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The Job department of the PH«.« IS complete •nd affords facilities for doint' the best class of WnrW. PAHTICULAB ATTENTION PAIUTO LAW PRINTING. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear ages arc paid, except ®t this option of tho pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid tor in advance. The Memory. Mr. Owen Wister, In his preface to a new edition of"The Virginian," pays his respects to"the American memory, j •which seldom retains anything over j night." By contrast and as an example J of how the faculty of memory may be developed by training, the new transla tion of a play of Aristophanes, by B. B. Rogers, an English scholar, is instruc tive. The greater part of this transla- i tion "was composed from memory | when the translator had no copy of Aris- j tophanes at hand." Porson, the great Greek scholar of our grandfathers' days, j might have done as much. He knew most of the Greek authors by heart as well as the works of Smollett. Glad stone in his later years told an inter viewer that if the first line of any page of Homer were given him he could re peat the entire page in the original. Macaulay memorized "The Lady of the Lake" by reading it twice. But the com plaint is with the abuse ordinarily done this fine faculty by neglect. It is made to hold athousand temporary trivialities. It fastens on the gossip of the moment for the moment only and grasps trifles ior which an over-night forgetful ness is a beneficent provision of nature. It is perverted by inattention and inac curacy. Preparation for Travel. There is one thing which is of great importance if one wishes to benefit by travel, says Rev. Minot J. Savage, in the Four-Track News. One should make sure what lie is going to see before he leaves home. The story Is told of Hum boldt, the great and wonderful traveler, that on a certain occasion, he was talk ing to a friend who had just returned from Palestine. As the great scientist talked about the points of interest, men tioning buildings and streets and ruins in the most familiar way, his friend asked him when it was that he had been there. He replied that he had never been there, but that on a certain occa sion he had expected togo and had read up in regard to it by way of preparation. In London, for example, or Paris, there are so many streets, buildings, monu ments, pictures, historic spots to be vis ited. that no man can expect to be other wise than lost as in a wilderness, unless be has read and studied beforehand and knows what he wishes to see. Did it ever strike you how insulting It Is to hang up your telephone receiver before the person who is talking to you has finished what he has to say? When a fellow calls you up, and he generally has something to say, ordinary courtesy should prompt you to listen until he is through as you would if he was address ing you in person, says the Anoka Her ald. Then there is another aggravat ing way some people have and that is to rush to the 'phone and call some one up and fail to give their name. When a person is talking through the 'phone he rather likes to know to whom he is talk ing. Of course, these little items are but minor details, but they are a few of the details which stamp a person either as gentlemanly or ungentlemanly, lady like or the reverse. King Edward's wife thinks that the fourpence half penny meals served to the workmen in a London factory are fit for a queen. She ate one recently, and said that she was delighted with it. The pie containing four and twenty blackbirds, of which a famous poet once sang, was r.ot a part of the banquet, but all the waiters said, as they filled her plate, "there 's a dainty dish to set before the queen." The exampie of the American Arbor day is the text for an appeal for tree planting in Ireland. A writer in the Clare Champion makes a plea for tho observance of such a day, and ex presses the belief that it will be as suc cessful as it. is in this country. It may possibly cnnance the value of Arbor day in the judgment of Americans to know that the suggestion is made to introduce the custom in the green isle. It is proposed that Chicago build an emergency hospital in the center of the city as a memorial to the victims of ttie Iroquois theater fire. It is thus that the world redeems it? losres. In the course of time the hospital will relieve suffer ing and save life enough to overbalance the loss which brought it into existence. HIS FINAL PLEA— Mr. BRYAN—"Reject Me If You Will, Madam, But Don't Turn Away These Poor Orphans." BRYAN PROTESTS IN VAIN. Nebraska Man Will Have No Hand in the Making of the Dem ocratic Platform. It is manifestly imposible to write a democratic platform which meets with general party approval. The declara tion of principles put forth by the New- York democratic state convention is condemned by Bourke Cochran, talking in behalf of Tammayy, as "a platform of platitudes." It is not quite satsfac- j tory to some of the warm supporters of j Judge Parker, because it does not in- i dorse the gold standard and does not | deal with the Philippine question as the anti-imperialists wish to have it dealt with. These criticisms are mild when compared with those of Mr. Bryan. That gentleman, who claims to be the only au- j thorized exponent of democratic prin- j eiples. says that the platform is "am- j biguous, uncertain, evasive and dishon est." He says that it is the work of ; "cowardly democrats," whose only aim I is to deceive and to induce "organized wealth" to subscribe to the campaign fund. Nevertheless, it is quite likely that the platform which will