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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-13
A Remarkable Relic.

Miss Mary ]. Hook of Roswell,
Ga., is in possession of the oldest hick-
DRY nut in the world. This ancient
and curious family relic was presented
to Miss Hook twenty-five years ago by
her great-aunt, Mrs. john McDavid of
Cherokee County.
The hickory nut is about the size Of
a common walnut, the surface is highly
polished and is beautifully and nrtis-
tically engraved.
The carving is too delicate for the
naked eye but with the aid of glass
every object is made perfect and shows
the touch of an artists hand On one
side, or rather between the seams, APP
pears a tree. representing the hickory
tree under which the initials "W. K"
and the date '1731" are plainly visi-
BILE. The letters are initials of Miss
Hooks great-great-grandfather, Will
liam KendriOk, who lived on the
james river in Virginia and who did
the engraving. In the next space is
fox standing under some bushes of
beautiful foliage with wild hog in
the background.
Next an ostrich standing erect, and
beneath are the letters go. E., (which
probably indicated that Mr.. Kendrick
was civil engineer. On the next
space is an eagle with outstretched
wings and talons, as if just ahghting.
The fifth and last is a squirrel holding
a nut to its mouth with its forefeet.
All of the pictures are perfectly
plain, but to observe the scenery and
make it more effective glass is neces-
sary. 1t is a remarkable family relic
and is we'll preserved, although it is
1874 years old. Chattanooga Times
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-13
Little Kisses.

Little Kisses n the cato
Meets mo ln the twilight lalai
Wheu the rarosl roses DO
Waits she with a klsa for mo
Round my neck her hnglou fall
She's the sweetest rose Of alli
Glow much do you love me, Kisses
Little Kisses, crowned and curlod7"
Then, With arms worldwide she answered
u We you-loyo you-all she wordI"
Little Klaaos at the cato
Whispers % tho white rose "Waltg
To the restless red rose she
Whispers keep mo company"
And tho red rose petals fall
On the sweetest roso OF alll
Glow much do you love me, Kisses
Little Kisses, crowned aud curled3"
Then, with arms Worldwide, she answered
'Loyo you-loyo you-all the world
Little Kisses, at the cato
Linger not too lato-too late,
Lest some lonely angel far
Wandering from loyeess star
Where the earthless angels be,
Steal your face away from mel
Glow much do you love me, Kisses
Little Kisses crowned and curled2"
Shall ever miss the answer2-
Love you-love you-all the worldr
F. L. stanton, IN Atlanta Constitution.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-13
Foreigners in Large Cities.

The French statistician, M. Bertil-
lon, has compiled some intesesting
facts regarding the population of
Paris and other great capitals. Only
thirty per cent of its present popula-
ton was born in Paris, and this per-
centage has remained practically the
same for the last thirty years. The
native population in st. Peters.
burg is thirty-two per cent; forty-on
in Berlin, forty-fve in Vienna, and,
contrary to the general opinion, sixty
five in London-the highest of all
large cities. OF all European capitals,
Paris has the greatest number of for
eigners, more than 181, 900, exclusive
of $4,000 naturalized foreigners
Among these are 26, 1853 Germans.
while ia Berlin there are only 39T
French. London has only 5000
foreigners; st. Petersburg, 5000;
Vienna, 35, 900, and Berlin. $4,000.
In Paris the number of foreigners in
creased between 1888 and 1891 from
At, 600 to 1S1, 900. In point of mum.
bers there are more Belgians AS, 0OO)
in Paris than people of any other for
eign nationality; then come the Ger
mans, 26, 1853; Swiss, 26, O00; Italians,
81, 900; English, $4,000; Luxem-
bourgians, $4,000, and Russians,
5000.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-13

