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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-12-16
A SPLENDID OFFER
a. ga LIFE SIZE PORTRAIT FREE

I ANlNG made arrangements with the largest
Ii Portrait Copying house in the country
whereby guaranteeto buy of thema large num-
Der Of their portraits at their lowest wholesale
cash rates (as an advertisement Of their work.
l am now prepared to offer to my customers for
a short time) when their purchases have amount
ed to $50 at my store, a z life size CrayOn and
( Ink Portrait, copied from any good photo. they
may select free of charge. These portraits are Of
K the same size and quality as have been retailed
. for years at $40 each. In consideration that am
unframed portrait would be poor advertise
ment to the copying house they have made 1t con-
X ditional upon me that ] sell a frame with each
=, portrait, which they arctic furnish at wholesale
% for $3.50 each. give you the portrait free as
v a premium on purchase of goods, and secure you
Y the frame at lowest wholesale prices. ~ Sc
4. cure u ticket before ] exhaust my number, as
=" no more can be secured on these terms.
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period. Destruction of the school |
building and other heavy losses by !
a recent fire necessitated the clos
ing of his school for the time being.
Mr.. E. s. Cain, of McIllwain, who |
has been attending court this week,
says there is a compulsory feature
about this kind of counting which
destroys the novelty of the thing.
1t becomes monotonous, as it were,
and he signs for different order Of
things-two is company and three
is a crowd.
An alarm of fire was sounded
from the north side of the square
at $50 o'clock Wednesday evening
which proved to be the burning out
of chimney at the residence Of
Mr.. j. III. Farmer. The alarm was
the cause of considerable excite
ment, until the cause and nature Of
the fire was discovered.
Mr.. 7. j. Lynch, who came here
from Memphis last spring and was
married to Mrs. Delaney Lynch,
packed his trunk last Saturday
morning and left for parts I'M
known. The only explanation he
gave his wife was that he was 60
, ing elsewhere to seek employment,
and if successful would send her
funds occasionally in proportion to
| the amount Of his earnings.
Tax Collector w. J. Barnes has
been on hand this week to receipt
; the boys for all taxes due. Death
and taxes" are two things which we
are powerless to escape in this life,
but Collector Barnes can relieve
l you of the latter in manner which
: destroys all the unpleasant features
9 Of parting with hard-earned dollars.
J He will commence his last round
L of collecting taxes JanuarV2 1898
All accounts due Young Bros,
Huntingdon, by Benton County
a parties have been placed in the
i hands of Sheriff Kirk for collection
S without cost If youowe them any.
I thing you are requested to see the
y sheriff and make settlement The
/ business of Young Bros. will bt
continued at Huntingdon as here
!, tofore, and all favors from Bentol
IS County people are always appre
/ ciated. When you order your jus
b for Christmas remember them.
a Mr. 7. B. Cantrell, proprietor o
9 the well-known hostelry of the sam
name at Big Sandy, informed u
le Monday that he had in his posses
re sion S53 in money belonging to
to Mrs. Carter, who stopped at tn
X Cantrell House Sundaynight. Sh
" was probably about 60 years Of age
IN and informed them that she was &C
? ing to Elkton, Ky. The money wa
found in her room after she ha
~ left hurriedly on the early mornin
- train Monday. She can get tn
- money by applying to Mr. Cantrel
" The muddy, sloppy condition {
90 the sidewalks this week certainl
suggests to every one that pave
80 and graveled walkways are a goo
thing. They are certainly needle
to very much IN our little town, an
h. the matter should be looked aftC
oy at once by the property-owners
d. Camden. The work begun by son
FL of our citizens is a good exampl
d. Lets keep it up until our wives al
i'll our and daughters can get out witt
out the usual great inconvenienc
]. and accompanying horror of sole
va skirts and disfgured and injure
~ footwear.
H. Mr.. Sol. Newsome, who reside
Of 3 miles north of Camden, heal
81 some disturbance out at his stabl
early Monday mornino Int lift
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Items of Interest Gathered During the In
terval Between Publication Days.
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL NEWS,

rICIIND UP BY LOCAL REPORTERS.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-29
BALANCE OF TRADE

