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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06
Abatlng Nuisance.

One stiaing pitch dark night. when
The atmosphere was fairly thick with
the aioaoh Of The oxen and tho poou-
liar musky smell Of the insect posta
patience ceased 10 be a yirtuoi despair
sent me q saving spark Of thought. and
] arose from the couch where I had
been almost aufooating. Among my
stores we're several square cans Of
petroleum which a New York nrm had
exported toJava. Each held about i've
or six gallons / punched n hole In the
bottom Of two Of the nsand carrying
one IN each hand, / walked from
my house through tho market camp,
between each and every grobak and
wagon. The ground and the sparse
grass we're absolutely dry, parcbed By
the heat, 80 that Tue earth absorbed
hardly any Of the precious huid. Hay-
ing crossed and reorossed the space
between the carts, carried my empty
cans back TO my house, struck match,
and in less than five minutes the en-
tire camp was lighted by an endless
chain Of flame; flashes of serpentine
fire shot hither and thither-a scene
never to DO forgotten.
The effect Of my pyrotechuic display
was thorough. In a space Of time SO
short that it could scarcely be confined
to minutes, every karbou was hitehed
o It's grobak, and suddenly carts, kari
bous aud natives had disappeared as
j swallowed by the earth. The exodus
was complete. I was master OF the
field, and patted myself on the back.
When / told the radanario in the
morning Of my stratagem and its sue
cess, be derived as good laugh from
it as I had INDUCED in myself. jean
I. Van Gestel in Lippincott.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06
An American Flag Of Girls.

Fifty years ago the American flag
was raised over the port OF Monterey,
CAL, and it thus became a United
States seaport instead of Mexican
town. The towns semi-centenaial
was httingly celebrated short time
ago, aud the place was crowded with
visitors.
One of the most beautiful of the
ceremonies was the formation of "0ld
Glory" by arranging two hundred
girls in appropriate costumes. The
red and white stripes of the living flag
we're made Of gowns of those colors.
The blue field was similarly secured.
and the white stars were placed on top
of immense hat-toppod hats which the
girls wore.
When the two hundred girls lifted
their voices to sing "Iho Star Spang-
led Banner" the applause awoke the
echoes of tue hills surrounding Mont
Grey and drowned the music for sew.
eral minutes.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06
A Woman's Rights Bird.

One of the most interesting spe-
cies of birds, says the London Daily
Nows, is the redneeked phalarope, a
beautiful bird, of which we see little
in these islands, but which is upon its
native heath in the arctic regions Of
America 1t is especially remarkable
because, as rarely happens among
birds, the female is larger and more
brightly colored than her mate. Aud
it is the hen bird that does oil the
counting THE male" Says Mr.. Eli
hot, sis as coy and retiring as the
most bashful maiden, turning away
from the proffered attentions, first
to this side, then to that, even flying
to the opposite side Of the pool, or to
another near by; but all in vain, for
he is followed by the fair one who has
chosen him from his fellows, aud there
is no escape At last, like any other
poor bachelor so beset, he yields, and
the nest, a slight structure of dry
stalks, is placed in the center of a
thick tuit of grass The eggs are four
in number. On these the poor male,
a victim to woman's rights, is obliged
to sit the greater part of the time, the
female amusing herself on the pool
near by"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06
His Blunder.

A former minister to tho United
States from Argentina found great
difficulty in learning the English lam
guage.
II make often many meestake," he
said, "when I speak Americana. I
make bad blunder the last time 1 am
received at the White House. A beau
tiful ladee tell me something which
happened in your civil war. She say
she see it. Now, think to myself !
will be polite and make the sonora a
grand compliment.
!" Tt is impossible That you see it,
madam, I say. You must have been
born many, many years before the
war.
CAN the time he added, 81 meant
after the war. But made a meegtake,
say before. No, the lndee was moi
pleased. See felt much contempt. -
Washington Star.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06