II and Eneored slightly Walters
turned to the photographers and said
In English;
slip San Juan's cylinder 10 there
10 a hurry. Don't boafraid. Always
net decisiyoly with an Indian.
The cylinder was slipped in aud
Walters picked up the ear tubes, aud,
adjusting them In tho ohiora ears.
said.
Listen and you viii hear the
Great Spirit talk TO you out Of the
medicine box. At the same time ho
slipped pair Of the tubs into bis own
ears and watched the Indians face.
The photograph was started and in a
moment In excited Spanish, the
Pueblo'a denunoiation squeaked forth.
The Indians face was stolid for
awhile, but when his name was men.
toned he WINGED When il recited
his wicked lifo and called down curses
upon him, he dropped the tubes,
jumped into the air with howl and
took himself to a safe distance.
The photographer took the tube out
aud slipped another one in, mean
while keeping his body between the
Indians and the chief. One Of the
sub-ohieis, lank, hungry-looking
Indian, was invited to put the tubes
to his ears and listen to the Great
Spirit, but he declined with ill-grace.
His companion, a greasy looking in
diyidual, whose ribs we're we'll out Of
sight, stepped forward and the ma
chine was started. He heard the
opening strains of "After the Ball, "as
played by the Marine band. A look
OF pleased wonder spread over his
face, and his head rocked in time with
the rhymth of the waltz In mo-
ment came bang Of the drum and a
clash of cymbals, and the trombone
bone man slid his instrument out
about four feet. The Indian dropped
the tubes with q yell, and looked to
see where the trouble was. Then he
looked at the phonograph a few min
utes and said:
"The devil is in the box"
The Indians stalked off to their DO.
MES, mounted them from the left side,
and rode off in a dignfed manner.
They didn't want the white men to
know that they we're afraid of their
medicine box.
Walters and the photographer
stayed in the mesa for week. All
about through the woods they saw
the blue smoke arising from the Ji-
carilla camps, but they we're not mo-
Tested, for on the rock still sat the
terrible medicine box.-Kansas City
Star.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-13
Ineffective.

DR.. Slade-Now, Mrs. Cusack, thai
your little son is conyalescing from
the fever, you should provide him with
some cheerful amusement or mild rec
reation to wake up his enervated
spirits.
Mrs. Cusack-I do try, doctor, but
it don't seem to do any good. I've
had him set at the winder an watch
the boys stonin Chineymen an'playin'
other games, but little Hankey don't
pear to take no interest in any OF
EN-. Chicago Record.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-13

we're laid down in beds aud became
transformed In various ways, subao-
quently by chemical processes. 40.
cording 70 conditions governing, they
we're motamorphosed into deposits Of
coal, petroleum on bilumon the last
being what We call asphalt New
York journal
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-13
Tie Wise Merchants.

Romantic Mlss-Have there not
been moments in your experience
when life seemed full of unsatisfed
wants?
Grocer Wisehead--Y-e-s, that's SO.
Romantic Miss-At such times al
ways fly to music for relief. What
do you do, Mr. Wisehead,
Grocer Wisehead--I advertise.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-13
Saved By a Photograph.

Edwin Walters, geologist, botanist,
and explorer-at present engaged in
the discovery Of the resources OF the
Ozark region for the Kansas City,
Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad, is a
storehouse of information about the
Southwest, Mexico, and Central
America. Some of his stories of the
Southwestern Indians are romantic.
His familiarity with t. country and
the natives, particularly he Pueblos,
the sun worshippers, and his knowl-
edge of Indian tongues and customs,
give his stories an chronological inter-
est
He tells q story of how he escaped
interference, If nothing worse, from a
band of Jicarilla Apaches in the Taos
Valley, in New Mexico, about two
years ago. He was on his way to
Tres Pedras-three rocks-which lies
between TERRA Amarillo and the Four
Corners LAT is where Colorado, Utah
and New Mexico come together. He
had with him a photographer, and
they carried their instruments in
wagon. Among their impediments
was a photograph. They were taking
impressions, both by light and sound,
with their camera and the phono-
graph.
When they came to the Taos range
which arose out of the Moreno Valley
and which lies north of Santa Fe
about 100 miles and is north and east
of the Rio Grande River, he deter
mined to go over the range on foot
into the Taos Valley. The photogra-
pher he sent with the team around by
the wagon road, a journey of two
days longer. The crest of the range
was IA, 900 feet above the sea level and
the month was August, When he
started out he was lightly clad aud
unencumbered. He arrived almost at
the summit by night and there en-
countered a terrific snow storm and
was obliged to retreat down the noun.
tain. Ordinarily the trip over the
crest would have taken him only q
few hours. Under the circumstances
he was more than day on the journey
and suffered from the cold until he
got down into the Taos Valley.
In the Taos Valley are three settle
ments Fernando de Taos, town Of
about $500 Mexicans and Americans
the Ranchero de Taos, where Ger
man with Mexican wife has a ranch
and Touring mill, and the Pueblo dc
Taos, settlement of Pueblo Indians.
It was to the Pueblo that Mr.. Walters
/. was bound.
Mr.. Walters arrived at Pueblo dc
Taos, became the guest of San Juan
the young chief, fine young fellow
of % years, whose wife was beauti
full girl of Is years. He had hac
previous acquaintance with San Juan
and was Hospitality received and made
himself comfortable to await the ar
rival of the photographer. He wa
given a room in San Juan's house, il
the second tier of the Pueblo TIL,
floor was spread with tanned OK hides
In the centre was the hide of a pinto,
or piebald OK, and sewed around
we're black, white, and red hides, anC
over these, in front of bed, was
bearskin. The bed was covered will
O sheet, woven by the women of thu
house, and pair OF Navajo blankets
so closely woven that they would hol'
water. For food he was given venisol
bud bear meat, black beans, corr
bread, baked in the ashes, coffee, an'
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-13
Absorbed.

