2 CAMERON C-OUMTY PBfiSS, H. H. MULLIN, Ed.tcr. Published Every Thursday, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION (" y**r ,« „ In Advance " ADVERTISING RATES: ..■tV,V2t 8 ?, men,s are Polished at the rate of »»• oul;»r per square for one insertion and hft» I-ersquai't: fur each subsequent itisertloa Rates by the year, or for six or three month*, fP* lleauo'i U " ' ,vili be slied 03 and Official Advertising per snuare Cire. time, or less. n\- each .übsequentTse™ M«n fO cents per square MrMnn- r°™? 10 rca F "ne for one Inser- Im, ptr l,ne for eacJa «übsequeui •ou*ecutive Insertion. itil blt 2? ry , notu ' es ovf r llne«, io cents per i.ae. Simple announcements of births ina*» rta*es and deaths w.il be Inserted free Business cards, five lines or less. >5 per year ",\n g ■ 81 the regular r " u - s local ln.erted for les. than 75 cents per JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Prms Iseomnlet. S'n'o f " r doi " K ,ho b " st r| ass of ?*INTIWO ATTKNT,ON PAIDTO U W »w. (> ii«li r iH W " l be disc °ntlnue<3 until arrear- Kher except at the option of the pub- JBSa- of the coun,y mu « be p»'<J RUSSIAN ILLITERACY. There hardly could be a strongei r ondemnation of autocracy than the record of illiteracy of the Russian em pire. Seventy-five per cent, of there cruifs for the army, in which service ls CHni J>ulsory, can neither read noi write. Newspapers are published, nol for the masses, but for an educatec minority. The principal paper in the capital of the empire lias a circulation of only 33,000 and others with an in fornational reputation have only aboul one-third that many subscribers. With these facts before us there is no room to wonder at the backwardness of the Russian empire and no one can fail to perceive why it has typified mere brute strength in the affairs of the world and was feared for that reason alone until the giant was laid prostrate by the intelligence of a smaller and Physically weaker nation. Were czar dom the benevolent institution that its lv tT and advo ™tes would have the world believe the people of Russia would not be sunk in such depths of ignorance as is shown by unimpeachable records, jf Russia is -V he " lace among nations to Which its population and area entitle vastly more money will have to be spent on schools. And now come dispatches from VVinnipcg announcing tfcat the yield of n.'r, « 16 PrairiG rrovinces Can « ' lis year will reach 130,000,000 , S ' ,lK - Worl <l Almanac for • )■> the whole wheat crop of Canada for 1907 is stated to have been 96- 606,000 bushels. This caused some " to be expressed as to the au thenticity of extracts from a United State's consul's reports as to the in crease of wheat production in the northwest provinces which were pub lished during the excitement attend ing the recent wheat corner. The in crease of wheat production in the Canadian northwest has been almost sufficient to stagger belief. It will be a great blessing to the crowded cities o the earth whose cry goes up f or bread. Although the battleships Alabama Maine, Kentucky and liearsarge are comparatively new additions to the navy, they are all going out of com mission for heavy repairs, which in the rase of the Maine in particular will amount almost to reconstruction. In addition to work on her hull, the •Maine will have to receive a new bat tery of boilers. The rapidity with which, battleships become worn and obsolete is surprising to those who have been imagining that navies built of steel are good for many decades of service with little expense or repairs. Ihe truth is that these big ships must be undergoing protective "tinkering" r.il the time, from the date of launch ing until that of final retirement. The Russian ministry of commerce has prepared an elaborate plan provid ing for the general improvement of all the seaports of the empire at a cost of $110,896,237. The amounts which it is planned to expend at Baltic ports ag gregate J 14.011,862. This is a large amount of money, but Russia will get more in return 'or it than if she were to spend it all in the race for naval supremacy. Navies can be obtained eno »Sl> When nations are prosper ous; and the only way in which pros perity can be secured is by enterprise such as that indicated in the deter mination to give Russia