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The Job department of the Piisos Is complete •nd afford . facilities for doing tho best class of worh. P aiiticue.au attention paidto Law Printing. No papsr will be discontinued until arrear- Kes are paid, except at the option of tho pub he-. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. The apple crop of the United States Is figured at 36,000,000 barrels this year. But you will not suspect it if you goto the market to buy a peck. One of Washington's body servants died at Alexandria, Va., a few days ago. As the years go by the fact is im pressed upon us more and more that the list ,of Washington's body serv ants was very large. The dusky warriors of Somaliland, Central Africa, when engaged in war fare, exist entirely on a species of nut, about twice tho size of a walnut. Ttw.nty of them are a day a rations for a warrior, and he eats them boiled. A floating theater is in course of construction for service on the Rhine. A seating capacity of 2,500 is to be ; provided, and one of the chief attrac- ■ tions planned for this floating house j of amusement is the engagement of j an Italian opera company. It is pro- | posed to tow the novel theater from town to town. Queer things happen in the east, but even a world accustomed to oriental eccentricities was not prepared to be lieve it was really true that the sultan of Morocco has appointted Raisuli, the bandit, to the governorship of a prov ince with the rank of pasha. That was the story which came from Morocco, but a Tangier correspondent of a Co logne newspaper puts in a denial. Such an incident might suggest a plot for a comic opera. Commander Peary has the American quality of determination, at any rate. It is given out that he will make an other attempt to reach the north pole. In his last venture he went within 200 miles or less of the much-sought spot, and it is generally believed that had his dogs held out he could have suc ceeded. Perhaps next time he will take all the dogs that can be utilized, j either as draught animals or for food, j The advantage of the arctic canine is that lie can be used either way. Caliph, the hippopotamus in the New York Central park zoo, was recently j moved to winter quarters in the lion j house, and has been sick ever since j he has been living indoors. His keep er diagnosed it as acute idigestion, and Caliph received medical treatment in the shape of a bucket of castor oil. Like 9!) per cent, of humanity. Caliph has an aversion to castor oil. A wedge of wood to pry open Caliph's mouth and a hand force pump overcame his j aversion, and, before the crowd that S filled the lion house, Head I Keeper Snyder pumped in a whole bucketful of castor oil. The president of Bryn Mawr college. Miss Thomas, says she places the hazer on the same plane with the per son who hurts birds, tortures kittens or teases a baby. In welcoming the incoming class of 120 girls she said that the college had been free of those rougher forms of hazing which, unfor tunately, had existed in sister colleges, such as putting the girls under the pump, standing on their heads and tearing off their clothes. Hut that these crude forms of hazing exist among the young lady students of America will surprise many. They should take lessons from West Point of the past or the Harvard of the pres ent. There is a curious old market near Paris in which everything is sold at second-hand. Working girls can fit themselves out there from head to foot. As a writer says: "Mary can sell her old felt hat and buy a straw tne, exchange her old dress for a new one, and if she likes, buy a steak and a salad for her dinner, a paper bag of fried potatoes, sweets, and some flow ers for her window. Democracy i? king here, and no more attention l's paid to the millionaire who is looking for something marvelous, which he may pick up cheap, than to the man wilii the wooden leg who wants a new left boot in exchange for a dozen sar dine tins, line gloves and a stocking.' An Indiana man has grown a fine crop of hair on a head that had been bald for 20 years by merely going about last, summer without a bat. It must have been the psychologolicai moment, etc., with the Indiana man, for a lot of hair didn't grow on othei bald heads that were left uncovered. The production of gold in the mines of South Africa for the month of Junr was the greatest ever recorded. In the first six months of the current yeai tho production was nearly $6,000,000 greater than in the corresponding time last year. PRESIDENT TELLS - ' OF CONDITIONS . IN PORTO RICO Special Message the Re sult of Chief Execu tive's Recent Visit MUCH GOOD WORK DONE Progress Made Under American Ad ministration Is Pointed to with Pride—Last Year the Most Pros perous the Island Ever Known —Congress Urged to Confer Full American Citizenship Upon the Porto Ricans—vVould Have All In sular Governments Placed in One Bureau. Wasliington.