The boys-How did you get away
from Your wife old man.
Grimsby-A few moments before L
left the house her new hat came. -
Puck.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-13

There are 49, artists in Paris,
more than half Of them painters.
The number OF paintings sent in to
the exhibitions last year was about
10000.
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TELEPHONES FOR THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION All the State Delegations will Connected geniols System of Telephones. atonare isinJu i've he be in
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bits. Dr. Calmette had six mongooscs at his little menageries in the town of Lille, France, and he discovered that tlie animal kills the terrible cobra and escapes injury only by it's wonderful quiokness, and is not proof against the bite of i-s dangerous prey.
 The snake charmers of India have. long used a method of gradual inocuIa-' ton of snake poison in order to make themselves proof against accidental bites from their snakes. They only partially accomplish this, however, be-, cause some of them are bitten and die every year. Dr. Calmette has studied them carefully in India. and says that the snakes they use are usually cobras, whose fangs are intact and whose bite, would be inevitably fatal They rely chiefly upon the way in which they handle the snakes to protect them from bites; it is gift which some of them seem to possess naturally They know exactly how to take hold of their dan gerous pets so as not to excite them, and never do so until the snake has been brought into q good humor by their rnu- sic and the rhythmieal swaying of their bodies. Rhythm of motion always af- fects q snake, and it will sway in unison with any moving object upon which it's attention is kept fixed Some of the charmers, doubtless, remove the fangs of their serpents, but the majority do not. It is q common thing for the eharmers to allow their cobras to strike a fowl or kitten before they begin their performance. The almost instantan- eous death of the victim proves the dam ger from the eobra's bite. and impresses the spectators, who are then more lib- eral in their contributions.
 Some of the Mexican Indians prac- tice inoculation by means of the fang of rattlcsnake after having previously fortified themselves by eating the leaves of a certain plant which is supp posed to have miraculous powers. There is no doubt that such inoculation can bo practieed successfully and that men may thus procure immunity from tho effects of snake poison, but the process is dangerous one.
 Of all the different snakes collected by Dr Calmette, the venom is almost identical It only differs in the degree of yii.ulence, the venom being more di- lnted in some snakes than in others. The cobra of India, the black snake of Australia, and the rattler of America
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..Uniuckyv Opals.

It is not fashionable to be supersti- tious about wearing opals. Ten years ago the woman who wore an opal was a brave woman indeed. To-day, experts admit, more opals are bought than any other precious stones except diamonds. It was Sir Walter Scott who helped, in Anne, of Geierstein, to arouse the fears of the superstitious concerning the wearing of that beautiful stone, and it was German dealer in gems who fos- tered that fear very successfully, for other ends than those of romance. He came to England years ago, we are told by lady jeweler, to fill an order from one of the royal families in Germany a wedding order, if l remember rightly Opals were then high. He had printed the story that opals were unlucky, and spread the report diligently. In short time the price went down, and he was enabled to fill his order and make handsome profit. = Westminster Ga zette.
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cuRIosITIEs ABOUT SAP.
Some of the Hidden Mysteries of Plant
 Life Revealed.

