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Th -.lob lepar'inent of the Pm:ss is complete, and i'l is facilities for doing the best class of work. ■' riooLAB ATTEMTIO.* PAII> TO Law Prints ut. No paper villbe discontinued until arrearages are paid, except at the option of the publisher. Papers seut out of the county must be» paid for I n advance. W"Ko advertisements will be accepted at less fian the price for fifteen words. ••-Religious notices free. Governor Stuart's Pension Veto. Governor Stuart has manfully faced what the legislature timidly shirked. It was not a pleasant duty for him to veto the pension bill. but it was a dutj none the less and he bravely accepted it. I'nder the shield of their collective ac tion the members of the legislature evaded their individual obligation and threw the burden on the gov ernor, but he did not hesitate to meet his personal responsibility. Some of the soldiers may be disap pointed. but we believe that all of them will respect and honor Gov ernor Stuart for obeying his sense of right. savs the Philadelphia Press. The bill was crude, raw and im possible. I'he legislature would not have passed it in its ill-consid ered form if it had not expected the governor to veto it. It voted the pensions without voting the money to pay them. It provided for the expenditure without providing the revenues to meet it. The bill could not have been allowed to be come a law without striking re morselessly at the charities, the hospitals and the asylums which are dependent 011 the state. We do not believe that the gallant soldiers who showed their heroism on the field would be content to accept this additional reward, well deserved as it may be at the ex pense of the sick, the injured, the indigent, the insane and the dying, who are the rightful care of the commonwealth. It had been said that the aggre gate expenditure of more than sr>,- 00<>,000 involved till the next ap propriation could bo reduced to $2,- 000,000 But this was impossible. This specific monthly pensions would become a charge from the momentthe law become effective, and. hether the inony available or not, the obligation would stand at its full face value, aud there could be no escape. The governor thus had only the choice between two alternatives—either to veto this bdl or to cut oil' millions from the educational and charitable in stitutions of the state. It was not an agreeable choice to make, but who that respects the soldiers will doubt that they will say he made the right decision? The veterans who fought to save the union deserve generous recog nition. The nation which they preserved has been liberal in its provision. In addition Pennsylv ania at least has done much—more, perhaps, than any other state —to show her gratitude. Up to this year she has spent 510,7<>1»,1)74.14 for the Soldiers' Orphans' schools and 81,470,840 for the Soldiers' and Sailors' home—an aggregate of $12,180,820.14, aud this expendi ture goes right on in unabated vol u.ue more than forty years after the close of the war. It is not claimed that this pro vislon discharges the debt of honor which is due to the nation's de fenders. But if a state pension is to be paid it should be arranged, not in a haphazard way which makes it impracticable, but with full consideration so that it will not nullify the other obligations of the state. There is no ease of indigestion, no matter how irritable or obstinate that will n.jt be speedily relieved by the use of Kodol. The main factor iu curing the stomach of any disorder is rest, and the only way to get rest is to actually digest (.he food for the stomach itself. Kodol will Jo it. It is a scientific preparation ol vegetable acids containig the very same juices found iu a healthy stomach. It conforms with the Pure Food and Drugs Law. Sold by It. ('. Dodson. WANTED.— An energtic man to h:.tulle Teas. Coffees, etc., in Empori um and vicinity. Apply to Grand Onion Tea Co., 96 Main street, Brad ford, Pa. 14-tf. Letter From West Virginia. J I'DY'JOX, W. VA., June 22, 190 V. ! EDITOR CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, EM PORIUM, PA. DEARSIR: Thinking tliat ;i letter with :i brief de scription of the south, or at least this section of it, would be appreciated by yourself and possibly your readers I will try. to sketch for you, in a general way, ttie characteristics, industries and j advantages of this, one of the finest timbered states in the sunny south. To one who has seen the immense forests of the north melt away before ' the axe of the pioneer and woodsman, 1 and manufactured lumber floated in countless thousands to the south and has followed the lide of northern capi tal now flowing in this country, it is interesting to see the same men who have made fortunes in the lumbering busines in the north now increasing those same fortunes by making lumber to ship back. This is a natural grazing country and to the great majority of the farmers of this section was a nuisance. As the timber was removed blue grass follow ed naturally without cultivation and many a splendid tract of pine and spruce has been cut or girdled to make additional grazing grounds. Captial ists of far seeing judgment have taken advantage of this fact and have bought small bodies of timber and combined them into larger tracks to induce men with money to build mills and railroads and rid the country of this encum brance of useless timber, and incident ally reaping rich rewards in commis sions. The writer knows of one body of timber that has been bought and sold several times by speculators, the first cost of which five years ago was one dollar an acre and farmers glad to get that much, and the last sale to the com pany now operating it was in the neighborhood of one hundred dollars per acre The timber consists mostly, of spruce, hemlock and pine but there are large tracks of poplar, basswood and hickory. Spruce and hemlock will cut from fifty to one hundred thousand to the acre, and hardwood from twelve to twenty-five thousand per acre. In traveling from Ronceverte, W, Va., to the head waters of the Green brie river, a distance of one hundred miles, the traveller may count some where about twenty .five mills, the largest of which is the property of the West Virginia Spruce Lumber Co., lo cated at Cass, in Pocahontas County. Their timber lays on Cheat Mouutaiu and will keep them busy the next twenty-five years with a mill of two hundred and fifty thousand capacity in twenty-four hours. Myself and son-in-aw, Mr. Brink, have been operating a mill successful ly for little more than a year. We are now located twelve miles north of Ranceverte, on the Greenbrier division of the C. & O. R. R., in Greenbrier County, W. Va. Our timber being nearly all hardwood. We expect and hope that one of us will be a caller at your office sometime in the near future. We have among our employees sev eral nieu well known in Cameron county. Mr. J. C. Skillman, is our woods superintendent, and H. E. Geswender our scaler. Also many others from that vicinity are working in various capacities in this locality. And in what ever direction one may travel it is the same—a mill at every stop and stations from three to five miles apart. The writer of course only speaks of the section where he has lived for two years, comprising Pocahontas, Green brier and Randolph counties, but it is safe to presume that the same condi tions exist throughout the state. Any sketch of this kind would be in complete without some reference to the people and surroundings. They are general, more inclined to be indolent than their northern brother, and per haps pay more attention to the Bible injunction to "cake no thought for the morrow." Southern hospitality has been the theme of song and story, and to my knowledge has never been exag gerated. They expect, as a matter of course, that the chance passer by will join them if it be any where near meal time and even in backwoods homce there would be no difficulty in satisfy ing the wants of an epicure. Payment for a chance meal is not expected and and offer to pay would be an affront to any southern gentleman. Their great lack is schools and bright children grow up without even the ability to read and write who are other wise cultured and chivalrous. It ia al most an unheard of thing for a man to be seen in the garden or taking care of the dairy, the women always doing the milking, and the cows here would be as much surprised and frightened at a man's approach as a well bred north ern cow would be at the flutter of a woman's apron. The climate here is fine and the sea sons are governedmore by altitude than latitude. The people arc healthy, and the only deaths are the doctors, and they die of starvation, unless they devote the most of their time to farming, in which ease they are all right, for the soil is very fertile and productive, all vegetation i CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1907. being hardy and luxuriant. In one ' case where we drove posts and built a \ wire fence around our garden we were i compelled inside of two weeks to put | additional wires around tho bottom to keep out the neighboring cattle, and will soon have to repeat the dose. Some of these stories may be a little 1 large but the writer very carelessly dropped this letter on the