2 CAMtKON CUOSTY FRiiSS. H. H. MULLIN, Ed,lor. Published Every Thursday, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. r'er y«i»r tZ .5 per year', over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local iuserted for less than 75 cents per usue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PHKSS lscomplete •tid affords facilities for doing the best class of work. P.Utl ICt.'l.Alt ATTENTION PAIUTO LAW PIIINTINI.. No paper will be discontinued until arrear- Cies arc paid, except »t the option of the pub sher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid (or in advance. Avocations Are Useful. The popt Horace wondered why no snan ever remained entirely content, with his lot. At Plainfield a banker, de scribed as one of the wealthiest in the state, has lost his eyesight from an explosion of chemicals with which lie was working in a secret laboratory. There through most of the night and before business hours in the morning, according to tlie New York World, he toiled away in search of a secret of nature which has now eluded him for ever. All that wealth could give him was leisure for scientific research. La dies occupying commanding positions in society take to writing books. J. P. Morgan is pictured as more pleased cy the prize won by his collies at the dog show than over a "deal" of the kind that made their possession possible. A president would like to be a cowboy, a district attorney prefers clocks to law cases, a Rothschild collects 10,000 tleas, Fox cared more for his pigs than for parliament, Louis XVI. aspired lo be a locksmith, Peter the Great loved to work in a shipyard. Here is Lord Grey reported as wishing he couid dance as well as Taglioni. Probably every human breast cherishes a desire to win fame in some pursuit diametri cally opposite to tkat which fate has assigned. No doubt this restlessness keeps the mind versatile, refreshing it by removing it from a too-fatiguing concentration. "Tom" Reed's brain was ail the keener for his French novels, and "Ouida" does not appear to deteri orate the quality of a supreme court justice's law. Darwin was a great con sumer of cheap fiction. Keeping per sistently at?Ji thing is of course a main essential of-success. But the relaxa tion which the ambition to do somc thng else induces is not unprofitable. Could Laugh with the Boys. It is a good judge who cannot only give sound advice to youthful culprits, but can laugh when the joke is* turned on him. An instance is found in an occurrence in a Brooklyn court. Some boys were up before a local magistrate charged with having placed obstruc tions on the railroad track. The boys were thoroughly frightened, but when the magistrate, in a fatherly way, ex plained to them that confession would make it easier for them in the end, one of them weakened and "owned up." "So you did place a stone on the track?" said the judge. "Yes, sir," fal tered the boy. "How big was it?" asked the judge, but the boy didn't seem to know."Was it as big as my head?" suggested the judge. - The boy looked at him gravely. "Yes, sir," he taid. "As big around, but only about half as thick." And the judge joined in the smile which went around the room, even though it was at his own expense. A North Adams man, according to the Detroit Tribune, stopped behind a colt he was breaking to harness and was Kicked in the face to the extent of having the cheek bones fractured. In this progressive age no man should crouch at the rear end of events to see what is going on ahead. He should be careful about getting in front of them, too. "Here Dennis," said the veterinary to his Irish assistant, "take this tube which is filled with throat powder. Insert one end in the horse's mouth and blow at the other." Den nis thereafter writhes on the ground in contortions. "Why, Dennis! What's the matter?" Dennis' reply: "The barse blowed foorsht!" It is a good thing ior the young men who goto college that the "smartness" of dissipation is minimized ar.d the laurels goto those who win athletic or Intellectual distinction, observes the Minneapolis Times. Perhaps the hon ors are not fairly distributed. The ap plause should feo more frequently to the winner of intellectual distinction than it toes and there should be perhaps less for the man of brawn, but the moral ef fect is good and that is something. Peru is growing progressive. The government has consented that the managers of the new American railway line between Oroya and Cerro de Pasco may run freight trains as fast as 13 miles an hour. The "lightning express" probably goes at the rate of 20 niiies; but even 13 miles is fast, travel for a country used to the speed of pack-aui 4ual.H. DISCOVERED AT LAST. THE ORIGINAL GASTON. RATIFIED PANAMA TREATY. Wild Hurrying of Democrats to Cover When They Heard from the People. The democratic party in congress started out to fight the treaty with Panama because it was negotiated by a republican administration. But when the democratic leaders heard from their constituencies and found that the people were enthusiastically in favor of the Panama canal and of all steps necessary to make the big