2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. r'eryear M "0 r paid in ailrance I <'C ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements ore published at the rate o! #ne dollar per square {orotic insertion and llftj c«ttts ] er square for each subsequent insertion Raics b.v the year, or for six or three months, are low a id uniform, and will be furnished oa application. Legal arid Official Advertising per square, three times or loss, 52; each subsequent inser tioa to cents per square. Local notices In cents per line for ons Inser •eriion: 5 cents per line for each subsequent Obituary notices over Ave lines, 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar ritit'C* and deaths will be inserted free. 1! illness cards, five lines or less, 45 per year; o\t-r five lines, at the regular rates of adver t sing. No local inserted for less than 75 cents per Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pkess Is complete ai.d affords facilities for doing the best class of rk. PABIICLI.AH AT'IENTION PAID TO LAW PIiINTINO. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear re-'s are paid, except at the option of the pub isher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid tor in advance What the Hand Symbolizes. Look where we will, we find the hand in time and history, working, building, inventing, bringing civilization out of barbarism. The hand symbolizes power and the excellence of work. The me chanic's hand, that minister of elemen tal forces, the hand that hews, saws, cuts, builds, is useful in the world equally with the delicate hand that paints a wild flower or molds a Grecian urn, or the hand of a statesman that writes a law. The eye cannot saylo the hand: "I have no need of thee." Blessed be the hand! Thrice blessed be the hands that work! liien Keller, in Century. How to Banish Fog. The fact is incontrovertible that the dismal fogs, which do so much to make London a city of Dis at this season of the year, are perfectly controllable phenomena. Thej" could be banished by taking thought—that is, by forbidding factories and the like to emit black smoke, and by inducing the ordinary householder to adopt smoke-consuming grates. Yet in spite of all that they suffer, the London public are content to leave agitation for reform entirely in the hands of a small society.—London Black and White. Japanese Ship Names. It is of interest to learn that Japan has christened her big battleships ».fter great mountains and the small war ves sels front some well known natural fea tures of the country. It may also be mentioned that at the end of the name of every Japanese ship is either the ter mination "kan"' or "maru." "Kan" means war vessels and is applied, of course, only to the emperor's lieet. "Maru," which means round, is applied to merchant vessels—why, it is difficult to say. Nurses Are Unfit. The nurses who went to Japan were received with courtesy, but the medical department of the Japanese army has been frightfully embarrassed by their attentions. Their inability to eat Jap anese food, or to live in Japanese style, have proved an almost complete bar to their usefulness.—Medical Record. Indigo Manufacture. Artificial indigo is now manufactured in Germany in iarge epiantities and the low prices asked for it have tended to reduce the production of the natural in digo in East India. The latter country exported only 65,000 hundredweight of indigo last year, against 170,000 hun dredweight five years ago. Golden Bees in King's Tomb. It is said that when the tomb of Chil deric, a king of the first Prankish dy nasty in the fifth century, was opened in the seventeenth century, hundreds of golden bees were found in it. So when the French empire was established the golden bee was adopted as one of its em blems. Excellent "Plumb" Pudding. Take one pound of suet, shred very small and sifted. One pound of raisins stoned, four spoonfuls of "flower" and four spoonfuls of sugar, five eggs but three whites, beat the eggs with a little salt. Tie up close and boil it four hours at least.—Philadelphia Press. Solved at Last. Teacher —All the meridians, you must remember, converge at the poles. Shaggy-Haired Pupil—Then why don't these people who want to find the north pole follow one of them there meredians clear up to it?— Chicago Tribune. Save the Horses. If we are ever to have any more wari :ike this between Russia and Japan, let us hope that the good Lord will permit them to be fought out with the use of au tomobiles, and not with the use of horses.—Our Dumb Animals. Fried Mushrooms. Soak the mushrooms for a few min utes In salt and water and then fry them slowly in butter. Season with salt and pepper. Lay them in a dish, hollow side up, and pour over them the gravy front the pan.