2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. »cr year *2 00 If paid in advance 1 ,S U ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of •ne dollar per square fur one Insertion and fifty cents i er square for each subsequent Insertion Rates t\v the year, or for six or three months, »re low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, J2; each subsequent inser tion J.O cents per square. Local notices lo cents per line for ons lnser sertion: f> cents per line for each subsequent consecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over Ave lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar tinees and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less. <5 per yoar; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than 75 cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PKKSS Iscomplete »nd affords facilities for doing the best class of work PAUTICCLAR ATTENHON I>AIL>TO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear rgfs are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. A train on the Great Western rail way recently eclipsed all records for the conveyance of American mail be tween Plymouth and London, covering the distance of 247 miles in 237 min utes. The last 118 miles of the run Avas made in 99 minutes. It is asserted by a sculptor that tho human foot, is becoming smaller. The masculine foot of 20 centuries ago was about 12 inches long. The average man's foot of to-day is easily fitted with a No. 8% shoe, which is not more than 10 7-10 inches in length. A Monroe county man who invested $529 in sheep last fall has sold $227 worth of wool, has 143 lambs that will average 80 pounds when ready for market, which at four cents.a pound makes them worth $572. Total income from his flock of sheep $799, and he still has the sheep. Not one of them has got away from him. The general commerce of Newfound land during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1903, amounted in value to $ 18,- 456,445, of which $8,479,944 represeci ed imports and $9,976,504 exports. The year preceding the combined imp'rts and exports amounted to $17,389,209, while in 1899 they totaled only $13,- 000,000. Within the last ten years the general commerce has increased 42 per cent. American thrashing machines have been used in Peru this year for the first time, in lieu of the old system of having the rice trodden out by horses. Other rice growers will probably soon be induced to follow '.his example. Thrashers of this clasrc, as well as their motors, should be very light in construction, with broad wheels for use in moist ground, in order to meet the popular fancy there. Argentina has the greatest number of sheep of any country, but derives relatively the least benefit from them. This is due, in part, to the quality not having yet been sufficiently refined, in part to negligence in the care of the sheep, and lastly, to the prevalence of scab, the curing of which has not been made obligatory. In Australia curing this disease was made compulsory 30 years ago. Dealers in iron and steel claim that the imposition of the $7 a ton duty on imports of steel rails will mean an ad vantage of sl6 a ton for the Canadian manufacturers over those of the Unit ed States, as follows: Duty, $7 ton; bounty in Ontario on pig iron from Canada ore, $1 a ton; federal bounty, $2.25;, federal bounty on steel ingots, $2.25; special duty under "dumping" clause, $3.50; total, sl6. There are 39 mortgage banks in Germany whose outstanding bonds amount to $1,837,964,520. These mort gage bonds are secured by mortgages on town and country real estate, in return for which the mortgage banks loan at 4 to 5 per cent, interest per annum. The bonds issued by tho hanks, bearing 3'/ s to 1 per cent, in terest, are a popular form of invest ment, being considered as safe as gov ernment or municipal bonds. The longest fence in the world Is that which has been erected by a cat tle company along the Mexican bor der. It is 75 miles in length, and sep arates exactly for its entire distance the two republics. The fence was built to keep the cattle from running acron.-i the border and falling an easy prey to ihe Mexican cow punchers. Althougn it cost, a great deal of money, it is esti mated that cattle enough will lie saved in one year to more than pay for it. Chile has possibly used more post age stamps which were first intended for revenue purposes than any other country. In 1880 the lc, 2c, sc, 10c and 20c, as well as the 1 and 1 pesos tax stamps, were used postally. The 5c blue fiscals were also used in Iquique during the war of the rebellion. In 1891 the 2c, 10c and 20c telegraphs were used for postage. Many fraudu lent specimens of the latter exist, and even the postmarks have been counter feited. A recent order providing for the kill ing of beavers in a public park iu Ger many, because the animals had almost undermined the whole island on which the park is laid out, is interesting be cause it. shows that the beaver is not a purely American animal. Instead of that, being