TILE CAMERON COUNTY PREB3 S E-slv BUSHED HV C. B. GOULD, MAI-OH X 866. VOL. 30. WASHINGTON I ETTER. From OH r Ueaniar 6c> i i*l undent.) I < Washington, WcpUl9o4. ( r Press: — j -i A large am* -enthusiastic crovvi j < surrounded tiw depot in this city <•* •*»n Thursday eveuiug last to grwt ;'• ale President, who ;«a-ri veil about >#e/en o'clock Tdth' iis wife and }!> tfamily. Speaking'the wv hich occurred >t6 hi: 'train in 81l- timore, while through it t tunnel, he said iit\*was slight, and < d* all his trou*Aee>we»i as sniall ibe 4 *vrouid get a4otjg X' ' .-series of rcoejirtioHK:»atd entertaiia- Binents will at e given tiliifi -evsning to the ; \Arclibiehop off a and suite. has ic > lEngland the right precedence t. lext after the b>tiyal it mily, he wB" > v it at the fabk .en Vnt right hand of !<• lithe President, Mrs. Arch j i.bishop will bftttt-the eight of Meg. {tHoosevelt. Ti>tt u>e&iher» of the ' ♦•Cabinet who atre ,in town will al* ;« - tend, also the i-whj.sssadors, the hßishop of \Vaelaiii)g«o£, and otherp. j« t A -ll the evangelic*', clergy of tlie j have doivitci to hear the; " Archbishop SufcxiJay ~?iternoon at , fclie Cathedral close Anandieneel • io' 20,000 is et j,'««i>ed. As the ji pounds are souieidistence from the j yui'y,an(l the electric.ut 4,000 passengers .» hour, the |. jiwocession of . . and pedes- i tkians will itnui.; n»»v tPastor Wagner, .ell Paris, the - •popular author, whe iw to be itU-c President's guest, (i-ve years •oIU r than Mr. R<»>-iav-t,j£. < irUteicund, corpulant, iuidgray. He tiny - he finds aCit,;.also. He came txj tiii»G.country bemuse he thinks he ha- a eali. Ue.bdieves the people of «t hand every phasa j of your p&efiumiena] civilization j from t<«p to lUofctom. I need to steep myself iu A, hat is large, gen erous, hearty., 4-ownright and free in your .existence." slr. Francis Ji. ?,ooniis is again at his desk in the State Depart ment. He says h# thinks the United States leads th& world as an international mercli&nit, Asevery body knows it is now the largest exporter of domestic products. "How about our best customer?" he was asked. "Great Britain, by all odds, is rhe best we have." "How about the fight against American goods?"' "There is no fight; but all through Europe American factory methods are being introduced." "How about goods now being made in Europe?" "Many articles which were once exported from this country are now made in Europe, such as furniture, shoes, machine tools, bicycles, i hardware, etc." "How about Yankee notions?" i "The Germans are constantly on j a still hunt for Yankee novelties." "How can we keep tip our for- j eign trade?" "We will always do that through our ability to invent new things." A Criminal Act. It is surprising to us to learn that Emporium is disgraced by possessing a criminal whose heart and conscience are so dead to the sense of feeling as to attempt, without cause, to burn up a number of helpless, innocent pigeons, as was the case Tuesday evening. At about half-past seven o'clock, while the Sunday School orchestra was prac ticing at J. A. Johnston's, some one, (a fiend,) saturated the pigeon house and barn with kerosene oil and set fire to it, attempting to burn the pigeons belonging to Lloyd Johnston. Of course, had it not been discovered in good season several barnß and probably dwelling houses would have been in danger ol destruction. A boy, or any one for that matter, who will do such things is on the way to the penitentiary and ought to be there. Air. Howards Open Letter ■ T: he open letter « 112 Mr. Josial Wow- ; •aid to the voters of the county, publish- j . ad in last week's T rci«.s, lias had a most | < excellent efftfctic stimulating' thought- . M ! interest and «i.tliUßiasm iti 'he pres- i -crt legislative contest. Many favor >4'fcie comments upon this letter have •l.cen heard, a toe requests ha\e been re- Oeeived from R number of 'in.portant I;c uarters for copies of thep-pera for jkiistribution. v V/hat is neetted in a i'ogielative C*BS< •aign is a full sion of viewstsMd an inteHigjout disevte. { sion of sutwtaiit.al issues by tfeo candi dates and pMor. c.ny sub ject of subßkuaiotl public intfcseat, af fecting the legsSu.tive catnpaies), since i«the present oatupaign was opened. We trust that tWf Independent-will not :«..-est content wtL that one artk&e. Mr. ißlumle, whose-oJHJ.se tlie [lndependent iiiw espousing, eij£<,ys the advantage of ItLaving twice represented the county j:K,t Harrisburg; bcrls presumably tamil jiif-r with the legislative history .of the i alate during the past fouryeaw, and .he presumably hac-definite views «pon j.a wide variety whioh we of j iio£erest to the statt and to the county, j ;ls£t not his duty, at well as his ,pii'vil . to state these ,U»aws to the iHe has also made a,vecord of sorae-tort j at Harrisbuag. Arc not the votere of i ithc'jounty entitled U a full knowledge ' of >lr. Blumle's l«*gialative record? 