SHORT WAY Of Spelling Is Approved by Mr. Roosevelt. PHONETIC SYSTEM Will be Used Hereafter in All the Documents Emanating from the White house. Oyster Bay, >l. Y. President Roosevelt has endorsed the Car- j negie spelling reform movment. He ! issued orders Friday to Public Printer | Suitings that Hereafter all messages from the president and all other docu- j ruents emanating from the White j House shall be printed in accordance | with the recommendation of the spell- j ing reform committee headed by j Brander Matthews, professor of En glish at Columbia university. The committee has published a list of 300 words in which the spelling is reform ed. This list contains such words as ; "thru" and "tlio" as the spelling for | "through" ana "though." The president's official sanction of ; this reform movement is regarded as ! the most effective and speediest 1 method of inaugurating the new sys- j teru of spelling throughout the coun- | try. Not only will the printed docu ments emanating from the president utilize the reform spelling, but his cor respondence also will l>e spelled in ! (he new style. Secretai>• Loeb has I sent for the list of 300 words which : have been reformed ami upon its ar rival will immediately order all cor- ; respondence of the president and of the executive force of the White j House spelled in accordance there with. As the spelling reform commit- j tee shall adopt new reforms they will I be added to the president's list and j also to that of the public printer. A PIERCE RUSH EOR MONEY. Jt Was Made by 5,000 Depositors in . the Milwaukee Avenue Bank at Chicago. Chftago, 111. —Sixty policemen were , overwhelmed Friday by a mad rush of men and women who were dei termined to get the first money paid | out of the vaults of the ruined Mil waukee Avenue state bank. Receiver | Fetzer had made arrangements to pay j 20 per cent, to 5.000 of the 22,000 de- j positors, and everybody was anxious to be among the 5,000. At daybreak j the crowds commenced to gather j around the bank, and by 8 o'clock the bank was surrounded by 5,000 people. Sixty policemen had been sent to the bank, but they were unable to handle j the crowd, the greater part of which was unable to understand the English language. Forty more officers were finally sent to the banK, and order was even then restored with difficulty. It seemed Impossible to make the depositors ••comprehend that although, only 5,000 were to be paid Friday, the others would be paid just as much within the next few days. At one time the crowd | threatened to fairly storm the bank j as, waving their pass books in the air I they rushed for the doors shouting in | Bohemian, Polish, Norwegian and I Italian. The receiver was all day pay- ! ing the 5,000 and will pay as many to j day. DUN'S REVIEW. Reports Indicate Wholesome Activity . in All Lines of Trade. New York. —K. O. Dun & Co.'i ' "Weekly Review of Trade says: Wall street provided the only impor j tunt. development in the business situ j ation during the past week, prices ol I securities rising within an average ol ' J2 per share of the high record estab lished last January, while the general public became interested to an extent ' that lifted money rates for all periods to the legal maximum. Trade reports indicate wholesome activity, with no evidence of reaction i even those industries that are of ne | cessity quiet at this season contribut j ing to the genera! confidence by re ports of large orders in sight. As the vacation season draws to an end there is a general resumption of idle ma chinery and. with the opening of many new furnaces, all records of iron pro duction will be surpassed in the fall This is typical of the situation in al leading branches of industry. Trains Collide at a Crossing. St. Thomas, Ont. A Wabash ■special train carrying two the atrical companies to Chicago and one to Detroit and the Canadian Pacific regular passenger train from Torontc collided at the crossing just east ol this city Friday. Canadian Pacific Engineer McKay, of Toronto June tion, was killed, Fireman Patterson, ol this city, was seriously hurt and Bag gageman Alex Wiley, of this city, was probably fatally injured. None of the passengers on either train injured. Indicted for Rebating. Jamestown, N. Y. The federa grand jury returned indictments Friday against the Standard Oi' Co. and the New York Central Rail road Co.. charging violations of the inter-state commerce law in giving and accepting special rates in the shipment of oil. The Jury Disagreed. Springfield, Mo.