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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-20
LOCAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

den is sidewalks
. Master Wendell Hubbs has been
-Iuite sick this week.
Mrs NJ. NJ. Dodson left Monday
20 visit at Huntingdon.
Mr. Claude Hudson spent few
days at home this week.
Mr. w A. Yarbrough was able
20 be out again Sunday.
Mr.. 7. B. Totty, Of Dickson, was
down the first Of the week.
Mr. Guy Hall returned home last
Monday from Huntingdon.
Well, what about that Touring
mill talked of last summer?
Get your Christmas advertise
ment ready for our next issue.
Mrs J j. Davidson visited rela-
tiyes near Eggville this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. }. w. Bateman are
attending conference at jackson.
Mr. Aaron Beaton, of Enloe, Wis
tied Camden relatives this week.
Mr.. Charles Yarbrough, Of Nash
vile, visited his mother Sunday.
Hon. James Jeffreysand family
went to Nashville Sunday evening.
Deputy Sheriff A. N. Lindsey, of
Big Sandy, was in town last Friday.
With this issue THE CHRoNICLE
enters upon its fourteenth volumn.
The price of cotton has declined
in this market in the last few days.
Mrs. w. A. Steele visited rela-
tives at Hollow Rock the first of
the week.
Mr.. L. Fl. Presson has gone to
Wildersville to teach a class in vo-
cal music.
Only a little over one month un-
til Christmas and the festive holi-
day seasonl
Mr.. o. w. Hubbs has moved his
family to the Lewis residence, on
Paris street.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. l. Farmer left
Wednesday to make their home al
Mckenzie.
S. j. Jeffress, esq, has returned
from trip to Dresden, Paris, and
other points.
DR.. Wright, Of Huntingdon, was
called to Bristow Sunday on pro
fessional business.
A petition is being circulated anc
signed here this week to abolish the
charter of Camden.
Rev. J. II. Harper, Of Eggville
is announced to preach at Morris
Chapel next Sunday.
Mr.. J. E. Totty, j., has returned
to Savannah, after spending few
days with his family.
Miss Olah Mcdaniel, Of Hollo7
Rock, spent Saturday and Sunda,
with Camden friends.
Mr.. FL. +. Stigall has sold hi
Cane Creek farm to Mr.. S. II. Hal
Consideration, $1,000.
Rev. G. s. Brandon preached a
Crooked Greek church, near Faxor
last Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Bette Darlington left yes
terday to spend few days wit
relatives near Huntingdon.
An unusual quantity of timbe
Is being cut along the river sectio
Of the county for cross-ties.
After a short delay work was re
sumed last week on the new brio
block of Hon. w. L. Morris.
Sidney L. Peeler, esq, spent
few days in Carroll County on pr'
fessional business last week.
Mr.. A. w. Presson, who is tra'
cling for Chicago distillery, WI
at home a few days this week.
Mrs. England, widow Of Andre
England, died at Cooleys Landir
Sunday forenoon at 10'o'clock.
Mr.. Al. Fuller, the popular to-
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Memphis conference at Jackson.
Myrtle, the little daughter OF Mr.
and Mrs. ID. j. McRae, is very sick,
and is threatened with pneumonia.
The rush Of timber 10 the stave
factories here is the greatest ever
known in the history Of this enter
prise.
Misses Bette Whitfeldand Lola
Lowry, of Eva, attended the musi-
cal entertainment here Saturday
evening.
Sheriff w. A. Lashlee spent sew
eral days this week in the southern
part Of the county on professional
/ business.
Mr. G. II. Sullivan left Monday
for Linden where he will proceed
to orga ize a camp of Woodmen of
| the World.
Roy, little son of Circuit Clerk
| A. r. Brooks, is recovering from a
broken arm received in fall one
day last week
! There is no improvement in the
condition of Mr.. b. II. Brewer, who
has been confined to his room for
several weeks.
Mrs. 7. @. Rye is at home again
at the old residence. Her sister,
Miss Pearl Arnold, will probably
reside with her
Mr.. Buck Barker, of Hustburgh,
had the misfortune to lose a horse
here Wednesday night, which was
killed by train.
The eleventh annual convention
! of the Tennessee Sunday School
Association meets at Nashville No
vember "a, 25, and 26.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. e. Totty have
returned home from an extended
visit to their daughter, Mrs. Char
: ley Atkins, Of Parsons.
Rev. G. w. Neal, of Mckenzie,
) ayoung minister Of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, will preach
here Sunday, November 80.
t Governor Taylor, Congressman
t Sims. Senator Clement, and Rep
resentative Cummings furnishes us
! something to be thankful for, after
! all.-Decaturville Herald
Marriage licenses have been is
5 sued by County Clerk G. B. Greer
: to Andrew J. Davidson and Vivetta
Allen, F. r. Bevell and Belle Can.
trell, and Ward Jones and Celia A
Q Peeler.
Miss Eva Williams, daughter o.
}, Mr.. j. H. Williams, of Gardner
S who had been visiting relatives a
Eggville, was called home Sunda!
d by a telephone message announcing
v the death of one of the children.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Fl. Bartlett, o
v Eddyville, KY, who came up on
y visit to relatives last week, wer
called home by the sad news tina
IS Mrs. Bartletts father had been sud
Al denly stricken down with paralysis
Miss Minnie Wheatley, Of Rolly
1t Mo, is visiting near Eva, the CUES
4, of James i. Browning and othe
relatives. This is Miss Wheatley'
) first visit to Benton County. Sh
h contemplates spending the winte
here.
'r The Baptists at this place hav
N elected Rev. L. j. Leland for the
pastor next year, and we understan
E. he will move to Camden the first {
* the year. Though young, Rev. M
Leland is an able, earnest ministe
q and an active worker in the churcl
o. and we are glad to have such mil
listers to reside in our midst.
v Rev. T. F. Cason preached an e,
as cellent sermon Sunday forenoo.
and delivered his last sermon fl
w the conference year at the evenir
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When you want fine commercial
job printing, remember that THE
CHRONICLE continues to make
specially Of this class of work.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-20
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money if it fails
to cure. Twenty-Five cents. 26-l7t
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-20

