2 CAMERON COUIiTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday.. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.. f'cr year 00 112 paid iu udvance 1 *0 ADVERTISING! RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of one dollar tier square for one insertion and tlfij cents t er square for each subsequent Insertion. Rates by Hie year, or fur six or three mouths, mre low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, »2; each subsequent inser tion to cents ]>er Kjuare. Local notices In cents per line for one lnsor lertion; 5 cents per line for each subsequent consecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Sin.ple announcements of births, fi:at • riages and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, live lines or less. '.5 per year; over live lints, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than 75 cents pe< Issue. * JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PRESS is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PAIJ'I ICUI.AU ATTENTION PAIDTO I.AW PHINTISU. No paor:r will bs discontinued until arrcar tges arc paid, except at the option of the pub she r. , Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. The only really perfect diamonds which are to be found on this globe are those which fall from the sky in meteorites; all diamonds which are mined in the diamond fields of the world are only fragments of gems. That is a startling statement, but a still more startling one Is that all the diamonds to lie found on our planet have fallen on our earth from the skies and have not, as mostaof us thought, been produced here like coal and other mineral products. When the steamship Philadelphia arrived at Boston, the other day, she brought among the other things in her cargo a consignment of elephant tusks, or teeth, as they are called in the ship's manifest. There are about 300 tusks in the consignment, and in weight they run from about 75 pounds to the weight of an ordinary man. Few of them are less than a yard In length, ami one is fully eight feet long, having evidently been the property at some time of an elephant that would rival the famed Jumbo in size. Emperor William receives £OOO,OOO a year—the biggest allowance made to any constitutional monarch. King Ed ward receives £470,000 a year, al though a separate grant of £20,000 is made to the Prince of Wales, one of £IO,OOO to the Princess of Wales and another of £I,BOO per annum to each of the king's three daughters. The king of Austria-Hungary figures high on the list of handsomely paid rulers, receiving £382,202 a year. King Al fonso, boy though he is, disposes of £338,000 annually, and even Belgium spares £132,000 a year for the glory of being a monarchy. Perhaps the most remarkable fea ture of commercial progress in the United States is the wealth which its copper mines are yielding. Last year the output of American copper mines was nearly one billion pounds. This was worth $150,000,000. The output of the copper mines of the country alone, to say nothing of the gold and silver mines, was nearly four times as great as the dividends of the Stand ard Oil Co., which controls 70 per cent, of the oil industry of the United States. Just 21 copper mines paid in actual profits to stockholders the huge sum of $30,000,000. Our idle rich, who have taken up the fad of scorching autos to furnish a novelty in lives otherwise doomed to ennui, have recently made enough excitement for themselves to satisfy the most exacting. What with a jail sentence in France, the experience o( a scion of the noted house of Shep pard, and the attacks of an Italian mob on W. K. Vanderbilt, jr., it would seem that Europe is a good place to be shunned by speeding autoists. liere the laws are more elastic, and five-dollar fines are only an incident hardly worth noting in the speeder's diary. In his 23 years at the bar, Lincoln had no less than 109 .cases before the highest court of Illinois, a record un surpassed by his contemporaries: he appeared before the United States cir cuit court and district courts with great frequency; he was tlie moit In defatigable attendant on the Eighth circuit, nnd tried more cases than any other member of that bar; .lie was at torney for the Illinois Central railroad; he was also counsel for the Rock Is land railroad and other corporations and indi\iduals with important legal interests at stake. Salvatore Vlnciano, a gallant Ro man, wooed and won Paolina di Ponta, a beautiful Roman girl, after the most ardent, sir -niton : and d< perate court ship on record. For love of her he at tached her with a ra/.or, blew up her home with dynamite, stubbed her with a stiletto, and then shot off two of her fingers. Incidentally he spent three years and three months In prison as: ar« sul' or h s loving atu ntlons Such sacrifice, constant*} and devotion at last conquered the heart of the beau ilful Italian i ill and rec< .itl> be mar ried him, in Rome. V Hons I (',< o lui e :n ilete i the largi i plct 1. 