century, and The wonder Is thai % few
ny The experiment Most 81 as Stun.
bic along through atty Or aixty years.
carrying a load Of rheumatism and
goui, while a slender minority arc
young AZ three score. healthy at four
score and ton, and not very old or
very feeble when they pass the cen.
fury mile stone.
Every country IN Europe produces
a goodly number Of oentenarians, but
the crop is largest in Roumania, where
il Is said ono man Ia every thousand
celebrates his one hundrodlh birthday.
One hundred and twenty-five years
constitute an exceptional age, but
even one hundred and fifty have in
several instances been reached.
The norvesare what do the business
for us, aud We Americans wear our
nerves on tho outside, where every
blast irritates them. Worry makes as
old, but how oan one help worrying ia
a political campaign like this.
Some time, perhaps, we shall take
life more easily, and then We shall
live without wear or tear, and there
fore live till we go TO pieces like
Holmes zone boss shay" Without
doubt the ideal limit is a century aud
a half, but, as in all other instances,
the ideal is hard TO attain. New York
World.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06
AS Old as Noah.

Mr.. Reynolds is bright and we'll
preserved old gentleman, but to his
little granddaughter Mabel he seems
very old indeed. She had been sitting
on his knee and looking at him seri-
ously for long time one day, when she
asked suddenly:
"Grandpa, we're you in the ark?"
"Why, no, my dear, gasped her as
tonished grandparent
Mabel's eyes grew large and round
with astonishment.
"Theu, grandpa, " she asked, "why
weren't you drowned2"
Eewilderment of grandparent. -
London Answers.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06
Railroad Men SnnerstllIons.

"The belief Of railroad men in
ghosts is proyerbial, but it is really
strange to see how thoroughly the su-
perstition peryades all ranks and how
firmly fixed it becomes in the minds
of men, said Robert Inkton, OF Har-
risburg, Penn, at the Ebbitt "Now,
l am an old railroad man myself, yet
it surprises me at every turn to see
how each section OF railroad in the
country has its own particular ghost
story, which has entire credenoe with
every man on the line. The Pittsburg
branch of the Baltimore and Ohio, on
which travelled recently, has a Curl
GUS legend with a ghost attached.
''It is the fixed belief of every man
on the line, that whenever there is to
be a fatal accident a spectre engine
appears on the track in the vicinity of
It's scene. The phantom engine al
ways goes just ahead of the one from
which it is seen, aud, SO it is said,
many an engineer has reversed his
lever in mortal fear of a collision, only
to see the engine ahead disappear
when he has come to a full stop. Then
the engineer becomes uneasy, for he
knows, or thinks he knows, that some
one on the road is sure to meet with
sudden and violent death before
long. He does not sleep soundly un-
til he hears of fatal accident. Then
he again breathes freely, for he knows
that the prophecy has been fulfilled,
Washington Times.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06

For the fret time in the history OF
New York state courts, women we're APP
pointed receivers few days ago in
supplementary proceedings in insol-
venoy.
The appointments was made by JUS
iice Mclean, in the state superior
court, and are three in number. being
Miss Rosalie Leow, Mrs. i. s. Werner,
and Mrs. Anita Haggerty, all members
Of the New York bar. The amounts
involved in thete proceedings are
small, and the bonds OF the fair re-
ceivers were fxed by the court at 500
each.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06
The POPULAR Idea Of War.

The popular idea Of war is largely
based upon the popular history, the
war correspondents, and the Gener-
ais report, in which, for obvious
reasons, there is seldom a revelation
of the true horrors of the engage
ment. Our fancy, our Imagination
is fred by the picture of magnificent
charges, of prancing horsemen, of
cleaning bayoneta, OF heroic episodes,
and we fatter ourselves that on such
an occasion we ourselves should per-
form with credit. We see little OF
the dusty, yelling, hunger. stricken,
blood-stained line OF men who win
the battle. -Fortnightly Review.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06
Longevity.

Elijah Glenn has just passed his one
hundredth birthday. He is oneof the
thirteen survivors of the war of 1912,
and is as cheerful as a cricket, with
the prospect Of many years ahead of
him.
Some scientists ten MS that it is pos
sible for the average man to cover a
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06
twentieth Century Is Dawnlng.

