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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-21
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
The Assessment Law Of 1890 Sustained
by the State Supreme Court.

The supreme court has delivered
an opinion sustaining the ASSESS
ment law Of 1899, which is one of
the most important decisions which
has come from that body in years.
Under the decision all property
must be assessed at its actual cash
value, and any property which has
been assessed for less, can be back
assessed for the difference any time
within three years. No tax payer
can complain because bis property
is assessed higher than his neigh
Dor if assessed at the cash value,
his only remedy being to have the
assessment of his neighbor raised.
This decision, if enforced, will
prove beneficial to the small tax
payers who now bear the burden of
taxes, by causing the tax rates to be
lowered, and causing all to bear an
equal share.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-21
JUDGE swIeeART DEoL1NEs.

In a card to the Union City
Commercial Of last week Judge w.
H. Swiggart, after thanking those
who had called on him to make the
race for supreme judge says:
'In view of my present situation,
however, ] feel constrained not to
be a candidate for the position re-
ferred to. However willing to
serve the State in that capacity, I
could not easily get my consent to
enter into a contest and make such
a personal canvass for so exalted a
position as the method and custom
now obtaining in the State seem to
require. l beg therefore that they
will permit me to decline to enter
into the contest for the position"
We understand from this that
Judge Swiggart regards tho posi-
tion as one of such high character
that the Office should seek the
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-21

W hereB the woman says
league.
"Dead-under yon tarpaulin,
says one of the men. Poor little
woman, Barker beat her to death
before she starved.
"God be praised, says league
in a quiet voice that shook that
waterlogged wreck. And which of
you's Barker?'
"Dead a week, says the man.
Give us water
"Teague went over, pulled the
tarpaulin off and picked the woman
that was lying under it up in his
two hands. They said afterward
that she'd been dead three days.
He looked at her a minute and put
his face down to hers. Then he
hollers out:
"'Some brandy here-this wom-
ans alive
"They passed him a flask out of
the yawl and he forced some down
between her set teeth. Then he
loosened her dress and rubbed her
body and blew in her mouth and
worked over her for two hours
without raising his head. And
then, as l hope for mercy, the
woman's eyelids begin to futter
like a loose studdin' sail in light
breeze and her eyes opened and
she smiled with 'em up at league.
And league, as 1 live, set there
swelling up to the size of his clothes
with every second that passed.
"Come here, Bill, says he to me,
speaking soft as a woman with a
young baby; is this her you see in
the cabin?
81 crept over and looked at her.
"'Yes, sir I says, though not
near so pale.
"Well, how says league could
that sperrit of hers come to be set
tin in that there cabin, with her
not dead yet, down here fourteen
hundred miles away?'
"At that the woman opened he1
eyes and smiled up at league
again.
"'You was long time coming
JIM she whispered. II been q
dreaming that l was writing you g
letter.
"They was married when we got
to port a month overdue. league
lived to be rs but his wife was 81
when she died. Sometimes I've
feltsorry for that poor little brown
haired ghost that had to wait then
sixty long years before it had {
chance to get about again
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-21
ROBERT L. TAYLOR.

The following beautiful lines are
from the pen Of Ex-Gov. Robert L.
Taylor:
eff the dead flowers of Eden
ever bloom again they must bloom
in the happy hearts of home. If
its sunshine ever breaks through
the clouds, it must break forth in
the smiling faces at home. If
Heaven ever descends to earth and
angels tread its soil, it must be in
the sacred precincts ofhome. That
which Heaven most approves is the
pure and virtuous home, for around
it linger all the sweetest memories
and dearest associations Of man
kind; upon it hangs the hope and
happiness of the nations Of the
earth, and above it hangs the ever
lasting star that lights the way
back to the paradise which was
lost"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-21

man, says the Paris Post-Intelli-
gencer, and not the man the Office.
And in this he is correct If ten
dered the nomination, without hav-
ing to electioneer for it in the usual
way, no doubt he would accept it
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-21

