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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-08-19
PERSONAL AND LOCAL NEWS.

Prof. and Mrs. S. j. King have
returned to Texas.
CT. Mccall of Huntingdon was
in the city Monday.
Mrs. j. NJ. Pickens has been
quite sick this week.
Mrs. S. S. Clayton is visiting in
the country this week.
E. L. Brown has gone to Mis-
souri, to write insurance.
G. W.Spencerof Trotter's Land.
ing was in the city Tuesday.
Rev. Z. J. McGill is holding a
meeting at Rushing's Greek.
B. T. Peeler of Big Sandy was
here Tuesday to see his sister.
Mrs. G. B. Holladay b been
visiting relatives atBrecheoA
Hhe county teachers association
will meet at Holladay tomorrow.
J. w. Leegan of Simon has been
spending a few days here with
friends.
Bay Pafford, the new mail car
rier, will seen become citizen of
Camden.
?. W. T. Potts is making his ar
rangements to go to Missouri in
few days.
J. r. Rayburn of Union City is
visiting relatives and friends near
Big Sandy.
The little son of A. j. Holland
got his collar-bone broken in fall
last Saturday.
County Clerk w. d. Cooper is
taking in the st. Louis Worlds's
Fair this week.
Trustee-elect Il. e. Fry spent
few days at Lexington with rela-
tives this week.
The little child of W. L.. McEl-
yea was taken quite i'll this week,
but is some better.
Marshall Tippett Of Arkansas is
visiting J. H. Capps and other rel
atives in old Benton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lon Rushing of
near Memphis are up on visit to
relatives and friends.
Sheriff and Mrs. r. d. McCord
are visiting relatives and friends
at Huntingdon this week.
County Clerk w. d. Cooper has
issued marriage license to Van
Flowers and Lille Crabb.
Wyatt & Cole have gone out of
business, and Mr.. Cole expects to
return to his home at Garfield.
Daniel Holland and family of
East Prairie, Mo, are here on a
visit to relatives and old friends.
A. n. Lindsey, V. f. Morris and
Ed Lindsey of Big Sandy joined
the excursion here to Nashville
this week.
DIR. w. B. Leslie and family of
Holladay, who have been spending
afew weeks at Monteagle, are at
home again.
We note that our old friend, B.
W. McDade, of Mckenzie, is going
TO engage in the hotel business at
Huntingdon.
Mrs. Sara Pettyjohn and charm
ing daughter, Miss Laura, of Clin-
ton, KY, are here to visit friends
and relatives.
Mrs. G. Fryer and children of
Manleyville spent Saturday and
Sunday here with her mother, Mrs.
j. Ct. Hudson.
Mrs. J. Il. Yarbrough and chill
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-08-19

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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-08-19
DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING.

The Democrats of Benton Coun-
ty are hereby called to meet at the
courthouse at Camden on the Goth
day of August, 1904, at l o'clock,
p. M, for the purpose of selecting
delegates to attend the senatorial
convention at Camden on Tuesday,
August %, 1904.
A. p. LAsHLEE,
Senatorial Committeeman.
Camden. August 10.
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tempt to prove the performance by a hard,
cold, naked price. This price, alone, to
my notion. stands in it's eloquence a sort
of type demonstration that no amount of
argument can get around. In general adver-
Using prices are very important. Expert
enced general advertisers will bear me out
In this. You know the great aim of adver-
Using is TO sell goods; to do so, IL must
answer all questions liable TO come to the
mind of the reader, and you may be sure
that price Is always a big question.
''In retail advertising / consider prices
absolutely necessary They are specific and
vital. Every reader of a retail advertise
ment, whether man, woman or child, wants
at the first blush, ito learn the price of the
goods In which he or she may be interested
The ad. writer must interest them by the
brightness and sense of his Introduction
and talk concerning his goods: men when
he thinks that he has their interest aroused
to the proper pitch, let him give them his
price or several prices. What touches the
pocketbook touches the most delicate nerve,
and possible buyers first consideration
Is how much that delicate nerve will be
touched in the transaction.
