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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

Patrick, the murderer Of Millionaire
Rice, signed marriage contract in the
Tombs Monday whereby he became the
husband Of his former landlady. II
was an up-to-date affair, preachsrlesI
marriage and pleasurelsss honey
moon. The groom has engaged a chail
on the electric route for hades and tn,
bride will be left to mourn his fat
alone. .-t
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

1t may be that the rural delivery is
building up the circulation of daily pa
pers, but that don't make the country
editor mad. just wait until the sub
soribers owe as much for the city dali
lies as they do for the country weeklies
If you want to hear howl
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

A young lady in Kentucky is can
didate for congress. If she is as pretty
as she is ambitious and waves the red
shirt waist gracefully in the campaign,
she and her democratic opponent may
both go to congress through a matri
monial grave.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

The people are with Evans in his
present fight, but he must not get gay
and come back to Tennessee and want
to run for congress against Judge Moon
or the people will get him sure.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

Bryan's residence in a barn suggests
that he will stand for the next presi-
Dental race. In that event it might
be well for the political trainers to
give more attention to speed and less
to wind.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

Several churches were unroofed in
Pittsburg Easter Sunday by furious
wind storm possibly because the occu-
pants had their hearts set on the head
instead of on religion.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

The Birmingham Ledger says corn
whiskey is cultivated taste" We I'M
derstand the Ledger is authority
Chattanooga Times
So it is cultivated, but you must use
bull-tongue and no water to get best
resulta.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

Of all the prize.package ounces, the
congressman who poses as the friend of
the American COW is the most illustri-
GUS. The American COW as matter of
fact doesn't care whether butter is
made from cream or scrap iron. Com
mercial-Appeal. as.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

If the republicans defeat Earnest Mil
Ter in the primary Saturday they lose
their only hope of sending represen-
tative to Nashville. This is an official
nointer.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

Teddy peremtoriiy refused Hanna's
request for pardon for Rathbone, but
said he would examine the papers, and
unless he found something radically
W ong he would let the verdict stand.
He is sure to find Radical wrong and
he'll set aside the verdict and turn him
lnoaa
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

John d. Rockefeller hasn't got no
points about him that other folks have
MT got. We can git just as drunk as
he can. Hardeman Free Press Com
mercial-Appeal.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

The Sultan may be granted little
time just now in paying back that Stone
ransom money if he is purchasing East
err hats for his family.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03
High Water Last Week .

The American yesterday continued
its efforts by long distance telephone to
reach the counties devastated by last
weeks food which had not reported.
Every one OF these counties east OF tho
Tennessee and south of the Gambler
land that could be reached was commu-
nicated with. The counties which
were visited by the flood are practical
ly all of those lying between the
mountains on the east and the Tonnes
see on the west, and between the Cum
berland River and the Alabama line
almost all of Middle Tennessee, and
among the most fertile and beautiful
stretches of country in the world.
The counties suffering the greatest
seem to have been those south of Muir
freesboro, the center of the state.
With some counties yet to hear from
it is certain that the lives lost will be
in the neighborhood of twenty-five,
with reports Of others unverified, and
that the damage will be several million
dollars.
Included in this are railroad losses il
tracks, bridges and road bed, and live
stock, dwelling houses, barns, outhous
es, logs county bridges, damage t
growing crops, fences and to farms
The damage to farm land is likely Il
be . very serious item. Some of tn,
finest farms in the most fertile section
of Tennessee from the dreadful wash
ing will be ruined or almost so.
Stone fences that for forty years hav
withstood the rsvages of high waite
were swept away in this food.
The river side farms in Lincoln coun
. ty, renowned the world over almost
y are reported very badly damaged.
a Thousands of logs are reported adrii
Y in the Upper Cumberland, which strear
q at Carthage at o'clock yesterday al
= ternoon was rising at the rate Of 81
4 inches per hour.
4 The bridge Of the Nashville & Knox
j. vile railroad at Lancaster, a 300 foe
|. span, said to have cost in the neighbol
!. hood Of $1,000 went Saturday nigh
a the floating houses, debris and so fort
"a battering it from the abutments.
8 1t was predicted at Carthage that tt
Is Cumberland would go beyond the foe
a tide of 1882. If such be the case I'll
O work of destruction and devastation
not yet over.
g The American was unable to get col
v nection with Linden, in Perry count,
i Lynchburg, in Moore county, or Woo
a bury, in Cannon county. Areport fro
Winchester had it that considerab
u damage was thought to have occunt
4. in Moore, though communication WI
IL cut of. Information from Wincheste
" county seat of Franklin, vas that th
" county escaped serious damage, II
il greatest inconvenience being from d
n layed mail. Nashville American 81.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03
Spring Medicine