channel a reality, there was a hurrying to cover, says the Troy Times. When the vote was finally taken, much earlier than was expected the issue could be reached, only 14 democrats were found who placed themselves in opposition to the bill. Thus the democratic party in the senate conceded that the treaty of fered by the republican party to the nation was wise and desirable. It is discouraging to a party which needs so badly an issue for its cam paign this year that when an expected opportunity presents itself the people of the country should force that party itself to get into line with national sentiment. The suggestion which has been made in a semi-humorous way that the Democrats have no campaign this year, but ratify the republican platform, is not a bad one, because the different elements which will make up that platform arc being ratified one by one in the progress of events and no hand is raised against them with any prospect of success. The final approval of the treaty with Panama assures prompt and per sistent activity in the construction of the canal. The building of this inter oceanic highway will be one of the great events in the world's history. It will have a civilizing influence on man kind, and it will be a certain and a just reward to the United States that in facilitating the intercourse of the world's people much of the resulting advantage will come to enterprising and sagacious America, which under the able and progressive guidance of the republican party has brought what Senator Hoar called "the dream of cen turies" to a wideawake realization. BY THE POLITICAL EDITORS CJlr. Cleveland and Mr. Bryan con tinue to reiterate their opinions about each other in spite of the fact that the public is entirely familiar with them. —Washington Star. advice of Mr. Cleveland to beware of the strange cause and obso lete issues supported by the democratic party in 1896 and 1900. This wise coun sel so enrages persons identified with Bryanism that something still stranger may be looked for in July.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. c "ii is figured that :17 newspapers are shouting for Cleveland as the dem ocratic nominee. But all 57 are not shouting as loud as six others located in New York, Chicago and San Fran cisco. The old style common o. - garden variety of democrat is bound lo yield to the new and stylish yellow speeches (Democrat ia Hearstiana). —Indianapo- lis Journal. G Senator Gorman seems to have a positive genius for choosing exactly the wrong time to express his opinions. Now he is advocating a cheap navy and just at the time when most people arc beginning to see the need of a strong one. If an angel should come down and announce that the country was about to be visited by disastrous fire Gorman would probably choose that moment to introduce a bill com pelling everybody to allow their insur ance policies to lapse.—lr.dianapalis Journal. fC"There j s no danger of this coun try becoming involved in the war," says the president, so that silences an other lot of foolishness.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. G -''Col. Bryan declares he does not care who is the democratic presiden tial candidate, but he is going to s»e to it that the convention reaffirms the Kansas City platform. If that is done nobody whose nomination would be worth while will care to be a candi date. Col. Bryan is determined that the next candidate shall be beaten as bad ly as the last outs was.—Philadelphia Press. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 17. 1904. STANDPATTERS' CHAMPION. Mr. Hanna Stood Like a Stone Wall in Defense of a Protective Tariff. The death of Mr. Hanna, in theopinion of tlie Portland Oregonian. deprives the standpatters of their strongest cham pion. Speaking of the movement for lowering certain tariff rate, ii says: "Across the path of every step in this re formatory direction Senator Manna stood like a stone wall. He said that the'iurift should never be changed so lonjj us he liuei power to prevent it." Mr. Hanna was the author of the ad juration to stand pai as applied to the tariff issue, and meant all he said at that time and later, says the Washington Star. How much longer, had he lived, he would have stood out against tariff re vision is a question. He well under stood that the subject was coming up at the republican national convention for an expression in the platform, and that republican success next fall would mean an effort in the next congress to lower certain duties that are no longer needed by the industries now profiting by them. He might have continued his opposition. He might, on the other hand, have come to see the advisaLiiity of following the advice which his friend and leader „S.ve the parly and the country in his last speech at Buffalo. The tariff revision proposed under what is called ihe "lowa idea" has for its best indorsement what Mr. MeKin ley left as a legacy to the people on that subject. Nothing beyond that is pro posed. Nothing within that scope can possibly be hurtful. Mr. McKinley knew the tariff from A to Z. He had watched the operations of the Dingley law