Il have found in my experience that the
woman of the family who, in most in
stances, does the buying; the greater part
of the family shopping, and nearly always
influences her husband and brother, when
she does not do the direct buying for them,
is always occupied by the ways-and-means
question, and retail advertisement ad-
dressed to her is meaningless without
prices. She considers prices closely. She
makes mental memoranda as to how far
her dollars. can stretch, before she starts
out on a shopping expedition, and the ad-
vertiSed prices help her in this"
THE PERENNIAL SEARCH.
There is so much for us to look after"
recently said the ad. writer for large retail
store in Indianapolis. that it is a difficult
thing to say which is the most important.
There is an old adage with which all adver-
4isin %, ;e Ito
good is good, something better beats it. So
we are always looking for something better.
One of the principal things that we watch
very closely is space and arrangement of
the whole advertisement. II a man can, by
a little study, save his employer money in
newspaper space and at the same time treble
the amount of trade. he accomplishes a
great thing. Occasionally, for the sake of
variety, 1t would be well to try different
arrangement but before one does anything
else he should study economy in space and
effectiveness in display. If an ad. writer hits
upon a good, economical topographic ar
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BUCKS, THE TRAIN DISPATCHER

CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 1. PART 81
muttered the engineer, as he stood with the
conductor over Harvey's shoulder at the
operators desk a minute later and wiped
the chill from his forehead with a piece of
waste. "Wed have met them in the
canyon.
Harvey was reporting to Bucks. Cal
lahan heard it coming: rails cut. but SO
safe. Runaways went by here fully sew
enty miles an hour"
1t was easy after that. Griffin is the
foot of the grade: from there on. the runa-
away train had a hill to climb Bucks had
held $50. the local passenger, sidetracked at
Davis, thirty miles further east. Sped by
the wind, the runaways passed Davis,
though not at half their highest speed. An
instant later, 25Os engine was cut loose and
started after them like a scared collie.
Three miles east of Davis they were over
hauled by the light engine. The fireman,
Donahue, crawled out of the cab window.
along the footrail and down on the pilot,
caught the ladder of the first car, and,
running up, crept along TO the leader and
began setting brakes. Ten minutes later
they were brought back in triumph to
Davis.
When the multitude of orders was out of
the way, Bucks wired Ed Banks to bring
his cowboys down to McCloud on co. No.
60 was the east-bound passenger due at
McCloud at $50 a. m 1t turned out that
the cowboys had been arrested for lassoing
a Norwegian homesteader who had cut
their wire. 1t was not a heinous offence,
and after it was Strengthened out by the
inf &c h. 1,ol,
thing then. they were given jobs lassoing
sugar barrels in the train service. One of
them, the tall fellow, is a passenger con-
ductor on the high line yet.
1t was o'clock that morning-the twen-
ty-fifth of December, in small letters on
the West End-before they got things de-
Gently Strengthened out. There was so
much to do-orders to make and reports to
take. Bucks, still on the key in his flow
ing robes and tumbling hair, sent and took
them all. Then he turned the seat over to
Callahan. and getting up for the first time
in two hours, dropped into another chair.
The very first thing Callahan received
a personal from Pat Francis, at
Ogalalla, conductor of SO, 1t was for
Bucks:
your mother is aboard So She was car
ried by McCloud in the Denver sleeper.
Sending her back to you on go. Merry
Christmas"
1t came off the wire fast. Callahan, TAX
ing it, didn't think Bucks heard; though
it's probable he did hear. Anyway, Gala
han threw the clip over towards him with
a laugh.
Look there, old man. There's your
mother coming, after all your kicking-car-
ried by on So
AS the boy turned he saw the big dis
patcher's head sink between his arms on
the table. Callahan sprang TO his side; but
Buck had tainted.
copyright, 1904, Sampson-Hodges Co., Chi
CagO1
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GUTTA PERCHA GOLF BALLS
First One Was Made by Minister
Now Living i'm Pittsburg.
Baltimore Herald.

The shipment of a Chinese idol from
Singapore, China, to St. Andrews Scotland
was the means of the discovery OF the
gutta percha ball, used exclusively in golf
The Rev. DR.. Robert Adams Patterson. of
Pittsburg, was the discoverer When a
boy, fourteen years OF age, he made the
first ball of gutta percha.
