davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-07-11
Can't You Trust Me?"

Exchanged
There is in the Easter number
of Harper's Bazaar an illustration
a little shadowy picture that must
shake some women to the very soul,
that surely some women can not
look at for burning tears, WRITES
Ella Higginsen in West Shc1e.
1t is only a young man and younag
woman with their hands Oh each
others shoulders, their eyes look
ing deep into each others souls
But beneath this picture are these
words:
Cant you trust me, Rose2"
There is the whole of some wo-
mans life-story ia that story--all
the love, the doubt, the trusting
again and again, the dumb sorrow,
and the awful shrinking from that
heart-breaking question; Cant
you trust me?"
Saddlest of all hearts is that pure,
true one that loves deeply Gnd IN
selfshly, yet feels that the object
of its affection can not rise tg its
own level. Too strong ard unset
fish to cast the unworthy one aarift
for its own piece of mind, she
keeps what gentle hold she may
upon him 10y her tender influence,
her pure love, her quiet self-denial.
For him this means a gay life
apart from hers, and the proud
happiness of knowing that the We
man whom he really, in his selfish
way, loves, belongs to him and is
true to him, For her it means
sleepless nights and lonely tears
and endless prayers; it means q
gradual wearing away Of life ia
hurts and carelessness and forgot
ton attentions; it means sad lips
and aching hearts and wistful eyes
eyes that are ever looking for,
and ever shrinking from, some new
) hurt, some greater sorrow, or a
repetition of that awful question;
5 Cant you trust me?"
To which she must answer al,
{ ways, with pale lips and achinz
heart;
+, ~Yes, dear; yes"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-07-11
A Menace TO Free Government.

New York Wondl
Will this country consent that
the political complexion of Con
gress shall be termined at Wash
ington? Shall Representatives be
chosen by their constituents or be
selected by the Speaker and the
Republican National Committee,
Matthew S. Quay, chairman?
This is the condition which con-
fronts us. Party leaders who pos
sess unlimited power will resort to
crime when their ascendency is
threatened.
In 1877 the Republicans devised
a plan for holding the federal Of
fees by which the will of the peo-
pie was thwarted. Grave judges
of the Supreme Court were accom-
plices In the wicked conspiracy.
Within the present year, in order
to hold at least one branch of the
Legislative department, the major
ity of the United States Senate has
voted for the admission of Terrific
ries to Statehood which do not cast
as many votes as single assembly
district Of this city In order to
increase the Repuh lean majority
in the House, arbitrary power has
been bestowed upon the Speaker,
and the Representatives of the
people have been robbed of theil
righttodebate and deliberate. Un-
der this power Mr.. Reed has driver
out of Congress Representative
elected by the people, and has
seated in their stead their defeated
opponents.
Suppose that such a law as tina
proposed in the Lodge-Rowell bill
had been on the statute-books il
1856? Slavery was threatened ant
the rule of the Southern Democ
racy was doomed. But the court
were in their hands. The super
> visors of elections would have beer
: their tools. The emissarins of th,
party would have had the right +
search the houses of citizens, t.
i drive them from the polls, to hau
l them before juries composed en-
9 tirely of their political adversarie'
u to count their votes and to certif
. to a partisan clerk of the Hous
the names of the men elected
S Slavery would have lived, free goH
a ernment would have died, and des
e potism would have triumphed-
e Concentrated power means t,
+ ranny. Diffused power means lii
y erty. If We are to preserve tha
each district must choose it's Rel
is resentative untrammeled and eac
1t State must certify the result,
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-07-11
I" Yes, dear; yes"

THE only thing that the South
cares for in connection with the ne
gro exodus which certain northern
papers have been wasting breath
over, is that it is sorry for the ne
gro. The negro is best off as he is,
and while the South can easily
spare him, he should not, for his
own good, rush into bad company.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-07-11

