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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02
HoW No 9EooAR TAUoHT 10 &c.

Ono dag q King. in IfHiated mood
Grew nusfg Hf hIH Minister uf state.
And spoke and acted in r. way quite rude.
Aud n0t 90 All becoming one aa great.
Tho Minister was vrKe1. SCI wls afraid
io vent ha passion on thr iIl bred Kings
But aiierWarl, Oh ease DDS mind. Doe made
ITS Secretary wr1th at some sharp ling.
Tho Secretary cooled ha temper by
hffhiIns ono who served about thn house,
Tho servant, hhgercd, dared not make re-
Andt5ok tho acollIng quiet as a mouse.
Dat rnyei and sworo moment later when
Ito found "a hegsAr no the palace gate.
"bo on. he cried. "and don't you dare
again
Come here. or you Vim meet a sorry tato,'
Tho beggar smiled bat not an angry smile
A smile Thanksgiving his carew0ru face.
The servant, Hoiteuci, stood and mused @
And maryclod At tho mans torglylng
grace.
I When next the Secretary sharply spoke.
/ The servant met him ln better mood
I Aud IN the Secretnry's breast awoko
Ihe CONSEQUENCES that DO was harsh and
rude.
Andso, On turn, be answered pleasantly
When next the Minister INDUCED a snser,
The Minister was quick his fault 90 SEQ.
And frankly owned It, like a noble peer
And when the King. sour-tempered and
I stlll veXed,
Rebukod once more his Minister Of State
The lattor's unoifendod mien perplexed
/ Aud sobered on the royal potentate.
he thank the statesman for the Lessor
taught,
And vowed that Il should last him for
while:
But neither King nor statesman eve
thought
EThey'd learned their lesson through,
beggar's smilel
james r. Perry, In The Independent.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02

One Of the most impressive and pc
culiar sights presented to the eyes Of
q traveller in Japan is that of the wood
en- sandals worn by 80, 900, 600 people.
These sandals have a separate COM
partment for the great toe and make q
blinking noise on the street. Straw
slippers are also worn, and a traveller
starting out on journey will strap a
supply Of them on his back, that he
may put on a new pair when the old is
worn out. They cost but cent and a
half a pair. They are rights and lefts
and leave the foot free to the air. We
never see these deformities Of the foot
in Japan which are so frequent in this
country They are never worn in the
house, but left outside the doBr.
Passing down a street you may see
long rows of them at the door, old and
new, large and small
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02

Says the San Francisco Argonaut:
On the arrival of the last two steamers
from the Hawaiian Islands, we observe
that the customs inspectors have de-
stroyed all the leis, or flower wreaths,
which tourists are in the habit of
bringing here. 1t is an excellent idea.
The plants from the islands are infest
ed with the red wax scale, an insect
pest which is much to be apprehended
particularly in a State like this, de.
voted to horticulture. The sentimen,
tai ideas Of travellers may be inter
ferred with by destroying these flower
wreaths, which are presented to them
by their friends when they sail from
Honolulu; but the horticultural inter
ests of the State are of more import
ance than travellers sentiment. It be-
hooves the United States authorities
to be careful concerning the admission
of the fauna and fora of other coun-
tries to our ports. When man begins
to interfere with nature, he sometimes
plays havoc. Five or six years ago a
travelling Floridian brought home from
Central America a pretty water plant.
It's growth in its new environment was
simply marvellous, and in the last two
years the authorities have had to spend
thousands Of dollars in cutting it away
from the rivers, where it had made
navigation impossible. The sentiment
tai English colonist who, thinking Of
the Dummies of his childhoods home,
imported few rabbits into Australia,
little thought that in the course Of less
than a generation they would increase
to millions and almost destroy the use
full vegetation of vast country So
with the mongoose that has been
brought into this port several times,
but, we are glad to say, has always
been destroyed by the customs au-
thorities. Its importation into the
West Indies was failure There,
after it had killed the feld-rats which
preyed upon the sugar-cane, it turned
its attention to other and useful ami.
mails, and finally began destroying all
the domestic poultry.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02
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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02
EIsH WIZ a RrsERvoIR.


