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Evidence To the Contrary.

Brakeman-Haven't you sold any
thing to that bridal couple back there?
Train Boy-Nawl That amt no
bridal couple. Just before we struck
the tunnel the feller got up an went to
the other end of the car to get a drink
of water. - Chicago Tribune.
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One On the Judge.

HIS Honor-I'm going to make an
example of you by committing you as
"a nuisance.
Tired Tatters-Youse dassent, Jedge.
His Honor-Why not?
Tired Tatters-'Cause its agin de law
ter commit er nuisance. OATS why
Chicago News.
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Cigarettes To Music.

First Doupe-Have you seen the
new cigarette music box?
Second Doupe-No; what is it?
First Doupe-Every time you put 10
cents in the slot you get a pack Of
cigarettes and the machine plays
Nearer, my God, to Thee. New York
Sun.
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A Demonstration of What Chamberlain's Collie
Cholera and Diarrhpa Remedy Can Do.

zone of our customers, highly re-
spected citizen of this place, had been
for ten years a sufferer from chronic
diarrh@a," writes Walden & Martin,
druggists, Enterprise, Ala. "He had
used various patent preparations and
been treated by physicians without any
permanent benefit, A few months ago
he commenced taking Chamberlain $
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy
and in short time was entirely cured.
Many citizens of Enterprise who know
the gentleman will testify to the truth
fulness of this statement. For sale by
all druggists.
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UNANIMOUS.
Popular Opinion in johnson
City is Voiced by EIeetri-
Cidn L. S. Jones.


City is Voiced by EIectri-
cidn L. S. Jones.
Many business men
Mechanical experts
Skilled workmen
Clergymen
Day laborers
Professional men
Men in every walk in life
Endorse Doan's Kidney Pills
And tell of cures
All men of high reputation
Small wonder that johnson City be-
lieves in them.
Read the following case:
L. S. Jones, electrician, 20 years a
resident f Johnson City, now living
on King street. says: "My belief in
Doan's Kidney Pills as a remedy of
rare virtue was based upon personal
experience. They were used by my
self and wife for backache and other
results Of kidney disorders with the
utmost benefit. / have bought them
frequently at the store of Patton Drug
Co, aud l do not hesitate to recon-
mend them as worthy of trial by all
sufferers Of backaches and other kid.
ney troubles for know that they can
be relied upon.
For sale by all dealers. Price 90
cents. Foster -Milburn CO., Buffalo,
N. Y, sole agents for the United
States. Remember the name-Doan's
and take no substitute.
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A Sweet Breath

Is never failing sign of healthy
stomach. When the breath is bad the
stomach is out of order. There is no
remedy in the world equal to Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure for curing indigestion,
dyspepsia and all stomach disorders.
Mrs. Mary S. Crick, of White Plains,
KY, writes: 'I have been dyspeptic
for years tried all kinds of remedies,
but continued to grow worse. By the
use of Kodol began to improve at
once, and after taking few bottles am
fully restored in weight, health and
strength and can eat whatever I like.
KOdol digests what you eat and makes
the stomach sweet. H. G. Miller.
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Cheap Homes in Texas and Arkansas.

Along the Cotton Belt Route-land
that can be bought for SO to $5 an acre
and up-cut-over timber ground that
makes good grazing land, furnishing
range ten or eleven months of the year
farming land for corn, wheat, oats,
cotton-some of it peculiarly adapted
to quick growth and early maturity of
fruits and vegetable, such as peaches,
pears, plums, strawberries, tomatoes,
potatoes, onions, cabbage, melons
finding good markets in the north at
fancy prices, on account of excellence
OF quality and earlier maturity than in
other sections. An ideal place for
the man of small means cheap fuel,
cheap building material, long growing
seasons, short, mild winters-a land of
sunshine and plenty. Let us send you
literature descriptive of this country.
"Homesin the Southwest, F." "Glimp-
ses of Southeast Missouri, Arkansas
and N. W. Louisiana" Through
Texas with a Camera" Fortunes in
Growing Fruits and Vegetables, I"
"The Diversier," a fruit and truck
growers journal.
On first and third Tuesdays of each
month the Cotton Belt Route will sell
one-way tickets from ST. Louis, Thebes
Cairo and Memphis, to points in Ar
kansas, Louisiana and Texas, at half
the one-way rate plus $500, or round
trip tickets at one fare for the round
trip plus $500, allowing stop-over 60
ing, and 81 days return limit.
For full information, address,
E, W. LABEAUME,
G. P. & T. A.,
st. Louis. Mo.
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hundred years ago? Are not the toes
the extremities of the body? Then if
we are living in the toes of this image
which without doubt means the last
earthly kings and kingdoms; what
shall we expect next? We will let the
people answer.
ITO RE CnNTINI1Enl
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A Prominent Minister Recommends Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and DiarrhGa Remedy