DR.. Paterson had a brother. a missionary
stationed at Singapore. He shipped the
idol to his fathers shop in St Andrews
The idol had been packed in gutta percha.
DR.. Paterson's father had a shop where diff
ferent articles were made and repaired. The
Doctors father had made knobs for bureaus
and had repaired some instruments made
from gutta percha.
At that time the pigskin ball was used
exclusively in playing the game. The balls
were stuffed with feathers. They sold for
Is cents each and DR.. Paterson could not
afford 10 pay for ball. so the thought
struck him to make one from the material
the packing of the idol The gutta percha
was soaked I'm warm water and then was
put through a rolling process by hand. The
ball was painted and test made. but the
ball would not hold the white paint
Not satisfied with his success he told his
brother about IL and complained that he
could not successfully paint the ball The
brother grew interested. made some balls
and put in a composition that made the
ball take the paint. IL was then placed on
the market by the brother. The doctor,
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who was then fourteen years old resumed
his studies at St. Andrews University. lit
tie dreaming that In after years one firm
alone would make 1900 900 gutta percha
balls In a single year. After his brothers
experiment In the manufacture he took the
ball and showed IL 20 Allan Robinson. OF
81. Andrews, a manufacturer Of the pigskin
article.
The introduction of the ball was the be-
ginning OF the play OF Robinson and tom"
Norris. both OF whom were champion golf
players at that time a title which Tom"
Morris still carries, although eighty-two
years old. Morris. who is known by no
other name than Tom" was an apprentice
OF Robinson. To-day he is a manufactures
OF the gutta percha ball and keeper OF st.
Andrews links The ST. Andrews Club is
the dominant golf club OF the world, maxi
ing the rules by which all other golf clubs
play.
When Robinson learned that Tom Nor
ris had played with a gutta percha ball on
the st. Andrews links and played success
fully he told tom" that II he played with
the ball again he need never cross his
door. IL was the beginning or the end OF
their association. Robinson continued maxi
ing his pigskin ball and Morris manufac-
tured the gutta percha ball
on the Introduction OF the gutta percha
ball Robinson bought up All ne could get
hold OF and burned or otherwise DESTROYED
them. but. after lighting the gutta percha
article for several years, was compelled 10
introduce them himself. No one ever
thought OF patenting the ball and ANYBODY
made IL. In 1859 Robinson died. IL is said
of a broken heart, but Morris Is still living
and Is known 10 all golf players the world
over. Since that time no other character
OF ball has been used for playing the game.
DR.. Paterson Is seventy-two years old,
but is not In good health. For a number
of years he was president OF the Ladies'
College, Binghamton, y. Y. In his boy
hood days he was caddie for George r.
Carnegie. said TO be an uncle OF Andrew
Carnegie.
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neat, artistic, refined and dignified. If you
will look over the pages of high-class soci-
ETY. papers you can see this point well illus
trated. The connection between types and
the various minds influenced by advertise
ments is so subtle that many advertisers
may not recognize it. But this connection,
however, exists; its influence is evident to
those who study IL, and no matter how
subtle and evanescent it may seem, yet it is
sufficiently important to be studied
The al. writer's must study the class Of
people to which their stores cater, for Ii is
in this way that the business houses derive
the direct benefit from the advertising.
They are universal in saying that while of
course direct results are felt from advertis-
ing they cannot realize them themselves.
They say ii is the managers and owners of
concerns who understand the advantage
that is derived from their work. They con-
tend that as far as they are concerned ii
is, so to speak, working in the dark all the
time. The only time that the ad. writer
sees the effect of his work Is when he ad-
vertises some great SALE and it is very
gratifying for him 10 witness big chowds
or people swarming and fighting over the
various bargains that are on the counter.
women In some cities are quite important
factors In adj. writing. but in this city they
have never proved very successful. The
reason for this, ii is claimed. is that they
do not understand thoroughly the goods
about which they are writing. A manager
of business house here said that he had
always found the woman ad. writer was
like the woman DOCTOR the woman lawyer
and women OF other professons-She was
often very good, but to this rule there were
very many exceptions. There is, however,
a breakfast food the advertising of which
has interested the people all over the coun-
try on account of its originality and clever
ness. This has all been done by a woman
and there are many men ad. writer's who
wish they could follow in the footsteps and
accomplish the success that she has.