—President Roosevelt's message, describing conditions in Por to Rico, and making recommendations for legislation he believes necessary, ■was read to the congress. It is as fol lows: To the Scaato and Houso of Represen tatives: On November 21 I visited the island «112 Porto Rico, landing at Ponce, cross ins by the old Spanish road by Caycy to San Juan, and returning next morn ing over the new American road from Arecibo to Ponce; the scenery was wonderfully beautiful, especially among the mountains of the interior, which constitute a veritable tropic Switzerland. I could not embark at San Juan because the harbor has not been dredged out and can not receive an American battleship. I do not think this fact creditable to us as a nation, and I earnestly hope that im mediate provision will be made for dredging San Juan harbor. I doubt whether our people as a whole realize the beauty and fertility of Porto Rico, and the progress that •has been made under its admirable government. We have just cause for pride in the character of our represen tatives who have administered the tropic islands which came under our flag as a result of the war with Spain; and of no one of them is this more true than of Porto Rico. It would be impossible to wish a more faithful, a more efficient and a more disinter ested public service than that now be ing rendered in the island of Porto Rico by those in control of the insular government. I stopped at a dozen towns all told, and one of the notable features in every town was the gathering of the school children. The work that has been done in Porto Rico for education has been noteworthy. The main em phasis, as is eminently wise and prop er, has been put upon primary educa tion; but in addition to this there is a normal school, and agricultural school, three industrial and three high schools. Every effort is being made to secure not only the benefits of ele mentary education to all the Porto Ricans of the next generation, but also as far as means will permit to train them so that the industrial, agri cultural and commercial opportunities of the island can be utilized to the best possible advantage. It wa3 evi dent at a glance that the teachers, both Americans and native Porto Ricans, were devoted to their work, took the greatest pride in it, and were endeavoring to train their pupils, not only in mind, but in what counts for far more than mind in citizenship, that is, in character. I was very much struck by the ex cellent character both of the insular police and of the Porto Rican regi ment. They are both of them bodies that reflect credit upon the American administration of the island. The in sular police are under the local Porto Rican government. The Porto Rican regiment of troops must be appro priated for by the congress. I earn estly hope that this body will be i<e,it permanent. There should certainly be troops in the island, and it is wise that these troops .should be themselves native Porto Ricans. It would be from every standpoint a mistake not to perpetuate this regiment. In traversing the island even the most cursory survey leaves the be holder struck with the evident rapid growth in the culture both of the su gar cane and tobacco. The fruit in dustry is also growing. Last year was the most prosperous year that the island has ever kno vn before or sines the American occupation. The total of exports and imports of the island was $45,000,000, as against $18,000,000 in 1901. This is the largest in the island's history. Prior to the Ameri can occupation the greatest trade for any one year was that of IS9G, when It reached nearly $23,000,000. Last year, therefore, there was double the trad'j that there was i" tne most prosper ous year under the Spanish regime. There were 210,273 tons of sugar ex ported last year, of the value of $14,- 186,319; $3,555,163 of tobacco, and 28,290,322 pounds of coffee of the value of $3,481,102. Unfortunately, what used to be Porto Rico's prime crop— coffoe —has not shared this prosper ity. It has never recovered from the disaster of the hurricane, and, more over, the benefit of throwing open our market to it has not compensated ic£ tUe Joss inUivtcti by tUe. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1906. the markets to It abroad. I call your attention to the accompanying memo rial on this supject of the board of trade of San Juan, and I earnestly hope that some measure will be taken for the benefit of the excellent and high grade Porto Rican coffee. In addition to delegations from the board of trade and chamber of com merce of San Juan, I also received delegations from the Porto Rican Fed eration of Labor, and from the Coffee Growers' association. There is a matter to which I wish to call your especial attention, and that is the desirability of conferring full American citizenship upon the people of Porto Rico. I most earnest ly hope that this will be done. I can not see how any harm can possibly re sult from it, and it seems to me a mat ter of right and justice to the people of Porto Rico. They are loyal, they are glad to be under our flag, they are making rapid progress along the path of orderly liberty. Surely we should show oqr appreciation of them, our pride in what they have done, and our pleasure in extending recognition for what has thus been done, by grant ing them full American citizenship. Under the wlsa administration of the present governor and council, marked progress has been made in the difficult matter of granting to the people of the island the largest measuj-e of self-gov ernment that can with safety be given at the present time. It would have been a very serious mistake to have gone any faster than we have already gone in this direction. The Porto Ricans have complete and absolute autonomy in all their municipal gov ernments, the only power over them possessed by the insular government being that of