2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. I H. 11. MUI.LIN. Editor. Published Evory Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. P. r Tear If paid in advance ' ">• j ADVERTISING RATKS: Advertisements are published at the rate n{ •ii.- di 1 iir in r Miliars furotiu insertion and tlfty oi Tits i er square for neb uubsequwu insertion. Kates ti.v >year.or for six or tUreo months low ai.d uniform, and will t>c furnished on n|> ileal.ou. I.< (.'til ar.d Official Advertising per square. ' tl, i-e times or Icsr, - each subsequent inser tio . 0 cents per-quare. i.ocal notices In cents per line for one inser «eriion 112. cents per line ior each subsequent con ecutive Insertion. Prituary n< tires over five lines. 10 cents per libe. Sin pie announcements <>f btrtlw, u:nr riwre- 'n.i deaths wi'.l lie inserted free Mil*iness cards, live lii.es or less. >5 per year; ov. hve lines, at the regular rates of adver tit'ntr N . local inserted for less than 75 cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pkkss is complete . IT. r.l- facilities for doing tile best class ..f W rU. Paß'l ICCI.AII AITENI R'N PAIDTO I. AW PKl.ntiso. No paper will be discontinued until arrear- I fg -x are paid, except the option of the pub is her. Papers sent out oi the county must be paid j lor in advance. fi : " One of the magazines published, some years ago, an article describing a most interesting experi lilenl for Am- , . , ment made with It!(Iocs tilrla. j 4QO school rhl l_ dren. The pupils, who were both boys and girls and ranged in age from seven years to 36, were asked to answer in writing two questions: "What person of whom you have ever heard would you most like to resemble? Why?" The papers, as was B Japan imported $1,474,168 worth of watches. It con cluded to try the effect of higher tariff rates on many products, believing the result would be to stimulate home de velopment. The result has justified its judgment. In 1902 its imports of watches, for instance, were but $116,670. It had increased the duty on watches from five per cent., the former rate, To 30 per cent. Effect —the Japanese be gan to manufacture watches and the importations of those articles fell off. But, while this has been the case, says the Troy Ttmes, the general result of the higher tariff has been to increase, not to diminish, Japan's foreign trade generally. In this respect its experi ence has strikingly similar to that of the United States, which under "high protection" has seen its manufactures attain unprecedented proportions, surpassing those of any other nation, while its ex ports and imports have reached pro digious figures. The absurd free trade contention that protection shuts the doors of other nations against a pro tected country has been so often dis proved of late by the stories from Ger many and Japan and the remarkable commercial advance of the United States that it would seem to be pretty near time to retire that worn-out as sertion. Japan is increasing both its exports and its imports, just as the United States is doing, and the greatest in crease in each case has been made since higher protection has been secured. Here are a few figures which are sig nificant as indicating the drift: For the first four months of the present year the imports of Japan were about $14,000,000 in excess of those of the same period last year, and the exports were $3,000,- 000 greater. For the same four month'? the imports of the United States ex ceeded those of the like period last year by $47,000,000, while the exports for the four months of 1903 were $54,- 000,000 more than in 1902. Japan is fol lowing the protection trail, and it finds in tlie United States a very encouraging example. PREPARING FOR NEXT YEAR. T!ic Democracy l.ookiuff Forward to liulinr Trouble* lo Help Tlieni Alork. Undoubtedly the intimation in a dis patch from Pottsville, Pa., that the strike of the anthracite coal miners may be renewed next year, during the presidential election, was inspired by democratic suggestion or advice. A great quarrel between capital and labor next year would establish conditions in which the democratic politicians would revel, says the Cleveland Leader. That it would be accompanied by po litical complications nobody can doubt, for it is intimated that the leaders of the miners are figuring on political as sistance to help them win a victory. Such a strike, occurring next year, would surely put President Roosevelt in an annoying position. He would, of course, be asked to use his good offices to bring about a settlement of the con troversy, and whichever side he took he would run the risk of incurring the ill will of those on the other side. On the other hand, his democratic opponent, not being in public office, could play the demagogue to his heart's content, with out annoying complications. Nothing would probably please the democrats better next year than a strike of the anthracite coal miners. But the leaders of the miners, if they have any sense of gratitude, will pre vent one if it lies within their power to do so. They have every reason to be grateful to Theodore Roosevelt. Last year, in his efforts to restore industrial peace in the anthracite region, he vio lated all precedent by calling the repre sentatives of capital and labor to the white house for a conference, and he put his hand into the strike situation so firmly and with such good effect that the long struggle was brought to a close with honor and credit to labor. Mr. Ilryau Complimented. We have little admiration for bolters as Mr. Bryan professes to have. In our philosophy, the man who thinks himself better, and greater, and more virtuous than his party is a tiresome prig, and when the man happens to be a benefici ary of the party he is an ingrate to boot. But the spectacle of Mr. Bryan, with an entourage of mouthing mountebanks, proelaiminghimselftheonly true proph et and denouncing all who disagree with bim as renegades is a little too much for our patience and composure. He will do well to remember that he has already been twice overwhelmingly defeated, and to consider that modesty will be come him somewhat better than this fantastic arrogance.—Washington Post. Wlicrc Gorman Stand*. Democrats profess to wonder why republicans are pleased whenever the possibility of Senator Gorman of Mary land receiving the presidential nomina tion is hinted at. Why should they not be pleased? With the recollection of the part which the" senator bore in the "perfidy and dishonor" tariff pro gramme of 1894, with the insatiate hos tility of the Bryan faction and a great many more elements of weakness in his candidacy, the republicans regard htm as "easy."—Troy Times. VICTIMS OF GRAFTERS. government Ferreting Out Fraud* Perpetrated on Indian* Land Sale) Annulled, Washington, Aug. 28. — The deter mination of Secretary Hitchcock to send to Indian Territory a man not. | connected with the department of; the interior to investigate conditions ; there is understood to lie for tin- pur- l pose of supplementing the work of! the secretary himself and of other j representatives of the department in j that territory. Since early last I spring the secretary has been giving a large share of his personal at ten- 1 tion to the situation in the territory j and a number of the inspectors and other oflieials of the department have been engaged in the effort to 1 ferret out frauds and protect the in- ; terests of the Indians. 'J'he secretary made a tour of the i territory in May, largely for the purpose of making inquiry regarding reports that had come to liini of ef- ! forts to deprive the Indians of their rich landed inheritances, and the re-: suit of this personal investigation was to confirm the report that there : was a persistent effort to secure t lie ! Indian lands at prices far below their ; real value. As a consequence of this inquiry he i made u radical revision of the regula tions for the sale oi the alloted lands, and the developments since that change was made indicate that he has saved the Indians a large per- i centage over what would have been I paid them if the original regulations ' had stood. The new rules require that all In- [ dian lands which ar; 1 for sale shall be advertised and appraised by a com petent official. The secretary lias cancelled all sales made prior to the time that the new regulations took effect. There were 429 of these deeds, calling for an aggregate payment of $360,000, All these deeds, with the checks, have been returned to the purchasers and the prices received on inherited lands indicate that under the new regulations the prices paid will exceed the old prices by from 13 to Iper cent. Persistent efforts to secure con trol of tiie lands through the lease proeesss have been discovered. In one ease the secretary found during his stay in Indian Territory that clerks in the office of an Indian agent had taken on themselves the respon- i sibility for denying a hearing to their national attorney, who represented some H.ooo Indians. The secretary immediately denounced this transac tion us an abuse of official authority and provided for the punishment of the persons engaged in it. A favorite method for securing the leases is to have the, Indians ap proached by merchants, who by offer ing their wares in exchange can se cure the most favorable terms from them, and the understanding is quite ! general that when control of a piece of land is once secured by means of leasing it will be held by some means until it can be purchased at the lessee's own figures. The secretary is giving his careful attention to this problem and is already, even under the present law. finding mvans to protect the Indians against some of the most flagrant abuses of the leas ing system. The secretary realizes that while there may be shortcomings on the. part of some of the government olli cials, there are on the other hand many men not employed by the go\- erninent who have grievances against these officials and are dis posed to make all the trouble for them they can. These men he des ignates as "grafters," and the feel ing in the department is that any official who may oppose their designs is certain to be made the subject of the harshest censure bv tnem. The secretary announces his determina- j lion to protect officials who are doing their duty against the scheme of all j such people. Several officials who already have . been detected in questionable trans actions have been dismissed, while ! Ihe resignations of others have been requested. THE MIMIC WAR. Sliolh lletwreii Fort* and Battleship—Seventeen Sliip* Sunk Lous: Island raptured. Portland. Me., Aug. 20.—At 1:15 this morning a large vessel, evidently 1 a battleship, came into range, and ! was fired upon with one round from j Forts Williams and Levett, and three j rounds from Fort McKinley. The ves- 1 sel returned the fire of both the Fort j Williams and Fort Levett batteries, j Portland, Me., Aug. 27. —At 10' o'clock last night the war maneuvers : had again developed into a watching j and waiting game for the defending 5 forces, just as before the mimic war ! was declared. A demonstration I claimed by the army to be a day at tack and by the navy a night attack, j was made by the fieet early in the S morning. The attack was repulsed I with a theoretical loss of several ves- ' sels to the fleet. Portland. Me., Aug. 2*.