2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MUI.LIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TEKMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per Tear... .. °JJ II paid In advance 1 " u ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at thcratoof on.- duliar per square fur one insertion an.l llfty coiits | er s«|uar«' for ouch subsequent insertion. Kaies by iht- year, or for si* or tUree months, ore low and uniform, und will be furnished on apnlicat.on. l,egal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less. *2: each subsequent iiiser tio i . 0 cents per 112 qua re. lineal notices M cents per line for one inser sertion: 5 cents per lino ior each subsequent consecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per litie. Sin.pie announcementH of births, mar riii.'es :i;i.l deaths will be inserted free. Business car.ls. five lines or less. «6 per year; over live lilies, at the regular rales of adver -11 Non local inserted for less than 75 cents per Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PitKSS Is complete Mid aff-.rds facilities for doing the best class of w rk i'Alt'lK I UUATT»;.\' IIUK MiUTO LAW PHiNTIMI. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. ~ l'apers sent out of the county must bo paid for in advance. "Are these fresh?" is probably the. question which a grocer hears most often. For the CoiicerniiiK . more fastidious Canned Good.. clagg <)f patron 9 answers to this question have been furnished in a number of ways. New laid eggs are stamped with the date of manufacture, and the candy shops display the "fresh every hour" or "fresh every day" sign for the en lightenment of the public. But there is a limit to this practice, and it seems to have been reached in Penn sylvania. A bill now before the leg islature provides that all "canned, preserved or pickled meat, fish, fruits, vegetables, game, or any kind of foodstuffs" must be stamped with the date of the canning. Forty-six of the largest grocery houses in and about Philadelphia were represented at a meeting the other day called to protest against this provision, and their arguments are of much interest to the consumers. They say that the law would deprive customers of some* of the products of other states, that it would raise prices, increase the cost of living, and cause great loss to gro cers because of the old stocks they have on hand. All this, of course, is based on the supposition that the customers will turn from the old canned goods and insist on having the very latest product. But is this true? asks the New York Post. Are uot the grocers becoming needlessly alarmed? If the statements of some of their number are true, many canned products actually improve with age. A well-managed campaign of education would doubtless con vince the public of this, with the re sult that all the unsold stock in ware houses would increase instead -if di minish in value. The demonstration, moreover, would be simple, at least to begin with. Take w r ine as the sub ject to reason about. Wine grows better and more costly with age, as everyone knows. Then pass from wine to jelly, which is essentially the same thing boiled down and heavily sweetened. Front jelly one goes to jam, marmalade, and the whole line of fruit products and from them to vegetables. Another line of arg*.J ment will begin with cheese and end with the multitudinous meat prod ucts. Some day, perhaps, we shall see in the grocery store window signs like these: "Fine old green peas for sale here." "Canned corn, crop of 1886," and"The genuine mellowed canned roast beef. Packed for the soldiers in the war with Spain." The effects of the swift advance of knowledge, which sometimes causes a new book on Swift Advance , , . some branch of «112 science. science to appeal a back number shortly after its pub lication, are felt ao less in practical scientific undertakings. A striking illustration is furnished by the enor mous new coast defense gun recently tested at Sandy Hook. '1 his gun wa« intended to be not only the most pow erf til in existence, but also the repre sentative of the most advanced type of such weapons. But after it had been planned a special plant had tc be established for its construction and the few years' consequent delay before it could be completed sufficed for such improvements in gunpowder, and in the designing of guns for theii use, that now the finished monster is, in some respects, out of date before it has fairly been mounted for service. The new gun is 16 inches bore and 40.7 feet long. It is calculated thai it can throw a 2,400-pound projectile 21 miles. A veracious chronicler of the times of Jonathan Kdwards gives figure* which prove a lib. ral consumption of fuel in the household of the great theologian. In the winter of 17-10-41 the town of Northampton sup| lie. the Kdwanl parsonage with loadi of wood; in the next season load; were delivered, for the succeeding winter the total »u: 7 . and a afterward the astonishing quantity of!).'