PEOPLE TO BLAME HAVE THOUGHTLESSLY AIDED IN CENTRALIZING INDUSTRIES. EVILS NOW CLEARLY SEEN Unequitable Distribution of the Earn ings of the People Inevitably Fol lowed—Growth of Small Towns and Communities Retarded. During the la'st few months of 1907 the people had a striking example of the effects of too much centralization. While all over the United States there was prosperity, a few embarrassed concerns in W»*l street, New York, brought ateout a financial stringency that became generally felt. For years the agricultural sections have been sending money by the millions to the great financial centers. Here it was used for the building up of great trusts and combinations, which were greatly overcapitalized. On this watered capitalization the people have been compelled to pay ponderous divi dends. One natural law is that of concentral ization, segregation, and in these mat ters Nature carries on its work well, but unnatural concentration, like oth er infractions of natural laws, bring quick punishment. The centralization of industries which has been going on since the trust era started has brought about an unequitable distri bution of the earnings of tUe people. It has retarded the growth of towns and communities. It has brought in its wake many evils that affect work ers in every field. Yet for these evils the masses of people are to blame. Every man, woman and child who la bors and who sends the products of that labor to other places than the home community assists just so much In centralization of business and financial power. Every resident of a rural community who sends his dol lars to the large city helps along the trust builders and the centralizera. While the mail-order evil is one that is serious, it is only so as it is a means of centralization of business, and the consequent sapping from com munities the wealth that should be re tained in them. The commercial enterprises are the life elements of the rural towns. When these enterprises are destroyed, the town deteriorates. With the dis appearance of the town goes the home markets, the good schools and the churches and the other public con veniences that the town affords. With the going down of the town, real es tate values are depreciated, and de pression comes to all the community. How would the farmers fare if the towns were wiped out and only the large cities allowed to exist? What kind of markets would the farmers have for all their produce? How does the average farmer find dealing with <;ity concerns at the present time? When a shipment of eggs is made to the city commission man, does the farmer get as good returns as he does from the home dealers? How about other produce? It is the home mar kets that afford the growers of pro duce protection. When the calm thinker who is engaged in agriculture considers all these little matters, he will find that in £ome patronage lies the keystone of his success. How would the agricultural districts be as living places were there no home towns? Hut this is what the situation would be if all the people of a com munity sent to some foreign place for all the goods required. Home is a word dear to all good citizens. That man lacks patriotism whose inclination it is to oppose the progress of the place where he re sides. By making better the home town, we are improving the com munity of which we are a part. We cannot improve with out benefiting ourselves. We cannot give patronage to concerns in the large cities without giving just so much help to the trust builders and the business centralizers. All these things are worthy of the most serious consideration of every citizen. Adulterated Foodstuffs. The chemist in charge of the labora tory of the department of agriculture at Chicago has been paying careful attention to the purity of foods. Re cently ho made a statement that one great spice company annually ground up GOO tons of cocoanut shells and fla vored the same with essential oils and then sold the powdered stuff for pure Bpices. lie related about another con cern which sold SIOO,OOO worth of spices annually, only five per cent, of which were pure. The common arti cles used for adulteration of spices are sawdust, brick dust, burnt grains, cocoanut shells and other kinds of Bhells and barks. It is the aim of the United States government to put an end to this adulteration of foods. Since the government has become active in tracing down such frauds a Dumber of unscrupulous grocery tiouses have been compelled togo out Df business. Reputation Worth Acquiring. Townspeople owe it to themselves !o build up a reputation for hospital ity. They should ever welcome the •residents of the surrounding country to their town. But hospitality alone will not win. People have their eyes an the mighty dollar, and if in addi tion to hospitality the town secure a wide reputation as a good market place, where eggs and butter bring a few cents a pound more than in some Other town, it will work wonders in drawing patronage to the place. Clean and well-paved streets Indi cate the good character of citizens BUILDING UP THE CHARACTER. A Few Words to the Youth Who Would Make the Most of Life. It Is well that the majority of us value being well thought of. Few young men, anxious to make the most of life, care to have what is common ly known as a "bad reputation." Do you, young man, ever stop to think that there are Immutable laws that control the universe and all therein? Do you ever consider that, light is only the evidence of a luminous body? That the brilliancy of the diamond is merely the rays reflected from the perfectly crystalized carbon? Reputa tion is only the reflection from char acter as it is variously projected upon the screen of public opinion; but rep utation is not character, any more than the light is the luminous body, but is merely the effulgence, the re sult of character. The imitation diamond for a time may rival in splendor and brilliancy the reflections of light of the genuine gem, but this brilliancy is soon dulled. The same with reputation, which sometimes attaches to character which will not stand the test of time, or the scrutiny of the exacting eye of justice. Week after week we read in the pages of the presß of the downfall and disgrace of men high in public estimation, and who, until their duplicity was exposed, were men of most excellent reputation—reputation reflected falsely from an unclean char acter. Character is the mold of moral con sciousness. It is the outgrowth of the heart carefully nurtured by truth ] and love and directed by intelligence j solely influenced by that which is moral in man. It is by reputation that we are to be judged by those with whom we are thrown in either business or social intercourse. Our own acts are the standard by which we will be either praised or con demned. Our own acts are the indica tions of the spirit within. Though we may be most excellent in character, sometimes we may be falsely estimat ed; may acquire through some misun derstood circumstance a reputation un desirable. But character ever counts. It is sure to bring to t.h<* front its worth. The diamond may be robbed of its brilliancy for a time by grime and dirt, but it is nevertheless