TO THE YOUNG MAN WHO WOULD SUCCEED ON'T mortgage your future. Practically, have an eye to D securing the benefits of what you earn. Look ahead to the point where you are determined to get into business for your self. If you are not worth your hire you cannot be hired, and if you can earn money for another you can earn more for yourself. Jjif'sa Be satisfied to start in a small way. Too many young * I ro men want to begin to pile on before the foundation is finished, Jlii IIM an( ' w ' iat they accumulate they cannot retain. A slow be ginning makes a permanent business. Be economical, but not penurious. This is not a distinction with out a difference. It is the difference between the mind built on the broad gauge and the narrow It is the difference between great things and small things; between boundless success that sheds a generous share of its prosperity on the whole community and a meager competency that distinguishes the miser from the man of affairs. Have confidence in your own future and conditions generally. Men prefer the optimist to the pessimist. The bright side of things is a view that helps a chap forward. Even if the worst occurs, a person has more strength to meet it from having taken a complacent view of the situation.. When a fellow has put forth his best efforts, been thoroughly alert, done the best he could, he has no room for worry. The selection of a vocation is quite important. My experience is that those things are largely matters of chance. I don't think I ever expected as a young man to get into the railroad business. Having chosen a profession, I do not think a young man is warranted in sticking to it when he feels that he is not fitted for it, or that he sees a better opportunity to acquire wealth in another direction. I was first a farmer, then a merchant's clerk, then a farmer, a laborer, a clerk, a builder of steamboats, a constructor of railroads as a subcontractor, and then stockholder and owner. So again comes the question of con fidence in one's ability to discern that which is best for him and to strive for that regardless of opposition. In other words, it is the con fidence that enables the young man to take risks, without which great things can never be accomplished. The young man should not make the mistake to-day of imagining that conditions are not as favorable as at any time in the last century for the poor boy acquiring wealth. The world is in its infancy, espe cially the western world. Industrial development is just beginning. Agriculture, mining, contracting, shipping, railroading, land speculat ing, mercantile life, and manufacturing offer every inducement for the ambitious youth to-day to become a man of millions. Money is so plentiful that a determined boy of worth can borrow all he needs. Bankers accept the element of prospects in lending money as well as ability to pay, and there is no more promising pros pect of a monetary value than youth, ambition and grit, backed by western intelligence. Therefore, the way is, if anything, more easy; that is, the way to the top. The real struggle is at the bottom. There is where the ranks are crowded. The fight is fierce there. When you begin to get away from the crowd it is easier. You pass many com mercial derelicts, failures, and wrecks of men along the way, but the great trouble is in getting started up. Everything seems to contribute to hold a man down until he starts, then everything turns to boost him up after he has secured a start. That is the way of the world. MONEY THE GOD OF THE RICH By DR. ABBOTT E. KITTREDGE, Pastor Madison Avenue Presbyterian Churcli, New York City. of our prominent business men who call them \ selves Christians and go regularly to church arc being driven —driven rapidly against the rock of destruction by their tre rVj® 01 mendous absorption in money making, which is one of the —A—I greatest perils of the land to-day. We see it in the business of daily life. They are diligent in business, fervent in spirit, and think they are serving the Lord, but all the time they are being car ried away by this lust of money. Take it in social life. Do you not know of multitudes of men and women who have good enough intentions, but because of the luxury in which they live and the society in which they move day after day, their lives are lives of absolute idleness, bent wholly upon self-gratification ? They are animated solely by the low, mean motive of self-gratification. To me there is no spectacle more pitiful than that of men or women trusting their souls to God and hoping for salvation while they spend their efforts and