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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-06-08
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Teas of Various Qualities.

The ordinary Oolong tea, costing
sixty or seventy cents a pound, has a
capacity of about ITO half-pint cups
to the pound, while the same amount
of Ceylon, silver-tipped tea, costing
$50, will supply over 1900 half-pint
cups, and in addition the beverage is
vastly superior to that of common
brands. The intrinsic value of i'm
ported teas rarely exceeds that figure,
but in certain instances, where the tea
market has been cornered, as high as
$175 for a pound has been paid in
London. Society people have lately
declared in favor of the expensive
teas, and the dainty 4 o'clock teas are
no longer the economical social events
of yore. Philadelphia Record.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-06-08
The old-style square pianos are a
thing of the past, there being no de.
mand for them nowadays. L

Cairo, Egypt, is becoming Ameri.
canized SO fast that, not content with
electric lights, the Government has
given concession for street car sys-
TEN. The American electric car idea
promises to be adopted, and the whir
and fzz of the trolley will drive the
donkey and the donkey boy out of
business. In the near future, predicts
Saturday Night, the tourist will be
able to take street car to the Pyra.
mids, and wait for the returning car
in the shadow of the Sphinx.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-06-08
GOODBYE.
Kiss me, and say goodbye;

Kiss me, and say goodbye;
Goodbye, there in no word TO say but this,
Nor any lips left for my lips to kiss,
Nor any tears to she'd when these tears dry
Kiss me, and say goodbye.
Farewell, be glad forget
There is no need to say forget. know,
For youth is youth, and time will have it so,
And though your lips are pale and your eyes
wet,
Farewell, you must forget.
You shall bring home your sheaves,
Many, and heavy, and with blossoms
twined
Ofmemories that go out of mind
Let this one sheaf be twlned with poppy
leaves
When you bring home your sheaves. -. g..
In garnered loves ofthine,
The ripe good fruit Of many hearts and
years,
Somewhere lei this lie, gray and salt will
tears,
1t grew too near the sea wind, and the brin
OF life, this love of mine.
This sheaf was spoiled in spring,
And overriding was green and early sere
And never gathered gold in the late year
From autumn suns and moons Of harvesting
But failed in frosts of spring.
Yet was It thine, my sweet,
This love, though weak as young cor
withered,
Whereof no man may gather and max
bread;
Thine, though it never knew the summe
heat
Forget not quite, my sweet.
Andrew Lang, in Worthingtons Magazine
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-06-08

One Of the most encouraging signs
of the advent of better days for Ire
land is to be found, maintains the New
York Tribune, in the large number of
railroads that have been opened of
late, or are now on the verge of COM
pletion. In nearly every case these
new lines have been built either in
part or entirely at the expense of the
Government, the aim being to relieve
the congested districts of Donegal,
Mayo, Galway and Kerry. 1t is super
fuous to point out the many advan-
tages which must arise from the con-
struction of these lines, among the
principal being the possibility afford
ed thereby of getting agricultural and
farm products to market with some
hope Of their bringing remuneratiye
prices.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-06-08
Making Their Land Grow.

Owners of land amoung the Thou
sand Islands have way of making
their lands grow, not in numbers, but
in size. An almost bare rock of small
dimensions is thus expanded into an
island covered with vegetation and
having space enough for a house of
comfortable size. The thing is accom-
plished by riprapping, pile driving
and the importation of earth. The
work is often done gradually, year by
year, until the landowner has made
space enough for his house. and after
that the island is extended as the
need arises. Chicago Herald.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-06-08