—The events ' in the war game yesterday were con- J side red the most important since the I hostile fleet first appeared off l'ort- j latid. The navy made a grand coup j In the capture of Long Island in the j forenoon, while the army made a j spectacular play in the destruction of J all the 17 opposing ships that attack ed the coast defenses in the after- I noon. The navy, however, seems to i have had a little the better of it for, j strange as it may seem, the capture i of Long Island was considered more | important than the destruction of ; the 17 vessels. A tljuierloiiK Sicklies*. Washington, Aug. 2s.—A report ! has been made to the health otneer of the district of the mysterious ill- | ness of :so inmates of the Industrial j Home, near Washington. Recently 50 if the children in tins institution j suffered a similar illness. The ex- i amination then made failed to dis- j close the cause of the sickness. The children were given for breakfast on I Wednesday oatmeal, bread antl butter | and tea or coffee, and some of the j older ones were giver, fried potatoes. Several hours afterward they wcr« seized with violent vomiting. RECORD IS BROKEN Lou Dillon Trots a Mile in Two Minutes. The >lo*l Wonderful 10 von I In Trot ting llislorj- ol" tin- World Take* I'liicc at ltra trot. Queen Wilkes won the race. Another New York horse to win was Mazetto in the 2:16 trot, lie and Jav McGregor had a duel for five heats. "Lou" McDonald paraded the best 5-ycar-old out this year in Sadie Mac. She trotted to the half the first heat of her race in 1:04%, the second quar ter in .'ll % seconds, fairly walking the last 50 yards and winning in 2:12%. Dan Patch paced each of the first three quarters of.his mile in exactly •30% seconds and the final one in 2!)'/■> seconds, making the mile in 2:00%. \ Probably Fatal IC\ploMoii. St. Louis. Aug. 25. —While railroad men were trying to place a derailed freight car on the track near Union station yesterday a torch was acci dentally brought in contact with si liursted pipe from which gas was es caping". resulting in an explosion that will probably cause the death of En gineer Bouquet t, and seriously in jured Switchmen Harding and Hunt. The men were thrown high into the lir by the force of the explosion and the derailed car. loaded with wheat, was destroyed by the fire which fol lowed. Th«- ((.acMlon An«wcrcd. Ksi ill |.i jn, Tenn., Aug. 24th.—Many que.-tiuri.-. .no being ii 01 .Mi. 1 . }). Hull oi lliis piactsiu legard to his wonderful re covery. -tor two.ve*is be has been down with, his ba< k. lie so very bad that lie couldi not even late- Ins shoe.*, arid Irom tin? con dition he suddenly appeared well and strong as ever. It. is no wonder therefore that his friends are asking him "How did you do it ?" He tells thern all: "Dodd's Kidney Pill& did it,"and adds "This remedy it a genuine; good medicine and one that 1 ean heartily recommend to everybody. "Everyone around here knows how very bad 1 was.l was so weak in my back that 1 couldn't do anything that needed stoop ing or bending over, and three boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills made me as you see, as well as ever 1 was." "They certainly had a wonderful effect on. my case." People who tell you they would be great, readers if they had the time are not Tyiiig about it. They are simply mistaken. —Wash- ington (la.) Democrat. Kmplrc Stutc Eiprrni In Foot-Ball. The New York Central's Empire Staff* Express is recognized as the swiftest and surest train operated bv America's greatest railroad, and considered the very best means to cover the ground in the time required. It is for this reason that the Harvard Uni versity football team named their best and surest play of the season of 1902the''Empira State Express," for they believed it to be the most reliable play in their programme. It was successful throughout the season until it met Yale's "20tli Century Limited " play, which was just as swift, sale and sure, but had longer endurance and was "limited"' only by the size of the field. The names of the rival teams very correctly describe th(? difference In the famous trains, the "Empire State" running only from New York to Buffalo, while the "\iOth Century Limited" makes the 980 miles between New York and Chicago in twenty hours every day of the' year. Great is the New York Central and great are the trains it operates—swift, safe and reliable. — From the Brooklyn Standard Union. Ihe mind that is much elevated a.nd inso lent with prosperity, and east down by ad versity, i, generally abject and base.-"Epi curus. An Historic Old Kailrouil KnK'ne. The Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis' Railway is distributing free of charge an attractive little booklet entitled "The Mory of the 'General,' " which contains an ex ceedingly interesting account of the raid of (apt. ,lames J. Andrcwsand men during the Civil War. It is profusely illustrated. The "General"' has been sent to Chatta nooga, Tenn., % the N., C. & St. L. K.;. and is there to remain permanently. It can be seen at any time by travelers passing through Chattanooga over this railway. Write to W. L. DAN'LEY. G P. A., N.. (' & r St. L. Ry., Nashville, Tenn. Mentioning this paper. "Jack told me that I was not like other girls." "That's what he tells all of us. Ile'p, read somewhere that all women are differ ent.' '—Louisville Times. The Summer Until. Nothing is more refreshing or invigor ating in summer than a daily bath. Use soft, tepid wafer and good soap. Ivory soap is ideal for the bath; it is pure,, lathers quickly and leaves the skin soft and white. 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