The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1910-05-06
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.

Derb tN0n ever before are BULL ms
their furniture and going to i've III
LOard.ug houses or IN the country,
accor..ug to managers Of storage and
van companies. They assign this con-
dition Of affairs to the increased cost
OF nving,
Tho ability to read French or Ger
man VIII be required OF Harvard stu
dents in order to secure an A. ID. de-
gree after this year. All sucn candl-
dates by rule recently announced
will have TO pass an oral examination
in the reading Of French or German
before being admitted to the JUNIOR
class.
DR. William s. cambridge describ-
ed before meeting OF physicians In
the New York Skin and Cancer hos
pital the success of his treatment or
cancer by what he terms legation. 1t
consists in shutting off the supply OF
blood from the seat Of trouble by
tieing up the vessels with ligatures.
He nnds that cancer must have blood
to nourish its growth.
At meeting of the members OF the
Selma, Ala, Cotton exchange resolu-
lions were adopted asking Alabama
congressman to take hand in pros
ecuting those who sold future cotton
and did not have cotton to deliver.
Senator Johnson replied that reso-
luton to inquire into these contracts
would be made.
Willard Smith, sixty-five years old,
a wealthy wall paper manufacturer OF
Waterbury, Conn, was instantly kill
ed and his wife, Mrs. Anna Smith,
aged sixty, was held prisoner from
1920 at night until 230 in the morn
Ing, when a folding bed in which they
were sleeping in fashionable board
ing house closed up on them.
The state of New Jersey and the
Standard Oil company have gone into
partnership. They are to act together
in Kidding the city of Boyonne of
menace 10 the public health in the
shape of an extensive tract of marsh
land which has heretofore been
prolific breeding place for mosquitoes.
Each is to bear half the expense OF
draining the land.
Hanford B Warner, for more than
fifty years a manager of the we'll
known wild men of Borneo, died at
| his nome in Waltham, Mass aged
| eighty-two. He brought the wild
men, Wailo and Pautano, from Bor-
neo and travelled all over the world
| with them After retiring from the
| show business he took them to his
home, and one of them lives now,
aged over ninety.
The campaign against billboards
which the Civic League of st. Louis
| has been carrying on for some years
passed has been Endorsed by recent
decision of the Missouri supreme
court, which sustains city ordinance
passed in 1905, but against which an
advertising agency secured perma-
nent Injunction 1t is to the effect
that billboards may not stand more
than fifteen feet above the ground
nor closer than fifteen feet to the
sidewalk; must provide two feet of
clear space at the bottom; must not
run more than fifty feet in length,
and must not rest on the tops Of roofs
or over the front of buildings. The
objection to the prevailing board is
on the ground that they are unsightly,
unsanitary as bins of refuse and i'm
moral as retreats OF vice.
Washington.
Four men of the Mazama expedition
sailed from Seattle for Alaska to at
tempt the ascent of Mount Mckinley.
The cotton employers at mass
meeting in Manchester, England, de-
cided to insist on per cent reduc-
ton in wages. This action is attrib-
uted to the expected shortage in the
American crop.
The senate committee on judiciary
voted to conduct thorough eXaml-
nation into what is known as third
degree" methods of eXtorting confes'
sions from persons charged with
crime; also the practice of employing
persons in the espionage of Jurors.
That Mars is inhabited and it's sur
face marked by canals of human con
struction, a popular theory, was dis
: puted before the convention of the
National Academy of sciences in
5 Washington by George E. Hale OF
Mount Wilson solar observatory OF
the Carnegie institution. DR.. Hale
r made mention detrimental of the dis
: coveries of Dr.. Percy Lowell of Har
: ward university, who established an
J observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona
and spent several years telescopically
exploring Mars and who asserted thai
) canals existed on the planet.
7 In reply to speech by Senator
+ Smith OF South Carolina asSailing the
S tariff as the cause of high prices, Sen
4 ator Aldrich as the principal author
3 of the bill, made this reply: THE sys
4 TEN of high protection has causec
Y general and great prosperity in this
country. Wages have advanced ant
money has been more plentiful, there
+ by enabling people to live better an(
p pay more for articles of food ant
i clothing. This in a measure accounts
4 for the gradual increase in the cos
: of living.
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