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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-01-07
JOHNSON CITY WINS
RESERVOIR SUIT.

The supreme clrt has handed
down decision in the reservoir suit
brought by the city of Johnson City
against Oliver & Hill, contractors,
which is very important opinion, the
court having held that the contrac-
tors will be liable to damages to the
city.
The court held that the contrac-
tors preached their contract with the
city, when they built he reservoir, it
having given away shortly otter its
complttion. The city has retained
more than $4,000 of the contract price
The city demanded that the contrac-
tors repair the reservoir which they
refused to do, and brought suit
against the city for $4,000 which they
claimed was due on contract price.
The city then sued the contractors
for breach of contract Chancellor
Hal H. Haynes held in rendering his
decision, that the contractors breach
ed their contracts and were liable
for damages to the city. The su-
preme court upheld the decision of
the chancellor, who will rehear the
case and fix the damages in favor of
the city.
The reservoir was repaired by the
city at cost of $4,000.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-01-07
Resident Notice.
A. S. HARTSELL,

ELLA HARTSELL,
In the Law Court of Johnson City
Tenn.
In this cause, it appearing from the
bill which is sworn to, that Ella
Hartsell, the defendant, is a non-resi-
dent of the state, she is, therefore,
hereby required to appear, on or be-
fore the third Monday in February
next, before the Judge of the Law
Court, at the Court House in Johnson
City, Tennessee, and make defense
to the bill filed against her in. said
court, by A. s. Hartsell, otherwise the
bill will be taken for confessed.
1t is further ordered that this no.
tice be published for four consecu-
tive weeks in Johnson City Comet.
This the SOth day of December. 1914.
J. L. HILBERT, elk. law.
Court by J. Stanley Barlow, D. c..
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-01-07

wife.
The Christmas tree at Speedwell
passed off quietly and a fine time and
good order is reported.
John Johnson and Shelor France
We're visiting Mr.. A. l. Scott and
family Dec. rs.
Mrs. Jakt alters and family were
visiting Mr.. ]. R. Holly and family
last Sunday.
A lot of Geo. Bames friends here
are hoping that he will send them a
lot Of passes to Nashville to attend
the Inauguration of Gov. elect Rye.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-01-07
Your Cold Is Dangerous. Break it up

A Cold is readily catching. A rum
down system is susceptible to Germs.
You owe it to yourself and to others
of your household to fight the Germs
1T once. DR.. Bells Pine-Tar-H is
fine for colds and coughs. 1t loosens
the Mucous, stops the cough and
soothes the Lungs. It's guaranteed.
Only 25c at your Druggist.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06
"WAKE ME UP WHEN KIRBY DIES"

perienced and he looked on quietly,
but Studley's sense OF proprlety was
outraged.
Reaching inside with an arm that
seemed to be about three yards long,
he grabbed the chief offender by tho
back of the neck with his good right
hand, and yanking him outside lifted
him over the dashboard and quietly
dropped him in the street without ut
tefing a word that need be repeated
here.
The car went on and the loafer
probably picked himself up later. |
do not know as to that.
Leigh after leaving the stage was
for many years IA picturesque char
acter in the sporting world and we'll
known as a temperance orator. He
explained to me over a social glass
that he found his lectures a ready
mean' OF gett ng acquainted with
rural preachers and deacons, and that
they were the best customers he had
for the lottery tickets he sold on COM
mission.
THE last Of the free and easies'
that l recall We're Clifton's and tn,
House of Lords. 1t is no use trying to
describe them. One who should attempt
it would be accused Of plagiary by
Thackeray's ghost. Col. Newcome
would have left either one Of them
Indignantly had he tar-!ed till the
entertainment began, around the mid
night hour, but had he gone there
earlier in the evening ne would have
found the chops and the welsh rabbits
and the ale as supereXcellent as any
that Dickens ever wrote about.
"By the way, are there more than
three places in the city where one can
get a welsh rabbit ?"
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wrote 10 II l une olher
gay mentioning 'he Tree n
easies mat USED 10 pe a feature OF
new iork me- said the surviving
ho"ery BOY ana recaiiihe "hat was
once a taVorite saying among men
VINO were wen acquainted with mat
ters on the r"ast sue l mean 'he
echo 'nat caHe from the gallery Oh
the ga i'owery lheatre.
NO" II ~ not necessary ior d man
TO De very DIG IN order that ne sAould
ne ape 10 reme'nper that wake me
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06