Nollsy iu ifls Iace.
The queercat Of OH quecr-cyod ami
mails has now been found 10 Is tho
Peri0phthalmua O 6ah inhabIliug tho
COASTS % China, japan, Indie. tho
MaIayau Archipelago and Eastern
Africa
This strange creature, when in pure
suit Of its prey, leaves the sea aud
comes out on tho sands, thus existing
for the greater portion ol itsHt I'M an
element which, according To- the nature
Of things, ought 10 be fatal 90 g. The
laws Of evolution have, however. cmi-
uently prepared 10 for itg peculiar
mode Of life. It's gin cavities are so
large that when 10 abludous the sea e
carries in them q quantity Of water
which yields up The necessary supply
Of oxygen.
It's locom0tion has been provided for
likewise, for continued use along ccr-
tain lines has 80 developed its poctoral
fins that the creature uses them as legs.
and jumps along 90 a surprising rate Of
speed. It's eyes are very large and
prominent and possess, for fish,
the peculiar faculty Of looking around
on all sides; hence its name Perioph-
thalmus. These eyes are situated on
top Of the animals head, and present O
very grotesque appearance.
The fayorite food Of this fish, says
the Medical Record, is O naked mol
lusk called Onchidium. And, in tho
matter Of eyes, this aforementioned
creature is itself worthy Of remark.
It's cephalic or head eyes are like
those other mollusks, and not worthy
Of special mention. But its dorsal
eyes, sometimes several hundred in
number, are truly remarkable These
dorsal eyes, although they are very
simple in structure, in type are the
same as those Of vertebrate animals.
having corneae, lenses, retinae and
"blind spots" In the vertebrate eye
the spot where the optic nerve pierces
the external layer of the retina is sight.
less; hence it is called the "blind
spot"
When this mollusk sees the Perioph.
thalmus bounding over the sands il
contracts o thousand or so Of little
blodder-like cells in the skin of its
back, thereby discharging a hail storm
Of minute concretiong. in the face Of it'
enemy!
The fish, terrified and amazed by
the volley, turns aside, and the mol
lusk is saved Thus its dorsal eye
are Of great advantage to the Onchidi
nm. IL is not able, like the Perioph
thalmus, to move these eyes, yet, stu
ated as they are all over its back, j
I possesses the power Of seeing in ever!
direction. New York Journal.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02
WHY Moonlight Hooks Cold.

When the light is gradually reduced
the various objects of q landscape grad
ually lose til color. Light becomes
greenish as it 4iminishes in intensity,
and the reds, blues and yellows, being
reduced or absent, are not reflected by
surrounding objects. Hence moon
light always looks cold, while the sun
light is warm. AS twilight comes on
red objects lose their color sooner than
others, finally appearing black, while
other colors are still visible.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02
A cnnrIct-RnIIt Prison.

The last Congress appropriated
$50, 600 for a penitentiary at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan 1t will be a
splendid modern structure, near the
site Of the old prison, and the plan OF
utilizing the five hundred eonyiets
there to build it is to be carried out.
It is expected that the new building
will represent an outlay Of three times
the appropriation. The land, Of course.
is free, being a Government reserya.
ton, set apart in 1927 II has mex.
haustible quarters Of fine building
stone, an abundance of lime and the
finest clay for making bricks. The
convicts are to quarry and dress th,
stone, make the bricks, burn the lime
and prepare the structural material il
the prison shops. When the building
is completed it will represent all The
newest and best ideas in that class o
architecture. There will be o dozeI
rooms devoted to night schools for tn
men, a frst-class gymnasium, bath
and the like, to be used by those VIII
merit good treatment. The warden Q
the Fort Leavenworth State prison
Captain John W. French, speaking q
the convicts, said:
"The majority of the men sent to n
come from Arkansas, Texas and tia
Indian Territory Criminals from thi
section are usually Of the frontier type
and, as a rule, ore easier to reclait
than those who have been raised in I'll
older and more settled communitie
The lax standards of border settf
ments are often the cause of NOR.
obloquy, but, as a general thing, IL
border man who becomes a convict
reader to listen to appealsto his reasc
and conscience, andmakes more earne
efforts to reform"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02
Gold Beating.

