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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-12-07

How long, oh, how long, my
friends, good people of my native
and adopted county how long be-
fore we will awake from our SUI
pine lethargy and Indifference to
all public questions, to a full sense
and realization of responsibilities;
how long shall we remain content,
as the tabled sluggard of old with
the folding of hands on this most
vital Of all questions to our pros
perity, happiness and material adj
-vancement as a people.
AS to quality, as before stated,
there is no better material on earth
or off of it, as to that matter, for
building permanent and lasting
roads than Benton County gravel.
Whatever may be said derogatory
Of eur Benton County crops of
corn, hay, cotton, peanuts, tobacco,
etc, no man has ever had the te-
merity to to impeach either the
quantity or quality of our crop of
gravel, and it may prove a verita-
BILE mine Of wealth to us some day.
| AS to distribution, [ will venture
the assertion that there is no point
/ in our county that is over 5 miles
from good gravel, SO "what lack we
yet?' It seems to me that we are
more like the chronic procrastina-
tor who stints his conscious with
the idea that there is time enough
yet; be thinks he can get religion
at any time he wishes to do So
the similarity being about the
same.
We certainly have a '"cinch" on
good roads. This gravel will not
rot, go away orr get lost; we can
build good roads any old time; so
we dilly daily; we simply ait'for
something to turn up. We wait
for the good Lord to come down
and put the gravel on our roads,
| like. the fable of the man who
wanted to known ''if the bnshelof
corn was shelledl'
AS to labor, we have that, if we
will only put ourselves in a posi-
ton to utilize it.
| We would suggest that our hon
Forable county court levy taxsuf-
I ficient to raise ten thousand dol
lars per annum for building public
highways. The people Of Benton
County couldpay that amount, and
we believe that public sentiment
would support q measure of this
kind. AS soon as this fund is
available for use let tire county
court employ force of men and
teams and wagons to carry on the
work of grading and crawling the
j. public highways.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-12-07
GOOD ROADS.
Editor THE CHRONICLE:

Editor THE CHRONICLES:
The all-absorbing question, the
road question, is up for discussion
and solution by our people, and it
will not down-in fact, it can not
."down," it must not "down" until
it has been satisfactorily solved.
Our people build roads like some
people serve the Lord-they put
it off till more convenient day.
We have been trying the same
system Of road making, or rather
road unmaking, for a hundred
years, and-see the result It's a
blooming success, isn't it my dear
brother? 1t would, indeed, be a
pleasing prospect to contemplate
the condition of our public high
ways worked" on the same basis
for another century
A system that has beeni In vogue
so long and proven such a misera-
BILE failure certainly should be
changed, and the sooner the bet
ter. For about eight months in
the year our roads are not fit for
travel. This ought not to be SO;
it must not be somuch longer.
We are Sup against" the ques-
ton, and we must stay up against
it until we get good, permanent
well-built highways throughout
the length and breadth of Benton
County. Really, the question is
not an unusually difficult one.
There are just two factors that
enter into road building. Gas was
aptly said short while ago by a
candidate for the general assem-
bly), capital, labor. AS to mate
rial; | doubt y.much it there is
a county in the State of Tennessee
that has gravel in such sppera-
bundance as Benton-right at our
door, so to speak, and no need of
stone crusher.
AS to.quantity and quality, the
Tennessee River hills and many
others are simply great beds of
the very best road-making gravel,
which distributes nicely and suffi-
cient to build first class turnpikes
through every part of our county,
in fact, there is enough gravel in
Benton County to gravel every
road, public and private, in the
State of TENNESSEE And TO think
1only think it is lying here idle
Fand useless, an incumbrance to
the ground, and the people, the
producers, the sovereign rulers of
the universe, are dragging their
weary length along, so to speak, in
mud and muck and mireI
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-12-07
THE FARMER BOYs,

We are not given to bcasting,
but we are proud of the farmer
boys of this county. They are,
with rare exceptions, a healthy,
intelligent and happy class of
young men. We feel like taking
our hat clear off when we meet
them upon our streets, and no
class is more welcome to. ouroffice.
Too many boys leave the farm
where they would have made sub
stantial and good citizens, and 60
to the city where ouly one in a
thousand succeed in life's battle.
There are farmers who fairly drive
their boys away. There is no ex-
cuse for this. The farmer boy is
entitled to hissvacations, to several
relaxations, his visits to the city
and to other towns, good books,
magazines, end his home paper.
To the observing one it is plain to
be seen that the old farm is the
best place in the world for the av-
Ierage young man and. never fails
to bring happier and more use
fullifethan the city. Young men,
you who tillthe soil and earn your
bread by the sweat of your brow,
we are proud of you; our latch
string is always out to you aud
you will always have a friend in
The CHRONICLE. Come and see
JUS and give us the news of your
neighborhood.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-12-07
SEWING MACHINES asErA1RED.