with the closest attention and with thehearti est pride and satisfaction. He had seen all of his own tariff views, as well as his election to the presidency, vindicated by the law. It is not to be supposed for a moment, therefore that he would have made his Buffalo speech if he had not thought the matter out and convinced himself that the time for a limited re vision of the law had arrived. Will there be the slightest clanger in under taking in the early spring of 1906 what Mr. McKinley advised and thought could safely be done in the spring of 1902? He died in the fall of 1901, and we may believe that had he been spared he would have called the attention of congress to the subject in his next mes sage. Mr. Hanna, as we all know, was not an authority on the tariff as Mr. McKin ley was. He was a sagacious business man and knew his own "line" thorough ly. So that his adjuration to stand pat has not, or should not have, the call upon our attention that the advice of Mr. Mc- Kinley lias, or should have, in dealing with a question of such farreaching im portance. State of New York. Mr. Bryan while in New York on his latest visit met neither Mr. liill, who is for Judge Parker, nor Mr. Murphy, who is for Mr. Cleveland. He did meet Norman K. Mack, who is trying to unite the democratic factions in the state, and he spent an hour with May or McClellan, who has a presidential lightning rod up. The New York situ ation is puzzling everybody, and Mr. Bryan is probably wise in picking his path there with extreme care. The Parker people want instructions. The Cleveland people are opposed to in structions. Blessed are the Hearst people, for they expect nothing. It is all a riot of schemers and scheming, everybody expressing a desire that New York may control the situation at St. Louis, but with 1,000 different views prevailing as to how control may be obtained.—Washington Star. lu The Panama canal is only oiie of the great achievements which will stand to the credit of the republican party. G- r When Mr. Bryan wants to make a fearful prophecy of democratic disas ter he predicts that somebody "will be beaten worse than Horace Greeley was." Why this modesty? One Bryan lias the honor of having been beaten twice by bigger pluralities than that which was thrown against Mr. Greeley. The awful example in American poli tics has been changed by the new rec ords of the .'ast eight years.—Chicago Chronicle (Dent.}. JAPANKNK INFANTIIV IN ACTION • ClltfoC9 993C»«09«O90t999MM009H0OM»OMt»teMtMeOl j THE GREAT WAR | IN THE EAR EAST ooooiiQiiiiiOAOiieoAosieoe St. Petersburg', March B.—A mes- | sage from Viceroy Alexieff says: ! "The commandant at Vladivostok re- j ports that Sunday's bombardment re sulted in no serious damage to the port. The fortress did not return the enemy's fire. One seaman was wound ed and one woman was killed. .Mon day at midday the enemy again en- ; tercel I'ssuri bay and approached the point from which they bombarded the? harbor on March 0. Th«v left again, making for the open sea.'' The Uussiun authorities have been' approached indirectly by American shipping firms desiring authority to , fit out privateers to prey on Japanese commerce, but they met with no en- j eouragement. In just what forms these offers came- or on whose behalf they were made cannot be ascertained, as the; government would not even consider ] them. The Associated Press is able ' to announce officially that Russia ; will not issue letters of marque. London, March B.l r p to a late hour last evening tlie Japanese lega tion here had received no official in- i formation regarding the bombard-| nient of Vladivostok. It is believed at the legation, however, that the .Tap- \ attese are now between the itussian I cruiser squadron and Vladivostok ami there is reason to believe that the Itussian squadron is in tlie vicinity of i Possiet bay. Russian official dispatches do not mention this squadron and this fact | lends color to the belief that the Jap- : anese warships have shut it out of | Vladivostok. Loudon. March 8. —Cabling froip | Ping Yang, Korea, under date eif ! March 0, a correspondent of the Daily j Mail says that 2,000 Russian cavalry men, with seven guns, retreated last j Wednesday through Kusong and Son- I clion towards Wiji. RUMORS OF BATTLE AT SEA. London, March 9.—The Daily Tele- ! graph this morning publishes a dis- j patch from Tokio dated March 7 and saying: "it is reported that the Jay- j anese fleet engaged the Itussian i Vladivostok squadron at sea yester- 1 day. The result of the engagement is not announced, but it is believed that the Russian ships were destroy- i eel or captured." Tokio. March 9. The forthcoming visit of Marcjuis Ito as special am bassador from the emperor of Japan ! to the emperor of Korea claims gen- 1 eral attention. It nas originally planned to send a prominent Japan ese to Seoul as a permanent resident ! adviser to the Korean government, j The announcement that Marquis ito: is going is a surprise. VICTORIES FOR JAPS ARE REPORTED London, March 10.