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The Job department of the PRESS is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of vr l-k. pARUCL'LAK ATTENIION PAIUTO LAW PBINTINO. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. it.has been estin.meti by an expert in the employ of the government that agricultural machinery reduces the number of men employed to do a given amount of work to onethiid, while manufacturing machinery re duces the number to one-fiftieth. The birth rate in England and Wales last year was 28.6 per 1,000 of the pop ulation, slightly higher than in 1901, but lower than in any «ther year on record. The death rate was 16.3 per 1,000, and was the lowest on record. The natural increase of the popula tion by excess of births over deaths was 405,739. The American consul at Paris says in his report for the last fiscal year: "Works of art and paintings aggre gating $7,000,000 have been invoiced at his office, and costumes and dresses to a total of $8,000,000. Yet the United States comes only fourth on the list of nations purchasing French productions." According to the latest taxation re ports. the number of Prussian mil lionaires has increased from 6,016 in 1899 to 6,601 in 1902, or 9.7 per cent. But they are millionaires in marks, a million marks being little more than $250,000. Only 791 are millionaires in dollars, and but two are worth as much as $25,000,000. The Marquis of Anglesey was visit ing an orphan home in Sweden a few months ago, when suddenly a little girl laid hold upon his arm and addressed him as "daddy." Without hesitation he accepted the situation invented by the infant, prevailed upon the authori ties to let him adopt her, and she is now at Anglesey castle. The excavations at Nippur revealed not only the- oldest sanctuary, library and school that are known to the pres ent time, but also the most ancient areheological museum. In an upper stratum of the library mound the first museum known to history was un earthed. The collector lived aliout the 'time of Belshazzar and his specimens were antiquities then. D. M. Clemenson, of the Carnegie Steel company, has purchased High mount, the Pittsburg (Pa.) home of Charles M. Schwab, president of the United States steel corporation. The purchase price was $298,000. Mr. Schwab paid for the property, about four years ago, $250,000, and had spent a considerable sum In improving it. The only direct descendant of Robert Burns is a clerk in a Chicago shipping office. He is Robert Burns Hutchinson, and his descent from the poet is un questioned. His mother, Sarah Burns, was a daughter of Lieut.-Col. James Glencairn Burns, the third son of Rob ert Burns and Jean Armour. H? was born at Cheltenham, but crossed the water in 1891, when he married Miss Mabel Burnand. Their little daughter. Dorothea Burns Hutchinson, is }th<. next in the straight line from the i»o"-t- Acetylene offers great facilities for raising wrecks. The very fact that acetylene gas is generated in the pres. ence of water renuers it specially the purpose, and a wreck ing system has been devised depend ing entirely upon acetylene for its lifting power. As yet only small boa 19 have been raised by this method, but these instances have been very suc cessful, and there is no inherent rea son why the same method should not be applied to the raising of vessels of any size. Edward Willis, an old soldier, who resides in Macon, Mo., was immersed the other night by Rev. A. R. Adams, pastor of the Christian Church, with which Mr. Willis recently united. Ow ing to the convert's poor health, a bap tistry was arranged out of a bath tub and the service held in his home. M*\ Willis served with Company 11, Ninth Missouri cavalry, during the Civil W.tr, and is sixty years of age. His wito has also become a convert to the Clirev tian faith, and was baptized at tluj church. For the sake of a wager a remarka ble feat of horsemanship was soma years ago accomplished by a sporting nobleman iu a certain London man- Finn. He made a bet with a frien I that h ■ would ride his pony from the ground floor of the house to the top itnd down again. His steed require I a good deal of persuasion to attempt the la.sk, but it was finally performed, though the damage done to the ululr carpets an• t In lr brand of democracy i> accepted as the onjy true one. none t?ennln< without Bryan's name blown in the hot tie. tTToin Johnson has rubbed his name off tin democratic presidential nomination slate. The use of his name ' In connection with the nomination, he declares, will work injury to the good wirk lie has undertaken In anothir At id. Tom i videnUy thinks that being mayor of( lei t land is wortli more than • n eini>ty honor.—Albany Journal. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY ai, 1903. DEMOCRATS IN TURMOIL. Troultluu* Tinirn In llic I'nrljr Over tiie Selection of n i'rmlilrii tinl (Inndidalr. The reader \\ ho has no attachment to t'he democratic party and is content to listen to the lament of the demo, cratic organ. that the country is going to all sorts of lwid at the present time can lind a mild amusement in the per formances of democrats regarding the course the party shall pursue with re ference to a candidate for the presiden cy. Those who believe that the party should be re organized began decrying Mr. Bryan months ago, and now that that gentleman has turned upon them and upon the rather officious leaders who did not support him, the anti-15ry an democratic newspapers are-hurling the hottest kind of epithet at him. So, all up and down the land, these remark able people are having a good deal of "a inonkev-and-parrot time," says the Indianapolis Journal. Mr. Bryan de clares that it will never do to nominate Mr. Cleveland, because he is "an arch traitor" to the Bryan brand of demo cracy. The Cleveland organs retort that Mr. Bryan is any sort of a traitor because, after leading the party to de feat tw ice, he desires its defeat a third time. Besides, they say, he is a popu list. For some time it. has looked as if Judge Parker, of New York, might re ceive the democratic nomination. A newspaper bureau has been' setting forth Judge Parker's superior fitness, which seems to consist in Iris having been out of politics for several years; consequently, he has no record other than voting any sort of a ticket that his party has handed out to him. Of I late. however, it has come to light that | Jiulge I'arker is an understudy of ex (iov. David 15. Hill, and that he so shifted about when he was a candidate for chief judge in 1897 that Cleveland democrats called him "a trimmer." Now, with Judge Parker thus promi nent, the Brooklyn Eagle, a Cleveland democratic paper, declares that Grover Cleveland is the only democrat who can carry the state of New York. That this able paper, which has been fight-, ing its own party since IW9C>, should de clare who can and who cannot be elected is sure to exasperate, a multi tude of the brethren who shouted for Bryan. And now another Richmond appears on the field. That is. if n Richmond is an aspirant for the presidency, there is the reappearance of an old one in the person of that worshiper of gorj?eous uniforms, Lieut, fien. Miles, (ii n. Miles j has thought for some time that he I should lie president. He is reported to I have been certain that a mistake was 'made when the republicans nominate*] William McKinley. Since that time he ! ha-- looked to the democracy for a nom ination. 1 >lll tiie only element in the : democratic party desiring his nomirm ' lion is the little band of antiimperial l ists who imagine that upon his recent S report of the situation in the Philip pines (Jen. Miles should be given the democratic nomination. Put. just, as | the anti-imperialists arc settling down to business, the New York Times, a Cleveland democratic paper, observes that Gen. Miles could but know that | his Philippine story is a false one. And so it poes. No sooner Is the name of a democrat mentioned even remotely with the party nomination for president than seme element in the party proceeds to assail him. which em phasizes the fact that there are too many kinds of democratic leaders in that party. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. tn*"Mr. Bryan's speeches continue to carry strong arguments In favor of President Roosevelt. Albany Journal. C*Mr. Bryan's attack upon Mr. j Cleveland seems to be improving the . lalter's prospects. Mr. Bryan should learn to act as advance a pent for his own show. I)es Moines Register and 1..: id. r. r. "President Roosevelt shook hands with a colored policeman in Topeka. It unit now be considered settled that Rouse*i It will pet no electoral votes in < :irol'na or Mississippi. St. I.ouis Gil-lie Democrat. K 'The Boston Herald declares that Senator fiortnan will not do for the democratic candidate for president. Mr. Gorman Is a protectionist and led the "party perfidy" movement which so Incensed Mr. Cleveland.—lndiunnpo • H« Journal. A TIMELY WORD OF CAUTION. T- Common Sense—"Do Not Break That Bond." MUST GO TO JAIL. A Ilofttoii lliinhi r l« lined glaOOttand Ordered Imprisoned M\ Month*. lor Contempt of Court. Springfield, 111., May 16.—Judge Humphrey in tin- Tinted States cir cuit court yestertlay adjudged Clar ence 11. Venner, of Boston, guilty of contempt of court, fined hiiu SI,OOO and costs and, in addition, ordered him committed to the Sangamon county jail for six months. The court denied Vernier's application i'<>r an appeal to the United States cir cuit court of appeals and also refused to admit him to bail, or to stay the execution, lie said, however: "I should suggest that your only remedy is in habeas corpus proceed ings in the United States circuit court of appeals, which is now in ses sion ill Chicago." Venner was allowed to spend the night at the Leland hotel in custody of an officer, and he will decide today what course to pursue. Venner is president of the New Hngland Water Works Co. and the Boston Water Works Co., of Boston, and the Alton Water Works Co., of Al ton. 111., and is a member of the hanking firm of Venner & Co., of Boston. The action ill which the or der of Judge Humphrey was entered was that of the Farmers' Loan and Trust Co., of \ew York, against the New Hngland Water Works Co.; tlie Boston Water Works Co. and the Al ton Water Wortcs Co. to foreclose on a mortgage deed for $200,000 given by the Alton Water Works Co. to the Farmers' Loan and Trust Co. Judge Humphrey entered an order last April commanding Venner to produce the hooks of the water works com panies before Walter Allen, master in chancery of the federal court in this district, in Boston on April 13. Ven ner refused to produce the books. Venner is the person who attempt ed to enjoin the Pullman Palace Car Co. from purchasing the Wagner Car Co. and the latter from selling; who attempted a year ago in tlie New Jer sey court of chancery to prevent the United .States Steel Corporation from exchanging $200,000,000 of preferred stock for 5 per cent, bonds, also try ing the same thing in the United States circuit court In New York; who attempted in the Massachusetts circuit court two years ago to wind up the affairs of the Amalgamated Copper Co., all of which cases were thrown out of court. He now has a suit pending in Chicago to prevent the consolidation of the Hock Island and San Francisco railroads. Tlie Dynamite I'lot Inquiry, Chicago, May 1(5. —-Police officials took a new tack in the Chicago end of the Umbria dynamite plot investi gati in Friday and began a search for Jean Ifossovv. They believe it possi ble that lioss-ow and "(i. Hussell" who made the infernal machine in Ilie Washington boulevard boarding house are the same. Uossow is an anarchist and was accused of being among those who threw the bomb at the Haymarket riot. So far as Hie police know he has not been seen in Chicago in three years, lie will be arrested if found. Active search Was also begun by Detectives Carey and Howe for a second bedroom work shop in the vicinity of the house where Hussell roomed for a week. Was Not a fcllceewM. Chicago, May 1(5. -Failing to break the deadlock with the Laundry Workers* union by efforts to secure arbitration, laundry owners through out Chicago whose plants have been tied up for two weeks by the strike, undertook Friday to operate the laundries. A score of laundries were opened for business. Pickets from the I.nundry Workers' union were on guard, however, ami girls who started to work were stopped and told togo home. Many obeyed. Kngiiicers and firemen refused to take their posts. The result was that of II big estab lishments which -tarted to break the strike, only two were running last night. to rot I'lrcM llcyeiid « oulrol. Saratoga, V Y„ May 1(5.- Iteports from Indian l.ake, in the lower \d irondacks, say that a heavy wind is faming the forest fires, which are w.vceping acro-s n number of town hips in the counties of Warren, I - -i \ and Hamilton. The fires are be yond control. Won n i I rte* la mill.l H .Indue. Cincinnati, May 11 Dlspleuxed over the outcome of it ea in police court Friday. Mrs. I\. I.eland, aged is \i a: -. trie I to blind Judge l.lli'ilcrs in hi oltlee by throwing cayenne pep- BMP Into Ma eyes. No Mrtoua injury ha» been douu. IT AS A TOURIST. Hut in an Official Capacity, He Visited Philippines. GEN. MILES' STATEMENT. The President Ordered Ilim tc Inspect tlie Army. HE BLAMES THE OFFICERS. Not tlie KnllHteit .Tien of tlie Army, fot Cruellies Perpetrated 111 the Inland. —Nay* Ills llcjfurit for the Honor ol the Army Cannot be Exceeded. Xew York, May 16.—The Army and Navy Journal prints a letter from Gen. Nelson A. Miles, in which the writer says that he went to the Philippine Islands not as a tourist, but in an official character, and that the instructions addressed to him as lieutenant general commanding the army came from the highest author ity, the president, in which he was directed to "give especial attention to the instruction, discipline and sup plies of the army." In referring to his official report on the Philippines, Gen. Miles says that "no one can have a more sacred re gard lor the honor of the army than myself." Coming to the subject of cruelties in the Philippines, Gen. Miles' letter reads as follows: "It is idle to assume that campaign ing in the Philippines has conditio-?? that warrant a resort to medieval cruelty and a departure from the honorable method of conducting war fare and that such fTepartnres as have existed should be overlooked and condoned. "It is most gratifying that the seri ous offenses have not been committed by the soldiers unless they were un der the direct orders of certain of ficers who were responsible. S >l - have withheld fire wnen ordered to shoot prisoners, protested against acts of cruelty, and written to rela tives at home urging them to take action to put a stop to those crimes. It will ever lie one of the glories of the army that such deeds committed by whatever authority are abhorrent to the American soldier. The officers who are responsible do not by any means constitute the American army, and there must lie a very unmistak able line dsawn between the great body of honorable and faithful of ficers and brave soldiers whose rec ords have been commendable and