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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-09-01
IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE.

-Furness. Eng, Sept. 1.-The
autumn conference OF the Iron and Steel
Institute opened here today under the
presidency OF Andrew Carnegie.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-09-01
FOR SERVICES RENDERED.

Jachlm 1llineworth. has brought suit
against the Ready Bits corporation 10
recover $500 Plaintiffs claim is for SER
vices rendered and labor performed.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-09-01
On Real Estate 1t Was $2,715,6O0,
and on Personal Property $79,-
94O-The City'S Additional Rev.
enue Will Be $145,062.91.

The valuation and city of Providence
year has been completed by the shows
gain last in both real and holdings The
gain the valuation The holdings
for just completed The gain
has been marked for the show
the increase last year is only $4,000.
The total gain both property and real
$a,7es4o thus yielding gain in of SI4soe3e1.
form follows:
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-09-01
INC COMPANIES.

VI. Freez. a C. Stor 100 ....
r., +. r. & n. s. b. 100 ...
do. IS ............ 1000 ...
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
CoMMERCIAL-APPEAL NOTES.

Every town in the country seems to
be bowling about its streets.
The charters of the towns OF Tennes-
see now look like an assortment of
rags and old iron.
The postoffice scandal has reached
the typewriter stage. Fit mixes things
with the typewriter girls its finish is in
sight.
What right had Grover Cleveland to
tackle the negro question, and Uncle
Hank Watterson so nervous, too.
The presents at the VanderbiIt-Neil-
son wedding were worth $500, 0OO
Know all men by these presents that
the marriage was not failure.
We trust that young Vanderbilt and
Miss Nelson are safely married. 1t
would be very trying on our nerves to
have to go through this ordeal again.
An American girl has become the
Baroness Andre de Neufize. We
should hardly have imagined that a
name like Newfies could have been
made to look so mayonnaise as all that.
Whatever may be said of old Grover,
and much has been said and much will
be said of him, he is listened to when
he speaks and he is always worth lis
tening to. His views on the race ques.
ton are characteristic.
If that Pana, ILL.,, girl who wants
~, 500 for being huggard will send us
her photograph and lock of her hail
we will tell her whether or not it is
worth the money. We might even
raise the bid. -Hardeman Free Press
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
Dizzy?
Appetite poor? Bowels con-
stipated? It's your liver |
Ayers Pills are liver pills.

Prosperity strikes" is the very sig
nifcant designation Of New York
York newspaper for the strikers on
April 1, when when several hundred
workingmen stopped work because
their demands for higher wages were
refused. The working men are simply
striking for some of the prosperity
which the trusts and monopolies have
been enjoying for several years. The
workingmen along with the rest of us,
have been paying the high prices and
rates which have made the trusts and
railroads prosperous, and they are now
asking for their share of prosperity. AS
a matter of fast it will take an increase
of 40 per cent. in money wages to put
real wages as high as they were in 1897,
for, according to Dun's tables of prices
the cost Of living is 40 per cent. higher
now than in 1897. Yet We call this
prosperity.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
WATAUGA NEWS.

Watauga, Tenn, April 22.-Rev. d.
F. Wyrick filed his regular appoint
ment here last Sunday morning.
Rev. M. b. Upchurch has an appoint
ment to preach here next Saturday.
@. R. Howe, of Boston, ok-keeper
for Beggs and Cobb, arrived here yes
terday.
T. R. Brown, head carpenter, with
his family, arrived here yesterday, and
as soon as the weather is favorable
work will be rushed on the tannery.
Robert Gross and William Latture,
of Sullivan, were here yesterday to ar
range to log the Webb Taylor timber
of which there is estimated to be $500,
900 feet.
James P. Slagle returned yesterday
from a visit to his brother at Jones.
boro.
S. D. Ramsey, of Piney Flats, is here
today on business.
DR.. E. o. Guerrant, of Wilmore,
KY, preached his last sermon at Licl
Greek church yesterday. A large anG
happy crowd we're in attendance. AT
/
ter the benediction the large Grove
arranged themselves in front of thu
church, and William Wolfe, OF Piney
Flats, took a picture of the crowd an(
the church.
Bro. and Sister Parmalee, who hav'
charge of the Mission under the direc
ton of the Presbyterian church, viii
continue the work.
DR.. H. l.. Campbell is running hi
crusher regardless Of the unfavorabl
weather, and the demand for rock i
greater than the supply.
James st. John left yesterday morn
ing with drove of young cattle for tn
blue grass pastures of Virginia.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
Question of Big Families.