A balance of trade in our favor means
balance of profits in the pockets of our
people.
1t means that we are creditors instead
of debtors, that foreign Nations owe us
money or goods instead of our country
being in debt to foreign Nations.
Free Trade professors" pretend to
sheer at balance of trade and say it
represents no wealth.
Yet those very Free Trade "pro-
fessOrs" would far rather sell their text
hnnks tn English sLudonto and get back
good British gold in return than use up
their salaries in buying English books
without selling anything of their own.
A balance of trade is an index of a
country's business, of its purchases and
sales, of its profits or losses.
If it be profitable for an individual to
sell more than he buys and thus have
balance of mOney-virtually a private
balance of trade-in his favor, why is it
not just as profitable for Nation?
A balance of trade may be paid in
money, or in goods and services. Either
mode of payment inures to the profit of
the country in whose favor the balance
exists.
If the payment be in goods or services,
then the debtor Nation must bestir itself
to send these goods, whether of its own
or foreign production, or perform those
services. AS consequence, we get more
goods for less money than we would get
were there no favorable balance.
The beneficial effect of payment in
cash need not be explained. Money, it
is true, is not consumable, it cannot be
eaten or worn, but it has a far more i'm
portant function. Money is the life of
trade. Where money is plenty business
is active and enterprise awake. Where
money is eight industry stagnates.
So our country should welcome
favorable balance of trade. and it should
welcome the American policy of Pro-
lection, the only policy that has given us
a favorable balance in the past or will
give it in the future.-Tdrif Sermons in
american Economist
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

The large extension to the hotel is
completed and it's large and pleasant
rooms are being rapidly taken.
Twenty-six members of the Forest and
Stream Club took dinner at the Lake
Wednesday.
Mr.. Stearns expects to have his con-
cert hall completed before the first week
in August when the Shelburne Falls,
Mass, Brass Band are expected.
The remarkably pure water which
comes fresh to the hotel from spring
high on the bluffs is thought to equal the
the celebrated Poland water.
Cottage lots are being surveyed along
the charming drive from the hotel to the
outlet of the lake, and Walter E. Russell
will act as agent for the Association to
dispose of the same.
The new four horse coach of Livery
man Gilberts is rapidly popularizing
coaching. A delightful trip to the
mountains about three miles northeast
of the hotel where one of the finest views
among the mountains can be obtained.
P. r. Johnson, NJ. D., of New York
with party of New Workers, consisting,
of Miss Allie Feakins Mr.. and Mrs. HOl-
lister, Miss Dalbour, sister of the cele-
brated portrait painter, and Mrs. Gen
eral Leavenworth are stopping for few
weeks at the Lake.
That Raponda will soon become one of
the leading summer resorts in New Eng
land seems to be concluded by all who
have been there and no more promising
investment than cottage lot there can
be suggested for the nomial sum
charged.
Among the list of guests we notice the
names of DR.. D. A. Jones and wife, New
Haven, Conn; A. R. Smith and wife,
Mrs. j. H. Adams, Mr.. and Mrs F. w.
Streeter, of North Adams, Mass; Mrs.
G. A. Dewey, Miss Whitney and Mrs.
George Franklin Graves of Bennington
and many others from New York,
Springfield, Holyoke and elsewhere.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-29
A BISCUIT IN GALE