—Chicago Post. Where Napoleon Died. Longwood, Bonaparte's house in St. Helena, is now a barn. The room in which he died is a stable. On the site erf his former grave is a machine for grinding corn. Carrots and Green Peas. Boil separately one pint of green jieas and one pint of carrots, cut into dice, until tender. Mix and season with butter, salt and pepper.—Chicago JPost. MR. BRYAN USES HIS JEFFERSON PUNCH BOWL. Mr. Bryan is engaged in his plan s for reorganizing the Democracy. He recently presided at a secret conference held in Judge Tibbetts' office in Lin coln. No Eastern Democrats were present.—News Item. SIGN OF SOUTHERN SANITY Roosevelt Will Be More Kindly Judged When He Is Better Un derstood. It is apparent that the democratic press of the country, and more espe cially of the southern states, is travel ing the same path with reference to President Roosevelt that it pursued in its treatment of the late lamented Pres ident McKinley, says the Donaldsville (L,a.) Chief. During the campaign that preceded his election in 1896 and l'J'Hi, Mr. McKinley was criticised, de nounced and abused with no less sever ity and rancor than has characterized Mr. Roosevelt's treatment by the oppo sition press in the campaign of this year. Mr. McKinley was declared to be a pliant tool of the trusts and the creature of Mark Hanna. and all sorts of dire misfortunes were prophesied as inevitable consequences of his eleva tion to the presidency in the first in stance, and his continuance in office for a second term. Immediately fol lowing his reelection, however, an "era of good feeling" began. Papers and politicians that had been foremost in heaping obliquy upon the president be came quite as prominent in testifying to his virtues and good intentions. To the most casual observer of pres ent-day events and indications a simi lar change of tone and temper is mani fest in the comments of the democratic papers concerning the acts and utter ances of President Roosevelt. It is quite safe to predict that within the next, year at farthest the absurb accu sations that the president is less friendly to the south than to other sec tions of the nation; that he believes in the social equality of the races and that he is an egotistical and impulsive man whose inordinate ambition is like ly to involve the United States in im broglios with other countries, will be relegated to the campaign ash pile, and Mr. Roosevelt will be generally regard ed as safe and sane a president as any of his predecessors. As a matter of fact, President Roose velt has done no more than President McKinley did to warrant the imputa tion, of unfriendliness to the south. The Indianola post office incident was the counterpart of an incident of the Mc- Kinley administration. More negroes were appointed to office under McKin ley and possibly under Cleveland also, than under Roosevelt. The Booker Washingtou luncheon in the privacy of the executive office was very far from possessing the social significance at taching to the participation of Fred Douglas and his white •Wife in demo cratic President Cleveland's wedding reception at the white house. No pres ident has ever chosen a better class of officials in the southern states than Roosevelt's appointees, and none has made so many selections from the ranks of his political opponents. In all of the numerous positions of trust and responsibility he has been called upon to fill Theodore Roosevelt acquit ted himself with credit and honor, and an overwhelming majority V>f his coun trymen have already expressed the conviction that he has done and wnl continue to do equally well in the presidency. As these facts permeate the minds of the people who havo hitherto been blinded by partisan prejudice and mis representation, a kinder and juster judgment of the president's course and character will be formed, and if his life is spared, it may be accepted as a foregone conclusion that lie will be come in the south, as he already is in Progress in PBilippines. The antis will be unhappy again. The annual report of the collector of customs for the Philippines shows that the man agement of affairs in his department is carried on with exceptional care and honesty. The receipts for the year were $7,131,379, and they were collected at an average cost of .0420 per cent., which is smaller than the average in the United States for 30 years. The collector also gives encouraging information as to the labor and industrial conditions in the Philippines nad speaks in terms of very CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1905. the t>ther sections of the country, one of the most popular of the nation's chief magistrates. OPPOSED TO ARBITRATION. Democrats Will Make a Fight on Treaties with Foreign Countries. If the democrats carry out their threats to oppose