A few more loads of 15-inch wood
for stove will be taken on subscrip-
tion at The CHRONICLE Office.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07
ELECTRICITY IN MEDICINE.

1t is evident that the dependence of
medical science upon electricity tor dag.
nosis, prognosis and therapeutic aids in
every year growing greater. Witness, for
example, the recent discovery of the
Roentgen rays. by means of which it is
possible to discern the bones of the BODY.
and which have already become most
important adjunct of surgery. Then, too
most of the aids rendered by electricity
are such as cannot be obtained by other
means.
One of the methods OF applying electric
ity in electro-therapeutics is by introduc-
ing medicine directly into the system bv
means of the electric current called cata.
phoric medication. It is known that the
passage of an electric current between two
poles through conducting LIQUID me-
dunn such as is formed by the fluids of
the body, is accompanied by decomposi-
ton of the liquid and a Transportation of
the particles forming the positive pole
through the liquid and the deposition of
them in the neighborhood of the negative
pole. Thus, when two poles connected to
a suitable force are formed of sponges and
applied at any desired part by placing
them in contact with the skin over such
parts, and the positive pole is moistened
with the liquid it is desired to introduce
into the body, the passage of an electric
current will be attended by the introduce
ton OF the particles or molecules forming
the solution on the positive electrode and
deposition of them in the neighborhood
of the other pole, which may be located
wherever is most desirahIe
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07
TWO OF THE
OLDEST MEN IN ALL
The WIDE WORLD,
One Says Fate Cannot Harm
Him-The Other Thinks
He Is More Than a
Centenarian.

