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The Job department of the PHKSS is complete «rrt affords facilities for doing Ihe best class of * rk. PAR'I IC'II.AII ATTtNHON PAID TO LAW pHI.NTINti. No paper will be discontinued until arrear a 1,-is are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. * Papers sent out of the county must be paid tor in advance. To slant or not to slant the ques tion that is now vexing teachers of the . .. .art of writing. To fclmii or Hot There is such a di to Slflllt. e vision of opinion among- experts that the general public is at a loss to decide tire merits of the controversy. Within the last decade the vertical system has been most gen erally adopted in the public schools, but with its growth in popularity there has been a great increase in opposition to the system. It is said that speed cannot be attained by the use of the round, upright letters, and that it is impossible to attain a smooth move ment of the hand, -since the system compels a labored effort. The chief aim t.n handwriting should be the attain ment of legibility. It matters little whether the Spencerian system or its opposite be adopted if the results are satisfactory. For a time, about a quar ter of a century ago, The angular style of chirograph)' became fashionable, and its results were so astonishing that it was quickly abandoned. The women who learned in the '7os to make hieroglyphics half an inch in size and indistinguishable from one another are still puzzling thvir correspondents. So far, a practical trial of the vertical method has been encouraging, al though there is danger of confusion in the matter of o and a, u and n. The style of writing in vogue among tele graph operators proves that the slant is not necessary to speed. Since the introduction of the typewriter, accord ing to the Milwaukee Sentinel, there is no excuse for careless handwriting. The machine relieves business men of the necessity of overwork with the pen, and, except for a signature, they have little occasion to write. It has been proved that the system matters little if care is taken to prevent students from carelessness or eccentricity in writing. A certain individuality should be cultivated, but it should be distinct iveness that comes from precision and neatness. There is a new wonder every day. In the Bible the miracles number less than a hundred. The modern miracles run into the thousands overnight—the miracles of science, invention, com merce and enterprise. In the new part of the old world .greater records are mounting on big achievements. In the old part of the old world modernity is playing grotesque tricks with his tory and making contracts that pro voke even the serious to merriment. Fancy, for instance, sdys the Phila delphia Times, Diogenes sitting in his tub watching a trolley car go by and looking for an honest man only to hear the conductor ring- up a drachma fare on a mechanical contrivance to protect him from temptation. A chrysanthemum show to be held in Convention hall, Kansas City, this month will take the form of a Japanese garden occupying the great oval arena. It will include a tower 100 feet high, decorated with flowers and colored electric lights. At eiieh end will be a flower pagoda. Two teahouses w ill of fer light refreshments, with attend ants in Japanese costumes. A hedge four feet high will run around the en tire garden. Society people will occu py the boxes and keep "open house"in serving tea to guests. Speaking of the craze for souvenirs of royalty, they say that after the duchess of York had visited one of the schools in Toronto and had graciously written her mime on the school regis ter the teacher passed around the ink bottle in order that each pupil might dip a finger in Die ink into which a princess had dipped a pen. How touch ing.' President lioosevelt went to New York to vote. It is a significant spec tacle. and it is doubtful whether we fully appreciate just how significant it is. Our president casts but one vote, and the humblest or the fiercest an archist in the land has the sume voice in declaring who shall be our rulers as our "despotic ruler." Failure to provide a suitable dwell ing place, with the consequent ex posure to cold, and to provide suffi cient food and clothing, is held in an Illinois decision not to be within the meaning of »lie .statute allowing a di vorce for extreme and repeated cru elty. STRAIGHTFORWARD TALK. ••nutble View *1 a Southern Heitartliiiii the Booker Wash ington Incident. The Atlanta Constitution publishes a communication, from \V. A. Candler, which makes some points that the southern people would do well to think about in connection with the subject of "social equality" that is just now worrying them a good deal. The Journal does not know anything about Mr. Candler beyond the inter nal evidence his letter affords that he is a, southern man of progressive views and possessed of more "horse sense." than nonsense. He may possi bly be a relative of Gov. Candler, of Georgia, though he is evidently not a republican. He makes the recent Hooker T. Washington incident the text for some remarks regarding the race question which do not seem to have occurred to those who think it is only skin deep. He admits that personally he thinks that in inviting Mr. Booker Washington to