IVhat is Gambling ? By REV. FRANCES E. TOWNSLEY. f' ■ » 1 Gambling is not a modern vice Out side Jerusalem one long ago day. beneath ' the shadow of a cross, Roman guards are di i viding the garments of the dying. To cut ( w.■ " one of the garments is to destroy it. As he !> Wy holds it to the light, the Roman soldier has „ , a bright thought. Seizing a helmet from 112 IK' ''is fellow's head, he shakes dice into it, rat- I W : l ' es *' le tin >' bits, and announces the result, j t ' : He is carrying out the supersititon of his "■* >; ' time, for GAMBLING IS A RELIC OF - , BARBARISM AND SUPERSTITION. riable, and to be won over, and their favor or disfavor to be ascer tained by games of chance. "To-day science and Christianity (says Dr. Gifford) clasp hands on the certainty of facts and forces." THE GAMBLER IS AN ANNOUNCED PAGAN, AND AS SUCH HAS KO PLACE IN A MODERN CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION. THE PROFESSIONAL GAMBLER IS A LIVING LIE. He does not depend on chance, but the credulity of others who do. "His dice are loaded, his cards marked, his cuff-button has a mirror, his sleeves are lined with horse-hair cloth, and stocked with aces." He is the most scientific scoundrel in the city. As a cheat, he deserves summary punishment. He is a robber and a menace to society. THE GAMBLER STANDS FOR THE DESTRUCTON OF THE FINER ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER. The drunkard, when sober, may be penitent, affectionate and pitiful, but the gambler •soon loses all finer sensibilities, which are dried up by the hot blasts of sin. GAMBLING IS COYETOUSNESS. We want something that in time might be ours legitimately. We cannot wait. Honesty is too slow. We gamble for what is not truly ours. Consequently, the habit unfits one for business. Money that costs little, counts for little. Come ■easy, go easy, is no motto for business success. Women's gambling at the races is but the result of parlor gambling, resort gambling, childhood training to get much for little. The entire method, I re peat, is barbaric, pagan, superstitious, dishonest and covetous. It has 210 place in a decent Christian civilization. It ought to be suppressed, quarantined, punished. You and I can help bring on that day! It is a debt we owe to our country and our God. In our individ ual circle we must do so, or be untrue to ourselves, as surely as to our Christian faith. Nothing is ours that is not so by earning, or by bequest or gift. More land often means mortgages. More style means often more scheming. More cash means often a haste that tends to dishonor; and gambling in stocks, in a poolroom, or at a card table, or in the children's play for keeps, is of one piece, and unworthy the claim to siobility. The Brawn of the East By SENATOR JOSEPH R. BURTON, Of Kansas. HE eastern college boys may be all right on their ath -1 letic teams, but they haven't the brawn which can keep them standing up alongside a Kansas youth in the harvesting field. We people of Kansas have fault to find with the effete east. The immense wheat harvests of the state created a great demand for la bor. High wages prevailed, and the call went out to all the country to send forth laborers for our harvest fields. The eastern college boy heard the cry, and saw the glitter of the golden coin. He liked the coin all right, but when he got thor oughly acquainted with the golden grain, he didn't "make good." These fellows were a fine-looking lot of men when they came, but they won't do for Kansas and her big crops. Why, we had sorhe college boys out in our state who rowed on the 'varsity eights, played on the elevens, and led their nines in batting, but when we sized them on the harvest fields, according to Kansas calcula >tions, they weren't one, two, three. /P* No, the eastern boys will not do. They may be ( -all right on the gridiron, or the diamond, but put WJ y them out in the harvest field, and they have to call Mafek) \ for substitutes. There is nobody who can compete ■with the sturdy Kansan, unless it be another sturdy ' Kansan, and then it's a race for your life, and a clean ' 112 :swept field in the finish. ' * The New Food Taw and Its SuccessfiU Operation By DR. HARVEY W. WILEY, Chief Chemist of the Agricultural Department. §'l he new food law, enacted by the last congress, is working smoothly and satisfactorily. Under its provisions the agricultural department is authorized to issue certificates to exporters of food products. Under the new law whenever an exporter desires we will make a chemical analysis to determine the pur ity of his product. If, after inspection, we find that he proposes to send abroad something that is pure and wholesome, a certificate is issued him addressed 'to the officials of the country to which his products are to go. This certificate of good character is helpful to him in many wavs, and acts as a letter of introduction. It is issued with the distinct un derstanding that it shall in no way be reproduced for advertising pur poses. So far our inspections have been confined almost exclusively to flour, breakfast foods and wheat, and it is indeed gratifying to be able to say that in every instance we have found 110 obstacle to the is suance of the desired certificate. The latest advices from Germany received at the department re port a movement afoot there to modify present discriminating laws, which are having the effect of closing the markets there to our meat products. It seems that the people are growing tired of the exactions of their dealers, and are complaining against the high prices they have to pay for their meats. The pressure is becoming so great that we have reason to expect the government will soon revise the laws and give American meats a better show. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1903. BADLY WORSTED. Reliance Again Heats Shamrock Off Sandy Hook. At tlie Knil of tlie Fourth llare, Wlilch 11 a* Not l''iiilslic€l Wltliiu Time Limit, the Cup Defender Ma* About Two Allien Ahead of « hullengor. New York, Aug. 26.- In a glorious breeze over a triangular COUISJ, ten miles to a leg, the fleet-footed cup defender Reliance again on Tuesday showed her heels to Sir Thomas Lip tc.n's challenger, taking the second race of the cup series of 1903 by the barrow margin of one minute and 1!) seconds. It was as pretty and as hard a fought contest as has ever been sailed off Sandy Hook, an 1, had tha wind not fallen during the last tea minutes, the record for the course, three hours, 12 and l.'i sec onds, made by Columbia two years Hffo on her memorable race against Shamrock 11, would have been broken. As it was, Reliance sailed the DO miles within two minutes r.nd 31) sec onds of the record, which speaks wonders for her speed in the wind that was blowing. Relian.e's victory, narrow as it was, would have been even smaller had not ('apt. Wringe, the skipper of the British ship, bun gled the start, sending ms craft over the line 19 seconds after the last gun and handicapped her to that extent. At every point of sailing the defen der's superiority was demonstrated. She gained one minute and .">1 seconds in windward work, 40 seconds on the run to tin* second mark, and 45 sec onds on the close reach for home. New York, Aug. 28.—With Reliance less than a third of a mile from the finish and Shamrock 111 hull down on the horizon, fully two miles astern of the gallant defender, the fourth race of the present series for the America's cup Thursday was declared off because of the expiration of the time limit of live and one-half hours. Although officially it was no race, the defeat administered to the chal lenger was so ignominious that what ever lingering hope remained in the breasts of the friends of Sir Thomas* boat vanished into thin air. Reli ance's victory was in every way more decisive than that of last Saturday. Outsailed, outpointed and outfooted, it was a procession from start to fin ish. The Herreslioff wonder beat the Shamrock hopelessly in tlie 15 miles of windward work, rounding the outer mark 12 minutes and 30 seconds ahead of her, a gain in actual time of 11 minutes and 29 seconds, and down the wind she steadily increased her lead. The real race of the day was not against Shamrock, but it was seen in the exciting struggle of Reli ance iu the last half hour to reach the finish line before the regatta com mittee tired the gun which should announce the expiration of the time limit. Had tlie wind freshened 20 minutes earlier than it did, the cup series would have ended yesterday with three straight wins for the de fender, and Fife's famous light, weather boat would have sailed back to Albion's shores one of the most disastrously worsted challengers in the history of the American cup con tests. Fully as discouraging as the sailing qualities displayed by the challenger was the atrocious manner in which the yacht was handled. She crossed the line in tlie wake of Ileiianee with a handicap of 61 of the precious sec onds for which Fife had sacrificed so much in sail spread for time allow ance. 4-toth boats, it is true, went over after the smoke of the handicap gun, but where both are handicapped, it is only the sternmost craft which actually suffers. FLOODS IN KANSAS. Cloudburst funned the 111-: Bine lllver to Itlse 10 l r eet —tVlar.v*villc Deluded House* Submersed People Take Refuse In Treed. Marysville, Kan., Aug. 26. —A cloud burst struck in this vicinity early yesterday, causing the Big Blue river tori» 18 feet within a few hours and sending a great flood of water down the bottoms along that stream. Many inhabitants in the lowlands were driven from their homes and heavy damage to property was done. One death by drowning is reported. Marys ville was deluged and the bottoms were filled with water from 10 to 15 feet deep. Fifty houses were almost entirely submerged, their inmates taking refuge in trees and on house tops. Seventy-five persons had been res cued in boats by daylight, and by noon 20 others were taken to places ef safety. The storm washed out the tracks on the Mine Valley branch of the Union Pacific for several miles and telegraph and telephone wires were down, cutting off outside com munication till late in the day. One of the rescuing parties was headed by Congressman William A. Calderhead, The river is falling now, although farms for miles around will be under water for several days. South of here at the town of Blue Rapids, the Blue river rose to within a few inches of the highest point of the June rise, causing much damage to farm prop erty. A wall of water struck Yliet, a town of 1,000 on the Vermillion river, east of here, in tlie same county, driving tlie residents from their houses. The Vermillion rose four feet in an hour and Vliet is five feet under water. Two Women Drowned. New York, Aug. 26. In the gale yesterday two women lost their lives in Jamaica Bay. Tlicy were Mrs. John llolm and her slater, Miss Itas mussen. of Brooklyn. They went sailing in a cat boat w'tli Mr. Holm and the boat was upset about half a mile off shore. In the heavy sea that was running, all three found it im possible to reach the be it and started to swim ashore, lie was picked up by a sailboat. The two women were taken from the water by a p-.rtv in a steam launch, but they died with out regaining consciousness. OUR VICE CONSUL ALIVE. «5e Had Keen Shot at but Not 111 - Tiirhlsli Official* I-:\press itcjtrct. Wshington, Vug. 29. A decided turn in the rise of United States Nice Consul William ('. Magelssen at Beirut, Syria, who was reported to have been assassinated last Sunday, developed last night when it became known that the report was incorrect, and that although Mr. Magelssen had been shot at he had not even been injured. This information came to the state department in a dispatch from United States Minister Irish man af Constantinople, who said the mistake in making the original an nouncement was due to an error in the transmission of the cipher dis patch from Consul Ruvndal at Beirut in reporting tlie incident to the min ister. Acting Secretary Loouiis declined to make public the text of Minister Leishmau's dispatch, but lie gave a summary of its contents. It shows that Mr. Magelssen had been shot at by some person at the time unknown to the officials, but that he hail not been hit. The local Turkish officials were prompt to express their regret at the occurrence and were exerting themselves to apprehend the assas sin. but thus far had been unsuccess ful. The minister's dispatch also said that Consul Ravndal had reported to him that some of the foreign consuls at Beirut had reported to their gov ernments that the situation at that place had become exceedingly un safe, that this condition of affairs had existed for some time and that something ought to be done to re lieve the tension. Oyster Bay, N. Y., Aug. 29. Presi dent Koosevelt was informed last night of the incorrectness of the re port that Nice Consul Magelssen, at Beirut, Syria, had been assassinated. The president expressed gratifica tion that Consul Magelssen had es caped without injury from the as sault of the would-be murderer, lie announced, however, that no change at present would be made in tiie plans of this government and that the European squadron which he had ordered to proceed to Beirut would continue to its ordered destination. It can be said to be the purpose of President Roosevelt to afford Ameri can citizens in the disturbed prov inces of Turkey all the protection possible. For that reason and for others which may develop in a short time the decision is reached that no change at this time will be made in the orders to the European squadron. Admiral Cotton will proceed with his vessels to Turkish waters with the idea of fully safeguarding Americans and American interests. The president and Secretary of State Hay both regard it advisable, in view of the present state of unrest in Turkey, to have American war ves sels in Turkish waters. "FAKE DIRECTORY." Merchant* in cities Have Been Swindled bv Its Promoter*. Louisville, Ky., Aug. 2S. —A "fake directory," swindle of national pro portions and l>y means of which over $1,000,000 has iieen taken from mer chants, bankers, etc., all over tiie country, is alleged by local defectives as the ground for the arrest of Jacob W. Geist. (ieist, who claimed to represent the National (iazetteer, of New York and Chicago, was taken in to custody here yesterday, charged with having obtained money by false pretenses from five local firms. The officers declare that (ieist's doings are connected with those of .lames Fallon, arrested in New York last April, and of Arthur Hubbard, arrest ed in Washington about the same time on similar charges. According to the officers the men goto merchants to solicit advertis ing in a national business directory and rating book. If a bona fide order signed by the merchant is given it is raised in amount and so changed as to provide for payment at a date before delivery of directory and advertisement. If the merchant re fuses he is persuaded to sign a blank application for a sample copy, which later apppears as a contract for pay ment over the victim's signature. It is said that many merchants have paid rather than become involved in legal difficulties. The five local firms were swindled in amounts ranging from $25 to SIOO. A Monastery Is Captured. Paris, Aug. 28. —The expulsion of the Redemptorist fathers from their monastery at Les Sables d'Olonne. department of Vendee, was carried out yesterday after iui exciting ex perience. The barricaded building was surrounded by soldiers, police and firemen. The inonastry bells summoned a crowd of people to its defense, missiles were thrown out of the windows and several of the be siegers were injured. After four hours' siege the barricades were forced and the fathers retreated to the roof, where they continued their defense until dislodged by a stream of water. Many arrests were made. Schooner Slniis —Six .Hell Drowned. Stonington, Conn., Aug. 2S. —The j steamship 11. M. Whitney, from New j York to Boston, ran down and sank the schooner .lohn Booth just west of New liaven. Wednesday night. The Whitney rescued tne captain of the Booth: the Maine, of the Stoning- ; ton line, saved a sailor, but the five ; other men in the Booth's crew and a passenger, who belonged in Salem, Mass., were drowned. Idt» W ill ho I'romofpil. Oyster Bay, V Y., Aug. 2S.—Presi dent Roosevelt announced last night that lleiir.v C. Ide, at present a mem ber of the Philippine commission, would be designated as vice governor of the Philippines in succession to Gen. Luke E. Wright, when the latter assume.' the office of governor gen eral. The president lias selected a man to till the vacancy made in the personnel of the commission and has preferred tlie commissionsliip to him. No answer to the offer has been re ceived, however, and until this is at hand the name of the uuui selected will r.iot be made known. AN OATH OK ALLEGIANCE. 1 Mm ploy e* of Hie 4.<>\eminent I'ririt- Injj Otllee are Ordered to Take 11. Washington, Aug. 27. \ll order j from Public Printer Palmer was is ! sued to the lii-ail.s of divisions in the | government printing office just be- I fore the hour for closing yesterday : to appear before a notary public in 1 the office and take tne oath of a lie- I giauce to the I nited States as sub j scribed to by clerks under the civil j service law. Mr. I'almer said he issued the order I n ' the suggestion of a government official, whose name he declined to give. He said that its object was to ■ place the per diem employes in the same attitude toward the govern ment as that of the clerks on annual salaries, who have subscribed to the ord«-r. He said that every employe of the office would be affected by the order, but to prevent loss of time and confusion, the chiefs of divisions were asked to take it yesterday and that gradually the entire force would have the oath administered. The issuance of the order created considerable surprise among- the em ployes of the office, especially among members of the Bookbinders' union, who believe it has indirectly a bear ing on the issues growing out of the case of \V. A. Miller, the assistant foreman of the bindery, who was discharged from the oftice because he had been expelled from the local Bookbinders' union, but who was af terwards reinstated at the direction of I'residen' Roosevelt, Washington, Aug. as.—Public Printer Palmer made the statement yesterday that the order for the tak ing of tlie oath of allegiance by all employes of the government printing office was neither directly nor in directly the result of the controversy between the Bookbinders' union and Assistant Foreman Miller. VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION. Stream of Lava, 15 Feet Wide, Flows from a New Opening. Naples, Aug. 27.—The people of Na ples and the vicinity witnessed a re markable spectacle at noon Wednes day. One thousand feet below the central cone of Vesuvius the volcano opened like :i huge mouth, out of which belched a fiery stream of lava which ran down the side of the moun tain and at first seemed to menace the observatory. This, however, is protected in the direction of the stream by a mouno of Java 200 feet high which was thrown out during the eruptions of is;),-, and 1900. The eruption occurred without any warning whatever. There was no earthquake, detonation or rain of ashes, nothing but a clear stream of lava and red-hot stones, which were thrown to a height of 700 feet, pro ducing an extremely beautiful scene from Naples. Naples, Aug. 29.—With tremendous detonations heard for miles around a new fissure opened at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the cone of Vesuvius, and from the new gap came pouring out tons of burning lava which (lowed in the direction of the village of Ottajano. IMMENSE RAILROAD YARDS. rile PPIIII*}' Plans lor a <«reat Num ber of Tracks at Shire Oak*. Pa. Washington, Pa., Aug. 27.—The Pennsylvania Railroad Co., to make room for its immense yards to be built at Shire Oaks, thiscounty, has just purchased more than $1,000,000 worth of property between Courtney and Suiin.vsVle and a large portion of the town o Shire Oaks has been bought by tue company. The grad ing has about been completed for the great classification yards of the Penn sylvania. Thirty-eight tracks are to be laid, each of which will be consid erably more than a mile in length. All the coal trains from the upper Monongahela valley, the New Klon dike coke region and the coal dis tricts of Fayette county as far east as I'niontown will be hauled to Shire Oaks and made up for points west on the Fort Wayne and for the Pan- Handle, and also for eastern points on the Pennsylvania. Nearly a thou sand men will be given employment in the yards to start with and this number will be increased later. Long Strike !■: 112 led. Pittsburg, Aug. 27.—Word was re ceived yesterday at the headquarters of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers from Assisst ant President John Pierce that the long strike at the Ashland, Kv„ sheet mills had been amicably settled. The strike was declared February 6 last. It has been bitterly fought and sev eral clashes between non-union men i and sympathizers have occurred. For some months no attempt has been made to operate the mill. Nearly 300 I men are affected by the settlement. I The cause of The strike was a dis- ! agreement over the wage scale. Op- ' erations will be resumed at once. Smyu goodwill ICmbezzled a tuition. Philadelphia, Aug. 27. —A bill iu equity was filed in court here yester day by Cassatt & Co., bankers of this city, against the widow of the late Howard T. Goodwin, in which it is a I- j leged that Goodwin misappropriated about $1,000,000. Goodwin had been i employed as manager for the firm J for a long period and committed sui- ' cide last December. Schooner and Seven Liven Lout. South Norwalk, Conn., Aug. 27—The I Bcnopner Willie L. Newton, of Mat- : gor. Me., capsized off Norwalk light; during the storm Tuesday night and j the crew, believed to number seven : men, were drowned. Helloes of (lie lluraiMl Disaster. Durand Mich., Aug. 2S. —The coro ner's inquest into the death of the 23 victims who were Killed in tlie ; wreck of Wallace Brothers' circus I train on the Crawl Trunk railroad on August 7 was concluded yesterday. The jury rendered a verdict that the wreck was caused by the failure of the nit* brakes to work on the see- j ond section; that the wreck might have been averted if the engineer,! Cliarle» M. Propst, had watched the air gauge before him, and also if j Wallace Brothers had had their cars properly equipped with haud brakes. ' CONSERVATIVE PROGRESS It Given Prouilae ol (irralrr IVmia« IWIIL (iuiii In KH*IIICM*. New York, Aug. 29. -R. (J. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: There i.s still no indication of the depression in trade and industry that pessimists predicted would follow the decline in securities. Con»erva j tism was developed by the uncertain ty regarding the effect upon finan cial conditions, hut legitimate busi ness is able to secure funds as they are required, and the more cautious progress of business gives promise of greater permanent gain. Weak spots have been disclosed, and the technical position strengthened, just as occurred in the stock market. Readjustnient after ii period of infla tion must of necessity bring some losses, yet the outlook is brightened ! by the removal of threatening indus trial clouds. Dispatches from all sections tes tify to the liberal distribution of nier j chanrlise and the disposition to pre j pare for greater consumption of all the necessaries of life, while the crops are making good progress aside from some cotton districts in Texas. The number of buyers in New York , is increasing and a heavy fall trade I is anticipated. it is gratifying to find that con sumers of pig iron have at last appar- I ently decided to place contracts with out waiting for further concessions. Failures this week numbered 70 in the i'nited States, against 17.T last year, and 33 in Canada, compared j with 14 a year ago. BOLD BANDITS. "tluoki-d Mm A*«aulled antl Itohliril a Party of ItallroadrrN. McKni'land, Kan., Aug. 29. —At 1 o'clock Friday morning six masked men heavily armed appeared at the Hock Island depot and started to en ter the office door. Conductor Mon nelian, of a freight train which had just pulled in, and Haggageman C harles Toler saw them and attempt ed to block flic door, but the rob bers forced an entrance and, after taking their money and watches, beat the railroad men into insensibility. They then rifled the depot of its contents and.going to the eating house, held up and took all the valu ables from a half dozen railroad em ployes on the platform. Passengers at the lunch counter scurried up stairs and blocked the entrance ef fectively. I lie bandits looted the eating house cash register and stole some silver ware. Then they marched and car ried six of the Rock Island employes into a refrigerator car and disap peared. Two hours after the robbers disap peared, Sheriff Frey had organized a posse, released the prisoners from tne car and started in purcuit of the bandits, who headed towards To peka. A Fatal Storm. Connellsville, Pa., Aug. 29. —A storm passed over tins section Friday dur ing which people were lifted oft their feet and houses were moved off their foundations. Mrs. Lizzie Levowitz, i Slavish woman, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. A frame house in course of construc tion at (ireenwood was toppled off its foundation, severely injuring Samuel Kuhlnian, a carpenter, and Frank Wooden, a painter. Harry White, a painter, was caught in a whirlwind md hurled 30 feet. The Fourth ward school house was struck by light ning and 000 children were thrown into a panic but no one was injured. Mi Li'od OelVafx JciikliiM. Hamilton, Ont., Aug. 29.—Dan Mc- Leod defeated Torn .Jenkins, the world's champion eateh-as-eatch-can wrestler in a handicap match at the armory last night. According to the articles of agreement /Jenkins under took to throw Mel.eod twice in one hour of actual wrestling time, Mc- Leoil to win the match if lie secured one fall. Jenkins took the first fall in 15:30. MeLeod assumed the ag gressive and succeeded in pinning the champion's shoulders to the mat in 10:38. Three <>irl« Drowned. Pittsburgh, Aug". 29.—While a party of young people were driving home from a social gathering near Ever green borough, north of Allegheny, early Friday their vehicle was pre cipitated over a high embankment into (iirty's run and three were drowned. The dead: Myrtle Scott, aged 20 years. Xannie Scott, sister, aged IS years. Annie Clifford, a cousin, aged about 20 years. Kxploxlon 4'auxeil a Panic, Chicago. Aug. 29. —Michael Fozinsky was killed and six of his companions more or less seriously injured as the result of an explosion in Ihe Illinois Steel Co.'s works in South Chicago yesterday. A draft pipe is said to have burst. Five thousand workmen in the building were thrown in a panic and all the laborers in the north end of the plant were thrown to the floor. A I'l-lnliUm Disaster, Home, Aug. 29.—A train filled with soldiers going to the maneuvers at I dine yesterday collided with a freight train, and 20 soldiers were killed and so injured. A captain who was killed had his head cut off and an engine driver was burned alive. Hotli engines were entirely destroyed and several cars were crushed into splinters. A line] on tlie Slrepl. Seymour, Ind., Aug. 29.—As the re sult of a quarrel on the street be tween ex-Mayor Albert W. Mills and Policemen John lieddingcr and Enoch Itaughman, Mills was shot, and per haps fatally wounded by the police men. lleddingcr was shot in the h*ad and dangerously wounded and Haitghman was shot twice in the side. Mills had been ordered home by the officers and resented it. He flourish ed a revolver, which was taken from him and he then drew a s;nife. Later he went to his office, secured an other revolver and retatned, when the shooting took place. 3
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