—The jury In the case of Ross Galbraith, the al leged lynch mob leader, on Friday re ported a disagreement and it was dis ■Charged by the court. New Presbyterian Brotherhood. PRESBYTERIANS PLANNING A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION. Big Convention to Be Held in No vember to Carry Into Effect the Elaborate Plans Formed. The Presbyterian church, inspired by the example of the other four great denominational brotherhoods, has decided that it, too, will organize its men, and to this end plans are now under way and a convention called to meet at Indianapolis Novem ber 14-17. At the last general as sembly of the church, held at Des Moines, the matter was taken under advisement, and then heartily in dorsed. At the present time the men I in the individual churches are being organized into local brotherhoods pre paratory to forming them into the national organization, the plan or ideal upon which the movement is j based being the federation of exist- i ing organizations. Rev. Dr. John Clark Hill, of Spring field,"O., is the prime mover in the Dr. John Clark Hill. undertaking, and over a year ago he was appointed chairman of a special j committee on men's societies. He j has made an exhaustive study of the subject at home and abroad, and is very enthusiastic over the inaugura tion of the movement. He claims that a quarter of million men will be speedily enrolled. The principal ob jects of the brotherhood are: 1. Plans to increase the efficiency of the Sunday evening service, by publicity, by looking after strangers and providing for the general social j intercourse of the men of the congre gation. The True Story of a Dog Hero. Next toman the dog undoubtedly | takes the foremost place in saving life in sudden peril. In this case it is a ' big, handsome Newfoundland, and the story is related from the experiences of a certain engine driver. Glancing one day from his engine box, the driver felt suddenly the hot, | oily atmosphere that surrounded him transformed to the iciness of winter, j The train was approaching a village, j and in a few seconds would be cross- j ing the dusty high-road. The gates J were open. No danger loomed ahead, j Yet the driver's eyes were riveted, ter ror-filled, upon the gleaming lines be fore him. Eighty rods ahead a tiny girl was toddling gayly straight in the path of j the fast approaching train. With a cry of horror the driver j sprang to the brakes, whilst with his j other hand he released the whistle, j The train rocked uwder the sudden | check of the brakes. With hand still on the whistle, the driver glanced j again through the window. The child : was still toddling on, unconscious of j the fast advancing train. Now only a few yards lay between | the baby and the groaning engine. The train could not be stopped in | time. Suddenly the driver turned i away, covering his eyes with his hands to blot out the tragody. The train drew up. Some one laid a hand on the driver's shoulder, anel the fireman's voice rang out, demanding to know what had occurred, and why the train had pulled up. Speechless still with horror, the driver gazed absently into the grimy face of his comrade, who, shovel in hand, returned his glance with amazed eyes. Perceiving that something had hap pened, the fireman, leaning outside the coach, looked down the line. Then a roar of laughter fell on the driver's ears. "Well, I never!" he heard the man exclaim, as he turned half-bewildered to the scene. There, a few yards ahead, and slow ly making toward a cottage, was a great Newfoundland dog bearing in its mouth the little child. The Yellow Dog. j "Henpeck seems to keep that old • dog 'ust to abuse it." "He does; he's got an Ugly boss, I and you know what Mrs. Henpeck is —lf he didn't have that dog he'd bust." —-Houston Post. Incomprehensible. "Does young Tennyburn make any thing out of his poetry?" "I don't know. I could never make anything out of it." Cleveland Leader. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1906. 2. The organization of ushers' as soeiatlons. 3. The organization of classes foi tlie study of missions. 4. The promotion of intelligence regarding the boards of the church, j 5. The establishment of batb rooms and gymnasiums, reading rooms and libraries, employment and boarding house bureaus, sick and ra lief funds, savings banks, classes fot physical culture, athletics, educational ; classes of various kinds, 6. The promotion of civic reform. I 7. The creation and promotion ol temperance sentiment. 