2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Per *2 If paid la advance 1 •>" ADVERTISING RATES: Advertlxements are published at the rata o! •ne dollar per square for one insertion and tlftj •ents per square for euch subsequent insertion- Rates by the year, or for six or three montba, »re low aiid uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, 52; each aubsequent inser tion iO cents per square. Local notices to cents per line for one lnser ■ertlon; 5 cents per line for each subsequent consecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages nmt deaths will be Inserted free. Business cards, Ave lines or less, tft per year: over live lines, at the regular rates of adver- No local Inserted for less than 75 cents pti Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pa*ss Is complete •nd affords facilities for doing the best class of work. Pakticl-i.au atteniiun paidto Law Printing. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ues are paid, except at the option of the pub- Usher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid tor in advance. The sttidy of slang in the making has always been hampered by the fact that ... no investigator ever A llrand Sew . sees the inventor at Slung; Term. hig work . ]„ 6<)me college student's room, behind the screens of a drinking hall, or among the roustabouts of the levee the words and highly colored phrases taken up oy the world so readily have probably first been altered. Where lived the man who coined the word "chump?" Who first thought of saying to his rival: "Go 'way back and sit down?" No one seems to know, and the inquirer lias to be contented with inferior spe cimens for study. One of these has just come to light in Chicago. It. is not one of the elusive sort, full of fancy and in spiring suggestion. But it has the merit of having been designed, as it were, before our eyes, like the wheat cakes which the white-capped cook makes in the window ofa dairy res taurant. It is the word "s;eg," which is applied to the young women now at tending the University of Chicago. Since coeducation has been abolished, it- is obviously inaccurate to call them co-eds. The new word is certainly as euphonious as the old (more so, if any thing, because it has no hiatus), it is highly descriptive and not in the least uncomplimentary. During his stay in our country many voices have praised Dr. Loreiifc, the . .... great Austrian Honor to \\ lioin n physician, for tiie Honor IN Due. r * , . . , freedom wit 11 winch lit gave his invaluable services gratui tously to families unable to pay sur gical fees. And he lias not been praised a whit too much. But there has been injustice done the medical profession, declares the Chicago Interior, in man) comments which inferential!}' exalted him as singular and alone in such be nevolence. We do not believe there is anywhere a reputable physician who is not according to his circumstances ns free handed with his skill and serv ices as Dr. Lorenz. The typical physi cian of the times is pretty rigid about collecting his bills from those who can pay, but he never refuses calls to homes, that- cannot pay. We do not believe that- there is another profession on earth that- gives so much unpaid serv ice to humanity as the profession of medicine, nor any other profession whose traditions of charitableness are to fine. The first number of the Dillon (Wyo.) Doublejack has appeared, but there were strenuous, times first. "All of the type for this issue," says Editor Grant Jones, formerly of Chicago, "lias been set in a windovvless building, where light was shed only through blankets. The cases containing this type were scattered around on benches and on the floor, as the case racks did not ar rive until two days before going tc press. Three forms of pages were set before the press itself came over the mountains. Each paper crossed over the continental divide from the Pacific to the Atlantic slope, and the sled which carried it has been dragged for miles over snow averaging more than four feet in depth and over drifts often 20 feet in depth." An idea of the extraordinary power that is used at Marconi's Table Head station for transmitting messages across the Atlantic by space teleg raphy is given by Dr. Parkin, who sent to the London Times the first complete message, lie says the apparatus is ol such remarkable power that the sound, as each letter is transmitted is so great in volume that it is neces sary to use cotton as a protection for the eardrums. lie compares the send ing of a message to a miniature thun derstorm. A spark, fully half an inch in width, is shot out upon the air whet the key is pressed. Anybody on good terms'vitli snakes except those addicted to strong drink will find a good position open at Wash ington, where a good "snake" man is wanted by the government to collect reptiles for the Smithsonian institute The pay is not much, but think of Hit fun. So-called snake charmers might get in on this, only the commissioi specifies that the applicant must know how to classify and mount the remain! of dead reptiles. There is not