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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-19
A VOICE FROM BIG SANDY.
DR.. j. NJ. Moses Criticises the Open sa-
loon in Camden.

DR.. j. M. Moses Criticises the Open Sa-
loon in Camden.
Editor THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE:
We have noticed for some time
your editorials in which you exploit
the growth Of Camden. You write
about your new church buildings,
(prospective) your large and grow
ing school, your electric lights, your
beautifully paved streets, your fac
tories and mills in a real nice way,
and you are certainly entitled to
the commentator and patronage
of the people of Camden and Ben
ton County for the good deeds.
But, is it good idea to give sooth-
ing syrup thereby obscuring the
real disease? l think not. Cam
den has disease; purifying sore,
that stinketh and the stencil thereof
smelleth loud and loathsome from
center to circumference of Benton
County. Can'tyou smell it? Yea,
can't you taste it? Yes, to some
extent, but you are in the midst of
the stencil, therefore your sense OF
taste is not SO acute and your oil
factories have become somewhat
obtunded. So much SO that the
Bowers bill to repeal the charter
of Camden was but briefly men,
toned in your columns, and one
could read between the lines that
Mr.. Bowers action was not endors-
ed and it looked to one afar of
like you were afraid the stencil
would be stirred up.
Now, Mr.. Editor, we are not
writing for argument sake, or fol
newspaper controversy, but as 6
burnt child breads the fire so the
writer breads the saloon. He is ar
ex-saloon- keeper, an ex-drunkard
an ex-gambler and an ex-all around
bad fellow. All acquired in you'll
principally from the baleful infu
ence of the saloon, and would nc
doubt to-day be in a drunkard'l
grave, or worse, in a felon's cell, bu
for the fact that Providence kindly
led him to locate where there were
no saloons.
Then in all candor and good will
| would ask the people of Camder
though your buildings decay ant
crumble, your streets become over
grown with grass, your electri,
lights put out, your schools fail fo-
want of money derived from tn,
nefarious liquor trafic-to cease t.
put the bottle to your neighbor'l
lips. Better by far, yea, a thous
and times better that you have none
of these things than to learn your
boys to drink and gamble. These
habits acquired, others still worse
are soon learned. Think of it seri,
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-19
A sHREwD MooNsHlNER.
Middle Tennessee Ohioials Must do Their
own Capturing In this Instance.

Middle Tennessee OhCials Must do Their
Own Capturing In this Instance.
United States Deputy Marshal
John Whitehead reported to Mar
shal Baker this morning that Frank
Johnson, a "moonshiner" up in
Benton County, had him stopped"
says the Memphis Scimitar. john
son, he said, was more than a match
for an ordinary marshal himself,
and in addition had family that
was exceedingly wise.
Johnson is wanted in Middle
Tennessee on a charge Of illicit dis
tilling. Col. Tom Baker was called
upon to capture him and he detail
ed Deputy Whitehead upon the
job. After two weeks hard work
and several unpleasant experiences
the deputy has concluded that the
Middle Tennessee officers will have
to do the capturing themselves, if
there is any done.
Whitehead found johnson about
fourteen miles from Camden, in the
widest part of Benton COuntv. two
weeks ago. He found him in bed,
apparently at the point of death.
The "moonshiner's" wife and moth
er-in-law were sitting around the
bed waiting for the end to come.
Whitehead suspected trick and
went after a doctor. The doctor
came, made a lengthy examination,
and then told the deputy that the
man must not be moved.
Whitehead determined to move
the man regardless Of the physi-
clans advice, and went out to hunt
something to move him in. He
spent a half day searching for a
suitable vehicle. When he found
one he thought would do he made
all haste to the log cabin the john
sons called home. No one well
coined him upon his arrival. The
cabin was deserted.
A few ago the deputy succeeded
in locating Johnson again. This
time he was determined to have no
horse-play. He hitched his horse
in the woods a short distance from
the cabin the family was domiciled
, in, and cautiously crept up the back
way. The back door, he discovered
was securely fastened on the out
side. Certain that his man could
not escape that way the deputy ran
around to the front, intending to
make a dash inside. He failed to
dash far. Johnson's wife, raw
boned woman six feet tall, met him
, at the door with open arms. She
clasped him in a firm embrace, and
despite his struggles she held him
( while her mother ran around the
+. house and opened the rear door
: Johnson escaped out through The
S woods.
t The Johnson family has disap
peared again, and the deputy is al
{ far from accomplishing his task a
S he was when he began it. He de
e clares that It's cup to" the Middl
e Tennessee people to try awhile.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-19
THE DRIPPING FOUNTAIN.
An Indian Legend OF a Spring On Vlck's
Farm, Near Camden.

