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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-01-24

Two days passed away. Muriel Mo
lyneux felt inexpressibly lonely This
bustling, frivolous atmosphere of hotel
Jared on her Tortured with anxiety
for her husband, she hated the laugh
ter, the music, above all, the society.
She kept aloof from it all. Her hus-
band was an intelligence officer; she
knew that he was never sure from day
to day where he would sleep the fol-
lowing night. To attempt to follow
him to the front was impossible.
Now Muriel, for all her great love
for her husband, was an enthusiastic
little patriot This dreary, useless idle
ness to which she was condemned
taxed her nerves to the uttermost. The
quiet of the gardens overlooking the
sea appealed to her. After dinner on
the third evening after her arrival
Muriel slipped out alone and paced the
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19
Where Wealth Is Stored

Stupendous Safes Used by American Bonaires
Their Securities.

Many persons who have been amaz-
ed during the past few days at the
holdings of stock certificates that rep
resent millions of dollars by some of
the magnates Of Wall street have
more than once wondered where on
earth the stacks of certificates are
slowed away over night. Some of the
certificates are passed day after day
in their business deals from owners
to owners who have not strong under
ground vaults. Nor do all firms on
the street" have vaults above the av-
erage kind.
= Be that as it may, from this time
out the millions in bonds and certifi-
Gates and other street. valuables, as
we'll as valuables owned elsewhere,
in this city and other cities, are to
be slowed away in a safe in a deposit
company in Broad street, which has
just been put in commission. 1t is
the biggest safe in the world. In this
safe are already deposited more Sc
curities than in any other one place
in the world. Wealth untold is repre-
sented there by stocks and bonds,
jewelry and silver plate. Here also
repose the wills of many of the big
gest millionaires in America. So vast
are the financial interests concerned
in this safe that the board of direct
ors in charge of it is made to repre-
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19
GRIM RIVALRY SPLITS A VILLAGE

Order Graves In Advance Out Of SYM
pathetic Partisanship
+. This village is shaken by an excit-
ing rivalry between It's .grayediggers.
For years David Hasbrook has been
the caretaker and gravedigger, but re-
Gently a new man, Willard Pinckney,
was appointed to the place, to the
great displeasure Of Mr.. Hasbrook and
his friends. Since then the village has
been divided into two factions, and
fierce enmity has developed on either
side. x r., s555.2: 81 ~ r 3=3 %
The 6eposed sexton has been charged
with visiting sick people, respective
patrons, and making bargains with
them for their burial, but Mr.. Has
brook denies it, saying that his visits
to the sick 4 have been i prompted by
neighborly sympathy only. .4s x"sss.s5.ss 5s -. - r :.
I The Hasbrook faction say. that "a
burial permit, which they think was
devised blythe Pinckney people, has
been circulated, permitting the burial
:of Hasbrook and giving as the cause
:pf death statements which are said to
be sland ferrous. N d
Hasbrook's syvnnDat athizerg3 are, giving
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19
VICTIMS OF CRAZE FOR CANDY

One Man Devoured 400 Pounds of Choc-
olates in One Summer.
That candy has become the basis of
bad habit-like tea, tobacco, alcohol
or lceWater-has long been admitted by
medical men; that it's worst victims
are not women, however, is not so well
known, except to the owners of candy
shops. The fact that one man bought
and devoured 400 pounds of the rich
est chocolates in one summer, and that
this gastronomic feat was not looked
upon as anything unusual by the
candy clerks, will give some idea of the
slavery to which the habitual candy
eaters are committed, says the New
York Post The man who consumed
confectionery" by the hundred
weight is young and sound in mind
and body. He generally yields to
temptation Immediately after luncheon
although the craving sometimes be-
comes uncomfortable at an earlier hour.
He estimates that the candy he has
bought for personal consumption cost
him $3.50 last summer. He has been
an unwilling victim for years, and has
frequently "sworn off"-or attempted
to. The last time was for three months
and when the self-imposed embargo
was raised he bought two pounds Of
mixed chocolates and ate them between
lunch and dinner.
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May Be Another .Pompeii
Ruins of Settlement Found Under
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Edgar Cox, a miner, has reached
Redding, CAL, after hard trip across
the country from Lassen Buttes, forty
miles east of that place, bringing a
story of strange discoveries of even
deeper interest tnan the great crater
and the springs and caves of the lava
fields. The discoveries are of bones
and implements denoting a people
and state of civilization existing
there many centuries ago. 1t is be-
lieved a second Pompeii may be hid
den beneath the. lava and igneous
rock which was belched in far re-
mote period from the mouth of the
grim old crater.
A party of timber surveyors investi-
eating their way over the rough coun-
try south of Nooles pass found within
four feet of the surface human bones
half petrifed. They evidently had
lain at much greater depth, but ero-
sion had thinned the crust of earth
above them. The skeletons were in
various postures, as though death had
come suddenly upon the ancients,
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19

