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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-07

The ornithologlsts of Great Britain
and America have just finished a
spirited discussion which has lasted
for more than a year as to which is
the largest bird that flies. The prize
has been awarded to an American
bird, the great condor of the Andes.
The second prize has been given to
the fierce harry eagle of the Philip
pines.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-07
A MARKED MAN.

Jaspar-Why do you consider Eond-
rocks SO especially lucky2
Jumpuppe-Why, all his friends had
gone back on him before he had sue
ceeded. and he was able to begin life
with a clean slate.-Life.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-07

IL "a said that tho goysora which have made
this park famous, are gradually declining
This brings 30 mind the fact, that decline Is
the law of tho world. Health is the most pre-
cious possession in the world and too great
care cannot DO given TO IL. In the spring, you
should renew your strength. royitalizo your
blood and nerves with the best Of an modi-
cinoa, Hostettors stomach Dittem. II also
cures stomach disorders. Try Il.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-07
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM d;

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM; 81
was suffering such fortunes
from nervous prostration that
life was a burden. l could
not sleep at all, and was too
weak to walk across the floor.
Ny heart was affected so that
often I could not lie down at
all without alNost suffocating.
/ took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and it
worked like magic. I feel that
your medicine has been Of IN
estimable benefit to me-"
MISS ADELE WILLIAMSON,
1913 N. Boulevard, Atlanta, Ga.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-07

Wyndham Spencer Portal, who was
recently created a baronet is the head
of family which since 1924 has en-
ioyed the exclusive privilege Of max
Ing bank note paper for the Bank OF
England.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-07

It is fact Of disagreeable signif-
canoe that one out of every 300 people
living in New York state is an inmate
Of either a private or public hospital
for the insane. We seem to be living
in too cerebral age.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-07

The peppermint-oil crop was the
leading feature in some neighbor-
hoods of central New York a few
years ago, and brought more money
into the hands of the farmers than did
the apple crop. But now the pepper
mint crop is mostly thing of the
past in that section, and the mint
stills are kept in operation by the
crop of a few acres near them The
beet-sugar crop has driven the mint
crop westward. for the farmers find
it more profitable to raise sugar beets.
Ten years ago every community in
central New York had resident who
was getting rich by sitting mint, but
these same mills are now falling into
disuse.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-07

Clarence Mackay has ordered in
Paris a $4,000 automobile ito beat
anything in America" American in
yentors and manufacturers may have
something to say about this.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-07

Cutting a slice out Of Western
Florida to be annexed to Alabama. in
order that the heavy exporters of the
latter state may more readily control
their shipments of timber. coal and
iron through the fine port of Pensaco-
Ia is a fascinating project Of CONNER
cialism which is now engaging the at
tention Of influential citizens along the
Eastern Gulf coast. The two state
legislatures must agree, and congress
must thereafter consent-conditions
which thus far have proved insuper-
able obstacles to the contamination Of
the scheme. But business. which high
authority has declared to be stronger
than law" may be also stronger than
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-07

There is still a queen in England.
Alexandra, the queen consort. so long
known as the Princess of Wales. is
possessed of an exceptionally good
measure of that gracious quality
known as "the wisdom of the heart, F."
and there is no doubt that her popu-
larity will be only little less great
the world over than was that of her
illustrious predecessor. The influence
Of the reigning sovereign in Great
Britain must, generally speaking, be
exerted indirectly-that is to say, it is
a social rather than a political force,
King Edwards winning and ingratia.
ting consort is splendidly endowed fol-
the position Of a royal helpmate.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-07