likely to be a. lot of competition for this job LOW EBB OF DEMOCRACY. The Party of Ili«cO'iitent linn Hut j Scant Hope to Iliiild I i»uu I'ur JIIU4. Seldom has the democratic party 111 the nation at large been so feeble as it is at this time. In the entrances and exits of governors at the beginning of 1903 there are left only four states out tide of the old slavery region of 1860 which arc presided over by non-repub licans. One of these states, Montana, elected its governor in 1900, and as the term in that state is four years, lie has a respite until the beginning of 1905. If Montana had elected a governor in 1902 he would have been a republican. The other states of the north and west which have democratic governors are Rhode Island, Nevada and Oregon. Rhode Island was lost to the repub licans on governor in 1902 though a temporary schism in the party, aided by a socialist diversion. Nevada elect ed a fusionist, as it has been doing for several years. The democrats, through a republican factional fight 011 govern or in Oregon, captured that ollicial by a very small margin in 1902, the repub licans carrying alt the rest of the offi cers by large pluralities. This is the condition of impotency in which tin- democratic party finds itself at the eve of the opening of the presi dential year, says the St. Louis Ulobe- Deinocrat. In all except four states of the north and west the republicans are in the ascendant, and they were beat en in three of those by conditions which are only temporary, while in the fourth, Montana, they would have carried the governor in 1902 if any had been chosen in that year. In every one of these four states, with the possible exception of Nevada, the republicans are almost certain to win in 1904. More over, they have some of the states of the old slavery section. They have Delaware and West Virginia, both «jf which aVe as reliably republican these days —except as the Addieks light pre vents the election of senators in the former —as Ohio or Massachusetts. The republicans have been making a clean sweep in West Virginia for sev eral years, and are likely to remain in the ascendant for an indefinite period in tiie future. Of course, this solid republican north and west may be interpreted to mean that the sectional line has re turned to the polities of the country. This is a truth, however, which is not calculated to harm the republicans. For all the sectionalism that is in poli ties in 1903 the democratic party is to blame. The democrats made an as sault on the financial honor and stabil ity of the country in 1896, and thus lost such states as they had outside of the solid south. The effacement of the ne gro in the south in recent years has | been another cause of the preponder | ance of the republican party in ail tin I states outside of that region. A solid j south, whenever it exists, will general- I ly be confronted with a solid north and west, and in that event the south's par ty, the democracy, is certain to be placed far in the minority. At present tiie weakness of the democracy in con gress and the country at large is even more pronounced than might be in ferred from its vote, for not only is it in the minority, but it has lost the coun try's respect, has no men in congress who command any attention from the nation, and is likely to get,still feebler j before it grows stronger. A glance at j the roster of the governors of thecoun j try's 45 states in these opening weeks | of 1903 shows the democracy in a flab ! bier condition than it has been in at al | most any previous time since the foundation of the republican party. THE PRESIDENCY AND SOAP. j rat'* Solic 111 <* for IK<'li»iiif? II In Party Win flic \>xt National Cant pa Ik* 11. Soap, if rightly applied, lias often proved an available lubricator of poli tical machines. Years ago it was charged that soap had been introduced into a campaign in Indiana, but it re mained for Mayor J-ohn llinkle, of Columbus, to propose a scheme by which the democratic party could be helped with soap to win the next na tional campaign, says the Cleveland Leader. The mayor has, it is said, made an offer which will give the democrats a campaign fund for 1904. lie will give tiie party a share of the proceeds of the sale of soap in the manufacture of which he is doubtless interested. He will do tiie marketing himself, and for every gross of bars sold he will con ! tribute $1.20 to the democratic fund. The only condition is that the fund, when created, shall be used for the election of a pnesident in favor of the public ownership of public utilities, equal taxation for all and special priv | ileges for none, who is opposed to mon i archies and empires and against wars of extermination, whether in South | African or elsewhere. Of course, it is not stipulated that I the democrats shall use the soap them selves fir compel other people to use it; they have nothing to do but take their share of the proceeds and incidentally, of course, to say a good word for the I soap that is to grease the ways to ti:c white house for a democratic presi dent. But why not make llinkle the democratic candidate, if Tom Johnson will permit it'.' With "llinkle, soap and suds," the party could hardly fail to win. Great is democratic statesman ship in these early days of the twen tieth century. II ■''There is no immediate danger of the adoption of a constitutional 1 amendment, as proposed by a dem ocratic member of congress from In diana. limiting private fortunes to ten millions of dollars. Therefore, the millionaires need not worry.