1T has been more than seven
months since the F'ifty-frst Con-
gress convened, and yet, besides a
number of insignificant and local
measures, only one law has been
enacted. That law is the statute
providing for a dependent pension
allowance. The main business thus
far has been the addition of rotten
Republican boroughs to the States
of the Union, for the purpose of
strengthening the Republican, party
in power, and Of turning out Dem
ocratic members of both bodies in
order to fill their places with Re-
publicans who had previously been
repudiated by their respective con-
stituencies. The date of a possible
adjournment is not yet visible
Nashville American.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-07-11

The Republicans celebrated the
one hundred and fourteenth ami
versary of the United States by
putting liberty in chains, Savan-
nah News.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-07-11

A REPORTER for a Columbia, S.
G., paper, who was sent out to in
vestigate complaints about the GEN.
sus, asked the first fifty he met
whether they had been counted.
Forty-rine had not seen the emu
merators. Some of the principal
business houses have not been Wis
tied. The enumerators were all
negroes, and many Of them unac-
quainted with the city. And yet
we have been told that the Repub-
lican party is the business-like
party. 1t certainly seems to be its
business to cause the South to make
a poor showing in the census.
Memphis Avalanche.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-07-11

The Republican papers that
howled loudest for civil-service re-
form during President Cleveland's
! Administration are serenely silent
1 now.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-07-11
GENERAL NEWS.


are better than ever before known.
Senator Sherman's large fortune
yields him an annual income of II
per cent.
Gross irregularities are charged
in the census returns of San Fran
cisco, Cal.
The Knights of Pythias are as
sembled i'll biennial conclave at
Milwaukee, Wis.
The business portion of lola, ILL.,,
a small place, was entirely destroyed
by fire the 9th instant,
The New Orleans custom-house
sustained serious damage during a
thunder storm the 7th instant.
Hot winds that have blown sew
eral days are occasioning grave
fears for the corn crop of Kansas.
A cloud-burst in Richland Coun-
ty, Wis, Che first of the week, oc-
casioned a loss of more than $780,
600.
The first bale of new cotton was
sold at Atlanta, Ga, the 5th instant.
! 1t was raised by negroes in Baker
! County, Ga.
The first coming together of the
National Educational Assembly
took place at st. Paul, Mimi,
the 9Th instant. Fifteen thousand
teachers are present.
, Twenty-one horses tied to a wire
= fence at funeral in Missouri the
t other day were knocked down by a
streak OF lightning which was trav-
. cling over the wire. Four of them
D. were killed.
a A bigamist now under arrest al
L Akron, Ohio, is said to have nc
e less than seven wives They live
in various parts of the country,
y and he has married them all within
n the past ten years.
y A prize Of $1O0 was offered by
It the Washington Post to the perso1
+ guessing nearest the population O
e Washington City, and remarkabl,
i to say, three persons hit the exac
d number, 229,796. They agreed tx
i divide the money.
n The town of Fargo, N. D., wa
y swept almost entirely away by
= cyclone Monday morning. TIL
telegraph wires leading to the plac
J. were blown down, and nothing of
l. fetal as to loss of life and propert,
J. has been sent out.
ct A special train on the Illinoi
d. Central Railroad, carrying abou
l. six hundred members of Knigt
Il of Pythias Ell route to Milwaukee
s. Wis, was derailed at Manteno, Ill
Il Monday morning. One man wa
c. killed and fifty persons seriousl
ct injured.
b. AtKnoxville, Tenn, last Sunda,
le William Kent shot and killed hi
is mistress, Mrs. Lizzie Hatcher, an
ze then killed himself. The deed wa
= prompted by jealousy. Kent wa
a married man, and his wife an
~ two children are in destitute ci,
n cumstances.
a Joe Smith, at Mount Hope, Ont
al hoisted a United States flag ovC
en- his residence last Friday in honc
te of the Fourth. He refused to r,
On move itat the request his neighbo
us and they riddled the flag with bu
en- lets and divided the shreds amor
es the crowd. Smith hoisted a secor
of flag, and it met a similar fate.
ty The most wonderful discover
NJ of gold ever heard of is report,
in from Tin Cup, Colo. 1t is sa
ie- some of the dirt will yield 5000
en- worth Of gold to the ton. Two m,
m are now said to be taking out $50
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-07-11

