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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-05-30
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A Point Where IN Telling 81 tire Hov. Dr..
narrowa Aiways stops.
The Rev Dr. John Henry Barrows.
president of Oberlln College. who for
merly preached to a Chicago Congre-
CATION, tells a little story concerning
an experience Of his own that may be
worth passing along. IL was az the
time that Or Barrows was making ar
rangements for the holding Of the great
congress of religions here. lie had an
immense correspondence TO take care
Of, and found IL necessary TO employ
a stenographer The young lady was
pretty II Is not to be inferred that
there are any but pretty lady steno-
graphers. but the one employed by
DR.. Barrows was especially comedy.
The doctor fitted up a worlroom
on the third floor OF his house, where
he and the stenographer toiled hard
day after day, undisturbed by callers
and well away from the noises Of the
streets.
The work Of preparing for the con-
gress was still going forward on the
14th Of February, when the doctorslit-
tie son became excited over the send
ing and receiving of-valentines. The boy
had been running about the neighbor-
hood handing love tokens to the child
rem he knew and many had come to
him. when he remembered that he had
a father up on the third floor, in add-
ton to the One in Heaven. Going to
his mother, he proposed that they
send up a valentine.
well, said Mrs. Barrows "it is very
nice Of you to remember father How
would it do for me to write a valentine
for him and let you take It up?"
The boy was delighted at the idea and
his mother wrote upon the sheet Of
paper:
Please kiss the bearer"
This she placed in an envelope,
which was properly sealed and address,
ed to the doctor The boy started up
stairs with his valentine, but he had
been running around a good deal dur
ing the morning and his legs were
weary When he had reached the sec.
ond floor he met the pretty stenog-
rapher, who had started out after pos
tage stamps or something, and asked
i she wouldn't be kind enough to
hand the note to his father.
She took the envelope, gave the
child pat on the check and ran back
upstairs, where-perhaps prompted by
some feminine curioslty-she waited
while Dr. Barrows opened his valentine
and read, in his wife's handwriting:
please kiss the bearer"
Here is where DR.. Barrows always
cuts the story off.-Chicago Record
Herald.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-05-30

A pretty little romance has come
to light as a result of marriage IL
cense which has just been granted
to John w. Diver and Edna Luella
Keener. Miss Keener is the young
woman who assisted another girl in
tagging a Panhandle train last sum-
mer and saved it from running into
a burning bridge near Anoka. Ind. The
girls ran down the track to meet the
train and waved their sunbonnets un-
til they attracted the attention Of the
trainmen. These were so overcome
with gratitude that they embraced the
girls and made up a purse for them.
Diver was a conductor on the train,
and ever since the incident he has been
in love with Miss Keener and has been
paying her attention. The wedding win
occur Sunday Commercial
Tribune.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-05-30
One Method Of Advertising.

At popular sumner resort there was
quite colony of Kentucllians last sum
mer. One day the landlord was startl-
ed by the receipt of telegram from
Louisville as follows:
William Henry Robinson. died last
night"
This was signed Harold Douglass
Robinson. The landlord, believing that
some Kentuckian of fame had just
died, had news announced in the local
paper, with black rules around the
announcement Then he. began to ask
his guests who William Henry Robin
son was Nobody knew. After a
while it dawned on the landlord. Har-
old Douglass was a young Louisville
man who had engaged a room. His
father had died, and Harold Douglass
took this method of announcing that he
would not join the festive colony.
Harold Douglass in a born advertiser
Louisville Courier-JOurnaI
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-05-30
whore Cougars are a Nulsanoe.