0 ever palnte.l. It tueai* tite vvaetly '7 .quart' I eel. The •rt Ut l.tui to bt the kwe <»f a studio of sbl'al !<• size from the mate, and lit and hl.i e . K some 5" feet hi iii. wer« tu , toi.itt t In the t:. i.'lie ties Ma <hi i' I * on*- 'i**iin I build Ins In 'he world The plct lire repre ' . 112 . .. ii,. law III! it the frlltf • ~ <, , I, >" I life H|/O flu I will 11 liuu , in u i.uuari a low a i 11, that i>l lu/. NO SMASHING OF TARIFF. Protection Will Continue to Bring Prosperity to the Amer ican People. Tlie chairman of the ways and means committee meets the Issue raised by Representative McCali of Massachus etts with regard to the revision o* the tariff at this session of congress. Mr. McCall, in a letter to Chairman Payne, alludes to conversations he has had concerning tariff alterations, in which he has explained the attitude of Re publican members of the Massachusetts delegation and has called attention to the declaration of the Massachusetts Republican state convention. Mr. Mc call, says the Troy Times, explains that while the Republicans of his state have affirmed their unswerving adher ence to the policy of protection and are opposed to any changes that may tend to depress American industry or lower American wages, they are of the opin ion that certain schedules might be modified with beneficial effect, and Mr. McCall holds that this position is con sistent with the principles embodied in the Republican national platform. Mr. Payne, raising no question as to the sincerity of the Massachusetts Re publicans, avows his own sympathy with the announcement in the nation al platform that there shall be read justment of duties only when condi tions have so changed as to demand such alteration. The question is whether such a contingency as the platform contemplated has arisen. In his view, and in that of the majority of his Republican colleagues in the house of representaitves, upon whom must rest the responsibility of action, the time has not arrived when a general revision of the tariff shall be underta ken. The case is thus stated: "While there is a minority of Republican mem bers who concur that the tariff should be amended in some few items, there is a smaller minority who believe that any effort to change the tariff should be entered upon at the present session of congress." Mr. Payne takes occasion to mention the abuse and misrepresen tation to which the Dingley tariff law lias_ been subjected and against which it has been vindicated by its results. The statement is tantamount to a declaration that there will be no med dling with the tariff for the present, and there can be little doubt that this decision will receive the hearty acqui escence of the great bulk of the Ameri can people. They do not want the tar iff "smashed." If they did they would have plainly indicated their wishes in J the last election. On the contrary, the j people emphasized their preference for j protection and their hostility to any breaking down of the barriers raised against foreign competition on our own markets, threatening our industrial prosperity and our wage schedules. The country is busy and prosperous, made so largely through the influence of protection. It is the part of wisdom to let well enough alone. * CLEARINGS ARE ENORMOUS Banking Business of Last Year Shows the Virtues of Protective Tariff. ' Our bank clearings during the calen- ; dar year 1905 were not only the great- i est in our history but show a most re- ! markable gain over any preceding year. The total amounted to the vast sum of $413,874,902,598. This is $31,- 000,000,000 more than the preceding year, and more than $25,000,000,000 in j excess of any previous year. When it | is considered, says the American Econ omist, that our average annual bank ' clearings under the Wilson-Gorman i tariff were only about $50,000,000,000, ! it will be seen what wonderful strides j our business transactions have taken since the Dingley law went into effect. : Should our clearings for the present j year continue as they have begun they j will exceed $2u0,000,000,000, the clear- j ings for January being $10,321,500,279, nearly $2,000,000,000 more than the month preceding, which broke all rec ords. It seems probable that the clearings for 190G will be four times as large as those for 1596, only ten years previous. ! We are now doing just four times the ! business we were doing under free I trade. It would be folly, yes a crime, ! to interfere with a tariff that brings > such results. Coming Easy. Another blow to the pessimists. The ! treasury statement covering the opera tions for February shows that the lis-; CHI year now has a surplus of more j than $1,000,000. The deficit has disap peared, and for the first time in twoj years receipts are greater than ex- 1 penses. The recent shortage was due to extraordinary payments, including) those on account of the Panama canal, j and the ready as ullauts of the admin istration made the mistake of assum ing that the deficit had come to stay,' ami or course attributed it to that j dreadful Dingley law. But the tariff ad is workln-; all right, the money is coming in la ter than it Is goine out, I and I'nelo Sam is on Kasy street, thank ' you. Troy Times. i If the lory Hat Mr. Bryan has lion >llll I eon i\ ilive" will nt brliig ' him home from A&li, n .thing can.— [ K ijis.iu Clly St i . t'Judge Parker'* K.ign-Htlon of a ! southern man fo the presl ency I not Nudetfliiod to be ineiuoitltory of a \ ii i.i it 1m 'in .Mil waul ie tlnel. ® ' "«• Wore ov> HUIIIM ;Ii > t tulo ; relations of the (?n|>»•) tft tte» ami Oer jiiativ ilie c'e:ir»r do-* it become that the latlrr louutry wi'l uevir provoke a mill m r. aud that th » threat« we I he id not IOIIK .««< v.re the sluwest -ai pini mmm PiNfc j CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, igo6. PROSPERITY IN EVIDENCE. Oains in All Important Fields of Activity During the Last Year. There has baen a marked gain in the savings bank deposits of the state of New York within the past year. On January 1, 1906," the deposits in those institutions were $1,292,000,000 and the aggregate resources were $1,405,- 000,000. In the case of each of items there was an increase of approx imately $94,000,000 in t.he 12 months. This was $22,000,000 greater .in both deposits and resources than the largest previous increase in any calendar year in the savings banks of the state of New York. Of course, says the St. I Louis Globe-Democrat, the banks of that state hold much larger sums of money than those of any other state, but the situation there may be safely said to reflect the general situation throughout the country. In all important fields of activity there have been gains in the past year. The output of coal, copper, iron ore, gold and many other products in 1905 was larger than any other year in the country's history. Pig iron's yield was about 23,000,000 tons in the year, which was more than that of Great Britain, Germany and France com bined. For 1900 the prospects are that the output will be still greater. The production now is at the rate of about | 25,000,000 tons for the year, and the i later months are likely to show a lar- I ger production than that of January and February. Bank clearings and railroad earnings are making new "highests" every month. The coal strike, if it comes, will, make something of a change in the sit uation, especially if it should last as long as it did in 1902. This is one of the reasons, however, why strong pres sure will be brought to bear on both parties to force some sort of a modus vivendi. T#.e stocks of coal on hand are much greater than they were at the outbreak of the strike four ye:trs ago, but the demand for it, owing to the growth in the country's industries in the interval, is far larger than it was then. This is the only cloud on the business horizon. Speculation is not so active as it was a few weeks ago, and this is a good sign. There is an ab sence of financial kiteflying at present, which is an encouraging indication. The outlook now is that 1906 will make a considerable gain over 1905 in most of the great lines of activity. Probably ! the New York superintendent of bank j ing, when he makes tip his account for | the present 12 months, will find that a gain has been scored over the big year j just ended. TREASURY DEFICIT PAST. i Dingley Law Proving to Be More Perfect as a Revenue Producer. March 1 saw an end to the deficit and a surplus of about a million dol lars. This may vary somewhat, but the probabilities now point to a very sub | stantial surplus for the year. Again are the revisionists put to rout :tnd the successful operation of our tariff is maintained, says the American Econo mist. The Dingley law is proving to | be more perfect from a revenue stand | point than any tariff law ever enacted. • increased expenditures are met by in creased customs duties and internal revenue. Year before last it was the Panama canal payments that caused a J deficit, and last year tha Cuban treaty j and great increase in appropriations for rural free delivery caused a lesser ' deficit, but now again our receipts ex j ceed our expenditures, and the sur i plus of 190U will probably equal the de ; licit of 1905. Our imports, considering our tariff, are enormous because of the ! prosperity of the people, because of ; full employment and high wages. It ! would be folly to think of revising a ! tariff that continues to bring such j beneficent results both to the treasury and to the people. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. iCHearst still maintains that he is a Democrat. Well, the term is very elastic. —Milwaukee Sentinel. c y Col. Bryan is out with a magazine article denouncing socialism. Is this the signal for a break with Hearst?— Troy Times. K - That th" Republican tariff policy is a permanent prosp rlty prod cor i.i i evidenced by the January foreign trade figures. The total, is the | largest ever known, and the balance, I $04,000,000, has betn exc •< ded by only I one former month.—Guthrie Capital. P How labor will be affected by any , scheme of tariff revision must be oin i of the first considerations to any one ' but the recluse who finds the recasting ! of fiscal systems easy, in a study far ! removed from those to whom dally toll ,is a necessity. Our laboring popula tion demands and will have a higher standard of living than the laborers of Europe accept, ami the party that i lells American workers that they must live poorly for the benefit of others is likely to r< c ive a ret >rt that it will long remember. 1$ .stun Transcript. c Mr. Ilrvun will manage to return io the country In a ilrauiitle manner. But Nov.-nit»*r !• n>i lit lucky mouth 1 ior the psychological moment.—Hi. j Louis Qlobe-De'iiocrut. c An 11 .11 ! iivc 'ad <|ulte a little ' experience with this "|oy II neon filled' free trail" Kan.e In the past. Tie .v 'rled it hi Is 1 ; .hhl It imik them ttliem i* year-, to i eur from the Joy of the experience. The Democracy ha* t short memory or, If It has a fairly j "tid nieinor.v it iiiu ' thin that tha I American |*upl« have nut the wisdom ; ' at drvao.-j the lire. | 'Jin>;iuit<iU filar. DoMflgQainSags MANY PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE: Lydia Em Pinkham's Vegetable Compound The wonderful power of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound over the diseases of womankind is not be cause it is a stimulant, not because it is a palliative, but simply because it is the most wonderful tonic anil recon structor ever uncovered to act directly upon the generative organs, positively curing disease and restoring health and »igor. Marvelous cures are reported from all parts of the country by women who have been cured, trained nurses who have witnessed cures and physicians who have recognized the virtue of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, and are fair enough to give credit where it is due. If physicians dared to be frank and open, hundreds of them would acknowl edge that they constantly prescribe Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound in severe cases of female ills, as they know by experience it can be re lied upon to effect a cure. The follow ing letter proves it. Dr. S. C. Brigliam, of 4 Brigham Park, Fitchburg, Mass., writes: "It gives me great pleasure to say that I have found Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound very efficacious, and often pre scrfbo it in my practice for female difficulties. "My oldest (laughter found It very benefi cial fora femaletrouhle some time ago.andmy youngest daughter is now taking it for a fe male weakness, and is surely gaining in health anil strength. "I freely advocate it as a most reliable spe cific in all diseases to which women are sub ject, and give it honest endorsement." Women who are troubled with pain ful or irregular periods, bloating (or flatulency), weakness of organs, dis placements, inflammation or ulceration, can be restored to perfect health and strength by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. If advice is needed write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. She is daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham and for twenty five years has been advising sick women free of