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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-08

1t is matter of surprise to many
that redwood lumber has not received
what is considered to be Its proper
share of appreciation. Effort has
been made to introduce it into Eastern
and into what are known as Western
markets, but with unsatisfactory re-
suits. It is beautiful lumber, wide
and clear. While not q veritable sala-
mander, it is closely related to the
salamander tribe. The district bound
ed by the fire limits of San Francisco
is smaller than that of any other city
of its size in the country, one reason
being that the buildings are construct
ed largely of redwood, and will not
easily burn. Redwood shingles have
been sold to considerable extent east
OF California, but the qualities claimed
for them are that the redwood is a well
made, clear, durableshingle, forgetting
to remark that sparks will not set ROOT
Of these shingles on fire.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-08

Poverty is the most striking fact in
India. In the streets of the cities the
rich are rarer than in the streets of
East London. In the country the
villages consist of huts of almost uni
form smsllness, and the fields are
worked by farmers, most Of whom are
to poor to do anything butscratch the
land.
In one city we went from house to
house among the poor. A common
friend gained us welcome and we
were everywhere received with cour-
tesy. Oneh house which we visited was
entered directly from the street.
There was neither flooring, fireplace,
windows nor furniture. A few embers
were burning ON the mud floor, on
which only is it lawful for pious per-
son to eat, and few pots we're stand
ing against the walls, with, if I remem-
Der rightly, one chest.
1t was q holiday morning, and the
family which, in India may include
grandfather, sons, daughters-in-law
and grandchildren, was gathered.
The men had slept in the open warm
air, and had come in to be served by
the women with the morning meal of
few ounces of grain and butter.
After the usual courtesies, and when
we had told them about ourselves, the
talk went thus:
"What is your trader"
"Shoemakers.
"What can each worker earn?'
"About five rupees month"
"What rent do you pay?"
eight rupees month"
From which answer we gathered
that not even paternal government
nor system of land naturalization
can prevent the growth of lsndlordism.
The ground in this case probably be-
longed to the State, and had been let
to some individual OF yearly rent,
subject to reversion afterthirty years I;
but the land had then been let and
sublet till the rent paid by the tenant
far exceeded that received by the
Government.
In another house, or rather shed,
lived mill hand and his family. He
too, was preparing to enjoy holiday
in singing" and ''seeing the lights.
which on that night, in honor of the
new year, would be placed in every
window of the city. His earnings
were ten rupees month. Out of the
margin, that is, out of about seventy
five cents week he would have to
support large family andsaye enough
to enable him in few years to return
and getlandin his own village. Il Fort
nightly Review.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-08

A pattern-maker of Tacoma, Wash
ington, named George r. Cowles, has
devised process by which he claims
he can produce from cord of wood
worth $2 $4,000 cubic feet of gas,
thirteen sacks of charcoal and two
gallons of tar, worth altogether $4s.
He claims the machine can be used for
domestic purposes by attaching it to a
stove, and that sufficient gas can be
obtained during the cooking of three
meals to last all day.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-08

One result more or less directly
arising from the operation which Pres
idcnt Cleveland underwent on board
Mr.. Benedict's yacht, and the promi-
hence given to the fact that special
list in the administration of nitrous
oxide Laughing gas) was called in for
She occasion, has been discussion in
high medical circles of the practicable
ity of applying the anesthetic to all
purposes for which chloroform and
ether are now used. Experiments, it
is said, have been made, and have
clearly demonstrated that this agency
is effective in prolonged surgical ope-
rations, as it is in such simple opera
tons as are performed in the dentists
chair. The experiments have been
conducted in leading hospitals in New
York and elsewhere, and have been
kept secret until their success was as
sured. 1t is now announced that nj
trous oxide gas was recently used most
satisfactorily in thigh amputation in
the case OF patient seventy years OF
age, and that it has been tested also in
other operations and found to be as eff
fective, much pleasanter and less dan
gerous than chloroform or ether.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-08

Anew cage bird, the nonpareil, is
fast securing position among
household pets that bids fair to prove
successful rivalship of the canary as
a song bird, and in elegance of ap-
pearance, plumage and graceful mo-
tions he is far superior. He is as
native of the South.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-08
AGreat Success.

