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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-13
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1908.
CANDIDATE ANNOUNCEMENTS.

For advertisements under this head ourprees
are cash IN advance.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-13

LASHLEE-W are authorized 10 announce
W. A. LAsHLEE as a candidate for election to
she Office of Trustee of Benton County, subject
TO the action of the Democratic party. Primary
election Saturday, December 10, 1903.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-13

IF it suits the union the world
would like to have the ST. Louis
fair open on time, please.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-13
FOR TRUSTEE.

FRY-We are authorized 10 announce +. Is.
Fry as a candidate for election TO the office OF
Trustee of Benton County, subject TO the action
Of the Democratic party. Primary electionSat-
uraay, December 10, 1898.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-08

of male immigration and the higher
male birth rate, is more than 1000. 600
IN excess of the female. The span of
lie IS, on the average, longer for a
woman h a for a man, and the mar
rlageable age for women is several
years younger han the average for
men. AS a consequence of this the
number of widows is very largely in
excess of the number of widowers. the
hgures being 2, zoe, 200 and 1000, 900, re-
spectively.
Ihere are more divorced women who
nave not remarked than there are di-
Vorced men, and for all these reasons
the number of the single men of mar
rlaSeable is larger than the num-
Der of single ome In New York it
IS 100000, in Pennsylvania 10000. in
OHIO 10000, in Illinois 200. 900. in CAL
ltornia 100000, in Texas 10000 and in
Kansas $4,000. In Massachusetts the
number of unmarried men exceeds the
umbe of unmarried WOmen by only q
few thousand. In Utah there are 35.-
GOO unmarried men and %. 900 unmar-
r1ed women of manageable age. In
Washington, the capital, the number
of single men is 1900 and of single
Women about the same-San Francisco
Argonaut.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-08

Paul and see the lucre.- and on the
train the cowboy ~prospector told him
the story.
THE cowboy had been in the state
OF Oregon looking for gold when he
mad met this man, the brother, and they
had worked together, sharing all things
ankle and came to love each other like
brothers.. A short time after their
meeting they fell in with an Indian
who also had the gold fever. They
LOOK him into the party and made him
an equal partner with themselves. They
eventually, after the most awful suf-
ferinS, struck it rich. and all they had
TO do was to wash the creek and pack
the stuff. While thus engaged the
brother of the st. Cloud man contracted
a fever and died; but. before the end.
old his partners that he was about
to leave a trust with them. He spoke
of his folks in Minnesota for the first
time. and left it with the other two
to see that his brother in st. Cloud got
the thSd of the gold which was to have
been his own. They had melted the
metal INTO two bricks for safety in
transportation. and all they desired was
to have it weighed, tested, sold, and
each to receive his rightful third.
This all seemed to be fair and
square enough. The man was taken
out to the Indian tepee where Gleason
ulu I1e 1luIdH character IN the most
beautiful and approved style. The
bricks were so constructed that they
could be bored in four places each
clear through-and shown to be the
real thing. This was done. The bor-
ings were tested. The two. Bush and
he victim. were coming into town TO
have the bricks weighed and exchanged
for coin, when they stopped at the
Merchants hotel for some reason. and
there Paul was recognized by a de-
tective. He was shrewd. and knew
that it was all off, but before the party
got to the station he had convinced the
victim tina all the police were after
were the bricks-that the 'coppers'
wanted to do them out of their wealth.
And the mar was convinced of this.
so much so that the hardest matter
the police found about it all was to
prove to the man that he would most
assuredly have been buncoed.
Paul is now in New York-no. 1
have no idea what he is doing, but
you a bet that it's nothing honest
nor honorable"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-08

for the. trolley car; and that's the dry,
hard summer. About the worst to
contend with is the wet, slushy sleet
that often falls in this part Of the
country. 1t makes what is known
among railroad men as q bad rail-
The wheel n grip it and sane is
only wasted. Then there is another
thing h sleet affects, though this is
not so bad now, with the old cars the
slush is thrown into the motor, which
is uncovered except In the very latest
kind of car. And any electrician will
tell you that no motor can work right
when slush is thrown into it. The old
style car has an open motor, but the
new ones all lave the motor hooded, or
covered with a thin sheet steel cap,
which protects it from dust as we'll
as slush.
Yes, they can get up all manner Of
improvements to help out the motor
man, u no nan can make a machine
that will help the conductor any"
And the last thing the reporter saw
as he left the car at Wabasha street
was his conductor friend endeavoring
to tell an irate old woman that it was
not his fault that she had not told him
it had been her intention to get off at
ST. Peter street.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-08
New Light
Upon Siberia

