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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-04-24
NOVEL INVENTION FOR TELEaRA.
PHlsTs.
Makes individuality Of Touch lmpossi-
BILE and Is Not Liked.

Makes individuality Of Touch lmpossi-
BILE and Is Not Liked.
There is a chance for a psychologist
to get good material in studying theef
fects Of a new device that has come
into some favor with the telegraph
operators of the country II threatens
all kinds of descriptions amoung the
friends who have been accustomed to
saying Hello, Tom" across hundreds
OF miles of land to men whom they
have never seen, but whom they know
as w0ll as though they had been
chums in person for years. The old
telegraph operator will tell you he can
read character over the wire, that he
can tell whether a man is good fell
low whom he would trust or a de-
ceitful one whom he would avoid.
The invention Is a sender, which
takes away the labor and strain on
the wrist that sometimes brings "op-
orators paralysis" It is adjusted so
that when the thumb presses the key
back it will register a dash, and when
he index finger presses it forward it
will make dots until the key is re-
leased.
One operator wro works in news
paper Office and nightly sends thou
sands of words over wires which take
the news out of New York, bought
one of these senders recently. He did
not think of the personality in his
touch, but only Of the saving OF labor.
The first night he coupled it up on
his wire and set it going at his usual
speed. Soon the receiving operator
broke in and asked for few words to
be repeated So it continued for
half an hour the receiver constantly
breaking in Finanlly there came a
sharp break in the middle of word.
who in mischief is sending this
stuff" came a message clicked as
angrily as a telegraph wire could car
ry it.
tom" was the reply.
"Well, what in the name Of Crea-
ton is the matter?" came the anxious
query.
He was told about the new sender.
He agreed to do the best he could
with it. At the end Of the week his
ultimatum came. That key must be
abandoned or he would give up his
place I've heard something about
that device of Satan" he sent word.
There's a man up in Massachusetts
who went crazy trying to get next
He said he felt like machine, and
that's the way feel. It's off with that
key or me to the woods"
So science has had setback so far
as the use of the new device in one
Office is concerned. 1t is only used oc'
casionally when the operators wrist
is tired.-New York Times.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-04-24

af aaIng hunters They throw iorg
sticks over their shoulders and saHs
they have q rIne Then they go ~
the woods and make believe to
game with the stick
The Seminole boys and girls have
bad habit Of eating between meals a
big kettle filled with stewod meat and
vegetables always stands ready with q
big poon In Il for any one who hap.
pens 20 feel hungry. and they will
sometimes get up even IN the middle
of the night 10 take a spoonful OF stew.
The streams In the Seminole coun.
ny abound In FISH and the little In.
diaas soon become good hshermeu(
But their ambition is 10 be trusted
with a shotgun. and as soon as they
are old enough they are allowed TO
take one and go into tae woods to
shoot wild turkey When the Semi
mole boy is allowed TO do this be
counts himself no longer a child. bur
a man.-san francisco Chronicle.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-04-24
Women Can shoaE.

That old saw about a woman n yer
being able to hit anything is efidd lily
il need of being filed. Otherwise, low
can we account for the 125 deer
shipped through Bangor last fall, killed
by women hunters? There were about
5000 deer in all shipped through that
city, and in proportion to their mum.
hers the women hunters nFobahly
brought out more game than The On.
The fair sex seems to find It easier
to aim a rifle than to throw a stone,
but some Of the guides look wise and
disereely refuse to be interviewed
when the subject Of these women
&lnters Is mentioned,-Kennebec
Journal,
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-04-24
sydney smlth and Us Servants.

Have you ever observed, writes sgd
ney Smith, what dislike servants
have to anything cheap? They hate
saving the masters money. tried .ne
experiment with great success the
other day. Finding We consumed
great deal of soap sat down in my
thinking chair and took the, soap
question into consideration, and
found reason to suspect that we were
using very expensive article, when
a much cheaper one would serve the
purpose better. ordered half q doz.
en- pounds of both sorts, but with the
precaution of changing the, papers on
which the prices were marked before
giving them into the hands of Betty.
well, Betty, which soap do you find
washes besC?" "Oh, please, sir, the
dearest in the blue paper; it makes a
lather as well again as the other"
well, Betty, you shall always have it
then" And thus the unsuspecting Bet.
ty saved me some pounds a year, and
washed the clothes better.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-04-24
Black as Night

Three little kittens, out az play
scampering about the lawn enc day
Three little kittens as white as snow,
Hunting for mischief high aud low.
A piece 81 stoyepip@ lying near
Dropped by the rubbish man, fear.
Three little kittens. with sn0w-Whiie iur,
Crept Ia at one end with cont-nted purr.
Then strange thlng happened, as ~ u
agree,
And wonder how such thing could be.
For out Of the other end into the light.
Crept three little kittens as black as night
Washington Star.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-04-24
cat Runs . oroeery store.

