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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23
C0MMERCIAL-APPEAL NOTES.

A Frenchman says that American
woman do not know how to walk. Pos
sibly SO; but they get there all the
same.
Sigh Lyle says that as long as we air
drunk we publish clean paper, but
just as soon we git sobler, we publish o
dirty sheet. We will leave it to our
readers, if we don't always publish a
clean paper. -Hardema Free Press.
A bill has been introduced in the
Legislator prohibiting man frum kls-
sing his wife on Sunday. We air OPP
posed to sumptuous Legislation as o
rule, but we air in favor of this here
bill, 'csuseit don't prevent us from kis-
sing some other feller's wife on Sun
day. -Hardeman Free Press.
Our observation Is, from personal ex-
perience, that whenever we git loaded,
we want to make speech again the sa-
looms or write piec to improve the
morals of the town. -Harpeman Free
Press.
The stage is going to the dogs. The
Theatrical Sindykate has offered Bob
Taylor a job on the vaudeville stage,
and it ant made on propersition to US
whatever, though as actor We have
got Bob skinner a block. Our sketch
'"The Julep and the Jag, makes ''The
Fiddle and the bow" look like drink
of creek water. - Harpeman Free Press.
An Ohio woman is charged with
cprinkling poison on mince pie she
had made for her husband. She prob
ably waited to ppt him out Of his mis-
cry at once.
The Republicans Of the Holse, thogh
voting appropriation, to pay pensions
under the famous order No. 70, declin-
ed to DECLARE the order legal, though
Mr.. Underwood, ef4.Alabama, urged
such action and offered an amendment
to that efferect.
Hearing of testimony in the Peabody
Adams gubernatorial contest at'Denver
has closed. The report of the contest
committee will he made to the 1egislat
ture in joint session on March 2, and j.
will then be determined how much
time shall be allotted for argument.
The Republicans claimed to have found
1897 bogus ballots in the Denver boxes,
but Adams, attorneys say they have es-
tablished the genuiness of A, 500 of these
ballots.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

The movement to pay the fire boys
is a step in the right direction, but the
force ought to be reduced so they will
not crowd each other. There is no
necessity of employing every person
who wants to avoid paying his street
tax.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23
Beware of 0intments for Catarlh that Contain
Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole sys-
TEN when entering it through the mucous sur
faces, Such articles should never be used ex-
cept on prescriptions from reputable physl-
clans. as the damage they will do is ten fold to
the good you can possibly derive from them
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by f. j
Cheney g. Co., Toledo, O.. contains no mercury
and is taken internally. acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces OF the system
In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you gel
the genuine. 1t is taken intel nallp and made
in Toledo, Ohio, by F. ]. Cheney Co. Testi-
monials free.
Sold by druggists, price 75c per bottle
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

Cy Lyle has explained Editor Reaves
bibulousness. Cy says that Reaves
some time ago caught bunch of those
germs the Chicago bacteriologist of the
American Society of Naturalists once
discovered had such an aversion to wa
ter that they committed suicide to es-
cape it. Reaves won't give them a
chance to suicide. Chattanooga Times.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

j. Samuel McCue, former mayor of
Charlottesville, Va, who was convicted
of the murder of his wife, was hanged
in that city Friday morning. Before
going to the gallows he made confes-
sion to his spiritual advisers, in which
he said that he alone was responsible
for the crime and that he recognized
his sentence as just.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

Senator Clay has introduced an
amendment to the postoffice appropri-
atoms bill declaring "options" in re-
straint of trade, with penalties Of not
less than 81 900 fine and imprisonment
of one to three years.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

The members Of the county court
sympathize very sincerely with their
associate, Esquire Ohas. s. Campbell,
in the death of his beloved wife.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

The Elizabethton Mountaineer has
been enlarged to an S-column folio, has
new head and is otherwise greatly
improved.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

The American says that President
Newman of New FORK Central has been
guaranteed salary of $3.50, 900 a year,
a house in New York and sumptuous
private car.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

Children used to go to school to be
taught. They now go torecite. After
awhile, if this evolution keeps up,
schools will be conducted by mail.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

