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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-19

IL Is not generally known-at least
not as generally as it deserves 20 DO
that Representative Lacey Of Iowa
is the distinguished author Of ono of
the most valuable law books 10 use By
tho American bar. II Is "Lacey'a
Railway Digest, a compendium Of all
the railway cases ever tried and de-
cided in the United States, England
aud Australia II is 10 two volumes is
a tome about two-thirds is large as
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
The other day Senator Chiffon met
the Iowa member for the first time,
and cordially shook hands with him.
His digest" no declared. had been
an invaluable aid 10 him ia many law
cases. And that reminded him Of
Texas court room episode.
Two lawyers got into an alteration
while trying case, and after an ex-
change OF some hot shot verbally, one
Of them resorted to violence. On the
table luy the second volume of LA
cey's Digest" and by its side "Desty's
Federal Procedure" dwarf Of a
book, the very antithesis of Lacey's
ponderous law tome. The incensed
lawyer picked up Desty and let it fly
at his antagonists face as hard as he
could, and both we're arraigned by
outraged Court for aggravated offence
and contempt. The Court listened
to there explanation, and demanded Of
the lawyer who had outraged the dig.
nifty Of the high tribunal il he had
anything to say in mitigation or ex-
tenuation of his offence.
eyes, your Honor, said the lawyer /:
81 only threw 'Desty' when 1 might
have thrown 'Lacey's Railway Digest. -
This nice discrimination as to the
weapons Of offence 50 pleased tho Court
that the offender escaped with simple
reprimand Washington Post,
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-19
To Ear 'Tm ,Oller

The head master of Leicester board
school was starting out the other
morning to go to his occupation,
when he saw two tiny toddlers COM
ing toward him. One Of them stopped
him and said; please, sir, Bill and
Jack can't 80 to school this morning,
because they're going to have a tooth
out" Failing to see why both should
go to have one tooth out, the master
said. "But what's Bill(the elder Of
the two) going for?" please, sir,
Bills going to have his tooth out.
"Then what's Jack (the little one)
going for2" "Please, sir, 'e's goin'to
ear i'm 'oller, was the reply. Pick
Me- Up.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-19
MELANCHOLY WOMEN.
AFRAID SOMETHING DREADFUL IS
GOING TO HAPPEN.
How a Little Baby Girl Rolled the Clouds
Away.

Of course a woman will naturally
see the dark side Of everything when
tortured by some form of female dis
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-19
Profound Reflections.

An elderly New York gentlewoman,
having occasion to expostulate with
her tishmau, remarked to him;
'Those last clans you brought me
we're dead.
Madam, was the answer, eve all
must die"
This was disconcerting, but not
moro so than the reply made to the
same lady by another tradesman, to
whom she happened to say II have
lived in this house for forty years.
He responded; ''That is nothing to
eternity.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-19
Ancient System Of Measurement.

In ancient days the units of COM
parison were taken from the human
body. Thus the Hebrews, Cartha-
ginians and Phenicians had as their
principal measure Of length the foot.
The Greeks and Romans added tho
finger, the thumb or inch, and the
palm, and these arbitrary unscientifo
units descended to the English and
Americans, whose inch, foot, yard,
pound, quart, gallon, bushel, mile,
etc, arc all based on arbitrary units,
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-19

Ethel felt SO dreadful that I told
Charlie 1 was going to commit sui
eide.
Gertrude What did he say?
Ethel Handed me one Of his BUSH
ness cards and asked me to have it
tightly clasped in my hand. Said it
would make lots Of free advertising for
him-the wretch Printers Ink.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-19

Hannah, what are you standing
there staring 90 me ior9 Didn't I tell
you that 1 was not 30 be interrupted
unless the house was on dre9'
"Well, mum, that's IT, II DO be
burning this half hour 49, Detroit
Tribune.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-19

blows through che trees. most " g. who can
Gets on for a country iaunt. Fewer cross the
Atlantic Whether BE- Is business or pleasure
calls ons from homo Hosiettor's stomach
bittera Is the best accompaniment Of voY.
age or An outing. Yaohtsmfn. sea captains.
commercial travellers and omigfants concur
% this opinion TIE Bltters Il uniivalled iof
bilious, malarial. dyapaptle OF liver disorder.
10 costs four times a. much Oh govern
American cities ts r. spent for the aamo pure
pose ln Great Britain
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-19