Briggs-"Do you always call on
Miss Twilling in the same suita"
Griggs-''Yes; want to show her
father / am economical"
Briggs-'I guess you have sue
ceeded. He told me the other day
that you were the meanest man he ever
saw. "-[Clothier and Furnisher.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-08

The tailors have met in London "to
prepare for theabolition of the sweat
ing system and long hours and for the
coming battle of the tailors of the
world" The %, 900 members of the
organization are threatened with des-
tructiOn of their union by the intro
duction of cheap female labor.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-08

Contrary TO the general opinion the
Irish are the slowest people about get
ting married of any in the world. In
that country, according to the latest
statistics, the percentage of marriages
is 81, while in Prussia it is 1874 and
in Hungary 1875.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-08
The Answered Prayer.
~ M. OADY.

A little old French woman told the
following story to the travellers who
had been investigating the ruins and
the chateau and "doing" the little
French town, as tourists always must,
who obey Murray.
"My son, Jean Baptiste, never will
believe it. All, they are such skeptics,
these men
"There in the churches we pray for
them. There the sailors wife kneels
to ask for good wind for her hus-
bands ship. There the soldiers sweet
heart pours forth her prayer, and i'm
plores the saints to ward bullet and
sword point from her lovers heart.
There used to go, hoping that Jesus
would not forget me and my Ansel;
and he died in his bed, and was not
smothered and crushed in the black
niue, as SO many are-my man Ansel,
Jean Baptiste's father.
'Jean was all 1 had, in that old time
long ago. He was young, strong,
beautiful, when the hour came and he
became a conscript All, shall / ever
forget the day? We were all upon
the green, in the midst of the village
all who had sons and brothers and
husbands and lovers, and some who
had none, for the sakes of those who
had, or for curiosity-how do 1 know
which? And the great gendarme
turned the wheel, and the blindfold
boy drew the names and numbers,
and my Jean was one of the unlucky
ones-he our only child. Had / been
widow then, they could not have
taken him but 1 still had Ansel. And
we all three knew that no substitute
was to be had by us, for We had been
unlucky and had no savings, and t is
not to be expected thata man will risk
life and limb for triAe.
"Only mother could have had a
hope under such circumstances, but,
you see, I could not give my Jean
Baptiste to the cruel war without q
struggle.
"'You should be glad that your
brave son has chance to do what he
can for France and for his emperor,
said the officer with the fur cap and
epaulets, touching me on the shoulder
as 1 sat weeping and wringing my
hands. But pushed him away an
grily.
"'What is the emperor, whom
have never seen, to me? And why
should love France more than m,
own child?' / cried.
"And then neighbor added:
"Bahl He will return with epau
let's and a sword perhaps, and you vii
be very proud of him. Don't cry
"'They come back often withou
epaulets, do they not?' 1 said, and m.
heart was bitter as gall. General
they do not come at all. If they dc
it is oftenest on crutches, or blind Xix
poor Pierre Latour. They shall no
have my boyr
Sand home went like a mad VIC
man. And l would have sold all
mad to have raised the money, if
woul have brought it. But we ar
only tenants, and our COW was poo
and old; and I had no fine clothes
and only two golden earrings for jew
elry. Poor Ansel just earnt enoug
to live on. And what could we do9
81 went to my brother at -, wall
ing all the way there and back. b
could not help us. went to my Of
MISTRESS house, where I had lived (
q dairy maid before I married Anse
Alas, she was deadl
''In aweek the soldiers would marc
away, my Jean Baptiste with them, an
! [
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-08

Some one seems to have told the
Sultan of Turkey that chlorate of pot
ash is dangerous explosive. Conse-
quently no druggist or pharmacist in
Constantinople is allowed to possess or
sell it. The grand master of artillery
alone is allowed to have it in keeping.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-08

French paupers are provided for by
the fund arising from ten per cent.
tax on theatre tickets. This tax aver
ages $40, 500, 900 a year.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-08

Millions of dollars have been saved
by dynamite in the construction of
railroads.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-08

It is estimated that the coal mines
already developed contain enough coal
10 supply the world for = thousand
years to come.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-12-08
Hard Luck.

