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It is not a little amazing to note a
sentiment at Plymouth, Mass., opposed
... ~ . to the carrying off
I*l > in oiil li Hock
of Plymouth rock
anil the l-'alr. . «. , ...
to St. Louis during
the world's fair. Plans are now being
made to bring this much desired project
to success and millionsof thrilled Amer
icans may vibrate between Liberty bell
and Plymouth rock, if old Plymouth,
guardian ofthis sacred granite relic, will
consent. Plymouth, observes the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, should pause to
reflect that the "rock" is an inheritance
of every one of the 80,000,000 Ameri
cans that now throng this great land,
and that each one of them feels as pro
found a sense of ownership in it as the
people of Plymouth. Upon it, in the
person of Mary Chilton, that vigorous
Puritanism that has marked its im
print on our laws and customs from
one ocean to the other, first set foot, it
is the rock of our liberties. Though it
weighs but five tons, all Europe cannot
outbalance it; it was the stumbling
block on which Great Britain stubbed
her toe in 1770. It represents to us the
birthplace of liberty as the liberty bell
does its cradle. Pennsylvania is gener
ous. Why cannot Massachusetts em
ulate her? Give us the "Rock."
Press advices from Washington state
that Dr. Wiley, chemist in the agricui-
Or w ilev's To- lura ' department, is
about to begin an-
Ixiceo Tests. . , ,
other interesting
t«*st. This time the effect of tobacco
upon the human system will be investi
gated. As described in a dispatch, a
certain number of young men will be se
lected for '.he experiment. These per
sons will be given certain allowances of
tobacco of various grades and qualities
and designed for varying uses. Exam
inations and conditions will be made
and enforced, intended to make there
suits as reliable as possible. Work along
this line of investigation follows the
idea embodied in the tests recently con
cluded with 12 young men to determine
the effects of certain food adulterants.
The idea of the experiment is intensely
practicable. 11 only remains to see if it
is possible to secure reliable results. In
a considerable measure any reliable in
formation that will develop from the
data will be valuable to the government
in promoting its work in developing and
growing the tobacco plant. Added to
this there will be a certain amount of in
formation forthcoming to the general
public that will be interesting, to say the
least, and possibly facts that will be pro
ductive of some notable results.
Alfred Mosely, of England, who re
cently investigated industrial condi
tions in America, made this prediction:
"Labor and capital must be partners in
the best sense. They ought to be at
peace with each other. In this regard
the work of your Civic Federation is ex
cellent, bringing together, as it does
the reasonable elements of the two
great active factors in production. I
think that profit sharing in some form
must finally come. There must be a
minimum wage for labor, with old age
pensions, interest on capital, a fund for
expansion, another for depreciation,
and a division of the balance between
capital and labor. This is an ideal, but
it is possible to attain it, in the course
of time, peaceably."
They don't do now as they used 1o do,
says Mark Twain, international joker
and burden lifter. Time was when a lec
turer appeared in a place to fulfill an
engagement he was taken out in a wagon
or a sleigh and driven around the town,
to the courthouse, the cemetery, and
the jail, and to a number of other places
that he didn't feel as though he was
quite ready for iust yet. But nowadays
a lecturer goes into a plae:e and oul
again without much stopping to sec
things.
Baron von Echt, an Austrian who has
been traveling in this country, is in rap
tures over his treatment here. "I do not
believe," he says, "that such hospitable
treatment would be accorded a stranger
in any other country in the world. 1
have sojourned in many lands, but in nc
other have I been received with such
marked courtesy and open-hearted hos
pitality. My tour of the United States
convinces me that the American people
.in many respects are superior to the
inhabitants of ail other lands."
THINGS ARE DIFFERENT.
Comlif ions I ruler Cleveland Xot \\ ha'
Tbey Are t ii<lt k r Iloo*evelt
A <1 mill i*t ration.
At this time ten years ago an extra
session of congress had been called by
President Cleveland and that body was
soon to assemble. In April, 1893, for the
first time after the republicans' specie
resumption law took effect in 1879, the
gold in the treasury available for green
back redemption dropped below the
$100,000,000 mark. This was a month
after Cleveland's second term began.