Judge @. W. Tyler, in charging
the grand jury Of Montgomery
County recently, said:
"The last Legislature passed an
act which is known as the dog law,
and attached a penalty to its vio-
lation. The substance Of this act
is that any person may keep as
many dogs as he desires provided
they remain on his own premises.
He may take his dog out hunting
or use him to drive cattle along the
highway, or, if he changes his resi-
dence, may remove his dog with
his family effects. All this he may
do without being liable to a dog
tax; but if his dog leaves his prem
ises under any other circumstances
than those above defined, then the
owner is guilty Of a misdemeanor,
unless he has taken precaution ia
advance to pay the tax imposed by
this act, which is 81 per annum.
"Ihe law in question has been
ridiculed as almost no law at all,
but it seems to me to be really
quite stringent act, since unless
the tax is paid no man can tell
whatmoment the indiscretion Of his
dog may bring him into trouble
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-21

Judge j. II. Bond after holding
court last week returned to Browns
vile Saturday to relieve Chancellor
Hawkins who came up and is now
holding both the chancery and cir
cult courts. 1t takes a man with a
level head to do this, but Chaneel-
lor Hawkins is equal to the emer-
gency. Paris Post-Intelligencer.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-21

If you are troubled with that
most uncomfortable disease called
piles, don't neglect it. Don't let
the complaint get a firm hold.
Every day the disease is neglected
itgrows worse. Commence at once
to use Iabler's Buckeye Pile Oint-
ment, the relief is immediate, and
cure infallible. Price, 80 cents in
bottles. Tubes, IS cents. Sold by
all druggists.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-21

The West Tennessee Presbytery
of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church met at Humboldt Wednes-
day to discuss the removal Of Bethel
College at Mckenzie. Memphis
and Union City want the school,
and both would make handsome
endowments to get it.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-21
A VISITING GHOST AT SEA.
NEW YORK SUN

'N+--AN - aAaA ~ ~t#AAAN - T. W.
rain on the captains watch and he
sent me down after his oilskins.
Foot of the companion way I look
ed into the cabin and there at the
captains table, as I'm a living man,
sat a little brown-haired woman
writing. Everybody aboard knew
they was no woman on the Ingo-
mar and hadn't been. 1 took one
look and then made for the quarter
deck.
"'WLere's them skins? says
league.
eff you please, sir, I says,
'they's lady at the cabin table
writing
"Teague looked at me for full
half a minute and his eyes was like
them of a man that's gone blind.
Then he spoke kind of soft.
"What kind Of a looking woman
was it?' says he.
"She was a little plump woman,
I says, with brown hair that was
brushed back
'EIeague's face became white as
a corpse's and he held up his hand.
"Thatll.do, he says. Go down
and ask the lady to kindly step upp
81 wasn't hankering after that
cabin jest then, but it was better
than leagues voice, Before l got
to the foot Of the companionway l
see she was gone. / went over to
where she'd been setting and there
on the table was a sheet of paper
and on it in woman's writing was
the three words, Steer due south.
I grabbed the paper and went back
on deck. AS I came up it seemed
though leagues eyes grabbed hold
of me.
"'The lady's gone, sir I says,
but this here paper was on the
cabin table,
81 don't know how he got the
paper. / didn't hand it to him.
He jest had it. Then there come
a sound like a heard Of bulls bel
lowing and it was league calling
to the men at the wheel.
Hard starboard, says league
and around she swung.
"'Keep her due SOUTH says
league, and mind your eye.
"That minute the breeze shifted
fair and begin to freshen and in.
side of two hours we was jumping
along at 10 knots. The first mate
looked feazed when he come or
deck to take his watch, but league
give his orders and didn't make nc
explanations. Then he went W
into the bow and took his seat il
the knighthead.
''For seven days that fair breeze
lasted and for seven days we wen
clipping South, with the sun SO hor
that it boiled the pitch out Of the
decks and our port of destination
further and further over our por
quarter. And for seven days
league set up there on the knight
head looking forward out over tht
sea. We passed ships and ther
got past the travelled way and
league paid no heed,
"But on that seventh day VIZ
raised speck on the horizon anC
league jumped to his feet when h,
seen it. We come up to it in thO
first dog watch. She was what wa
left Of a fine schooner, her mast
gone and laying SO low in the waite
her decks was partly awash.
GLOVER away the yawl, say
league. Itwas his first word sinnr
he'd turned the bark south.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-21