time day after day in quest of self-enjoyment. When their lives have been closed they are empty of all real joy. Let me tell you, young men and women, if ever there was a time for men and women to act as the children of God and to realize the full possibilities of such life, that moment is nigh. The cry raised is that the great peril of civilization is the constant friction between labor and capital. But there is a question far more thrilling. It is this tremendous current of passion and of love for money and show which is sweeping God's people away from the passion of the Lord and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Given any topic of conversation as a starter, and most men will crci around to themselves before many sentences have been wasted otherwise. FOR THE GIRLS TO THINK ABOUT By DR. GEORGE F. HALL. ' * IHE young girls I wish to make the following sugges anced physically, mentally, socially and spiritually. Don't be sickly—take long walks, ride the bicycle, play golf, bowl, skate, row. Spend as much time as possible in the open air, drinking in the pure ozone of God's atmosphere and bathing in the sunshine. Goethe truly remarks that "the highest grace is the outcome of consummate strength." To be strong is to be beautiful. Men pity, but as a rule do not like sickly women. To be well is largely a matter of will and exer cise. Don't be ignorant—study, think, investigate. Too many young girls are satisfied with a high school education, coupled with a few terms in music or art. But your ambition should reach higher, sister. If pos sible get a thorough collegiate training before you quit. But don't go too far and get too smart to marry. Second, if you want to be happy, goto work. Do something— teach, sew, cook, paint—anything rather than remain idle. In the third place, young girls should keep good company. All well balanced girls expect to marry some time. The bachelor girl by choice is rot well balanced. There is something wrong with the girl who doesn't want to marry and never expects to marry. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY. APRII. 2, 1903. INQUEST FINISHED. Little Hope Entertained of Evei Finding the Murderer. The Name of Air. Burdick Lilted Iron: the jTIIre lnquiry Into the Death of Arthur I'cn nell Will Now be JTlade. Buffalo, N. Y., March 27.—The in quest into the death of Edwin L. Burdick who was murdered just a month ago in his home on Ashland avenue, ended yesterday afternoon. At the close of the inquest, .ludge Murphy announced that an official inquiry into the tragic death of Ar thur R. Pennell, who figured so prom inently in the Burdick inquest will be begun next Monday. The Burdick inquest has served to develop several theories relative to the crime that had been suggested many days ago, but it would be hard ly correct to say that -the investi gation has added anything more that an appearance of reasonability to any of these theories. Aside from the failure of the authorities to se cure evidence bearing directly or in directly upon the commission of the crime or to establish the identity of the murderer, there is a feeling of satisfaction that the name of Mr. Burdick has been lifted from the mire in which it was first dragged and his character shown in its true light. The evidence brought out under the examination of witnesses by Dis trict Attorney Coatsworth has shown Burdick to have been a loving father, always willing to sacrifice •his own happiness and pride for the sake of his children; that he was the victim of false friendship, broken pledges and in face of it all, a for giving, indulgent husband. The efforts of the authorities to fix the crime upon some one, will not end with the inquest. At the same time there is now little hope of suc cess in this \indertaking, and the murder probably will go down in criminal history as one of the great unsolved mysteries. Three new witnesses appeared on the stand yesterday. They were the Rev. L. M. Howers, pastor of the Church of the Messiah, where the Burdick family and Mrs. Hull were regular attendants; and Detectives Cornish and Coughlin, who were the first police officials to arrive at the Burdick home when the crime was discovered. Mrs. Hull, Carol Burdick and Mag gie Murray, the Burdick cook, were recalled to straighten out if possi ble, conflicting testimony given by them while on the witness stand. The report of City Chemist Hill was read by the district attorney. It, stated that no poison was found in the cocktail bottle or in the stomach of the dead man thus disposing of the theory that Burdick was poi soned and also that there were no bloodstains on the golf stick taken from the Burdick home after the murder, TOOK HIS LIFE. A Hotel !