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To the query. "Where are all the
square pianos of 50 years ago gone
.. „ to?" a Tremont
w lu-re Some of
street dealer re
llxui \\<ni i». B p OlU j e( ] t| le other
day in the Hoston Transcript with a
story of the great potatocropin Maine
a few years back. A skipper from the
far-down -Maine coast arrived in llos
ton with a solid load of the big Aroo
stook tubers. For return cargo he
took down a full load of old Hoston
square pianos. The dealer had cleared
off his entire stock of four-legged in
struments, of all degrees of decrepi
tude, that had been taken in exchange
and part payment for many years, and
had even scurried about among other
dealers to till up the schooner's hold
and deck. The Aroostook potatoes
were thus presently transmuted into
pianofortes. Some of them were sold
at it profit by the enterprising skip
per at extremely low prices. In some
cases the tones of the aged strings
were lower still- so much so that the
Machiasport, Orpheus was soon
obliged to make restitution or stand
suit for peddling pianos under false
pretenses.
"Talk about trusts," said a Cincin
nati business man to an Inquirer rep
.... ... ... resentative, "the
'lhe t.ri IHI-OI'KHII
grind organ trust
1 in this and other
big cities beats them all. I have taken
the trouble to inquire, and 1 find that
the Italians pay one to two dollars a
day for the use of the instruments on
the streets. Some of vhe men who
handle the organ from place to place
work from 15 to 18 hours a day. Each
has a regular run, and knows just*
where he can pick up the pennies and
the nickels. If these organ grinders
don't pick up one dollar it day they
must make good for the instrument.
One of these men had already paid $-00,
and when he had paid SIOO more he
would own it. He is an exception to
the rule, for most of the men do not
make enough to buy their meals and
pay for their rooms. The syndicate
which controls these hand organs is
getting rich fast, if the stories of
those who haul them around is to be
believed."
John MeConville, of Hayofine,
learned the other day, when he used
, , . profane and vulgar
llecomcH I refill 1
language in public,
fiM mi Kvaiiiuli*. I.i i.i
and then insulted
a woman who remonstrated, that what
is every one's business is sometimes
some one's business. Mr. MeConville,
according to the New York Sun, was
in a street car when he indulged his
inclination to be vile, and it appears
that about all the other passengers in
the ear fell on him and punished him.
Then a policeman arrested him and a
wise and just judge fined him. John
is vulgar and stupid, and we doubt
that he ever was of as much use in
the. world before as he is now. He
is a living monument of the fact that
it pays to be decent. Many John Mc-
Convilles have not been punished yet,
but their time will come.
A tenor singer, who dec la res that his
throat and lungs were so irritated and
injured by smoke in the atmosphere
that he could not fill a professional
engagement, recently brought suit
against, the city of St. Louis to compel
it to abate the smoke nuisance forth
with. On the same day the statement
was printed another dispatch an
ji on need that certain Arms in Chi
cago are "being lined regularly" for
permitting their factory chimneys to
transgress the ordinance. The smoke
clouds that overhang most communi
ties are offensive to every sense, de
structive to property and dangerous to
health, and the wonder is that the
needless nuisance, so easily rem
ediable, should so long have been tol
erate.
Crowding the street ears has reached
a point in Indianapolis where the Xews
feels called upon to promulgate tliese
rules: "Passengers, on entering the
car, will take the first strap toward
the front. Holding straps for friends
who are to board the car farther up
the street is not permitted. .No one
will be allowed to hang onto more
than one strap, the one getting hold
first has the right to use as much of
it as he can."
THE * : LLMAN OUTBREAK.
Almimp of lt<-|tiil>ll<*llU Senators L»y
Mji■ llru W l l 11 K Knlti'lit OF 11M-
Pit<* lifork.
