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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-02-03

Portland reports cat that will only
drink Sebago water from faucet.
When she is thirsty she perches her
self on the sink and news piteously
until some one comes to her relief.
The faucet is turned on just enough 50
that the water drops slowly and the
cat cranes her head and as each drop
leaves the faucet out goes her tongue
like fash to catch it. Sometimes
when the drops come too rapidly.
Floss varies her mode Of drinking BY
catching several of them in one paw
and then slipping the water daintily
therefrom. Bangor Commercial.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-02-03

late war. In the calm days of the truce
that followed the hard fighting at
Caney, and on the San Juan ridge of
the first of July, heard many COM
pany commanders tell stories of the
intrepidity of the "wire-cutters"-
soldiers who are equipped with in
struments adapted to cut the barbed-
wire fences which abound in Cuba.
Many companies and regiments were
inextricab'y mixed up in the advance
through the death-swept woods on the
San Juan River, and it often happened
that when company commander called
for wire-cutter to come forward, he
did not know who the soldier was that
answered him, and there was neither
time nor opportunity to find out.
This wire-cutter worked almost al
ways at the imminent risk of his life.
The barbed-wire fence was well calcu-
lated to delay the advance of a power
full force. Sometimes the fence was o
ratification; sometimes it was merely
the accidental boundary of an old field
OF an estate. In either case, the wires
were looped loosely from the posts so
that, as a rule, no axe or machete
could separate them by blow at the
post. They were in dropping tangle
which no two hands could separate to
enable mans body to pass through,
and the wires were invariably so high
that no one could vault over them.
These defences always compelled
halt. Commonly, nothing served to
open the way except the heavy shear
like implements known as wire-cut'
tiers, with which a wise provision hao
furnished every regiment of the Amer
lean regular army. The man who
carried these wire-cutters had a more
important Office than the color-ser
geant, for the colors are seldom car
ried into battle. If he were disabled
and left his wire-cutters behind him
his company might be detained for
long time at the cost of many lives.
A terrible instance of the effective
ness of this defence occurred in tht
open field at the base of the San Juar
hill, before Santiago. Here barbeC
fence forced whole regiments to hal
in the face of whitening fire Of Span
ish musketry.
In the fre-swept zone ofthe Mause
or Krag-J orgensen rifle, it is no COW
rdice for soldiers to lie down, OF
when an advance is to be made, t
runs N a crouching position. Indeed
the MN are commanded to do so, an
often reaukel by their comrades whe
they stand too erect. Nearly ell tn
men who marched through the belt
woods and the open meadow that ia
in front Of the Spanish position on th
San Juan ridge, had lain on the groun
and advanced by series Of the'
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-02-03
THE SAMOAN TROUBLE
WIN Be Speedily Settled, Says Our Am
bassadOr To Germany.

VIII Be Speedily Settled, Says Our Am
bassadOr To Germany.
A cable dispatch from Berlin, Ger
many, states that public opinion was
focused on the Samoan question the
past week. The United States ambas-
sador, Andrew D. White, has informed
the correspondent of the Associated
Press in Berlin that he has had sever
al meetings with the minister of for
eign affairs, Baron Won Bulow, and
that assurances were given on both
sides of nature calculated to promote
a speedy and successful solution of
the question. Baron Won Bulow's
whole attitude tended to show that
the German government means to do
its full share in settling the matter
fairly and amicably.
The preliminary negotiations thus
far have not gone beyond mutual
assurance of desire for friendly
and equitable arrangement, and the
negotiations will not take more
tangible shape until full, detailed
mail reports are received from the
agents of the three powers at Samoa
This will involve a delay of a month
in the case of Germany, though the
reports will reach the United States
and Great Britain earlier. Until ther
no decisive steps or negotiations car
! be undertaken.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-02-03
TO DISTINGUISH RACES.
| Unique Resolution introduced In Ala
bama Legislature.

A Unique Resolution Introduced In Ala
bama Legislature.
In the Alabama Legislature, Thurs
day, Representative Tones introduced
an unique resolution to the effect that
in all transactions in the state of ju-
dicial, educational or business charae-
ter, and in all matters, public or pri-
vate, where it is necessary or desirable
to distinguish between the Anglo
Saxon and black races the word "col-
ored" as now applied to the black
race shall be eliminated and the word
NEGRO" substituted therefor, and that
in writing or printing the word the
initial letter shall be capital, as is
the custom in respect to other distinc-
tive races.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-02-03
PRIVATE BLAIR OF THE REGULARS.