II. II. GnEEN's soNs, OF Atlanta, Ca, arc
the only successful Dropsy Specialists in tho
world. See their liberal offer in advertisement
in another column Of this paper.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-07

a am so nervous no ever SUFFERED as 90 mere
isn't well inch in my body honestly believe my lungs
are diseased my chest pains So but have no cough
am SO weak my stomach and have indigestion terribly and
and backache nearly kills me- and yesterday had Mysteries
There weight in the lower part Of my bowels bearing
down all the time, with pains in my groins and thighs
the most miserable of women"
This is a most vivid description of suffering with
nervous prostrao caused by inflammation or some other
diseased condition of the womb.
No woman should allow herself to reach such perfection
Of misery when there need of it. Read about Miss
Williamsons case and how she cured.
TWO Raa Cases of Nervous 2ros9ra1Lon 9ureas
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-07

During last year the deaths of 299
members of the Society of Friends
were reported in Great Britain and
Ireland. A table compiled from the re-
turns shows that the mortality among
children was very small when com
pared with the death-rate statistics
Of the general population Only IA of
the 299 deaths reported were Of chill
dren under five years. There were 10
deaths of Quakers over 80 years old,
including two over 100 years.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-07

Pennsylvania is a wonderful state.
It's manufacturing interests are diver
sified and cover every article Of hui
man consumption from the raw to the
manufactured In this state, power
and transmission reaches over 1000
good, live, wide-awake, growing con-
Germs of a rating, according to the best
commercial agencies of $4,000 or
overs They are all users of machin-
cry, and the constant orders for sup
plies must be something marvellous.
Did you ever stop to think that in
Pennsylvania there are nearly as
many factories as are contained in
that part of the United States lying
west of the Mississippi river?
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-07

People with hot tempers may sometimes
give rather cool treatment.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-06-07

Merchandise was first admitted to the
mails in 1861
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21
slocum.s Spray.

England, 1t seems, has something to
learn from America, even in the matter
OF boat building Capt. Joshua Slo-
cum. author of Sailing Alone Around
the World" has just received a letter
from stranger, bearing an East In
dian stamp, and postmarked Berbera
(Africa), London, and New York, in
which his correspondent expresses a
desire to possess boat built on the
lines of the famous sloop Spray. 81
have an island in the Indian ocean, :"
the Englishman writes, "separted by
some 40 miles from the main group at
which steamers call. Its produce has
to be ferried twice a month to the
steamer station. Often, in the mon
soons, the seas run high. and stout
boat is necessary, as we'll as one that
can sail we'll to windward. and do
something in light airs. A boat like
the Spray would just do, and would
also be a great pleasure, for there are
numbers of neighboring islands one
would like to visit, and sometimes a
run to Bombay, or Ceylon, or Nom
basa, or Maritius. would be. possible"
Needless to say. the gallant captain
lost no time in forwarding the Sprays
specifications. in answer to this fiat
tering request.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21

more grace, fewer fortresses and more
churches, less power to destroy and
more power to save. Oh, l am sick o.
the war cries and the eNtinguished eye.
sight and the splintered bones and thu
grave trenches and the widowhood and
orphanage and childlessness which sol
and groan. and die in the wake of the
armies on both sides of the sea! Oh
LOT less OF the slaughter weapon and
more of the evangelizing inkhorn! Oh
for the stopping of the science of as
sasslnation, that crime of crimes, that
woe OF woes, that horror of horrors,
mat nell of hells-war, which this mo-
ment stands reeking with blood and
washing itself in tears and blasphem-
ing the heavens and pushing of the
edge OF tais life men who have as
mnch right to live as you and | have.
and blasting homes in which there
dwells as much loneliness as in our
own! Would that the merciful angel
OF my text take the last weapon Of
war and fling it off and fling 1t down
with such force that 1t shall clang on
the lowest round of the perdition
where the first keen edge of human
strife was sharpened! War! In the
name of Almighty God and of all the
homesteads it has destroyed and is
now destroying, hate it, denounce
it. l curse it!
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21
Flneness. and helieacx.