< load \\a -applied There \%o' no lack of fire at the Kdwards hearth In it wonderful, then, asks the .Nev Yotk I ribune, that he preached burn Aug THE CONGRESSIONAL MINORITY "IKmiirrnla lliive l.nrkfil Both l.rnd erßjiip nntl INilU'y," S«>» a I'nrty Oricttu. How much lias the attitude of the minority done to reestablish the dem cratic party in the confidence of the country? Very little-, it must be admitted, says the New York World (dem.). Tfie party in congress has lacked both lead ership and a policy. In both houses the democrats voted almost unani mously for the Littlefield anti-trust bill, which, whatever its good provi sions, was assuredly the most cen tralizing measure and the most abso lutely destructive of the 'traditional democratic doctrine of state rights of any ever introduced in congress with a serious purpose of passing it. In addition to this it was a demo cratic senator- —Patterson, of Colorado —who opposed and helped to defeat the Philippine tariff relief bill on the express ground that, it might hurt the incubated infant sugar-beet industry of his state! Worse still, the democratic senators helped to block the ratification of the Cuban reciprocity treaty —a democrat ic measure so far as it goes, if justice and decency and fair trade are demo cratic—for no olher apparent purpose than to "play politics." And it was a democratic senator who by insensate filibustering against the Panama treaty delayed the beginning of a great work which the count ry with practical unanimity demands and A MOSES. which nine-tenths of the senate stood < ready to ratify. i Still further to illustrate their par- 1 tisansliip and their indifference to prin ciple and to the public needs, a coterie of democratic senators prevented the passage —avowedly as an act of retalia tion for Senator Aldricli's opposition to the omnibus statehood bill —of a conservative measure to avoid a con gestion of currency in the treasury and to secure interest upon govern ment deposits. When it is added that democrats voted as greedily as republicans for the river and harbor, the public build ings and other "pork-barrel" bills that went to swell the total appropria tions to the highest sum ever reached, it cannot be claimed that they have done much to induce the voters to turn the government over to them. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS. CThe democratic doctrine in the United States senate seems to be that two wrongs make a right.—Al bany Journal. fO"Alr. Bryan is certainly not stand ing on the Kansas City platform for the reason that there is standing room only on that structure. —Pitts- burg Gazette. CThe democrats seem to be having a nice time discussing their next candi date for president. Mr. Taggert's Hill talk does not strike an entirely re sponsive chord.—lndianapolis .News (Ind.). Clt is announced that David 13. Hill will surely be in the race for the democratic presidential nomination next year. That will not be surpris ing. That is what Hill has been play ing for ever since the Kansas City convention. Judge Parker is being put forward in New York as a stalk ing horse for Hill. —Cleveland Leader. C*Republican leaders in the senate are pleased with the selection of Sen ator (iorman as the leader of the democrats. With him steering the democratic ship the republicans will > be able to secure some co-operation j on measures on which both parties are agreed, ami will know what to expect when they differ.— Indianapo lis Journal. f/Tlie democratic New York World admits that the republicans in the late congress made a fairly good rec ord, but says the democrats did very 1 little to re-establish the party in the confidence of the country. " Hie par ty lit congress," says the World, "has lacked both leadership and a policy." It charges them with having defeated ■om» important measures with no other motive than "playing polities," and in view of their record says"it cunnot be claim'd that th«*y have done much to induce the voters to turn the ifcveriiment over to them."—«• Ltuiiuuufiotis Journal. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1903. WELCOME THE ISSUE. D« moo m 1 I'roiioNt'N Our 'l'linl Wo Su'i ( llir li »■ pull I Irll IIM Down to till' UlllUDll. Representative Livingston, of Geor gia, tlie ranking 1 democratic member of the house committee on appropri ations, is preparing to issue a state ment charging congress with extrav agance and urging tlie necessity of cutting down the revenues. Is that to be one of the democratic battle cries for the next presidential and congres sional campaign? If so, the republic an party has nothing to fear, says the Troy Times. The democratic party once succeeded in getting into power at Washington by ringing the changes on the danger of a surplus and the advisability of reducing the tariff and cutting down the revenue. And every body knows what happened to the tar iff, the revenue and the surplus. Some of the history of that period is con tinued in the official record which tells of the issue of bonds to keep up the gold reserve and pay running ex penses. But the larger and more im pressive part of ihe story is indelibly impressed- on the minds of those who suffered in idleness and want because of the industrial and commercial par alysis which followed democratic at tempts at "monkeying" with the sur plus and the revenues. Mr. Livingston, it is