Dickey Cat Is proprietor Of grocery
store In Washington, says the Star.
He IS a remarkable cat Of pronounced
characteristics. He is pure white, of
majestic mien, dignifed and self-as-
Bured In manner, and seven years old.
Dickey attends closely to business,
never leaving the store except to sit
on the steps or pavement in front. In
the early morn he may be. seen there
watching the baker leave the regular
supply Of bread in the box, the milk
man leaving the cans of milk, and the
lceman-he has watchful eye on
them ALL Friend Dickey never indulg-
es in friYolity, but appears to enjoy
watching the gambols of little white
kitten that is his guest. He Is never
known to leave his own pavement, does
not visit his next door neighbor nor
cross the street. 1t would seem that
be has a sort of Monroe doctrine in
this respect-keeping to his own side
and allowing no encroachments. lie
needs no army or navy being himself
able TO attend 10 any belllgerent splr-
its that offend. None but white cats
may pass his door interchangeable
will not associate intimately with cats
of color.
Grocer Dickey has two assistants in
business, a pretty black and tan fox
terrier, who watches the premises in
Dickey's absence, and lady manager.
He reposes great confidence in. the
lady manager, and allows her to at
tend to all financial transactions and
keep the money box. But she is CIV
en- to understand that he is sole pro-
prietor Dickey does not like to talk
much of himself, but the lady gives
many interesting accounts Of his ways
and doings, causing nearly every one
to desire an acquaintance with him.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-04-24
What the Little semlnoies PLAY

ma NiiG NAAAiS SN'tAltANASo ldga
After the Seminole war, in which the,
brave Chief Osceola was defeated, the
government ordered all the Indians in
Florida to remove to a reservation in,
the west. Most of them went, but
few took refuge in the regions lying
among the big Florida swamps, where
their descendants live to this day.
AS soon as the Seminole child is
four years old, he is set to work at
some light task about the house He
stirs the boiling SOUP watches the
FIRE and replenishes it with sticks of
wood, aids in kneading the dough for
bread, washes and pounds the "koon-
ii" root, a sort OF potato, and contrib
utes in many other ways to help his
mother in her work.,
But the children have plenty Of
time for play, too. The little girls,
have dolls made offstieks, with pieces
Of rag wrapped around them, and they
are as fond of them as white girls are
of their wax dolls with winking eyes.
The Indian children build little
houses for their dolls and call them
camps" while the boys take little.
bows and arrows and go into the.
woods to shoot small birds, saying
when they return; 'SWe have been tilr-
key hunting"
Boys and girls sit around a piece of
earth, into which they stick blades of
grass and call it a. corn field.
One amusement Of which the, little
Seminole Indians, are fond is playing
with teetotums. They take a. dried
deer skin and peg it out tight ON the
ground. Then take the round roots
of a peculiar grass called deer foot"
and, thrusting through them little
sticks about as thick as a match and
twice as long, they set them whirling
on the deer skin by rubbing, the upper
end of the stick quickly with the
paInns of their hands This they call
having DANCE" They also play al
leap frog, use the skipping rope and
build "see-saws. One traveller who
penetrated to the remote district OF
Florida in which the Semfnoles live
saw very weil-built nHerry-go-rount
which the little Indian children had
made.
They must have originated the iaes
of the merry go-rouRd themselves. foI
none of the children had ever beer
away from home and the grown III
people of the tribe had never beer
further than the nearest white man.
settlement, and in that place ther,
are no such contrivaDces for thu
amusement Of children. Nor could /
be learned that any pictures of mel
/, Ty-goround had ever found its way II
to the Seminole country.
- The little boys OF this tribe DO no
play at being solclers, but they De pla
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-04-24
The Last puellna cleraxmen.

'When did clergymen cease to fight
duels2' is the most startling inquiry
in Notes and Queries. 1t will be news
to many of us that they were ever
fond of that exhilarating pastime. But,
as a matter of fact, the Rev. Mr.. Allan
fought duel with Lloyd Delany, Esq,
and killed him in Hyde Park in 1882
He was convicted Of manslaughter,
and fined one shilling. plus six months
in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Enquirer.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-04-24

Venezuela has not a single harbor
worthy of the name on its entire
coast; ships lie in open roadste7d,
beav!ng upon the ground swell.
The evening world., 1903-06-05
Thirty Women In Rush Down
\ Stairs of Burning Building
Knock Down Their Employers
and Leave Them.
ARE OVERCOME BY SMOKE.
Policeman Finds Them and Filings
Them Out a Window to Roof Of
Shed Ten Feet Below, but They
Recover.

Thirty girls employed in n publishing
establishment on the third floor OF No
173 Bowery were thrown into a panic
by a fire that broke out in the building
at $50 o'clock to-day.
In rushing madly to the street they
trampled upon Jacob Goldsteln and
Joseph Singer. the owners of the pub
fishing establishment, crowding them
into a hallway on the second floor
where they were overcome by the
smoke. They were found there almost
unconscious by Policeman Harrison, or
the Eldridge street station. who threw
them out of a window. They fell spon
a shed ten feet below.
Firemen picked them UP from the
shed and they were revived.
The fire started in a hallway on the
first floor OF the building ana is sup
posed to have been caused by crossed
electric light wires. For fifteen min.
utes the flames smouldered in the hall
way, and then the clouds of smoke be-
gan pouring into the upper part of the
This Started the stampede among the
factory girls. Several of them were
bruieed In their mad rush for the
str Get, but none sustained serious in
juries.
The building Is also occupied by the
printing shops OF 8. c. Wasserman and
Max Kanowttz. TIE damage was
slight.
The evening world., 1903-06-05
Yrs. Frances Beresford Tried
to Reach the FamiIy's Money
Box in a Room that Was
AbIaze.
STRUGGLED WITH RESCUER.
Policeman Had to Use All His
Strength to Keep Her Back-old
Woman In Adjoining House Has
q Bad Fright.

Mrs Frances Beresford, who, with her
husband, Frank. and her slster-ln-law,
Mary, lived on the top floor of No. 9i7
Second avenue. was badly burned early
to-day while attempting to rescue her
savings from the flames that had sud
denly and unaccountably burst out in the
bedroom OF the apartment. Not only
was she disfgured in her attempt, but
pile of ashes.
Mrs. Beresford was alone in the fiat
when the fire started. Her sister-in-
law had gone out to market and her
husband. who is gas man. was in
stalling q plant at Rockaway Beach
She was seated In the kitchen when
all at once she saw a burst of flame in
the adjoining room. Her first thought
was for the box in which she kept
the savings. Regardless OF smoke and
fire she rushed into the room and en-
deavored to secure the box.
Her clothing and hair caught fire. and
she would undoubtedly have burned to
death had not her sister-in-law, who
was entering the house at the time.
seen the smoke and called upon Police
man Burns, of the East F'ifty-irst
street station.
When Miss Beresford and Burns
reached the burning apartment they
found Mrs. Beresford still endeavoring
to get the money-box. Despite the
flames that were soaring her flesh, she
persisted and fought frenziedly when
the policeman dragged her away He
had 10 exert all his strength to pre-
vent her from returning to the blazing
room.
The nremen made short work of the
Ore, though not before the flames had
swept the apartment bare OF furniture.
" pile OF ashes showed where the money
box had been.
Ambulance Surgeon Richardson, of the
tloWer Hospital, attended to Mrs Beres-
lords injuries. He urged her to go to
the hospital with him, but she refuee ed
IN spite OF her suffering.
=, ,Ouring the progress of the fire Po-
nceman Martineau, OF the East Fifty
nrst street station, heard screams com
tng from the top floor of No. 9l9, the
adjoining building. He hastened lIp
there and found Mrs. Mary Gerber, sew
enty years old. in a paroxysm OF fear.
The aged woman, who Is partially par
alyEed. was alone in her apartment. The
cries OF the flremen and the crowd In
the street had led her to believe the
house she lived in was afire.
The evening world., 1903-06-05
Chamberlain. view. Changed.

LONDON. June 6.-Replylng 8. to a cor
respondent who drew attention to a
speech delivered in 1881, In which Mr.
Chamberlain said a tax on food would
mean a decline in wages. the Colonial
Secretary says circumstances have
changed. ana he thinks experience has
shown thatl the view he expressed in
1881 was erroneous
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-04-25

and properly avowing sympathy With
the south and telling the negroes that
their only hope was to make themselves
worthy of southern respect, had with
equal distinetness declared for the
great principle OF equal right and priv
ilege as citizens, regardless of race.
for all those whose character and
achievement Mt them to discharge the
duties of good citizens.
That equality does not mean social
equality, nor amalgamation. nor any
announcement of the lower instincts
of the negro race, which some white
men profess to fear. 1t is the reward
and crown Of exactly opposite ten
denies. The young men and women
educated at Tuskegee are the last to
pretend to social relations with the
whites or the desire to intermarry with
then, They are too self-respectful,
too determined to make the most Of
themselves in their own true character,
II is ignorance and lack of self re-
snect that make the negro socially and
politically dangerous, Education Of
the kind Tuskegee gives is safeguard
ing the south from that menace, and
peopling 1t with negroes as devoted as
the white man to race segregation and
IS earnest in support Of order and eco
nornical good government. Their. int
erests are Identical with those OF
their worthy white neighbors, and in
due time that identity of interest must
be recognized and corresponding equal
ity Of rights conceded.
Tuskegee is not merely doing this
work directly. 1t is sending out stu
dents who repeat the process in their
own communities with rare devotion.
thus carrying forward civilization by
geometrical progression, and doing 1t in
harmony with the best southern white
sentiment. 1t Is one OF the strategetic
points for the uplifting of TIE black
race. and therefore the support and
enlargement of its work are of vital
Importance to the whole country.
Whatever differences people in any sec
tion may have about the other phases
Of the negro question, all agree to the
usefulness of Booker Washinton's
teachings and the benefits they are
comforting not only on the negroes. but
on the whites.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-04-25

Congress appropriated s12,50O.OOe for
the rural delivery service during the
next fiscal year and the department win
establish 5000 new routes on the
money. Thus ii is expected by the end
Of the next fiscal year to have 10000
rural carriers in motion, and 15.O0O,OOO
people living outside of towns and
cities will have their letters and news
papers delivered at their doors.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-04-25
Bridge Proposals

Notice is hereby given that plans,
specifications, strain diagrams and bids
will he received by the county court Of
Clatsop county, state Of Oregon, until
5 p. M, Tuesday, May 9Th. 1903. for the
building, construction and erection of
a drawbridge across the Lewis and
Clark river in Clatsop county, Oregon,
according to such plans, specifications
and diagrams.
Location Of bridge is shown on maps
now on file in the county clerks office
as approved by the Hon. Secretary Of
war.
Fridge to be steel swinging draw
bridge with clear space Of 70 feet on
each side Of the draw rest. As is al
so directed by the Hon. secretary Of
war.
Approaches to be pile trestle with a
lG foot clear road or driveway. Bidders
shall attach to their bid certified
check equal to 10 percent Of the same
and check made payable to the order Of
the county clerk or may deposit the
amount in cash at time of fling his or
their bid. #
Said check or cash to be forfeited to
the county of Clatsop, state of Oregon,
II after an award is made or bid is ac-
cepted SAID bidder fails or refuses for
period Of two days to enter into con-
tract and file bond as may be re-
quired by the county court aforesaid.
Payments for said bridge to be made
by warrants drawn on a special fund
created by the county court Of Clat-
sop county, Oregon, at their regular
term in January, 1908, same being levy
of IL mills on the dollar for term
of four years. Bids to be sealed and
marked Proposals for Draw Bridge
across the Lewis and Clark River" and
fled in the office of the county clerk.
The county court, however, reserves
the right to reject any or all bids.
BY order of the County Court
J. c.. Clinton. Clerk.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-04-25
THE AsToRrAN PUBLISHING CO,
THE NATIONS PROBLEM.

