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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-28
No Advantage in Salary.

The letter carrier who has seen thirty or
thirty-five years service has no advantage
either in salary or in hours or anything
else over one who has only been in the
service three years. and an effort is being
made to have this arrangement changed.
In his first year a carrier gets $500, he gets
$500 In the second year, and in the third
year gets $1,000. and that is the extent to
which he can go under the present law. So
long as he has been in the service, and
though his career may have been brilliant
in this line, he can never advance or be re-
warded beyond the salary of 81 900 a year.
In speaking Of the requirement of a good
letter carrier Mr.. Bell said:
"A good letter carrier must be an excel
lent walker. He must be intelligent and
obliging. He must have the ability to keep
his mouth shut. He must be temperate In
his habits. He must have a good DISPOSE
ton.
"A letter carrier needs good disposition
above all things. 1t is incredible how, in
the course of the days business. the temper
OF this man is tried. The trouble that the
people who only get occasional letters cause
to carriers is astonishing.
"A woman. for instance, expects some
mail-the first probably. for number of
months. On the day 1t should be due she
Is on the lookout for the carrier. She meets
him at her door.
- L am waiting for that letter. she says,
smiling.
IL have no letter for you, madam the
man replies.
" oh, yes, you have. There is some mis-
take. Just look through your bag again.
Z" I am sorry. madam says the carrier,
pretending 10 look through his bag, but
there is nothing for you today
THE next day she is waiting again.
Got my letter? she asks.
" Not yet he returns; and the woman
scOwls.
ION the third day, getting nothing, she is
angry. She accuses the carrier of neglect
Ing his business. of being careless, of maxi
ing mistakes. He must calm her good ma
turedly. He must sympathiZe with her nat
ural disappointment He must explain to
her what to do in order 10 make sure that
the department has committed no error in
her case. He must conduct himself dis
creetly as diplomat. 1t is the people that
seldom make use of the mails who find
fault in this way a rule. They who use
the mails often are aware of the depart
ment's efficiency. and have nothing but
praise for it and for its employees.
Experts at Handwriting.
Letter carriers, as the years go by, be-
come remarkably expert in reading hand
writing. 1t would be interesting to put the
average business man and the average car
rier at pile of almost illegible letters and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-28
Exnert Chess PLAYERS.

The Tunguses are a numerous and w.de-y
dispersed people. One branch of. the tribe
herds reindeer; the other lives by fishing.
The former are wealthy and far more civil
lied than most of the dwellers in and
around the arctic circle They are passion
ately fond of chess, which they play con-
tinually during the long arctic night. 1t Is
supposed that they learned the game from
the Chinese and Russian explorers who
have played with them testify that they are
remarkably expert. They carve their
chessmen very deliberately out of man.
moths teeth.
The Reindeer Koryaks. another tribe OF
fearless, independent nomads, who bear
remarkable resemblance to the North
American Indians are exceedingly fond of
wrestling and foot races. They are inVet-
crate gamblers and will stake all their be-
longings, even their wives, on their strength
and skill in those sports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-28

Eskimo say that even serious crimes such
as murder, are frequently punished in this
manner. The penalty may seem Inadequate,
but an Eskimo is extremely sensitive to
ridicule, and being laughed al is one of the
worst punishments that can be inflicted
upon him. Many men have fed from their
village and lived in solitary exile after los
ing a trial by song.
But if it is hard on the loser the trial
makes great fun for the onlookers. Some
times mock trials are got up, and two
champions with notoriously abusive tongues
contest for prize. Native dances which
consist of series of burlesque contortions,
wind up the revelry. Some of the Eskimo
can dance reels and hornpipes which they
have picked up from the European and
American whalers who have visited them.
The Kamchadales are also fond, of
grotesque dances, but the wandering
Tunguses of Siberia dance, when they
dance at all, in stately and decorous man.
ner that recalls the old-fashioned minuet.
The man gives his right hand TIA the wo-
man, bowling gracefully, and they move
round slowly in circle. keeping time to
the cadence of an impressive chant. In an
other dance of which the Tunguses are
fond a large company of men and women
form in a circle and move around slowly,
holding one another by the tail of their fur
coats and swaying backwards and forwards
in time to the monotonous rhythm of a
folk song
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-28
Experts at Handwriting.