The process Of preparing gold uni
it is reduced to a thickness of 1880
0GOths of an inch is necessarily elab
rate. The gold is first castinto lingo
four inches in length and one inch
width, which weigh from ten to seve
teen ounces, according to thickness
is then passed between polished re
lers worked by steam until it forms
ribbon twenty eight yards long and on
eight-hundredth inch thick. The
ribbons are then cut into one-hundr.
and eighty pieces one inch square, al
placed between vellum, and then t
real business of the gold beaten is /
gun. He beats for half an hour wi
a twenty-pound hammer, making t.
inch square into three inches squal
then these pieces are quartered, beco
ing one and one-half inches squm
He beats again for one and a quart
hours, until the one and one-half In.
square becomes four inches squa
The four-inch pieces are again qu3
tered and beaten, and finally cut
proper size, viz, squares of three a.
three-eighths inches, Of a thickness
rather "thinness'' Of 1890, 000th Of
inch, and in this shape the leaf
lifted into books of tissue paper.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02

Some of the famous treasure sh
which lie at the bottom of the seas
clude Torrent, sunk by Nelson at
battle of the Nile, with $1,000,
aboard; the Latune, sunk in the z
der Zee with ST, 000,O0 in her hc
the De Brake, lost off Delaware
with Spanish bullion, and the S
Golden Gate, which went down
Cape Hatteras while returning Fl
California in the ffties loaded v
gold Official statistics show that 2
vessels are sunk annually, the yes
and cargoes being valued at 800, 0.
900. The atlantic and Pacific COZ
are strewn with old and new wret
many laden with valuable cargoes.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02

The only genuine American train
operated in England is on the South
eastern Railway, running between
Charles Cross Station and Hastings
every afternoon, and returning in the
morning. 1t consists of six carriages,
which v ere constructed in Troy, N. Y.
These are entered at the ends, are
lighted by electricity, are heated and
admirably ventilated, and are operated
with improved American wheels and
brakes.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02

An occupation which does not figure
in labor statistics, nor in the social
economy, at least, of America, is dis
covered in the following advertisement,
which appeared in the Blackpool
Times, an English newspaper, in the
last days of 1896: Young man, of
dark complexion, is prepared to Let
in the New Year at any house in
Blackpool between 10 and 8 a. M, at
two shillings each without refresh.
ment." The explanation Of this cryp-
tic notice lies, it seems, in local su-
perstition that the first visitor to O
house in the new year, if he happens
to be of dark complexion, brings il
good luck.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02

The American Agriculturist says: A
new opening for young men will be
created if the domestic sugar industry
develops as it now seems likely. Ono
great obstacle to this development is
the scarcity Of sugar factory experts.
Fortunately, however, there is in this
country a school magnifcently
equipped with men and apparatu
educate young men as sugar experts.
II is already evident that the sugar
school Of Louisiana State University
At Baton Rouge viii be well filled the
coming fall.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02

They have curiously different names
for waves about the coast of Great
Britain. The Peterhead folk call the
large breakers that fall with crash
on the beach by the grim name "Norr-
ava Norway carpenters" On the
low Lincolnshire coast, as on the
southwestern Atlantic fronting shore
of these islands, the grandly long I'M
broken waves are known as ''rollers. "
Among East Anglians a heavy surf,
tumbling in with an offshore wind, or
in a calm, is called by the expressive
name of "slog;" while awell-marked
swell, rolling in Independently of any
blowing, is called "home. "There
is no wind" a Suffolk fisherman will
say, "but q nasty home on the beach. "
Suffolk men also speak of the clark
Of the surf, and q sea covered with
foam is spoken of as feather white. "
The foam itself is known rs "spoon
drift" So, in the vernacular, we have
it: "The sea was all feather white
with spoon drift. New York Marine
Journal.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02
A Survivor Of Waterloo.