that frequents the seas and they do |
some mighty queer things, as any
sailorman knows" said Capt Bill |
kinsman as he cut a pipeful off a
plug and proceeded to roll it be-
tween his horny palms. "But the
queerest spook ] ever see was one
that put itself out of business for
sixty odd years by making a mis-
take
"Ithappened when l was young
man on voyage from Maracaibo
to Liverpool on. the bark Ingomar
with Cargo of mahogany, A chap
by the name of league was the
captain, and the sickest-looking
skipper he was that ever let a ships |
crew do as it pleased. He was
powerful, big-boned man, but gaunt
as a wolf, with his clothes hanging
loose all over him and his eyes
burning away back at the end of
two sort O. caverns.
"1nstead of taking his rest like
a Christian, he set up on the taft
rail, in his watch and out Of it, fair
weather or foul, sleeping sometimes
butmost while looking out over the
sea like a man in a trance. Bout
once a day he'd come down for a
bite to eat and a look at the first
mates figgers and then back he'd
go aloft with never a word out Of
him.
"It didn't take many days out of
port before they begin to be whisp-
ers among the crew. What was it,
we wanted to know, that'd make
man like league shrink away from
his clothes and shun decent mems
neighborhood? What was it his
burning eyeballs saw out yonder
in the black water?
"'Mates, says Ben Wicks, who'd
lost one Of his eyes on a man-o-'
war, L know the signs, It's blood
spots he sees out there blood spots
Of his own making and they's no
good goin' to come to them as trav-
els with him
II don't know jest what the
crewd done if it hadn't happened
that remarks come to the ears
Of the first mate. Soon's they did
the mate comes humping into the
fo'c'sle and lays Ben out with a
smash under the ear.
"'Now, ye swine, he says turn
ing to the rest Of us, lis they any
Of you ever had CUTS enough to love
woman? Two years ago they was
a feller about to get the likeliest
gal in Portland, Me, for a wife.
She quarrelled with him a week
before the wedding, about nothing,
as women will, and up and married
a dub that was worth no good wom-
ans thoughts. Well, the chap that
got left is him that's sitting up
there on the taffrail. Ye dirty
snakes, that's what love does some
times to man. Now if they's any
Of you wants broken head let me
hear another yelp about blood
spots.
"After that nobody felt called
IA to give him opinions of the cap
tain. I reckon the crew was more
sorry for him than anything else,
though Ben Wicks shook his head
and did heap Of mumbling under
his breath. And we certainly be-
gin to have q queer viyage. We
was on a nor nor east tack and we
had a purity fair breeze most OF the
time, bat somehow that ship SEEM
ed to make mighty little headway.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-21

Mothers who would keep their
children in good health should
watch for the first symptoms Of
worms and remove them with
Whites Cream Yermifuge. Price,
25 cents. Sold by all druggists.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-21

Mrs. NJ. M. Dodson, widow
woman, who has been keeping a
boarding house at the depot for
number of years, died very sudden
ly last Friday night of congestion.
Her health had not been good for
several years, but Friday she felt
we'll enough to 60 out and work in
the garden. She endured the in
tense heat, but shortly after going
in the house she complained Of
feeling badly, and died during the
night. The interment took place
lat Camden Cemetery Sunday morn
ing at TO o'clock. Services were
conducted by Rev. j. M. Pickens.
We join in extending sympathy to
the bereRved relatives.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-21