In breach Of promise suit an Indi-
ana court has decided that it is not SO
bad to damage the affections OF a wild
ow as it is to triAe with the heart of q
young woman who has never known
love. A Dan oil come to judgment !
The courts are PefnDg more practical
every day. -Bl ffalo Express.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06

swell, doctor, what ails mo9" asked
sprooketi after The physician had made
an examination.
''Rou have bloyolistarium kypho-
SIS, " replied The physician, but think
! can slraighten you out. "-PIltsbnfe
Chronicle Telegraph.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06

Orange growing is being abandoned
on the peninsula Of southern Cali
fornia
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06
nafarms 80 - D. II.

To bring them about end are always more
e1me.sie and LASTING when theY proceed eIfh
steady regularity 81 contamination. Haa ia
taa uhaHf8hmt among as cAH have failed ae4
notice thaf permanently healthful changes ia
the human agHfen AIRS not wrought by ahrnnt
ard violent meanas and that those are lie
most aHlnfarY medicines which are pfaafeH.
aive, Hosteftsra stomach Bitter ls the 6hlaf
% thee D1spfn sla. disease Of nhatlnata
character Is oblilerAted 81 ID.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06

Next year 4 The centennial 81 the stove pipe
bat which fret came into common use III
Paris ia 1897
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06

The new Chicago directory has ST.,
1872 names.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06
"a ~
Votes

Have been cast By thousands Of sufferers
from impure blood, and their verdict has
settled the question Of the great curative
power Of Hoods saraaparllla. Every mail
ear brings N these letters Of praise for
Hoods samapadlla. They tell the sans
wonderful story Of health restored. pain and
suifeflns relieved, and happiness brought
back. They prove
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06
JOYS OF MATERNITY.
VIGOROUS MOTHERS AND STURDY
CHILDREN ADMIRED.

why so Many Women Are ChlldIess-A
Problem That Has Puzzled Physicians
for Centuries.
Reproduction is law of nature, and
no picture of joy and happiness can
squal that of the vigorous mother and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-16

edictine monks In the ~cloister of ST. James.
in Metz. AS far as known. there are only
three copies of this book yet extant. Ac-
cordingly the Metz Psalter is even rarer
and more expensive than the MaZarin BIZ
bic OF lf55. of which IL is known that there
are still fifteen copies in existence.
A translation has been made by Mr.. Da-
vid Cuthbertson of the Chevalier Ram
says History of the Life Of Fenelon."
This work was published anonymously in
l.23, and is a very curious account OF &C.
clesiastical and philosophical discussions
aud personal oppositions in the time OF
ries. The book has long been out OF print
ant librarian in the University of Edin-
burgh, has added notes and a biographical
memoir The book will be issued in Octc-
Der, and may be obtained directly from
Mr.. Cuthbertson.
At its last meeting the French Academy
received letters from Emile Zola and Jules
Delafosse. each presenting his own name
as candidate for the fauteuil of NJ. Jules
Simon. In May Zola appeared as a candi-
date for the place of Alexandra Dumas.
his. at the same time that CASTOR Paris
was elected TO succeed DIR. Pasteur.
Eight ballots were cast. Zola led in nearly
all of them. but in the last two stood eight
against sixteen cast for Barbour No final
will take place in October, and il is
thought that the author of Rome" stands
the best chance of his life of being then
elected
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-16