sent every faction of the financial
world. John D. Rockefeller, J. P.
Morgan, the Vanderbilts, the Roths.
childs, the Harrimans, the Goulds,
and other large interests have per.
sonal representatives on the board.
The door leading into the safe is a
tremendous piece of mechanism. 1t
is circular, EIGHT feet in diameter, and
twenty-four inches thick. It weighs
twenty-one TONS. The hinge of this
big door weighs 1000 pounds. The
door and vestibule weigh fifty tons,
and yet so nicely is the door balanced
on ball bearings that baby might
close it with the gentle pressure of its
tiny finger. The safe is fifty-three feet
long, thirty eight feet wide, and nine
feet in height. The walls are four
feet thick. The interior is fitted up
with 1000 boxes, but 5000 more will
be added as they are needed. For.
midable as the mechanical appliances
for safety are, they are not depended
on altogether. Day and night men
guard the big door. They pace back
and forth like soldiers on guard.
Three times in the night a third
watchman walks through the corri.
dor to see that the sentinels are at.
tending to their duty. If ever a burg
lar gets anything out of the safe Wall
street will go out of business.
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19
Private Libraries in Mexico.

There are not a few fine and exten-
sive private libraries in Mexico, for
there are many book lovers among the
educated people of this country. In
the city libraries, ranging from 1000
to 10000 volumes exist, and one of the
most valuable collections of "Ameri-
cana," books relating to the discovery
and early settlement of Latin America,
is that of Don Jose Maria de Agreda,
an erudite gentleman descended from
an ancient and noble Spanish family,
who is the librarian of the national
museum. Senor Agreda's S. collection is
noted for its many priceless volumes,
for he has been collecting books in this
city since he was a lad. He is an en-
thusiastic antiquarian, and no man is
filter fol. the great task of writing a
history of the City of Mexico than this
learned and cultivated gentleman, one
Of the ornaments Of Mexican culture
Mexican Herald. 'e S4 = = ~
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New York.
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A new fad has invaded upper-ten-
dom. Ping-pong must look to its lau-
rels. The ghost party is the latest di.
version of those weary of the conven-
tional amusements Of the drawing
room, weary even of bridge and Of
ping-pong, are seeking new sensa-
tions. j., y y
It is not the ghost party of the ,nur.
series, with lowered lights and the
sheets wound, fantastic figures that
thrill the children with the excitement
of a sort of pleasurable fear. Oh, dear,
no! Society has found a sedate and
dignifed substitute for the romp of
the nursery.
The drawing room lights are ex-
tinguished and candle is brought in
and placed on the floor in front of
what modernity has left >us as sub
stitute for the hearth.
J. The company gather about the
flickering light, sitting ,on rugs and
stools, and tell ghost Stories. vying
with each other in relating weird and
uncanny tales. The sensation, so un-
like that produced by any of the COM
monplace diversions of the drawing
room, is a new one, and the Hire
pressed yawn is banished from the
drawing room, for society is enter
tanned.
The unsteady light of the solitary
candle provides a congenial atmos-
phere for the weird tale. It wraps
the company in shadows, covers the
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19
FASTING ~ TcHEs ONTO SHIRTS

Why IN Some Uses They Are Bette,
Adapted zforaWinter Than Tor summer.
s55 When 7 made up my laundry bundle
early IN the week. said the middle
AgedEE g n bachelor. II found one OF the
shirts shirts that were to go. in so torn that
! mad some doubts about sending it,
put let It go. To-day when my laun-
dry came back and looked it over, I
o1dn>t see that torn shirt at first. There
was the right number of shirts there.
out no torn one. But looking again
L discovered that. the torn one was
there, but now finely mended. The
Dody OF the shirt, which had been torn
IN one place away from the bosom for
space of three or four inches. had
been drawn back into place and was
now held there securely by patch
pasted on the under side and ironed on
l feel bound to say that the lob
awakened my admiration. AS a quick
and easy way of mending it was great.
All you had to do was take a square
of cotton cloth of suitable size spread
starch on it, bring the disunited parts
together on it, and slam down on it
once or twice with hot iron and the
shlrt was mended. I had heard of
mendlng table cloths in that way by
pastlng on patch and ironing it down,
but l never before heard cf mending
shlrts in that way. Yet it's certainly
all right for shirts at some seasons.\
The pasted patch in this use would
really be better as a. winter than
summer patch. It might be melted OF
in summer" New York Sun
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19

