PLAIN TALK By the President at a Dedication Ceremony. AT lIARRISBURG. American Civilization Must Not be that of a Plutocracy Controlled by Wall Street Syndicates. Harrisburg, Pa.—President Roose velt made a flying trip to Harris burg and York on Thursday and in «ach city he made a speech in the rain. At both places he wore a rain coat and rubbers while speaking, to protect him from the storm. The j president returned to the national j •capital last evening. At Harrisburg the president deliv- j ■ered the oration at the dedication of i the beautiful new state capltol, which has just been completed at a cost of $13,000,000 to take the place of the old •state house destroyed by fire in 1897. After his speech there and a hurried inspection of the capitol, the president and other distinguished guests were ■entertained by Gov. Pennypacker at luncheon at the executive mansion. Here are some points from Presi dent Roosevelt's address at Harris burg: "It has become increasingly evident that we need to increase the powers of the federal government. "It is our clear duty to see, in the interest of the people, that there is adequate supervision and control over the business use of the swollen for tunes of*o-day, and also wisely to de termine the conditions upon which these fortunes are to be transmitted and the percentage that they shall pay to the government whose protect ing arm alone enables them to exist. "The government ought not to con duct the business of the country; but it ought to regulate it so that It shall be conducted in the interest of the people. "It behooves us Americans to look ahead and plan out the right kind of •civilization. It must not be, it shall not be, the civilization of a mere plu tocracy, a banking house, Wall street syndicate civilization; nor yet can there be submission to class hatred, to rancor, brutality and mob violence, for that would meamthe end of all civilization." w TRAINS MET ON A CURVE. Five Lives Lost in a Collision at Lansingburgh, N. Y. Lansingburgh, N. Y.—Five, passen gers were killed outright and a score were injured in a rear-end colli sion between a regular passenger train and a military special on the Boston & Maine railroad, directly in front of the Lansingburgh depot, north of Troy, about 5 p. m. Thursday. The are: F. L. Block, Peoria, 111. Mrs. Wallace E. Shaw, Rath, Me. Mrs. Stevens, Boston. Mrs. J. W. Dacey, Arlington, Mass. Mrs. H. S. Poole, Concord, N. H. The collision took place on a heavy grade and sharp curve. The passenger train was one that leaves Boston daily at 9:30 a. m.for Albany. It consisted of five cars, a baggage car, smoker, day coach and two parlor cars, and was about one hour late when it reached Lansing burgh station, waiting there for a chance to get into the Troy depot. Without any warning the special came thundering along with IS cars and crashed into the passenger train, smashing the last two cars, which were Pullmans, like eggshells. The special was drawing four troops >of the Fourteenth United States cav alry from Fort Ethan Allen to New port News, where they are to embark for Cuba. A MINE HORROR. An Explosion in a Mine at Pocahon tas, Va., Results in the Death of Many Workmen. Pocahontas, Va. —Nineteen known dead and from 30 to 40 more men entombed and doubtless all dead was the situation up to a late hour last night at the West Park mines of the Pocahontas Collieries Co., where the explosion occurred late Wednes day afternoon. The bodies of 16 men were recover ed from the mines as the result of the heroic work of a band of 35 men con stituting a rescuing party that worked incessantly all Wednesday night and Thursday. It was not until 7:30 o'clock last evening that the rescuers reached a point nearest Paul entry, where the explosion occurred. The work of rescue was very slow, as the conditions confronting the party were difficult to surmount. The authorities anticipated the fear* ful extent of the casualties by order ing a carload of coffins and burial sup plies which are now on the way. Moran Is Nominated for Governor. Boston, Mass. —A new era for® the Massachusetts democracy was inaug urated Thursday by the state conven tion of that party when John B. Mo ran, district attorney for Suffolk county, who was already the nominee of the prohibition party and the Inde pendence league, was nominated for governor by acclamation. Terrorists Stole $3,000. Warsaw. —The paymaster of the Vienna railroad was robbed of $3,- ■©oo Thursday by a band of terrorists. ■The robbers escaped. BIG DEAL IN ORE LANDS. The Steel Trust Leases the Hill Properties In the Northwest. New York. —The terms of the lease of the Hill ore properties in the northwest to the companies con trolled by the United States Steel Corporation were announced Friday by E. H. Gary, chairman of the board of directors of the corporation. The terms are based on a system of royal ties and give no indication of the amount of ore to be taken out of the lands except to show that it is expect ed to be many millions of tons. The price to be paid for the first year of the lease is $1.65 per ton de livered at upper lake ports, but this price is to bo increased three-quarters of a cent per ton in each succeeding year until the ore lands are exhaust ed. It is provided also that the Uni ted States Steel Corporation must take at least 750,000 tons in 1907 and Increase the amount mined by 750,000 tons a year for 11 years until the amount mined annually has reached 8,250,000 tons, at which rate it must continue to take out the ore annually until it is exhausted. The final agreement was reached at a conference in the office of J. P. Mor gan & Co. The magnitude of this transaction and its effect on the properties con cerned as well as upon the iron and steel trade of the country is indicated by the fact that the Hill properties have been estimated to contain from 400,000,000 to 700,000,000 tons of ore. The properties included in this trans action are said to be second in Impor tance and extent only to the Lake Su perior iron mines already controlled by the United States Steel Corpora tion. and it is said that this deal will furnish the steel corporation with a supply of ore for the next 50 years. EIGHT MEN KILLED. A Terrific Explosion of Gas in a Sub way at Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa. —Eight men were killed and nearly 40 persons were injured Friday by an explosion of illuminating gas in the Market street subway at Sixth street. High buildings were shaken by the force of the explosion and for a block on either side of the scene of the explo sion nearly every window was shat tered. The street caved in, halting traffic and resulting in a suspension of business. Fire followed the explo. sion, but it did no damage to, neigh boring buildings. The loss, it is be lieved, will exceed $300,000. The subway is In course of con struction by the Millard Construction Co. for the Philadelphia Rapid Tran sit Co. The exact cause of the explo sion has not yet been determined. On Thursday workmen in the exca vation discerned the odor of gas and the United Gas Improvement Co., whtfse conduits run through the tun nel, was notified. Leans was sent by the company to find the leak and re pair it. It was while he was making his investigation that the explosion occurred. DUN'S REVIEW. Fail Trade Is Now in Full Swing— Great Activity in Iron and Steel. New York.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: No unfavorable developments have appeared except the.damage by storm in the south, which was almost en tirely local in effect. Autumn trade is now in full swing, especial activity being reported in dry goods, millinery and footwear. Manufacturing plants are engaged far in advance in all the leading in dustries, the metal departments mak ing the most striking exhibits and the activity of transporters is shown by railway earnings in September 9.2 per cent, larger than last year's fig ures. Practically all the pig iron furnaces are now in blast and work will soon be started on many <iew plants of the open hearth variety. Any decrease in demand for structural steel for build ings on account of the approach of winter is more than offset by the urgent needs of car works, which are falling further behind with deliveries. Commercial failures this week in the United States are 183, against 195 the corresponding week last year. DEADLY TORNADOES. Six Persons Killed and Nine Fatally Injured by Storms in Louisiana. New Orleans, La. —This region was on Friday the center of cyclonic disturbances, at least three of which were tornadoes and caused the loss of six lives, with nine persons fatally injured. About daylight heavy storms broke through the country within 100 miles west, north and east of New Orleans. Reports of sugar cane and cotton crops blown down or sugar mills demolished are coming in from this entire section. The damage, in cluding that done in New Orleans, is placed at over $1,000,000. The worst tornado was north of New Orleans, where it devastated portions of three parishes. New Orleans was visited by another tornado, and another passed northward of Biloxi, on the gulf coast. Must Produce Their Books. Montpelier, Vt. —A bill compell ing all corporations to produce their books upon the request of a grand jury or other proper authority was passed by both branches of the Vermont legislature Friday and will goto Gov. Proctor. A Terribly Fatal Explosion. Raton, N. M.—Fifteen men are supposed to have lost their lives in an explosion Friday in the Dutch man coal mine at Blossburg, a small camp five miles from Raton. Three bodies have been recovered. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1906. PAYING CANAL LABORERS. DIFFICULT TASK HAS FINALLY BEEN PERFECTED. Thirty Thousand Employes on Panama Waterway Work Who Receive $1,000,000 Every Month —Of- ficial Who Handles Funds. Panama. —There has been much said »nd written about the pay department Df the Isthmian canal commission, but now the system is almost perfect. In the early days of the work, when navy methods prevailed, the delay with which pay periods were met was one of the greatest causes of dissatisfac tion. Sometimes a.whole month would go by without a pay period, and actual suffering among the canal employes frequently resulted. It has been a dif ficult matter to surround the payment of nearly 30,000 men, taking the vast 3um of $1,000,000 monthly, with the safeguards demanded by the United States government and to give to the labor that great necessity—payment »112 wages. It has also been difficult to adjust the methods of corporations with the precedent regulated system of paying required by the bureau at Washington, 'out it has been done. The employes of the Isthmian canal sommission are to-day paid with more regularity and at an earlier time after pay periods than United States gov ernment employes In any part of the world, and. what Is more cfeditable, the laborer is paid earlier after earn ing than the workmen of any big rail road system in the United States. In the selection of E. J. Williams as dis bursing officer Chairman Shonts had the pick of a host of men, and the result shows that he made no mistake. In addition to handling the vast sums of money used In paying the men Mr. Williams Is local auditor and treasurer of the canal zone funds. All of the handling of the money Is done by three paymasters and five pay clerks. There Is also a cashier, who, under the disbursing officer, has con trol of the paying. The day laborers are paid every 15 days, with Panama silver, the weight and bulk of which add materially to the work. At points where the pay car is not required the payments are made within three days from the middle and end of the month. The pay car belongs to the Panama INTERESTING EGYPTIAN FIND. Statue of Ancient Goddess Discovered Undisturbed in Shrine. London. —One of the most striking discoveries