2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULL!N, Eii.tur Published livery Thursday* TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. f'cr yen r ■ I'" j I laid in advance 1 1 ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate ol j •ne dol.ar per square for one insertion and lift} ' rent* |er square for euctt subsequent fnsertion ( Rates by the year, or 'or si* or three month*, %re low and uniform, and will be furnished cm j application. Legal and Official Advertising per square three times or less, <2: each subsequent inset' tlo.i • u i cuts per square. I.lleal notices lo cents per line for one insei- | •ertion: & cents per line tor each subsequent eon ccutlve insertion. Obituary notices over five lines 10 cent* pej line. Simple announcements off irths, mat • j napes mid deaths will be inserted free. Uu> iness cards five lines or less *5 per year, eve r live lines, at the regular rates of adver- \ l " ■'« No local inserted for less than "5 centfi pei Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Puss* Is complete •rd i.ffi rd> facilities for dointr the best class of work. PAirrictJLAH ATTENTION PAID TO LAW PIIINTXN'J No p.j j r will be discontinued uutil arrear- j Kes are paid, except at the option of the rub ber. Pslters sent out of the county must be paid j tor la advance. I Latest Freak Banquets. The third annual rat carnival of the Monroe Yacht club of Monroe, Mich was celebrated recently with a great rat feast. A delegation of Chicago ! yachtsmen, about 30 in all, were the guests of honor. They sat down to a dinner of muskrats, 6,000 of which were piepared for those attending the • carnival. Mashed potatoes, corn, coffee and bread were on the side, j Persons were there from all parts of j the world, says What to Eat. C. j Oliver lselin, well-known yachtsman, headed a delegation from New York j city. A rooster supper was a novelty j recently enjoyed by the "Eat Em All Club," a men's society of Paoli, Ind. The menu was artistically designed, with a rooster feather attached. The decorations contained similar em- j blems and each guest was required to i come with a rooster feather in his . hat. The menu consisted of: Rooster. Rooster on slickers. Boilotl rooster. Slickers on rooster. Stewed rooster. Rooster hash, j Fried rooster. Rooster salad. Rooster punch. Rooster cocktail. The "Eat 'Era All Club" is com- j posed of married men, each of whom ] in turn gives a dinner every two j weeks, that the men may all get at least one good square meal every now and then. The meals are prepared, i served and eaten by the men, and no | woman is permitted to have anything to do with them. Not a female mem ber of any of the households of the j club members is allowed to partici- ; pate in the preparation or serving of the meals. Members of this club are firm in their convictions that women are wofully deficient in the culinary j art. With all the comforts of a rail- ' road dining car and none of the dis- 1 comforts, 100 friends of Charles j Frederick Daly, recently appointed general traffic manager of the Vander- | hilt lines east of Buffalo, dined i sumptuously and toasted their col- j league on the eve of his departure for ihe east. The dinner took piace at j the Auditorium, the banquet, hall on ; the sixth floor having been trans- ; formed into an excellent imitation of ; a dining car, without forgetting even i the view from the windows. There | was the occasional toot toot and clang i to remind the diners of eating at the rate of a mile a minute; but there was none of the smoke, cinders or rocking. One Theory of Wealth. Why there should be hard-working poor men and idle rich men in the same community is a question which no one has answered, and no one can answer satisfactorily. That is why the opinion is so prevalent that the world, economically considered, is so very much out of joint, believes T. N. Car ter, a writer in Atlantic. But although there is so much unanimity in the opinion that wealth ought not to be distributed as it now is, there is still a wide diversity of opinion, where there is any definite opinion at all, as to how it really ought to be distribu ted. These opinions may, however, be reduced to three fundamentally dis tinct theories, which I shall call the aristocratic, the socialistic, and the democratic, or liberalistie, theories. The aristocratic theory is that the good things of the world belong more particularly to certain groups or classes than to others, by virtue of some circumstance connected with their birth or heredity, and independ ently of their individual achievements. The socialistic theory is that wealth ought, to be distributed according to needs, or according to some similar plan arranged beforehand, and inde pendently of the individual ability to acquire wealth in the rough-and-ready struggle of life. The democratic, or liberalistie, theory is that wealth ought to be distributed according to productivity, usefulness, or worth. William Sherring, the young Cana dian who won the Marathon race at Athens, gives the credit to his mother, who, ho says, supervised