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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-25

! chummcd together; agreed 10 pool our
funds and go shares until we had made
our fortunes"
"But you-you didn't"
"No," / answered, 1--WE certainly
/ didn't"
did he come home with your
I asked Elsa.
Hes dead, poor chap" I said. and
elsa remained silent a few minutes
as we walked slowly along the gallery,
examining a picture now and then
by the way.
did be die on the way homer she
asked, quietly.
Away up country in Australia"
"Then," she said, why did you
returnT
Nostalgia" I answered you fret
ana growl and get sick with every
thing. You long for the old places
and the old people"
only thc-the old people?" asked
Elsa
The people you have known all
your Hfcw
"They need not all be so very old"
said Elsa
But l continued, II am not GER
tain l should have returned if l had
! known"
III You had known what?'
cor the changes which the last two
months have brought about"
Elsa came to an abrupt standstill,
facing me with unmistaEable indig-
nation
DO You intend to suggest that have
changed?' she demanded.
Il wonder whether you remember
the night I saw you last?'
"Of course I remember she an
swered.
you were beautiful then"
you know that is not what
meant" she cried
''Now you are more beautiful still"
perhaps that is due to fine fcath-
ers," she suggested, with the faintest
of smiles.
Perhaps
"But" she exclaimed, throwing ont
her hands with the white gloves in the
right, "they are nothing. They do not
count at all"
It was impossible to resist a glance
around the gallery with its collection
of treasures from all parts of the
world.
you say they are nothing"
81 asked whether you thought I had
changed" she insisted. 'I-myself-"
How can I judge you in that init
mate way?"
You have surely known me init
mately-yOu have known me for
years"
4 will take Your word for it that
you haven't" / answered; but stiu
Elsa's face looked grave
But, then" she suggested. "ff you
didn't take the trouble to find out
what I really was before"
cob. I never doubted what you
weren'
WHAT? she demanded, with a
quick upward glance. But before
could have explained, even if I would
she added, imperiously: Tell me
about your friend"
You would have liked old Howard"
said.
"Was he i'll very Iong?" she asked.
Gle broke down soon after we land
ed"
But didn't he get any better"
"Not much 1t was a tedious bust
ness for the fellow"
"And for you?" is>a
ooh we'll"
Didn't his illness rather handicap
you?" Elsa suggested.
Il daresay it did-a little"
"Who nursed him"
"You must understand we were
: miles away from everywhere and
: every one"
"Then it was you-" iqEs
"There was no one else"
; "SHll," she cried, Il suppose he
wasn't i'll the whole time?"
, 'No, but he was never quite WE'LL
I explained "Of course, he had his
: better periods"
t 'You might have taken him to some
, town-haye got him off your hands?
t 81 might"
"why didn't your" she demanded
severely.
"You see, we had pooled our funds
{ and taken a cattle run and stocked it
and, besides, Harold was everlasting
ly hoping for better times"
Then" said Elsa, "it was really his
' illness which prevented your sue
cess"
anyhow" I returned, eve hat
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-25
"was 81 quite fair to hcrm