There is no other season when good
medicine is SO much needed as in the
Spring.
The blood is impure, weak and
impoverished-a condition indicated
by pimples and other eruptions on the
face and body, by deficient vitality,
loss of appetite, lack of strength, and
want of animation.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

Uncle Hank Watterson may pass
through the gubernatorial slaughter
house and fall into the presidential
grave. Commercial Appeal.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

Shakespeare discovered something
rotten in Denmark" long time ago,
but Richardson has just caught the
aroma.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

II it is best for your health to lie on
ly on one side you ought to be sure
that you lie on the side that pays the
cost
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

1t may be, as the American says, that
Nashville is immune from floods, but it
has other water troubles.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

Jack Reaves' eggnogg rolling was a
decided success.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

Easter dresses cover a multitude OF
proud heart beats. Nashville News.
They must come high to do that.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03
How
Gain Flesh

Persons have been known to
gain a pound a day by taking
an ounce Of SCOTS EMUL.
SION. It is strange, but It often
happens.
Somehow the ounce produces
the pound; It seems to start the
digestive machinery going prop.
crIy. so that the patient Is able
to digest and absorb his ordinary
food, which he could not do be.
fore, and that Is the way the gain
Is made.
A certain amount of flesh IS
necessary for health; If you have
not got It you can set It by
taking
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03
Hoods JdrSdpGriHG
and Pills

Make tho blood pure, vigorous and
rich, create appetite, give vitality,
strength and animation, and cure
all eruptions. Have the whole family
begin to take them today.
Hoods sarsaparllla has been used In
our family for some time, and always with
good results. Last spring l was all run
down and got bottle of it, and as usual
received great benefit" Miss BEULAH
BoYcE, Stowe, Vt.
Hoods SarsaparllIa promises to
cure and keeps the promise.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

The spoilsmen seem to have made the
Rough Rider a prisoner. Nashville
American.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03
SEED OATS Ss's' En- xsf:5'i; V aa

Russian" early
Champion" white, aud I" Lincoln !"
oats. Write for FREE Catalog of all
best Farm and Garden Seeds; also Sc
page "Book ON Corn Growing" AL
ways address J. r. RATEKrN & SoN,
Shenandoah, Iowa.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03
Washington Notes by 10 ]. WINS.
From The Sentinel.)

The air is full of rumors as to further
changes in the personnel of the admin
istration. Besides the pension com
missionership, it is stated that Secreta-
ry Hitchcock, of the interior depart
ment, is to go; our Mexican embassa-
dor, Clayton, is in trouble; the first as
sistant postmaster generals place is
vacant; Minister Storer, now at home,
does not want to so back to Madrid,
aud new man is wanted for embassa
dor at Rome. There is an indisposi-
ton among politicians fitted for these
places to get too close to Roosevelt un-
til it is known more definitely what
Hanna is going to do.
Marshal Jack Baker, of West Tennes.
see, will not be reappointed The re-
publican organization has protested
too strong against him, every county
chairman but one in the western dis
trict Of the state being upon record
here in opposition to his continuance
in office. 1t is said that when Con-
gresham Brownlow was here in Wash
ington on what his physicians thought
was his deathbed, Baker left his Office
at Memphis and went into Brownlow' s
home town, five or six hundred miles
away, to organize opposition TO his re-
election to congress. Baker has been
in open antagonism to the republican
organization in the state, and this fact,
with the other and with others unstat-
ed have wored his undoing for a second
term.
The defeat OF SenatorsJ ones in the
Arkansaw primaries can be attributed
to the round cotton bale trust, of which
the distinguished democrat is one Of
the principal owners. The lesson is an
old one-the ambitious plitician can
not succeed if he plows with the alien
heifer. The greater pity is that the
senator has carried down with hin
some of his friends. With Jones in
the cotton bale trust, Bryan not oppos
ed to pleasurablo accumulations while
"labor groans," Gov, McMillin com
petitor of the Standard Oil combine,
Charles +. Towne capitalistic promo
ter in NewYofk, Boston and Philadel
phia, and Hogg, of Texas, codling will
British aristocrucy under the shadow
of Windsor CASTLE the internal radicals
are mighty apt to look at the layou
and say of them as the devil said Of hi
knee-buckles, "There's beautiful Sc
IF va "
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-04-03