A fine story of present day heroism
comes to the Rochester Post Express
from the African wilds, where the
British have been fighting the Mata-
beles, and giving rise to a good many
stories of oppression and 'unchristian
conquest. The story is the stronger
because it is told by Matabele war
rior, an eyewitness of the scene that
no Englisbman lived to relate. AVIAN
guard of British invaders, under COM
mand of Major Wilson, had been too
yenturesome, and horde of Mata-
beles attacked and surrounded them.
Soon only few of the British were
left, and, as the supreme moment
came, those who were able to stand
rose to their feet, stood shoulder to
shoulder, took off their hats and joined
in a song-"the kind of song that he
1.-THE native narrator) had heard mis-
sionaries sing to natives. " The Brit
isb ammunition was gone, the last
had persisted; there was nothing to do
but to die, and the singers were soon
dead. 1t is loyalty said in England
that the song must have been "God
Save the Queen" but from what the
native said, and the natural impulse at
,ucb a time, it seems quite as likely,
. an outsider, that it was a church
,vmn But either way it makes fine
picture. worthy Of English speaking
O.,Io
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-06-08
SELECT SIFTINGS.

Oklahoma has a sheriff named Fight.
master.
In London there is a fur company
which was established during the reign
of Henry VIII.
In the eleventh century both Eng
lish and French dandies covered their
arms with bracelets.
The manufacture of artificial flow
ers began in Italy in the early years
of the eighteenth century.
Seattle, Wash, furnishes story of
a COW that had been living for some
time with steel wire through her
heart.
King Edward I, of England who
was dubbed Longshanks by his peo-
pie, was very sensitive about his great
height.
According to Homer clothing in his
time was washed by being placed in
water and stamped until it was sup
posed to be clean.
Six days rainfall without mo-
ment's cessation is the unusual exper-
rience the people of Ouachita, Ark,
had the other week.
A domesticated sea gull, owned by
Frank Russell, of Cheboygan, Wis,
runs around the farm with a batch of
chickens which it Matched.
Leather working was practiced in
Egypt at least 1000 years ago There
are manuscripts of that age written on
an excellent article of leather.
A pet dog in Bath, Me-, which has
now reached the mature age Of seven
teen years, drinks cup of coffee and
milk for breakfast every morning.
Homer mentions iron and iron
workers. He speaks of or describes
axes, shipwrights' tools, plowshares
and chariot axes, as made of iron.
The fastest time between New York
and San Francisco was made by a spe-
cial theatrical train in 1SS6-three
days seven hours thirty-nine minutes
and sixteen seconds.
James Bragg, of Hawkinsville, Ga
trained his dog to drive horse.
t While Bragg was absent from his team
the other day, the dog drove it home
1 and the ownar had to walk five miles.
; There is a platform scale near the
entrance to a Bowery New York. eat
t, ing house and sign on 1t says
weigh yourself before and after one
of our famous twenty-five cent din
ners."
Amasi Richards dug up box o
soap on his farm near Lynchburg, Va.
, and from the name of the maker it il
believed that the soap is not less thar
100 years old. 1t is shrlveled an(
faky, but Farmer Richards intends K
keep it for the use of several summer
boarders, who are expected in August
E Mary, Eliza and Martha Wren ar,
! triplets, living in Wrayford, Devon
q shire, England. They are spinsters
= aged sixty. Mary weighs $50 pounds
. Eliza, $50 and Martha, only 90
n pounds. They do not resemble eacl
other in the least. Mary's hair is au
burn, while that of her sisters is darl
q brown. The same remarkable dissim
:. ilarity existing in their mental equip
e ment as in their physical proportion
7 and appearance.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-06-08

'Let us fondly hope" observes the
New York News, "that science has
made no mistake in one reported dis
covery of recent date. 1t is claimed
that practical tests show how all the
garbage in New York might be dis
posed of with balance of seven hun
dred dollars day to the city's credit.
1t is the grease, the ammonia and the
fertilizing matter that causes garbage
to pan out rich, as they say in mining
camps. The details are not of much
consequence and the profit is not
tempting. But if science can profit
ably get away with the garbage, and
then successfully tackle the ash-cloud
nuisance, New York will make tc
science profound salaam."
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-06-08