striking them down as they were en-.
gagged in the daily routine of life. Next
the searchers came upon. rude spoons
and bowls. They were apparently of
stone, but they bore no resemblance
to the Indian relics which the Traveller
sees often in that region. Instru-
ments which perhaps we're used as
hammers and chise1s were found.
They, too, were totally unlike the
known implements of the Indians.
Some Of the stone articles were Of
such design that they could not be
classified at all. The surveyors be.
came convinced that they had chanc.
ed upon relics Of a race that antedat.
ed the known Indians so far as # to
have little in common with them.
1t was the conviction of the party
that the ruins Of a settlement or city,
possibly engulfed with it's inhabitants
by an eruption of the long extinct vol
cano, lie beneath the: lava and can
be reached with comparative ease
from certain points where little lava
remains. 49,. ~
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19
GOOD SAMPLE. OF MExi CAN HUMoR
Uniqus #lLessaEe Lsft Tor :: Jones',, by a5
32 .s sS :s3. Police Omcial. rs ~ 559.z5


Uniqu. lres.ase Lefs for ~ .. ones, by :
,k ., E5 Police Omcial. 8 Is NJ 5s. 4 I
when you take up al residence in
the City Of Mexico = said AN American
who had lived there for Several years.
you are waited upon BY the police
who ask you how many beggars may
call at your residence every morning
and receive a DOLE. Your answer is
recorded, and only the number Of beg
gars mentioned dare show up. j had
my~brother with, me at the house, and
our answers to the police differed
somewhat. Two weeks after their call
messenger came on an errand and in
quired for Jones. = -
=" What Jones?' asked, - g.
"'Senor,' he replied, I know that
there are two of you-the Jones-you-
can send-along about-eight-of- EN- and
the Jones-I-won't- 't-feed- -a-cussed-one-of-
'em, and the Jones I want is not the
first
Then, as I'm the one who said
eight beggars might come around, you
don't want me- -
lit cannot be. It is the I-won't-
feed-a-cussed-one-o 'em-Jones I want
But he is not in just now. Can
you leave your message with me?'
81, csenor. Tell him when he comes
that If he don't want-to-feed-a-cuss
one-of-' he-can-go-to blazes-and- be-
hanged-to-him.'
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19
DEMAND NOW FOR YOUNG BLOOD
Old Men Being Crowded Out by Youth
full Competitors.

Old Men Being Crowded Out by Youth
full Competitors.
Two very remarkable movements are
discernible in the business and the ed
ucation of the times; and yet, when
we come to examining them, we find
that the tendencies have been clearly
in view for more than a decade. Six
years ago the present writer went to
the president Of one Of the largest cor
porations of this country and asked
him to give employment to a man who
had turned his forty eighth year, says
the Saturday Evening Post. There was
personal reasons why he should grant
such a request and the persons for
whom the place was sought was en-
tirely acceptable in character, ability
and health. The president replied: Il
want to do this, but it is impossible
The age of the young man is crowd
ing upon modern business so fast that
be will soon monopolize it. We take
no one who has passed forty-five-we
cannot afford to do it. But if this
man has a son anywhere from fifteen
to twenty-five years old I'll find a po-
sition for him at once" So far has
this tendency gone that the problem
If getting rid of employees above GER
tain age is now under discussion and
so great has been the uneasiness that
several of the large concerns have is
sued statements that the old men will
not be discharged.
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19
Gang Was All There.