The lower animals do not draw
very fine distinctions; civilized men
measure things by millimeters. A saw
age who is building a hut gets two
poles which seem about the same
length, and a difference Of foot or
two doesn't matter; man who builds
locomotive, or safe door, or a type
writer, or a chainless bicycle must
have fittings that will not vary by the
hundredth Of an inch. An essential
condition Of culture is unremitting
care for host of tribes, all of which
unite to make the perfect whole.
Without accuracy and punctuality, no
civilization. All our sense of beauty
is perhaps merely the recognition that
certain forms have exactly hit an i'm
perceptible middle ground between an
infinite number Of slightly different
possibilities. If there is any one thing
which shows an educated man CT don't
say college man, for it must be ad-
mitted that this is usually the very
thing that a college man is as ignor-
ant Of as the nakedest savage in the
heart of Australia) it is that he knows
the enormous, fateful, all-slgnificant
difference between a thing which is
right and thing which is almost
right, that he approaches the great
truth that the difference between 80
and 100 is not i, but infinity.-J. T.
Hatfield.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21
Tn. nIldret.s solicit.ae.

Ordinary folk were much amused at
an example Of how seriously H. M.
ships observe the navy regulations
which occurred during the demonstra-
ton to welcome the governor general.
AS the seven war ships steamed Slow
~ in line up Sidney Harbor. the fag-
ship Royal Arthur, which was lead
ing, carefully took soundings every
few minutes. Each war vessel in the
procession solemnly hove the lead, |"
even. the tiny gunboat Karrakatta
being most anxious to learn II the tide
(the water was evidently deep enough
for the big flagship in front O, herr
was, sufficiently high to enable her to.
reach her moorings. Sidney Bulletin
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21
Tennlel's Successor.

OF Linley sambourne, Sir John Ten
niel's successor on Punch, it is said
that he is short and stout and would
easily be taken for prosperous gen
tleman farmer, whose only thought
was crops and horses. He lives in a
charming and artistic house in Ken
sington, one of whose features is a
vast collection of photographs to be
used in his works as a cartoonist. They
are assorted. we are told, into scores
of departments. Kings, queens, SOL
diers, sailors, judges. members Of par
lament, actors, actresses, celebrities,
notorieties, animals-there are thou
sands of them in these drawers. There
are also photographs of the uniforms
of the armies and courts of all Euro
pean countries.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21
Size of Carriage Hor.es.

A New York horse buyer recently
said: A horse that is 1872 hands high
and put up right, with plenty of bone,
substance and quality. is big enough
to do any kind Of work that a car
riage horse is called on to do. In nine
cases out of ten horse of this size
will outwork and outwear horse of
sixteen hands or higher. You see he
isn't so likely to pound himself to
pieces on the hard pavements for one
thing. Then again he has better COM
mand Of his legs than tall horse has,
and therefore doesn't tire so quickly.
OF course large horses are required for
large carriages on account of appear
ance. A horse no higher than 1872
hands would look like pony in front
OF some broughams and pair of this
size hooked to an opera bus seating
six or eight persons would spoil the
appearance Of the whole equipage, no
matter how handsome the horses might
be. But aside from the looks of the
thing, short-legged, big-bodied, four
cornered horse of the size l have
named could do the work and do It
fully as well as one full hand taller.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21
Now Blackberry Culture.

R. M. Kellogg, in his pamphlet,
Great Crops Of Small Fruits" says:
Nothing sells better, nothing pays
better, nothing is grown more easily
than blackberries. The new method OF
starting the plantation produces
double that Of the old way. Its fruit
Is more luscious and plantation will
fruit heavily under good culture and
pruning from fifteen to twenty years,
giving annually large crops. The de-
mand for this fruit is practically I'M
limited. The trouble is blackberries as
offered are sour, seedy, and lack flavor
Scarcely town in the country is sup
Piled at all with large luscious black
berries.
= How it is Done. Pursue the same
method explained in breeding up
Strawberries. Find all the ideal canes
bearing the finest fruit and not over
two( years old. Early in the fall dig
iaeh up ahd cut roots In pieces abou.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21
Now Kind Of pbonoe-.,.

