THE SGHOOLHOUSES WHAT THF.Y MEAN TO THE PEO PLE OF THE COMMUNITY. AND HOW THEY ARE BUILT It Is the Money That Stays at Horn# Which Makes Good Ones Possible —A Simple System That Works. Your schoolhouses. Those of the town and those of the country dis tricts. You know what they mean to you and to your children. They represent the difference be tween ignorance and enlightenment. They mean to your children the differ ence between signing their names with a mark or in writing. They represent the difference between the civilization of the twentieth century, as this country knows it, and the bar barism of benighted Asia or Africa. You want the schoolhouse, do you not ? You would willingly make sacrifices to keep it, would you not? You glory in the free educational system of this country, do you not? But, Mr. Citizen, did, you ever sit <lown and consider carefully what it is that makes possible the school houses of this country; the school houses that stand as beacon lights on the tops of a thousand hills; the schoolhouses that carry cheer and en lightenment to the hearthstones of the homes of a thousand valleys? It is the taxes that you ,and your neighbor, and your neighbor's neigh bor pay into the school fund year after year, is it not? And why do you pay it? Because you own property—real es tate, bonds and mortgages —and be cause that, property is valuable. What makes your real estate val uable? It is the prosperity of the commu nity. As the community grows and prospers the value of your property increases. As your property increases In value and you write your wealth in thousands instead of hundreds, the amount you pay into the school fund increases. When the school fund in creases the old building gives place to a new and more modern structure, in which your children and your neigh bor's children secure their instruc tion. And, again, the erection of the new building but adds more to the value of your property. It is an endless chain system that builds villages out of cross road 3, and cities out of villages. Who are you, Mr. Citizen, and who )s your neighbor and your neighbor's neighbor, whose contributions to the school fund make the schoolhouses possible? You. and your neighbor, and your neighbor's neighbor, are the farmers, the merchants, the doctors, the blacksmiths. You are each and every man who goto make up the community in which you live, and it is only when you work collectively that you accomplish results —that you build up new schoolhouses. And how shall you work collec tively? By a simple system of boosting one another You, we will say, have oats to sell—your neighbor buys them of you He, you will say. has dry - M 'oods to sell —you buy them of him It is this system of mutual help that makes the town grow into the city, *hat increases the price of real estate 1n the town and in the community sur rounding it, that builds new school houses. The dollar that is unnecessarily sent away from home never bought so much as a nail for a schoolhouse, never put a shingle on its roof. But the dollars that are unneces sarily sent away from home send back to the community which they left only ruin. It is these dollars that •prevent, the replacing of the leaking roof, the broken door hinge or the •worn out desk. It is the dollars that are unneces sarily sent away from home by you, and your neighbor, and your neigh bor's neighbor that decrease the value of your, and your neighbors, and your neighbor's neighbor's real es tate. That makes the school fund f?row less year after year That forces the discharge of the competent teach er for a less competent one. That re duces the standing of your schools in the educational system of the coun try. Work it backwards, send your money for the things you need away •from home instead of spending it at home, and the system that builds vil- Jages out of cross roads, and cities out of villages, that increases the value of -your teal estate and permits you to write your wealth In four figures -where previously three figures were enough, and you will make of the thriving little city but a village, and of the village but a cross roads. Do you not believe, Mr. Citizen, and do you think your neighbor and your neighbor's neighbor should believe, that it pays best to keep the dollars in the home community? Keep the system moving forwards, help to make a c'ty of your village. Boost your town's interests and you boost your own. WRIGHT A. PATTERSON. Buttermilk Cocktail. Throat parched? Irrigate it with a buttermilk cocktail. This is a new brand of dampness •which was devised at the University