What eX-HreSluthl NiSNeAaAAV Sss -
his admirable speech at the meeting
IN behalf of the Tuskegee institute
ahaut the solution OF the negro prob
lem resting mainly with the leading
and +, r,sponsihle white men Of the south
Is true. says the New York Tribune
So also is true DR.. Lyman Aoott $
statement that the problem is a ma
tional one, not the south's alone. We
,hink that reasonable men in both sec
tions win agree TO these two propo-
sit,ons which are not antagonistic,
though the extremists in both object
~ them, The southern demagogue
truculently declares the negro ques-
ton is no business of the north, and
ycsents the idea that either national
law or the broad interests of national
civilization make northern interest
anything but Phariseeism. The north
arner. on the other hand. who has
traditional views, gained largely In
wartime, thinks that the whole subject
is to be summed UP in the reconstruc-
tion amendments, and that all ques-
tions of expediency and southern SEN
tiInent count for naught.
They are both wrong. The ques-
iion is a southern question, in that
southern conditions must be consid-
cred, and the negro must, as a loyal
citizen OF the south, work out his des-
tiny in harmony with his white neigh
bols and with due regard for their
rights and the safeguarding Of their
civilization. The south must solve the
problem with such friendly aid as the
north can give in money and in SYM
pathy. but IT must solve it right, and
it is paramount national concern that
it be solved right, which no amount
of sympathy or lazy indifference or
fear Of stirring up strife or trouble
will permit the nation as whole to
lay aside.
We may agree perfectly with Mr..
Cleveland when he says that neither
the decree that made the slaves free
nor the enactment that suddenly in
vested them with the rights of citizen
ship any more purged them of their
social and slayery-bred imperfections
than it changed the color Of their
skins We may think southern OBJ
lection TO an illiterate electorate not
unnatural, and believe that the negro
may wisely put up with the denial
Of suffrage, evey by unjust indiscrimin-
alton, and devote himself along the
li,es laid down by General Armstrong
and Booker Washington TO making
himself prosperous and respected cit
izen. But we cannot forget that pa
thence has a goal. Endurance of dis
elimination, sympathetic attitude to-
ward the south while it is dealing with
the negro in its own way, is founded
on the distinct understanding that the
ultimate solution is the giving to ev-
cry negro as he shall become worthy
Of 1t the full measure of his civil and
political rights. We should have been
glad if Mr.. Cleveland, while so frankly
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-04-25
FOR 80 DAYS

offer for the next 90 days the follow
Ing lire Of cigars AT Portland prices;
Manara Banquet, SancanaE Y. IIya, I'll
Sidclo. El Telegratfo. FL Symphonic, La
Sorrento. La Belle Creole. Rosa Al
Mayo. Owls, Exports. chiids, oremas.
Sailor Prime. union label cigar.
Royal Bengals, two packags OF Dur.
ham free with each 100,
Manila Gems. for cents; Old vlr-
gInla Cheroots. for S cents: Porto
Ricnn cigars. 500 and 10 free.
Some bargains In Chewing and Smok-
ing Tobacco. Don't forget the fact that
prices will be satisfactory,
Pipes and Playing Cards. Cigar Hold
eis, Anber and Meerschaum.
Goods delivered TO all parts Of the
city free OF charge.
Agent for the Portland Safe and
Lock Company. Safes sold for cash or
on the installment plan. Call and see
amples and get prices.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-04-25
TO ALL PERSONS IN cLATsoP
COUNTY,

You are hereby notified that under
the law all caaea OF Infectious diseases
must be Immediately reported 10 me.
All births. deaths and buriais must al
30 be reported. That In case Of quar-
antlne being declared OF any person or
place. II Ia hereby made the duty Of the
Sheriff. all constablcs and other offic-
ers OF the county to see that same IL
enforced. 4 violation win subject the
person or persons 10 arrest and fine.
This order does not include the city Of
Astoria. as same IL subject TO orders Of
Its officers.
C. J. TRENCHARD.
County Judge and County Health Of
fcer,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-04-25
WORKING OVERTIME,

Eight hour laws are ignored by those
tlrciesa little workers-pr, Kings New
Life pilla Milliona are always at work.
night and day. curing indigestion. bill.
louancas, constipation. alex headache
and all stomach. liver and bowel
troubles Easy, pleasant. safe, sure.
Only IS eenta at Charles Rogers' drug
store,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-04-25

U, s. Engineer office, Portland. Ore.
March IS. ipOs, Sealed proposals win
be received here FOR 4T0.Ooo tons. more
or ltas. stone for extension of lefty at
mouth Of Columbia river. Greg. and
Wash. until II a, m, April 90. 1908,
and then pablisly opened Intorma-
ton on application. W. G. Laagfllt,
Cart EnErH,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-04-25
TT SAVED His LEG.

p. A. Danforth Of Ladrange. Ga.
suffered for ak months with trighteui
running aore on hIa leg. but writes
that nuekisn's Arnica salve wholly
cured II In ave days, For ulcers.
wounds. plies, it's the bes, salve In
the world. Cure guaranteed. Only IS
cents, Sold by Charles Rogers. drug
gist.