his training. She decided what he should eat, and wouij not cook anything else. When she was told that he had won. she re marked, "Of course. I knew he would. That is- - what I tent him over for." This :s a very pretty sentiment, re marks Youth's Companion, but leaves one in doubt as to what the other young men's mothers said when toid Ihat they had not won. TARIFF REFORM A BLUFF. Not the People. But the Democratic Politicians Are Calling for It. While a considerable part of the Democratic party o£ this country prob ably amounting to a majority, is be coming easy in minil as far as the ques tion ot' an available presidential candi date in 1908 is concerned, in view of the return of Democratic sentiment to Mr. Bryan, the question of a para mount issue that will stand the wear and tear of a campaign is a most per plexing one to the party, and very probably to Mr. Brytfn himself, says the Albany Journal. Free coinage of silver, "busting" of trusts, anti-imperialism these have been tried all in vain in recent years. There is nothing new in sight out of which the Democracy could make a paramount issue, and so, in its desper- . ation, the party is endeavoring to gal- | vanize into a semblance of revivifica- j tion its old, mummified issue of "tar iff reform," which means tariff reduc tion and ultimate abolition of all im- i port duties. For success in its attempt the De- j mocr.icy relies upon the proverbially limited retentive capacity of human memory. It Matters itself with the be- j lief that after a decade the conditions produced by the last experiment with Democratic tariff reform, from which the American people rushed to the Re publican party in 1896, are out of mind, and that no more is required than the assiduous fostering of discontent to cause a repetition of the folly of 1892. But most of the people of this coun try who passed through the period of distress from 1892 to 1896 have not for gotten either it or its cause. And there Is less discontent in this prosperous time than there ever was before in this country. There is no popular demand 'for tariff reform or tariff revision or tariff reduction or whatever else the Democracy may call the "issue" with which it is seeking once more to im pose upon the people. There are no indications of It even from the Demo cratic party, so far as the rank and file it; concerned. It is only the leaders that are clamoring for it, hoping to create, by means of a great volume of noise, a belief that it emanates from lnrge numbers. The resurrected paramount Issue will be tried on the people in next fall's congressional elections, and it be hooves the people, for the conservation of the.i r interests, to put it back into its desecrated grave. THE REPUBLICAN DUTY. Stand Fast to the Historic Position of Protecting American Welfare. Mr. Bryan's utterances in Berlin make the Republican task of opposi tion somewhat simpler than has ap peared. says the Chicago Inter Ocean. From these utterances it is not shown that a trip around the world bus U.ken the burs of the wilderness from this wanderer from the Platte. For Mr. Bryan still looks revolu tionary. He talks ©f free silver, of go ing so far with socialism, of changing the basis of our prosperity, etc., etc. He still flirts with isms. Thus it follows that a policy that at tempts to compete with Bryanisms is not going to win, for it is very evident that Mr. Bryan still rejoices in his radicalism. And it does not. lie in the way of Re publican duty to take up greater radi calism as a means of combating him. it does not lie even in meeting him half way. Republican duty is to stand fast to the historic position of the welfare ; of the American nation—to hold to [ our prosperity, not to indulge in ; caprices that will overthrow it. This !is the simple proposition that will confront the Republican party and its candidates for the presidency. And whoever its candidate shall be, whether Mr. Fairbanks or Mr. Root or Mr. Cannon or any other, the simple Republican fact that he must recognize national prosperity as the basis of na i tional life must ever be kept up | permost. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. •cMr. Bryan is willing to he con vinced, however, that the circumstances demand it. —Chicago Tribune. Democrats have a ready made candidate. They will probably have to advertise for a platform.— Cleveland Leader. cMr. Bryan will probably wait a couple of years, however, before writ ing his formal letter of acceptance.— Kansas City Star. iCThe Bryan boom is emphasized by the number of Democratic state con ventions that are refraining from in dorsing Hearst.—Chicp.go Record-Her ald. the old day it used to be a popular political stunt "to twist the : British lion's tail." Now the tail j twisting is all confined to the home j menagerie. At the present time the j beef trust's caudal enn is showing a ; few wrinkles from well-directed ro | tary effort. —Minneapolis Journal. ICA little more and Grover Cleve j land will have nobody to share his un j changed feelings except Judge Park er, and even Judge Parker may not hold out. —Chicago Inter Ocean. B"7"The Russian dounia is thinking of taking up the silver question. This | shows what an utterly useless thing ; the dounia really is.—Atlanta Jour | nal. tt:"Mr. Bryan is likely to find so i much to make him glad when he gets home that he may regret his short sightedness in not having gone abroad earlier and oftenar.—Chicago Record -1 Herald, CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1906 BRYAN'S VERSATILITY. Makes a Grand Stand Play for the Votes of Fledgling So cKtfcts. W. J. Bryan has been "off the mala route for some time," but it has coma to his knowledge that some Democrat ic state conventions have nominated him in advance as the Democratic candidate for president in 1908, and we have a report of his comments upon that fact, says the Chicago Chronicle. He appreciates the compliment, though it is "sudden" —by which, pos sibly, he may mean premature Be that as it may, he is quoted as saying that it is too early "either to make or discuss political plans for 1908." There certainly is time for a good many things to happen during the two years between the nomination by Mis souri and the nomination by the na tional Democratic convention. These are times of hysteria, sham and real, and things that are said and done about a nomination for the presi dency two years in the future are Mable to become damaged in cold stor age during the interval. The eulo giums recently pronounced by the penitents Cols. Watterson and Vilas may look silly in June, 1908. While Col. Bryan realizes that it is too early for him either to make or discuss political plans for 1908, he cannot resist the temptation to talk. Possibly the colonels of the other metallic persuasion strongly suspect ed such would be, the case, and that may account for their otherwise start ling eccentricity in coming forward so promptly as representatives of the Palmer and Buekner gold men and pronouncing their sonorous eulogiums upon the great apostle of 1G to 1. They may have had the idea that if they broke forth into panegyric .Mr. Bryan would certainly break forth into speech which is silver, instead of maintaining the silence which is gold en. and talk himself to death before 1908. If so their expectations are in a fair way to be realized. Mr. Bryan cer tainly has made a good beginning it the dispatches from Berlin do him no injustice. He is reported from that city as praising the Republican re formers and exhorting the Republican party to listen to their voice and get the start of the Democrats in the re form business. If the people really like the sort of reform now in the air they will naturally hold fast to the party which first takes up the reform work. If they do not like it what V/ill become of Mr. Bryan and the rest of the Democratic reformers? Mr. Bryan is further quoted: "My political career discloses no instance where I have abandoned any principle formerly espoused. So far as silver is concerned, I can only say that events have fully vindicated the posi tion of the bimetallists." Now, there is something for Mr. Francis and Cols. Watterson and Vilas and the Democratic men of affairs in the east to ponder. Do they think that Mr. Bryan has already begun to talk too much and is in a fair way to get a terrible shaking as Poll par rot did when she said "Sick 'em!" once too often to the dog? In this same deliverance Mr. Bryan lets us all know that he not only stands for bimetallism still, but also for government ownership and opera tion of public utilities on a tremen dous scale. He has abandoned no principle formerly espoused and he has thoroughly committed himself to government ownership. He attempts to make a distinction between "Democracy," by which he evidently means such ownership, and socialism. "Democracy," he says, "recognizes competition as legitimate and tries to protect the competitive principle from attack. Socialism sees competition as an evil to be eliminated by public ownership and operation of all means of production and distribu ' tion." But he nastens to add that, "while | this distinction between Democracy ! and socialism should not be over i looked, the Democratic platform must be one of progress and reform and not merely of opposition to Republican policies or socialistic ideas." That is to the Democratic party should be hospitable to socialistic pub lic ownership ideas in order f.o gather in the votes of half-fledged socialists. This may be satisfactory to "con servative Democrats" whose sleep is disturbed by the specter of socialism, but it will not attract to the support of Mr. Bryan men who care to offer strenuous resistance to socialistic ten dencies. irrEven if Mr. Bryan's boom should have no substantial results otherwise, it may give him the necessary mate rial for"The Third Battle." Mean while NOW is the time to subscribe for the Commoner. —Chicago Tribune. the new and improved Bryan. Everything modern and up to-date. Guaranteed togo well In harness, and not to run amuck. No Democrat of any variety can here after afford to be without this won derful development of the last ten years.