A party of timber-land dealers just
in from the mountains some twenty
miles out from Gate City report that
cougars are very numerous in that sec
ton. The woods are literally full of
them, and they are frequently seen
during the day, and also the blood
stained snow in many places shows
where they have killed deer. But the
worst feature of the brutes is their
habits, common to the feline races, of
caterwauling at night A pair of these
animals growing and fighting in the
back yard of ones camp all night is
no joke. The party was composed Of
eight men, all accustomed to life in the
woods, but, they say, they were never
SO badly frightened before in all
their woodland experience as they
we're during their last trip Their
hair stood erect and their blood con-
gealed as the murderous cougars eft
and fit and scratched and bit and
struggled in the mud. till all the
ground for miles around was covered
with their blood" Deer are becoming
plentiful in the mountains again, and
the cougar is living high and feeling
Morning Oregonian.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-05-30


While mems minds as well as wo-
mems are turned on cornation robes
and kindred splendors, it is interest
ing to compare the old with the new
fashions. The description of the cos
tune worn by Richard III at his
browning and ordered by himself was,
according to a list, still extant, com
posed of "a doublet made of two
yards and quarter and half Of blue
cloth of gold, wrought with nets and
pyne apples, with stomacher of the
same, lined Don ell of Holland clothe,
and Don ell of busk, instede of green
clothe of gold, and a longe gown for
to ride in, made Of eight yerds of p'pul
velvet furred with tymbres and a half
and thirteen bakks of ermyn, and four
tymbres, seventeen combs and ermyns
powdered with 5000 powderings made
of Doggy shanks, and a payre of short
spurs with gilt" To give the exact
meaning of the old wording would
make a pretty task for scholars the
day before King Edward WIS an
ointing. But the "longe gown for the
cycle in" is an obvious hint for today
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-05-30

conalgnmonts from all sections.
brought here By dealers who End New
York a quick and lucrative market
Buyers are perfectly protected
Horses bought &C auction can be tried
for two days. or at private sale three.
aud II not satisfactory can be return
cd and thus good faith Is maintained
all round. In this simple way one
firm sold 10000 horses worth $4,000
0OO last year. and s1.0OO,OOO worth
more we're bought in the west and
sent direct TO the purchasers here,
while the same ratio in a smaller de.
gree, will apply to other dealers in
Greater New York
With the supply Of coach horses
nothing Is left to chance, and in spite
OF the auto carriage the demand to-
day is brlsker and prices for choice
teams higher than ever before. The
system of preparation for this market
for these horses is more elaborate.
Every big firm engaged in this trade
exclusively or having a eoach-horse
department has a training farm within
a convenient distance Of New York.
The shrewd. keen-eyed horseman who
buy in the north or west, or in Canada
are quick to detect the rough equine
diamonds which, when polished, will
be the pride of the park or the horse
show. They are bought in the rough,
and are then sent to the farms. where
they are acclimated and thoroughly
trained. They are taught to so single
or double, and are thoroughly school
ed to pass steam or electric cars, and
are accustomed to all the sounds of
city life It is a common occurrence
for one Of these farms, which are the
direct feeders of the big sale-stables.
to have 200 horses on hand getting a
city education.
While the horse is getting waywise
the grooms are steadily at work chang
ing the rough coated countryman to
the silken-eoated gentlemanly equine
The horse realizes the change of posi-
ton. He quickly begins to carry his
head proudly, he soon learns how to
handle his feet, responds smartly to
the bit, and is in fact, then fit for the
market. He is then sent to the sales
stable in New York and is ready for
the purchaser. At many of these
stables there are always on hand from
fifty to one hundred horses, and if buy
ers do not see what they want, they
can pay visit to the home farm.
When it is borne in mind that a good
average coach or carriage horse is
worth $500, it will be easily seen what
a vast amount of capital is invested in
this special line and what it takes to
supply the great demand. In addition
to the great private sales-stables there
are also continually occurring public
sales of this class of stock consigned
by well-known dealers in the west who
cater exclusively for this market.
These sales take place nearly every
week at the American Horse Ex-
chane and give a clear idea of pre-
vailing values and the trend of the
market.
The figures quoted are from official
sources, but they refer exclusively to
the Borough of Manhattan If Brook
lyn and the other sections of Greater
New York were added and other con
tiguous towns the amount would pro-
badly be nearly doubled showing that
New York is the greatest horse-buyer
of the continent, and one of the great
est of the world,-New York Post.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-05-30

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it
is often inconvenient.
A few touches Of nature smooth
many a wrinkled skin.
Experience is a school It is also
trying, at times.
Absence Of your wifes relatives
makes the heart grow fonder.
The sweetest meat is not always IN
the largest nut. A great pedigree may
contain little virtue.-Chicago Recorc.
Herald.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-05-30
suicides Portrait on Groonbask.