said, will point out that the only remedy v.hieh the people will have for congressional ex travagance is a reduction of the tariff. That has a familiar sound, if not an an- cient and fishlike smell. It has beeli sei'ved up to the people before, and they do not relish a second dose of it. The issue proposed by Mr. Livingston is scarcely more acceptable than the rotten money and free riot programme which Mr. Bryan keeps in cold stor age and is preparing to spring anew on his party next year. The repub lican party could aisk for nothing bet ter than this. It would be easy to cite the painful experiences when democracy was in full swing at Wash ington as all-sufiicient. proof that the Livingston cure would be far worse than the disease. The people of the United States have not yet forgotten that a surplus, with good times, is a big improvement on revenue reduction, treasury deficits and commercial pros tration. Let Mr. Livingston and his party raise the issue if they wish. Illnnder* of DemornKa. The democratic party is celebrated for its talent in making mistakes, but it never made a bigger blunder than in approving the filil>us.ter in the laist house of representatives because Rep resentative Butler, of St. Louis, was undented. There may be circum stances or conditions' under which*'a parliamentary filibuster may be justi fied or mitigated, but this 1 was not such a case. Butler's pretended elec tion was rotten with fraud, and after giving him the benefit of every pos sible doubt and a. majority in 53 pre cincts where the voting was admitted ly honest the established frauds in the remaining precincts of the district were more than enough to defeat him. He richly deserved unseating. A party that filibusters in defense of fraud lacks leadership as well as issues.—ln dianapolis Journal. ICT'Mr. Bryan is becoming more jind more of a thorn in the democratic flesh as 1904 draws near. The devel opment. of ISryanism in the democrat ic party dates from the time w.hen democratic lenders formed a combina tion with populists. Had their fore , sight been equal to their hindsight they never would have allowed that camel to poke his nose into the tent and Hryan and llryanism would have been left out in the cold.—Troy Times. m'J'iditics is not accepted as an I element of religious activity in the Pilgrim Congregational church of I New Haven, Conn. It. is saiil its pas tor will retire in two months because he received William ,1. llryun when tin' latter was o# a tour through New Kuglund. Perhaps the I'ilgriin church objects tn the worship of the silver idol. Albany Jour- al. E r Thc mul«i;*s in;' till ehooils about President l'i»o-cvi«lt in the yellow |M» pers is r sign that the democratic national limpaign is about to open.— St.l <Ol .« Cilobe Uemocrat. The Grip Leaves Thousands in its Path Weak, Nervous, Dyspeptic, Catarrh Wrecks. LIKE A DEMON grip has crossed our country, leaving behind scores of physical wrecks. Victims of catarrh of the head, ca tarrh of the throat, catarrh of the lungs, catarrh of the stomach, catarrh of the kidneys, catarrh of the pelvic organs, are to be counted by hundreds of thousands. Grip is epidemi# ca tarrh, and sows the seed of chronic ca tarrh within the system. This is so true that few grip suffer ers are able to make a complete recov ery until they have used Peruna. Never in the history of medicine has a remedy received such unqualified and universal eulogies as Peruna. A Nevr York Alderman'. Experience. Hon. Joseph A. Flinn, alderman Fifth District, writes from 104 Chris topher street, New York City, as fol lows: "When a pestilence overtakes our people we take precaution as a nation to preserve the citizens against the dread disease. "La grippe has entered thousands of our homes this fall, and I noticed that the people who used Peruna were quickly restored, while thoss who de pended on doctor's prescriptions, spent weeks in recovering, leaving them weak and emaciated. "I had a slight attack of la grippe ■nd at once took Peruna, which drove STILL GREATER COMBINES. Jud£« Knapp Speak* or tlie Future Development* of tlio Trimt Move ment. At the Arkwright clii'b annual din ner at New York city the other night Judge Martin I. Knapp, chairman of the interstate commerce commission, j speaking on trusts, said: "The truth is that new conditions have arisen ] and new methods must be adopted. T-o-day the great enterprises of the [ world are in"the hands of corpora- ! tions, and the time is fast approach- j ing when they will absorb all import ant. undertakings. )fervf Deiicately formed and gently reared, women will find, /T C h>\/ In all the seasons of their lives, as maidens, wives,or moth- / ''.■_ V K\l " ers, that the one simple, wholesome remedy which acts A Vr-*' lip Mf gently and pleasantly and naturally, and which may be used with truly beneficial effects, under any conditions, .1 'Vi when the system needs a laxative, is—Syrup of Figs. It fri^lF 7 ' V is well known to be a simple combination of the laxative .ssSj!*???/ VrFf! and carminative principles of plants with pleasant, aro- | \\ matic liquids, which are agreeable and refreshing to the.(fir '• i'- : : '•• gV taste and acceptable to the system when its gentle /.