Interested Passenger ION shipboard)
-''For man who has never been TO sea
before you seem to have got the theory
of navigation down pretty fine"
The Other Passenger (suddenly
growing pale) = eyes, but - I'm
afraid--rm nOt----going to keep il
down" [chicago Tribune.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30

AThousand Dollars For q recent Stamp.
There was a notable gathering of phi
latelists at the Real Estate Exchange the
other day, it being the second days sale
of the De Coppet collection. Every
stamp collector knew that there would
be offered some Of the rarest stamps Of
the different issues Of British Guiana.
The sale opened with rare issues Of Brit
ish Honduras, and though these brought
good prices every one was waiting for
lot 3s3-British Guiana, 1850 issue, q
cents, circular, ON rose paper, cut round,
but neatly mounted on a piece of the
same paper cut square, used. This
stamp is one of six extant. Three were
in the TAPPING collection and are now in
the British museum, n is in a private
collection in England and another in
France.
The a%uctioneer, ]. w. Scott, hoped
that this one specimen, which was yet il
the United States, would remain here
The bidding was begun at $500 and went
rapidly upward until it got into $500
and the stamp was at last knocked down
to r. F. Albrecht for 81 .010, the highest
price yer given for a single stamp at al
auction sale.-New York Tribune.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30
A Letter From Naples.

Life is not o newspaper and certainly
not a sensational one, hut the following
extracts from - personal letter written
from Naples and by a person in whom
we have implicit confidence impart a bit
of news which is of some interest to the
American public.
The doctors sent here from the United
States TO look after the shipment of rags
and emigrants from this port are in o
state of despair. They have sent cable
gram after cablegram to the home au
thorities stating that the regulations are
not being observed. From different ports
that they have inspected there are now
being shipped to the United States rags
which contain bandages bearing the
Hamburg hospital mark and used during
the cholera season there, rags from Jeru-
salem that have come from the leprous
patients and rags from Egypt that have
been used by people suffering from that
dreadful ophthalmia, which is SO con
tagious.
The doctors have just come from the
examination Of a ship about to- sail for
the United States with 1, 100 of the most
miserable class of Italians, with all kinds
Of skin diseases and covered with dirt
and vermin. The people say they are go
ing to Mulberry street, New York, which
to them means America. On Wednesday
800 more go out and on Saturday another
lot.
The rag shippers have q way of mark
ing the bales of rags ''disinfected, when
no inspector has ever been heal them,
and shipping them to England, whence
they are r~eshipped to New York.-Life.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30
Churches Hustling For Tcnors.

The church choir directors who are
filing their q~uartets are having a great
deal of difficulty in finding tenors. The
supply of tenors capable of acceptable
church work has always been limited,
but at the present time it seems to be
more limited than ever. It is estimated
that there are Is churches in this city
and Brooklyn whose directors or music
committees or clergymen OF all three
are on a wild hunt for tenors. The Grace
church people are perfectly willing to
pay a good tenor 81 200 a year, which Is
equal to $50 a Sunday, or perhaps they
may do even better. AS for st. Bar
tholomew's church, it is not believed
they would refuse $1,000 if they could
secure q satisfactory singer. This is be-
lieved to be the salary of Franz Rem
mertz, the bass there.-New York
World.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30
THE EDWARDS PLAN.
The Banks at Mayville, N. d., Propose
to Move Crops.