Letter carriers, as the years go by, be-
come remarkably expert in reading hand
writing. 1t would be interesting to put the
average business man and the average car
rier at a pile OF almost illegible letters and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-28
Cowboys With "Chaps.n

Also from the west will come the cow
boys, with their Chaps their somberos,
their lariats, their sun Drowned faces and
their free and easy mannerisms They will
bring their ponies, too. But as these ponies
are not accustomed to the music of city
bands there may bea cowboy band And If
this cannot be secured, the appearance of
the Seneca II dian band is already promfs-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-28

Probably the Oldest man since our we'll
remembered Methuselah, at least the old
est man during the Christian era up to
date, was Henry Jenkins, a laborer, who
was born at Ellertor-on-Slade. He was
twelve years old when the battle of Flodden
Field was fought. On his tomb in Bolton
church yard is inscribed:
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-09-15
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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-09-15
RUBLIC SPEAKING.


The candidates for the Democratic
nomination for the county offices of Ben
ton County will address the voters at the
following places on the dates given:
Devider, Monday, September II.
Holiday. Tuesday September IL.
McIllwain, Tuesday night (same date).
Manley's Chapel, Wednesday Septem-
Der Is,
Coxburg, Thursday, September a.,
Chalk Level, Friday, September Is.
Eva, Saturday, September 49,.
Claud, Monday, .September l8.
Faxon, Tuesday, September 10.
Beaton's Store Wednesday, Septem-
beg. 20.
Big Sandy, Thursday, September 81.
Garfield, Friday, September %.
Speaking will begin promptly at p.
m, unless otherwise arranged. Every
body is invited to attend the speaking.
S. L. PEELER,
r.. G. HUDsoN,. Chairman.
Sacrntary
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-09-15
DoN'rs FOR BOYS.

Don't think it "girlsh" to be gentle.
Don't call your father "the old man. y
Don't mistake impudence for smart
ness.
Don't forget that your mother too, is
lady.
Don't forget to black the heels Of your
shoes.
Don't wear good clothes purchased by
fathers patches.
Don't stay out all night in order to be
up with the larks.
Don't stop washing your hands at the
loWer end OF the wrists.
Don't think that acquiring bad habits
make you more of man.
Don't get the idea into your head that
cigarette smoke makes men.
Don't forget that the girl you talk
about is some other boys sister.
Don'tforget that some things you think
smart are what wiser people think silly.
Don'tforget that story unfitfor ladies
to hear is equally unfit for gentlemen to
repeat.
Don't forget that many of the little
tasks you overlook about the house must
be done by your tired mother.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-09-15
WORTH AN EVEN 1.OOc.,

w. Z. Dupree of Brownsville, Tenn,
says: ut affords me great pleasure to
tell of the benefits derived from taking
Liquo-Pepso. Itcured me completely of
dyspepsia, disease had suffered with
for many years. Before | began taking
it, nothing ate agreed with me. had
no appetite, and became so weak could
scarcely walk across the yard. took
three 81 sized bottles and would not be
in the condition l was before taking it for
an even thousand dollars. T am living
advertisement for Liquo-Pepso and have
influenced many of my friends to use it. I"
For sale by J. G. Presson.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-09-15
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.

W. T. Prince vs.. d. f. Prince, ct ais
in the County Court at Camden, Tonnes
see, for Benton County.
In this cause II appearing from the bill ,
which is sworn to, that Mrs. Martha Ann
Dickerson is resident of the State of
Kentucky. and that Della Parker, Rearlie
Parker, BERTHE Parker and Almeda Parker
children of Cora Della Parker, formerly
Prince, are non-residents OF the State
and residents of the States of Missouri
and Arkansas, they are therefore hereby
required to appear on or before the first
Monday in October 1905, before the
judge of the county court at Camden,
Tennessee, and make defense to the bill
filed against them and others in said
court by w. I. Prince seeking to sell the
lands of which IT, @. Prince, died the own
er. or otherwise said bill will be taken
for confessed as to them. 1t is further
ordered that this notice be published for
four consecutive weeks in THE CAMDEN
CHRONICLE.
This the 22d day of August, 1905.
w. D, COOPER,
S. L. PEELER Clerk.
Solicitor for complainant.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-09-15
AND HE CONTINUED TO SMOKE.

An lrishman was sitting in the depot
smoking, when a woman came in and
sitting down, remarked:
"Sir, if you were a gentleman you
wouldn't smoke in-here."
"Mum, "he said, eff yez wuz Teddy,
ye'd sit farther away"
Pretty soon the woman burst out:
III you were my, husband I'd give you
poison
We'll num- retorted the Irishman
as he pulled away at his pipe, "if yezwuz
me wolfe I'd take it.''
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-09-15
saa 80 to California and Return

from Chicago May /, 2, 3, 8. 10, IL, II, 10,
90, 80, 81 and June l, round trip to San
Francisco, Los Angles, Santa Barbara or
Sacramento, Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul Railway, Union Pacific 4 Southern
Pacific Line. Through tourist sleepers
leave Union Passenger Station, Chicago,
1925 D. m. daily, for principle points in
California.
Double berth in tourist sleeping car all
the way costs only 81, andnafords acom-
Portable and economical manner of cross
ing the continent. f. A. Miller, General
Passenger Agent. Chicago. or W. s:
Howell, 3Sl Broadway, New York.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-09-15
THE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION,
Secretary.

