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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27

That many of our best citizens
elo not take a proper rinterest III
political matters is a patent and
deplorable fact, and this accounts
IN 3 large measure for much of
the dissatisfaction that has arisen
within the ranks of the party
Things would be different If all
the good people would take the in-
terest they should in political af-
fairs. The thing to do is not so
much to vote though we believe
that all should exercise this high
privilege but to act aud take part
when men are to be selected to
manage our party affairs and make
our laws. lfalf good people would
do this, there would be far less
complaint. Marshall Gazette.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27
COWELE'S MILL.

Regular correspondence
John|Greer has been sick. He
has heart trouble.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cowell Wis
tied in Middlebrook Sunday.
G. n. Cowell spent Sunday here
with his sister, Mrs. ID. A.Lynch.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Rushing
visited Mr.. and Mrs. wv. A. Nolan
Sunday.
The young people attended a
singing at the home of Howard
Kee Sunday night.
CowELL's MILL, April "a.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27

John III. Mcdowell has quit the
race for State senator in the dis
trict composed of Lake, Obion and
Weakley counties. This action is
regretted, for Mr.. Mcdowell is an
able man and has had experience
and understands the needs of the
masses of the people.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27

The Memphis Commercial APP
peal condemns w. *. Alternately,
speaker Of the house in the last
general assembly, because his
brother is q Republican. The
same reasoning can be applied to
Governor Taylor.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27

Watch the Republicans har-
anonize after the Democrats name
their candidate for Governor, says
the Nashville American, and it is
about that way.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27

Every man who has beenpreach-
inc Democratic endorsement of a
faithful and efficient public serv-
ant, must support Senator Car
mack for reelection or be incon-
sistent.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27

Benton McMillin is for Bob Tay-
Tor this year, says the Lexington
Progress, but it has been many
wears since Benton McMillin had
a morsel of any kind Of respect
for Bob Taylor.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27
,BALLARD,s HoKEHouND SYRUP

SBALLAKD'S HOREHOUND S1hOI
Immediately relieves hoarse, crou-
pycough oppressed, rafting, rasp-
ingand difficult breathing. Henry
G. Stearns, druggist, Shuilsburg,
Wis, writes, May20, 1902: Il have
been selling Ballard's Horehound
Syrupfortwo years, ,and have never
had preparation that has given
better satisfaction. u notice that
when 1 sell bottle they come back
for more, | can honestly recon-
mend it," 25c, soc and Sl.00. Sold
by the Fry Drug Co.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27

The Patterson people are admin
istering some hard knocks to the
proverbial veracity of figures.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27

1t seems that dark horse propo-
sitions do not appeal strongly to
John Wesley Gaines.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27

The 5 and 10 cent counters at
Lowry's is a novelty that is taking
with the children as well as the
grown ups.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27

Word comes from East Tennes-
see that the Republicans are doing
everything they can for Governor
Taylor. Republicans do not fa-
yor Governor Taylor becausethey
like him, but because they are
afraid of what Senator Carmack
says and doesin the Senate The
Senator has proven himself to be
one of the ablest men in that body,
and every day Democrats are1mofe
fully realizing This factandbegin-
ming to feel what distinct loss to
the party his defeat would mean,
and for that reason if no other he
should be returned.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27

Still, they say Governor Taylor
Is Jolly fellow and can tell a good
story.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27

The CHRONICLE and Nashville
Weekly American, S1,00. per year.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27
We, the undersigned, friends an
known hermany years, DO cheerful
Mrs. JOHN r. TERRELL,
1897 10 Johnston Avenue.

friends neghbos
VI. r. Terrell, 1897 Jo Johnston
.Vandergrif, 1915 10 aver
Mrs Harry Roberts 10 To- avenue
Mrs., G. Jared o Johnston
v. Sweeney, emu
les 0 ayen
MrsJ W.Fd j. nston ayenu
10 on avenue
Ms.T .T4eronia ibson o ston ave.
oraS nders,l 10 aston avenue
Nashville, Tenn, Nacll9
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27
A Well Known Nashville Lady

Cured Of Blindness of t6 Years Standing
by the Use of DR.. D. Garfnkle's Eye Remedy
in Three Months Time
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-04-27

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The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-01-25
Qrop PeWaukee.

