2 CAMERON COUNTY Mm H. H. MULLIN, Editor Published Every Thursday* TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. frr year JJ? If paid ill advance » " ADVERTISING RATES: Advertißemci *.s air pulilis it'll at rate ot •r.'* dnl.ur j-'T fortrtioii atul ll'-} Cf i ts ler S mart- for eiicii s:lisequeiit I«im. rtlou U.ties l.v tin- str. <••• to ■ .six or tbnse months, ( > low aid uniform, and will be furnished evi nP L,,'£a aid Official A.'.vortislng per square j lh- I't'iii'-s' r!i.'-s. each subsequent msei ■ ■ do . . i > i";ts 11'.' ■ qimr j a notices lo cent* per line for one lnse»- j at pi n: r> cent* p> r imo ior each subsequent | c :l • itivo ; 'ti. , ~ y , i-s over fl*e lines to cents pm , line, Simple announcements or births, mw visrcs ii..l deaths will be inserted tree. ill l.ie«s eurJK. Ave es or less. 55 per year. [ c.. . lines, at the regular rates ot odver- I ' o.' local Inserted tor less than 75 cents pet | U-ua JOB PRINTING. The Tub dr rtmi 1 t of tUc Phfss Iscomplete j a -. „|, . *. r doing the best cla--of v rk. 1- 1.1 n.i iii i:m i i"N paidto Law V.v; r wll". be discontinued until arrcar* jig-s id ' i aid, except at the option of tlic pub- Paper* <cnt cut of the county must be paid i for ii.i. ivai ' Can it i'i- tin a complete set of European coronation ceremonies ha:? Th ou pulled oft" without some individ ual cf anarchistic tendencies butting in in time to play.a prominent part in : the festivities? The old idea of charity was tore : lieve suffering and distress, no matter j where you found it. The new one is J to record impressions in a note-book \ and then call a sociologist. If the czar keeps up his stunt oi j moving from Peterhof and back again J to eludo tho bomb thrower, v<: i > liable to get .112 reputation as a ; prin'" - that may be valuable to him some day. It is exceedingly cruel and very bad ly misplaced finance for United Stales Treasurer Treat constantly to be harp, ing on the fact that we need more ones and twos. Just as if everybody didn't know it! The country should not be ashamed togo to Toledo for the lesson thart 1 anti-monoply laws, with provisions for i imprisonment, were not made merely j to scare people. They are for practical application, iiud they can not have it till somebody is really hurt. There are still a few benighted in- i dividuals who believe that charity should spring from the heart and not the head, and that there can be no such thing as a scientific charity if we want to relieve not alone the physical but the spiritual wants of our fellows in distress. "Yes," said the plutocrat, "we only work them eight hours a day. We find that's plenty. We find it's all they can stand and keep in perfect health." A shabby individual leaned forward from a rear seat anil interrupted excitedly. "You old liar," he said, "I know some of your men what's worked 12 and IX hours a day." "Pooh," sneered the plutocrat, "I was talking about the liorses." We are now lo tie confronted with the sociological man. Oh, it is real nice to think of ourselves being ticket ed appropriately and filed away in a drawer. But we will draw the line on ( having a pin run through us, like the butterfly collectors treat their speci mens. If a Xew Yorker couldn't have his fling at Hoboken, life would lose halt its charms. The little Jersey city is just across the river, and therefore an ever-present mark for mirth. The latest story is that of a little boy, whose parents had determined for rea sons of economy to move to Hoboken. That night iie knelt at his bedside to say his usual prayer. "Bless papa and mamma, and Sister Mary," he asked, and then he paused. Finally he re sumed, his voice charged with sor row: "Good-bye, God," he said. "To morrow we move to Hoboken." During the latter portion of his life, declares a writer in Everybody's Mag azine, Emerson seemed to live much in the world of souls, and came back with difficulty to take cognizance of physical affairs. One very hot day Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was standing at the corner of Tremont and School streets, mopping his brow, holding his hat in one hand, with the mouth up. Emerson coming along, and seeing "a venerable man with his hat thus out stretched, dropped a quarter in it, and walked on, without recognizing the autocrat of the breakfast