2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. f'er year 12 00 112 paid lii advance 1 W) ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rnto of ene dollar per square forone insertion and tifty cent* per square for each subscquentinsertion- Rales by the year, or for six Or three months, •re low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, each subsequent inser tion 50 cents per square. Local notices ill cenls per line for one tnser sertion: 5 cents per line for each subsequent oonsecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less, 45 per year: over live lines, at the regular rates of aitver tilling. No local inserted for less than 75 cents per Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PHESS is complete »nrt affords facilities for doing the best class of Work. PABTICULAIi ATTENTION PAID TO I. AW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear rges are paid, except al the option of the pub isher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. Cheer up! Competition maybe elcis# and occupations overcrowded, but a „ . . new field is open- UMverninciitnl 1 ing to indigent and r»oil Testers, , ... ambitious young men. The duties of those who entvr this field will consist in eating foci furnished by the government and tell ing how they feel afterward, saya. Youths Companion. The salary has not been named, but it will undoubted ly be handsome; and of course practice and experience will bring a suitable increase. The work will be under cover, too, with no heavy lifting, and will realize the hired man's dream of nothing to do between meals. This, if the agricultural department carries out its plans, is to be the new industry developed by the investigation of food adulterants and preservatives. If the proof of the pudding is in the eating, says the department, the best way to find out whether boric or salyeilic acid is injurious to health is to get some one to eat food preserved with them. The department purposes, therefore, to establish a "training table," the patrons of which shall be volunteers, and if possible healthy young men from some educational institution in or near Washington. During the time they are under observation they will tat nothing but the food furnished by the government. Memoranda will be made of their physical condition at the beginning of the experiments and rec ords kept of any changes which take place. In this way it is hoped that much may be learned about the hy gienic characteristics of canned goods and other preserved foods. In spite of its attractions this office of eater in ordinary to the United States govern ment will have its drawbacks. The days will bring a comfortable sense of repletion, but the nights may be filled with sadness and colic. There should be added the inducement of a gener ous pension, and in the event of a fatal outcome, the honor of a burial at Ar lington and an epitaph: Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to glory hitherto unknown. Fair science proved his patriotic worth, But Slim dyspepsia claimed him for her own. Many people are under the impres sion that to place fruit and vegetables C.1.1 Storage in 51,1 i<>f $70,000,000. First, there is the $.">0,000,<:00 appropriated for the isthmian canal, as already intimated. To this should be added the in creased appropriation on account ofl the postal service. Thee two items dispose of $64,000,000 of the $70,000,- 000. There is :> large saving of $44,- 000,000 in the army appropriation, while the appropriation for rivers and I harbor.; is large, because none wild made by the last congress. So, as' a mat'cr of fact, there was no ma- j terial increase in approprutions fori ctirrei ' expenses. No oile who has any information : upon the subject will deny that up-I nroi.riati .lis are made for which no justification can be Driven. It has al-j way - bn-n thus, and it will doubtless! alway ■ Ie so as long as there is a I public ire!"-ury which can he tapped,: but there were no more of such ap propriations by the Inst K.C *don of congress than heretotore. And Jiere I • ii!'" le i>-k"'d. where were the, d-moi-r; i in t-eeate and 11011 e w'sen what they d-iioiincc as extravagant or mi' «i»s ury a pomnriatlon« of; money were in I'te'' Did any of tlicm i'<> on r'c.rd ii'fHn t the Panama • ■ I appropriation? V ho were more el M for the it! 1 •>•»* of the river •lid harbor npor >• r'ntlon I'll than 1 •in in I. n!h ate and 11011- E? . | !