2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. r»er year j® 112 paid in advance 1 ■ ,u ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate ot ©ne dollar per square forone insertion and liftj cents per square for each subsequent insertion. Rates bv the year, or for six or three months, are low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, *2: each subsequent inser tion iiO cents per square. Local notices 10 cents per line for one lnser ■ertion; 5 cents per line for each subsequent consecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five llnea, 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar* rinces and deaths will be Inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less. S5 per year: over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than 75 cents pei Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Puesh lscomplet* and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. Paiiticui.au attlni ion paid to Law Printing. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. A _ .. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. ■ I i . .. - —■ Tt has come to be a maxim that heroes are few*. And the question arises, are all the Common Conrnit'e , „ ~ rest cowards.' It n I'lli lit: of Value. seems m>V( , r cult to create a panic. Panic is not alone a social evil, but individual as well, though we generally speak of sudden fright as a panic only when it seizes a crowd. The malady is deep seated and the evils that may grow out of it are well illustrated by a tale told in a late number of the Youth's Com panion: She was everybody's Aunt Mercy. She had a cooky for every child, a lump of sugar for every horse, a sympathetic ear for every troubled woman, and sound counsel for every struggling soul. Since she had neither husband nor children of her own, her heart expanded to take in every crea ture within its ken. She laughed at her own troubles, and sighed over those of others. She met trial, and en couraged others to meet it, with a sort of brave amusement. "Keep up good courage; the worst is to come!" was ane of her favorite mottoes. She had been good and done good all the days of her life. Last winter a tragic thing happened to this woman. In the vil lage next the one where she lived there were several cases of smallpox. The people were well-nigh panic-stricken. Almost too late, they took the strict est measures for quarantine and vaccination. Meantime, all the towns near by caught the fear, although not the disease. Friends looked askance at one another. A headache was the sign, not for sympathy, but for aver sion and desertion. Human nature for a few brief davs showed at its wo.-vt ...i .. an ter w inter morning Aunt Mer cy found herself ill. In a flash she thought of the danger of contagion. She lived alone, but the grocer's boy, who called early, spread the report that "Aunt Mercy had her head all wrapped up, and didn't want anybody to come to see her." The mischief was lone. No one went near her door. The aid doctor, her lifelong friend, who would' not have failed her, happened to be away for a week. It would be cruel •ven to try to picture how the hours and days and nights passed for the sick woman. At the end of the week, it ivas gootl to reflect that she had found rest. When it was discovered that she had died, not of smallpox, but of ty phoid fever, the village dared to mourn for her. Soon the brief terror passed, and the shamefaced men and women knew how cowardly had been their desertion. Each secretly thought some one else responsible for the fail ure. Hut old Silas Thurston, the black smith, summed up the tragedy and its lesson when lie said: "She was the best woman this town ever knew, and we let her burn at the stake because we were scared. But we know more than we did, and the value of plain courage has risen considerable since she died." The stream of immigration flows mainly toward the grain fields of the west, die timber lands of the north west, and the orchards ami gardens of the Pacific slope. Yet the south needs labor for lier textile, wood working. metal, phosphate and other industries, and tbc outlook in agri culture is, as a financial journal put it, that "the south probably has as good opportunities for the right kind of a man who wishes to engage in farming on a small scale, either rais ing special crops or the usual sta ples, as any part of the country." That i.i true. Rut when the observa tion is analyzed it yields no special comfort to any section. Kvery state yearn-; for"the right kind of a man." Opportunities await him anywhere. tradition says that the queen of Sheba asked Solomon