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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-24
rRAIGHTFORwARD TESTIMONY
Many johnson City Citizens Have
PrOfited BY 1t

II you have backache, uniary troub-
les, days of dizziness, headaches O.
nervousness, strike at the seat CT the
trouble. These are often the synp-
toms of weak kidneys and there is
grave danger in delay. Doan's Kid
ney Pills are especially prepared for
kidney ailments-are endorsed by
over $4,000 people. Your neishbors
recommended this remedy-have prov
ed its merit in many tests. Johnson
City readers should take fresh cour-
age in the straightforward testimony
OIL this Johnson City citizen.
w. F. Toohey, bUOAkeepeg, III VIII,
hey 81. says: Il had duh pans acrc4s
any back while sitting al lie uesA ana
when l stood up, sharp quick catches
took me i'll the region OF M Aluney 5.
Mornings 1 had soreness ami l-uen.s
IN my back. My kidneys d.uuL uut
right, either. Deans Kidney Pills
soon look ali the soreness ana aching
out OF Lay back and put my kidneys IN
good shape. l gladly recommend TINS
medicine for l know it will do what
is claimed for it,"
Price zoe, at all dealers Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. ToOhey had. Foster-Milburn Co.
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-24
III e L p w IN TIL w Ar
SELL YOUR SCRAP
Wanted Scrap Iron, Old Rags, Burly, Rut
Brass, Copper, etc.

Wanted Scrap Iron, Old Rags, Burly, Rubber,
Brass, Copper, ETC.
1t is said
That the bulk of our country's War Needs, which
we all know are stupendousy large is represented in
iron or steefor the manufacture or Shells torpedoes
cannons, rifles ships wagons, railroads cars etcin
TACT iron or steel is always present in some form in all
war accessories.
1t should be strkingly evident from this that it is
The duty OF all loyal citizens having the interest of our
country sincerely at heart to market their scrap iron
and other scrap material Immediately, for without
scrap atel1al our country cannot produce the things
they need and must have to win the war.
Sell now because the price of all grades of scrap
IRON are sufficiently high to Justify all the people to
gather 1T up deliver to the nearest market
We are buying all kind of waste material and pay
spot cash for same delivered our yard at Jonesboro
Tenn, yard and Ware House. Near Electric Light
Plant, Jonesboro Tenn
We Pay From $l2.OO to $500 per Ton For Scrap
.IrOn Steel ETC.
LANEY JUNK COMPAN
By JOE. P. DULANEY, Mgr.
Will Bul YOUR REFUSE AND WASTE, FOR sPOT CASH
All $50 WEST MARKET sT JOHNSON CITY, TENN
FOY W. DULANEY, MANAGER
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-24
2O,0UO,03 SPENT FOR GERMAN
PLOTS THE UNITED STATES
lt.oniinued irom Page Ono


Won Kliest, and DR.. 5cheele, and man
by the name of Becker ON the Fried
richder Crosse, were making The
bombs, and that Captain Wolpcrt,
Captain Bode, and Captain Steinberg
had charge of putting thesa bombs on
the ships; they put these bombs in
cases and shipped them as merchan-
disc on these steamers, and they
would go away on the trip and the
bombs would go off after The ship
was out four or five days. causing a
fire and causing the cargo 10 30 up in
flames . He also told me thai
they have made quite number OF
these bombs; that thirty of them
were given to a party by the name Of
OLeary, and that he took them down
to New Orleans where he had charge
of putting them on ships down there,
this fellow O'Leary"
OF equal if not greater interest is
the following intercepted radiogram
sent from Berlin in January, 1916 10
Ambassador Bernstorff:
Jan. 26. For Military Attache
You can obtain part cuars as to per-
sons suitable for carrying on sabotage
in the United States and Canada from
the following persons: ~ Joseph
philadelphia, Penn. GU
John P. Kealing, Michigan Avenue,
Chicago. GO Jeremiah OI.ca"y, 1G
Park Row, New York, One AMI two
are absolutely reliable and discreet.
No. 3 is reliable, but no. always dis
Greet. These persons were indicated
by Sir Roger Easement. In the Unit
ed States sabotage can 'e carried oat
on every kind OF factory for supplying
munitions of war. Railway embark
ments and bridges must not b. torch
ed. Embassy must in NJ circum stance
be comprised Similar precautions
must be taken in regarl % irish pro-
German propaganda, tSigneGl
Representative II General Staff
Copies of his pamphlet With lis
disclosures may be ob-
tanned free by writing 10 the Com
nittee on Public Information. Jack
son Place, Washington, D. c.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-24
ha obtained on short notice.