The* More the case <>f Senator 'Pill
nan is considered the less occasion
for charitable judgment. He is al
ways abusive, forever making
charges and attacking the motives
of other men. Kven in the speech in
which he lately assailed McLauriu he
saiil to all the republican senators:
"Politically you are the most infa
mous cowards and hypocrites that
ever happened." That is not fit lan
guage for the senate, and the won
der is that the man who speaks it
is permitted to utter it about as
often as he speaks in the senate. In
his so-called apology he repeated in
less vehement language the same
sentiment. It is an apology and an
insult. If he fails to agree with
other senators they are "more or
less despicable" and will be the ob
jects of his free abuse. In fact, he
is in the senate as a protest against
the educated and better element of
his state. He came into public life
by making war upon such men in
the senate as liens. Wade Hampton
and Hutler. llis domination in the af
fairs of South Carolina meant the
overthrow of the better element, llis
is a case of the survival of the uu
fittest. It is a far call from the
gallant and courteous Wade Hamp
ton to the bullying and fonl-moutlied
Tillman. It is sad to feel that the
people of South Carolina find a bet
ter representative in Tillman than
in Wade Hampton.
The senate is the judge of the
qualifications of its own members.
It has expelled members for treason
able conduct and utterances and for
holding seats obtained by bribery. It
would he justified in unseating a man
who is constantly assailing the mo
tives of those with whom he does not
agree, and also on the ground that
the senate is no place for a man
who exhibits Tillman's characteris
tics. He should have been expelled,
or at least censured, for declaring
that he and his friends suppressed
the negro voters in South Carolina
by shooting them. A man who glor
ies in the mr/rder of American cit
izens should not be permitted to sit
in the national congress. If all the
democrats stood by Tillman the two
thirds necessary to expel cannot be
obtained. Cnable to do that, the re
publicans should investigate the
charges he has made, and in con
nection therewith, if not sustained,
they should declare that the man
who makes such charges against
senators and charges American sol
diers with the practice of cruelties
upon Filipinos is not fit to sit in
the senate.
Years have passed since the sen
ate has beeifVlisgraced by a personal
collision between senators. In fact,
there is but one case on record,
when Senator Foote was the aggres
sor in an assault upon Senator lien
ton. Those were the days when dif
ferences were settled by the duel.
The American people have made prog
ress in refinement and public mor
als, so that such an outrage as that
which occurred in the senate the
other day causes much more indig
nation than a similar offense years
ago. The senate should recognize
this fact and make the punishment
as severe as possible, to the end
that blackguardism shall cease in
that body.
Ilryan ItonrboiiiMMi.
Mr. I'ryan has resolutely accepted
bourbonism as his portion. The man
seems to have made up his mind that
he will never learn and never forget.
In his speech at the dinner of the Al
bert Williams Democratic club in
Tonia a few nights ago tl: • peerless
leader once more exalfed the silver
gods above all the other gods. "If
the silver question is dead, why be
afraid of a corpse?" he asked. "If
there is enough life left in it to scare
a goldlmg. there is enough life in it to
be saved." The I'.ryanic method of
argument has become as well defined
as the Socratie. In the logic of Mr.
P.ryan the truth of an economic prin
ciple varies inversely with the square
of tlit- opposition. The more general
the opposition the more true the prin
ciple is. Its political utility varies by
the same law. The more opposition
there is to the principle the more avail
able it is for political purposes. The
ideal platform, according to Mr. Ary
an's scheme of things, is one that no
body favors and everybody opposes.—
Detroit Free Press fDem.).
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
tr?'The democrat ic ring might as well
admit that it has lost the key to har
mony in Kansas City. As a last resort
a Nesbit. law may be clapped on the
town. St. Louis Cilobe-Deinocrat.
ETDavid I!. Hill has fixed up a plat
form for the democrats. The fact that
he could stand on it himself will make
a large percentage of the democrats
regard it with suspicion.—Chicago
Record-llerald.
tr7"There are those who know so lit
tle about the matter that they call
reciprocity free trade. Did they ever
hear any discussion relative to a reci
procity treaty with (ireat liritain?
Indianapolis Journal.
trrit is hardly to be expected that
intelligent young men will join the
democratic party after witnessing
such exhibitions as are seen in con
gress and studying its record for the
last ten years.—Albany Journal.
tTT"President Roosevelt has evident
ly given the Schley case a careful
study, and, therefore, his finding will
be accepted by the country as the
judgment of an honest, conscientious
man. anxious to do his duty.—lndian
apolis News (Ind.).
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1902
A DEMOCRATIC MISTAKE.
Su-t nliril l.cnilerM of the l'lirtj Do
Nul ISeml ihr HiisM Dope on tlie
Philippine (luedtlon.
