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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-09-07
CATTLE FEVER TICK.

Mai. A. H. Pettibone, represent
ing the Department of Agriculture
at Washington, addressed large
crowd of our citizens here Mon
day on the question of Texas fever
in cattle, which threatens to be OF
still greater injury to our county
unless controlled and stamped out.
All parts of the county was well
represented, and Major Pettibone
was given attentive hearing as he
explained fully the cause and eff
feet of, the Texas cattle fever.
AS explained by Major Petit
bone, the authorities Of the United
States and those of the State of
Tennessee recognize that there are
no such things as either Demo
cratic smallpox or Republican
cholera, and. there is no possible
party policy in the effort of the
enlightened officials of both State
and Nation to stamp out a great
cattle disease which threatens to
more seriously injure the cattle
industry of our country.
This is a question Of vast and
paramount Importance, not only
to the farmer who breeds cattle for
profit, but to all who consume the
meat and milk and butter of the
farmers cattle; it must affect all
wearers of shoes, and this will in
clude all our people men, women
and children because everybody
except old bachelors know that
babies are born without shoes and
leather is q prime necessity.
There are certain facts, however,
that all people ought to know. It
is fact that the so-called Texas
cattle fever was first observed in
Spain, more than hundred years
ago. 1t was brought from there to
Mexico, and then across the bor-
der into Texas. From there it is
slowly and steadily spreading to
all the States of the South.
In an effort to stop it's further
spread, the United States Govern
ment established what is known as
the cattle quarantine few years
ago. AS the cattle fever spread
into Tennessee the quarantine line
has been brought up until it now
divides our county. Owing to the
indifference of some at the time
and since the establishment of the
quarantine line here the fever con-
tinues to spread. It is a serious
matter. Last year the Govern
ment authorities threatened to
place our entire county under
quarantine, and unless we can
stamp it out the quarantine line
will leave us behind it, and this
would mean loss of thousands of
dollars to Benton County each
year.
The Government and our State
are making united
end determined effort to stamp out
the fever, which can easily be done
if the people will cooperate with
the inspectors when they come in
to our county.
The Texas cattle fever is a viru-
lent disease, which is costing a
sheer loss to the farmers of the
South of sixty millions Of dollars
each year. Only fractional part
of Tennessee is under quarantine,
yet it is costing that part of our
State about four millions of dol
lars each year.. The figures are
appalling, butneyertheless true.
Major Pettibone explained how
the evil can be abated and stamp
ed out. He showed that after the
most careful and searching exam
nation it WAS again and again
confirmed by careful scientific ex-
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-09-07

THE CHRONICLE Office is located in the
Fry building upstairs over the Store Of J.
j. Weatherly.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17

A real start seems to have been made in the
matter of dress reform for women in Japan,
writes Ernest w. Clement, in the World Today.
The beginning of the movement is in connection
with desire for a more convenient costume for
the students of the Woman's University Toxic.
At the request of President Naruse of that insti-
tution Miss Kara G. Smart, secretary of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, submit
ted designs for reform dress which should com
bne, so far possible, the good points of both
the Occidental and the Japanese costumes. The
Japanese women and girls are demanding, and
most emphatically, change in their attire, and
this change is bound to come sooner or later.
They ask to- be helped in making the desired
change and for us to give them something that
appeals to their common sense, that gives greater
freedom of motion in their ever increasing ac-
tivty that is becoming, and that is also foreign
lied.
The problem was, Of course, very difficult
one, and has not yet been entirely solved; for
there will inevitably be many changes before an
absolutely suitable costume can be obtained for
the japanese women in this transitional period.
But a good beginning has been made which is
often half the battle. And in attempting to solve
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17