The following story from real life is
sent by Maine reader to whom it was
told by gentlemen from Arkansas:
They lived on plantation, ten miles
from neighbor, these two little, swar-
thy black-eyed lads, who answered to the
names of "Hank" and Jim"
Corn was king on that plantation, and
corn cooked in all sorts of ways was a
veritable staff of life to these boys; but
such thing as wheaton biscuit they
had never seen.
One day pap" and "ma'am" went
away on visit. They we're gone q
week, and two such utterly discOnsolate
boys, as were Hank and Jim during
their parents absence, would have been
hard to find. Late one afternoon, how
eyer, they arrived home.
'You got nothing for us, pap?' was
Hanks first query.
NO" was the answer, but | reckon
your ma'am has got something for
ye."
Ma'am took little, carefully wrapped
up parcel from her basket and gave it to
the expectant lad Hank, with big ex-
clamation point on his face, unwrapped
the mysterious gift, and disclosed some
thing that, to more experienced eyes,
would have resembled daintily- Drowned
tea biscuit.
The moment Hank caught sight of the
biscuit his face lighted up with glee.
He seized the tongs with his free hand,
caught up live coal from the fl eplace
and bounded out of doors, shouting as he
did so:
"Come on, Jimr'
Jim obeyed instantly. Hank carried
coal and treasure out to large fiat rock.
There he put down the biscuit and placed
the coal carefully up beside it.
"Blow, Jimr' commander the elder.
"Blowr'
Jim pulled his cheeks and blew like a
miniature cyclone. The coal changed
slowly to a fiery red. The elder
brother got so excited that he fairly
danced.
elbow, Jim. Blowp' he repeated:
elbow, and he'll have to stick his head
out pretty soonp'
They thought the biscuit was new
kind Of mud turtle.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-29
TIN TRHTHS.

An examination of the prices of tin in
Liverpool and the United States during
the period of low tariffs shows that the
English tin plate manufacturer con-
trolled absolutely the price of his goods,
The price during these years was low
cred or raised in Liverpool at will, and
of course the American price had to fol
low. The Mckinley law changed this.
The fact that the construction of num-
bers of plants for the manufacture of tin
plate was at once commenced, and that
several were put in operation opened the
eyes of the British manufacturer. When
the Mckinley bill passed Congress Melyn
grade tin was selling in Liverpool at
S5.04 per box of 10S pounds. The duty
of one cent per pound added $1.0S to the
cost in New York or Philadelphia, and
made the total cost, exclusive of freight,
$6.12 per box. The same tin is now
selling in Liverpool at $500 per box,
and the duty at 2.10 cents per pound,
which amounts to $2.37 and makes the
cost in New York and Philadelphia $5.S7
per box. The foreign manufacturer has
been compelled by the passage of the Nc
Kinley law to reduce the price of his
product to so low a rate that with the
higher rate of duty the price would be
lower than it was under the previous
tariff. This is what the Republicans
claimed would be the result. This has al
ways been the tactics adopted by the
foreign manufacturer as the first effort
to stop the development of any manu-
featuring here
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-29
CARNEGIF WAGES.

Democratic papers which supposed
that they would be able to make politi-
cal capital out of Carnegie Wages"
have thought better of it since the figures
of the wages actually earned by the
striking workmen at Homestead have
been published Mr.. Boatner of the
Congressional Investigating Committee,
an ardent Democrat and Free Trader,
who went to Homestead with the pur-
pose of utilizing in partisan way what
he might learn there, after the testimo-
nv given before the committee on this
point sat for a moment in daze, and
then said: II never heard of such wages
before" Chairman Oates of Alabama,
after the investigation, said: The man
who goes to Homestead with an idea
that he is going to find lot of ragged,
half-starved and ignorant strikers will
have great surprise before him. 1t is
a revelation in the way of a community
of wOrkingmen. They are men OF
thought. of action and of independence.
They have their homes, and the skilled
workmen earn from S65 to S215 per
month. 1t is not a poverty-strlcken
community, you may imagine.
Mr.. Prick stated to the committee that
one roller on the 26-inch mill earned in
"a DAYS 1885. O5, and another in "a days
S247. The six heaters on the same mill
averaged $3.50 per month. In the slab
bling mill, for II hours work, the heater
has received daily S6.37; the screwman,
S6.S1: the heaters first helper, S4.53; the
heaters second helper, $3.50; the crane
man, 1929, and the sherman, $500. In
the plate mill, for 12-hour day, the
roller has been paid daily, 1884; the
screwman, SL66, the second sherman,
IS. s.; the heater $1466, and the heaters
helper $40. These are the wages that
have actually been paid Here is a list
of the daily wages which, according to
complished iron statistician, would have
been paid to the various classes of work
men under the scale which they refused
to accept, and against which they orga-
nized the present strike.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-29
PRESIDENT HARRISON TO THE
TEACHERS.