«■ .11 -v illd II •( «h' •mil. e t• i ■ . .n-T'f!»i • w'.'lc i are IJ< an*. c '! at -t i■ ; In Nfi' 1 'jrn 1 cat iII • ••' ' I •' I'll' «• a (illt )>.,« •>. far u,t ti ehi i 1 rlna union j . : .»■ ■" • hi tlit e. K>li|lv I •' .IK . J»'h i > . I' . •; i '.if c".'l i ml un- : I CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER n, 1902. CALAMITY ONCE MORE. The Democrat* Are I'nt to the I'ltl. alite Itesort of Taking 1 1« tlie Old Cry. The Boston Herald, which is hoslilt to republicanism, sometimes bitterly and vehemently so, uses a curious ar gument to discourage the democrats from too strenuous effort to get con trol of the next congress. It cannot deny the existence of prosperity of the country, says the Troy Times, but it issues this warning to the demo crats: "If next winter or next summer the ex traordinary conditions- we have recently experienced in the line of industrial activ ity should come to an end—and this may well be through overspeculation or losses of foreign markets through the unwilling ness' of the party in power to negotiate trade treaties'—and if this Industrial de cline were accompanied by the success of the democrats l in electing a majority to the house of representatives-, the country would he to'.d by the republican orators and newspaper organs that that political change, was what had been the cause of business disaster. So long as the repub licans had a. majority everything. It would be said, went well; while just so soon -as the democrats succeed-, d In getting a ma jority in the lower branch of congress business l distress immediately began; hence the plain lesson to be learned was to avoid giving the democrats any ehar.ee of success: in 190-1. It will be, we beMeve, no more than prudent for the democrats- to give the re publicans during the next two years en tire official and political responsibility for all that may happen in this country." _ Correctly interpreted, this means nothing more nor less than falling back on the old democratic plan of re lying on "calamity" to get into pow er. The democratic party has no pol icy of its own; it shrinks from any avowal of positive principles, know- itifr the dissensions in its own ranks which make harmony impossible; so it should hope and pray for commer cial distress in order to have a club with which to beat the republicans, who, of course, will be held responsi ble for any cessation of business ac tivity. What a noble and courageous stand for a party to take! liut who can deny that it is just about what the democracy has always done? At pres ent, however, it looks as though the "calamity" performance would have to be deferred. The people are too busy to stop and listen to democrat ic -wails. REPUBLICANS GET CREDIT. Chief Mu torn ill p Orunn Mnke» True Statement ItcKOnliiiK the Coun try',. I'rixperlt)-. An admission by the Springfield Re publican, the chief organ of the mug wumps of New Kngltuul, that "it is mostly true that everything good and great in the legislation of the past 45 years is the work of the re publican party." his> caused consider able comment in the newspaper.- of the | country. What the Rephlicun says. ! however, is true, obsvrves the Cleve- I land Leader. To be sure, the democrats have not I had much chance to enact laws s'ince | In l.sTtl they obtained control of j both branches of congress, but there j was. a republican president in the | white house to veto the political bills ' that were p'i >ed. Again, in 1 £92. the , democrat* gained control of both homes, and they also elected a demo cratic president at the same time. ; Then nothing -tin din t hew , vof their making law . Yet the tariff law which I they had promised to enact was only I pns»ed after a hitter quarrel between the house and senate, antl ii was de n in need bj President ( lexeliim! ti" n men sure filled with "perfidy an.l dis honor." He refused to sl-rn the bill, permitting it tt> become a Inw without li signature. That was the only nic i-lire of consequence enacted by that eonirre-», and In view of the dis astrous result-. of it* enforcement, no li,u!y will s-ay thai It was good and great. li e Incapacity of tb** deinocl a t*' to legislate fur the (food iff tin country In Iwen ii nn nutated w! eneicr that p:i t * I :i - had control <>f either or both bra itch t* of c 'el. and tlint I* pt >. ibly the |-i . II