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THE COMET n UkUU; 111 f I tAIIS. IT! 1 r Wi m m i in i w L Couuh byruu. T au Uotxi. Use I In ttmn, Hnlrt hv rtniiwlMn. Mon:y to Loan. Six pur cent iutoreHt ou gilt edge town property or good farms. Apply to W. O, Mathes & Bon. 851-tf. Cold Dust Aur w'll please the nest of you. Hoe or 'phoue J. S. Oallihor & Co. if you want gasoline. Chase fc Sanborn's teas and coffees are the best. You get them only at Jackson's. The best flour is Gold Dost. Kingan's dried and canned meats at Jackson's. You can buy gasoline cheaper from J. S. Oalliher k Co. than anywhere else. (old Mutt flour best made. Headquarters for Ralston Breakfast food at Jackson's. '. Peanuts, fresh from the roaster, at Jackson's. Buy Gold Dust flour. The best soap is "Brag" at Jackson's. The greatest variety, tho purest and freshest candies can always be found at Jackson's. COUNTY MANAGERS WASTED. , 3,000,000 in use. t Wide, clear fields, f Free territory. Rare oner, write toa ay. West Percolator Co., Columbus, Ind. For Rent. Sevon-room house. Annie Tatton, corner tauga. Apply to Miss Boone and Wa- Dwelling tor Sals. A modorn dwelliug on AVatanga av enue, House contains 10 rooms and is in good repair with necessary outbuild ings. Apply to I. T. McNees. Lost. A child's gold necklace containing two gold heurts, one engraved Mary. The finder will be suitably rewarded by returning same to The Combt of fice. This signature Is on every box of the genuine Laxative uromo-Quinine Tabiou the remedy that euros a cold In one day Alvord's Sentence, New York, Jan. 16. Cornelius L. Alvord, Tr., the defaulting note teller of the First National bank, was today suntenccd to thirteen years' imprison meat. The amount of his defalcation was f 690,000. Start the twentieth century right. Quit patroniziug the oil trust and use a cheaper, better and more convenient light. See B. A. Mathes and hare an estimate for lighting your house with electricity. Bo progressive. tf. The county court of Sullivan county in session at Blouutville, voted upo n recommendation of a special commit tee, in favor of the erection of a sub stantial jail at the county seat. Plans will be made and bids received. Stops the Cough and works off the Cold' Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day. No Cure, No Pay. Price 25 cents. 1 Hardware,, M CUKtS M Bual 13 1 wholesale Snsh, Doors and Blinds, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Glass "Genuine Candy," Rubber and leather belting, Coal and wood heaters, Cook Stoves and Ranges, Cement, Lime and building material in general. "Studebker" Wagons, "Oliver Chilled" Plows. Guns arid Ammunition. Loaded Shells.at 40c Per Box. We endeavor to carry line. Come to us for prices. Sums, ittllf 1. - " If you want Mm DELIVERED AT iO Cents PER WEEK BY MAIL, ONE YEAK, $5 MONTHS, $1.50; ONE X CARL H1CKEY, Local Agent. J. F. Toney was in the city Monday. II. 0. TIart spont Sunday at homo in this city. How do weather? yon like the new century Judge S. J. Kiakpatrick was up from Jouesboro," Tuesday. Foster Uohs has gone to Birmingham to visit his brother Fred. AT i u a Trana C i 7 rriw e9 Aaliavillsi id the guest of Mrs. T. B. Strain. J. E. Hayes has moved into the Wor- loy proporty on East Main street. Mrs. O. W. nodge has returned from a visit to Mrs. Ed Elsom at Bristol. Miss Gertrude Taylor is visiting the family of Gov. Taylor at Knoxville. O. M. Hayes left yesterday for Knox ville and other points down the road. Sheriff J. I. Hawkins and Mrs. Hawkins are up from Jonesboro today. Dr. Nat Dulaney. Jr.. of Bristol, is traveling with Gov. Taylor through the Sonth. , , ,' Rev. Jas. A. Burrow has been the guest of his brother, Hon. Uobert Bur row, tins week. T. A. Cox has purchased the McKay property ou Main streot, and is repair ing the store room to rent. W. It. FitzsimmonB. euitor of the Eliznbothton Mountaineer, come down l uesday to near George li. Weudlmg lecture. A large hawk was killed last week at Robin's Boost, tbe home of Hon. A. A. Taylor. The bird measured 4 leot and 2 inches. Mr. and Mrs. D.J. Hickman and children spent the day yesterday at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Q. O. Hale