table. "Second-hand saints," is the vivid phrase a New England thinker has ap plied to the Christians who get their spiritual experiences at second-hand, from sermon, and book, and from tne general spirit of Christianity about them. To such souls first-hand relig ion usually has to come through some shock, some sorrow, some awakening experience that brings struggle, and throe, and actual casting upon God. If trials are necessary to develop us into first-class disciples, are they not really blessings in the end, no matter how agonizing in the process? Boys and girls who have rabbits for pets have no idea that in some coun tries they are regarded as pests. In Australia, notably in the districts of Victoria and New South Wales, the rabbits were so destructive that near ly SIOO,OOO a year were spent in efforts to exterminate them. The government of the latter district now proposes to inclose 12,000,000 acres of the most thickly infested district miles of net wire fencing. A reward of $125,000 has also been offered for any effectual plan to get rid of the rabbits. IN A HOLE AND PULLING THE HOLE IN AFTER HIM. " '' ' : . ... ;; X /^WJPPPP^V^ IS NOT SECTIONAL TARIFF QUESTION AN ISSUE FOII THE WHOLE COUNTRY. No Single State or Group of States Can Secure Alterations of Exist ing Schedules to Suit Special Interests. It is indeed fortunate, as Secretary j Sliaw remarked in his speech before the South Dakota Republican state j co iv. nti >n of Jim. G, th tno one sta i e.in leviso tho tarilf. It is equally trye ! that no group of states, no section, has ! the power to frame the schedules to suit special interests. The agricultural states, although holding tlie balance of power, have never attempted to adjust : tariff rates to suit the requirements of agriculture alone. This fact is to their everlasting credit. The only state, we believe, that has ever cherished the de lusive desire to dictate tariff legisla tion in her own especial interest, and has manifested a belief that it might 1 possibly be done, is one whose govern- | or butted into national affairs with .1 letter notifying the president of the j United States that unless congress re- j moved the duty on hides Massachusetts j would certainly go Democratic! Yet j the duty on hides remains. As to the I fulfillment of the threat, that remains ! to be seen. The danger of one state or one sec tion undertaking to regulate tariff schedules was well wrought out by Sec retary Shaw when he said: "I desire to throw out a note of warning to my friends in the agricul tural states. Keep this in mind, that there are several times as many peo ple demanding cheaper food as there are people demanding a reduction of 1 the tariff on any manufactured article, j Let no man hug his own soul with the ; delusion that any one state can revise • the tariff in the interest of that stale j only. There are localities willing to j sacrifice every suggestion of protection which the Dingley law affords Dakota, in the open and avowed hope that by I so doing additional markets may be ' obtained for their own products. It is I fortunate, therefore, that no one state! can revise the tariff." It is fortunate for South Dakota, for ! example, that Massachusetts is unable j to revise the tariff off the hides of South Dakota's cattle or bring about a condition of free trade in the agricul tural products of Canada. It is also fortunate for protection as a permanent policy that South Dakota has not the power to remove the tariff on lumber. Such a discrimination against an important industry would surely check and perhaps wholly ob literate the rapidly growing protection sentiment in the southern states, which are now the chief source of lumber ; supply east of the Rocky mountains. ! Memphis is the leading lumber market ! of the United States, and in sections I where free trade formerly had its cita ; del protection is now becoming more , and more an accepted policy. Then, l too, there are the lumber producing | states of the Pacific coast, which value | highly the protective tariff of two dol , lars per thousand feet, which gives them the home market against the ! competition of cheaper lumber from across the border of British Columbia. If it is desired to hold these states in the protection column the tariff on lumber had best not be removed. South Dakota may, in the language of one of John Hay's poetical heroes, "Resoloot till the cows enine home" on the removal of the tariff on lumber, Just as Massachusetts may threaten direful things if she is denied free trade in Canada's competitive products of farm, forest and mine, but the level protectionist sense of the country as a whole will keep protection intact for the country as a whole. Mistake Noise for Numbers. The Democrats who hope to divide the Republican party on the question of the tariff, however, will be disillu sioned, and not for the first time. There have always been a few tariff reform | ers and free traders who have clung to the Republican party. Like the frogs in the old farmer's pond, they have always made a noise entirely dispro portionate to their numbers. In ten dering the tariff issue the Democrats are doomed to the same disappoint ment that confronted the farmer when, after having drained the pond at heavy expense in the firm belief that a for tune awaited him from the sale of the frogs which inhabited it, he found the number dwindled down to a lone half dozen. He learned, as will the Demo crats, that the noise they make has no real relation to theii numbers,—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1906 FEAR SKIP SUBSIDY. English. Sliip Owners Evinced Alarm Over Probable Passage of Bill in America. The attention of our free trade friends Is respectfully called to the fact that certnin Britons are manifesting much apprehension over the prospec tive passage by congress of the ship subsidy bill, designed to aid in the re habilitation of the American mercan tile marine. The plan of subsidizing American vessels has always been strenuously fought ty free trr 1 son :h-.j ground th;.t it lagans imposition on our own people and injury to their in terests. The British shipowners do not regard the matter in that light. They have gone so far as to lay the subject before parliament, and in the house of commons a question lias been put to the premier as to the effect the passage of the American bill will have upon British interests. The premier wisely and properly said there was no occa sion for the government to take action at this stage of the proceedings, and there the affair ends, for the present at least, nor is it likely that anything will be done by the imperial authori ties. But what a light the incident throws on the free trade contention that subsidizing American ships is likely to hurt Americans! The British shipowners, many of whom profit greatly through the liberal subventions of their government, know better than that. What they are afraid of is that subsidizing American ships will lead to losing a good share of the rich patron age now enjoyed from American pas sengers and freight shippers. NERVOUS PROSPERITY? Some People Seem to Be Uneasy Be cause the Country Is Doing Too Well. Nervous prosperity would seem to i be the proper diagnosis of the tariff disturbing symptoms manifested in ! various parts of the country. The country is doing too well. Everybody is doing better than any body ever did before in all history. There must be something wrong ! about it. People who are accounted sane and j level headed in the ordinary affairs of life are fretting and stewing about this extraordinary prosperity, and are con triving how it may be upset. If a merchant should voluntarily re duce his margins of profit merely be cause of the conviction that he was making too much money, or if a me chanic were to insist upon lower wages because his account in the savings bank was increasing too rapidly, some suspicion would arise as to their men tal equilibrium. Yet a great many people are contem plating something similar to that ex traordinary abnegation when they lie awake nights planning how to rip up the tariff and check prosperity. It is a queer disease and hard to classify. It must be that it is nervous pros perity. New Titles and Degrees. A London journal, in a recent issue, confers upon Mr. Longworth and his father-in-law the new titles which those gentlemen are supposed to covet, by speaking of them as "Senator Long worth, son-in-law of King Theodore, U. S. A." Quite different was the action o! Brown university in conferring degrees for meritorius services upon two men who have worked modestly and suc cessfully for honest