8. Work for boys. At the present time there is an or ganization in the Presbyterian churches of Chicago of 5,000 men, ! made up of men's Bible classes in the ' different churches, and in extend- j ing the scope of the movement it is proposed to do it through the medium of organized Bible class work. Mr. Andrew Stevenson, who is president of this Chicago brother- \ hood, is prominently identified with \ those in charge of the arrangements j for the convention in November, and in speaking of the plans, said: "The prevailing theme of the con vention will be brotherhood and serv ice, and we will have three popular meetings in the evenings. The first night the principal speaker will be William Jennings Bryan; the second night, Grover Cleveland, and the third night, John Wanamaker. Coupled with them there will be one strong, spiritually-minded man who will tell about the work. Other speakers at these popular meetings will be men like Robert E. Spe< r. President Wood row Wilson, J. Mucdonald, editor of the Toronto Globe; Justice John M. Harlan, Cleveland H. Dodge, Robert C. Ogden, Morris K. Jessup, Cyrus H. ; McCormick, 11. J. Heinz, John Willis Baer, John 11. Holliday, Daniel 11. j Noyes, Hon. H. B. F. McFarlane, j Judge Howard Hollister, Charles ; Steizle, Marvin Hughitt and v Rear 1 Admiral J. C. Watson. One point of difference will distin guish the Presbyterian brotherhood i from similar organizations in the j other denominations in that it is pro- j posed to make the former an organic part of the church organization, j While the Brotherhood of St. An- j drew, in the Protestant Episcopal j church, the Brotherhood of St. Paul j and the Wesley Brotherhood of the ! Methodist church, and the Brother j hood of Andrew and Philip in the j Unformed and other churches, are all approved and recognized by the high- i est courts of the denominations, none 1 have any organic relations with the j churches, and it is proposed in or ganizing the Presbyterian brother hood to have it on a broader basis. A great load fell from the engine driver's mind as he realized what had happened. The dog had snatched the little girl from a certain death. "Look at the dawg, look! "cried the fire man, holding his sides in laughter. Hut the driver passed his hand across There Was a Great Newfoundland Dog Bearing in Its Mcuth the Little Child. his eyes. He was thinking of his own little girl miles away at home. What would his feelings have been if she had strayed in front of a train, and there had been no gallant New foundland to come to the rescue? Meanwhile the big dog trotted ses dately home with his burden to a neighboring cottage. Here the child's mother held up her hands in aston ishment to see her daughter coma home in such an extraordinary man ner. "How did Carlo come to carry you home like that?" she exclaimed. Before the child could reply, a por ter came running in: "Well, mum," he said, "you've got to thank your dog that your baby ain't killed. He picked her up right in front of a train, and carried her away. The drivei* was nearly fright ened to death he'd killed her, until he saw the dog." A Slender Theory. "Why are the best instrumental mu< slcians unable to play by ear?" "I suppose," answered Miss Cay enne, "it must be because no one with a really sensitive ear could ensure the terrific din of constant practice."— Washington Star. Evidence. "What makes you think she did not care for dress?" | "I saw her in her bathing costume." I—Houston1 —Houston Post. CAPTURE CUBAN CITY REBEL BANDS ATTACK TOWN IN PINAR DEL RIO PROVINCE. BELITTLES THE UPRISING Commander of Rural Guard Says He Has Enough Men to Suppress the Rebellious Elements Now on the Island. Havana. — The insurgents in the province of Pinar Del Rio captured their first city there Wednesday. At nine o'clock in the morning the force led by Pino Guerra, an ex-congress man and an influential man, who was thought lo be many miles eastward, an«l sundry other insurgent bands at tacked San Luis, which is situated on the railroad, about ten miles west of Pinar Del Rio City. A sharp and de cisive engagement followed during which a number of men were killed or wounded. The town was defended by less than 100 rural guards, 50 of whom airrendered to the insurgents and are held . prisoners. The insurgent forces are in possession of the railroad station and of the town, which is re suming its normal condition. By the capture of San Luis, which has about 10,000 inhabitants, the Insurgents have obtained an important base for future