so, the fact is that be;iv ers used to be found in many parts of TJurope, and there are still a few in the Elbe river near Berlin, where they are protected and propagated by tho government. AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE. Election returns, which are just being received in some of the interijr points in southeast Missouri, have startled many Democrats, some of whom have petitioned the Legislature to cut off their counties and add them to Arkansas. Others threaten to move at once to Arkansas. —News Item. —Chicago Inter Ocean. WINNING OF MISSOURI. : Democratic Crookedness Finally Over come by Honest Republican Methods. ! It has been a work of years to make Missouri a republican state. The credit for the change must be distributed among all the educative influences that | have been steadily, earnestly and dis interestedly at work to reach the con , vlctions of the people. When a ma < jority of the voters of the state con | eluded that the dominant party was unfaithful, says the St. Louis Globe -1 Democrat, its speedy defeat became a ; certainty. Testimony to this effect had ito be piled up persuasively and I clinched beyond the possibility of de i nial before substantial progress could be made. A party long in power can ! aot be overthrown without a prolonged ; siege of this nature. Democratic news papers in Missouri claim that the state was lost because many members of the ! party failed to vote. How far this view is correct cannot be known until the full official returns are published and exact comparisons are possible. But in any case, the voter who stays at home in a year of general election is dissatis fied with his party to the extent of condemning its platform or nominees, or both. The attitude of censure is there, though it stops short of a vote for the other party. The democrats i lost Missouri in 1894 by the stay-at j home tendency, and carried the state therefore only by a change of party front and a fusion with populists, to gether with the aid of partisan laws in | vented to falsify elections in the large ! cities. Republican Missouri is here through | the persistent efforts to present the i facts about political conditions in the 1 state. No one man or set of men car | ried Missouri. It was won by the ! searchlight of truth, and every zealous | republican worker and newspaper In ! the state assisted. It is three years since the Cardwell investigation proved i that legislatures in this state were | pledged in advance to corporations that | contributed liberally to democratic i campaign funds. Democratic state i chairmen and some democratic state | officials, it was shown, handled this se i cret money, and, after the legislature i met, personally importuned members to | vote for monopolistic interests, on the j ground that they had supplied cam- I paign cash. The Cardwell case was ; Suddenly stopped by a scandalous pay | ment of hush money. At the same time a strong light was turned on the con- J version of the school fund in govern | ment bonds into a debt supported by | state taxation. -That hole was patched : by a tell-tale constitutional amendment | two years ago, but in all except the | three state board cities there was a ma | Jority against the juggling amendment, j Missourians had been shown to this im- I portant extent in the election of 1902. Then came the alum developments, | leading to the resignation of the lieu- J tenant governoi, and the exposure of [ another state official, who was heavily j scratched and defeated for another term jin the recent election. The democratic j platform, outside of its contradictory | indorsement of state administrations | for 30 years, was an indictment of j the party itself. These are the consid erations that have turned Missouri to Roosevelt's Treatment of Trusts. There is no doubt at present in the I public, mind regarding Ihe intention of j the administration to enforce the laws j against any corporation that shall be j found violating them. It is not ex- I pected by those who are able to take | a sane view of conditions that any rash or extreme measures will be adopted. It is safe to say that it is not the pur pose to enter upon a sweeping war fare against corporations, the effect of which would be seriously to disturb the business of the country. But it can confidently be predicted that any oor CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1904. the republican side. Another and more gradual element was at work, and that was the natural growth of republic anism, which resulted in a more rapid ratio of increase than was seen in any other party. To say that any one per son or incidental feature made Missouri republican is to argue that the state is swayed by ephemeral matters, which is most decidedly not the case. Missouri was won by its indomitable republican army, which returned to its task after every defeat with more ardor and de termination than ever. And if the party makes the best use of its opportunities, republican Missouri has come to stay. GATHERING IN THE