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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-08-03
FROM GRAND VIEW.
Special oorrespondenco.I

Special correspondence
Wheat threshing is in progress
in this community.
Mrs. Martha Berry is reported
ON the list of sick this week.
MIR, and Mrs. j. f. Chester left
last Sunday to visit relatives and
friends at Metropolis, III.
Wyly Belyew aud Tom Berry
had q narrow escape from drown
ing while crossing Cypress Creek
last Sunday.
GRAND view, July 30.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-08-03

Constable r. Fl. Hilliard, assist
ed by r. D. McCord and John r.
Holladay, brought Carl Arnold,
Hugh carp and Jack Prewett down
from Holladay and lodged them in
jail here last week.
They were bound over in a mag
istrate's courtot to answer q charge
of house breaking and robbery. it
is alleged that the three boys enter
ed the store-house Of Pink Kirk, at
Holladay, one day last week while
Mr.. Kirk was at dinner and stole
about S25 worth Of goods.
Carl Arnold was bailed ont of
Jail Tuesday by Mr. Kirk, with the
understanding, it is alleged, that
Arnold would turn States evidence
and furnish him with the names of
all who are implicated in the affair.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-08-03

J w. Rayborn, Of Bristow, will
fll orders for 2 and 8 foot boards,
pallings and Stats on short notice.
Only the best material used, and
prices reasonable.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-08-03

Attention is called to the notice
Of j. w. Bateman in another coll
umn.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-08-03

The CHRONICLE and ST. Louis
Semi-Weekly Republic, one year,
SIl0.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-08-03

Allagents Of The CHRONICLE are
required to remit the full amount
Of our club rate subscriptions.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-08-03

For digestive weakness, nervous
ness, pains IN the side, hatulence,
dizziness, wakefulness, headache
and ndotlerannoying acompaniments
of costiVeness, Herbine is a prompt
and unequalled remedy. Price, SO
cents. Sold by all druggists
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-08-03

Fresh paints, oils, and varnishes
of all kinds at the Fry Drug Go.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-08-03

For Sale good milk COW. A
regular bargain for cash. Apply to
Mrs. Paralee Rowe, Camden, Tenn.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-08-03

For Sale Young COW with half
Durham calf G. Y HAwLEy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-20
A COSTLY CHARITY.

There has been a good deal said and
written regarding the expensiveness of in
discriminating charity and especially of
what is called outdoor charity. The expe-
rience of overseers OF the poor, township
trustees and others who handle public
charity funds is that this kind of charity is
the most expensive of all and that it tends
TO promote laziness and propagate pauper-
ism. This view seems to be confirmed on
a large scale by UEcle Sans dealing with
the Indians. Reformers and philanthropists
of a certain school have had great deal TO
say about the cruelty of the governments
treatment OF the noble red man. The truth
is that history furnishes no parallel nor
atty of the United States government in
it's dealings with hte aborigincs. Besides
paying them large sums for the cession Of
lands which they simply incumbered and
which might easily have been taken from
them by force. 1t has maintained hundreds
OF thousands OF them in ideness all their
lives and is still paying annuities 10 a large
number and furnishing daily rations TO
about 5000 out OF the $4,000 that remain.
The rations drawn by these aristocratic
Ioafers, cirect descendants of the first fam
lilies. who were here before the Mayfower.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-20
MEMBERSHIP OF HOUSE
TWENTY-EIGHT CONGRESsMEN MAY
BE ADDED NEXT ELECTION.
Total Likely to BE 3S5, Based on a
PeopIe-No Change I'm Indiana.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-If precedents
In recent years are followed the member
ship of the next House will be SIS. This is
an increase of twenty-eight over the pres
ent membership and will tax the capacity
OF the nall CT Representatives. unless the
scheme of using benches instead OF seats is
adopted When It became time TO make
the apportionment after the last census
there was a strong sentiment in the
House against the adoption OF any ratio
which would result in a reduction of the
representation of any State. either North or
South. 1t is believed this same sentiment
is as widespread now as In 1890.
The lowest possible membership of the
House which would produce a ratio suffi-
GENTLY low TO prevent any reduction would
be on the basis of Ss4 members. Taking
the recent population of the United States
at 74,627.907, announced in the prelimin-
airy figures by the Census Office, the ratio of
representation would be 1s4,344. While this
is the lowest figure possible TO prevent a
loss in any State. when the representation
is worked out on the basis of that ratio and
a representation for every major fraction
over one-half the ratio. the total member
ship of the House would be one more. or
3S5.
The changes which will be made in the
total population by the final tabulation by
the Census Bureau will be so small that
this ratio will not be materially altered.
Unless the customs in Congress. therefore,
are entirely ignored, the membership of the
next House will be 3s5 instead of 357, as at
present.
Figured out on this basis IL has been
possible TO prepare an accurate table
showing the present membership by States.
the membership under the proposed ratio.
and the gain in each case. If any. Illinois
and New York would lead in the increase
with three additional members each, while
Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. and
Texas each would gain two congressman.
The table showing the representation on
H. an,1r hnci L.. .n.. ELL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-20
A woNnEREuL GROWTH.