be obtained on short notice.
Many men have made the mistake
Of getting a tractor too small, and II
is well to make sure that the tractor
is large enough to do all the work be-
fore purchasing. There should De
some reserve of power for emergency.
A tractor that is run to full capacity
continually will not last long.
There are number OF reliable
tractor concerns who have agencies
in Tennessee. Get in touch with them
and find out what they are willing to
guarantee their tractors to do,-James
Arentson, division of agricultural ex-
tension, University Of Tennessee, Knox
vile.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-24
CY H. LYLE GOES INFO
QUARTERMASTER CORPS

Johnson City, Tenn, Aug. 20.-Cy
H. Lyle, treasurer of the Mountain
Branch Soldiers Home has resigned
his position at the Home in order to
enter the army as a captain in the
quartermaster service corps. He ex-
poets to be called into service some
time in September. Captain Lyle will
be succeeded by Chief Clerk J. c. Don
nelly, of this city.-Herald-Co Courier.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-24
NONRESIDENT NOTICE
In the Law Court at johnson City,
Washington County, Tennessee.
Z. r. Stuart
VS.
Myrtle Stuort
Myrtle Stuart

In this cause it appearing from the
compliments bill, which is sworn to
that the defendant, Myrtle Stuart is
nonresident of the State of Tennes-
see: 1t is ordered by me that publ
cation be made for four successive
weeks, as required by law, in The
Comet, q newspaper published in John
son City, Tennessee, in said county.
notifying said nonresident defendant
to appear before our said law court al
a court to be holden at the Court
House in Johnson City, on the thlr6
Monday of October, 1918, and make
defense to said bill or the allegations
thereof will be taken for confessed
and this cause set for hearing exparto
as to her.
This goth day of August 1918.
j. l.. HILBERT, Clerk.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-24
HAVE ROSY CHEEKS
AND FEEL FRESH AS
A DAISY-TRY THIS!
Says glass of hot water with
phosphate before breakfast
washes out poisons.

To see the tinge of healthy bloom
in your face, to see your skin get
clearer and clearer, to wake up with
out a headache, backache, coated
tongue or nasty breath, in fact to
feel your best, day in and day out, Just
try inside-bathing every morning for
one week.
Before breakfast each day, drink a
glass OF real hot water with teaspoon
full OF limestone phosphate in it as a
harmless means of washing from the
stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels the
previous days indigestible waste,
sour bile and toxins; thus cleansing,
sweetening and purifying the entire
alimentary canal before putting more
food into the stomach. The action of
hot water and limestone phosphate on
an empty stomach is wonderfully in
vigorating. 1t cleans out all the sour
lamentations, gases and acidity and
gives one splendid appetite for break
fast.
A quarter pound of limestone phos-
phate will cost very little at the drug
store but is sufficient to demonstrate
that just as soap and hot water
cleanses, sweetens and freshens the
skin, so hot water and limestone phos-
phate act on the blood and internal or
gans. Those who are subject to con-
stipation, bilious attacks, acid stomach,
rheumatic twinges, also those whose
skin is sallow and complexion pallid,
are assured that one week OF inside
bathing will have them both looking
and feeling better In every way.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-24
BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS

The pocketbook farmer is in the
same class with the profiteer of the
stock exchange.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
Nev Plays This Week

ICESDA-A the Fulton Theatre Nathan D Smith
present "A Stitch in Time comedy Bailey
and Lott NJ Mcaney Irene Fenwck a modern
Cinderella Others in the Carlyle Robert
Cain Earle Mitchell Evelyn amplen David
Higgins an j. II. Gilmour
ThuRSDYA the Harris Theatre presents Bertha Ks
play entitled THE Riddle and
Dorothy Donnely The thr
DANISH play Jacob The N
The story modern The will Arson
Chrystal lerne Albert
ulce Allen Beatrice Miller Betty and Pei Weson
the C,rn
present The Better Ole CAPTAIN
fathers cartoons of tho colaboratod
Captain Bruce Baimsfather comedy
hev can "a fragment France
snort attack The Cob,,
Mrs Cobun will Campbell will he ana
Charles McNaughon will be famous
There Will -
npolaed during the Knigbt
the ''Se''s
At the Century Theatre Julie Lee sbur will
present Tor the first time the big spectacular play F recd NV
Lewis ind and E. iyal Swete Norman ONel Narca
van Dresser who has grand opera and ~
WIZ appear he ue role OF Freedom
cast ncrde E. lyal Arleen ]
marry irvine H. f. Lee HILL Erie
on Eva Randolph Clara Eames others Freedonv NOT -
Inc play is IN twenty-five course Of action h
one thousand characters famous history Events ori S
growth OF freedom through the each treated ~ ~
om ana though co,os
oon the essentially drama
tune" j. Monroe Hewlett designed executed the scenery
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13

lifeless scenery. A scenic artist sits
at his desk and sends out sketches to
mechanical departments for manufact-
ure and then the parts are brought to-
gether and assembled before him. And
the result is something hard and me-
chanical But Jones keeps the fuency
and translucency of his idea throughout
by entrusting no work, however me-
chanlcal it may seem to any but ar
lists hands. Wherefore he has had to
learn all the crafts allied to his art
tailoring and carpentering and scene
painting and electrical work. Those
simple, almost empty stage spaces are
infinitely demanding. A single Earring
note and their effect is lost For in
stance, the third scene Of Redemption"
is a beautiful, aristocratic interior. It's
furniture is merely two chairs. Yet
an effect of Understandable grace is OBJ
tanned by the hanging of two oval por-
traits on either side Of beautifully
spaced French window To be of the
right tone these portraits could not be
~"J '''iiS Dut tiiS DCSt, anu SluCc tNe
producer could not afford the best,
Jones painted them himself, i'm
pressionistically but achieving the eff
feet. Or he may need to go into re-
mote corners of the city in search of
the right property or the right ma
/ terial for a costume. And the pur-
pose of it all is that his work should
be harmonious emptiness inhabited
by the play. The ideal achievement
of the maker Of the interior is that one
should not be aware of it, There is
! only a moment following the rising Of
the curtain when the stage setting gives
the pitch for the performance, and for
that single moment one must achieve
something in perfect sympathy with the
play. His ideas about furniture are
whimsical, but they illumined for me
the reason for the stodginess of ordi-
nary stage interiors. Stage furniture
comes from a furiture exchange which
rents it out to managers of plays and
moving pictures. 1t is furniture that is
used over and over again, and it is
tired, Jones says. 1t has lost it's fresh
ness. Without really becoming old, it
has become stale. How can one create
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
Robert Edmond Jones
BY Rebecca Drucker