>iicf»t Found Dead In Ilia ■loom at St. Lioulh. St. Louis, March 27. —Y. E. Reich enberg, a guest at the hotel Garni, was found dead in his room yester day from the effects of a dose of laudanum and the contents of a chloroform soaked sponge which was tied over his mouth. The deed had evidently been calmly premedi tated. A dozen letters were found written to various friends and one was -addressed to his mother, Mrs. S. Reichenberg, of San Francisco. . On an envelope, containing the name of Louis Kline & Co., San Fran cisco, was this inscription: "To be destroyed. To be opened after my death but not until my estate has been settled." , This note causes the belief that the young man was well to do. While here he spent his money freely about the hotel. A letter from M. F. Bixler & Co., wholesale jewelers of Cleveland, in which Reiehenberg was offered a po sition as traveling salesman, with territory in California, was fouud in the room. BATCH OF INDICTMENTS. They Are Returned In Connection wlt!l the Newark, N. J., DlnaNtcr. Newark, X. .T., March 27. —The grand jury last night returned a big batch of indictments in connection with the Clifford avenue disaster in which nine school children lost their lives when a trolley car was run down by a train February 19. It was ru mored in the court that the grand jury had found indictments against the president and several of the offi cials of the North Jersey Street Rail way Co. and had not indicted the mo torman and conductor of the car and the engineer of the train. The president of the road is Ed ward F. C. Young and the vice presi dent, David Young. The members of the executive committee are the pres ident and vice president; A. J. Cas sttt, president of the Pennsylvania railroad; .1. Roosevelt Shanley, con tractor, of this city; Ellis R. Gaddis, capitalist, of this city; I). Leslie D. Ward, vice president of the Pruden tial Insurance Co., and John I). Crim mins, contractor, of New York City. Deafen and mutilated. McMlnnville, Tenn., March 27. — In the Eleventh district of this coun ty the dead bodies of Peter Lutterell and wife, both past 80 years old, were found in bed at their home yes terday horribly beaten and mutila ted. Four .lien Drowned. Owen Sound, March 27.—Four men were drowned at Bass Lake, nine miles from here yesterday after noon. William Xichol, James Mc- Clellan, Hugh McCallum and H. Boul ton were fishing in a leaky, flait bot tomed boat when it sank BONDS TO BE REFUNDED. Secretary or the Trfanury Shaw l»mie« « circular In l(<-Kur<l •<> Them. Washington, March 27.—The secre tnry of the treasury yesterday pub lished a circular announcing that, on and after April 1, 1903, lie will re ceive fur refunding, under -authority of section 11 of the act of March 14, 1900, to an amount not exceeding $100,000,000 any of the bonds of the three per cent, loan of 190S-1918 and the four per cent, funded loan of 1907. They may be surrendered at prices yielding to the investor an in come of 2'/i per cent, per annum, and the new bonds will be issued in ex change at a premium of 2 per cent. Accrued interest on both old and new bonds will be calculated to date of exchange. Thert are now outstanding about $97,000,000 :: per cent, bonds and $233,- 000,000 fours of 1907 which are af fected by the circular issued yester day. There are also outstanding about $446,000,000 of the 2 per cent, consols of 1930 issued under the act of March 14, 1900. These 2 per cent, bonds were issued in 1900 at par, under provisions of the refunding act. If the new bonds were to be is sued now at par there would lie a profit to the owners of the bonds, taking the present, market valuation as a basis, of about 4 per cent, for the 3 per cent, bonds surrendered and about 5% per cent, for the fours of 1907. The secretary desires to ob tain an equitable share of this profit for the government, which is the rea son for charging a premium of 2 per cent, upon the new bonds to be is sued. The circular will contain full par ticulars for the guidance of those ■who desire to avail themselves of the privilege of refunding, and will be sent to each recorded owner of reg istered bonds of the two loans in question. The 5 per cent, bonds of the loan of 1904 will not be received for re funding under this circular, but will be reserved for redemption. They mature February 1, 1904. The secre tary stated in explanation of his ac tion that he desired to put out a larger amount of 2 per cents which could be available