THEIR INDIVIDUALITY.
Each ad. writer has some particular spe-
cialty which he works into his advertise
ment and which the public unconsciously
notices; that is, he gets the people to look
for this particular statement without know
ing that they are doing it. One man, for
instance, always mentions the quality of
goods he is writing about while another
will invariably say something about the
price. In every article he mentions he will
state the price. One adherent of mention
ing prices said in speaking about it:
Promises are good. but performances
knock promises sky high; and the next best
to performances in advertising is the at
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.TEUR. 4"

was Ollie Purcell another colored man.
who is held for petty thievery and who has
a well-developed head and considerable in
telligence
However, the experiment showed that all
of the criminals had the telltale curves at
the sides of their heads, and 1t is claimed
by authorities that this is a mark OF de-
fectiveness.
Psychologists often consider that this is
a mark of criminal instinct, and so lar
the experiment of the other day goes,
of the jailers heads were taken, and this
curve was hardly distinguishabe; in one
more instances could not be seen. Au-
thorities on this subject claim that where
a man has this mark and does not become
a criminal it is only because his character
has such strength in other directions that
he Is able TO overcome this one. They con-
tend that in the criminal this mark is more
pronounced, and that the rest Of his tenden-
cies are so little developed that this one
prevails.
They also say that education has much to
do with this This illustrated very
readily with the first petty thief that was
examined. He was well educated, and this
deficiency in his head was not so prominent
The jaier said that long as he kept
from using liquor the thieving qualities
were not apparent in him, but as soon as
he became under the influence of drink he
began to steal. In so far as IL was sought
to prove by experiment that criminals en-
gagged in different branches of crooked
ness had differently shaped heads ii was
a failure, but the fact still remains that
criminals of all branches have the heads
of a similar shape for far as the curves
at the temples are concerned.
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interesting study, for in these outlines that
are given by the machine lines. depreSsiOns
and bumps that are not perceptible by just
looking at the heads are plainly given.
HEADS OF CRIMINALS.
A few days ago Mr.. Raymond McVicker.
who has charge of the hat department of
Garrett A. Archibald, took the conform
ateur of that store to the county Jail to
ascertain whether or not criminals who
were engaged in different branches of crime
had different shaped heads or not. The
first man upon which it was tried was
hold-up man named Thompson. He was a
big, brawny fellow, but he was as eager
to see the shape of his head as any other
man. His head was long, and at each tenn
pie curved in. On one side however, Ii was
slightly fiat and he said that this had been
done by al injury received In a railroad
wreck. The next man brought up was a
petty thief, and on account Of his family
connection here in the city his name is
withheld. The jailer pointed to him as the
man with college education. 1t could be
easily seen that in intellect he was far
superior to his associates. His head was
one of the most perfect that was examined
but at the sides were the same curves that
were noticeable in Thompson's head, only
they were not so pronounced.
After these mems patss were diagramed
the impression of a safe blowers head was
taken, and, as he said, his head looked
like a foot. Beside him was Harry Chap
man, cOlOred man who is held in Jail on
the charge of murder, he having shot his
stepfather few Sundays ago; with him
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rangement for his items, 1 would advise
him to stick 10 it,
81 have found in my experience in writing
advertisements that there Is very thin
line between knowing too much and know
ing too little about the merchandise TO be
advertised The right kind OF an advertising
writer by reason Of his understanding both
sides of the commercial question. Is very
valuable to the advertiser He sees the
goods through the eyes Of the public I'm
derstanding them in this light, he speaks the
arguments best calculated to influence the
public.
The advertiser saturated with tech
meal information, is likely to make his
advertising so full of information that the
reader finds it heavy, indgestible and re-
pellant. The writer who knows too little
about the goods will also make his ad-
vertisement unattractive, for the reader
wants information. The point l want to
make is give this information in such form
that Ii will win the readers attention. then
hold IL until the story is tod. What
have just said goes TO show that the ed
vertising writer Is the intermediary between
the business man and the public. You I'M
derStand that the public may not be moved
for one instant by the arguments that
are irresistible to the business man.
