2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Evory Thursday. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. f'eryear IS 95 r paid lu advance 1 "U ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate ol one dollar per square formic insertion an<l flftt cents per square for cai'li subsequent insertion. Rates by the y<ar, or for six or three months •re low ami uniform, and Kill be furnished on application. Legal and Official Advertising per square three times or less, »<!; each subsequent inser tion f)0 cents per square. Local notices lil cents per line for one lnser »?rtlon; 5 cents per line tor each subsequent tonsecutive insertion. Obituary notices over Ave. lines 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, n.ar rinires and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lii.es or less, 15 per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising No local inserted for lesa than 75 cents per Usuo. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Puts* is complete and affords facilities for doiuu' the best class of Work. PAKIICULAH AI ILSIION PAID TO LAW PRINTING. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear tfes are paid, except at the option of the pub sher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. ■' ■■ ■» Sexes and Shopping. Whereas a woman will go into some vast establishment intent on spending a certain sum, say on an article of dress, and will successively scrutinize half a dozen things besides what she originally wanted and retire without buying any, a man will stray in without any fixed plan of purchase and will sometimew pur chase large quantities of goods that he never dreamed of wanting when he en tered the shop.—London Tatler. Natural Deduction. Lawyer—Alimony cannot be legally collected, so I think we can get you out of that part of it. Client—That's good. But how do you figure it out? "Marriage is a lottery, isn't it?" "That's what —and I drew a losing number." "Then marriage being a lottery, ali mony must be a gambling debt." —Chi- cago Daily News. Protect Our Forests. We are becoming aware of the truth of natural science that the mountain forests are not only one important source of the fertility of the plains, but the guarantee of its continuance, and the most perfect security against freshets that ftU the beiisof rivers with earth and cause destructive overflow of their banks, washing the labor be t-towed on roads and structures and crops.—Boston Herald. Not So Foolish. While looking for stragglers, just as as a Welsh regiment was about to sail from Cape Towu for England, an officer found a private standing at attention in a shed. "What are you doing here?" he was asked. "Please, sir," was the reply, "1 am a lunatic and I am wait ing for the corporal's guard." He was right; he was a lunatic and his guard had forgotten him. Indian Chief a Bank President. A bank with an Indian chief as its president has been organized to do business at Skiatook, I. T. The insti tutions opens with Chief W. C. Rogers, of the Cherokees, at its head. The bank is incorporated lor SIO,OOO, and is located in a town fiat is only three months o!d.—K. C. Journal. Soupless England. An authority on cooking asserts that England is a soupless country, mean ing that English cooks cannot make soup and that soup does not appear on the menu of an English everyday din ner. Which is a fact, though soup is about the first form that English char ity takes. Luck Light. A Boulder Creek (Cal.) man was kicked over a 200-foot precipice by his mule, but 50 feet down fell into a large woof!rat's nest in a redwood tree, 150 feet from the ground. There he stayed until a party of rescuers got him down with ropes. Must Speak English. English is to be the language of the international commission of inquiry into the North sea affair. At least that was the decision as long as Admiral Kasnak otT was a member. Perhapsi DoubasolT, who takes his place, does not speak Eng lish. Befogged. The Royal Meterologii al society held a meeting in London rccentlj to hear and discuss a paper on "Decrease of Fog in London." There was a very slim attend - ance. Most of the members had been un able to come on account of the fog. Visible to Him, Anyway. The Magistrate—But you have no vis ible means of support. The Tramp—O, I dunno. You can see lots of good-natured people in the course of a day if ye keep your eyes open.