There are $780, United States
pensioners drawing money from the
treasury.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-19

lar menstruation, whites, etc.
She probablyis not so fortunate as
to know that all female ailments are
indicated by these never failing symp-
tens and are controlled by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; all
female weaknesses quickly disappear
by it's use. 1t has been the thinking
womans safeguard for twenty years,
and all druggists sell large quantities
Of it because it can be relied upon.
Still another woman speaks:
II wish you would publish my name
with your testimonials. want every
one to know that your Vegetable Com
pound has made me well and strong.
l sing its praises all the time. When
was first married I was very weak and
had female troubles badly; Oh, was
so weary, sick and melancholy, but the
Vegetable Compound built me up, and
now have dear baby girl, and am
so happy. No home is complete with
out dear little baby and Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to roll
the clouds away."-MRs. GEO. CLAUS,
rs Danforth St, Buffalo. N. Y.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29
FRESH HOPE FOR
THE HAIRLESS
Professor George Newcomb
Discovers a New Use
for the < Ray.
Out With the Announcement That
the Wonderful Light Will
Cure Badness.
Some Interesting Experiments Thai
Bring Forth a RejuveDator for
the BaldeSt of Pates.

SALEM, MASS, Nov. %. - Professor
George Newcomb, demonstrators OF physics
at the State Normal School, whose expert
ments with x rays have brought him
some little fame, is out with the announce
ment that they will cure badness. Some
time ago he was Obliged to discontinue
his experiments through i'll effects expert
enced after many months continuous ex-
posure to the mysterious light. His
finger nails, skin and the hair of his right
hand all came off, and he suffered e1cru-
ciating pains in that mem ber. But since
he has ceased experiments along the
original line the nails have grown again
and there is an unusual and surprising
growth of hair upon the hand where it
had all come off.
Its Mr.. Newcomb's theory that it was
the effect of the high induction coil he
was using and not the x ray itself which
produced his trouble, and his theory that
with an influence machine which he is
now building, constructed of glass and
rubber plates and developing current of
enormous tension but comparatively low
ampeerage, he can obtain even more Won
derful results and without the ill effects
attendant upon the use of the Tesla COIL
He believes that he can grow hair on the
baldest of pates.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29
WHEAT PRICES ADVANCE.
Reports That Cause Great Demand and
Much Excitement in the New
York Pit

NEW YORK, n. Y, Nov. 2S.-The
wheat market made record for itself for
the year to-day by he opening of the De-
Gem ber option at 9i1l. or ~ points above
the closing price of yesterday. All of the
early news was of bullish character.
The foreign cables were better. showing
advances of penny on all active options.
This of itself would have acted as
tonic on the local oaarkets, but was sup
piemented by the further news that the
Argentine shipments were Unexpectedly
small, aggregatine only 1900 bushels.
From the West came the Information that
the severe weather in the Northwest
would cause a material decrease in the
movement, and the receipts showed a
marked falling off In addition to this. it
was reported that three cargoes OF wheat
had been taken at San Franeisco-cne for
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29
SAW 1T FROM THE DOME
Graphic Story Told by George
Scott, Assistant to the Secre-
tary of State.

George Scott, assistant to Secretary OF
State Brown, was at Sacramento on the
night of the first reported visit of the
aerial wonder to tha. city. He gives
graphic account of what he witnessed.
Three friends and myself we're stand
ing in front of the Capitol" he said,
when the strange light first met our
gaze. l said that l saw the light moving
in the southeastern part of the city
toward the northwest, but some one in the
group ridiculed the idea.
He said it looked like light in some
distant house on the hills, and that the
appearance of its moving was due to the
mistiness of the atmosphere.
Il had the key of the building in my
pocket and suggested that we go up into
the dome ana take look at the phe-
nomenon. We climbed up and there saw
the lirhts very distinctly. sweeping across
the sky toward the northwest. There
were three of the lights, and they ap-
peared to be attached to some body, OF
which we could only discern dim outline.
IT'S no use trying to tell me that there
is no airship," he sententiously concluded.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29
/. ARRESTED F0R BfGAMY.
Pretty Mrs. All Get tire First Chinese
Woman in the Country to Get into
That Predicame1t.