seaports that will accommodate the commerce of the world. The other day a Pennsylvania man bought a despised mongrel for one dol lar and his friends made great sport of him for the investment. The sec ond night the dog was in the house it awakened the family and saved four persons from being burned to death, •ind tiie man has collected $1,200 in surance. Not so bad a cur. J"I gay and festive mosquito is holding high carnival with his family and friends over the failure of his proposed extermination. And it is a gory carnival, in which the best blood of Baltimore has attested the fact of human sacrifices as a part of the cele bration. IMPORIMT K NOTES OF A WEEf LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLC OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED FORM. EVENTS HERE AND THERE Condensed Into a Few Lines for the Perusal of the Buey Man— Latest Personal Infor mation. PERSONAL, Marvin Hughitt, president of the wncago & Northwestern Railway ompany, in an interview in New <>rk, predicted an era ol' great in uustiial activity and record crops. ■ • P. Morgan, Jr., was elected a di rector of the National City bank in •New York, to till the place caused by ' of.E. H. Harriman. » ' oc khill. the newly-appointed • •"fern an ambassador to Russia, ar med in St. Petersburg from lierlin. I'.dward H. Graham, editor of a news '•'•iper at Clarks Hill, lnd.„ has been 'iiiornied that he is heir to an estate 11 ? 100,000 in New York city. l oriner Judge Robert S. Lovett of yxas, who began railroad work as a !lt » month, was elected to succeed Edward H. Harriman as chair nan of the executive committee of the union Pacific Railroad Company. W. W. Baldwin, assistant to Presi dent George 11. Harris of the Hurling °n ra " wa y, has been made fourth ■ "c-pi esident of the Burlington, the mice having been created for him. . lp ' Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, )ic of the bureau of insular affairs > ' i(' war department, has resumed J 1 ' s ''•!' cial duties at Washington after I >eieral weeks in Europe. GENERAL NEWS. Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota was operated on tor an intestinal ab scess at Rochester, Minn., and his condition was reported as critical. He was on the operating table nearly three hours. Eight men were killed in a wreck of passenger and freight trains on the " * fahv >lle, Chattanooga and St. Louis j railroad near Pegrain Station in Ten nesee. [ Miss Gerda Sebbelov, a Danish girl who is attending college in New York, claims to have received letters from Eskimos in Greenland, where she spent three vears saying Dr. C.» <- ■'< • discover the north pole. President Taft decided in Secretary Ballinger in the eo with Gilford Pinchot and <■ discharge of L. if. Glavis, field division of the ger fices. The convention of the"i,. America rescinded at Springfk its action making the temporary ganizatlon of the convention pern, nent. Commercial fishermen along tlie 111 nois river in central Illinois are fav ored by a decision of Circuit Judg Higbee in refusing to grant an injunc tion asked by wealthy members o Chicago, St. Louis and Indianapoli clubs controlling lands in that section Besides electing James Sweeney o the Chicago and Eastern Illinois rail load as president, the Roadmaster<= and Maintenance of Way association in session at Washington, picked Chi cago ior the meeting place in 1910 Hy an agreement between the attor ney general and counsel at Union enn., in the indictments against 101 men as night riders, the cases art continued until November and bond! of $„i),000 are allowed. The twenty-third annual conventlor of the Association of American Ceme tery Superintendents is in session ai New York. Their hosts are enter taining them with trips to the metro politan cemeteries. \ irginia has obtained from the fed eral government the large figure-head which formerly adorned the prow ol the battleship Virginia, but the statr 3flicers are at a loss to make proper iise of the ornament now that thev have it. * Mrs Will Nowling was slain near i o lard Ala., by Mrs. Henry Xowling er nephews wife, who used a shot ' rh<? women had quarreled about lie use of a storehouse. The victim vas wealthy. The Detroit Federation of iJbor tactically withdrew from the Ameri an Federation