/ will be in Camden for a little
while longer. Have had twenty
years experience.
J. L. HeusER
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30
STRICKEN IN HIS PULPIT
Preacher, Killed by Lightning
While Preaching.

Carson, Ia.-While he was engaged In
preaching to his congregation, Sunday,
Rev. ]. B.. Lentz, pastor of a Latter Day
Saints church at this place, was struck
by lightning. which caused his death
within half I'm hour. The bolt des-
cended during a hard thunder storm
and was communicated to the preacher
by a chandelier hanging directly above
his head. The shock threw him to the
floor in an unconscious state, while
many persons in the audience were par
TALLY stunned. After nearly everyone
had fed from the building Lentz was
carried out, but failed to regain con-
seriousness. The church took fire, but
1t was saved. Lentz leaves a wife and
two children.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30
A MORE HOPEFUL FEELING
belief mt AIgeciras That Another
Fortnight Will See the Sign
ing of a Protocol.

Algeciras, Spain.-Both the Ger
man and the French delegates to the
conference on Moroccan reforms say
that the outlook for an agreement is
eminently hopeful, but neither would
make a more definite statement. The
representatives. of the neutral powers,
however, assert that the principal work
of the conference had been virtually
concluded, and that a settlement was
imminent, but said there might possibly
be minor bitches in connection with
the details owing to the necessity to
infinitely lay down the terms in order
to avoid future controversy, thus pro-
longing the operations of the signing
Of the protocol another fortnight.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30
A FIVE YEARS SENTENCE
Thomas NJ. Cnscy, Former Manager
of the salmon Bank nj CIIn-
ton, Mo-, Sentenced.

Harrisonville, Mo.-The ex-banker
Thomas M. Casey, former manager Of
the bank of Salmon & Salmon, Of
Clinton, which failed last summer
with heavy liabilities, catching many
poor depositors, pleaded guilty here,
Saturday. in the circuit court to a
charge Of forgery, and was sentenced
to five years In the p~enitentiary.
John I. Hinkle, prosecuting attorney
Of Henry county, recommended that
the punishment be Hxcd at FIVE years
in the penitentiary.
A short talk Of explanation was
made by w. e. Owen, one Of T. M.
Casey's attorneys. The court accord
ingly sentenced the banker to FIVE
years Imprisonment in the state PEN
i%tentiary.
Six other indictments for forgery
against Casey were dismissed by the
prosecuting attorney. The proceed
ings in court consumed but half an
hour. After receiving sentence, Casey
was taken in charge by Sheriff Smart,
who started during the afternoon for
the penitentiary at Jefferson City with
the prisoner.
Casey said he was anxious to be.
gin serving his sentence.
In the Pcn%itentiary.
Jefferson City, Mo.-Former Bank
err Thomas M. Casey was taken to the
p~enitentiary Sunday afternoon, having
spent the night at the Madison house
with the sheriff and friends. He will
probably be assigned to work as a book
keeper.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30
BLUFFS ON THE TARIFF.
American "Stand-Patters" Ready to
"Show Their Hands" at
Any Time.