NEW YORK, n. Y. Nov. 2S.-Mrs. All
Get, the first Chinese woman to be ar
rested in this country for bigamy, was
yesterday arraigned for examination be-
fore Magistrate Kudich in the Center
street Police Court. Mrs. All Get was
arrested on the complaint of Wong Hong,
Chinese resident of New York, who
claimed he had married her in Portland,
Or, in 1898.
In support OF this yesterday Wong Hong
preferred in evidence a typewriter docu-
ment. signed by "a. II. Whitaker. JUS
tice of the Peace in and for Oregon
Upon the document were pasted the pic
lures of Wong Hong and the defendant
1t stated that he (the Justice of the
Peace) had united in matrimony the two
persons whose pictures were thereto at
tached.
Lui Tong, cousin of the compla nant,
rroborated him in regard 10 the weddin
and told of the feast afterward. Wong
Hong denied when accused by Lawyer
Levy, representing The defense, that he
had used the defendant in this city for
i'm m oral purposes. Through represent
atlve of the marriage bureau it was also
proven that the diminutiye defendant had
married Ah Get, Chinese merchant at
10 Mott street, in the City Hall month
ago.
Lawyer Levy then ked that the charge
agains; his client I've dismissed, two legal
marriages having 5een shown. The court
stated IL would anhou its decision De-
Der 4. If denied the defense will then
be put in. All Get, her present husband,
claims he paid Wong Hong $500 for her
freedom and That no legal marriage with
Hong was ever legally PERFORMED. The
defendant was dressed in full Chinese cos
tune and in court attracted much atten-
tion. From Chinese standpoint she is
considered quite pretty.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29

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The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29

the machine to the eastward. Now comes
story from a man who was evidently on
the other side OF it.
Steve Morrison OF Haywards was in
San Ramon, and coming home tonight
he saw the aerial visitor in such a manner
as to fix its location approximately. .I
was driving over the hills from San
Ramon" said he, "when 1 noticed yery
bright white light in the sky west of me.
1t looked like an arc electric light, but was
too high in the heavens for that, and then
knew there were no arc lights out in that
part OF the country. 1t was surprise to
me and | watched the thing very care
fully. | first noticed it as I came up out
OF one of the small valleys and could see
II move about until l went into another"
Marshal Ramage of Haywards tells a
story which may result in clearing up the
mystery of the affair. at has seemed
very strange that this mysterious light
should be seen in this vicinity so often.
1t is possible that the thing, whatever it
may be, is being kept up here somewhere.
know of only one place where it would
be possible for an airship to be worked out
and can hardly believe that even there
the material could have been taken in
without exciting some suspicion. James
Spiers, of the firm of Hinckley Spiers &
Hayes of San Francisco, resides out in
the Palomares Canyon, and is quite an in
ventor His sons are great students also.
and it might be that they have been at
work on something of this kind. and have
succeeded in getting ship that will really
travel through the air.
ttI rQcpnfly had q fat with ,,a1 -
worked for them this summer, and he told
me that new trail had been constructed
from the house up 10 the table land near
the crest OF the hill and in canyon.
know the place, and it is hidden entirely
from view and would be an ideal place for
such work.
II asked him what the trail was being
constructed for. and he said he asked the
same question and was told that all that t
was required of him was 10 do the work
and not worry about what it was for.
After this he ompleted the work without
further questioning. He does not know to
this day wnat the trail was built for, and I
know OF no one who has ever been on the
place or on ths new trail"
An interesting story was told by w. h.
Warren in Cranes store on Thirtee nth
street. Warren is engaged il The chicken
business above the Zeile place Accord
ing to his statement he has succeeded in
inven ting a machine that he states he
made trip in, reaching the height of 100
feet This took place at San Pedro not
over month or SO ago. He is quite a
young man and clever machinist. He
has complete working model capa BILE of
carryins one man. 1t is made in the
shape OF ci ar, with round head, and
built OF light frame covered with tin and
fitted with wings, and tail like fan.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29
WAIrING 10 WAFL4F HEFLBR.
Cubun Insurgents Ready to Battle With
the Captain General

Cubun Insurgents Ready to Battle With
the Captain General
KEY WEST, FLA, Nov. 2S.-Passengers
by the steamer Oiivette tonight report
thai Weyler left Havana last night for
Mariel, going by steamer. 1t is reported
that 1900 insurgents are waiting on the
road to Mariel to intercept and give him
battle.
One hundred and forty-three prisoners
were deported to-day. Seventv-nine were
Manigoes and the balance suspects Four
teen were arrested yesterday, tried by
drumhead court-martial, convicted and
sentenced to-day.
Celoma, while being led to execution on
the Goth, was slapped in the face by a
Spanish official for a trivial remark. He
died game. His. last words were "Cuba
Libre." Passengers also report that Orna-
metto IS very sick and iII-treated. Eight
hundred Spanish soldiers were brought
into Havana Yesterday.
q. b. Pendleton arrived in this CITY to-
night. He claims there was nothing
irregular in his passports. The Spanish
officials simply wanted TO delav him on
account OF lis bringing III dispatches to
this city.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29
Heard Them Talk.

