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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-24
Life.
Life is q burden; bear it;
Life ia q duty; dare it;

Life is thorn crown; wear it.
Though it break your heart in twain,
Though the burden crush you down;
Close your lips, and hide your pain;
First the cross, and then the crown.
Father Ryan.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-24
DIR. ], b. PREAs.

DIR. J. II. PREAS,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
johnson City, Tennessee.
Office-Rooms l and 3, end floor,
Watauga Bank building. = :
Residence-M Millard ST., known as Chat
fin property.
Phones Office and dwelling.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-24

The rural mail delivery service in
Johnson county has been extended.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
Missouri in Hytef.

Gallatin will hold a street fair this
fall.
Pattonsburg has voted bonds for a
new school house.
Burlington functions national bank
has been capitalized for $25 900.
A pillow factory is among the new in
dustries in prospect for Tarkio.
Recent rains have put the grain crops
practically out of possible harm.
The state fair will be held at Sedalia,
Aug. IS to %, and s25 900 in prizes will
he offered.
A deposit Of fine building stone has
been discovered ut Ionia and the quarry
will be developed.
The annual session Of the state Chris
tian Bible school will be held at Bur
lington Junction, June 9.
An appropriation Of $4,000 for I'm
provements to the Odd Fellows home
at Liberty has been recommended.
A Holt county farmer sold $1.29S
worth of hogs during the past several
months that were part of the farm
products raised on his 100 acres Of land.
A charge of forgery against Ja-9es
Bingham was dismissed at Kansas City.
Thirteen years ago Bingham, who was
then q young attorney, was charged
with forging deeds to property owned
by his stepmother, and valued at $40
600. He left the city, and nothing was
heard Of him till last February, when
he wrote from Dallas, Texas, Offering
to surrender. He is now a physical
wreck. Bingham is the son of the late
Gen. George B. Bingham.
At st. Joseph, Jacob Graham, aged
10, a school boy, confessed to the police
that he was responsible for the death
of Robert G. Hunter, aged IA. who was
found dead at his home. The boys
quarreled and Graham says he was as
saulted by Hunter. In retaliating he
struck Hunter with his fist. the blow
taking effect on the left temple. Hunt
er fell, but arose and went home, where
he died from conclusion Of the brain.
Councilman Louis Schnell and
Charles l.. G%eraghty, a member of the
st. Louis house of delegates. were ar
rested on bench warrants. from the
grand jury, charging them with NAL
feasance in Office. Both men are re-
leased on 1000 bonds each. Schnel
is charged with having obtained con
tracts from the city through a supply
company in which he is said to be in.
terested. Geraghty Is said to have
rented horses and vehicles to the city
under a fictitious name.
Another new record price for cattle
at the Kansas City stock yards was re
corded recently, when two cars averag
ing l,475 pounds sold at $3.50, the high,
est price ever paid there. Thirty prime
heavy steers. averaging 1876 pounds
sold at s7,40, which was the highes
price reached on that market since 1882
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
r ONE FOR you.
A Snake Story That Takes Several
Layer Cakes.

According to a newspaper published
at Whiting, Kas., a resident of that
town, while on his way home a few
nights ago, had an experience in the
city park which was very thrilling. AS
he was passing near the band stand he
heard a strange noise. After ~investi-
eating it he found it came from a large
rattlesnake.
1t was pinned to the ground by a
large limb broken from n tree. He set
the snake free and went on his way
homeward, unconscious that the snake
was following. He sat down to supper
and in picking up a spoon which he had
carelessly dropped on the floor he again
saw the snake. He fed it and they be-
came fast friends. The snake would
eat from his hand. wrap around his
neck and hug him and sleep coiled up
at the foot of the bed. But one night
the man was restless and couldn't sleep.
He called to the snake and it did not
respond as usual. so he arose, lighted a
lamp and began to search for the pet
He found it in the parlor, wrapped
around the neck of a burglar, and it's
tail hanging out of the window rafting
for the police.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
NEWS OF MISSOURI.
ALL SORTS OF THINGS CAUGHT
FROM THE WIRES.
General Happenings Throughout the
State Prepared for Perusnl
by Busy Readers.

