2 CAMIRJIN COUNTY FMS. H. H. MU l.Li W. Kd.tor. I'liblislu'tl Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. {'cr year K 9" 112 paid In advance • W ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published ai the rate of ane dollar per square furone insertion ami Mfty rent* per square for each subsequent Insertion- Rates by the year, or for six or three mcnttis, %re low aiid uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legnl and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, each subsequent inser tion to cents per square. I.ocal notices 10 cents per line for one Inser sertlon: 5 cents per line for each subsequent •onsecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, inar tluges and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, live lines or less, 55 per year, over live liues, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than 7o cents per Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pkkrs is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. Pakticui.au attention paidto Law Printing. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the optlou of tho pub lisner. Papers sent out of the county must bo paid for in advance. Hat as Badge of Slavery. With the ancient Greeks the hat was simply an appurtenance of the traveler. The free citizen preferred togo bareheaded and only put on his broad-brimmed petasus for protection against the sun when on a long jour ney. The uncovered head was part of his dignity, for the slaves and work men wore always a kind of pointed skull cap. Ancient Mining Center. An Egyptian mining center—prob ably worked as early as 2500 B. C. — was in the eastern desert, between the Red sea and the Nile. The lately discovered remains described by C. J. Alford Include small irregular stone huts, arranged in groups of two or three, to towns large enough for 1,000 men. As to the Suffragette. As some criminals are said to "see red" and go for their enemy, so some women when stung with a political idea, however little urgent, practical or immediate it may really be, "see red," and go blindly for that one aim by any means and in spite of any ob jection by friends or foe. —Frederic Harrison. These Women! A woman gets one dozen pint bot tles of beer, ten five-cent cigars, a loaf of rye bread and a dime's worth of cheese and bologna, calls it a Dutch lunch, invites 15 men as a surprise on her husband, and then leaves them to themselves, expecting them to get real tough.—Atchison Globe. Bible in Native Dialect. A missionary deaconess in Liberia has edited in native dialect a book containing the ten commandments, the apostles' creed, the doxology and a number of the best-known hymns. The book is not only the first published in the dialect, but the first successful attempt to make it a written language. Snakes as Ghosts. The Zulus and other primitive peo ples regard snakes as ancestral ghosts, the notion arising partly from the uncanny nature of the serpent, partly from its fondness of living near graves and then crawling into houses —as though it might be revisiting an old home. Every Man a Debtor to His Profession. I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive counten ance ami profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help anil ornament thereunto.—Bacon. Country Without Undertakers. There are no undertakers in Japan. When it person dies it is the custom for his nearest relatives to put iiini into a coffin and bury him, and the mourning does not begin until after burial. Stockings of Human Hair. Stockings made from human hair are worn by Chinese fishermen as the best preventive of wet feet. They are drawn over ordinary cotton stockings, being too rough for putting near the skin. Journalistic Notes. There is no foundation for the rumor that our contemporary, the Egyptian Daily Post, is starting a "Page for the Home," to be conducted by "Mummy."—London Globe. For Cheerfulness. Make iife a comedy—act a cheerful part. In balancing matters it is be lieved the cheerful actor will stand a better chance than the giurn grum bler who thinks he is sincere. Have Weil-Known Names. In the Ignited States inere are 30 towns or villages named Berlin, 21 named Hamburg, 23 named Paris and IS named London. Almost Too Fast. "Noo York," said Uncle Rooster, "is certainly a fast place. Durned If they don't start asellln' the eveuin' papers thar before breakfast." Realization. It is when a college student finds himself in a hospital that lie realizes the perils of not being a mollycoddle. •—Pltteburg Gazette Times. ^ E " J MANDATE IS CLEAR TRUE MEANING OF THE REPUB LICAN VICTORY. People Have Expressed Themselves in Favor of the Policies of Presi dent Roosevelt, and the Party Must Obey. The Republicans will have a work ing majority of 40 or more in the lower house of the Sixty-first congress. There is a loss of 15 or 25 in compari son with present conditions. Some of those who have not been returned have been opponents of the president's policies. Others who have been criti cised for their stand have been re elected. A more careful examination of the completed returns is needed be fore judgment can he rendered in in dividual cases. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that the voice of the people the country over has been loud in indorsement of the principles and ideals for which the present administration has stood. The decision at the polls may be taken as a mandate to congress to provide for the carrying out of the spirit and the letter of these policies. The success ful candidate for the presidency was quick to recognize the meaning of the popular vote. "It is your administra tion that this victory affirms" was the response to the congratulatory mes sage from the White House. The mem bers of the majority party in the new house should be equally prompt in their appreciation of the same truth, no matter how they may have lined up in past discussions. The great triumph of Mr. Taft would have been sadly marred had the peo ple, in their congressional districts, tied his hands by the election of a Democratic house. That they have returned a substantial Republican ma jority is a clear expression of their desire that the president they have elected shall have the hearty support of congress in carrying forward the measures already initiated and in put ting into execution the policies favored by him and to which the party has pledged itself in its platform of prin ciples. With president, senate and house in accord the way is open for the realiza tion of the expressed desires of the people. They have indicated their ap proval of the Republican party. That their faith and trust have not been misplaced will be shown in coming months, as one after another of the great problems now in the public mind are rightly solved. —Chicago Tribune. Gov. Hughes. The news of Gov. Hughes' victory was received with profound satisfac tion throughout the United States. Democrats as well as Republicans should be pleased by it because the victory is a victory for decency, for morality and for law. Hughes has been a great executive. Back of his extraordinary abilities a splendid will has been at work. He lias gone on unflinchingly from one re form to another. He has succeeded in correcting abuses that crept into the management of powerful corporations; he has placed those corporations un der public control; he has accepted the challenge of the gamblers and all their long train of vile associates, and he has given them a drubbing that they will not forget in many a year. Could there be better proof that the best politics, even from the stand point of expediency, is the politics that is inspired by devotion to prin ciple? Hughes' triumph will act as a tonic. It will dismay the big and little grafters in all the states, give heart to reformers everywhere and add to the prestige that the governor has en joyed because of his admirable record and remarkable achievements. Our Naval Men. "One cannot live with these younger officers without feeling that the sud den growth of their navy or some oth er cause has given them an ex traordinary military spirit such as you meet with only in epoch of a na tion's iife. . . Annapolis men get the habit of hard work itt the acad emy. They are passionate for high scores for their divisions and ships at target practice."—Loudon Times. The Pacific fleet is rousing the world to the fact that Uncle Sam's navy is as good in fact as it is on paper. People Are with Mr. Taft. The result of the election proves that tin' sobcr-mind'-d majority looked over and through the trivial and ir relevant issues of the campaign and judged Mr. Taft on his actual achieve ments and on his own merits. It proves that whatever defects might be found iu Mr. Tuft's attitude in some | matters, the serious judgment of the i people found in him ami iu Repub | ilcan principles the way of prudence I ami of safety. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1908. PARTY BREAKS ALL RECORDS. Republicans Have Longest Continuous Power in Country's History. When the Republicans carried the country in the recent election they broke all the records in length of con tinuous sway in both branches of con gress simultaneously, says Leslie's Weekly. In the Jefferson-Madison- Monroe era the Democrats held un broken control of all branches of the government for over a quarter of a century, but for a large part of that time theirs was the only party in the country. The Hartford convention of 1814, with Its imagined treasonable de signs, killed the federalist party, and the Democrats had the field to them selves until the rise of the National Republicans in John Quincy Adams' administration and the advent of the Whigs in 1834, in Jackson's second term. In the more than three-quarters of a century which has passed since two big parties have been struggling con stantly for the supremacy, 14 years has been the longest time which any party lias held power without inter ruption in both senate and house at the same time. The Republicans did this in the civil war and reconstruc tion period. Beginning with the entrance of Lin coln into office in 1861, the Republi cans held control of both branches of congress continuously until 1875, when the Democratic house of representa tives, elected in 1874, in the middle of Grant's second term, went into power. Beginning with the election of 1894, in the second half of Cleveland's sec ond term, the Republicans have con trolled both branches of congress to