snap of
the finger and thumb what Mark Twain
to-day thinks of the men and women
Of his time. 1t may not be too much
Of speculation to even harbor the
thought that perhaps the men and wo-
men with whom Mark Twain is famil-
lar in the last half of the nineteenth
century, may be deemed of very small
consequence by readers a hundred
years after their critic has passed from
The record-union., 1899-09-06
Articles Of Incorporation.

The following articles Of incorpora-
ton were yesterday filed at the Office
of the Secretary of State:
Adam Schilling & Sons. Formed to
transact a general manufacturing bus
mess, etc. Principal place of business
San Francisco. ADirectors-Anna Schill-
ing, George A. Schilling, Joseph Schill-
ing. Sophie Schilling. Adam J. Schill-
ing, Bertha Shelley and Annie Schill-
ing, all of San Francisco. Capital
stock, $1S00o,sa all subscribed
E. B. Carroll Company. Formed to
carry on a general brokerage and COM
mission business. Place of business
San Francisco. Directors John O.
Blanchard. William D. Page, Virginia
H. Carroll, Edgar B. Carroll and Frank
Healey, all of San Francisco. Capital
stock, $1,000, all subscribed.
Ship George Curtis" Company
Formed to transact a general shipping
and transportation business. Place of
business, San Francisco. Directors
o. NJ. Vesper, Oakland; w. H. Mars
ton, Berkeley; James Greig, Alameda,
and w. A. Wilson and William Alex
ander, San Francisco. Capital stock,
$64 Geo. all subscribed.
Western Land and Oil Company of
Hanford. Directors-O. P. Lane, J. H.
Dopkins, Antoine Leoni J. T. Ramsey
and A. G. Park, all of Hanford, Kings
County Capital stock, $3.50, 600; sub
scribed, S200,10O.
Robbins Mercantile Company Formed
to publish book of commercial refer
ence, commercial reports, etc. Place of
business, San Francisco. Directors
III. E. Robbins, J. Benson Wrenn, Emil
Lehuhardt. c. w. Stilwell and w. NJ
Gardiner. all of Oakland. Capital
stock, $4,000; subscribed, $24, 500.
Baldwin Gas Company. Place of bus
mess, San Francisco Directors-Adolph
Feist, Charles NJ Baker, J. w. Pauson,
A ]. Fritz and J. Early Craig, all of
San Francisco. Capital stock, $780,
600; subscribed, $50.
Central Oil Company. Principal place
of business, San Francisco. Directors
Frank Pauson, Lipman Sachs, P. n.
Aronson, Armin Sachs and J. L. Lew
ison, all of San Francisco. Capital
stock, S500,000; subscribed 81 800
The Celtic Gold Mining Company.
Principal place of business, San Jose.
Directors-E. J. Crawford, William E.
DldutI, "A. IefIlIl, W.
son, San Jose, and George Deeney, Co.
lumbia. Capital stock, $4,000; sub
scribed, $4,000.
Carriers Power and Water Company.
Principal place of business, Sonora.
Directors-F. J. Daveluy, P. M. Keeffe,
Alonzo Colby, George Beaudet, M. E.
Sanford N. F. Pickle and Alex Cadirux,
all of Sonora. Capital stock, 100000;
subscribed, $35
Numitor Gold Mining Company. Prin-
cipal place of business, Chicago Park,
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mortal labors. But Mr. Clemens, we
are assured, makes his announcement
in sober earnest. but for this warranty
one would be prone to believe it one
of Mark Twain's'' jokes. He insists
that he could not write freely and with
concerning the people he has met in the
old and the new world with the idea
OF giving the matter to print IN his
own or their lifetime or that of their
children. He declares that a book that
is not to be published for a century
gives the writer a freedom which he
could secure in no other way. He
adds, with flash of characteristic
humor, "We have lost a great deal in
the past through a lack of books writ
ten in this way for a remote posterity.
A man cannot tell the whole truth
about himself, even if convinced that
what he wrote would never be seen by
others. ] have personally satisfied my
self of that, and have got others to
test it also. You cannot lay bare your
private soul and look at it. You are
too much ashamed of yourself 1t is
too disgusting. For that reason con-
fine myself to drawing the portraits
of Others" This possesses the virtue of
frankness, it must be confessed, and q
great many people will agree with
Mr.. Clemens.
The record-union., 1899-09-06
A GLORIOUS CAMPAIGN.

