The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1910-09-09

Inc Pharaoh who was supposed to
have persisted in the Rcd Goo aiod
anu was embalmed, asserts the Chris.
'ian Register and his mummy re-
mains to this day.
1t Is waste of time. warns the
Philadelphia Ledger, to advise peo-
pie whose mental construction impels
'hem 10 indulge in panics when there
is nothing to be scared about.
Remarks the Montreal Gazette: The
preliminary statement of the revenue
and expenditure of Canada for the
year. as interpreted by government
au'horities, shows a surplus of about
twenty millions and an increase of
the debt Of about nineteen millions.
Some fnanciers may wonder how this
state OF affairs can be, and how
country can add to its wealth while It
increases its debt twice as fast as it's
assets. They would never do as lead
ers in Canadian politics, however.
because the clam has not been Gull
tvated and coddled like the oyster,
the natural clam beds hereabouts are
becoming gradually barren and
stripped, bewails the New York
World. Fridays favorite, the clam
chowder may now be dearer than or
yore. Little Necks on the halfshell,
the prelude to a well-regulaed feast
at all seasons, are liable to be raised
to the luxury class, like shrimps or
goose livers. And it will be a sad day
along the whole Atlantic coast when
the democratic clambake of our fore
fathers becomes an exclusive and cost
ly dissipation of the idle rich
Why not the either? A correspond
ent suggests it in a note that gives
the New York Mail a pause: I'VE
should have a national musical instru-
ment. The violin is too difficult, the
piano is too expensive, brass and
tube instruments are not suitable for
home use. We should choose the
either, which can be played by any
body in any apartment, tenement, cot
tage, camp, or dugout. The either can
be national" Well said. The either
is not noisy like the horn, nor occult
like the violin. This country has
some millions of pianos, bought for
the daughter of the home, but mostly
misused, or unused. THE either can
be national" says this correspondent.
The only trouble is that it is already
international. The observer at the
Office Window has heard it's strains
floating out from cottage windows
while tramping the roads of Ger
many, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and
Russia. Other people discovered it's
advantages ahead of the Americans.
It is easy to point to the uncer-
tainties of medical science and tn
disagreements of medical authorities,
hut such criticisms seem extremely
trivial whenever we think Of the won-
derful achievements that are to be
credited to the progress OF medicine,
declares the New York Evening Post.
When we think of smallpox almost
unknown; of diphtheria reduced,
within a score or so OF years, from
being a terrible scourge to the posi-
tion of almost a minor ailment; Of
yellow fever extirpated in our South
ern States, in Cuba, and at Panama
when we think of these and the al
most incredible achievements of mod
ern surgery, it makes the ordinary
careless fling at doctors seem very
small. All sciences, to be sure, are
made contributory, as physics Is in
such a. story as that given in the
newspapers this morning of the ex-
traction of a nail from a boys lung
nv the aid of the X-rays. What a tale
If magic It would have seemed, gen.
Grafton or two ago. before anaesthet-
,os had been invented, before anti
paothnds of surgery had been