II is difficult to set the key in which
to talk of Robert Edmond Jones. One
may speak of him as genius (Which
he isl and ALLEVIATE those honest people
who have become gun-shy of the word;
or one may call him an insurgcnt and
deliver him up to the faddists-or one
may call him a craftsman, and mystify
generation which has lost the mean
ing Of the word.
To reach his pleasant little work
shop over the Plymouth Theatre one
walks through the dim Sabatical quiet
OF theatre in the morning. AT such d
time, no matter what ribaldry disturbs
it at night, every theatre regains its
ness and quiet seem q waiting shrine
But the little workshop is cheerfully
secular. Here are all sorts of bits Of
materials with which Robert Jones
works-bits Of gauzc, ar embroidered
garment, sketches, paints-the cheerful
confusion out Of which creation comes.
Jones admits one freely and talks
chcerfully-with that abundant en-
thusiasm of the man who is filled with
the spirit of his work. He is tall and
specialized and bearded, and yet his en-
thusiasm makes him boyish. His head
is finely shaped and his hands are, OF
course, the hands Of an artist, and then
he turned them over and ! saw that
they are the hands Of an artisan, too.
They are blistered and calloused "That
comes from working on the scenery
he said.
Then his theory of craftsmanship
came out 1t is not enough that man
should sit and draw sketches of sur
passing beauty and imaginativeness
unless he himself has the resouroeful-
ness to accompany his creations through
to their fulhlment they become so much
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13

Vaudeville

FLORENCE Walton will be
J ballroom dances. The Pelham Naval
I Band will remain for second week.
Van and schenck Willie Weston, Roy
+ Cummings and Jack Norworth's trench
! skit Somewhere With Pershing" are
other features Of the bill.
RIVERSIDE.-Marg Sylvia, the
opera star, will be the special feature
of the bill. Kate Gilmore and Sam
Williams will be seen IN "a Reel of
Real Fun" and Harry Langdon in a
skit entitled "Jonny's New Car
Others on the bill are the Weston Sis
ters, the Brightons, Bowers, Walters
and Croker and Shelton Brooks, as
sisted by Ollie Powers.
COLONIAL.-Blanche Ring is the
headliner Nine. Won Besson will pre-
sent Harold Brighouse's playlet, maid
of France" Others on the bill are AL
and Fanny Stedman, Chris Richards,
Will j. Ward and his Symphony Girls
and the Shirley Sisters.
ALHAMBRA.-Edde Leonard and his
minstrel show will top the bill Lois
Joseph and Tyler brooks in songs and
dances, All Shayne, Julia Nash and c. H.
Mcdonnell in a comedy, "Three G. M
The Stampede Riders, and Lou and Jean
Archer are some of the others on the
bill.
/ ROYAL.-Bessie Clayton remains the
headliner here for second week Ed
ward Aveling will offer a sketch,
"Checrful Pessimism," and AL Raymond
G. Co. will present Denver to Frisco"
Others on the bill are Thomas Swift
and Mary r. Kelly, Moran and Wiser,
the Nelson Girls, and Eddie Buzzell and
Peggy Barker.
LOEW'S AMERICAN. - Clark and
Verdi, Italian comedians, will make
their debut on the Loew circuit as
headliners. The first part of the week
Thurlow Bergen will appear in "The
Protector" The last part of the week
in addition to Clark and Verdi, there
will be the Revue de Vogue. Fred
Stone in "The Goat" will be the mo-
ton picture feature the first, and
! Norma Talmadge in "The Forbidden
City" the second part of the week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
Brarnhall Players
To Open Playhouse

The Gfth season OF the Bramhail
Playhouse VIII open or Monday evening
October p. with THE Comforts Q.
Ignorance" satirical comedy in tnr--
acts. by Butler Davenport The playe.
who VIII appear in the piece are Els.e
Rizer. Emily Stovers, Marion Mccrea.
Jane Burr. Catherine Cozzins, Butler
Davenport and others. The pay deais
with the efforts of modern Bee~y
Sharpe to establish herself on a secure
footing among the comfortable *
norants of American society. Per
formances Will be given evenings ana
Saturday matinees.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
7OOth for "Maid"