—Stray Stories. Jap Theatricals. In a recent presentation of "Faust," in Tokio. Mephistoles was presented a:> a Russian, and in a fine tableau Margue rite gave her band to a victorious Japa nese soldier, just returned from Man churia. - . t Unpublished Records. One da> Admiral Dewey pointed to a chest in his office in the navy department and said: 'ln that chest will be found the real records of the battle of Manila, never yet published." Simple Remedy for Indigestion. The food must not only be palatable, hut must be served in an attractive man ner (fine dishes, table decorations, etc.). —Medical Record. ALLIANCE WITH POPULISM. Something That the Republican Party Is Not Likely to Be Guilty Of. Some eastern and western papers, republican and democratic, are inti mating that, certain popullstie doctrines may engraft themselves onto republican policy by the time the canvass of 11)08 opens. They apparently think that the democratic party has become so weak and despicable that no minor party or new political sect of any sort will care to enter into alliances with it, or make any overtures for its support. But there is not the slightest reason, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, to fear that the republicans will make any surrender to populism. There are some radicals in the republican party, but they are compelled to accept republican doctrine and to work for the party in the orthodox way. A great deal was heard about the lowa idea on the tariff a few years ago. Where is the lowa idea now? Not a whisper was heard about it in the canvass of 1904. It. will not come up in congress in the present session. Nobody is talking about it anywhere. The lowa idea is forgotten even in lowa. The republican party stands for sane, conservative, progressive Americanism. The republican who cannot accept this doctrine gets out of the republican party. It is hinted that Gov. La Follette, Gov. Cummins and a few other western re publicans will put. some queer planks into the republican platform in 1908. Let nobody believe a word of this. Those personages have a considerable follow ing in their states. On certain issues they are at variance with the majority of their party. But in the republican party the majority rules. The major ity frames platforms, puts up tickets and carries elections. The republican party has a record for conservatism and balance. It will maintain this rec ord to the end. The republican who makes any radical departure from the sound traditions of orthodox party doc trine will be compelled to get outside the party line. The republicans are ready to deal with new issues of any sort as they arise. They will deal with them in the same sort, of a spirit as that in which they settled the slavery issue, placed the greenbacks on the specie line, and established the gold standard. Whatever the conditions may be in 1908, the republican party will be ready to meet them in a sane, courageous and robustly American way. HANDS OFF THE TARIFF. Workingmen of the Country Are in Favor of the Protective Policy. Workingmen are no less interested than employers in tiie reports of the conferences President Roosevelt is having at Washington with republi can leaders from various sections on the subject of the tariff. In Massa chusetts and Wisconsin there are some republican tariff revisionists who are aching for a tariff tinkering seance in the coming session of congress, and they have been laboring to bring the president around to their way of thinking The workingmen of the country are not low tariff men, says the National Labor Tribune. They are protectionists, end we can assure the politicians that President Roose velt's majority, in spite of his tremen dous popularity, would have been a great deal less if it had not been for the plank in the democratic platform denouncing protection as robbery. It is all right to interpret the election as an approval of anti-trust policy, but to attemipt to read a demand for tariff revision into it is utterly unwar ranted. The mills an? generally start ing up again. It is to be hoped that our industries are not to be thrown into confusion by a tariff revision right at the moment when signs of recovery are appearing. The presi dent will make no mistake in turning a deaf ear to the tailff tinkers. CURRENT POLITICAL ITEMS. t "In 1900 Col. Bryan, an old soldier iu the war against corporations, emitted a plan for a federal license of corporations. What has the colonel to say of the bet tering of his instructions? The world awaits eagerly the words of that great mender and amender of the constitution. • —N. Y. Sun. American free trader is a sin gularly