The 1O4th birthday of Sergeant
Victor Ballot, a survivor Of the battle
of Waterloo, has just been celebrated
in the little village of Carisay, France.
The centenarian lives with his daugh-
ter and son-in-law, aged, respectively,
sixty-seven and seventy. Ballot en-
joys good health, the only drawback to
his happiness being deafness, the re-
suit Of cannonades, the sergeant having
been an artillerYman
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02

uUW uuu went 10 lue scene OF merrill
ment. Though they had two little tots
that precluded the possibility Of gloom
mess in the household, the father was
as much a lover as in the days of his
courtship and would have been ire
sistibly attracted by that laugh even
though his business in hand had been
much more serious.
What is it now, little one?" he
asked with sympathetic smile as he
entered. The diminutive title did not
at all fit the glowing and happy young
matron to whom it was applied, for she
was tall, graceful and possessed of that
rare beauty which is found in express
sion rather than in an analysis of fea-
lures Her feelings flashed upon her
face with distinctness that was not to
be mistaken by those who knew her
well.
''I was just going to tell Miss Arch
ley about the time your father inter
viewed me, brood, and you know that
a laugh is always my prelude to the
story. In itself and in the sequel it
will never cease to be funny to me-"
"Go ahead. I'm going to stretch
myself in this easy chair and hear it
all over again"
''There is only one of the characters
to be introduced to you, Kate" she
began, addressing the visitor, land
you will soon know him. Up to about
the time brood and 1 were married
his father was a perfect ogre. That's
what he was, brood, a perfect ogre.
We two foolish young people become
engaged without consulting his austere
majesty. He lived in a splendid man
sion just outside the town, set we'll
back from the road in a grove of oaks
and naples. It's location was typical
of his exclusiveness. brood was back
from college and had been admitted
to the bar before he asked me to be-
come his wife. He is gifted with elo.
quence, you know, and 1 have nc
doubt would have made a convincing
argument in my behalf, but after he
had stated that l was a music teacher
without means the father would heal
no more. He threw the case right out
of court. brood must choose between
me and his prospective inheritance
OF course the dear fellow never hest
tated.
''But brood is an only son, ant
such son as it is hard for even the
sternest father to cast out. So HI
came to the little cottage where live(
with my aunt to brighten me out o
the field.
Misguided man." laughed Mis-
Archley.
'T would have warned him had
known" chuckled the husband.
Gather Harris is large, imposing
grim-looking man with piercing eye
and masterful way. He came with
out doubt as to the inerrancy o
his Judgment and without any APP
parent conception of the fact tina
there were others even more vital,
interested than himself. When seate,
he went straight to the subject. w
had been talking for ten minutes whel
auntie came in, and I could see tina
she had not come to wave the olive
branch. Her fighting qualities neve
showed at such advantage as when ex
erted for my defense.
"I have just been talking to you
niece, he said after q formal bow
and do not and her as traetable as
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02
TWO WEDDINGS.

HEN brood Harris
heard h e CHEEKY,
musical laugh Of his
wife in the parlor as
he sat in the libra
~, he laid aside his
b COX, tossed his
cigar from the win
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-07-02

Representative Sayers Of Texas
wants the Government 20 offer prize
Of $50, 600 for an engineering scheme
capable Of contr ling the Mississippi.
Evening star., 1897-03-06
DANGER IN SODA.
Serious Results Sometimes Follow It's
Excessive Use.

Common soda Is all right in its place and indis-
ing purposes, but il int.0ded for a
medicine and people who use 1t as such will some
day regret IT.
We refer 70 the common of soda TO relieve
heartburn or sour stomach, a habit which thou
SANDS or people pra rtice almost daily. and one
which IL frsught with danger: moreover The soda
only gives temporary relief and in the end the
stomach trouble gets worse and worse.
ne SOFA acts rs mechanical irrit1nt to the
Wells of the stomach and bowels. and are
on rerori where II accumulated In the in:estihes,
'nusing death by Inflammation or peritonitis.
Nr H:riandSOn recommends III. -af ,St and
shrASt cure for sour stomach id dyspepsia, an
excellent preparation sold 10y druggists under the
Fame or Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets. These tablets
are large 2Ograin lozenges. pleasant 10 taste
an! contain the natural acids. pepiones. and di-
gestiV" elements essential 30 good iigestion. and
when taken afte. meals they digest the food per
fettly and promptly before II has time ferm.n:.
sour and poison the blood AMI nervous system
DIR. Wue:th states that h. Invariably uses
arrangements and finds then, a certain rure rot
only for sour stomach. but by promptly Jig.s.ilS
the food they create healthy appetite innreasp.
flesh and strengthen the action . thu. heart and
n'er They are not a catiartic. but intended cniy
Tor stomach diseases and weakness and will he
found reliable In any stomach trouble except can
Ger of the stomach
All druggists sell Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets at
30 cts. per package
little book describing all forms of stoma III
weakness and their rurr mailed free by address
Ing the stuart u" OF Marshall, Mich.
mh}&6-2t -
Evening star., 1897-03-06
Queer Things Down East.
Iuiref and Mlrnnr