New York, April 1.-THE Western
New York Old Maids Convention open
ed yesterday in the village of Pittsford,
says Rochester dispatch to the Her.
aid. Miss Amelia Higginson, president,
in her opening address said;
president Roosevelt believes in the
rearing of large families. He has a
right to his opinion, but when he places
childlessness in the same category with
criminal acts he goes too far. The
President is thu father of what we
Americans call large family. He is
not the mother of large family. We
have heard nothing of race suicide from
the mothers of America and we never
shall. Let the President grapple with
the trusts, the tariff and the coming
elections. They are more in his line.
He can safely leave the question of
babies in the hands of the women of
this great republic. :"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
Frazier Refuses the Salary Grab.

Governor Frazier refuses to receive
the 81, 900 additional to his salary, in
Guided in the appropriation bill for the
Governors expenses. He took the po-
sition that he was elected on the pres
ent salary of $4,000, and could not af-
ford to take any more. Good for Fra
zier-he will do for Governor again.
The State should either increase the
salary or build governors mansion.
But Governor Frazier was right in
principle and the position he took in
having the item stricken out.
This is pointer for some people.
No man should accept an increased sal
airy after he is elected on fixed salary
which he has acquiesced in by accept
ing the Office, and the Governor has
given an example from which some
people may prosper.
We say, hurrah for Frazier He is {
man of Brains, honesty and discretion
and will do to tie to on all occasions
The people always know just where t.
find such a man, and what he stands
for. The public interest is always SAFE
in his hands.
A man who won't take things lik,
this for himself when thrown at him, il
not going to rob the people for som,
other fellow GAINESVILLE Leaf Chron
| icla
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
The Governors Staff.

The staff Of Gov. Frazier, as officially
announced by him, is made up as fol.
lows:
Chief of staff-Adjt. Gen. Harvey H,
Hannah.
Inspector General-L. D. Tyson Of
Knoxville.
Commissary Geueral-J. Fl. Hard
wick OF Cleveland.
Judge Advocate L. L. Mount
castle Of Morristown.
Surgeon General r.. L. Fort O
Nashville.
Col. H. @. Alexander, Union City.
Col. H. H. Gouchenour, Greeneville
Col. s. l.. King, Bristol.
Col. w. Il. Gass, Knoxville.
Col. Geo. f. Milton, Knoxville.
Col. M. W. Mcguire, Chattanooga.
Col. j. L. Dibrell, Bon Air.
Col. N. G. Robertson, Lebanon.
Col. Harris Brown, Gallatin.
Col. d. Hancock, Murfreesboro.
Col. j. J. Jones, Fayetteville.
Col. e. A. Price, Nashville.
Col. Austin Peay, Olarksville.
Col. L. NJ. Bufford, Franklin.
Col. W. X. Alternately, Selmer.
Col. Leon Carraway, Big Sandy.
Col. Roy s. Martin, Martin.
Col, Walter Bell, Bells.
Col. Gus Fitzhugh, Memphis.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
Cures Blood Poison. Cancer. Ulcers.

If you have offensive pimples or erup-
tions, ulcers on any part of the body,
aching bones or joints, falling hair,
mucous patches, swollen glands, skin
itches, burns, sore lips or gums, eating
fostering sores, sharp gnawing pains,
then you suffer from serious blood poi
son or the beginnings of deadly cancer.
You may be permanently cured by TAX
ing Botanic Blood Balm (B b b made
especially to cure the worst blood and
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and pains aud reduces all swelllngs.
Botanic Blood Balm cures all malignant
blood troubles, such as eczema, scabs
and scales, pimples, running sores, car
buncles, scrofula. Druggists, 81. TO
prove it cures, sample of Blood Balm
sent free and prepaid by writing Blood
Balm Co, Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble
and free advice sent in sealed letter.
For sale by Fl. G. Miller.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
Bob and Alf's Future.

