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The Job department of the Prkss Is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. Pak'iu li.au attention i'aidto Law Printing. No paper will be discontinued until arrear Kes are paid, except at the option of the pub her. I'apcrs sent out of the county must be pale lor in advance. Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian author, loves to keep his hair in disorder. This is said to he his one vanity. Ho always Carries a little toilet case, con taining a looking glass and a comb, which are attached to the lining of his gray hat. He will often remove his hat to look into the mirror to see how his hair is lying. If it is not rough enough to suit, his fancy he uses tho comb to give it the requisite tangle. There has recently died in Canada, in abject poverty, Samuel Napier, tho man who discovered the largest nug get of gold the world has ever seen. It was found in Australia and meas ured two feet, four inches long; ten inches wide, and two inches thick. So great was the excitement over the dis covery that Queen Victoria command ed Napier to come to Buckingham pal ace, where the nugget was exhibited to her. Tho United States department, of ' agriculture is at present investigating the curious behavior of certain plants growing on the western prairies, which are known as locoweeds. "Ix> <o" in Spanish signifies crazy. Cattle and other animals feeding upon loco weeds suffer a derangement of the brain that prevents co-ordinating movements. Several weeds belonging to the bean family are included in this poisonous category. The census shows over 5.000,000 of women engaged in gainful occupations in this country. There are over 1,- <IOO,OOO engaged in agricultural pur suits. 500,000 in professional service, 2,000.000 in domestic service and 1,- ('OO,OOO in manufacturing and mechan ical pursuits. The female farmers in clude laborers, farmers, overseers, gardeners, florists, fruit growers, milk farmers, stock raisers, herders, tur pentine farmers, wood choppers, lum bermen and raftsmen. One of the curious trades of New York is that of the smelling expert, a man who earns his living literally «»y following his nose. He is employed by manufacturers of perfumery. It is his business to judge of the charac ter, quality and value of the materials hat goto the making of perfumes. Much of the perfumery made in this country is imported from France in the form of pomatums, and extracted with alcohol. The smelling expert judges the quality of pomatums. A dredger, claimed to be in some re spects the largest ever constructed, has just been completed by the Golden Gate and Minor works, of San Fran cisco. It is designed for building a levee on one of the most considerable of the islands in the Sacramento river delta. The boom is of extraordinary length and describes a circle having a diameter of 310 feet, allowing the em ployment of material at great distance from the shore line. The bucket holds io tons and the boom is 155 feet long. Following the lead of Mrs. Stuyves ant Fish, ultrafashionable New York women are taking to sitting in theater boxes with their backs to the stage. Mrs. Fish originated this fad a few evenings ago, hardly looning toward the footlights even, much less attend ing to the play, and keeping up an animated but subdued conversation with three friends. Another fad of the hour among New Yorkers is to abbre viate "Thank you" until it sounds et actly as though the person were say ing "kew." Members of a Canadian woman's club, organized for literary and so ciological study, with a college woman as president, are said to have beeorm) so interested in the servant problem that they have resolved to raise the standard of domestic service by going out to serve themselves. The authoriiy also states that these clubwomen have found their own town too conservative to carry out their plan in, and tho president anil five members have de cided togo to New York and take places with some of the families of that metropolis. Native Japanese engineers and man agers hate developed to a tremend ous extent the copper mines of Ashlo, hays Japan and America There are 1 o.iiiiii person* employed in th»- riiln»-s and at t le furnaces, who, with their families, make up a city of 17,h0u. Japan is now the fourth in rank of IN) copper prndu' liik countries, and tho mines of Ashlo. owned by Furukaw.t Ichlbel, of Tokyo, produce one third the total of the empire The average «iiir per day at the mine* for labor ».