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The Job department of the PRKSS IS complete •nd affords facilities for doing the best class of WorU. FAK'I(SI;L4U ATTCMTION PLIDTU LAW PRINTINO. No paper "Wtll be discontinued until arrear tges are paid, except %t the option of tho pob sher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid tor tu advance. College Honor (?) Deteriorating. , College honor is at a low ebb in the University of Pennsylvania. A number of freshmen and sophomores actually refused to take part in the annual "bowl fight" on the campus a few days ago; and, very properly, have been con demned by their classmates to ducking in the frog pond of the Botanical gar dens. In the face of a great moral crisis of this kind it is not surprising to read that the classes forgot their traditional hatred of each other, and Joined enthu siastically in chastising the poltroons. One of the degenerates had the effront ery to tell the ducking committee that, he had kept out of the fight because he didn't want to ruin his clothes. "A howl of derision went up at this,"and he was hustled off to the pond. Another young freshman had the "nerve" to confess that he kept out of the class battle be cause his parents told him he must. Of course, there was but one thing to do with such a "mamma's boy" as that — dump him in the frog pond—and it wag •done. The most humiliating case of all, how ever, was that of two sophomores who would not fight. Humiliated in the ex treme, the classmates of these men de livered them over to the freshmen to be hazed. "For an hour," wrote an ob server, "they were compelled to push pennies around on the gravel with their noses, sing, and make speeches, while the crowd looked on and jeered." The case of Pennsylvania may seem hope less, with such cowards in the student body, but it is cheering to read that "hazing will continue until every fresh man or sophomore who failed togo in the bowl fight is given a trial." The Honest Man's Duty. Now we are not so unjust, we hope, as to accept as true a wholesale indictment of business men as sucli, especially indi viduals who manage their own business, have high ideals and are satisfied with a reasonable return on their invest ments, says the Congregationalism The business men who have turned business into treason are relatively few but especially conspicuous, and they work under the form of the corpora tion or monopoly. They tolerate meth ods as directors of corporations which, had they remained individual employ ers, they would have scorned to employ. They water stocks and capitalize air, and expect the public to pay dividends on the same. They bribe members of boards of education, municipal legis lators and national parties. They steal with one hand l and donate to churches, colleges, hospitals and to social better ment with the other. They denounce anarchy imported from Europe, and manufacture it themselves at home. They would be Insulted were their loy alty to democracy challenged, when in sooth they are both spokesmen for plutocracy and its exemplars. Obviously, If these things be true, those who believe in honesty In busi ness, in statecraft, have certain duties to perform. Can it be possible that there has been i failure in the snake crop? Whatever the cause this spring's lack of snake stories has been so painfully obvious that the snake eulors are being forced into writing head lines for the religious notes. Has no Kansas farmer yet plowed tip a bunch of rattlesnakes as large as a rain-barrel and as round as a billiard ball that rolled after hiru, hissing, across the field? Are all the ten-foot blacksnakes killed out of the wilds of New Jersey? Has no two-year-old child in Hooppole township, Posey county, Ind., vet been observed playing in the front yard with a friendly spotted adder? Whore are the snakes of yesteryear? It is not absolutely impossible that "course" dinners go out of fashion, not from too obvious reasons, but bfcause overnourished society is tired of spend ing so much time in rating the same old dishes. When such a trencherman as King Edward limits his dinner to one hour either he must eat too last or there are not more than four or five courses. Who knows if the lavish flummery of the up-to-date dinner party Is not passing. like some other wornout caprices, and soon the world of wealth will content itself with dining ou one special ere is a sugar pl;im for Parker and t fitter pill for somebody else in that observation. —Glmira Gazette (Dem.). is alleged that Willie Hearst has been trying to buy all the hotel space in St. Louis during the demo cratic national convention. If he can get. all the delegates to become his guests of course they can't refuse him the courtesy of a presidential nomina tion in return for his hospitality.—Buf falo Express. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1904. NOTHING BUT DEFAMATION. Bryan's Malicious Attacks Upon Those Who Are Not of His Way of Thinking. Mr. Bryan has been maligned by many intemperate critics, but his fame began in his own intemperance, of utterance, and he furnishes good texts every week for exhortations in behalf of sanity, sobriety and fair judgment, says the Chicago Record-Herald. In the latest number of the Commoner, for example, there is an assault upon Judge Parker, whose gratuitous assumptions and of fensive implications -would be possible only to an irrational, self-absorbed per son whose sense of the decencies of con troversy was thoroughly benumbed by his violent prejudices. Mr. Bryan says that "there is no doubt that the corporate interests have an un derstanding with Judire Parker." If this means anything it is that the judge as president would be the mere tool of the corporations. He would violate his oath to help them, would make his ad ministration subservient to thein in every respect. A specific charge is that he would appoint corporation men to the supreme court, and in this connec tion there is a characteristic fling at the three democratic justices and Justice Holmes for their dissent from the mer ger decision. These four judges and Judge Parker himself are traduced through a mean innuendoas though they were faithless to their trust and the ene mies of the people. For the effect on his readers' minds Mr. Bryan might as well declare that they were vile, cor rupt parasites, who were betraying the public at the behest of capitalistic com bines. When the most is admitted for him— namely, that he is an honest enthusiast for a cause—it is very apparent never theless that his methods are inexcusable. The effrontery or the insensibility with which he ascribes evil traits and evil motives to other men is amazing. By common report all the judges at whom he sneers are upright, conscientious of ficials and citizens. There is nothing that we have read in the reviews of Judge Parker'B life which would indicate that he was not fully as scrupulous as Mr. Bryan, as good a man, as good a neighbor, as honest a politician. But the Bryan opinion briefly stated is that Bryan represents not only all the vir tues but all the people, all humanity, while Parker is a malignant, abhorrent monstrosity formed to do the bidding of soulless and wicked creations of the law. That, we say. is the Bryan opinion be cause it is the logical deduction from the Bryan insinuations. Looking at the spirit and import of the latter, it would really be impossible to exaggerate them by any form of statement. They carry the grossest insults to every person -who falls under the displeasure of the cen sor, and the insensate egotism from which they spring is becoming infinitely wearisome. THE HEARST ABOMINATION. Something to Arouse the Moral In dignation of the Ameri can People. A recent dispatch from St. tells how Mr. Hearst has been trying to buy up the hotel accomodations of the city during the convention. He succeeded in part—having secured whole floors in some hotels. It is estimated that his hotel bills for convention week will be $20,000. His convention bills—but the subject is painful. We mean, in a very serious sense, that the subject Is pain ful. It is one of the most humiliating that an American citizen can discuss. We have read how the Roman empire was bought; for the first tLjne there is an attempt to buy the American presi dency. There is no use trying to dis guise the essence of the procedure. In deed, we doubt if there is any attempt at disguise. There certainly is none on the part of the would-be purchaser. His attempt to get the nomination to the presidency by one of the two great parties in the country is confessedly based on the purchase of delegates—let us call things by their right name all the way through; there is no use to talk euphoniously about the "use of money" by Mr. Hearst. His "use of money" means that he is buying deleg es, says the Indianapolis News find. Dem.). There is just this difference between the present and that of Rome, when the empire went to the highest bidder —that was actual bargain sale and delivery. This is a purchase of men in private capacity to compel a national convention to nominate the purchaser. Of course, the methods for election would be those used for the nomination —the purchase of everybody that could be bought. It is the most disgraceful episode in the national history. The moral indignation of the American peo ple ought to be aroused against those that have part and lot in this matter, and give them to feel that there is dig nity and sanctity of citizenship in this America that resents a proposition of putting the highest office in the gift of the people in one scale and millions of money in another. We are commercial ized, heaven knows, but we are dis graced unspeakably every day that tMe Hearst infamy can be talked of serious ly or at all, except in denunciation. trrThe discovery of Mr. Bryan'sCom inoner that "Parker is not available" ! will lend considerable zest to the cam paign of the coming candiuate. —N. Y World (Dem.). ID'No ruling adverse to Mr. Bryan can be appreciated by Mr. Bryan. No point made against him is regarded by him as settled. He doesn't stand by the decisions. He kicks against them. Twice the grtat court of the American people has ruled against Mr. Bryan. He doesn't accept the ruling. He doesn't esteem the points adjudicated as dis posed of. He abuses the court an'l a" cus«s it of corruption.