Many years ago, long before the
sound of the pale-face woodman's
axe was heard on the western con-
tinent, the red men with their fam
lilies were wont to wander from
place to place, over mountains and
across valleys, along the flowing
streams, and to pitch their wig
vans wheresoever they wished,
without fear of hindrance for the
land was theirs and they knew no
law save that of their inclination
and acknowledged no superior ex-
cept the Great Spirit, the good and
the evil.
On a beautiful morning in the
month of June there might have
been seen, at the time of which we
write, some nine or ten wigwams
or huts standing on the east and
west banks of a little stream known
in this day as Burnside Creek, and
which now runs through one of the
most picturesque sections of Ben
ton County. The particular loca-
tion Of the Indian village which
will claim especial attention in this
sketch was situated about one and
half miles northeast of what is
now known as the town of Camden,
and was on what is now known as
the Wick farm.
On this June morning there was
no sign of life anywhere about the
village; the fires under the camp
kettle had died out and one could
almost imagine that it was "a lone
city of the dead" Silence reigned
everywhere, the winds were silent
in their caves, the magnificent for
est stood motionless-not a sigh
escaped through its boughs and
branches. For several hours the
silence was unbroken, when there
came, as it seemed from the crest
of the eastern hills, a sound sc
plaintive, sad and uncanny thai
the silence seemed deeper still
The sound could be likened unto
nothing that civilization had ever
heard. Five-ten minutes elapsed
when the sound was again repeated
and was answered Immediately by
a panther-like scream so wild anC
fierce that Nature itself was awak.
ened and the echo went bounding
from hill to hill, and from the cas-
there came an Indian maiden, at
tired in beads and feathers, the
deer-skin leggings, and the otheI
portions of her dress were as white
as the driven snow. She came
springing through the forest, al
free and uutrammeled as fawn
Scarcely had she crossed the little
stream of Burnside than she was
met by a young brave, who, kneel
ING at her feet, presented a crown
made Of wild flowers and studded
with berries. With a gesture she
made him arise and bending hel
stately head received thereon thi'
emblem of authority No words
were uttered and for an instance
they stood and looked into eacL
others eyes; an eternity OF thought
Vas theirs.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-19

From down the little stream
there came to these two guileless
beings of Nature a sound that caus-
ed them both to start, and spring
ing away they departed in the di-
rection from whence they had so
suddenly came. But alas, too late
for the young brave! He was cap
tured by the returning savages who
now came in from every direction.
In triumph they carried the cap
tive to the hut of the chief and
there asked his mission to the wig
wan of the Panther Tribe with
whom the tribe of the captive was
at war. No sound issued from the
captive's lips-he stood calm and
uuconcerned as a soldier on dress
parade. Again, and yet again was
the question prOpounded, but no
response was given.
A council was held, the captive
pronounced a spy aud the decree
made that at sun down he should
die at the stake.
The young Indian was securely
bound with hickory thongs, a guard
placed over him and preparations
made for the execution. Several
hours were to pass ere the sun
would hide its face behind the wes-
tern hills and Panther, the warrior
chief, went in search of Nightin-
gale, his only child. He found her
by a little spring on the eastern
side of the creek at the foot of a
high hill. She was alone and in
tears, but spoke not-she was a
mute. Panther caressed her and
led her away to the village and
there she saw the captive, but no
word of recognition passed be-
tween them-the captive was a
mute. The hours passed swiftly
by, the sun sank behind the wes-
tern horizon, the hour Of execution
had arrived. The captive was led
to the stake, but why detail the
horrible scene? Enough, that twi-
light found the youngdumb Indian
brave charred and blackened mass
of humanity.
In vain the wild gestures and
signs of the maiden she was moi
needed, and when all was Ger she
sat down upon the spot where iht
execution had taken place and wept
such coplous streams of tears thai
it is said to this day by the Indians
descendant from the Panther tribe
that she caused the Dripping Foun.
tain, that is now continually filleC
from the tears that are shed by
Nightingale, the Indian maiden
shed over the death of her youne
lover, who, though he could no
speak, told her of his love.
From this Dripping Fountain
Mr.. Wick is now furnished will
the purest water to be found il
Benton County, cool and clear. A
J. Farmer who owned the place {
few years ago often asserted that
the water was just a little salty
ascribing this to the briny tears oi
the Indian maiden.
The legend further states that al
the time of the execution of the
young Indian mute there was nc
fountain there Of any desert ptior
whatever and the driDDinp fears
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-19