At the last meeting of the~Berlin
Polytechnic society an engineer named
Leisner explained a new kind of phon-
ograph for service at sea, writes a
Berlin correspondent. By coupling to-
gether membranes, between each of
which a microphone is fixed, he has
succeeded in SO strengthening the tone
emitted by all sound that any noise can
be heard for distance of three sea
miles. 1t is suggested that by means
of this invention a commander at sea
will be able to issue his orders to all
the ships in his fleet, and that in the
same manner ships will be able to
communicate with each other in the
densest fog. OF course, it would be
equally useful on land. and railway
accidents, it is thought, may be also
greatly diminished, as warnings coulS
be given at long distances apart.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21
FORAGE IN UNITED STATES.
Work of Department of Agriculture In
the Southwest.

Work of Department of Agriculture In
the Southwest.
AS early as 1874, DIR. George vaser,
the botanist of the agricultural depart
ment, began his work on the improve
ment of the forage supply Of the
United States. At that time the hay
product Of the country amounted to
about 25,000,000 tons per annum. In
the Northern States the forage prob
lem was already, in the main, solved;
but in the South and in the West there
was a deplorable lack OF suitable for
age plants. New England and New
York had brought their grasses and
clovers from Great Britain, and owing
to general similarity OF climate, had
round them satisfactory. Their use
mad extended also, to 1.-The middle west
with equal success. With the increase
OF stock raising in the cotton country
Of the South, however, 1t was found
that the old and well-known forage
plants must be replaced by others, bet
ter suited to the warmer climate. Dur
Ing the next decade, following the
rapid depletion of the wild forage sup
ply OF the far west and the establish
ment of homesteads throughout that
region, the similar discovery was made
that the common fc.age plants of the
East could not withstand the dry eli
mate. For many years the department
Drought together by correspondence
information along these two lines, and,
in 1884, collected it in the form Of a
book entitled, The Agricultural
Grasses of the United States.' In the
year 1888 the lump sum appropriated
for botanical investigations and ex-
| per1ments was increased from $4,000
to $4,000, and the establishment OF
forage experiment stations was at Car
den City, in western Kansas. A large
| number of grasses, both native and
foreign was cultivated at the station
without irrigation. At the end Of the
i've years lease, in 1893, after the, va
rious species clearly not adapted to the
region had been thrown out year by
year, the experiment resulted in the
demonstration that two forage plants,
Hungarian bronze and red Kaffir corn,
and one grain, Jerusalem corn, were
the crops best suited to cultivation in
those portions of the southern great
plains where irrigation was imprac-
tlcable. few other plants, notably
colorado bluestem, gave promise OF
success, and their cultivation has since
been followed in other portions of the
plains. The station was an object les
son to the thousands of despairing
farmers. 1t showed them that KafRr
corn could produce good crop when
everything else was killed by the
drouth; that Kaffir corn was the; equal
of maize for fattening hogs and feed
ing farm stock, and that 1t could be-
made into good bread.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21
Efforts to Get Son Married.

There is an opulent old Irishman OF
methodical turn in this town who
has a genial idiosyncrasy extremely
embarrassing to marriageable young
women, says the Chicago Chronicle.
He also has an eligible son who for
years has obstinately remained bach
elor. The Hibernian Croesus is won't.
when in attendance at dances, to sin
gle out the prettiest young woman In
the room and seat himself beside her
After praising her beauty in a most
ontrageously f1attering manner he will
suddenly ask her if she knows his son
Tom. No matter what the reply is. he
will say: well. you're a mighty likely
and handsome girl and I'm going to
send Tom around to see yon-you'd
make him good wife. What days are
you at homer"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21
wes,erner.. Prescription for Grin.

We don't know much about the effect
of materia medica upon the human
system, but we did write, fill and take
the following prescription, which
knocked la grippe higher than Kilroy's
kite: -Four quarts of whisky, into
which were dissolved four ounces of
loaf sugar To this we added a tea
spoonful of water and another quart
of whisky, and then placed over a hot
fire and let boil sufficiently long to boil
out all the water. We then stirred in
little more whisky to cool, and gulp
ed it down without batting an eye. In
order to remove the taste from our
mouth, we took littlc more whisky"
-Glenwood (Cal) Avalanche.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21
From Judge to Constable.

Daniel R. Magruder, former judge 81,
the Maryland Court of Appeals, is a
constable at Annapolis. To the pro.
test of the citizens that constables
had not been appointed the board in
charge of the matter replied that
men could not be found to accept the
office. When Judge Magruder stated
that plenty Of good men could be
found it was suggested in banter that
the Judge should accept, and he did
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21
Pres, CAN. It "Robber1..

The postofice authorities OF Swift
erland, who last year issued the now
well-known jubilee stamps, recently
announced that they will not receive
nor exchange that now Cancelled is,
sue The press is up in arms against
the decision, which it calls robbery"
The jubilee stamps were issued up to
Dec. 81, 1900. nd many people have
large stocks on hand.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21
Rise Of steam Navie.tlor

The rise OF steam navigation
slow. Like most things new, it hs
position. In the sixteenth cent?
unsuccessful Italian genius tria
ply steam to navigation. q
British patent was taken D
steamboat. It was 1907 that VI
Fulton sailing up the Hudson II
driven by steam. In 1888 st y
crossed the Atlantic
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21

Wooden utensils and vessels, should
be first washed with hot water and
then scalded with boiling water or
steam. They should then be well
aired. but not too much exposed to the
sun, as that would cause warpIng or
cracking.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21
/. Coal Used By Big steam.

eeou ~ ANk St0Am0Tss
The consumption Of coal In the tuu
aaces OF the big ocean ste1 1rs,
enormous. The Oceanic dat
sumes 4S0 tons, her highest DALI
being 524 knots; the Deutschland,
tons. highest daily run, 5S4 knots;
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, 500 ia
with $50 knots highest daily run:
Lucania, AIS tons. with 562 knots IN
est daily run, and the American lind
st. Paul, 300 tons, with $40 knots higj
est daily run.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21
Hortlcultur.I observation..

Onions are easily grown where the
proper methods are used. The ground
must be very rich, as growth to ma
turity should be rapid. The land must
be thoroughly pulverized and after
ward kept free from seeds. Sow the
seed in rows eighteen inches apart and
cover to depth of one-half an inch II
the soil is fine and compact. When
the plants are well up, thin to three to
five inches apart. Some advanced cul-
turists follow the plan Of replanting
all their onions. selecting for that pur-
pose only those that show great yigor.
For watermelons the land should BIS
thoroughly .pulverized and well ma.
nured. Plant the seeds, as soon as the
danger Of frosts Is over. Cine Of the
common ways Of planting Is to check
of the ground eight feet each way,
dropping three or four seeds in the
center of each check. When the planta
have made good growth and passed
the critical periods Of early growth
they should be thinned to two vines to
hill. Keep the ground clear Of weeds
till the vines spread too much to per-
nit of cultivation. For muskmelons
prepare the ground the same as for
watermelons, but make the squares in
which theysare planted four feet each
way.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21

1t is generally admitted that cow
will give more and richer milk II al
ways MIXED by the same person. But
as it is manifestly sometimes inconve-
nient,3 and at others impracticable to
comply with this rule. 1t is believed by
good dairymen that it Is better to
train COW to be occasionally MIXED
by a different person. "A cows be-
havior Is largely matter of habit. and
neither inconvenient nor bad habits
should be encouraged.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-03-21
Copper Production of a Century,

The copper production of the entire
world is the subject Of an exhaustive
study by M. Leon Demaret of Belgium.
says the New York Sun. The follow
ing table summarizes his statistics: