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.
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