/ "Inlr-n
"You had left her waiting FOR you"
cried Elsa
"But then you see, she didn't
know" / reminded her
"Of course" answered Elsa, with
smile. "Iiow stupid OF mew
"You-you were forgetting" I sug-
gested.
"Yes, II was forgetting" and her
face grew grave again.
"In any case" / said, "it would
have been impossible TO leave Howard
In the lurch"
$50 you stayed"
"Why, yes"
"And did the most OF the work."
"There was no one else TO do g."
"And when he was H. you nurscd
HING
I'm afraid the poor chap had rather
rough time OF &C." / said.
"Well, you know" cried Elsa, Il
think you always were a little rough!'
"Not like the johnnies in the pie
ture over thereT I suggested, as we
reached the end Of the gallery aud
turned, retracing our steps along the
other side.
"How do You Ike this one" she
asked "The picture on the right
isn't IT supposed to be a tourna-
ment:' l inquired
You see the woman with the fair
aair?' cried Elsa, in a curlously nery-
GUS voice
1T is something like your own
color l remarked, as we stood a yard
apart gazing at the large painting.
"Oh, but her hair is fairer than
mine" said Elsa, looking fire at the
canvas, then turning her blue eyes
quite aExiously to mine.
II don't see much difference" l as
surcd her.
"She appears to have chosen the tall
knight for her champion" she suggest
ed.
Lucky beggar" I answered.
do you think he is lucky?" asked
Elsa; and she held her white gloves
by the wrists i'm her right hand and
struck the palm Of her left with their
fingers.
Immensely"
"Why:'
"In some way she suggests your
| self" I answered.
DO you notice anything inapproprl.
ate?" she demanded.
"Inappropriate?"
"In-in the picture"
Nothing Whatever
Don't you think" she exclaimed, as
she turned her eyes toward it, that it
would have been preferable if the
knight had chosen the lady"
After all" l said, 1T wouldn't have
made much difference"
"You-you really think it wouldn't?'
cried Elsa, Frightening in the most
extraordinary fashion.
1T seems 10 amount 10 very much
the same thing"
'Why, Of course" she answered and
her clear laugh rang through the gal
lery.
Especlaliy II me chap sou Nlleo'
'O1. why should you take SucA q
Glslhai we" crleo Elsa, OF my
part she aooeu' 1 leeI convinced
they married."
AND IiVeu happily ever al.er"ara;
1 wonder She SalA' qule'lE.
'Whether you can teIl me solneInlus
What: l asked.
II appears perlecIy certain lhaI sne
has chosen him
..ETo4- di7 eho lot hin, know +bo+
|
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-25
Eskimo bibles in Use.

The Eskimos now have their own
translation Of the Bible, which has
taken $50 years to complete. The Nor
wegian pastor, Hans EgeGe, who went
to Greenland in 1921, began the work,
which IS complete and published by
the Bible Society of Denmark.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-25

jan imported last year $1,4I4000
wort watches, four-hfths OF them.
fror sland.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-25

London Is supposed to have 10000
inhabitants to the square mile.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-08-25
A Poet Turned Beggar.
The Strange Story Of German Nou-
veau, a Partisan Mendicant.

Standing at the door % the mansion belong
ing 70 the Society OF Men OF Letters tie other
morning was brokendown beggar. clad IN rags.
and apparently half starved. The fcotman told
him to 90 away. but he pleaded so piteouslv to
sc the president Of the secretly that Zee s.as at
last admitted 20 the hall. The president came
down and the beegar said in a whisper. Il am
German NOuVrau'' The name is that q a poet
who many years ago gave promise Of great tai
ent, even Of genius but suddenly disappeared.
and had since remained undiscoyerabIe
The beggar was really Cearmain Nouveau His
history Is extraordinary one. Formerly a
clerk in the government office % public instr,Ic-
tion, he published a few poems which we're Of
considerable worth and which attracted the at
tention Of all literary people WelI-known
writer's took him UP and encouraged him in his
work. Many critics considered that he 1ada fair
TO become the foremost poet of his time
One day ne suddenly came to the conclusion
that poetry was sinful. and that the only holy
life was total remuneration. lie threw all his
manuscripts, containing. it is said. much re-
markable work. into the fire, resigned his clerk
ship, and disappeared. lie was not heard Of
afterward until the other day. II scems that
he lived up TO his convictions and became a
street beggar. Clad in rags. he sat for years
all day by the porch Of AK Cathedral and
asked for aims. subsisting only on the few pen
MES which people going 10 church bestowed on
him. Lately he took 10 apostrophizing persons
whose demeanor n did not consider sufficiently
devout. and one day he violently upbraided a
lady because he thought her dress was not pain
enough TO be worn in church After that he
was no longer allowed 10 beg by the cathedral
door. 50 he then started to walk TO Paris.
With the aid OF a small grant made him by
the Society of Men Of Letters he has now taken
up his abode in the Quarter MouiFetard the
mendcanIs' neighborhood. and lives among the
beggars, happy to be in their midst and to be
one Of them--Paris Letter 10 the London Daily
Tcleeraph
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-08-25
Survivor of Stanley Expedition.

H. Mounteney Jephson. who is % be
married next month in London to Miss
Anne Head, daughter of the late Addi-
son Head. of San Francisco. is the last
surviving officer of the expedition IN .
dertaken by Sir Henry Stanley for The
relief of Emin Pasha, and which en-
tailed the crossing of the Dark CONT
nent from the mouth Of the Congo to
Mombassa, nearly opposite Zanzibar. In
that famous expedition Jephson com
manded a detachment. and was left he
hind with Emin when Stanley deter
mined TO march back and seek the rear
guard, of which nothing had been heard
for many months.
While ne was away both Jephson and
Emin fell into the hands OF The
Mahdists. but managed to escape ard
to rejoin Stanley. But the sufferings
and priyations which he endured during
that expedition have contributed 10
wreck his health quite as much as that
of Stanley, and o: the ether members
Of the expedition, all OF whom have al
ready succumbed. Indeed Stanley and
Jephson are the only two left. and had
it not been for the fact that his ser
vices in Africa had been taken into
special consideration, JeDhson, who is
an Eton boy. would never have been &C
cepted by the medical board of the for
eign office as one of the Kings foreign
messepge-s
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-08-25

10 so vigorously condemn the dens of
iniquity at Brackettsville.
The whole argument for and against
the canteen has been thoroughly
thrashed over time and again. so that
Little remains to be said except to call
attention to the conditions which have
resulted from the abolition of the sale
of liquor in army posts. \ vast ma
jority of the officers of the army are
IN accord upon the subject and favor
Its re-establishment as a moral inhu-
enee and for the maintenance of bet
ter discipline.
In their efforts to promote the
cause of real temperance the we'll
meaning but narrow-minded foes of
the liquor traffic are mwittingIy play
ing directly into the hands of their
greatest enemies, the saloon and
olive" keepers. who are as anxious to
prevent the establishment of the
canteen as are the prohibitionists
themselves. After three or four
years of experience the abolition of
the canteen has not proven a success.
Its effect has been more demoralizing
and degrading upon the enlisted man
than the sale of small beverages under
the scrutiny Of their superior officers
ever was. This fact is strongly en-
phasized by General Grant, who
speaks whereof he knows.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-08-25
An Early Start in Connecticut.

Notwithstanding the fact that Con-
necticut holds no State election This
year. some Of the politicians of the Nut
meg State are already discussing plans
and candidates for next years cam
paign. Although the term of Governor
Chamberlain does not expire until jan
uary. 1905. the Hon Livingstone W
Cleaveland, Judge OF the probate court
of New Haven. has already been an
nounced as a candidate TO succeed him.
Since Connecticut adopted the biennial
election system no governor has succeed
ed himself. and in consequence it is not
probable that the honor of another cleo
ton viii be conferred upon the present
executive. Judge CIeaveland was a can
didate for the nomination before he
Republican convention last year, but
was able 10 command only about one
third OF the delegates and failed 20
realize his ambition. He is, however.
starting out early for next years Goa
test, with chances much in his favor,
in spite of the fact that his indepeu-
dence is likely TO cause him some trouble
with the State central committe. which
acts as the machine" in Connecticut
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-08-25
A Piscatorial Episode.

'You see" said the man Of the Intricate
smile.
In his huttonhole trembled a pansy;
Then pausing. he lifted, and gazcd for a while
At the frosty glass smelling Of tansy;
''Nou SEQ uttered he and the weather was
warm.
We were talking Of fish in the scorch there.
Twas Perkins cash store: all The rest and the
charm.
And the barrels Of salt on the porch there
Dear Perkins. he lolled on the handy-by sill
lie was grand, he mctuous kindly;
Dear Perkins! the soothing, alert for 10 fl
Up the glasses quickly and blindly.
'You see said the man Of the double-fat
chin
and he vinked 10 the chap on the sill there:
Then Perkins bodied out, and again he bobbeI
in.
While We leaned back and waited so stiu
there
"You SEQ said the man of the altering
tongue
As he gazed on the beads that were dancing
A Grgle, a sigh. and the sprigs they were
flung.
The sprigs Of the tansy enhancing;
''You SEQ uttered he as he rose up TO leave,
And We all followed sit from the scorch
there;
''You SEE bat alas. for the secret, grieve.
II was whispered alone on the perch there.
Horace Seymour Keller
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-08-25
Pennypacker's Chances.

Quay will unquestionably want
proxy in the Senate who will do his bid
ding. and such a man the anti-machine
Republicans say the present govcrnDr
IS. II is quite possible 10 believe that
even should Senator Quay decline 10 be-
come a candidate for reelection 10 the
Senate he will quit politics altogether.
1t is too much a part OF his life 10 abar-
don all interest. pecuniary and other
wise. in the game which he has played
so succe ssfuIIy fer many years. Some
believe that Quay is dangling his .;eaa-
torial toga before the governors goggles
in order 10 stiIl further in,imidate MIN
to do his bidding in State affairs, scr
the governor has recently been guilty
oftaking step somewhat independent OF
ths machine" Should Governor Penny
packer be chosen as Quay's successor.
both of the Pennsylvania Senator's would
hail from Philadelphia. and against his
there is certain to be objection. al
though, OF course. this objection ill
coun. for nothing if Quay wills that
Pennypacker shall go to the Senate.
Two Senators from the same town is
not unprecedented
Senator's Morgan snd Pettus OF Ala
bama are neighbors in the little town Of
Selma. which has about as many inhabi-
tants as the average city block in Phil
adelDhia.
Senator Quay lives in the west
ern pert OF the State. and that section
is certain to make fight for the cleo
tion Of his successor. There are a Num-
Der of aspirants in Pittsburg. but any.
one who expects to come TO the Senate
must first see QUAY" and. If satisfac-
tory arrangements can be made, Quay
may hand over his Senatorial toga 10
him
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-08-25
Why the Whoever Loved Her.

lady from Alexandra, Va, visiting in Phil
adelphia quite recently, told an anecdote OF her
retiring cook which is good enough 10 be told
again:
Myra. the eolored cook. gave notice 70 Mrs
Richardson of her intention 10 leave at the end
Of the week. Mrs. r. highly priced the cook 5
abilities in the culinary line and proceeded TO
interview her in an effort 10 learn the reason
for her departure. The following conversation
ensued:
'Myra, ere you not satisfied with the wages
and the home ! give you3''
''Yes. Mis- Richurson, allus bin happy wiv
you all"
''Well, why do You leave?"
"Say. Mis- RichurSon. don't you all member
dat f'ml in de mex block las Fridsy?''
Yes. But what OF that?'
''Wel, done ewine 10 tell you all de whole
trJre. Is gwine TO marry de husband ob de
corpse. He low as was de life ob de fun T. -
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-08-25
Political Gossip
Here and There
Quay Will Retire.

Senator Quay has reiterated the state
ment which he made in the Academy OF
Music in Philadelphia several months ago
that he intends to retire from the Senate
at the expiration of his present term.
which is in March. 1905. The politicians
OF Pennsylvania are just beginning TO
take "the Old Man" seriously, and 10 be-
Iieye that he means what he says. al
though some profess to believe that the
Quay retirement has a string attached
TO It. Sufficient faith is placed in the
announcement. however. to cause some
speculation as TO his successor That
matter Senator Quay will not discuss
further than TO say that he intends 20
leave the question 20 the people. AMI
intimates that he will take no part in
the selection Few are credulous
enough to believe that the Beaver states
man viii relinquish his seat in the SEN
ate without picking the man 10 hll iC.
In this connection it is said that the
Senator may compel the Legislature %
elect Governor Pennypacker. the press
muzzling executive of Pennsylvania, who
holds Cousin Matt" in such high re-
gard that he considers him the equal
of either Clay or Webster
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-08-25
Big Feeders, Big Workers.
A British Statistician's Ideas on Anglo
Saxon Efficiency.

A new thought is offered to us by
kindly British journal 1t Is one
which will give peace and comfort to
those possessed Of excessive appetites,
for, expressed somewhat rudely, the
idea presented is that gluttony is a
virtue; or, to put it more delicately.
the peoples which eat most do most
work, as established BY that supposed
~ unfailing guide to true conclusions
statistics. Eat, and the world eats
with you; starve, and you starve
alone, as the poet would put it. The
nations which are the biggest eaters
are the feeders Of the world.
1t will startle "dyspeptie Ameri-
cans" to learn that they outeat the
English, who are popularity supposed
to be the greatest racial feeders III the
world. Twenty-Five pence a day IS
the average expenditure for food Of
cur 100000 inhabitants; the
Britons have TO get along with an ex-
penditure Of % pence; the food-lov-
ing Germans must manage to exc out
az existence with 81 pence worth; the
delicate Frenchmen get along at the
average rate Of 10 pence, while the
Italian, with his wine-sopped yellow
bread and occasional maearoni, lives
ccntentedly on 9 pence. And, strange
as II tlay seem, the rate Of annual eX-
ports from the countries inhabited by
these is in proportion to the food con-
sumed. In other words, according TO
the figuring of the wise Bnton, whose
tables are used, a nation works ana
produces in proportion to lis eating,
He who is a good trencher man Is eff
fcient in other ways.
1t will doubtless reduce the ia
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-08-25
Courts and Capitals
of the Old World
By THE MARQUIsE DE FoNTENoY.
Kaiser's Latest Scheme.

Kaiser's Latest Scheme.
Emperor William has once more given
an Illustration OF his originality and po-
litical ingenuity by taking the initiative
in a scheme born of his brain, and which
if brought to a successful conclusion, as
now appears probable. is destined to
exercise a very important bearing upon
the troubled situation in the east OF
Europe.
II is nothing more nor less than an
alliance offensive and defensive between
Turkey and Greece, who but a few years
ago were at war with one another. and
who for some two hundred years past
have been always regarded as bitter
foes. In fact. the entire history of
modern Greece is a record of Ottoman
oppression, aggression, and hostility OF
one kind and another, and while there
is no nobility in the Hellenic kingdom, and
no nobiliary titles are recognized, grant
ed or even tolerated, the families who
are regarded as distinguished by their
ancestry are precisely those founded by
the patriotic leaders of the war of liber-
alton from Moslem rule in the early
part OF the last century.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-08-25
Greek Hatred of Turks.

The hatred entertained in Greece for
the Turks has now given way 10 a much
more intense animosity against Russia.
and against those Balkan states. Bull
garia. Roumania, Servia, and Monte
negro which have shown themselves for
more than twenty-five years the most
relentless adversaries of Hellenic as
pirations, being opposed to any increase
in the size and in the power OF Greece.
Indeed. the Greeks in the Balkan states
have encountered nothing but unfriendli-
ness on the part of the Bulgarian, Ser
Wan, Roumanian, and Montenegrin
population and authorities, as well as OF
the Russian agents.
On the other hand, the Sultan has al
ways shown himself exceptionally well
disposed to the Greeks n his dominions.
There are over 5000, 600 Of them sub
jet to his rule, with which they show d
themselves content Many OF them, in
spite of their Christian faith. hold nigh
Offices in his service. which they we're
war was declared upon him by Greece.
and most of the leading merchants.
bankers. physicians. and professional
men at CCnstantinople. and in the other
chief cities Of the SuItan's empire IRE
Greeks. In fact, the number ot Greeks
living contentedly and happily under
the rule Of the Padishah, is nearly four
times as great as that inhabiting
Greece itself.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-08-25
Almost Disbelieved Her Eyes.

S. p. Langley, the aeronauticaI pioneer. will
never discuss flying machines with newspaper
men, but on other topics he is not 50 reticeut.
lie talked the other day about his boyhood
Among the memories Of nay boyhood." he
said. there is one odd episode that is particu-
larry vivid II is a conversation that overheard
one morning as l walked toward the Boston
High School between two women
''The women were talking about babics-their
size, weight, Lealth, and 50 forth
% why. when I was week Old said the
first woman. 4 was such little baby that they
put me in a quart pot and put the lid on ove.
me
The other woman was amazed and Mortified.
And did you liver she asked
g They say did, her friend answered
% Wei, well. well" exclaimed the second
woman; and she glanced at the other almost
doubtfuIly. New York Tribune
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-08-25
Of Mutual Benefit.

It has therefore occurred TO Emperor
William that it would be Of mutual hon
eft 10 both Greece and Turkey to form an
alliance with enc another. The Crown
Princess Of Greece is his sister. and ces-
tined in course OF time 10 become
Queen Of the Hellenes. while the sultan
is his particular friend. so much so
that he Ohe Kaiser),. has declined to
join he other great powers in their
concerted movement to compel the
porte to inaugurate the long promised
administrative reforms in Macedonia.
The Kaiser is, therefore, well quail
fed to act as the intermediary between
Greece and Turkey. and it is understood
that his efforts have been crowned with
success, and that the extraordinary dis
tinction with which young Prince Chris
topher Of Greece was entertained last
week by the Sultan at Constantinople.
where no member OF the Greek royal
family had ever been seen before, was
merely prelude TO the approaching visit
OF King George himself TO STEAMBOAT. on
which occasion the Turko-G Greek al
lance, under German aegis. Is TO be pro-
claimed, the understanding being that III
the event of war Turkey will have SUI
preme command. not only of her own
army, but also of that Of Greece. on land.
while Greece, whose navy, especially her
torpedo fleet, is quite large for so small
a power, would have supreme command
at sea