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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-17
FROM HoLLAoAY

Regular correspondence
Henry Frazier was the guest 81
n. y. Woods Saturday.
Misses Laura Gossett and Ida
lindson spent Saturday aud Sun
day at MelIlwaiu.
G H. Ihomos and l.. r. Watson
have returned home FROM a visit 10
friends at Decnturyille.
We want 30 see Holladay well
represented at the great Centen-
nial on Benton County Day.
The little child Of W. S. Morgan,
reported very low with the scarlet
fever last week, is some better.
Miss Daisie Alden, who is teach
ing school in the fourteenth dis
trict, spent Saturday and Sunday
with homefolks.
q. w Stokes and wife, George
nj. Leslie and wife and Mrs. Dida
Whitfield are attending the meet
ing at Camden this week.
W. i. Diggs has returned home
from Hickman County, where he
will establish a stave factory Just
as soon as the necessary arrange
ments can be made, and he will lo-
cate in that county.
HOLIDAY, September Is.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-17

Benton County Day at the Cen
tennial is Thursday, September 23.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis Railway will sell excursion
tickets to Nashville and return Sep
tember % and for morning train
September23 as follows: Sawyer'a
Mill, $L85; Camden, $l.80; Eva,
.$I.70. These rates include one adj
mission to the Centennial grounds.
Tickets will be good to return on
or before September a.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-17

THE CHRONICLE would like to re-
ceive a short, newsy letter every
week from every post-ofice in the
county. Something occurs almost
everyday in every community, that
would be of interest to many if not
all our readers, and there is some
one who can give us these items.
Send them to us, no matter whether
you are in the habit of writing for
a paper or not. We will arrange
them for publication.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-17
FROM DEvIDER.

Regular correspondence
j. G. Smothers visited on Pos
sum Greek Sunday.
G. G. Kee visited near Family
Saturday and Sunday
Mrs. Anna Walker is reported on
the sick list this week.
John Woods, of Cooley's Land
ing, was here Monday.
j. b. Anderson, of Chalk Level,
visited homefolks Sunday.
w. /. Brackin went to Buena
Vista Monday on business.
Rev. A. j. Kee filed Ehis regular
appointment at Greene Hill last
Sunday.
N. b. Anderson and little daugh-
er, Miss Na0lah, visited at Camden
Saturday.
j. w. Walker and family visited
relatives near Aliens Mill Satur-
day and Sunday.
The home of John Walker was
gladdened Friday 10y The arrival
of new daughter.
Rev. Joseph Allen went to Cam
den Saturday to.attend the Baptist
meeting for few days.
n. B. Pinkston and family, who
have been here on anextended visit
to relatives, returned to their home
at Possum Greek Sunday.
DEVIDEB, September Is.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-17
FROM MISSIONARY GROVE.

Special correspondence
Dan Barker contemplates NOV
ing to Gardner to reside.
D. d. Byrd, Of Coxburgh, was in
our midst the first of the week.
B. Barker, of Gardner visited rel
atives and friends here the first of
the week.
A great quantity Of hay and fod-
der is being saved by the people of
this community.
w. d. Nunnery, d. G. Russell,
and Arch Walker captured several
coons and 'possums while on a hunt
Saturday night.
MISSIONARY GROVE, Sept. Is.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-17

IF you have friend anywhere,
especially if they reside in another
State, we will send The CHRONICLE
a few weeks free to them if you will
give us their name and address.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-17

The second annual Free Street
Fair Trade Carnival will be given
at Knoxville October IL to l5 by
the business men of that hustling
city. Everything is free and every
body is invited.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-17

Rebellion has broken out in the
Methodist Episcopal Church. The
laymen demand equal representa-
ton with the ministers in the quad
riennial assembly of the church.
Three times have the ministers vo-
ted on the question and defeated it,
and the laymen have lost patience.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-17

QUIT borrowing your neighbor's
paper. THE CHRONICLE is entirely
too cheap at so cents a year for you
to impose upon the charity Of your
neighbor or any one else.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-17

The price of THE CHRONICLE has
been reduced to 80 cents per year,
which places it within the reach of
every family in the county.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-17

This county would have been a
Klondike for the farmers this year
if the drought had not injured the
corn crop.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-09-17
LOCAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Atoh NAIaMHyI Nhllp WIS hl hlb
Sandy Tuesday.
Master Alvin Lashlee has been
very sick this week.
DR. II. G. Gould, Of Box, was in (
our midst Wednesday.
II. Q. Alden, esq, Of HQlladay
was in town yesterday.
Mr.. Jesse Hall was reported very
sick yesterday forenoon.
The teachers association meets
at Chalk Level tomorrow.
Good rains fell south of Holla-
day Wednesday. afternoon.
The Leber \ Williams Comedy
Company is here this week.
The attendance at the Centen-
nial Nashville Day was $4,000.
Mr. II. II. Pierce, of Point Mason,
visited here the first of the week.
Mr.. j. w. Rowe has been indis-
posed several days, but is able to
be out again.
Mr. and Mrs. G. 0. Hubbs, of
Holladay came down yesterday on
a visit to relatives.
Several from here have been at
tending the camp-meeting at Man
lyville the past week.
Mrs. Kate Crutehfeld, of Paris,
is visiting her brothers, Messrs. A.
@. and D. j. McRae.
Messrs. Tom G. Rye and Eula L.
Hudson were at Erin and Big San
dy the first of the week.
Mr.. Jesse Luter, of Big Sandy,
visited friends here last week.
Paris Post-Intelligencer.
Criminal court meets here next
Monday. The docket is an average
one for September court.
| DR.. A. M. Hawley and Prof. d.
| G. Curd, of Big Sandy, were in the
city Tuesday.-Paris Intelligencer.
Marriage licenses have been is-
sued by County Clerk G. b. Greer
to w. L. Warner and Mollie Hubbs.
Mrs. J. C. Rushing, of WHY, and
Misses Alice and Minnie Barnes, OF
Bristow, are visiting relatives and
friends here.
Senator James Jeffreys left fol
Ibis post of duty in Utah Wednes.
day. His family will remain here
for the present.
Themeeting at Bethlehem CLOSED
Wednesday evening. The meeting
resulted in a revival and a number
of new converts.
Mr.. Henry Combs, of Greenfield
son of Nick Combs, deceased, is the
guest of j. M. Lashlee, ESQ.,, east o
town a few miles.
Mrs. Efie Rushing and family
whohav been residing in ourmids
several years, left Monday toresidC
near Point Mason.
When you want fine commercial
Job printing, remember that TIL
CHRONICLE continues to make ,
speciality of this class of work.
Mr.. w. f. Harrison, of Holladay
wasin town Friday ON his way hOm,
from Kingston Springs, where hi
family is spending a few weeks.
The Baptist meeting here close,
with services last Sunday evening
The services were we'll attended
and the church has been great
revived.
THE CHRONICLE proposes to Civ
the news to it's readers every weel
If you have visitors, let US know i
If you know any news items, tell L
or send it in!
Mr.. D. G. Presson and family, {
Bertrand, Mo, who have been vii
iting relatives and friends in th
county, their old home, returned I
/ Missouri the first of the week.
| Revs. w. H. Sewell, of Nashvill
\ and 3. j. Meacham, of Columbi
/ Christian ministers, are holding
/ series of interesting meetings tn
! week at the Methodist Church.
!. The following parties have BET
I to the Centennial during the pa
/ week: Messrs. G. V. Hawley,
| w. Arnold, William Bowles, Mi.
! Frv. Elihu Hudson, Marvin M
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-30
Extracting Information.

The man who sits in a city railway sta
ton at the bureau of general informa-
ton" must, like 1.-The little busy bee, Z"
gather honey from every opening flow
err" When off duty, he should be refllling
his memory with all sorts of knowledge,
for at the bureau he must be "on tap" to
every man, woman or child thirsting for
information. A similar burden rests on
lawyers in large practice and on clergymen
whose popularity makes the public their
parishoners
That eminent preacher the late Charles
II. Sturgeon was once asked by an Amer
lean visitor, who had noticed that an or
phanage theological school, a church
and many correspondents kept him busy
from morning to night:
PRAY, Mr.. Sturgeon, when and where
do you compose your sermons?"
Il am always at that" replied the
preacher. II get something from every
one meet. l shall suck sermon from
you before 1 am through with you"
A distinguished British seaman, the
late Admiral Sir George Tryon, used to
act on the preacher S rule. When secretary
TO the British admiralty, he was Obliged
TO pay the penalty attached TO the post OF
dining at city banquets. guild and private
dinners. Being invited to more dinner
parties than lie could go to, he used to pick
and choose among them. His wife for a
long time was ignorant of the rule which
guided her husband in refusing certain
invitations and accepting others.
AT last she discovered that he accepted
only those invitations which would lead
him TO places where he might meet some
ono who could give information of value
to him in his profession. He cared moth
ing for the gossip (which makes up the
talk Mt fashionable dinner party, but III
was on the lookout for useful information
and was ready to extract it from any
source Like Spurgeon he learned some
thing from every body. Youths Compan
ion.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-30
The Grand est Remedy