1 Ant 1 is it not upon hk own record, as ! well As upon that of ii;s pajty., that he • rr.Utit stand or fall? .It been Baid thai Mr. Howard's letter has alienated tt« support of a j nun;b€r of Democrats, &'e do not be lieveiit. We have no eaubt that Mr. HowtW will receive the *.uppo,rt of at least a portion of the intelligent and element in fi*e j)etuo- | eratie party; but we do not for a j monacal. believe that any Democrat j ever thought of voting for him under j the impression that he is anything else 1 than a thorough Republican in princi- j pie. His outspoken and unequivocal J j utterance commands the respect of all j ' right'ißing her home J.sadih Mr. and Mrs. Julian. ■'•Autumn" Entertainment. ! .it the First Methodist Epieeofrtfl , He was recalled four times and each t | time responded in a gracious manner, r 1 Detroit, Mich:—Tho Cleveland Or chestra never fails to attract large audiences Their ensemble is well nigh perfect, and they play with sur prising ease and forcefulness. They are far above the standard the general - ; public accepts from women instrumen . i talists and are a distinct credit to j j Cleveland. s | Real enjoyment is had when reading I that clever magazine, The Smart Net. DEATH'S DOINGS. WEISMAN. Our citizens were greatly shocked Last Friday afternoon to learn of the Ceatli of MRS. MINNIE AoNes (Bair) WISEMAN, aged 29 years, at the family residence, Olean, N. Y. Her parents and friends here knew she had been ill for several days but word was received that the was improving. The sudden news e-f her death came like a thunderbolt to her family, as well as our citizens generally. The deceased was the fifth child of our respected friends Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Bair, this being the seoond death in their family within five months, the first being Dr. Bair at Buffalo. Minnie Bair, as our people knew her, was a bright, joyous and handsome girl—of spotless charac ter. In 189$ she was married to Mr. John Wiseman and moved to Olean, where her excellent husband has since been engaged in business. Three children—two girls and one son-blessed their union, aged respectively seven, three and fifteen months old daughter. The children will remain in Emporium at present, we understand, in care of the grand-parents and Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Bair. The remains of the dead wife and mother were brought to Emporium last Sunday noon. Before leaving Olean religious services were conducted at St Marys Church of the Angeles—a large concourse of friends accompanied the remains to the depot; the L. 0. B. A., and Maccaljees attending in a body. At Emporium the remains were taken to the old home on Fifth street, where scores upon scores of our citizens called to console the afflicted family, the be reaved husband and motherless chil dren. Flowers in great profusion were banked around the silent room, tokens of love and esteem. The funeral ser vices took place at St. Mark's Church Tuesday morning at nine o'clock, and was very largely attended. In the ab sence of Rev. Father Downey, Rev. Father O'Sullivan, of Driftwood, ofll eiated. The following friends and relatives from a distance were in at tendance at the funeral: Mrs. J. L. Fobert, (sister), Cattaraugus, N.Y.;Mr. Albert Bair, (brother), Jersey Shore, Pa.; Mr. A. Weisman, (brother;, Bos ton, Mass.; Mrs. M. G. Fitzpatriek, Mrs. Dodson, Mr. Dugan, Olean, N. Y.; Miss Marie Schriever, Kane, Pa.; Mrs. Seth, Miss Bat-aba, Dippold, St. Marys; Mr. J. J. Carel, Buffalo; Miss Anna Head strom, Renovo. The PRESS and the large circle of ac quaintances deeply sympathize with the greatly afflicted family. Should be Abated. Some months ago the Independent called attention to the fact that there are in the borough some nuisances which ought to be abated. We wish to endorse the words of our contem porary in this matter. The condition which existß in the alley between Fourth and Fifth streets, just west of the old Episcopal Church, to mention but one nuisance, is a disgrace to the borough. This stench which emanates from this quarter has been insufferable for a number of years, but this sum mer it has been much worse than ever. Those living within a considerable radius of this spot are the constant victims of the nuisance, and are often obliged to keep doors and windows closed in order, if possible, to shut out the smell. Why does not the Board of Health do something to compel the abatement of this nuisance? What is a Board of Health for? It will not do to shoulder all the responsibility upon the Council because of its failure to provide adequate sewerage. There are other ways of killing a dog than choking him with butter. If the best thing cannot he done, then the Board of Health should see that the next best thing is done Surely something can be done to compel the suppression of j this unnameable and widespread odor. Bye Specialist. | Prof. W. H. Budine, the well known ! Eye Specialist, of Binghannton, N. Y., ; will be at R. H. Hirsch's jewelry i store, Emporium, Pa., October 14th I and 15th. If you can't see well or have ; headache don't fail to call and see Prof. ! Budine, as he guarantees to cure all ; such cases. Lenses ground and fitted !in old frames. Eyes tested and ex i amined free. All work guaranteed. Rummage Sale. The