of Chicago. The buttermilk cocktail is constructed according to the fal lowing recipe: Take a tall, thin glass, drop In a chunk of Ice; Insert •a long slice of cucumber, then fill with buttermilk. That's all! GAMES OF SHARPERS. Some of the Methods Used for Secur ing Money Dishonestly. Millions upon millions of dollars ar® fraudulently taken from the pockets of the people year after year through the operation of confidence men. The schemes used by these men are numer ous. Nearly all are based upon the fact that the average person Is always willing to take the best of a bargain. During the past few months swin dlers have been operating in different parts of the country, and their method, while a modification of an old swin dling game, has some new features worthy of notice. Their usual proced ure Is to locate farmers who are not well known to local bankers and loan men. They approach the farmer and under pretext of seeking to purchase farming land, manage in some way to secure his signature. This is general ly done by inducing htm to write a letter, or to sign some statement. Once the signature is secured, a ficti tious deed to the farmer's land is pre pared and this is fixed up In such a manner as to show the seal of some notary or other officer. Then with this deed the swindler is in position to negotiate a loan upon the land. This game has been successfully worked in a number of western states. Residents of agricultural districts should be continually on their guard against the signing of receipts or any kind of contract which may be pre sented to them by strangers. Within the past year some smooth swindlers have succeeded in securing thousands of dollars on fraudulent notes, secur ing frorrt farmers, who were foolish enough to take for trial washing ma chines, refrigerators, etc., and to give their receipts for the same. These re ceipts turning up later as negotiable notes. The writer of checks cannot be too careful in filling in the amounts. The favorite methods of the check receiver Is to insert after the words "six," "seven," "eight" or "nine" the letter "y" or "ty" and change the ciphers in the check accordingly. Thus it can be seen that a check written for eight dollars, by the addition of the letter "y" can be made to read for eighty dollars and the changing of the amount, if it be in numerals, by the addition of cipher, makes the forgery, when well executed, hard to discover. HELP THE TOWN. Some of the Virtues in Friendly Riv alry Between Merchants. Good, healthy competition and friendly rivalry, devoid of all spirit of hoggishness, is a good thing.for any town. Each and every business man and property owner in a town, and the country immediately surrounding it should be intensely Interested in every project, particularly should every mer chant be active in matters that means general prosperity for the place, and which will increase trade for all the merchants of the town. People gen erally like to do their trading in towns where there are well kept stocks and plenty variety of goods, and where there Is sufficient competition as to assure low prices consistent with good business judgment. There is little use for the merchants of a place to blow and brag about their business, unless they can demonstrate that they are "delivering the goods" and satisfying their customers. There is no good to be looked for by merchants decrying the goods and the methods of their brother merchants. There is no more effective way of killing the business of a town than by fostering a spirit of petty jealousy and of narrow selfish ness. Wherever such a spirit is found it will be discovered that trade is be ing turned to some other town where merchants and business men work more In harmony with one another. TOWN BOOSTING TIPS. The visitor who trips over your broken sidewalk will not have a very high opinion of your town as a place of business. The home town Is the best place for the boys if you will make the home town prosperous. Keeping the money at home will do this. It means home opportunities for your children. Don't drive around the hole in the road week after week. Get your neighbors together and fix It. The home market for the farm prod ucts is the saving clause in our sys tem of government. Take away the in your community. Not necessarily home markets and the farms will soon become unprofitable and valueless. No city mail-order house will ex tend credit to you when times ar« hard, or crops fail. Could you con sistently ask it of your home mer chant when you send your money to the city during the days of prosper ity? Encourage