to thread an intricately pierced stone, and that he did so by means of a hair tied to a liv ing worm. A long sewer in an Ohio factory recently became clogged, and a son of Solomon came to the rescue. Tying a long ball of twine to the shell of a inud-turtle, he put the animal into the entrance of the sewer and turned on a stream of water. The turtle bur rowed his way through the refuse, was "watered on" at. each manhole, and ■emerged victoriously at the outlet. A rope attached to the twine, a swaband strong arms accomplished the rest swiftly and economically. LOST, STRAYED, OR STOLEN. Ko Tmrr In Left of the Democratle Itrnv Head nnil lllooily floiiea An t I-1 ■■■ i»e rla II * iu. Anti-imperialism! What lias become of it ? Only a few months ago hundred® of spellbinders were vociferating their fears that the United States was about to become an empire. The bogy of im perialism had taken possession of many minds. A self-appointed junta of six eminent statesmen kindly of fered to relieve the president and con gress of the duties of government. We were told that the Filipinos who had not. been exterminated were about to be enslaved. We were also told that the administration was building up an empire on the ruins of democracy. Ap parently anti-imperialism was to be the issue in the congressional and in the next presidential elections. Lc and behold, anti-imperialism has vanished, says the Chicago Tribune. "Abiit, excessit, evasit, exupit." The anti-imperialists have scuttled and quit. They have not abandoned the Filipinos, but they have given up their issue. Not a murmur is heard on the subject. The anti-imperialists have left some of the republican oratory in the vocative. Secretary Root, for instance, was cocked, and primed, and loaded to the muzzle on the Philippine question. He was prepared to scatter grape shot in all directions. Some of the orators in southern Illinois were ready t«i vin dicate the soldier boys on the firing line. Now there is no one to attack. VERY LIKELY. " /*y 112 Q F*. Yes, the Democratic Nomination for President Wi 1 Probably Fall Between Dave Hill and Bryan. no enemy in sight. Anti-imperialism is dead and buried. Almost the same can be said of the silver issue. It. too, has gone into a hole. Bryan still maintains a feeble pretense of standing by his financial principles. He still says that the sup ply of gold has increased enormously and silver lias decreased. Hut no one pays attention to what he says. His voice is like "the voice of one crying in the wilderness," but it is not the voice of a John the Baptist. Many cry in the wilderness, and are not heard. Nor are they forerunners of greater ones to come afar. Free silver is done for. All that now remains is the tariff is sue. Many democrats have been king ing for a square fight on this issue. If they could only get away from im perialism and free silver, they said, they would have a chance. Rut it must be remembered that President Mc- Kinlcy, in 1896. was anxious to have a fight upon the tariff issue an«l no other. He sought in vain to bring that issue to the front. Now it is an issue by the consent of both parties. No body from it, since if a test of strength is invited it might as well be made now as any other time. Presi dent Roosevelt has spiked some of the democrats' guns. lie has stolen the op position's thunder on the trust ques tion. He has compelled the democrats to say they are in favor of regulating ♦he trusts by national authority, though in congress they have voted against interference by the general government instate affairs, and they will do so again whenever the oppor tunity presents itself. Now, as to the tariff, they must favor taking up the question piecemeal at the short se sion or of reforming it on free trade lines at the long session. If the lat ter. they \\ ill have the people t•» reckon with. President Roosevelt favors ju dicious revision at the proper time. No sensible man will advocate anything different. So the voters only have the issue of moderate or radical tariff reform to decide when it is presented to them. There is nothing more comical from one point of view than the sudden disappearance of issue.- upon which the opposition insisted most strenuously n few month s ago anil the bringing to the front of another which, at that time, no' one contemplated as likely to be the only subject of dls-.-usslon in 1002. in' When Senator llanna talks, how ever lightly, of retiring from public life, many friends of the republican party are much concerned. When Hryan says anything which is taken to mean that he intends to quit leading the bourbons of the country, the enemies of the democracy are worried. The difference is a- wide a- that between success mid failure. —Cleveland Leader. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1902. FREE TRADE WIDE OPEN. The \< iv Text Hook of the Ilemoerney Leaven No llooni for Doolit on ttie Isaac. In the preparation of the democratic campaign text book at least, just is sued by the democratic congressional committee, Clevelandism has exercised the prevailing influence. For the tirst time there is made, for the democratic party, a straightforward, unequivocal, emphatic declaration in favor of free trade, says the Albany Herald. There is no talk about "tariff revision," "tar iff reform" or "tariff for revenue only;" reciprocity is simply declared to be "a sham and a humbug," while of free trade it is said that it "would open our own markets to benefit our own country. It is asserted that "the greatest good to the greatest number requires that there be no barriers in trade in order that goods may be as cheap as possible and the cost of liv ing be reduced to a minimum." That "goods as cheap sis possible" would mean wages as low as possible, ill it t the opening of our ma rket st o all the products of foreign cheap labor would mean destruction to our indus tries, and that reduction of the cost of living to a minimum would result in de priving thousands of \merican work ingmen of even the minimum required to defray the cost, tire facts which the democratic texl book ignores; but which the American people have in their minds. The democratic congressional eom- ! liiittee is entitled to such credit a? is 1 due for frankness. While it proposes ■ I lie destruct ion of i ur prosperity which has developed under the republican policy of protection for home indus tries, the pauperization of American labor, the ruin of American capital, the j enrichment of foreign nations at the I expense of the United States, the ret | regression () f this nation to the con | dition of a debtor nation, it states its proposition without circumlocution, intended to befog the minds of the peo ple as to the real purpose of the dem ocratic party. Free trade, complete abolition of the tariff, admission of all foreign products to free competition with American products—that is the proposition which is squarely set be fore the people of the United States. American thought will instantly re vert to the condition that was precip itated by the election of Mr. Cleve land in 1892, when nothing nearly so j radical was proposed and when the tar ' iff law soon thereafter enacted by a | democratic congress, the so-called Wil j son law. was after all, though il made | a reduction of the duty on many ini j ports, as a whole a protective meas ure. The democratic declaration for free trade, absolute free trade, will make the question whether this country will uphold the policy that has made it prosperous or reject that policy and | cast prosperity to the winds-, the par- I amount issue in t he eongre.-s ion a I elec ' lions tlii- fall and in ilie presidential I contest two years hence. The \mer- I ican people made a terrible mistake in 1892; they will not repeat it in 1902 or in 1901. PRESS OPINIONS. CTThe deinocratie party has received another blow—Senator Teller has joined it. I'hiladelphfn Ledger. E*"-* I'residcnt Roosevelt has not vet found the enemy's country. --Roches ter (X. V.) Democrat and ( hronicle. E" 't.'eorge Fred Wililams doubtless wired Col. I'ryan something nbout be ing baffled but not beaten.- Oinah.* lice. E,"lt will be readily conceded that a Tom Johnson campaign is a moreHr cuvtied- affair than ever a Ttryan hip podrome. Washington Post. in r T'ie democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin is named Rose. The republicans will attend to the plucking.- l'itt.-burg (ia/ette. IT 'The Lan - ing prehistoric man i-t not in it with those li\ing specimens who still argue in favor of Hi to I. Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser. u■' 11 begins to look us if David li. Hill and Arthur I', florman might, by joining hands, arrange for a monopoly of democratic presidentiV.l nomination prospects. Washington Star. STARTLING REPORT. An Immigration t'ommlaaloner Telia of Alumca lliat Prevailed at Itllla Inland- New York, Oct. 1. —The annual re port of the commissioner of immigra tion at. this port, William Williams, was filed Tuesday with the secretary of the treasury and in the document the commissioner criticises without reserve conditions which surrounded the landing of immigrants at Ellis Island during the ten months previ ous to the change of administration there due to Mr. Williams' appoint ment. He says: "The chief inspector was allowed to arbitrarily mark the word 'hold' against the name of any immigrant on the manifest, thus causing to lie brought to hint certain picked people to be disposed of as he thought best, instead of allowing them to Vie in spected in the regular way. 