—N. Y. Sun. WORK OF FIREBUGS. Six People Cremated in Their Home. Reign of Terror Prevailed at Garrett, Pa., Because of a Strike. —Armed Strikers Paraded the Streets of the Town. Somerset, Pa., April 10. —An out break even more disastrous than the riot at Boswell last January, has been hourly expected at the town of Gar rett, the scene of the mining opera tions of the Garrett Coal Co., the Somerset Coal Co. and other lesser operations. Trouble has been brew ing there ever since the inauguration of the miners' strike five months ago. A number of the striking miners at Garrett own homes there, but recently the Garrett Coal Co. erected a number of houses, and the bringing in of new men to occupy these houses and take the places of the strikers in the mines has worked the latter up to a high state of excitement and resentment and for the last few days the town has been a veritable mine of indigna tion that might easily be exploded and probably result in great loss of life and property. The strikers have been parading the streets openly armed, and they have prevented the moving of the household goods of incoming miners from the railroad station to the new company houses. A horror that may or may not be connected with the strike situation at Garrett, was the burning to death of two women and four children in their home at that place between tho hours of 2 and 3 o'clock Tuesday morning. Strikers armed with Winchester rifles paraded the streets yesterday. They say this demonstration is to prevent the Italians from leaving the community before the coroner's in quiry has been completed. They say that in doing this they are acting under the instruction of the township constable. When Sheriff Coleman reached Garrett last evening with his deputies, he found no alarming condition of af fairs. The sheriff's first work was to arrest two Italians who were charged with setting fire to the Meyers house. The only evidence thus far against the two Italians was a statement made by Meyers, in which he alleges that they called at his house several days ago to buy some butter, and that when told that Meyers would not sell butter to scabs they left, swear ing vengeance. During Monday night many shots were fired, but no fatalities resulted. Three months ago the Garrett Coal Co. secured an injunction restraining the strikers and all other persons from interfering with the company's employes. This injunction is still in force, and the present condition of af fairs is in open violation of it. MILLIONS LOST BY FIRE. Toronto, Ont., Is Swept by a Terrible Conflagration. Toronto, Ont., April 20. —Fire swept through a section of Toronto's whole sale business district last night, caus ing a loss which will run up into the millions. The fire started in a fac tory in Wellington street about 9 o'clock. In less than an hour the flames had spread from building to building on both sides of the street until the whole block was a mass of flames and the fire was utterly be yond control of the local department. Appeals were sent to every surround ing city where fire apparatus could bo obtained asking for assistance. Mon treal, London, Hamilton and Buffalo responded, but it will be hours before they can be of assistance. It was believed at 11 o'clock that the fire was under control, but a sud den shift in the wind again fanned tho flames into a roar, and clouds of sparks and burning brands were car ried down side streets until three en tire blocks were doomed. Toronto, Ont., April 21. —The total loss by the fire which destroyed the wholesale district of Toronto Tuesday nifcht will, according to the most con servative estimates, reach $12,000,000. The total insurance is $8,300,000. The area swept by the fire em braced 14 acres and from 5,000 to 7,000 persons are thrown out of em ployment. The work of tearing down the dangerous walls was begun yes terday. PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS. They Hold Their Convention at Har risburg and Elect Delegates to St. Louis. Harrisburg, Pa., April 20. —The democratic state convention which was held here Tuesday refused to in struct the national delegates from Pennsylvania to vote for the nomina tion of Judge Alton B. Parker, of Now York, for president. The delegates will go to St. Louis uninstructed and will be bound by the unit rule. Justice Samuel Gustine Thompson, of Philadelphia, was nominated by acclamation lor supreme court jus tice to succeed himself for the lull term of 21 years. The national delegates and electors chosen by the delegates from the Fif teenth and Twenty-second districts are contested. The contests were re ferred to a committee to be appointed by State "bairman Mall. Chairman Hall will be re-elected to-day by the state committee at its annual session. A Murder at the Polls. New Orleans, April 20. —The elec tion yesterday resulted in a tragedy at Gonzales, La., where the "Lily Whites" and democrats are closely divided. Capt. Sam Moore, former sheriff under the democrats, who was leading the "Lily White" faction, be came involved in a dispute at the polls and was killed by Deputy Sheriff Ed Smith. Moore was attempting to post pictures of negro officeholders under the democratic administration. Smith interfered on the ground that the pictures would breed trouble at the polls. CUT DOWN YOUR FEED. One of Yale's Scientists Says Wt Eat Too Much. Washington, April 21. —The chief paper read yesterday before the Na tional