Program for teachers association to be
held at Pleasant Hill September 49,,
Devotional exercise. by Rev. Joseph
Allen.
Welcome address, by Clara Walker,
Response, by M. L. Hardin.
Why are we here? by1J. M. Lockhart
and M. E. Woodbridge
Should diagramlng be used in the pub
lie schools ? by William Allen, Clara Hol-
aday, Albert Bell and d. B.Johnson.
What is your plan for getting the pu-
pills in school Ply j. w. McIltwain, Alma
Greer, Arco Robertson and Dee Smith.
Collection of queries.
Noons
Queries answered.
Paper-Whatrelati do we as teachers
sustain to each other in this association
by Nora Cole. Discussion by Arch Hol-
lingsworth, Add Tippett and Sophia Hol-
laday.
How can we hold our pupils ? by j. B..
Anderson, Alfred Cole, Zulah Mizell and
Edgar Allen.
Atthepresent rate of progress in school
interest, how long before Benton County
shall be the banner county in Tennessee
edncatonally? Luther Hollingsworth,
Clara Holiday, Zoedie Cox and M. l..
Hardin.
G. N. FRAZIER,
JOE f. ODLE,
EDGAR ALLEN,
Committee.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-09-15
WANTED.

A white house girl for family of two /;
good home age Is to 80 years preferred.
For particulars, write DR.. M. G. WobDs,
eye and special nerve specialist, Paris,
Tenn.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-09-15

Get your trust and warranty deeds at
THE CHRONICLE office.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-09-15

Old newspapers for sale cheap atm
CKRoNGcLE office.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-05-20
IusI "iE." AND Why?

Sacramento Union: There is an IT.
restible logic in the conditions which
Justify - or apparently justify the
Canal Commission in its decision TO
make its purchase of ships and general
sup plies in the worlds open market.
But if the United States cannot in bust
ness justice and propristy do its buying
of the great American Trusts" then
W by should it require private citizens
to do it?
The incident as related to the pur-
chase of ships tends to explain why the
American flag has all but been driven
from the general carrying trade. If an
American citizen has to pay 800. 900
for a ship which a foreigner can buy for
$4,000. then it goes without saying
that the foreigner will win in the carry
ing competition. A better illustration
than that afforded by the announce
ment of the Canal Commission of the
injustice and hardship of our naviRa
ton laws could not have been conceived.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-05-20
STATE NEWS.

The people Of Winnemucca want an
assayer to locate there.
Several distinct earthquake shocks
were felt through Mason and Smith
valleys Saturday.
The Supreme Court has reversed the
tax case of Lander County VS.. the Ne
vada Central Railroad and granted the
railroad q new trial.
James Moore Of Virginia City. has
been appointed agent for the South
ern Pacific company at Battle Noun
tain. Lander County.
The first tree bloomed in Tonopah the
other day. 1t is a balm of Gilead and
is encased in a SIS frame. The water
used to keep it alive costs 10 cents a
bucket.
The first wire of the Western Union
Telegraph Company reached Tonopah
Monday, giving that camp and all of
the surrounding country direct COM
munication with San Francisco.
William Kieffer. a well-known Reno
youth. was ground to pieces beneath
the wheels of a switch engine in Sparks
Monday evening. He was a fireman
and was attempting to light the head.
light.
At Reno last Saturday the jury In
the case Of Daniel Regan. charged with
the killing Of his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Hess. of Sparks. returned q verdict of
manslaughter. The maximum penalty
is 10 years in the State Prison.
Minnesota sugar beet manufacturers
will investigate the conditions in Ne
vada regarding the production of sugar
beets. II favorable reports are made
they will engage in beet raising and
build a sugar factory somewhere in the
State.
Bartholomew Lagamission, aged 81,
hanged himself in his home at Verdi
Sunday, but the deed was not dis
covered until next morning. Despon.
dency was the cause. He leaves a wife.
He was an employe Of the Verdi Lum.
Der Company.
Nearly every saloon man in business
at Hazen has been arrested by United
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-05-20
the SQUARE DEAL"
or THE SENATE.