the arbitration treaties they will furnish a new reason why the American people should re joice at democratic defeat in the recent election, says the St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat. The Roosevelt administration has been very active in framing arbi tration treaties in the past 12 months. We have compacts of this sort with England, France, Italy, the Nether lands and other countries. Some of these are now before the senate. The others will be submitted to that body for action soon. In this work the sen ate will be kept busy for many days of the present short session. It is understood that practically all of the republican senators favor the treaties. Just why any republican should oppose any bf them, except pos sibly on some points of detail, which can be readily changed, is hard to un derstand. The chances are that they will get the solid republican vote. Sec retary Hay has received high praise for his activity in framing these peace compacts with the great nations. None of them hamper the United States in any way. None of them propose to submit to arbitration the Monroe prin ciple or touch on any issue affecting the honor or vital interest of the coun try. They propose to refer to an im partial tribunal the ordinary questions on which the United States and some of the otner countries might be at variance. But the democrats, it is reported, are to make a fight on all of them. Appar ently they imagine, or pretend they imagine, that the treaties will some how involve us in some sort of al liance with the countries with which the agreements are entered into. Then, too, the disposition to oppose every thing that the republican party favors has something to do with democratic hostility. It would seem that the chas tisement which the democrats have re cently received for their obstructive ness and bourhonism ought to have taught them the folly of opposing the measures which the republicans bring forward. It is evident that the repub licans have the confidence of an over whelming majority of the American people. This policy of entering into peace pacts with the rest of the great nations is in harmony with United States traditions and conforms to the spirit of the age. The present indica tions are that every one of the arbitra tion treaties will be ratified, notwith standing the opposition of the demo cratic leaders. CURRENT PRESS OPINIONS. Dingley tariff needs no stronger advocate than the prosperity with which it is identified.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. If "What the democratic party needs above all," fays the New Orleans Pica yune, "is wise and able leadership." It also needs somebody to be led. —Kansas City Journal. lETAt the proper time-Mr. Bryan will mention the names of several prominent democrats whom he deems unfit for the presidential nomination in 1908. —Chi- cago Tribune. warm commendation regarding the Fili pinos who fill subordinate positions in the public service. That the islands are making marked and satisfactory prog ress under the enlightened and kindly rule of the United States is becoming more evident daily.—Troy (N. Y.) Times. the returns have been tabu lated it seems to be dawning on the Ne braka democrats that possibly fusion was not such a bully good thing, alter all. —Indianapolis News. STORM CAUSED SEVEN DEATHS __ NEW YORK AND VICINITY VIS ITED BY A BLIZZARD OF LARGE* PROPORTIONS. TRAFFIC WAS PARALYZED; POOR PEOPLE SUFFERED Grocers and Coal Dealers Ran Short of Supplies and Raised Prices— Trolley Cars Stalled for Hour 6. « New York, Jan. 5. —Not in several years has New York been visited by a storm of such proportions as that ! which commenced Tuesday anil con ! tinned until early Wednesday. Nine ! Inches of snow fell, paralyzing traffic, i and the marked drop in the tempera j t ure brought untold suffering to the J city's poor. The blizzard caused seven i deaths in New York and vicinity, | while many persons, overcome by the cold, dropped to the street, some of them receiving fractured bones. The storm began with an icy sleet, : which stuck to the car rails, and caus ed a speedy abandonment of railroad and trolley schedules. The sleet cov ] ered the sidewalks and streets with | ice and rendered them almost impas- I sable. A fine snow succeeded the sleet and, aided by the wind, soon piled up drifts that shut off many suburban points i from the city. The drifts caused a mifk famine and ! only a small percentage of the usual ; amount of milk was delivered in the ' city. Owing to the inability of small groc l ers and coal dealers to get supplies, ■ they ran short and put their wares up |to famine prices. Great suffering re- I suited in the poorer districts from this action. Though the residents of Manhattan i had a hard time, their trials