The growth of our export trade of mer-
chandise during the last decade is so
marked ir some lines as to indicate a revo-
larger buyer OF foreign-made iron goods
than il was an exporter. During the nine
months of the calendar year ending with
September, $780, we exported SO, 207, 400 worth
of iron and steel. Five years later the
value of the export was only 81. So. 62S. Dur
ing the corresponding nine months of this
year the value of iron and steel exports
was $97, S13, 060-or more than five times as
much as in 1890. More significant are the
figures showing the value of the export Of
copper and manufactures of copper. Dur
ing the first nine months of 1890 the value
was s1,O56.O2S; in 1885, s1O,l96.1 26. but in 100
the value had mounted to S46 go, 1893. The
values of leather and cotton manufactures
exported has more than doubled in the
decade. The value of agricultural imple-
ments exported has risen from s2,s57.70O to
$li,396, ISL; chemicals. drugs and dyes have
increased from s4ss6.s56 in 1890 to $40, PA, 4l4
in 1900. The value of the manufactures of
wood have doubled in ten years, while four
times the value in scientific and electrical
instruments were sold in the nine months
of 1900 compared with the corresponding
period of 1890 and three times the value sold
in 1895. During the nine months of 1899.
So, 473 worth of paper and tho manufac-
lures of paper were exported, but in the
nine months of 1900 the value was S., 155 915.
The value of the export of fibers and manu-
features of fibers has mere than doubled
the past five years. During the first nine
months of 1895 we exported cars and car
riages to the value of 81 93S, 3S9 but in the
nine corresponding months of 1900 the value
exported was $500 29S. OF starch we ex-
ported s341, 4O2 in value in 1895, but this year
the value was si.714953. Our export of
paints and colors was three times as many
dollars in 1900 as in 1895
Summing up the whole, our export of the
products of American workshops during
the nine months OF 1900 which ended with
September was worth $S3S. 67s, 2i3, during the
corresponding period of 1890 the export was
$ll3.S99,554. and of 1895. sl45. 79S, Si4. 1t is
worthy of note that the largest increase
has been made in the more important ar
ticles of merchandise like iron, machinery,
copper and it's manufactures.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-20
BRYAN HAS NOT CHANGED.
He VIII Continue to 'THoId Up the
Public for What He Says.

LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 19-William Jen-
nings Bryan says that he has ceased CIV
ing interviews to newspapers promiscu-
ously or individually. He Is now writing
for pay. This policy, he says he adopted
at the close of the campaign, and he in
tends to continue it until some matter of
great and immense import to the Nation
or to the policy of its present managers
renders his opinion necessary or advisable
ct is like the case of any newspaper edi-
tor" said Mr. Bryan. HE writes what he
thinks. but he will not write il without
the money / am not writing for the
money. but i will not write without it.
If were 10 discuss subjects of Importance
/ should wish TO do so only after consid-
Grafton and study, and l should wish to
prepare careful statement at my leisure
If l should be willing to give interviews
on all these questions, the newspapers
would keep me s'lsy practically all the
time. and | should find when / come TO
write for myself that / had printed much
OF il before"
Mr.. Bryan said that his second reason
for declining to discuss in the newspapers
such subjects as the reduction of federal
representation in certain Southern States
proposed by the Republicans was that he
never believed in discussing a thing until
IL was existent or imminent and that no
action had been taken in that matter as
yet. 1T is a nuisance he said, ito be
continually discussing matters which never
come to pass"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-20
FAT STOCK SHOW CLOSED.
Fine Cattle Receive Prizes at East
Lfberty-Indiana Represented.

PITTSBURG. Pa. Nov. 19-The annual
fat stock show at the East Liberty stock
yards closed to-day after four days of the
most successful exhibition ever held here.
The following were first prize winners:
Grand sweepstakes A. A. Armstrong.
Camargo ILL.,; Herefords. III. r Pinnell.
Kansas, ILL.,; short horns, j. ID. Hunter &
Son, Paris, ILL.,; PoIled Angus or Galloways.
A. A Armstrong, Camargo: best in
dividual heifers. Darling Brothers, Nellie,
o.; best individual bull. II. Whittlesy. At
water, o.; best individual steer, Charles
Stewart knightstown, Ind. heaviest weight
steer, Schenley cup. Frank McClain. Lam
caster. Pa; sheep, T. McBane, East Liver
pool, o.; lambs. Samuel Hagens. Nellie. O.
AT the auction sale of the prize winning
cattle, this afternoon. fine load OF fifteen
head of Polled Angus cattle, bred by "A. A
Armstrong, Camargo. ILL.,, which took the
sweepstake prize OF $500. was sold to the
Pittsburg Provision Company. at 1913 per
hundred weight, which is the highest price
paid for cattle in this country since the
early eighties.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-20

and whose family escutcheon has never
been soiled by days honest labor on the
part of any ancestor. are as good as the
average Woodworking white man is able TO
furnish his family They consist of -four,
coffee. sugar, beef or it's equivalent in ba-
con. and beans. About 1900 of the Indians
now receiving daily rations belong to the
Sioux nation, who have treaty with the
government requiring the issue of subsist-
ence 10 the members of the tribe at the
rate of 150 pounds of beef. or fifty pounds
OF bacon in it's place, fifty pounds of -four.
fifty pounds of corn. four pounds of coffee.
/ eight pounds of sugar and three pounds Of
| beans to every hundred rations. Almost
anybody could live we'll on that allowance
for 100 days. The cost of Indian rations to
the government at present is nearly $3.50.
| 0O0 year. This has been going on in
greater or less degree for hundred years.
The total expenditure by the government on
account of the Indian service from March
| 4, 1879. up TO and including July 80 1900. has
been S36S. 35S 217. This includes the cost of
the Indian Bureau at Washington, of In
dian agents and agencies. Indian schools.
etc. but large part of it has gone in an
nuities and rations, which have tended to
make the Indians loafers and paupers. The
| payment of annuitjes is probably even
worse than the issuing of rations. During
in annuities to indians $1.5O7.54s, the per
capita ranging from $3.50 down to so cents.
The commissioner of Indian affairs regards
these money payments as, the whole,
very demoralizing. Many of them. he says,
ARE too small to accomplish either good
or harm. while others are so large as to be
useful for good powerful for evil The
latter. it is TO be regretted, is the general
result. Not having to earn the money dis
| tributed, the Indians do not appreciate it's
value. 1t either goes to the traders on ac-
count of debts contracted in anticipation
of the payment, or is squandered, often for
purposes far remote from civilizing. The
larger payments, especially. demoraliz-
ing in the extreme. They degrade the In
dams and corrupt the whites; they induce
pauperism and scandal and crime; they
nullify all the good effects of years of Ia
bor." The annuity system has been in
operation many years and will last many
years longer unless some remedy be found.
Indian trust funds are now lying in the
United States treasury to the amount of
So, 81, 955, drawing interest at the rate of
and per cent, all of which will be paid
out as annuities unless some better way Of
dispensing it is devised. 1t would seem to
be the duty of the government to devise
some substitute for system that promotes
and perpetuates pauperism among the In
| dams.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-20
ROOT AND WOOD.


