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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-11-04
Bos'n Must co.

Among the changes now on the car.
pet is the abolition OF the boatswains.
So far as one can gather the idea is
to make all boatswains of less than
fifteen years seniority qualify as gun.
ners, and let this rank gradually die
out, as that of the old navigating Off
GERS has done. These alterations will
remove one of the Oldest warrant
ranks in the navy.
The "Batsuen," as the bOatswain
was originally called, was in the ear
Her days much more important in
dividual than he is today-in fact he
seems to have ranked almost as high
as the sailing master of the ship
Ropes and sails and masts and yards
were always his speciality and the dis
appearance of these from the fleet
seems likely to be followed by his
own. Not that there is any lack of
work for him to do. Even in the mod.
ern ironclad the boatsWain has i'm
portant duties to perform, but the au-
thorities seem to think that the duties
may just as well be discharged by the
gunners, who are now on the top line
in everything, so much Importance is
there attached to the branch for
which they specially qualify.-Pall
Mall Gazette.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-11-04
Philosophy of Architecture

TO build a house with one dimen-
sion dominating, and put it on site
with the principal amount OF land
either in front or back OF it, or with
more land on one side of it than on the
other, is almost sure too look well If
kept simple, even without architecture.
Placing the house in this way makes it
possible to obtain a garden and other
features on the ground besides the
house. This same principle of values
or proportion in the relation of the
different parts of composition OBJ
tains in every walk of life. it is as it
were, principle of opposition or con-
trast; we see it in painting and sculp-
ture; we see it exemplified in well
studied forms, such as, for example, a
vase, balluster or candlestick, with
large section Of the design of such
form coming in contrast with small
section, or convex surface in opposi-
ton to a concave one; and we see it
in form nowhere more beautifully de-
veloped than in the human body
Metropolitan Magazine.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-11-04
A Tea Table Tripod.

Solne time, when tea is late and the
family is all about the table waiting,
you may surprise all by a very clever
and at the same time simple and easy
trick.
rake napkin ring, and through it
pass three forks with the points up
ward and rest their handles on the
table. Spread the tops of the forks
apart and inside them place a plate or
any round dish which will fit within
the space they afford. This will sure
iy lock the whole thing, and heavy
dish may be placed upon. the plate
without fear of its being broken.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-11-04

Yesterday. on Brocme street, west VI
| the Bowery, saw Tonic. Battista was
not with him. aud he was trudging
along, pulling his barrow and organ.
the cover of the organ next to him
having a red patch over it to cover
rent in the CLOTH | thought. Organ
and barrow seemed to. me to have
doubled in weight, judging by his bent
back and tense muscles. He stoned
to grind his instrument, but gave no
sign of being interested in anything
going or around him. His head was
bent and his chin rested on his
breast. He was alive, that was all
AS | was interested in Battista and
in him when | saw them in the begin
ming of the winter, made bold to
stand near him. and noted the change
in his appearance. He remembered,
suppose, having seen me somewhere
on his daily travels, especially as I
had always contributed to Battista
coin Of some denomination, and he
lifted his old cap to me. He ceased
churning out his music, and l stepped
close to him and tried to convey my
thoughts in English to him regarding
his daughter. He couldn't understand
at once what | meant to convey until
| pointed to little Italian girl pass
ing by, and then he knew was max
ing inquiries about Battista. He lifted
his hat slowly from his head, extended
one hand to me, grasping mine quick
ly and pointed to the patch of red on
the organ cover. | looked at him in
Quiringly, and tried to tell him I de-
sired to know more. He motioned to
me to step to the street from the side
walk, and when | did so he lifted the
piece Of flannel which | had supposed
was put on to cover a rent, but which
| now noticed was sewn on the top
only, and disclosed the faded reproduc-
ton of Battista's face, younger looking
than when I had seen her, and plump
err She was dead l turned to look at
Tonic, but his eyes were covered with
his hands. His loss was great, knew,
for | also felt loss."-New York Tri.
bune.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-11-04

One Of the effects of the hot weather
in Paris has been to put an end to
Gen. Boulanger,s old black horse, that
once famous charger which used to
carry Frances IDOL majestically at re-
views and figured in the welcome to
shat hero as he rode back at the head
of the Paris garrison from Long
champs to the war Office. The poor old
black horse suffered the usual fate of
his race. Gen Boulanger should have
shot him before he shot himself, for
in all these years that have elapsed
since the brave general" weakly died,
he has been dragging out a wretched
existence succumbing finally while
drawing a vegetable cart across the
Place de la CCncorde. The blazing sun
killed Tunis-Boulanger's black
charger Herald
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-11-04
Will Battle for RIGHTS.

On the occasion Of the twentieth
anniversary of the Finnish Women s
Union, at Helsingfors this year, the
president, A. G. Gripenberg, who deliv-
cred addresses in both Swedish and
Finnish, recomm ended the union to
work for the following objects: The
right of married women to come of
age at 81; to dispose of their own
property, and to have the same rights
with respect to their children as men;
the promotion Of morality in accord
ance with the Christian ideal, and
equality for women with men in the
choice of profession. The union,
which has now been in existence for
Is years, numbers 1875 members.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-11-04
The Moon Question Settled.

The moon question has been pretty
thoroughly argued by the corner
lyceum at it's various sessions during
the last week. The recent spell OF
weather was the real cause of the ar
gument, and politics for the time pc
ing had to take a back seat. one
gray headed member of patrlarchal
appearance said there was no use, the
wet weather would continue TIL the
moon changed on the last quarter
then it would clear UP and we should
have some fine hay weather A young
member whose faith in the moon theo-
ry is considerably shal1y said ned
like to have it explained to him how
a shadow on the moon 24O,O00 miles
distant could possibly have any erect
on the weather in Connecticut. The
old gentleman said he couldn't just ex-
actly explain, but it was so, and he
knew it was SO.
well, them persisted the young
man, "how do you account for its rain
ing all day in New York yesterday
when it was clear as bell here Don't
they have the moon in New YORK
same as we do?"
"You blame fool" said the old man
with whitening scorn, you blame fool,
amt we higher up, a good deal higher
up? Aren't we nearer the moons"
That settled it.--Litchield Enquir'
err.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-11-04
fHE SAND DUNES.

The sand dunes. the gray dunes.
49, They call my heart from me;
Ihey call it when the world is light
Ihey whisper IL when falls the night,
They call me to the SEA.
Oh, the sand dunes, the gray dunes.
~, lis there that ! would be;
Where low and white the wavelets run
And over all round, red sun
Slips slowly TO the sea.
Ali the sand dunes, the gray dunes.
-, lis there | said goodby;
The moon WAS like q pale, cold thing.
The pool beyond silver ring,
The wavelets' song a sigh.
An! me sand dunes, the gray dunes,
,r They wiring my heart so sore;
, line level sand beneath the rain,
Inc glory OF the days slow wane-
III never see them more
New York Tribune.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-11-04
Man in the Iron Mask.

All the best informed persons OF
my time have always thought that
this famous history was founded upon
the capture and captivity of Mattioli,
a Piedmontese political prisoner, who
died in the Bastile in 1893. In those
days prisoners were made to wear
masks while travelling, but it would
be more exact to say a mask the color
of iron. All the details which Voltaire
added were simply fabulous and
laughable, and | think you will find
that my theory of the iron mask is
the right one.-French Noblesse.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-11-04
Bed in Summer.

In winter / get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light,
In summer, quite the other way,
have to go 10 bed by day.
| have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
or near the grown-rp peoples feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And should like 80 much TO play,
70 have to go to bed by day?
Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-11-04
Importance Of Chewing.

You must improve your mastication.
Quite spontaneously Miss X. remarked
how very rapidly you ate-more rapid
ly, she said than Miss c.; and as l
know Miss S. eats in a helter-skelter
manner, understand that your masti-
cation must be extremely inefficient.
II | had to teach children | should
give them among other things les
son on the Importance Of mastication,
and should illustrate it by taking a
small iron nail and weighing against
it some pinches of iron filings till
the two balanced, then putting them
into two glasses, pouring into each a
quantity of deluted sulphuric acid.
leaving them to stir the two from time
to time, and showing them that where
as the iron filings quickly dissolve, the
dissolving of the nail would be in op-
Grafton of something like a week.
Herbert Spencer's Autobiography.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-11-04
SCIENCE NOTES.

The next session of the Aue, lean
Medical Association will take place
from July II to IA, 1905, at Portland
Oregon under the presidency Of Dr.
l.. S. McMurtry, Of Louisville, Ky.
The Board of Estimate of the city
of New York has voted the sum of
$4,000 towards an Investigation by
commission of medical experts as TO
the contagious nature or otherwise OF
pneumonia.
Johns Hopkins University is about
to undertake systematic work on the
subject of tuberculosis. Mr.. Henry
Phipps, Of Pittsburg. has given the
sum of $4,000 by the help of which
dispensary building is to be erected,
so arranged that the treatment OF pa
tients may be attended to and the dis
ease investigated.
An American Society Of Tropical
Medicine has been started in Phlladei-
phia DR.. l.. H. Fenton is the first
president and number OF men o.
science who have made researches III
the prevention of tropical diseases,
have been elected honorary members.
Among the latter are Sir Patrick Man
son, F. r. S., DR.. C. j. Martin, +. II.
S., and Professor r. Koch.
A statue to Jan Pieter Minckelers'
the reputed discoverer of coal gas, was
unveiled recently in Maastricht, Hol-
land. Minckelers was born in lf4o
and became in 1772 professor OF phy-
sizes in the University Of Louvaln'
where in 1884, in endeavorlng to dls-
cover a substitute for hydrogen, ne
succeeded in obtaining from the dlstll-
lation of powdered coal gas whlch
he called "infammable air." 1t was IN
1855 that he first utilized the gas LOT
lighting purposes, when classroom
in the Louvain University was lllum-
mated by his method. He died III 1879
at the age Of 76 years.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-11-04

Dowager Queen Margherita of Italr
has lace handkerchief worth $4,000.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-01-27
THE SPIRIT OF JAPAN
By KOGORO TAKAHIRA
Japanese Minister to the United States.

:,: :; 2; ,; !: I'm;
@ n Same manner those "ns Of n wss civilization en lion
the promotion of national happiness
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-01-27
AN ANCIENT JURY.
One That Was Sent to Prison and
Bound Over to BE of Good
Behavior.

In olden times, when jury in Eng
land remained impervious to the
judges gentle mode of persuasion,
fine and imprisonment were resorted
to. The jury that acquitted Sir
Nicholas Troclmcrton was condemn
ed to eight months Imprisonment in
addition to the payment of large
sum of money. In the esn of Queen
Elizabeth a jury, HING reduced
prisoners alleged crime of murder
to that of manslaughter, was at once
sent to prison and bound over in a
large sum to be of good behavior.
Penalties were likewise inflicted upon
the innocent wife and children of the
offending jurymen. Even now it is
believed by some legal authorities
that a judge has the right to inflict
fine upon juryman refusing to
obey his directions. Such power is
however, not exercised, except in the
case of juror absenting himself
without cause. OF this practice
there is the following story:
A judge had fined juryman for
non-attendance. On hearing that he
had been unable to be present be-
cause of his wife's funeral the judge.
whose wife was said to be not of a
particularly gentle nature, exclaim-
ed: "That was good excuse indeed.
wish we all had the same!"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-01-27

: Sergeants Schneider and Winsor, the
latter borrowed from Ray, far in the
van. Even had the ground been hard
and stony these keen-eyed soldier
scouts could have followed the signs
almost as unerringly as the Indians,
for each had had long years of ex-
perience all over the west; but, de-
spite the steadily falling snow, the
traces of hoofs and, for time, of
travels poles could be readily seen
and followed in the dim gray light of
the blanketed skies. Somewhere
aloft, above the film of cloud, the sill
very moon was shining, and that was
illumination more than enough for
men of their years on the trail.
For over an hour, Blake followed
the windings of a ravine that grew
closer and sleeper as it burrowed
into the hills. Old game trails are as
good as turnpikes in the eyes of the
plainsman. 1t was when the ravine
began to split into branches that the
problem might have puzzled them,
had not the white fleece lain two
inches deep on the level when "Lo"
made his dash to escape. Now the
rough edges of the original impress
sion were merely rounded over by
the new fallen snow. The hollows
and ruts and depressions led on from
one deep cleft into another, and by
midnight Blake felt sure the quarry
could be but a few miles ahead and
Bear Cliff barely five hours march
away. So, noiselessly, the signal
"Halt!" went rearward down the
long, dark, sinuous column of twos,
and every man slipped out of saddle,
some of them stamping, so numb
were their feet. With every mile the
air had grown keener and colder.
They were glad when the next word
whispered was, LEAD on!" instead of
Mount"
By this time they were far up
among the pine-fringed heights, with
the broad valley of the Hig Horn
lying outspread to the west, invisible
as the stars above, and neither by
ringing shot nor winged arrow had
the leaders known the faintest
check. 1t seemed as though the
Indians, in their desperate effort to
carry off the most important or val
ued of their charges, were bending
all their energies to expediting the
retreat. Time enough to turn on the
pursuers when once the rocks had
closed about them-when the wound
ed were safe in the businesses and
the pursuers far from supports. But
at the foot of steep ascent. the two
leading scouts-rival sergeants of
rival troops, but devoted friends for
nearly twenty years-were seen by
the next in column, single corporal
followed them at thirty yards dis
lance, to halt and begin pohng at
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-01-27

some dark object by the wayside.
Then they pushed on again. A dead
pony, under quarter inch coverlet
Of snow was what met the eyes of
the silently trudging command as it
followed. The high-peaked wooden
saddle tree was still "cinched" to the
stiffening carcass. Either the In
dams were pushed for time or over
stocked with saddlery. Presently
there came low whistle from the
military ''middleman" between the
scouts and a little advance gunrd.
"Run ahead" growled the sergeant
commanding to his boy trumpcter.
"Give me your reins." And, leaving
his horse, the youngster stumbled
along up the winding trail; got his
message and waited. "Give this to
the captain" was the word sent back
by Schneider. and "this' was mitten
Of Indian tanned buckskn, soft and
warm. if unsightly, mitten too
small for warriors hand, if ever
warrior deigned to wear one-a NIT
ten the captain examined curiously,
as he ploughed ahead of his main
body, and then turned to his subal-
tern with grin on his face:
Beauty draws US with q single
hair" said he, land can't shake us
even when she gives us the n,itten.
Ross" he added, after q moments
thought, remember this. With this
gang there are two or three sub
chiefs that we should get, alive or
dead, but the chief end of man, SO
far as SIX" Troops concerned, is
to capture that girl, unframed"
And just at dawn, SO gray and wan
and pallid it could hardly be told
from the pale moonlight of the ear
lier hours, the dark, snake-like col
umn was halted again, nine miles
further in among the wooded heights.
With Bear Cliff still out of range and
sight, something had stopped the
scouts, and Blake was needed at the
front. He found Schreiber crouching
ut the foot of tree, gazing warily
forward along southward-sloping
face of the mountain that was
sparsely covered with tall, straight
pines, and that faded into mist few
hundred yards away. The trail-the
main trail, that is-seemed to go
straight away eastward, and, for q
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-01-27

most vicious precedent If this goes uncaenge long
other opinions will be placed the list? One all those
do not comply with the desire of the party power will be denied
dicted ideas is the beginning of political tyranny
America with its democratic institutions give points
cal Europe.
What is the meaning of this reacton Whenever privilege
fear falls back Old weapons discarded
the social relations such afraid of their being dis
cssed of ideas being propounded refubed
uphold institutions growing morally decrep This desire repres
sion takes the place political change for the aliens
will extend citizens 1t the struggle of the old against
the which again and again, ultimately
umphs only however, be replaced This reaction
been remarked by of the best scientific thinkers They that
civilization is not progressing as it ought.
Have Americans little faith the principles of liberty
profess love? If institutions
they Personally credit it, and though may be
ported shall look for robust principles bog
ing this ndous interference with freedom of opinion.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-01-27
THE OLD HOME CREEK.

II could have my way
You bet I'd have, by ging!
Things fixed so ev'ry holiday
Would come around in Spring!
I'd like to simply bunch 'em up,
All of 'em in one week,
An go and spend 'em fishin'
Down along the old home creekl
TO cut an alder limb,
A springy one and long,
An git a woven seagrass line,
A long an thin an strong.
An ketch me some grasshoppers,
Or some blue bottle flies.
An cast along the OIL home creek
Where hemlock shadders lies.
Oh, jest ter fix 'em up,
My holidays, you know,
So they 'ul bunch AN fill my cup
Till it would overflow
For all the rest the long. long year
I'd make my Sundays do.
Give me my holidays in spring
When buds are Dustin thoo.
want to trot away
Down thoo the orchard grass,
An hear the sassy bluejays squaM
An mock the catbird's sass;
An whistle like mockin' bird
An mock the tinklin' brook
An Jest set bubblin' full o. song
The while bait my hook.
II. M. Lewis, in Houston Post.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-01-27

Are finding that public meetings
Immigrant detained and about deported protest against
enforcement OF the law his the
der contract tor preaching anarchy explanation lately
made by OF his friends merely contract
to visit the trades while have
the arrest and deportation of aborer when
OF coming under contract honest living
Away with the honest workman e1clam; his might help
free white labor the padoeks the Shops
for the preacher of anarchy how inter-
fere with his liberty opinion?
Are taking that safe the
tor ourselves and poer it, after fighting four years negro
labor the SOUTH under this guidance permit
tons unknown to the law ensave white labor building
manufacturing the north Are following safe course
workman however intelligent competent and de-
serving is deprived of the right his living mutually
satisfactory to himself and his employer
course honest aborer be driven from his
denied anywhere his trade because
governor OF his state the militia Of the state
the state?
You have fathers have
which in the end the sober second thought of people
did not assert ITSELF You will doubt that
these dangers too will be successfully But neither doubt
that If we will refuse to sft immigration if refuse to
qre from newcomers intelligence and
before ask them help conduct government: if we
neglect to hinder the plans politicians gathering in new states
the American union from the Caribbean
from Polynesia refuse protect individual initiative and fail
to keep white labor free home persist making this land
asylum for the anarchists and from other civilized land
the world the for Chrendomf will persist
all this n the imperfect Of the human eye the path
indictments from which advance iprob