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The Job department of the PRHS IS complete •ud afford-, facilities for doing the best class of work PAHTXCUI.AU ATTKMTIOH PAIDTO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, excert ».t the optiou of the pub usher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. Keep in Prime Condition. Nature, says Success, is not soatl mentiful or merciful. If you violate her law. you must pay the penalty, though you sit on a throne; kingorbeg gar is all the same with her. You can not plead weakness or handicap as an excuse for failure. She demands that you be ever at the top of your condition, that you always do your best, and will accept no excuse or apology. A weak ness anywhere mats one's whole career. 11,I 1 , will rise up as a ghost all through one's life-work, mortifying, condemn ing and convicting one of past error. Every indiscretion or vicious indulgence simply opens a leak which drains off success capital. Of what use is great success capital, of mental and physical equipment, If you are not wise enough to manage it to the best advantage, and to make it last until your success Is as sured? It is sad to see a young man try to win high place with a broken-down constitution, or with his faculties halt trained, and his success army completely demoralized, his prospects ruined by a shattered physique. The saddest thing of all is that wise living might have made fulfillment of ambition possible, and en riched the world with a noble, well roundel life. The great problem, then, ■which everyone has to face, Is how to generate energy, how to conserve it, and how to keep oneself always at the top ot his condition. New Use for Electricity. Mr. E. B. Green, superintendent of the Edison Illuminating Electric company at Altoona, Pa., writes to the Electrical World and Engineer of his successful use of electricity for thawing water pipes. He has thawed 250 feet. of one inch iron pipe in 20 minutes, using be tween 18 and 20 kilowatts; for between 30 and 40 feet of three-quarter-inch pipe, five to eight minutes and 11 to 15 kilo watts are required. The voltage is re duced to not over 50, and the connection made to the pipe to be thawed and to a hydrant or other connection to the main on the other side of the frozen portion. The work is performed for customers la less time and with much more cleanli ness than it could be done by the plumber. The cost lies chiefly in the carting of the apparatus and labor. A large decrease of consumption In playing cards with a correspondingly large increase in the amount of liquor used during the past eight months ia noted by treasury department officials in the receipts of the revenue service. Compared with the same period a year ago the number of packs of playing cards used by the people of the United States was reduced 8,000,000. On the other hand the consumption of whisky was enough larger to result in adding $2,500,- 000 more revenue to the treasury. Tho cigarette fiend also increased his allow ance, for the revenue from that source went up $750,000. As to why playing cards should be less used, while drink ing and smoking increased, is a question which government officials do not un dertake to solve. Nor do we. Bishop Mylne tells In the London Spectator of an experience he had when in America. A workman had shown the way, as far as It coincided with his own, «nd at parting, knowing those he had directed to be English men, he took off his cap and most cour teously, and said, "Good evening, gen tlemen." He had retired "half-across the pavement" when he thus took leave of them. "My friend and 1," remarks the bishop, "said to each other that an Englishman in similar circum stances would not have retired out of arm's length for fear we should offer him a gratuity."' Berlin was recently connected witn Copenhagen by a new International ferry. The boats run between Warne munde, on the German coast, and Gjedesby, on one of the Danish islands, and carry through trains over the 20- mile stretch of water between the two points. The ferry makes it possible for a traveler togo In almost a straight line between the two capitals without change of cars. Makaroff was known as the "Cossack of the Sea," while Skrydloff, his suc cessor, is known as the "Bulldog of the Navy." Togo is known to the Japs as the "Whole Works of the Oceans." A LARGE ORDER FOR JUDGE PARKER. » "The Judge's Friends Go So Far as to Say He Will Bring Cleveland and Bryan Together."