SANTIAGO DE CUBA. Nov. ls-secre-
tary Root and General Wood this morning
Inspected the MORO barracks and the gar
rison. Mr.. Root expressed himself as very
much pleased with the condition OF the
post and the appearance OF the soldiers.
AT noon the party visited the San Juan
battlefield, and this afternoon they rode
over the new government highway. This
thoroughfare. which is a work in which
General Wood takes great pride, is prob
ably one of the finest I'm the world. II
was constructed at cost OF $4,000 per mile
over mountain range. from the summit
of which there is a superb view OF the
had never seen anything more impressive
than the outlook.
Tomorrow the party will go by yacht
10 Daiquiri. where the United States troops
first landed. and will ride overland TO the
city, following the route of the army.
Mr.. Root says he finds the Cubans more
tractable than he had expected. and he
thinks they satisfied with the Amer
lean occupation and appreciate the efforts
OF the Americans 10 improve conditions
In the island. He will return TO the United
States he asserts, fun of enthusiasm for
a continuance of improvements. particular
ly in education and sanitation. Santiago
he considers in a better sanitary condf-
ton than any other Cuban city he has
visited. Probably the party will go to
Guantanamo tomorrow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-20
EVIL OF INCREASING LOCAL TAX

The rate of local taxation will have very
much to do with the growth of cities dur
ing the next decade, other conditions being
the same The volume of local taxation.
particularly in cities, is constantly increas-
ing, and increasing at a ratio in excess of
the increase of taxable property and pop
ulation. The tendency is to higher rates of
taxation in cities and in States. Under the
present high pressure of competition. the
profits of manufacturing are small. de-
pending more upon the quality of output
and the smaller items of cost than upon
large profits Such being the case, the
State whose levy is 10 per cent higher
than that of neighbor will not be con-
sidered I'm the matter of location. The city
whose rate of taxation advances from year
to year until it is double the rate of neigh
boring cities that are smaller will soon be
out of the race for securing new enter
prises, since an excess of or 10 cents on
800 of taxables over other cities is an in
superable objection, because it means on a
large plant a taxation of thousands of dol
lars in excess of that in towns with the
lower rate. Therefore, If the larger cities
of Indiana go on increasing their tax
levies they should not be surprised to see
industries go to the smaller places with a
much lower rate of taxation.
High taxation stands in the way of low
rates of interest on Investments. In this
city trust companies pay but per cent.
and the person is fortunate who gets Z
per cent. mortgage on a bit of real estate.
Indeed, the rapid increase of the stock of
money owned i'm Indiana and neighboring
States promises TO cut the rates on mort
cages TO per cent. and less. When the
high taxation of state and city reaches 215
per cent, the local lender of a few hundred
dollars will not have much left if he does
not escape the assessor, which will be hard
make property, even in money, compare
lively valueless.
The error has been and is that people
give too much heed 10 national taxation,
which is scarcely felt, and not enough to
local taxation, which is the burden upon
property incomes and the wage Of the Ia
borer who pays his share in higher house
rents. The time is at hand when self
preservation will lead taxpayers TO organ
ize to see that no money is wasted in the
administration of city affairs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-20
GOOD ROADS CONVENTION.
Beginning of a Movement That Is Ex-
pected to he Nationwide.