at Flourville. Gudger Sindley fell into a tank of boil ing water at the Foundry and Machine Co. last week and was badly scalded, but is recovering. Frof. J. T. Browning has been elec ted to fill the vacancy in the public schools caused by the resignation of Prof. W. P. Crouch. Mr. and Mrs. Genio Cardwell of Ab ingdon, came to the city yesterday and will be the gnosts for a few days of Mr. and Mis. J. W. Cardwell. Mrs. W. K. Beals left Tuesday for Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. Dr. J. F. Arnold accompanied her. We hope she will return much im proved. Mrs. Frank Hunt, of Chattanooga, who came here a few days ago with the remains of hor husband, went up to Bristol Tuesday to visit and will go from there to Chattanooga. M. C. Curtis has purchased the lot ou the corner of Boan and Fairview streets and will build a modern resi dence. He is moving the cottage that was on the lot to the rear and will make it face Roan street and overhaul it to rent. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is ou each box. 25c. . A A neat line of fine, solid gold, fUM li ESSBSIHE SET E1MS, See W. T. HILL. tSTStoek atM. Jackson's store 1 A 4 M few M K M. lav mL. i EaL WL el fed . I., i -i Retail.,. Hardware the best of everything in our a first-class New spaper, one that can be relied upou subscribe for the Ml ffliraeiF. 1. 6 0 4 IST.MQNTHS, $a.6o; THREE MONTH, 50 CENTS. Finger Bardly Hurt William A. Lewis had a flngor caught in a pulley at the Harris Mauufactur ing company last wcok, and the end of it torn off. It became necessary to amputate the finger at the first joint. On aocouut of the peculiar injury the lingor gave Mr. Lewis so much pain Tuosday that it was thought by his family that he was dying. Dr. E. 8. Miller was called and gave relief, and he is now very muoh better. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TAKING WThen you take Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonio because the formula is plainly printed on every bottle Bhowing that it is simply Iron and Quinine in a taste loss form. No Cure, No Tay. 50o. Will Move to Knoxville. A Knoxville correspondent of the Chattanooga Times Bays: Dr. nomer T. Wilson, the noted Texan orator and humorist, will muke Knoxville his home after next April. He has purchased a handsome home on Fourth avenue, opposite that of ex Gov. Taylor, and the two humorists and lectures will in the future be neigh bors. Dr. Wilson is at present lectur ing under the management of the De Long Lyceum association, the same with which Gov. Taylor is counceted. N. & W.'s Acqusition. Cincinnati, Jan. 14. Upon the high est authority it cau be stated that the Cincinnati, Portsmouth and Virginia road had been sold to the Norfolk and western railroad, uu Saturday pa pers passed in New York between those in control of each property, binding a sale and purchase. Final transfer of the Cincinnati road to the Norfolk and Western will occur on Monday. The Beit Preicription for Malaria, Chills and Feyer is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonio. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. o cure no pay. Prioe 50c. Big Flonring Mill. Jouesboro, Tenu., Jan. 14. A com pany composed of three of Jonceboro and Washington county's best and most energotio business men has been or ganized, which will, as soon as the eather will permit, begin erecting a flour mill on the Fink & Hickey slaugh ter house lot, almost within the busi ness part of town. Tho building will be three stories high, of brick, and will be supplied with first-class machinery. The amount of capital invested will be at least $00,000. The stockholders are C. O. Cox, A. P. Mathes and W. P. Diehl. They hope to have the mill in operation by tho middle of the summer Jonesboro is a splendid locution for 1 flour mill. Over 40,000 bushels of wheat were shipped from here in 1 000. A Cow Tale. For the second time within twelve months a cow belonging to J. 1 Lylo, a prosperous farmer living near John son City, has dropped three calves, making six calves from one cow in twelve monihs. Nothing like it has ever before been known in this section, The