reform by honest means. Never were honorary degrees more righteously conferred than these: Everett Colby, A. M. Citizen, soldier of fehe common good, surrendering leisure and pleasure that civic virtue may be come credible and public ofiice be held as public trust. Charles Evans Hughes, LL. D. Student under these elms, some time professor of law in Cornell uni versity, honored member of the New York bar, investigator without malice and without fear, skilled to use the probe but not the rake, through whose labor the public conscience has been quickened and purified. Charles E. Hughes and Everett Col by, whatever their former political as sociations may have been, have acted like good Democrats and good citizens, and are entitled to share with La Fol lette, and Cummins, and Weaver the glory that results from a faithful per formance of public duty. No two men in America have dealt severer blows tc that Republican machine of which '"King Theodore" is the head and front. ALTON ROAD IS FINED | JUDGE LANDIS IMPOSES HEAVY j PENALTY FOR REBATING. I . PENALIZES TWO OFFICIALS |. Former President Faithorn and Fred AT Wann Aro Given Fines of $5,000 Each for Aiding in Violations. Chicago.—Judge Landis Wednesday fined the Chicago & Alton railroad $20,000 each on two counts, making a total of $40,000, the limit for the liue. President Faithorn was fined $5,000 011 two counts, half the maximum, and Fred A. Wann was fined $5,000 on each count. The total of the fines was SOO,OOO. Judge Landis declared he saw no extenuating circumstances in the ease. Attorney It. M. Shaw, for the rail asked for a bill of exceptions, that the case may be appeale 1 . This fine is id< ntical with the one assessed some time ago by Judge Bethea against the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and two officials on a similar charge. Last Friday Judge Landis informed 1 lie defeated attorneys, Mr. Shaw and John Barton Payne, that he would give them until Monday to produce evidence tending to show that the granting of the rebate by the defend ant to the Sehwarzschild & Sulzberg er company was publicly known in Kansas City. When court convened Attorney Shaw declared he had not time enough to produce wltne sea but that he bad evidence that tm ilar transaction in two instances had been approved by United States Judge Phillips in Kansas City while he, as a court, was administering the Kansas City Belt line, then in the hands of a receiver. He.could not produce wit-, j nesscs, he said, because they feared making confessions might place them in danger of prosecution. The verdict of guilty made it pos sible for the judge to fix a maximum fine of $40,000 each, or $120,000. | ; Judge Landis, however, has taken i | into consideration alleged lack of j any criminal intent. The judge ; wished to determine whether the ar i rangement of rebating one dollar 011 | each car to the Sehwarzschild &. j | Sulzberger company was known to j ! all other roads and shippers. The j I prosecution against the Chicago & I Alton road and its officials was pre- 1 j cipitated by the investigation of the ! packing industries. The indictment | followed. It was announced that other j roads will be prosecuted. Goes After Wisconsin Roads. Madison, Wis. —Following a report jby Railroad Commissioner Thomas ; 'Wednesday that the railroads of ; Wisconsin have been guilty of j granting rebates under the guise of I commissions, Gov. Davidson lias asked Attorney General Sturdevant's I opinion, and will start prosecutions ; j against all railroads if the attorney j general holds that taxes can be col- | lected on the sums thus omitted from 1 gross earnings. The railroads so far i examined are the Northwestern, the St. Paul and the Omaha, and all are alleged to be guilty. WARRANT FOR ROCKEFELLER Oil King Is Charged with Organizing and Maintaining a Monopoly. Findlay, O. —A warrant for John D. 1 Rockefeller, which is now in the hands of the sheriff of Hancock coun- I ty, is accompanied by a copy of the in formation and affidavit which was filed in the probate court here by Prosecutor David and charging Rock- L ill' ■ JOHN L>. ROCKEFELLER. ofeiler with violating the anti-trust laws in organizing and maintaining a monopoly of the oil business. The warrant directs the sheriff "to take the said John D. Rockefeller, if found in your county, or if he shall have fled that you pursue him into any other county in the state, and take and safely keep the said John D. Rockefeller so that you have his body before this court to answer the said complaint and be further dealt with according to law." The warrant is signed by Judge Banker, of the probate court of Han cock county. Miners Return to Work. Columbus, O.