CHICAGO, Nov. 19.-ThS amelioration of
sociological, commercial and agricultural
conditions of the country through the me-
dunn of good roads is the aim of a nation
wide movement which crystallized to-day in
the first session of the National Good
Roads Convention, at Central Music Hail.
Legislators, business men, wheelmen, en-
gineers, farmers and even women from
various parts of the country participated
in the proceedings. From Canada came
Andrew Patullo. member of Parliament,
and A. w. Campbell, commissioner of high
ways of the province of Ontario-men
whose advice is expected to be especially
helpful in the solution of the good-roads
question in the United States, as both have
been foremost in the working out of the
problem in Ontario.
The convention effected a permanent or
ganiZation, selecting w. III. Moore, presi-
dent of the Interstate Good-roads Associa-
ton of st. Louis, as chairman, and r. w.
Richardson, of Omaha, as secretary. Com
mittees on programme. resolutions and the
drafting of legislative bills for thirty eight
States were also chosen. The speakers
during the two sessions included Mr.. Pa
tullo, Mr. Moore, Martin Dodge of Ohio.
director of the Office of roads in the de-
partment of agriculture; Harrison Gray
Otis OF Los Angeles, and Miss Belle T..
VI ot. LOUIS. latter lOlu VI
the work of education which has been car
ried on by the association in the last year.
She said Some think We are working
in the interests of some political party.
though they never know which; some think
il is a scheme In the interest of some cor
poration TO bond townships: few give us
credit for real purpose What we want
through good roads is more schools, more
Libraries, more churches. taking the place
of jails and penitentiaries. more boys plow-
ing and more girls churning, to make coun
try life attractive and TO arrest the tide of
country boys and girls which Is pouring
into the big towns"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-20

An unhappy Democratic or Bryan ex-
about the advance in the price of Standard
Oil shares because of the election of Presi-
dent Mckinley. 1t says if Bryan had been
elected the price would have fallen. This
is probably a fact; but why did the price
advance? Simply because spectators as
sumo that the consumption of oil will con-
the election of Mr.. Bryan would have
caused timidity in business circles which
would have caused factories to shut down
and wages to fall. With the fall Of wages
the sale of oil would fall off. But it is not
true that the oil-user pays any more for
his oil when the shares are 500 than when
they were $500. The Standard Oil Company
is as near a monopoly as there is in the
country, but the tariff has not made il so.
Why is it a monopoly, and what remedy
does the Terre Haute Gazette offer? Has ii
any other than the implication that the
election of Mr.. Bryan would cause a fall
in all stocks? If there were such a fall,
fected. Instead of snarling and trying to
continue the Bryan policy of arousing class
prejudice, why not present some sane pol
icy for breaking UP the lead of the Stand
ard Oil Company in the business If it seems
to be desirable?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-20

to make single-term officials of the men
whom he appointed four years ago His
party unanimously gave him another term
"a fact which seems a reason why he
should not be expected to dispense with
men in office for no better reason than that
they have hal the positions four years.
The real truth is. too many men place too
high a value upon a federal Office. Indeed.
the assertion may be ventured that not
one man in ten who has held the higher
federal positions In Indiana has been bene-
fitted financially thereby. But the point it is
desired to make is that. the chances are
against the reelected President making
sweeping changes in the offices.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-20
The Journals Reduction in Price
Is PERMANENT.

A wrong impression seems to pre-
vsiI among certain of the subscribers
10 THE JOURNAL, namely, that the
recent reduction in the subscription
price of the paper was only temporary,
and that return to former rates would
take effect when the campaign closed.
This is an error. The present pub
Iished price of the paper will be per-
manentIy maintained and its high
standard will in no way be impaired.
Send in your subscriptions to us at the
published rates or have the paper de-
Iivered to you by our agent in your
locality.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-20
SAID TO HAVE LEFT.
Berry Howard and John Powers he.
Iieved tn BE Out OF Kentucky.

MIDDLESBORO, Ky, Nov. 19.--It is re-
ported that John Powers and Berry How
ard. under indictment for the assassination
OF William Goebel. have left the mountains
where they sought refuge from arrest.
Powers was at Harlan and Howard in the
mountains of Bell county, both places be-
ing twenty miles from any railroad. The
men are said TO have left. two days ago,
accompanied by several mountaineers. and
To have struck through the mountains for
West Virginia.
The story il generally believed here, as
Powers and Howard feared troops would
be sent after them, but inquiry OF gentle
men returning on the evening train from
Pinevilie. which is the nearest point TO the
home of Howard. failed 10 confirm IL. They
said nothing was known at Pineville con-
corning their departure Powers is a
brother of Caleb Powers. sentenced to the
penitentiary on the charge of being an
accessory before the fact TO the assassina-
ton OF Goebel.