It was Private Blair, OF the regulars, before
dread El Caney,
who felt with every throb Of his wound the
life-tlde ebb away;
And as he dwelt in feYered dream on the
home OF his youthful years,
He heard near aY the moan and sigh OF two
OF the YOlGnteers.
He raised him up and gazed at them, and
likely lads they were,
But when he bade them pluck up heart he
found they could not stir.
Then a bullet plowed the sodden loan, and
his fearless face grew dark,
For he saw through the blur a sharpshooter
who made the twain his mark.
And his strength leaped into his limbs
again, and his fading eye burned
bright;
And he grip9ei his gun with q steady hand
and glenced along the sight;
Then another vol so In that choir OF fire out
spake with deadly stress,
And in the trench at FL CaneY there lurked
Spaniard less.
But still the means OF the volunteers went
up through the murky air,
And there kindled the light OF noble
thought in the brain of Private Blair
The flask at his side, he had drained 1t dr.!
in the blisterlng scorch and shine,
So, unappRlled. he. creptaand crawled Il
the face of the firing line.
The whirring bullets sped o'erhead, AM
the great shells burst with roar,
And the shrapnel tore the ground aroun
IKE the tusks Of the grisly boar.
But on he went with his high intent, till b
covered the space between,
Aud came to the place where the Spaniar
lay and clutched his full canteen.
Then he wriggled back DER the blood
track, while death drummed loud
his ears,
And pressed the draught he would fai
have quaf1ed to the lips of the yolul
teers
'Drinkl" cried he; "don't think Of me, Il
Pm only regular.
While YOU have homes in the mother-lan
where your waiting loved ones are
Then his soul was sped to the peace OF Il
dead. All praise to the men WI
dare,
And honor be. from sea to sea to the dee
of Private Blairl
Clinton Scollard, in Leslie's Weekly.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-02-03
PENSION BILL IS PASSED
MEASURE WAS THE SUBJECT OF
MUCH DISCUSSION.
TOM PLAT SPEAKS FOR TREATY
New yorker Urges It's Ratification and
Defends the Expansion
Policy.

Peculiar interest was manifested in
the senate Friday in brief speech de-
livered by Senator T. G. Plat, of New
York, on the general subject of expan-
sion. Mr.. Plat took for his text the
anti-annexationis resolution offered
by Mr.. Vest, of Missouri, but in the
course of his speech merely touched
upon the constitutional question in
volved in the proposed declaration.
He spoke in a clear resonant voice,
and not only because this was the
first speech he had delivered in the
senate since his return to that body,
but also because the address was a
thoughtful and we'll considered state
ment he was accorded the undivided
attention Of his colleagues on the floor
and large audience in the galleries.
Mr.. Platt took strong grounds for
the ratification of the treaty, holding
there was nothing in the constitution
to prevent the United States from ac-
curing foreign territory.
Pension Bill Completed.
Under the arrangement concluded
Thursday evening, consideration OF
the pension appropriation bill was re-
sumed, Mr.. German, of Maryland, de-
string to submit some remarks on it.
After calling attention to the large
amount carried by the measure-about
$145, 900, O00-Mr. German said that
Notwithstanding the fact that II per
cent of our soldiers who had been and
are still engaged in the war with Spain
in tropical countries were suffering
from illness that would make them
proper applicants for pensions, no
provision had been made in the pend
ing measure for this increase in the
pension roll. At this point Mr.. Cor
man was interrupted by Mr.. Hale, Of
Maine, who said that he had been in
formed by a prominent officer of the
army that if our troops were not re-
called from Cuba before June or July
at the latest the entire army on the
island would be down with illness.
Continuing, Mr.. German said tina
: the war with Spain would swell thu
!, pension roll by at least $4,000 names
; if the troops were not recalled from
, the tropical cline by the first of mex
: September.
= ''Within three years of this date,
q said Mr.. German in conclusion, eth
q pension roll will amount to $165, 900,
n 900 year. If you add to that the cos
n of maintaining your army Ia thousan,
n dollars mani, the American publ
& will, in the year 1900, expend more TO
q its army and pensioners than an
other nation on the face of the earth
d That is fact which the American pee
h will have to face, and they ought t
q know in advance what is coming
q them if the schemes and projects thu
are being forced upon us are carrie
% put. "
10 After short debate the bill We
d passed, and at 2:07 o'clock the senat
70 went into executive session and col
h tinued the consideration of the peac
t. treaty.
t, At 4:50 o'clock p. IN. the senate r.
ID sumed business in legislative session
ct the order of business being eulogi'
ID of the late Representative Cooke,
d. Illinois.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-02-03
LEAGUE OFFICERS ELECTED.