81 do not believe that former Gov.
Robert L. Taylor cares near as much
for Senatorial honors as some people
appear to think he does" said Mr.. Ed
F. Willis, of Chattanooga at the Gas
ton today.
"Gov. Taylor never had any too
much money as long as he was in poll
tics. He has made more in the last
few years lecturing than he ever would
have made III any kind of Office. He
now owns one of the prettiest homes in
East Tennessee, and in addition to that
he has other very valuable property.
The governor recently told me that he
intended to keep on lecturing and de-
voting his attention to his private bust
ness. therefore do not believe that
the Senatorial lion isroaring very loud
in the vicinity of Tennessee's band
some and witty statesman.
''The Hon. Alfred A. Taylor is also
out of politics and is making money
both by lecturing and by farming. He
owns fertile farm near johnson City
and he resides on it, preferring that
quiet life among his native hills to the
more snowy life in the city. Heknows
how to SOW and he knows how to
gather the harvest, and he does not
hesitate to do either. Col. Taylor
made more than 81, 900 last summer of
a ten-acre patch of watermelon He
told me that he did most of the cult
waiting Of these melons himself p
Memphis Scimitar.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
The Granting of Franchises.

There is evidence in plenty that
cities and counties should be very
guarded in the matter of granting fran
chises to individuals or corporations.
This is the age Of combines, the hey
day of monopoly. The great problem
with capital is the cutting down of
competition. If competition is de-
stroyed, the public is placed at the
mercy of monopoly. Had cities and
counties thirty years ago adopted the
plan of safeguarding the public as it
should be, they would have stipulated
in every franchise that the rights and
privileges granted should not be trans
ferred without the sanction of the
grantor, much of the combining that
has been and is still being accomplished
by corporations dealing in quasi.public
utilities, would have been impossible.
Competition would have been assured,
or franchises would have reverted to
the power that gave them.
This country has never yet produced
benevolent monopoly. Such q pro-
duction may be possible, but we have
not learned the art of creating it. Once
competition is destroyed, the people
have no recourse except through the
courts, and that is tedious, expensive
and uncertain route to relief. The Sc
curing Of this competition rests almost
exclusively with the cities and counties
which have the power to either sell OF
give away franchises.
A few lines inserted into franchise
sometimes means great deal to the
people. In granting franchises 10
water works, gas plants, electric light
plants, telephone companies and such
like, every city should reserve the
right to at any time purchase the plant,
or plants, at an appraised valuation.
Every franchise granted to street
railway company should contain pro.
vision preventing the beneficiary from
transferring it without the consent Of
the grantor. If such precautions were
taken at all times by city councils, the
people would be protected against mo
nopoly. When franchises are granted
with free hand aud without thought
for the future, we may expect to be a.
the mercy of monopoly or extortioI
sooner or later. Chattanooga News.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

Mr.. Cleveland thoroughly under
stands the race question at the South,
as his speech, delivered last night in
New York, amply shows. He declared
that the South's feelings must be re.
spected in this matter, and expressed
the conviction and belief that the re-
sponsible people of this section fully
appreciated the seriousness of the prob
lem and would finally settle it right.
Speaking to his northern audience he
said: Labor as we will, those who do
the lifting of the weight must be those
who stand next to it," That is phi
losophy which every schooiboy under
stands. We feel like lifting our hat to
Grover Cleveland &C Chattanooga News
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
Johnson City, Tenn.
Registration Notice.