If the stomach performs its
functions actively and regularly,
the food of which it is the recepta-
Gle, is transformed into blood Of a
-nourishing quality, which furnish
es vigor and warmth to the whole
body. Herbine gives tone to tbs
stomach and promotes digestion
and assimilation Price, SO centa
Sold by all druggists.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-21

The Democratic primary to nom
mate county officers for Henry
County will be held on April 5,
1902. This action was taken at a
meeting of the Democratic COM
mittee at Paris called for that pur-
pose.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-14

IRA COLE, Collector,
Mullica Hill, N. ].
Watkin & Avis, Attorneys.
Dated January %, 1901. l31-4t
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-14
The PEOPLE KNEW HIM.
Oenson's Plaster Is Pains Master. :

George Washington made and sold flour.
and every barrel Of -four in the market
branded &c. Washington, Mount Vernon, !,
sold without delay. No question was ever
raised as to quality or weight.
Benson's Porous Plaster sells on its repu-
tation everywhere. All the buyer wants to
be certain of is that the plaster offered him
realty is Benson's, and not worthless mi
tation of it or substitute for it.
A plaster is the best form of external rem
edy, and Benson's is The best plaster; 5000
physicians and druggists, and multitude
of people no man can number, have settled
that. You can trust it, they say.
Coughs, colds, lame back, lumbago, mus
cular stiffness and rheumatism, troubles of
the liver and kidneys, influenza or grip,
pneumonia, and all other diseases open to
external treatment, are at once relieved and
cured by Benson's Plaster.
Do not assume that Belladonna, Capsi-
cum or Strengthening plasters are 'siust as
good as'' Benson's. They are vastly IN
ferior.-No other plaster is as good as
Ben.on's.
In competition with the best-known
plasters of Europe and America, Benson's
have received fifty. flee highest Awards.
For sale by all druggists or we will pre-
pay postage on any number ordered in the
United States, on receipt of Csc. each.
Seabury d johnson. Mfg. Chemists. N. Y.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-14
Roses and vines ON pinuzas.

The foliage of the rose is ordinarily
sparse and for purposes of piazza
screens needs to be supplemented by
that of some other climber in harmony
with it. This cannot be that of the
wistaria or trumpet creeper or yet of
the pipe vine. for these are all of the
coarse, masculine form of plant covers,
but instead something that is both deli
cate and substantial. as the honeysuc-
kle, with its fine, leafy stems. produc-
ing well disposed screen with flowers
that are inconspicuous as compared
with roses and keep coming all the sea-
son through with a fragrance Of pecul-
lar sweetness at evening when the pi-
azza Is most apt to be the outside rest
ing place for the family.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-14

The old proverb vTo be at peace
prepare for war;" is the secret of the
larger part of life's successes, whether
of nations or individuals.
The difference between the healthy,
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to nurse and nourish, and the weak,
nervous mother, with weakling child,
is mostly difference of preparation.
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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-14

Plants such as the white lilac,
genista, spirGa, deutzia, Harris lily,
etc, are commonly forced for Easter
decorations, and they all please every
one, but more frequent use Of plants
now but little used for such purposes
would generally produce even greater
admiration. 1t is not new TO talk of
forcing the rhododendron, but I'M
doubtedly it is not common to see it.
Yet nice plant with six or more flow.
err heads makes a beautiful specimen
and, like the azalea, can be used again,
planted out or kept for forcing another
year. To those in the northern parts
Of this country where such plants do
not do well planted outside the priyi-
lege to see them blooming indoors is
great. About the time of blooming they
like an abundance of water if the pot
be well drained. Very little heat is re-
quired to bring them into bloom.
though more than many others. about
tho temperature of a carnation house,
saws Maphep
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-14
Celery, Earthworms and snai1s.