she sat another young lady was eniov-
ing the contents of a newly arrived
morning newspaper. At the first
glance a stranger viewing this quiet
domestic scene would have. thought
that the young lady reading the news
paper was the first ones double.
Closer observation would have re-
suited in the hypothesis that they
were twins, and singularly similar in
appearance, though by no means
Identical. The latter surmise would
have been equally incorrect as the
former, for there was a years differ
ence in the ages of the two sisters,
fietta, the one reading the newspaper,
being the younger of the two. The
sisters usually dressed alike, and in
the street were almost indistinguish-
able to all but the closest acuuaint-
ances. As to disposition, who ever
found two sisters alike in that respect,
even if twins?
"Was your letter from Roberto"
asked Meta, eventually looking up
from her paper.
Augusta wagged her head in an
affirmative nod.
"He is quite well, 1 suppose?"
Another nod.
II am going over to the Sandersons,
this morning"
CAN right, dear"
''Won't you go?"
''No, thanks. have to cook"
every well. Perhaps shall stay to
lunch, or l may be back early"
'There is no need to hurry, dear,
unless you choose. l shall be toe
busy to feel lonely" replied Augusta,
still very thoughtful.
Meta went upstairs shortly after.
wards, and arrayed herself for calling,
after doing which she came down,
kissed her sister goodbye, and de-
parted on foot for the home of the
Sandersons.
The servant came in to take away
the breakfast things a little later, anC
Augusta rose, went to the window t.
see that Meta had really gone, an(
then ventured upstairs to her owl
chamber.
Going to her wardrobe, she tool
several neat looking gowns down from
their pegs, and selecting the prettiest
prepared to make her toilet in an ex
ceedin01v careful manner
For person who was about to d,
cooking the conduct of Miss Augusti
Van Etten seemed incomprehensible
Somebody has said though, that wo
man is an enigma.
But what could there be enigmatica
about a simple young country girl
scarcely out of her teens, and reared
in the bucolic atmosphere of plac
like Chesterville?
To avoid any appearance of bein
about to develop mystery we vii
state the facts of the case as simply q
possible.
Robert Van Etten, the head of tn
family, and brother of the two girls
was engaged in business in Phila
delphia, from which city Chestervill
was distant some fifty miles; an
being himself married, the girls wer
left good deal to their own device,
Roberts experience of matrimon
led him to consider that it was an el
cellent thing for everybody, and {
his sisters we're rather isolated wher
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-06-08

CNODIh V n IN
Etten twisted in
to a whisp the
letter which had
just reach her
from her brother,
and cast her
pretty blue eyes
downward in ST.
lent meditation.
At the end of the
breakfast table
opposite where
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-06-08
THE MARRIOTT.
BY ARTHUR FIELD.

~ UGUSTA
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-06

the Mole and on the narrow-gs,,re
lines effectually maintain the blockade
on all lines running down the Mole,
| wherever the strikers find live ell
CINE they promptly take possession of
1t, rake the fire, blow off tho steam and
leave II dead on the tracks
There were no acts of violence com.
mitted last night. The Sheriff of Ala
media County arrested a man found ell
gagged in the act OF KILLING an engine.
The man was released on his promise
not to Interfere with railroad property.
The strikers have no fear Of the milf.
TIA. They say not man In all the com
tnand now under arms AT the armory
VIII obey an order TO fire or. use the
bayonet. Their authoSties for this state
mont are the boys In blue themselves.
From present indications the Company
Will make no effort to resume local and
suburban traffic for some time to come.
so that the only means OF travel will be
by the Creek route.
Eastcin and foreign malls and mails
for California and Arizona are being
sent out Via steamers north and south
to connect with railroad routes not at
fected by the bio strike. On the Goa st
division mails are sent out In a baggage
car. all of the mail cars being tied up
at the other end of the run.
The women OF Oakland have organized
a woman's auxiliary league and will
help the strikers in every possible way.
IN case President Cleveland should
call upon the Federal troops to quell
about 1000 soldiers in California at his
command. These comprise four troops
or cavalry, nine batteries OF artillery
ana eleven companies of infantry.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-06
TO OPEN THE CRIBWORK.
Scows VIII still he Dumped a,
Riker's Island.