dine with him President Roosevelt "blundered badly," but he ridicules tiie idea that tiny number of such acts could bring about social equality. But he re marks there is real danger, if south ern whites do not rouse themselves, that the negro will achieve another kind of equality, or rather of superi ority .over the whites, namely, edu cational. He says the negroes have better educational advantages in.the south than the whites have and that the latter are relatively losing ground rather than gaining. To quote his words: "The colleges for negroes are far-better equipped than the colleges for whites, and their superiority in this particular rapidly Increases every day. Hooker Washington can get more money for his school by an hour's speech in Boston or New York than any president of a white college in the south can get by a year's campaign among our own people. Now let this sort of thing goon for another 25 years, and the most undesirable conditions will inevitably arise In the south, bringing to pass results In jurious to both races. * * « While I be grudge the negro nothing, I cannot believe It would be best for him or best for anybody else, that he should continue to have better educational advantages than the whites. But this will be the case if our own people do not deal more liberally with the col leges of the whites. The north will do in the future, as in the past, most of what it does for higher education In the south on behalf of the negroes. Southernwhite peo ple must depend upon themselves to main tain and equip the colleges of the whites in this section. And we are abundantly able to do it. Our 'horse shows' and the like prove the plethora of our purses." Coming to facts, he mentions two colleges in. Georgia for the education of whites which are now appealing for support. Mr. John I). Eockefel ler has offered to give $15,000 to Mer cer university if the friends of the in stitution will raise $15,000 more, and a southern man has offered $15,000 to Emory college on the same condi tions. The writer says these two in stitutions ought to be as dear to the hearts of all Georgians as Booker Washington's school is to Bostonian-s and New Yorkers, and they should imitate the example of northern peo ple by putting their hands in their pockets and contributing to the sup port of their own institutions. He concludes: "I propose that any Georgian who Is too stingy to give to either of them quit abus ing the president about dining Booker Washington. Men who really care to maintain proper relations between the races in the south will do something more substantial to promote that object than to blow hot blasts of Indignation about social equality. That sort of wlndlness is cheap; It is also very unprofitable. Let us help our colleges for whites—or hush." A northern man would hardly ven ture to put the matter in as person al a way as this. The argument is clear that educational progress in volves to a certain extent social ad vancement and elevation, and that if the southern whites wish to maintain their traditional superiority they must adopt a more liberal and pro gressive poUcy in support of educa tion. The whites cannot keep the ne groes down by "hot blasts of indig nation," if they allow them to main tain permanent superiority in educa tional advantages. Mr. Candler's let ter goes to the heart of the subject.— Indianapolis Journal. DRIFT OF OPINION. good many democratic papers are wasting energy in trying to smug gle in free trade in the disguise of reciprocity.—St. Louis Globe-Demo crat. CSome democrats are talking of nominating Admiral Schley for presi dent in 1004. This preference for an old salt is a mean intimation that they think Bryan too fresh.-—Troy Times. ICSenator Hanna's drawing power on the stump is as great as ever. He is a star of the first magnitude in the present campaign. The predictions which were made a few weeks ago that he would cut little figure in poli ties after the death of President Mc- Kinlev look ridiculous enough now.— Cleveland Leader. IE?" Even John P.Jones, United States senator from Nevada, now acknowl edges that the silver issue is dead. Be lieving that, he has returned to the re publican party. Since Jones and his colleague, William M. Stewart, con trol Nevada the announcement, means that that state will henceforth be in the republican column. It has only three electoral votes, but it some times happens that every vote counts in the electoral college.—Troy Times. CJ"Speaking of President Roosevelt's appointment of ex-Gov. Jones, of Ala bama.toa federal judgeship, the Mont gomery Advertiser says:"it will be pleasant to many at the north as well as the south to recall that the man upon whom this honor has been be stowed, vi'lien not vet 21 years old, bore one of the flags of truce at Appomat tox, and after the war was among the first at the south to plead for n genu ine reconciliation between the sec i tions."