must be rather boring at best. And since little
Amelia of Vanity Fair we have had long
procession of weak, silly, helpless beings in
contrast with the longer train of brilliant, beau
tiful. unscrupulous sirens. There are sirens in
Fielding, but they drawn from life, and
while he draws them with good humor, he
takes no trouble to conceal their misery or
their failures.
Another point is that Fieldings moralizing
on the tortured subject of love is particularly
sane. We given no false sentiment and
the degrees of love-there are many-are clear
ly divided. He shows us the gradual influence
over a mans life of the best kind of devotion,
and one should be grateful to him for showing
the process naggng, exacting, un-
imaginative system of rhetoric, but silent
force working constantly for good
Neither Sophia nor Amelia INDUCES in long
medtations or morbid attacks of hysteria.
They respect the laws of life, they realize the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
Passing of the Jap's Kimono

the problem, the demands of physiology and ny
giene have had thorough consideration.
1t is not necessary here to go into the details
Of the costume recommended; it is enough to give
the outlines That for winter is as follows: O
A suit of part or all wool underwear, extending
from neck to wrists and ankles (2) A pair of
bloomers. (3) A short underwaist. (4) long
petticoat. (5) Outside gown, the waist and skirt
sewed together at the division line" For
spring, autumn and summer, the costume will be
varied in amount and in material to suit the
milder weather. 1t is said that Charming eff
fects are produced by using different styles of
trimming and other accessories"
Although this reform dress is planned to meet
the needs especially of students, its use will not
be confined to that class of girls women, but
will spread throughout society With changes in
the life and social relations of Japanese women
will come the need of different and more CON
venient costume. For the past two years it has
been quite noticeable that the number of young
girls wearing European costume has been rapidly
increasing This means, not the Immediate, but
the ultimate, passing of the kimono, even in
Japan. The rising generation of girls will be-
come accustomed TO at least modified European
costume. And the inevitable result will be that,
before many years have elapsed, dress reform for
women will have made great progress in Japan.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
Girls hould cad

enormous fundam difference between men
and women. They are neither spasmodic, nor
emotional nor vain, but they full of tend
erness and charm, and, above all, high spirits.
eff modern heroine is tender, she is usually
depressed and depressing. Fielding knew how
to combine tenderness with pride and love
with gayety.
"No doubt in outward refinement, manners
have improved since Fielding's time. But can
we say that inward refinement has made the
same progress?
ut seems to me that. whereas love tales were
once cheerful, they have become vicious and
when healthy-minded girls read of the strange
doings and stranger moods of the momentarily
popular hcroines, they begin to feel as though
they themselves, in comparison with these in
vented creatures, were abnormaly dull.
'Let me entreat them to realize that they are
not dull, and that the dull creature is the arti-
fetal creature"
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ing advice about servants and other domestic af-
fairs
But the young couple having been brought up
to consider her the root Of all evil look upon her
as an interloper They resent what they call her
interference" and her "intrusions," and, above
all things, they detest "chaperoned honeymoon
LEAVE THEM ALONE.
1t undoubtedly is best to leave the young couple
alone, and to let them work out their own saliva
ton. They have many things to learn and to
unearn, things which cannot be taught them by
any outsider, however near and dear that out
slider may be-
But the nother-inaw a mother long before
she acquired her present title. and so she cannot
always remember that she has not the sole right
over her child now. Her interest she certainly
cannot control, and from this it follows that she
finds extreme difficulty in keeping herself from
taking an active hand in affairs
The young couple cannot understand that it is
her mothers love that makes her interfere
They set the reason down as being malice pure
and simple. The wife believes that she doesn't
like her; and the husband that his mother is
jealous of this new woman who has come to share
his love.
As for what the husband believes, it is sheer
His mother knows very well that there
is vast difference between the love a man gives
his mother and the love he gives his wife, diff
ference so great to make comparison impos
sibe and where there is no comparison there
certainly be no jealousy. 1t is true that it
may cost her pang when she realizes for the
first time that her son for some other
woman but jealous she never be. If she were
jealous. she would try to separate her son from
this other woman, but her love for him is too
great for this; her sole object and desire is to
make him happy.
As for'what the wife believes. that is also sheer
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nonsense. Her husbands mother can never ac
tualy dislike her. She came to their first meet
ing with heart yearning to love this girl her
son had picked out az being worthy Of his affec-
tions, and whether or not she agrees with him
in thinking the girl worthy she will want to
lavish upon her all the affection she would have
given to her own daughter.
She probably will think that the girl is not
worthy of her son, but as the chances are that
the girl will think thl same, they certainly ought
not to quarrel on this point. However, they prob
ably will for the inconsistency of women is a
thing that must be reckoned with at all times.
Although the wife may consider herself as being
quite unworthy of her husband and not fit even
to love him, she will nevertheless be extremely
offended il she suspects her mother-in-law Of
agreeing with her.
This is one reason why the two women in the
case do not get along. Another is that the wife
does not try to win the love of her mother-in-
law The elder woman is disposed to love her,
but naturally, if she finds encouragement, she
will be offended and retire into her shell.
The wife cannot understand that her mother-in
law is anxious to love her, for her mind has been
poisoned by the comic papers and the jester. She
has read over and over again about the-man who,
when he heard that his wife was going TO clean
house and to entertain her mother at the same
time, went off quietly by himself and committed
suicide The joke has long ceased to be funny,
but the idea of the dreaded mother-in-law never
loses its vividness in her mind.
Before she married, her friends came and
condoled with her because she was about to be
inflicted with a mother-in-law. They also cited
such cases as those of the happy Mrs. Jones,
whose Husbands mother fortunately died cou-
ple of months before the wedding"
She has been educated to believe that the female
members of mans family are maliciously in
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w a t