The decline continued, and at one time
the free gold in the treasury was down
as far as $41,000,000. Alarm seized the
people; "runs" were made on the banks
in many cities; many banks suspended
and others collapsed; great business
houses went down in some of the big
centers and carried many smaller con
cerns down with them; mills and fac
tories shortened their*hours of work or
closed altogether; wages were reduced
on all hands, and a panic was"on." This
condition of things impelled Mr. Cleve
land to call congress in extra session,
and it met on August 7,1893.
A widely different condition prevails
today all over the country, ? the St.
Louis Globe Democrat. Insi of the
declining gold reserve and the runs on
the treasury, we have a larger hoard of
gold in that depository than was ever in
it at any time in the past. In addition
to the regular reserve fund of gold,
which was fixed at $150,000,000 by the
law of 1900, over $72,000,000 of gold coin
and bullion is in the treasury vaults now.
President Cleveland was obliged to sell
bonds four times during that fateful sec
ond administration of his in order to pro
tect the gold reserve. He increased the
interest bearing debt of the government
to the extent of $202,000,000 in this way,
but he was unable to keep the gold fund
up to the $100,000,000 line. Greenbacks
were rushed into the treasury and gold
was forced out by them almost as fast
as the gold could be gathered fhere by
bond sales. A general feeling of de
pression prevailed all over the land.
There was a fear that the country would
have to drop to the silver basis. For a
time there was alarm lest the republi
cans' gold resumption law, which went
into effect in 1879, under which Cleve
land made his bond sales, would be in
adequate to protect the country against
the assaults which were being made on
the treasury's gold fund.
The situation in 1903 is strikingly dif
ferent in all respects from that which
prevailed in 1893. Not only is the gold
hoard in the treasury the largest which
has ever been known, but the general
tendency is upward. Instead of buying
gold to-day, the treasury officials would
be glad to sell some of it or t» get rid of
it in some other legitimate way. The
"endless chain" which Mr. Cleveland
talked about —by which the greenbacks
after displacing gold in the treasury,
were used to force more gold out—has
been abolished. Nobody is going to the
treasury these days with greenbacks to
exchange for gold. The current to-day
is in tlie reverse direction. It gives gold
in exchange for greenbacks. The "finan
cial distrust and fear" which Cleveland
mentioned in his "message to congress
when it met in called session ten years
ago has been succeeded by prosperity
and confidence. Everybody in the coun
try to-day who wants work has it. All
the great interests and activities are
busy. The country is happy, prosperous
and hopeful. Where President Cleve
land found calamity President Roosevelt
sees good times in a higher degree than
the country has ever before known.
Here is a tale of two administrations
which carries its own moral to the minds
of the American people.
CONSENTS OF THE PRESS.
K3"Mr. Bryan is going to travel in Eu
rope. but he need not be disappointed if
half the people over there never heard
of him. —Chicago Daily News (Ind.)
tt^W'hat! Mr. Bryan to stay in Europe
four months making a study of condi
tions there? Well, things will goto the
dogs down here, that's all.—lndianapo
lis News < T nd.)
t£?"lt did not require the result in lowa
to make it entirely plain that neither the
Kansas City platform, nor anything like
it, can receive the indorsement of the
national democratic party next year.
That has been evident for some time.
But what shape will the party's next de
liverance take? Avoiding ground that
has proved unsafe is not half so diffi
cult as choosing new ground which may
be relied upon to bear the weight of a
great contest and enable a great host to
march to victory. The lowa democrats
have solved one phase of their party's
diffiuclty.—Washington Star.
rrit was shortly after his second elec
tion. with his party in possession of all
departments of the government, that
Mr. Cleveland wrote: "After a hard
struggle, tariff reform is directly before
us. A reduction of tariff charges upon
the necessities of life will bring benefits
palpable and substantial, seen and felt
by thousands who will be better fed and
better clothed and better sheltered."
Those results came several years later
than Cleveland expected. They followed
the democratic nightmare and republi
can success in 189 C.—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
CTlie hunt for a democratic Moses
continues. So far the various booms
laboriously and cunningly manipulated
have not materialized to an extent at all
satisfactory to the different boomers.
