2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. f'cr year... .IJ ip 112 paid iii advance 1 "0 ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements arc published at the rate ol ®nf dul.ar per square forotie insertion and lifty cents I tr MiUiii'f for each subsequent insertion. Rates liv ilit" year, or for si* or threo months, •re low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal and Official Advertising per square. Ihree times or less, *2: each subsequent inser tion 10 cents per .-quare. Local notices 111 cents per line for ona Inscr iption: 6 cents per line (or each subsequent consecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines in cents per line. Sin,p!e announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will lie inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less, »5 per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local Inserted tor less than 75 cents per It sue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PHKSS Is complete •r.d affords facilities for doing the best class of WorU PABUCLLAR ATTENTION i'aid TO LAW PRINTING. No paper wtll be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub usher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance Lawsuits in Borneo. Justice in Borneo is administered in a most primitive manner. One way of deciding between two disputants is to give each a large lump of salt. These Jumps are dropped in water, and he whose lump is first dissolved is decided to be in the wrong. Or two live shell fish are placed on a plate and lime juice squeezed over them. The verdict is given according to which man's fish moves first. Helpless Woman. "My wne's the most helpless crea ture." growled Cadly; "simply can't no anything without bothering me to help her." "Yes." ' tfes; only last night I had to reach up and get a candle off the shelf of the pantry for her. so she could gc down cellar and bring up a scuttle of coal." —Philadelphia Press. "Exotic"' Cake Walk. French dancing masters have formed a Societe Academiqtie des Professeurs de Danse de France. The director of the association is Prof. Desrat, who proposes, with his colleagues, to run the minuet, in opposition to the "ex otic and inartistic terpsichorean move ments borrowed from the black people of Santo Domingo and elsewhere," alias the cake-walk. Unseemly Levity. The January prize for homicide marksmanship in Indian territory be longs to the young man who killed four Indians with a six-shooter al Sasakwa, in the Seminole nation. The shooter was unarmed when attacked by the Indians, but grabbed one of their pistols and rung the bell foui times in succession.—Kansas Citj Times. Money Spent in Drink. According to Mulhall's Dictionary of Statistics, the amount of money annu ally expended on alcoholic liquors in th' United States is $325,000,000, $15,000,001 going for wine, $210,000,000 for beer. $5,000,000 for cider, and $95,000,000 fot spirits. One hundred and eleven mil lion dollars are estimated to be paid in taxes. Long Pennant. When the American cruiser New Or leans came into San Francisco bay re cently on her way from Guam to Mare Island to be paid off and go out of commission, she sported a homeward bound pennant 550 feet long. Baltimore. Baltimore has confirmed its title tc the name of the monumental city. The erstwhilft burnt district is a last ing monument o the city's resistless ! energy to surmount obstacles. Haiti- 1 more Sun. Greatest Oculist. Probably the world's greatest oculist i is Dr. Pagenstocher. of Wiesbaden Germany, lie Is consulted by almost I every Europe--)n royalty and by aristo crats and plutocrat;; from over the j world. Argentine States. The Argentine .stales have greater in- ! dividuality than ours. They may. with the consent of congress, make treaties j i(>r the fostering of industry, immigra- ! tion, colonization, railways and canals Acetylene Gas Systems. There are 330 towns in the world lighted by separate acetylene gas sys tems. The United States leads with 121, France and Germany following with 80 and 54 respectively. Worse at Home. Luckily lor Japan. Russian generals do not prosecute the war with the same vigor and tactical skill which they dis play in fighting among themselves.— Chicago Daily News. There Are Others. It must be discouraging for a man who has learned jiu-jitsu in order to foil hold-up men to en -ouuter a hantili •who is proficient in that line ah o. Chicago Chronicle. Humor. Some persons are .so dry that yoi might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not g> through their skin —Henry vVard Deecher. Money First and Last. It's a good thing to make your ir.one?. last as long as it will, but it's better to make it first. Philadelphia Record. "SOMETHING MUST EE DONE TO THE DINGLEY LAW!" x < ~r, /I. /• VQji \ fef I^Xr^. I^[F©lM \' - ' S *ss StoAOVVVA^ PLEASED THE FILIPINOS. Election of President Roosevelt Was Well Received in the Philippines. William E. Curtis, the well-known i writer and traveler, who has been io the Philippines and made a careful study of conditions there, and who. moreover, is a democrat, gives a very glowing ac | count of the situation as it has devel | oped since the last presidential