Rev. Francis J. Davidson, pastor of
the st. Matthew Baptist church and
president of the Third District Baptist
Association, 2731 Second St., New Or
leans, writes as follows: II have used
Cham berlain's Collie, Cholera and Di-
arrhma Remedy for cramps and pains
in the stomach and found it excellent.
1t is in fact the best cramp and collie
remedy / have ever used. Also several
OF my parishioners have used it with
equally satisfactory results" For sale
by all druggists.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-30

It's the little colds that grow into big
colds; the big colds that end in con-
sumption and death. Watch the little
colds. DR.. Wood'sNorway Pine Syrup.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-30

Americans now own the Canadian
Northwest, said Canada's Minister of
the Interior in a speech to delegates
from the London Chamber of Com
merce.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-30

1t is estimated persons seeking di-
vorce in South Dakota spend, while
gaining residence for that purpose,
5000, 900 a year.
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" N y mhS
G. P. & T. A.,
st. Louis, Mo.

The Deforest Wireless Telegraph
Company will establish a station on
Cape Flattery, near Seattle, and cor
respondent station in Japan.
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Shake Into Your Shoes

Aliens Foot Ease. 1t rests the feet.
Cures corns, bunions, ingrowing nails,
swollen and sweating feet Atall drug
gists, Csc. Ask today.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-30

The French Admiralty will build a
submarine boat larger than any hither-
to attempted. 1t will be 160 feet long,
of 800 tons burden and will cost $3.50,
900.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-30

Mr.. J. Pierpont Morgan was quoted
at SO yesterday, and going higher
Boston Herald.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-30
Well He Might.

A Pole by the name of Whisky,
Remarkably fond of his whisky,
With corkscrew at four
Tried to open his door
And cried; "Wash re matter wi zis
key?'
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-30

AS far as the shape of the skirt is
concerned the clinging effects at the
hips is still adhered to, also the becom-
ing and generous fare toward the bot
tom and good models seem to be pre-
ferred. Panel fronts are also liked, as
they give height to the figure. and at
the sides and back one or two narrow
shaped founces are seen, which not
only add very much to the appearance
of the skirt but serve to emphasize the
panel front. All the new skirts, in
what ever manner they are cut and
trimmed have one tendency; TO make
the figure as sylpo-like as possible
above the knees and as fluffy and full
as possible below.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-30