<• ts 13 eenit. together with a stated Quantity of ore exUai led ONLY A MARE'S-NEST. Tariff ITI A form OrKiin Make* A 1)1*- covery Thnl l« Straniee hiiU Truly Startling. Not long .since the treasury depart ment, iiv tile ease of certain imports of steel, ruled that duty must he paid upon them not at the price at whieh they were invoiced, but at that charged to domestic consumers in the country from which they were shipped. Obvi ously, such a ruling had to be made, otherwise it would he impossible to prevent undervaluation. I'he justice of the method was recognized by the representatives of the allied powers when they decided that the customs tax to be collected by the Chinese should be based upon the value of the articles at the place «'»f import, and not upon prices whieh might be made for the purpose of capturing trade or whieh were fixed low in order to tie fraud the government, says the Han Francisco Chronicle. Hut now comes the Hoston Herald with a charge that the ruling demon strates that the American protective tariff is in effect an export bounty system. It says: "If the construction of our treasury department is to be de pended upon and is to be applied to our own practices, then the congress of the United States is paying export bounty to certain American industries, a practice which may be open toconsti tutional objection." ltadds: "Wheth er it would be possible, if the I nited States courts should decide that the treasury dejxirtment was correct in its construction concerning this llus sian proceeding, to bring our own beneficiaries by government bounty before the courts, as obtaining uncon stitutional privileges through con gressional action, is a question wfiich at least will bear careful considera tion." If the question is carefully consid ered, certain facts will lie ascertained which the llerald seems to have com pletely overlooked in its anxiety to make a point against American manu facturers. Foremost among these is that its assumption that the practice of forcing out goods at lower prices is one j>eculiar to protective countries is erroneous. It is as much in vogue in free trade Great Hritain as in the United States. There are few manu facturers in that country who will not make sacrifices to establish trade with foreigners, and in doing so they follow a practice which is merely an exten sion of the rule adopted in the conduct of domestic business of getting rid of surpluses with as little disturbance to the local market as possible. If it is right and expedient for a merchant who sells muslin at ten cents a yard on Saturday to one set of customers, to turn around and sell muslin of the same quality for seven cents a yard on Monday, then it is not immortal or improper for manu facturers to resort to the same course. The circumstances are pre cisely analogous. Jn each case the aim is precisely the same. The mer chant, after selling' all he can at ten cents a yard, tries to yet rid of the remainder of hi.s stock at sevei. cents a yard. The American manu facturer endeavors to get all he can for his product in this country, and he takes what he can get from the foreigner. If he could obtain th-j same prices for his surplus from the latter as from the domestic con sumer, he would cheerfully do so. it is absurd to think that lie would not. and it is equally absurd to imagine that the American consumer would he benefited by imposing a restriction on American manufacturers which would prevent their following the ex ample of enterprising depart mer.t stores of unloading excess stocks as quickly as possible. The economic strabismus of thi Herald prevents its seeing that one of the reasons why the American consumer is able to pay so much more for goods than most foreigners is because the manufacturers of the United States are not subjected to repressive measures. They are prac tically encouraged to let production expand. As a consequence the re sources of the country are energetic ally developed and there is a larger share for all those who assist in their production. That this is true the statistics of consumption abundantly attest, and, being true, the people have a right to account Ihemselves prosperous, no matter how domesti'': prices may compare with those which obtain in other countries. The only persons who have any thing to complain of are the foreign ers who are the victims of the dump ing process, and they will be full# justified in taking any steps which may put an end to the practice. That they are likely to do so is suggested by the vigorous objections to dump ing which find their way into print in free-trade Kngland. Although the gospel of cheapness is preached by liritish economists, it is noteworthy that they are beginning to realize that when it obtains at the expense of tin* domestic producer it is dearly paid for by all classes. Production is the mainspring of prosperity, and anything that strikes a blow at it must prove detrimental to a country. This is a truth which sophistry can not disguise even in (ireat Itritnln, where cheapness is extolled, but where it i nevertheless clearly recogni/ed that the cheapness which pl-ows I|l tructive to domestic in-i du.