The organization of the Cooper Coun-
ty Shorthorn Breeders association was
perfected at a meeting held at the Eagle
office in Bunceton. The officers are:
A. A. Wallace, Luray herd, president;
F. M. Marshall, Blackwater herd, vice
president; G. p. Tut, Ashwood herd,
secretary; w. H. H. Stephens, Glover
Leaf herd. treasurer. An executive
committee was elected, composed of G.
Z. Leonard, Ravenswood herd; w. P.
Harmed, Idlewild herd, and Sam w.
Roberts, Pleasant Green herd. The first
regular meeting will be held at Chou
teau Springs, Cooper county's famous
health resort, July 25, but a special
meeting will be held at this place two
weeks from today. The association se-
lected Nov. Is, 1902, a. the date for
holding a big sale at Bunceton. This
will either be a combination Of associa-
ton sale. The membership now num-
bers about 25 and represents over 1900
head of pure-bred shorthorns, among
them being some Of the best In the
United States. l...
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

Man Is a born burden bearer and has
to live his little span of life carrying
burdens Of some sort or other and new
er free from them. Some, through
ignorance or stupidity, never carry
their loads easily. They do not proper
ly adjust them to their shoulders ana
go grunting and growing through life.
Others take up their burdens intelli-
gently and irritate the bearer as little
as possible, and they grow strong and
happy carrying their load. Others
and these are a pretty mean lot-shuck
their burdens and pile them on some
body else's shoulders. Then there are
the burdens of the weak, the helpless,
the unfortunate ones, whose burdens
1t Is a pleasure to help carry.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
MEAN GAMBLER woRsTED.
Player Forced to Bet All at the Last
Won.


Won.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: I'VE have all
seen how the smart gambler gets the
crimp put into him sometimes until he
looks like a young lady's hair in 1885,"
observed the dealer as he deity swept
the coppers off the table and shuffled
a stack of checks. "Some of you gen.
tlemen may have gambled in Clark
street in the old days. There | saw an
example of the wise man getting his
fingers burned.
"a veteran bank player was about
the only n at the table this night,
barring a couple of white check pikers,
who we needn't remember. He was
$4,000 in the box when 2 o'clock came
around. 1t is always customary for the
house to o at the beginning OF
the last deal that this one is to be the
last. That gives the player who Is a
loser a chance to bet a little higher If
he hasn't been playing the limit and
wants to get out. This custom prevails
wherever the house has a fixed hour for
closing or whether it deals until there's
no money in sight.
But this particular dealer was loser
on this day. and he didn't want to give
the player a chance to get even. So
when he reached the last turn he said
quietly: This will be the last deal to-
right
Whats that said Peter the play
er. Going to shut off in that fashion
after I'm in $4,000? What chance have
! got to get even?'
"'Call yourself even,' said the dealer.
1T pays four for one,' never dreaming
that Peter would take the percentage
against himself that goes with a call OF
the turn.
Peter studied the layout and counted
his checks. There remained in the box
an ace, tray, and a nine spot. The ace
had lost. three times, but the nine had
won three times. The deal had been
going against double out
Nineteen blue checks, one less than
a stack. was Peters stake. The blues
were $500 a stack, so he had S475. He
took a tip from the number of checks
he had and called it ace nine.
THE dealer turned. When the first
card showed an ace he was so nervous
he could hardly shove out the next. 1t
was the nine spot Peter had won ST.
900 on the turn, leaving him SITS to the
good.
"The dealer literally fell out of his
chair"
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
Eat Less Meat.

1t is a very good time Just now to
start a campaign Of education In the
use of the cheaper cuts of meat to take
the place of the high priced porter
house and sirloin steak, the rib roast
and tenderloin. The rump, the flank,
the shoulder cuts and other low priced
crts contain just as much nutriment
when properly cooked and are Just as
palatable, but they can't be fried, and
too many cooks can't cook anything
except in a frying pan The laborer
in foreign lands seldom gets any meat
at all. and the American laborers who
get $1.50 per day will hereafter have
to let lamb chops, porterhouse steak
and sirloin roasts alone. for wages will
not follow meats,
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
Jealous Youth Shoots Three.

At Kansas City, May 20, Frank Rob
inson, aged 20 years, shot and killed his
sweetheart, Gertie Rawling, aged 16
years, shot and fatally wounded his
rival, Albert H. Ferguson, aged 10
years, and shot and fatally injured him
self in an apartment house in that city.
Shortly before the tragedy Robinson
wrote a note to his mother. in which
he said that as Ferguson had supplant-
ed him in the affections of the girl he
loved he purposed to kill them both and
then kill himself. He proceeded to the
room where Ferguson and the girl
were, and upon being admitted drew
his revolver and opened fire on the
couple. The girl was shot near the
heart. She rushed screaming into the
street, where she fell dead. Ferguson
was shot in the abdomen. Robinson
shot himself in the left breast
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
Know Your Corn.

The shortage in the CORE crop Of 1901
has done more than anything else could
have done to demonstrate the vast i'm
portanoe of this crop to the country at
large. All Of the greatly increased
prices of meats, poultry ana butter
may be directly traced to the increased
price of corn. Within the limits of the
corn belt there is no one thing which is
of s. much Importance to the grower
Of this crop as to learn more about it
how to get better types Of corn, how
to grow more bushels per acre. Corn
means meat, and meat will be as
cheap again as it has been.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
Label All Adulterated Foods.