—Walter Wellman. THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST Some Reasons Why the Republican Party Is Stronger Than Ever Among the People. The democrats charge that the repub licans, in proposing to consolidate the four territories into two states, are actu ated by partisan and sectional motives, and that they want to minimize the "in fluence of the west and the southwest in the citadel of federal power, the United States senate." This is the lan guage of the democratic report against the bill passed by the house to admit Oklahoma and the Indian territory jointly as the state of Oklahoma, and to let in Arizona and New Mexico to gether as the state of Arizona. The same language was repeated by many of the democrats in their speeches against the bill. The bill had the solid support of the republicans and the solid opposition of the democrats. It is said to be the purpose of the democrats to make this charge agarnst, the republic ans a feature of the presidential cam paign in the west in 190-1. The repub licans ought to hope that their enemies will do this. It will give a chance to show what has been the actual attitude of the two big parties toward the west. Do the democrats who are prating about republican hostility to the west know what was the issue that created the republican party? asks the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It was the demo crats' repeal in 1854 of the Missouri com promise, which repeal threw open to slavery Kansas. Nebraska and the rest of the territories above the Missouri com promise line. This was a national issue in its broad features, but it was directly and particularly a western issue. The republican party was founded to protect the west from this democratic iniquity. The party got a foothold earlier in the west than it did in the east, and chiefly for the reason that it wafe the west that was especially assailed by the demo crats. Previous to the rise of the repub lican party in 1854 most of the states of the west were reliably democrats. Some of them, like Illinois, lowa and Wisconsin, were democratic in every presidential canvass in which they par ticipated until after the appearance of the republican party, and Illinois re mained democratic for president until 1860. Every state in the west voted for Pierce. the democratic candidate in 1852, just before the creation of the republican party. The west came to the republicans because the republican party was found ed on what was directly a western is sue. The republican party started out to save the west from the slavery de basement which the democratic party attempted to force upon it, and did save it. Did the democrats who are accusing the republican party of hostility to the west ever hear of a measure called the free homes law? The homestead bill had been before congress for many years before the republican party came into power. The measure was always beaten, either in congress or by the presidential veto, Buchanan interpos ing the last named barrier against it. But just as soon as the republicans, who had been its champions from the he ginning, got into control of the gov ernment, they passed the free homes law. against the opposition of the demo crats. This law, which went into oper ation at the beginning of 1863, has added almost as large an area to the settled region -of the west as was populated in the thirteen colonies at the time of the Dick Croker Sends Message. Comrade Croker sends us a cheering Trord from Wantage. He concedes with frankness That we have no chance this year, even with Parker, but. we must "consolidate the party by supporting him," so that "the prospects for success four years hence will ba improved." Comrade Croker is too experienced a democrat to predict success four or even eight or twelve years hence, but he be lieves in gradual and consistent im provement of chances, so that our chil dren and grandchildren may reap that CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1904. battle of Lexington. A republican presi dent, Theodore Roosevelt, started the movement which led to the passage of national irrigation, which a republican congress enacted. This measure will supplement the work done by the repub licans in the free homes act which Lin coln signed in 18ti2, and will plant hun dreds of thousands of homes in the pres ent arid regions between the western border of Kansas, Nebraska and Okla homa and the Pacific ocean. The re publican party has been the builder of the west. Every presidential candidate which it has nominated thus far ex cept Blaine has been a western man. It has transferred the country's center of political and social gravity to the Mis sissippi valley. If the democrats make a campaign issue of the republican par ty's attitude toward the west it /.will make hundreds of thousands of new votes for the republicans on the Al leglianies' sunset side. DRIFT OF PUBLIC OPINION. crit begins to look as if Mr. Bryan regarded his democratic confreres as a hopeless aggregation.