The Greeneville Democrat charges
that certain candidate for the state
senate has not drawn a sober breath
since Lee surrendered at Appomattox.
His jaglets, the candidate, probably
does not know the war is over. Nash
vile News,
If you fellows have anything to say
about Jack Reaves why don't you say
it to his face?
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-14

was placed at the top of each pedestal,
one for hot water for the servants
use, the other for drinking water.
Sheraton, Hepplewhite and Adam COM
bined with various pieces into one, pro-
ducing the graceful style of sideboard
with which the taste of fhe present day
has made us familiar. The sideboard
table, however, was also retained in
large houses, where it served as a carv-
ing table, by which name it is now
frequently known. Can it be possible
that Hepplewhite, by suggesting in one
of the minutely drawn plans of a room,
large mirror hanging above the side
board, foreshadowed the time when
the mirror became part, and often
the salient part, of piece of furni-
ture cumbersome and heavy in proper
ton to the unnecessary weight it had
to support? AT this stage, AT any rate,
we may leave it, with a mental sigh OF
relief that this style was only transient
and that we are reverting to forms in
which the stately sideboard' is more
worthy of it's name.-Chicago Daily
News.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-14
OLD WELSH DRESSERS.
In Great Demand mt the Present Time
by Lovers OF Rare Old and Ar
tistIc Furniture.

The oak dressers of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries have a fine
simplicity of their own. Those of
Wales and Yorkshire are specially in
request among the old furniture low
ers of to-day, and charmingly decorat-
i've these old pieces are as n mounting
for choice silver and china, while at
the same time admirably serving the
purpose of sideboard. The state
ment often made that Chippendale was
n designer of sideboards is inaccurate.
When Chippendale published his work
G754 to 1762) built-in cupboards with
doors flush with the wainscoat of the
walls were still in fashion and gave
ample room for the storage of wine
and table appointments. As, with the
change in the style of decoration, they
gradually disappeared the mahogany
sidetable came into use. Cupboard
room was provided by separate ped
estal placed at each end of it and a
brass-banded celleret below. A brass
rail at the back of the table often held
branches for candles and gave a sup
port 10 pieces of plate. tall urn
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-14
UNFRIENDLY COMMENT.
There Are Many Reasons Why Peo-
pie should Refrain from Criti-
cisinp Absent Acdunintnnces.

In conversation, unfriendly COM
ments regarding the absent should
always be avoided. In social life it
is well to shun ill-natured gossip.
Make it rule, and let it be strictly
observed, not to say anything about
the faults of another unless there is
absolute necessity for you to do so.
This necessity may arise, and your
own Judgment can guide you about
the matter. 1t is always rash to talk
of the faults or evil doings of Others
Why, indeed, should you do so? You
know yourself that you have faults,
few or many, and that there are
many things you may have done
which you prefer should not be dis
cussed. Well, then, exercise the same
charity to others that you would
have extended to yourself.
Another thing to bear in mind is
that, if you talk of what is to the dis
advantage of another, what you say
will doubtless be repeated. OF course,
you may preface your remarks by:
This is quite between ourselves
"Pray do not repeat it," etc. But why
should you imagine that the person
to whom you are talking will be ST.
lent about that which you promised
TO keep to yourself? She may forget
her promise, or may not consider it
very binding.
Then, too, when things are repeat,
ed they never lose in the telling
Something is taken from, or added
to, the original story, and if repeated
several times, it loses very often
most of its original character. The
most terrible mischief is caused by
gossips of this kind. Friends are sep.
arated, relations are estranged, quar-
rels are fomented, and bad blood" is
aroused, simply because something
said, perhaps thoughtlessly, on the
impulse of the moment, is repeated
N Y Weekly
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-14
INFLUENCE OF WOMAN.
II Brought About the Transform alton
and the Rc-Trnnsformntion of
Nelson, the Naughty.