charge. No other living person has had the benefit of a wider experience in treating female ills. She has guided thousands to health. Every suffering woman should ask for and follow her advice if she wants to be strong and well. One of our clients, a prominent, successful Cleve land Manufacturing Com pany, is about to increase their capital and will issue $50,000 treasury stock. We have arranged to handle this issue for them, and will sell it in lots to suit. This is a stock of unques tioned merit, sterling value, earns large dividends and is desirable from every stand point. It will stand the closest scrutiny and full op portunity for investigation will be given. The Company manufac tures a staple product, well and favorably known throughout the country. Its equipment is superb and they are leaders in their line. We shall be pleased to confer with you through your local attorney, or you may visit us personally. BURROWS & MASON, Attorneys, 413 Schofield Building, Cleveland. Ohio. Don't Get Wet! TOWER'S SLICKERS will keep you dry as nothing else will, because they are the product of the best materials and seventy years' experi ence in manufacturing. A. J. TOWER CO. fidtaxi Bos,or " US A ' T0 T . TER CANADIAN CO., LW. Toronto, Can. J/TN MOTHER GRA Y'S J*i POWDERS p FD.I GMLDREN, 112 A<\ i ,t:n « tiro fur IVvt'rUhHNi, « "11*11, U l »•>. Iluatluclie, Nldiuncti TrtiiililfH. ell I li|f 1 IMiorilri'i, ami l> «•»(>,» y hoiiikti (<ii< v. S Tuny Si» « uL up r.iiiii N < . 411 Mill {*»*■'' '»"»!«. all i'riitf* - 1 (gutiiplu iiiuih*! I' km; AdiirtM, York . 1, ,A* 8. CLMSTbD, LO Rov. N Y. SOITHLRN FARMLANDS ■M, | 11 u 1 or. 111 lit lor .-.iiM'knivii aud llalmwn. •> ' !i. H % 1 'iViriio . .t • . lom »• . It «•., ' iTI. A 1.-' »■ '..x Ml KM H I 1 b« 1 m Ko | Id ;i ll | **i t.,1 -CHI M.v. .. 14 ii 1.1 uitU In ills!. «l A. fit, \ - \ . I |i »\ TAKE YiiUR PAMTS OrF tf!\ym l vi.r u.li I • • . 1 0 Kvii I • • <•! i .I.l'' . \ . v. Hn I.\4> T«l Al>% » I 4 I^ | l. .M' ttl.tltl It. ll VOII Ib 9 4 >»vUUv Mlvut In Itill |».«4 |P^SBSBi3B®@SßSl!a!B®SaseseS®^: I Balcom & Lloyd. | WE have the best stocked V general store in the county | and if yon are looking for re- j|r liable goods at reasonable H prices, we are ready to serve B you with the best to be found. || p Our reputation for trust- I? worthy goods and fair dealing is too well known to sell any j| 3 but high grade goods. . || i Our stock of Queensware and 1 0 Chinaware is selected with MJ J} great care and we have some p of the most handsome dishes J| ever shown in this section, H both in imported and domestic p jn makes. We invite you to visit p us and look our goods over. • H 1 I I I | 1 |[ Balcom & Lloyd, j i i. ■ m i t H LOOK ELSEWHERE BUT DON'T FORGET || THESE PRICES AND FACTS AT I II LaBAITS | 1 M II M N M We carry in stock • i i* |jl the largest line of Car- ~ |i gg pets Linoleums and |# jj Mattings of all kinds T\( J J Fj ever brought to this ..u[llDXiTffj" 35 PJ' M town. Also a big line r#' 1 ISmvvM ■ M of samples. H A very large line ot FOR THE M~Sf *2 Lace Cnrtains that can- M m XreVr'the ;1c" ,y COMFORTABLE LODGING if Art Squares and of fine books in a choice library Rugs of all size? and select the Ideal pattern of Globe- ** P* kind, from the cheap- Wernicke "Elastic" Bookcase. M est to the best. I Furnished with bevel French M H plate or leaded glass doors. jg ||| Dining Chairs, r ° n oalc d* M || Rockers and GEO. J. LaBAR, ** hi* High Cliai IS. | Bole Ageut for Cameron County. | fe jg !|2 A large and elegant I————- line of Tufted and |j| Drop-head Couches. Beauties and at bargain prices. £* M .l ———— ||g S3O Bedroom Suits, COC S4O SYdeboard, quar- (fOn !•» a solid oak at J tered t ak 4,<wU kj |f S2B Bedroom Suits, ff Ol f32 Sideboard, quar- COC £2 solid oak at 4>Z! tered oak JZO ? v f2."» Bed room Suits, CO fl f22 Sideboaid, quar- cir ** M solid oak at 3<£U I tered oak, >plU * M A large lino of Dresaera fVom I Chiffoniers of all kinds aud M || up- all prices. || II M |i The finest line of Sewing Machines on the market, |d {J the "DOMESTIC" aud "ELDRII GE.' All drop- jj 112 5 heads and warranted. ES A fine line of Dishes, common grade and China, in fj sets and by the piece. §4 As I keep a full line of everything that goes to & • M make uj> a jjood Furniture store, it is useless to enum- H erate them all. || Please call and see for yourself that lam telling || «i# you the truth, and it you don't buy, there is no harm done, as it is no trouble to show goods. i| GEO. J .LaBAR. •; M TJIVDERTAIiIIVO. M
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