w. B. Fry went to Camden Tues
day on business. Mckenzie Her
aid.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-12-13
The Palace Of The Poor.

In London the Adelphia Arches were
famed for most wonderful collection
o. human waits and strays, and Paris,
1t aE5'ears, has something analogous at
Bagholet, where there is a marvellous
shelter called by a French journalist
"The Subterranean Palace of the Poor"
1t has been produced by extensive ex-
cavations under a hill whose soil yields
material for making plaster. Large
fires are kept going to burn this natur-
Al production and produce the plaster.
Around these glowing fires congregate
homeless men, women and children, un.
disturbed, if they behave, by the Paris
police.
For years the undermining of this
hill of coy comfort has been going on,
and pillars have been left standing at
regular intervals, to prevent the top
falling in, which, in the glowing fire.
light resemble, to some extent. the
fairy halls of the Arabian Nights.
The scene is wierd in the extreme, as
tn: freight plays upon groups of rag
ge,, Wretches who bask in the generous
warmth. until another winter morning
daMns and excavation work commenc~
ea when they must go out into the chilly
air and scramble for any stray crumbs
which may fall from the rich mans ia
bic in wealthy Paris.-Paris Messen.
ger. ',s ..,
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-12-13
Physician. Much interested.

Northport, Mich, Dec. 9.-The medi-
cal men are just now eagerly discuss
ing most remarkable cure of a severe
case of Kidney Disease in this county.
Mr.. Byron o. Leslie of Northport has
for years been a victim Of kidney de-
rangements, with all the consequent
pain and annoyance. He was gradual
ly growing worse. and as the disease
advanced he became very respondent,
often wondering if he would have to
endure this suffering all his lifetime.
But at last he found remedy that
cured him in Dodd's Kidney Pills. He
was much pleased. but did not say
much about it, lest the good effect he
experienced would not last. Now, how
ever, after nine months Of continued
good health he has concluded that he is
permanently cured. and his announce
ment of this has caused a profound
sensation among the physicians and the
people who knew of his apparently
hopeless condition.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-12-13

in material and trimming, and some
of the future occupants drive a pretty
close bargain for their last house.
This haggling seems fearfully bad
form in persons who will be all over
and done for when the commodity in
question is brought into requisition.
and one cannot help but wonder why
they don't wait and let their survivors
attend to the scrapping. But not all
the people the purchase of whose COT
fins is personally conducted come to
me. Occasionally go to them, and
am no longer surprised to receive a
summons to bring my samples to in
valids who are unable to leave the
house but are unwilling to trust the
final disposition of their bodies to
their friends. There are some who go
step beyond the selection of cof-
fin-who buy it outright and store it
away in their own home. AS a rule
all these particular people are
willing to trust to the honesty of the
undertaken, and the fraternity honors
the confidence by fulfilling to the
minutest detail their ante-mortem in
structions. New York Press.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-12-13
Select Their. Own CoM11s
Some Such Customers Drive Very
Close Bargain.

The undertaken nodded in friendly
manner. "You look healthy enough"
he said. IT am healthy" laughed the
caller. "Ah!" said he. Then you
didn't come to pick out coffin for
yourself?" Hardly" was the startled
reply. do people come here for that
purpose?" Lots of EN- said he. "a
good many more people pick
out their own collins now
than when I first started in
business. Then it was a novelty
for man to come in and ask to be
shown comfortable coffin that would
fit him, but now such requests are
common. Often people in seemingly
good health undertake such q quest.
They seem to regard the selection of
a casket of equal Importance to the
making of will, and do not deem it
advisable to wait until sickness comes
before making preparations for the in
evitable. I have on my book now no
fewer than two score commissions to
provide prospective customers with a
certain style of coffin whenever it may
be needed. These collins are always
chosen with strict attention to detail
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-12-13