BimetaIIIsts Are Now Organized For sys-
tematlc Work.
A Denver, Col, dispatch says; The
United States Monetary League, or
ganized to promote the cause of bimet-
allism, has elected the following Off
GERS:
President, William N. Byels; vice
presidents, William Knapp, Alva A.
Adams, A. d. Robinson, w. I. Corn
wall, 7. S. McMurray, Mrs. Ellen e.
Matteson and and Mrs. Elmina Hud-
son; secretary, Henry E. Roser, treas
urer, Frank Hall.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-02-03
WYOMING PUTS IN BID.

Purse of $50, 900 Is offered for the shar-
key and FitzsimmOns Mill
The Fremont Hot Springs Com
pany, of Aleova, Wyo., have forwarded
an offer to the managers of both Shar-
key and Fitzsimmons of q purse of
$40, 900 for fight to take place any
time in June, July or August
The only condition to the offer is
the training shall be done at Alcova,
which is health resort in Wyoming.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-02-03
ICE TRUST CONTEMPLATED.
Preliminary Steps Are Being Taken To
Form Big Combine.

Preliminary Steps Are Being Taken To
Form a Big Combine.
An ice trust, to include all the big
ice harvesters in the United States, is,
according to The Chicago Chronicle,
in process of formation.
John Field, president of the Kniok-
erbocker Ice Company, Chicago, is
said to be the active spirit in the effort
to consolidate the ice companies of the
country.
The proposed trust will embrace all
the harvesters of the river and lake
region of Maine, and those Of Wiscon-
sin, from which two states the greater
part of the ice crop of the country is
gathered.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-02-03
THE WIRE FENCE
AT SAN JUAN.
By j. Il. ChamBerlin.

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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-02-03
RESTLESS PORTO RICANS.

Inhabitants of Island Are All Anxious For
Civil Government.
An Associated Press dispatch from
San Juan says: While the Porto Bic
ans do not offer the least resistance to
the military administration, they make
no secret of the fact that they do not
desire it's continuance. 1t is not that
they object to the Americanization of
the island, but they merely wish a
civil government in some reasonable
and practical form.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-02-03

I every war some
of the bravest of
the brave, who
do deeds worthy
of praise, are
never known by
name. This is
true is an espec-
ial wav of the
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-09-08

srloss fell from q bicycle last
broke an arm. He went to
'or treatment, and returned
:, having been unable to see
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-09-08

Prof. j. W. Penick. who has been in
Little Rock for several months taking
a business course, was in the city Sun
day. He has accepted position as
bo0kkeeper with the firm of DeRositt Il
Robinson, at Widener. He is looking
well, and we wish him success in his
new business connection.
Grandma mrs. Lucy Crippen is
spending the week among her children
and friends at Madison. This is the
first visit Grandma has made TO Madison
in a number of years, although she has
host Of loving friends there and the
population of the little town by the st.
Francis is made up almost entirely of
her sons and daughters, grandsons and
grand-daughters and great-grand.chil-
dren and other family connections.
We wish her pleasant visit.
Messrs Atkins & Horne. the new
hardware dealers. are now located in
the opera house block, and are opening
most select and complete line OF
Builders Hardware, Cooking and Heat
ing Stoves, Delft. Granite and Tihwsre,
Table and Pocket Cutlery, Guns, etc,
and are preparing to do fair share OF
the hardware business of this county.
The gentlemen composing the firm are
recognized business men, and Mr.. E.
w. Horne is especially well and favor
ably knewn throughout Arkansas. hav-
ing formerly travelled out of Memphis.
Messrs. III. l.. Verser Ia brother OF Mrs.
Horned and f. r. Atkins Ia son of the
senior member of the frm) are employ
ed in the store, and will attend your
wants. THE TIMES extends this new firm
q cordial welcome to the business circle
of the city and bespeaks for it n liberal
ahare of the hard " are buaineaa See
their advertisement in another column.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-09-08