One good deed is worth a bushel improp-
eriy made out and recorded.-Texa Sitter.
The age Of a tree can be estimated by
counting it's rings. but it isn't so with a
woman.-Texas Sitter.
A new recipe for making people happy:
Visit them and they will be happy when
you go.-Atchison Globe.
Whenever old Sol says "Wilt thou?"
nowadays. everybody knows what hap
pens.-Chicago Dispatch.
George Washington was the father of
his country, but no one ever called him d
Pop.-Philadelphia Telegraph.
Many a life has been spoiled by not
knowing the difference between thrift and
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
If. you can convince a nan who thinks
he is a martyr that he is only a chump.
not much more is necessary.-Puck.
1t may be that care will kill a cat, but
a flobert rifle poked through the blinds
is generally more expeditious.-Boston
Globe.
There are men in town pulling off polit-
ical controversies who should be in the
cornfeld pulling off fodder.-Galves;on
News.
When a man talks to himself when there
is a woman around he is not saying any
thing complimentary of her.-Atchison
Globe.
There would be very few windows bro
ken If they waited for the man without
sin to cast the first stone.-New Orleans
Picayune.
She-Lord De Liverus says that my
beauty intoxicates him. Pater-And he
van to marry you so as to try the gold
cure. e~h?-Truth.
No girl over sixteen should say that she
is ''impulsive." Impulsiveness is no excuse
for al old woman making a goose of her
self.-Atchison Globe.
There is a report that Buzbee has a
large floating debt" announced the CASH
ier to the teller. Yes, sir; an $50, 900 steam
yacht. Detroit Free Press.
The question of the propriety of riding a
wheel to church will probably remain ar
open one until the Pope issues a bicyclical
on the subject.-BuffaIO Commercial.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-16
ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES.

Few persons are aware of the vigor with
which archaeological Investigations have
been prosecuted during the last few years
or of the interesting discoveries that have
been made in that field of knowledge. The
repeated efforts to discover the north pole
and the voyages of arctic exploration
which nave been prosecuted with so much
zeal, intelligence and energy are fully
equaled by the efforts that nave been max
ing to add to the sum Of human knowledge
by discovering new records and remains Of
antiquity. And the efforts in the latter
field nave been much more fruitful than
those in the former, for. while the pole
has not been discovered nor much IL any
thing added to geographical or scientific
knowledge concerning the polar region,
every year brings new discoveries in the
field of prehistoric antiquities and new ex-
plantations of facts hitherto misunderstood
so that our whole appreciation of ancient
life and manners is gradually changing.
As steam and electricity nave made the
world smaller. so the discoveries in
archaeology are bringing the ages nearer
together During the last few years ex-
tensive explorations have been prosecuted
by British. German and American societies
at Athens and Rome. in Egypt, Palestine
and other seats of ancient populations.
: One of the most fruitful series of explora-
tons was begun by DIR. J. p. Peters, Of
Philadelphia, at the head of an expedition
fitted out by the University of Pennsyl-
vania. which has established a department.
of archaeology. DR.. Peters began his ex-
plorations In the ruins of Nifer, in Babylo-
5000 inscribed clay tablets and fragments,
some of great interest. They were taken
from a level which indicated n date about
$500 years before Christ. Later discov-
follow a direct line bach as far as 1000
years before Christ. thus showing con-
clusively that that part OF the earth was
populated at a period long before the date
Of the creation as commonly supposed TO
be fixed by the Bible. Other explorations
by British and German explorers have re-
suited I'm discoveries in Egypt and Pales-
tine OF equal interest and Importance.
Some of the records which nave been dis
covered date back to a period several hum
dred years anterior TO the time OF Moses,
and they reveal an interesting degree or
civilization even at that early period. The
chief cities OF Babylon had libraries, some
Of Which were founded six thousand years
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-16