—Washington Star. icrAmerica's lead in diplomacy ought to provide the republican platform with one of its strongest planks.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. forget that Judge Parker's hair is red. It may be that he is afraid to trust himself to speak what is in his mind. —Chicago Tribune. (Clt is reported that Gorman still hopes to secure the nomination. That man must have an awiul opinion of the democratic party.—Chicago Record- Herald. (C'The democratic party has had plen ty of leisure in which to repent the hasty impulse that nominated Bryan in 18%, and the prospects are excellent for plenty more leisure of the same kind. — Indianapolis Journal. ICTWilliam J. Bryan does not propose, he says, to name the man he deems most fit for the presidency. It is not necessary. Everyone knows the dis tinguished citizen Mr. Bryan has in mind.—Philadelphia Record. ETThe presidency of the United States has never been an office with in the grasp of men pursuing the tactics of body-snatchers, whether they were as rich as Hearst or as poor as Bryan.—Milwaukee Wisconsin. Parker is trying to bring Hill and Tammany together in har mony; it is reported that he expects to establish peaceful relations be tween Cleveland and Bryan. If he succeeds he will be known as the boss peace maker. —Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal. ICAS a matter of fact, there has been nothing rash or reckless in the Roosevelt administration, nothing whatever to justify the charge that he is an unsafe man. No action in re gard to domestic or foreign affairs has been taken without thoughtful de liberation and without due considera tion for the interests and welfare of the country.—Omaha Bee. ir?'lt is noteworthy that quite a number of delegates to the democratic national convention have been elected who are "said to favor Parker." This means that they are open to persua sion and that if anyone turns up who in their opinion is stronger than the New York man they are free to sup port him. The Parker boom has by no means been made unanimous as yet.—Troy (N. Y.) Times. which we have sown. This is true dem ocratic statesmanship, though we are sorry that Mr. Crokor and our beloved Bryan cannot get together on the man ner of procedure. It looks as if we musi call in Col. Watterson to decide the | question.—Roswell Field, in Chicago Post. is only one plank in a demo cratic platform upon which all kinds of democrats can agree. It is this: We want the offices.—Springfield (111.) Journal. IMPROVEMENT IS <SLOW. No Evidence of Increased Activity In the Leading Industries—Review of Trade. Now York, May 14. —It. (3. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Seasonable weather has restored normal conditions in many branches of retail trade, but the improvement lias not yet extended to wholesale, jobbing or manufacturing depart ments, except in special lines. It is difficult to find evidences of in creased activity in any of the lead ing industries, and there is more idle machinery. Traffic conditions are little changed, railway earnings in the first week of May falling 7.5 per cent, behind last year, and the late opening of lake navigation was fur ther retarded by a strike. While many features of the business situa tion make poor comparisons with last year, it is worthy of note that few presidential years have made a better exhibit. In the leading manufacturing in dustry scarcely any decline in prices occurred, during the past, week, but the average has fallen considerably from the best position of last year, and consumers are confident that further deiay will result in still more attractive terms. This impression is largely due to the recent disagree ment among yre producers. Commercial failures this week in the United States are 230, against 190 the corresponding week last year. Failures in Canada number 23, against 13 last year. A NERVY OUTLAW. He is Holding Officers at Bay in the Wisconsin Woods. Minneapolis, Minn., May 14. — George Loth, deputy sheriff of this county, has volunteered to capture the outlaw Dietz, who is holding of ficers at bay near Hayward, Wis. Loth's offer has been accepted by the Wisconsin authorities and he will go at once. He expects to get artillery from Madison and dislodge the out law without loss of life other than that possibly of Dietz himself. Chippewa Falls, Wis., May 14 —All the men employed by the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Co. at. the Came ron dam on the Thorn Apple river, which Diet/, is holding up, returned Friday, the drive being abandoned. Over ten million feet of logs are lying high and dry, the dam being kept open by Dietz. Operations of the mills may be delayed should the present trouble long continue. Sixty armed men started