the present day, or 14 years. The present stretch of Republican sway is far more notable than the earlier one was. During a large part of the time between 1861 and 1875 many states in the Democratic quar ter of the country were unrepresent ed in congress and the Democrats of the rest of the nation were to a large degree demoralized and discredited. In the present period, on the other hand, the Democratic party, while often discordant, has had the solid south behind it and has been active and aggressive everywhere. The Republican victory in 1908 means only 16 years of unbroken sway in the presidency, as compared with 24 years in the Jefferson-Monroe pe riod and also 24 in the Lincoln-Arthur area; but the 16 years of uninterrupt ed control which it gives the Repub licans in both branches of the national legislature is unparalleled in our an nals. Republican Victory Means Much. The victory is the greater for Re publican principles and for Mr. Taft because it was won in the face of a profound demoralization of organized Republicanism in several great states. It shows the power of recuperation that the Republican party possesses when compelled to face a real emer gency. The victory was won against an opposition, united and confident, as it. has not been in three years pre ceding national contests. The fact that it.was so won, and won in spite of adverse conditions af fecting the welfare of millions of voters for which the Republican party could not deny a large meas ure of responsibility, proves on the one hand that historic Republicanism still justly has the public confidence, and on the other that the American people are not ready to yield to in sensate radical agitations, no matter how plausible and no matter by which party they may be advanced. Bryan Has Been Answered. Mr. Bryan appealed to the people, and he has received his answer. He had not a single sound proposition upon which to stand, and he has done more than any other one individual to make the people see the fact. If Mr. Bryan represented policies con cerning which there was a divergence of view between the parties, there would be less ground to read the ver dict of the people against him. But he represented views that were not di vergent, but absolutely opposed to the views of his adversaries, to the expe rience of ihe country ami to the judg ment of sound thinkers. Taft's Fitness Well Shewn. No man elected president in the his tory of our country has ever demon strated in advance more clearly than Mr. Taft his exceptional fitness for the entire round of presidential duties. lie has shown what lie can do. lie has already faced responsibilities as great as any lie is likely to be called upon to face as president, lit every cast he has "made good." Viewing tho president of the United States as merely "the country's hired man,"the conclusion seems to be that the country does not think Mr. Bryar would be worth a salary of $50,000 t year in that capacity. IWO STATES (IRE QUARANTINED AS A RESULT OF THE FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE AMONG CATTLE. NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA Are Placed Under a Ban by the Depart ment of Agriculture and by the Authorities of Each State. Buffalo, N. Y. —For the first time in their history the East Buffalo stock yards are under the ban of a quarantine. Because two carloads of cattle delivered in western Pennsyl vania, which were found to be infected with foot and mouth disease were traced to East Buffalo, the federal and state authorities have placed a ban on this market pending a general cleanup of the yards and a further in vestigation of the outbreak of the dis ease so much dreaded by stockmen. As a direct result of the conditions growing out of the investigation of the Pennsylvania shipment, the word came Thursday from the bureau of animal industry of the department of agricul ture, ordering the entire states of New York and Pennsylvania to be quaran tined. Pennsylvania's state authori ties have declared a quarantine against New York state and Commis sioner Pearson, of the department of agriculture of this state, has ordered that a strict quarantine be placed on Ave counties in western New York, namely, Erie, Niagara, Orleans, Wyom ing and Genesee. Animals infected with the foot and mouth disease have been discovered in each of these counties by government inspectors who have been at work for over a week. Practically all the cases, it is said, have been traced back to Buffalo. Chief Melvin of the Washington bureau has been here in charge of the crusade to stamp out the disease, and under him are working a score of in spectors from the federal bureau of animal industry. The federal quarantine will apply to all cattle in this slate and Pennsylva nia and no one is prepared to say how long it will last. Over 200 men will be put to work to-day in the East Buffalo yards, disinfecting every inch of ground. This work will take at least three weeks. The state quaran tine will be very strict. There were 80 animals in the two carloads of yearlings which caused the trouble. They came from the west, but the exact points from which they were assembled have not been learned. Dr. Wende, chief inspector in the Buf falo branch of the federal