AWFUL ROAR Of Explosion was Heard 20 Miles Away. 12 PEOPLE KILLED. i \ tar Loaded with Dynamite was Blown to Atoms and Much Other Property Destroyed. .lellico, Tenn.—Twelve deaths, the : injuring of scores of other j persons and $500,000 damage to prop- j erty were caused here Friday when a j car load of dynamite standing on a i track near the Southern railway depot I exploded with a report that was heard j for 20 miles. Huildings were shat tered in the business section and I nearly every piece of glass within a radius of a mile was broken. The explosion occurred at 8 o'clock j In the morning. The freight car, one belonging to the Pennsylvania rail- S road lines, contained 450 boxes, or j 20,000 pounds, of high explosives con- j signed to the Rand Powder Co. at ! •Cle'.-field, Tenn. Two causes are as- j signed for the explosion. One is that! three parties were shooting at a mark on the car and that a bullet entered j the car and caused the explosion. J The other is that while the oar was j standing on a side track a carload of pig iron was switched against it and | that the impact caused the explosion, j People here are divided as to the the- i ories, some going so far as to say J that they actually saw the men firing at the car with a rifle. Jellico is situated on the Tennessee- J Kentucky line, about 60 niilfs from j Knoxville, the main business portion ! of the town being on the Tennessee | line. Two lines of railroad, the South ern and the Louisville & Nashville, enter it. The depot of the Southern, which was located near the scene of the explosion, was completely wreck ed. Two hotels, the Glen Morgan and the Carmathen, were badly wrecked, j the third story of the latter being j wholly destroyed. A large number of j stores and residences were badly ■damaged. Many people are homeless as a re sult of the disaster and as almost ■every chimney was destroyed, cook ing cannot he done in many of the houses. • BUSINESS BULLETIN. The Volume of Domestic Trade Ex ceeds All Previous Records. New York. —11. G. Dun &. Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Unseasonably high temperature in .some sections of the country retarded distribution of fall goods but, with the assistance of special sales, reduced stocks of summer merchandise to a satisfactory position. High rates for money have delayed mercantile collec tions somewhat, and there is still ■complaint regarding the scarcity of labor, but confidence in the future re mains unshaken. Preparations for winter and spring keep machin ery well employed, large crops are being secured, and building oper ations are very heavy. ( The volume of domestic trade is be yond all records, and foreign com merce exhibits some striking compari sons. Total mercrandise exports in August were valued at about $12,000, 000 more than the same month in any previous year, and imports rose $10,000,000 above the preceding record for August. Commercial failures this week in the United States are 200, against 200 the corresponding week lust. year. Failures in Canada number 16, against 34 last year. LOSE MONEY AND LIBERTY. Seven Men Convicted of Peonage are Sentenced to Pay Fines and Serve Terms in Prison. Cape Girardeau, Mo. —The jury in the Smith Case Friday return ed a verdict of guilty against Charles M. Smith and Charles M. Smith, jr.. and five tenants of their farms on the eleventh count, in the peonage case. The eleventh count of the 44 indict ments refers to John Reed, the negro who was with Roosevelt in Cuba and escaped from the shack on the Smith farm by sawing his way through the floor at night. He was the strongest negro witness for the government. Judge Pollock overruled motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment and pronounced sentences as follows: Charles M. Smith, three years and six months in the penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and a fine of $5,- •000 and costs; Charles M. Smith, jr., two years in the penitentiary and a fine of $5,000 and costs; Hen Stone and Hen Fields, each one year and six months and SIOO fine; Lee Rogers and William Woods, each two years and six months and SIOO fine; Floyd Woods, two years and six months and SIOO fine. No Contest of Russell Sage's Will. New York.—The will of Russell Sage was presented to the surrogate Friday without contest. Mrs. Sage intends to give to each of Mr. Sage's relatives named in the will an additional sum equal to the amount of his or her legacy, provided there is no contest. Fairbanks Laid the Cornerstone. Chicago, 111. —Vice President Fair banks on Friday laid the corner stone of Chicago's new county build ing, which when completed is to be the largest courthouse in the world MUST BE TRUTHFUL. New Rules for Labeling Meat Prod ucts Do Not Permit Any De ception. Washington, D. C.