The portrait Of a suicide is on the
new 'ten-dollar" bin, which is known
also as the Buffalo Bill" because of a
rampant bison pictured in the centre
of it. The suicide was Meriwether
Lewis, the famous explorer. Lewis was
also private secretary to President JEFF
ferson, who afterward made him COVER
nor of Missouri Territory. In a fit
of melanoholy-he was a man Of
moods-he killed himself. when only
thirty-five years Of age. His picture
is on the Buffalo bill" and he is per-
haps the only suicide who was ever
honored so by the government.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-05-30

The largest order Of merit in the
world is the French Legion Of Honor.
which now has reached half q million
members.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-05-30

South Africa has ostrich farms con-
tanning ever 100000 birds.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-01-04
QUEER WAYS OF THE MARTEN.
A Peculiar Habit that Has Saved the
Animal from Extinction.

A Peculiar Habit that Has Saved the
Animal from Extinction.
"The Hudson Bay marten, the little
fur bearer whose skin is ever popular
and at times exceedingly valuable, is
still plentiful in that region Of fur
bearers" said w. B. Salmon, one time
a trapper for the Hudson Bay Com
pany, "but believe it would have been
virtually extinct there long ago if it
were not for habit it has Of making
periodical disappearance, of which I
never heard any satisfactory eXplana-
ton.
"These disappearance occur every
ten years. Where the animals go no one
knows No dead ones are ever found.
and no one has yet discovered any evil
dence of their migration to any other
region. A few martens, Of course, re-
main on their old feeding grounds, but
during the season of the disappearance
Of their fellows none of them will touch
the bait in trap and consequently
none is caught. The next year the mar
tens are back again in their old haunts
as numerous as ever, and for ten years
more submit to being caught.
''The Hudson Bay martens seem to
be the only ones of the species that
have this strange habit. The Lake Su-
perior martens don't waste any of their
time in disappearing voluntarily, but
are found at the old stand year in and
year out, housing themselves in hollow
trees in the deepest woods and making
life perpetual burden to birds, SOUR
rels, rabbits and other small game on
which they prey.
The Lake Superior marten has one
prediction Of the palate in which he
resembles the bear. That is a passion
for honey He will line wild bee to its
home with the precision of the most
expert bee hunter, and the hidden
sweets Of that bee colony will have to
be in a most inaccessible place if the
marten doesn't soon reyel in them. Like
the male mink, the male marten has an
overpowering love for his own off
spring, but for the offspring Of his fell
low martens-such peculiar love, In
deed, that If it wasn't for the instinct
and shrewdness of the mother martens
the race of martens would have been
unknown long ago. The male marten is
so fond Of his young that he will eat
them up whenever he happens to find
them. The mother, therefore, bears her
young in some secret hiding place, and
keeps them hidden until they are half
grown and able to defy the cannibal-
ist3c love Of their sire. The female mink
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-01-04
Edison and His "Annihilator."

One of the FRANKS of the youthful
Edison, when his genius was just begin
ming to show itself, is described in Col
lier's Weekly. Probably the danger to
human as well as insect life involved
in his electric "annihilator" prevented
it's general adoption.
Edison's early wanderings brought
him at II years of age to the Cincin-
natl Office of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, where his absorption
in electricity and predictions of it's fu-
ture power confirmed the nickname of
''Luny," which chung to him even until
his fame was established.
eve have the craziest chap in our of
tice;" said the telegraph manager to the
editor of the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette. "He does all sorts of queer
things. I shouldn't be surprised if he
turned out to be a genius some day.
Let me tell you his last prank.
1--WE have been annoyed for some
time by cockroaches. They infested
the sink. They don't now. Luny fixed
them. He just ran two parallel wires
round the sink, and charged one with
negative and the other with positive
electricity. Bread-crumbs were then
scattered, and when Mr.. Cockroach ap-
peared and put his little feet on the
wires, ashes were all that were left to
tell the tale"
In this cockroach annihilator was the
germ Of the incandescent light.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-01-04
Reciprocity Limited,