The Congressional vacation has been
occupied by the Senate Interstate Com
merce Committee in going through
a form Of hearing on the E~sch-Town-
send Railroad Bill, which passed the
House at the last session. In the opin-
ion of the st. Louis Republic the Sem
ate Committee has given the railroads
and not the people the square deal
during the hearing. 1t says:
The Senate comes very. far from being
of the people, by the people and for the
people; and the said people have rarely
come farther from getting a square
deal'' in that body than in the present
Senate. Secure in control of their res
pectiye machines at home, which in
most instances exist for no other object
than to set at naught popular desires.
the old guard of the e. o. p. have run
things to suit themselves and a class OF
interests that come almost within the
meaning of ''clients." The railway
crowd have managed the rate PROPOSE
ton with a magnificent regard for
themselves and an open scorn of what
the public wishes. The rate hearing
has had q striking resemblance to farce.
Almost every witness called before the
Il investigating committee has been n
who would testify to the reasonableness
and fairness Of rates and the general
virtues of the roads and would attack
the Esch- Townsend bill, while a CHIP
ping bureau in aid Of the lobby on the
outside has carefully weeded out OF the
news it was widely distributing such of
the testimony as was not favorable.
Instead OF getting a square DEAL" the
public interest has been abused and
~soft-soaped.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-05-20
Nv Priaon.

WY
/ dweit for q time In the best Of cha
In a land of clear water and green hills
arrow.
There were four towers In 'front.'. topping
wings likewise four.
And long. long / dwelt In the first of the
four.
The wall being brick. / think. on the out
side
shone red in the light Of a quiet hillside.
Within was whitewash. the dawn
On the dome and the walls and the arched
Oh. rest for the eyes. to the heart rest
b%ringingl
oh. relief for senses worn out with living!
Glory of old age. youths charm and de-
light
Innocence. power. of things that are
This gray whiteness. SO sweet I'd have
you believe.
which a long black piinth did somewhat
relieve.
Was filled through the day with silence
and pure air.
For the night In pale azure to come and
dream there.
A wee little room. a table and q chair.
A straight little bed where / slept without
care.
For me enough light and quite room
enough. too:
In prison this was all for long months
I never complained Of the place nor the
But now how I long for that life in the
toweri
Translated from Paul verlains by Julia
Edna Worthley.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-05-20
Railroad Men Decry Rebates.

The conclusions adopted by the Inter-
national Railway Congress, which
closed its seventh session at Washing
ton. D.. O., last Saturday, were officially
announced Monday. The most interest.
ing of them related to railroad rates,
on which, after a prolonged discussion,
in which every country ia which rail-
roads were operated was represented,
the congress unanimously expressed it's
conclusions al follows: Tariffs should
be based on commercial principles,
taking into account the special condi.
tions which bear upon the commercial
value OF the service rendered. With
the reservation that rates shall be
charged without arbitrary discrimina-
ton to all shippers alike under like ccndi-
tions, the making Of rates should, as
far as possible. have all the elasticity
necessary to permit the development of
the traffic and to produce the greatest
results to the public and to the rail-
roads themselves" These conclusions
were ratified at the close of the session
after President RoossveIt's speeches had
been a topic of discussion. and two days
after Secretary Taft's address on freight
rates at the banquet Of the congress.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-05-20
Monopoly, But 1t Is Private.

President Robbins of the Armour
Car Lines Company told the Senate
Committee on Interstate Commerce on
May 16 that his company has a mono
poly in. fruit transportation in some
parts of the country, this being particu-
larry true of sections of the South
Atlantic States and over the Southern
Pacific roads. In California he said
that the Santa Fe road furnishes CON-
petition. Wherever these exclusive
are applied, he admitted,
producers and shippers of fruit had to
accept the rates laid down by the Ar.
These exclusive contracts with
the railroads. Mr.. Robbins said. were
generally private contracts, though
they were exhibited when requested.
The President insisted before the com.
mittee that his company is a private
one, and should not be forced to expose
its books and earnings.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-05-20
LEAD. Kindly Light

The hymn books do not contain q
more exquisite lyric than Newman's
LEAD, Kindly Light" says Allan Suth-
erland in the June Delineator, nor one
that is more acceptable to all denomi-
nations of the Christian faith. When
the Parliament Of Religions net in Chi.
cago during the Columbian Exposition.
the representatives Of almost every
creed known to man found two things
on which they were agreed They
could all join in the Lords prayer. and
all could sing LEAD. Kindly Light"
The hymn was written when Newman,
returning home from Italy after a seri.
Gus illness, was becalmed for a
week in the sunny waters Of the Medi.
terranean. In striking contrast. the
music was composed by DIR. John b.
Dykes as he walked through the Strand,
one Of the busiest thoroughfares OF
London. The hymn was a favorite of
Gladstone. and also of President Nc
Kinley. and 1t wal sung far and wide
in the churches ON the first anniversary
of his death and burial.