cow perhaps knew that the prodi son, Jim, had come home from California and wanted to supply the fatted calf, and overdid the thing. We beg to suggest to the lucky owner of this prolifio-bovine that he advertise new stock of cattle to be known as the "Lyle Stock." There's millions in it. Tennessee Postal Changes. The postoffioe department has order ea tliat tne following postomces in Greene,Snllivan and Washington coun ties be discontinued January 19. The patrons of the offioes will thereafter be supplied by the rural free delivery: Greene county Chucky City, Hen- shaw, House Creek, Painter, Rheatown, Slatemonnt and Lovelace. Sullivan county Harbour, Ken drick'B Creek and Pactolus. Washington county Pilot Hill and Manks. Wendling's Lecture. Hon. George R. Wedliug filled his dato in the city last Monday evening. The opera house was crowded with a representative audience from this city and surrounding country and all were highly entertained and pleased with this, the fourth lecture of the Group of Stars course. ; Mrs. L. E. Bailey, of New York, National Organizer of the W. C. T. U., the tried and true champion of the borne agains tne saloon, will give one of her famous lectures in Johnson City tonight. Mrs. Bailey has boon engagod in the temperance work for twenty- five years; was a friend and co-laborer with Frances Willard, and has spoke in eyeay state and territory in the Union. Listen to what the press says about her: "One of those captivating speakers who at once seizes the atten tion of her hearers and holds them spell-bound throughout her entire dis course. JVliadletown. (JN. 1.) Times, "Gems of silent thought and polished diction one of the finest workers in the nation. "Monroe Ci ty (Mo. ) News, Did not enter into a tirade of abuse relative to the liauor traflic. but strong ly pointed out the evil consequences of T 11 M 11 "TT V Tf 1 1 M K it.' suiioiK I v a. ) iieraiu. 11 you ran to hear this noted speaker you will miss a rare opportunity. The Greeneville Republican, hereto fore published by C.,M. Lyon, has changed hands, Mr. Lyon having sold Out to a local company. The paper will continue to be a republican one. There is a general belief in Nashyille that a bill will show itself before long in both ' houses, compelling all tele phone, telegraph and electrio compan ies, to put their wires underground. The bill will come from Chattanooga. Senator It. R. Butler, of Mountain City, is very ill in his rooms at the Maiwell, and there is some fear that he may not be able to stay in Nashville during the session. Fifty-one Years an Active Preacher. Forty-ono years ago, had one gone into the Church street Methodist church on a Sunday morning, a tall, symmet rical man would have been seen in the pulpit, fluent of speech, with a muiscal voice, graceful of gesture, who never failed to captivate his audience His eloquence flowed easily, naturally, and at times poured iteelf out in irrestible torrents. He was one of tho most pop ular preachers in the Holstou confer ence, noted then for tho number of its strong men. His name was David Sullius. Yesterday morning before the begin ning of the regular morning service at the .Church Btreot Methodist church, Rev. Dr. Monk, tho popular pastor, stepped down from his pulpit and spoke to a tall man, who stands remarkably erect, and escorted him iuto tho pulpit. His locks havo been whitened by tho frosts of more than three score and ten winters. His voice is still musical, his utterances are still emphasized by an old time unctiou, he is still fluent of peeoh, hesitates not for words and rarely fails to use tho best ones to ex press bis thoughts most impressively. He ofl'ered the opening invocation yes terday, and thoso who heard him rec ognized much of the same fire that burned on the altar of his hear whan ho was a young man, with locks like the raven's wing. Ho was Rev. David Sullius, D. D. Ho has changed much, the congrega tion that worships there has changed more. In all tho largo congregation that warshiped in the church on the first Sabbach of the twentieth century, there were perhaps not much more than a score who heard Dr. Sullins when he was pastor of the