The Nashville American, one of the
prominent tlemoeriuic newspapers of
the country, bus 110 delusions as to
the Philippine question. Alluding to
the situation as developed at Wash
ington, where certain democratic
senators and representatives linve as
sumed an attitude of hostility to the
administration's policy in the islands,
the American remarks: "If the <|iies
t ion of surrendering the Philippines
is not made the leading or a leading
issue in the next national campaign,
it will not be the fault of some of
the senators of the democratic mi
nority. It seems to be the misfor
tune of the democratic party that it
has fallen into a condition in which
it is possible for those to assume to
lie leaders, and to be so recognized,
who, in better and braver days of
the party would have been among
the last to be selected as material
for leadership." And then it adds:
"If such leadership. If it Is leadership, is
to continue and Is to he follow*d, the parly
will be finally forced to put up Its shutters
and so out of business, or else continue as
the sad rimnunt and enfeebled u I'■ ■st of a
once sxeat and powerful party. The mis
takts and blunders of the list two cam
paigns seem to have taught nothing to
some of thost who aspire to be leadi rs or
who assume to speak for the party. Is It
because they are Incapable of learning;? >r
Is It be cause they prefer personally to pur
sue a cheap and easy course which re
quires neither ability nor courage and
which has brought tin m into some noto
riety, as the wave of populism brought ob
scure men temporarily to the front? These
seem to be able to view with some degree
of complacency continued national defeat
so long as tht y are permitted to parade as
party ieaders anil patriots during the cam
paigns, and to occupy the few best offices
which the comparatively few democratic
states and districts still have at their dis
posal—such as governor, senator and con
gressmen. Hut while this situation may
be largely satisfactory to them it is rather
rouith on the party as a w hole.
"Tf any democratic leader, so-callod,
thinks that the American voters will rally
to the standard of any party on the propo
sition to surrender the Philippine islands,
which are as mueh th« property of the
United States as the District of Columbia,
he is Inexcusably ignorant of th temper
and spirit of the American people. The
r.oisy few who are clamoring for a policy
of surrender may deceive a few individuals,
but if any p.irty allows itself to be de
eeived and misled as to their numbers by
their noise li will not fail to meet with ft
rude awakening."
That is talk straight from the
shoulder, says the Troy Times, and
it reflects the opinion of a great many
earnest and honest democratic news
papers. It would seem, from llie
course most of the democrats in
congress are pursuing that the only
periodical they read is the Com
moner, published at Lincoln, Neb. It
would pay them to glance now and
then over other of their party pa
pers, or if they haven't time for that,
get in connection with a wideawake
clipping bureau. The democratic
statesman who thinks he is making
himself popular by proposing a cow
ardly abandonment of the Philip
pines doesn't interpret aright llie
signs of the times or understand the
temper of the American people.
NO FEAR OF A COMBINE.
K*- iKMlNtimt Treasurer Ynmlrrlip
Sny* There IN \« DnnH'erof ICuro
pcn II Tariff i(epr IKH IM.
The best judgment in Europe and
America is, i believe, pretty well
agreed on the futility of a European
tariff alliance against the United
States, says Frank A. Vanderlip, in
Seribner's. Not one of our ambas
sadors or ministers believes it is
a feasible programme for the Euro
pean states, no matter how antago
nistic European statesmen may be
come toward us on account of our
commercial success in foreign fields.
I found no important banker or man
ufacturer who thought it probable
that tlie conflicting interests of the
various states could be brought to
any harmonious point of view from
which to formulate such a tariff.
Undoubtedly it is a dream in the
minds of many people who have not
a clear idea of the difficulties in
volved, but certainly the best judg
ment of the two continents seems
against the feasibility of the idea.
Conflicting interests can never lie
harmoni/ed so that, an agreement
will be reached among the nations.
Indeed, conflicling interests in the
dual monarchy itself can probably
never be harmoni/ed so as to sup
port Count Ooluchowski's pro
gramme. Austria is a manufacturing
country. Her people have highly de
veloped artistic faculties and a deft
ness and skill which make her a
leader in certain of the finer lines
of production, and she lias some
standing as a producer of iron, steel
and machinery.