'"The new German tariff, which will
become effective March ], 1t seems lie
threatened TO place the 's~tand.patters
under the disagreeable necessity Of
showing their hands," says the Chi
cago Daily News.
Yet the 'stand-patters" are the only
ones who have laid their hands down
on the table, face up. The other fell
lows are the mysterious, close-mouthed
men with poker faces who refuse to
divulge their wants or to explain what
they hold in their hands, replies the
Milwaukee Sentinel. Also, there are
few OF them that will agree with their
fellows al to the programme to be fol-
lowed.
For instance, the Daily News and
others of its kind would revise pro-
lection out of the tariff schedules alto.
gether, but they all insist that they
would not do the job in a manner to
Injure American industries. They
have a scheme hidden away somewhere
by which they al do all this.
Then there are the Republican re-
NiotIo tIuI bdNC uCltl hlhCu "
the tariff in such a manner that all
the objections urged to protectionism
by the Democrats will be removed
without in any way e~ndangerirg the
protection accorded to American la
Dor and capital. These people do not
eve pretend to know how 1t Is to be
done-they merely want to do II.
Ootn XNaro avn tAa Uea1lf-r ohnnnu
er abroad than at home" hysterical pa
tients. They have read the Demo
cratic stories concerning this alleged
evil and have believed them. To the
end that the reported nefarious prac.
tice may be stopped instantly they
would reduce or remove the import
duties from all articles manufactured
by firms or corporations that dump
their surplus products in foreign mar
kets. But they are not prepared to
prove their case, having accepted hear
say evidence as conclusive and de
manded a verdict without further in
vestigation.
Finally, there are the Republican:
who are afraid that II the tariff law II
not revised the Republican party will
be defeated in some coming campaign
They wag their heads wisely and pre-.
tend that their sharp prophetic vision
which %apprehends defeat is a warran,
for the party that has always stood
for protectionism to change it's princi
pies and scuttle the ship that ha:
borne them safely through many
storm.
Amid all this confusion the stand
patters" are standing pat. They arr
the men who know where they arr
at and why they are there. All the
world. too, knows what the stand
patters" stand for. In the circum
stances it would appear to be in bat
taste for the Daily News to tall
about making the "stand-patters" show
their hands.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30
TO SAVE NIAGARA FALLS
Recommendation of American Wa
terways Commission Sent to
Congress,

Washington.-Needed and a%ppropria-
ate legislation for the preservation
of Niagara Falls is recommended in
the. report of the American water
ways commission, sen to congress
Saturday afternoon by the secretary
of wal.
The report recommends that legis.
lation be enacted that will limit the
withdrawal Of water from the Amer
lean side to 10000 cubic feet per sec
ond, this provision to remain in force
two years, and then become the per.
manent law of the land. In the
meantime Canada shall enact legisla'
ton limiting the diversion of water
on that side of $4,000 cubic feet per
second.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30
PEOPLE IN PASSING.

Miss Caroline Marcial Of sevills,
Spain, who is one of the best known
women in that country, is in America
In the interest of the International In
stitute League.
Mrs. Nansen, the wife OF the explor-
er, Is a singer of note. Her father was
a zoologist, her mother ? sister. of the
Norwegian poet Welhaven, and her
brother, Ernest Save, is a professor Of
history in the University OF Christi
ania.
Walter Wellman, the newspaper cor
respondent who says he will try to get
10 the north pole with an airship,
broke his leg in one Of his dashes .
the pole. He fell into a crevice in the
ice and has limped painfully ever
since.
Ernst Leissler, a compcsitor on the
Tribune, a German paper of Leaven-
worth, Kan, claims to be the Oldest
printer in point Of continuous service
in the country. He began to learn the
trade in Tarmstek, Germany, IS years
ago and has hardly missed a working
day since. Mr.. Leissler has been 10
this country 81 years.
William Weldman Lands, A. NJ,
professor Of mathematics in DinckiL-
o. college, Carlisle, Pa has been adj
mitted to membership in the mathe-
NAUTICAL circle of Palermo, Italy, in rec
ognition of his attachments in the SCI
nee Of mathematics. 1t is the most
exclusive society of its kind in the
world, and its membership numbers
400.
The smallest and among the most
efficient constable in Indiana is James
H. Vincent of Boonville, who on a
six inches, his weight being SO pounds
and his age Al years. On more than
n occasion he has shown himself to
be possessed of iron nerve. During his
career as constable he has made over
300 arrests and has only been knocked
down once.
Ray Dart, a student at the UNIVERSE
ty of Minnesota, has been blind fo-
years, but pursues his studies by proxy.
doing his writing on a typewriter
whose keyboard he has mastered. His
father is State Senator Dart of Litch.
field. The young man does not carry a
cane, yet he walks about alone with
freedom. He is a clever pianist, an
expert oarsman and takes much de-
light in fishing.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30
MEDICAL