election !in the United States. As lie presents the case, says the Troy Times, based on j information received from reliable | sources and including published state ments in Philippine newspapers hostile j to the administration, the republican [ victory last November, with the assur ance that President Roosevelt is tore ! main at the head of the government. ' ha.s caused great rejoicing in the islands, restored commercial confidence and assured industrial progress. In support of his exposition Mr. Curtis quotes from the Manila Times, which has been bitterly opposed to the admin istration, to the following effect: j "When the news of the republican party's ■weeping victory at the polls and the con sequent affirmation of President Roose velt's Philippine policy was flashed along the bottom of tin Pacific ocean S.m 0 miles to Manila, it determined the Investment of $2,500,000 in the Philippines. That amount I of gr atly needed capital will be invested in these islands during the next ft v. months by n syndicate of Ohio capltallss. One million dollars gold will be invested in an enormous for the manufacture 1 of the various, products of the cocoanut The factor} will be located at Pagbilao | Bay, six miles distant from Lucena, Tayabas. . Though enthusiastic OV< r the possibilities of the plan as an invest ment, neither Mr. Dodge nor Mr. Yost were satisfied to invest their own capita! nor that of their associates until the political status of the islands was linaliy 1 settled. According to Mr. lJodge, capi ag ists in the I'nited States were reluctant | to invest in the Philippines whiit the pos sibility existed of the democratic party, • with its vacilating policy toward tne Philippines, being wafted into p wir 1 . . . With U e electi. n of Picsidcnt : Roosevelt, however, all such uncertainties were ended. A cable message was imine ! dlately dispatched to their Ohio associates | that everything was satisfactory and that i they were about to close the deal. Prop erty adjoining Pugbi.ao Day was imme diately purchased and orders fur machin ery were cabled to the United States." Mr. Curtis cites other instances, with ! in his own knowledge, of large enter i prises which are to be launched in the ; Philippines, now that the supremacy of republican policies and the tranquility and prosperity they guarantee have been decided by the vote of the Amer ican people. These undertakings in volve the investment of many millions of dollars and promise corresponding material advantages to the islands, whose resources were never exploited ; under Spanish rule. Moreover, the elec | lion has given a great stimulus to works of vast importance in the way of public improvements. Much had already been tone in this regard, as is indicated by the fact that nearly s4,o form such an organization failed, it is said, as a result, of failure to agree between representatives from the east and the west. At yesterday's meeting about -00 firms were represented and an or ;anization was effected, John Hanan >t New York, being elected president! I BOGUS BILL SUBSTITUTED, j Who Stole Gcdfrey's Aiti-Pool Sell. ing Bill from the Legisla ture's Files? Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 24. —The original draft of the Godfrey anti-pool selling bill, the substitute for which was adopted Tuesday by the house of representatives, has disappeared from the office of the chief clerk. As the substitute is based on the original bill in the nature of an amendment, the action of the house in passing the bill, which prohibits all betting on horse races in the state, becomes null and leaves the breeders' law just as it stands on the statute books. Representative Haines, who has ! been a strong advocate of the repeal 1 measure, introduced a resolution pro i viding for the appointment of a com- J mittee to investigate the report that J the original draft of house bill No. 11 I had disappeared from the files. This ! was unanimously adopted, the com j mittee appointed and instructed to re j port during the afternoon session. The investigating committee stib ; mitted the following report: I "First—That a spurious bill was substituted for the original Godfrey | bill, which the house passed with j amendments made by the criminal , jurisprudence committee. "Second—That the original Godfrey j bill was lost or stolen. "Third —-That the name of the per- I son or persons responsible for the dis appearance of the original of the pres j ent anti-pool selling bill are unknown to the committee." THE RATES ARE UNJUST. Inter-State Commerce Commission Decides a Case Involving Trans portation of California Fruits. Washington, Feb. 24.—The inter ! State commerce commission yesterday [ rendered its decision in the California orange cases, brought by the South jem California Fruit. Exchange | and the Consolidated Forwarding Co. against the Southern Pacific and the | Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail ! way systems, in which it holds that ! the defendant carriers are unlawfully ; engaged in pooling the traffic in citrus fruits originating in southern Califor nia and carried by them and their | connections to eastern markets; that | the defendants by compelling the ship ! pors to pay icing charges as establish ! Ed by the car lines made such charges | part of the cost of transportation and I subject to regulation under the law, I and that the rate on oranges in car loads from southern California to | points on and east of the Missouri j river are unjust. The rate on lemons is held to he reasonable and present i refrigerating charges are held to be ' not unreasonable. Suddenly Became Insane. Chicago, Feb. 24.