The Pewaukee apple originated near
Pewaukee, Wis, and obtained its
name from that place. Being a Wis
consin apple. the Wisconsin fruit
growers, being very ambitious to put
new varieties of apples on the mar
ket, pushed 1t more vigorously than
it should have been pushed. Their
State Society too quickly passed upon
Its merits. Other societies taking the
decision of the Wisconsin society for
their standard advocated the growing
OF the Pewaukee. Nurserymen all
over the West began to grow 1t, be
lfeying 1t to be one of the best fruits.
Now they are discarding 1t, having
found that 1t Is inferior In certain re-
spects to many of our other apples
1t is In every sense q very poor
keeper. Orchardists that have grown
the Pewaukee in considerable quaint.
ties say that they would not again
gsoS 1t and are advising their friends
to leave it alone. In Wisconsin many
of the fruit growers are raising their
voices against 1t. The fact that the
apple will not keep should be enough
70 condemn It. While there are other
valuable fruits that may be grown
there Is no use wasting time upon the
Pewaukee, which has no virtues In
the way of long keeping or high flavor
or good looks.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-01-25
OPENING Up Apple Trees.

Mr.. 8. G. Soverhill a we'll known
fruit grower of Illinois, has an orchard
that will pay any man to visit. Any
one looking over that orchard will be
struck by the grea. thriftiness of the
trees and the bright color seen on the
bark Of young trees. Mr.. Soverhill
says that this is due to the fact that
he has Opened up" as he calls 1t,
the trees. That is. he has cut out
the inside top branches and left, as
1t were, a narrow bowl in the top
from the trunk upwards. In ordinary
trees the central stem is allowed to
grow straight up with multitude of
small branches growing from it.
These always interfere with the gath
ering of the fruit, and the fruit borne
on these inside branches is generally
of poor color and relatively small, as
the more fruit a tree bears the
smaller will the fruit be. Mr..
Soverhill has cut out these branches
and has let the sun in to color his
fruit. AS he has reduced the bearing
wood of the tree, the fruit that is
left grows to a larger size than it
would. This open place ON the inside
of the tree he finds very useful at
picking time. A man can get into
this place, hang his basket or picking
bag on one of the limbs, and do his
picking very rapidly. Also, when
spraying time comes the man who
holds the nozzle that throws the spray
can get up into this place and thus
tree. This makes perfect work pos
sible. We believe this process OF
opening apple trees can be followed
to good advantage Review
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-01-25

on earth could unseat him. Perhaps
none ever had-until he came to the
Plains.
For this was on the Plains. As all
America was under canvas, it was not
strange that Col. Battersleigh should
lind his home in tent, and that this
tent should be pitched upon the West
ern Plains. Not that he had gone di-
rectly to the West after the muster
ing out of his regiment. To the con
trary, his first abode had been in the
city of New York, where during his
brief stay he acquired certain ac-
quaintance.
What were the financial resources
of Battersleigh after the cessation of
his pay as cavalry officer not even his
best friends could accurately have
told. 1t was rumored that he was the
commissioner in America of the Lon
don Times. He was credited with
being Fellow of the Royal Geo
graphical Society. That he had his
tory no one could doubt who saw him
come down the street with his broad
hat, his sweeping cloak, his gauntlets,
his neatly vanished boots.
In reality Col Henry Battersleigh
lived, during his city life, in small,
a very small room, up more than one
flight of stairs. This room. no
larger than a tent. was military In
its neatness. Battersleigh, bachelor
and soldier, was in nowise forgetful
of the truth that personal neatness
asd personal valor go well hand in
hand. The bed, very narrow one.
had but meager covering, and during
the winter months its single blanket
ratified TO the touch. There's moth
ing in the world so warm as news
papers, me boy said Battersleigh.
Upon the table. which was a box.
there was displayed always an invari-
able arrangement Col Battersleigh's
riding whip without which he was
rarely seen in public) was placed
upon the table first. Above the whip
were laid the gauntlets, crossed at
sixty degrees. On top of whip and
gloves rested the hat, indented never
more nor less. Beyond these. the per
sonai belongings of Battersleigh of
the Rile Irish were at best few and
humble. In the big city, busy with re
viving commerce. there were few who
cared how Battersleigh lived. It was
a vagrant wind of March that one day
blew aside the cloak of Battersleigh
as he raised his hat in salutation to
a friend-a vagrant wind. cynical and
merciless, which showed somewhat of
the poverty with which Bsttersleigh
had struggled like soldier and a gen
tleman. Battersleigh. poor and proud,
then went out into the West.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-01-25
One of MANY Breeds.