the men as meek, quiet lady-like, whereas the
women indulge in extraordinary adventures
and emotions The women are rakes and the
heroes would seem to be timid spinsters. pre-
fer the old school.
"What | most admire about Fielding is that
however selfindulgent his men may be, he al
ways does splendid justice to the highest type
of women They are strong, so sensible, and
so pure that they always emerge triumphant
from all the perils temptations and influences
which surround them.
"And that" said Mrs. Craigie, "is as it
should be. 1t is as it always is in real life.
The really good woman is always triumphant
in the end.
"But that is not the kind of good woman we
get presented to us in great deal of modern
fiction. Thackerays Amelia (of whom l am
fond was the beginning of the decadent type
of stupid merit which has done much to
spread the tradition that virtuous woman
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
About Women

woman full Of faith in the one she loves is
but novelists fancy.
The mistakes of woman result almost always
from her faith in the good and her confidence in
the truth.
Woman is a charming creature, who changes
her heart as easily as her gloves.
The man who can govern woman can govern
a nation.
Most women proceed like the flea, by leaps
and jumps.
When women love u.s. they forgive us every
thing. even our crimes. When they do not love
us, they give us credit for nothing, not even for
our virtues
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
II oTHERlNbAN DEFENDED
"a WomaD's Def feDse Of
Mucb- N aliqDe d ? Pers oDage

clined towards any feminine additions This may
be true as far as the theory Of the female mem
bers of the family is concerned; their practice
however, is very different matter.
No woman looks forward with Joy to the DAY
when her son shall marry, but when the day does
come, she lives up to her part noby. The glrl
he marries may not be the sort of girl she would
have picked out for him, but that has absolutely
nothing to do with the case.
She is prepared to do her part, but the girl
fails to do hers.
The girl does not realize that the best way 70
keep the love of any man worth having is to win
The affection of his mother. II is almost an ak
ION to say that the man who has been good son
will make a good husband and that man like
this must be held largely through his mother.
lie has been accustomed to set his mothers
wishes and opinions above everything, and no
lover has been more anxious to please his sweet
heart than he has been to please her He has
formed his ideal woman under her guidance, and
out of materials furnished by her character
Consequently, when he comes to love, he will
pick out girl who approximates to this ideal
But il his mother does not like the girl, then the
girl will be unable to hold him. His mother will
pretend that she likes her in order to spare her
son pain, but she will in all probability be I'M
able to deceive him.
1t is wise girl then who sets out deliberate
ly to win the love Of her mothern-aw. Even
if she does believe in the tme-worn fallacy, she
will nevertheless make up her mind to love her
mother with all her heart, Just as much
as she loves her own mother. She has two moth
ers now, and for the sake of her own happiness
she cannot afford to neglect either.
If she looks at her mother-in-law in the right
light and if she receives her in the right spirit,
she will find her not the root of all matrimonial
evil, but blessing in disguise.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
He Got the Vote