An English journal notes the curl .
ously v sex distribution of measles
in 20 years at Aberdeen. There were
20,2s7 males and 20,Os7 females.
Medical authorities in France have
discovered that a fairly good substi.
tute for quinine, for use in cases OF
marsh fever, or other malarial disease,
Peasants in Auvergne have long used j
sort Of brandy made from that plant ID
combat such diseases.
The noted German scientist, PROF..
Emil Won Behring, who believes that
he has discovered an effective remedy
for tuberculosis, persists in his deter
mination not to make it public before
next fall. He desires to be as sure Of
his ground as a year of tests and ex-
periments can make him before plaC-
ing his method OF treatment in other
hands.
For the purpose of studying the
causes of mountain sickness, two
French medical authorities, Drs. Gull
lemark and Moog, during last July
made a stay at the Mont Blanc observ-
atory. According to the results of
their Investigations, which have nov
been published, the diminished ten.
sion of the oxygen of the atmosphere
clogs the process of oxidation and this
sets up an elaboration of toxic sub
stances, the retention of which causes
of administration"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30
REPORT.

Prof. John l.. Nuelson of Mast theo-
logical seminary, Berea, o., has CON-
piled a volume of selected sermons by
Eliminating biographical sketch Of the
founder of Methodism.
Methodists of this country have I'M
dertaken the task Of raising s250,0O0
for an India jubilee. Bishop ThoburR
is chairman of the committee on the
fund, and will go to India to take part
in the celebration, which is to be helc
at Bareilly.
A children's branch of the North IN
dia Bible society has been formed. It's
contributions in 1904 paid for printing
1000 copies Of the Gospel of John
Every child now has an intense inter-
est in the fruit of circulating thoss
little gospels.
After only a little more han a gen.
Grafton in our n~eighborlng republic
Mexico, not far from $4,000 nave been
gathered into the mission churches
mainly those nurtured by the Presby-
~terians, north and south; Methodists,
north and south, and the American
board.
John c. Martin, a successful coal op-
orator turned philanthropist, has es-
tablished departments for the training
of colored men as ministers in no few
er than IL small colleges of the SOUTH
Young men are instructed in Bible
truths simply, Mr.. Martin having no
| special UNCONVENTIONAL bias to favor.
Archbishop Farley has made applica-
ton to Rome for a priest able to speak
the Chinese language, who will look
after the spiritual welfare of the Cath
Ollie Chinese of New York. 1t is only
a year ago that five Chinese merchants
| of Chinatown were baptised on tha
same afternoon al the Paulist's church.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30
INTO A BIG TRUNK
Il Body of Albert N. McVickar
Found In n Trunk At n Rail-
way Station in stockton, CnI.

Stockton, Cal.-The railway bag
gageman at the Southern Pacific sta
ton discovered the remains Of a man
about 3S years old jammed into a large
trunk. Officers who have been working
on the case assert that the man was
placed in the trunk while yet alive.
Developments show that the dead
man was Albert N. McVickar, who had
been employed as timberman in the
RawhiGe mine at jamestown, Tuolume
county. The police are now endeavor-
ing to locate Mrs. McVickar, who was
in the city with her husband.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30

UFormer Judge Parker has been CIV
ing the Democrats advice at jackson,
Miss. There is no hint In Judge Parker's
speech. however, that indicates an in.
tention on his part to run again.-Chi.
cage Record Herald.
GImportant data is furnished In the
annual report of the Philippine com.
mission, but the real facts will not be
known until Datto Bryan shall be heard
from,-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
ryAmerican prosperity is not a myth
to be demolished by free trade dogmas,
1t is a substantial reality. To say that
1t could be more extensive under a rev.
enue tariff or free trade is only a spec
ulatiye proposition on which greater
minds than that Of Gov. Folk have
honestly differed, with the consensus Of
intelligent opinion In favor Of contin.
uing dnder the present svstem.-.,K aDss,
ca. IournsL 4,
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30
The Coffee Debate.

think of. OF course, if the person is one
of the weak ones and says Il can't quit"
you will have discovered n of the
slaves of the coffee importer. Treat such
kindly, for they seem absolutely power
less TO stop the gradual but sure destruc-
ton of body and health.
Nature has a way of destroying a part
of the people to make room for the
stronger. 1t is the old law of "the sur
vival of the fittest" at work, and the
victims are many.
We repeat the assertion that coffee
does harm many people, not all, but an
army large enough to appal the investi-
gator and searcher for facts.
The next prevarication of the coffee
importers and roasters is their statement
that Postum Food Coffee is made OF
roasted peas, beans or corn, and mixed
with a low grade of coffee and that ii
contains no nourishment.
We have previously offered to wager
800, 0O0.0 with them that their state
ments are absolutely false.
They have not accepted our wager and
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30
Moberiy Man Fouad Dead.