— No further , news litis reached London of I lie re port of the fighting' at Port Arthur, or of the fate of the Russian Vladivo- I stok squadron. l"p to a late hour last night the" Japanese legation here j has heard nothing of these reported 1 occurrences, but it is considered sig- j liifieant that the Russian official clis- j patches make no mention of the ! Vladivostok cruisers. The news from Washington of the appearance of Japanese forces at j Fiing Wang Chang, -t."> miles north- j west of Ant ling, in Manchuria, and j Tashan. a few miles inland from the mouth of the Yalu river, is regarded as most important. According to the ! Tien Tsin correspondent of the Daily '.telegraph the Japanese advanced ! from ihe Yalu river, capturing Fung ! Wang Cheng and drove out the litis- j sians in I lie vicinity to the Taku Ung 1 eastern pass, and are in force 70 miles ! east of New Chwang. The Russians, j with :t5,000 men, are entrenched j strongly til Liao Yang and Hai ' Chwang, where lighting is imminent, i Some small engagements already have been fought, the Russians re tiring with losses. A dispatch to the Times from Wei llai-Wei, dated March !l. says: "It is reported on good authority that a collision between Japanese and Russian troops has occurred near ; Must Observe! Neutrality.' Washington, March 11.- President | Roosevelt litis issued the following ! executive order respecting the obser- | vance of the proclamation recently \ promulgated declaring the neutrality j of the United States between Russia and Japan: "All officials of the gov- » eminent, civil, military and naval, are j hereby directed not only to observe j the president's proclamation of neu- j trality in the war between Russia and i Japan, but also to abstain from either | action or speech which can legiti- ! mately cause irritation to either of j the _ . . All the News of» the War Between • Russia and Japan. • ? etsieoioettofioionoteititi j Hai .In. Korea, (54 miles northwest of I Chemulpo), which resulted in the de ! feat of tlie ltussians." JAPANESE WARSHIPS BOMBARD PORT ARTHUR St. Petersburg, March 11.—-The czar has received the following mes sage from Viceroy AlexictV, dated | -Mukden, March 10: j "'The commandant of the fortress : at Port Arthur reports that at about ; i o'clock this morning vessels, appar ently torpedo boats, were seen at sea | within the area swept by our search lights. Our batteries opened tire up jon these vessels. Our torpedo boats put out to sea at 2:40 a. in., and at | about 4 o'clock met the enemy west !of the Liao Tishin lighthouse. After | firing several shots the enemy retired to the south in the direction of Shan dun. Our torpedo boats returned to ■ the harbor at t> o'clock. \ "Later torpedo boats Mere again ' sent to sea to recommiter. They re turned iu half an hour, having learn j ed that an enemy's squadron was ap proaching. "At s o'clock the Japanese opened ; fire upon our cruisers mid the fort j ress. The enemy had 14 ships, and | fired the entire time from behind 1 I.iao Tishin." | Tokio, March 11.—'Russian and Japanese mounted scouts met north !of Ping Vang on Wednesday. After a j brief engagement the Russians re | treated. No casualties are reported I orti either side. i The Nagasaki correspondent of the 1 Daily Express asserts that 200.0U0 : troops have been shipped from Japan, i INDECISIVE BATTLE OFF PORT ARTHUR St. Petersburg, March 12. —The era- I peror has received a message from I Viceroy Alexieft", which says: j "Admiral MakarofF, commanding , the fleet, reports from Port Arthur I as follows: | "Six torpedo boats which went out to sea the night of March 10. four of them being under command of ('apt. Mattoussev itch, encountered the enemy's torpedo boats followed by cruisers. "A hot action ensued in which the torpedo boat destroyer Vlastini dis charged a Whitehead torpedo and sunk one of the enemy's torpedo boats. On the way hack the torpedo boat destroyer Stereguschtelii sus stained damages; her engine was dis abled and she began to founder. l!y s o'clock in the morning five of our torpedo boat destroyers had return ed. When the critical position of the Stereguschtelii became evident I hoisted my flag on the cruiser Xovi,< and went with the Novik and the cruiser Boyarin to the rescue. But as five of the enemy's cruisers sur rounded our destroyer anil as their battleship squadron was approaching, I did not succeed in saving the Stere gusehU hi, which foundered. Pari of the crew was made prisoners and | part was drowned. "On the ships which participated in the night attack, one officer was seri ously and three others were slightly wounded, two soldiers were killed, and IS wounded. "At (i o'clock 14 of the enemy's ships assembled before I'ort Arthur and a | bombardment was begun with the, heavy guns of their battleship squad- ! ron at long range. "This lasted until I o'clock in the afternoon. The damage to our ves sels was insignificant and they are again ready for battle. Our losses were ten officers slightly wounded, one soldier killed and four soldiers wounded. "A bombardment at such a distance must he considered ineffective, but, the Japanese cruiser Takasago is re ported to have been seen to suffer serious damage, the extent of which, ■however, it was impossible to ascer tain at a distance of five miles. Many shells were fired at a range of 7'/, mi les." London, March 12.