medicine tested and tried for
years. Adoctor's medicine. \
al owe my life, without doubt, to Ayers
Sarsaparilla. Il is the most wonderful medi. q
cine In the world for nervousness. My eureis
permanent, and cannot thank you enough" u
MRS. DELLA MoWELL, Newark, Nj.
gl.O0 bottle. 80. AVER Co., n
Al SEaEsisss: Es..-s.. for lowell Mass
Poor Health |
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Laxative doses of Ayers Pills each
night greatly aid the Sarsaparilia.
j. H. PREAS, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
0fIln4-- Rooms /, ?, 3, second floor, building
vHV' opposite Post Once.
Residence ,MIrard Street
iphnnne ONCE Namber l0s.
EnVlVS Residence Number III
II 5. Miller. Jr. =. D W Miller N. d
DRs MILLER,
Physicians and Surgeons.
Office Rooms sand Opera House Building
Hours 7 to Sa m, IL to 7p m, to Sp m,
DR.. + S. Miiier's residence-King street
Or w J. Miller's residence Watauga avenus
near Roam street.
DR.. j. w. COX,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Johnson City, Tennessee.
Office, over /. N. Beckner.
Residence, F. M. George property, OF
Wilbourn street
Office phone 70. Residence G3.
&c. REEVES LEROY REEVES
REEVES g. REEVES,
Attorneys and Solicitors,
Johnson City, Tenn.
". Kirkpatrick. $ C. Williams ]. H. Bowman
Kirkpatrick, Williams 6 Bowman,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW AMI
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY
johnson City. Tennessee.
THAD. A. COX,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW AND
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERy
Special attention to abstracts and titles.
Office, No. 240 Main Street.
s. Fl. MILLER
ATTORNEY AT Law
and Solicitor in Chancory,
JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE
Special attention to Collections.
ROBT. BURROW,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW AND
SOLICITOR IN CHANGER
Johnson City, Tennessee.
VIII practice IN the Law and Chaucery Cou
Of the counties Of Washington, Sullivan,
Carter Johnson and Unicoi.
objections made anywhere in East Tennessee
CITY BARBER SHOP.
Run by 6rst-class white workmen. We wa
and are trying to Elevate the Barber Profe
sion in Johnson City, Come and see US.
PatronIze your own Color
and help those that are deserving OF your pa
'ouage Yours respectfully,
Russell B. Walden. Prop,
Corner Main aud Buffalo Streets.
e. A. LONG, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
OFFICE: Rooms !, 2,8, ]. d. Cox Bull
ing, Public Square.
RESIDENCE: WALNUT ST.
Phones: Residence, 81.
Mat P. Taylor, Jr.,
CIVIL ENGINEER And CRAFTSMAN,
JOHNSON CITY, TENN.
M-OFFICE: over Tennessee Furniture a
Supply Co Main street
Central RaYhaY ShOD
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-11
AN 1xThnxnrING ss4UArIOx.

The cattle business is said to be very bad in the West. A representative of the cattle industry in southwestern Kansas says that the business is lat a standstill." He adds: "The business is stagnant. and there seems to be little probability of improvement. The cat tlemen are almost broke. and. unless conditions change within a year, the business will be ruined in our part of the country. I do not know the cause. Some say it is due to the packing com bine, and others say natural conditions. Nobody wants more cattle. The raisers would like to be rid of those they have, even if they are compelled to sacrifice little money. The prospect is very gloomy and I do not know what the end will be-"
 This being so, the Bridgeport Stand ard respectfully inquiries why consum- CTS of beef don't get some reduction in price. We suppose it is because they are consumers.
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P0SSIBLE.

Edyth-"George says he can't under" stand why I accepted him" Mayme- George isn't like other people" Edyth -"Why, what do you mean?" Mayme -"Other people can't understand why he proposed. .'AChicage Daily News.
 Nurse-"You'd better not go out of the house after dark again, Johnny. The bears might get you, Brokers Son Huh. | ain't afraid of 'ern. My pa says it's the bulls what are making the trouble now."-Cincinnat TimesStar.
 Great activity in Idunno mining stock today" You don't say so!' Yeah. Bill Sykes took forty thousand shares and eight dollars cash for that horse he was askin' twenty dollars for yester- day" Well, he made eight dollars on the deal, nyway."-Judge.
 Count Nottapenni-"Las'n night giva ze leetle heent to Miss .Roxley zat l would like she should marry wiz me" Ascunl-"And did sine give you any en- couragement?" Count Nottapenni-~T do not know. She simply say to me. What kinda ze nerve food do you use?' Philadelphia Press.
 q am always glad to have you play with Johnny Upjohn. He is good lit- tie boy, and know you won't get into mischief when you are with him. What were you playing, Tommy" Bandits, mamma. He was murderer in cave, and I was a detective, and we were shootin' at each other with wooden p1Ins "-Chicopo Tribune
 Van Antler Entertaining Witherby at his country home)-'Now, old man, if you should happen to want anything in the night, just touch this bell" Wither- by-"Never! I know how hard it is to keep servants in the country. Catch me touching that bell!" Van Antler-"But I assure you, you are perfectly safe. The bell doesn't work. Life.
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stirring time. They kill a pig every second, no doubt, in Chicago nowadays, but that is mere mechanical routine, with no quality of sport in it..
 There was nothing so very slow about the country winter in days as late as the civil war. I suppose sOap-making as a domestic industry is as dead as household spinning. In those times of wood fires and wood ashes all self-re- specting families made soap. Our fam lily had an outstanding kitchen express ly for that use, with a big cistern-like hogshead behind it. in which ashes were leached, and convenient tubs for hold ing the soft soap. A very handsome substance is soft soap of the proper con- sistency and complexion, and a pleasing exercise it used to be for the young to str it with q stick and watch it's undu- lations. All the superfiuous fat of meat from our kitchen was turned into soft soap in those nearby old times.-Har- per's Magazine.
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sitlon. The feeling among the Califor- mia fruit growers is that eastern capi- tai will be invested in Cuban orchards of various kinds for the purpose of supplying the eastern trade in oranges, lemons, pears and other fruits for which the southern part of the Pacific coast is famous. It is true that the Cuban treaty is to run for only five years, but with the present tendency toward reciprocity and lower duties, it is the general belief that the Cuban ar engagement will be extended without great difficulty. This would have the effect of practically perpetuating the treaty and creating a permanent rival of California in competition for the fruit trade of the East.
 Then there is the bill to reduce the Philippine tariff. A western man in Washington says: "The passage of the bill reducing the duty on Philippine inn ports to g per cent. of the Dingley rates instead of 75 per cent. as at pres ent, would be the finishing stroke for the Republican party in California. I do not hesitate to say that it would lose the State to the Republican party i'll the presidential elction of 1904. There never was time when Indiana and New York were more doubtful states than California is to-day. We are en- deavoring to impress these facts on the President in the hope of inducing him to postpone this legislation for year at least"
 So it will not be astonishing if the Philippine bill is 'side-tracked for this session. We must have California.
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THE FARMER IN WINTER TIME.
Chief Occupations are Feeding the
 Stock and Keeping Warm.