large manufacturer in the North OF Eng
land put up locally as a candidate for Parlia-
ment; but, he was very unpopular with his
workmen, his opponent carefully reckoned ON
beating him easily, When the result Of the poll
was made known, however, many people were
surprised to find the disliked manufacturer al the
top,
His opponent felt SO curious about this that
he questioned one Of his workmen.
How is il" he asked, ''you voted for your
master when You all have such bad opinion OF
him?"
''Weel, you see, mon," was the reply 1--WE
voted for i'm so as he cud put hisself away in
London. We don't want i'm erel"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17

A draw finally agreed to, after rs moves
had been played.
(a) The main line of Laskers continuation at
this point is as follows:
A. QKt-B3. 4. KtBS. 8. Q-K2. 5. PIX
P. 6. QKt K p. g. B K2. T. Kt x Kt (ch), etc.
See analysis in our column of April 1.
.(b) At first sight, this move would appear
premature, but white has in mind a beautiful
combination involving sacrifice of piece.
(c) Most probably the best move, Kt-Q R 4
would have led to a similar position as that
which occurred.
(d) Had whita now played IA OR 3 (ch) fol
lowed by PIP and ultimately by P-Q Kt g. we
believe he would have scored the game.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17

course, that she would have to make the ac-
quaintance of many severe facts with which
Fielding deals, but she would have to learn
these things at time or another, and | do
not think she could learn them in a better
way than by reading Amelia 1t is true
study OF human nature on robust lines, and
the moral Fielding draws is invariably sound
and reasonable. Unreasonable novels do enor-
nous harm.
The heroes drawn by Fielding are not mod
els of good conduct, but he is always careful
to give them excellent hearts, and if they are
not capable of flights of poetic feeling, they are
infinitely capable Of steadfast affection.
I'm modern novels the tendency is to draw
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17

White to play and mate in three moves.
White, 6 pieces Black, pieces.
In view of the great popularity of the P-B
defense in the Ruy Lopez, we give an excellent
game played between Mr.. Fox and Mr.. Marshall.
This game shows of the most usual forms
played by Pillsbury for the attack has not been
found entirely satisfactory, and recent analysis
has thrown doubt upon the efficiency of the
move Q Kt-B as suggested by Lasker, short
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
Phoebe Forrest

iT~7HE motherin-law joke has become so
stale as TO be really sanctioned by ira
s=s5SSI diticn. You cannot pick up a comic
Ex@ksy paper anywhere without finding it in
some shape nor enter a theatre without
hearing the funny man drag in some
version Of it. Things have really come to such
pass that we groan at the faintest alluson to
the mother-in-law joke and yet most of us be.
lieve implicitly in the falacy that lies behind it..
This fallacy is simply that IN mother-in-law is
the root of all matrimonial evil.
Nothing could be more unjust, nor less borne
cut by the facts If the young couple do not get
along, the fault lies in themselves, in their own
natures. Whether they are happy or not depends
entirely upon themselves, and not upon any out
slider, no matter how closely related that out
slider may be-.
The reason why the young couple blame the
mother-inaw for their differences is because
they have been brought up to look upon her as
the cause of all matrimonial troubles. They have
read the comic papers assiduously and have lis
tened to the tales of woe of all their friends who
have been secretly very glad to shift the blame
for their lack of conjugal bliss on to the shoul-
ders of somebody else
As a matter of fact, the motherin-law really
does not interfere, she merely takes an interest.
This is only natural II she is liable to incline
to one side more than the other, this is only nat
ura too.
If she does cause trouble sometimes, it must
also be noticed that she does great deal of
good She has smoothed differences over and
cleared up misunderstanding; she has kept the
young wife, stung to the quick in the first quarrel
from packing up and going back to mamma
and she has been of incalculabe service in Civ
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
ELEYATOR THROUGH A MOUNTAIN.
ARMOR FACED RAILS.