ladies of Emmanuel Church will commence their Rummage Sale in the new store room, on Broad street, next door to Johnson & McNarney's law office, on Tuesday of next week. The sale will include an endless variety of goods, many of them as good as new. This will be the largest variety and best line ever yet offered at a Rummage Sale. Remember date of opening. Fruit Season and the Boys. It is now the time of year when fruit is nearly ripe and ready to gather. Some is already in condition to be col lected and eared for. The small boy and the large boy, in many eases the girls and the grown-up boys who call themselves men, think that all fruit not actually gathered is free plunder, and do not hesitate to help themselves to what they want and as much as they want if the owner is not in sight to protect his property. These boys, girls, and men will boldly walk into any person's yard, orchard or field in broad day light as well as at night, pick up apples, pears, plums, or grapes or any other fruit to which they may take a fancy, and if none are on the ground shake the trees and even climb them in order to get what they want. If remonstrated with about it, they reply "its a mean man that won't let a fellow have a few apples." Of course its meaner to protect one's fruit grown on trees or vines which a man has spent money to procure, time, labor and care to nurture and bring to a pro ducing stage, than it is for the out sider to come in and steal this fruit. If it was only one boy. one girl or one man the matter woula not be so bad, but when a whole army of boys, girls and men in whom the producer has no particular interest, come along, one after the other,and not enough fruit to go around among more than half of them, where does the producer come in for his share? He does not want to gether the fruit until it is ripe, it is tbem of no value to him or to any one else, but the boys and girls must have then when they see them, whether fit to eat or not, and then one taste, then throw the rest away. This is kept up until all the fruit is gone and none yet hardly fit to use. Any person who looks at this matter at all can readily see that the thing is a terrible nuisance. But how shall we remedy it? Shall we issue a warrant for every one caught in the act and have him arrested? The law provides a penalty for trespass and that is what the act of entering on the premises in this way is. But the taking of the fruit is more. It is stealing, pure and simple, punishable by a tine or itn prisonment or both. If this plan is followed then the parent whose boy is arrested forthwith begins to blat throughout the entire community that the man who had his boy arrested is about as mean and small a man as he ever saw. The idea of having a boy arrested for stealing a few apples and bringing all this trouble and disgrace on the boy and his whole family for such a trifle is ridiculous, and winds up by calling the complainant all the dirty, nasty and disagreeable names he can get from his agitated brain. This prevents the property owners from proceeding against the maraud ers. Rather than suffer tha vile vitu peration that he knows will be hurled against him he prefers to sutler the loss of his property. But there is another phase to the problem. It is the moral one. The boys in helping themselves to these trifling things that are not theirs thus take their first lessons in stealing— first lessons in crime. Growth in vice is by no means slow. One step follows close after another until the greater crimes are reached, and each step to the offender seems no worse than the preceding one. "Viceisa monster of si frightful inein, Tliat to be dreaded ueeds but to be seen: But seen too oft familiar with its face. We first endure, then pity, then embrace." I venture the assertion, there is not one parent in ten who takes any par ticular pains to cautioa his or her boy or girl against petty crimes, and yet they may be the starting point of the child's downward career. I will go further. I venture the assertion that there is not one parent in twenty who could be made believe his or her child would do such a thing, and yet the parent who may be the most obstinate in this unbelief has boys who are the leaders of the gangs that commit the most depredations. Never a word of caution comes from the parent's lips to the boys about such matters. One great troubie is iu all these petty of fenses the parents consider it some thing of a bother to have the boys and girls with their noise and chatter around home all the time. They let them run at large to occupy their timo in their own way without any inquiry as to "where have you been?'' or "what have you been doing?" In fact the parents on the contrary too often encourage the boy's foraging disposition. They send them out to gather butternuts, walnuts, chestnuts and things of such like without a word of direction as to where they shall or shall not go,not caring whether they enter upon private property or not, only go out and gather nuts. The so lution of the whole matter lies with parents themselves and is in their own interests. It