church. One looks in vain for Samuel T. Atkin, R. D. Jourolmon, Henry Ault, Abner Jackson, Anderson Hill and Mother Truslow and Mrs. I3oyd and others who were pillars of the church then they are all gone, Mr. Atkin being the last one to go, aud who was laid to rest iu Old Gray cemetery on Christmas day. More than fifty-one years ago, Dr. Sullins entered the itinerant miuistery of the Methodist Episcopal church, at a conference held at Abingdon, Va. He was admitted on taial and "admit ted on trial" meant much then. Tho usual custom was to send young preach ers on circuits, associated with some oldor and more experienced brother. And if he was to be put to a very severe trial he was sent to a 4 'hard" circuit, with plenty of work and not much pay. ' Dr. Sullin's first circuit was Burns ville circuit iu North Carolina. He muBt have given entire satisfaction at once, for he soon went to Asheville Station and then to other stations, con sidered the most desirable and import- 3 AGENCY ESTABLISHED IN 1886. 2 BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY BUILDING, CgT , 0"OH3Nrj3O3Nr CITY, TENN. 2g THE BEST OF EVERYTHING IN. IhiifriMlyrfiw xpected to Write an ad this iWeek COME AND SEE WHAT THE T WILL NTE VERY ant appointments in the conference, coining to Knoxville, as already stated in either 1858 or 1851), he was here the latter year. His life has been an active 0110. He is well known throughout East Tennes see, Southwestern Virginia and West ern North Carolina, having preached in almost every city, town and village in the territory mentioned and in hun dreds of country churches. Ho has no doubt dedicated more churches than any other living mnn in the state of Tennessee. For a man of his ago he is remark able. Thero is no apparent impairment of intellectual power. He would not bo able to preach so ofter as he did when ho was younger; but those who know and hear him will testify that "there is lifo in tho old man yet." The fires of his youth still burn aud blaze, his eye kindles with its wonted bright ness and he shows no sign that life js a burden. His caroer has been remark able. May he live long enough to Bee the new century started well on its journey. Knoxville Journal-Tribune. Tho Midwinter Missionary Confer ence of the M. E. Church, Sonth, has been in session in Johnson City this week, and snveral distinguished minis ters have been in attendance. Secret of Living in Salt. j Thero is sulino solace for persons with feeble heart action in the discoy ery announced by Profs. : Loeb and Lingle, of the University of Chicago. It may be that the salt trust can touch tho heart thnt even the joyous Christ mastido will not open. If these dis coveries prove to be all that is claimed for them a "pinch of salt" will be all that is necessary to stir a sluggish heart to action. As a result of a year's experimenta tion these professors have discovered that the salt in the blood in certain pro portions is the cause of the heart beat. They have found that certain electrio currents caused by the salt solution furnish tho life-prolonging principle which works upon the auricular and ventricular muscles and keep the heart in motion. It is easy to see that such a discovery, if based upon scientific ex actitude, must reveal tho secret of the prolongation of life. Indeed, it is claimed by Profs. Loeb and Lingle that the salt solution, injected into blood, will renew suspended heart ac tion. What causes the heart to pulsate has been the subject of investigation and speculation on the part of scientists for centuries. We know that the life prin ciple is centered in the "rhythmio ac tion" of the heart. It follows that if the causes of this rhythmio action can be discovered, man will get very near to the secret that has puzzled the phil osophers of the ages. It satisfies the average mind to say that the blood REST YOU. TRULY, n m STORE causes the heart to "beat," but tho scientist goes further than this. He desires to kuow what is in the blood that causes tho heart rhythm. In his experiments Prof. Loeb found that rhythmio contraction can be pro duced at will in the stripped muscle of tbe frog by the action of a single salt