'Hie fact that most of those so marked hid fair amounts of money and that many so marked were able-bodied people with very large amounts of money, arc points not without interest." The commissioner says that the im migrants were roughly handled and addressed in rough language by gov ernment and railroad officials; that the detention "pens" were filthy, par ticularly the dining room, where, the report says, the immigrants were fed without knives, forks or spoons; that railroad and other passes used to be demanded to a demoralizing extent; that "ships after ships" brought in cases of scab tliscases and eye disease, both dangerous contagious diseases unknown in this country until import ed in recent years from Europe. The commissioner says the con stantly deteriorating quality of the recent immigration calls for the exe cution of the law in the most stringent manner, and he states that last, year over 2,000 aliens who had arrived within the year became desti tute in Xew York. A MILLION DOLLARS. Hurry Slriitton Nalitea Ilia Price lor Dropping I lie Context ol Ilia Father's Will, Colorado Springs, Col., Oct. 1, —I. Harry Stratton announced yesterday that he had been approached by one of the executors appointed by his father in the will, with a proposition to compromise the contest case, and answered that he would withdraw his suit upon a settlement of $1,000,000. Attorneys for the executors, adminis trators and the son were in confer ence nearly all day and the announce ment of young Stratton is believed to be the conclusion that has been ar rived at. Proceedings against the executors have been postponed. At the time ap- | pointed for the executors to come he fore Judge Orr, none of them had ap peared, nor had they come an hour . thereafter. Later 111 the day the at torneys for the administrators tiled a j reply to the sensational answer of the executors, charging conspiracy on j the part of the administrators. I '.Messrs. niiu-Kmrr, llamlin and nrlmes I vigorously deny the charges of "loot ing (he estate." Later the entire matter was taken out of tlie county court and trans ferred to the district, court, on a writ issued by Judge Cunningham, of the district court. This writ was secured by the executors and was agreed to by the administrators. The effect of the order is that the action of ihe county court is set aside, that the case now stands just as It did before the appointment of ! administrators by Judge Orr, and fur ther that the appointment of the ad ministrators is practically annulled. It is a virtual victory for the execu tors, who have been defending the dead millionaire's will. DURAND'S BROTHER. ■I« I* Selected to Head tile Demo* eratle State Ticket In .filelilcmi. Detroit, 'Mich., Oct. I.—-After an ani- ! mated discussion lasting nearly three ! hours yesterday, the democratic stjite 1 central committee selected L. T. l)u --rand, of Saginaw, as the party's candi date for governor. The new nomina tion was made necessary by the with drawal of Judge George 11. Durand, of Flint, a brother of the last nominee. Judge Durand was stricken with paralysis five weeks ago and his con dition has remained such that all though! of his going through a cam paign or tilling the office of governor had to lie abandoned. The fight yesterday lay between the gold democrats, who favored L. T. Durand. and the silver leaders, who wanted to nominate State Senator J. \\\ 'llelrne, of Adrian; Charles It. friligh, of (irand Rapids, or some other democrat who had come out as a sil ver man in IS9G. Heline's friends I stood by his declaration that the j state convention should bo recon vened to till Judge Durand's place on 1 the ticket and as he had declared that j he would not accept a nomination at the hands of the committee, his name ; was not presented. On the second formal ballot, the committee stood 11 j for Durand and 10 for Sligh, the nomi- j nation of Durand being immediately j thereafter made unanimous. Cowbor* Will Itaco. La Crosse, Wis., Oct. 1. —James | Bradley, of the Black Hills, Dakota, j who i.s here, announces that, notwith standing President Itoosevelt's prohi- ! bition of the cowboy race from the Black Hills to Chicago, the event will take place October 26. The amount of money wagered is over .$.10,001). Sc!eete«l the Nitew. St. Louis, Oet. I.