-li \ is undesirable. It is onl.\ 1/ American free trader who »till sirf fer- from the hallucination that it is w.'f for the COII inner to seek to profit at thi- expense of llie pro ducer. •?I he next democratic candidate for president it*list come from a ic |»nlilii'iiii state, mile** lie hails from Netiiil.l. Illii 'tie Inland, Ml-Oiiri ut lli' tonth -t. I.oui (ilobi l)i n.oerat. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1903 LIVING NOW COSTS LESS. Prosperity jind Plenty In Kolililiik the UemutTula of Their Purty Mir Cry. Much has been said recently of the high cost of living, and it is true that as far as ju ices for the necessary com modities ai*e concerned 11)0" has been a record-breaking year. Hut there have been causes for this in natural condi tions entirely apart from the manipu lation of syndicates, to which the un thinking have been disposed to attrib ute t lie advance in prices, says the Troy Times. Last year's short corn crop was one of the principal causes producing the advance in the prices of commodities. This advance was felt not only in cereals, but also in the prices of cat tle and meats. In July, 1901, the index prices of commodities in proportion to consumption stood at 91.509. When the damage to the corn crop became fully known the index number rose to 95.330. In May of this year the ad vance in the prices of cattle and meats as well as cereals sent the index up to 102.239. Hut the enormous cereal crops of this year have sent this representative figure from 102.239 in May to 99.579 November 1. The falling temperature and its effect on eggs, milk and other articles caused the slight advance to 100.449 on December 1, but this figure was lower than at the corresponding date in 1901, which, when the prices of coal owing to the strike are taken into consideration, isa favorable show ing. With the large corn crop and the re duction in the price of meats, which has already been announced from Kan sas City, and with the better supply of coal which may reasonably be ex pected, now that mining is resumed in full, there is reason to be lieve that, the cost of living will stead ily decline, and that, when the great prosperity and activity of the coun try are taken into consideration, prices will not be a cause for pessimis tic criticism. The New York Commer cial says: "Altogether, It would eeem that the in dex number will not again rise to the figures of lasl spring. While it ennnot lie hoped that the cost of living will be re duced to the figures for 1596 and I.S97—in deed, such a decline would not be natural in view of the general prof]>erity and busi ness* activity existing throughout the country—yet it can be reasonably ex pected that the cost of living will at least be reduced to the level of I.SSS and I.SS9. When tho general conditions existing during the two periods' are remembered such a decline would make a decided ly favorable comparison for the present period of prosperity." This result may rob the demo cratic party of a war cry, but it will be pleasing- to purchasers of commodi ties, and will help to prove that the reasons assigned by those who, from political or other motives, attack the present conditions in ibis country have been, voluntarily or ignorautly, deceptive. THE "ANTI" SUPERFLUOUS. Timely and \\ Itr Warning That Should He Home in >1 ill <1 !»>' LeKialatum. Xo liil! iliat can be properly described as "anti-trust" deserves the considera tion of the congress. "Antd" in this connection has the meaning'of "hostile to,"and there is no reason nor even excuse for the enactment of legislation hostile to all industrial combinations that are loosely classed under the head ing "trusts." In his message, Presi dent lloosevelt sounded a warning agaiinst. hostility to these combinations as such. We should be hostile only to the evil that is in some of them, says the Albany Journal. This warning should be borne in mind, for it is timely and wise.. It should be heeded as well in the giving of a name to legislation as in the fram ing of a proposed law. Legislation re lating to trusts should be for their regulation only, not for the accom plishment of the purpose indicated by the use of the prefix in question'. And it should l»e described as "trust legis lation." "Anti-trust," applied to any measure that might be justly enacted, is as much a misnomer as "anti-rail way," or "anti-insurance," or "anti bank" would he, applied respectively to laws relating to the management and operation of railroads, insurance companies and banks, and to the su pervision of the two latter by state governments and by the national gov ernment , respectively. Away with "anti-t rust." COMMENT AND OPINION. ICThe Monroe doctrine and "man ifest destiny" seem to fit into and complement each other, all in the in terest of American expansion and in disregard of the anti-imperialists.