|| Pl?\ */«. '' \r« Many of the ills from v/hich women suffer are of a tran- ; '." v w'V V"-» sient nature and do not come from any organic trouble Vx^lWi ■ _&"> and it is pleasant to know that they yield so promptly to SjjjE? i«|SFi the beneficial effects of Syrup of Figs, but when anything J|V ims& V^£fcfFp more than a laxative is needed it is best to consult the ;§t-\'v%v mSr V-i X {( 1 family physician and to avoid the old-time cathartics and f|l%\ S/MiV C loudly advertised nostrums of the present day. When one needs only to remove the strain, the torpor, the con- jyV CJd'~*-r gestion, or similar ills, which attend upon a constipated Wt" '".A '^Zf/ /Ab condition of the system, use the true and gentle remedy— !Ty O Syrup of Figs—and enjoy freedom from the depression, V.^ the aches and pains, colds and headaches, which are due .V ...#%•;£>&' to inactivity of the bowels. TO v"i'jh.'.P' Oiily those who buy the genuine Syrup of Figs can hope to get its beneficial effects and as a guarantee of the ex- j>. v../// cellence of the remedy the full name of the company— •>.- >" California Fig Syrup Co.—te printed on the front of every .« ' V£ : ; ,&£sj V;>, > package and without it any preparation offered as Syrup 112 "i >i of Figs Is fraudulent and should be declined. To thosel 'V VvMr who know the quality of this excellent laxative, the ■ J\'j offer of any substitute, when Syrup of Figs is called y ] y» ■ y.j-h »»*ii\V '' //\%V' lor, is always resented by a transfer of patronage to. U, ' ' 9}VJ &■ some first-class drug establishment, where they do ; ''''•■' mr j ) V'Jr \o?vk not recommend, nor sell false brands, nor imitation J. * h £r '* remedies. The genuine article may be bought of all };"'"Jr K\ reliable druggists everywhere at 50 cents per bottle. :*s>■ ■< laf'-'F 1' t the disease out of my system in a few I days and did not hinder me from pur suing my daily work. "I should like to see our Board of Health give it official recognition and have it used generally among our poor sick people in Greater New York."— Joseph A. Flinn. D. L. Wallace, a charter member of the International Barber's Union, writes from 15 Western avenue, Min neapolis, Minn.: "Following a severe attack of la grippe I seemed to be affected badly all over. I suffered with a severe back ache, indigestion and numerous ills, soi I could neither eat nor sleep, and I thought, I would give up my work, which I could not afford to do. "One of my customers who was greatly helped by Peruna advised me to try it, and I procured a bottle the same day. I used it faithfully and felt a marked improvement. During the next two months T took five bottles, and then felt splendid. Now my head is clear, my nerves steady, I enjoy food, and rest well. Peruna has been worth a dollar a dose to me." —D. L. Wallace. Mr. O. 11. Perry, Atchison, Kansas, writes: "Again, after repeated trials of your medicines, Peruna and Manalin, I give this as my expression of the wonderful results of your very valuable medicine | "The legitimate—the inevitable— offspring of corporations is monop oly. Why? 'Simply because the op eration of these massive forces, in fringing and grinding iipon each oth er in every market, begets an extrem ity of mutual danger which always invites and often compels a common agreement as to prices and produc tion. "We are entering upon a period of great transition; a period of difficulty and many dangers. The whole struc ture of industry and social life is lia ble to be subjected to a strain—pos sibly to a shock—for which exper- In its effects in my case after repeated, trials. "First, it cured me of chronic bron chitis of fifteen years' standing by using two bottles of Peruna in Jan uary, 1894, and no return of it. "After I was cured of bronchitis I had la grippe every winter for several winters. But, through the use of Pe runa, it got gradually weaker in its se verity, until it dwindled down to a mere stupor for two or three days. Now th<; •' -»r does not trouble me> any more. —O. 11. Perry. A Conicrrianiin'i Experience. House of Kepresentatives, Washington, D. C. Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio- Gentlemen —"I am more than satis fied with Peruna, and find it to be an excellent remedy for the grip and ca tarrh. I have used it in my family and they all join me in recommending it as a.i excellent remedy." Very respectfully, George IT. White. If you do not receive prompt and sat«- isfactory results from the use of Pe runa, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratia. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium,Columbus,O. ience furnishes no guiding precedent. Can we raise this wide realm of in dustry from selfishness to charity, from strife to friendship, from com petition to co-operation, from the warring instincts of the savage state to the larger and nobler needs of as sociated life? This is the probleiE which will test the wisdom of states manship and tax the resources ot public authority." A Missouri man has been arresterj ■for stealing a tombstone. Perhaps, says the Chicago Kecord-llerald, ha thought it might "burn if it were soaked in oil.
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