—Because of a misun derstanding the miners of the Hocking valley, 10,000 men went out Tuesday night on a strike. Negotiations Wed nesday resulted in the misunderstand ing being cleared up. Farewell Banquet to Consul. Antwerp.—hurch Howe, the Ameri can consul here, was given a farewell banquet Wednesday, prior to his de parture for Montreal, where he has been given a higher place in the Amer ican consular service. MEET DEATH !N RIVER. Going to the Rescue of a Companion Who Had Fallen Into a Deep Hole, Seven Girls Are Drowned. Cedar Rapids, la. Seven girls were drowned Thursday in Cedar river, only three blocks from home, while wading. The snr child j slipped into a deep ii.ile and in trying to rescue her six others were drowned. Ruth Klersey was the only one of the party to escape. The dead are: Lucille, Hazel, Gladys and Josie Sweeting, Kuth and Cora Coyle and Clara Usher. The s'lls ranged in ago from 7 to 10 years. The Sweeting children lived with j their father near Ellis Park, on- the ' outskirts of Cedar Rapids. Clara ; Usher was the daughter of Sheeting's housekeeper and the Coyle children j were her nieces, who were on a visit from Sioux City, la. Ruih Klersey, the only survivor, said they were wading when little Lu cille Sweeting slipped orf a sheet in I the river bottom into deep water. j Hazel Sweeting rushed after, lier, slipped into the hole, and five other ! girls rushjed one after the other into ' the hole, trying vainly to save each other. Ruth Klersey then ran home and gave the alarm. Four of the bodies were quickly re- i comoved from the water, but it was too late to resuscitate them. The other bodies were recovered later, while hundreds of people gathered on the river bank to watch the sad task. The children had gone to the river wilh Mrs. Usher, who took her baby. The baby fretted and Airs. Usher started home with it. The children Immediately went wading in the river. Ruth Kleiae/ went to the tad of a long sandbar and, seeing that the water was deep at the end of the bar, warned the other children. Lucille Sweeting, however, ran to the end of the bar, and the sand yield ing, slipped off into seven feet of water. Her cries brought Hazel Sweeting to her aid. In trying to pull Lucille back on the sandbar she, too, fell into the deep water. Another child went to her assistance and slipped in, and so on until seven of the eight children were drowned. VINDICATED AFTER TWELVE YEARS Captain Dreyfus Acquitted of Charge of Selling Military Secrets by a French Court—Restored to Army. Paris, France.—The supreme court Thursday announced its decision, an nulling the condemnation of Dreyfus without a retrial. The effect of the decision is a complete vindication of Dreyfus, entitling him to restoration to his rank in the army as though lia had never been accused. The scene as the decision was pro nounced was one of impressive dig nity. The court, conisting of 49 judges, gowned in flowing robes, mounted the bench. Deep silence prevailed as the presiding judge read the lengthy deci sion, minutely reviewing the series of sensational events of the last 12 years and completely disculpating Dreyfus of all wrong-doing, freeing him of the accusation of being the author of the famous incriminating documents on which the entire charge was founded, and ordering the annulment of the Rennes court-martial. MINING STATISTICS. Report of State Mine Inspector Shows 25,834,657 Tons of Coal Mined In 1905. Columbus, O. Chief Inspector of Mines George Harrison has filed the annual report of the depart- I ment of mines with Gov. Harris, cov ] ering the calendar year 1905. The coal tonnage amounted to 25,- 834,057 tons, an increase of 1,250,542 Urns. The number of persons employ ed was 44,193, average time worked 169 days. The per cent of pick mined coal was 20, machine mined coal 74 per cent. The fatal accidents numbered 114, a decrease of four, as compared with the preceding year; serious accidents