operations. Gen. Rodriguez, commander of the ural guard Wednesday, after relating the incidents of the day, said: "You can tell the American people hat Cuba is entirely competent to '•ope with the insurrection. The flood of rumors in all directions about the organization of insurrectionary bands !n great numbers are not borne out by our reports, or so far as can be learned, by the facts. . "Tf!e much talked of movement in Santa Clara province has not been encountered, and 110 insurrectionists have been seen there by our troops. "We have to-day equipped and sent out. in various directions 300 vorun ieers under competent officers. We have plenty of ->? and ammunition or all who enlist at present and more has been ordered from the United States. We believe the loyal people are taking up arms for the government .'aster than the insurgents are in creasing." A gentleman who was returned from \guacate, where he spent several lays, stated that as many as 500 men, ljost of them armed were riding about he vicinity proclaiming insurrection ary ideas. The principal event Wednesday was ihe fighting at San Luis. The reports of the commanders of the rural guard lire to the following effect: The bands of Guerra, Pozo and others aggregat ing about 400 men, concentrated Wed nesday morning in the vicinity of San Luis. Several rural guards under command of Maj. Laurent, were to at tack the insurgents from the east and 30 men under Lieut Azcuy were to at tack from the west. Azcuy arrived first and got into an ill-timed engage ment with a far superior detachment, with the result that he was forced to retreat hastily to San Luis, pursued by a portion of the army. The rural guards took refuge in their quarters, and Guerra's men remained in pos sion of the town. In the afternoon Maj. Laurent had a hot fight with the insurgents under Guerra and other In surgent commanders, and reports that several were killed or wounded. He pursued Guerra, but so far as known did not retake the town. According to other fragmentary reports the in surgents continue in possession of San Luis. Railway trains have not been interfered with. An attempt is being made with 200 mounted rural guards and regulars to corner Quentin Bandera, who with 150 men, is continuing his dodging tac tics in the wester npart of the prov ince of Havana. Three large bands of insurgents are out in the province of Santa Clara. The Insurrection appears to be grow ing, but the loyalists of the towns claim that they will be able to resist the movement. Hold-up Men Fail in Purport. Duluth, Minn. —An unsuccessful at tempt was made to hold up a gang of laborers 011 the Northern Pacific train which left Duluth at eight o'clock Tuesday night. Before the train reached Brainerd two men drew re volvers and attempted to make the la borers give up their money. They were attacked by Conductor O'Brien, who was assisted by some of the pas sengers. Death of Hanna's Brother-in-Law. Cleveland, O. —Jay c. Morse, at one time president of the Illinois Steel company and brother-in-law of the late Senator M. A, Hanna, died here Wednesday of a complication of dis eases. Mr. Morse was associated with the late Col. C. M. Plckands in an im mense iron ore and coal business, and he amassed a large fortune. General Manager Is Named. Lexington, Ky.—W. W. McDowell, assistant engineer of the Lexington & Eastern railroad, has been appointed to succeed the late Roger S. Barr, both as director and general manager •of the road. Mendoza Declared a Traitor. Bogota, Colombia.—The cabinet has declared Senor Mendoza, former min ister to the United States, a traitor for revealing diplomatic secrets. The country approves of calling Mendoza to judgment. COST OF RUNNING NATIOri MONEY APPROPRIATED 3Y THE LAST CONGRESS. Neatly a Billion Dollars Spent by Lawmakers —Big Sum for Pensions. Washington —According to a state ment issued by Thomas l\ Cleaves and James C. Courts, chief clerks, respectively, of the seriate anil house committees on appropriations, con gress, at. its last session, appropri ated for the fiscal year 1907, $879,589,- lSS.lti, representing an increase of $59,404,550.20 over the sum appropri ated the last session of the Fifty eighth congress for 190 G. The largest item is contained in the appropria tion for the post office department, the amount allotted being $191,695,- 998.75. The next largest sum was given for pensions, the money appro priated amounting to $140,245,500, or nearly twice as much as was allowed for the support of the army and over forty millions more