Mr.. r. b. Greeve, merchant, OF Chill
howis, Va, certifies that he had con-
sumption. was given up to die, sought
all medical treatment that money could
procure, tried all cough remedies he could
hear OF, but got no relief spent many
nights sitting up in a chair; was induced
to try DR.. Kings New Discovery and was
cured by use of two bottles. For past
three years has been attending to BUSH
mess, and says, DR.. Kings New Discoy-
cry is the grandest remedy ever made, as
it has done so much for him and also for
others in his community. DR.. Kings
New Discovery is guaranteed for coughs,
colds and consumption. 1t don't fail.
Trial bottles free at ID. T. Macdonald's
drug store.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-30
There Is Nothing 40 Good.

There is nothing just as good as DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds. so demand it and do
not permit the dealer to sell YOU some
substitute. He will not claim there is
anything better. but in order to make
more profit be may claim something else
to be just as good. You want DR.. King's
New Discovery because you know it to be
safe and reliable. and guaranteed to do
good or money refunded. For Coughs,
Colds, Consumption and for all affections
OF Throat Chest and Lungs, there
is nothing SC good as is Dr., Kings New
Discovery. Trial bottle free. Regular
size so cents and 81. For sale by ID. Il.
acdonald.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-30
Precedence of ambassadors.

Who actually settles the precedence Of
an embassadorp He doubtless knows his
business and obeys some time honored
rule, but the results of that rule are some
times little grotesque. We suppose Ii
was quite right in the jubilee procession
to place the American and Spanish repre-
sentatives side by side, though their coun
tries are almost at death grips, but in one
carriage in the procession, drawn by only
two horses, were seated the Belgian min
lister, the Netherlands minister, the special
representative Of the pope, and, with his
back to the horses, the special representa-
tive of the emperor of China. Consider
ing that the courtesy of Europe assigns
the first place To the pope, and that the
emperor of China, like the queen, rules
fourth of the human race, their represent
atives, sent by what is almost n stretch
Of courtesy specially to honor the queen.
seemed singularly out of place. The ex-
ceptional honor paid. too, to the British
royal family CRATES n little on the British
notion of hospitality They are first i'm the
land, of course, but courteous hosts usunl.
ly give the pas to their guests. The mat
ter Is Of trifling Importance cxcept In the
Chinese case, but we really think that for
the brother of the sun and moon, whom
we are always prosecuting for his adher.
enoe TO arrogant forms, we might have re.
Taxed the etiquette just little Rather
more honor should have been paid, too TO
the heir OF the IIapsburgs who was with
the exception Of the queen unquestionablv
the first but one IN rank OF all the princes
In the pageant. We suppose the Duke OF
Saxe-Coburg Gotha, as a reigning SOW
ereigD, ranks In the technical sense before
him. but certainly no ono else does. =.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-30
Hard to Find.

A lawyers clerk Is trying to serve n
process on u miner named Adam Green.
He has tried in vain to find his man when
a young woman who has witnessed his
labors volunteers to assist him. soy say,
bullyed +" she cried to the first man they
met, "dost thou know man named Adam
Green?' The bullhead was shaken in
token of ignorance. Then they came to
another man. "Loy-a- bed dost theef''
"Lie-a- Bed" could not answer either.
"Stumpy" Ga man with wooden leg),
"Cowskin, Spindleshanks, ""Cookeye"
and "Pigtail' were all consulted TO no
purpose. At last the damsel, having
talked it over with several of her friends,
suddenly brightens up, and slapping a
neighbor on the shoulder exclaims, dash
my wig, why he means moy feather. v
Then, turning to the astonished clerk, she
cried, "You shoud'n ax'd for Ode Black
bird" So it appears that the old miners
name, though he was man of substance
was hardly known even to his own daugh
ter.-Good Words
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-30
EZEKIEL BLOOMS UMBRELLA.
Objections 60 His Plan For Preventing
Himself From Losing It.