/ The effect Of tobacco smoking upon
the intellect has been exhaustively
discussed by physicians and others,
and the position taken by some that
1t is absurd to allege that smoking is
stupefying to the, faculties seems to be
fortified by a mass of evidence, and in
this connection 1t may not be amiss to
consider some admittedly great literary
minds. Goethe hated tobacco, and
Heinrich Heine shared the same dis
like. Balzac, Victor Hugo and Dumas
did not smoke, but Alfred de Musset,
Eugene Sue, Nine. George Sand"
Merimee and Paul de Saint Victor
were ardent users of the weed. Spen-
Ger In the Fairy Queen calls 1t .'divine
tobacco" William Lilly, Queen Eliza
beth's court poet, speaks of the "holy
herb Nicotian;' Byron's name for it
is sublime tobacco" Thackeray sings
Meanwhile 7 will smoke every can
lister and tipple my ale in the shade"
Thomas Bailey Aldrich says, 1T lounge
and blow white rings of smoke
James Russell Lowell had written
an ode of thanks to Charles Eliot Nor
ton "for certain CIGARS" and calls it
tobacco, sacred herb Charles Lamb
was willing "for thy sake, Tobacco, I
would do anything but die's Delight
full Charles Kinssley's eulogium of
smoking is well known and has been
largely quoted. Tom Hood of the
Song of the Shirt" says: Some sigh
for this or that, my wishes don't go
far. The world may wag at will. So
l have my cigar" Lord Tennyson was
an inveterate smoker and SO was
Thomas Carlyle. The story of Tenny-
son calling on Carlyle one evening and
sitting in solemn silence smoking for
hours is we'll known. MAN Alfred"
said Carlyle, as he showed the poet
laureate out, 1--WE have haen graund
NIGHT. Come back again soon." Car
lyle, like Tennyson, did not care for a
cigar, but kept pipe in his mouth
most of his waking hours, and Thack-
cray, like Burns, loved to get away by
himself and enjoy the flavor of rank
pipe. James Payn, the novelist, can
not remember the time when he did
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-12-13
Men I, and wonnsn 4
Who Wsre Par 1
tial 70 Tobacco.
ID ord of
the Weed
6s~x3s>.1G><3x>x1s>xSI S>x2a,

not smoke. Mark Twain at the age Of
80 used to smoke 300 cigars q month.
George Augusta Sala bears emphatic
testimony in favor of smoking. "The
allegation, he says, '.as to smoking
SIMPLIFYING mans faculties, or blunt
ing his energy, take to be mainly
nonsense" Oliver Wendell Holmes
says of the meerschaum pipe: "He'
who inhales its vapors takes thou
sand whi1fs in a single breath; and
one cannot touch it without awakening
the old joys that hang around It. as
the smell Of flowers clings to the
dresses of the daughters of the house
of Farina."
It has been said that James Russell
Lowell used a number of ordinary
pipes in succession and lay each asids
after it had been fairly we'll smoked
down. Later he would gather the
"dottels," or, as some smokers cali
them, the heels" from some half
dozen of these pipes and cram them
into an enormous tube and have q
real smoke" as he expressed 1t. An
other distinguished Harvard professor
once "swore OFF, for six months and
kept strictly to his self-imposed obli-
cation. He remarked, at the end Of
the time, when he resumed smoking.
that his appetite had been good. he
had slept we'll and his health generally
had not suffered, "but," he said, Il
lost sixmonths of happiness" and ever
afterwards he smoked like chimney,
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-12-13

monthly periods for it meant q couple
Of days in bed in awful agony. final
ly made up my mind that the good
doctors were guessing; and hearing
from different friends such good re-
ports Of Lydia e. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound, I tried that. I
bless the day did, for it was the
dawning Of new life for me. used
Ave bottles before I was cured, but
when they were taken was a well
woman once more. Your Compound is
certainly wonderful. Several of my
friends have used it since, and nothing
but the best do ever hear from it's
use."- Yours, MABELLE L. LAMoNTE,
222 E. s1st St., Chicago, In.-s5ooo
forfeit If abouc Testimonial is not genuine.
If Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound could cure Miss
LaMonte-why not you? Try it
and see for yourself.
Mrs. Pinkham advises sick wo-
men free. Address, Lynn, Mass,
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-12-13
Fogarty's New Home.