to increase circu lation in case of a stringency. New York, March 27. —The ofTer of Secretary Shaw seemed to come as a surprise to bond brokers, some of whom professed to be unable to un derstand its scope or purport. It iwas generally looked upon as an emergency or relief measure, inas much as the offer will release from $5,000,000 to $8,000,000, the amount depending entirely upon the propor tion of threes or fours turned in. PRICES GO UP. Ilituiulnoiin Coal Will be Advanced 75 Cent* « Ton. Philadelphia, March 27. —The Press says: Bituminous coal prices will be advanced 75 cents a ton for the new coal year, which begins on April 1. The price at the mines in central and western Pennsylvania during the past year was fixed, to be not less than $1.25 a ton. The new price at the mines will be $2. Slightly higher or lower prices may be made in spe cial cases, but 'the ruling price will ■be $2. ''This decision has been reached by the -operators since the confer ence at Altoona between miners and operators, at which the miners' wages were advanced 10 and 12 per cent. The operators will have to meet April 1 changed conditions as to freights as well as wages. Kates will be advanced ten cents a ton." Shot If In Wire and lliniNpir. Bedford, Pa., March 27. —W. J. Co gan, of Saxton, shot and killed his wife and then himself at the Balti more & Ohio depot at Hyndman yes terday morning at 3 o'clock. '* He and his wife had been quarrelling, /9"it he had kissed her and bade her 'good bye, bought a ticket and board ed the train. He walked through one car, came out again on the plat form, approached his wife and with an oath whipped out a revolver and shot her, killing her instantly. He immediately turned the weapon on himself and committed suicide. An Immcnne Fire. Utica, X. Y., March 27.—Fire broke out in the storehouse of the Carthage tissue mill at Carthage at 1:30 o'clock tliis morning and it is a total loss. It communicated to the store house of Ritliar & Pringle, filled with hay. A strong west wind is blowing and the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburw railroad station is now burning. Sparks are setting small fires all over the northern part of the town. Assistance has been asked from Wa tertown. Three Children Polnoned. Glenwood, la., March Ki7. —Two chil dren, aged 8 and 12 years the sons of J. Y. Johnson died yesterday from eating the roots of an unknown plant growing in the yard of the home. A third child is still in a pre carious condition. Physicians are unable to say what the plant is as it i* strange to this part of lowa. Strike Settled. Little Fails, X. Y., March 27. —The strike of 125 alignment men and in spectors in the Remington typewrit er works at Ilion was settled yester day afternoon and the men will re turn to work to-day. Minister Shoot* lllniMeir. Altoona, March 27. —Rev. John C. Grimes, of Xescopeck, Pa., who lias been attending the central Pennsyl vania Methodist conference here shot himself twice in the face at an early hour yesterday morning. He is in a serious condition at a hospital. JHiner* lteeelve an Incrca*e. Cumberland, Md., March 27. —No tices were posted yesterday giving George's Creek miners 10 cenls per ton increase beginning on April 1, making 05 cents, drivers $2.30 a day, an increase of:! 2 cents, and laborers $1.90, an increase of 30 cents. LEVEE GIVES WAY. Great Volume of Water Pour ing Through Crevasse. Thousand* or Aeren ol' Farming: Laud In the %'azoo Delta Flooded F.n glne«r« Tried in Vain to Cheek the Kiikliliis v Water. Greenville, Miss., March 28.—A vol ume of water 10 feet deep and more than <SOO feet wide is pouring through a crevasse in the levee five miles south of here and is flooding thous ands of acres of the finest farming lands in the celebrated Yazoo delta. The break in the levee occurred at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Only 200 feet of the embankment gave way af first, and a mighty effort was made by the government engineers to check the flood by cribbing and sacking, but it -was seen soon that it was beyond human power to resist the current. An hour later the ends of the levee on either side of the cre vasse was melting fast, the force of the current cutting the embankment away as though it was built of saoid. When the report of the break reached this city the excitement was intense and many (people began to collect their valuables and prepared to move away at short notice. The •back water reached this city last might, but it is believed tihere is no danger here from the flood. Major John M. Sears, who has tem porary charge of the