Ernest Lacy was taking one of his
boys high school classes in English
literature throught Act / of Macbeth
the other day, reading the text and ex-
planning it as he went along. AS
many Philadelphians know, Professor
Lacy is an expressive and illuminative
reader, and can be all Sort of char
acters by turns when he is engaged in
the exposition of a drama. He was
well into the scene where Macbeth en-
counters the witches on the heath.
"Hail!' he called, and then explained
that it was the salutation to Macbeth
of the First FOLLOWED" he
added, "by the same cry in quick Sue
cession, from the Second Witch and
the Third Witch
Hail! Hail! '-''
'The gangs all here!' came from a
boy in the rear of the class; and the
lecture ended in roar of laughter in
which even the dignified Lacy was con-
strained to join.-Philadelph Times.
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19
How He Might Be Known.

Superintendent Robinson of the
morgue had a visitor the other day in
the person of a perturbed and excitable
woman who said her husband had been
missing four or five days, and that she
felt certain he was dead and his body
in the superintendent's keeping, says
the Philadelphia Times. He asked for
description of her husband. which
she gave along lines so general that
special Identification was hardly pos
sible. He experienced some trouble in
getting details as to clothes, facial
growths, etc., from her, and finally told
her that he had no corpse answering
the description on the slabs. .&
"You are sure?" she asked.
quite sure" he=replied. -
: ,"Well let me know at once if his
body is. brought .in-and, oh! sir, l
forgot to tell you another way you'll
know it's him-he is deaf as post!"
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19
!, P,OI ! Yll'|G['AlMll![ & Y Y ] D 'YING OUT i
TURKISH WOMEN COPYING THEIR
/. 81 EUROPEAN SISTERS. r n
Each Wife. Now Demands Home Of
i j: Hat Her sc wn, and the Cost Il Too Great
7 for the Followers OF Mahomet-In-
E novations in Costume. l., J

- Polygamy is fast dying out. among
the Turks, and not on account of any
change in moral standards but because
OF the attitude of the women them
selves. Formerly a mans four or five
wives dwelt .amicably under one roof,
but now every wife demands a home.
OF her own, and the impossibility of
supporting SO many homes is compel
ling the average Turk, to limit his
harem to one wife,
This new proof of the civilizing in
f1uence Of woman was given by Miss
Florence A. Fensham, dean Of the
American College for Girls at Con-
stantlnople, in talk before the
League for Political Education in New
York on "The Outlook for the Woman
of the Orient"
Another statement that seemed novel
to many in the audience was: ''The
Turks as race are of fair complexion,
with blue eyes, and are delightful peo-
pie to know. They are truthful, hon
est, and hospitable~ in a high degree.
In those respects the mass of the
Turks-those ofthe upper middle class
differs greatly from the government;
but nation must be Judged, not by it's
highest nor it's lowest but by the great
class between.
"There is general impression
abroad that Turkish women are shut
up behind the lattice windows of the
harem, and have little freedom to go
about. This is far from correct. The
Bosphorus steamers are crowded with
them; they jostle you on every haa(
in the narrow streets of CONSTANT
nople. Yelled they must be, but yelled
they go about with freedom greater
than that assured any European wom-
an, for to mOlest Moslem woman
means death to a Turk and serious
consequences to foreigner.
1T is an acknowledged fact that the
women of Turkey control most of the
government appointments. To quote
from work recently published by one
long resident of the country, The
women hold ultimate sway over the
conduct of the men. The tangled in
trigues for place and power which
center in the harem form the key 10
many vicissitudes of Turkish his
tory"
~ Even the dress of the women of the
.harem, said Miss Fensham, shows
their growing independence. A few
years ago every woman wrapped her
self before going out in an upper gar
ment that completely enshrouded her
head and was not to be removed until
she was again in the house. Now all
the younger women have adopted a
looser head covering, that they drop
at will when on the Bosporus steam
ers for pleasure trip or resting else
where. Several edicts were issued by
the sultan against the innovation, but
after a few months of obedience the
women would quietly resume their new
headdress until another edict banished
1t for time. At last he became
wearied Of the struggle and the mod
ern fashion has become a settled
thing.
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19