—Further rul ings in connection with the enforce ment of the meat inspection law, after October 1, were made public Thurs day by the secretary of agriculture, and give an idea of what consumers are to expect hereafter when purchas ing meat products, particularly canned goods. Anything savoring of a false or deceptive name will not be tolerated and no picture, design or device which gives any false indica tion of origin or quality will be per mitted upon any label, as for example, the picture of a pig appearing on a label placed upon beef products, or the picture of a chicken upon the label of a veal or pork product. Geographical names are allowed to be used only with the words "cut," "type," "brand" or "style," as the case may be, except upon foods pro duced or manufactured in the place, state, territory, or country named. For instance, "Virginia ham" must be marked "Virginia style of ham;" "En glish brawn" must be "English style brawn;" "Westphalia ham" must be "Westphalia style ham." The word "ham" without a prefix indicating the species of animal is considered by the department to be a pork ham, but trimmings removed from the ham and used in the preparation of potted meats or sausage, or when used alone, may be known as "potted ham," or "ham sausage." Frankfurter sausage no longer can be known as such, but must be called "Frankfurter style sausage." The rules clearly describe what con stitutes pure lard, but prescribe that a substance composed of lard, starin or other animal fat and vegetable oil may be labeled "lard compound." Among the restrictions are the fol lowing: "Picnic hams" cannot be called "hams," but may be called "picnics" or "picnic shoulders;" "little pig saus age" may be called "little pork shoul ders." Extract of beef must be actu ally made from beef and veal loaf cannot be called such unless the meat used is veal only. The same rules apply to other canned products, and manufacturers are warned that the rulings do not ex empt them from the enforcement of state laws. COOLIE LABOR FOR THE CANAL Bids for Furnishing It Are Submitted to the Isthmian Canal Commission. Washington, D. C.—-Proposals were submitted to the isthmian canal ] commission Thursday for the furnish ing of Chinese labor to be employed in the construction of the Panama canal. The requirements of the spe cifications were, in brief, that the con tractors should agree to supply the commission with at least 2,500 Chi nese. the commission having the privilege of calling upon the success ful contractor for additional laborers not, exceeding 15,000. It further was specified that the laborers should be on the isthmus ready for work within three and a half months of the open ing of the proposals and that the con tractors should deposit with their proposals a bond of $50,000 as a guar antee to faithfully carry out the terms of the contract. While the commission has been in communication with about 350 indi viduals and corporations who had sig nified a possible desire to submit pro posals, only four propositions finally were offered to the commission. In the presence of the contractors and others interested, the propositions were opened in the room of the com mission by Leon Pepperman, assist ant. chief of the office of administra tion of the isthmian commission. At the conclusion of the reading of j the proposals Mr. Pepperman an nounced that no award would be made of the contract until the proposals had been examined by the commission and its counsel. The proposals were made for the furnishing of different classes of labor at a price fixed by the hour in American gold. A sample of the proposals submit ted follows: Common laborers 10 cents per hour; foremen and inter preters 20 cents per hour; physicians 40 cents per hour; cooks and barbers 15 cents per hour. Doctors Come to Patrick's Aid. Albany, N. Y.—Scoffing at the value of "expert" testimony ren dered for pay in criminal cases 3,600 physicians in 551 cities of this state have sent a petition asking Gov. Ilig gins to reopen the case of Albert T. Patrick, under sentence of death since 1901 for the murder of the aged mil lionaire, William Marsh llice. The petitioners say the testimony of ex perts is greatly at variance. They ask the governor to appoint a commis sion of disinterested experts to ex amine into the facts and make an early report, thus avoiding mistake in executing Patrick. Corpses are Under the Wreck. London, Eng. Twelve persons are known to be dead and 17 were in jured in the wreck of the Scotch ex press on the Great Northern railway at Grantham early Thursday morning, but it was stated late last night that there are other bodies under the wreck, which has not been cleared. Congressman Hitt Dies. Naragansett Pier, R. f.—Congress man Robert R. Hitt, of Illi nois, died at his summer home here Thursday. Congressman Hitt came here last June and since that time he has been very ill, requiring the con stant attention of nurses and physi cians. His age was 72 years. He had served 13 terms in congress. Ashore on Trial Island. Victoria, B. C. —-The steamer City of Seattle, from Seattle for Alaska, is ashore on Trial Island, held fast broadside to tlie shore. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1906. "All's Well!" "All's well!" the sentry railed by night— "All's well!" the echo spoil Prom out the mountain girded vale To ramp (Ire's ruddy red. "All's well!" The sentry paced his beat With sturdy step and true: From guard to guard with measured tread He strode his vigil through. And all the night when darkness reigned He dreamed of one he knew W as loyal In her love for him Of one whose eyes were blue! And as he dreamed he threw erect His shoulders, broad anil strong, And vowed to do and die for her Against the cause of wrong! War knew no dangers he would shirk, No fears to pall his heart, For her he loved, the girl back home, He vowed the hero's part. In nestling cot among the hills, A maiden knelt alone And prayed the God above to bring Her lover safely home. Next Any the Battle God went mad With blood that vied the sun, And when the roll was called at night The iover's race was run. He died in arms, a hero's death. His wounds were all In front; When turned the tide to victory. He stood the raging brunt! The,maid he loved, the Rlrl back home, Is waiting still for him; A woman gray she waits the call Of Death, the reaper grim: "All's well I" And when the cry rings out. She. smilingly, will nod And goto meet her hero there Where "All Is well!" with God! Mere Man. Adversity has made many a general. The best a man can do Is all that's in him. Never say fail. Leave that to your friends. The man that climbs high must mind his hold. The alarm clock has tost many a man a fortune. Some men's morals descend as their fortune ascends. The golden rule some men live by Is merely plated. The man behind the snow shovel has no hay fever. It upsets a man terribly to lose his balance at the bank'. No man is absent-minded enough to forget togo to his own funeral. Many a man has set up the drinks to be up set, in turn, by the drinks. It isn't so much where a man parti his hair as what he has under the part. The Diogenes of to-day, hunting for an honest man, would have his lantern stolen. Money was made to be subservient, toman. To-day man is subservient to money. Many men believe honesty pays in the long run, but they are too fat to run long. When a man talks of his own hon esty we begin slyly to hide our edi torial scissors. Many a man might have been saved from being an anarchist by a liberal dose of physic. It is more to a man's credit that he make his own name than to depend on his ancestors for it. It being the custom to pension he roes, why not provide for the man who pays his taxes? When a man cannot make a living at anything else, it is never too late to start a newspaper. The way to the stars is upward. The man makes no mistake whose am bitions lead him the same way. A man seldom puzzles himself long over the problem of whether he should stay at home and mow the lawn or go to the suburbs and play golf. No man ever started a chain scheme that carried as far and as rapidly as that secret he told a dear friend who promised not to tell. Man and the Pool. Oh, Eternity's Realm is a mirrored lake And the lives of her men are the rings they make. See! a stone is thrown out by a careless hand And the rings are expanding toward the land. How they grow, and they grow, and then fade from sight On Eternity's lake in the endless night! Ah, the pool It is still 'neath the sap phire sky And the life of a man is no more for aye! Joy in Your Heart. Jest hum a chune as yer pluggin' along; Joy in yer heart as ye carol yer song! Sobs only jiggle de load on -yer back! Doan help ter lighten de weight o' yer pack. No sense ter pine er be downcast 'ith woe; All folks's got they's own ga'den ter ho#' Koll up yo' eyes at de heaven o' blue— This am de glory fer me and fer you! The Age of Machinery. We live in the age of machinery. The thinking, directing mind becomes daily of more account, while mere brawn talis correspondingly in value from clay today. That eccentric phil osopher, Elbert Hubbard, says in one of his essays, "where a machine will do better work than the human hand, we prefer to let the machine do the work." It has been but a few years since the cotton gin, the "spinning Jenny" and the power loom displaced the hand picker, the spinning wheel and the hand loom; since the reaper and binder, the lake and tedder, the mow ing machine took the place of the old cradle, scythe, pitchfork and hand rake; since the friction match su perseded the flint and tinder; since the modern paint factory replaced the slab and muller, the paint pot and paddle. In every case where machinery has been introduced to replace hand labor, the laborers have resisted the change; and as the weavers, the sempstresses and the farm laborers protested against new-fangled looms, sewing ma chines and agricultural implements, so in recent times compositors have protested against type-setting ma chines, glass blowers against bottle blowing machines, and painters against ready mixed paints. And as in the case of these short-sighted classes of an earlier day, so with their imitators of to-day, the protest will be in vain. It is a protest against civ ilization, against the common weal, against their own welfare. The history of all mechanical im provements shows that workmen are the first to be benefited by them. The invention of the sewing machine, instead of throwing thousands of wom en out of employment, increased the demand to such an extent that thou sands of women have been employed, at better wages, for shorter hours and easier work where hundreds