solution. The soientiilo something that causes tho heart to pulsate is be lieved to be a sort of eluctrical current which is- set up between two elements in Bait sodium and chlorine. One carries a positive charge of eleotricity while the other carries a negative charge. With salt at $1 a barrel delivered f. 0. b., no man ought to sit up nights worrying about his heart action. It is well known that chloride of sodium, or common salt, is the greatest of all preservations given by nature to man. It is absolutely essential to human ex istence. It would not be strange at all therefore, if it should be found to bear some vital relation to the pulsations of tho human heart. Chicago Times- Herald. Johnson City Lodge. No. 48(1. F. 4 A. M., enjoyed a feast at Geo. Brown's restaurant last Tuesday evening after an interesting meeting of the lodge. Stories of Phillip D. Armour. A little more than a year ago he made his last gift of $750,000 to Armour In stitute. The first intimation of the gift was made on a Sunday afternoon, when Dr. Frank W. Gunsaalus, presi dent of the institute, was conducting the Sunday school at the Armour Mis sion. Mr. Armour was on hand, beam ing on the exercises. After the ser yiees were concluded he said to Dr. Gunssnlus: A TV 1 1 . f "jjocior, u Beems to me you are taking a great many cares on yourself." "Yes, but they are delightful cares, and I love to assume them." " Well, Doctor, I have been think' ing of lightening them. I come to the conclusion that I will give the Institute some mouey. Call on me tomorrow and I w ill tell you more about it." When the transfer was made the next day, Mr. Armonr said : "I feel that the money I have put into the institute is the best investment I ever made, and the only ono that pays a dividend all the time and will pay it forever." Mr.: Armour was a firm believer in heridity. To such a decree did he practice this faith in heridity and home training that he chose the girl whom he made his wife by first seeking the acquaintance of a mother who came up to his ideals. Haying fonnd the moth er he was satisfied in advance that "any one of the daughters would do." He told the story . himself one day as he was congratulating one of his favor ite employes on his approaching wed ding : "You've got a good girl and I know it, though I never saw her. I know her parents, and they're fine. She's sure to be all right, for ; sheHas a good mother. That's the way I picked out my wife. I looked around a long time for a good mother with daughters, and I found her down in Cincinnati. I went down there and picked out the young est and prettiost of the girls. Then went to her mother and told her I meant to marry her daughter, : My frankness to her mother rather scared the girl at first and she seemed qnite afraid of me. But when she fcund outl wasn't such bad fellow she said 'yes ' and we were married. And you may be sure we have been happy. She couldn't help but be a good wife and mother, for her own mother was both." Miss Melvina Bello Ogden, daughter of Jonathan Ogden, of Cincinnati, was the girl whom Philip D. Armour thus won. One day several years ago a Chicago minister, apparently of the Chadband type, called on him and applied for help for a poor woman in his parish, whom he had found in poverty and destitu tion in the most trying hour of child birth. He was supplied with a sum ample for immediate needs, and re quested to see that the poor creature received necessary comforts with the least possible delay. This matter was speedily forgotten. Imagine his sur prise when Chadband returned the next day and said : ' " I have brought your money back, 1 Mr. Armour." 