wl ) tl i neoplr Inc lit billed |..t,'\i' t I.e con trul of ci to ihi ii'|i:ibllcan«, almost with- ill Interrupth a. t r The t'eic 11" who nrr iltvnri Irs iiidcd til out apt ri pHatlon* tne'ude i the In 111 l I-Hie propi.il' |nr til- b th* j iiibn o.iral n» a part of republican e" I trttvagiincc." Itx'inniijH list Joui nal 2,000 LIVES LOST. Terrible lto«iill of Another ICruptton of iTlout I'elee—Thousand* of Veoplt Lrnvlnir Itlartlnlt|uc. Castries, Island of St. Lucia, 71. W 1., Sept. 5. —The mail steamer Vara arrived here last evening from tliq island of Martinique. She brings thy report that a violent volcanic erup , tion occurred there Wednesday night ! and that about 2,000 persons are said to have, perished. Large numbers ol people are leaving the island. Paris, Sept. 5.- —The Paris edition of the New York Herald publishes a dispatch from Poiute-a-Pitre, island of Guadeloupe, French West Indies, dated September 4. which says that constant detonations heard there Wednesday niglvt indicate a terrific volcanic eruption 011 the island of Martinique. Thick, black clouds were seen to the southward of Guadeloupe, and the heat at Pointe-a-I itre was in tense. The population was said to be greatly alarmed and apprehensive of n tidal wave in the event of the col lapse of Martinique. The minister of the colonies, in plac ing SIOO,OOO at the disposal of the government of Martinique to relieve the distress in that island, has urged the governor not to congregate refu gees at Fort de France, but to dis tribute them in the south, where their necessities can be most easily sup plied. Recognizing the danger of a tidal wave at Fort de France, the colonial minister has instructed Gov. Le Maire to adopt all the measures necessary t<» enable the inhabitants to immediately evacuate the place in the case of necessity and seek refuge 011 the heights above the town, where food depots should be established. The minister has also recommended the establishment of observatory posts whence the least signs of fresh outbreaks of Mont Pelee can be imme diately reported to the authorities. Kingston. Jamaica, Sept. 5. —The German steamer Castillia, which ar rived here from St. Thomas, 1). W. 1., reports encountering a heavy fall of volcanic dust while 800 miles at sea. She also reports that, the coast of Hayti was completely obscured by a haze caused by dust. GREATER LONGEVITY. rile Cemua Hnreuu Issues an Interest- Ins Statement Which Shown the Aize of the Population to bo Increasing— White* l.lve Loneer than Illackw. Washington, Sept. 4. —The census bureau has issued a statement show ing the increasing age of the popula tion from decade to decade. The statement gives the results of com puting the median instead of the average age. The median is such an nge that half the population is under k and half is over it. The median age of the total population in 1900 was 22.5, as compared with 21.9 in 1890. The median age of the white population in the last census year was 23.4 and the colored, including negroes. Indians and Mongolians, was 19.7, while in 1890 the white popula tion was 22.4 and the colored 18.3. The report shows that there was nn increase in the median age of the white population during each decade from 1810 to 1900, amounting in the 00 years to 7.4 years, or an average amount of about. live-sixths of a year in a decade. The median age of the colored population increased after 1830, but with less regularity. The median age of the colored population Increased three years in the 70-year period from IS3O to 1900, or only about half as fasit as that of the whites. Hut during the last 20 years of the century the increase has been substantial. The statement concludes as follows: "Many complex influences have co operated in producing this steady change in the age composition of the population. Three may be mentioned, the rapid progress of medical and j sanitar3* science, which has tended to increase the average length of life; the decrease in the relative number of children born, which has made the earlier age periods less preponderant numerically in the total population; and the influx, especially since 1840, of great numbers of adult immi grants, increasing the number in the j older age periods. The difference be tween the white and colored popula tions is doubtless due to the fact that the influences have wrought more powerfully upon the white race