— Troy Times. E Of course. Mr. Bryan has the right to enjoy prosperity honestly won, and nobody objects to liis possession of u private fortune. Hut it does seem a lit tle out of order for a man so sit uated to go up and down the ea rt h bewailing as calamitous a condition of things under which lie thrives so well. Troy Times. B 'Secretary of the Treasury Shaw declaims that lie will do nothing to help Mpeculators out of financial difli eulties. Nobody can object to Ilia decision, if money enough is pro vided for the transaction of the legi timate business of the country noth ing more can be asked, Cleveland Leader. € The action of the bolide in appro priating #.">oo,o<MMo be used in the pros ecution of trusts under the provisions of the Sherman anti trust law settle* the i pies lion as tow hat posit ion (be re pnblit-nii party will tube on the trust question in li«» 4. Without committing itself in details it will be against all corporations and combination* eli- Hiiyeil in tb< unlawful restmint of limit. liidiiiuapolik Journal. FIGHTING AGAIN. Venezuelan Rebels Attack Presi dent Castro's Troops. l*ro*l<leii( ("MNtro's Iteply to Ilic Pow* IT* Contain* a Mow Propo«al llint In Nut Likely to be Accepted -HluekuiletVUl Priibulily be Continued. Willemstad, Island of -Curacoa, Dec. C9.—Gen. Yidal and five other leading supporters of Gen. Matos who had Sought refuge here left the island of Curacoa Saturday morning in a sail boat, which took them in the direc tion of Cumarebo, near Coro, on the Yenezuelan coast. The departure of these men is taken as proof that the revolt against President Castro is again active. The Yenezuelan revolutionists have assumed active hostilities against President Castro. There occurred on Saturday a lively engagement be tween 1,200 revolutionists under Gen. Jtiera and government forces at Cau yarao, in the vicinity of Coro. He tails of the engagement are lacking, but it, is known here that the revolu tionists had artillery. The govern ment forces were commanded by Gen. Castillo. Gen. Kiera retained his po sition. London, Dec. 29. —A dispatch from Home says it has been semi-officially announced that under special agree ments the blockade of the Yenezuelan coast by the allies will continue dur ing the arbitration of the issues. Washington, Dec. 29.—The Yenezu elan government is now in possession of the complete notes of Great Hri tain and Germany containing the various reservations made by those governments before the decision was reached that the issues between Ven ezuela and the European governments having claims against her should be referred to The Hague tribunal for arbitration. The I'nited Slates hav ing acted as an intermediary in the steps leading up to the acceptance of arbitration, now turns over to the Venezuelan government the formal work of completing the basis for a full hearing before The Hague court. The notes were transmitted to the Venezuelan government through I'ni ted States Minister Howen at Caracas. Senor Haralt has prepared the fol lowing statement for the press: "Venezuela agrees to pay all her debts, the payments to lie guaranteed by a certain percentage of the cus toms receipts, or by the flotation of a special loan, also to be guaranteed." Caracas, Dec. 31. The state of Barqtiisieto, capital of the state of Lara, which for some time past has been in possession of the Venezuelan revolutionists, lias been recaptured bv government forces. The towns of San Carlos and Tinaquillo have also been reoccupied by the government. The revolutionists at Harcpiisimeto evac uated the town after losing 112 men killed and 325 wounded. There was hard fighting in tin- streets and suburbs of Barquisimeto for two days. Berlin, Jan. 8. —President Castro's reply to the powers, through Minis ter Bo we n, is substantially an un qualified acceptance of the proposals to arbitrate and the accompanying conditions. The foreign office here received his answer yesterday and is satisfied with its spirit. A further in terchange of views, preparatory to signing the protocol, will take place in Washington. The only really im portant question to be settled is what shall be done with the blockade. A continuance T>f the blockade is re lied upon to hasten the conclusion of the arbitration preliminaries, es pecially on the part of Venezuela. Rome, Jan. 2.