government of fice here, stated last night that the break is unquestionably the worst in the history of the levee system. lie sa3's the entire delta south wis far as Vicksburg, -will be inundated and the fine farming lands in Washington, Bolivar and Sharkey counties will be under water for more than two weeks. This afternoon the first break to be reported on the Mississippi side since the present rise began. A hard struggle is being made to prevent the further widening of the breach by revetting the ends of the levee. Tt is feared that this will not be accomplished as the breach is widening rapidly. Reports from the interior are very meagre, but it is believed the people were fully prepared for a break and the loss of life, if any, will be re duced to a minimum though the loss of stock may be quite heavy. The damage to plantations and the in terference with ,planting cannot be estimated. Another break on the Mississippi is reported in the Albemarle levee, DOUBLE DROWNING. A Business .Tlan and III* Nephew Were the Victim*. Sharon, Pa., March 28. —A double drowning occurred here last evening in the Shenango river within sight of several hundred people, who were powerless to give aid. The victims were Gaylord H. Locke aged 38 years, a prominent business man of Sharon and his nephew, Frederick Mapous, aged 19 years. The bodies of both were recovered two hours after the accident. Locke and Mapous drove a horse and wagon into the river at the foot of Silver street to wash the buekboard. They apparently got into a sink hole for the horse and the two men were swept down stream into deep water and drowned. Mrs. Locke was an eye witness to the tragedy. As she saw her hus band battling for life she cried: "My God, will no one save him?" Then he sank under the water and she al most collapsed. A RAILROAD WRECK. Three People Are Killed and Nineteen InJ ■■ red. San Antonio, March 28. —Three pas- senders were burned to death and 19 persons were injured in a rear-end collision at >Lacoste station, 20 miles west of here on the Southern Pacific railroad Thursday night. The limited crashed into the Eagle Pass express which was running as the first section of the former train. The Pullman sleeping car and private car of Gen. Gornimo Trevino, mili tary commander of the department of the state • Nuevo Leon, Mexico, were splintered and three kinsmen of Gen. Trevio were burned to death before t.hey could be extricated from the burning cars, which were ignited iby escaping oil from the tender of the limited engine. Gen. Trevino is a son-in-law of the late Gen. Ord, United States of America, and was on his way to Skin Antonio with a sick son. Killed Brother witli Butcher Knife. Grand Rapids, Mich., March 28. — Clyde W. and Archie Whittel, living with their parents, well to do fann ers four miles northeast of Sparta, engaged in a quarrel yesterday in their home. Clyde snatched up a butcher knife from the kitchen table and plunged it into his younger brother's breast just above the heart. Archie died last night and Clyde has been arrested. ltotlen-Kssed Actor*. New York, March 28. —Two hundred Irishmen whose feelings had been outraged by the performance of "Mc- Fadden's Row of Plats" at the new Star theatre rose in their seats in the theater last night at a signal and pelted the performers with rotten eggs, decayed fruits, etc. 'rime lla» Kxplred, Havana, March 28.—Gen. Maximo Gomez, the chairman of the commis sion which is preparing a list of the revolutionary soldiers who are enti tled to pay, gave notice yesterday that the time for inscription on the list has expired, and that no more names will be registered. I'alrlmnkit Dcail. Chicago, March 28.—X. K. Fair hanks, millionaire manufacturer ant director in several banks and manu faoturjng concerns died at his horn here yesterday aged 73. He had beej 111 'but a short time. WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. Irregularity In llrtall Trade Du« to Weather Condition*. New York, March 28. R. (!. Dun Jfc Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says; Irregularity in retail trade is due to weather conditions. At most points an early seas'on stimulates business, but in other sections there has been interruption from excessive rains. More uniform activity is reported in wholesale trade, with a notably large movement of groceries, tnilinery. pa per and builders' materials, whil© conditions are satisfactory for the season in jewelry. Manufacturers of clothing, furniture, footwear, and iron and steel are well engaged, am ple supplies of fuel greatly facilitat ing operations, but extensive