"My old friend Ezekiel Bloom Of Stark
Vile Center, VT, said Colonel Calliper,
was one OF those men who are forever
losing their umbrellas, and after he had
lost about a million he decided 10 chain
his UMBRELLA TO him when he went out SO
that he couldn't lose 10. He had ring
nut around the handle, and 20 that he had
attached snap hook He had length
of light chain, may be feet long, which he
carried In his waistooat pocket. He had
one end attached there and when IL rained
he would take his umbrella and snap the
free end of the chain into the snap HOOK
and then away he'd GO carrying the UNI
brella In the usual manner, but with
graceful festoon of brass chain sweeping
from the handle
with his umbrella thus secured TO him
self be was often seen In the streets OF
Starkville Center. Strangers turned To
look at him, but TO the people of the town
Mr.. Bloom and his umbrella with the chain
attached were a familiar sight. But II
Mr.. Bloom went In anywhere 10 was very
different Whenever he went into the
yostofiice, for instance, or store or any
where he would always set his umbrella
down, and the minute he put 1t down he
would forget all about IL as totally as
though be had never heard Of IL before.
Invariably he would start away without
his umbrella Sometimes 1t would drag
along behind him at the end Of the chain,
and be might, when he felt the little tug
Of it's weight or heard IL dragging on the
floor, remem Der IL and reach down and pick
IL up Oftener IL would catch on some
thing and bring him up with jerk.
People knew this and so they were always
looking out for him,
''If for instance, Mr.. Bloom went into
the dry goods store and sat down on one
of the rather high stools that stood along
in front of the counters, whatever custom
ers there were would be sure to keep an
eve on him, and when he had about COM
pleted his purchase business In the store
would be practically suspended. Custom
ers and clerks alike would turn more or
less openly TO see what was going TO hap
pen TO Mr. Blooms umbrella when he got
up When he did get up, perhaps the tips
of the ribs would get caught in some way
or the chain would get wound round the
standard of the seat upon which he had
been sitting Something was likely to
happen to bring him up standing all right
at the start, but if nothing happened then
the umbrella was certain as he went tow
ard the door to catch in something on the
way One tug, of course, when 1t did
catch, was enough TO remind Mr.. Bloom
of the umbrellas presence, and then he
would stop and smile, for he always took
these happenings with entire good nature
and was rather amused by them himself
than otherwise Then he would pick the
uni rella up and march of with 10, and
business in the store would go on as u.s.
ual. New York Sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-30
NOT HER HOUSE.
The Young Man Was Not Impressed by
the Old Mans Statement.

| IL was Sunday afternoon, and the old
gentleman responded in person when the
| doorbell rang Furthermore, the old gen
tleinan was not In the best Of humor.
However, of course, the young man didn
know that, or no would have been ready
20 dodge.
The young man, IL may be explained,
inst 10 show that everything was In 40
cordance with the rules OF polite society,
never had met the old gentleman, but ne
had met the old gentleman's wife ana the
old gentleman's daughter and had been
invited 10 call whenever he was In the
CITY. and it so happened that he was In the
CITY this lovely Sunday afternoon.
"Is-aw-Miss Brown IMP" asked the
young man.
Now. it so happened that the old gen
tleman had his opinion OF any one who
said Jaw" and 10 was not flattering one
either. Consequently no growled out
something to the effect that she was not
in.
$50 sorry, you know, A." said the young
man
The old gentleman didn't know, but
he took IL for granted and made no further
comment.
Then 1t seemed TO dawn upon the young
man, who was fumbling for a card, that
perhaps he had made a mistake.
"This is--aw-her house. isn't itf' he
asked
at is not, ;" the old gentleman returned
bluntly.
"Oh-aw-beg thousand pardons, 4"
said the young man. Thought it was,
you know So sorry. My mistake"
He was turning away when another
thought occurred to him, and he quickly
turned back again.
"Can you-aw-tell me where she-aw
-lives?" he asked.
Here, replied the old gentleman.
"But you told me-
81 told you it wasn't her house, and 1t
isn't her house." interrupted the old gen.
tleman. Its my house. l don't count
for much in it when she and her mother
arc both here, but it's mine just the same.
She may get 1t some time, hut l don't
want any out of town dudes figuring on Ii
just yet There are enough In the neigh
borhood who are going to be disappoint-
cd"
AS usual, however, the young man was
equal Co the occasion.
He said, "Awr'-Chicago Post.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-30
Strange Scenes In Java.