Nov that the oleomargarine bin has
at last become a law. including all bo-
gus butter products, as it rightly should.
let the effort be made to include other
vicious adulterated food products I'M
der the operation of a similar law.
There are vinegar. maple sugar and
strip. spices and all the long list of
glucose frauds. Let's have all mean
things selling for Just what they are
and not masking under the name of
some pure food product.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

The London Globe says THE diff
Guilty of finding sitting room for every
body in the Abbey on coronation day is
gradually being solved. Duchesses, we
learn, are to be allowed IS inches, and
ladies of less exalted rank 16. 1t doesn't
sound much, and there is nothing elias
tic about the arrangement, but it will
probably work. We can depend upon
the duchesses to tell pushing and
spreading countesses to remember their
inches. The Duchess in Alice would
have peppered them"
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
Potato Trust Organized.

Articles of Incorporation Of the Kan
sas City Potato company, generally
known as the Potato Combine" were
filed with the recorder Of deeds. The
capital stock is $50. 900, divided into
1000 shares, ct IS O share. Fifty per
cent Of the stock is fully paid up. Prac-
tically every commission and produce
merchant tn Kansas City Is interested
financially in the new company. The
life of the company is fixed at 80 years,
and is objects are set forth in the arti-
cles ito buy, sell and handle potatoes
The reai object Is 70 control the Kan
sas City potato market
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
No Kick Coming,

During a period of SO years residence
in the West we do not recall a time
when throughout all the great cereal
producing section of the West and
Northwest soaking rain was more sore
~ needed than on the last of April this
year, or a time when the need was so
sDlendidly met. The rains came one
after the other, five or six inches of
water banishing in two days all the
drouth bogies and making the country
look like the garden of Eden.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
Who Fed the TurkeYsp

The profits of raising turkeys are
not always allotted where they proper
ly belong. A farmer at an institute
was Dragging that he had sold rs tur-
keys which had not cost him 10 cents a
head and got over 81 apiece for them.
His nice story was completely spoiled
by his neighbor, who rose and said that
those turkeys had cost him over so
cents apiece to raise.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
Digging Gold.

It makes all the difference in the
world where the gold comes from. If
washed out Of the sand of some creek
bed, there is great excitement, and peo-
pie 80 almost crazy over it, while if
dug out of the ground In the shape Of
good crops, dairy products and fat
stock it provokes no comment at all.
Cape Nome, with all the wild furore.
only furnishes as much gold as two
good Western stock counties.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
Young Doctor Suicides.

At St Louis, the body of DR.. Edward
L. Thurman, who disappeared Sunday,
was found on the bank Of the river a
few blocks south Of the place where his
coat. hat, and valuables were discov-
cred. ]. ]. Truman, brother of the
dead man. who knew of no reason for
the doctors suicide, said: while my
brother was discouraged in a profess
sional way, he had plenty OF money and
seemed to enjoy life" Before commit
ting suicide Dr.. Truman had written to
his father in England, telling him to
send no more money.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

Whenever there is an investment
made in good blood in any sort of do
nestle animal there should be a cor
responding investment made in good
food and care for it. because no critter
on earth can do business on a pedigree
alone.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

The Pittsburg (Pa.) postofice is
among the lucky ones. II is authorized
by the department in Washington to
have lS additional clerks after July l.
next, and 81 OF the clerks now employed
there win receive an increase OF s100 n
year each in salary. Postmaster HALL.
day was so fortunate rs to have his
tire list of suggested advances APP
proved. sna~
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

Hen manure is an exceedingly con-
centrated fertilizer and should not be
used in a crude form for the flower
beds, but should be mixed with decay
ed vegetation, leaves and COW manure,
one part to five, when it makes q very
valuable fertilizer for the garden.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

Alfalfa is the only forage plant which
will give the grower three full crops in
one year.. This is one why al
falfa should be grown on your farm II
1t is possible to do so.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

One moral to be drawn from present
agricultural conditions is to keep more
hens. Get a better breed and give
them more attention for they will pay
the largest per cent of dividend Of any
live thing on the farm.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

We were in a section of the west not
long since where the soil on the hills,
which rose at an angle Of 80 to IS de-
grees on all the farms, was just as fer
tile on the tops of the hills as it was
on the lower levels. This condition Is
not often to be found.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
The Philadelphia councils have re-

The Philadelphia councils have re-
vived the special committee on the
Charleston exposition and instructed II
to go south and bring back the Liberty
bell. which has been on show az the'ev-
position, and to "restore it to its rest.
ing place in Independence hall" The
committee will start June 5. No wide
detour will be made OF the return. but
stops will be made at several cities.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

We know of two or three town bred
girls who have lately married farmers.
and so far they are really charmed
with farm life. 1t is coming to this
pretty fast - that a farm home under
modern conditions is about as good a
home as there is to be found any
where.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

AS a feed equal parts of corn and
wheat give better results than either
grain fed alone.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