If DR.. Nansen. the Norwegian explorer.
is correct. he reached a point Sc degrees
and IA minutes north in his search for the
north pole. The claim made for him that
this point is four degrees further north
than any other explorer has reached is not
sustained by the record. May 13. 1882. Gen.
A w. Greedy reached So degrees "a min
utes. which was the highest record to that
date. If DR.. Nansen has made Sc degrees
IA minutes he has reached a point further
north than General Greedy of 2 degrees 81
minutes, or about 200 miles nearer the north
pole.
The first recorded effort to reach the
north pole was as long ago as 1887. when
John Davis, sailing from the western
hemisphere, reached y degrees II minutes
north. Sailing from the eastern hemi-
sphere, John Barents made Y degrees 20
minutes July IA. 1894. With other explorers
10. 1856. Henry Hudson reached 80 degrees
and % minutes July 10, 1907, in the eastern
hemisphere. No one surpassed that record
until William Scoresby reached 81 degrees
30 minutes May "a. 1906. The celebrated
Kane expedition made its highest latitude
June "a. $3.50 degrees 10 minutes. July
"a, 1927, Parry made 50 degrees 45 minutes
Sept. %, 1875, G.. S. Mares made So degrees
4s minutes, and May IL. 1876. SO degrees 20
minutes. AS above stated. A. w. Greedy
exceeded this last latitude by four minutes
During the past three hundred years
scores of expeditions have been made in
the arctic regions, the ann of the most of
them being to reach what is known as the
north pole. Many lives lave been lost in
these expeditions and several millions of
dollars nave been wasted. Now and then
an expedition has never been heard of.
and several others nave been rescued by
other expeditions organized for that pur-
pose. If any scientific knowledge of prac-
teal value, which should be the end of all
research. has been secured 1t has not been
proclaimed. A number of the explorers
nave made their expeditions the subject of
interesting books. but. after all. in prac-
ticaf results little of value has been dis
covered. Ere long adventurous scientists
will induce other men to pay the expenses
Of new expeditions-but to What purpose?
Suppose the earth's axis should be reached.
what could be gained thereby? To the
practical mind the most unscientifc thing
which scientists can do Is to devote their
lives to tho solution of problems which.
when solved. can be of no value 70 the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-16
EARLY WINE DRINKING.
The Scarcity of the Article Produced
Some First Medal Thirsts.

In the first days Of Rome wine was al
most unknown. AS late as the second
Samnite war, 304, the Dictator Papirius
vowed a small cup of wine of Jupiter as
torious. which he was in 3oS-that is, al
most $50 years after the foundation of
Rome, wine was rarer than gems. And
for centuries after the Samnite wars.
though wine was imported in increasing
quantities, drinking habits did not become
general until the time of julius Caesar,
when IL began 10 be cultivated In Italy.
During the reigns of Augustus and his i'm
mediate SUCCESSORS wine culture and max.
ing became a passion among the Romans.
During the empire ii abounded. and his
tory shows beyond question that cnerva-
ton, loose morals, corruption and crime
increased among the Romans in almost an
exact ratio to the increase of their habits
of drinking.
Even the Stoics-those severe philoso-
pliers who held that human conduct must
be restrained within the exact interpreta-
lions of the four cardinal virtues pru-
dence, justice. temperance and fortitude-
even they sometimes intoxicated them
selves Tor the "refreshment OF their souls"
The women were as abandoned to drink
and loose living and orided themselves on
being able to @tand as much wine as the
men. And most conspicuous in these de-
baucheries were the Caesar. and the En-
perors caligula Nero. Viteiilus. Domitian.
And yet In this very Rome, steeDed i'm
drunkenness. RIGHTEOUSNESS and crime. the
vestai fire was kept inviolate and sacred.
and we find, in Tacitus Annals. that even
Nero. upon venturing into the Temple Of
Vesta. was seized with a sudden tremor
throughout his body. either from dread of
the Deity or in an access OF the fear with
which the recollection OF his Ill deeds ever
pursued him" The same multitude who
could abandon themselves TO all cxcesses
of the Bacchanaiia approved the condern-
nation to living burial OF a vestai on mere
suspicion of impurity. and could callously
look on at the whipping to death (accord-
ing to law. Liyy. %, SD of a vestaI's para
mour, so little was IL understood that ma
tional safety depended on character. not
on the inyioaability of shrines-
Now. have the lessons of the past borne
fruit in the present century,? All wines
intended for export are .fortified"-that Is.
alcoholized-on the oretext that only by
this method can they be prevented from
souring. "A questionable statement when as
serted of any well-made and matured wine.
IL Is. however. accepted as a truth by the
various European governments ts,s