When one has driven about the old town
of Batavia in Java, and seen its crowded
bazaars and streets, and has followed the
lines of bricked canals, where small ma
tives splash and swim, women beat the
family linen and men go to and fro In tiny
boats, all in strange travesty of the solemn
canals of the old country, he comes TO the
broader avenues of the new town, lined
with tall tamarind and waringen trees, n
species Of fcus, with plumes of palms and
pyramids of blazing Madagascar flame
trees in blossom. He is driven into the
long garden court of the Hotel Neder-
landen, and there has presented a spectacle
of social life and customs that nothing in
all travel can equal for distinct shock and
sensation. We had seen some queer things
in the streets-women lolling barefooted
and in startling dishabille in splendid
equipages-but concluded them TO be serv
ants or half castles, but there in the hotel
was an undress parade that beggars de-
scription and was as astounding on the
last as on the first day In the country.
Woman's vanity and man conventional
ideas evidently wilt at the line, and no
formalities pass the equator, when distiN-
guished citizens and officials can roam and
lounge about hotel courts III pyjamas and
bath slippers and bare ankled women, clad
only in the native sarong or skirt, and o
white dressing jacket, go unconcernedly
about their affairs in streets and public
places until afternoon 1t Is dishabille
beyond all burlesque pantomime and only
shipwreck on desert island would seem
sufficient excuse for women being seen \
such an ungraceful, unbecoming attire
an undress that reveals every defect, while
hot M
overcome and that has neither color nor
grace nor pioturesqueness to recommend
1t in itself Eliza II. Scidmore in Cen
turv
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-30
AMERICANS TIE BEST.
Lillian Bell Says American Men Excel All
Othcrs as Hushands.

Others as Husbands.
American men arc she best husbands
IN the world. writes Lillian Bob in an ar
ticle entitled ION the Subject of Hus
bands" in The Womans Home Compani
ion If these dissatisfied American wives
could only know that an all wise provi-
dence had i'm the American man given us
the best article in the market and that
when we rebel az our lot we are simply
proving that re do not deserve cur good
fortune they would never disopss the sub
!ect of having any other nationality.
"Of course IN every nation there is
class of men who are as noble, as high
minded, as chivalrous as even the most
eaptious American girl could wish, but
refer to the general run Of men when l
say that there is something about men
born outside of America, native selfish
ness amounting 70 "A sort of callousness,
lack of perception regarding the fneness
of womanhOod, which, summed up in
few words might be called a mental bru-
tality, which well nigh units them for
close social contact with the representative
American woman. And just as surely as
American women persist in disregarding
this subtle yet unmistakable truth, just so
surely will they lay themselves open TO
these soul bruises which American men,
as race, are incapable of inilicting. / say
they are incapable Of inficting them, be-
cause American men, in the face of every
thing said and written TO the contrary, are,
In regard TO women, the finest grained race
of men in the world. If at first you are
inclined to question the truth Of this state
ment, consider the men who have been
educated abroad. How much Is left of
their Americanismf To be sure, they are
cultured. They understand music and art
and always wear gloves, but are gloves
essential TO n happy homer
"Now, this is all general l beg that
the wayfaring man, though a fool, will
not imagine that these structures are true
of every man who is not an American OF
that all American men are perfect.
hardly think, on the whole, that ] need
fear that l shall DO thought TO consider al
American men perfect, but | do wish e
state clearly and frankly my admiration
for American men as n race, and when nj
American man is a gentleman he Is TO N!
mind the most perfect gentleman that an,
race can boast, because his good manner
spring from his heart, and there are a few
of us old fashioned enough 10 plead tina
politeness should go deeper than the skin
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-30
The Busybody.

An extraordinary incident Is reported
from one of the villages In the south OF
England. One Sunday morning young
sellow went to church and took his seat,
keeping his hat on all the while. A gen.
tleman sitting near him politely asked
him to take his hat off, but the young
man paid no attention. Again he spoke
to him, and, seeing that he still hesitated
the gentleman quietly lifted his hat off
when, much to his dismay, out rolled a
quart of walnuts, making great noise az
they scattered about the floor. On this che
youth turned round to the gentleman and
said, "Now, you see what you have donei'
Pearson Weekly.