those, of whatever station, whose acts have received and should lvceive the earnest condemnation of all hon orable men." I,elter Waiil* to Settle. New York. May 1(5. —An attorney in this city announces that Joseph Lei ter, who figured iu the wheat corner of I NUT and tsiiS, h.s made a proposi tion to his creditors to settle their claims against him for 20 cents on the dollar. It is understood that Inciter's father will guarantee that this proposition will be earried out. Cheated the l.ullow*. Lexington. Ky.. May U5. William MeCartv, wife murderer, who was to lie hanged Friday morning, took mor phine some time during Thursday night and died. The death watch, Alexander McKeever, sat within three feet of McCarty all night, but says lie is absolutely at a loss to know how or when he took the drug. A Very I'atul fire, Chicago, May 1(5. Two lives were lost iii a tire that destroyed the West chester apartment building at 3017 Cottage tirove avenue early Friday. One mail is missing and i - supposed to have perished In the tlniiies, while two persons were probably fatally and other- serlou-ly injured by juuip ing from the windows. Killed ht a Train. Detr. ;t. Mich., May 1(5.-Hugh Johnson, a former well-known car riage manufacturer of litis city, wu> killed Friday by a Michigan Centra train at Dearborn, where Mr. Joint milt had moved for the summer. Hi was picUug wild flowers on the tract ami iu avoiding one train ntcppcd it front ol another. THE PINKHAM CURES ATTRACTING GREAT ATTENTION AMOJFT THIVKIK HOMES. Mrs. Frances Stafford, of 243 B. 114 th St., N.Y. City, adds her tes timony to the hundreds of thou sands on Mrs. Pinkham's files. Wlien Lydia E. Pinkham's Reme dies were first introduced skeptics all over the country frowned upon, their curative claims, but as year after year has rolled by and the little group of women who had been cured by the new discovery has since grown into a vast army of hundreds of thousands, doubts and skepticisms have been swept away as by a mighty flood, until to-day the great good that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound rind her other medicines are doing among the women of America is attracting the attention of many of our leading scientists, physicians and thinking people. Merit alone could win such fame ; ■wise, therefore, is the woman who for a cure relies upon Lydia E. i Pinkham'sVegetableCompound. ! Sicklies* Made Them Genrroiu, When the government ship Dolphin wan coining home from Cuba, carrying Secretary of War Moody, Senator Hale, ol the naval committee, and Speaker-elect Cannon, some rough weather was encountered. Just pre vious to the coining of the storm the states* men named had been discussing the pro posed building of six battleships. Messrs. Jlale and Cannon succumbed to seasickness. When his suffering had become too intense to be borne any longer in silence "Uncle} Joe" called out to Secretary Moody: "Say, Moody, if you will get us to shore quickly I'll give you six battleships next winter. "I will make a better bill than that," ex claimed Senator Hale. "I'll favor 20 bat j tleships if the secretary will only keep thi* . ship still for half an hour."—Kansas City Journal. A Tig;lit Squeeze. Brazils, Ark., May 11th.—To be snatched! | from the very brink of the grave is a some.- j what thrilling experience and one whicht Mrs. M. O. Garrett of this place has just passed through. Mrs. Garrett suffered with a Cerebro spinal affection, and had been treated by the best physicians, but without the slight est improvement. For the last twelve months two doctors were in constant attendance, but she only grew worse and worse, till she could not walk, and did not have any power to move at all. She-was so low that for the greater part of the time she was perfectly unconscious of what was going on about her, and her heart-broken husband and friends were hourly expecting her death. The doctors had given up all hope and no one thought she could possibly live. In this extremity Mr. Garrett sent for a box of Dodd's Kidney Pills. It was a last bope, but happily it did not fail. Mrs. Garrett used in all six boxes of the remedy, and is completely cured. She says: "I am doing my own work now and feel as well as ever 1 did. Dodd's Kidney l'ill* certainly saved me from death." "1 should like to know why," said the In tellectual Grubber, "money is called 'dough :' " "Because," simpered the Cheer ful Idiot, "everybody kneads it."—Haiti more American. Hook On Sontti Dakota. A new book on South Dakota has just been published by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. It describes the agri cultural and stock conditions in the state, gives the latest stock reports, tells about the present opportunities there, and is well illus trated. Sent on receipt of two cents for postage. P. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago. Mere sharpness will not accomplish gtrat things Back of a keen edge it needs weight to cut down trees. Hence the ax is uted— not the razor.—Wellspring. Laundering the Uaby's Clothes. 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