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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-05-29

The advantage Of every word spoken lu
its presence. while the deaf child only
has the advantage Of seeing the mouth
OF the person It happens to be looking
at OF who Is talking 10 Il. The DIFF
ference must be made up 10 the deaf
child by a great amount OF repetition
OF the words and the language 4 Is be-
Ing taught. Deaf babies begin 10 say
.'ma-ma.ma' just as hearing babies do,
but as a rule they are not encouraged
IN repeating the word. II they we're
and we're properly guided to further
articulation they would talk The or
binary practice, however when an in-
FAINT is discovered TO be deaf IS to
make no further effort to teach Il to
talk or read the lips. but Immediately
10 begin motions with Il.
"Just here begins the cruel system
OF training the deaf differently from
the hearing, and making them feel
from the very outset Of life that they
are peculiarly unlike those around
them. The truth is that Il is the.
faulty system Of training that makes
them different by depriving them, dur
ing their infancy, before school age, OF
the free and constant communication
with other minds which the hearing
have. There is a popular delusion
that the vocal organs OF deaf children
are defective. The fact IS that such
cases are rare exceptions, and that as
a rule. their vocal organs are normal.
The articulation OF consonant sounds
depends On certain positions OF the
lips, tongue, teeth and palate. The
quality OF vocal sounds depends on
certain positions Of the tongue. Amy
deaf child who can cry and scream,
and has lips, tongue, teeth and pal
ate. has the necessary vocal organs for
speech.
Until society learns that by doing
its whole duty to the deaf they can
become like normal people we shall
need efficiently and intelligently con-
Quoted homes for the training in
speech Of deaf children.
The work of this generation should
be to establish such homes, and if the
work is done as it ought TO be the
next generation will thus learn to do
the work for all deaf children in their
own homes. And 1t will by that time
become as natural to parents and to
the community to give them exactly
the same training through the eye as
they give hearing children through
the ear."-Washington Star.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-05-29
A Duel About Concert Ticket.

The well-known German musical
critic, Anton Sygietynski, attended a
concert at the Philharmonic hall at
Marschau for the purpose Of writing
a notice of the performance. When
he arrived at the hall he found his
seat occupied He therefore handed
back mis- ticket to the manager, Alex
ander Reichmann.
The manager regarded this action
as an insult, made use Of offensive
remarks and called an attendant for
the purpose of expelling the critic.
On the following day the critic sent
his seconds to the manager, and the
duel took place, with what result is
not known. But the affair, according
to the Westminster Gazette, came into
court, and the critic was sentenced
to three and the manager to one days
police arrest.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-05-29
MAINE A COMMERCIAL POWER.
Granite, Lumber and Shipping Are
important Factors.

important = dGkGISs
The commercial growth of Maine has
been rapid during the past few years
more so than most people realize. The
country has somewhat looked upon that
state as one vast forest, with every
man north of Augusta a lumberman,
and nearly every man south of the
capital as a sea captain. The great pine
forests are, of course, the center of a
great industry, especially at this time
of the year, when the lumber jacks are
romping through the woods, whose
stiffness is only broken by the re-
echoing crash of the mighty spruce
trees. This is one Of Names great in
dustries, and another is granite quarry
ing. The people live largely from the
things produced on their own land, and
during the past few years they have
burrowed and blasted deep into it in
search of wealth, and great has been
their reward. Maine is much more than
the playground of the East, with Bar
JHarbor, the Rangeleys and Moose
head Lake as the social centers. Out
siders have seen the logging roads in
the wilderness, the scattering quarries
on the hills and near the coast, while
along every river they have heard the
water rushing through the sideways
or crashing over the great dams. Few
of them have realized that Maine has
taken her stand along with the other.
great producing states, is utilizing her
vast waterpower, is cutting into her
great forests more ruthlessly than
ever, is seeing more cotton and pulp
mills built. But still her little schoon-
ers go busily dancing up and down the
coast, directed by the long gray
bearded men who made the state fam
Gus for her fishing and canning indus
try, and now their quick, nervous sons
are developing the vast iterior into a
commercial power.-Springfeld Repub-
| lican.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-05-29