that has ever been made In the history of Egyptian exploration has just been made at Deirel-Bahrl by Statue of Amenhetep. the Egyptian Exploration Fund. The digging in thifi particular district had fceen under the immediate superin tendence of 'Or. E. Naville, and it is owing to his endeavors that the unique statue of an Egyptian goddess has been found undisturbed in her sanctuary. Deir-el-Uahri, where the statue was found, is in the neighbor hood of Thebes, the famous historic site of middle Egypt. To the west DISPENSES JUSTICE AT 91. P.oston, —What do you think of a judge who defies time and sits on the bench and actively dispenses justice when he has passed his 91st birth day? That is Justice Charles Field, one of the kindliest of gentlemen, who is JUDGE CHARLES FIELD. (Although Near Century Mark He Is Still In Good Condition.) on the bench at Athol, Mass. He was a presidential elector in the time of Lincoln. Recently he disposed of three cases In one morning, then went to G&rd- railroad, and Is used first to pay the railroad laborers. After that it is turned over to the canal pay force, and within from 12 to 15 days from the pay period all of the men have received their money. When the canal gets its own pay car the time will be short ened by half. In the United States the pay car gets around 15 to 25 days after the pay period. The four canal clerks and other "gold rate" men are paid promptly on the first of the month. The timekeeping system Is elab oiate, but effective. Each big division allots one tiinekeepy to the dlsburs- E. J. WILLIAMS. (Official Who Put Canal Zone Pay Scheme Into Effect.) ing office. The original time is taken by the foreman of each 50 men. Each man is numbered and i 3 represented by three cards in the possession of the foreman. Foremen turn their time books over to a timekeeper, who makes up a time sheet, which he sends to the chief timekeeper of the division, who in turn makes out the pay roll. The time book turned in by the foreman, the time sheet and the pay roll, vision chief, are all sent to the local auditor's office, where they are care fully checked by a corps of expert nlerks. The three evidences of earn ing are then turned over to the di vision known as the personal corps, where they are again checked from an indtex card system, thua eliminating any chance of duplication. there rises a line of hills at a short distance from the banks of the Nile; it is in this low line of hills that the unique discovery has been made. After the removal of a few stoaes a complete and undamaged chapel was discovered, the roof of which was vaulted and painted blue, and dusted over this blue ground were numbers of yellow stars. Inside this miniature temple stood the undamaged presen tation of the goddess. Hathor, who was represented as a beatlful cow just stepping between a conventional group of lotus stems. So lifelike was the representation of the cow that the goddess seemed to be actually emerging from the chapel at the moment that the dis coverers had removed the stones which had hidden the entrance since the days when the eleventh dynasty reigned in Egypt. The figure of the cow goddess is executed life-size in painted limestone, the bjdy being a reddish-brown with black spots; the head, horns and part of the body had been gilded. The walls of the little sanctuary are covered with bas re liefs of Thothmes 111., which are ex pected to reveal many aspects of the Hathor cult which have been previ ously unknown, and behind the head of the statue is the cartouche of Amenhepte 11., the son of Thothmes 111. So priceless was the discovery that Dr. Naville at once communicated with the Egyptian government, who proceeded to effectually guard it be fore removal to the Ghi.:eli museum at Cairo. The sacred ccw has been declared by many critics to be the most perfect specimen oi animal life on modern or ancient sculpture. ner, 13 miles away, and disposed of eight cases. He walked a mile from the courtroom to the railroad station. His figure is erect and his step firm. His regular bill of fare is some thing like this: Morning, oatmeal and rich milk, the oatmeal being cooked for at least eight hours; at noon, beef steak, roast mutton or roa3t lamb, with a single hot, mealy baked potato, no other vegetables; at night, a sim ple gruel made from an Infant's food. "This rigid care in regard to diet seems to bo necessary to keep in good working order, and I much pre fer to forego the pleasures of the ta ble in order to keep the bodily pow ers in excellent working condition. Formerly I drank strong coffee, but now drink no coffee at all. Through out my life I have made it a point to get great abundance of outdoor ex ercise. I have always walked a great deal, and played outdoor games." Desert Air Beneficial. A physician has discovered that the air of the Egyptian desert is about as free from bacterial life as the Polar regions or the high seas. He consid ers the desert would prove an excel lent place for people suffering from rheumatism or consumption to take up their abode. Serum for Whooping Cough. Dr. Bordet, chief physiclap at the Brabant Pasteur institute, has in formed the Belgian academy that he has positively discovered a mum to prevent whooping cough m* fc&j i IBalcom & Lloyd, j WE have the best stocked rjli general store in the couDty | and if you are looking for re- fir liable goods at reasonable * 9 prices, we are ready to serve yon with the best to be found. *f Our reputation for trust- 1 HI worthy goods and fair dealing 1* p is too well known Jto sell any p yj but high grade goods. j| I | j| Our stock of Queensware and gl |j Ohinaware is selected with H great, care and we have some L p of the most handsome dishes H g ever shown in this section, U B both in imported and domestic B |j makes. We invite you to visit *| ffl us and look our goods over. n p I I I Balcom & Lloyd. 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