w. +. Carloss fell from q bicycle last
Friday and broke an arm. He went to
Memphis for treatment, and returned
Wednesday, having been unable to see
his physician.
Messrs. John Pope, Ted Norton.
paul Pope. Jas. Alley and Chxs. lizard
went to Helena Tuesday to assist Prof.
Shoemaker In band concert and min |
strel ut that place. The affair was |
benefit, and TO say that ourboyS were
in their element, would be to express 1t I
gently They gave the Helena people ]
good show.
Rosh Hashona, the Jewish New Year,
which began Monday evening and end
ed Tuesday evening at six O'Clock, was
joyfulIy observed by all of that nation
atty in this city, their stores being
closed and the usual greetings being
sent To friends. Next Tuesday Is ON
Kippur, n religious holiday, and on
which rigid fast Is maintained,
Jim Sanders drove to Wynne and
back Tuesday. and when near the old
fair ground his horse fell to the ground
TOO sick to proceed. This was perhaps
due to the intense heat. The animal
rallied after awhile, and lived until the
following day when IL died. 1t was a
family horse, q great pet Of the children
and they were greatly distressed. espe-
cially the younger members.
The Ladies Aid Society OF the Meth
odist Church gave an ice cream supper Ut
the vadakin storehouse Tuesday night.
for the purpose Of raising funds with
which to pay the premium on insurance |
upon the church property. The anair |
from social standpoint WAS delightful,
hut the receipts were too smNn. They
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-11-02
Died..

Little Lucllr, baby daughter ct
Prot. and Mrs. w. |. Thames, aged
two and half years died last FIJI
DIV from 8 relapse at measles.
Every thing that skilled aud lov-
Ing hands could 90 was ia vain aud
after several days Of intense paio
her little spirit was waited hon" TO
it's Maker leaving s0rsew stricken
parents 10 mourn her death. The
funeral services were coudncu d by
Rev. W. H. iIuntley from the
Baptist church aud The remains,
followed by large concnurse of
synpathizing friends, we're inferred
in the town cemetery.
The FREE PRESS tenders sincere
sympathy aud coudolrnce 10 the
giief-stricken parents in their sad
loss.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-11-02

AL ktUUB VI OhitloiHia CahhCu
iisits II Lance's.
Nj. +. Mitchell u timberman OF
Biloxi is in town this week.
NJ. ]. e. Thames of McLanri"
VS. . visitor here the past week.
TO 70 E. A, Quick's for fresh
bakers bread. l0262w
M. John Roddls Of Orvisbure
vas In town Sunday.
Sec those pretty silk Ski,t.,
KID Gloves and Fasclnators at 8
B. Lance's.
NJ. II. r. McGehee Of CsIsdonie
wAs . Poplarvilis visitor Sunday.
You would do we'll to look after
that clock offer al Lance's.
NJ. Leslie McGehee was up from
he quarantine canine Sunday
mingling with PoplalviIle friends
No more corns now-I buy my
ehoea from 5. e. Lance.
NJ. e. +. Tate of Mcneil made
. unique deposit at the Poplarville
Bank yesterday in the form tthi'ty
dollsra 10 s3.75-bills.
Cold weather is CO mug, 40 call
o. ". +. Evans aud get him 10 10
MIR your broken wiudnw panes.
Mr. E. A. Quick has made ar
\ uu9ements to handle fresh baker's
1 bread right from the bakery .v.,y
other morning. 1O262w
4 Mr.. T. W. Campbell and family
Of Shubuts came over the past
week TO cast their lot with 'h-
people OF PoplarviIle. They will
Commences building IN tew days "'
lots purchased in the Moores Add
ton 10 South End.
Dr.. Jnhn Thames and mother o
Newton county aud Prof. n. ID
Thsnes Of Lake, came d"w" on
special train last Saturday to vt
Tend the funeral Of little Lucille
Thames.
We are glad to see Btuce Bre'
land back .. his pnst Of duty aft~'
~ absence OF several werKs. dur
Ing which time be wac heirg ueatse
tor White Swelling in his ankle
end that be 10 much improved il
health.
Rev. q. B. E,mmons, P. e., fnl
this dlstrict, accompanied by Rev
". H. Huu,iey, the pastor. prracoe'
splendid sermcns to large and a1'-
! preclative audiences 1t I'M
Methodist church sunday no"
and night.
i Nj. g. w. Stevenson OF Michel
scu, left Tuesdsy for Memphis.
Tsnn.. TO enter the H"spiiai Me''
zeal College Of that CITY. Mf. o'e
senson u 0ns ~ Hancock county
uoat promising y"n"v men. an6 "
\ Wish him much sneeesa IN his rn'rt
70 attain prominence in bis chose'
ptofessloo,
4 Mr.. q. a. LANCE visited Nerd
'an Taerdsy, conbluiug bushes
With plensure.
Nj. Z. B. Lsnoir of Psarl kive'
was . visitor here this week.
4 hottie u PRlCKLY ASH BIT
1Ens kept in the hDnse and use
eacsslouly, means good health
lhe whole houssh old. Sold .
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-11-02
IN MEMORY OF LUCILLE.