Hungary, on the other hand, is as
yet almost altogether an agricultural
country. Austria wants high tariff
and cheap food; Hungary would like
to exclude foreign food and have the
advantage of cheap foreign manufac
tures. The two parts of the mon
archy are held together liy a slender
thread and the fretful people that
compose the two nations will only
agree that that bond may bold them
for ten years at a time. The Ausg
leigh expired in IS!>7. and for four
years the two states bare wrangled
over its renewal, industry and com
merce being all that time greatly
pert urbed.
simple declaration in favor of
the treneral principles of bimetallism"
strikes David B. Hill as suffici.'ut for
the democratic platform of I'.mt Then,
after surrendering on the sacred ratio
of 1(1 to 1, he knocks out the pop :list
branch of the party by declaring un
alterable opposition to ifrcdeeim.'*>le
paper currency. David may run /or
president, but he will never get fi.SOO,-
000 votes.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
A Vninntilr Frrtforr.
"No," said the father, to the principal of
the cooking school. "I don't believe I'll
send my daughter to your institution. I
expect to be able to provide for her so that
she shall not have to work in the kitchen
after she is married."
"That's all very nice," said the principal,
"but the most ;vart of our cur
riculum is that wy»i. instructs young la
dies how to boss The cook, and to discharge
her, if necessary."
At this the father immediately wrote a
check for the full term's tuition.—Balti
more American.
Knrlic.st lin»Ninn Millet.
Will you bo short of hay? If so plant a
plenty of this prodigally prolific milict
5 TO 8 TONS OF KII'II HAY I'Ett ACKK.
Price 50 lbs. $ 1.90; 1001 lis. (3.00, low freights
John A. Sulzer Kectl Co., La Crosso, Wis.
Materim! Love, .
Mrs. Mulligan—And so you have no
mother now?
Motherless Boy—No, mum.
"Well, me boy, whenever you feel the
■want for a good thrashing come to me and
I'll be a mother to you."—Tit-Bits.
Like Oil Upon Troubled Waters is Ilale's
Honey of Horehound and Tar upon a cold.
Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Soporific.
Bramble—l used to be troubled with in
somnia, but I cured myself.
Tliorne—How?
"I joined a chess club."—Judge.
Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
as a cough cure. —<1. W. O'Brien, 3'22 Third
Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 0, I'JOO.
A Poor Heater.—"There doesn't seem to
be much warmth to her voice." "No. They
said it had such a good range, too."—Phila
delphia Bulletin.
Stop N the Coniili nnil W nrka
OIY the Coltl.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price33c.
If the donkey knew he was a donkey he
•would probably kick himself to death.—
Chicago Daily News.
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are ns
•asy to use as soap. No muss or failures.
The less luck a man has the more he de
ques it.—Chicago Daily News.
Silence is n virtue that is frequently over
looked by fools. —Chicigo Daily News.
Don't believe all the good things you;
hear of yourself.—Chicago Daily News.i
Dinei —"1 say, waiter, one of these eggs
is bad." Waiter—"But it is in good coin- ,
pany; the other one is all right. The bad;
one may reform, you know. Don't be too
severe on it."—Boston Transcript.
"A case of smallpox has been discovered j
inn Massachusetts prison, the victim being'
a burglar." "Say, he must have been sorry
he broke in when lie broke out."—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
When a girl hangs around a store to see
a young man her parents should pull on
the lines and yell "Whoa!" Many a dis
astrous marriage lias begun in this way. —
Atchison Globe.
Faux Pas.- Miss Koy (in street car) —
"It's really very kind of you, Mr. Crabbe,
to give me your seat." Mr. Crabbe "Not
at all. We men are getting tired of being
accused of never giving up our seats ex
cept to pretty girls."—Philadelphia Press.
Have you ever noticed that on the eve
of a pugilistic encounter both principals
are always in the "pink of condition" and
"confident of winning," but that after the
battle one of them was "trained too line"
or "out of condition?"—lndianapolis News.
It Hit Home.—"Henry," his wife whis
pered, "there's a burglar downstairs in the
dining-room. 1 pust heard hini rattling the
silver." "Well, ' he replied, sleepily, "it's
your silver." "Listen! That sounds as if
lie was sampling that decanter of whisky."
"(ice whiz! Wait till 1 get my revolver."—
Philadelphia Press.
"See here!" cried the victim, "I thought
you said that country was well watered?"
"Well?" replied the real estate man. "Well,
there's no water there at all, except arte
sian—" "Then, my dear sir, if it's watered
ai all it must be wel'-watered, mustn't it?"