President Harrison made another of
his admirable little speeches Tuesday of
last week before the National Educa-
tional Association at Saratoga. He
said:
ut is quite as appropriate, 1 think,
that the president of the United States
should review the teachers of the land as
that he should review its army orits mill
tia. For, after all, the strength and de-
Tense of our institutions, not only in
peace but in war, is to be sound in the
young of the land, who have received
from the lips of patriotic teachers the
story of the sacrifice which our fathers
recorded to establish our civil institu-
tions, and which their sons have repeat
ed on hundreds of battlefields. The
organized army of the United States, if
we include the militia of the States, is of
insignificant proportions when put in
contrast with the armies of the other
great powers of the world. Our strength
is not in these; it is in that great reserve
to be found in the instructed youth of
our land, WHO come to its defense in
time of peril. 1t was not of the baw-
lers, it was not of the frequenters of the
tavern, of which our army in the OWL
war was made, or of which our army
must be made if any great emergency Of
war again confronts us. recall battle
scene. The line was advancing against
the intrenched enemy; from behind
strong parapets eight doubled shotted
guns hurled their missiles of death into
the advancing line; there was a pause
that threatened an instant retreat, when
a stripping soldier, mothers boy, step
ed to the front with his cap in the air
and cheered the line on to victory. The
instinct of patriotism, or moral courage,
was triumphant over mere physical dar-
ing in that hour, and it always will be.
1t is not simply to give the power that
comes from education, but to give it safe
direction that schools are established.
He is not a benefactor of his race who
develops or misdirects power There
fore, we must insist that in all our
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-29
DISCOVERY DAY.

A Proclamation by the President.-OctOber
21st Appointed a Holiday.-EspeciaI
Reference to the Nations Schools.
WASHINGTON, July 21st.-The follow
ing proclamation was made public this
afternoon:
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
sTATEs-A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, by joint resolution, ap-
proved June Goth, 1892, it was resolved
by the Senate and House of Represent
atives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled "that the President
of the United States be authorized and
directed to issue proclamation recon-
mending to the people the observance in
all their localities of the 400th ami
versary of the discovery of America on
the DIST day of October, 1892, by public
demonstration and by suitable exercises
in their schools and other places of
assembly"
Now, therefore, 1, Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of Ameri-
ca, in pursuance of the aforesaid Joint
resolution, do hereby appoint Friday,
October Dist. 1892, the 400th anniversary
of the discovery of America by Column
bus, as general holiday for the people
of the United States. On that day let
the people, so far as possible, cease
from toll and devote themselves to such
exercises as may best express honor to
the discOverer and their appreciation of
the great achievements of the four COM
pletcd centuries of American life.
Columbus stood in his age as the
pioneer of progress and enlightenment.
The system of universal education is in
our age the most prominent and salutary
feature of the spirit of enlightenment
and it is peculiarly appropriate that the
schools be made by tire people the centre
of the days demonstration. Let the
National flag float over every school
house in the country, and the exercises
be such "a shall impress upon our youth
the patriotic duties of American citizen
ship.
In the churches and in the other places
of assembly of the people let there be
expressions of gratitude to divine Provi-
dence for the devout faith of the dis
coverer and for the divine care and
guidance which has directed our history
and so abundantly blessed our people.
In testimony whereof L have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
21st day of July in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and ninety
two and of the independence of the
United States the one hundred and
seventeenth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the President:
JOHN W. FOSTER,
Secretary of State.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-29
THE REPUBLICAN CHAIRMANsHIP

The Republican National Executive
Committee in its selection of Hon.
Thomas H. Carter of Montana for the
Republican chairman in the National
contest, says the New York Press, has
deserved the approval of the party. Mr..
Carter is Republican of energy and
ability, who is known as one of the
most loyal of President Harrison's
friends. His organizing capacity is I'M
questioned. He is tireless and indefa-
tigable worker. He has wide acquaint-
ances with the men who are leaders of
Republicanism in the States where the
Presidential election will be most hotly
contested. He was the unanimous
choice of the members of the Executive
Committee, his name having been
brought forward by members of the
committee whose support is an assur-
ance that he will have the united and
hearty cooperation of every Republican
in the country. Mr.. Carter, all the cir
cumstances considered, is the the right
man in the right place.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-29
THE PROCRUsTEAN METHOD.