strikes threaten to render idle many New England textile mills. The cut of Spruce lumber has been large, but early breaking up of winter restrict ed movement, and high cost of labor and provisions rendered operations expensive. Early opening of lake navigation will benefit business. An output of about 300,000 tons of eoke in the •whole Connellsville re gion for the past week indicates that fuel troubles are almost ended in the iron and steel industry. Quotations are sustained by the vigorous home consumption, and there is the addi tional support of stronger markets abroad. No improvement lias appeared in the dry goods market. The situation is peculiarly com,plicated as to cot ton goods; stocks are light as a rule and labor troubles threaten to cur tail output, yet jobbers ar« reluct ant to undertake contracts at pres ent quotations. Jobbers are placing large orders for fall delivery of shoes, readily paying the recent ad vance in prices, and man fact urers of heavy goods have booked more busi es« than Is customary at this early date. Failures this week numbered 214 in the United States against 205 last year, and 26 in Canada against 22 a year ago. NERVY DETECTIVES. Tliey Hald a Pool Room In New York City. New York, March 28.—1n gaining an entrance into an alleged pool room in the basement of a six-story business building on West Third street yesterday two detectives were forced to chop a hole through the floor In the rear room of a saloon and drop into the room below, where other detectives were holding the men inside at bay with their revolv ers. William Daly, said to be the proprietor and a doaen others were arrested. The raid was a senational one. Ac cording to the story told by the po lice, the place was cunningly forti fied and guarded. An elaborate sys tem of signals had to be given by several sentries before a would-be bettor could gain entrance to the room. Pocket telephones, electric buttons, "buzzers," secret slides and a "maze" figure in the story. When the visitor finally satisfied the sen tries that he was all right he was passed along to a room, the door of which was immediately bolted. There were five of these rooms leading into the alleged pool room and in some of the enclosures there were three or four doors built to bewilder an invading party. LIEUTENANT WOUNDED. JVlacabebe Scout* Defeated San Ml guel's Force. Manila, March 28.—Two companies of Macabebe scouts signally defeated the main body of San Miguel's force yesterday. It is believed San Miguel was killed. Lieut, lteese was ser iously wounded. The scouts lost three men killed and had 11 men wounded. The enemy occupied an entrenched position midway between Mariquina and San Francisco Del Monte, and had erected a stone fort, which was garrisoned by 200 men. The First and Fourth companies of Macabebes, commanded toy Lieuts. Reese and Xickerson respectively, attacked the enemy's position, but as the scouts were exposed to the fire of the enemy in a manner -which placed the Maca bebes at a disadvantage the lieuten ants decided after an hour's fighting to surround the position and charge after having divided their companies. The two officers then led a gallant and successful charge, during which Lieut, Reese fell seriously wounded. The enemy then 'broke and ran, leaving 45 men dead on the field. BILLS OF COMPLAINT. They Were Filed by Michigan Kail road Companion AgalnM Ad Valorem Tax. Grand Rapids, Mich., March 28. Twenty-four Michigan railroad com panies filed individual ibills of com plaint yesterday in the United States circuit court in their suits against Auditor General Perry F. Powers to restrain him from collecting the ad valorem tax levied against them by the state of Michigan under the new taxation law. All the lines have paid their specific tax under the old law. The hills are practically identical. They assert that, the so-called ad valorem amendment to the state con stiution is repugnant to the four teenth amendment of the United States constitution ami discrimi naes between various kinds of trans portation lines. Ammonia Tank Exploded. Chicago, March 2S.—A 100-pound tank of ammonia exiploded in the Fulton market last night. The mar ket is a building on Fulion street be tween Morgan and Green streets, lie fore the flames were extinguished damage to the amount of SIOO,OOO had been done. Wage Scliciliilo Declined. Ogdeniburg N. V., March 'is.—Th« wage schedule presented by the sea men's and cooks' unions to the Hut and Transit Co.'s Chicago and <)g lensburg steamboat line has been de clined. 3
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