Celery when banked up with earth
may be subject to the depredations of
earthworms, but the real culprft which
Injuries celery stalks growing and
bleaching under boards is with me, at
least the common snail or slug Both
these creatures are very sensitive to
contact with alkaline substances. In
order to kill off the earthworms, which
by many are considered entirely harm
less, if not even beneficial, it is only
necessary to mix a good proportion of
lime or ashes with the SOIL Even a
good dressing of salt celery can stand
large quantities of it, or muriate of
potash will have a tendency to clear
the soil of earthworms. Slugs are cas-
lily killed by bringing them in contact
with some alkali Removing the
boards from one side and Immediately
busting the stalks with slaked pow
dered) lime or spraying them with salt
water, limewater or solution of
muriate of potash will speedily destroy
every slug reached by the application.
Replace the boards and after few
days repeat the treatment. says It.
Greiner in Farm and Fireside.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-14
Hothean nnd Ernmes-

The larger market gardeners have
many Of them preferred the larger
greenhouses to the use of many hot
beds and forcing frames, but the farm
err whose operations are on smaller
scale can yet use these to good advan-
tage, in the opinion of American Guilt
svator. He should have good garden
and get it under way early, and he
can do this by starting plants under
glass at but little expense and with
little labor. The early vegetables are
as much needed by the farmers family
as by any one else, and If there is a
surplus it can be sold at a good price.
We haze forced hills of peas. beans
and squashes, cucunbers and melons
under the sash of half an old window.
such as may often be bought for tri-
fling sums when old buildings have
been torn down. placed upon boxes
made to fit them by planting early and
using the glass when we thought there
was danger of freezing or to give
warmth to the ground before the seed
had terminated, and we had them
weeks ahead of our neighbors. The
peas we planted in a circle about as
large as a nail key and when the glass
was off we put bush in the center
of the circle, which made it easier pick
inc
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-14
Notes From Gardening.

The Russian mulberry is coming rap
Idly into high favor for fenceposts
The premiums appropriated for the
exhibitions of the Massachusetts Hor-
ticultural society for the year 1901 ag-
gregate $S,275.
American fruit has risen greatly in
favor in European markets by reason
of the excellence of the showing made
at the Paris exposition.
Dwarf fruit trees in fruit are at pres
ent Partisan fad in table decorations.
The cherry is the favorite. although
peaches. apples and pears are used.
Jobbers in nursery stock report that
the ''dollar cherry tree" may become a
reality before spring. They say that
they cannot now buy at double the
price paid year ago.
The nasturtium seed crop in Ger
many turned out very badly. With less
than half crop in California and a
very poor one in France. we can look
for much higher prices than ruled the
last two or three wears.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-14
Eggs In Winter.

The whole problem Of winter feeding
for eggs can be expressed in one short
sentence-turn winter into summer.
This is easy to say, but very hard to
accomplish, and the best we can do is
to supply some of the conditions which
exist in summer.
The first essential is warmth. but it
must not be supplied by artificial heat,
as this makes the fowls tender and sus-
ceptible to colds. but by warm houses,
to keep out wind and frost and con-
serve the natural heat of the birds.
Dryness is next to be considered, and
this is best brought about by keeping
the house clean and the floor well lit
tered with straw and some absorbent
material like chaff. Also ventilate a
little by the windows every mild day
by opening them little, according to
the weather. This will carry out mois-
ture, purify the air and keep the fowls
accustomed to the outdoor tempera-
ture. SO they will not be affected so
much by extremely cold spells.-H. j.
Blanchard
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-14
Drafts and Rnun.

Allowing birds their liberty will
make them healthier, more vigorous
and will be beneficial in every way.
They should not be confined at any
time in the year when the weather will
permit of their living outside. Many
of US have no doubt put off making
necessary repairs TO buildings. One
or two cracks in the side of house or
broken window may give the cold
WINS chance to start a cold which
will develop into roup and exterminate
the flock. If any Of the birds are af-
fected in this manner, they should be
separated from the we'll ones and treat
ed for the trouble.-Thomas f. Rigg
in Americau Poultry Journal