out yesterday from Cameron Junction with orders to capture Dietz dead or alive. Massacres In Armenia. Paris, May 14. —An official dispatch to the foreign office from Constanti nople confirms the reports that Turk ish troops have burned villages throughout the Sassoun district of Armenia, killing the inhabitants. The official advices, although brief, indicate that the work of exterminat ing the Armenians occupying the mountainous district of Sassoun is practically accomplished. The Turkish methods appear to have been much the same as those adopt ed during the Armenian massacres. The official reports do not give de tails as to the nnmber of towns burned and people killed, but they show that the action of the Turks has been sweeping. A New Device in Pipe Organs. Chicago, May 14. —The $20,000 pipe organ to be placed in the new Theo dore Thomas concert hall here will have an electro-pneumatic action with a movable key desk, so con nected that the organ may be played from any part of the orchestra or stage. The organ, which is to be directly behind the orchestra, but about ten feet overhead, is so ar ranged as to allow a most perfect blending of tones with orchestral or other music. With the exception of the Auditorium organ, 'lie Thomas instrument will be larger than any other orchestral organ in present use. Counted Himself Out. Des Moines, la., May 14.—"One, two three." Raising himself to his elbow and slowly but painfully breathing his last breaths, Dr. Crayke Priestly, a great great grand son of Dr. Joseph Priestly, of En gland, discoverer of oxygen, with seemingly studied emphasis counted time yesterday against, pneumonia death. As ho faintly whispered "three"he gasped, his muscles re laxed and he fell back dead. Dr. Priestly was one of an unbroken line of physicians of more than ordinary distinction since the days of the great London physician. A Destructive Fire. Coudersport, Pa., May 14.—Fire Friday destroyed an entire block here. A high wind blew sparks from a bonfire into one of the buildings and the Farmers' hotel, three grocery stores, fsed store, a music store, a tea store, Knights of Labor hall, a dwelling and four barns were de stroyed. The loss is estimated at $50,000. Must Answer Conspiracy Charges. San Francisco, May 14. —F. A. Hyde and Henry P. Dimond must answer in the United States court at Washington to charges of conspiring to defraud the United States govern ment by illegally acquiring title to public lands. This decision was ren dered Friday by Commissioner Hea cock. Shot a Woman and Himself. Pittsburg, May 14.—Fred Schuetz, son of Henry Schuetz, of the Schuetz & Renziehausen Co., brewers, last night shot and seriously wounded Mrs. Minnie McCormick and then fa tally shot himself. Schuetz was named as co-respondent in a divorct suit brought by Mrs. McCormick's husband some time ago, and since then has been attentive 10 the woman and it is said wanted to marry her. She, however, would not agree to this, and the shooting is supposed to have resulted from a quarrel over the matter. "I Have Every Reason to Praise Pe-ru-na,'* WRITES MRS. KANE, OF CHICAGO. !Mrs. K. Kane, 172 Sebor Street, 1 Chicago, ill., writes : j "Peruna has been used so long in « our family that I do not know how 112 / could get along without It. I have J ! given it to all of my •children at J different times when they suffered * with croup, colds and the many ail- J !ments that children are subject to, I and am pleased to say that it has J kept them in splendid health. /* | Ihave also used It for a catarrhal l difficulty of long standing and it ? cured me in a short time, so / have J every reason to praise Peruna." — i Mrs. K. Kane. j I J j I Pe-ru-na Protects the Entire House hold Against Catarrhal Diseases. One of the greatest foes with wjxich every family has to contend is our changeable climate. To protect the family from colds and coughs is always I a serious problem, and often impossible. Sooner or later it is the inevitable fate of every one to catch cold. Care in avoiding exposure and the useof proper clothing will protect from the frequency and perhaps the severity of colds, but with the greatest of precautions they | will come. This is a settled fact of j human experience. Everybody must: expect to be caught somewhere or somehow. Perhaps it will be wet feet, or a draught, or damp clothes, or it may be one of a thousand other little mishaps, but no one is shrewd enough to always avoid '.he inevitable catching cold. There is no fact of medical science better known than that Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Thousands of families in all parts of the United States are protected from colds and catarrh by Peruna. Once in the family Peruna always stays. No home