— Cleveland Leader. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1903 RECORD OF RECIPROCITY. Goes Hand In llantl with the True American Policy of Pro tection. The well meaning but misguided gen tlemen who are now somewhat .-hrilly inveighing against reciprocity as con trary to true republicanism and to true American policy, would do well to look up the record, says the New York Tribune. James Gillespie Blaine was, we be lieve, generally regarded as a partic ularly robust and aggressive Ameri can. He was regarded by the repub lican party as a good enough repub lican to be its presidential candidate and one of its very foremost leaders for many years. He was regarded as so sound a protectionist as to be looked ;o, by common consent, as the one great protagonist of protection against Grover Cleveland's free trade propaganda. Vet Blaine was the chief fottndi rand advocate of the policy of reciprocity, and it was owing princi pally to his influence and exertions that reciprocity provisions were an nexed tothe MeKinley tariff law of IM«t. under which reciprocal trade relations were established with no fewer than tent countries, to our great gain. The republican national platform of 1 stiO, referring to that feature of the MeKinley bill, said: "We point tothe success of the republican policy of reciprocity." Under democratic rule, by means of the unhappy Wilson tariff bill, reciprocity was abolished, with la mentable results. Referring to that fact, tiie next republican nat ional plat form, in 1 s'iO, declared: "We believe the repeal of tiie reciprocity arrange ments negotiated by the last repub lican administration was a national ca lamity, and we demand their renewal and extension. "Protection and reciprocity are twin measures of republican policy, and.go hand in hand." Again, in 1900, the republican nation al platform, after speaking of protec tion. said: "We favor the associated policy of reciprocity." William MeKinley was regarded as one of the foremost protectionists of his time, and as a good enough repub lican for that party to elect twice to the presidency of tiie United States. In his last public utterance he said: "Reciprocity is the natural outgrowth j of our wonderful industrial develop ment under Ilie domestic policy now so ; firmly established. . . . Reciproc ity treaties are in harmony with the j spirit of the times.'* We are inclined to think that Blaine, j MeKinley and tiie last three repub- j lican national conventions were about . as good authorities on "true repub licanism" and "true Americanism" as any that can now be found. A DEMOCRAT'S DELUSION. lie piili I lea a lllntory SliowM That the Party W lis Never a l*nrty of ChltaKCM. The Louisville Courier-Journal,in an j attack on the republicans, falls in- | to a common but inexcusable er- j ror, says the St. Louis Globe-Deui- j ocrat. After saying that the ] first republican party* in the I nit- i ed States was that now called the dem ocratic, it declares: "The republican | party organized in 1854 took the cast off name of the democrats-, but it was ; not then a conservative party; quite the reverse. The democrats had been in power for half a century, with brief intervals, and were the conservative party." No radical change was asked by the republican party of. 1854. In adopt ing the name of Jefferson's old party, it also adopted .lelTerson's old creed. Jefferson tried in the congress of the confederation to have slavery shut out of all tiie territories of the United States after the year 1800. This affect ed slavery below tiie Ohio river as well as above it. In this respect, Jeffer son's proposition differed from the act passed by congress three years later, the ordinance of 17-s7. which pro hibited immediately the further in troduction of slavery into the region j north of the Ohio. It was on&of Jef-j ferson's griefs to his dying day that j his anti-slavery proposition of 1784 J failed to pass. The republican party of 1854 adopted | the Jeffers'on theory as to slavery, and i aimed to shut it out of the territories, j The republicans were the conserva tives and the democrats were the radi- | cals in that crisis. The democrats of 1850-61- —tiie southern section of them i —demanded that slavery should be ad- | mil ted into all the territories, thus as sailing Jefferson's doctrine, and sub mitting for it a doctrine invented by Calhoun, Rhett and others in 1847. That Calhoun doctrine, when Benton and most of the old .lacksonian ele ment of the democracy fought, was a new departure for that party, and led it into trouble not only with tiie re publicans, but with the Douglas men in its own camp. When the Courier- Journal looks over the field a little more carefully it will discover that: the republicans of 1854-61 stood on ancient democratic ground in advoeat- | ing the saving of the territories for freedom, and that the democratic de generates who abandoned that posi- , tion assailed a belief which was spe cially dear to the founder of their I party. CTlie first step toward trust con trol will not fully solve the trust problem, but it w.l 11 be tin excellent beginning. That this first step is now practically certain to be taken —that opposition to it has narowed down to those who have no argument against it save that it checks their haste to be rich shows what may be accomplished when such real leaders of the people as Theodore lloosevelt stand forth to lead.—Chicago Inter Ocean. HE VILLNOTSERVE Mr. Roosevelt Declines to Act as Arbitrator. IT GOES TO THE HAGUE. International Court Will Settle Venezuelan Affair. MANY YARDS OF RED TAPE. Tliey Will Have to l«c I I Be fore Negotiation", at Ua.hl»i;tou arc Complete, but tlic II lock ad e Will be ■tallied Within a Few llayn. Washington, Feb. 7. —President Roosevelt has declined the invitation of the allied powers to arbitrate the question as to whether they shall re ceive preferential treatment in the settlement of their claims against Venezuela over the other creditor na tions. He reached this decision short ly before 4 o'clock Friday afternoon and instructed Secretary Hay to send a note to the British embassy advis ing the British ambassador to that effect. The matter therefore now will lie referred to The Hague tribu nal. This will result in the imme diate raising of the blockade. The administration, it is stated in an official quarter, was unwilling to eliminate Minister llowen from the negotiations, and moreover the presi dent could not have accepted the in vitation of the allies even if lie had been so disposed without the consent of the other negotiator. Minister Bowen, and this the allies did not ob tain or request ill their note of invita tion to ilie president. Preliminaries with reference to tha signing of the protocol referring the. matter to The Hague, will be consid ered to-day. Immediately on receipt of Secretary Hay's note announcing the president's declination, the British ambassador addressed a communication to Mr. Bowen, stating that he was suffering from an attack of grip, and would be obliged if Mr. Bowen would call on him. The Venezuelan envoy went at once to the embassy, where the Brit ish ambassador explained that he had been too ill to call for several days and announced the arrival of his pro tocol. which he was prepared to sub mit to Mr. Bowen for signature. Later the German minister, Baron Sternburg. called on Mr. Bowen and announced the arrival of his proto col. To-day's program will include prep arations for the signing of the pro tocols. Two protocols are to be signed by Mr. Bowen with tiie Italian ambassador, two with the British ambassador and two with the German ambassador. The first protocol in each case will provide for the reference of the al lies' contention for preferential treatment to The Hague and the rais ing of the blockade simultaneously with tiie signing of this convention. It is doubtful whether the initial pro tocols between Minister Bowen and the three allies will contain the same conditions, though all the negotiators are working to this end. In these protocols, the conditions precedent to the raising of the block ade will lie clearly stated, namely that, 30 per cent, of the customs re ceipts of the ports of La Guaira and Porto Cabello are to be set aside by Venezuela for the satisfaction of her creditors, and that the question as to tvhether the allied powers sTiail re ceive preferential treatment, or as Great Britain terms it "separate" treatment, in the settlement, shall be referred to The Hague. These proto cols also will provide that Venezuela shall pay down to each of tiie three allied powers £5,500 as an initial cash payment. Having arranged for the signatures of these first protocols, the negotia tors will take up the second proto cols, which are to cover the manner of adjudicating the claims of the various creditor powers and the ad ministrations of the customs receipts. The claims of each power are to tie settled by a commission to consist in each instance of a representative of the creditor government and a Vene zuelan. and in ease of a failure to agree the king of Spain will appoint the arbiter. The plan agreed on for the collec tion of tiie payments provides that the Caracas government shall lie en trusted with the administration of receipts unless 30 days arc allowed to elapse without prompt payment to any one nation of its share, in which event the Belgium government is em powered to take charge of tiie cus toms houses and administer until the claims of all nations are satisfied. Plan to illsrsfl Intons. Pittsburg, Feb. 7. —A proposition for the union of two large national labor organizations, the Iron Mold ers' Union of North America and the International Coremakers' union, has been submitted to the various