were in- I significant compared with residents in | the Bronx and Brooklyn. The whole , transportation system in the Bronx broke, down just when the morning : travel was at its height and people were compelled in many instances to tramp miles to the nearest "L" sta tions. All the surface lines were tied up. The storm paralyzed traffic in the country districts of Staten Island. In many places the snow drfts were very deep and several trolley cars were stalled ail night between Richmond and New Dorp. Small buldings in various parts of the island were blown down by the gale and telegraph and telephone wires were much damaged. AN OHIO RIVER HORROR. Boilers of the Towboat Defender Ex ploded—Eight Men Killed and Three Seriously Injured. Huntington, W. Va., Jan. 5. —Eight ! men are known to be dead and three seriously injured, the result of a boiler I explosion and fire which destroyed the towboat Defender near hero early 1 Wednesday morning. The Defender was owned by the Mo nongahela and Ohio Consolidated Coal ! and Coke Co., of Pittsburg. The boat was returning from Cincinnati with a j tow of empties. Capt. James Wood- I ward was in the pilot house at the time of the accident and with the ex | ception of the firemen, engineer and ! the watchmen, the remainder of the crew were asleep. The explosion of the starboard I boilers blew out the entire side of the boat and awakened the sleeping mem j bers of the crew. The noise was heard i for three miles. The survivors j grabbed what clothing they could find and plunged into the icy waters of the Ohio in the effort to escape. The night | was bitter cold, the thermometer hov ering about zero, and those who es ! caped were nearly frozen before thoy could be given shelter. The boat caught fire immediately j following the explosion and drifted i down the river about 200 yards, where j she sank in shallow water. The fire ! continued until she was burned to the water's edge. A New Ship Subsidy Bill. Washington, Jan. 5. —Congress yes | terday received the report of the Amercan merchant marine commis | sion, composed of members of the sen ate and the house, who began their in ! quiry on March 23, 1904, with a view j to reporting to the congress what leg islation, if any, is desirable for the de velopment of the American merchant I marine and American commerce. As j an answer to the difficulties which the question presents, the commission of ! fers a bill entitled: "To promote the national defense, to create a force of naval volunteers, to establish Ameri can ocean mail lines to foreign mar kets, to promote commerce, and to | provide revenue from tonnage." The bill provides for a system of subsidies. Death of Theodore Thomas. Chicago, Jan. 5. —Theodore Thomas, the noted orchestra leader, died of pneumonia at his residence here yes terday. He was 70 years old. Death came to the world famous director al most at the hour of achieving his am bition of years, the establishment of the Chicago orchestra in a magnificent permanent home. A Miner's Crime. Johnstown, Pa., Jan. s.—Jacob Houser, a coal miner, entered the home of his father-in-law at Moxham, a suburb of this city, yesterday, and stabbed to death his wife and mother in-law. He then seriously wounded his wife's sister, aged 12 years, and tried to kill his father-in-law, but was prevented by a shotgun in the hands of the latter. Houser then fled to an old coal mine nearby, where 110 was captured, after he had taken a heavy dose of laudanum. He will probably dip. Houser has been separated from his wife for a year. POLITICAL CORRUPTION. Gov. Durbi* Says that Vote Buyers Thrive in Indiana. Indianapolis, Jan. 7. —W. T. Dtirbin, retiring governor of Indiana, in his annual message to the legislature yes terday said concerning political cor ruption : "The time has come for the applica tion of drastic remedial measures to the plague of corruption which is fast ening itself upon our politics. We have in Indiana advanced legislation for the protection of the purity of the ballot, but the statistics of political debauchery in this state for 1901, if it were possible to present them, would be astounding. I am informed by un questioned authority that in a single county in Indiana, casting in 1902 a little more than 5,000 votes, there were in the last campaign nearly 1,200 voters regularly listed as pur chaseable and that $15,000 raised by assessment from candidates and oth erwise was spent by the contending political parties in the effort to con trol the county. "Instances have come to my atten tion during the past few weeks where, in contests for township trustees, votes have brought $25 and S3O each. Our present need is legislation framed in the light, of a clearer conception of the enormity of the offense involved in the purchase or sale