UKIAH, CAL, Nov 2S.-E. G. Case,
grand chief ranger of the Ancient Order OF
Foresters OF the Pacific jurisdiction, and
William Held. official stenographer of the
local Superior Court, left this afternoon
for Potter Valley, small town twenty
miles north of this city.
A telephone message was received from
Held at 7:3O O'Clock tonight containing
the startling information that they had
seen an airship when within two miles OF
their destination. The two gentlemen
were driving along in double team when
the airship passed so close to them that
their horses were frightened.
The gentlemen distinctly saw the aerial
wonder 1t was cigar-shaped and was evil
IDENTIFY suspended from balloon.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29
WAS NOT STARS.
Attorney Hurst of Woodland Salts
fled Himself as to a Strange
Light,

WOODLAND, CAL, Nov. 2S.-M. D..
Hurst, a well-known lawyer of this city,
discerned bright and unusual light in
the skies about 10 O'Clock last night,
travelling in a southwesterly direction
from Woodland. Nearly all Mr.. Hurst's
neigh bors also witnessed the phenome-
non. Their first impression was that the
mysterious ligh. was group of stars, but
closer observation convinced EN- that
this was wrong. The lights appeared to
be electric and were watched for an hour.
Mr.. Hurst is fully satisfied that if the
mysterious object was a mechanical con-
trivance it could not have been operated
by porson on the ground. He watched
1t upward OF an hour from window in
his home. He does not pretend to say
that it was an airshp. but insists that it
was not stars. Two Salvation Army off,
GERS, who were driving from Knights
Landing to Woodland. corroborate Mr..
Hurst.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29
TO Re McKsntey,s secre,o ~

COLUMBUS, OHIO, Nov. pa state
ment comes from member of the Nc
Kinley household that President-elect
McKinley's private secretary will be
Charles Gates Dawes of Evanston. Ill
Major Dawes was chairman of bureau
in the National Republican Committee
with headquarters at Chicago. during the
campaign. His home was formerly at
Lincoln, Nsbr.. but he recently moved to
Chicago TO manage the business of = LARGO
gas-plant prom oting company with which
he is connected. Major Dawes. with a
mum Ger OF his Republican friends. promi'
nen.ly connected with the campaign was
the guest on Thanksgiving day OF Josenh
z. Smith, ex-State Librarian, McKinlev's
campaign secretary at his home at Ur-
bana, Ohio.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29

The machinery is worked with gasoline.
A trial trip was made and was success.
The inventor objects to exhibiting his
machine, as he has not yet secured a
patent on it. He says he secured his idea
from watching the fight of the seagull.
The machine is now in San Francisco.
He has not yet used electricity, but adj
mits that it would be great improve
ment.
George f. Toyne, who interviewed War
re9 for the Haywards Journal. said to-
night that Warren had partner whom
he had semitic Uroville TO see if be could
learn anything of the plans OF the new
airship for the purpose of comparison.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29
shipment to Capetown, Africa, and two to

shipment to Capetown, Africa, and two to
Australia.
opening sharp advance was to be ex-
pected. The opening price tor December
at 911z and for May at 90M was improved
upon shortly after the opening by bids
and sales of "a higher, but-that was the
high-water mark for the day.
The total advance since the previous
Saturday has been cents for December
wheat.
The desire to realize caused many long
holders to throw over their stocks, and a
decline followed. The decline was sharp
and steady, and the price of both Decem-
ber and May at the close was at the exact
quotations of yesterdays closing. 1t is
generally conceded that the selling was
for profit only, and the bearish element
did not participate to any noticeable extent.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29
KILLED IN THE ATTEMPT
Men Who Enter Into a Murder Con-
spiracy Com. 10 Grief