Mayor Gllroy ordered the Dock Board
this morning to make an opening in the
crib work at Riker's Island so as to
permit scows to enter and unload in
deep water inside the cribwork.
The refuse to be deposited will be be-
meath the surface at low tide where 1t
is said, it will not smell and make liv-
ing in the neighborhood unbearable
This arrangement will leave the entire
product of the disinfecting plant to be
used on the refuse deposited around the
cribwork.
The citizens, 1t is understood, are not
satisfied with this arrangement They
want the dumping Of garbage at Rikers
Island or anywhere else within the city
limits stopped altogether.
Pending the. opening of the cribwork
at Riker's Island, in accordance with
an arrangement made by Commissioner
Andrews, with Lieut.. Delahanty,
United States Supervisor OF the Harbor,
all refuse material will be sent to sea.
The Supervisor of the Harbor requires
as n condition to permitting the refuse
to be taken to sea that the scows shall
carry light loads, and that means shall
be taken to prevent the refuse from
washing overheard in transit, as the
scows must be unloaded outside the
Sandy Hook Lightshp.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-06

the Chicago train due at eS5 A. NJ
Ihe Jersey Central and Lehigh Val
Icy officials make practically the same
statement and say the only effect felt
partment,
AT the main office Of the Erie road. iot
Broadway, the offC.als ieclared to an
Evening Word" repurtp" that there
Was no troIbl" on their line or connec.
ions at any point east OF Chicago. they
DO not expect any at Buffalo or any
other point in the East
At the yards Ia Jersey city n number
OF railroad men were seen. They were
reticent regarding the big strike. hut
no sign Of trouble IN the East.
thaunccy NJ. bepew smiled when in
formed that presidcn; Debs had stated
that the a. X. T. men would be or
dered to go out at Buffalo within TWEEN
ty-four hours.
"pebs has no following there" he
said. II have studied this question
pretty thoroughly, and 70 ON facts only.
! find that all of the old organizations
hold Intact In the East. In the West all
Of Tho old organizations except tho
locomotive engineers. gave up and
Joined behs. The dividing line between
East and West, as we look at II. is Just
west OF Buffalo, so that MIR. pebs's order
FOR the men to go out there VIII not
amount to sufficient to cause alarm
None OF the men are out yet. and We
have not received any intimation that
they have been ordered out. | do not
think the strike will reach New York
city
General Manager J. Nj. Toucey, OF the
New York Central. attached no Inn
portancc to the Information whatever
why. Debs has no men in Bufolo,
of men-the New York Central EN-
ployees-and they have no idea OF strik-
Ing ut Buffalo or elsewhere"
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-06
WOULD WATCH HUSBANDS.
Angry Wives Want Detective ste.
ycns punished.

Several anxious citizens called upon
Acting Dstrict-Attorney John +. Nc
lntyre to-day to urge prompt and Wig
orous action against f. Clayton Stevens,
a private detective. with an office In
the Bennett Building.
Mr.. Stevens Is a young man. He has
mailed to several people a circular letter
offering the services OF the Stevens De-
tective Agency to locate missing persons,
procure evidence. serve legal papers.
trace stolen property. furnish escorts to
visitors to the city and ascertain the
habits OF any individual with absolute
secrecy and reliability"
You do not require our services now,
save our address, for you may need us
sooner than you can now imagine! -
A lady sojourning at Long Branch
while her! husband remains in town got
copy. 1t put her In a futter. She hur-
ried to the city and placed 1t before Mr..
Mcintyre and demanded that the sender
be punished
Mr.. Mcintyre is investiga ting. He
thinks the circular comes within the
law making II misdemeanor to send
anonymous communications through the
mails.
The story got out. and many male
Their wives who are out OF town had re-
ceived copies of Stevens's circular.
Some of them by a strange coincidence
have also received anonymous letters
saying that their husbands are behaving
indiscreetly in their Summer widowhood.
and Mr.. Mcintyre is trying to find out II
there is any connection between the cir
cular and the anonymous letters
Mr. Stevens was not in his office this
morning
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-06
WON'T CONDEMN UNCLE SAM.
Convention Rejects
n Strike Resolution.


ALBANY, July 6.--Excitement of an
extraordinary kind was injected into the
Constitutional Convention this morning
by Mr.. Towns offering the following
resolution:
Whereas. The AttorneyGe ofthe
United States has directed one OF the
attorneys to convene an extraordinary
United States Grand Jury for the pur-
pose Of indicting one Eugene Debs, a
citizen Of the United States, against
whom no crime was charged or speci-
fled; and.
whereas. The soldiers Of the United
States have been sent to Chicago to
coerce the people and shed blood OF
citizens, while trusts and monopolies are
endowed with bounties wrung from the
poor: therefore,
Resolved, That we the representa- tives
OF the people OF the State Of New York,
in Constitutional Convention assembled,
view with alarm the extraordinary and
arbitrary action of the National Gov
eminent, and condemn 1t as fraught
with peril to the peace and happiness OF
the Republic: subversive OF the rights,
privileges and liberties Of the citizens.
and the exercise OF National powers not
authorized or implied by the Constitu-
ton of the United States or the laws
thereof"
Mr.. Towns asked leave to debate his
| resolution, but there was a chorus of
noes, and the chair, recognizing other
members in a few seconds. declared the
previous question ordered. and a chorus
| OF noes drowned out the several yeas in
favor of the resolution.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-06
SAILOR WHO ATE KNIVES.
Rcmr rkablc Gastronomic Eents
That Are ON Record.

The Lancet takes occasion. says the
Medical Record, to cite various cases Of
extraordinary gormandZing. There
are" it says, recorded instances of men
who have devoured the whole of sheep
or OF a sucking pig raw; and there is one
at least OF man, an attendant at
the Jardin de Plantos in Paris, who ito
the whole of = dead lion.
Another Partisan, by tho name of
Tarrare. who made a livelihood by swsl-
lowing corks, pebbles, apples and such
unconsidered trifes. would occasionally
to satisfy bestial craving. eat live
cat. and appears finally 10 have taken
to cannbalism, Francis alfalfa
who ate half peck of small stones with
his beer every day, served AS n SOL
der in the seventeenth century, and
refused other rations.
1.-THE feats OF John Cummings an
American sailor, at the beginning Of
this century, are as wonderful as any.
and are generally received as authentic
IT appears undoubted that this man
swallowed thirty-hve clasp-kniyes. and
that, although in the end he died in
great agony in Guys Hospital. he lived
ten years with considerable, though
uncertain lumber Of claspknives in his
ct aSb'
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-06
PASSENGERS DELAYED.
Railroad Men Say that the strike
WIZ Not Reach New York.

The opinion IS general among Eastern
railway officials. that the strike "i'l not
reach New York.
I'VE ore very careful rs to the s3uroe
Of our Information, said II. Lang
General Manager Of the West shore
and Vice President Of the Big Four
line. 10 an Evening World reporter
,o-day. aud II Is cafe 10 say that the
strike viii not reach here, RI ,ntg9'I97s
Sinnnti this morning Is very oncourss-
ing" ,-..,., ..,.r.,,.- -
hive been affected more than any OF
lie Eastern ROAD m llnitri tram.
due here Yesterday way not sent out
from chicago. Win this exception, ne
trains were running as usual, Though
sonc Of The through trains "cre be-
~. Wcg, Shora has not missed a
rain hut their Western connection at
Rnffalo is sadly deTorslized. especially
rs regarlis through sleepsrF,
"S. ,hs pennsvlya MIA depot n vas
said that the strike had ,S Ss@seo out
h',s,uess al this end. Train No; ar
rived this morning on time as did also