The Banks at Mayvilie, N. d., Propose
to Move Crops.
MAYvILLE, Aug. 30.-After long con-
sidera ton Bankers Rosholt of the First
National bank and Edwards of the
Goose River bank of Mayville have put
into successful operation a plan that
will solve the moving of the crop prob
lem that is before the minds of the peo-
pie of the Northwest and will relieve
the currency famine in this vicinity.
The Edwards" plan as it is called here.
is as follows: The banks issue drafts
on their Minneapolis and St Paul banks
payable to bearer, in small denomina-
tions of s., $40 and $40. These, tor
gether with some silver. the elevator
men pay the farmers in exchange for
wheat. The farmers use these drafts
in paying their store bills, Irvine
notes, machine notes, and. in fact, the
drafts will pass current everywhere In
this country. The grain men ship the
wheat and sell it in the markets below,
receiving drafts in payment. These are
received by the banks here and sent to
their correspondents below for credit,
and thus, with but little trouble and
no anxiety, the crop will be sold, the
farmers and merchants get their ac-
counts paid, the banks their notes paid,
and the great problem is at once solved.
The bonanza farmers are paying their
men under this plan, and it meets sat
isfaction-
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30
Increase Hundreds of Fold.

"A Thousand Per Cent In Three
Months" is tne sign every scotsman
might hang outside his door at this sea-
son of the year. He has the glory of the
summer slowed away in his little bins
and boxes and paper bags, and he will
sell it to You for a ridiculously small
sum. The rain and the sunshine cost
nothing, and the hours given to garden.
ing, like those spent in the chase, are
added, not ~subtracted, from the span OF
human life. Everybody a make a gar
den, if only in a window box. The pures1
of creative pleasures is found in cooper
ating with nature, who unselishly per
mits you to take all the profits resulting
from the partnership. Kate Fields
Washington.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30
Want to Issue Certificates.

MILWAUKEE, Aug. 30.-Permission to
empower the receivers of the Northern
Pacific railway to issue receivers GER
tiicates to the amount of s., 000, 0U0
will be asked during the afternoon, at
which time Receivers Cakes and Rouse
will be in Milwaukee. The certificates
to be issued by the receivers are for the
purpose of taking care of certain urg-
emit claims against the road, such as
rentals, salaries and other preferred
claims due or soon to become due.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30

tion comes from the western side OF
this zone of destruction that their work
is going to be the most dificult in years.
Poles are down in stretches of five miles
and the wires are snapped. bent and
dashed into useless tangles of inextrica.
BILE puzzles. Occurring, az it has, when
the eyes of the West are most dir cited
upon the capital, and when the pulse OF
trade has to stand still, because OF the
absence of electrical tingle, the work OF
the storm is more keenly felt. 4
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30

Unitel States Marshal Fry, WHO was
sent to the Sioux reservation to bring TO
Huron the Indian, White Face Horse,
charged with numbering the cowboys in
February: has returH&d sad reports that
he found the Indian Ia too bad condition
to bring along with him. In sthe atfray
with the cowboys he had been shot
twice, once in the knee and once in the
stomach. After being wounded he rode
200 miles on horseback. He has since
had no medical attendance save that OF
the Indian medicine man. The kGee
has scufed badly and the ball which
entered his stomach and cut clear
through to his back is now in his body
He is in a very bad condition and prob
ably will not live. He was taken L
Standing Rock agency and left in care d
the agency physician, who thinks j
doubtful whether he will ecove
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30

Still other adjouruments for South
Dakota, than hat announced a few days
ago, have been made. sThe Deadwood
term of United States court which WIS
postponed from this month until Sept
ember Is. has upon the petition of tt e
Black Hills bar, been adjourned until
October %. The United States jurors
will take notice of thus change, and be
on hand at Dealwood on the new date.
The regular. Sioux I:A,ts term which
should convene the third Tuesday in
October, has been postponed until after
the first Tuesday in November. The
second Tuesday III Move noe will prob
ably be the date upon which ooaTt will
open there.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30
Flimsy worlds Fair Hotels.

1t requires no knowledge of engineer
ing to see that many of the wooden struc-
lures being hurried up near jackson
park for Worlds fair hotels are wholly
insecure. Several have already gone to
pieces. The foundations Of many others
are no more solid than those Of the tin
der box blown apart in the comparative
ly light wind of Thursday. Fire has al
ready consumed two, and it is necessary
to warn the thoughtless that If they risk
their lives in like wooden shells fire,
should it nee get Roadway, viii run
through any Of these 50 rapidly that es-
cape with life will be doubtful; with
property impossible. Chicago Herald.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30
Tramps In a Barn.