some or the Hidden Mysteries or Plont
 Life Revealed.
 At this season of the year, when the sap is up" in nearly all species of tree and shrub in the northern temperate zone, thoughtful men and women are thinking about Q great many of the curious things in nature. We know a great deal about the hidden mysteries's of plant life nowadays, but there are still several of the subtle "hows" and why's" that are successfully eIuding the botanists and the vegetable physi- ologist.' The heading of this "notev gives you pretty good idea of what we are driving at, and we wish to say be fore wasting more space that there are more '.curiosities about sap" than the average reader imagines. The cause of the circulation of sap has been standing enigma since the days when men first began to study and reflect. Many theories have been advanced, but each of these has in turn been exploded. 1t is certainly true that the fluid can- not circulate through the minute in- terstices which make up the fiber of trees and plants without some kind of mechanical force either before or be- hind it to inpel or attract. What this force is and how it operates are now known There must be a reason, and good one, for water, the course of which is usually down hill, 1" to change it's course and flow vigorously upwards despite the general tendency of gravi- tation. It has been asked: ssDoes sap move because of capillary attraction, or on account of evaporation from the leaves ?" There is certainly a mass of contradictory evidence to present in both cases. Capillary attraction cannot be accepted as the cause, because the fluid ascends by the cells and not through the tubes. Neither can eyapor- ation from the leaves be accepted as the cause, because sap was flowing .; month or six weeks ago in some plants, long before even the buds began to swell. Verify we know but little about some of the mysteries of nature St Louis Republic.
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sparrows and Bicycles.

A curious thing about the English sparrow has often been noticed by wheelmen. When the cyclists first took to the streets few years ago the birds used to hop up in the air and skip away before the wheel was within 15 feet ot them. The rapidity of the motion seemed to stirtle them out of their wits. But now even with the increased speed of pneumatic tires and high gears the birds show little or no fear of the wheels waiting till the last moment before flying. The wheel is often less than two feet from them before they take to flight. One sparrow over on Clinton street, Brooklyn, hopped to one side few inches and allowed the wheel to pass at about 20 inches.-N. I. Sun.
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NO MORE FEAR OF SNAKES.
Dr. Calmette Has Discovered Ab- solute Antidote for the Poison.
1t Is Similar to -Neutraiizes the Venom of the Most Deadly Reptiles If Injected Within Two Hours
 After the Bite.
TcOPYRIGH.r 1S]6 I

For the past five years Dr Calmette, of the Pasteur institute in Paris. has been diligently studying poisonous snakes He has at last established facts in regard to the action and na- ture of snake venom which bid fair to do for the victims of the serpent even more than Pasteur has done for those bitten by the mad dog. His investiga- tiens have led te the discovery of a new anti-venomons serum, an absolute antidote to the poison of any snake
 He has also made clear the way in which both venom and serum act upon the system. Burning q snake bite with q red-hot iron, cauterizing by means of lunar caustic, or cutting away tile flesh around the wound with a knife he has proved to be almost useless. When a person is bitten the poison goes into the system with marvellous ranidity, and these methods are useless if even a few minutes have elapsed after the bite. Dr. Galmette repeatedly injected mortal dose of venom into the tip of rats tail, and less than minute afterwards cut off the tail close to the body. The rat in every instance died from the effects of the venom. If a very vascular part is bitten, death en- sues very quickly. A rabbits ear is full of veins and an injection of cobra venom into the marginal veins will kill the animal almost instantaneously Hu- man beings are much more capable of resisting the poison than most animals. Even after the bite of hooded cobra death rarely ensues in man before three hours have elapsed. The new anti-venom acts by neutralizing the poison which has been introduced into the system. The serum is absorbed into the system just us rapidly as the snake venom, and unless paralysis has already set in will render the poison entirely harmless It's action is exactly like that of anti-toxine in diphtheria, and the serum is procured in a similar way.
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A Pot of Tea.