Nelson has lived with Washing
ton family for several years, and he
has proven himself so well content
ed with his own views upon all sub
jects that he has always been upon
the point of immediate dismissal and
has always just escaped it by reason
of his genius for polishing silverware
and his elaborate politeness when
answering the doorbell.
Really, Nelson is too hard-headed
for anything" the mistress of the
mansion would say. 81 must send
him away"
"Now, mamma" her daughter
would reply, you know Nelson is
too fond of his own way to go I'M
less he wanted to, even if you did
muster up courage to discharge him"
And so instances of Nelson's calm
setting aside of all authority save
his own sweet will continued to null
tiply.
Suddenly, however, a change was
noticeable. Without warning Nelson
became meekly, even weakly affable
and yielding, even to the point OF
consulting the head of the family
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-14
COMBATING WEEDS.
Rank Growth of Useless Plants Hhs
Demonstrated the Value of
Thorough TiIIHEe.

There is no royal rtad to weedless
farming. Following are some of the
means of keeping weeds in check:
1. Practice rotation; keep ahead of
the weeds. Certain weeds follow GER
tain crops; when these weeds become
serions, change the crop.
2. Change the method of tillage. If
a weed persists, try deeper or shall
lower blowing, or different kind of
harrow or cultivator, or till at differ
ent times and seasons.
3. Harrow the land frequently when
it is in fallow, or is waiting for
crop. Harrow it, if possible, after
seeding, and before the plants are
high enough to be broken by the i'm
plement. Potatoes, corn and other
things can be narrowed after they
are several inches high; and some
times the land may be narrowed be-
fore the plants are up.
4. Practice frequent tillage with
light surface working tools through
out the season. This is hard on
weeds, and does the crop good.
5. Pull or hoe out stray weeds that
escape the wheel tools.
6. Clean the land as soon as the
crop is harvested, and if the land
lies open in the fall till it OCCASION
ally. Many persons keep their prem
ises scrupulously clean in the early
season, but let them run wild late in
the fall, and thus is the land seeded
for the following year.
Use clean seed, particularly of
crops that are sown broadcast, and
which, therefore, do not admit of till
lage.
s. Do not let the weeds go to seed
on the manure piles, in the fence cor
ners, and along the highway.
o. Avoid coarse and raw stable ma
nure, particularly if it is suspected
of harboring bad company CONNER
cial fertilizers may be used for a
time on foul land.
10. Sheep and pigs sometimes can
be employed to clean the weeds from
foul and fallow land. Land infested
with Jerusalem artichokes is readily
cleaned if hogs are turned in
IL. Induce your neighbor to keep
his land as clean as you keep yours
Rank pigweeds and their ilk are a
compliment TO n mans soil. Land
that will not grow weeds will not
grow crops, for crops are only those
particular kinds of weeds man
wants to raise. Weeds have taught
us the lesson of good tillage. There
Is no indication that they intend to
remit their efforts IN our BEHALF
L. II. Daley, in Principles of vegeta
bile Gardening,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-14
IDEAL SPRAY WAGON.
1t Has Been In Successful Operation
for Several Years In n Large
Apple Orchard.