Having been requested by the Board
of Mayor and Aldermen of the town of
johnson City to hold three days sup
Elemental Registration for the bond
election, which will be held May 26,
1903, notice is hereby given that the
registration books will open for regis
tration of votes Saturday, Monday and
Tuesday, May 2, and s, 1908.
Every voter who has changed his
place Of residence since the date of his
last registration, or failed to register
at former registrations, must register
on one of the above dates or they will
be barred from voting in said bond
election, May Goth, 1908.
The books will be open from 8 a. m.
to 2 p. m. at the following places:
First Ward-Comet office. Regis
trars: P. Q. Miller, R. A. Wood.
Second Ward-Law Court House.
Registrars: Nj. Jackson, Folsom Beck
ner.
Third Ward-Hyder's Store. Regis
trars: Geo. Barnes, Fl. Fl. Percell
Fourth Ward-Collette Store. Reg
istrars: J. ID. Collette. Ed. Crumly.
GEO. w. WILLETT,
THAD A. Cox,
]. A. VINES,
Commissioners of Election.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

Some people are accused of being OPP
posed to bonds because their property
will not be benefited directly by the
proposed expenditure. If this is good
logic then it necessarily follows that
the reason others have for advocating
bonds is that they are to be thus bene-
fitted. That's putting self above pub
lie good and is unworthy any man.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
Million for a Model.

John Farson, of the banking house
of Farson, Leach & Co. of Chicago, Of
fers $1,000,000 for servant girl who
has the following qualifications:
She must never make an error.
She must know at a glance the likes
and dislikes of guests.
She must never sulk.
She must know her place.
She must be a good nurse, a good
cook, and good dressmaker.
She must not tell tales away from
home. New York News.
Get two of them, John; we'll take
one at the same price.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
Good Advice.

The most miserable beings in the
world are those suffering from dyspep-
STA and liver complaint. More than 70
per cent. Of the people in the United
States are afflicted with these two dis
eases and their effects, such as sour
stomach, sick headache, habitual cos
tiveness, palpitation of the heart, heart
burn, water brash, gnawing and burn
ing pains at the pit OF the stomach, yell
low skin, coated tongue and disagreed
BILE taste in the mouth, coming up OF
food after eating, low spirits, etc. &c
to your druggist and get a bottle Of
August Flower for % or 70 cents. Two
doses will relieve you. Try it,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

At mass-meet:ng of the citizens in
Knoxville last week to discuss the
bond question, Gen. ]. T. Wilder
made speech against bonds for pub
lie improvements and favored the
water works bonds because they would
be a source of revenue. Among other
things he said;
"When municipal corporations spend
more than their income they soon be-
come bankrupt. This same principle
applies to cities as we'll as private cor
porations. II town gets heavily in
deat it is soon in the same place as
business man would be in, and must
do something that would let it out of
the position.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

The man who believes that the tax
able property in Johnson City will be
increased 100000 by new buildings
erected last year has another guess
coming to him. If it reaches $25, 900 it
will be a nice showing.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

1t does not necessarily follow that
because man is opposed to bonds he
is opposed to progress any more than
II O man is not o Southern Methodist
Qike we are) he is on the road to hades.
People may went to obtain the same
end but differ honestly as to methods
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

An old maid at Pittsburg the other
day said it was all right for Roosevelt
to advocate large families, for while he
was the father OF large family, he
was not the mother of a large family.
She thought the matter could be left
to the mothers to settle. We agree
with her, but what is she bothering
about it for? If it is to be left to old
maids the race question is now settled.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

The legislature very properly makes
for city it's organic law. 1t gives it
its charter. But the pay of subordin-
ate city officers is for the people of the
city and their representatives in the
council to determine upon, not for the
legislature. Nashville American.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

The johnson City Comet says welair
the ugliest editor in Tennessee. We
don't pretend to be no Apollinaris Bel
videre, but if we was as ugly as Cy
Lyle we would go out and drown our
self in water. -Hardeman Free Press
Commercial Appeal.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

THE COMET interviewed only one cit
izen in regard to the bond issue. That
was Mr.. Geo. E. Burbage, the staff IS
interviewer. He said he picked out
men he thought would favor bonds and
out of 33 interviewed he found 81 OPP
posed to the issue.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
Oak

