2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.! H. H. MULLIN, Editor Published Every Thursday. ! TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION. frr year . M It paid in a .vance 1 ADVERTISING RATES: ACvertKt •■ills are published at the rate of «ne d ! av 1 ■ r s<j ; irc for one itisi rtlou and tift.l rents ler iiirt- fur eiuu subsequent Insertion Kali's '■ :■•• year, or for six or three month*. %, -■ ;,-u ii ii.iorm, and will be furnished evi «p: licatlO: . Lel 1 ;, 1 and Official Advertlsinß per square |li:«■. tun. •• r >ss. each subsequent inset t:o . • (cents per -Miian-. ; . ill i > Inn .'.ts per line ff>r one inner- i «m .. ,' nts pi-r i.ne for each subsequent • ct.n • cuti.. insertion. ..-.ary r ' • s « yer fl»e lines. 10 cents p«» I n-. s. ~ nouni crai-ntH of births, u.ai ■ I I-. • iths v..1 lie inserted tree. ..• r.ls. II ■ e lines or less. tf> per year, i.\i I.n s, i.t the regular rules of adver- j local inserted for less than 73 cents pet I issue. JOB PRINTING. Ihe Job ' : tn • .it of the Pit ESS Is complete snii r. tor doing the best class of ; w rtc. ' i .let i.AB ATTKNTION PAtDTO LAW PlilN I I So j. . i will 1)-? discontinued until arrear- I s iit-e i ai i. except at the option of the vub- Usher. l apers sent out ot the county must be Daid tor iu auva'ice ; Uenaturizea Alcohol. Many inquiries show at the same time interest in and ignorance of de natured alcohol. In a word, dena-. tured alcohol is alcohol, so changed by the addition of some other sub stance as to prevent its use as a bev erage. Commissioner Yerkes is in Europe investigating methods there. The commissioner, under the law, must see that sufficient wood alcohol is added. Twenty per cent, was men tioned in congress as the proper quan tity, but in Germany ten per cent. I.i considered suffi'jient. In Great Brit ain five i or rt-ut. c.f wood alcohol and a still smaller proportion of naptlia are used. Dr. Willey recommends ten per cent, of wood alcohol and one per cent, of pyridine. The tax on alcohol is now sl.lO a gallon. This makes its use for mechanical purposes impossi ble. But free from tax and denatur lzed it is thought that alcohol can be made for less than ten cents a gal lon, and could be sold at a profit for a few cents more than that. In that event its use in place of gasoline and kerosene as a power producer and for light will undoubtedly be very great, as in Germany. It will be a boon, says the Indianapolis News, especially to the farmer and small mechanic for small power engines. With a mantle, its use for light is economical. Alcohol can be distilled from any number of things, as po tatoes, beets, corn—the stalks as well as the grain—the waste of molasses factories, etc. The agricultural de partment thinks that potatoes will be a chief source of our supply. A yield of 300 bushels of potatoes to the acre will produce 255 gallons of al cohol. In Europe, a kind of potatoes grown for cattle will yield nearly 500 gallons to the acre. Curability of Leprosy. Unna, of Hamburg, like many oth er conspicuous dermatologists, is of the opnion that there is a possibility of curing leprosy. In his report read before the International Medical con gress at Lisbon he states that he has been successful in attacking cutane- ous leprosy, not macular or anaes thetic leprosy, and gives his experi ence, gained from treating CO lepers during a period of 22 years. His suf ferers were private patients, more or less well to do, all leading a useful life and wishing most emphatically to be cured so that they could again take up their several occupations. This fact is important, Unna thinks, in contrast to what is observed in the patients of leper hospitals, for ex ample, in Norway, who are very poor people, coming from the worst sur roundings, shunned by their neigh bors and finding in the hospital an asylum with all possible comforts—• cleanliness, sympathy and freedom from the cares of poverty and the daily fight against hardships. Ex ternally, Unna advises hot baths of natural waters containing sulphur and sodium or potassium, but espe cially his so-called ink bath (Dinten bad), containing ferrous sulphate and tannic acid; the washing with sage and pressure upon the skin; the use of pyrogallol and resocin, chrys arobin and ichthyol, and later the use of Paquelin's cautery, internal ly, the author uses ichthyol, cam phor, sallicyiic acid and chaulmugra oil, which he calls the specific par ex cellence for cutaneous leprosy. There is no safer index of the pros perity of a country than the condi tion of its railways and there is 110 more trustworthy evidence of the sta bility of the progress being made by a stili growing country than the rec ord of its railway construction. While there may be exceptions to the latter statement in times of unhealthy stimulation of enterprise, it is easy to detect the false and the temporary from the genuine and permanent growth of railway mileage. At tho present moment, according to slatis tics collected by the Railway Age, lailway building in the I'nited States is progrt sing on a more extensive scale than for many years past and the mileage of track laid on new lines during the first liaif of this year is greater than that of any sim ilar