This is the year we get new passen'
ger station.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

You can't expect cheap hens to lay
high-priced eggs, Raise thorough
breds.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

Good all the time, harmless always.
DIR. Fahrney's Teething Syrup for in
fants. Price 20 cents. Samples free if
you mention paper.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

Let them legislatc to keep stocking
models out of show windows. It'll
make no difference in sloppy weather.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23
TIE HedE OF F-@-'
To Nursing Mothers

There is no time in Woman's Life
when she needs strength more than when
she is nursing a Child She must sustain
the life Of two persons. We never SOLD a
remedy equal to Vinol to create such
strength. We cordially invite any weak
and rundown woman to try Vinol on our
promise to return her money If she is not
fully satisfied Isn't that fair?
Respectfully
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

The cold spell did just what we thaw
'twould do:
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

Chancellor Haynes will keep the
court he has, rather than fly to one not
yet created.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23
NEwS--ScIMITAR THOUGHTS.

Most of the evils that men do is re.
corded in the tears of women.
The swearing of Senator Mitchells
law partner interferes with itself bad
".
When the president and the senate
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

Don't get gay Winter may be only
foolin'.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

The government building will not be
butt this year, but it will come later.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-02-23

The difficulty in this section this sea-
son has been to spot the sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
WN0MEN 70 Az OHIO NEATVY
HG CffKKAMAUGA

$>'Ff|'|t - = - y ''F's''s y ''.'
had troops fighting for both north and
south. have put up monuments to both
Union and Confederate regiments,
Twenty-eght states have spent over
half million dollars on such memo I
which really comprises seven battle
pended 81 300. 900 there not including the
cost of nine structures set up in honor
of organizations OF the regular army.
"oVernment money mas
been used for the purchase of land, /
-.~ ...- ..h.o kauauAa park now em-
braces one patch of ten square miles, |
plus a number of smaller pieces, which |
are connected together by roads that |
have been ceded TO Uncle Sam by the |
state 1t is q particularly good invest |
ent. inasmuch as the field over which |
the two armies of sixty thousand men |
fought affords an admirable ground for |
practice maneuVers. AS far as prac- |
ticable the old roads used during the
battle have been preserved, and in suit |
able places observation towers, ascend |
ed by spiral stairs, have been put up. |
More than one thousand iron tablets, |
inscribed with historical data, mark the |
positions occupied by Union and Con- !
federate regiments and brigades. The |
landscape being wooded. the lines of
the opposing armies are shown by tall |
masts attached to trees with red and
White and blue and white balls at the |
tops.
Along the lines thus laid out the mon-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

uments are erected by the states, the
government furnishing, as on other
fields, the foundations, New York has
put up on Lookout mountain a shaft
seventy-eight feet high, with bronze
group twenty feet high on top of 1t,
the whole resting upon a circular base
ffty-two feet in diameter. Ohio has
fifty-siX regimental and bat
terry monuments, and, in addition, a
superb granite shaft. costing $50, 900, on
Missionary ridge. The shaft, ninety
feet in height, resembles the Washing
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

ton monument in miniature, and at the
corners of the base are four granite
statues, representing a caValryman. an
infantryman, an artilleryman and a
drummer boy Another superb memo
rial on Missionary ridge, marking Gen.
Bragg's headquarters. has been erect
ed by Illinois, at cost of S220OO 1t Is
granite shaft surmounted by bronze
statue of Victory and about the base
are statues representing the three arms
of the service.
Many states are now putting up mon
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
cHATTKS0odA IND TENNESSEE E1EE FEC4I T0A7T LOOKOUT

uments at Shiloh, particularly Indiana,
impershable structures which record
the brave deeds of those who in years
gone by fought for glory and for tree
dom.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

