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The Job department of Ihe Pwsss Is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of w< rli. PAUTICLI.AU ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW PKINTINC. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid fjr in advance. A Tennessee Utopia. Hurrah for Big Sandy! No blind tigers, no slums; no kinky headed ne groes! Good churches, good schools, good people! Merchants are busy, la borers whistling as they goto work, children laughing as they goto school or play, wives singing as they patch their husbands' "pants."—Henton County (Tenn.) Star. Time for Memory's Help. And now, when the clouds gather and the rain impends over our forest and our house, permit us not to be oast down; let us not lose the savor of past mercies and past pleasures; but like the voice of a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memory survive In the hours of darkness. —ltobert Louis Stevenson. Value of Work. Work is the true friend and con soler of man, raises him above all liis weakness, purifies and ennobles him, saves him from temptation and helps him to bear his burden through days of sadness, and before which even the deepest griefs give way for a time. To Find Unlucky Days. To find out which days bode evil take the date of the full moon. Count ihe days before instead of alter this date and multiply the number by the number of days in the month, and from the result the unlucky days of the months are found. Daily Thought. Never suffer the invaluable mo ments of thy lite to steal by unim proved and leave thee in idleness and vacancy; but be always either reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or employed in some useful labor for the common good.—A'Kempis. The Deeps Are Dumb. The greatest golfers seldom talk about their golf any more than the greatest cricketers talk about their cricket. It is the enthusiastic duffer who enjoys conversing about "his game."—London Truth. Busily Engaged. "Did you know," said the nervous wan. "that Saturn has lost one of its rings?" "My friend," answered Mr. Sirius Marker, "I can find enough to worry about right here on this earth. I don't have to get a teiescope." Where Currency Is Not Used. In Rhodesia the housewife needs no money for food, if one has calico or salt. Native hucksters demand either one or the other, and pocket books and purses are useless. Deadly Kamchatkan Liquor. In Kamchatka there grows a mush room called the false orange, from which is made a liquor that produces delirium and convulsions. Neverthe less it is a favorite beverage. Sensitive Parts of the Body. The tip of the tongue is the most sensitive part of the human body; the tips of the fingers come next, and third the lips. Poor Fellow. "Dey give him ten years fer steal- In' a 'possum," said the colored broth er, "an' de worst of It wuz he didn't get ter eat it." Gentleness. Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.— *l. P. Willis. No Gain in Being Ungenerous. We get no good by being ungener ous, even to a book. —Elizabeth Bar rett Browning. • A Genius. A genius is a man who can tend a furnace so that it will not send up gas.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Query. When a man kisses his wife is It a souvenir spoon? London's Milk Shops. There are over 12,000 shops for the sale of milk in London. Latin Proverb. Better slip with the foot than with ttie tongue. Miss Democracy—Mercy! Just my luck. I'm under the mistletoe end here comes a fellow that I don't like at all. NOT A PUBLIC NEED SILLY TALK ABOUT INSURANCE OF BANK DEPOSITS. One of the Innumerable Panaceas Just Now Being Put Forward —Of Course It Has Sanction of Per petual Candidate Bryan. Three or four bills have been in troduced in congress within the last few days providing in various ways for the insurance of national bank de posits. Presumably the authors of these measures think there exists a public demand for such a guarantee. If so, why has it never been in evi dence before? Why have depositors been perfectly content to put their own judgment to select established institutions of good reputation under the control of safe and conservative bankers? It. is always assumed, and with justice, too, that where there is a real demand private enterprise is ready to satisfy it. Why has no in surance company entered into the field of guaranteeing bank deposits? On practically everything in which the risk is sufficiently large for the pub lic to desire insurance against it a policy may be obtained. The fact is that the chance of ultimate loss through bank failure is negligible, and depositors realize that it is. If a company should enter the field, offer ing to write policies