troubles between employers and their
workmen that of compulsory arbitration
is the silliest. Who would be fool
enough to put money into building up
a manufacturing business with the GER
tainty confronting him that the
wages he should pay for labor could be
absolutely fixed by law by some other
persons than himself, and that he would
be compelled to pay these wages even
though in doing so the payment would
result in his bankruptcy and financial
ruin? How absurd that man shall be
compelled by law to do business on the
Judgment and experience OF others as to
his expenditures rather than on his own.
How absurd that workman shall be
compelled by law to labor for whatever
wages shall be named by arbitrators in
no way personally interested in the
question of what wages shall be paid for
such labor. And how shall such com
pulsory arbitration be enforced? Shall
the pockets of the man of money be
forcibly rifed of their contents to pay
rate of wages that he knows will bank
rupt him, and which he does not willing
ly consent to payp And how shall com
pulsory arbitration be enforced against
unwilling wolkmen? Shall they be
scourged and whipped to their tasks and
compelled to work like slaves for fixed
rate of wages that they know and feel is
not adequate compensation for the labor
performed And yet this is exactly what
compulsory arbitration means. No,
every workman should be permitted to
sell his labor in the open market for
whatever price it will bring, and who
AI,oA ,.rrl,k l. hn
punished as a criminal. And every en-
plOyer should be permitted to determine
for himself what price he will pay for
labor, untramelled by violence or
coercion, and whoever interferes with
that right does criminally wrong act.
If the workman does not want to work
for the wages offered there should be no
law to compel him to do so, but he has
no right to prevent any one else from
working at such rate of wages provided
there are others who desire so to do. On
the other hand no employer has the
right to compel a workman to work for
scale of wages fixed by himself if the
workman does not desire to work for the
wages offered. There ought not to be
any compulsion between employer and
employe which would compel either to
pay or to enforce payment of any rate of
wages not agreed to voluntarily by both,
and whoever tries to enforce compulsion
upon either does very wrong and
wicked act. PrOcrustes was an ancient
Greek robber who compelled his captives
to lie on bed on which he proceeded to
make them all of the same length by
cutting off the legs of those who were
too long to fit the bed and by stretching
out the legs of those who were too short
to fit. The Greek robber was killed by
Procrustean methods have never been
popular except with old fools who get on
to Congressional investigating COM
mittees and try to ride popular current
by traddle.-Sunddy Budget.
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There is danger here!

A terrlbIe phantom IS bending near;
With no human look, with no human breath
He stands beside thee-the haunter-Deathp'
If there is one disease more than an
other that comes like the unbidden guest
at banquet, it is catarrh. Insidiously
it steals upon you, with no human
BREATH" it gradually, like the octopus,
winds it's coils about you and brushes
you. But there is a medicine called Dr.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy, that can tear
you away from the monster, and turn
the sythe's point of the reaper The
makers of this wonderful remedy offer
in good faith standing reward of $500
for an incurable case of catarrh in the
head,
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-29

schools the morality of the ten command
ments shall be installed 1 rejoice
in nothing more than this movement re-
Gently so prominently developed of plac-
ing the starry banner above every school
house. have been charged with too
sentimental an appreciation of the flag.
1 will not enter upon any defense. God
pity the American citizen who does not
love it, who does not see in it the story
of our great free institution and the
hope of the home as well as of the
Natinn -
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-29

"A bitter opponent of Lincoln on a
platform declaring the war "a failure:"
a Greenbacker, inflationist and loud ad-
vocate of free silver coinage, and the
"bouncer" of 10000 Republican post
masters-here in nutshell is the record
of the man whose nomination for Vice
President the New York Evening Post
describes as "a distinct gain for the Dem
ocratic ticket The editor of the Even-
ing Post is ''reformer of the George
William Curtis type, and the paper is as
un-American as though printed in Lon
don.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-29

Gen. Bodwell, the Prohibition can
didate for the Presidency, acquired his
millions growing grapes and making
them into wine. He has reformed ~ so
that he no longer makes wine, but he
continues to raise grapes to sell to
others, who do the manufacturing.