A stock company is being organized to intro.
duce process of manufacturing armor faced rails
under the patents of w. c. Coyan, of Homestead,
Pa The invention covers process of tempering
and hardening the heads and wearing faces of
steel rails or the fanges of beams and girders.
Under this process the head and face of rail
get four chillings and four reheatings.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
ELECTRIC HIGH BRIDGE.

The highest railroad bridge in the world is be-
ing built across the top of the famous Royal
Gorge near Canon City, Col. 1t will be 2S00 feet
above the hanging bridge of the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad so high in the air that the roar
ing in the air of the Arkansas River below will
not be heard and the powerful stream below will
look like thread of silver running between the
frownng cliffs.
The structure will be erected in connection
with the plans of the citizens of San Jose, Cal.
to establish interurban system of electric rail
ways in Fremont county, Canon City to Florence
and the top of the Royal Gorge. Construction
will begin March l, and it is expected that the
line to the top of the Royal Gorge will be in op-
Grafton time this summer The cost of the
interurban system will be $500,000 and the sus-
pension bridge spanning the chasm 100000 ad-
ditional. 1t is six miles from Canon City to the
highest point the electric line will reach, but a
tortuous road ten miles in length will be built
for the electric
LARGE FORCED DRAUGHT EQUIPMENT.
company at Buffalo. n V has closed con.
tract with the Delaware and Hudson Company
for the largest single forced draft equipment ever
installed The apparatus which will go to the
Oyphant colliery near Scranton, Pa, will event
ualy supply fourteen boilers and consists of a
three-quarter housing steel plate fan with 15-foot
blast wheel direct connected to a plain slide valve
heavy duty engine Good results have been OBJ.
tanned from these plants in the anthracite region
for burning the very smallest sizes of anthracite
coal, for which there is outside market.
ELEVATOR THROUGH A MOUNTAIN.
A unique sightseeing elevator has been erected
to the summit of the Burgenstock in Switzerland
The car is entered at the base of the cliff and
rises 143 feet through shaft of solid rock, which
continues as a square steel structure to an ad-
ditional height of 352 feet.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
A LARGE DOCK .

An immense dock nearly one-half mile in length,
1000 feet in width, and covering an area of "a
acres, has recently been completed at Cardiff,
Wales 1t is designed to accommodate the largest
vessels ahoat. About 1900 workmen were EN-.
ployed for seven years in its construction.
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c Fl E S S N u C II E K E r S

analysis of which was published in this column
a few weeks ago.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
Exposition Grounds

and activity are very much
in evidence at the jamestown Exposi-
tion grounds, where the three hun.
dredth anniversary of the first perma-
nent ENGLISH settlement in America
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17

0 F had a daughter, should certainly
L give her the works of Fielding de
MS6l clares John Oliver Hobbs (Mrs.
2s9 Craigie) who has recently visited this
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
Individual Elevators

elevator for the use of one person is
being placed on the market, which
runs with scarcely any effort on the
part of the passenger, who balances
himself by shifting weights furnished
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17

White.
White to play and win.
Pretty though not difficult.
Black 3; Kings 16, 21, 25, 81.
White 13, 10, is, %, 32; King 2.
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that all the power necessary to move
the elevator is that required to over
come the friction of the machine, which is
practically nothing. The elevator was originally
intended principally for tall buildings, such as
grain elevators, for the use of superintendents in
making quick and easy trips to the different floors
of building. These elevators have been furnish
ed in considerable numbers, however, for Use in
private houses, to be used by women, saving them
the laborious climbing of stairways, being substi-
tuted for back stairs. Where the passenger ac
companies the load light freight can be carried
The company make speciality of hand elevators.
belted power elevators and the single belted type
of electric machines