period for the last 15 years, with tiie single jxception of 1902. NERVOUS PROSPERITY! St .. Doctor Tariff Reform —"You are a very cick man. You ought togo straight to bed and take my medicine." Uncle Sam —"No, I think not. With exporti for 1006 of $ 1,743,163,512; ■with imports of $1,220,015,879; with a favorable trade balance of $517,148,233; with business booming; with all labor employed at the highest wages evor known, I don't s<:em to nerd any tariff medicine just now." TOO CONSERVATIVE. FEAR THAT BRYAN IS NOT RAD ICAL ENOUGH. Free-Trade Newspapers Worrying Lest He Shall Prove Too Safe and Sane in His Tariff Attitude. The fear is expressed by some of the Democratic newspapers of the seaboard section that Mr. Bryan is not going to be radical enough on the tariff question. It is all very well to thunder about predatory wealth and pitch into the trusts, but, says the New York Times: "Will Mr. Bryan make the tariff his issue or will be dodge it altogether? Will he have the courage to become the Democratic leader in an assault upon the great fortress of privilege, the fountain and origin of trust ideas and trust oppressions?" Of course he will. He must. There is nothing else left for hiin to do. The "crime of '73" and the "crown of thorns" are no longer available. Neither will railroad regulation and trust abuses suffice. The party in power has been doing quite a lot of things along those lines. It has demonstrated the ability of the gov ernment to curb corporations and combines without meddling with the tariff on imports. Right here is Mr. Bryan's opportunity. He will un | doubtedly contend that only half-way | measures have thus far been adopted, and that the only way to deal with predatory wealth and crush the trusts is to "reform" the tariff. Mr. Bryan has been a tariff re former from the beginning of his po i litical career. He aided in reforming the tariff as a representative in con ! gress in 1594. Reforming tariffs is ■ his "long suit." Few men can sur ! pass him in the ability to discover ■ abuses and inequalities in any tariff that protects. The very fact that a j tariff is protective is to him proof pos itive of abuses and inequalities. We think it will turn out that the free trade newspapers of the "ene my's country" are worrying needless j ly about Mr. Bryan's orthodoxy on the | question of tariff reform. It may be J that he will disappoint some of these i hot gospellers in the moderation of i his phraseology. Quite possibly he will decline to repeat the blunders of I previous campaigns and adopt "pro : tection is robbery" as his keynote. If j so, he will prove shrewder than his critics. Common sense and common | tact are the need of the hour, accord j ing to John Sharp Williams. Mr. I Bryan is not blind to that need. His | guarded and conservative expressions i regarding the tariff in the recent Eu- J ropean output of matter for American j publication show that he is "wise to , his job." It may not be a safer or a saner Bryan that is coming back to us, but beyond a doubt it is a more tactful Bryan. There will be no free trade inscriptions upon the Demo cratic battle flags of 1908. Tariff re form, instead, will be the rallying cry. ; It would of course amount to tho j same thing in the event of the elec- I tion of Bryan and a Democratic con | press two years hence. The tariff I would then he "reformed" with a i vengeance. Protection w-uld be re ; formed out of it. The ne»;d for com mon sense and common tact would no I longer exist.. Bryan would then be in I the open, what he now is under cover, i the relentless foe of protection and tho devoted friend of fiee trade. For declamatory purposes and as an issue the tariff will serve for the Democrats in the cowing campaign, but the Republicans "will stand pat and let well enough alone. The silver issue, according to Mr. Bryan, Is not dead, but he does not go so far as tc deny that it has to be , kept on ice. . CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1906. IMPARTIAL TARIFF IMPERATIVE It Is the Only Kind That the United States Can Afford to Have. A dispatch from Washington re peats the nonsensical statement that "the German tariff situation is ex tremely embarrassing to the state de partment," because there is little hope that congress will legislate so as to "make it possible for Secretary Root to live up to inducements held out to Germany, which resulted in the tem porary extension to this country by Germany of its minimum tariff rates, pending a readjustment of the cus toms regulations." No one with any knowledge of the situation would hava written such stuff as the above. It is inconceivable that Secretary Root, or any one else connected with the state department, should have offered inducements to Germany of the kind suggested, for the simple reason that such action would have been an un warranted interference of an execu tive department with the lawmaking power. At no time since the threat was put forth by German interests of waging a tariff war against the United States has there been any reason to believe that this country would recede from its position of treating all nations alike. It is true that a noisy con tingent of American free traders who believed that the "bluffing" tactics