50 engrossed had we been in our
game that we had paid but little at
tention to what was going on above,
and we were hardly aware that the
staysail, foretopsail, balloon jib and
maintopsail had already been taken in.
But that last order brought us up all
standing, for we knew that it would
never have been given without need.
Il grabbed my REFER from its hook
and pushed my arms through the
sleeves, damned my cap down on my
head, pulled on my mittens and made
a jump for the companionway Things
were lively enough outside. A living
gale was blowing, and the spray flew
over the bow, as the Never Fear heeled
to her lee rail, cut through the tum-
bling seas. The sky was perfectly
clear and dark blue, and the stars
shone large, cold and brilliant
"In few seconds the deck swarmed
with men. The halyards were Stacked
away, the bull-rope hauled out, ear
rings passed, and we began to knot
the reef points. AS first hand took
my place at the end of the boom,
which was very long one, running
out almost 16 feet beyond the stern.
Right under me, as worked, was the
log Line, shimmering with phosphor-
escence where it skinned the surface,
like a cord of fire. I remember think
ing how high our speed must be to
make the line turn so rapidly.
Il had been out on the boom again
and again in much rougher weather,
and never given the danger a second
thought. A man will run certain risk
nine times and escape. The 10th time
he is punished for his carelessness.
This was my 10th time.
MY duty took me a little longer
than the others, and by the time l had
finished there was nobody else work.
ing on the boom. l had just tide the
last knot when the schooner gave a
sudden roll to windward: / lurched
back, lost my footing and in an in
slant was flung into the water. AS |
sank gave a shout for help, and the
last sound that reached my ears as the
waves closed over me was Johnson's
cry Of alarm:
Man overheard! Man overheard!
Il was heavily and warmly dressed.
had on thick fisherman's boots, and
leather jacket under my REFER, and
so was in no condition for swimming.
My situation was a desperate one. A
man who falls in the night from a YES
sci moving so rapidly as the Never
Fear stands but little chance of living
to tell of it.
CAS- my head came above water,
shot an anxious glance in the direction
where l supposed the vessel to be. She
was nowhere in sight! For a few sec
onds l tasted the bitterness of certain
death. Then was lifted from the
trough of the sea by a hugh comber
and saw the Never Fear so feet away
At the same instant down across TIT
pillows came the should:
Light the torch!
"a few minutes before had beer
warm and comfortable in the cabi1
over my game Of checkers. Now I wa
fighting for my life in the freezing
seas. A great wave overwhelmed me
plotting the schooner from my viey
once more. When I was lifted alof
on the crest of the next comber tn
vessel was 25 feet farther away.
Hope was almost dead within me
when suddenly I saw the log line, Xix
ray of light, cutting the. waves ne2
by. That line represented life to me.
made a grab at it, but missed it alto
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-05-29
THE HIGHER PIONEERING.

Let mo go where my Bockonor bids mo to
stray
I will travel no path and no road for a day;
/ will leave, too, tho highways thrown up
for the mind
Where tho Beokoner calls me travel re-
signed
by the base Of the mount and tho shore Of
tho stream
/ will think no mans thought and viii
dream no mans dreani
But, 10 my wise freedom, I'll deem them az
naught
And III dream my own dream and I'll think
my own thought
For why IN these woods should journey
apau2
go IN these forests to and my own heart,
And leave tho wide scramble for praise and
for pelf
To hear the best things I can say to myself
The footballs OF payements are sweet TO my
ear
And tho roar OF the city Is music to hear;
Lot man meet with men; but his life Is not
Till he goes in waste places and talks with
his soul.
Rank vines, undiscovered, spring forth from
its sod
There are ungathered grapes In these Gar
dens OF God.
There are arbors Of silence for souls to
rejoice,
Where we take OF our sandals and wait for
the Voice.
There are rivers OF healing we'll worthy Of
quest
There are Mountains of Vision and Valleys
OF Rest
talk, In their silent serenities curled,
With the soul of my soul and the heart Of
the world.
Sam Walter Foss.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-05-29