Chief Occupations are Feeding the
 Stock and Keeping Warm.
 The great steady winter jobs on an American farm in the north nowadays are feeding the stock and keeping warm. And keeping warm nowadays means hauling coal. When lived in the coun- try it meant cutting wood. It meant for our large family constant teaming day after day from the woods to the wood- yard and a woodpile that must have covered quarter of an acre. It meant, toward spring, the coming of men with a horsepower and buzz-saw to cut fire wood, and that was almost as interest ing an operation as threshing.
 There were other stirring days when the lake had frozen hard and the ice house was filled, involving ice cutting, and more teaming, and more precarious hitching on behind loads and going back in empties. And early in the win- ter there was the momentous and gory killing of pigs Oh, that was indeed a
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-11
SOME BIG FIGURES.

The people of this country who feel poor may not be able to take much solid comfort in the fact that measured by the condition of their banks, as reveal ed by the annual report of the comp troller of the currency, which has just been issued. the American people were never. on the whole so rich. so pro- gressive and so prosperous as at pres ent, but it is large fact just the same. The comptroller estimates that there are about 1S,O0O banking institutions of all kinds doing business in the country. He received reports from 1S,6S4 of these. The aggregate capital of those reporting is $1,321, 1924, 1892, their aggregate deposits are $9, zoo, 796,047. and their aggregate resourees are s14,SO3,116,954. The aggre- gate resources of the national banks of the country increased 196,501,G53.S7 ill the year ending September g, and the aggregate resources of State, savings and private banks and trust companies increased about $61,0OO.oOO, How large a share of the total gains of the nation is falling to working people and people in moderate circumstances is indicated by the reports of the savings banks. The number of savings banks depositors in creased in the year ending September g from s,sSe,e72 to 7,OS5,22s, and the aver age credited to each depositor increased from s412,52 to $417.21. That is to say, the total savings bank deposits, so far as reported. increased from s2,750, ,177,29O to $2,s25, ,204,S45, or $1s5.027,555. And, of course, these sums lack much of being all that the poorer classes of people have accumulated in banks of all kinds.
 There is. Of course, q fly in the oint- ment. The aggregate of individual de- posits in national banks decreased with in the year $52,s4O, ,Ss4ss, but the money isn't lost.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-11
SOME OF THE DIFFICULTIES.