small factories to locate by means of a bonus, but by keeping the children in the home town that they may become factory employes, and get a home opportunity to raise in the world. Do not begrudge the money paid for taxes when it is used for road and town improvements. Such an ex penditure is like bread cast upon the waters—it will return many fold. Belgian Girls Learn Housework. In Belgium girls are expected to give five weeks out of each school year to learning housework. The gtrl Is required to know not only how to cook a dinner, but to clean up and care for a kitchen, do marketing, wash imd Iron. CAMERON COUNTY PRBS6, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1007. IB DROVE HINDUS OUT OF A TOWN BELLINGHAM, WASH., IS THE SCENE OF RACE TROUBLE. POLICE WERE POWERLESS. Asiatic Laborers Who Were Not Driven Out of Town Were Jailed, While a Few Were Badly Beaten. Bellingham, Wash. Six badly beaten Hindus are in the hos pital. 400 frightened and half naked Sikhs are in jail and the corridors of the city hall are guarded by police men. Somewhere between Bellingham and British Columbia there are 750 natives of India, beaten, hungry and half clothed, making their wa3' along the Great Northern railroad into Canadian territory and the protection of the British flag. The long expected cry "Drive out the Hindus" was heard throughout the city and along the water front Wednesday night. The police were helpless. All authority was paralyz ed and for five hours a mob of half a thousand white men raided the mills where the foreigners were working, battered down doors of lodging houses, and, dragging the Asiatics from their beds, escorted them to the city limits with orders to keep going. The trouble started at C and Holly streets, a lodging house district. The houses were cleared and the mob then swept down to the water front and mill after mill was visited, the white employes joining the mob. Every Hindu was hustled outside. Here the police suggested that the mob victims be taken to jail. This was hailed with delight and the Hin dus were hustled along. From this time on they were not beaten, the bloodthirstiness of the mob seemingly being satisfied during the attack on the lodging houses. The mob kept up its work along the water front until early Thursday morning, when Lar son's mill at Whatcom Lake was vis ited and a hundred Hindus brought in from there. Four women were found among the crowd in the city building. The city is quiet now, but there is a strong undercurrent of opinion which apparently approves the action of the mob and it may be found impossible to prosecute the leaders. Racial feel ing has played no small part in the affair. Every day whites are being replaced in the mills by the Asiatics. Many instances of women being pushed into the gutter or insulted on street cars by the foreigners were also reported. General uneasiness of the whites is given as a reason for the outbreak. IN MEMORY OF M'KIN LEY. A Monument to the Late President Is Dedicated at Buffalo, N. Y. Buffalo, N. Y. —ln a heavy downpour of rain and before a vast multitude, the McKinley monument on Niagara square was dedicated Thursday afternoon and formally turned over to the state of New York through Gov. Hughes. The ceremonies were brief, but impressive. As sembled on the stand near the monu ment with Gov. Hughes were men prominent in the state and nation, and also from Canada. Another large body, consisting of Grand Army veterans, formed in a circle in front of the speakers' stan.l and on the steps of the monument. Gov. Hughes, the members of the monument commission, their honor ary guests and the speakers of the day were escorted to Niagara square by soldiers from the national guard, the regular army, the Canadian troop ers and veterans of the G. A. R. and the Spanish war. The sky out over Lake Erie had be come overcast with clouds and with the first sounds of the approaching soldiery caine a patter of rain. The skies grew darker and just as Gov. Hughes stepped upon the platform there came a roll of thunder, a booming salute from the heavens. The rain increased and the immense flag which enveloped the obelisk in its folds was rent in twain by the wind. The stay ropes broke from their fast enings and the two ends of the flag fluttered out over the crowd. Following a prayer by Rev. E. H. Dickinson, Edward H. Butler, chair man of the monument commission, in troduced .Mayor Adam, who said in part: "Buffalo was bowed down in grief at the death of William McKinley. To-day she lifts her head and pays tribute to his memory. No marble column can