FoRMAN, N. D., Aug. 30.-Fire at
Harlem destroyed the barn of Fred
Richardson, proprietor of the CONNER
cial hotel. Three stations belonging
to c. A. Rist, valued at 81, 500 each,
were burned. together with three work
horses and a cow The fire is supposed
to have been set by tramps who had
been sleeping in the building, and it is
feared that two of them lost their lives
in the fire. The loss is estimated at
IS. 800, no insurance.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30

Pierre Capital, %: Audltor Nipple
has made an important ruling regarding
the bounty the state has heretofore
paid on trees planted on homesteads or
pre-emptions. JUnder a law passed in
1885 the state has paid a bounty OF 80
an acre not exceeding 5 acres, on all
trees three years old, and under another
law the county in which the trees were
situated has exempted from taxation the
40 acres on which the trees grew tpro-
vided the valuation OF said (40) is less
than $1,000. Auditor Nipple holds that
where the party owning trees has claim
ed his exemptian he is not entitled to
the 81 bounty. Attorney General Craw.
ford has rendered a decision on request
OF the auditor sustaining such ruling
and now the majority OF tree bount,
claims heretofore paid will be rejected
This means q SAVING Of several thousans
dollars to.thelstate..
y Yonr conghswas occasioned by careles
exposure TO draft. Cure it at once witt
Ayers Cherry Pectoral,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30

The Great Northern extension from
Sioux Falls will be completed to Yank-
ton next week. 1t is understood that
Senator Pettigrew has transferred his
franchise for a railway bEidge across the
Missouri river to Hill, and that Yankton
is to be made division headquarters for
the Great Northern. 1t is also reported
at Yankton that Hill has purchased the
first Is miles of the Yankton and Nor
folk, just graded, south from Yankton,
with a view to continuing the connec-
ton with the Missouri Pacific.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30
Mr. Horbert.s simmering wen.

Four miles southwest Of Mount ver-
non, Tex, is a great phenomenon on the
farm of Marvel Holbert. Last July he
dug a well. Going to the depth Of 30
feet and getting no water, work was sus-
pended and the well covered up. Last
week Mr.. Holbert, passing by, uncov-
cred the well, and to his surprise hot
steam gushed ont in his face, and on ex-
animation it was found that a vein Of
hot water about 9 inches in diameter
had burst in through the bottom and
stands at a depth of IS feet. boiling Like
q teakat.ls 1ve- q slow fre.-Cor. Gal
weston News.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30

Secretary Mohler of the state agrIcLI-
tural board Of Kansas, has issued al APP
peal for seed wheat, and money with
which to buy it, for farmers of western
Kansas. The appeal states that the
wheat crop is a total failure in that por'
ton of the state, although it claims thai
portion of the state is we'll adapted tC
wheat raising. The average yield In the
past has been 80 bushels to the acre.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30

Moody county held its convention
Saturday last to choose delegates to the
judicial conventions and not only allow,
ed Judge C. d. Pratt to select his own
delegates to the circuit convention, but
passed a series OF resolutions commend
ing him for the position of circuit judge
and %instructiug the delegation for him,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30
r. IN A TANGLE.
Very Little Communication Between
the East and West.

CHICAGO, Aug. 10. "A general storm
In midwinter could scarcely have
wrought more damage to the telegraph
companies than did the gale Of Monday
night. Business between the entire
distance OF the Atlantic states and this
city 10 nearly paralyzed. The great
network of wires of the Western Union
company suffered to an alarming ex
tent. In places east of Buffalo and
along the Baltimore and Ohio to Wash
ington the ravages of the storm are
responsible for
Wholesale Destruction OF Wires.
Line repairers fairly swarm oyer the
storm swept territory and the informa.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-30

Argus Leader, %: United States
Judge A. j. Edgerton has been chosen
one of the sixty judges Of awards to pass
on the exhibit in the manufacturers and
liberal arts building at the worlds fair.
The judges are chosen from all the i'm
portant countries of the globe.