inc face Of the earth Is q wide stretch Of
ground,
And the best OF the world Is forever un-
found.
And new worlds galore, IN their solitude
dumb,
Await the Columbus who never will como.
There are sights no one sees that await to
be seen
There are streamlets Of silver and grottoes
Of green,
II you'll leave the high road houses, peo-
Piles and goods.
and tho maln-travelod turnpIkes and take
TO the woods
Oh, tho highways were built for The idle and
blind
But ! have an uneKplored planet to find.
must leave the worn road, 1 have no time
60 spare;
have pioneer business to do everywhere.
There are oaks In yon forests no woOdman
has sought.
And their branches are loaded with apples
There are thick tangled arches that span
lonely streams
Whose creepers are bending with clusters Of
dreams.
I want some good stories; my life has
shrunk dry;
Let me talk with the earth and commune
with the sky;
Lot me list to the song that the pine giants
roar
All, here's new meter unheard heretofore
The loud brook Is babbling; I'll hush and
draw near
All, news from old Nature I'm lucky to hearl
as down the loud gorges its rapids are
whirled
Il sings of the health OF the life OF the world
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-05-29
The Worst.

If the worst comes to the worst a
man can generally get a job as bill
Observation-Disclosures Record.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-05-29
Varieties Of Fungus.

Thirty-nire thousand six hundred
and three varieties Of fungus arr
known to bo-anists
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-19
Mir. Williams and verdaman.

J. s. Williams of Mississippi, mem- Der of congress, has seen fit to speak out openly and unreservedly in favor of the election of Major Vardaman as the democratic candidate for governor of Mississippi. He says he will vote in the second primary, to be held August 27, for Major Vardaman.
 He does this. although he knows the Greenwood statesman has spoken ap- proyingly of lynching, and desires to break up the states educational sys- tenn, insisting that any education of negro children is hurtful. He cannot plead ignorance of Major Vardaman's 5 position, because tho latter talks them daily from every stump, with many similar blanks thrown in.
 Mr Williams is candidate for dem- ocratic leader of the house, and the Vardaman issues will, through him, no doubt, be carried into Presidential campaign of 1904. The republicans will see that the Vardaman issues are under such circumstances rehearsed on every nortIern stump.
 MT. Williams should at any rate make known his views as to lynching and negro education. He cannot afford to swallow whole the vagaries of Major Vardaman, and if he does do that the democrats of the house cannot afford to make Mr. Williams their leader. The vardaman campaign, and its peculiar issues, will be acted over, if not in states unborn, at least in accents un- Known, especially during the coming Presidential campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-19

the treaty is dead. Treaties with Mic. aragua and Costa Rica are ready, it is said, for neeaful signatures, when they tkey can be sent to the ratifying bodies.
 President Roosevelt could not rem der the country a better service than to decide at once that he will build q canal on the Nicaragua route. The hold-up of Colombia, or rather of the continental railroads, is enough to pro- yoke saint, ana the sooner Senator Morgan's route is selected the sooner an isthmian canal will be built. The Colombian hold-up, rotten and retro. gressiye as it is, is intolerable, and this country should wash it's hands of the entire affair, and proceed to build without delay canal on the Nicaragua route. If need be the senate should De assembled next month in order to ratify without delay treaties with Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-19
MISSION OF A LIBRARY.
m the Philadelphia Telegraph.