on bank depos its, it could not hope to obtain any patronage, even though it could do a profitable business at a tenth of one per cent. If such private insurance is impracticable, why, supposing there is a public demand for insurance of de posits, have not banks themselves rec ognized it and accordingly formed as sociations for the mutual insurance of one another's deposits? If there were any desire for such a guarantee the members of such mutual associa tions might have easily outdistanced their uninsured competitors in obtain ing business. The demand for a guarantee of de posits, then, is not sufficiently strong to invite a private company into that field of insurance, nor to commend it self to the consideration of banks in the intense competition for deposits, nor even to keep alive the practice when once established. The device is just now simply an after-panic sugges tion—one of the innumerable panaceas with which a host of volunteers are offering to cure incurable ills. It comes duly labeled from the intellec tual laboratory of our greatest ficxii cial quack, who demonstrated hi» abil ity to show the country how to get well quick just after the previous panic, in the most famous year in the annals of quackdom—to-wi',, 1896. Wallace and the Canning Industry. Mr. Wallace, the Arkansas free trader, who got several undelivered speeches printed in the "Congression al Record," ending with "prolonged applause," said in one of them: "The tariff duties which keep out canning factories cost the farmers fully S2O per family per year for wasted products." Mr. Wallace should examine the cen sus bulletin devoted to the canning in dustry. He would learn a great deal in the astounding advance it has made under the Dlngley law, aud he ought to be told that within a few days a single order was given to the Ameri can Company of Pittsburg for 300,- 000,000 tin cans, and this order came from a single fruit canners' associa tion of one state. The trouble with Mr. Wallace is that •he not only does not read his speeches in congress, but that he evidently does not read them in private. If he did he would not be caught fathering such ridiculous trash. Bryan Has Firm Hold. Eastern Democratic papers of Inde pendent proclivities are vibrating be tween suggestions of George Gray, Woodrow Wilson, Joseph W. Folk and Gov. Johnson as possible Democratic candidates. The fact that they skip from one to the other so readily is the best evidence of the slight chance any one of them has of prying Bryan loose. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1908 GOOD TIME FOR ECONOMY. Country Will Indorse Prudence and Retrenchment by Congress. It is reported from Washington that the congressional leaders are in an economical mood this winter, and that prudence and retrenchment will be tho watchword during the present scs p'on. Certainly the latest treasury statement is calculated to confirm them in that laudable determination. The first half of the present fiscal year closed with a deficit of nearly $10,000,000. A year ago there was a surplus of receipts over expenditures of the corresponding period of about $25,000,000. For the month of Decem ber alone the treasury deficit amount ed to about $8,500,000. The decline in the revenues of the government is due, of course, to the financial stringency of November and December and its effect on our for eign trade. The receipts from cus toms showed little shrinkage in No vember, but that was attributable to the preparations for the retail holiday trade and the withdrawal of merchan dise that had been ordered earlier in the year. In December the falling oft in customs receipts caused the treas ury a loss of $7,000,000 as compared with the receipts from Uie same month of the previous year. There has also been a considerable decrease in the internal revenue receipts, and on account of the same general busi ness conditions. Secretary Cortelyou estimated in the recei> report to congress a surplus of $42,000,000 for the current fiscal year. He was frank enough to say, however, that he regretted the legai necessity of making estimates that "were for the most part problemat ical," and the event has justified this remark sooner than he expected, per haps. Though everybody confidently predicts a rapid revival of business in every direction, there is no likelihood of a $42,000,000 treasury surplus for the fiscal year which will end with next June. No reasonable man, it is true, favors a large annual surplus, which simply means excessive taxation of the people. It is also true that the treas ury is in a very strong position in spite of the tendencies of the last two months, for the years of prosperity and expansion have enabled it to ac cumulate a large balance. Finally, had not the expenses of the Panama canal been paid until lately from cur rpfi !