—Detroit Free Press CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1901. TRULY MEASURED. Prosperity and Plenty Give tkr vie Reason for Heine Genuine ly TbanUful. In his first Thanksgiving procla mation President lioosevelt has forc ibly emphasized the peculiar bene fits for which the people should be grateful. Though a respected president fell a victim to crime the nation has shown the unanimity of horror over the as sassin's deed and in the general con demnation of the anarchistic cult is found a cause for thankfulness. The country is united in opposition to anarchy and all forms of lawlessness. There is little need to recall the great material prosperity of all sec tions. The year 1901 promises to be the best in the history of the nation in nearly every line of effort. The banks have full vaults, money is cir culating, manufacturers are busy fill ing orders for months ahead, farm ers are receiving high prices for their products and the railroads are load ed with traffic. During the past year the lines have been drawn closer in. public morality. In no city where elections have been held has there been an evasion of the great moral and. economic f|ues tions that inevitably force them selves upon a wide-awake and con scientious people. The ideals of the people are higher than they were a year ago. There is fitness in those words of the president in his Thanksgiving proclamation. "We have prospered in things material and have been abla to work for our own uplifting in things intellectual and spiritual. Let us remember that, as much has been given ua much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips and shows itself in deeds. We can best prove our thankfulness to the Al mighty by the way in which, on this earth and at this time, each of us does his duty to his fellowman." The sermons ar.d prayers and songs of the last Thursday of November will not reveal all the depths of our thankfulness. Each day's work is the measure of gratitude for past bles sings. Is there a better day in which to show the nation's devotion to ideals than by following the advice of the president in his proclamation? The devotion which each person shows in thus expressing his full heart will be good for the individual, the nation and the world.—St. Louis Republic (Dem.). SENATOR HANNA'S^CRITICS. Democratic New*paper* and Orator* It expo n*i like for Conditions That Precipitate Murder. Some of the democratic newspa pers are becoming hysterical because Senator Hanna, in liisi speech atSpring field, held some of the democrats, and the democratic yellow press in par ticular, responsible for the assassina tion of the president. The senator disclaimed all intention to make a political issue of theassas*- sination, but he said he desired to place the blame where it belonged. Senator Hanna is not alone in his be lief that the democratic newspapers and orators had much to do with cre ating a sentiment against the late president under the influence of which the weak mind of an anarchist like Czclgosz could be turned in a murder -1 ous' direction. Congressman Burton, in Cleveland, charged that the yellow democratic press was responsible for the assas sination. Gen. Horatio King said the same thing in the speech he delivered here during grand army week, when it was believed the president would re cover. Rev. Dr. Morgan Wood ex pressed the same sentiments, in a speech at the same time, and he went further by referring in particular to a cartoon which l ad been published by Tom Johnson's crgan in the campaign of 1000, in which President McKinley was pictured as an emperor on a throne, r.ith Senator Hanna as the power behind the throne. Of cour.-e nei'.l.er Senator Hanna nor anybody else desires to hold the demo cratic party responsible for the assas sination, but that certain democrats and certain democratic newspapers are responsible for the condition of af fairs which made the assassination posisiblecannot be doubted or disputed. The less democratic papers say in criticism of what Senator Hanna said at Springfield the better it will be for them.— Cleveland Lead er. ICThe defeat of the Bryan fusion populistic and democratic ticket in Nebraska eliminates Mr. I>*yan from all consideration of democrats in the future as to their platform and na tional candidates. As his last hold on the national democracy he announced his intention to "redeem" Nebraska from the republicans, who carried it against him in 1900. Nebraska waS not "redeemed;" it gave a greater re publican majority than it gave a year ago. There are no unkind feelings to ward Mr. Bryan; his future is before hi in, not behind him, as is the case with many defeated leaders. He may fill a career of political usefulness which never would have been possible in a national administration and policy founded on the unsafe, impracticable basis of the Chicago and Kansas City platforms.—Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) Tillman, who is traveling the country, declared in Kansas City last week that "President Roo><'velt, in inviting a nigger to dine with him, had butted his head against a stone wall that would put new life into the demo cratic party." As Thomas Jefferson extended a similar hospitality to a colored man, it may be assumed that the Tillman brand of democracy dif fers from the Jefferson in some essen tial features.—lndianapolis Journal. A RAILWAY TEUST. To Control Northern Pacific and Groat Northern Roads. A Compnny Capitalized a t S 100,000.000 la Incorporated In Netv ierwf and Will Aid In Carrying Out llio "Community of IntereMt" Ideas nl the .Tlugnutea. New York, Nov. 14.