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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<l oth r things amounted to
• lmo»t SI,OOO, which had to be paid by
J4t; winner.
LOOK AT THE RECORDS.
ptifference Iletiveen I'rotfcliion Ile
turiiN and ThiiNc of Di'iiioctiiMo
Lou 'I x *riif*.
The republican parly has been in
power in national affairs since 18'J7.
The republicans in congress, as soon
as they could, passed the IMngley tariff
act and President McKinley signed it.
Opponents of that measure declared it
would shut the markets of the world
against the United States. Yet- from
♦he time it went into operation the
contrary effect has been produced,
says tlip Troy Times. It was in forca
for only part of the year 1897, and
our foreign trade of that year *as
$1,815,723,908, against $1,602,331.6121 for
1890, and the balance in our favor in
creased from $102,882,204 in' 1890 to
$280,203,144 in 1897. For the six years
1897-1902 the total excess of exports
over imports was $3,119,000,000, or an
average of more than $500,000,000 per
year. In some years the favorable bal
ance was over $600,000,000.
The records of the country under
democratic rule can be'searclied in vain
for any such showing as that. Jn'fact.
when the democratic party controlled
things at Washington and low tariffs
were in effect adverse balances of
trade were the rule and favorable ones
the exception. It is well to bear this
in mind when certain democratic gen
tlemen are so. strenuously seeking to
get back into power by promising the
people to reduce the tariff. Experi
ence has shown that adequate protec
tion not only guards our own doors
against damaging competition, but
puts it in the power of American in
dustry to so perfect its processes that
we can make better articles at less
IT LOOKS AS IF ONE OF THEM WOULD HAVE TO GET DOWN.
cost than similar products of foreign
origin, and hence can sell in markets
onee considered absolutely closed
to us.
The big awl constantly growing' ex
cess of exports over imports tells the
story of what protection is doing for
the United States. Those who want to
see the other side of the shield should
consult the volumes of official statis
tics which show how democratic low
tariffs left, lis at the mercy of the old
world manufacturers.
HARMONY A LA BRYAN.
The Only Kind That Will EJvfr Induce
• lie Xrlirnakn Cyclone to
Calm Down.
William .T. Bryan and Adlai K. Ste- j
venson—two political have-becns—l
were the principal guests and the only i
speakers at the recent democratic love-I
feast at l)is Moines, la., although Wil- '
liam Randolph ll< :irst had been invited :
and was expected to attend. Hearst
sent a letter full of instruction to the
assembled democrats as to what his
party ought to do to Vie saved, the true
meaning of which, reading between ;
the lines, was that it should nominate
Jlearst for president. Mr. Stevenson,;
who in the late campaign swallowed !
llryan and Bryanism whole, notwith
standing the fact that lie had been vice
president with Mr. Cleveland, in his;
address rather squinted in the direc
tion of the yellow journalistic candi
date, but Mr. Bryan gave no of
indorsing the Hearst boom. The great
defeated did, however, indicate what
he thought of the reorgani/.ers, says
the Troy Times, and this is what he
said in the interest of tin-much talked
of harmony: "Harmony is a thing to
be felt, not a thing to be talked about.
The mere mention of harmony sug
gests differences that need reconcilia
tion, and the vociferous talk about
harmony among those who disturbed
it. left the party and lent their influ
ence to the enemy, naturally recalls
the issues that created the dlst urbance
anil naturally suggests the Inquiry
whether tin- proilitrals ha\e repented
o»- Miami repentance of the party." '
Which, if it means anything, means
that Mr. Mryan and his followers van
never be harmonize d i:nl< ->• 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.
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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.
Many mothers are ignorant of the serious
! injury that may result from washing tii«
j clothing l of' an infant with strong washing
powders and impure roup. For this rea
son it should be laundered at home under
the mother's directions and only Ivory Soap
used. To throw the little garments into
the ordinary wash show s great carelessness.
ELEANOR R. PARKER.
Better be a good man than a man of goods.
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