of Labor by votine nanimously riot to comply with the •ecent order of the executive council <> unseat the Electrical Workers IDIOO. Governors and merchants of four 1 rsri n" end ,he <onve »«on s Ohio. Valley Improvement associa tion at Cincinnati October J4 and J5 In a speech in Chicago President raft renewed his promises to labor to obtain legislation against injunc tions in strike cases. Speaker Cannon told the American ankers association that he didn't be lieve the next congress will pass ■, new monetary law, rapped the uplift magazines and defended the present rules of the house of representatives Striking miners of Crown Hill nea . linton, Ind., have returned to 'work I.ie charter of the Central Trade :«n.l Labor union of St. Louis has beer 7S r the American Federation .= . K. Rayre. a merchant of Racket \ .t., was arrested on a charge of naving murdered his 17* year-old w «< on her wedding dav. three weeks ago ' CAMERON COUNTY fiURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1909. Commander Peary t3 servations H t the no* stood pat on ljis declaf Cook had handed the I brick." Each of the 100 woif of Kdwaid 11. Harriinal OOO.OOd to his widow. | provisions, probably I wealthiest woman in »!■ Fire in the Ernst K,j| store at Detroit did $7fJ F!re destroyed the if! elevators of Iglehart if ansville. ind. The losJ' reach sL'oo.noo; partly l suranee David and Hascom Bo&. were instantly killed aifr sc badly injured that fcv hours later by a boilej'vt a saw mil! at Middle lit "He is not the man,J* couraging declaration :h e Fanny Infusino to tht s when .Michele Itizzo, thJ'd "s a suspect in last J's double murder at Tlticl>s brought before her forln. While officers and relnal Dover, 0., Investigatingf of Miss Florence Weber, w|as lound in the Tuscarawfre unable to build up a thc<fi.-r, tney are equally at u los*io tive for suicide. A petition seeking il-nt of a franchise granted tjirg Waterworks Company wihe Mississippi city. The plol lows numerous "breakdfthe plant and plans the til of the management of theft lie city. Lieut. Moon of the al'ps, who pleaded guilty to ha£ to return books borrowed farps - library, was ordered by aftial, reprimanded and confinqjthe post trjr three months. I !• raternities and sororl the high schools of W'ashin'j be allowed to flourish and so long as they continue to I ted in an unobjectionable nuu The blind of three natj eri ca, England and FrancqSuefi ciaries in sums ranging to individuals to sr>,ooo to by the will of Edjth KebeccaiNew oik but long a resideiap nes-. France. J'argo, x. D., entertainSapa nese commercial coniiiiisi who are making a tour of |iite>l States, ihe travelers vifortii Dakota Agricultural collej Promoters of the reel toga conference cf Xew York ienii)- crats are planning to ext<i put ty rehabilitation movenielitli'T states. Dora Griffin of BostonJsent '>• 11- Tolman of Chi(«t'.ii necticut, was sentenced At tf<|d >« .... m JUII <ln „ war on loan agents. •uient in Me> i<y er sn a ilt. ni ls, of in u. a[ uddrt (lent oi . (> elation, in v. Contractors i,. i a . boring men. One <. d the release of three m after they had promise. or him. The board of public groi nd buildings of Pennsylvania tone question of the statue of the li ted States Senator Quay, wl t the Harrisburg freight statif. -Ng decision as to whether it placed in the capitol. Premier Stolypin has aga circular to Russian governor -i il oi the districts under inartiai i in structing them to restrict the pli cation of the death penalty atuih as possible. In the federal court at Martte, :, ch " E - ■ I-.arson, former cast of tne defunct First National 1> of iron wood, pleaded guilty to emble ment. Sentence was deferred. Attempts to import workmenavi been resisted with force by stiere who left the American Window ass works at Jeannette and Monongela, la. The movement to divide Cali-nia into two states took definite urn when the Southern California :ate eague was organized at a cit3iis' mass meeting in Los Angeles. Senator La Follette has witen President Taft, calling attentfoi to laxity in caring for the forest resrve area in the Wisconsin Indian nova tion. President Taft left his summer bme fit Beverly, Mass., on the trip thrugh lie west and south which will akc lilni through 30 states and over tmrly UOOO miles of railroad. Chicago i*tis !irst stop. John Washburn, a 14-year-old >ur- Tlar. shot and killed himself at Pee >ort, Mich., after attempting to sky a leputy sheriff who,tried to arrest lim. President Taft ana Attorney ten r«il \\ ickersham discussed the Jal uiger-Pinchot controversy and it vas said the president will dec'-le in fam )f I.allmger, which probably will re ■ult in the resignation of tho ciief orester. Lord Tweedmouth. former lust lord ! the admiralty in Ungland :nd i.f.m correspondence , ,i, , ' Hit* hiiHt' at..