««.-efpts there would have been no deficit at all for the six months ended with December. At the same time if congress, in view ol the steady increase in government wependitures shown by the treasury's reports, has decided to be more careful and eco nomical this year, and avoid necessary and wasteful appropriations, its good resolution will be generally approved and praised. Sanity in Respect of the Currency. Senator Aldrich's bill is a simple one and does not aim t.t anything like currency reform. It piovides that the treasury may issue currency up to the amount of $250,000,000, secured by the same class of obligations at pres ent recognized as lawful in the case of savings banks in this state and in Massachusetts, said issue to be taxable at six per cent. The prudential stip ulations and restrictions are adequate and the whole measure impresses us as wisely conceived and ably planned. If we might be permitted to offer a criticism, and we do so with the ut most diffidence, it would be that the tax of six per cent, does not adequate ly differentiate this reserve from ordi narily current money on which the legal rate conventionally stands at the same figure. The rate, we venture to think, ought to be seven or eight per cent. At the latter figure the pos sibility of inflation is negligible.— New York Sun. A New York Democrat has wagered $5,000 that Gov. Johnson of Minnesota will be elected if he is nominated and if Roosevelt doesn't run against him. Mr. Bryan will be likely to lean to the opinion that there are a good many "ifs" connected with this mat t©r. CONVICTED OF CONSPIRACY. QUEER ANGLE IN THE CASE Or A CUSTOMS INSPECTOR. He Skips to Canada, Is Arrested on Another Charge, Is Discharged, and Must Now Return or Be Jailed. New York City.— The once famous silk fraud cases had their ending Fri day when, ui>on motion of counsel, the representative of the government as senting, Judge Holt, in the United States circuit court, dismissed an in dictment returned five years ago against Charles C. Brown, a former customs silk examiner, in which he was charged with having been crimi nally neglectful in his duties as a federal official. The dismissal of the indictment leaves a peculiar legal situation. Brown had previously been tried on charges of having conspired with A. Rosen thal, senior member cf the firm of A. S. Rosenthal & Co., to defraud the government by passing entries of Jap anese silk at underweights, to avoid the per pound duty. He was found guilty and when sentenced to serve a term in Sing Sing lied to Canada, forfeiting a bail bond of SIO,OOO. He was arrested in Montreal, but his law yers successfully fought extradition by the novel defense that the crime of which he was convicted, that of de frauding the government through the internal revenue laws, was not one of the extraditable felonies mentioned in tlie treaty with Great Britain. Special Attorney General Wlckham then secured custody of Brown upon tne pleu that there way sill! an un tried indictment .'gainst Brown In New York. Ell route from Canada Brown was taken from the secret service men at Peekskill and hurried to Sing Sing. This raised an outcry against alleged kidnapping, and when the ipiestion was taken to court it was held there that for any other purpose than standing trial upon the untried indict ment, Brown was in Canada. Two weeks ago Brown was tried on this indictment, but the jury disagreed and now, owing to the technical char acter of the proof, Brown's lawyers have succeeded in having the indict ment dismissed. This brings up the peculiar situation, as Brown must now return to Canada to avoid serving his sentence on the previous conviction and the law allows him "a reasonable time" to do so. Brown is reported to have already departed for this haven of refuge. A. S. Rosenthal, the silk merchant arrested in the first instance with Brown, is a fugitive in Europe, having long since forfeited his bail of $30,000. THE NATIONAL LAV.'MAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and House cf Representatives. Washington.—ln the senate on the 29th several democratic senators crit icised Secretary of the Treasury Cor telyou for printing his reply to the senate's resolution calling 011 him for information relative to the treasury department's operations during the financial panic. The house spent the day in debate of the urgent deficiency appropriation bill. Washington.