—Leslie C. Fuller, assistant attorney in the department of justice at Washington, is detained at a police station and will be sent to the detention hospital for the insane. | Fuller came to Chicago a few days since, registering at the Auditorium annex. At 1 o'clock Thursday morn | ing he left his hotel and an hour later | attempted to arrest John Sherlock, ! saying he was a policeman and that ■ Sherlock was violating the law. Sher lock took Fuller for a highwayman | and the two were having a desperate I struggle, when an officer took Fuller j to a police station. Death of William F. Shanks. New York, Feb. 24. —The death at Hamilton. Bermuda, of William F. Shanks, president of the National Press Intelligence Co., who was well known in newspaper and financial circles in this city and for 11 years was city editor of the Tribune, was announced in a cable dispatch receiv ed Thursday. Mr. Shanks was born in Shelbyville, Ky., in 1837. He was a correspondent with the armies of Grant and Sherman during most of the civil war and was wounded while serving as a volunteer aide on the staff of Gen. Rosseau at the battle of Perryville. Infernal Machine in a Mail Box. Philadelphia, Feb. 24.—Addressed to United States Senator Penrose a small infernal machine was found done up in an innocent looking package in a private mail box in the hallway of a building at 121(1 Market street yester day. A. J. Williams, a photographer, to whom the mail box belongs and | who discovered t he package, turned it over to Detective Donaghy, who opened the box without exploding its contents. The box contained gun powder anil a liquid in a bottle, sup posed to be nitroglycerine. To Prevent Marriages with Filipinos. Indianapolis, Feb. 24.—Senator Davis introduced a bill in the Indiana senate yesterday to prevent whites from marrying persons having more than one-eighth Filipino blood. The bill grew out of a situation at Blooin ington, where Filipino students are at tending the State university and are flirting with white girls. Parents of these girls are fearful of marriages and have requested the passage of the bill. More Pay for Firemen. Elkhart, Ind., Feb. 24. —The Lake khore & Michigan Southern railroad has announced an increase in fire men's wages of from 5 to 20 cents per 100-mile run. The pay for passenger runs is $2.10 and for the hardest freight runs $2.50. A Murder on the Street. Newark, N. J., Feb. 24.—James Seme, a wealthy Italian contractor, was shot to death on one of the prin cipal streets of this city yesterday in the sight of scores of persons by Frank Sena, a former employe. Sena was captured by several citizens who witnessed the shooting. Senate to Meet in Special Session Washington, Feb. 24.—The presi dent has issued a proclamation con. vening the senate in special session at noon on March 4, to "receive Buch communications as may be made by the executive." TARTARIC TRUTHS. A man must have sublime faith to buy a bottle of hair restorer from a bald headed barber. A man with a broken heart is interest ing to maidens. But It must be the heart,, not the pocket that is broke. Most any man can make shift to do without the necessaries of life. Hut h'j must have his unnecessaries or expire. No showman would make any money exhibiting two-faced persons In his col lection of freaks. They are too common. To genuinely appreciate the kindness and generosity of Providence it is nec esary to llrst realize your own insigniii cance. A good resolution is a very tine and brittle Venetian Tamper with it ever so little in careless mood and it is liable to break. The best sign of a man's ignorance of a language is a habit of uselessly intro ducing certain very commonplace ex pressions from It Into ordinary conver* cation. The core of the unhapplness of the world's workers is not that they have tc work, or that they are deprived of things that they would like to have, but the eternal haunting vision of the time when their working days will be over. SUCCESS SUMMED UP. "Push," said the Button. "Never be led," said the Pencil. "Take pains," said the Window. "Always keep cool," said the Ice. "Be up to date," said the Calendar. "Never lose your head," said the Bar rel. "Make light of everything," said the Fire. "Doa driving business," said the Ham mer. "Aspire to greater things," said the Nutmeg. "Be sharp in all your dealings," said' the Knife. "Find a good thing, and stick to it," said the Glue. "Do the work you are suited for," said the Chimney. Vocabulary Overworked. "She is a woman of few words." "True. But she never tires of using | them."—Town Topics. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN HOW THEY MAINTAIN THE CHARMS OP THEIR SEX. Tlic Importance that Attaches to the C art of the I(I«MH1 If One Wants Eyes aa