Academy of Sciences was a de scription of a series of experiments recently conducted by the Sheffield scientific school, of Yale, to determine if the average human being is not eat ing too much. Prof. Russell H. Chit tenden, the director of the school, who conducted the experiments, and who read the paper, made the state ment that the average healthy man eats from two to three times as much as he needs to keep him in perfect physical and mental health and vigor. Prof. Chittenden said three classes of men were experimented on, several professors at the school, including Prof. Chittenden h'mself, several students and a squad of United States soldiers. There was a gradual reduc tion of meat and other proteid foods, with little if any increase in starch and other foods in nearly all tho tests. No fixed regimen was re quired in any case, the endeavor be ing to satisfy the appetite of each subject. In only one case was meat entirely eliminated from the diet. At the end of the experiments, which lasted from six months until nearly a year and were concluded only a few days ago, the entire lot of men who had been Prof. Chittenden's subjects were in the best of health. Their weight in some cases was al most exactly the same as when the ! experiments were begun and in soma slightly lower. Their bodily vigor : was greater and their strength was | much greater, partially owing to their ! regular physical exercises during tho ! experiments and partially owing, | Prof. Chittenden believes, to the less amount of food eaten. The daily consumption of food at the close of the experiments was i much less than the recognized stand ard and from a third to a half as much as the average man eats. LARGE AND STORMY. West Virginia Democratic Convention was Full of Excitement. Charleston, W. Va., April 21. —The largest and the stormiest democratic convention ever known in this state was held here Wednesday. Many democrats took advantage of the oc casion to vent their criticisms of others. Warren Hayes, who was selected as a district delegate and who is a supporter of Hearst for the presidency, while making a speech from a box in the theater where the convention was held, scored ex-Sena tor Camden as a bolter in the past, and with emphasis gave the lie to a delegate who, an hour previous, had been selected as an alternate to St. Louis, because the alternate had branded Hays in open convention as a greenbacker. The alternate, Col. McCoy, of Tyler county, leaped upon a chair in the convention hall and re sponded in stentorian tones that Mr. Hayes was a liar. Senator Camden and the reorganiz es were otherwise fiercely attacked by "regulars," but they had many warm supporters, many of whom were Bryan democrats, who came to their aid at the proper time. And yet, notwithstanding the stormy scenes, the convention ended in per fect harmony and amid enthusiasm. Henry G. Davis, who is a cousin ol Senator Gorman, was forced to re spond with a speech to repeated and urgent calls. When Mr. Davis men tioned the name of Gorman the dele gates gave a remarkable ovation. The four delegates at large and all the district delegates except the two from the Fourth district are for Gor man for president first and Par .er second. ACQUITTED OF BRIBERY. Jury Decides that Senator Burns Did Not Receive Pay for Supporting a Certain Bill. Grand Rapids, Mich., April 21. — State Senator David E. Burns was yesterday acquitted of bribery in con nection wH,h the Lake Michigan water scandal. The jury was out five hours. The charge of bribery against Sen ator Burns related to a bill which he introduced in the state legislature of 1893. It was alleged that this bill was backed by the men interested in the water deal and that Senator Burns was paid S2OO for his efforts in support of the measure. The chief witness for the prosecu tion was ex-City Attorney Lant K. Salsbury, who swore he paid Burns the money in the interest of the Lake Michigan deal. The defense was a general denial and alibi as to the time Salsbury said he paid the money to Burns. The case has been on trial for two weeks. This was the first acquittal in the water scandal cases. Three present and former city offic ials have been convicted and ten have pleaded guilty. The Colored Man Wins. Springfield, 111.. April 21. —The su preme court yesterday, in the fa mous case of the mayor and city council of Alton against Scott Bibbs, colored, for a second time reversed the decision of the Madison county circuit court, which refused to issue an order on the mayor and council of Alton to admit Bibbs to the Wash ington school, that being the nearest school for him to attend. The Doug lass and Lovejoy schools had been set apart in Alton for use of colored pupils. The supreme court holds that the contention of the city coun cil that no discrimination was made against Bibbs on account of his color is ridiculous. Instructed for Roosevelt. Burlington, Vt„ April 21.—The re publican state convention here yester day elected four delegates to the na tional convention at Chicago and in structed them to vote for the nomi nation of President Roosevelt. Three of the national delegates, United States Senator Dillingham, Dr. \V. Seward Webb, of Shelburne, and H. N. 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