know that he has enough money on hand
to keep him and his from want. But am
in that position, and the world can roll
around as it likes for all I care. Yes. sir,
| have $40 laid by. Four shining gold
pieces. 1t took me good many years to
save them, but I have done IT. A man
can do anything if he don't want too
much.
ITS just this way. If man will take
what he can get and make the best OF 1t
he will soon find that he is on the road to
success. Some men, if they can't lay by
dollar, think it is no use trying to save,
and spend it; but used to lay by a i've
cent piece if l didn't have anything else.
That's the way did it. Now look at me.
l am as independent as anybody and have
$40.
81 understand myself and don't expect
much. 1 know 1 amt worth any more
than / will work for. If take job for 5O
cents that somebody else would be glad to
do for 90 cents, know it amt worth any
more than so cents. and know that l
amt worth any more than that or l
wouldn't be doing it. The sooner man
finds this out the better for him. NO man
is worth any more than he will work for"
The other workmen along the creek
think old Logan is a great deal OF an
oracle. They crowd around him whenever
he starts to talk, ana few attempt to dis
pute him. He knows what he is talking
about" said one; che has had whole life
full of experience, and in these hard times
he is able to say that he has got $4O.
wish / could saw the same"
Chris Lang is a familiar figure in the
| neighborhood of Tenth and Howard
streets and also a most peculiar one no
matter where he may be. His clothes
have been out CT date for many years and
the hat he wears is one of the kind seldom
worn because they never look good on any
body. But Chris is pleased with his outfit
and also with himself. He not only thinks
that his appearance is beyond criticism,
but believes the world is unhappy because
all of the people in it do not follow the
same mode of life that he does.
The story of Chris life is most inter-
esting one as he tells it, but the strange
/ thing is that it makes him out to be about
| lis years old. He does not know the ex-
/ act date of his birth, but the event took
/ place in Bavaria. He is sure that he came
to California nearly forty years ago and
shortly after his arrival discovered the
cause of all the trouble in the world. He
made up his mind to have no more of it
himself, and he has not, according to his
idea.
| Chris is anxious to talk about himself
and his ideas. "The great cause of i'll
health and poverty" he said, lis worry,
and useless worry at that. People have
ideas that they must do certain things,
never thinking that they are throwing
| their lives away in doing them. Just look
at all of the time people waste in going to
certain place of abode every night and
the amount of anxiety they go through if
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07
KICKERS' TRICKS
AND THEIR CURE.
Ill Treatment Often FaStens
the Vice on a
Horse.
The Pity of Fine Animals in the
Care of Human Under.
bredS.
Only Punish for Shying Before or
After the Act-Miss Russell's
Good Advice.

Waiting for a car the other day l saw
bit of the Workmanship that is all too
common in this City. There is. perhaps,
TO city in the country where grocers and
marketmen use finer horses in their de-
livery wagons. The character of the streets
and the steep hills of San Francisco de-
mands good deal of speed, strength and
staying-power in the animals used in these
lines of work. Time is money, and our
business men realize that there is no
economy In cheap horses. But with the
speed. strength and staying-power there
are attendant qualities in every good horse
that render him something more and less
than a machine. and materially increase
his capacity for suffering and for mischief
High spirit and sensitive nervous organ
ism are always the heritage OF desirable
horse Without them the animal is a
mere lump of flesh, lacking inclination,
ability or courage to exert himself beyond
what he knows his driver will compel him
to, and the latter, in getting any real work
from him, will usually work about as hard
as the horse. San Francisco merchants
have no use for equine plugs, and it is a
great pity that they so often find 1t neces-
sary to turn over tie fine animals they use
to the human underbreds we so often see
controlling them.
The bit ofhorsemanship witnessed while
waiting for my car was on the part OF the
driver of one of these unfortunate de-
livery-wagon horses. The animal was a
big, handsome, nervous chestnut, appa-
rently not yet wholly accustomed to city
sights, for he was betraying considerable
agitation at the sight of an approaching
electric car. He was a little frightened,
but by no means fractions. Any driver of
ordinary will, tempered by modicum Of
common-sense, would have had no diff
Guilty with him. He plunged little and
sheered off, quite willing, it was apparent,
to give The object of his fright all the room
there was TO spare, but passing it, after all,
without doing any mischief. Had his
driver been content to let well enough
alone the horse would, probably, have
experienced less fear in passing the next
car, but no sooner was the terrible object
safely passed than down fell the lash upon
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ingly difficult for even an expert rider to
keep his seat on kicker. About the only
thing to do under such circumstances is to
get the animals head up and keep ii up,
and, if ridden at all, the creature should
wear an overdraw. If a horse unexpect-
edly takes to kicking in harness, about the
only thing to do is to pull his head up
sharply and bold it there with one rein
drawn more tightly than the other. The
left rein is the better one to pull tight, as
a better purchase is to be had on it.
Ponies almost seem to be born with
tendency to kick. but the trick is usually
the result of early teasing on a naturally
irritable temper; and these creatures are
also usually not very intelligent.
Occasionally an aged horse, after years
of sedate pulling of the family carriage,
will suddenly have a lapse into coltish-
ness and kick up its heels in most unex-
pected fashion. Such a manifestation is
always amazing, probably as much so to
the offender as to any one, but it need oc-
casion no alarm for the future. The old
horse may kick up once, but he is sure to
resume the even tenor of his way and will
probably never again forget himself. Gen.
orally speaking, the horse that lives to be
ten years old without kicking will never,
even under provocation, develop into a
kicker.
Kicking is one of the four vices that rem
der horse returnable after purchase. 1t
is dangerous and exasperating trick. but
one that is almost invariably traceable to
stupid or vicious management. A horse is
by nature kindly and obliging, and more
than willing to do what man wants him to.
His understanding, however, is limited,
while his very willingness and acute sensi-
tiveness to praise or to blame make him
the more easily rendered sulky and vicious.
MISS RUSSELL.
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Enormous Consumption of the
Little Paper Smokers in the
United States.
The Product Is Greater in Figures
Than Ali the Corn Raised
in America.