The latest movement is reported to be
in favor of Judge Gray, of Delaware,
who came into prominence as the chair
man of the anthracite strike commis
sion. Judge Gray is a very excellent and
worthy gentleman, but if his boomers
think the democratic party "reorgan
izes" are going to be hysterically happy
over a candidate from the little state of
Delaware with only three electoral
votes, they are not very familiar with
political arithmetic.—-Troy Times.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1903.
THE NATIONAL PLATFORM.
That of lohji Itepulillrnn Convention
IV ft VI in All I'roliitbilif 7
lie Adopted.
The Boston Herald's Washington cor
respondent sums up the prevailing sen
timent at the national capital, and says
the lowa platform will be adopted by
the national convention nextyear. This
is the disinterested opinion of a non
partisan observer. The Herald is in
dependently democratic, and like other
democratic papers, rather inclined to
disparage the tariff revision sentiment
in lowa. The democrats intend to make
the campaign next year on this issue,
and will monopolize it if they can. To
this end they agree with substantial
unanimity that the lowa idea is now
dead and buried. But the Herald with
more fairness than the democratic press
in general, says:
"The lowa tariff and trust planks, writ
ten by Senator Allison and accepted by all
factions in the republican state convention,
may he adopted a? part of the republican
platform at the national convention next
year. They were read with the greatest in
terest by public men here In view of the
fierce fisht in the past between the tariff
revisionists and the 'stand patters' in tho
re. blii an party of low a. The masterly
hanu of Senator Allison, prince of concil
iators and gifted in compromise, had
wrought out planks which were as satis
factory to the radicals as to the conserva
tives, and acceptable as well to President
Roosevelt. Gov rnor Cummins, as the
leader of the radicals, and the lowa mem
bers of the cabinet, Secretary Shaw and
Secretary Wilson, with other conserva
tives, agreed that Senator Allison w as the
man to draft the declaration that would
harmonize the differences and he has suc
ceeded In doing so. The lowa republicans
have taken, through his guidance, what is
President Roosevelt's position, and what
will undoubtedly be the position of the
republican national convention int. If
the committee on resolutions in that con
vention, of which Senator I/odge may he
chairman, does not adopt the lowa tariff
and tr'jst declarations in phrase, it will do
so in fact and the convention will adopt Its
report. Tariff revision is promised. The
fact remains, however, that tariff revision
will not be begun during the life of the
present congress. It has been set aside for
the time beir.g at least. In the minds and
plans of the high protectionists it has been
set aside until after the presidential elec
tion, and this means until after the next
presidential inauguration and until the
next congress conven< sin December, IWS,
unless earlier called ir. extra session.''
This is not au unfair statement of the
the situation, says the DPS Moines Re
gister and Leader. The lowa platform
promises revision, but not until the first
congress of the new administration aS I
sembles, unless an extra session should
be called after the presidential election
There is no reason to believe the Her
ald's correspondent is not right in his
guess that the lowa idea will be the na
tional idea next year. It is known to be
the Roosevelt idea. It is incorporated in
planks that have been carefully drawn
and that have been indorsed by the re
publican leaders. The nalional conven
tion cannot do better if it tries, and it
will have little disposition to try.
FINDS HIS LEVEL AT LAST.
Hryar. l»/is Fimtlly Come Down to Illn
I*roper I'iaee In Public
Life.
Intelligent readers who had curiosity
enough to read th'.Teport of Mr. Bryan's
speech at Greenfield must have been
struck by its low tone. Mr. Bryan has
occupied a large space in the public eye
and in recent political history. He is
far from being a great man, but a man
who has been twice nominated for pres
ident and has been the principal orator
in both campaigns ought to have some
knowledge and grasp of public questions
and some ideas above those of a cross
roads politician. Mr. Bryan's speech
did not show anything of the kind, says
the Indianapolis Journal. It was not
merely a partisan speech, but a parti
san speech from a low and narrow point
of view. In the campaigns of 189(5 and
1900 he was often eloquent, as political
oratory goes, and stirred his audiences
to high enthusiasm because he was ad
vocating a policy which, however dis
honest and vicious it was, he thoroughly
believed in. He was not master of his
subject because he was on the wrong side
of the question, hut he was thoroughly
imbued with it, and in both campaigns
he held pretty well up to the standard
of his "crown-of-thorns-and-eross-of
gold speech" which nominated him. But
with the death and burial of free silver
and 1(i-to-l Mr. Bryan's eloquence has
departed. Samson's strength departed
with his hair. As long as Mr. Bryan
was advoeating a financial heresy which
he believed in and was full of he was
eloquent in a way, and effective, but that
gone he has lapsed into vulgar eommon
placeness. He deals with small politics
and personalities, lie berates the re
publican party in a sort of country news
paper style, compliments or abuses
prominent Democrats by nam* accord
ing as they are Bryan or ant,i -Bryan men,
wishes "we had more Tom Johnsons in
the country to whip bad men out of
office," congratulates the democrats of
Indiana on having "a man like John TV.
Kern, who is not afraid to stand tip for
principles that he believes are right," de
clares that the policies of the republican
party are "determined by less than one
hundred men. who rule the party with
a rod of iron," and so on for quantity.
This is very different from the Bryan
oratory of 189(1 and 1900. when he was
imbued with an idea, bad as it was, and
felt that he was riding on the top of a
wave that might carry him into the
White House, and did come dangerously
near it. Mr. Bryan is like a balloon
after the gas that floated it hap escaped.
He has shrunk to the dimensions of a
ranting partisan and ordinary political
slangwhanger. He has found his level.
experts in the east admit
the complete collapse of the Cleveland
boom, and, by the same token, of the
alleged Wall street opposition to the
renomination of President Roosevelt,
As these discoveries were coincident
with the president'" return from his
western tour, it shows the experts can
read a handwriting on the wall when it
is large and plain.—lndianapolis Jour
nal.
CONTEMPT OF COURT.
Por Violating an Injunction Itkiird nl
Kyraru*e. IV. Y., Judge Andreni Krn.
teucc* I nlon 'lolilcr* lo Jail.
Syracuse, X. V., July 25.—Hiram
Powers, John Lillis and Otto Ben/,
striking molders from the Stearns
Co., were found guilty of contempt
•if court yesterday by Judge Andrews
by his confirmation of the report of
William <;. Tracy, who heard the
motion for contempt in reference.
Powers was fined $75 and sentenced
to serve 110 days; Lilli* SSO and 110
days and lienz was fined SSO.
Justice Andrews in bis report says:
"As to the merits of the original
dispute between the parties I have
no knowledge. Certain truths, how
ever, we all hold to be self-evident.
With or without reason, alone or to
gether, workmen may leave their em
ployers. My argument, or persuasion,
by appeals to sympathy or prejudice,
they may lead others not to take
their vacant places. But here they
must stop. Every man may work
upon the terms that suit him best.
If he cannot bis personal liberty is
abridged. It is liis right as n free
man. To protect liim in this right
governments and courts may use their
full powers. If they fail to do so
they fail in their duties.
"It was to force these every day
rule® that the injunction in this ac
tion was granted. It permitted the
use of all peaceful methods. It. sim
ply prohibited the use of terror or
violence. Tt sought to prevent riot
or disorder, acts made criminal by
our penal code.
"I find that the three men deliber
ately disobeyed the order of the
court. This makes it a ease of crim
inal contempt. The only question
left is its to the proper punishment to
lie inflicted upon them for what they
have done."
DUN'S TRADE REVIEW.
Fewer IteporlN of t| Id mi mine r llllll
lic** are Heard.
New York, July 25. It.(1. Dun &
Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says:
The tenor of dispatches from near
ly every section of the country in
dicates that there is less than the
customary midsummer dullness in
business and collections are more
prompt than usual. A large propor
tion of the unions have signed it
working agreement with the employ
ers in the building trades of this city
and fully half the men have return
ed to work. Farm work still retards
retail distribution of merchandise in
western sections.
Footwear factories have much work
in sight, buyers having placed orders
freely, and there are still many rep
resentatives in the Boston region,
from which shipments continue to
eclipse all earlier records. Quota
lions are fully sustained and new
business is well distributed.
The unexpected happened in the
market for woolens. It was believed
that new lines of staple goods would
be opened at fully maintained, ov,sta
tions, but the American Woolen Co.
reduced prices to about the same level
as existed a year ago, despite the ma
terial increase in raw wool and sev
eral other items in the cost of pro
duction.
PROMINENT BROKERS FAIL.
Great lCxelteiiient on the Stock !•:*-
change tainted by Hie Huwpeunloii ol
Taylor A Co. un<l Stone Xt o.
Xew York, July 25. —The announce
ment 011 the stock exchange late Fri
day of the suspension of the firms of
Talbot J. Taylor & Co. and of W. L.
St owe & Co. was the sequel to a
period of excited selling of stocks and
wide cuts in prices which has not
been equalled before since the pres
ent movement to liquidation. There
is nothing in either failure that can
be traced to business or industrials
or outside the exchange, the ease
lying close to a diagnosis of specu
lative collapse. Both firms have been
largely concerned in speculative mar
ket pools, formed for the purpose of
taking 011 a line of stock, sustaining
their price by supporting orders real
or manipulative and seeking to real
ize profits by selling out to outsiders
at high prices.
So statement of Taylor <&• Co.'s as
sets and liabilities has been made,
but from the president of a leading
national bank it is learned that the
liabilities may be well onto $6,000,000.
Estimates of the Stowe company's
liabilities range lrom $1,250,000 to
$2,500,000.
FAILED TO INDICT.
Scksloiih ol" Breathitt County'* Grand
Jury 110 Not Produce ItcKiitln.
Jackson, Ky., July 25.—Charles
Green, who testified that lie saw the
men wKli Curtis .left when the latter
is alleged to have shot Cockrill, and
that lie could identify them if lie saw
them, was taken again before the
grand jury yesterday. Spicer and
Brit ton were presented to him. lie
stiitl they were not the men he saw
with Jett.
It is stated that threats have been
made against Green and that lie was
intimidated so that he failed to iden
tify the alleged assassins of Cockrill.
It is charged tlisit the pending inves
tigation of the grand jury has been
so interrupted by intimidating some
witnesses and preventing the appear
ance of others that it is deemed use
less to continue the investigation.
By a vote of s to 4 the grand jury
refused to indict Deputy Sheriff Will
iam Britton on the charge of being
an accessory to the murder of Cock
rill.
The l.nnt of 12 Iteroe*.
Amsterdam, X. Y.. July 25. —Zaeh-
ariah C. Xeahr, who was buried at
Camijoharie yesterday, was the last
to die of the three survivors of 12
men who. volunteered to destroy the j
Confederate stockade during the bat- J
tie of Fort Fisher, afid whose accom- |
plishment of the deed in the face of
a rain of sharpshooters* bullets, j
which killed nine of their number,
was one of the most heroic acts of !
the civil war. Xeahr died of con
sumption at the age of 72. Congress
had remembered nun with a medal
for heroism
THE DETROIf PACES.
John Taylor W lim the .Tlereliaiitn nii<
ItlnnufacMircrtt Slake-Twi
Ilriverw t'liiol.
Detroit, Mich., July 23. —Sunset last
evening found tiie Merchants and
| Manufacturers' SIO,OOO stake for 2:24
| class trotters, the feature of the blue
ribbon meeting 1 of the Detroit Driv
ing club at the (irosse I'ointe track,
still unfinished, with two heats each
to the credit of Wainscott, the decid
ed favorite, and John Taylor. .lohn
Taylor's victory over Wainscott in the
I fourth heat, after an accident in the
: third heat in which Taylor collided
with two other horses, then kicked
loose from the sulky and ran for
three-quarters of a mile, was the sur
prise of the afternoon, and one of the
most sensational heats in the history
of the stake.
King Direct was favorite for the
2:21 pace, but Dick Wilson had the
speed and won in straight heats.
Judge Oullen, the favorite in the
Et 14 trot, also won in straight heats.
In the 2:00 pace Elderone won the
first heat after a splendid drive in
the stretch with William Me, and the
second heat and race without trouble.
llal t haHin broke badly In the first
heat of the 2;27 pace and lost it to
Five Points, but took the next two
and the race.
Detroit, July 24. —John Taylor, the
gray adding that ran away after an
accident in the third heat of the Mer
chants' and Manufacturers' SIO,OOO
stake Wednesday at Grosse I'ointe
and then won the fourth in impres
i sive fashion, on Thursday afternoon
won the fifth heat and the race from
Wainscott. the heavily played favor
ite. There were only the two horses
in the heat, the others having gone to
the barn 111 accordance with the
rules of tin- stake.