But how fleeing is time, when
even the bon mot has become n mem
DRY as vague as the origin of who
struck Billy Patterson?' The next
generation will probably have as much
difficulty in understanding How old is
Amp
Briefly, then, one of those gallery
gods settled himself in the seat which
he had secured in the mad scramble
for pace which always followed the
opening OF the doors in their favorite
resort and composed himself for a
period Of sadly needed sleep He had
come to witness only one feature OF
the performance, and before yielding
to the drowsy god he said to the
urchin next to him Wake me up
when Kirby dies
with the decline and final closing
of the Old Bowery the robust school
of acting Of which Edwin Forrest was
the apotheosis, passed away. Jack
Studley and Tom Leigh are, / think.
the two surviving opponents, both of
them well along in the last quarter
of their century. The last time | saw
Jack he was sitting in Joe Schmitt's
place with a group of able compota-
tors, among whom We're Tody Hamil-
ton, Major Jack Burke, Carter Cou-
turier. Frank Small and half a dozen
other showmen, and Studley was not
the least sturdy among them.
"One Of the most inspiriting Incl
dents l ever had the luck to see was
on the rear platform OF one of the
Cd Third avenue horse cars. We
stood there smoking and talking to
the conductor, for it was late and any
low, the rule about smoking was not
very rigid then. Suddenly there vas a
commotion inside the car. The IN
ductor was as discreet as he was ex-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06
for a Class Room

Education, s1S6-Practice In Scout
craft and other Activities of Youth.
Credit H., ~. half course" The site
is a corner Of Van Cortlandt Park and
young men who are anxious Il COM
bine progress toward a degree with
healthful summertime endeavor are
encouraged to bivouac with the Boy
Scouts and learn in person from Dan
Beard, Ernest Thompson Seton and
other heroes Of scoutdom how to steal
the heart Of a boy.
Then the university sends the stu
dents to West Point on a trip Of
on a teamer chartered
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06
Camp Columbia at Bantam
Lake, Conn, in the Berkshire
foothills.


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.sp.h'"' =" 80 ,"n ,~"
- 49, T,on 80 ,iu tt,
,a. 49,, 49, -
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80 80 e s,a.ana" 80 -.
that there are more class nerlods in
the week and the daily assignments
OF reading n study are laid on with
a heavier hano'
He will surely declare that Columbia
in particular Is notorious for the
mount Of work it gets out of its
students during the dog days. for driv-
ing them in five weeks and a half
through courses which take up a fun
half of the regular academic year
and then getting better examination
papers from them at the end OF the
session. He may even contend that
they do a lot or actua! surveying and
~botanizing up at Camp Columbia. and
That two months Of unbroken marvel
ling at the naked structure of a con-
tInent should he enough TO entitle the
p, u seosl'P"lvai eNpeu'-
AZ" W N''"' 'O"''u " ues'ee'
Well remember That after all he IS
on the inside looking out. There Is a
good deal in the point OF view. Even
a oally Daseoall game might seem IKE
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06
ne GREAT D o A COuEGE FOR SUMMER STUDENTS
Many Universities Each Year Send
Classes Into the Open-A Royal
Road to Learning

the Universities of Wisconsin. North
Dakota and Louisiana are all planning
extensive journeys in field work. Ober-
lin College will establish a summer
camp Of topography In the mountains
OF southwestern Virginia.
But there are all sorts Of other
college courses which draw little bands
of earnest seekers after truth-and
~degrees-out into the regions which
other people think are v~acationland.
Harvard has a big forestry school in
the Northwest which Is filed all sum-
mer. Brown, with no summer school
or a formal kind. has still a biology
department which long ago appointed
itself the friend and counsellor of the
lobster, and h lobster station down
Narragansett Bay keeps a dozen or
more graduates and undergraduates
busy through the dogdays.
Dartmouth has a summer school
OF a very formal kind, to Judge from
nc catalogue, but those whose canoes
have drifted on the brown and lazy
Connecticut and seen the night come
down on its great green valley give
testimony that even there the life
OF The summer student is not beyond
endurance.
AT the University of California the
summer school blooms in glory, like
everything Joyous in that land
OF outdoors. At the University II
Virginia the summer students have
developed an old custom Of
into a boisterous form Of fine art. But
h apotheosis OF the summer school.
che institution where all kinds OF
things which used to be counted fun
are fairly and frankly in the curricu-
lum, is Columbia
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06