make his memory dearer to us. He was our president, our neighbor, our friend." Mayor Adam was followed by Har lan J. Swift, state commander of the G. A. R„ who delivered an eloquent tribute to McKinley, the soldier; Gen. Miller, past commander of the Span ish-American war veterans, who spoke of President McKinley's part in the Spanish-American war, and Mrs. Donald Mac Lean, president of the Daughters of the Revolution, who spoke of the martyr president's quali ties as a lover, a husband and father. At the conclusion of Mrs. Mac- Lean's address, Mrs. Truman C. Avery pulled the cord which released the flag, revealing the white sides of the shaft. Gov. Hughes then delivered the dedicatory address. Brokers Failed. New York Ctty.—The failure of Watson & Co., members of the New York stock and produce exchanges and of the Chicago board of trade, was announced Thursday. No cause was assigned for the failure nor was any estimate of the liabilities and as sets made public. The firm had ex tensive connections in the west, main taining offices In large cities. Thirteen Lives Lost in a Hotel Fire. Tacoma, Wash. Fire destroyed the Webb hotel at Shelton, 20 miles from Taconia, Wednesday night. It ia rv»crtcd 1? ycrisna yoi'lsJicd. A BATTLE HEAR CASABLANCA SIX THOUSAND MOORS ATTACK ED FRENCH CAMP. A Fierce Charge was Met by a Storm of Shot and Shell and the Attack ing Party Lost Hundreds of Men. Casablanca. About 6,000 Moor* participated in Monday's fight. The Moors, who were repulsed on all sides, made a most impressive picture as, mounted on white horses and car rying their banners in the front line, they swept down from the hills in splendid formation and charged to within about 400 yards of the French camp, which for a moment seemed to be in danger of being overriden. As they advanced, the Moors chanted in unison verses from the Koran. The irregular Algerian cavalry en countered the first shock of the Moors' assault, without yielding a foot from the position they occupied. Gen. Drude quickly deployed his forces to the greatest advantage and the Moors were submitted to a fire of shot and shell which soon left the ground strewn with corpses. Maj. Prevost was slain while return ing to camp after the engagement, which lasted seven hours. Maj. Prevost conducted a scouting expedition, which was the actual cause of the battle, the object being to lo cate the enemy and prepare the way for an extensive offensive movement later. The major advanced about eight miles in a southerly direction, meet ing only with scattered bands of Moors, which were easily dispersed. He then gave the order to return and it was when nearing the camp that his force was assailed by hordes of Moors. Prevost formed his men in hollow squares, with the irregular Algerian cavalry in front. Gen. Drude quickly reinforced Prevost and the engage ment immediately developed into a desperate conflict, from which the Moors retreated only after their ranks had been decimated by a deadly fire which it was impossible to withstand. RECEIVER FOR STEEL COMPANY. The Concern Is One Managed by E. L. Harper, of Bank Wrecking Notoriety. Bristol, Va.—Judge Skeen, of the United States court here on Wednesday appointed Col. L. O. Pettit, of Big Stone Gap, receiver of the Union Iron and Steel Corporation, of New York, owning furnaces in Vir ginia, Ohio, Michigan and New Jersey. The receiver was appointed on pe tition of the Norton Coal Co., of Nor ton, Va., and no statement of assets and liabilities is obtainable at this time, owing to the fact that efforts are being made to adjust the claim. For this reason other creditors have not joined in the petition. The Union Iron and Steel Corpora tion is an offshoot of the Union Steel and Chain Corporation—the latter a $60,000,000 concern organized several years ago by Edward L. Harper, form erly of Cincinnati. It is reported that the receivership Is a plan of the creditors of E. L. Har per to uncover his assets. Obligations aggregating several million dollars are held by Cincinnati and Chicago bankers against Harper, as a result of the failure of the Fidelity bank, of Cincinnati, about 20 years ago. Harper, it was alleged, wrecked this institution in an attempt to corner the wheat market. For this he was sen tenced to eight years in the Ohio peni tentiary and shortly after his release he merged a number of furnaces and steel plants into the Union Steel and Chain Co., of which he has since been president and of which the Union Iron and Steel Co. is subsidiary. About 18 months ago Harper filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States