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
 There are multitudes of people who have but lately begun to read books, and who but for much that the more dis eliminating would reckon devoid of lit- erary merit might be forever barred from the enjoyment of the library. It is TO- mantle attraction of the latest novel that often awakens an interest in books, and if it seem to cease there and take the reader only by slow and painful pro- cesses to a classical work of literature. to really great piece of fiction, to po- etry, history or the essay. some will cer- tainly pass over the line in safety. Even those who will advance no further will We expect few which are morally bad and which will not be added to the lists of any properly conducted library-than will have come into their sordid lives from most other sources. Undeniably the free library's mission Is to encourage the reading habit among all classes of the people-to direct that reading where it can, but always to make and hold the public with books which will satisfy the crude as we'll as the higher taste in the hope of permanently widening the culture circle. The library which will honestly strive along these lines will make itself one of the most useful and potent factors in public education.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-19
Sweet smoke of rhetoric.
 Loves Labor Lost.
Reliance and Shamrock.

The long series of races for the possession of the Americas cup, ex- tending over more than half a century, will be resumed tomorrow, and fine races, the finest perhaps of the long series, are anticipated. The racing yachts that will sail over the long course near Sandy Hook are merely wind contrivances designed to cleave the waters either in a wind or in 8 calm. There is nothing utilitarian in their makeup. They are expensive and artistic toys, ninety feet long, and no money has been spared in making them speedy.
 The America won the cup at Cowes on August 22, 1851, and England has never since been able to carry it back, although she has sent here fine boats and skillful sailors. The evolution of the racing yacht from the America has been remarkable, and tomorrow the Reliance and the Shamrock III will sail, and a close inspection shows that each has adopted the others good points, until the two are almost ex- actly alike in all essential respects. Up to twenty years ago the races were between seagoing boats, but of late they have been confined to racing ma chimes which could not cross the sea under their own sails. Speed is every thing in the. racing machine and utility nothing
 The old America of 1852 is still afioat and seaworthy, and it would be well if return could be made to boats equally good and useful A contestant should be required to cross the sea under her own sails unaided or even unaccompanied by tug or steamer Races between real boats instead of toys would not be so speedy, but they would be equally interesting and vastly more practical. No matter which wins tomorrow, ship construction or naviga- ftion will not be advanced particle. It is simply sport between two gamey contestants, and the general public lHoes not seem to care which wins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-19
COTTON BALE OF 1872.

From the Commercial Advertiser.
 "The Brown cotton corner" says New Orleans man, lis taking great deal of queer cotton to New Orleans. The staple has become so valuable, that the owners of cotton gins are scraping the floors, and have made up several bales of waste cot ton. Perhaps the most extraordinary bale, however, is one that arrived there from Georgia. It was the cropj of 1872, and Is consequently thirty-one years old. Its owner held out for sixteen cents that year, but when the market broke and cotton went down. he swore he would never sell it for less than sixteen cents.
 When cotton went tip to fourteen cents in New Orleans he shipped it there. to be ready for the sixteen cents he pledged himself to, with orders to his agent to sell whenever that figure was reached. The cotton has been stored in one room, for thirty-one years, and Is thoroughly dried out. It lost fifty pounds in tie pro- cess. Experts declare the staple to be as good as ever."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-19
LEARNING THE WORLD.

From the New York Press.
 The father who desires his son to learn the ways of the world its seamy side particularly, might do worse than put ting him in the messenger service, where he will not become an ascetic and where he Is likely to see more in six months than he would see in any other calling in ten years. Here is sample of the life, however. that does not appeal: A smart boy was hired to go on d steam boat excursion which lasted twelve hours. The politicians who desired his services kept him trotting for drinks and sand wiches all day, and never so much as thought of giving him bite to eat or a swallow of water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-19
IN HOTEL HOBBIES.
Department of Journalism.

Many practical newspaper men are making fun of Mir Pulitzer for giving s. e0o,0OO to Columbia University for the purpose of founding department of jour nallsm and I do not suppose that any newspaper worker imagines that the scheme will prove successful said an old editor. who worked his way from ihe position of a police court reporter
 T do not know of any set of profess sional men who find good education more helpful than reporters. nor do l know of any that would profit g little by theory in newspaper york. Comm sr- cial colleges are useful IF thsi- way but the best accountants are those wfo learned how right at the desk as all un- derstudy of the head bookkeeper. A sreat business these days Is railroading hnl what railroad manager or president would take any stock In college that pretended to give lessons in transportation or traf- fic matters. The only way to learn how to handle trains or compete for freight or passenger traffic is in the hard, prac- tical school. The superintendent rises, as a rule, from the position of yardmas- ter or train dispatcher; the general freight agent from a clerkship in the tra1- fc department. And so in the writing department of newspaper practical ex- perience is needed, not professional the- ery.
 Those persons who look with favor upon pedagogues in journalism might point to the fact that the doctor never practiced successfully until he had had several years of experience with the sics and dying; that the lawyer never amount ed to much until he had handled cases; and yet medical colleges and law colleges were found indispensable for training can didates for the respective professions ai- luded to- But the teehnic which the re- porter and editor requires is altogether peculiar and must be absorbed rather than taught"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-19
Panama Canal is Dead.

The Panama canal bill was passed more than a year ago, and the treaty between the United States and Colom- bia was ratified in this country last March. The Colombian congress met in June, and now we are told that the Eccmmittee on the treaty in the Colom- bian senate first reported it with nine substantial amendments" and then killed 1t altogether. No one in this country is permitted to know what those amendments are. All cablegrams are strictly censored, and Bogota is all most as much out of the world as Thibet. An open door in Colombia is needed as well as one in Manchuria.
 It is well known, however, that the lobby of the trans-continental rail roads had transferred the scene of it's operations from Washington to Bogota, hnd that it was engaged in filling the Colombians with all sorts of yarns that the scheme is unconstitutional that it would prevent railroad develop ment in Colombia-that the price of fered is too low-that the clericals would use the money to destroy the liberals, and so on to the end of the chapter It is lne work of men in this country who want no isthmian canal, aided perhaps by the reactionists in a reactionary, little, sleepy republic.
 Such men can be defeated in one way only, namely, by adopting and putting in operation at once the clause in the act of last June providing that if satisfactory terms cannot be secured from Colombia within reasonable time the President shall proceed to dig a canal on the Nicaragua route. No leg islation is leeded-nothing but action on the part of the President. Will he do it at the expense of his campaign fund? This is the vital question at present
 Action should be taken at once, for a reasonable time has already been consumed by the Colombian politicians, who are for sale to the highest bidder. Senor Herran, who represents Colom- bia at Washington. himself admits that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-19
About Persons.

R. L. Thompson of St. Louis Is stop ping at the TIillman.
 J. II. McAllister of Chattanooga is at the Morris.
 John M. Jones of Talledega is register ed at the Metropolitan.
 A. J. Schaaf of Cincinnati is at the Hillman,
 W. R. Morris of Pittsburg is stopping at the Morris.
 L. D. Reid of Chicago is at the Metro politan.
 S. s. Fitzsimmons of Montgomery Is stopping at the Hillman.
 F. w. Marsh and wife of Pensacola are at the Morris.
 c. B. Keller of Eufaula is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 William E. Wren of Gadsden is regist- cred at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-19
RING OUT, WILD BELLS.
(Alfred Tennyson.)

lAlfred Tennyson.) Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky The flying cloud. the frosty light.
 The year is dying in the night; Ring out wild bells, ana let him die Ring out the old. ring in the new,
 Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true < Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out slowly dying cause,
 And ancient forms of party strife;
 Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners purer laws. Ring out the want. the care. the sin. The faithless coldness of the times: Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes. But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out the false pride in place and blood, The civic islander and the spite:
 Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul diseases
 Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old. Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart. the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land. Ring in the Christ that Is to be.