This is large country, and some skill as well as strenuousness is needed to govern it. For instance, the Cuban reciprocity treaty created a vast amount of dissatisfaction in California, affecting Republicans and Democrats alike. The fruit growers of that sec materially damaged by the admission of Cuban citrus fruits to this country at reduced rates of duty. They fought that section of the treaty with the greatest vigor and bitterness, opposing it to the last and long after the beet sugar men had withdrawn their oppo-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-11
Courteous Replies.

He got his big snow shovel
 And went out to clear the walk. Each friend who chaneed to see him Had to stop bit and talk. You're cleaning off the sidewalk?' The first acquaintance said. 'Why, no;" he smoothly answered,
 I'm now asleep in bed" Hello, you have to shovel!'
 Was the second friends salute. Guess not," he blithely murmured, I'm playing on a flute" You're shovelling snow, are you!
 The third man had to say. Should think you'd see," he answered I'm getting in my hay" The fourth and fifth were jolly:
 "Ah, you've got your shovel 0ut:' To each he said politely.
 No, it Is waterspout." To all the bland inauirers
 His words were calm and cool He thought that they were crazy,
 They swore he was fool. The Chicago Tribune
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-11
sEW rORK,S FOREfGNERS.

New York is a great city. The T1i- bune gives some interesting facts con- corning it's foreign population, of which Germany contributes 325,00O, Ire land comes next with 275,OO0, Russia and Italy following, each with about 150,O0O. There is hardly nationality or tribe of any magnitude on the globe which is not there represented, most of them coming to stay, and develop ing into perfectly satisfactory Star Spangled Banner patriots in the second and following generations. More than one-third of the population of New York is of foreign birth, and nearly all the nationalities represented there have newspapers printed in their respective languages. Some of these of late have given sign that all foreigners are not for Tammany, as has been generally supposed The Polish Kuryer Nowo- jovski informs it's readers that the story of the Wigwam lis briefly told. It is graft dishonesty and protection of crimes and criminals, and the can- didates of this organization are almost in every case associates and colleagues Of those they protect" It advised it's readers to vote for Mayor Low. The Bohemian journal, New Yorkski Listy, offered it's readers the same counsel, as did also the "Italian Bolletino della Sera." The Jewish World, published in Yiddish,. accuses Tammany of lying to get votes, and accumulates otaer denunciations against it. The Austro- Hungarian journal takes a like tone, and eulogizes the Low administration, contrasting it with Van Wycks, winch it deems to represent tine average TamHany standard. On the whole, Il considerable share of the foreign news papers printed in New York did thenl- selves credit during the recent cam paign, and showed that they were wor- thy and upright instructors of the con- stituencies which they address.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-11

To the memory of ''4OO.OOO horses kill ed and wounded during the South Afri- can war. 1Ss9-19O2. in cause of which they knew nothing" a drinking trough and fountain, erected by w. Tepp, has been opened at Burstow, Surrey, Eng land,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-11

A French apiculturist has been exper- imenting with bees as messengers. He has discovered that they will return to their hives from distance of four miles in about twenty minutes, bearing dis patches, after the manner of honling' pigeons. The pigeons will retrace dis tance of five hundred or even one thou sand miles, and are in little danger of being driven out of business by the busy bees.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-11

A Canadian court has just decided that a husband is responsible for what his wife says. Heavy responsibility.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-11

A Missouri farmer who wants mule has put, the following sign on a fence post in sron. of his house: Wanted Too bye a mule, fifteen hands high if you can trade come and let me SC you. Don't keer fer meeness. Kin handle any mule this syde of hell"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-11

up that he had been hired to play the game for few francs. He never got deed of the house.
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INTERFERING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent a Word each in- sertiJn; Five Cents Word for full week.
 Display advertisements, per inch. one m, sertiOn, S1.20; each subsequent insertion, 4O cents; one week, S3. 20; one month, $lO; one
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-11

A queer suit is being brought against the town of Enterprise, Kansas, by a woman living in Dickinson County. Some months ago Clark Sickes was killed by Horace Plaisted in the course of a row. Plaisted was sentenced to three years in the pemtentiary. Just before the killing Plaisted had been ar rested by the town marshal of Enter prise for some small offence. The mar shal did not eonfine him in jail, but let him go at large upon his promise to appear for trial. Now, the mother of the murdered man asks judgment of $10,00O against the town, on the ground that Plaisted should have been in cus- tody, where he could not have harmed her son.. ;.