before worked in laborious misery to eke out a pitiable existence. It was so with spinning and weaving n chin ery, with agricultural implements—in fact, it is so with every notable im provement. The multiplication of books in the last decade is a direct result of the invention of linotype machinery and fast presses. The mixed paint industry, in which carefully designed paints for house painting are prepared on a large scale by special machinery, is another im provement of the same type. The cheapness and general excellence of these products has so stimulated the consumption of paint that the de mand for the services of painters has correspondingly multiplied. Ilefore the advent of these goods a well-paint ed house was noticeable from its rarity, whereas to-day an ill-painted house is conspicuous. Nevertheless, the painters, as a rule, following the example set by the weavers, the sempstresses and the farm laborers of old, almost to a man, oppose the improvement. It is a real improvement, however, and simply be cause of that fact the sale of such products has increased until during the present year It will fall not far short of 90,000,000 or 100,000,000 gal lons. Hindsight is always better than foresight, and most ot' 11s who deplore the short-sightedness of our ancestors would do well to see that, we do not in turn furnish "terrible examples" to our posterity. Cure for Whooping Cough. Irwin. Pa. —The "mine cure" for whooping cough among small children Is attracting attention in this section, where the disease is almost epidemic. In one case a Jeannette father daily takes his ten-months-old baby girl down into the Penn mine. He re mains half an hour, comes to the sur face for the same space of time, and again goes down and remains another half hour. This will be repeated daily for two weeks. The child has a se vere case, and from a fit of cough ing goes into spasms. A Pittsburg physician recommended the "mine cure" as the only profitable relief, From Clyde Fitch's Scrapbook. Clyde Fitch, at a dinner that he gave in honor of a noted dramatic critic, read from his library of scrap books a western criticism on Hamlet. The criticism, which was dated 187:3, ran: "There is too much chinning in this piece. The author is behind the times, and seems to forget that what wa want nowadays is hair raising situa tions and detectives. "In the hands of a skillful play wright a detective would have been put upon the track of Hamlet's uncle, and the old man would have been hunted down in a manner that would have lifted the audience out of their cowhides. "The moral of the piece is not good. The scene where Hamlet sasses his mother is a bad example to the rising generation. "Our advice to the author is more action, more love-making, and plenty of specialties. The crazy girl scene should be cut out altogether and a rat tling good song and dance substitut ed." Pension Head Works Saving. Washington.—Commissioner of Pen sions Warner has worked economies in the service which have saved the government $201,346 during the last fiscal year. He has reduced the ex penses of the bureau $92,552, has cut the expenses of special examiners $60,- 398, of examining surgeons $:i0,000, has made a saving in salaries and clerk hire at agencies of $7,242, in rents and contingent expenses of agencies, $8,654, and in the examina tion of pension agents has saved |2,500. Wheat in Western Canad r A Good Crop of Excellent Quality Has Be' Raised This Year. The grain crops estimates from the Canadian West make a »-pnwo 0 f from 87,000,000 to 115,000,000 .s, and an accurate statement will be some where between these figures—prob ably not far from 90,000,000 bushels. This year a larger acreage was sown, estimated at an Increase of from 18 to 20 per cent., and had the average yield of last year been maintained, the aggregate would assuredly have gone considerably beyond the 100,000,- 000 bushel mark. The exceptionally large influx of settlers was responsible to a considerable extent for much of the Increased area, and, there can be no doubt. Is also responsible for a part of the decreased average yield. The first crop raised by the new set tler —often unacquainted with the conditions of western agriculture—is not usually prolific, and 1905-06 placed a very large number of amateur farm ers behind the stilts of the plow; but they will learn, and learn fast, and with another season or two will help to raise the average instead of de pressing it. Of the estimates to hand, that of the Northwest Grain Dealers' asso ciation is the lowest: Wheat, 87,203,- 000 bushels; oats, 75,725,600 bushels, and barley, 16,980,600 bushels. The Winnipeg Free Press sent out five special correspondent!, who returned -^w— Wheat and Oat Farms, Elbow Valley, Twelve Miles West of Calg? after 20 days with a somewhat better report and gave reasons for the faith that was in them. They had traveled all through the spring wheat district; had driven 1,400 miles through the grain country, besides traveling thou sands of miles by rail; and they had visited 93 localities and knew where of they spoke. They reported: Wheat, 90,250,000 bushels, on 4,750,000 acres, with an