In May and June steamers laden with
green pease and strawberries leave
Brittany daily for England. These are
the spoils of the rich lands about
Brest.
After Fashoda and the Dreyfus affair,
when an anti-English feeling was ram
pant, a grocer Of this district, distin-
guished in his abuse of the British, de-
nounced the whole race as "despicable
preserve-merchants."
"Why 'despicable preserve mer-
chants?" some one asked.
Because they make the jams they
sell to us. They have no sugar and no
fruit. Despicable? Why, they take our
sugar and our fruit, and they make us
buy their jams"
A story as slight as this from the
Rev. S. Barring Gould's "Book of Brit
tany" would be overweighted by the
addition of a moral, but it may be hint
ed that to err peasants and politicians
of certain stripe-are liable alike.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-01-04

The Department of Agriculture urges
strongly the introduction Of new in
dustry, the cultivation of flowers-par-
Hcularly roses-for perfume-making 1t
Is believed that in California the oil, or
altar, of roses can be distilled on a
scale so extensive that American per-
tuners may ultimately become indie
pendent of foreign producers Of altar
In any event the industry, which is pc
culiarly adapted to the tastes Of wom-
Ell, will be new and large source Of
domestic income.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-01-04
Wagner and His Dog Pops.

Richard Wagner, the composer, was
devoted to dogs, and Pops had become
Wagner's property during his stay at
Riga. He had belonged in the first
place, says Our Animal Friends, to an
English merchant, but became passion
ately attached to Wagner and followed
him everywhere, lying on his doorstep
at night. The original owner found it
useless to attempt to keep him.
On the way to rehearsal the dog was
in the habit of taking daily bath in
the canal. Being a Russian dog, it is
recorded of him that he kept up this
habit even in winter, provided he could
find hole in the ice.
Pops was one of the great composers
most famous dogs. Wagner always in
sisted that Pops helped him to compose
"Tannhauser."
When at the piano singing, the dog,
whose constant place was at his feet,
peer into his face and howl piteously.
Then Wagner would address his elo-
quent critic with:
what, it does not suit you?"
Then, shaking the animals paw, he
would say, paraphrasing Shakespeare:
"Well, 1 will do thy bidding gently"
Pops is frequently mentioned in his
correspondence. If Wagner remained
too long at his work Pops would re-
mind him it was time to walk.
II am done up, and must get into the
open air." he writes once. "Peps won't
leave me in peace any longer"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-01-04

selected. Following the sinking Of the
Merrimac, the capture Of the daring
party of American sailors and their
subsequent release by the Spaniards,
President Mckinley was anxious to re-
ward each of the young heroes. Deig-
nan was personally complimented by
the President and offered cadetship
in the Naval Academy at Annapolis,
but it was found that he was ineligible.
Then he was appointed a boatswain
in the United States navy and his ap-
pointment as a warrant officer was
made April Of this year.
He had served but a day or two
when he was ordered on the sick list
After a serious illness it was found that
his mind was affected, and recently he
was taken to Ukiah, Cal, and placed
in the Ukiah Hospital for the Insane.
1t is believed that his aft1iction is only
temporary, and that his stay in the hos
pital will be short.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-01-04
KEEPS WRISTS IN PROPER POSITION.

ment, the screws which secure the two
supports being inserted underneath the
keyboard. The guides can be raised Or
lowered until adjusted to the players
needs, and the rolling carriages offer
minimum resistance to the movement
of the hands up and down the key
board. The wheels are rubber tired and
the wrist guides are suspended from
pairs Of spring bows, which are de-
pressed against the wheels when too
much weight is applied to the guides
by the dropping of the wrists. This in
creased pressure thus serves as brake
to prevent movement of the carriages
as soon as the hands drop to an i'm
proper position and also removes the
tendency Of the pupil to depend too
much on the guides as means Of rest
ing the arms when tired.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-01-04