When Walter McElroy is not acting
as solo tenor of the Garden City
Cathedral he is an engineer in charge
of couple of hundred laborers on
Long Island. The other day he over
heard a conversation between a couple
of them: Say, Paddy, dye think
that Fogarty wint to heaven when he
died last week." "Arrah, no Mike, -
was the reply, che was too wicked a
man for that. To my way O. thinkin'
he whit to the place where you light
your pipe with your finger. New
York Times. .,
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-12-13
no wonaer He RIanched.

Wife with determined air)-I want
to see that letter.
Husband-What letter:
Wife-The one that you just opened
/ know, by the handwriting, that it is
from woman, and you turned pale
when you read it. I will see it! Give
It to me- sir!
Husband-Here it is. It's your mill
iner's bill.-Baltimore American.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-12-13
catarrh Cannot Be- cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot
reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is q
blood or constitutional disease, and in order tc
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is not aquack medicine.
in this country for years, and Is regular pre-
scription. It is composed OF the best tonics
acting directly on the mucous surfaces The
perfect combination of the two ingredients is
what produces such wonderful results in curing
Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, price 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-12-13
Just Like a Man,

Mrs. Stocks-If we move into that
che ap house, We'll lose caste.
Mr.. Stocks-Don't care if we do; it's
the best we can do without running
hopelessly into debt; and, besides, it's
q comfortable place, anyhow.
Mrs. Stocks-Huh! Just like man!
Only SO you can be comfortable and
pay every little bill as quick as it comes
in, you don't care what the world
tEnks!-New York Weekly.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-12-13
PATJsNTs.

List Of Patents Issued Last Week to
Northwestern Inventors.
Delbert Barton. Minneapolis. Mimi,
sulky r!ow; John Caldwell, Minneapo-
lis, MINI, Misunderstanding device;
Thomas Hargrave. Minneapolis, Mimi,
variable discharge nozzle; John l.. Roe
rig, Lake Crystal, Mimi, belt guide and
shifter: Robert 8. Stapleton, Hannah.
N. D., tripod; Swan Bengston. st. Paul,
Alinn., computirg scales; Wallace Len
derson. st. Paul, Mimi, portable seat
for vehicles.
1.othrop & johnson. patent attorneys. OIL q
OLE Pioneer Pres. Bldg. st. Paul. MINI.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-12-13
Draining the Zuyder Zee
/ DUTCH GOVERNMENT POSTPONES CARRYING
OUT OF GREAT PROJECT skE

would be 100000 forms. A dixie was
to be built across the entrance to the
Zuyder Zee which would effectually bar
out the North Sea. It was not expect
ed to reclaim the whole of the lake,
would still remain. But the Zuyder Zee
would cease to be an arm Of the North
for $50 square miles of water surface
Sea. The water courses now draining
into the Zuyder Zee would continue
to empty into the remaining part of It;
as canal would be dug for the escape
of these waters, the remaining lake
would gradually be changed from salt
to fresh water. It was expected that
about a third of a century would be
required to carry out the whole i'm
provement, the money for which was
to be raised by a loan and paid of,
principal and interest, in sixty years
or less. The enormous advantage of
the Improvement to Holland !. is ad-
mitted by all writer's; still, as the A.
nancial burden would be large, the
present ministry has decided not to
saddle this debt upon the country at
time when its political affairs are
somewhat unsettled.
N~A.ee~~es~.~ooes~~
the Limerick face is the perfection OF
female beautya human ceramic with
out a Dlemish. The Limerick girl is
also the highest example OF exquisite
with and righteousness an extraor-
binary assimilation. to be sure. !. In
other, words, while she is not insensi-
BILE Of her sparkle Of words she seems
like one who has never looked fire.
2quently into q mirror. She has regu-
lar and sometimes very pretty teeth,
and Il her nose is often inclined to
retrousse and there Is an Irish express.
sion Of mouth, " these but add piqnanl-
cy to her other beautiful features;
San Francisco Argonaut. Ut 4
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-12-13
Two Girls.

If. ten men should ask you to marry
them, what would that be-"
What would it be?''
"a tender"
And if one should ask you, what
would that be?"
II don't know; what?''
"A wonder."--Life.