-c-c. a sensation In tjiOS, is dead The Aero club of B~l K i um | ias ~r-.U.Md .U.Md tO hfl.d i. of ~a (. c J, .'. ,he nt ' r< '"'ginning October ! Writable balloons and aetoplanes will MR. TUFT DEFENDS PAYNE TARIFF BILL SAYS IT IS BEST TARIFF MEAS URE THE PEOPLE HAVE EVER KNOWN. PRESIDENT EXPLAINS BILL Duty Increased on Luxuries and De creased on Necessities, Accord ing to a Statement Made by Chief Executive. Winona, Minn. —In the most import ant utterance he lias made since his occupancy of the White House, President \V. H. Taft here, in a stato which is the hot bed of the "insur gent" movement within the Republi can party, defended the Payne tariff bill as the best tariff measure ever passed by a Republican congress and hence the best tariff bill the people have ever known. The president boldly asserted that the insurgents who voted against the bill had abandoned the Re publican party. "Was it the duty of the member of congress who believed that the bill did not accomplish everything that it ought to accomplish, to vote against it?" asked the president. "I am here Ito justify those who answer this ques tion in the negative. I am not here »o defend those who voted for the tPayne bill, but to support them." 1 Mr. Taft waited until September 17 when, with a mass of facts and figures before him, with a new state ment just prepared by Chairman Payne of the house committee 011 ways aud means and with his own personal knowledge of all the intimate little de tails of the tariff light in Washington still fresh in his mind, he sat down in a stateroom in his private car, the Mayflower, and dictated to two ste nographers the speech he delivered at night and which represents a state ment on the accomplishments and de merits of the Payne bill, from an ad ministration point of view, more thor ough in its simple appeal for an un derstanding by the people, than any j document which lias heretofore been issued from any source. The statement contained only enough figures to make clear a point which the president has dwelt upon for some time in his confidential talks, that tho measure of the new bill should be taken by the amount of re ductions made on articles of general consumption compared to the in creases on articles little used. The president., by means of a table pre pel rod »t hie roquoot hy Mr I'uyiic, showed that the tariff had been in creased on articles whose consumption in this country amounts yearly to $851,000,000, and that of this amount $.'179,000,000 is represented by such luxuries as silks, wines, liquors, per fumes and pomades, leaving a balance of $272,000,000 representing increases on articles n<k luxuries. Against this, the president set, with great emphasis in his delivery, the fact that the tariff lihs been reduced on articles, mostly necessities, whose consumption in this country amounts annually to $5,000,- 000,000. STEAMER'S BOILERS EXPLODE Boat Which Foundered Off the Coast of the Isle of Pines Cost the Lives of 29 Persons. Mobile, Ala. A graphic story of a marine disaster which cost the lives of 29 persons when the steamer Nico las Castania, en route from Havana to Cienfuegos foundered off the coast of the Isle of Pines on the night of Au gust 23 last, has just reached Mobile. The crew numbered 27 officers and sailors, and there were two passen gers. Eighteen human bodies have been recovered. The missing 11 are believed to have become the victims of sharks. All the bodies recovered were in a terribly decomposed state, and identification was impossible. A government commission, after an ex amination reported that the immedi ate cause of the wreck was the sim ultaneous explosion of the steamer's battery of boilers. INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT LARGER Improvement in Wholesale and Job bing Demand —Perceptible Gains in Collections—Crop Movements New York City.