Cholly giving venison dlnneU-T shot
three guides, bjove before / bagged this
ueer
Unfeeling Guest-Are you quito sure
you're Serving the right animal now? This
tastes strong enough TO be guide.-Puck
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania. The
historic field is heavily wooded and
runs along the picturesque banks of the
Tennessee river. on this battlefield the
spot where any brigade commander
fell is marked with cannon and piles
of cannon balls. At Chickamauga the
same purpose is accomplished by the
erection in each case of a pyramid of
ten-inch shells. Wherever batteries
were stationed on any of the battle
fields they are represented by mounted
guns, which, whenever practicable, are
the original and veritable cannon that
were engaged in the fights.
With the exception of Gettysburg, all
of the battlefield parks are very new,
and as yet they are far from complete.
| Presumably many years will eapse
before all the monuments considered
requisite as memorials to the soldier
dead are put up by patriotic survivors.
Meanwhile the work is being actively
prosecuted and hundreds of thousands
of Americans of a younger generation
who, visiting historic fighting grounds,
are inspired with a more ardent love
of their country and more eager
desire TO serve it by contemplating the
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-04-21
A LITTLE VARIETY.

South Africa is of volcanic origin, and
the country round Kimberley is so sui
phurous that even ants cannot exist
upon it. -
For each child born to the families of
the municipal clerks in Kansas CITY the
civic authorities promise toadd five dol
lars month to the fathers salary.
Salt is luxury in Central Africa. The
long-continued use of vegetable food
creates so painful desire for salt that
natives deprived OF it for long often
show signs Of insanity. gHt',il
The common househy, in addition to
possessing pneumatic wings, has two
kinds OF eyes, one set being for ordinary
use and the other of high magnifying
power for distant objects.
Iceland produces most of the worlds
supply of eiderdown, the annual sale
amounting to something over 1000
pounds Most of this is shipped to Co
penhagen and commands from Sal to
$3.50 : mound
George S. Elgood, the English artist,
is acknowledged TO be the greatest liv-
ing painter of gardens. He has fur
nished a series of so water colors which
are said to be the best work he has ever
done, A noted operate tenor said Of
them that each one strikes high c."
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-04-21
RELATED OF INSECTS.

The eyes Of the cockroach are
almost useless organs, but it has
an extensive set Of noses, and is
warned OF the approach of an enemy
by its sense of smell.
Ants. while seeing clearly, are prac-
tically deaf No amount of noise affects
them, but their sense of smell is so
acute that when an experimenter placed
q brush soaked with patchouli near an
ants nest the insects left off working
to lie down and enjoy the scent,
The spider has as many tricks as a
fox in securing its prey, One species of
spider, on seeing marauding bird in
the vicinity shakes it's web so violently
that the bird sees only a bright tremu-
lous haze, in the midst of which the
spider is invisible. Another spider
swings his body SO fast in circle that
the bird sees only the revolving line of
light.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-04-21

poor little cottage, and was scared
when the door opened
A young woman whom knew to be
Tillie Schultz, looked at me sullenly.
Tillie was not pretty to look at. She
was short and dumpy of figure, her
skin was rough and her hair carroty.
Her pompadour was the awfullest
ever saw.
We stared at each other for awhile
and then went in without being in
vited. inquired how Mrs. Schultz was
getting along and Tillie said she
seemed little better and was now
asleep. tried to talk to Title, but it
was not easy.
Pm not to work now" said Tillie,
in answer to question. 81 left Mis-
Stoll's when ma got sick"
You'll be going back when your
mother is better, won't you," l sug-
gested.
mo-" said Tillie, savagely. 81 got
plenty o. Mis- Stoll."
This was discouraging, but one must
say something.
Have you another place in view?''
| amiably inquired.
mo-" said Tillie again. 81 may quit
work, at least in this town."
How she was to continue to eat if she
stopped work, she did not deign to
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-04-21