than was granted for the naval establishment. Of the net increase of $59,404,550.20 over 1906, it is stated $42,447,201.08 was for the Isthmian canal, the bal ance being accounted 'or through the appropriations for the carrying out of the meat inspection law, the continu ance of contracts for river and harbor work, the reorganization of the diplo matic and consular service, and the extension of the iural free delivery seVvice. On the subject of new offices and employments, Messrs. Cleaves and Courts say: "The new offices and employments specifically authorized are 6,934 in number, at an annual compensation of $0,('>15,870; and those abolished or remitted are 5.285 in number, at an annual compensation cf $4,010,109, a net increase cf 1,049 in number and $2,605,761 in amount. "Deducting from the net increase of 1,649 new salaries and employ ments, 16:!, C additional employes for the postal service, there remain only 283 net increase in employments for all other departments and branches of the public service." MINERS KILLED IN EXPLOSION Heroic Collier Meets Death Trying to Rescue His Corade. Mahanoy City, Pa. —By an explosion ot gas in the West Buck mountain gangway in the fifth level of the Vul can colliery of the Mill Creek Coal company Tuesday, Charles Staukhus, aged 25 years, and John Haruka, aged 30 years, were instantly killed, five persons were probably fatally injured and about a dozen were overcome by after-damp. Stukus was killed by the first explosion and Haruka was killed as he was preparing to carry the body of Staukus to the gangway. There we're two explosions at inter vals of ten minutes. Both did much damage to the mine, brattices being ripped away and timbers blown out along the gangway for a distance of several hundred yards. The fourth lift of the mine was completely wrecked. AMERICAN NETS ARE DESTROYED Fishermen Complain of Action of Canadian Cruiser in Lake Erie. Washington.—Capt. Ross, chief of the revenue cutter service of the treasury department, Wednesday re ported to Acting Secretary Murray of the department of commerce and la bor, that he had received advices that the Canadian cruiser Vigilant was de stroying the nets of American fisher men in Lake Erie. The reports of the fishermen indi cate that the nets were set well with in American waters. Complaints were filed by the fisher men with the American authorities. The matter will be reported to the state department and probably will constitute the subject of an exchange between the American and Canadian governments. STUDIES FARMING IN AMERICA South African Agent Will Report on Agricultural Conditions. Washington.—William Mac Donald, a representative of the agricultural department of the Transvaal, South Africa, called on Acting Secretary Hays of the agricultural department, Wednesday. Mr. Mac Donald is traveling through this country studying agricultural conditions and methods. He will spend several weeks in the United States. He will submit to his government an elabroate report of his operations, with recommendations as may be sug gested by the agricultural conditions ElacK Fiend Riddled. Columbia, S. C. —"Bob" Ethridge, the negro who attempted to crim inally assault the seven-year-old daughter of T. H. West, of Saluda county, was taken by the girl's father to the scene of the crime, where he was shot to death by a mob. British Earl Dies. London. —The Karl of Leven and Melville, lor 1 high commissioner of the general assembly of the Church , of Scotland, and keeper of the privy seal of Scotland, died Wednesday. He was born in 1835. Preacher Gored to Death. Centralla, 111.—Rev. G. W. S. Bell, 75 years old, a Baptist preacher, was gored to death by a bull on his farm Wednesday. His son Frank was sell ously injured by the same animal a week before. Washington, D. C., Aug'ist 20th.—A determined effort v.;; 1 bo nuide at the next session of cong; ;i3 to prevent another appropriation for the free (lis j tribution of common garden seeds. Congress now expends $242,000 a year | in giving away the commonest varie ; ties of peas, beans, turnip, squash and | pumpkin seeds. They are divided into | 40,000,000 packets so that the packets ' cost about half a cent each. lint as | a large part of the appropriation is expended in clerk hire, packeting the j seed, etc., the actual value of the i seed in a packet is much less than j half a cent. These packets are put up in packages of five packets, the total cost of the packages being about | two cents each, and they are purchas | able anywhere at