About the only fabulous figures" Tor
figures thought to be fabulous by manyl
of American product of manufacture used
to be those of the corn crop of the United
States, exceeding 1000, coo, 900 bushels a
year and touching in 1893 the enormous
total of 2,06O,000,0OO. But these man.
moth figures of the production of corn in
the United States are totally eclipsed by
the figures of cigarette manufacture,
the total number of cigarettes made
in this country last year being $780,
100000. The total number of male
persons in the United States between the
ages of Is and A were returned by the last
censusas 13, 290, 600; but adding those above
A years of age and making allowance for
the increase in population since 1890, it is
safe to say that there are 100000 men
and boys of Cigarette smoking" age in
the United States, and this would give an
average Of 200 cigarettes for each man and
boy in the republic every year, provided,
of course, that cigarette smoking was
general instead of being, as it is, restricted
to a very small fraction of the whole popu-
Iation, mostly in the cities and large towns.
The number of cigars manufactured in
the United States last year, including. of
course, those said to be imported" was
400. 100 600, and at the head of all the
States in the manufacture of these was
PENNSYLVANIA, New York coming second,
Ohio third, Illinois fourth and Florida
(Kev West) fifth. 1t is encouraging for
New Workers to know that, although
Pennsylvania made more cigars than
this State, New York used more tobacco
in hers. Kentucky raises an enormous
amount of tobacco, but it does not use very
much of it for manufacturing purposes,
Kentucky tobacco being sent to other
States. The Kentucky tobacco crop last
year was 100000 900 pounds, of which less
than 800, 900 pounds were manufactured in
the State. Connecticut, too, raises much
tobacco and manufactures little. Eighteen
pounds of tobacco are required for 1000
cigars and three and half pounds for
1000 cigarettes. The consumption is an
average of 200 cigarettes apiece a year
for the whole male population of the
country above the age OF Is years.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07

Teasing and tickling young horse,
even in play, is sure to develop the kick
ing trick. A good many grooms and sta
blemen do this because they think it is
funny, but the man caught once doing it
should never again be trusted about
horse. There are also horses that kick
naturally and from sheer viciousness, and
these, curiously enough, can more often
be brought to subsection than can those
that take to it in self-defense. The
reason for this lies, perhaps, in the
peculiar makeup of the equine brain. The
first exhibition of the trick should meet
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chatting his back yet tight enough to pre-
vent him from raising behind. and to do
this effectively it should be buckled to the
shafts so that it lies two inches beyond the
hipbones. The breeching, when the kick
ing-strap Is used, should be left little
Iooser than ordinarily, fact usually over
looked by stablemen, with the result that
the animals back often gets sore and
chafed, from the heavy strap.
Excessive punishment is the most fire.
quent cause of horse taking to kicking,
but 1 know one nervous. quick-stepping
animal whose driver, a good-naturcd,
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almost invariably vanquish the brute's
strength and teach him fear that he will
never forget. But horse thus conquered
is never a friend, and he must always be
looked out for, as he will be quick, at some
time. to take advantage OF an unguarded
moment. To break such vicious kicker
of his trick should be the work of spe-
ciaiist, and no amateur should ever at
tempt it. Striking, another bad trick,
while almost equally dangerous, is much
easier to control. In striking the animal
uses his forefeet, but he can use but one at
a time, as these legs carry most of his
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07