—Advt. lndianapolis News (Ind.). CTFor the third time the Demo cratic party is calling Mr. Bryan to I lead it. In 1908 the Republican par ! ty will "call" him for the third time, I and when he shows down his hand I he will probably have the same old | pair of deuces. l'"Disregarding the causes that have led to the importation of $50,- ; 000,000 in gold during the past few | weeks, we Would like to ask if such importation could or would have taken place if we had had an adverse balance of trade such as we have always had under free trade tariffs? —American Economist. THAW IS INDICTED. Grand Jury Finds that the Young Mil lionaire Is Guilty of First De gree Murder. New York. Harry Thaw was Indicted Thursday for murder in the first degree for killing Stanford White last Monday night. His wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, appeared as a witness before the grand jury, but begged to be excused from giving any testimony. She was treated with every consideration by Assistant Dis trict Attorney (Jarvan and by the Jurors, who did not Insist that she should answer any questions. Thaw will plead to the indictment in court I his morning. No time will be set for the trial until District. At torney Jerome returns to the city next week. In the meantime witnesses have been summoned to appear in John Doe proceedings at the district attorney's office to help the latter frame up his presentation of the case. The grand jury's consideration of the case was brief and followed a per functory inquest before a coroner's jury which heard the testimony of witnesses to the tragedy and render ed a formal verdict that White's death had been caused by Thaw. The latter calmly listened to the testimony and while the jury was out he chatted with his counsel and a policeman sit ting near, laughing aloud at one stage of the conversation. When the jury bad completed Its verdict Thaw was recommitted to the Tombs without bail. His indictment was announced soon afterward. Mrs. Thaw, following her appear ance before the grand jury, crossed the Bridge of Sighs and entered the city prison to see her husband. They talked together for a long while and when Mrs. Thaw finally attempted to leave the great granite building she found her way blocked by the largest crowd, the police say, that has ever gathered about the structure. She was virtually held a prisoner by the inquisitive throng for 30 minutes, when reserves from many police pre cincts managed to clear a way for her. Stanford White was buried Thurs day at St. James, L. 1., where he had a summer home. The services were held in the Episcopal church and the interment was made in the graveyard surrounding the quaint little edifice. In the opinion of the physician who performed the autopsy on White's body the life of the architect was shortened not more than two years by the bullets from Thaw's pistol. He was found to be suffering from Bright's disease, from incipient tuber culosis and from fatty degeneration of the liver. Thaw sent a message Thursday from the Tombs to Anthony Corn stock, president of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, saying he had received a letter which it would pay Mr. Comstock to investigate. An agent of the society called upon Thaw in the afternoon, but was not admit ted at that time. It was said eithei the agent or Mr. Comstock might see Thaw to-day. HARVARD WON BIG RACE. Cambridge Oarsmen Defeated Yale In a Nip and Tuck Contest —Yale Won Two Minor Events. New London, Conn. Harvard's varsity crew triumphed over Yale on Thursday before the greatest crowd that ever gathered here on a race day and. coming after years of defeat, victory was sweet indeed to the crimson. It was a great Yale crew that Harvard defeated, a crew that had broken all records on the Thames in practice and went to the stake boat a favorite, and Harvard's joy is unconfined. Harvard won, but Yale rowed a race that will live long in the annals of col lege sports. Not once from the start until the last sixteenth of a mile did the shells cease to lap each other. The men in the rival boats could see each other for more than three miles and a half, as first one coxswain and then the other called upon his crew to push his shell ahead. Then and only then did Harvard rally and go the lead, for the killing pace proved too much for two of the Yale men and in the final spurt Boulton anc*. Noyes, of the blue, were done, their oars literally slipping away from from them. Here Harvard began to open up clear water between the two shells and in the last ten or 15 strokes of the race she pulled away from her rival. Noyes, Yale's No. C, absolutely exhausted, began to miss the stream on the catch and swing his oar through the air. He sat up in his seat, until the flag dropped and then fell backwards into the boat like a dea<. man. Chase, at No. 5, raised Noyes' head and dashed water on him, but he remained unconscious for a consider length of time. Harvard won the race by less than two lengths and a half. Her time was 23 minutes and two seconds, Yale's 23 piinutes 11 seconds. Yale defeated Harvard in the fresh man and 'varsity four-oared races. Congress. Washington.