The man that wants to gain repu-
tation for purity of stock will find II
to his advantage to breed but a single
breed of birds. The man that paws
three or five dollars for sitting of
eggs wants to know that his eggs are
pure and he does not feel certain of
this If all kinds Of birds are running
over the farm. Hired help is not al
ways interested and if the birds hap
pen to get together through the care
lessness OF the hired man he is not
likely to report the matter to his en-
ployer. II he did, the owner could not
afford to put whole flock CT birds ont
OF service because they had accident
ally been running together for few
hours. The buyer knows this and pre-
fers to deal with the man that has but
one good breed and that the only one
kept on the farm. The farmer that is
interested in fowls from an educa-
tional or experimental standpoint NAV
keep as many as he likes, for he is not
posing as producer of eggs strictly
true to name.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-01-25

Jacob Gittel, of Southington, Conn.
is in trouble AS a matter of fact the
gentleman has been in trouble for
years. His wife is one of these I'M
bearable nuisances which the Puri-
tans used to hold under the town
pump-a village gossip. He has tried
every argument and used every threat
to induce her to cease her chatter
and let him. sleep O. nights, but in
vain. Driven finally to desperation,
he determined to put a stop for good
and all to her incessant talk by pull
ing her tongue out. The cure would
have been heroic but effective. But,
weakened as he was by his loss of
sleep and by the continued strain on
his nervous system, the unfortunate
husband had not the strength to hold
his wife with one hand while he per-
formed the operation with the other.
She got away and complained to the
authorities. The result is that while
everybody sympathizes with him, the
husband is in Jail and the woman is
still talking.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-01-25
CHAPTER v.
The Turning Of the Road.

me iurning OF the Road.
At the close of the war Capt. Ed.
ward Franklin returned to a shrunken
world. The little Illinois village
which had been his home no longer
served to bound his ambitions. but Of
fered only a mill-round of duties SO
petty horizon of opportunities so
restricted as to cause in his mind
feeling of distress equivalent at times
to absolute adherence. The perspec-
tive of all things had changed. The
men who had once seemed great to
him in this little world now appeared
in the light of wider judgment, as
they really were-small, boastful.
pompous, cowardly, deceitful, preten-
tious. Franklin was himself now
man, and man graduated from that
severe and exacting school which so
quickly matured generation of
American youth. AS his hand had
fitted naturally a weapon, so his
mind turned naturally to larger things
than those offered in these long titled
fields of life. He came back from the
war disillusionized, irreverent, impa-
tent, and full of that surging fretful-
ness which fell upon all the land.
To this young man, ardent, ener-
getic. malcontent, there appeared the
vision of wide regions of rude, active
life, offering full outlet for all the
bodily vigor of man, and appealing
not less powerfully to his Imagination.
This West-no man had come back
from it who was not eager to return
to it again! For the weak and sloth-
full it might do to remain in the older
communities, to reap in the long-tllled
fields. but for the strong, for the
unattached, for the enterprising, this
unknown, unexplored uncertain coun-
try offered a scene whose possibilities
made irresistible appeal For two
years Franklin did the best he could
at reading law in a country office.
Every time he looked out of the win
dow he saw white-topped wagon
moving West. Men came back and
told him of this West Men wrote let.
tiers from the West to friends who re-
NAMED in the East. Presently these
friends also, seized upon by some
vast impulse which they could not
control, in turn arranged their affairs
and departed for the West.
Ito be continued)
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-01-25