—Under a lowering sky and swept by a chilling wind, more than a thousand people, delega tions from the different states, yes terday witnessed the ceremonies in connection with t he allotment of siles for the federal and state buildings at the Louisiana Purchase exposition grounds. Sites for the government t>llildings and the state buildings of Missouri, Louisiana, Texas, Illinois, Ohio, .New Jersey, Kentucky, Arkan sas and Wisconsin were presented and accepted. Each site was marked by it red stalf bearing a flag facsimile of the :>iate seal and a silk llajf. FORTS CAPTURED. America it Soldiers Are Success ful in Mindanao. Dntlle Coimlit In the Kwanipi-!(I»ro> Opened Fire on Our Troop* Willi u KruM fannou Twenty of Them Were Killed and Many Wounded. ■Manila, Oct. 2. —-The Maciu Moros in Mindanao hove offered but slight re sistance to the column under Capt. Pershing, of the Fifteenth cavalry. After a series of skirmishes on Mon day and Tuesday of this week the Moros retreated into six forts on the shores of the lake. The American column reached the former camp at Maeiu Sunday night. On Monday the Moros opened fire on them with a brass cannon and rifles from a series of new forts which had been erected since ('apt. Pershing's first visit to the place. The battery under Capt. William S. McXair scaled .1 ridge commanding the position of the'Moros and shelled them out. The engineers under Capt. Jay J. Morrow had constructed a trail over the swamp flanking the Moro position. The men of Capt. Pershing's column crossed the swamp by the trail and captured and destroyed three of the Moro forts. The Moros stood but a short while, and ran as soon as 1 lie artillery opened on them. Capt. Pershing lias been ordered to destroy the forts unless the Moros make peace. Twenty Moros were killed and many were wounded. 'l'here were 110 casualties among the Americans. Washington, Oct. 2.—The war de partment officials are watching with great interest the operations of Capt. I Pershing against the Maciu Moros, who are located near the. southeast end of Lake I.anao, on the island of Mindanao. The datto at Maciu has proved to be one of the most power fill and stubborn in his resistance to the United States, lie lias perhaps 3,000 or 4,000 followers. It was the Maciu Moros who last spring killed a i number of American soldiers and cap ! tured stock belonging to them. All unsuccessful effort was made to get, , them to surrender the murderers and ffive up the stock that had been taken, ! but their datto was obdurate and the | war department determined on the ! compaign which Capt. Pershing ap ' parently has gone far towards bring ; ing to a successful conclusion. G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT. Oflhlal Program of tl»e W'nnhinatoii Conclave In Announced. Washington, Oct. 2. —The official program of the thirty-sixth encamp ment. of the Grand Army of the Re public, which will be held in this city next week, was issued yesterday. In addition to the dedication of Camp Roosevelt and the various army corps reunions, which have been announced | already, there will be many events of ! interest. The program begins with religious exercises at Camp Roose velt on Sunday and continues until Saturday morning. 'Monday morning there will be an automobile parade beginning at 9 o'clock, and .l regatta on tlie Pa tomae river beginning at 10:30 and continuing during the entire day. The afternoon will witness the dedication of Camp Roosevelt, with addresses of welcome by Secretary Hay and Com missioner MacFarland, and a re sponse by Commander-in-Chief Tor rance. At night there will be a gen eral camp fire at Convention hall. The principal event of Tuesday will be a naval parade. A number of army corps reunions will take place on this date. In the afternoon Pension Com missioner Ware will give a reception. At night the Grand Army will be of ficially welcomed at Convention hall. On Wednesday will occur the gen eral Grand Army parade, to which the entire day will be given up. At night there will be a number of re unions, and an official reception by the Woman's Relief Corps. The meeting of the national en campment will take place Thursday and Friday. On Thursday the Wo man's Relief Corps will hold a con vention, as will the Ladies of the G. A. It., the Daughters of Veteran's ami the Women's Veterans' Relief union. RIVAL INVENTORS. Tliey Tent Their Alr*lilji» In the At mosphere Above I.oni; hland. New Vork, Oct. I.