—Foreign Minister Prinetti has received through Am bassador Meyer Secretary May's note communicating President Castro's acceptance of The Hague arbitration in principle, but with an additional proposition which the government at Washington does not support. Brussels, Jan. 2. —It is said here that an arrangement has been con cluded with Great Britain ana Ger many to submit the Belgian and Dutch claims against Venezuela to the international peace court at The Hague at, the same time the Anglo- German claims against the South American republic are taken to that tribunal. Caracas, Jan. 2. —President Castro said to a correspondent yesterday: "If a settlement is not reached it will be because a settlement forms no part of the plan of the allies; in this case the prolongation of the present situation would be disastrous for all concerned. The solution of the pres ent difficulty depends more on the allied powers than on Venezuela." A Chapter of J a pan cue Horror*. Victoria, H. C., Dec. 89.—Corre spondence received from Yokohama by the steamer Tartar includes de tails of a horrible baby farming con spiracy in Osaka. An elderly woman, her married daughter, husband and two other persons have been arrest ed for infanticide, and it is learned that since they started operations this year 300 children were killed. The Japan Times has an account of a Japanese of Koohi having been mar ried to a corpse. The bride-elect committed suicide on the eve of her marriage. The body was recovered and, at the request of the dead wo man's parents, the ceremony took place between the living and the dead. Huiilgaiiirrir I'liiy* favorites. Caracas, Dee. 31.—t'nlted States Minister Itowen has received infor mation that the Dutch steamer Prinz Maurits ha i entered certain Venezue lan ports blockaded by the British fleet and discharged her cargo there. Special permission for the Dutch ••learner to do this was obtained from Commodore Montgomerie, of the British cruiser ('harbydis. The Ital I in cruiser Ohivnuiii Bausan ordered the I'rin/ Maurits away from port, li'it Commodore Montgomerie direct ed that she discharge her cargo. In ['ma as this i> held to be a di .-rim muliou aguuul Aiucricta fcttuuiers. A *INE COUNTRY. Realdeut of Ohio Sn>« Wcilem Can ada la an iili-ul Uml for Farm trs anil ItuneUcra. A delegate from Ohio to Western Canada says:"The whole of West ern Canada seemed to me to be a very fine country, but I spent most of my time about thirty miles east of Lacombe, in Alberta, near what is popularly known as the coal banks on the Ked Deer Kiver, and I am very pleased to report that the coun try appears to be everything that the Agents of the Canadian Government have claimed for it. Good water can be obtained almost anywhere from 17 to 40 feet, and fed generally by springs. The natural hay and grass were magnificent in their growth and wild pea vines very heavy. 1 met some of my friends who moved there seven years ago and two brothers who had absolutely nothing on their arrival seven years before now own two and a half sections of land and 175 head of cattle. They told me that they did not feed their stock all win ter, in fact, never saw them again until the spring, when they came home fat and without loss. I gath ered oats 6 ft. 4 high and running from 75 to 100 bushels per acre. It appeared to me that all grasses, wild and cultivated, grow to perfection in any part of Alberta that I saw, and the farmers were cutting frotn two to three tons of wild hay to the acre. I found the climate very de sirable in every respect, and I am told that the winter is the finest part of the year. There is plenty of coal and wood to be had near at hand for the hauling, and such is my satisfaction with the country that I acquired some land and have put a bunch of cattle thereon. I can confidently rec ommend Western Canada as a suit able place for farmers to immigrate to, and can assure them the kindest treatment by the people there, so much so that one does not distin guish the fact that we have left the boundaries of the United States." ITugh Spender, of the Westminster Gazette, one of the British Journal ists who visited Canada this summer (1902), says: "We fell in with a young farmer from Somersetshire, England, driving a binder round a hundred acre field of wheat in West ern Canada. In conversation I found that he came from within fifteen miles of my old home in Somerset shire. Here was the very man we wanted. He had come to Manitoba ten years ago, with a capital of sl2 on landing. In England he had been employed on a dairy farm, and earned eighteen shillings a week. He now owns 320 acres of