Timbers of oak keep the old
homestead standing through
the years. 1t pays to use the
right stuff.
Men of oak are men in
rugged health, men whose
bodies are made of the sound
est materials.
Childhood is the time to lay
the foundation for a sturdy con
stitution that will last for years.
SCOTS Emulsion is the right
stuff.
SCOTS Emulsion stimulates
the growingpowers of children,
helps them build firm
foundation for a sturdy consti-
tuition.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

The penitentiary committee did not
whitewash the trees cut by John Davis
they we're not there. The Comet.
Yes; but they did pretty fair Job
by the stumps. You will observe that
John stands beautiful chance, under
the committees report, of getting from
under with healthy bunch of Uncle
Sans promises to pay in his inside
pocket Chattanooga Times.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

A representative OF Standard OIL is
quoted as saying that while no agree
ment concerning future dividends has
been arrived at, it is likely they will
be larger this year than last. The COM
pany spent $25, 10000 last year out Of
earnings for new developments.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

The members of the anti-race suicide
club recently formed at the Columbia
Law School with the avowed purpose
of raising large families may have to
prove an alibi before they can get
married.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

The LaFollette Courier man, having
courageously announced that he is run
ming his paper for God, and not trying
to please the people" Oy Lyle opines
that he will find mama" very scarce
article to expect these days inpay for
subscription. Just how Cy comes to
know all about it does appear, as he
was never accused OF running THE
COMET along the lines of the Courier,
Chattanooga Times.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

The law authorizing the bond issue
requires special tax levy to be made
to pay interest and after five years an
additional special levy for the sinking
fund.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

Music as a cure for disease is the
newest fad. AS q cause of disease
would-be musicians have been howl
ing success for ages.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
REMOVAL

April 18th to 10th | will move
from my present location to
the building now occupied by
Geo. r. Brown, where I will
continue to serve the patrons
Of the Lee House with the best
the market affords. y y y y
w. C. LEE
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

Bryan's criticism Of Grover Cleve-
land is doing Bryan no good. He is
simply weakening the opposition to
Old Grover.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

THE COMET is not alone in its oppo-
sition to bonds. The sentiment is now
about to / against the issue and stead
lily growing.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

The man who can not rise above self
interest in considering the bond ques-
ton is not worthy to be a citizen OF
Johnson City.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

If he continues to hammer away he
will soon be known as Colonel Henry
Swatterson Washington Post.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

The bond advocates might have a
viva voce vote and hold some in line.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
I'LL HunOrS

Are impure matters which the skin,
liver, kidneys and other organs can
not take care of without help, there is
such an accumulation of them.
They litter the whole system.
Pimples, boils, eczema and other
eruptions, loss of appetite, that tired
feeling, bilious turns, fits Of indiges-
ton, dull headaches and many other
troubles are due to them.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
Hoods JGrSGpGriLLG
and Pills

Remove all humors, overcome all
their effects, strengthen, tone and
invigorate the whole system.
~ had salt rheum on my hands so that I
could not work. took Hoods sarsaparilla
and 1t drove out the humor. continued
its use till the sores disappeared" MRS.
IRA o. BROWN, Rumiord Falls, Me.
Hoods SarsaparlIIa promises to
cure and keeps the promise.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23

Johnson City will continue to grow
after this bond fever is cured and for.
gotten.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-04-23
Send for free sample.

SCOTT g. BOVINE. Chemists.
4O9-4t5 Pearl Street, New York.
SOC. and Si.Oo; all druggists.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-28

Monday afternoon a man named
Warner. who is In the employ Of the
Curtis Lumber Company. al their Ber.
ry camp. received an injury while
telling a tree. Just a. the tree start
ed 10 fan a limb struck the unfOTtu.
nate man ON tho head. causing a very
severe injury. He was brought 10
this city on the evening train and
placed In the Neeland hospital, where
DR. Davis attended him. His Injuries
may prove serious.
Eugene Mist was the second unfoT.
tunate man who was injured A
short time after the train passed the
camp at Berry. where be- was also
working. a tree or limb fell on him.
fracturing one limb and Otherwise TO-
luring him A special train vas sent
back 70 berry last evening. arriving
in that city shortly after 10 O'Clock.