.story-teller with q generous cloak of
semi darkness, gives welcome oppor-
tunittes for the tender touching of
hands, and rests the eyes, while the
novelty of it, all refreshes the pleas
ure-sated. :: -. = :: >,-s-y L Z"
The%young man or young woman
who can tell good ghost story be-
comes the hero or heroine Of the even.
ing, and this new diversion is quite
as effective as the country literary cir
Gle in sending the young folk-and
older folk, 'too-to their books. Ii
braries are ransacked for queer and
fantastic tales. The Arabian Nights
tales are retold and Poe is revamped
by the flickering candle light, while
the German folk lore is drawn upon,
and Eugene Fields clever bits of
imagination always bring delight.
The young man may be poor dan
Ger, but if he can offer a new ghost
story or some uncanny tale he rises in
popularity as the lights are lowered,
and, taking his place on the floor by
the taper, old folk and young listen
with eagerness to his story. The
ghost-party fad threatens to establish
new criterion of desirabilitX in the
circles in which it has taken hold,
says the, New York Times, for in max.
ing up invitation lists cleverness in
telling a good candle-light story
counts more than aptness at the tame
old amusements of which folk are
heartily tired.
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19
BOYS ATTACKED THEIR TEACHER
But She Thrashed' Several OF Them and


But She Thrashed' Several OF Them and
Horsewipped the Leader.
Miss Lulu Nelson of Usage, N. Y, a
pretty and athletic school teacher of
the Hooper's Valley school, has DEM
onstrated her abillty to care for her.
self by thrashing several pupils who
attempted to assault her, and has
been acquitted by a jury of flogging
one OF her assailants with a horse
whip.
Several pupils of the school. led by
Ira Hillegas, had organized plot to
GUST the teacher. Miss Nelson order.
ed young Hillegas; to replenish the
fire. He refused and she threatened
him with a whip. He attempted t.
strike her with coal scuttle, and the
other boys in the plot came to his
aid, but she was equal to the occasion
and placed her would-be assailants
hors de combat. Then with a large
horsewhip she administered thrash
ing to Hillegas, raising fourteen
ridges on his arms and back and
drawing blood in three places. He
swore out a warrant for her arrest
and she was tried before Judge
Smith. When, at the close of the evi.
dence, the jury rendered verdict of
not guilty, there was dramatic dem
onstration in the court room.
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19
Cure of C0nsumDtion.


Nearly every state and large city in
the country is making some movement
to aid in stamping out consumption.
Massachusetts has well-established
sanitarium at Rutland, in that state.
Vermont is considering project of the
same kind. The New York legislature
has made two appropriations aggregat-
ing $4,000 for the construction of a
consumptives' sanitarium in the Adj
rondack region. The New Jersey leg
islature at it's recent session voted $780,
coo for similar purpose. The ap-
preparation of 100000 by the Pennsyl-
vania legislature in 1901 in aid of the
White Haven sanitarium places this
state by the side of other common
wealths in the fight against consump-
tion. DR.. Rothrock's scheme to use the
state forest reservations for the same
purpose will doubtless realize good re-
suits in time. His knowledge on the
subject is valuable, as he is the state
commissioner of forestry.
That great good work can be accom-
.plished by country sanitariums for the
open and pure air treatment, especially
in pine forests, has been demonstrated.
At Rutland, in Massachusetts, the per-
centage of cured patients has steadily
risen In the first year 81 per cent of
all cases of the disease in all it's stages
were cured; in the second year As per
cent, and in the third year so per cent.
The record of other sanitariums will
probably show as good results.-Pitts-
burg Post.
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19
Tho Kais er's; Marvellous Memorv.

," Tho Kaisee's; Marvellous Memory. J
The kaiser Of Germany is a great
reader Of newspapers and magazines.
He let's: other people! do the work Of
research for him. He gets his learn.
ing at second hand, but he lets moth.
ing escape. He is in the closest touch
with modern science, art, literature,
politics and personality. It is said
that his ready memory, diligently fur.
2 nfshed stl by years Of newspapers and
magazine reading in four lang guages.
enables him to pour out streams Of
talk for hours without ever. being de-;
tected1 ii error cf fact, though touch:
in ing on nearly every phase Of human
activity in* the past hundred years. s
The Cook County herald., 1902-07-19
Jurymsn.s Clever Ruse.

A story is told. of jury4an who
outwitted a Judge, and that without
lying He ran into an assize court in
desperate hurry, quite out Of breath,
and exclaimed: n. Esq.,, = H.. i. <~r,E
"Oh, Judge, il you can, pray excuse
me. + don't know which will die first
my wife or my; daughter!'' f.. *r= 4.
Dear me, that's sad said the limo
cent Judge. Certainly you are ex-
cused.'' l$t ;%x 4 i: E
The ladies mentioned are still In ex-
cellent health, and the juryman hopes
that the solution Of the problem may
be long deferred. & s. S:.t., St + :. !.: