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Talk Not Wasted.

Discouraged Mother Ito small boyl
Charley. why can't you be good? /
taia and talk. and II does no good.
Charley-Oh, yes. 1t does, know
how to behave when go away from
home.--Judge.
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ATLANTIC COASTLINR.
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 3. 1909.
TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY

TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY.
For Florida and South: s:f5 A. NJ and 7:25
p NJ, -1I:S3 p. NJ
For Norfolk; SOC A. N. 800 P NJ. and
$500 p. NJ
For \. and W. Ry.. West: 900 A. NJ. 1910
and 9:IO p. NJ
For Petersburg: 900 A. NJ. 1910. 500 $40
y NJ, 600 p. NJ, 9:l0 p. NJ. 7:2s and ms
For Goldsboro and Fayetteville: .3.s0 p. NJ
Trains arrived Richmond daily: 5:Ie sss6.ls
900 A. NJ. ss.a5. HES A. M ..lo:is A. NJ:
I'D r NJ. 800. $50. 500 and Sis p. NJ
Except Sunday. s.-Exc~pt Monday sss.,n
day only.
Time Of arrival and departures and connections
not guaranteed.
C. s. cAAPBRII. ID p
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in the Dark

Il hear Mrs. Quithim has left her
husband. What was the trouble?"
Il don't know. I've had the grippe
and haven't been able TO go calling
any afternoon this week "-Detroit
Free Press.
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Not True to Life.

How did you like the show last
night?"
Not at all. 1t wasn't true To life.
The man who played the part Of
the king. never once appeared in a
paper crown."-Detroit Free Press.
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Southern Ry
TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND.

ihAlNS JkANL RICHMOND.
y. B-fouoWlng schedule Gsnlres paAlis.a&
only as information, and are not ruArs uts.d,
go A h-Daily-Local for ChArlotte
Hoo A. H.-Daily-Idmited-Bu PulIrna. a
Atlanta and Birmingham, New OrisAa.
Memphis, Chattanooga. ara all the sosaA
Through coach tSz Chase City, Ozfsra
Darnam.
$500 +. A--EK- Sundsy-Keysville Local
iSO - N. -Daily-Limited Pullman ready go
P. n for all the South
YORK RIVER LINZ
t:S0 p. A--Ex. Snnday-ro West rstsi-e..
Meeting for Baltimore Monday. Wsdsssd.,F
and Friday.
1;lb 2. MONDAY. wednesday and Friday
Local 10 West PSint.
SIS A. G-Ex. 9undays-Local to West Pslna-
TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND.
900 A. NJ, $3.50 P. H.-From all the souxa
A;lO =. A-fron Charlotte, Raleigh, DErkasz.
Chase City and local ststions
$40 A A-From Keysville-Local
s:Sa A. M-f'roui West Point and fror .~U.-
more Wednesday, Friday and Sunday
iD;4o A. N, 6:A p. A-Local from Wes. rasss
>. T.. BURGESS, ID. Il. A
$40 \ Main street. 'Pho.s -.
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At the Cafe.

Strange sauce that's mingled with the
meat.
Strange meat that's mingled with the
sauce-in vain.
l eat, and wond'riHg what and why I eat,
Long Tor the porridge OF ~ y5a;si ain.
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Arrive Richmond
n. & \. M MRsTRkN &

ONLY ALL-RAn Lnsx TO NORFOLK.
Leave Byrd Street Station Riohmcad In n
tect December I. 1907
Fer Norfoik-e:eo A NJ. S:Oe r. n asA f:a
?. n. daily.
For Lynchbsrg, the West and Southwest
300 A NJ 1910 P. NJ, and e:4s p n dali
ARRIVE RiCHkoND-Frsm Nortclk-u:n :
and $50 p. NJ daily. From the Wrs,-
TAO A. NJ. 2:os p. N and s:Sa p. n. d,ii,
Pullman, PArlor and Sleeping Oar. Osi
Dining Cars.
". B. BKvILI. O. n BOaEY
Gen. Pass Agent DIV Pa.s Az
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Mr.. Joseph EvanS. our agent af
Pittsburg. Pa desires all his custo-
mers whose subscriptions for the
PLANET are past dne To
cal and settle at once.
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SEABOARD
AIR LINE RAILWAY

s0UTHB0UND TRAINS sCHEDUI.RD no LHAvx
RICHMOND DAILY.
s;lb A. h-Local TO Noriina. Raleigh. g&S~
totte. Wilmington
xszo r. h-sleeper and coaches, AtizAa4.
birmingham, Savannah. Jsaxss syxs1
sad Florida pointA
1898 p. h--Florida Limited
I2:SS A. k-Sleepors add ooashs.. R...-.s2-
Jacksonville and Southwest
SORTHBoUND TRAINS SCHEDULED - A.
RIVE RICHMOND DALI
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dry sob answered him He turned
and leaned his elbows on the narrow
window sill. every nerve aching. but
powerless 10 comfort. He heard her
step The door closed sharply
Then be faced into the empty cell
sat down on the cot aud threw out his
arms. with hopeless cry:
"Jessica JessicaF'
Evening star., 1909-04-11

Then would cough laugh or try to sing or move
about, and mother would say, why, Marguerite,
what ails you! You never be still a minute,
All these scenes kept returning to me with the
surgence of life lay there the little white
bed And every drop of revlving health drop
of pain to me- That little French clock was on the
mante right where stood, Henry and l, the
night of our quarrel.
Why did quarrel with him? Why did |, indeed!
There's reason except just my foolish, hot, mad,
Southern blood, and my dreadful dreadful temper!
You could see from my black eyes what dsposi
ton l have. As glance up to the mirror | seem to
myself all eyes, for my face is white and wan.
And my heavy ravens wing hair, which Henry would
Oh, wish | could have been created less intense!
Why did my Maker nngle such strange fire in my
clay?
Ticktic tick klack-klack- kack- kick tckv-
tick-tock-tick heard the little brass clock away
deep down yonder as climbed up from death. And
it brought back the scene all again.
WE Stood two, by the mantel. There was
w little fire in the fireplace for it chilly out
and March in Virginia is tickle. was dressed in my
white muslin, with Henry's violets at my throat.
And he handsome l never him fine
looking and noble as he was when he stood there
and listened to saying bitter things to him.
What did say and what was it all about: Why
answer? What difference does it make: 1t
lovers quarrel, and about-nothng. was angry
and Jealous and fierce a wicked tiger. And
talked to him cruelty! l wanted 10 -ouse him,
Evening star., 1909-04-11

his marvellous solution of mysteries but the Young
lawyer did place much faith in these sensational
tales Astro was, however close student of human
nature and if not intuitve least shrewd and his
knowledge of society and his willingness to under
take any case, however delicate. made him desr
able companion in so embarrassing a crisis.
Van Asten threw himself into a chair commanding
a view of the bedroom door and took up book. No
sound came from his chamber. From all that could
be gathered his erratic visitor had gone bed and
to Sleep. Now that he of tactful and
clever companion he rather looked forward to seeing
the girl again. He could at last permit his imagina
ton to play with the situation 1t might be- after ALL
a romance--who could tell? The girl was pretty and
cultured No great scandal could ensue with two
men there; and somehow with his luck or his astute
ness. Astro would bring the affair to pleasant solu-
ton. \ half hour went by. Van Asten yawned, read
Continued page IS
Evening star., 1909-04-11

this inquiry :" Did you find her before she you:'
Yes opened the door. and there she was
What was she doing?'
Standing up, looking into bag. something
Dressed for the street,:
Yes it looked as if she had just come in y
Did YOU say how long she had been there
Il think she did say she'd waited sometime.
Where is she now"
Locked in my bedroom"
Good. I'll come right over. I can't get cab in
this blizzard; it may take half hreequarters of
an hour
''All right But for heavens sake hurry! don't
know what she'll do next
Oh wait. Describe her. please!"
"A blonde, with yellow lair, and lots Of it. Rather
small, with blue eyes. Chinchilla stole and mutf
All right Goodbv. III hurry
Van Asten hung up the receiver with sigh OF
relief. He had heard much of Astro the Seer and
Evening star., 1909-04-11

glock-glock went the big one; and tock-tock- tick
tick -tocktock went the middle sized one and tick
tick-tick
kick the little French repeater It seemed as
if / was hearing the footsteps of my SOUL
ploddng, walking faster now running and again
dropping back to slow pace as l climbed up from
the valley of the shadow into day.
Then all the old events returned to my memory
and came stepping in to the measure of the clock
beats.
GLOCk-gock CLOCK -gump-glog the hall clock
- slowly ticked and it if | heard the rain
drops falling from the down the tin porch roof
there in big house in Virginia, as l crouched at
the window of my bedroom and leaned nv head on
my folded arms, and snelled the SOFT wet night air
had tried and tried to cry; but could not my
SO dry and hot, and my heart just like a dead
cinder. Henry had gone. | had sent him away
And l loved him, loved him so! And l love him
yet. And l always will. l will never never never
love anybody else as long live! As didn't die
| suppose | shall be trained nurse, something
awful Being Protestant, presume couldn't be
a nun.
Then heard the square wooden c1ock,-plock-
pock pckety- -pock-p plick-plock-klock,- ,-andit
sounded just like the hoofbeats of Henry's horse
trotting down the pike road, that night l him
away. For the longest time l could not get those
hoofbeats out of my brain They tramped and
tranped through my heart and up and down my
nerves all night; and during the dav when every
thing happened to be still could hear them COM
ing out of the silence and making dizzv and sick
Evening star., 1909-04-11
T HE G. L O G. K S
By Frank Crane

uERE l am in a hospital, and it's
III very wearying. Funny! I've
always wanted so to come to New
York; and when did come it was
not to go to the opera and the
theaters and to do all sorts of grand
things, but to lie in a hospital! 1t
reminds me of old Mrs Bender down
home, who suffered for years with
rheumatism and was always wanting
to go to church She went at last;
but it was to her own funeral.
To-day the doctor said l might
write little told him l wanted
to. l have a fancy to put down
some of my curious impressions
First, l want to tell about my
clocks. There are three of them.
One, a small brass and glass French
timepiece, which will strike the hour
and the quarter hour when you push
a button, ticks very fast 1t pats
along just like little child running
down the street. 1t stands right by
my big Morris chair where sit near
the window. 1t is my own. Henry
gave it to me. Another is an old
fashioned, bold faced affair in dark
wood, and belongs to the hospital.
1t ticks very loud, and slower than
my brass one; it goes like a man
walking. The third is an old grand
fathers clock which stands in the
hall just outside my door 1t ticks
like one slowly pacing up and down
in deep thought.
Often in the night l lie awake
listening to all three / concentrate
my mind on one, and then cannot
hear the others Then / attend to
two of them, excluding the third.
Then l listen to all three. And
they give me the strangest thoughts!
When l began to come out of my
unconscious state, their voices were
the first things l heard Clock CLOCK
glock-glock went the big one: and
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-09-09
THE PRESS AND CRIME

The complaint is often heard that the
newspapers publish too much of the
story of crime. This may be true, bun
the publication of the news of crime is
due to an evolution in which press
rivalry and competition plays its part
but in which potent factor is the Ell
fort of the press TO supply what the
reading public demands. Forinstance
a newspaper would subject itself to the
complaint of its readers and place it.
self at disadvantage if it failed to
publish the story of local crime which
has excited intense interest in the COM
munity. And the fact that the print
ed dispatches contain so many items of
criminal news is due to the further
fact that in the prevalent system OF
news-gathering and transmission, a
crime of great local interest IS consider
ed of sufficient importance to be sent as
feature of the general news of the
day,
There is much to be said on this sub
ject in consideration of the need of re-
form and the difficulties in the way,
but the purpose of this article is sim
ply to call attention TO n report made
by Mr.. Arthur b. Street, who pub
fishes Streets PandiX OF News, which
shows the error of the charge that is
often made that the preponderance OF
published news is news of crime. Mr..
Street has made careful inspection OF
thousands of items Of news handled by
press associations and special cores
pondents within given time. His re-
port shows total of 443 items relating
to leading criminal cases and 900 items
concerned with local crime, as againsl
items relating to other topics, as fol-
lows: Foreign news, $3.50; Congress,
LAO; railroads, G79; Roosevelt, 500
Taft, $50; banks 1876; Democratic pa.-
ty, 1886; educational, 325; Germany,
BIT; Republican party, 3O5 This state
ment leaves out multiplicity Of other
items having no relation to crime. Mr..
Street insists that "beyond any posi-
BILE cavil the amount of serious and i'm
portant matter printed in the daily
press of the country far outweights the
sensational IN d the superficial, -
Nashville Banner.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-09-09

country, says the STAR commenting
on the engineers desire 10 have il
known that he was sober, care being
made to realize rs never before that
responsibility in business life is one
of the most valuable assets that a
worker in the field of human effort can
have AS never before the standard of
personal trustworthiness is being main :
tanned. Employers are insisting upon
good habits on the part of all whom
they engage. No man is entrusted
with difficult or dangerous duties un-
less it is assured that he is temperate
for the Incorporate man may fail nj
the supreme moment--fail in judgment
or physical capacity The Star adds
that "the business aspect of the tenn
perance movement is the most power
full
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-09-09

entrance to a railroad tunnel and the
eye. as big as locomotive headlights
For all the ferocity of the face, the
eyes had kind look in them.
1--WE watched the brute intently
Just AS we came almost alongside he
gave tlts eyes regular googoo roll
and sank out of sight, A whale would
have gone down head first and waved
goodbye with his TAIL We never saw
this fellows tail, and whether he said
goodbye or come along, boys, with
his eyes is more than | can tell. I've
been to see for many years, but never
saw another fish like that one.n
AS proof that the fish was all he de-
scribes, Capt, Ross points to the log,
which says the encounter took place in
latitude 45 degrees, 30 minutes north,
longitude l52 degrees west.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-09-09
FISH WITH GOoGOo EYES

Capt. Ross, Of the Standard Oil Com
pany's steamer Dakotah, which ar
rived here yesterday frtm Manila, en-
joyed brief but soul-strring Irritation
July IL with strange fish. On the
Dakotah's log the tinny flirt is describ-
ed as being 40 feet long and 10 feet
wide, with cayernous mouth and
very large eyes.
Capt. Ross was on the bridge when
his mate called attention 10 what he
thought was Il whale on the port bow,
When within about II hundred feel Of
the monster they SAW that, while ven
ike whale al distance, an intinat,
view showed no resemblance.
"a We c,me along" said Cap
Rass, "tAc creature turned its head g.
ward line sl,,t. Ii was the fierce>. SEE
| ever aa@ lhemouth was lik, he
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-09-09
TO BRING DULANEY BACK
Ascending Ciretat Court Clerk is
Being Detained at Kingston,
Jamaica-Arrested There.

After delays lasting over a consider
able period, the Department of
State at Washington has finally issued
requistion for Foy Dulaney, the alb
sconding johnson City Circuit Clerk,
and he will be brought back from ia
maica at once to face trial,
Papers in the case came to the office
of Gov Patterson yesterday, and Geo.
N. Martin, of the Thiel DttNc, i've
Agency, of st, Louis. will go at once
after Dulaney, who is being held at
Kingston. The requistion will be
honored by the British, Government,
which holds conuol over the island.
Dulan ~, who left the country sever
al months ago, is charged with having
appropriated about $4,000.
He will be brought back to this
State with as little delay as possible,
and will be forced to stand trial, Thefe
is law in this State that Circuit Court
Clerk who has embezzled State or coun-
ty money can escape prosecution pro-
vided he returns the amount taken.
1T is not expected that Dulaney will be
able to do this, so he will be denied this
opportunity to escape the tolls of the
law.
The discovery of his flight OCCASION
ed great deal of interest over the
State, and it was thought for time
that he would elude officials and make
good his escape. Nashville American,
Sept. 3.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-09-09
FROM OLD NORTH STATE.

To The Comet Tobacco harvest is
now on in dead earnest and the crop is
good. If the farmers could only hold
their tobacco they would make big
money, but the use of commercial fer
tilizers and crop terms, buying their
years supplies, paying up at market
time, keeps the farmers in debt, that
is, the majority of them, and the con-
sequence is that they rush their tobac-
co to market and get on an average of
7 to 10 cents pound, which is about
the cost of production, the trust mag
mates to gobble up the farmers profits.
In some sections of North Carolina and
Virginia they are going into the prizery,
that is, combination of farmers stor-
ing their tobacco in an effort to hold it
for better prices and borrowing from
local banks on storage.
Cotton in North Carolina bids fair
for an average crop.
| see Alabama has recently passed
one of the most far-reaching and dras-
tic liquor laws in the history of all
prohibition measures and such fanati-
cism will ever be the means of reac-
ton that will sooner or later swing
public sentiment on the other side.
Henry Watterson, in the Courier
Journal, commenting on what he calls
the Fullerlicker" bill, sizes the situa-
ton up in nutshell, and predictions
are easily made, but time and test
proves the goodness or badness of any
law if rigidly enforced, and we will
soon see where these recent drastic
laws will terminate.
Cigarette smoking in North Carolina
is killing and undermining the health
of more boys and young men than all
the saloons the state ever had.
Burlington, N. G., a town Of 5000
population, placed tax of $l,650 on
near beer saloons, which did away
with them, but on either side of that
town, l0Oyards outside of the corporate
limits, are two that are selling on an
average of fifty dozen bottles day of
"small brew" In this city OF $4,000
population there are only three near
beer saloons, paying $500 a year tax,
and one of these places sell on an aver
age of seventy-fve dozen bottles of
small brew day. II will make man
drunk. Iwould say ten or twelve bot
ties and It's vile effects are worse than
all the beer that Pabst, Schlitz or any
other brewers ever made.
Salisbury, only fifty miles from here,
has about half dozen paying $500 q
year each, and am told that as many
private club rooms furnishing any.
thing wanted in the wet goods line.
Every express is loaded with ship
ments of whisky and beer from Rich
mond, GAINESVILLE and Norfolk, anc
from Louisville, Kansas City, Balt
more, New York, and dozen othel
liquor points. Liquor is no trouble Il
obtain and you can see more drunken
ness in dry towns than in places with
the dispensary.
From what have read in the home
papers, believe the wisest thing fo
Johnson City would be to vote favora
+ bly, on The proposition to build ant
:, equip their own system of waterworks
: ! am glad to see my home town forg
+ ing TO the front, and trust 10 se'
Johnson City reach 1900 or 5O,0O
population in the next six or eight
years. Best regards 10 all,
A. d. HUGHES.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-09-09
How Disease Stans,

Nine times out of ten chronic diseases like
rheumatism, kidney trouble, heart disease,
skin disease, etc, start with disorder of
the stomach or bowels To cure con,tipa-
ten, liver trouble, indigestion, sour stom-
ach, heartburn, etc take DR.. Caldwell's
Syrup Pepsin, which cures and prevents
these diseases.
1t is absolutely guaranteed to do what is
claimed, and il you would like to try it be-
fore buying, send your address for free
sample bottle to Pepsin Syrup Co., II9
Caldwell Bldg, Monticello, Ill. 1t is sold
by all druggists at soc and 81 bottle
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-09-09
ELECTION OFFICERS.

Nv viflne OF the authority vested in
us as Election Commissioners fO~ Wash
inglun county Tenn the following off
GERS, iadgeS. clerks and aSsistat regis
trars have been appointed to open and
hold the : ecial bond election in John
son ity, Tenn, ON saturday. September
IT. 1909:
FIRST WARD.
Officer vi Elects n-llugh +. Webb.
.ludges-M. i Martin, j. D. Cr0Mtll
Il. ). Wolfe.
Clurk>--R. N. DuIAnrv, John Atwood
Assistant Registrar & 7. Ca up
Election will be held In thu court
house on Spring street.
SECOND WARD.
Officer of Electlon-.iohn San icrS.
Judges-H. W. Weller, +. b. St John.
L. c. Hoss.
Clerks-R. j. Lusk. Il w. Painter.
Assistant Realistically. A. Hart.
Election will be held in the White Ell
ephant on corner of West Market and
Boone streets.
L. Z. REEVES, Chmn.,
A. u. BOWMAN. Sec.
~GUS FREDERICK.
Commissioners of Election for Washing
ton county, Tenn. II
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-09-09
THE VALUE OF SOBRIETY.

The Washington Star draws lesson
from the death of Engineer Bush, of
the Southern railway. The lesson is
the value of sobrty to young men and
older ones. "rhe young men of the
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-09-09

commissioners Of Election for Washing
ton county, Tenn. II
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-09-09
NOTICE.

The Presbytery of Holston will meet
in the Mt. Bethel Presbyterian church
ut Tusculum, Greene county, Tenn, on
Wednesday, September %, 1909, at $50
p. m. j. s. EAKIN, Stated Clerk.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-09-09

For sale, desirable farms in large or
small tracts. Also truck gardens neal
the city. W. A. Kite & Co., No i2i
Spring street. So II
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-09-09

Place your orders now for fall fertilizer
with Carr Brothers. lott
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-10

l tionists waxed eloquent on the stump in Alabama in advocacy of the constitutional amendment. Why 1t was that such ora tors were not asked to explain why Geor, gia abandoned prohibition is hard to un- derstand. In Savannah saloons are as wide open as before the legislature passed a statewide prohibition law. All through Georgia the beer traffic is extensive, the sale of the malt beverage being legal ized under the name of near-beer
 T spent several days in Atlanta and in that progressive city I found that beer and other drinks were served to guests at the hotels and cafes.
 Here in Alabama I find drastic prohibi- tion laws and from all can learn they are strictly enforced. I wanted a bottle of beer for my lunch at one of the best hotels in the city, but the waiter said. Impossible.'
 '"The contrast between Georgia and Ala bama in this prohibition matter is quick ly remarked because the cities of Ala bama are supposed to be like other mod ern cities. It is safe to say that the next Georgia legislature will tax wine as well as beer, and that Alabama will eventually follow suit'