Insects and fungus diseases have
become so numerous their destruc-
tion or prevention is absolutely nee
essary if a high grade fruit of any
kind is to be produced. This can be
done largely by spraying, and this
practice is now generally regarded as
essential by the more successful
fruit growers. There are many kinds
of spraying machinery on the mar
ket, from large power machines down
to small hand or force pumps. For
the small power, the knapsack spray
ing machine is most satisfactory; the
commercial grower needs large
wagon and other material for doing
the work on an extensive scale. The
numerous illustrated spraying ma
chine catalogues can suit the wants
of anyone as to machinery and equip
ments.
The spray wagon portrayed here
with is in use in one of the largest
apple orchards of the country. The
tank is of IA Inch pine, grooved and
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-14

ORCHARD SPRAYING OUTFIT.
put together with white lead to he
water-tight. 1t is 12 feet by 10 by 80
inches and holds 300 gallons, being
held together by six hardwood
bands, 2x2h inches on top and under
bottom, which are bolted together by
long bolts running up the outside of
any tank. The manhole in top is
large enough to admit boy to clean
the tank thoroughly. The so-called
drivers seat is used as support for
the pump, the driver standing just in
rear and doing all the pumping as
well as driving the team.
The platform is 6X7 feet, supported
by four standards feet by 10 inches,
of ia inch hard pine. The cut shows
how the platform is made. A broad
tired wagon should be used, as plowed
orchard fields can be traversed more
easily. Two leads of one-half-inch
rubber hose, each 25 feet long and
supported on bamboo fishing poles,
are used. By using Y on each lead,
two nozzles on each pipe will hasten
the work. An agitator may be kept
at work in the tank by means of
sprocket wheels and chain attached
to the spokes of the rear wheel The
forward end of the tank should set
a little lower than the rear, that the
pump may pump it more nearly dry.
Farm and Home.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-14
SOME WONDERFUL CROPS IN
WESTERN CANADA.
|rhe Territorial Government Reports
show Results Deyond Relief.

Regina, Assineboia, Canada, January
soth.-At the Agricultural Statistics
Branch Of the Department of Agricul-
Lure for the Territories, reports are
how being received from grain thresh-
krs throughout the Territories, for
ibtatistical purposes. The reports are
somewhat delayed this year, owing to
the extensive crop and the delay in
getting it threshed. The Department
bf Agriculture is leading the way in
new departure, with regard to the
collection of crop statistics. In the
lfplder provinces, crop estimates are
based entirely on the opinion of per-
sons interested in the grain business
who ought to be, and no doubt are,
Ilwefl posted upon the probable yields.
Still the reports are simply n matter
1of opinion, in which mistake may
ieasily be made. The Territorial De-
fpartment, however, has adopted the
isystem of returns Of crops actually
threshed, upon which to base their
reports. The accuracy of the reports
.kcannot, therefore, be gainsaid, for
they represent compilation of actual
Ithreshing results. In this connection,
lit might be mentioned that the De-
Ipartment is organizing a system of
Ggrowing crop returns, which will be in
Operation next summer. The infor-
mation thus obtained, with estimated
iacreage, will be available for business
ksmen, banks, railway companies, and
tothe er interests which have to discount
Ithe' future in making provision for the
lconduct of their business.
The crop reports already to hand
yshow some remarkable cases of alb
normal development. In the Regina
district, many returns are given of
kcrops of wheat running from 40 to 45
bushels to the acre.
J. A. Smell, of Yorkton, threshed
t2s, 900 bushels of oats from 450 acres,
an average of 63 bushels per acre for a
elarge acreage.
W. r. Motherwell, of Abernethy,
3threshed 1850 bushels OF wheat from
ia 80 acre field, an average of SO BUSH
els per acre.
In the Edmonton district, T. T.
Hutchings threshed 72s bushels of
wheat from a ten-acre plot, an average
of nearly 73 bushels per acre.
6. Norman threshed $3.50 bushels of
J oats from GO acres of land, an average
of 116 bushels per acre.
The publication of the actual yields
of grain threshed will likely open the
eyes of the people to the great capabil-
ities of the western Canadian prairies.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-03-14
Rest Medicine for Children.

Happiness is the best medicine for
children, says the Ledger Monthly.
Try TO make your little ones happy;
impose, no burdens on them; see that
they have opportunity for active,
outdoor sports; play with them your
self; tell them stories; take them to
see some of the wonderful sights of
the city-and almost anything is
wonderful and full of interest to
children; give them plenty of plain.
simple, well-cooked food; put them
to bed early; let them sleep till they
wake up, and dress them with an eye
single to their comfort, and you will
probably have little occasion for doc.
tors stuff.