In the unfinished 2:10 trot Dan T.
won the deciding heat and gave
Monte Carlo a decided beating.
Hilly "Ruck was favorite for the 8:13
trot and he justified his choice by
winning both heats without trouble.
111 the 2: IS trot Dillon Boy was the
favorite, but Fanforan had the speed
and won in straight heats.
Dr. Madara won the 2:17 pace in
straight heats. In the 2:09 pace Win
field Stratton won as he pleased.
Sadie llaron was never in danger in
either heat of the 2:0!> pace, which
was the last on the card.
Detroit, Mich., July 25.—As tlie re
sult of very queer driving in the 2:13
pace, the Inst event on Friday's card
at the meeting of the Detroit Driv
ing club at (irosse I'ointe track,
Driver A 1 Proctor, of Aurora, Ont.,
who was behind Darky, was fined S2OO
and suspended for 30 days; Driver
Vance Nuckols, yho was behind
Thereon Powers was fined S2OO and
all-bets and pools on the race were
declared off.
James Butler's Eastview farm had
two winners in Monroe in the 2:20
trot and Trilby Direct in the Cliam-
VjCi . v'ointnerce consolation stake.
In t'Te 2:OS pacing event Carthage
("jirl and Xonamie pac?d the first
dead heat seen here in years. Xo
namie had 110 trouble disposing of the
black mare 111 the next two heats.
Billy Buck was an almost prohibitive
favorite for the 2:10 trot, which he
took in straight heats.
A PECULIAR PLEA.
It lx itlnite in Ilel'eiiMe of a .Tlan on
Trial lor (>run<l Larceny.
Xew York, July 23. —Before Judge
Xewburger in general sessions yester
day the taking (f[ testimony began
in the trial of Lawrence Murphy,
former treasurer of the Journeymen
Stone Cutters' association, for grand
larceny in the theft of all the funds
of the, association, amounting to sl2,- !
704.
The Evening Post says:"lt devel
oped in the trial of the former treas
urer of the Journeymen Stone Cut
ters' association for grand larceny
that his counsel will putin the de
fense that the funds he is charged
with stealing were not legitimate j
dues and fines of the organization,
but extortion money wrung from
builders and contractors under
threats. Counsel made the opeil as- '
;ertion that one builder in Brooklyn
had been forced to pay the union j
SIO,OOO. Questions were put by dei
"endnnt's counsel to make it appear i
chat counsel was in possession of in- i
formation that, in the last year, over
#200,000 had been paid to unions 111 |
this city by bosses and employers for
fines, assessments and 'expenses.'"
At 011 c time in the course of his j
questioning, defendant's counsel ask- I
?<l a witness if it was not tru,e that j
one builder in Xew York had paid
M 5.000 to settle some difficulty with
1 union. The witness, who was a
union man. answered that he would i
not tell if lie knew.
Paper :tfill Burned—Fireman Killed,
Hartford, Conn., July 23.—The
Woodland paper mill, situated be
tween Hartford and Manchester, was
totally destroyed by fire yesterday ,
ind the loss is estimated at about 1
F150,000. One employe, William Hask- !
11s, a fireman, lost bis life. A por- ;
Hon of the brick wall of the struc- ;
hire fell upon him while he was at- j
tempting to draw the tires in the
building.
(>en. Clay IHcn.
Lexington. Ky., July 2.1. Oen. Cas- I
■Jus Marcellus Clay, ambassador to
Russia under president Lincoln, noted j
ibolitionist and author, died at his j
home. Whitehall, in Madison county,
last night. Death was due to gen
eral exhaustion.
A Threat to Strike.
Washington, July 33.—President
Barrett, of the local organization of j
bookbinders, announced yesterday |
that every bookbinder in the govern- j
ment printing office and the members
of the allied unions will quit work if
\Y. A. Miller, assistant foreman in the |
Government printing office, whose dis- I
missal from that office the president
recently revoked, is permitted tore- j
-umc work. The local union officials i
have sent a communication to Secre- I
tnrv Cortelyou. of the department of ;
ominerce and labor, strongly ex- i
pressing their position against Mil- j
!er's reinstatement.