The point of view of the man behind
the business, the merchant. is usually re-
mote from the understanding of the people
outside the business and by reason of his
too intimate knowledge of perhaps his life s
work finds it hard TO get away from his
atmosphere long enough 10 step into the
atmosphere of others. This is the reason
that the advertising man is indispensable
to the one who has goods TO sell. The
writer will study the public to be reached
then prepare matter that will influence this
public. If the advertisement Is TO appear
in religious paper he should beware Of
fiippancy If il appears in a comic paper
he should not forget that the reader picks
up that paper for humor If he is adj
vertising in a yellow newspaper sen
sational headlines are not out of place.
And If he is writing an advertisement TO
appear i'm a high-class daily newspaper a
clear-cut, logical argument Is the thing.
Apart from these considerations, the bus
mess man realizes that the advertising
man is invaluable to him for the simple
reason that ne can do an important work
that he cannot do for himself
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C7HAT is the shape OF your head?
I~i II IL is oval-shaped, like an egg.
and bulging In front. you have
IS{l<<4I well-formed head. but II long and
49, curved in at the sides, you are
deficient Quite likely the average man
never thinks about the shape of his head.
and cares little whether it is oblong or
square Just so 1t serves his purpose. A
halter. however notices this as closely as
does a shoe merchant the shape Of your
foot There are some men who have heads
that are of such peculiar shape that they
cannot wear a derby hat if they so desire,
and consequently cannot change the style
OF their headgear from one year 70 another.
1t Is a well-knOwn fact among hatters that
mems head change shape very often. This.
however does not interfere with their men
tai activity. and they seldom notice the
change themselves. A halter who at one
time was In the West said 1t was a very
noticeabIs thing that the men who came
from the East would not be in that cOun-
try long before their heads would change
shape entirely. He said that he could give
no explanation of the occurrence, unless IL
was atmospheric conditions.
An indianapolis halter was recently asked
IL it were possible to tell what profession
a man was a member Of or TO what class
of society he belonged by the shape Of his
head and answered:
1T is impossible to tell this because it
goes into the science of phrenOlogy. and
this. Of course, we do not understand. but
a halter can very nearly tell a mans men
tai capabilities and whether he is educated
or not by the way his head is formed.
.fo In of no
time the bones all over their bodies are
becoming more or less ossified and are con-
sequently shrinking. their heads very often
change shape, but this by no means indi-
Gates that their mental Faculties shrink
ing also. My experience has been that
mans head may shrink little here and
pand a little there, and he will still be in
a perfect mental condition, because the
transformation is merely OF the bones and
has nothing whatever TO do with the mind"
PhrenOlogy. which is at the present time
almost a lost art, palmistry has taken
its place. could. Of course, delineate char
acter by the prominence of the different
bumps that were found on a persons head.
No doubt a phrenologist would claim that
the reforming of the head was due to
the different tendencies that formed in the
man as he became older. With knowledge
of this science IL can very easily be told
10 what profession or business a person
beIongs-as. for instance, lawyers require
the mental-vital temperament to give them
intensity OF feeling and clearness Of intel
lect. Their bump OF eventuality To recall
law cases and decisions Is also large. as
IS likewise the bump of comparison, for a
man Of this profession has to compare the
different parts and phases Of the law and
evidence to be able To criticise, crOss-Ques-
ton and illustrate similar cases. The bump
of language must also be well developed,
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The Judgment of Nathan.~A Sketch
By Allen c. @ rriRus

IT right down here. Nathan" said
Daniel. I'll have to see what Joel
Wickerson wants. He's always
bothering aroun like an aggravat-
in fly. What's eatin' you Joel 20
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For many years the custom house officials
in Italy have been annoyed by smugglers
who have been wont 10 make periodical
raids into the country from Switzerland.
bringing with them ample supplies of cof-
fee, cigars, chocolate and other dutiable
articles. but now at last they have devised
n very effective method OF guarding against
such lawbreakers and OF trapping those
among them who are foolish enough 10
continue at their unlawful trade,
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men, like artists.
actors and writers, when asked
how they do their work and what
principle they all go on will in
yariably answer that they don't