average yield of 19 bushels per acre. The western division of the Bank of Commerce also investi gated with the following result; Alberta. Yield. Acres, per acre. Bushels. Whe.lt 141,421 20 2,525,420 Bailey ".">,(,78 30 2,270,340 Oats 322,923 40 12,916,920 540,022 18,015,650 Saskatchewan. Wheat 1,331,649 22 29,296,278 Barley 41,273 30 1.235.190 Ottts 542,483 40 21,699,320 1,915,405 52.233,758 Manitoba. Wheat 3,141,537 1 9 r,9,689,203 Barley 474,242 30 14,227,260 Oats 1,155,961 40 46,238,140 4,771,710 120,154.903 Total. Bushels. Wheat 91.813,900 Oats 50.854.650 Barley 17.735,790 All of which goes to show that a wheat crop of nearly if not fully 90,- 000,000 bushels may be safely counted A Still Better Outfit Seven Miles West of Morden. upon. This is less than was looked for by some enthusiastic western peo ple, who maintained that increased acreage necessarily meant an in creased aggregate. Still, 90,000,000 bushels of wheat Is 6,000,000 better than what was looked upon last year as a good crop, and we do not think Western Canada has much cause to feel down In the mouth because the acme of its anticipations on the wheat crop may not have been realized. Taking one year with another, that country has demonstrated that it can be depended upon as a great wheat growing territory, and has to be reck oned with in the markets of the world. The yield in oats has been In creased this year by nearly 1,500,000 bushels, the aggregate estimate being 75,725.600, with the average at 41.2 bushels to the acre. The estimated crop of barley is placed at 16,980,600 bushels, which is a slight increase over the total of last year. Of flax the estimate given is 690,184 bushels, which is a material increase upon last year's figures. Following are the figures in detail for wheat, oats, and barley in West ern Canada for the three years la3t past: 1903. Wheat. Oats. Barley. Manitoba 40.116,87S 35.035J74 8,707.2r,2 Saskatchewan .15,121,015 9,164,007 665,593 Alberta 1,118,180 5,187,511 1,077.274 "56,356,071 47,387,292 10,450.119. 1904. Manitoba 59,1<!2,458 86,289,179 IL.I Saskatchewan ,15.!M4,730 10,756,350 112 i Alberta 786,075 6,000,496 1,0 55,893,268 62,655,125 18,3t 1905. I Manitoba 95,761,416 46,484,025 14,fr Saskatchewan .26,107,286 19,213,056 fi Alberta 2,297,524 9,614,180 I,* 84,166,226 74,111.260 16,' This year, the lowest returns, a have stated, are estimated at: "W> i 87,203,000 bushels; oats, 75,725/ and barley at 16,980,600 bushels, w' is very satisfactory. If not absol satisfying. To better appreciate fact, all that Is necessary to do go back 25 years in ihe historj Western Canada. At that time ' agricultural product of the w. country was confined to Manit' and consisted of 1,00 D,OOO bushel' wheat, on an acreage of 51,300 1,270,268 bushels of oats. The 112 crop was at that time require i local purposes, and the export • was an unknown quantity. T. allowing nearly 20,000,000 bush wheat for local consumption aniri ing, there will be about 70,0(i bushels for export, which at 70 i per bushel will bring In outside J" to the extent of nearly $50,0 The barley and oats exported good for an additional $25,000,00 the combined amounts, togeth that received from dairying a er sources, are bound to make' cial conditions very easy in th«j dian West until the next harvf, tures. In the last week of August i of inspection was made along tt of railway in the wheat area I Northwest Grain Dealers' assoi and a number of American grs perts. What they saw con them that not only was the < good average one, but the qua the grain grown was admitte the best quality, and more ths of the visitors stated that al the yield might luve boen larg quality could hardly have be proved. Speaking on this poi' J. F. Whalley, the well-knowr man of Minneapolis, said: "The quality of the crop i lent, and I think the average) No. 1 Northern. I was up t grain men two yaars ago, ai ( very much struck with the i, ment that has taken place y two years. The growth is t' marvelous; there is not a bett' try in the world than the Northwest." ) The past few years, in whi culture has been carried onr great extent, have brought t j lem of transportation very i ly to the front, and there is development in Manitoba, I 1 wan, Alberta and British '' Such as has never be ! anywhere. There are a i over 6,000 miles of rti operation in that coi j| a conservative calculate... lines now in course of ©" places the extent at 5,000 miles; a large portion of d be completed during the p: ( This means the opening \?' e siderably increased agricu'V and there is every reason ! that in a very few years u tural wealth of the coun developed to such an extf, stead of "A Hundred Mil Crop" It will not be out ' refer to the crop as "500,0t ( els of wheat for export." look like drawing the long present time, but, in the li-J has been done by Westi; in the past five or ten ; Jt is no limit that can be i what may be done in the years immediately in fron lusty young giant of the \Y An Odious Comparh "Doesn't Scrubbly look cl that magnificent, well-dres; his?" "I should say so! He l ( bar-tender's shirt-stud besic i-noor." —Judge. 3
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