PERRY, o. t., Nov. 2S.-Henry t. Bay
less, Frank Lawrie, ]. N. Mcdonald,
Thomas III. Bryan and half dozen other
prominent men living near Mckinney
have been arrested and charged with con-
spring against Lord r. T. Brooke of
Tonkawa, to burn his house and kill Lord
Brooke and his wife. They are charged
with hiring Charles Graham and two
others to do the work
In an attempt to carry out the contract
Graham was killed and Bill Jones and
Kenneth Mcdonald were fatally wounded.
Before his death Graham made a confess
sion of the conspiracy. All the men con-
nected are prominent. The matter has
caused great stir
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29

line into shape he was greeted with
shower of leaden hail that moved great
gaps in his line. The battle continued
for some time before Maceo. who had evil
IDENTIFY been waiting for SPANS soldiers,
began slowly to retreat
At this point, as in the story of the
alleged Weyler engagement, the dynamite
incideat comes in. Hundreds of Spanish
soldiers were killed instantly by the dis
charging of the dreaded substance almost
under their feet. The carnage was terri
ble Maceo still retreated, and was fol-
lowed slowly by the broken lines OF the
Spanish forces Then from an emlnence-
this same eminence is mentioned in the
alleged Weyler engagement = Maceo
brought dynamite gun to bear On the
Spaniards and killed off several hundreds
of Spain s soldiers before darkness ended
the fighting.
Maceo and his victorious troops got
away. Lieutenant Rios declared here
that the Cuban loss was only thirty. The
Spaniards, he declares, lost nearly 1000
men.
Lieutenant Rios was then asked If the
story dated November 26 from Jackson
vile, Fla, and purporting to be an inter
view with him, was true. He replied,
through an interpreter, that the Weyler
story he knew nothing about, but e1-
planned when he was told its purport that
he had heard the same thing before leav-
ing on the Algonquin for this city.
'Do you know whether it was true?" he
was asked.
His reply was that he knew nothing at
oll L. 20 Ia 2 II
story of General Weyler's engagement
with Maceo's men in the Rubi hills. which
he declared was an untruth, and which
Cubans have said was a fact.
Lieutenant Rios says regarding the oc-
cupancy of the province of Camaguey by
the Cubans:
"The Cuban Government is in healthy
operation in this district. The Spaniards
have given it up. In the mountains un-
der the roofs of the old farmhouses the
new Government of Cuba libre is conduct
ing schools for the children of patriots
''The pupils range in age from to 13
years, all the boys of greater age than
that being engaged in the fight for the
islands liberty. In the provinces of
Camaguey and Oriente they have shoe
makers shops for the benefit of the
Cuban soldiers and blacksmith shops for
the shoeing of the patriots horses. tax
is levied by the Government, but it is not
compulsory. These provinces the Civil
Governors Mandoz and Manuel Cespedes
are in charge OF. a very small, force of
men is all that is necessary to protect the
people there.
He was accompanied to this city by Cap
tain Dupier and another Cuban. The doc
uments sent by Gomez and Cisneros are in
the hands Of the Cuban Junta.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29
MokIsLEps QUAD OF HoNoR.
The Eighth Regiment of fhe Ohio Ma
tiOnGE Guard ScI-cted


CANTON, OHIO, Nov. 2s-Ex-Governor
Foraker of Cincinnati arrived at Canton
at 1:30 O'Clock this afternoon. He was
met at the station by Major Mckinley,
who drove him to the house, where lunch
was served.
Among the callers this morning was
Senator-elect Wellington of Cumberland
Md. Mr.. Wellington will take his seat in
the Senate on the 4th of March, and is of
the opinion that there will be an extra
session of Congress to deal with the tariff
question.
The Eighth Regiment of the Ohio Ma
tional Guard, Colonel Cuyger command
ing, has been selected TO act as Major Nc
Kinley's personal escort from Canton To
Washington. Major Mckinley will leave
here the Saturday or Monday preceding
the 4ih OF March, which occuro ON Thurs
day, next year.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29
T,uo Games of Foofbau

KANSAS. CITY, Mo-, Nov. 2s.--The
football game here this afternoon, between
Kansas and Minnesota universities, re-
suited in a victory for Minnesota by a
score of ~ to O.
OMAHA. NEBR.. Nov. 28.-The football
game between University of Iowa and
Nebraska resulted in the defeat of the lat
ter by score of 6 to O.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29
Io,rn,a omninI Yot.

DES MONIES. Iowa. Nov. 2s.-The
official count OF Iowas Presidential vote.
completed to-day, shows; Mckinley.
'2S9, 293; Bryan, 223, ,74l; Palmer, 45ls;
Levering, 1892; Bentley. $685., Mattiehett,
453. McKinley's majority, 81, 1876: Nc.
Kinley's plurality, 65.552.