bureau of animal industry, has a clue that they came from Michigan and he has s'arted for there to follow it up. Albany, X. Y. —Prompt measures to fight a threatened epidemic in this state of foot and mouth disease are being taken by the state department of agriculture following the receipt of reports that the disease had obtained a footing at 12 points in Erie and Niagara counties. it is supposed the disease was brought to this state through the Buf falo stock yards. It is thought that the poisons thrown off by afflicted animals have been transmitted to other healthy beasts through barnyard birds, prin cipally sparrows, and Deputy Commis sioner of Agriculture Flanders on Thursday asked the state forest, fish and game department if a permit to poison sparrows in infected territory could be secured. He was told that if it could be demonstrated with rea sonable certainty that sparrows were agents of transmission of the disease, the fish and game protectors would not interfere in a warfare against them. The outbreak of the disease in Penn sylvania seems of a grave nature. Its first appearance was about a week ago in the counties of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Union, and on November 12 Secretary Wilson placed a rigid quarantine over those counties. Dr. Leonard Pearson, state veterina rian of Pennsylvania, worked with a force oC assistants to prevent a spread of the disease, but they were unable to cope with the situation. A Huge Deal in Tobacco. Louisville, Ky.—The big deal be tween the American Tobacco Co. and the Hurley Tobacco society for the 100(i anil part of the 1907 crops of tobacco, which has been hanging fire for weeks, was closed he e Thurs day. The price agreed on in the transaction, said to be the largest of its kind ever put through, is an aver age of 20'{j cents for the 190G crop and 17 cents per pound for the 1907 product. The deal involves nearly 80,000,000 pounds of tobacco held in the pool by the Hurley Tobacco society. Campaign Fund Amounted to $1,500,000 New York City. A campaign fund of $1,500,000 contributed to the national Republican committee In the recent campaign will be shown when the list of contributors is tiled at Al bany uext Monday. There are 15,000 nanu son the list. Woman Convicted of Murder. Sioux City, la. —.Mrs. Alary liar hour, accused of the murder of Miss Hose Adams, her foster daugh '•r, was on Thursdaj found guilty oi murder In the second degree, TELLS HOW HE GOT A START J. D. ROCKEFELLER TELLS ABOUT EARLY DAYS OF STANDARD OIL. He Testifies in the Suit Brought Against the Standard by the Government. New York City.—Relating his story with the air of a gentleman en gaging a host of friends with incidents of days long past, John D. Rockefeller, president of the Standard Oil Co., though for nearly ten years- retired from the active cares of company di rection, for over two hours on Wed nesday reviewed the history of the early oil trade and the development of the first companies that later grew into the present so-called oil trust. Mr. Rockefeller was a witness for the defense in the suit to dissolve the Standard which is being prosecuted by the United States government, and his appearance at the hearings before ex-Judge Franklin Ferris, the referee, brought a large crowd to the customs building. The head of the oil combine was surrounded by an imposing circle of counsel and when he began his testi mony he gazed complacently upon a swarm of newspaper men behind whom pressed close a throng of people that filled the room. Mr. Rockefeller appeared at complete ease and when John G. Milburn, of counsel for the Standard, propounded his first ques tion, the witness spoke out in full tones as if he desired the most distant spectator to hear. Then in a manner that indicated pleasure at what he was about to tell, Mr. Rockefeller spoke of his start In the oil business and how under ad verse conditions that business grew to the proportions of the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, with its capitaliza tion of $1,000,000. Mr. Rockefeller's eyes sparkled in reflection on that early financial organization and speak ing of its million dollar capitalization with almost boyish enthusiasm, he said: "It seemed very large to us, who began with only $4,000 in 1862." During a brief recess Mr. Rockefel ler talked to the reporters on the Standard's growth, saying: "This testimony here to-day brings back to my mind so clearly early days In Cleveland, where we were all friends and neighbors together. How well I remember that day in Cleveland when I went into the bank of T. P. Handy, who afterward became one of my dearest friends. I wanted to bor row money, but I didn't have any col lateral nor any one to indorse my note. I told him what I wanted to do with it and then he asked me how much I wanted. 