of Germany would prevail persisted in asserting that we were scared and would make any concession demand ed by the Germans, but no one at tached any importance to what they said. Germany certainly did not, for she practically receded from her po sition, which she knew might create a situation which could easily have been made intolerable for her, and it is likely, if we may judge from the expressions of such experts as Herr Bueck, that she will take time in which to fully consider the possi ble outcome of a tariff war. Apart from every other considera tion, common honesty demands that we adhere to our refusal to modify our tariff regulations in the manner urged by Germany. The manufac turers of that country complain that our inquisitiveness on the score of prices is highly offensive to them, and they urge that we should accept their invoices without challenge. liut, in view of the notorious system of un dervaluation practiced, it would be impossible to comply with such a re quest. It would be unfair to do so, as it would place the honest importer at the mercy of his dishonest rival. The United States can afford to ad minister its customs laws in no other way than with strict impartiality.— San Francisco Chronicle. Would Be Unpardonable. Staggering as it is from the furore over the packing industry, for the cat tle growing business to be further crippled through a reduction of the tariff on hides would be unpardonable It will at best be slow to recover from the publicity that has been given the one, and congress owes it .-.11 the counteracting encouragement it can give. After all, it is on the producer of live stock that the cost wilj fall Such to-day are between tbw v.f.pei and nether grindstones of congress and tiio packers.—Denver Republican. It is needless to say that Mr. Bryan, in mistaking stubborn-iess for con sistency, is practically turning the presidency over to the Republican party again, giving it a walkover in IMS, as it had in 18iRV. 1900 and 1904. His statement has aneady distinctly clouded Democrat to prospects in tha congressional campaign next fall awl has helped to make possible so large a Republican majority in the house that Mr. Roosevelt's reelection will become a certainty, even against his own will.—New Yofk World. ANYTHING FOR FILTHY LUCRE Writer's Cynical Justification of Mean Piece of Work. A certain gifted writer of whom It was once said that he wouldn't recog nize his wife if he met her on the street wrote a charming love story not so long ago, and it was printed in a popular magazine. His friends and all those of the circle in which tha author moved recognized the story as an exact and recent transcript from the life of the writer, involving u very beautiful young woman, also well known in the same set. One man, coming across the author, took him to task for it. "What in the world did -you write up that affair with Miss Blank for?" he demanded. The author looked at him unmoved and with the same exquisite calm and clearness that characterized liis work, replied: "I needed the ihoney." SORES ON HANDS. Suffered for a Long Time Without Relief —Doctor Was Afraid to Touch Them—Cured by Cuticura. "For a long time I suffered with sores on the hands which were itch ing, painful and disagreeable, I had three doctors, and derived no benefit from any of them. One doctor said he was afraid to touch my hands, so you must know how bad they were; another said I never could be cured; and the third said the sores were caused by the dipping of my hands in the water in the dye-house where I worlt. I saw in the papers about the wonderful cures of the Cuticura Remedies and procured some of the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointmont. In three days after the application of the Cuticura Ointment my hands began to peel and were better. The soreness disappeared, and they are now smooth and clean, and I am still working in the dye-house. Mrs. A. E. Maurer, 2340 State St., Chicago, 111., July 1, 1905." Grocer Was Getting Even. "That was tit for tat with a ven geance," said Walter Christie, the au tomobilist, apropos of a quarrel be tween two French chauffeurs. "It re minds me of a grocer 1 used to know in Paint Rock. This grocer went over to the jeweler's one day to get a new crystal put on his watch. The latter as he fitted and cleaned the crystal suddenly flushed. He bit his lip and frowned. His hand trembled so that he could hardly goon with his task. Finally, handing the watch to the gro cer, the jeweler said in a restrained voice: 'Beg pardon, but didn't I just 6ee you put a couple of rings and a Bcarfpin in your pocket?" " 'Sure you did,' said the grocer, boldly. 'When you come to my place aren't you always putting things in your mouth?'" HERITAGE OF CIVIL WAR Thousands of Soldiers Contracted Chronic Kidney Trouble While in the Service. The experience of Capt. John L. Ely, of Co. E, 17th Ohio, now living at 500 East Second street, Newton, Kansas, twill interest the thou sands of veterans who came back from the Civil War suffer ing tortures with kid ney complaint. Capt. Ely says:"l contracted kidney trouble dur ing the Civil War, and the occasional attacks finally de veloped into a chronic case. At one time I had to use a crutch and cano to get about. My back was lame and weak, and besides the aching, there was a distressing retention of the kidney secretions. I was in a bad way when I began using Doan's Kid ney Pills in 1901, but the remedy cured me, and I have been well ever since." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box, Foster-Milburu Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Convenient English. "We become accustomed to a phrase," observed an educator at a teachers' convention, "but when we introduce a new one along exactly the same lines, it startles the hearer. "A number of ladies were seated In a hotel parlor, and one of them, com menting on a woman who was stand ing in the hallway, said: " 'Mrs. Ivoraine seems unusually hap py this morning." "'Yes,' answered a companion, knowingly, 'the ladies of Newark gave a tea in her honor yesterday. But doesn't her husband look gloomy and dejected?' " 'That is true,' admitted the first speaker. 'I presume the gentlemen of Newark gave a beer in his honor laut night.'" Veterans Rapidly Passing Away. Veterans of the civil war are dying now at the rate of 100 a day, accord ing to records o< the United States pension office. The monthly reports for several months past have shown the death rate among the old soldiers to be in the neighborhood of 3,000 a month. Pension ofSice officials who have watched the figures closely and know the tendency of the death rate are of the opinion that the nunibt*r of civil war pensioners has reached the maximum and that hereafter each succeeding month will show a de crease. Laid Out Liks Checker Board. The country in which the large towns are most nearly equi-distant is Holland. They are at an average dis tance of 20 miles from one another. WORKING WOMEN Their Hard Struggle Made Easier—lnteresting State® ments by a Young Lady in Boston and One in Nashville, Tenn. All women work; some in their homes, _ some in church, and some in the whirl of society. And in stores, mills and shops tens of thousands are on the never-ceasing treadmill, earning their daily bread. All are subject to the same physical laws; all suffer alike from the same physical disturbance, and the nature of their duties, in many cases, quickly drifts them into the horrors of all kinds of femaio complaints, tumors, ulceration, falling and displace ments or perhaps irregularity or suppression, causing backache, ner vousness, irritability and lassitude. They especially require an invigorat ing, sustaining medicine which will strengthen the female organism and enable them to bear easily the fatigues of the day, to sleep well at night, and to rise refreshed and cheerful. How distressing to see a woman struggling to earn a livelihood or per form her household duties when her back and head are aching, she is so tired she can hardly drag about or stand up, and every movement causes pain, the origin of which is due to some derangement of the female or ganism. Miss F. Orser, of 14 Warrenton Street. Boston, tells women how to avoid such suffering; she writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— " I suffered misery for several years with fpmale irregularities. My back ached; I had bearing-down pains, and frequent headaches; Lydia E, Pinkham's Vegetable Coral THIEVING SQUIRREL DRIVEN OFF Robins Successfully Defend Nest Aaainst Marauder. A pair of robins proved too much for a marauding squirrel In Independ ence square yesterday. While on a midair cruise he suddenly stopped as though something special had attract ed his attention, and then he came down the tree in a slow, unconcerned, manner. The secret was out whett i.e shyly began the ascent of another oak, in the branches of which a pair of the redbreasts had built their nest. His little eyes glistening and his whole manner that of a thief, he moved up the tree trunk, and had al most reached the little blue eggs in the nest when the mother bird and •lier mate saw him and flew down from their upper perch. They were on Mr. Squirrel in an instant, and the fur flew when their beaks got into action. The retreat of the squirrel was quick ly effected. The watchers were : amused. Then a second time the rob ber advanced, and was so successful as to get one of the eggs in his paws before the birds came to the rescue. The squirrel was nonplussed, as he couldn't back down with the egg with ; the birds pecking him. and he was j loath to relinquish his hard-won prize. ; His hesitation was fatal, though, as the birds, with a concerted rush, fair- ; ly shoved him out of the nest, and the robins followed him so quickly and ! furiously that the egg was dropped ' and smashed on the ground. The squirrel then gave up his purloining ] expedition.