obtuse individual. He proposes to s'.op American manufacturers ship ping their surpluses to foreign coun tries by setting up his peculiar fiscal policy, which would permit the for eigner to get rid of all his surpluses iu the American market, —San Francisco Chronicle. J. Bryan dies hard. Feel ing the chills of eternal obscurity creep ing over him, he talks first about one thing and then about another,, in the hope of attracting a moment's notice. His latest victim is President Roosevelt and his latest bid for newspaper atten tion is a eulogy on the president whom he recently reviled. Rather than at-- tract no attention at all, he courts it by loudly proclaiming President Roosevelt "the greatest president the country has ever had." Poor Bryan! Mr. Roosevelt is a rreat president, but Bryan did not discover the fact. —Chicago Chronicle. uv'The democrats only smile sorrow fully at the president's fear of a timber famine. They themselves have been lace to face with it for some years.— Indianapolis News find.) fact that the country is pros perous is sufficient reason for proceed ing with great caution in all legislation affecting the tariff. —Denver Republi can. If Affection for his little grand daughter—bless the baby!—has recon ciled Col. Bryan to his daughter and son-in-law. What the democratic party needs is more granddaughterc.—Albany Argus (dem.) CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1905. HUMBUG OF RECIPROCITY. Growing Business with Canada Ex poses Rottenness of the PJea. Most insistent of all the demands made during the past year for reci procity, and most conspicuous because it has come from a strong republi can state, has been the cry from Mas sachusetts. 11l informed persons would have been justified in believing that our trade in general and the commerce of New England in particular were being blighted by the Dingley tariff schedule, sometimes yclept the Chinese wall. Now comes a report from the department of commerce and labor which makes such a splendid exhibit of our growing busi ness with Canada that it knocks the bot tom out of the tub that has been carry ing the pathetic appeals for reciprocity to Washington, says the Waterbury (Conn.) Republican. The report shows that our imports from Canada grew from $33,264,403 in 18C5 to $51,400,265 in 1904, and that our exports to Canada grew from $28,- 829,402 in 1865 to $131,274,346 in 1904. The most rapid growth, however, has occurred during the period from 1894 to 1904, our total exports to Canada in 1894 having been $56,664,094, as against $131,274,346 in 1904, an increase of $74,- 000,000 in the decade. Thus during the last decade our total exports to Canada have increased 131 per cent. Furthermore, the percentage of Cana dian imports supplied by the United States has increased from 40.4 in 1890 to 60 in 1904, while the percentage of British imports has declined in the same period from 38.5 to 24.6, all of which goes to show that, whether or not our present tariff needs amending in certain schedules —that is another question— the reciprocity cry usually proceeds from selfish interests and is not based on a general demand or need, and the louder the holler the more selfish the motive. This report puts a new plume in the cap of Senator Lodge, who has stubbornly fought the Massachusetts crowd that was yelling for lower duties and declaring in the same breath that our Canadian trade was being killed off. AGITATORS MAKE TROUBLE Paid Lobbyists Throng the Capitol Trying to Influence for Tariff Revision. Under the leadership of men like Babcock, of Wisconsin, and Cummins, of lowa, the farmers of the Mississippi valley have been led to the idea that the tariff 011 manufactured goods is al together too high, and that its excess is burdensome to them. Except for the great popularity of President Roose velt and the strength of party tie, coupled with the belief that it would be better, at the worst, to "stand pat" than to entrust revision to the demo cracy, the great farming population of the middle west might have endan gered republican success this year. On the other hand, says the Salt Lake City Tribune, the old-time and high minded legislaters of the eastern states have been governed by their high regard for our ideals in legisla tion and by their experience, in their opposition to any preesnt attempt to revise the tariff, and their people have supported them. For instance, Senator Hale, of Maine, is said to lead in the demand that the j tariff shall not be touched. Those who j know him