Special Correspondence of The Globe.
IRKUTSK, Siberia, Feb. 20.-Some-
how the outside world always takes an
interest in this region, and my recent
wanderings have supplied me with a
number of up-to-date facts on many
local conditions which 1 think are
worth embodying in a letter.
The construction Of the trans-Sibe-
rian railroad and the universal interest
it has created for years, suggests to me
a remark or two concerning the status
here of civil engineers, as professional
men. 1t is a curious fact that employ-
ment for them is usually secured by
the adroit manipulation of influence.
There is also bribery everywhere, and
the engineer who is unwilling to bride
when he is looking for an engagement
is likely to be a long time looking for
it. Very lately his occurred: A good
appointment was vacant; a thoroughly
competent civil engineer was anxious
to get it. He lacked, in fact, no neces-
sary qualification except the inclina-
ton to give brides. But though he
was an excellent engineer, he was a
very poor Upper, and when the official
on whose recommendation of candi-
dates the bestowal of the office denend-
ed found that he could eXtort no bak-
sheesh, or discern n prospect of an
offer in that direction, be Endorsed the
application unfavorably, merely stat
ing, however. sa Rsound for this ae-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-08

ton, that for private reasons he was
unable to advise the candidates APP
pointment. He had no private rea-
sons whatever for tIjcning down this
candidate, but had n purely per-
sonal, he could not get n blackmail.
But VIA a manner of disposing Of a
professional mans standing, damning
him by indirect Implications doing
so without the least legitimate ground.
The communication being official and
private, there remained no legal re-
course for the victim; he could not
take action for his own vindication. 1t
is a remarkable, yet in anotherssense
not so remarkable fact, that this black
mailing official who turned down the
deserving civil engineer, has since fed
the country under suspicion of having
been mixed up in large frauds which
occurred in connection with the build
ing of the trans-Siberian n Man
churian railroads. This is the sort Of
thing that occurs daily in Siberia. Sim
liar acts of injustice and-dishonesty
on the part of officials who possess
appointive powers are looked on as
things which must necessarily occur in
the common routine. The low morale
of Siberian official life generally can
we'll be understood by this.
The Siberian peasant may be OBJ
served with considerable interest and
profit. 1 do not know how he may nave
Jared in the past, but today he fares
pretty we'll in the matter of food sup
plies. He is we'll supplied with those
things the dairy, the hen roost and the
farm furnish to the sons Of men, al
though he has not as much uga OH
his bread, sugar is very dear now in
Siberia, nor as much fruit to eat, as
has the Russian proper.
The village gymnasium is one of his
summer recreations, and while it is
crude in construction it is an almost
invariable object in every village. And
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-08