Get rid of the foolish notion that
dogs go mad in dog days, for they
don't. More dogs go mad during the
winter and spring than at any other
season of the year.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

Good crops always come as a COM
pensation for the having to work gum
DO highways.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

The steer and the cow have fought
the butter business out to a finish, and
old bossy is ahead.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

Arbor day in North Dakota has been
set yer to May 8 of each year to meet
the climatic conditions OF the northern
latitude of that state.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

1t Is said that the horse chestnut is
richer in albumen than any other
known plant or tree.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

Dogs have their uses as watch and
herd dogs on the farm, as hunters, as
rat killers, but dogs so kept do not
form 10 per cen of the great crowd of
mongrel, worthless brutes which in
fest every modern community.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

The first cargo Of wheat from the
United States to England, since the
British government imposed a duty on
wheat imported, paid $4,000.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

A crop of sorghum was cut and fed
with much satisfaction the past win
ter in this manner: About 100 pounds
of seed were sown to the acre. 1t was
then cut with a harvester and bound
in small bundles-as small as possible.
These were shocked up and fed in the
bundle during the winter.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

The passage of the oleo bill necee-
state the placing of 100000 more COWS
on the farms of the country to supply
the demand for butter.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
Big Barns Unproftable.

Unless adequate insurance is to be
carried against fire, lightning and wind
we would not build the big barn. but
two or three smaller ones, separating
them some distance from each other.
1t is very difficult to save the animals
in case OF fire when so many are massed
in one big building and equally hard
to save other property So many of
these big barns are struck by lightning
every year, and the entire hay crop and
often the small grain crop of the farm
burned up, that the big barn Is an un-
profitable proposition. Even where
full insurance is carried one-third of
the loss still falls on the owner, be-
sides all the annoyance connected with
the loss of his stuff. We would divide
up. keep the grain in a granary, the
cows in a COW barn, the horses in a
horse barn, the machinery in a ma
chine shed or house, and the corr in
cribs, each we'll separated from the
other.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Sooth-
ing Syrup the best remedy to use for their
children during the teething period.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

Anyhow, ol~eomargarine will always
bring at least 10 cents a pound after
this.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

Cold storage has become a most i'm
portant factor in relieving gluts Of the
market for all p~erishable products and
equalizing the prices for the same. Not
long ago eggs always used to drop to
s or 9 cents a dozen along in the
month of May. Cold storage facilities
now keep them up to 10 or IA cents to
the DrOducer.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

The only way we know Of to get rid
of dandelions from the lawn is to pa
tiently dig them out.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06
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Copyrighted, 1902, by ]. S. Trigg,
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Correspondence Solicited.

A summer silo makes the dairyman
laugh at the brown August pastures.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

A lately enacted law imposes a fine
of 81 900 or three years in the peniten-
tiary for maliciously setting a forest
fire in the state of New Jersey.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

The possession of large supplies Of
the financial prosperity of some coun-
tries. The guano deposits of Peru re-
stored the waning credit Of that coun-
try and paid for many expensive gov
eminent improvements, while the nj
trate deposits Of Chile have been a
veritable gold mine for that country.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

A successful cotton picking machine
is said to be at last in practical opera
ton in the South.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

Creameries are now being rated by
insurance companies as extra hazard
Gus risks, and yet it seems strange
why this should be. True, there is the
pile Of slack coal adjoining the engine
room, which is always a fruitful cause
Of spontaneous combustion. and then
there is the carelessly adjusted smoke
stack, and then there is a $4,000 policy
of n creamery where there are only 20
cows to feed 1t. this last causing much
of the extra hazardous risk.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

Veal under two months Old should
not be used as food. Still lots Of II
passes as canned chicken at less than
thirty days.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

Spring lamb was frozen in New Yea
land and shipped 10000 miles and sold
in the city Of New York in April last
at "a cents a pound. Peaches and
plums from South Africa ERE to be
had in the Chicago market last Janu-
airy,
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

The recent orders for the cattlemen
to remove the fences which they have
erected, enclosing vast areas Of the
public domain is very much in the
interest of the homesteader and man
who wants to raise cattle on a small
scale. The order is making a lot of
ever.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

If all the small, understood and in
ferior kernels of seed grain of any kind
could be eliminated from the seed
sown, it would do much to improve the
quality of all crops raised.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

II hos about rome to this--that there
could no no great war In any country
IL it were not for the big packing
houses of this country. Men who
fight must eat. and to eat they must
Draw on Dur American supplies OF
meat.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

The corn acreage of the corn belt
will be very large this season, the pre-
vailing high prices for this cereal act
ing as a stimulant to every man to
raise every bushel of corn possible.
The country cannot raise so large n
crop of corn this season that the prices
will be forced to an improbable point.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-06

N. o.. 49,. NO. 1902