Sadly the watchers stood about the
bed where the little life was ebbing;
sadly listened to the fluttering breath.
Once the little voice broke the silence
to call "Papa" and in their restless
tossing the baby arms reached out for
the mother and the tiny hands caressed
her face.
But Gods messenger was drawing
nearer; gently his hand was laid upon
the baby and the form grew still; one
long sigh and the sweet life was end
ed; but in fancy we could almost see
the little one born in angelic arms
, away from the suffering of earth, up
to the home Of the Saviour who loved
them and said "Sutfer the children
to come unto me-"
Not yet three years had passed over
her head, but how much of sunshine
had she shed about her, and what
a shadow has her passing left.
OF all who have come and gone, all
who have made for time part of the
school household, there is not one in
to whose heart she has not crept, ray
of Gods own sunshine.
And to US who have known her
through all her short life, who felt the
clinging of the tiny fingers as she took
the first faltering steps, who heard the
first prattling of the baby voice as she
tried to speak our names, to US how
empty and how sad seems the hous
without her.
No sweet voice calling after us a!
we go to our days duties, no winsomt
face to greet us as we come in, no pat
tering footstep on the stair-O little
one, how we miss you!
But your life short though it was
was not in vain; you frightened fol
us the gloomy days; you softened Oul
hearts too often grown cold and hard
YOU taught us lessons of love and OF
patience and through all the years
your memory will bring them back to
us.
500 des be patient"
In moment of glee fell the words
quantity from the lips of the baby, and
we laughed to hear them. But now
that the merry voice is stilled, how
those words echo back to us fraught
with a new meaning. Can we not
take them as a lesson to our hearts,
and, with the little ones around us,
with those who are older grown, with
the daily trials of life, and with its
deeper sorrows-'sjus be patient?'
o sorrowing father and mother the
words of your darling come to you now
as heavenly message, bidding you
'.just be patient" under the hand OF
God: patient while the years go on,
knowing that one glad day you snail
hear the sweet voice again as she
stands at the portal to welcome YOU
homecoming.
F. ID. L.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-11-02

The Geometry class is dong good
Work as evidenced BY the fact that
one member while demonstrating
figure turned the tbeorem over.
Mr.. u. a Thegpen says he could
never show Partially between his
teachers, especially bis Latin and
Execution teachers.
We are glad to have Mr.. Chester
ArIedge join us in our school
work. -
Miss Ardella McGphee. visited
her home last Saturday aud Sun
day.
Prof. Hunt told US that he was
not going to take measles though
we suppose be was joking about
it..
Mrs. Lewis of Nicholson visited
her children, Miss Edith aud Frank,
last week.
Miss s - SAYS lbe doctors OF
Poplarville are not worth anything
in her views. She Is bahly dam
aged with a disease lots OF US in,
heril at birth. That is being ugly,
the doctors say they cant gire a
prescription that will cure her, so
sue is very much discouraged.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-11-02

Hardware, Stoves, Mill tttnngs'
Betting, Cnttle y, Guns, Pistols
AMMUNITION aud everything else
headed 10 the hardware line can De
had promptly by nrdpring frem
W a TEMPLE. The Cash Hard
waremsu, Hattiesburg Miss.
Cold weather is coming. so call
ON w. F. Evans and get him 10 re-
rsir your broken window panes.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-11-02
TOWN AND COUNTY.


rhs following schedule went in
!. sGsct Sunday, July 2, 1890:
y. i south b0dnd due G:2i a. m.
e. - ) southbouud due 6:35 p. m.
- 2 northbound due 9:42 .. m.
e. / norihbound due 9:44 a. m.
1.il trains are Nos. 3 and A.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-11-02

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