—Philadelphia Record. A WINNING START. A Perfectly Digested Breakfast Makes Nerve Force for the Day. Everything goes wrong if the break fast lies in your stomach like a mud pie. What you eat does harm if you can't digest it —it turns to poison. A bright lady teacher found this to be true, even of an ordinary light breakfast of eggs and toast. She says: "Two years ago I cinfracted a very annoying form of indigestion. My stomach was in such a condition that a simple breakfast of fruit, toast and egg gave me great distress. "I was slow to believe that trtJuble could come from such a simple diet but finally had to give it up, and found a great change upon a cup of hot Postum and Grape-Nuts with cream, for my morning meal. For 1 more than a year I have held to this course and have not suffered except when injudiciously varying my diet. "I have been a teacher for several years and find that my easily digested breakfast means a saving of neiwous force for the entire day. My gain of ton pounds in weight also causes me to want to testify to the va[ue of Grape-Nuts. "Grape-Nuts holds first rank at our table." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creelt, Mich. "There's a reason." Read the little hook, "Tho Road to Wellville," in pkgs. I 1 1 could not sleep and could hardly drag: around. I consulted two physicians without*, relief, and as a last resort, I tried Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and to my surprise, every ache and pain left me. T gained ten pounds and am in perfect health/-? Miss Pearl Ackers, of 327 North Sum-! mer Street, Nashville, Tenn., writes; • t Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— I " I suffered with painful periods, severst backache, bearing-down pains, pains across!: the abdomen; was very nervoin and irrita ble, and my trouble grew worse 07ciy month. "My physician failed to help mo and B decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compouud. 1 soon found it v as; doing mn good. All ray pains and acheo disappeared,: and I no longer fear my monthly periods." Lydia E, Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound is the unfailing cure for all these troubles. It strengthens the proper muscles, and displacement with all its horrors will no more crush you. Backache, dizziness, fainting, bear ing-down pains, disordered stomach, moodiness, dislike of friends and society —all symptoms of the one cause—will be quickly dispelled, and it will make you strong and Well. You can tell the story of your suf ferings to a woman, and receive help ful advice free of cost. Address Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. The present Mrs. Pinkham is the daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham and for twenty five years she has, under her direction and since her decease, been advising sick women free of charge. lound Succeeds Where Others FalL Objects which are usually the ob jects of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neg lected if they lie under our eye.— Pliny the Younger. Deaf Women Form Club. One of the most curious clubs or,, record has recently been formed by society women in Berlin. The prin cipal condition of membership is that the applicant- must bo deaf. .The clut has over a hundred members, who meet regularly once a week in hand somely furnished rooms in the VVil heLmstraSse, where they converse by means of ear trumpets and sign lan guage and drink tea. BIG NEW SHOE BUILDING. It Is Dedicated by the W. L. Douglas Co. at Brockton. The dedication a short time ago o?-. the new administration and jobbing house building erected by the W. L Douglas Shoe Co. as a part of its mam moth manufacturing plant at Montellc was marked by the thoroughness anc attention to detail characteristic of the firm in all its undertakings. The dedicatory program included open house from 11 a. m.to 8 p. m with concert by tiie Mace Gay orches tra and the presence of a Boston caterer to attend to the wishes of all. The building itself afforded a feast for the eye, especially the ofllces ; . which are marvels in many ways Fifteen thousand invitations were sent out, including over 11,000 to there tail dealers in the United States whe handle the W. L. Douglas Co. shoes, the others going to shoe manufactur ers and all allied industries in Brock ton and vicinity. Mr. Douglas will be • glad to have anybody who is interest ed call and inspect the new plant, and says"the latch string is always out." All departments of the plant were open for inspection, the three factories as well as the new building, and vis itors were received and escorted through the industrial maze by ex- Gov. Douglas, assisted by the heads' of the various departments. Under the present system all shoee i are manufactured to order, and cus tomers sometimes lose sales waiting for shoes to arrive. With the new jobbing house they will be enabled tc have their hurry orders shipped the same day they are received. The new building is 260 feet long and 60 feet wide and two stories in height. The jobbing department will , occupy the entire lower floor, while the offices will occupy the second floor- The jobbing-department will carry a complete stock of men's, boys', youths',. misses' and children's shoos, slippers, rubbers and findings equal to any job bing house in the country. Buyers are especially invited to come hero to trade, and every effort possible will be made to suit their convenience. There will be a finely appointed sample room on the second lioor, with an ofliee in, which both telephone and telegraph will be installed, with operators, both Western Union and Postal Telegraffh wires to be used. There will also ba arrangements for the receipt and dos* patch of mail.
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