removing corrupt or in competent municipal officials. This power lias never been oxerci ~,avo on the clearest proof of corruption or of incompetence—such as to jeopar dize the interests of the people of the island; and under such circumstances it has been fearlessly used to the im mense benefit of the people. It is not a power with which it would be safe, for the sake of the island itself, to dis pense at present. The lower house is absolutely elective, while the upper house is appointive. This scheme is working well; no injustice of any kind results from it, and great benefit to the Island, and it should certainly not be changed at this time. The machin ery of the elections is administered en tirely by the Porto Rican people them selves, the governor and council keep ing only such supervision as is neces sary in order to insure an orderly elec tion. Any protest as to electoral frauds is settled in the courts. Here again it would not be safe to make any change in the present system. The elections this year were absolutely orderly, un accompanied by any disturbance; and no protest has been made against the management of the elections, although three contests are threatened where the majorities were very small and error was claimed; the contests, oi course, to be settled in the courts. In short, the governor and council are co operating with all of the most enlight ened and most patriotic of the people of Porto Rico in educating the citizens of the island in the principles of order ly liberty. They are providing a gov ernment based upon each citizen's self respect, and the mutual respect of all citizens; that is, based upon a rigid observance of the principles of justice and honesty. It has not been easy to instill into the minds of people unac customed to the exercise of freedom the two basic principles of our Ameri can system; the principle that the ma jority must rule, and the principle that the minority has lights which must not be disregarded or trampled upon. Yet real progress has been made in having these principles accepted aa elementary, as the foundations of suc cessful self-government. I transmit herewith the report of the governor of Porto Rico, sent to the president through the secretary of state. All the insular governments should be placed in one bureau, either in the department of war or the department of state. It is a mistake not so to ar range our handling of these islands at Washington as to be able to take ad vantage of the experience gained in one, when dealing with the problems that from time to time arise in an other. In conclusion let me express my ad miration for the work done by the con gress when it enacted the law under which the island is now being admin istered. After seeing the island per sonally, and after five years' experi ence in connection with its adminis tration, it is but fair to those who de vised this law to say that it would be well-nigh impossible to have devised any other which in the actual working would have accomplished better re sults. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The White House, Dec. 11, 1906. Aristocratic French Cabman. One of the vicissitudes of life has been revealed by the death of an old cabman at St. Germain-en-Laye, France. It transpires that the unfor tunateold fellow was entitled to style himself the marquis de Loz de Gouet- Gouraud. It i 3 an old Spanish peerage and in his earlier days the last unfor fortunate holder of the title had lived in circumstances befitting his rank. But the latter part of his life was clouded by constant misfortune and at last, two years ago, poverty compelled him in his old age to take to driving a cab to eke out a wretched existence. Bound to Keep Boys Busy. The Burgess Hill (England) group of council school managers, not being allowed to encourage rifle shooting among the boys, have decided to seek consent of tlie Kaat Sussex education authority to give instruction in g«x dfuinj;, . . . . . . —. COALfAMINE In the Northwest Is the Worst Ever Known. FARMERS SUEFtR, They are Burning Sheds and Out houses —Governors of States are Asked to Give Aid. Minneapolis, Minn.—With the coll i wave signal flying, the coal ; shortage in the north rest becomes | not only a cause of severe suffering, but an absolute menace to human life. Glenburn, N. D., is seriously consid ering an appeal to the governors of j North Dakota and Minnesota to em j ploy the state military in forcing the I moving of coal trains. Eveleth, Minn., I faces darkness and suffering through \ deprivation of coal and apprehensive reports come from numerous other | places. The Glenburn situation is summed up in a statement from the Glenburn Commercial club as follows: "The situation all through this sec tion is desperate and wilh the liability of blizzards at any time, many may freeze to death if fuel is not available soon. Farmers are already coming tj town with reports of burning sheds and other outhouses for fuel. We have notified the farmers that if the worst comes they can bring their families • and bedding and camp in our new brick school house. We have sufficient coal to heat the building for three 1 months at least and it will go farther in this way than it would if distribut ed among those who are out of coal, > as it would not make a bushel each. "We will also wire our senators at ; Washington asking them to intercede j with the federal government. We i cannot put our words strong enough I to convey to you the importance of getting railroads to haul special trains of coal into the section that is suffer | ing. Lignite is unavailable, as the same handicap is met there. We tele phoned the Burlington mines and ! asked if they could not let us have five cars if we sent men there to load them. They replied they were 60 cars ! or more back in orders and could not obtain cars to load. Farmers cannot i goto the mines and haul more than | 1,000 to 1,500 pounds, as roads are al most impassable." TRIAL BY COURT-MARTIAL. It Is Ordered for Two Officers Who Were in Command of Negro Troops at Brownsville, Tex. Washington, D. C.