may well conceive that in addition to his idea that the present measure is as safe and just as any which can be obtained he is opposed to a reopening of this question because it j floods the corridors of the capitol with ! a horde of paid lobbyists which class I the great senator from Maine most cordially hates. He knows that they have more or less influence on com mittees and that in controversies be fore the tariff makers the large and prosperous industries get better con sideration than do the small and needy ones. And therefore he prefers be cause of his experience with tariff bills to oppose any attempted invasion of this matter during the present con gress. Bryan's Prophecy. Mr. Bryan says that "the private ownership of railroads will cease as soon as the monopolistic plans of the railroad monopolists are realized." He assails his old foe, the writ of injunc tion. He talks about "the capitalistic side of the money question;" and he op poses national banks of issue and waves ! the old flag of "bimetallism," that is, in j effect, silver monometallism. lie raises j the vain cry against a large army and ! navy; exhibits imperialism as "amoral question," and declares with uncon- j scions unctuousness that "the Vhilip- ; pine question presents an opportunity j for the democratic party to address it- I self to the religious instincts of the ! American people and to the moral per- I eeptions of the country." The addresses ! of the democratic party in regard to the Philippines have been rejected twice by tha country, but Mr. Bryan will not give up. No, "the time is ripe for an appeal to the moral sense of the nation;" and Mr. Bryan's article shows him 110 riper and decidedly duller than he was in 1896 and 1900.— N. Y. Sun. course, until we get used to it, it will seem a little queer to have a liill less democracy.—lndianapolis News (Ind.) K •"'Don't forget tariff revision," says a democratic paper. In other words, the democratic party is out of meat and In favor of anything that could breach the republican smokehouse. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Bryan gets his democratic reorganization effected he will probably be able to count upon the democrats who did not vote at the late election, but he will lose a large proportion of those who did.—Philadelphia Press. SHOWER OF BULLETS. IT PASSED OVER A CHAPEI. IN WHICH CZAR WAS STANDING. PALACE WINDOWS BROKEN' Indications Point to the Existence of a Plot Against the Emperor in Which Artillerymen Were In terested—Narrow Escape. St Petersburg, Jan. 20.—The fea | tival of the Epiphany, the blessing of I the waters, hail just concluded at 1 | o'clock Thursday afternoon when sim i ultaneously with the salute fired from the St. Peter and St. Paul fortress a rain of bullets swept over the little chapel built over the frozen Neva in front of the winter palace where Em peror Nicholas and every member of j the Romanoff family were participate ! ing in the service. The missiles went high, entering I windows of the splendid row of salons along the water front from which the empress, the ladies of the court and the members of the diplomatic corps and all the high dignitaries of the state, army and navy were witnessing ! the glittering spectacle below. Fortu | nately the bullets passed over the heads of all present, striking the op posite wall and clattering down on the parquetted floor of the white salon. The emperor had a miraculous es cape. Some of the bullets struck the I little open chapel in which the em peror was standing, cut the staff of one of the standards and fairly rid dled the basement windows of the palace, wounding a policeman. Had the gun been aimed a little lower the charge of grape might have wiped out the whole Romanoff dynasty. Everything on the surface seems to indicate the existence of a deep laid plot against the emperor in which i artillerymen were enlisted. It Is un -1 derstood that all the men and the of i fleers of the battery were immediately ' placed under arrest. The police took | charge of the spot wher the battery | stands and drew a double cordon across the river, searching out every | thing in the line of fire. PLANNED TO KILL GUARDS. | Four Prisoners in the Cincinnati Workhouse Plotted to Escape. Cincinnati, Jan. 20. —A plot of four j prisoners to escape from the Cincin- ; nati workhouse was revealed yester- j ; day by a prisoner. According to the story told the of- | ! fleers, the four men, who were serving maximum sentences for various of fenses, had planned to