"The Maid of the Mountains,o at
Days, last night celebrated it's Tooth
performance.
The company will present a series
OF Carmen matinees around Christ
mas, with Jose Collins in the tile role
by Pigeon Post" at the Garrick, viii
celebrate its 30Oth performance Octo-
Der II. THE Lilac Domino,' at the
Empire. celebrates its 300th October
IA. Both are going strong.
, Walter Mclvillc's production of "Thc
Female Hun had its premiere at the
Lyceum October .. 1t is a straight
melodramatic SO. Wit hthrille an
humor alternate
Annie Saker. ,slic Ca,tor md
d. AUBREY are eN~ ent. Gladys Ma
son has the title role Herbert Mans.
held as the hero lacked breadth.
The piece is success.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13

Fancy showing them up like that, And
then there never has been a musical
comedy written which l considered
worthy of my talents
"Now, if some one really wants to
see me in an extravaganza let him put
Hamlet to music. Don't you think
that there are wonderful comedy posi-
bliltIes IN the Grave Diggers' scene d?
Just set that to music and YOU Sc
what you have Alas! Alas. l knew
poor Yorick we'll And the Ghost who
walked and the Queen-she should be
played by good, old-fashioned char
acter woman with plenty of embon-
point.
"And !, of course, shall be Hamlet
tail, handsome and fascinating.
Ophel!a oh, when think of the things
ophella could do after she goes mad
and has her little speech about rose
mary and pansies. Wouldn't it be won
derful?' Tell me, is that the skin
pulled eff the back of my neck or is it
glue still left on from my Wigs II
It's glue III put on some more alcohol
but If It's skin, and l think from the
feeling that it is, I'll put on some new
skin instead"
We locked and discovered that il 2ros
the skin, and, somehow. we were de-
lighted. though we very much doubt
whether 1t hurt him. Mr.. Bennett
isn't the sort of person who could be
hurt by anything. But one thing We
discovered; He does wear wigs. and
VIC had fancied that it was only his
own hair powdered.
No, indeed he said. 81 wish I
might do that, but l am supposed to
De scared and bleached by this terrible
purple ray which makes me invisible.
and my own hair is too thick for that.
BRING me my other shoes, Ba5ette'
Babette brought the shoes and put
them on. and then MIR. Bennett turned
ana said: "Wo haven't finished our in
tervlow yet. You mast ask me WHY |
nave valetette, and l shall tell you
mat 1t Is because my valet has gone to
fight with France and his wife needs
the money and renders excellent ser
wee IN return for it.
And you will say: 'Oh. Mr. Bennett.
now Kind and patriotic you arc,' And
shall say: Nothing of the kind
Babettc is the pest valetette ever
he'd And III be clad when al the
lohcemen stationed on the road be
tween here ard Workers are polcettes
Then we men may have CIR innnra
For years The female OF thc species
nave been speeding wi.a impUaty ane
immunity purchased by smiles"
And have YOU ever been arrested
for specdng?" we asked svmaa-
taoticaly. "Always." he answered
and ! feel Thar I'm goipe % be again
tonight"
Md Mr. Bennett iet tse Aeleiaa no.
lice dog ont o. the bathroom rs ~iy
nal that The Interview was ut N end
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
At the One-Week Houses

STANDARD-Laure Taylor starts
long tour with hor appearance here
IN j. Hartley Manners's character
comedy, Happiness" This will be her
only appearance in Manhattan this sea
son.
SHUBERTRIVIERA- "Oh, Boy!" the
Wodehouse- Bolton musical com
edy, with the original cast, is the Of
ferEg here.
LOEW'S SEVENTH AvENUE-Anne
Crawford Flexner's comedy drama.
Tho Blue Pearl" with George Nash
as TIE featured player, is this weeks
play.
FRONX OPERA HOUSE Charlotte
Waller will be seen in Eugene Walters
rlaV "NancY Lee"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
Mr.. Bennett SeesH Through
By Harriette Underhill