be adopted at St Louis in July will resemble closely the one Mr. Bryan disapproves of- In the last two presidential campaigns the democrats experimented with unambig- ' uous unequivocal platforms and were I badly beaten. It would not be surpris ing, says the Chicago Tribune, it they were to change their policy and adopt j a milk-and-water platform, which will j alienate the smallest number of voters ! and thus make success possible. Mr. Bryan says:"l do not wish that the party shall win offices only." But the desire to get the offices is the con- , trolling motive with a large percentage j of the democrats. They have been out ! in thecold for eight years, and theirhun- j ger after postmasterships and other 1 comforting jobs. Those democrat feel j that their only hope of getting the offices j is to get away from Bryan and Bryanism. j They will not let him write the party platform or dictate its candidate. The j voice they will harken to at St. Louis j will be that of expediency, not Bryan. Republican Leadership. With President Roosevelt as the can didate of the party, which will include in its platform the achievements of his administration as well as of his repub lican predecessors; with the state lead er for a score of years, Senator Piatt, giving his advice and the influence of his cooperation, and with Gov. Odell di recting the movements oft he forces with his masterly skill in marshaling the en ergies of the party, there is nothing left to assure victory but for the members of the party to rally about such repre sentative leadership and, closing up the ranks in every county and district, to work harmoniously for the success of the republicanism which has done so much for America and of those repre sentatives who have done so much for republicanism.—Troy Times. tt'This is about the proper time lor Willie Hearst to quit his yellow kiddhi'. —St. Paul Globe (Dem.). £7"Judge Parker is the latest specula tion underwritten by Wall street. Au gust Belmont heads the syndicate.—Buf falo News. tT7"It is under the Dingley law that the balance of trade in manufactured goods shows on t he side of this country for the first time. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. C~Should Judge Parker miss the nom ination at the last moment. Dave Hill might consent to save the country by ac cepting it.—Chicago Daily News. we can't help thinking, at times, that William Jennings Bryan de served a better fate than togo down with a thing like the Hearst boom. —Augus'.a (Ga.) Chronicle. (CPennsy 1 vania and Oregon waited just long enough to take a casual glance at New York's Parker boom and then carelessly throw a wet blanket over it. — Philadelphia Times. E'"The Hon. Coin Harvey, a man who wrote a book —now forgotten—some time during the latter part of the nine teenth century, says it would be unwise to bring up the silver issue this year. Please omit flowers.—Chicago Tribune. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1904. DEMOCRATS IN SAD PLIGHT. Why the Decent Members of the Mori bund Old Party Despair of Success. In little more than two months the delegated democrats of the nation will assemble at St. Louis to nominate a candidate for president and build a platform on which he shall stand. Short as is the time, the best men in the party and the wisest thinkers are exclaiming: "What are we to do when we have as sembled?" Their dilemma has many horns, all sharp, and any one likely to be fatal to the chooser. Glance your eyes over the presidential timber offered and you will understand how decent democrats despair of success. Cleveland: twice president, and vul nerable as a would-be third termer; heartily hated in the south and west, and loathed, not loved, by and for the enemies he made while in power. Hearst: a candidate for cash, a huck ster in the political market, open to at tack on negative and positive grounds, impossible of election if nominated, as his candidacy would be gall and worm wood to the bone and sinew of his party. Parker: aD absolutely unknown quantity who asks support for the things he has not done, for the principles he has not voiced; handicapped by the ad vocacy of David Bennett Hill, wko, as a political "Warwick," is as conspicuous a failure as he is a disappointment in the role of statesman. Gorman: Maiming precedence over better men because he is more the mas ter of political chicane than they, apt in wire-working, clever in specious profes sion, ringing hollow and discordant when his metal meets the blows of earn est conflict, absolutely impossible in the west and northwest. Olney: cold as ice without its trans lucency, a critic of his fellows and of the New England Pharisees, hateful to labor organizations and distrusted by those of his party who would have to manage his campaign. Bryan: probably not a candidate, but certainly a dictator with a record of polling the largest popular vote any democrat ever gained, coupled with memories of coalesced populism and blatant cheap money heresies that turn the stomachs of decent and country-lov ing men in and out of his party. What shall the democratic platform builders use as their salient? asks the Cleveland Leader. Anti-imperialism? It would be laughed out of court. With sad per versity republicans have killed that bugaooo by doses of good government, pacification, and prosperity in all our dependencies. Economy? Not an issue. When the books are examined it is found that the republic is spending less to-day, rela tively tei population, wealth, resources, and results attained, than it did when Jefferson. Jackson, or Cleveland him self was chief executive. Control of trusts? Facts—cold, hard, indisputable facts—anent the respective professions and performances of the ad ministrations headed by Cleveland and by Roosevelt in this regard would make such an issue, as raised by democrats against republicans, ridiculous and of the boomerang sort. Truly our brethren of opposed polit ical laith have their work cut out for them at St. Louis —rather they do not know what to cut or what to fashion, or how. or why. or to what end. Well may they quote "Love's Labors Lost" and cry: "Avaunt, Perplexity! What shall we do?" a '-Opinions still differ widely with re gard to what Judge Parker will say when the time conies for him to say something.