of a vote. Our present statute is farcical, as it places no penalty on the vote buyer. I be lieve consideration -should be given to the advisability of requiring the grad ual introduction of voting machines." As a parting warning to the legisla ture the governor says: "If reports current can be credited, this session of the legislature will be called upon to resist the importunities of the most corrupt professional lobby that has visited any general assembly in the history of the state. Already the names of members of the general as sembly are being used and the neces sity of large sums of money to prevent needed legislation or to pass question able measures is being urged." NEW YEAR BEGINS WELL. Business Conditions are Favorable— Dun's Review of Trade. New York, Jan. 7. —R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Aside from some hesitation at the south, owing to the recent fall in price of cotton, business conditions are favorable and optimistic sentiments are evidenced by extensive prepara tions for.active trade. As annual re ports appear it is found that the clos ing months of 1904 made a much bet ter exhibit than the first half, which starts the new year with smaller stocks of goods in the hands of deal ers, assuring liberal contracts in the near future for replenishing supplies. A few minor labor controversies have arisen, but the Fall River mills are more active, ftnd in most branches of manufacture there is a steady de crease in the proportion of idle ma chinery, one prominent producer of woolen goods reporting 95 per cent, of all plants in operation. Storms have caused temporary delay to traffic, but the ample water supply is a beneficial influence more than offsetting any in jury to the aggregate. Gross earnings of the railways in December were G. 4 per cent, larger than in the same month of 1903. Winter wheat condi tions have improved. The various departments of the iron and steel industry steadily extend operations, and the sentiment is in striking contrtist to the conserv atism that prevailed a year ago. New business is gradually coming forward. Failures for the week numbered 290 in the United States, against 400 last year, and 25 in Canada, compared with 87 a year ago. A Sensational Speech. Washington, Jan. 7. —A sensational address by George H. Maxwell, the executive chairman of the national irrigation congress, was made Friday in the forestry congress. He scored congress for its refusal to repeal the timber and stone act and declared that the house public lands committee, the western members of which he alleged "had deliberately prevented action" on the measure and thus "allowed the stealing to continue, should be held up to public obloquy and lashed at the cart's tail with the whip of out raged national sentiment." City Hall Burned. Springfield, Mass., Jan. 7.—The city hall, valued at more than $50,000, was completely destroyed by fire in less than an hour Friday. There were probably 50 people in the building and the flames worked so rapidly that there wore many narrow escapes, but it is believed that all got out. Across a narrow street is the police station and court room. This building took fire several times, but was only slight ly damaged. The large department store of Smith & Murray, nearby, narrowly escaped burning. Help was called from neighboring cities. Five Men Killed. Connellsville, Pa., Jan. 7. —A freight train of 40 loaded cars was wrecked yesterday at Glencoe, ten miles east of Sandpatch tunnel, and five men were killed. One of the dead was Fireman Charles S. Beckley and the others were unknown tramps. The air hose coupling burst while the train was in the tunnel and the train ran away. When Glencoe was reached the engine jumped the track at a sharp curve and the entire train followed. Crum's Nomination Confirmed. Washington, Jan. 7.—The nomina tion of W. D. Crum, a negro, to be col lector of customs for the port of Charleston, S. C., was confirmed by the senate in executive session yesterday by a vote of 33 to 17. Crum Ijad been nominated by the preside*!}, three times and in addition h<# received three recess appointments. A Doubly Fatal Wreck. Somerset, Pa., Jan. T.-j-ln a freight wreck on the Baltimore & Ohio rail road near Milford, last evening, two laborers, whom it is supposed were stealing a ride, were killed. THREE YEARS AFTER. Eugene E. Lario, of 751 Twentieth avenue, ticket seller in the Union Sta tion, Denver, Col., says: "Yon are at liberty to repeat what I first stated through our Denver papers about Doan's Kidney Pills in the summer of 1899, for I have had no reason in the interim to change my opinion of the remedy. 1 was subject to severe at tacks of backache, al- HB| ways aggravated if I sat BSH long at a desk. Doan's HIM Kidney Pills absolutely I stopped my backache. I njrffl have never had a pain JBSSf ! or a twinge since." Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. V. For sale by all druggists. I'rice 6(P cents per box. TALES OF THE TITLED. The Duchess Cecile, of Mecklenburg- Sehwerin, whom the crown prince of' ; Germany Is to marry, has been brought up in many respects after the fashion of the German housewife. She is profi cient in all domestic duties, and said to be a first-class cook. The little prince of Piedmont, unlike his sisters, Princesses Yolanda and Ma falda, is being nursed by his mother. Queen Helene reluctantly gave the other children up to the nurse, but when the long-hoped-for heir to the throne ar rived she absolutely refused to let any other than herself give him nourish ment. King Leopold, of Belgium, has ap pointed Henry Gabriels, bishop of the Catholic diocese of Ogdensburg, an offi cer of the Royal Order of Leopolds, which was founded by the first king of Belgium. Tiiis honor recognizes the labors of Bishop Gabriels in his writ ings on various subjects published in Belgium and the services frequently ex tended by him to emigrants from Bel gium to this country. Lord Charles Beresford, the comman der- in-chief of the Channel fleet, is as ! popular in political circles as he is in | the navy. In the house of commons his speeches were always invariably good ! humored, and marked with sound com- I mon sense. On one occasion Lord. Charles created a roar of laughter by | explaining how he would deal with cap : tured slave traders. 'l'd give these men a fair trial, Mr. Speaker," said he, "anil then I'd hang them!" When she was Consuelo Vanderbilt. the duchess of Marlborough had a sweet voice—not remarkable for its timbre, but pleasing—and she used to shock her ! musical instructors a little by display j lng a decided liking for the quaint, j melodies of the old plantation darkies, j Now, even as a stately and dignified, duchess, she loves to sing these old bal lads and the more modern 'coon" songs : for the entertainment of her friends,, and she has made the melodies so popu lar they have become all the rage in the families of the nobility. The duchess \ of Westminster has taken them up, and. so has Princess Henry, of Pless. ANIMALS GO ON STRIKE. Even the rabbit is a hardened striker. In rabbit colonies the stronger rabbits, do most of the burrowing and as often, as perhaps once in two years these be come discontented and refuse to work,. A species of black ants have little yel low ants which do most of their worlc for them. Occasionally the yellow spe | cies will goon a strike. Their food sup ply is cut off, but if that does not avail: | the strikers are attacked or another lot ' of yellow ants are secured. [ Both birds and beasts occasionally go on strike, according to observers. A herd of horses will bunch together, neg lect their food, become restive, neigh, and rub noses when in a field. The out— | come is that the herd will not allow themselves to be saddled or harnessed I and will chase and attempt to kick the attendants. Female birds take tantrums, and refuse to do the housework. They desert their nests and leave their egga to become cold and barren. The mala naturally becomes greatly concerned, but with the bird and beast creation tha male will never attack the female, eo' there is no remedy. Warblers and star lings are given greatly to these strikes. HABIT'S CHAIN. Certain Habits Unconsciously Formed and Hard to Break. An ingenious philosopher estimates that the amount of will power neces sary to break a life-long habit would, if it could be transformed, lift a weight of many tons. It sometimes requires a higher de-- gree of heroism to break the chains of a pernicious habit than to lead a for lorn hope in a bloody battle. A lady writes from an Indiana town: "From my earliest childhood I was a lover of coffee. Before I waa out of my teens I was a miserable dys peptic, suffering terribly at times with my stomach. "I was convinced that it was coffee that was causing the trouble and yet. I could not deny myself a cup for breakfast. At the age of 36 I was in, very poor health, indeed. My Sister told me I was in danger of becoming a coffee drunkard. "But I never could give up drinking coffee for breakfast although it kept, me constantly ill, until I tried Postum. I learned to make it properly accord ing to directions, and now wo can hardly do without Postum for break fast, and care nothing at all for coffee. "I am no longer troubled with dys pepsia, do not have epells of suffering with my stomach that used to trouble me so when I drank coffee." Kama given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each pkg. for the famous !iU tie book, "The Road to Wellville,"
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