escape last | night a'ter murdering Night. Guards J Bishop and Ansil. Investigation j showed that the bars of the cells of j I the men had been sawed through and I could be pushed out easily. Three j long dirks were found in the cells. Rockefeller Resigns. New York, Jan. 20. —The directors ; I of the Amalgamated Copper Co., yes- j I terday declared the regular quarterly j dividend of half of 1 per cent, and an extra dividend also of \<z per cent. This is the first time in three years that i the dividend has exceeded 2 per cent, per annum. William G. Rockefeller resigned as secretary and treasurer of j the company because of ill health. F. P. Addicks, formerly assistant treas- j urer, was elected vice president and \ A. H. Mel in was elected secretary and ! treasurer in Mr. Rockefeller's place. Rosseau Is Indicted. New York, Jan. 20. —Gessler Ros- | seati, charged with sending an infer nal machine to the Cunard dock a year ago last May, was indicted yes- j terday by the grand jury under the i : section of the penal code which makes it a felony to send dynamite or other ! explosives to a steamship or railroad j without label or other sign of its char- I acter. It is expected that Rosseau 1 will bo extradited from Philadelphia at once and brought to this city for ! trial. Seven Lives Were Crushed Out. I.ittle Rock, Ark., Jan. 20 —.A spe cial to the Gazette from Antoine says: Seven men were buried alive under a great, mass of dirt and rock as there- j suit of a cavein yesterday in a deep j cut five miles north of Antoine, on the j Gurdon & Fort Smith railroad. All I were white men. It is not known where their homes are. All the dead men came here with a number of olh~ ; ers from St. Louis. Duke Is Free Again. New York, Jan. 20. —Brodie L. Duke, the half brother of the presi j dent of the American Tobacco Co., I who has been kept in a sanitarium fol j lowing his marriage to Alice Webb, j was brought into the supreme court In ' Brooklyn yesterday and discharged from custody afLer a hearing before Justice Gaynor. Coasters Were Killed. Altoona, Pa., Jan. 20. —Willard Elder, aged 12; George Leiper, aged 10, and George Thomas, aged 11, while coasting in Tyrone last evening were carried under a moving shifting locomotive. Elder and Thomas were killed and Leiper cannot recover from his injuries. Engineer and Fireman Were Killed. Charleston, W. Va., Jan. 20. —In a wreck on the Powellton & Pocahontas railroad yesterday James Keesey, en gineer, and Harry Jones, fireman, were killed and a hoy was fatally in jured. The locomotive, liglu, ran away on a steep grade. At a sharp curve the locomotive left the rails and plunged down a 20-foot embankment. A Maniac Kills Two Women. Concord, N. H., Jan. 20.—Mrs. Mig. nonette Seavey, of Barrington, a pa tient. at the state insane asylum here, killed two inmates and injured a ourse yesterday. If Balcom & Lloyd. I = — 1 | I 1H cr I I II !i rlj if WE have the best stocked fl general store in the county 1 1; and if you are looking for re [ liable goods at reasonable prices, we are ready to serve | you with the best to be found. Our reputation for trust- J worthy goods and fair dealing is too well known to sell any but high grade goods. I| 1 I rjj Our stock of Queensware and 'm Chinaware is selected with great care and we have some {j, of the most handsome dishes B| ever shown in this section. || both in imported and domestic makes. We invite you to visit us and look our goods over. l| i 1 l I i : m fp !p - jj| I Balcom & Lloyd. ( 3 LOOK FLSFWHFRF BUT DON T forget these $ ■j LUUft LLOLlnf li L.ISL. prices AND FACTS AT ® ILABARSI $ f3(H3edroom Suits, solid S4O Sideboard, quartered ■*" $ ?28 , 1^ 00m Suits > flolid J2| * 3B s k ideboar d, quartered #8 & Suits, solid $22 Sideboard, quartered <£|g 4- HK A lar K® line of Dressers from Chlfflonlers of all kinds and M W $8 up. prices. w>- $ - A large and elegant line of Tufted and Drop-head s£*• Couches. Beauties aud at bargain prices. 30? The finest line of Sewing Machines on the market, J?!. j the "Domestic" and "Eldredge". All drop heads and * warranted. & j- A fme line of Dishes, common grade aud China, in sets and by the piece. j* As I keep a full line of everything that goes to make « up a good furniture store, it is useless to enumerate them W' * aIL & a ! Please call and see for yourself that I am telling you the tiuth, aud if you don't buy, there is no harm done, as ft j' it is 110 trouble to show goods. 8$ I GEO. J. LaBAR. | r £
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