"GoD help the surplus!" said
Corporal Tanner when he took the
pension office. Tanner went, but
his work is out done. The surplus
isnow pasthelp New York World.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-07-11

The enforcement of such a law
as the proposed Federal election
law will saddle upon the country
an expense variously estimated at
from $l0,OOO,OOO to $15,OOO,OO0 for
every election that is held. Are
the people, in the present condi-
ton of the National finances, and
in the depressed financial condi-
ton that they themselves are in
prepared to spend this much money
for mere partisan luxury?-
Washington Post.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-07-11

In an interview with the Roches-
ter Union, a Democratic paper, Bob
gIngersoll says: 81 believe in pro-
tecting what are called the infant
industries, but after these infants
get to be 6 feet high and wear No.
IL boots it is about time to stop
rocking the cradle, especially when
lthe infant tells you that if you
stop rocking he will get cut of the
cradle and kick your head off"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-07-11

PERHAPS it would save time and
trouble to pass one general pension
law that every inhabitant of the
United States shall have pension
of $50 a month. That would be a
glorious era. And the best of it
is that the pensions would not cost
our people anything, for do not
the protectionist philosophers tell
us that our taxes are paid by for
eigners?-Bosto Globe.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-07-11

THERE are 147, 900 Democrats in
the State of Kansas, but the State
of Kansas is represented in Con-
gress by a solid Republican dele
cation. And in the face of such
gerrymandering, Kansas Republi-
cans prate about wanting free
ballot and fair count in the
South! Huntington Democrat.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
Artemus Wards Last Joke,

Joseph jefferson, in his autobiogra
ply in the Century, relates what was
probably the last jest of Artemus
Ward.
When the famous wit lay diving in
Southampton he was tended by his de-
voted friend "Tom" Robertson. the
English playwright, who was also a
friend of Jefferson.
"Just before Wards DEATH" writes
Mr.. Jefferson, Robertson poured out
some medicine in a glass and offered it
to his friend.
Ward said: MY dear Tom, can't
take that dreadful stuff
"'Come, come said Robertson,
urging him to swallow the nauseous
drug; there's dear fellow. Do now,
for my sake; you know I would do
anything for you
Would your said Ward, feebly
stretching out his hand to grasp his
friends, perhaps for the last time.
*I would, indeed said Robert
son.
"'Then you take it, said Ward The
humorist passed away bat few ours
afterward."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
Rooted to the snot.

I heard story the other day about
the former assistant rector of one of the
largest Episcopal churches in the city,
The gentleman in question is now
the president of college so far away
that he cannot mind if 1 relate the Incl
dent. He was jolly good fellow when
he lived in boarding house here, and
in his off hours he was accustomed to
join in with the other good fellows of
the house at a friendly game of whist
or a smoke.
One evening when he was out at
service two of the wags of the estab-
lishment remembered that it was his
invariable habit upon returning home
to dof his roundabout vest and clerical
coat. put on an old smoking jacket and
encase his feet in q pair of morocco
slippers, which latter always occupied
the same position on his bedroom floor
preparatory to his coming. Accordingly,
they firmly nailed these slippers to the
floor, and awaited results in the next
room.
Presently the dominic returned.
They heard him moving about; they
heard the thud of the shoes as they
were taken off and thrown down, and
then all was silence. They peeked
cautiously in, and there beheld the
young clergyman standing in his slip
pers, his face as white as sheet, and q
look of horror upon it, his eyes staring
straight ahead. The sight was too
much for them, but they managed to
suppress their laughter, and ask in a
tone OF amazement what the matter
was.
Matter" he gasped, 'sthere is matter
enough, boys. I'm paralyzed, and can't
move hand or foot. For mercy sake
help me-"
The man did actually, such is the
force of imagination, believe he was
paralyzed for moment or two, but he
finally set 'em up, in manner appro-
pirate to his calling, by buying cigars
for the crowd.-Broohlyu Life.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
Tendency to snecia,isn