SHEEP. Bryan in the Shepherd Act Out After the Wanderers from His Fold. Shepherd Bryan has issued a call for the wandering sheep to come home. There are comparative degrees even in defeat, and Mr. Bryan holds that lie de serves the support of the democratic party in the future because he was not licked so badly as Parker, says the Troy (N. Y.) Times. Bryan charitably says of Parker: "He did as well as he could." This suggests the western ilddler, whose audience was advised for the same reason not to shoot him; also that epitaph in the same sec tion of the country which read: "He did his darnedest; angels could do no more." While Mr. Bryan is disposed to let the ex-judge down easy he insists that Par ker's gold telegram was "embarrassing to the democrats of the west and south," and that although he was supported by Cleveland and the other bolters of 1896 his defeat was greater than Bryan's in spite of that bolt. Bryan is undoubtedly correct in say ing—and the conditions justify his say ing it —that "the result was due to the fact that the democratic party attempted to be conservative." And Bryan is equally accurate when he says that honest and well-meaning democrats must either get into the republican par ty or join the democrats of the west and south, because there is no middle ground. Shepherd Bryan is wrong in his belief as to what is good for the American peo ple. But he is a fair fighter, and every body knows just where he stands. This was more than could be said of the man whose nomination was secured by "crooked and indefensible methods," first by the policy of silence and then by double dealing, and who deserved the pulverizing treatment which was given to him by the people. Let the Bryanites get together under their typical and rightful leader, and let the fight be an open one. The people will then dispose of Mr. Bryan and his sheep with just as much alacrity as they at tacked the democratic mutton recently. tr- T Bryan says he will not reorganize the democratic party. Hearst makes denial and so does Watson. Really, the democrats are better off than was feared.—lndianapolis Star. "The man who said that figures won't lie," remarked the Observer of Events and Things, "evidently never took the trouble to investigate those found in certain democratic papers." —Yonkers Statesman. poration shown to be violating the laws will be made to feel the strong hand o£ the government.—Omaha Bee. tCHello! The democratic national ticket made up already? Douglas and 1* oik, eh.' One fond of his own face, and willing to see it on the banner; the other representative of a lingering'eth ical sense in St. Louis. One holds the labor unions and the other the minis ters. With this combination success might be achieved.—Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. Dem.). WORK OF LIFE SAVING SERVICE ASSISTANCE RENDERED TO 1,061 VESSELS LAST YEAR. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE RESCUED. Great Deal of Property Saved The Total Number of Disasters to Vessels of All Kinds Was 770. Washington, Dec. 2.—The annual report of the superintendent of the life saving service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1904, shows that dur ing the year assistance was rendered by life saving crews to 1,001 vessels of all kinds, involving the lives of more than 3,300 persons, and property to the value of nearly $7,000,000. The crews also rescued 103 persons not on board vessels from various perilous situations, and through signal warn ings of the beach patrols saved from possible disaster ICI vessels in dan ger of stranding. The vessels wrecked were generally of small tonnage. There were 359 casualties to regis tered vessels, involving 2,525 persons, of whom 21 were lost. The estimated value of these vessels was $4,098,855, and of their cargoes $1,757,925, mak ing the total estimated value of prop erty imperiled $6,456,780. Of this amount there was saved $5,089,950, and $1,300,830 was lost. Of the 359 vessels which suffered disaster- 50 were totally lost. Among the smaller craft, not regis tered, such as sailboats, rowboats, pleasure launches, etc., 411 casualties occurred, periling the lives of 803 per sons, of whom 13 were lost. The value of these vessels with their cargoes was estimated at $218,750, with a loss of $8,020. This makes the total num ber of disasters to vessels of all kinds 770, with a valuation of $0,705,530, of which $5,330,080 was saved and sl,- 375,450 was lost. The total number of persons involved was 3,328, oi whom 34 lost their lives. The net expenditure for the main tenance of the service during the fis cal year was $1,700,440. The life saving lines now extend practically unbroken from Maine tc the Carolinas and have connection at all important points with the commer cial telephone and telegraph lines oi the country, and also, where desir able, with the lighthouses and weath er bureau offices on the coast. The life saving stations the report says con stitute an important factor in the sys tem of coast guard patrol maintained by the navy department for protect ing the coast in time of war, and th« wireless telegraph system now being tested by the navy, when sufficient lj perfected will be extended to the life saving stations. The telephone service on the greai lakes has been materially improvec uuring the year. TWO COLLISIONS. One Occurred NearFairpoint, 0., anc the Other at Stocksland, Va.