court here, but his right to release from the old obliga tions was successfully contested by his creditors, headed by the banking firm of Erwin Green & Co., of Chicago. In the hearing before the referee he contended that he was insolvent, though he failed to establish his in solvency and was not discharged. The hearing disclosed the fact that he was receiving a large salary as president of the steel and iron corporations. POLITICIANS ARE INDICTED. Prominent Citizens of Allegheny are Accused of Election Frauds. Pittsburg, Pa. A political sen sation was caused here Wednesday when it became known that the grand jury had indicted four prominent poli ticians of Allegheny City in connec tion with alleged tax receipt frauds In that city. The men indicted are Elliott Rodg ers, member of the state senate, and former common pleas judge of the Al legheny courts; Samuel Grenet, direct or of the department of safety, of Al legheny; William Ilogel, member of Allegheny council; William B. Lamb, a leading Allegheny politician. There are separate indictments against each on the charge of misde meanor, and a fifth indictment charges them jointly with conspiracy to aid and abet a misdemeanor. In the in dictments are allegations of conspiracy to procure false registration and fraud ulent voting; the procuring of false registration and fraudulent voting, and conspiracy to issue fraudulent tax re ceipts. The charges, it is said, are based upon the November election of 190 C, and are the outgrowth of a crusade waged by the Voters' Civic league, of Allegheny. All of the accused went to the court house and gave bail in the sum of $2,000 each. Glass Is Sentenced for 3ribcry. San Francisco, Cal.—Louis Glass, vice president cf the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Co., con victed of having bribed Supervisor Lonergan to vote against granting a ' franchise to the Home Telephone Co., : was on Wednesday sentenced by Judge Lawler to five years' imprisonment 'a the state prison at San Quentin. A Dozen Firemen Injured. Auburn. N. Y. A dozen fire men were temporarily overcome by j smoke in a ilre at the Columbian cord- j age plant here Wednesday. The dam age is $155,900. | WE have the best stocked H general store In the county B p and if you are looking for re- « || liable goods at reasonable j8 % prices, we are ready to serve §*; yon with the best to be found. jj P Our reputation for trust- g jg| worthy goods and fair dealing g is too well known to sell any || bat high grade goods. jf H Our stock of Queensware and ji ft? Chinaware is selected with Uj 1/ great care and we have soms Bj of the most handsome dishes B || ever shown in this seotion, Jj' both in imported and domestic ffl j, makes. We invite you to visit i p us and look our goods over. jS 1 I Balcom & Lloyd. J IHpppm snpocß sstsnssECKsnßßt r LOOK ELSEWHERE BUT DON'T FORGET THESE PRICES AND FACTS AT | jj II LaBAR Sll j j|j| We carry in stock . j|| |J pets, Linoleums and fi/.. "' fl K Mattings of all kinds . wLW ff.f ever brought to this M A very large line ot -FOR THE [Sial J M n liiiEiii | S3 Art Squares and of fine books ia a choice library JJ Rugs of all sizes and select the Ideal pattern of Globe- if M kind, from the cheap- Wernicke "Elastic" Bookcase. ft£ M est to the best I Furnished with bevel French | || | ft* plate or leaded glass doors. I M Dining Chairs, I •»« «>* I gj M Rockers and GEO. J. LaBAR, J$ jkJj High Chairs. Sol© Agent for Cameron County. fc J 12 A large and elegant t————————r-1 line of Tufted and IS Drop-head Couches. Beauties and at bargain prices. pi M II mi |3O Bedroom Suite, CIC S4O Sideboard, quar- C9fi ' solid oak at )Z3 tered cak 3)wU PI |26 Bedroom Suits, C 1)! |32 Sideboard, qnar- COC *3 pf solid oak at 4)/1 tered oak J)Z3 ft* W% $26 Bed room Suits, Ifl $22 Sideboard, quar- IC IMw solid oak at tered oak, 4>lo M A large line of Dressers from I Chiffoniers of all kinds and fta M $8 up. I a 1 prices. fcv ft* : ft# fcg The finest line of Sewing Machines on the market, ftl [j the "DOMESTIC" and "ELDRIDGE.' All drop- || fg heads and warranted. ?5 A fine line of Dishes, common grade and China, in j JJ sets a °d by the piece. M As I keep a full line of everything that goes to ftl $4) make up a good Furniture store, it is useless to enum- ftl ft* erate them all. ft* Please call and see for yourself that lam telling fcj fcf you the truth, and if you don't buy, there is no harm done, as it is no trouble to show goods. •j GEO. J .LaBAR. » M UJVDEIFJ.TA.IS.IIVG. M csxssazs^nrsxsßzi'^sTsxr^siJ 3
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