OUR club never had an Easter meet
" ing before and ] suppose would
not have had one last year if Mrs. Ed
wardin had not been on theprogramme
committee. Mrs. Edwardin is a good
church woman and it was she who pro-
posed the Easter meeting. She also
arranged the programme, so it was
bound to be good.
The first thing after the transaction
of business was a song by Mary Groves,
He is Risen, Indeed" She sang as if
inspired and it made thrills of exalta-
ton sweep all over me. Then Mrs. AL
lison read paper on Easter, telling
about its origin and history and how it
is celebrated by different peoples and
SO on.
The second paper was on the resur-
rection in art and was by Mrs. Lyall
1t was a good paper, too, but deep, and
| don't know much about art. l could
not help thinking, in spots, about my
new suit, and wondering if that lace
would be the right thing. l was afraid
it might be little too yellow.
After Mrs. Lyall finished, the presi-
dent gave us what she called an Easter
sermon. 1t wasn't religious sermon,
she said she would not anticipate next
Sunday, but she thought Easter repre-
| scented something in practical, every
| day way that we ought to consider. She
said that to her Easter meant new life,
new hope and more than all, another
| chance. We might have been doing
badly and making failures and mis-
| takes, but Easter meant that we were
to begin again and start out fresh. She
said the ability to put old things be-
hind us and honestly and truly begin
over again and keep on beginning no
matter how many times, is one of the
best qualities anybody can have.
Mary Groves sang again and the
president asked if there were any 9TH
er matters that should come before
the club previous to it's adjournment.
There never is at that hour, but that
day there was. Mrs. Colloton rose and
said she had imbibed the Easter spirit
| from the programme, and she wanted
the club to follow the prevalent Easter
custom of giving Easter gifts. She said
that woman who washed for her and
for other members of the club an hon
est, industrious woman, was sick and
needy. The daughter had been obliged
to give up her pla"n to go home and
take care of her mother. The family
income was thus entirely cut off. There
was younger child besides the daugh-
ter mentioned. Mrs. Colloton under
stood there was plenty of money in
the club treasury and she moved that
the club appropriate $40 as an Easter
present for Mrs. Schultz.
A club doesn't do such things usual
ly, but the members had been touched
by the programme and l guess they
were all filled with the Easter spirit
Anyway there was not one vote against
the appropriation. Mrs. Colloton didn't
waste any time, but got the check
from the treasurer just as soon as the
club adjourned.
Mrs. Colloton and started home to-
gether as we generally do. We went
around town to get the check cashed
at one of the stores. and Mrs Colloton
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-04-21
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

Pope Plus goes On as he began, preach
Ing and practicing the simple life. He
has been reducing display on the one
hand, and salaries on the other. This,
as may be imagined, is not quite salts
factory to the hosts Of persons en-
ployed about the Vatican. While thus
discouraging luxury, the pontiff remains
as affable and accessible as ever to
friends of former days.
Archbishop Messmer, Of Milwaukee,
has been forced to ask police protec-
ton against the opportunities of beg
CARS. Not long ago some mention was
made in the papers of few Of his
deeds of charity, Since then appeals
for money have been made so often,
most of them by professional mendi-
cants, that the archbishop has been
forced to take the course mentioned.
AS many as a dozen applicants day
have besieged the prelate's residence.
Mayor Collins, of Boston, says it is
habit, which he formed long ago, not
to communicate his views about public
affairs or party matters to the public
in the form of interviews. This is his
Straightforward way of putting it:
when have anything to say about
politics in which l think the public is
Interested, make speech and say it,
and when the time comes for me to mako
public anything relating to the city
hall business, / do it in the form of an
official message. I'm not talking. I'm
attending to business"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-04-21
NN1TUie Hart

Vegetable Compound sooner; for have tried
so many remedies without help.
II dreaded the approach of my menstrual
period every month, as itmeant SO much pain
and suffering for me, but after | had used tho
Compound two months became regular aud
natural and am now perfectly we'll and FREQ
from pain atmy monthly periods am very
grateful for what Lydia E. Pinlham's Vege-
table Compound has done for me-"
Such testimony should be accepted
by all women as convincing evidences
that Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable.
Compound stands without peer as a
remedy for all the distressing ills OF
women,
The success of Lydia e. PinlSham's
Vegetable Compound rests upon the
well-earned gratitude of American
women.
When women are troubled with irreg-
ular, suppressed or painful menstrual
ton, leucorrh@a, displacement or ul-
ceration of the womb, that bearing
down feeling, inflammation of the
ovarics, backache, bloating, Tor flatu-
lency), general debility, indigestion and
nervous prostration, or are beset with,
such symptoms as dizziness, faintness,
lassitude, excitability, irritability, ner-
vousness, sleeplessness, melancholy,
they should remember there is one tried
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Vegetable Compound at once removes
such troubles. Refuse to buy any other
medicine, for you need the best.
Don't hesitate to write to Mrs.
Pinl1ham If there is anything
about your sickness you do not
understand. She will treat YOU,
with kindness and her advice iS,
rec. No woman ever regretted
writing her and she has helped
thousands. Address Lynn, Mass
an Best Understands a Woman's Hts.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-04-21
THE BALL PROBABLY RIGHT.
Settled On the Number Which Might
Have Brought Gain Instead
of Loss.