—Foui People Killed. Wheeling, W. Va., Dec. 2. —Las evening in the tunnel near Fairpoint 17 miles west of Wheeling, on th< Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling divi sion of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad occurred a fatal freight wreck by th< collision of two sections of a west bound freight. The dead: W. White, engineer of second sec tion, of Uhrichsville, 0., killed in stantly. J. S. Bevington, brakeman of sec. ond section, of McKeesport, Pa, crushed badly; died at hospital. The injured: Kdward C. Miller, fireman of sec ond section, of Holloway, 0., shoulder fractured, serious. The colliding trains were running about 30 car lengths apart, when the first section was held up in the Fair point tunnel and before the flagman could emerge from the smoke the second section crashed into it. Danville, Va., Dec. 2. —A head-on collision between two trains on the Danville & Western division of the Southern railway at Stocksland, five miles above this city, Thursday, re sulted in the death of Fireman O. G. Minter, of Stockton, and Saniu -l Sta ples, a colored brakeman. Richard Hairston, a colored fireman, was seri ously injured and probably will die. Three other trainmen were injured. Nissen Is Dead. Stevensville, Mich., Dec. 2.—Peter Nissen, who started across Lake Michigan in his boat called "Fool Killer No. 3" was found dead on the beach, two miles and a half west of here, Thursday. His "Fool Killer' was about 20 rods down the beach from the body and was considerably damaged. A life preserver and his overcoat were fastened to the basket, shaped car in the boat. The body was brought to Stevensville. The hands and face are frozen. A Firm of Brokers Failed. Pittsburg, Dec. 2. —Richmond & Co., local brokers, closed their doors yes terday. The firm of Richmond & Co. has offices at Buffalo and in addition to their Pittsburg headquarters have scores of correspondents situated in many of the small cities in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Canada. Three Firemen are Killed. Oneonta, N. Y„ Dec. 2.—Three men were killed, several others had nar row escapes from death and property valued at $40,000 was destroyed in a collision between two freight trains on the Delaware & Hudson railroad lear here yesterday. The dead men were all firemen. They were: F. A. lartin, Cooperstown: Frank Pratt, Jneonta: CJeorgo Williams, Worces ter. A fast freight train, westbound. Tinning at the rate of 40 miles an tour, crashed into an extra freight .vhicii was being shunted off to a side track. TWICE-TOLD TALES. James Jeffrey Roche was having a chat with President Roosevelt in the white house recently when the tele phone began to ring. There seemed to be nobody at hand to answer It, so the president performed the duty himself. The visitor says that thi» conversation took place: "Well, what Is it?" "Hello, is Archie there?" "No, he's not." "Who's this I'm talking to?" "The president" "Well, you'll do. Tell Archie to come over and play ball." And the president proceeded to execute the order as directed. An Irascible old colonel who used to play golf at Sandwich, on the River Stour In England, had a habit, com mon with many, of blaming everybody but himself for his bad strokes. Fin ally one day, becoming badly bunkered, he first took mighty ven geance on the turf with his club. Then, glaring around In expectation of the usual friendly comments, and nobody saying anything, he blurted out: "How can you expect a man to play decent golf on these cursed links with ships passing up and down the channel?" Two fashionable women were re cently calling on a new neighbor, and while awaiting her appearance a lit tle girl came into the room, evidently bent upon the rescue of a doll recent ly abandoned there. Naturally she was viewed with some curiosity, and one of the callers, secure in the child's obviously tender age, spelled a low voiced comment: "Not very p-r-e-t --t-y." To her horror, the small maiden paused on the threshold, and, fixing a contemptuous eye upon the culprit, remarked, with lofty composure: "No, not very p-r-e-t-t-y, but rather ■ m-a-r-t!" Prof. Simon Newcomb tells of the following incident which occurred dur ing a recent visit paid by several young western women to the Wash ington observatory. "I had done my best," said the astronomer, "to answer with credit to the government and to myself the running fire of questions which my fair callers propounded. I think I had named even the remotest constellations for them, and was con gratulating myself upon the outcome, when one of the younger members of the party interjected: 'But, as it has never been proved that the stars are inhabited, how