land, his' horses, buildings and cattle, and expects to have 4,000 bushels of wheat this sea son. We had heard of such things in the old land, but they did not seem credible, until we came to this liv ing example of the strides that it is possible to make in Manitoba. Had this man remained in England, it is pretty safe to say he would still be earning no more than eighteen shillings a week, while in the same period in Manitoba he has become a substantial and prosperous farmer." "I know a man who commenced in Assiniboia, 15 years ago, with no means; no capital. To-day this man owns 7,000 acres of land, some 30 horses, 30 or 40 bullocks, cows, etc. He has built a good stone house with his own hands, and has now married and is doing well, with every prospect of increasing his means in the future. Western Canada has the most exhil arating, bracing climate I ever knew. All that is required in the settler is perseverance, grit, patience and hard work. I w.ill guarantee the country, if you will guarantee the man." From letter from a retired officer in the British army. Wherein Hp Wa« Dlflrrrbl. Mc.Jigger—Oh, he's a regular hog. Ha wants the best of everything for him •elt". Thingumbob—Well, we all want that. "Yes, but he always manages to get it." —Philadelphia Press. A Saapfct. She—You didn't stay long in London. He—No, I couldn't stand it. Over there everybody knew me for an American rignt •way. Here, in New York, no one ever •u»peets it. —Smart Set. Stop* the rotiiih and works off the fold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25 cents. It is a good thing that talk is cheap It is desirable that the necessities of life should always he within lasy reach of the masses.—Puck. I)o not believe I'iso's Cure for Consump tion has an equal for coughs and colds.—J. I''. Uoyer, Trinity Springs, Tnd., Feb. 15, 1900 "Some men," said Cncle Kben, "takes ■ heap o' credit for bein' patient, when dey's only jes' dilatory.' —Washington Star. If you are coughing, take Dr. August Koe nig's Hamburg breast Tea. Every man reveals himself when !■« de scribe* another Ran'* Horn. For Infanta rjid Cliildren^ 01 ' The Kind You Have Always Bought RECORD OF THE PAST. The host guarantee of the future i» the record of the past, and over fifty thousand people have publicly testified that Doan's Kidney Pills have cured them of numerous kidney ills, from common backache to dangerous dia betes, and all the attendant annoy ances and sufferings from urinary dis orders. They have been cured to stay cured. Here is one case: Samuel J. Taylor, retired carpenter, residing at 312 South Third St., Goshen, Ind., says:"On the 25th day of Au gust, 1597, I made an affidavit before Jacob C. Mann, notary public, stating my experience with Doan'e* Kidney Pills. I had suffered for thirty years and was compelled at times to walk by the aid of crutches, frequently passed gravel and suffered excruciat ingly. I took every medicine on the market that I heard about, and some gave me temporary relief. I began taking Doan's Pills, and the results I gave to the public in tliestate ment above referred to. At this time, on the 19th day of July, 1902, I make this further statement, that during the five years which have elapsed T have had no occasion to tise either Doan's Kidney Pills or any other med icine for my kidneys. The cure effect ed was a permanent one." A FREE TRIAL of this great Kidney medicine which cured Mr. Taylor will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster- Milburn Co., Buffalo, X. Y. For sale by all druggists, price GOoents tier box. cJ Via Dubuque, Waterloo and Albert Lea. Fast Vestibule Night train with through j Sleeping Car, Buffet Library Car ami Free | Reclining Chair Car. Dining Car Service i en route. Tickets of agents of I. C. R. R. ] and connecting lines, p A. H. HANSON, 0. P. A., CHICAGO. (J To n JRf PLEASANT fsfTk* THE NEXT MORNING I FEEL BRIGHT AND NEW AND MV COMPLEXION IS BETTER. My doctor say* it acts gently on th» stomach, liret and kidneys and is a i>lf«.iHant Iniativa. Tins drink it made from herbs, ana if. prepared for use an Ga«uy tea. It is called ♦'La.uf'n Tea" or LANE'S FAMILY MEDICINE All druggists or by mail 2,"» eta. and 50 ct§. Buy it tc. day. l.unr'N Family Medici no move* the bovrrlN enrli day. In order to bo h#>*ltUy Ihisu necessary. Address, Box £!!5. Le N. Y. aaasaMaa»k J aRE YCU SATISFIED ? 1 Eg Are you entira'y satisfied with n I the goods you buy and with the H prices that you pay? I Over 2.000.000 people are trading with I us niul getting their goods at -wholesale I Our 1,000-page catalogue will lie sent f] on receliit of 15 cents. It tells the story. I l CHICAGO
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