—On the 2Sth the house passed f>s private bills and voted to stand by the house conferees on the meat inspection amendment to the ag ricultural appropriation bill. The senate passed the public building and general deficiency appropriation bills. Four People Killed by a Train. Philadelphia, Pa. —Four persons, two of them a bride and bride groom of a day, were killed last night on the Reading railroad at Gwynedd, near this city, by an excursion train which rail down their carriage at the station. Hottest Day of the Year. Columbus, O. Thursday was the hottest day of the year in Co lumbus. The mercury reached 92 de grees. William Underwood, C 5 years old, a porter, was prostrated by the heat and may die. Really, congress could bring itself to adjourn if it really made up its mind to the plunge back into obscurity. And then there are so many fences really in need of repair. it President Mouravitch has occa sion to communicate with the czar und from the czar to the douma, he will be wise if he will eschew the telephone In the light of what happened to Sen ator Lodge. In advising the sweet girl graduates of Washintgon to "keep their eyes on the stars," President Roosevelt made a mistake. He ought to have suggest ed to them that it would be a good thing to keep an eye on the cook. The ever burning question: "What shall we do with our boys?" seems to be satisfactorily answered in the fol lowing advertisement, which appears In the window of a Farrington road butcher's shop: "Wanted, a respect able boy for beef sausages." Massachusetts is deeply depressed over the fact that one of her legisla tors has been detected selling his vote for SSO. But whether the depression Is because of the guilt or because of the price is not altogether clear. Culture, to some foolish young men and women, means a languid and su perior contempt for all except a few choice things. In reality, culture means the power of full and delicate appreciation, and the more widely cul tured a man is, the more things h® knows how to appreciate. Just 152 captains of full-rigged ships have been born in Searsport, Me., or have lived in that town while in com mand of their vessels. The largest ship in the list was the May Flint, which had a gross tonnage of 3,288 tons. The smallest was the Vistula, 400 tons. Searsport's banner year in shipping was 1885. The signal corps of the United Ptates army is photographing San Francisco's ruins from balloons. A se ries of pictures is being taken to be kept 011 the file by the war department In Washington. Several hundred have already been taken of the different, buildings and an order sent for three balloons, so that a complete picture of the city can be had. The Aikin law, which increased tho saloon tax to SI,OOO per annum, closed between 15 and 25 per cent, of tho saloons of the state of Ohio at the out set and it is estimated that as many more will quit before t lie second in stallment fall 3 due. As a saloon closer, the Aikin law seems to havo the bulge on the Beall and Jones laws, even though it was not approved by the Anti-Saloon league. While paying a visit to a friend re siding in this country, an American gentleman got into conversation -villi a youngster who displayed a most ab sorbing and flattering interest in his native land. "I'm sure it's pleasant to be told there are not rattlesnakes in all the gardens," said the youngster with a smile, "but my cousin wrote not long ago that he had soen forty wigwams in one little village. Per haps," he added, as the American made no immediate reply, "the wig wams are not so venomous as rattle snakes, are they?" Speaking of summer picincs. it is well to have the affair a subscription one, the subscription in every case cak ing the form of some contribution to th« general feast. Call a little meeting in advance and let each person say what he or she desires to contribute. One person may choose rolls, another sandwltches, another lemons and sug ar, another coffee, others cakes, pick les and relishes. This Is much pleas anter and more social than the plan Bonietimes adopted of having each per son bring with him a separate lunch, on which he dines in solitary stata. In forming a chemical compound corresponding to the viscous fluid out of which silkworm spins his delicate thread, the French chemists found, strangely enough, that the best substi tute was a solution of gun-cotton, which also serves as the basis for tho most powerful and deadly of modern explosives. To what extent this gun cotton silk is relieved of its explosi/e qualities before being woven into laces and dress fabrics, seems to be some what questionable. Certainly a ,'oung woman gowned In gun-cotton would be a formidable, if not dangerous, object. G.SCHMIDT'S, 1 — HEADQUARTERS FOR jgfij FRESH BREAD. l| popular """ cv s„, ILok # CONFECTIONERY Daily Delivery. All orders giren prompt and J skillful attention. §WHEN IN DOUBT, THY The»h»Y,«tood th«te«ofy««k CTnniin -I and hav, cured thau.aada <4 STHBIIB © ,'^n AGAIN!. 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