The Democratic party self-headed by
w. j. Bryan is actually starting out,
If we are to believe that peripatetic ora
tor, to do battle with conditions OF
prosperity. The two propose to down.
II they can, a party and system that
has given the country the highest de-
gree of prosperous condition Industrial
ly, commercially and otherwise it has
known in many years. Organized la
Dor is receiving increased wages. IN
every avenue of industry there is great
er demand for workers than there are
men to respond.
But these two, Bryan and Democracy
such of it as sails with him-are pro-
posing to make war upon this same or
ganized labor. Of course they do not
announce that as their intention-far
from it. Thel calamityite is always pro-
fuse with protestatons Of the good he
as a matter of fact, Bryan is to-day
warning against labor, and what is
more labor has the sense to realize it.
For the doctrines the Western orator
and the division of the Democracy
trailing at his heels preach means the
undoing of all that has given labor it's
present success.
The present Administration is to be
ousted; the tariff schedules are to be
ripped up; the money question is to be
reopened, the threadbare old 16 to 1
folly is to be rehabilitated, and the
whole business world of the country
thrown into confusion and made to dis
trust itself by the projection Of inan-
cial heresies anew into the political
field
Under the plea that trusts which are
unholy are to be squeezed THE word
is Mr. Bryan's-the revenue system is
to be upset and laws enacted which
will be va1ueless until the Federal con-
stitution is amended, a feat not to be
accomplished in any short order by the
way. This year there has been a rise
in prices Of some things needful to all
men, and correspondingly wages of
many skilled workers have gone up;
where there has been no advance as
yet, the demand for the worker has
exceeded the supply. The West has
paid its debts; the mortgages are all
cleared off and there is money in bank
to the credit of the Western tiliefs of
the soil where but two short years ago
Mr.. Bryan got his support on the
ground that his scheme was TO relieve
people burdened with debt and blan-
keted with mortgage obligations
To crush out trusts deserving of
death, it is proposed to make war on
about all industrial and capitalized or
ganizations, and thus strike blow at
prosperous labor. To crush out un-
holy trusts the producer Of staples is
to have his market prices reduced as
the result Of an assault upon the mon
etary system Of the country, and by a
stoppage of industrial works which can
exist only as the employers of consum-
ers through systems of association Of
capital
It's a pretty scheme to be sure-but
then what of 1t? Is it not solely for
the purpose Of boosting Mr. Bryan into
the Presidential chair and who cares
who suffers? The country to the dew
IL and Bryan to the fore
The record-union., 1899-09-06

The long and sensational story by
Benthein. about the methods employed
by Germany to secure secret news of
military preparations and improve.
ments in France, reads like a fairy tale.
It may all be true. There are some
features about it which sound extreme
ly probable, some which are absurdly
ridiculous. That the letters used be-
tween the spies and the principals
should have been covered in official
United States envelopes is not at all
improbable. But that any German
department of Government should have
permitted a. mere clerk, such as Ben
theim.says he was. to gain such knowl-
edge OF the spy systems as he pre-
tends to have, is exceedingly improo-
able. On the other hand, that women
are used as spies and that the French
system of guarding State secrets is as
full of holes as a cullender is probable,
indeed is shown by all the disclosures
Of the Dreyfus farce trial
The record-union., 1899-09-06

There. is amusing simplicity and
laughable absurdity in the position of
a certain grade of calan1ityites just
now. Confronted by the fact that
there is remarkable prosperity in all
commercial and manufacturing lines;
that labor is in great demand and the
supply of willing workers insufficient
to meet such demand; that wages have
advanced and that all conditions are
those of prosperity, here come the
weepers and whine: But prices have
advanced. Many things have gone
up in the quotations, etc. Well, were
not these same woe dealers only two
years ago clamoring for advance in
prices as being alone consistent with
high and good wages? We think they
were. And as matter of fact low
wages and low prices, and high prices
and high wages chum and sail togeth-
er If prices Of produce are low, if
manufactured goods sell at loss or a
mere starvation margin; if there is a
stagnation in prices for the output Of
industry, how under the sun can any
one expect wages not to decline CORE
spondingly?