amounted to 372, and minor 171. Total number of casualties 057. The number of persons employed for each life lost was 388; one serious accident to every 119 persons employ ed. Forty-two new mines opened up, 50 suspended TRAINMEN KILLED. Spiked Switob Causes Wreck and Three Men Lose Their Lives. Petersburg, Ind. —In the 1 wreck of a westbound freight train on the Southern railway Thursday eight miles west of Petersburg, Fireman J. B. Fanning, of Princeton, Ind., and Brakeman Luther Capehart, of Wins low, were killed. Engineer W. B. Mc- Williams, New Albany, was scalded and crushed so badly he will die. Af ter the wreck it was discovered that both ends of the switch were spiked. An ineffectual attempt was made Tuesday night to wreck a train at the same place. It is believed that rowdies who have been stealing rides and who have often been put off the trains are responsible for the spiking of the switch. $75,000 Fire Loss. Philadelphia, Pa. —Fire on Thurs day night destroyed the pump works of Charles G. Blatchey and the saw mill of Williams & Patterson. The building of the India Refining Co., producers of cocoanut oil, was badly damaged. The loss is $75,000. Six Hurt; Two May Die. Owensboro, Ky. An explosion of gas In a room of the Black Diamond coal and coke mines at Drakesboro on Thursday injured six men. Edward Boyd and Thomas Creasy may die. CHAS. L. SAIIER, GRAND SCRIBE iims THE ENTLBE SYSTEM. Mr. CI is. T.. Sauer, Grand Scribe, Grand Encampment 1. O. O. V. of' Texas, and Assistant City Auditor, writes from the City Hall, Sun Antonio, Tex.: " Nearly tv/o years ago I accepted a position as Mcretary and treasurer with one of ihe leading dry gooda I establishments of Galveston, Tex. ' Tlic fiuddeii shnnjje froai high and dry altitude 10 ocj, proved toe much for me and I became afflicted, with catarrh ai d cold in the head, and i general debijil y to such an extent as to 1 almost incapacitate me for attending- I to my duties " i was In heed to try Pcruna, and" after taking several bottles In smalt doses I am tlcased to say that I was. entirely res \ bred to my normal condl tionand ever since recommended • the use of Fk\runa to my friends." fl Girl Horsebreaker. Miss Winn-nah Von Ohl„ a New Jersey girl years old, is making epiite a repuition as a horsebreaker. i Five years al), a slender slip of a. j girl, she werj to South Dakota with | her mother, \lio had been sent thither | for a changelof climate. Miss Win nonah learnel to ride bronchos out j there and on Returning east she took: : to training Ad breaking horses, in which work ae has been remarkably ; successful. Jje has never sustained j any injm : wnle thus engaged. Rl OATO? WITH DROPSY. r The Heart W., Badly Affected When-. the Patient legan Using Doan's. Mrs. Eliza' - n Maxwell, of 415 West I Fourth St., C j apia, Wash., says:"For ; over three n xrs I suffered with a # dropsical condi tion without be ing aware that it was due kidney trouble. were principally backache and '/ bearing down pain, but I went, along without worrying much until dropsy set in. My feet a| nkles swelled up, my hands puffed, i nC n became so tense I could hardly id' • them. I had great difficulty in b hing, and my heart would flutter M a the least exertion. I could not waV n ar without stopping again and aga) )t .o rest. Since using, four boxes of ) s n's Kidney Pills the bloating has gt down and the feel ings of distress' ive' disappeared." Sold by all df r :rs. SO cents a box„ Foster-Milburn a , Buffalo, N. Y. FROM A CYIStpS DICTIONARY,. Rouge—Face 1 lide. Benedick —A vltent bachelor. Courage— a second time. Love —The fires of passion. Divorce —The erection of an error,. Altruism —Mo'AVg your neighbor's-; lawn. Suspicion— the engagement ring on window ,jfc3. Jealousy—A tr to man's vanity that every wise pays. Furious —A W. , expressing the-- pleasure a girl e - . eriences when she is kissed. i Conscience —Th<j internal whisper that says: "Don! do it; you might: get caught." Widowhood —Tlilonly compensation, some women get' it of marriage.— Henry Thompson. ' Water Wagon—A ehicle from which, a map frequently Amounts to boast: of the fine ride he having. Error of J -formers. One trouble with i ost would-be re formers is that tfcy begin at th©- wrong end of the t k.
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