than upon the colored." HARDSHIPS AND EXPOSURE. The Sad Case of an Olllrcr of the Army Signal Corp*. Washington. Sept. 5. An example j of the mental havoc wrought by ex- , trcme exposure and privation is fur- j liished by the case of (apt. Joseph R. ! Max Held, of the signal corps, who, { for about six months, has been in ! charge of the army's signal work in j Alaska. In the early spring ('apt. j Maxtield left Valdez and traveled 300 miles to the north to look over the work to be performed by the signal | corps during the summer. Then, with | but a single Indian guide for a com- j panion, the captain started back by j boat. He endured terrible privations '< and suffering before he finally ar rived. A few days ago the war department ; received a telegram stating that ('apt. Maxtield was beset with a hallucina tion that there was a conspiracy di- 1 reeled against' his life, and it was J suggested that the officer should i>e ' returned to the United States. Or- 1 ders were forwarded yesterday by the war depart incut directing Maxfielil to return to his home to recuperate from what, it is hoped, is only a tern* ! porary lapse of his mental faculties. Aid tor llnrlliiliiue'* SiiHVrers. Paris, Sept. 4. The Murtiniqun j commission met here yesterday and 1 decided that 111. 11,000 should be imme diately sent In Martinique tor distri liutiou among the sufferers from the la-I eruption there The Martinique fund now amount to over $1,700,000, ■if which ? .110,111 in ha already been di tritnitcd. This Is In addition In the SIOO,OOO which was sent to the island Imuieilliil"l t \ after the catastruphe of ' Ma> and the «iih*eri|»iiun obtained 111 the lulled Slate* aii«t oilier coun tries which were sent In Martinique. A ■urn of over ft,4no,uoo i- conse quently ktlll .tvul.'llble for relief Work. J A NARROW ESCAPE 1 . I The Presidents Latvian Meets With Disaster. 1 I An Klcctrlc Car Hashm Into 11-Mr. JKoosovelt's Head Cut William • Crals, ot the Secret Service, I Killed—Secretary Cortel ! you siluhtly Injured. 112 Pittsfield, Mass., Sept. 4.—The presi -1 (lent of the United States escaped a ' tragic death by only a few feet in a ' collision between his carriage and an ' electric street car in this city Wed . nesday, while owe of his most trusted ; guards, Secret Service Agent William ■ I Craig, was instantly killed, and David . j J. Pratt, of Dalton, who was guiding the horses attached to the vehicle, ; was seriously injured. President Roosevelt himself was badly shaken up, but received only a slight facial I bruise. Secretary Cortelyou, who occupied a seat directly opposite the chief j executive in the landau, sustained a minor wound on the back of the head, I and Gov. Crane,, who sat beside the president, extricated himself from the j wreck practically without a scrat«h. | The carriage was demolished by the Impact of the rapidly moving car and I thew heel horse on the side nearest j the car was killed outright. The crew* j and passengers of the car escaped in- I jury | The president and party were driv* ] ing from this city to Lenox, through South street, one of the principal thoroughfares of Pittsfield, which was lined with cheering people, and the catastrophe occurred in the plain view of hundreds. The trolley ear approached the road crossing under a good head of speed with gong clanging just as the driver of the president's carriage turned his leaders to cross the tracks. On each side of the chief executive's carriage rode two mounted troopers of the local cavalry company and the horsemen on the left of the landau had turned onto the track with the trolley car immediately behind them, though some yards distant. Alarmed by the clanging gong, they both t rrrned in their saddles and waved vigorously to the motorman to stop his car. Almost at the same in stant Gov. Crane rose to his feet and motioned to the motorman. The lat ter tried to stop his car, but it was too late. The horsemen managed to get the frightened pnimals out of the way just in time and the car struck the rear wheel of the carriage on the left side and ploughed through to the front wheel of the vehicle, which re ceived the full force of the blow. The carriage was upset and one horse fell dead on the tracks. The* other three powerful grays attached to the vehicle started to run and dragged by them and pushed by the force of the car, the wrecked car riage was moved 30 or 40 