RUINING COUNTRY STORES.
Utira! I'rco Delivery .tlatitiiK Farmer*
Too Lazy lot alt at tlic Grocery.
j There comes a plaintive wail from
the keepers of country :tores in
; small bergs and crossroad hamlets of
Livingston county, .New York, against
the rural free delivery of mails. The
storekeepers say that the free
delivery system is making the farmer*
la/ier every day, while it is doing
much to drive the country store out
of existence.
They say that under the influence
of the free-delivery system the farm
er no longer hitches up his horses to
come down to the post office; that
he gets his mail dumped at his door,
and as a consequence of this "in
iquitous system" the grangers no
longer goto their former gathering
places nor spend their spare cash
with the storekeeper, as they were
wont to do in the "good old times'*
befoi-,» the gaudy mail wagon made
its daily rounds.
The storekeepers have also con
ceived a special grievance over a re
cent order promulgated by the post,
office department instructing post
masters throughout the country lo
prepare lists of the rural free-deliv
ery routes and pott them in conspicu
ous places in their offices.
HAZING ENDED.
Hoard of Visitor- to Went Point Mili
tary Academy .tlaken an IntercMlngr
Keport to Secretary of li ar.
The board of visitors to the West-
Point military academy has made its
report to the secretary of war. The
report is interesting chiefly because
of the very general commendation of
the conditions of the academy. Jt is
especially noted tluit the discipline is
excellent, and that hazing lias disap
peared, save in one or two cases of a.
very mild character. The board made
a very thorough examination of the
plans and speeifi H'.ions, which have
been prepared under the direction of
the secretary of war, for new build
ings and other improvements at the
academy, and they are approved with
; out reservation. The total expendi
ture for these improvements will be
$5,500,000.
Killed by Snake'* iilnnee.
From Rio Grande, 112)., comes the
, story of the strange death of Mrs.
Celia Randy, a widow of that village,,
who is said to have died from snake
charming. Mrs.Randy's cat was trans
fixed by the glance of a black snake
six feet long. Snatching a club, the
woman rushed to the garden to res
cue her cat, and after dealing the
snake a blow, fell to the ground, anil,
despite medical aid, died in a short
time without regaining conscious
ness. The snake was killed, and many
believe that Mrs. Handy was channel!
by the snake, her death resulting.
Prote«t« a* Insult*.
That South Side lady who indig
nantly refused to silence or dispose
of her yelping dogs because her*
neighbors had requested her to do
so is an individual illustration of a
certain logic unfortunately too com
mon. To wrong your neighbor and
then deny him redress on the ground
that his protests are insulting, says
the Chicago Chronicle, is a policy that
is pursued not only by men and wo
men, but by nations.
POP Died Too Soon.
A Philadelphia man paid $2,100 for
the original manuscript of Poe's
poem "The Hells." If. says the Chi
cago Record-Herald, Poe could have
got that much money for all the
poems he wrote he would doubtless
have considered himself the luckiest
bard extant.
A I'oHMlbility,
England has just seized three isl
ands in the Pacific ocean. It is re
markable, says the Chicago Record-
Herald, that England doesn't now
and then lose track of them and sei/e
a few islands which were already
hers.
BACKACHE.
Backache is a forerunner and
one of the most common symp
toms of kidney trouble and
womb displacement.
READ MISS BOLLMAN'S EXPERIENCE.
" Some time ago I was in a very
weak condition, my work made me
nervous and my back ached frightfully
all the time, and 1 had terrible head
aches.
" My mother got a bottle of Liydia
E. IMnkhani's Vegetable Com
pound for me, and it seemed to
strengthen my back and help me at
once, and 1 did not get so tired as
before. I continued to take it, and it
brought health and l trength to me,
and 1 want to thank you for the
good it has done me." Miss Kate
Bw.lmas, 142 nd St. & Wales Ave.,
New York City. — ssoooforfeit If original of
above Jotter proving'genuineness cw. not be produced.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound cures because it is
the greatest known remedy for
kidney and womb troubles.
Every woman who is puzzled
about her condition should write
to Mrs. I'inkham at Lynn, Mass.*,
and tell her all.