—Catholic Standard.
f*.
jf Delicately formed and gently reared, womernwill /
y find, In all the seasons of their lives, as maids or wives / /3j,
[f|*y „ or mothers, that the one simple, wholesome remedy I
■/) which acts gently and pleasantly and naturally, and
|| . i which may be used with truly beneficial effects, under
n,, y conditions,when the system needs a laxative—is— jfegyy y\f
< -T Syrup of Figs. It is well known to be a simple com- V' V'''
j' V bination of the laxative and carminative principles of \\V.
plants with pleasant, aromatic liquids, which arc : VVv-
; 17vfV agreeable and refreshing to the taste and acceptable V
V £>'•&•<■ to the system when its gentle cleansing is desired. of lij| I *
!jf''-f?Many of the ills from which women suffer are of jA
a transient nature and do not come from any organic \ jVfeV|
trouble and it is pleasant to know that they yield so
promptly to the beneficial effects of Syrup of Figs, jjfflSsi* ISa*
but when anything more than a laxative is needed it ' 'MSffj
'y\ 112 is best to consult the family physician and to avoid rm^ 1 ISHF^
ivrq&j the old-time cathartics and loudly advertised nos- mV /*s'■; * J§wm£*
;trums of the present day. When one needs only to
;|3,y semove the strain, the torpor, the congestion, or Is % 112 0& '*
hi 1 similar ills, which attend upon a constipated condi
•JU y " tion of the system, use the true and gentle remedy— reMMHhjsga ~^V
Syrup of Figs—and ei\joy freedom from the depres-
sion, the aches and pains, colds and headaches, which K\V *"*
are duo to inactivity of the bowels.
ORfr? 7 Only those who buy the genuine Syrup of Figs
can hope to get its beneficial effects and as a guar- 'yWSraßl i\
f'i jfi antee of the excellence of the remedy the full name ngraHH ;i Vv.
V/jij of the company—California Fig Syrup Co.—is ;i 'W
printed on the front of every package and without
W&f? it any preparation offered as Syrup of Figs is fraud- j
u lent and should be declined. To those who know the ygg|y.j
;E, | quality of this excellent laxative, the offer of any
fj' W substitute, when Syrup of Figs is called for, is
7 ft. always resented by a transfer of patronage to some v^rvS'4'y
first-class drug establishment, where they do not ■fctXS
frecommend, nor sell false brands, nor imitation jv
Wremedies. The genuine article may be bought of all -
reliable druggists everywhere at 60 cents per bottle.
Mrs. L. A. H arris, a Prominent Member
of a Chicago Woman's Political Club, tells
how Ovarian Troubles may be Cured with
out a Surgical Operation. She says :
" Doctors have a perfect craze for operations. The minute
there is any trouble, nothing but an operation will do them ; one
hundred dollars and costs, and included in the costs are pain, and
agony, and often death.
" I suffered for eight years with ovarian troubles ; spent hundreds
of dollars for relief, until two doctors agreed that an operation was
my only chance of life. My sister had been using LijdiiilS. Piak
liam's Vegetable Compound for her troubles, and been cured,
and she strongly urged me to let the doctors go and try the Com
pound. I did so as a last resort; used it faithfully with the Sana
tive Wash for five months, and was rejoiced to find that my troubles
were over and my health restored. If women would only try Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound first, fewer surgical operations
would occur."—MßS. L. A. HARRIS, 278 East 31st St., Chicago, 111.
SSOOO FORFEIT IF TIIF ABOVE LETTER IS NOT GENUINE.
When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful
menstruation, weakness, leiacorrhoea, displacement or ulceration of the
womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, back
ache, bloating (or flatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous
prostration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness,
lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy,
" all-gone " and " want-to-be-left-alone " feelings, blues, and hopelessness,
they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles.
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Only twenty inches of sitting space is to
be allotted to each peeress at the corona
tion. Dear, dear, think of tlie titled and
massive old ladies who are living monu
ments to the tissue building properties of
roast beef and rare old ale!
As the man remarked when he saw the
policeman running: "Somebody is going
to get pinched."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Me Jigger—"l find it's a good rule never
to hit a man when he's down." Thingum
bob "It's a better rule never to hit a man
when he's got you down."—Philadelphia
Press.
He that thinks he can afford to be negli
gent is not far from being poor.—John
son.
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