—Bradsteets s;iys: A distinctly stronger under-tone is displayed in this week's tele graphed trade reports. Improvement in wholesale and jobbing demand, en largement of industrial output and per ceptible gains in collections are the central facts this week. Satisfactory progress, too, appears to be making ii: agricultural matters, with the excep tion of cotton. The movement of crops and general [merchandise is enlarging, and this (week finds widely noted the reports hat manufacturers of many lines are ehind on deliveries, and that the idle 1 ar list is still decreasing largely. Breaks High Flight Record. Berlin, Germany. Orville Wright, lying in his aeroplane here in the 1 ivsence of the empress. Princess iouise. Prhre Adelbert and Prince August v am a large party from the emit, broke the record for high llight. fe attained a height of 765 feet. Building Collapsed; Two Dead. Chicago, 111. By the collapse of tie three-story brick building at Iv'orth Sawyer and Milwaukee avenues; two men wor . killed and 20 were ser'- ously injtued. S The Piaei U Boy Cheap ) ) J. F. PARSONS' ? CVIESI RHEUMATISM! LUMBAGO, SCUTIGII NEURALGIA and! KIDNEY TROUBLE I "»-D*OPS" taken Internally, rids the blood H Of the poisonous matter and acids which B •rathe diroct causes of these diseases. In Applied externally It affords almost ID- ■ stank relief from pain, while a permanent H cure Is being effected by purifying the ■ blood, dissolving the poisonous sub- HE stance and removing it from the system. B DR. 8. D. 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Are you 7 ou will become intensely in« I ■ pending your terested in your advertising, money for ad- how you can make it ea vertising in hap- large your business, hazard fashion If you try this method wo as if intended believe you will not want to I for charily, or do you adver- let a single issue of this paper tise for direct results? goto press without »omethinfj Did you ever stop to think from your store, how your advertising can be ko pleased to havo made a source of profit to you call on us, and we will you, and how its value can be take pleasure in explaining measured in dollars and our annil -il >■ on tract for so cents. If j'ou have not, you many inches, and how it can be are throwing money away. used in whatever amount that Advertising is a modern teems necessary to you. business necessity, but must If you can sell goods over be conducted on business the counter we can also show principles. If you are not you why this paper will best satisfied with your advertising serve your interests when you you should set aside a certain want to reach the people ol amount of money to be spent this community. JOB PRINTING enn do that class jnst x little cheaper than the other fellow. Wedding invitations, letter heads, bi.i It *-!e bills, rtatenients, dodgers. cards, etc., all receive tho same careful «i«itri.»snl —just a litllo better than seems necessary. Prompt delivery always. If you are a business man, A did you ever think of the field| of opportunity that advertirf* irg openj to you? There; is almost no limit to the possi bilities of your business if you study how to turn trade into your store. If yon are not get ting your share of the business of your community there's a reason. People go where they are attracted where they j know what they can get and how much it is sold for. If you make direct statements in your advertising see to it that you are able to fulfill every promise you make. You will add to your business reputa tion and hold your customers. It will not cost as much to run your ad in this paper as you think. It is the persistent ad vertiser who gets there. Havt something' in the paper every issue, no matter how small. We will be pleased to quote you our advertising rates, par ticularly on the year's busi ness. MAKE YOUR APPEAL jb to the public through the columns of this paper. With every issue it carries message into the homes £ and lives of the people. Your competitor has his store news in this issue. Why don't you have yours? Don't blame the people for flocking to his store. They know what he has.
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