Unfit she said to elevator man; "you
took In more than twenty" you have
collected six fares without ringing up
one," said lady to g treet-car conduc-
tor. 81 am responsible for two; please
ring them up" 81 do not care to discuss
the matter here" said tall college girl
to hackman. II will pay you what you
ask, take your number, and make in
vestigation later" "Waiters six and
eleven" reported a woman to hotel
clerk, "fail to serve me civilly when l
do not fee them" These four COM
plants, all overheard in one day, seem
to confirm the rumor that American
good-natured Indifference is waking up.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-01-04

y
lions are that the contest shall last four
hours, words to be English and reduced
to writing, and each contestant shall
receive the same words. Only twice has
Prof. Jones been called upon to contest
for the honor Of being the premier
speller with single contestants, and
each time he won readily. Only short
time since he correctly spelled $4,000
words without miss. A few years ago,
when spelling bees were very popular
in the West, Prof. Jones attended for
ty-three In one year. and in each con-
test was the last to go down. 1t is his
boast that he can spell every word in
the dictionary, and up to the present
has made his claim good.
The remarkable aptitude for spelling
possessed by Prof. Jones became mani
fest when he was boy, and his gift
was cultivated until it became second
nature for him to spell or write simple
and difficult words. He is a teacher by
profession, engaging as principal of a
school in 1866 when he was IS years
old. To his faculty for spelling he be-
lieves he can attribute his success in
life, as he thinks spelling the true base
of an education, and his pupils receive
special attention in this branch Of in
structiOn.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-01-04
SKILLED IN MANY SPORTS.
Left Handed People Are Proficient in
Ways that Astonish One.

Left-Handed People Are Proficient in
Ways that Astonish One.
1t is not wise to poke fun at a left
handed boy or girl. They may develop
qualities that are unattainable by those
who use their right hands preferably.
Children who have fallen into this hab-
it of using their left hands should not
be taught to do violence to a strongly
implanted instinct and use the right
hand whether they will or no. Such
q training not only inf1icts upon the
child a useless amount Of hardship
and Inconvenience, but may do him Sc
rious injury, even to depriying him
of the power of speech.
According to the latest scientific dis
coyeries all manner of havoc may be
wrought with the brain by the adop-
ton of this mistaken method of teach
ing handed children to use the right
hand.
This discovery is the result of expert
ments lately made at the University of
Chicago, which has gone more deeply
into the modern subject of "child
study" than most of the universities. 1t
is Professor Smedley, director of the
department of pedagogical investiga-
ton, who has made the most fruitful
experiments with the left-handed
He discovered that by far the great
er majority of mothers looked upon
left-handedness as defect to be over
come at any cost and that the child
was in consequence forced into most
uncongenial system of training. The
greater number of children so trained,
says Professor Smedley, are defective
in speech. By endeavoring to substi-
tute the use of the right hand the nice
balance of the brain is disturbed and
besides producing far less manual dex-
terity the power of speech may also be
impaired.
1t is also a matter of record that left
handed persons are in games of skill
more proficient than those who are
right-handed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-01-04

Thousands of microscopes are en-
ployed in Germany to prevent trichino-
sis by detecting diseased pork; but if a
tenth of the money thus expended were
used in dissuading people from eating
raw meat, the desired result would be
attained more completely. A medical
journal uses this illustration to show
''how science outruns craftsmanship"
Perhaps it should be reminded that sci
ence can deal with things as they ought
to be, whereas legislators must move
slowly because of the interests, habits
and prejudices of people as they are.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-01-04
HAND GUIDE FOR PIANOS.

One of the chief difficulties to be over
come in mastering the piano is the ten
dency of the hands to assume an incor-
rect position, the desire to drop the
wrists seeming to be a fault with all
pupils. William Bohrer, of Montreal,
Que, believes that his hand guide
shown hereWith-will aid greatly in
overcoming this fault, besides auto
matically raising the hands to the prop
er level when playing on the black keys.
The arrangement may be attached to
any piano without damaging the instru-