In this case too the university will
charter a steamer to convey the truth
seekers to and from the field Of their
labors.
Other academic expeditions sched-
uled for the summer school students
are a yachting trip around Manhattan.
a rapid pilgrimage by stage and auto
mobile through the Sleepy Hollow
country and trips to Ellis Island, the
Bronx zoo, the a w yard, Chinatown
and the Stock Exchange.
Such, more or less. is the life Of
the student at summer school. Only
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06

or a visit from n~eighbors on vacation
there is no feminine society at all.
except such as may be had by pad
ding along the moonlit lake to call
at friendly camps.
But there Is feminine society in
plenty on Morningside Heights. where
the university still has its centre.
The attendance at morning chapel
has grown to double what 1t vas in
term time. There are organ recitals
Thursday afternoons; the band plays
in the evenings on the university
green near the little old observatory;
the summer session chorus of $50 stu
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Copyright by Ker Photo Co
Gunsight Pass, Glacier National Park, over which the class
will travel.
will travel.

FOR the occasion. The West Pointers,
who are having a summer school Of
their own. turn out on dress parade
and give the investigators the freedom
OF their citadel. A party will also be
organized to do field work under
faculty instruction in the inhabited
and partly inhabited portions II COMFY
Island. This course is marked in the
catalogue as "12b."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06

dent voices is rehearsing three times a
week for its two great concerts; in
late July there will be a series of
open air plays. English classics per-
formed on the green by a professional
company.
Even within the city limits there
is another camp connected with Co
lumbia. The course given there is de-
scribed in the catalogue as physical
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06

For example. II the dangers Of the
Western trip deter you from risking
Geography f25s. there is Camp CO.
lumbia up In the Berkshire foothills.
where you may elect Geology Ais, or
one Of the dozen or more courses in
astronomy, %geodesy, surveying. botany
and what not which are given there.
Camp Columbia was originally a
string Of tents on q hill by Bantam
Lake. The students formed a habit
OF cutting ent ropes during thunder
storms and at other appropriate mo-
ments-ropes, Of course, attached to
somebody else's tent. not the students
own. This proved expensive for the
university. which every now and then
lost a tent, and nearly lost a student
or two from pneumonia. So while
retaining the advantages Of a crude
and h%ealthful camp life, the university
authorities provided wooden buildings
for the students and their instruc-
tors.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06

Eighty or 100 students Of surveying
are always on hand. and after the
first few days. when they have grown
accustomed to the life Of the place,
these urn their attention to the prob
lem OF measuring. triangulating and
laying out the tennis courts and base
hall diamond. This labor, with that
OF marking the court lines and putting
the bases in position. is done entirely
by the students themselves. In the
actual use Of the courts. however.
the faculty often assist.
There are no women students at
Camp Columbia. When. as sometimes
happens. several days pass without
the arrival OF an automobile party
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-10-15
CAEKqLN,MEacE L9mAAD Ls1 Czn217eXJ

France, where the tradition of the bodyguard OF
the emperor still survives. But even these relics
OF ancient armor are known to be serviceable
saving many guardsman from wounds of saber
or lance even high velocity proJectiles when
striking at angle
1t is true that the disuse of armor followed the
invention of better grades of powder but It must.
nevertheless. be remembered that, during the time
when armor worn oftenest I'm Europe, gun
powder was in common use During the latter
half OF the sixteenth century not only cannon but
guns and pistols were seen everywhere. Never.
theless armor continued to be used. II was In
many cases the matter of expense which limited
the wearing OF armor: for In those days the cost
of armor was high. very high. Clearly therefore.
a would be less apt TO wear a really good
harness-one which might have cost the equiva-
lent of ten thousand dollars In the present pur-
chasing power of money-when the protection II
gave him was not complete; he preferred then TO
wear common heavy armor and in the end to
neglect wearing armor altogether
When he found that his enemy kept away from
him. the range of firearms increased. Later on he
took chance" OF receiving wound.
1t only during the Thirty Years war, say
before 1850. that cheap armor OF very great
weight-almost intolerable-came into general
use. Then. too one must remember that there
was for long time a feeling that armor was not
heroic. Even in earlier centuries many distin.
Bulshed Ofncer thOuBht IL chtValrouS 10 appear IN
battle only partly armed. Thus read OF his
torical personages going into battle with helmet
visor raised, and Of such a knight errant Sir
Philip Sydney lighting bareheaded The feeling
that 1t is discreditable TO wear armor is strong
even at the present day
The reasoning runs: IL is cowardly 20 take an
unfair advantage of an adversary. Surely a man
in duel would not wear a shirt Of Disil; so why
should he be armored Ia battle which is only a
duel on a larger scale?
Shields should be and are already Ia constant
use. IL may be recalled that the japanese rede-
veloped this system effectively in their with
Russia. especially in the capture OF Two Hundred
and Three Meter HILL" where they moved along
in front OF the advancing infantrymel In earlier
times the japanese sometimes wore fat shield
slung upon the breast. but always as a defense
against shot
When considers the value 70 the commu.
nifty OF even one soldier. surely no nation should
AFFORD not to protect him az best ~ can
The descendants OF an Individual may amount
10 thousands In the course OF couple OF centuries.
so one can figure out what the human losses 10
the countries now at war must represent In the
future. II armor will save even few hundreds
OF men II will certainly pay as a national invest
ment TO use IT. The time will soon come when
governmental commissions will take up this mai
ter effectively
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-10-15
Just as He Had Said.

You remember selling me some
hair-restorer when ] called the other
day TO get shaved, you hoary-headed
old thief?' roared the indignant Gus.
toner. you sold IL under false pre-.
tences. sir You said It would restore
my head to it's original condition"
We'll, didn't II work." asked the
barber
Work? No. It's taken off what lit.
tie hair ! used 10 have, and ! am as
bald as the pavement now"
That's quite right, sir. No false
pretence about that. said II would
restore your head TO it's original condi-
tion. and you know. sir. most OF us
are born bald"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-10-15
Warrior OF Today.

George Wharton Pepper said at a
luncheon az the Plattsburg training
camp for officers
THE methods OF warfare have
changed enormously In the past year.
The sword. for example, is no longer
carried. The sword has quite disap-
peared from war
"A story comes from the Argonne
about French chasseur who took n
German officer prisoner. The chasseur.
a boy, tyro. said to the officer.
give up your sword"
But the officer shook his head and
answered:
"I have no sword to give up. But
won't my vitriol spray. my oil projec-
tor or my gas cylinder do as well? 3"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-10-15
Too Much for Them.

II was a minstrel performance. and
in the intervals between the songs the
usual jokes were being perpetrated.
What am dc difference between an
old maid and a married woman
asked Sambo
Il done give II up" replied Bones.
Why" explained Sambo. "de old
maid am lookin' for a husband cbery
day. an dc married woman am lookln'
for i'm ebery night"
There was a pause. and several cid
erly gentlemen got up and stole softly
into the night.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-10-15

prevented by the use of some kind of metal proc
lection He does not suggest that its weight and
unwieldiness was any drawback, for he recon-
mends a cuirass made of buff leather, REINFORCED
with metal strips, weighing in all 80 pounds as
a very useful equipment, and he gives as his opin
ion that it was only the cost Of armor which
brought about it's disuse From the middle Of the
sixteenth century there had been much discus
sion as to the practical value of armor, and Sir
John Smythe, writing in $780, cites the death
of Sir Philip Sidney from spent bullet as rea
son for adhering to the old fashions in military
equipment. AS early as 1869 proved
by musket or pistol shot, and in 1890 Sir Henry
Lee, master of the armories, arranged trial
to determine the respective merits of Shropshire
iron and "Hungere" Innsbruck metal with re-
suits disastrous to the homemade product
In the "Verney Memoirs" under the date Of
1867 we find that one Richard Halls proved his
armor with "as much powdea as will cover the
bullet in the palm of the hand" II this
proof by musket shot, combined with the gradual
decadence of the craft of the armorer, who had
by this time lost the art of tempering his metal.
which produced the graceess and cumbersome
equipment of the seventeenth century-proof
against firearms, Il is true, but so heavy and in
convenient as to be entirely Unsuited for extend
ed expeditions. and for the new school of military
tactics. The last relic of the complete suit OF
plate the small crescent-shaped gorget worn
Dy ln1antry OmcerS up 10 ABOUT the year looO
Once this had been a practical protection TO the
throat, but atterly II shrank to a small plaque
OF brass. little larger than a regmental badge.
Quilted armor, brigandnes and chain mail were
occasionally used after field armor had been
given up; but these were solely used against the
attack of the assassin. Napoleon III is said TO
have worn a defense of mail; the cavalry of the
Confederate army in the American Civil ia
vored a vest lined with plates OF steel and Ned
Kelly. the bushranger of our own day.
helmet and cuirass OF bulletproof boiler plate
The thin strips of steel use1 in the brigandine
were only OF value against sword cuts. and II
for this purpose that they were employe, in the
"secretes' or hat Innings. of which there are still
large numbers in the Tower, and in the hat OF
Bradshaw the regicide. in the Ashmolean mu
scum. oxford. The modern French and German
defenses Of this nature would 10 be quite
useless against longrange rifles. For many years
inventors have brought forward contrivances.
claimed to be buetproof. which provided thrill
ing turns on the music hall stage. but none ever
dared to face the service rife wearing their in
vention. AS has been repeatedly pointed out I'm
recent articles this subject. the only value OF
armor at the present day is a protection from
gancing spent bullets. n has value what
ever against the point blank impact of a projec-
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-10-15
What He used Them For.

Customer want another fire ex.
tinguisher. Used the last one all up
last night.
Clerk-Glad TO sell them 10 you. sir.
but aren't you rather careless at your
place. That is the third one I've sold
you i'm week
Customer-oh. don't use them for
fire. They are the greatest thing on
earth for chasing out your daughters
late callers.-Judge.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-10-15

Sir. we are starting a new railroad
and want your daughter TO drive the
first spike"
Il have no doubt she will consider
II an honor 20 ofIiciate"
Thank you We have provided a
small gold spike. Also a silver ham.
mer
One minute. don't think she
could drive a spike with a hammer
Better provide a hair brush 3"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-10-15
Period of Romance Ended.

NO more shall hear his footsteps
on yonder walk just as the clock
strikes eight"
Gracious, Jeannette!"
And the old parlor light will never
burn low for him again"
You don't mean it?"
Il do; and. furthermore. he will new.
er sit on this sofa three nights week
and call me pet names, as he has been
doing for two years"
II am astonished!"
And tonight ] am going 10 burn all
the old love letters In my chest OF
drawers"
"B.but why? Are you going to dis.
card him?'
Discard him! Why. you goose, |
am going TO marry him!"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-10-15
Paw Still on the Job.

Little What's book.worm.
paw?
Paw-lts a vo~a that would rather
digest book By eating II than by read
ing u.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-10-15

II you are able 10 appear Indifferent
the man who wants 10 sell you his
dog finally will give him 20 you.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-10-15

One OF the compensations OF life r.
hat man can't study himself through
microscope.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-10-15
The Kind You Have Always Bought.

U>HlS applied
has under the
when wrapper
black When
pears
limitations but
the danger families spurious medicines
II be regretted that there who
should properly counet medicinal
the closely child Adults
the mothers watchfulness. III xZfll-l-
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-10-15

Politeness IL like an air cushion:
there may be nothing in IL. but Il eases
many a hard jolt.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-10-15
Graduating BY POST.

Dad. what's a postgraduate7
"A fellow who emerges from a cor
respondence school. I imagine"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-10-15
# You Need a Medicine
You Should Have the Best

Although there are hundreds OF prepa-
rations advertised there Is only one that
really stands out pre-eminent as REM
bladder.
DR.. kilmer's Swamp-Root Is not recom-
mended for everything
A sworn certificate or purity is with ev-
cry bottle You may receive sample
size bottle OF Swamp-Roo by Parcel
Post Address W. kilmer q Co. Bing-
hamton, N Y, and enclose ten cents
For sale At all drug stores In bottles OF
two sizes,5Oe and 90. also mention this