George AIDE was describing Monte
Carlo experience, relates the New York
Tribune.
I'm the big, gilded, ornate halls" he
said, women in beautiful gowns swept
to and fro, and each gambling table was
surrounded with players and onlookers,
four or five rows deep.
Il saw young man in American
clothes, young woman in American
clothes, and boy in American clothes.
I'm going to play. Pm going to risk
five francs. I'm going to risk it on my
age, said the young woman.
She ran her eye over the three col.
umns of yellow numbers on the table, and
she set a silver fve-franc piece on Is.
Rien ne va plus, said the croupier.
And the little white ball whirled round,
dropped, clattered about bit, and rest
ed, finally, in the No. %. ~
"'Gosh hang it, I've lost said the
American girl. Eighteen doesn't win a
thing
Say, Minnie, said her little brother,
it's pity you didn't bet your real age.
You'd have won then. wouldn't youH "
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-04-21
HONEST CONFESSION.
A Doctors Talk on Food.

There are no fairer set of men on
earth than the doctors, and when they
find they have been in error they are
usually apt to make honest and manly
confession of the fact.
A case in point is that of an emil
nent practitioner, one of the good old
school, who lives in Texas. His plain,
unvarnished tale needs no dressing up:
81 had always had an intense preju-
dice, which | can now see was unwar-
rantable and unreasonable, against all
muchly advertised foods. Hence,
never read a line of the many ads Of
Grape-Nuts, nor tested the food till last
winter.
"While in Corpus Christi for my
health, and visiting my youngest son.
who has four of the ruddiest, health
TEST little boys l ever saw, l ate my
first dish of GrapeNuts food fer sup
per with my little grandsons. | be-
came exceedingly fond of it and have
eaten a package of it every week since,
and find it delicious, refreshing and
strengthening food, leaving no i'll e.
feets whatever, causing no eructatioi S
with which was formerly much trou-
bled), no sense of fullness, nausea, nor
distress of stomach in any way. &
There is no other food that agrees
with me so we'll, or sits as lightly or
pleasantly upon my stomach as this
does. am stronger and more active
since began the use of Grape-Nuts
than have been for 10 years, and am
no longer troubled with nausea and
indigestion" Name given by Postum.
Co, Battle Creek, Mich.
There's reason.
Look in each pkg. for the famous lit.
lie book, The Road to MELVILLE"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-04-21

asked me to go with her to Mrs.
Schultzs to give her the money. The
business was all done up without waste
Of time.
After we started for Mrs. Schultz's,
on the outskirts of town, Mrs. Colloton
said she believed we had better go
around by her house, it was only a
little farther, and she wanted to get
her rubbers. There were no sidewalks
IN the Schultz neighborhood. So we
went that way and Mrs. Colloton found
company waiting for her, cousin
from out west, so she had to stay at
home. l supposed the trip to Mrs.
Schultz's would be postponed to an
other time, but Mrs. Colloton followed
me into the hall and gave me the $40
bill.
Il can't go tomorrow, either" she
said, land Mrs. Schultz may need the
money. You take it now, can't you?
You know where she lives?"
Yes, but what will I say? l
don't believe l better"
"Oh, yes. Just say it's little Easter
gift from the Women's club, and the
members hope she'll soon be up again.
That's all I'd say"
When you can't think Of any excuse
for not doing thing, you have to do
it, and so l started, feeling awkward
and uncomfortable. 1t was good half
mile out to the Schultz home and l
wondered all the way what l should
say when / got there. l hadn't de-
cided when raDred on the door of the