The motor cyclist was caraering
down the remote country hillside at
speed which would have made Sur
rey policeman ohortle with glee. Sud-
denly there was AZ report, a Chi
nese-puzzle view of a motor-cyclist
and his machine, and then both repos-
ed in a roadside ditch, each consider
ably the worse for the experience.
''Helpl' cried the motor-cyclist; and
in, response to the cry farm laborer
hurried out from field near by.
For an instant he gazed at the strug-
Cling mass in the ditch. particularly
focusing his vision upon the still re-
yolvinN wheels of the cycle, the like
of which, as he explained afterwards.
he had Aneyer seen before. Then he
grabbed "a big stone.
Tell me where TO hit her" he
shouted, land III dash her brains
outi'-Itudon Answers.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-01-25
BOOK II.
The Day of the Buffalo.
CHAPTER w.
Battersleieh Of the RiIe Irish.

Battersleigh OF the Rile Irish.
Col Henry Battersleigh sat in his
tent engaged in the composition of a
document which occasioned him con-
Germ. That Col. Battersleigh should
be using his tent as office and resi-
dence-for that such was the fact even
the most casual glance must have de-
termined-was for him circumstance
Offering no special or extraordinary
features. His life had been spent I'M
der canvas. Brought up in the pro-
fession of arms, SO long az fighting
and forage were good 1t had mattered
little to him in what cline he found
his home. He had fought with the
English in India, carried sabre in the
Austrian horse, and on his private ac-
count drilled regiments for the Grand
Sultan, deep within the interior of a
country which knew how to keep it's
secrets. When the American civil war
began he drifted to the newest scene
of activity as metal to q magnet
Chance sent him with the Union army
and there he found opportunity for a
cavalry command "A gintleman like
Battersleigh of the Rile Irish always
rides" he said, and natural horseman
as we'll as trained cavalryman was Bat
tersleigh, tall, lean, fiat-backed, and
martial even under his sixty admitted
years. 1t was his boast that no horse
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-01-25
WASHING Fowls.

Recently / purchased a number OF
fowls that had been brought up on a
city lot. They were White Leghorns
and had been kept in a locality where
there was much smoke from soft COAL
In addition they had been confined on
small area and had padded the
ground into mud. Their plumage was
gray and black with smoke and the
spattering from the rains to which
they had been exposed. They had also
become very dirty from the mud in
which they had been compelled to
walk. They were disposed Of at
sale and presented such lamentable
appearance ON the day of sale that
no one wanted them. Every one
seemed to think them scrubs of the
scrubs. But | did not. | knew from
their combs that they were pure-bred
but that they had not been given q
time. bid low price for them,
about meat price, and got them. l
took them home and subjected them to
washing. | used strong lot of soap
suds and worked the soap into and I'M
der their feathers. | found they had
some body lice on them and suspected
that they might be harboring mites.
SO | worked in the soap good and
bard. 1t took a long time to wash
each fowl, but when | had washed
them you should have seen them. They
fairly shone, and when turned them
out onto our green lawn they were a
pretty sight. They showed by every
movement that they appreciated the
cleaning up. ! find in washing fowls
one should be careful and do a thor
ough job, especially If the birds have
had lice. Every louise can be disposed
OF If the washing is thorough enough.
For some reason or other lice do not
like soap. Sophia Bellnap, Allen Co.
Ind, in Farmers Review.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-01-25