—The urgent deficiency bill, carrying an appropriation of $23,- 664,000. was passed by the house on the 30th. The Aldrich banking bill was reported to the senate from the finance committee and Mr. Aldrich announced that he would call it up for consideration on February 10. Washington. The president's spe cial message to congress was read in both houses on the 31st. The house debated the Indian appropriation bill and passed 2SB private pension bills. The senate's session was short. BUSINESS BULLETIN. More Iron and Steel Plants Have Re sumed and the General Out look Is Brighter. New York City. —R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Seasonable weather and a further increase in the percentage of active machinery combine to improve the trade situation, although there is still a large number of unemployed and dealers proceed cautiously in preparing for future business. Prices of com modities- have declined on the whole, yet products of the leading industries are fairly well maintained. More iron and steel plants have re sumed and the outlook is brighter, even railway equipment attracting more attention. The situation is bet ter because of the extent to which con sumers seek prompt delivery, indicat ing that the recent season of conserva tism has nearly exhausted stocks, and suggesting that when confidence is ful ly restored a vast tonnage of deferred business will placed. A LAWMAKER IS INDICTED. Speaker of Bay State House of Rep resentatives Claims Action Is the Work of Political Enemies. Salem, Mass. Speaker John N. Cole, of the Massachusetts house of representatives, whose home is at An dover and who has represented the Eighth Essex district for seven years, was indicted Friday by the Essex coun ty grand jury on a charge of violating the public statutes in requesting a re duced rate of fare on the Boston & Maine railroad for a large number of persons. The indictment is in 123 counts, and the statute provides a pen alty in each case of a fine of not less than S2OO nor more than SI,OOO. Motorman Kelly. Is Sentenced. New York City. Paul Kelly, who was motorman on an elevated railroad train which was wrecked in Septem ber, 11105, killing 14 persons, was sen tenced Friday to not more than two years and six months and not less than one year and six months in pris on. Three Boys Drowned. Nyack, N. Y. While walking on the thin ice which had formed in Hudson river off this place Friday, Evans Steele, aged 12; Hans Kraft, 12, and Harold Dixon. 11, broke through and were drowned. THINGS THAT WENT WRONG. A SINGULAR COUPLE. When Miss Abigail Scranton be came engaged to young Illram Thorn bush everybody declared it would be an ideal match. There was not the slightest objec tion on the part of the Scrantons or the Thornbushes. In fact the mothers of both the young persons encouraged them openly in their courtship. Yet Miss Abigail married him. SCENE AT A ROX OFFICE. A line of 50 or more persons stood in front of the box office at a theater one day this week, when a stout, redfaced, important-looking man came up, opening his pocketbook as he came, extracting a S2O bill and eying the long line of prospective buy ers superciliously. "Get in line, you!" shouted a dozen voices. "That's what 1 was going to do, you blamed chumps," lie answered, scowl ingly taking his place at the foot Chicago Tribune. A GREAT INVENTION. Boggs—Was that burglar alarm you invented a success? Joggs—Must have been. The bur glars pinched it when they broke in. —Philadelphia Telegraph. A Humorist's Epitaph. Here lies a paragrapher—good things he writ. He met ills death by fulling down a shaft of wit. —Judge. Solace for the M.iny. "What a misfortune it is that the public encourages so much trashy lit -1 rature!" remarked the man with black-rimmed eyeglasses. "It isn't a misfortune," answered the practical person. "It is a blessing. It enables people whose books won't sell to imagine they have written classics." Practical. Mother—Our girl is very ambitious, Henry. She is very anxious to get in the whirl. Father (gruffly)— Then let her come down to the office and come in by the revolving door when a bunch of mes senger boys are going through.—Bal timore American. Valuable. "Do you think the speeches you in tend to deliver will exercise any teal influence on events?" "No," answered the statesman; "but I am going to deliver thwm just the same. They are valuable as rehears als for my next lecture to-ir." —Wash- ington Star. Misunderstood. "We are victims of the tipping habit." remarked the man who had entertained some friends at a res taurant. "Yes," answered young Mrs. Tork ins; "and it's only a little while till the races come again."— Washington Star. Professional Advice. "Doctor," said the convalescent, smiling weakly, "you may send in your hill any day, now." "Tut, tut!" replied the M. 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