—Chicago Inter Ocean. C .''President Roosevelt has refused to interfere in the matter of the illegal fencing of public lands by the big cattle owners of the west. The government officials had ordered the fences removed, and the cattlemen appealed to the prcsi ! dent, who says the laws must be en forced. That may displease the cattle men who have made fortunes by using property which did r.ot belong to them but it should please everybody else.— ; Troy (N. Y.) Times. BEGAN ITS WORK.! Nearly 300 Delegates in Attendance. Thirty-first General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Session at Los An. geJes, Cal. Los Angeles, Cal., May 5. —The j thirty-first general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church opened at Hazard's Pavilion in this city Wed- | nesday. When Senior Bishop Ste- ! phen M. Merrill walked to the front 1 of the stage and rapped for order he j faced one of the mpst notable gather- ! ings of churchmen in the history of Protestantism in America. Seated in j the auditorium proper were 798 rep- j resentatives of Methodism gathered I from the four quarters of the earth. j The great building was a bower of beauty, fragrant with the bloom of i California flowers. Fifteen thousand j calla lilies formed a hedge extending ! entirely across the front of the broad stage and beneath these a beutiful frieze work of smilax and ferns reach ed the floor. BISHOP STEPHEN MERRILL Around the railings of the galleries, with flags and bunting for a back ground, the same scheme of decora tion had been carried out. At the afternoon session Rev. | James H. Hingley, of (he Minnesota ' conference, was elected conference secretary. I.ast night the reception of the gen- 112 eral conference by the citizens and churchmen of Los Angeles was held at the pavilion. Addresses of wei- j come by representatives of the state, \ city and church in southern Califor- j nia, and responses by prominent, lead- j ers in Methodism made up the pro- j gram. Los Angeles, Cal., May C. —The Methodist general' conference held two sessions Thursday, the morning | session being devoted to the reading j of the quadrennial address of the | board of bishops of the M. E. church j to the general conference, and the af- J ternoon to the receipt and reference ' of memorials from the various annual i conferences. The morning session j was presided over by Bishop Warren 1 and the afternoon session by Bishop Walden. The reading of the quadrennial ad- | dress of the bishops of the church to the general conference was the tea- I ture of the day's session. Bishop | Cyrus D. Foss, of Philadelphia, read j the address. II elaborately reviewed ! the statistical records of the past four years and set before the conference | many of the current problems which ! the church is facing. The present ! membership of the church was re- j ported at :'.,03L918, an increase of ; 138,025 during thu four years. The j Sunday-schools include an aggregate J of 3,124,G44. Los Angeles, May 7. —Very little ! progress was made by the Methodist general conference Friday, but the business is being so systematized that with a few more sessions to clear , away the vast quantity of preliminary j matter the work will proceed rapidly, j The resignation of Senor Bishop Ste phen H. Merrill, of Chicago, was pre sented to the conference and referred to the committee on episcopacy, with instructions to report to the general conference resolutions commendatory of the great service Bishop Merrill has rendered to the church in his 59 years as minister and bishop. FINED $5,000. An Oregon Sheep King Pleade Guilty to a Charge of Conspiracy to De- ; fraud the Government. Portland, Ore., May (J.—The cases of Charles Cunningham, the eastern Oregon sheep king; Glen H. V. Saling, Shelby Jones and Dallas O'Hara, charged with conspiracy to defraud the I'nited States government of pub lic lands, were brought to an abrupt and unexpected conclusion by pleas of guilty being made when these defend ants were arraigned in the United States district court Thursday. Mark Shackleford was the only one to plead not guilty, and his trial was commenced later. Kate James was discharged for want of probable cause. Cunningham, ar. the ringleader, was immediately sentenced to pay a fine of $5,000. The others, being consid ered only as tools of Cunningham, were let oif with a fine of SIOO in each case. No one was sentenced to a term of imprisonment. Admits the Firm Is Bankrupt. New York. May G. —Daniel J. Sully, in an answer filed yesterday in the United States district court, admits (hat his linn, Daniel J. Sully & Co., is bankrupt. He expresses a willing ness to lie so adjudged. The answer is also signed by Messrs. Morse, 1 lad ley and Fagan, members of the Sully firm. A Triple Execution. Winchester, Tenn., May G. —Henry Judge, Joe Delp and John Evans were hanged here Thursday for the mur der of Simon Uucher and kis wife last August. ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION. Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio Buildings Dedicated. St. Louis, May 3. —When the first, regular day of the Louisiana Purchase exposition had drawn to a close a flood of light from thousands of elec tric bulbs that line the tops of the main buildings, illuminated the grounds so that day almost continued. I Throngs of visitors began pouring into the grounds early in the,' evening in anticipation of the illumination feature. Music of bands and falling waters lent attraction to evening vis itors. The plaza became the central ' point of interest, as the main exhibi . tion buildings close at dark. Michigan's building was dedicated ; Monday. It stands on the brow of the | plateau of states, adjoining the Uni | ted States fisheries building. | The dedication of Pennsylvania's building came next. The building is located near the southern boundary of j the plateau of states and its broad I terraces command a full view of the ! entire section devoted to states. Ohio's building completed the day's : dedication ceremonies. The struc ! ture is located on the eastern bound [ ary of the plateau of states. Ilroad j piazzas and stately columns give to the building an inviting appearance of ease and comfort, and the mam moth surmounting dome marks it with dignity, (lov. Herrick presided at the ceremonies and introduced W. F. Burdeii, of Columbus, who made the opening address. Response was made by President Francis, who of ficially tendered the world's fair wel come to Ohio. The speech of the oc casion followed by Secretary of War Taft. St. Louis, May 4. —The official an-' nouncemerit of the attendance at the Louisiana Purchase exposition on April 30, the opening day, was made yesterday by President Francis. The total attendance was 187,793. The re corded admissions amounted to 178,- 423. The difference between the to tal attendance and the recorded ad missions is the number of invited guests, employes, exhibitors, conces sionaries and officials, some of whom were in the grounds all night, and others of whom were admitted with out having passes. RESULT OF STRIKES. Shipyards in Greater New York Are Tied Up. New York, May 5. —All the large shipyards in the metropolitan dis ! trict, except that of the Boston Dry Dock Co., in Brooklyn, and the yard jof Titjen & Lang, in Hoboken, are ! tied up as the result of a strike of the Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders of the United States ! and Canada. Five thousand boiler ! makers are involved and workmen of other trades may be affected. John ! McNeil, of Kansas City, international | president of the boilermakers, atilhor j ized the strike. The organization is J said to have $250,000 in its relief fund ! and the 12 local lodges are also well | supplied with money. Beginning yes | terday married men will be paid $7 a j week and single men $5 a week, out I of the strike fund. The yards and shops affected are | those whose owners are members of j the New York Metal Trades associa j tion, which body on Tuesday refused jto grant the boilermakers' demand for the closed shop and the admission : of walking delegates to all shops and | jobs. Pittsburg, May 5. —A strike which j is expected to extend to an interna- I tional movement against the Ameri j can Bridge C 6. was ordered Wednes- I day by the local union of structural iron workers and bridgemen, and over j GOO men in this district will go out to | day. The strike is called because the ! union claims 35 non-union men were put to work last Tuesday erecting a ; bridge for the Buffalo, Rochester & I Pittsburg ro»d at Coral, Pa. This ac j tion, it is dfcimed, is a violation of the | agreement to employ none but union men. Sam Parks Is Dead. Ossining, N. Y., May 5. —Sam Parks, the New York labor leader, who was sent to Sing Sing prison t some months ago after his conviction on a charge of extortion, died in the J«TO7.L\V V'.v' J PAEKS tim ' ' SAMUEL. J. PARKS, prison yesterday. He had consump tion at the time of his conviction and had failed rapidly since he was sent to Sing Sing. A Lockout of 5,000 Shoemakers. Chicago, May s.—Five thousand members of the Boot and Shoe Workers' union are idle as the result of a lockout declared by six of ''ie largest, shoe factories in Chicago. The manufacturers will discontinue the use of the union stamp and will here after run the factories as open shops. Four Men Killed by An Explosion. Newport, ind., May 5. —A powder mill owned by tlie Northwestern Pow der Co., three miles from Newport, was blown up Wednesday. Four men were killed outright and two were injured. Ten thousand pounds of powder exploded and the bodies of two of the men were blown into such small pieces that they could not be picked up. Strikers Resume Work. Topeka, Kan., May 5. —Santa Fe officials yesterday announced a re sumption of shopmen all along the line from Chicago to the Pacific coast. MOUNTAIN IS NOW A LAKE. Supposed Earthquake in New En gland Thought to Have Been Fall of Volcanic Cone. A muddy lake marks the spot in Maine where a big hill known as Bald mountain had stood out in bold relief for centuries and is taken as proof that the recent New England earthquake Ijad its origin in north ern Maine. A guide reports the transformation complete. Bald mountain was situated in Tibiquf* valley, a few miles from the New J Brunswick line. Natives who live | near say they always thought th» hill queer, because at the base were j boiling springs so warm that one | could not put his hand in them even |in winter. Near by is a hill called Plaster rock, which furnishes plas ter. 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