ground. He i tried to get all the soil oIT lest there be postage due when it reached its desti j nation, which would be the case unless | there was a like amount rubbed on the ' stamp. With best wishes lam Yours very truly, J. F. RHODES. WASHINGTON LETTER. [From our Kejfiilar Correspondent. Washington, June 'J'Jnd, 1007. It appears that the United States has | for a loug time been armed for a tariff I war without any additional legislation. But this fact was only recently brought to light by digging up an old statute that had never been enforced. This law has been brought into play already in the tariff dispute with France, and | it is likely to settle the question witli j out much further discussion. It will be j available for use with any other conn try that chooses to take tariff issue with i us, and may thus be rated as a valuable ! discovery. It is an old law under the meat in ! spection act of 1890, and provides that | the President in case any product of | the United States is discriminated j against by a foreign power may select ; such products of said foreign power as ! seem desirable and prohibit their im j portation is affective from the time of ! the President's proclamation, and be i modify, extended or wholly withdraw ! such proclamation at any time he sees j tit. This is arming the President with j a weapon of retaliation that it would be hard to equal. The United States is HO nearly self-supporting and besides has so many quarters of the world to draw on for all sorts of supplies, that we would feel the deprivation of such a law very little. But it would enable this country to strike any other nation in its tenderest trade spot. We could prohibit the importation of French silks of wines to this country and while we would suffer for neither wine nor silk, France would lose a market that she could not possibly afford to part with. We could cut off the importa tion of any or all Germen manufact ures without feeling it to any extent but Germany could not afford to risk her market in the United States. It is a very sweeping law, and one that fortunately we have such a law will go far toward helping us settle any foreign commercial dispute that arises in the future. Rather to the surprise of the govern ment, the bids for the new $10,000,000 battle ships, so called, were far below expectation of the Department. There are to be two of these monsters, and they are to be duplicates in many re spects of the famous British Dread, naught class They are to be more powerfully armed and it is likely in view of the experience of the Dread naught with turbine engines, that they will not attempt this new departure in marine construction. There were a multitude of bids sub. mitted, no less than seven combina tions being putin by one firm. There were bids following the Navy Depart ment's plans, and there were bids that followed the original plan as to the hulls and differed as to the engines. Others followed the plans as to the engines and differed as the hulls. Per il aps the most attractive of the com bination plans was one lor cruising en. gines of the reciprocating type that are economical of coal at low speed and with auxilliary turbines that could be called into play in emergencies when speed was everything and economy nothing. The lowest bid was from the New port News Ship Building Company for $3,987,000, and the next lowest was from the Fore River Company for $4,480,000. .The limit of cost was to have been $6,000,000 for the ship with out guns or ornament and $4,000,000 lor these two items. But as it now ap ears, the ships will cost much less. The President has taken a hand in the salary question that lias been agi tating the government clerks in Wash ington and elswhere for some time. It is reported that he has worked out a plan whereby there can be an increase of pay based on merit, and not a flat increase such as has been looked for heretofore. how's This. We offer One Huudred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. P. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned,have known F. J. Cheney for the laßt 15 years, and be lieve him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALKING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken intern ally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti pation. C. B. Howard & Co., have the only large stock of shingles in the county at the present time. 11ED CEDAR from the Pacific Coast and WHITE CEDAR rom Wisconsin. Shoes Shoes Shoes [ I PATENT CDIT In ° xforcls for Men . Ladies and Children. To I UUI"" UUI "" see them is to buy them. You do yourself an in- I justice when you do not look at this beautiful line before ||pur- 1 chasing. We also carry a complete line of Men's Working Shoes. In fact anything in the shoe line. Ml Yflll KNfiW Abont the Banner Patterns. These are the Hi—very best. The prices are 10c and 15c. Every pattern is a new one. They are the simplest patterns on the market to-day to put together. Counter books only 10c. 1 Monthly sheets are free. IDfIN'T FflßfiFT To examine the largest and most complete line £ of long and short Silk and Kid G-loves. We 1 have them in many different colors, ranging in price from $1.50 I to $5.50 the pair. I® Shirt Wrlhft white and colors. These Shirtwaists ! jnwoio were selected from the very best samples that have g been shown this season. We can surely suit you in this line. CHAS. DIEHL. § \ V'A x N \ X X \ X \ W/5 '% SECOND TO NONE % / ADAM, / MELDRUM & ANDERSON CO. / 39G-408 Main Street, / T BUFFALO, N. Y. % / / s 4 / / / Pre-Inventory / < Bargains in \ \ SUMMER ! \ FARRICS 1 £ THE unusually backward sea- 1 / I son has loft us with a very % large stock of Wash Goods and / White Goods which must be clos- $ / ed out at once. The way to ac- % / complish this is to cut the prices '/ j so low that quick sales are as -5 sured. Wash Coods v 8c Corded Muslin 5c 4 White ground with colored $ ' ; / figures. $ 19c Likalinon Suiting 121 c White with colored dots. jf / 25c Silk Organdies 19c / Stripes, dots, rings; all colors. >■„ 4 35c Silk Muslins 18c 4, I? Solid colors in nile and tan. |s 6 60c Bordered Zephyrs 39c §■ 47 inch; grey, green helio and 4 blues, y 19c Organdie Raye 121 C % Handsome floral designs. % White Goods / / > Isc Fine Dotted Swiss 10c ',J 4 50c Fine Dotted Swiss 25c || The best bargain of the year, || k 25c Figured Oxford Suitings 15c 35c Plaid Persian Lawn 25c ■/ 50C Plaid and Checked English Waistings 35C 4 We Refund Railroad Fares. '% a, - % « A I I ADAM, | J MELDRUM & | ANDERSON Co J if? American Block, Buffalo, N.Y. / % / / X X X X X X X X \ X X \\ Kcgistcr's Notice. STATU OF PENNSYLVANIA, / COUNTY OFCAMERON. ( NOTICEis hereby given that George J. La Bar, guardian of Harry E. Barr, Carrel L. Barr and William L. Barr. minor children of Alice Belle Barr, deceased, late of Shippen township, Cameron county, Pa., has tiled his first and final account, and the same will be presented at next term of court for confirmation. WM. J. LEAVITT, Register. Register's Office, I Emporium, Pa., June 4th, 1907. I 16-lt. CIOURT PROCLAMATION.—WHEREAS:—TH£ J Hon. HARRY A. HAM., President Judge and the Hons. JOHN MCDONALD and GEO. J.LABAR, Associate Judges of Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Orphans' Court and Court of Common Pleas for the county of Cameron have issued their precept bearing date the 6th day of May, A. D., 1907, and to me directed for holding Court of Oyer and Terminer, General Jail De livery, Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Orphans' Court, and Court of Common Pleas M the Borough of Emporium, Pa., on Monday, the Ist day of July, 1907, at 10 o'clock, a. m. and to continue one week. Notice is hereby given to tlieCoroners, Justices of the Peace and Constables within the county, that they be then and there in their proper per sons, at 10 o'clock, a. m., of said day, with their rolls, records, inquisitions, examinations, and other rememberances, to do those things which to their offices appertain to be done. And those who artibound by t heir recognizance to prosecute against them as will be just. Dated at Emporium, Pa., June Bth, 1907, and in the 131 st year of the Independence of the United States of America. J. D. SWOPE, Sheriff. Executor's Notice. Estate of JOHN ADAMS, late of the Toivrmhip <.( Sh ippr ti, deecaserf. N"OTr<_'E is hereby given that letters testa ! luentary upon the cstatu oi the *>ai the undersigned. All > persons indebted to said rotate are requested to make payment and tho.-e having elaims or de mands against the same will make them known without delay to OBLMONT H. ADAMS, Executor. Emporium, Pa. Or to his Attorneys GHI:I:N & KELT. 15-8. ' jjjjyj'jjSK •" ; v. CKRT MIX RFMKP for SUPPRKSSITD MKNKTI L'ATIO? .VEK KNOWN TO ;AIL. : Hi • '. 'ion < .uarrtnti.fl <>r Jlonev |{<'furnlr I. .*-• 'it pp- • i ■ luril.OO |.T lm\. Wlllnriiilihcmoi. irinl.tu l.„ l |.,r ' ] when relieved. Samples Free. If yuur (lruggi&t. does i»ot V dt J ' have them rviid your orders to the UNITED MEDICAL CO., BO)'. 74, LANCASTER, PA. i m —— i jolciin tmporiumby L laggart&R. C. Dodson Pennsylvania Railroad VACATION EXCURSION #9*95 from Emporium. TO Atlantic Cape May WILDWOOD, SEA ISLE CITY, or OCEAN CITY, New? Jersey Friday, July 5, 1907 Tickets good going on all regular trains 011