The increasing tendency to special
ism in all trades and professions is
nowhere more marked than in the med
ical profession, where the young M. ID.
finds himself, before his sheepskin is
fairly in his hands, considering the
desirability of the throat and lungs, I"
or the "eye and ear" or some other
equally profitable combination of dis
orders. The result is that the "family
doctor" of the old time, who attended
family from birth to death, and who
was the repository of all its woes and
weaknesses, is no longer a real exist
ence. And the average well-doctored
mortal who wishes to be reasonably
careful with his health finds himself
strangely divided up among half a
dozen specialists. To one he intrusts
the care of his eyes, to another his
throat, to third his digestion, to a
fourth his nerves, and, if it please
Heaven to affiict him with more disor-
ders than these, he finds Specialist"
waiting down the road to welcome each
| one.
No doubt there is good healthy
reason at the bottom of all this and
real benefit to be derived therefrom.
No doubt the marvellous strides of
medical science within the last fifty
years have made the necessity for the
| specialist, but it touches ones sense of
the comic to have the experience Of a
young woman who wished not long ago
to consult DR.. Smith, an eye and ear
specialist. She went to large build
ing given up to the use of physicians.
You mistake, madam" suid the first
physician to whom she presented her
self, II am not DR.. Smith for the eve
and ear, am DR.. Smith for the throat
and lungs"
"And is that Dr. Smith for the eve
and ear across the hall?"
mo, madam" he answered gravely.
Chat is DR.. Smith for the heart and
stomach. DR.. Smith for the eye and
ear is five doors down the corridor"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12

A FATHER, when his daughter be-
CAM bride, gave her golden casket
with the injunction not to pass it into
other hands, for it held charm which
in her keeping would be of inestima-
BILE value to her as the mistress of the
house. Not only was she to have the
entire care of it, but she was to take
it every morning to the cellar, the
kitchen, the dining-room, the library,
the bedroom, and remain with it in
each place for five minutes, looking
carefully about. After the lapse of
three years the father was to send the
key, that the secret talisman might be
revealed. The key was sent. The
casket was opened. It was found to
contain an old parchment, on which
was written these words: "The eyes
of the mistress are worth one hundred
pairs of serv ants hands," The wise
father knew that practice of inspec-
ton followed faithfully for three years
would become habit and be self
perpetuated-that the golden caske
and the hidden charm would have &C
complished their mission.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
Light at Last.

What sort of a reputation has he for
honesty?" 40 ''-
"For what?"
"For honesty?"
Whats that?"
DO you mean to tell me, you block
head, that you don't know what honesty
is?" "' Aonesty
:, Never heard of it before. What is
What ~ do you do for living?"
Il drive coal cart"
Rants Horn. e
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
Struck by LIGHTNING

Sailors are proverbial for their big
yarns, but they can't get much ahead Of
river men. The other day Captain J.
u. Parker got hold Of Captain Gibson,
and he said, b.
Dave, you recollect when I was
mate on the Yazoo and that streak OF
lightning struck me as I stood
near the jack staff, in that terrible
storm, and you all thought I was dead
for sure?"
"Oh. yes, very we'll; but where did
the lightning go to, anyhow"
boot"
And you never We're hurt?"
NO, Sir, not u bit. / just took my
boot OFT and poured the lightning out
on the deck"
And the two worthless went to look at
the weather map.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
Surprised lIis Wife.

A well-known farmer went to Erie,
"a, last Saturday evening to buy new
suit Of clothes. and after making the
purchase he got jag. While coming
nome at night the idea came into his.
maudlln brain to surprise his wife by
appearing dressed in fine clothes. Stop
ping III the road he undressed and
threw his old suit into a creek, not
knowing that he had lost his new one
out OF the wagon. Unable to fad
either suit he was obliged to wander
home arrayed like Zulu, and, Of
course, surprising his wife.-Chyistta,s,
.1uCocate.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12

THERE is nothing pleasanter to use
as cure for rough or sunburnt skin
than slices of raw cucumber. 1t is q
much cheaper remedy than any of the
preparations in bottles, and the best
way is to cut off slice and rub the
juice we'll into the skin and then dry
with towel.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12