feet. Agent Craig fell from his sent in front of the car and it passed completely over his body. Driver Pratt, in falling, struck the dead horse immediately in front of him and rolled off clear of the car. thus escaping a similar fate. President Roosevelt, Gov. Crane and Secretary Cortelyou were thrown to gether in the bottom of their car riage. Xo one on the ear seems to be able to explain how the accident happened. Even the motormen and persons 011 the front seat are apaprently unable to tell why it was not avoided. It is claimed that Driver Piatt turned to cross the track sooner than teams ordinarily make the turn, but this he.was forced to do because his team of four horses required more room and the two troopers on the right of the carriage also needed space to | get through. Motorman Madden and Conductor Kelly remained in the station house from 10 a. m., when they were ar rested, until 0:20 last evening, when bail was furnished. The charges against them are manslaughter. Hail for the motorman of $5,000 was fur nished by his brother and P. 11. Dolan, | manager of the Pittsfield Street Rail way Co. Kelly was bailed in the sum of $2,"i00 by Mr. Dolan. Boston, Sept. 5. —Some new facts of interest bearing upon the accident to the president's party at Pittsfield were given by John li. Crane, secre tary to Gov. Crane, who was in the third carriage behind that occupied by the president, and who saw the accident. Mr. Smith returned to the state house yesterday and his story j carries with it considerable weight, | as he is a veteran newspaper man, j accustomed to making close observa j tion of incidents. He says that in his ! judgment the car was going about 20 j miles an hour. He said that there 1 were no shrieks or yells at the mo -1 ment of collision and the silence was j appalling. I,'lie Iteturnn from Vermont. White ltlver Junction, Vt., Sept. 4. 1 With practically complete returns i from the state election, but one town 1 ' out of the 240 towns and cities having failed to report its vote, the result :is as follows: John lut lon* express >Hl qualltb'd sympathy with the aim* and purposes of the Federation of I ibor, uiiil u> isliince and ipport are prom ised that organisation in enn way then t. I , CHICAGO MAN'S SIGNAL. To lis I'aed In HIP Park Avenue Tun* nel at IVcw Vork to Prevent Acci dent*. The New York Central railroad has conducted an inspection «112 a new sig nal .system for use in the Park ave nue tunnel. A. C. Miller, of Chicago, Is the inventor. Mr. Miller was busy with R corps of men for several weeks stringing the wires and equip ping three engines with the appa ratus. The company's observation car, the Hudson, was used to show the practical merits of the invention. Briefly, the device provides an ad ditional safeguard against accident, | over the familiar block system. It is in a measure dependent for its opera j tion on the block system, and yet it j also acts independently. It trusts the I block signals only when they display the danger signal, but when they sig i nul safety the Miller system relies on j itself. The most ingenious feature Jof the device is that it provides against human fallibility. A man In j one of the signal stations may drop j dead or may make a mistake. All - other advantage that the Miller sys , tem provides is that the signal which ; is to guide the engineer is directly j before his eyes. Electricity sent through the rails, ; as well as through a system of wires j strung beside the track, is used for | the new device. [ The outside Park avenue tunnel j was used. The observation car wna | run as far as Mott Haven and there I turned around. On both the outgo | ing as well as the incoming trix> tiie signals worked perfectly. Seed Gcrmluatea In Kye. A small grass seed which had ger ( minated while in a patient's eye, has just been removed by a Japanese ocu- I list. 1 gooo o-o 000 CH>O 00000 ao ooowoa I ST. JACOBS! 1 OIL J | POSITIVELY CURES § Rheumatism o Neuralgia Backache g Headache Feetache All Bodily Aches 2 | AND 5 CONQUERS I { PAIN. 1 $3 & $3 £3 SHOES S j \N. L. Douglas shoes are the standard of the world. I W. L. ftoncrla* made and *old more nun's flood* year Wolt Han i Ketrcd Process) hJ*oe* In theflrKt six month* or 1902 than any other manufacturer. noes by mail, 2oc. extra. 11l us. Catalog free. W. L. DOUOLAS. BROCKTON, MASS. [ THE. 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