—A correspondent at Che Koo of the Daily Mail gives alleged information of the Japanese landing movements up to March i) and says that disembarkation is pro ceeding at Chemulpo and northward points with marvellous activity. Iti<£ Tunnel FllilMiitl. New York, March 12.—Begun 30 years ago and twice abandoned for long periods because of accidents and financial difficulties, the driving of the bore of the Hudson river tunnel, connecting Fourteenth street, Jersey City, with .Morton street, on Man hattan Island, was finished Friday. So great had been the aeeiirSey of the plans of Chief Engineer Charles M. Jacobs that when 1 he ends of the tunnel met there was not the varia tion of a hair in the courses of the. Jersey section and the New Vork heading. • Worth the Money. Struggling Dramatist —I can't see how Littlewitt managed to get such a big price for that trashy play of his. They say that Miss Footlights paid him $lO,- 000. First Nighter—l presume you know that she is in love with her leading man." "Yes." "Well. Littlewitt's play has 25 kisses in it."—N. Y. Weekly. Asked and Answered. "Pop." "Yes, my son?" "Did they used to put money tfver dead people's eyes?" "Yes; but the practice is confined only to live people now." "Who, what—" "Public officials. So they can't see some things."—Cleveland Leader. The Exception. "Women, as a rule, are given to ex aggeration," remarked the cynical bachelor. "But," protested the spinster, "there are exceptions to all rules, you know." "Oh, of course," rejoined the c. b., "and the exception to this one is when they are forced to talk about their own age."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Epitaph. Percy studied chemistry. Studied long and late. P< rev breathed some chlorine gas. He'll not graduate. —Cornell Widow. ENOUGH SAID. Townlot—Hello, Harker! You seem all done tip. Gasoline stove? Harker —No! Chafing dish. Townlot —Chafing dishes don't ex plode. Harker —My wife threw it. —Chicago Daily News. Enjoyment. Tills life's a game, wise fo;ks. declare. Where luck may help a lot. The men who wiu are much amused And those who lose art not. —Washington Star. Content. "Aren't you sometimes tempted to complain about the ingratitude of re publics?" "Certainly not," answered Senator Sorghum. "I haven't the slightest hesi tancy in declaring that this republic has amply paid me for everything I ever did for it."—Washington Star. Busincsd Cards. B. W. GREEK, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Emporium, Pa. A businessrelatingto estate,collections. re»l estates. Orphan's Court and generallaw bushiest trill receive prompt attention. 42-ly. J. C. JOHNSON. J. P. MCNARNBY JOHNSON & MCNARNEY, A TTORN E YS-AT-LA W» EMPORIUM, PA. Will give prompt attention to all business enj fiistedtotheiu. 16-ly. MICHAEL BRENNAN, ATTO RN EY-AT-L A W Collections promptly attended to. Real estat# ind pension claim agent, 85-ly. Emporium, Pa. THOMAS WADDINGTON, Emporium, Pa., CONTRACTOR FOR MASONRY AND STONE-CUTTING. All orders in my line promptly executed. All t !nds of building and cut-stone, supp ed at low prices. Airent for marble or granite monuments. Lettering neatly done. AMERICAN HOUSE. East Emporium, Pa.. JOHN' L. JOHNSON, Prop'r. Having resumed proprietorship of this old and well established House I invite iho patronage of the public. House newly furnished and thor oughly renovated. 48!y F. D. LERT. VrTORNEY-AT-LAW and INSURANCE AG'T. EMPORIUM, FA TJ LAND OWNERS AND OTHERS IN CAMERON AND ADJOINIKU COUNTIES. I have numerous calls for lieni'ock and hard* wood tin ber lands, also stum psge&c., and part iet desiring either to buy or seJI will do well to "all su me. F. D. LEET. CITY HOTEL, WM. McGEE, PROPRIETOB Emporium, Pa. Having again taken possession of this old and popular bouse 1 solicit a share of the public pat ronage. The house is newly furnishedand is out of the best appointed hotels iu Cameroucounty. 30-ly. THE NOVELTY RESTAURANT, (Opposite Post O(lice,J Emporium, Pa. "YILMAM MCDONALD, Proprietor. I take pleasure in informing the public that } have purchased the old and popular Novelty Restaurant, located on Fourth street. It will bt my endeavor to serve the public in a niannet that shall meet with their approbation. Give me a call. Meals and luncheon served at all liouit. uo'27-lyr Win. McDONALD. ST. CHARLES HOTEL, THOS. J. LYSETT, PaopiiiETon Near Buffalo Depot, Emporium, Pa. This new and commodious hotel is now opened forthe accommodation of the public. Newint-1 its appointments, every nttftntion willbepai to the guests patronizing this Hotel. 27-17 ly MAY GOULD, ' THACHKR OF PIANO, HARMONY AND THEORY, Also dealer in all the Popular Music, Emporium, Pa. Scholarstanght either at ray home on Sixth street or at the homes ol'the pupils. Out oftoa u scholars trill be given dates at my ro-msiutbit place. P C. RIECK, D. D. S., DENTIST.! Office over Tacgart's Drug Store, Emporium, Pa. Gas and other local anaesthetics »(!■ ministered for the painless extract lon •