DOMESTIC servants are so scarce in
Montreal that women in want of help
are said to visit the Jail with view to
engaging young woman to work for
them at the close of their term of i'm
Drisonment.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12

A MOST peculiar case is reported
from Edwardsville, III. Mary A. Walsh,
an orphan of IL, has been for some
time suffering from severe pains in the
head. An examination revealed the
presence in the head of screw worms.
These worms are developed from eggs
deposited in the nose by the Texas fly.
They average in size from one-half to
three-quarters of an inch in length,
and are one-quarter of an inch in
diameter. Fiftyseven of the worms
were removed
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12

THERE are 1877 daily and weekly Ger
man papers published in the United
States and Canada.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12
OYarXOrk.

The great labor movement, though it.
IS serious thing, is not without its
humors.
1t is said that, following strike in q
cllder-vlnegar factory in Maine village,
the wag of the place was asked:
Why did the men strike up at the
vinegar factory?"
Il understand" said he. chat it was
because the cider was working more
than ten hours a day."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12

A TRIAL has been made at Civita
Vecchia of nautical ball invented by
Signor Balsamello. It is seven feet in
diameter and can hold four persons.
When closed it sinks, and is steered
and propelled under water by rudder
and screw. 1t has windows and Crap
piers, and, besides fishing up things, it
may be used for destructive purposes
in time of war.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12

- MAT
/. to; ,.,,is night S1
FL ,s noon !. in NY y
E Of cheek ~"
| ). ,,aSl was ;a mi
h., iii Re, bean m!
\ ,'G a. ne ta i,o WA
+ r.' i the moon
|. Mo-, would not t,
tIa; ,at slept. b,
b, S, ..d uroi, my, my
|,.;tile moon $
k!s,i,'s yeli bent nj 70 70 !,
ki.a.T might tears RS,
Etu,y NE ,,. ave- tll1
Fa.'..G5, 'f in the lish
l;,ss, '.SS Daatia7"G
/ BRAY3
BY GENEVA
| ny dear Ey |
H, Injuln-sca
b.I,earted frie
| quite 50 sarca /:
Erlgsy. 1t is j
Who would
+ TO speak slia
Mr.. Van
live India1
'berby in asst
|, Miss Derb3
{es.lulo1ls s.
for Evalyn.
snd, the gen y,
! ~ us wit It
[Bills Buff
he original !
slo Bill for s
elevated he
men Richard
a traveller y
many lions.
he'd sho1
Is, that's
soto VOC
iag par
il to his fri
listening
amused
this subje
order my
as he ros
on the sol
onn ask
(Iills. L
keep q
0 come nd
innocent.
b him, for
men go VII
b since l
much more
letters to
glae what
arling-"
Heavens S
short, or
one" excl
horror; "
)or if the
niger is to
d, we ha
BIT once.
to q fell
moods, b
\men-may
Hear Hal,
10 easily
Interested
|rgh and b
be tempt
blood be U
AIRY, witt
espalT.
sh you'd t
habit 20
bling me
said wit
Meta, "
what o
JUS man
ertain, if
m, | will
Harry-wa
ho stool a
day Rid
inguishe|
was aw
"a to re
but Eve
Of her
Household
with thu
$ noted.
Pinted wi
appear
yalyn's
and she
Mills wo1
her.
el more
! the br
ance he
'ughing
(ergh wa
ler ban
with a g
(tever di
: ezperiell
teinberg
sat list
Fible aq
tigers, i
We're Il
deeds.
dears!
woman
'es over
hn look
as regal
! aWn "a
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12

HERE is no mansion in heaven for
the man who treats his wife like mule,
and expects her to be au angel:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12

The Empress of Germany has mill
tary tastes as we'll as her husband. AT
the late grand review on Templehof-
field she was in the saddle for two
hours, riding superbly, and leading her
own regiment of cuirassiers past the
Emperor. Her uniform as colonel was
habit of white cloth, embroidered on
shoulders and collar with the red and
silver colors of the regiment, and a
three-cornered white felt nat with many
ostrich feathers, in which she looked
remarkably pretty.