--On the rec ommendation of the general staff the I secretary of war has ordered the trial by court-martial of Maj. Charles \V. 1 Penrose and Capt. Edgar A. Macklin, of Company C, West battalion. Twenty-fifth infantry, under the 62d j article of war "for conduct to the j prejudice of good order and disci j pline," in failing in their duty in pre | venting and suppressing the riot at j Brownsville, Tex., last August. The specifications will include among other things the charge that the two officers named failed to exer cise due diligence in preventing the occurrence when the condition of af fairs at Brownsville made it neces sary that all proper precautions ; should be taken to prevent a clash j between the troops and citizens; and j also that they did not examine the I rifles of the men until daylight, al j though they learned the true state of j affairs by 1 or 2 o'clock in the morn -1 ing. A BUSINESS BULLETIN. Evidences of Prosperity are Found in Scarcity of Labor, Money and Railroad Facilities. New York.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Holiday trade monopoiizes atten tion, although there is a steady gain in distribution of winter goods as the temperature becomes more season able. Some irregularity is noted in collections, attributed to high money rates and failure to market the crops. This would make the one adverse fea ture of the commercial situation indi rectly due to the three most, striking evidences of national prosperity, scarcity of men, money and railway facilities. The inadequate supply of labor is attested by numerous increases in wages at textile mills and in many other occupations. Congress. Washington.—On the 14th the house passed the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, with an amendment increasing the salaries of the vice president, members of the cabinet and speaker of the house of representatives to $12,000 a year. The senate was not in session. Trainmen's Demands are Granted. Seranton, Pa. The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western rail road announces that the demands oi the conductors and trainmen have been satisfactorily adjusted. These employes are given liberal wage ad vances and a ten-hour day. Standard Oil Co. Advances Wages. New York.—The Standard Oil Co. announced on Friday that it will advance the wages of all of its em ployes now receiving less than s'ioo a month, by 10 per cent., beginning Janu ary 1, HE CARRIED THE SAMPLES. A certain York county preacher for a long time had been dosing himself with a fiery concoction prescribed for some stomach trouble. One day while dining at a hotel he treated himself, as usual, to the regulation heroic dose. An inquisitive Boston drummer on his right hand inquired the reason for tak ing the medicine. The preacher ex plained his stomach difficulty, and the •benefits of his treatment, and the drummer, who was himself subject to indigestion, then related his own symptoms and politely requested the privilege of trying the remedy. The sympathetic preacher freely gave him a very generous dose, which speedily took effect. As soon as the traveling man recov ered his breath and wiped his tears he thus accosted the minister: "I understand that you are a preacher?" "I am, sir." "Do you preach hell-fire?" "I do, sir." "Well, you are the first preacher that I ever • saw who carried 'round samples of it."—Boston Herald. QUITE NATURAL. The Maiden —What do you do when you fall in lovo with a girl? The Poet—l run to meter. —Phila- delphia Press. In Eagle Eye. "Your citizens don't object to big automobiles passing through this set tlement, do they?" asked the nervous chauffeur. "Wal, 1 should say not," chuckled the big mayor. "It is great sport." "Ah, 1 am glad that you think so." "Yes, we would rather shoot an au tomobile any day than we would a '•o nun on b'ar." —Chicago Daily News. His Object. "How long yer been fisliin'?" "All day." "Catch anything?" "Nope." "Any bites?" "Nope." "What yer fishin' for, then?" "Fisliin'." —Life. Asked One Favor. "I'll give you the keys to the house and show you where the valuables are kept if you will only do me one favor," she said to the burglar. "And what is that?" "Remove th~ gas meter." —Milwau- kee Sentinel. Making Up for Lost Time. "Why in the name of goodness," exclaimed his friend, "do you keep taking out your watch? Have you a train to catch?" "Eh? Oh, no!" he said. "No, the fact is I haven't seen it for a long time." Why He Invested. "I've just bought a carload uv fer tilizer," said Farmer Geehaw. "Fer th' land's sake!" exclaimed Mrs. G . "Yaas, that's what I bought it fer," replied the old granger.—Chicago Duily News. Shifted Responsibility. 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