can spare Peruna after the first trial of it.i GIBRALTAR DECLARED WEAK. Impotency of Fortress at Port Ar thur Causes Inquiry as to Strength of Famous Rock. Inquiries of an exhaustive char 1 acter are being made by British offl j cials as to the safety of Gibraltar. The impotency of the fortress at j Port Arthur has reopened the ques i tion of the rock's invulnerability i and the recent manueuvers in Gibral ; tar bay, although officially declared to have ended in favor of the fort j ress, have revealed great weaknesses j Gibson Bowles, one of the special! commissioners who visited the rock: and reported adversely on the posi ; tion of the new docks, said: "In any peace maneuvers a fort- ! ress will always win against a fleet. So much is allowed for the assumed 1 strength of a fortress that the fleet ! usually comes off second best in tests." Mr. Bowles does not pose as a naval expert, but he attaches little , importance to the decisions of um pires. On the return of Maj. Gen. P. G Slade, who has watched the maneu vers on behalf of the war office, he will present some valuable evidence • to the army council; but without waiting for this testimony the au > thorities seem anxious to strengthen the defenses of the rock, especially j as regards the heavy guns, for which £24,000 lias been voted. BE WARNED. Ileed nature's warnings! Pain tells of lurking* disease. fimPnights of unrest arc WTO danger signals Wjffl SO warning l you to cure Hfni rV s Kidney Pills, thousands of perma- ! nent cures. Frank D. cattle-buyer and j farmer, Catskill, N. Y.,says: "Doctors | told me ten years ago that I had j Briglit's Disease, and said they could do ; nothing to save me. My back aclicd so I could not stand it to even drive about, | and passages of the kidney secretions j were so frequent as to annoy me greatly. | I was growing - worse all the time but Doan's Kidney Pills cured me, and I have been well ever since." A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney ' medicine which cured Mr. Overbaugh will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Mil burn Co., liuiYalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers; price 50 cents per box. , j p——— —cap—am—aa» j OSTRICH FE& THERS AT lIKTAII. KROM MAMI/KM'TV KKIt I I 810 B^VUMG -1 Write for I 'ire liM. f\\lng Iu 1' nam* and ad If«MU j I MAIL ORDER FEATHER C0.,41W.24th Bt.,N.Y, I I——— a—a——t—a——fl Cna CA| P Ileftclqunrtprs for Wlßoonsln Timber lull OMuL l_,a n(lH.Cutov«T I .an (Ik, Kurnia and Sum mer KeaortH. Heveral lunge t raciH for colon!r.utmu A. V. riTAiiil, 1£» Laballo Siruul,CLicMgo. I ! I Mrs. A. Hobson, 225 Washington ♦ S 112 St., Lansing, Mich., writes: 112 112 "Peruna has been such a blessing i 4 to my only child, as well as myself, ? 4 that I feel Induced to give my test!- I 11 monial. He has always suffered i i 4 from catarrh of the head and throat, t j I and I had to use extra precautions 112 | J so as not to have him exposed to I ' i damp or cold weather. Last year J I he was taken with la grippe, and i j J as it was a severe case, caused me * I i much anxiety. No medicine helped t * him till he took Peruna. / noticed I * an Improvement at once and in 1 ! 1 three weeks he was a different j * child; the grippe had been com- 1 J pletely cured and I noticed that the I 1 catarrh was made better, lie kept ♦ 1 taking it two weeks longer, when 1 he was entirely well. I now use it j off and on for colds, cramps, indl- 112 gestion or general indisposition,and ! ! i find it superior to any doctors or j I medicine I evar tried. It keeps me, j |as well as my child, in perfect 112 4 health, and I gladly recommend it I I to mothers. " —Airs. A. Ilobson. ♦ We liave on file many thousand testi monials like the ones given above. We can only ffive our readers a slight glimpse of the vast array of unsolicited endorsements we are receiving every month. No ot.lier physician in the world has received such a volume of enthusiastic and grateful letters of I t hanks as Dr. Ilartinan for Peruna. . - - p : It Cores Colds, Cotighs. Sore Throat, Crotip, Infln j cnv.li. Whooping Couch, Bronchitis and At'thmu. : A certain cure for Consumption in first Btt.ges, , and a sure relief in advanced stages, lie at once. You will eee the excellent effect after tukin<* the first dose. Sold by dealers everywhere. Largo bottles !t5 cents and 50 cents. Itl «Ht COHM There Is ho satisfaction keener than being dry and comfortable when out in the hardest storm. YOU AUE SURE OF TKIS rx IT- YOU WEA2 _ R S . O CZZ-K Batf® 1 J \ WATERPROOF /U OILED CLOTffiNG I MADE IN Bt ACK OR YELLOW AND BACKED &Y OUR GUARANTEE. A y TOVVLW ro.DfMION M.\s> «M.\L. »(W£X CANADIAN CO.I 1.-IIH WiMVfO CAN. Trw 1 I YOUR DEALER. 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