five cents. Each , member of congress gets 12,000 such | packages, which he distributes to the j voters of his district, j The farmers say that these pack | ages contain so little seed as to be of | no value to them, while the total ap i propriation, if expended in sending ! out really rare and valuable seed, or in maintaining a national agricultural ; college, or divided among the state . agricultural colleges, would be of im | mense value to the farming interests. | They therefore protest against the i waste of public money. The seeds j men claim that as congress has al | ready expended $5,000,000 in giving | away turnip and watermelon seed, it j is time it should give away saws, axes j or hoes and give the seed trade a rest. ( Those who believe that congress j should cut off this perquisite of its ! members now used for political pur ; poses, are writing their senators and representatives, urging them to abol ish the free seed distribution, and the | National Grange, many state and local ! granges, horticultural, agricultural | and other societies are adopting reso lutions condemning it. Mr. William Wolff Smith, of Washington, T). C., has ■ been selected to represent the oppo | sition to the congressional free seed distribution, and is personally answer j lug all inquiries concerning the same. "PEN AND INK" BET WAS EASY. Colonel "Ike" Hill Quite Ready to In crease the Amount. Col. "Ike" Hill, assistant sergeant ; at-arms for the Democrats in the | house of representatives, has violent ! political prejudices and at election | time is wont to back them with | money. He got into a political discussion i In the lobby of the Hoffman house in ; New York a short time ago and made an assertion that was disputed by a man in the gathering. Col. "Ike" reached down into his pocket, pulled out a roll of money and peeled off five SIOO bills. "I will just bet you SSOO I am right," he said. | "I'll take you," said the other. "Wait until I get a pen and ink." A cold look came into Col. "Ike's" eyes. "What do you want a pen and ink for?" he asked. "Why, I want to write a check for SSOO to cover your bet." Col. "Ike" put his money back in his pocket. "Bring me a pen and ink, too," he said, "for if this is going to be a check ■ bet I'll make It $5,000." —Saturday Evening Post. Transmission of Facial Characteristics It would appear that the transmis sion of facial traits subordinate to a definite law, that is to say, that an cestral facial expression and appear ance are more often than not trans mitted through the female members of the family, who generally do not exhibit the same characteristics to the male offspring, and that the younger generations show, as a rule, all the facial conditions and signs which were present in a remote an cestor. —North American Review. Poison in Yolk of Eggs. ! M. G. Loisel has arrived at the somewhat startling conclusion that the yolk of the eggs of fowls and ducks, as well as those of the tortoise, contains poisonous substances. When Isolated and injected into the veins of rabbits or other animals these prompt ly cause death. The phenomena pro- ■ duced are those of acute intoxication of the central nervous system. MORE THAN MONEY. A Minister Talks About Grape-Nuts. "My first stomach trouble began back in 1895," writes a minister in Nebr., "resulting from hasty eating and eating too much. I found no re lief from medicine and grew so bad that all food gave me great distress. "It was that sore, gnawing, hungry feeling in my stomach that was eo distressing and I became a sick man. Grape-Nuts was recommended as a food that could be easily digested. "Leaving the old diet that had given me so much trouble, I began to eat Grape-Nuts with a little cream and sugar. The change effected in 24 hours was truly remarkable, and in a few weeks I was back to health again. "My work as a minister calls me away from homo a great deal, und re cently I drifted back to fat meat and indigestible foods, which put me again on the sick list. "So I went back to Grape-Nuts and cream and in four days I was put right again. The oVi dull headaches are gone, stomach comfortable, head clear, and it is a delight to pursue in/ studies and work. "Grape-Nuts food is worth more than money to me, and I hope this may induce some sufferer to follow the same course I have." Name given by Postum Co., Rattle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason." Read the little book, "The lload to Wcllville," in pkgs. 3
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