Our advice to all young interview
ors about to launch on their careers of
inquisitiveness is: Try Richard Ben
nett first. If you can interview him
you can interview anybody.
He is a wonderful actor. There
fore we forgive him much, but oh, he
is difficult!
One night last week we went to see
"Thc Unknown Purple" and after the
performance, while we were still under
the spell of its weirdness, we went
back to Mr.. Benefits dressing room
for an interview
Now, on the stage he is a simple
soul, guileless inventor, and even his
later scenes, where he wrcaks his ven
gcancc on those who have wronged him
are tempered with tolerance and a pity
for those who have sinned because they
are weaker than he.
Perhaps he is like this in real life.
We do not know. because Mr.. Bennett
bafiled US completely. He is a strange
creature, not approachablc through any
of the usual avenues.
We we're ushered into his dressing
room. A small Belgian police dog
barkcd at us and snapped at our new
SIS pumps. Mr.. Bennett was a little
more restrained. He shook hands with
us ard asked US to sit down. We sat
DOWN. And then began long silence.
Our host turned his back and proceed
cd to take off his makeup, regarding
us all the while in the mirror. And
presently all of the makeup was off
and Richard was himself again
He turned from the mirror and
looked at us the way Jane used to look
at Willie Baxter, and then he said,
sorrowfully: well, what are you 60
ing to say?'
We gazed at him. and with our best
brand of sang froid said: Nothing at
all. We came to hear you talk" What
we had really resolved to dc was to
sit there until Mr.. Bennett was ready
to lock up and then leave him with d
silence as deep as his own. But it evil
IDENTIFY got on his nerves before it rot
on ours and he spoke
"Of course, you are going to talk .
he said pleasantly. "You are COIN,
TO say: Oh. Mr.. Bennett. how is it tha,
you arc not doing .ropaganda play .
] thought you always did propaganda
plays
And then shall say: My dear young
woman, don't YOU call this proDa
ganda play?' And thcr You VIII sar:
Why MIR. Bennett, how do you figure
tha. this is propaganda play >
Doesn't propaganda play teach some
thing
"Aad chen shall say: 'of course
And doesn't The Unknown Purn,e'
teach something? ii teaches cir! not
10 can her husband because he look.
hike lemon. # she chooses ,na.e
because he has q polished exterior she
may ind that nice shiny pigskin some
times contains "a pig.
"'lt IS treatise on the dangers OF
divorce After you let me man q Won
may learn to your sorrow shat you cav
not live without him. becausc he has
more money than the man you picked
to take his place"
Even to our duh mind thi, sounded
tribe sarcastic but Mr.. Bennett did
not wait fov US to make any comment
And now" he went on. "you say to
me; How is K. Mr. Bennett. that Won
mover have gone on the musiea' comedy
stage" And shall say: I never have
gone on the musical comedy stage be-
cause | didn't think it was fair TO all of
those other people who sing and dance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
Continental Comedies Series

John D. Williams intends to follow
"Sleeping Partners" with series Of
Continental comedies. The next is to
be satirical comedy, Moral" This
play has the distinction Of having
been ordered suppressed by the Kaiser.
The third comedy, as French in form
and matter as sleeping Partners" is
"The Scandal at Monte Carlo" also by
Sacha Guitry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
"Friendly Enemies"
For Men in Uniform

Tonight at the Hudson Theatre
"rriendly Enemies" the seasons
relgning success, in which Louis Mann
and Sam Bernard are starring, win be
presented to the men in uniform.
Grace George, who heads the Stage
"omen's War Relief made an arrange
ment with Mr.. Woods for the presenta
ton OF his play. Men in uniform are
welcome
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
In London

American soldiers arriving in London
are surprised to find seven West End
theares presenting American plays.
These include the Apollo, Soldier
Boy; Drury Lane, "Shanghai"; Gaiety,
Going Up; Playhouse. "Thc Naughty
Wife; Prince Of Wales, "Far and
Warmer; st James, eyes of Youth"
and Savoy, Nothing But the TRUTH