'I need $2,000,' I said, and I got it. To that loan I attribute whatever success I have had in life since." SAYS HE IS IN THIEF CLASS. Chas. Francis Adams Declares that Tariff "Stand Patters" are Either Hogs or Thieves. Washington, D. C. —"To ask us to put aside our business affairs and, at our expense, goto Washington on a desperate mission is asking a little too much, whether the demand comes from the committee or from a presi dent-elect." The above is the sub stance of a letter addressed by Charles Francis Adams to Representative Mc- Call of Massachusetts 112T 1 made pub lic by the latter Wed- „sday in his ex planation of the failure of the tariff re formers to present their case to the ways and means committee now con sidering a revision of the tariff. Mr. Adams declares that the persons who wish the tariff schedules to re main unchanged either are "thieves or hogs," and admits that he himself be longs to the first class. But he is also a tariff reformer desiring to see every protective schedule swept out of ex istence. But as a mere citizen he says he would receive from the ways and means committee scarcely a respectful hearing, if any at all, being thus in the position of millions of others. End of the Peonage Case. New York City.—Judge Hough in the United States court Wednesday or dered a jury to return a verdict of not guilty in tho cases of David E. Harley, an agent for the Florida East Coast railroad, and three employment agents of this city, who were accused of con spiracy to hold workmen in peonage and slavery while the men were build ing that road. Judge Hough said that the prosecution had failed to show an agreement of minds with evil intent to conspire. The jury returned the ver dict as ordered and was discharged. Whisky Warehouses Burned. Louisville, Ky.—Two warehouses of the Tom Moore Distilling Co. at. Bradstown, in which wfcro stored 15,000 barrels of whisky, were burned Wednesday, entailing a loss of $400,000, fully insured. The loss of prospective revenue tax to the govern ment is $750,000. A New York Issue of Canal Bonds. Washington, D. C. —Secretary Cor telyou announced Wednesday that he would receive bids up to the close of business on December 4 next for $30,000,000 Panama canal bonds, to bear 2 per cent, interest. Is Allowed $25,000 a Year Alimony. Now York City. Mrs. Howard Gould was allowed $25,000 a year ali mony by Justice ilisclioff in the su preme court \Vedne»day. This alimony Is allowed pending the decision ol Mrs. Gould's suit for divorce. A SURGICAI OPERATION If there is any one thin woman dreads more than a, is a surgical operation. We can state without fe; contradiction that there are , dreds, yes, thousands, of operations performed upon women in our hos pitals which are entirely unneces sary and many have been avoided by LYDIA E. PtNKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND For proof of this statement read the following letters. Mrs. Barbara Base, of Kingman, Kansas, writes to Mrs. Pinkham: " For eight years I suffered from the most severe form of female troubles an J ■was told that an operation vras my only hope of recovery. I wrote Mrs. Pinkham. for advice, and took Lydia E. Pinkham'* Vegetable Compound, and it has saved my life and made me a well woman." Mrs. Arthur R. House, of Church Road, Moorestown. N. J., writes: "I feel it is my duty to let people know what Lydia E. Pinlcham's Vege table Compound has done for me. I Buffered from female troubles, and last- March my physician decided that an operation was necessary. My husband objected, and urged me to try "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and to-day I am well and strong." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, mado- g from roots and herbs, has been the | standard remedy for female ills, * and has positively cured thousands off women who have been troubled with.® displacements, inflammation, fibroid tumors, irregularitiesM periodic pains, and backache. Mrs. Pinkham invites all siel£ women to write her for ad vice J| Blie has guided thousands to*;- health. Address, lijnn, Mass. Western Canada the Pennant Winner "The Last Best West" MJI JUTS oM The government of M Canada now gives mi I kU'2'Kl* to every actual set tier 160 acres of l«nd free and an at $3.00 an acre. The 300,000 contented American settlers making their homes in Western Canada is the best evidence of the superiority of that country. They ar£ becoming rich, growing from 25 to 50 bushels wheat to the acre; 60 to 110 bush els oats and 45 to 60 bushels barley, be sides having splendid herds of cattle raised on the prairie grass. Dairying is an im portant industry. The crop of 1908 still keeps Western Canada in the lead. The world will soon look to it a» its food-producer •'The tiling which most Impressed us was the magnitude of the country that Is available for agricultural purposes." National Kditvrial Corrcapondence * l'jtm. Low railway rates, prood schools and churches, markets convenient, prices the highest, climate perfect. Lands are for salo by Railway and Land Com panies. Descriptive pamphlets and maps sent free. For railway rates ami other information apply to Superintendent of Immiffratior' Ottawa, Canada or to the authorized Canadian Gov't Agent: H. M. WILLIAMS. Law Building, Toledo, Ohio* Iv A IF YOUVE n NEVER WORN A/a'* I ns " »©rafeSUCKEB ,11 \ \\\t \ you've yet V \\L/to learn the bodily r »\ x ~r comfort it gives in \\ MI the wettest weather 11 V fill —J l ll MADE FOR IdVlI "M, \ij har ° / )lit 11l V v w|l GUARANTEED LjW 1 \l\ WATERPBOO,r )Ci I\ *322 (J U 1 I AT All GOQD S TOO 13 CATALOG FREE A J TOV*rB ca BOSTON. 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