II only one pot of tea can be made for iailllly taking their luncheon at differ sH' hours, every housewife should see " ~ IL that the tea does not stand with ths M ea grounds in it longer than from
 l.ee 10 live minutes or seven minutes. -Nf that pour the tea into another ro ros ana throw the grounds away. If Ssa ;a nave only one teapot infuse the tea l;ss l. soine other pottery of some th;a au IS Dest-and pour into the pot. In sa1 m way the injurious effects of the ss. ssa'n Which is drawn out of the leaves ras e' longer infusion is avoided, and a fss sase yourself, your friends and y.iy as rom becoming tea maniacs.--N.
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The blood of horse which has grad ually been accustomed to doses of venom becomes laden with great quan- titles of the anti-toXine of snake poi son. A dose of venom sufficient to kill 40e horses can be supported by such an animal without any i'll effects, and the serum from it's blood is an absolute antidote to the poison of any venomous snake.
 Many more deaths occur from snake bites than is usually supposed. The deadly cobra of India alone kills annu- ally more than 20,000 people. These are the figures gathered by statisticians, and the unreported deaths would prob ably swell the total very greatly. In colder climates, where people wear thicker clothes and the snakes are not so deadly, deaths from snake bites are comparatively rare. They are, how ever, numerous enough to make an ab- solute antidote very welcome. Europe possesses fewer poisonous snakes than any other continent, yet the yearly total of deaths caused by scrpents ia quite large, even there. In two de- partinents of France 321 people were bitten by snakes in period of five years, 62 cases being fatal.
 Dr. Calmette is sending his anti venom all over the world, to be distrib- uted among the physicians. The Pas teur institute in Chicago will be the dis tributing point for the United States. There is no known chemical, which, by injection into the system, can be de- pended upon to nullify the effects of snake venom. Chloride of lime and chloride of gold are the most eflicaeious. but their action is very uncertain. If over half an hour has elapsed after the bite, they are always useless. The anti venomous serum will neutralize the poison two hours after the bite, and in the case of the less poisonous snakes after much longer interval.
 For many years scientists have been trying to find out the exact chemical nature of snake poison. So far they have been unsuccessful. 1t has been proved to consist of three distinct sub stances, but nobody knows very ac- curately what they are. The first sub stance is said to be peptone, which has a very slow action and produces ulcera- ton locally. The second is some virulent matter which causes great infiltration of blood when injected into the tissues; the third is of all albumin ous nature, and is not apparently pois- onous in itself. Boiling heat destroys the poisonous qualities of snake venom. When concentrated by removing the albumen and retaining the salts, the residuum is 40 times more poqsonous than the normal venom. It is then the most powerful poison known, and enough of it could be put into a thimble to kill 25,0O0 people.
 The only living creatures known which are proof against snake poison are snakes themselves. Pigs possess great powers of resistance to the pois- on, and so does the mongoose of India, which feeds upon venomons snakes. A mongoose, though not so big as q rab- bit, will only succumb to a dose of poison large enough to kill eight rab-
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Strawberry Foam.

oa oiush one quart of strawberries, add sn', @ cup of sugar and let stand for . aise' s4.a beat the whites of two eggs to ana ail roth with two teaspoons sugar nnt;s mt sur into strawberries; place on ice sa: au'li ready to serve. This makes a
 p 1slVy dessert, served with plain cake.
 Boston Globe.
 in ~ whenever large fire breaks out ots,o:o oG:oonstantinople it is the duty of an lop s'aa % oi the palace to put on . vel bss. oloak and go to tie sultan's cham stas, "nere he enters unannounced and |mons silent until the sultan rises, Io fba H,.'s ms horse, and goes in person
 sA'e scene of destruction.
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all have practically the same venom. Thus only one antidote is required for aH snake bites, but the amount injected must vary with the intensity of tho venom of the snake and the quantity infused in the wound. dose which would destroy the venom of a rattle- some of the deadly snakes of tropical countries
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An Indignant Protest,

What do you think of the sixteen to one idea?" asked the man whose mind is always on economic questions.
 Tor goodness sake" replied the man who had just laid down his paper, whats the use of making 1t any worse than 1t is? It was bad enough, I'll ad- init. but the score was sixteen to five against us, not sixteen to one. e.''-A ashs ington Star. x. ss
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The Variety.

Mrs. Cumso-My new cook is leWei Mrs. Cawker-Is she Irish? Mrs. Cunso Yes.
 Mrs. Gawler Then she is an ener ald. of course To-Date.
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