—There were two important developments yester day in the railroad situation in the northwest, and both tended to <*on firin the existing belief that a final basis of settlement of the contest for control of Northern Pacific had been definitely agreed to. Final ratifica tion of this agreement will bring into existence the greatest and most ef fective example of the community of interest idea as applied to the rail road systems of the country. The first development was the in corporation at Trenton, N. J., of the Northern Securities ( o. with a capital stock of $400,000,000 and the second was the unanimous adoption by the N irthern Pacific directors of a reso lution providing ior I lie retirement at par of the company's preferred stock on January J, 1902. There was a full attendance at the meeting at which this action was taken, those present, including George F. Baker and Charles Steele, repre senting J. P. Morgan & Co.; E. If. Harrhnan, of the llarriman syndi cate which is in control of the Union Pacific; .Tames J. Ilill. president of •he (ireat Northern; Samuel Ilea, vice president of the Pennsylvania; James Stillman, of the National City bank; If. McK. Twombley, for the Vander bilts, and William 'Rockefeller. The directors decided that the funds necessary for the retirement of the preferred stock should be ob tained bv the salt' at not less than par of $75,000,000 of 4 per cent, bonds convertible into common stock, each holder of common stock now out standing being entitled to purchase at par an amount equal to seventy five eightieths of his present holdings. It was further provid ed that two dividends of 1 per cent, each be paid on the preferred stock before its retirement. No official statement was obtain able as to the scope of the newly in corporated Northern Securities Co., but it was generally understood that the company was formed to take over and control the shares of the North ern Pacific and the Great Northern railways and of their leased lines. The Great, Northern's outstanding capital is $125,000,000 par value, selling at 200 in the market, while the Northern Pa cific's total outstanding stock after the retirement of the preferred, will be $80,000,000 par value, making a total of $205,000,000, par value, for the shares of these two companies. At 200 for Great Northern, the amount will be increased to $3:10,000,000 for the shares of the two companies. Burlington shares, it i«3 understood, are not to be turned over to the new Northern Securities Co. That stock is now held as collateral for the out standing Burlington collateral bonds, ■with voting rights vested in the Northern Pacific and the Great North ern railways. It is understood that the Union Pacific and Chicago & Northwestern interests agreed to the retirement of Northern Pacific pre ferred, and that the Union Pacific will have a heavy interest in the cap ital of the new company, entirely be yond the par value of their present Northern Pacific shareholdings, which are placed at $75,000,000 par value, just over a majority of the total $155,- 000.000 Northern Pacific stock capital. No information was obtainable as to what share, if any. the Vanderbilts anil the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul are to have in the new company. IDENTIFIED AS A BANDIT. Harry Keen ICiitfuged 111 it Train Holdup. St. Louis, Nov. 14. —The federal grand jury yesterday returned in dictments against Harry Longbaugh, alias "John Arnold," the mysterious Montana train robber and his com panion, Laura Bullion. Each was in dicted on 17 separate counts. Charles 11. Smith and William O'Neill, express messenger and fire man respectively of the Great North ern flyer that was held up last July near Wagner, Mont., arrived here Wednesday and identified the suspect under arrest as llarry Longbaugh, the man who held tip the train and took the lead in intimidating the train crew and blowing open the ex press company's safe, from which nearly SIOO,OOO in unsigned bills of the National Bank of Helena were stolen. O'Neill says that Longbaugh is the man who climbed ewer the tender and held up Engineer Jones and himself, and then superintended the blowing up of the safe. His recollection of the episode was so vivid that he could describe the two revolvers that the robber used. The police say they are the same weapons that were found on the prisoner when he was arrested. Chief Desmond says he thinks that the suspect's real name is Ben Kil patrick. A "Tail Texan," answering the suspect's description, was impli cated in several train and bank rob beries in the west, and he was known as Ivilpatrick. Since this last evidence has turned up it may be deemed best to take hun to Montana for trial, where the offense of train robbing is punishable by death. Killed I<> liiNiirgcnttt (Manila, Nov. 14.—Capt. Ilartman's troop of the First cavalry on Wed nesday attacked 400 insurgents at Huan, in Batangas province, south western Luzon. Hall the insurgents were armed with rifles. They were prepared for an attack and were in rifle pits. The cavalry attacked the insurgents on the flank, killing 10 of them, wounding five and capturing nine rifles. The insurgents broke and ran, the cavalry pursuing them. Two large boat loads of arms are re ported to have been landed on the southern part of the Batangas penin sula and taken to Durang-an. 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