locals of both unions. The vote will be taken to-day. Another Murder at < lalrton. Pittsburg, Feb. 7. —Clairton, the new town on the Monongahela just above here, yesterday made its record of murders six within ten days. When many people were on tiie main street an unknown white man pulled a re volver and shot a negro named Charles Mack, of Harrisviile, Kv., killing him instantly. The murderer fled to the hills and had not been cap tured at midnight. The men appar ently did not know each other, but it. seems the negro made some remark that angered the white man, and be fore the bystanders realized that a Huorrel was on, the killing was done. CATARRH THIRTY YEARS. CONGRESSMAN MEEKISON OF OHIO. ;; Hon. David Meekison is well known, not only in his own Stale, but through out America. lie began his political career by serving four consecutive terms, as Mayor of the town in which he lives, during which time he became widely known as the founder of the Jieekison I'unlc of Napoleon, Ohio. He was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress by a very large majority, and is the acknowledged leader of his party in his section of the State. Only one flaw marred the otherwise complete successof this risingstatesman. Catarrh with its insidious approach and tenacious grasp, was hisonly unconquered foe. For thirty years lie waged unsuccessful warfare against this personal enemy. At last Peruna came to the rescue, and he dictated the following letter to Dr. Ilartman as the result: | ««/ have used several bottles of Peruna and I feel greatly benefited ! I thereby from my catarrh of the head. / feel encouraged to believe that If ? il use It a short time longer I will be fully able to eradicate the disease of T thirty years' standing."—David Meekison, Member of Congress. I TIIE season of catching 1 cold is upon us. The cough and the sneeze and the nasal twang 1 are to be heard on every hand. The origin of chronic catarrh, the most common and dreadful of diseases, is a cold. This is the way the chronic catarrh generally begins. A person catches cold, which hangs on longer than usual. The cold generally starts in the head and throat. Then follows sensitive ness of the air passages which incline one to catch cold very easily. At last the person has a cold all the while seemingly, more or less discharge from the nose, hawking, spitting, frequent clearing of the throat, nostrils stopped up, full feeling in the head, and sore, inflamed throat. The best time to treatcatarrh isatthe very beginning. A bottle of I'eruna prop erly used, never fails to cure a common cold, thus preventing chronic catarrh. Ask your druggist for a WESTERN CANADA GRAIN GROWING# MIXIiD FARMING. TIIEKBABON WHY more wheat is grown In Western (■HIIirSCR\L Canada In a few short months, |> is becnus j vegetation grows in Inore northerly the latitude in ft Hyfiwhich grain will come to perfec aMßjßfaß tion, the better it is. Therefore B2 pounds per bushel is as .air a standard as OJ pounds in the Kast. Area umler crop In Western Canadu* 1008, l,t)N?,:i:tO Acre*, Yield, 1©0«, in,»X«,7r»l IKimhels. HOMESTEAD LANDS OF 160 ACRES FREE, the only charge for which Is 81© for making entry. Abundance of water and fuel, cheap building ma terial. good grass tor pasture and hay, a ferlilesoil. a sufficient rainfall, and a climate giving an assured and adequate season of growth. Send to the follow ing for an Atlas and other literature, and also for certitlcate giving you reduced freight and passenger rates, etc.. Superintendent of Iniinltft-itllon, Ottawa, ('niia.ta, i>r 11. M WII.I.IAMH, ltoom 2U, Law Hidg . Toledo, Uh»o, authorized Catiadlau Uot truuicut Agent While many people have been cured of chronic catarrh by a single bottle of Peruna, yet, as a rule, when the catarrh becomes thoroughly fixed more than one bottle is necessary to complete a cure. Peruna has cured cases innumer able of catarrh of twenty years'stand ing-. It is the best, if not "the only inter nal remedy for chronic catarrh in ex istence. But prevention isfar better than cure. Every person subject to catching 1 cold! should take Peruna at once at tho slightest symptom of cold or sore throat at this season of the year and thus pre vent what is almost certain to end in chronic catarrh. Send for free book on catarrh, entitled " Winter Catarrh,"' by Dr. Hartman. " Health and Beauty" sent free to women only. free Pe-ru-na Almanac. FREE PMi dM i >J| To provo the healing and i*? P Bk 81* cleansing power of I'axtino iMjeilßM Toilet Antiseptic we will uiuSU' mail a large trial package 'fif TT with book of instructions' | absolute j free. This ia I tiotu tin j.sample, but a large vS jjflsl package, enough to convince anyone of its value. Women iSJ all over the country aro ii .ft praising I'axtine for what it has done in local trea:- || merit of female Ills, cur ing all inflammation ami discharges, wonderful as a cleansing vaginal douche, for sore throat, nasal catarrh, as a mouth wash, and to remove tartar and whiten the teeth. Send to-Uay; a postal card will do. 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