do the Astronomers •ver find out their names?'" RAILWAY RUMOR. American railways handle about ?12,- 000,000 worth of grain a year. A new railroad planned to scale Grays Peak, near Dillon, Col., will attain a height at least 200 feet greater than the road which climbs Pike's Peak. The experiment made about a year ago of employing Mexican porters in Pull man cars has not been successful. Forty Mexicans have entered the service of the Pullman company, and of that number only five are left Timothy J. Lee, an American locomo tive engineer, has been held responsible for the wrecking of a train he was driv ing, near Zacatecas, Mexico, and sen tenced to hard labor in the salt mines for four years. He was badly hurt in the wreck. His brother is a Denver police captain. The Southern Pacific company has forbidden its men to bring cocaine into Its yards or shops. It has been custom ary for the men to use it when they get a cinder in an eye, but it has been used for other purposes; and, besides, the doctors say, its unskilled use In the eye Is dangerous. The men have the use at a well-equipped emergency hospital. Of the sum which had been Invested in the world's railroads at the close of 1902 It is estimated, according to the Eng lish Railway Magazine, that more than £3,7G0,000,000 has been spent on 184,- 000 miles of European railroad and £ 3,232,000,000 on the 337,000 miles owned by the rest of the world. On this basis It is found the roads of Europe represent an investment of £22,352 a mile, whllo those of the rest of the world average £11,402. Great Britain's railroads rep resent the highest cost per mile, figures standing at £51,368, while those of Bel gium come next with £30,048. B A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A A. A. A. A. A. AA. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A AS ► M Penetration is the cardinal virtue of ► : St. Jacobs Oil 112 <4 in the treatment of 3 Rheumatism P It penetrates to the seat of torture as no other external remedy has been known to do and thousands certify to curea. Price 25c. and 50c. ■tttttttttttttttt-tttttttttttttttttttS WOLVES HELD AT BAY" A GREEDY PAOE OF ILLS SURROUND* A CLERGYMAN'S WIFE. Through the Arrival of Timely Aid SbO Eicnpn from the Terrors of a Prolonged Siege. The Rev. W. A. Denton, of Girard,. Crawford county, Kansas, tells tlio fol lowing story of a harrowing experience' of one of the members of his family r "My wife," ho saya, " was assailed for fifteen years by a combination of ail ments following tho birth of our firsfc child. The food she ato fermented la her stomach, sho had frequent dizzy spells, her limbs were swollen and pain ful, her nerves were quite sliattered, she* was unable to sleep and she was many times on the verge of heart failure. " Physicians gave her only temporary relief. Finally tho favorable reports of some relatives and neighbors led her to make trial of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Palo People. She export® rionced improvement almost at once. Thoy relieved hor sleeplessness, the smothering sensations have disappeared and have not annoyed her for years. They freed her from stomach troubl©- and the dropsical tendency was miti gated. The progress of the rheuma tism, which had begun to make her fingers crooked, was stayed and the pain, was banished. In every respect they gave her more help than any other rem edy she had ever used, and she is today in better health than for many years. " Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are our sta ple household remedy, and I am in th® habit of recommending them to all who suffer from troubles like those which af» flicted my wife." All the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and repaip shattered nerves are contained, in a con densed form, in Dr. Williams' Pink<Pilla for Pale People. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such aa suppression, irregularities and all forma of weakness. In men they effect a rad ical cure in all cases arising from men tal strain, overwork or excesses of what ever nature. Dr. Williams' Pink Pill*- are sold in boxes at fifty cents a bo* or six boxes for two dollars and fifty cents, and may bo had of all druggists,,, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams Med icine Company, Schenectady, N.Y, Bfl sure you get the genuine; substitute*' never cured anybody. I Do you catch cold easily ? Does the cold hang on ? Try iShiloh's Consumption Cure It cures the most stubborn kind of coughs and colds. If it i doesn't cure you, your money will be refunded. Price*: S. C. WELLS & Co. 3 25c. 50c. sl. N. Y., Toronto, Can. ran |M|rS f] li I lu I wA ■ 11 SHORT AND SAPIENT. Society Is the mother of convention and quite often It deserves Us child. There Is no better way of emptying, the mind of evil than by filling it witb> good. A man forgives the enemies he has worsted, but not those who have worsted him. When a man has a chronic case of "that tired feeling" he also makes hla> friends tired.
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