careless lady, had the habit lady-drivers
so often do have of keeping up an inter-
mittent, Pickering sort of tapping with
the whip on her pets neck. One day
"Pet" suddenly came to the end of his
endurance of the irritation and showed it
by lifting his heels, to the detriment OF
breeding and singIe-tree and the lacera-
ton of his mistress feelings. She always
after avowed her belief that the horse is
by nature treacherous and unreliable.
There was that brute she had driven
gently, petted and cared for for more
than year who ''all at once, with no
provocation whatever, started kicking, so
we sold him."
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weight, and he can be readily disconnected
and cured of his trick by any one who is
quick enough and strong enough to catch
up the offending hoof and raise it as high
as he can carry it. A horse has more re-
spect than has any other creature for the
cunning capabilities of the human hand,
and he soon learns that, feeble as it is, it
can outwit and subdue and control his
strength.
A driving-horse that kicks is rendered
comparatively harmless by the kicking
strap, but the saddle animal who possesses
this trick cannot be put under any such
restraint. The vice is particularly dan
gerous in saddle-horse as it is exceed
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with prompt and effectual punishment.
The heretofore we'll behaved horse that Is
angered into kicking usually succeeds, IN
the surprise OF the moment, in abating the
nuisance that drove him to the deed and
no amount of punishment for subsequent
offenses will ever move him to forget this
one success. He will always afterward
expect to gain point by the means that
gained it then.
On the other hand, the animal that
kicks from viciousness starts in with the
idea OF conquering his human foe. In
good, sharp fight, human wit, aided by
those wonderful and, to the horse, in
comprehensive tools, human hands, will
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has had great deal of hard times in his
life, but now he says that things are COM
ing his way and that he is in no danger Of
want.
1.-The trouble with people is that they
want too much in this world, " SAID Logan,
leaning against the stern of rowboat that
had been hauled high and dry. "They
think they ought to have everything you
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07

"What do do when 1 am sickP Why,
I am never sick. People don't get sick if
they don't worry. I eat and sleep where
ever l please, am always at home and as
happy as can be. II [ have work to do L
do it, and when L haven't, 1 go to the
nearest saloon and rest. You never catch
me a-worrying. When 1 can't have my
own way do the best can"
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years ago, and 1 don't think L have slept
in the same bed twice since; surely not
two nights in succession. All I have in
the world is in that satchel, and l always
have it with me. / am piano tuner, and
always have plenty of work. Sometimes
go to different parts of the State, but
never think Of coming back except circum-
stances turn me this way.
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One of the happiest men in California is
old man Logan. His home is in Alameda,
but his place of business is along the banks
Of Oakland Creek, where he does any kind
of Job he can get, from scrubbing down
the deck of schooner to stepping mast.
Logan has been on this globe for nearly
seventy years and has spent the last thirty
five of them in and around Oakland. He
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they are for any reason unable to get there.
tell you it is killing of the race.
NOW, have got over that idea, and it
has paid me well. / was put into the
world, and any part of it is my home. 1
sleep wherever night finds me, and don't
waste money and time getting to certain
spot that is no better than where l am. 1
started In on this scheme over thirty-five
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can think of and have money at the same
time. Now, / have found out that this
won't work. When I was young fellow
/ often spent 81 in a night. l didn't care
anything for money. but the time came
when didn't have any. That started me
thinking and 1 made up my mind to save
something. and now l am all right.
81 tell you, it makes man feel good to