is cheaper for them to spend a few cents or a few dollars for things and let the children have a rea sonable quantity of them as often as the child desires, than to have him gorge himself and suffer both moral and physical injury. The boy will then be proud to say, in his indepen dent way, when bantered by other boys to "let's go get this or that," "Oh, I don't want them, we've got lots better one's at home." When a boy steals any trifling thing it makes him feel sneaking and mean and he deteri orates in morality that much. He steps down in life one step. When he can pass by a temptation with an I-don't-want it feeling it makes him feel manly and honorable. It helps him to take a step upward in life. Besides this, if the parent furnishes the fruit the child will have ripe fruit, that will do it good; will contribute to its health and development, instead of half-ripe fruit that causes the child in numerable aches and pains, and the parents sleepless nights and dollars of TERMS: $2.00—51.50 IN ADVANCE. WEATHER REPORT?J (Forecast by T. U. Lloyd.) I-RIDA Y, Pair. SATURDAY. Fair. SUNDAY Fair. bil L B - If is ln t,ie where rr, , o of ' ev,ls aro to be corrected, ine home to be a home must not be Wjy a I'lace to eat and sleep and be sheltered from cold and storm bnt must be a place desirable for what is good must bo an educator where tha t'lll v.? ?" 1 I-° tau 6 ht arid thoroughly 'n ( , Utl^ to itself ' itfl neighbors ; l 'V lts Then and then only will this and other petty crimes be lessened. *** BRIEF OENTION. The Women's Relief Corps expects to serve lunch on the fair grounds dur ing the time of the fair. The proceeds togo into the soldiers monument fund. The Emporium base ball team went to Driftwood today noon to cross bats with the team at that place. These nines are evenly matched and we sus pect the game to be a close one with Emporium a little in the lead as usual. "Chivalrous," according to the Standard Dictionary means "charac terized by qualities of an ideal knight; brave; gallant; magnanimous." The Independent says that President Roos velt is "chivalrous" and is fighting him on that ground. According to Chamber's Etymologi cal English Dictionary, "fatuous" may mean "without reality; deceptive, like the ignis-fatuus." According to the Standard Dictionary the word is some times used in the sense of "illusory," "baseless;" also, "stubbornly blind." If, however, one will insist upon hold ing the word down to its strict etymo logical meaning, it means "feeble in mind." We say again that we did not use it in this sense in our editorial two weeks ago. Church Dedicated. The beautiful new Presbyterian Church at this place, was dedicated last Sunday, with elaborate ceremony. A large number of prominent clergy men were in attendance. Services were held morning, afternoon and evening. The church was crowded at all services and much interest mani fested by our citizens, regardless of creed. At the evening session about $3,500 was subscribed towards liquidat ing the debt. The Presbyterians may well feel proud of their efforts—in fact the whole community should rejoice in the erec tion of so beautiful an edifice. Their property is valued at 820,000. With the Old f-olks. Hklitor Press: I enjoyed the pleasure of a visit up on the occasion of Dr. D. D. Colcord's 83rd anniversary, at First Fork, last Saturday. At the happy gathering were, in addition to the venerable Dr., Hon. Solomon Ross, aged 81; Hugh Caldwell, Sr., 91; Isaac Bowen, 71; Martin Bowen, (59; M. Blodget, 69; Mrs. D. D. Coleord, 74—aggregating 540 years. Dinner was served to about forty invited guests aud everything the country afforded was spread be fore the guests. Too much praise can not be bestowed upon the ladies who aided in making the celebration a success. VISITOR. Sinnamahoning, Pa., Sept. '26 th, 1904. Base Ball (lame. The Austin High School base ball nine will cross bats with the Empori um High School team, Saturday after noon, Oct. Ist, at Keystone Park, game to be called at 1:30. There will bo plenty of time before the foot ball game. Turn out and encourage the boys. Foot Bali. Renovo and Emporium Foot Ball Teams will roll each other in the mud, next Saturday afternoon at 2:30. The game will be played at Fourth Street Tennis Court. Admission 25 cents. A good game is promised. Eet every body attend. Reduced Ratm to the West. To all points in Montana, Washing ton, Oregon and British Columbia, September 15th to October 15th, 1904. Write at once for information and maps to W. H. Allen, Traveling Agent, Wis consin Central |R'y, 621 Park Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa. 28-6t Head-on Collision. Last Wednesday, a head ou collision at Freeman, near Addison, on the B. & S., occurred, in which Engineer Pome roy, the oldest engineer on the road, was killed. It was a passenger train and freight train which collided. Warning. All persons are hereby forbidden from trespassing upon the property of this Company without a permit from this office, or the Superintendant at the works. KEYSTONE POWDEB MFG. CO. Emporium, Pa., August Ist, 1903, 24-tf. NO. 32.