—Two airships made ascents yesterday on Long Is land which surpassed the achieve ments of any other of their kind on this continent. The airships were the creations of rival inventors, Leo Stevens and Edward C. Hoice, and their performances were very much in the nature of a competitive run, both being in the air at the same time and both faring about equally well. The wind was light. It is claimed that I lie Iloice airship ascend ed to a height of about 1,000 feet and ; sailed a course about two miles in j extent, the navigator finally alighting 1 by means of a ladder resting against j a telegraph pole near the point of I starting. For the Stevens airship it is claimed that the ascent was to a height of ; 4,000 feet. After making a flight of 1 about two miles the balloon in de scending came in contact, with tele graph wires and became disabled, but the navigator succeeded in alighting in safety and the airship was rescued j without serious injury. llcCitlloiiiili I* ICieetod <» over 11 or. Montpelicr, Vt., Oct. 2.—The legis lature yesterday elected as governor. Gen. .101111 (J. MeCullough, republican, of Itennington. At the polls (leu. Me- Cullough failed to receive a majority of voles, although receiving the larg est number of votes east. Vesterday, however, he received his majority, having the support of 104 members of the legislature. I'ereival W. Clement, the high license local option candi date, received ,1!\ votes, and Felix W. Meliet t rick, the democratic candidate, 4."). /. S. Stanton, republican, of Rox- I bury, was elected lieutenant govei* 1 n<>r. MAY LOSE OFFICERS. War Department Imniie* Nr» Ilecnla* tloii (invrrul nt: Teaching of .Mill lary Science by Ofllcera <>l tlie Uov erniiien t. The general order governing the instruction under army officers at schools and colleges throughout the country will cause a good deal of consternation at the institutions to which these new regulations, pub lished from the war department, apply. The order is a result of re ports made by the inspectors general of the ariny, who have been visiting the different schools, colleges and universities where the government maintains an army officer at public expense as a professor of military science and tactics, and to which the war department sends each year a quantity of quartermasters' supplies and ordnance equipment for the une of the students in the military de partment. It has been reported to the Wash ington authorities that, at hardly any of these institutions is the military department regarded as of any im portance. The army officers detailed as instructors usually have to find time for their lalxirs outside of the college day, and there are numerous annoyances ond inconveniences placed in the path of the officer who is sent to do this important work. Some colleges receive under an old law an annual sum of $24,000, with the idea that they shall maintain among other features a military de partment. Few colleges pay any at tention to this branch of the work, and at some of them the drilling and lectures on the art of war are con ducted so as to discourage students taking any active part in that work. The war department has decided that it shall establish certain require ments and compel educational insti tutions to observe certain rules, and failure to live up to these regula tions will result in the army officer being withdrawn from the college as an instructor. The order will arouse a good deal of opposition and some remonstrances from a few of the colleges which have not taken kindly to the detail of army professors, and who only have accepted the presence of army officers in the capacity of professors in military science be cause the service of such an instruct or costs the college nothing and waa an ostensible compliance witA the law. Jeiva of New York OUy. The Jewish World publishes an es timate of the number of Jews ia Greater New York based on the num ber of Jewish burials as recorded by the board of health. These amounted in 1901 to 7,9'J7, and as the death rata in the most congested Jewish dis tricts is little over 15 per thousand this implies a population of 533,133 in the middle of 1001. Since that time no less than 39,225 have arrived at New York and staid there, while by natural increase of births over deaths another 21,400 would be added up to August 1 of this year, making a grand total of 584,788. A boon to travelers. Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry. Cures dysentery, diarrhea, seasickness, nausea. Pleasant to take. Acts promptly. To know mankind it easy; but to coi» prehendany one man or woman .» impos sible.—Town Topics. Only one remedy in the world that will at once stop itchiness of the skin in any part of the body. Doan's Ointment. At any drug store, 50 cents. 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