From the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror
The Nantucket jail stories which have
been current court room topics for the last
century have been entirely eclipsed by re-
cent stories concerning the convicts of the
Barnstable Jail Mr.. f. c. Knapp. who is
supposed to be serving a five years SEN
tence for stealing national bank funds. was
recently seen in the streets In prison garb
giving the wife of the jailer, Mrs G. H.
Cash. bicycle lessons. Mrs. Cash is thirty
eight years old. and has daughter aged
eighteen. and the convict is said to occupy
place of congenial companionship in the
jailer's family. Another convict named
Lewis Rogers was recently allowed to take
a COW to Yarmouth and back while the sun
was bright and the air invigorating for a
pleasant walk. There is another prisoner
Portuguese. named joe" who IL there
on complaint of a Portuguese girl named
Rosa and her story Is that Joe promised to
marry her while he was serving out a pre-
vious sentence in the jail. and that she
often met Joe outside the Jail. 1t Is a Diti-
full story. because when Joe got out of iail
he married another girl, after borrowing
$40 from Rosa. And all this in BarnstabIe
town, where the jail Is. The stories of Nam
tucket's easy-going jail pale into insignii-
canoe in comparison with our continental
neighbor.
Evening star., 1897-03-06
sol THFRN RAILWAY.

Schedule In effect January Is, 1887.
500 AM..Daily. Local for DanvilIe. Charlotte
burg. narrl.onburg and way stations daily except
SUNDAY SUNDAY ard % at i.yn, hbrrg with the Norfolk and
daily for tSe Ts,nIal @ nEisse ad and Lsspst@a
NAIL. Carries Pullman Bu,rct sieepers. New Yogk
and Washington to Jacksonville, uniting al Sails
Springs. NC; Knoxville and Chattanooga. Tcnn /.
and at Chsrote ith Pullman Sleeper for Augusta.
phis. Solid train Washington New Orleans with
Excursion Through Sleeper this train every Sat
"day y ts San F.ansseG ds vnni without chang
Harrisor.burx. daily. ercept Sunday '"as'ufs ana
4:sI P,M;-Daily.- Local for Charlottesville
AND FLORIDA LiMffED y Paiinan HW v.s,,ulaS fohh
Cars R% YORK 70 and and GG s
Augustine. Also Pullman Sleeper New York to
iS Mn III Afsp AND soru
WESTERN vfSTfBULED LIMITED. conposed ifi Of
Tenn via Hsnesilie knsrse aSa snsns,s
Savannah and o. and Nerve York % %n
phis. via BIZ mingham: New York to New Orleans.
Coach Washington to Atlanta. Southern RAILWAY
Drns Ssr oH GEesTSsFH %asTixrnnS g
pm daily essep. sunday and G2s en pm asa sandat it.
day, for Leesburg. and 6:a5 M daily for Herndon
Returning arrive Al Washington s: 26 am. and 800
cept Sunday. from Herndon s:34 am. daily except
Sunday. from Leesburg.
Through trains from the south arrive mt Wash.
ington. 6:i2 In. 2:20 pm and $40 D m daily
S:aS M exceps Monday: iarrisonburg. II 20 and
Say FROM snilE ssSss Sunday and $50 a
Tickets, Sleeping Car reservation and informa.
tiOn furnished ~ odces. 5ll and 1900 Pennsylvania
avenue. and at Pennsylvania railroad passenger
WI. GkEEN General supt.
j. NJ CvTP. TraRic Manager
". "A. TURK, Gen. Pass. Aecat
yaf8 l. BROWN. Gen. Agent Pass Dent