Armstrong-W. A. Sevenman, of
Moberly, was found dead beside a hay
stack on the farm Of Allie Houston,
south of here. Foul play is suspected.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30
Vein of Gold discovered.

Austin. Tex.-Prospector e. Oscar
Hart, a New Yorker, on his way home
after a 70G-mile wagon trip through
Death Valley, CAL, says that he discov-
cred a large vein Of gold ore Of fabu-
lous richness not far from "Scotty's"
wonderful mine, and that he will re-
turn and develop 1t.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30

wager.
Free inspection Of u factories and
methods is made by thousands of people
each month and the coffee importers
themselves are cordially invited. Both
Postum and Grape-Nuts are absolutely
pure and made exactly as stated.
The formula of Postum and the an
alysis made by one of the foremost
chemists of Boston has been printed on
every package for many years and is alb
solutely accurate.
Now as to the food value of Postum.
It contains the parts of the wheat berry
which carry the elemental salts such as
lime, iron, potash, silica, ETC., etc., used
by the life forces to rebuild the cellular
tissue, and this is particularly true of the
phosphate of potash, also found In
Grape-Nuts, which combines in the hui
man body will albumen and this COM
bination, together with water, rebuilds
the worn out gray matter in the delicate
nerve centers all over the body, and
throughout the brain and solar plexus.
Ordinary coffee stimulates In an un-
natural way, but with many people 1t
slowly and surely destroys and does not
rebuild this gray substance 30 vitality
important to the well-being Of every
human being.
These are eternal facts, proven, well
authenticated and known to every prop
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30

erly educated physician, chemist and
food expert.
Please remember we say ordi-
nary coffee hurts everyone.
Some people use it regularly and seem
strong enough to withstand its attacks,
but there is misery and disease in store
for the man or woman who persists in
it's use when nature protests, by heart
weakness, stomach and bowel troubles,
kidney disease, weak eyes,, or general
nervous prostration. The remedy is OBJ
vious. The drug caffeine, contained in
all ordinary coffee, must be discontinued
absolutely or the disease will continue in
spite of any medicine and will grow
worse.
1t is easy to leave off the old-fashioned
| coffee by adopting Postum Food Coffee,
for in it one finds a pleasing hot break
fast or dinner beverage that has the deep
seal brown color, changing to a rich
golden brown wheng good cream is added.
When boiled long enough Us minutes)
the flavor is not that of rank Rio coffee
but very like the milder, smooth and
high grade Java, but entirely lacking
the drug effect of ordinary coffee.
Anyone suffering from disorders set
up by coffee drinking (and there is an
cAtcnciNC dt ICY Sdh abSoiutCiy QCpShA
upon some measure of relief by quitting
coffee and using Postum Food Coffee.
If the disease has not become too
strongly rooted, one can with good rea-
son expect it to disappear entirely in a
reasonable time after the active
of the trouble is removed and the cell
lular tissue has time to naturally re-
build with the elements furnished by
Postum and good food.
It's only just plain old common sense
Now, with the exact facts before the
reader, he or she can decide the wise
course, looking to health and the power
to do things.
If you have any doubt as to the cause
of any ache or all you may have. remem-
Der the ~far-reaching kilograms of a hurt
nervous system travel from heel to head.
and It may be well worth your while 20
make the experiment Of leaving OF cof-
fee entirely for 10 days and using
Postum in its place.
You will probably gather some good
solid facts, worth more than a gold mine.
for health can make gold and sickness
lose 1t. Besides there's all the fun. for
it's like a continuous internal frolic to
be perfectly well.
There's a season for
POSTUM
Postum Cereal Co. Ltd, Battle Cresh. Nieh
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-03-30

The published statements of a number
of coffee importers and roasters indicate
a ".waspy" feeling towards us, for daring
to say that coffee is harmful to a percent
age of the people.
A frank public discussion of the SUBJ
iect is quite agreeable to us and can GER
tainly do II O harm; on the contrary, when
all the facts on both sides Of any question
are spread before the people they can
thereupon decide and act intelligently.
Give the people plain facts and they