every householder has his1Russian
steam bath, but it is scarcely SO e1ab-
crate as what in the United States We
call by the same name. The Siberian
simply builds a rough wooden hut in
the rear of his house, builds a fire In
the center Of the floor, and above the
fire constructs a cairn of stones, upon
which, when they get very hot, water
is Sprinkled to generate steam, and the
effort to generate steam by this process
is very successful, as you would real
ize fully If you had been, as 1 have,
inside of these bath huts.
Wooden houses are the rule in ST.
berian towns, and wood also is used
for the footways, the carriageways be-
ing perhaps the worst-for mud or
dust, according to the season-that /
have ever seen. As concerns architec-
ture, what strikes n mostin the ST.
berian towns is the prevalence of
churches and the size of the same. If
there was as much genuine piety as
there IS outward, architectural preten-
sion to it, Siberia would perforce take
rank as the hottest of lands. More of
the outward profession of religion is to
be noticed in the custom of "blessing"
every dwelling when it is finished. But.
the cost of the religious ceremony is
much Bwer than that of the alcoholic
celebration which follows Invariably.
Besides churches, the chief structures
in Siberian urban communities are the
dwellings occupied by governors, and
the barracks erected for soldiers. Now
it is usually characteristic of military
barracks in the Occident, that the san
it9rV Q~n1irQn1antc oro &c Io,foo4 -
they well car be, but in zSiberiazit is
quite different, sanitation taking a
back seat with a vengeance. The
stone, sometimes of wood, but the
wooden walls are of great thickness,i in
order to keep out the cold, which here
in January is So below zere; cent?
grade. The finest room in the COVER
nor's house is the zaIa, or salon, where
official receptions are held. ' 70S p
To refer again to the barracks. if
must be said that there is scant pro-
vision for comfort, and in the barracks
rooms n sees stained walls. and nm
scrubbed deal tables, which would not
be tolerated in an American barracks
The typical Siberian prison of melo-
Drama and popular imagination, al
though 1t was once an actuality, has
given place to something a good deal
better in every respect. =
n majority of the Siberian dwelling
houses are one-story, but city houses
are often two stories high. The heat
ing of houses is accomplished in a
n which seems curious to an
American or European.ef7A large stove
Which stands in the center. of the house.
heats all of the four rooms which the
house contains. This stove has an
oven combination. This arrangement
is perfect In it's way; it heats the
dwelling in a fashion which leaves
nothing to be desired.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-08
Street Car Conductor
Tells Of His Many Trials

gets off at Wabasha street, and as she
stands or the platform before alight-
ing she hunts for her pocket to get a
nickel. l stand with my hand held
out till I'm tired, and then she ex-
claims, We'll, what'm I thinking off
I'd like to tell her that l can't think,
I'm sure, but it seems that her purse
is in her reticule and she has just re-
membered it. She gets there at last,
however, and as she steps off l heave
a sigh of relief. l can't help It."
What effects have the different
kinds of weather on the running of
the cars?"
Weather Has Its Effects.
Cali sorts and conditions-just as
varied as the weather. And each sort
has its own kind of uncomfortable feel
ing, too. Heavy snow retards our
progress badly-though this is greatly
done away with of late years by the
improvements in snow shovels. But
it is during the extreme cold that the
conductor gets the worst of it. The
motorman has the stove at his end,
and the front is tightly closed, too,
while l am most of the time in the
open And then is the time, what with
cold, numb fingers and half-frozen face
l ring up two fares for one; and l
have to turn in what the register calls
for, n if 1 have rung up two fares
instead of one, 1 can't hold up the
next fare, oh 10, n doe snot know
who is on the car, see?"
Il suppose" sale the passenger, that
by that you refer to 'spotters.' Did
0 yer see one?"
Never that 1 know of, and I've been
some years in the service. You might
be one for all 1 know to the contrary.
speaking about weather, there is
only n really good kind of weather
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-08
BACHELOR WOMEN
NOT VERY CHUMMY
Those in Business Have a Few Chosen
lntimates.

Those in Business Have a Few Chosen
Intimates.
The bachelor woman in business is
not as lonesome a creature as some
people imagine. All have the faculty Of
choosing friends whose society is con-
genial and with whom they can spend
a leisure hour pleasantly and proftably.
Like herself the chum of the bachelor
woman has eschewed matrimony.
The college girls and the college
boys chum is a mere temporary, In
consequent. accessory compared with
the settled woman's chum.
There are bachelor women chums in
all large cities who have been goinG
about together steadily and success
fully for seven, eight or ten years and
lend to each other all the attentions
possible between times in business.
Unde ordinary circumstances, per-
haps, women would not be close friends
for so long. They would fall out about
sWeetheartS or over rivalry in dress,
looks or ambitions. But the confirmed
bachelor woman has no such disturb
ances in her life, so the cnums are
pretty well content to spend their ex-
ira earnings in each others company
and fill each for each the social needs
Of life.
The two write letters to each other
in intervals of office work, see each
other always on Sundays and at least
one evening in the week. And at
Christmas or on birthdays they ex-
change presents like the gift lovers
choose-candy, lockets and chains with
the dear ones features enshrined in
the lOcket.
The bachelor woman always calls her
chum by a name of her own invention
and that holds nc on an1aa ry,,a1+ Ia
tween them. She pays her little COM
pliments, heartens her up when blue
or sick and altogether stands in a very
welcome relation.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-08
AT LAST DIVORCE
HAS A DEFENDER

Marriage Needs Regulation More Than
the Dissolution of the Tie.
There is a general demand throughout
the United States for the enactment of
more gstAngent divorce laws. A recent
writer ms an Eastern magazine. however.
presents some reasons for regarding di-
Yorce5as4the only practicable way out OF
an uHfoI1unate situation in many cases
and points out what he considers to be
the. true solution Of the matrimonial prob
lem. He says:
I've are told that the institution of di-
xorce separates husbands and wives and
ther from the truth. Divorce never sep
arates' just as the marriage ceremony
never un1tes. Each is but the symbol,
the sign, which fits seal upon that
Which took place before. If the husband
and wife find that they have made a mis-
take and that the lives of both are made
Wfetcned by the mutual companionShip
it is their duty to separate and obtain
freedom by legal process.
II Is a mistake, a perversion of the
truth, to make the statement that homes
are being wrecked in this way. No
nome that is a horne indeed has been
broken by divorce, and none will be, for
TINS legal step is but the closing scene OF
the last act in a domestic tragedy. 1t is
a crime TO rear children in a home life
where Iather and mother are mutually
aohorrent, where love dwells not, where
the contact OF parents serves to bring
out all the innate evil of their nature in.
stead OF being an inspiration to virtue.
Ihe rational, reasonable way to min
1mize divorce is TO place barriers against
easy matrimony and make marriage a bull
Wark OF sincere and holy purpose against
winch the waves of youthful impetuosity
and unripe affection will dash in vain.
The greatest social evil in our country
IS the marrying habit. There is practical
~ no check on marrt5g e, and young peo-
pie wed at will and at times in haste,
with an angry parentS in pursuit. Even
those below lawful age find little diff
Guilty in getting the protection of law and
are pronounced mar led.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-08

man in which figured some supposed
mining stock, which was in the state
of Washington somewhere. The meth
cd of doing the work was like this:
Bush would take a trip out to Wash
ington, let us say, and locate some
good stock and get acquainted with
the man who owned it. He would also
become familiar with the method in
which this man was marketing his
stock and where h selling was be-
ing done.
Into this very section Paul would
go with 'phoney' stock in the shape
of bonds. The advance advertising
was done for him by the real owner
of the stock and when Bush began his
operations he could allay any fears
concerning the genuineness of the
bonds by asking the prospective buyer
to wire the real owner, or a banker,
in the place where the mine was sup
posed to exist, and where it did in real
ity exist, and ask about it's value. OF
course the owner, when he received
the telegram, would imagine the in
quiry was the result of his advertising
and would answer that everything was
lovely. The result was, of course,
that Paul Immediately closed his deal
and then left for greener fields and
pastures new.
Blu the greatest trick he ever at
tempted to turn was when he tried to
sell the gold brick to a st. Cloud man
and almost succeeded in landing his
game.
Used Mans Dead Brother.
He got onto the fact hat a certain
prominent mar in st. Cloud had had
a brother who at one time had left
for the far West to engage in the min
ing business. But hearing nothing of
3hic Irnthar tho - q In CT rJD,,l ~
urally supposed that he had fallen a
prey to the Indians-such a supposition
was natural in those days. Paul, in
| some manner, learned all these facts.
and, dressing up in buckskin array,
he essayed the role of cowboy and
prospector, having brought from Chi
| cage two very fine specimens Of the
genus gold brick.
His pal, COMFY Gleason, took the
part of an Indian, and he did it well.
Without the paint and feathers he
would easily pass muster az a half
breed, but when he donned the blanket
and other accoutrements of the red
man he was a perfect type.
They planned their work we'll and
carefully, and had it not been for the
accidental stumbling of n of the city
detectives upon his plant, all might
have went well with him.
Paul ~journeyed to st. Cloud alone
and approached the citizen in the hes
itating, innocent, hating ann of the
Westerner, for he was a consummale
actor, and asked if his name was So
and-so The st. Cloud man replied
that it was, and asked the business of
his visitor with him. Paul then ask
ed him about the missing brother and
the victim was at first rather uncertain
about the matter. but when told that
his visitor had been a mining partner
of the dead man, and that he had left
some wealth to dispose of for him.
memory began to assert herself and
resume her normal functions. He was
certain, then, that he had just such
a brother, and demanded to know
where the wealth was. He was in
| formed that it vas down in st. Paul
with his Indian partner who would not
come to st. Cloud for reasons that nc
man could obtain from him. The ST
| Cloud man consented t to St
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-08

The simplest remedy Tor indigestion. constipation
biliodEnesE and the many ailments arising from O
dfsOrdered stomach, liver or bowels is Kipans Tap
ules. They have accomplished wonders, and their
timely aid removes the necessity Of calling q physi
clan for many little ills that beset mankind. They
gostraight to the seat of the trouble, relevethe die
tress, cleanse the affected parts, and giveth system
Scr an ordinary occasion. The family bottle. 60 centA
B Gains q supply forayear, All druggists sell thspa
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-08
'aul Bush, Gold Brick Man
and How He Operated

Paul Bush has been turned up in
New York, 1 see," said one of st. Paurs
detectives yesterday.
Let's see! 1t must now be about
eleven years since Paul Bush did any
operating obout st. Paul or Minneapo-
lis, but he kept things rather warm
for a little while. His favorite grant
when he went after big game, which
was seldom was that of the gold
brick method, or when he could not
get his partner, COMFY Gleason to
aid him by playing the indian role ia
that game he would turn his attention
to some Of the more ordinary con
games.
"On one occasion he was arrested
here in the Windsor hotel just as he
was about to close a deal with a local
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-08
"Niquer Demus."

The other night Dan Young, one of the
old-time walters in Nash & Crooks res
taurant- in the original Times building,
preached in a negro church near Firty-
third street. He is known as BLACK
Dan," on account of his ebony hue. When
he waits on a customer he endeayors to
savepa soul His text was "Nicodemus.
He spoke of him as one of the richest
men of his day, who held high office.
But, brethren, he didn't have the cour-
age of his convictions!' exclaimed Dan.
his Nicodemuss. With DR.. Crum fresh
in their thoughts. Dams hearers met at
the Club that night and "~'argufed" over
this niger Demus.'' At last accounts
they had not placed him, but it is likely
that President Roosevelt will near of the
case, with demand that something be
done at once.-NeW York Press.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-08
No Waitlnd for Him.

The physicians We're holding a consul
tation beside the cot of the mar supposed
to nave appendicitis concealed about his
II believe" said one of the surgeons.
stronger before cutting into him"
Before the other prospective operators
could reply the patient urned his head
and remarked feehly:
What do You take me fora cheese?''
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-08
THEY WERE NEVER
VICTIMS OF CUPID

More Bachelors Than Old Maids in
Census Enumeration.
1t is estimated that there are now in
the United Staes $500, 900 more single
men of manageable age than there
are single women, the official figures
being as follows: Unmarried men,
10,44S,153; unmarried girls and wom-
en-, 7,573,819. The male population of
the United States, through the excess
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-31
BONDS
WANT WAR.
Young Chinese Ready to Volunteer to
oppose Russian Aggression.

VICTORIA, b. c., May 90.-Advices re-
ceived by the steamer Tartar from Picking
state that Prince Ching has rendered his
resignation on the ground of poor health.
but the Emperor and Empress Dowager
refused to accept it and instructed him to
recuperate his health. The Prince is suffer
ing from a throat complication.
The Department of War at Picking has
given Instructions TO the Governor General
of Sin-kiang TO go TO Picking TO report the
existing condition of the Russian military
movement in Manchuria and also TO decide
on further administrative policies.
Several mass meetings of Chinese students
have been held at Shanghai. at which pro-
tests were drawn up regarding Russian
action in Manchuria and against Governor
Wang Chi Chan of Kwang-Si in securing
French troops 10 suppress troubles in that
province. kilograms were sent to Picking
urging tina China declare war against
Russia To protect her rights. The students,
100 in number, offered to form a battalion
Of volunteers.
NikOlaskolessof. Of the Russian legation
at Peking. in an interview. says that Russia
intends To keep $4,000 troops in Manchuria
as railway guards, towns being built along
the railway and military centers estab-
liShed.