1 " What does that mean? " " My dear brother," said Chadband, "I am sorry to say that when I ap plied to you yesterday my information as to this case for Christian charity had been received only by hearsay. I discovered that the poor woman in childbirth is unmarried and living in sin. Sho has not sought salvation that is frooly oftVed without money and without price. I could not, there fore, cousciontiously givo her the money. To satisfy . my conscience I must, therefore, return it." Mr. Armour's indignation was arousod. He dismissed Chadband curtly. Then he sent a special mes senger to relieve tho unfortunate wo man and make her unhappy lot as easy as circumstances would permit. "Above all," ho said, in recalling this case, "a minister of tho gospol of Christ should have been tho first to show mercy on this fallen ono, and if she was in r.in aud the slough of de spond he should have been tho first to reach forth a hand to lift her out and start her on the right road." . A story which the men around his big plant iu the Btock yards often told about him gives an insight to his per sonal character. One Sunday after noon Mr. Armour was walking along tho Btreet, when he met an old Irish man named Michael O Shaughnessy, who had worked for him at difforont times for twenty years. O'Shaugh nessy was accompanied by his five chil dren, ranging in age from 2 to 15 years. One, a boy of 8, had no overcoat on, although it was a sharp, cold day. " Why don't you buy that boy a coat, Mike? " askod tho packer. "Well," answered the father, "I in tend to as soon as possiblo, but mouey has been scarce with me lately." Mr. Armour said nothing for a mo ment, and then added : " Do you ever go out on a strike with the other men when there is some dissatisfaction at the plant," "No, sir; you are good enough for me to work for," said Mike. Tho next day O'Shaughnessy was called into the packer's private office and was handed a check for f 100 and was also given a raise in salary of $1 a day for life. V No appeal that was not a fraud on its face was ever ignored by him without investigation. He once said he did not like the idea of refusing any mod est appeal without some investigation, as it might be from some person un fortunate but not worthy. " Strang ups and downs happen in this world," be added. "It is among the possibilities that my own son might see the time when he would ap peal for help to some man that had once been turned down by me. Stranger things have happened. For this reason I believe iu relieving human misery so far as it is in my power. For this reason it is well not to turn a deaf ear to any deserving case of charity." V The story goes that Mr. Armour was once a railroad brakeman. It was told by George A. Sheldon, who was for years the depot master of the Lake side station at Adrian, Mich, Mr. Sheldtrn, who was for a long time a conductor, said : " One day there stepped aboard my train a weu-uressea, business-appearing man, who, as he tendered his fare, remarked : ' I see you are still on the road, Mr. Sheldon.' 'Yes, I am still at it, I replied. ' but I am not certain that I remember you, tnougu 1 tninK 1 nave seen yon before. "'Yes you have seen me before, emphasized the passenger, ' and, while you doubtless have forgotten it, I still remember that you once did me the greatest favor of my lifo. Come to my seat wnen you get time, ana x win ten you about it.' "Wnen x naa nnisneu collecting fares I dropped into the stranger's Beat, and he continued : "Years ago I was four days a brakeman aboard your train. At the end of four days you took me aside and told me, in a tone of sympathy, that you were sorry to tell me so, but that I was too much of a fool to ever make a good railroader. You told me to take your advice and quit, and I did so. I went into another business, and the result is that I have made a fair fortune. I thank you, Mr. Sheldon, for your wise counsel.' . " 'What is your name 1 asked. " Thil D. Armour, of Chicago,' re plied my ex-brakeman, 'and I shall always remember your kindness. I was a stupid rauroaaer, ana you ad vised me for my good.' . . rr ... 7 I It .51.1 r . " until mis interview, auueu iur. Sheldon, "I never suspected that Philip D. Armour, the packer, was the brakeman I discharged years before." SPRINGS BtST KNOWN PREPARATION POM PISPUS, PUSTULES.TETTEB or SALT RHEUM, ElfJTCHES, T'XIiS, COILS, RINC Y.'2"a, mi ULCERS. SCROFULA A-D SYPHILIS. POWERFUL PUBIF1ER OF THE BL000 'ii ' Eicratonr orf im, nwmnt ibom mu in t , Im which utur lit I'anijr. 8ARSAPARILLA, YELLOW DOCK, 8TILLINCIA, PRICKLY ASH, IODIDES POTASSiU'i AKD tiiQH, IOO--FULL DOSES-10O in. is V FOR SALE AT City Drug Store. ill 'ill I