stoopings. The quest was but too OBJ
vious. And even as Franklin gazed,
uncertain and unable to escape, it
seemed apparent that the two had
found that which they had sought. The
girl, slightly in advance, ran forward
a few PAGES, paused, and then ran
back. "Oh, there! there!" she cried.
And then the older woman took the
girls head upon her bosom. With
barred head and his own hand at his
eyes, Franklin hurried away, hoping
himself unseen, but bearing indelibly
pictured on his brain the scene of
which he had been witness. He wanted
to cry out, to halt the advancing col
umns which would soon be here, to
tell them that they must not come
upon this field, made sacred by such
woe.
Near the intrenchment where the
bitter close had been, and where there
was need alike for note of triumph
and forgetfulIess, the band major mar
shaled his music, four deep and forty
strong, and swung out into the anthem
of the flag. The head of the column
broke from the last cover of the wood
and came into full sight at the edge
of the open country. Thus there came
into view the whole panorama of the
field, dotted with the slain and with
those who sought the slain. The
music of triumph was encountered by
the concerted voice of grief and woe.
There appeared for the feet OF this
army not mere road. a mere battle
field, but a ground sacred, hedged high
about. not rudely to be violated
But the band major was a poet,
great man. There came to him no
order telling him what he SHOULD do,
but the thing was in his soul that
should be done. There came to him.
waited from the field OF sorrow, a note
which was command, voice which
sounded to him above the voices of
his own brasses, above the tapping OF
the kettledrums. A gesture of com
mand, and the music ceased absolute
ly. A moment, and it had resumed.
The forty black horses which made
up this regimental band were the pride
of the division. Four deep, forty
strong, with arching necks. with fore
feet reaching far and dropping softly.
each horse of the famous cavalry band
passed on out upon the field of Louis
burg with such carriage as showed it
sensible of it's mission The reins lay
loose upon their necks, hut they kept
step to the music which they felt
Forty horses paced slowly forward,
keeping step. Forty trumpeters. each
man with his right hand aloft, hold
ing his instrument, his left hand at nis
side bearing the cap which he had re
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-01-25

| In this part of the wood the dead
were mingled from both sides OF the
contest, the faded blue and the faded
gray sometimes scarce distingllishaDle
Then there came thickening of the
gray, and In turn, as the traveller adj
vanced toward the fences and abattis.
the Northern dead predominated
though still there were many faces yell
low-pale, dark-framed
Franklin passed over the abattis,
over the remaining fences, and into
the intrenchments where the final
stand had been. The dead lay thick,
among them many who were young.
Franklin stock looking out over the
fields, In the direction of the town.
And there he saw sight fifty to be
called the ultimate horror of all these
things horrible that he had seen.
Over the fields Of Louisburg there
came fearful sound, growing, rising,
falling, stopping the singing and the
twitter Of the birds. Across the land
there came a horrible procession. adj
vancing with short, uncertain. broken
pauses-a procession which advanced.
paused, halted, broke into groups; adj
vanced, paused, stopped and stopped;
a procession which came with wall
ings and bitter cries, with wringing
OF hands, with heads now and then
laid upon the shoulders of others for
support; a procession which stopped
uncertainty. horribly. 1t was the WON
en- of Louisburg coming to SEEK their
slain--a sight most monstrous, most
terrible, unknown upon any field of
civilized war, and unfit to be tolerated
even In the thought! 1t Is fer men.
who SOW the fields of battle, to attend
also to the reaping.
Franklin stood at the inner edge of
the earthworks, half hidden by a little
clump of trees. He saw approaching
him, slowly but almost In direct line,
two figures, an older lady and a girl.
They came on, as did the others. al
ways with that slow, searching attis
tude, the walk broken with pauses and
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-01-25

tWU@F oU inc ToFG8l HC8cFN&e.
Information comes from Washington
that the mature timber on the Ma
tlonal forest reserves Ia to be offered
for sale. This announcement Is In
line with the declared purpose OF the
Department OF Agriculture to develop
the National forest reserves by use.
The restriction formerly laid upon the
export of timber from the states In
which the forest reserves were To-
Gated has been removed, and the law
now places no limitation on the ship
ment OF timber grown on any forest
reserve except those IN the state of
Idaho and the Black Hills Reserve In
South Dakota. The effect OF this
change In the law. and the declared
policy of the Department OF Agricul-
ture, is that the timber on the re-
serves may now be cut and disposed
OF to the highest bidder. On many of
the reserves there are great quanti-
ties Of mature timber, and on some OF
them the facilities for getting 1t out
at a reasonable cost are excellent
The Forest Service, which has charge
OF the administration of the reserves,
Is anxious to begin the cutting OF this
mature timber as soon as possible.
and 1T Is prepared to consider offers
from lumbermen who wish to under
take such operations.
1t is perhaps well to call attention
to the fact that this announcement
does not mean that the forest reserves
are going to be devastated under au-
thority Of the government On the
contrary, the distinct and definite pur-
pose of tie Forest Service is to i'm
prove the reserves by utilizing the
material that Is now fit for lumber.
In doing so, it will also provide for
the reproduction of the forest and
the restocking of those areas upon
which forest conditions are defective.