a dia mond. Your true worth may be ob scured for a time, but it is sure to become known. Character is the greatest thing the young man has to guard. It is the only sure foundation upon which hopes can be rightly based. He who Is true to himself cannot be untrue to others. Would you have character and repu tation, you must work, constantly, un ceasingly, as conscience becomes dead ened and degenerate when not exer cised, and conscience directs the building of character. There are qualities in man that mark his great ness and his superiority—the moral and the mental, and it is by the exer cise of these that greatness and suc cess are gained. AUTOMOBILES FOR THE FARM. Tillers of the Soil to Be on Equality with People of Towns. One of tho large companies en gaged in the manufacturing of farm machinery proposes placing on the market at an early date an automobile especially designed for farm use. This machine will be sold at a reasonable price, and will be put out in various styles ranging from a runabout to a heavy farm truck, which the farmer can use in transporting his grain and other produce to the markets. Transportation of farm produce to the railroad stations and the markets is a question of economy. It is esti mated that at the present time it costs the farmer about nine cents per hundred pounds to carry his grain a distance of 12 miles to the railroad station or market place. It Is ex pected that the installation of auto mobiles for hauling purposes will de crease the expense to three or four cents per hundred pounds. The com • ing of the farm automobile means fur ther improvement of roads. Already the automobile and the rural deliv ery of mail has worked wonders in the way of stimulating interest in road improvement. Once the farmers become automobile users they will be more energetic workers, in fact, enthusiasts for high-class highways. Another use of the automobile in agricultural district# is its employ ment by merchants for delivering goods to patrons in the country. In a number of eastern states enterpris ing merchants send out their clerks with automobiles in the morning to solicit the orders of the people resid ing on the nearby farms, and use the automobile for delivering goods in the afternoon. Merchants who have adopted this plan have found it prof itable and their business greatly in creased, not considering the adver tising received by this innovation. Where Bome Citizens Fail in Duty. Many who have succeeded upon the farms remove to the near-by town to enjoy life, perhaps to give to their children the advantages that the good schools of the place afford. It is too often the case that these people fail to become the model town citizens they should be. While they are desir ous of having all the advantages that the town has to offer they are adverse to doing that which means its im provement and upbuilding. These classes are the "moss-backs," the ones who think that they have done their duty toward themselves and their fel low men when they manage to earn sufficient on the farm so that they can cease work. It may be their priv ilege to quit labor, but they show a poor and lowly spirit when they fall to give the town which they select as a home place the support CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1908. JEROME REFUSES TO DO HIS DUTY IS THE CHARGE PREFERRED AGAINST DISTRICT ATTORNEY. \ SHIELDS RICH CRIMINALS. A Petitfon Asking for His Removal from Office Is Presented to Gov. Hughes by Stockholders in a Street Railway. New York City. Twenty-two spe cific charges are made in a petition praying for the removal of William T. Jerome as district attorney of the county of New York which was sent to Gov. Hughes at Albany Thursday by a committee of stockholders of the Metropolitan Street Railway Co. through their chairman, William F. King. The petition alleges that Jerome failed properly to prosecute charges of alleged "jury fixing" and the giving of false testimony in street railway cases; that the prosecution of viola tions of the criminal law by the life insurance companies of New York, as disclosed by the Armstrong committee, has been delayed; that an alleged criminal conspiracy to divert the prop erty of the Metropolitan Street Rail way Co. into the hands of a few men was allowed by Mr. .Jerome togo on and hundreds of stockholders robbed of their money, and that no attempt was made to punish men alleged to have committed other frauds in con nection with New York traction deals. Mr. Jerome's statements as to judges are alleged to have been not only improper but scandalous in their nature, and to have tended to destroy the confidence of the people in the in tegrity of the courts. The committee also charges that the district attor ney misconducted himself in failing to Indict and seek to convict some one of the officials of the New York Central Railroad Co. in connection with the collision in that company's tunnel in 1902, when 17 persons were killed. Various other cases of alleged failure of the district attorney to perform his duty are cited in the complaint. The petition charges that contribu tions to the campaign fund to elect Mr. Jerome were received by one of Jerome's assistants from men connect ed with large corporations seeking fa vors from the district attorney and that the sum, the amount of which is unknown, was upwards of $.">0,000. Among these contributers, it is al leged, was the attorney for James H. Hyde, who contributed $5,000. Albany, N. Y. —Gov. Hughes said last night that the charges against District Attorney Jerome would take the usual course. A copy of them will be sent to Mr. Jerome, so that he may send an answer to them to the gov ernor, after which the governor will decide as to his course. HERMIT MURDERED 20 WOMEN. A Russian Monk Is Sent to Prison for a Long List of Crimes. Verklioturye, Perm, Russia. The circuit court of this town on Thursday meted out partial justice to a monk named Feodotoff whose crimi nal life was revealed last fall, by sen tencing him to penal servitude for 15 years. Feodotoff came to Verklioturye about two years ago and set up a shrine in a neighboring forest, where he lived as a hermit. He soon attained a great reputation for marvelous cures and his little chapel in the woods became the objective for pilgrimages from all parts of the province of Perm. The monk enjoyed a great reputation for sanctity, but when the revelations came it was learned that his holy ways and words were nothing but a cloak for robbery, murder and debauchery of every kind. The repeated disap pearance of female pilgrims who visit ed the monk's chapel finally attracted the attention of the authorities and in vestigation disclosed the bodies of 20 victims whom Feodotoff had assaulted and murdered and then buried in the cellar of his house. The charge of sacrilege, in that he had stolen the sacramental vessels from churches and monasteries, also was established against the hermit.. Congress. Washington.—There was a lively de bate in the senate on the 27th be tween Senators Owen, of Oklahoma., and Curtis, of Kansas, both of whom have Indian blood in their veins, over, certain portions of the Indian appro priation bill. The house debated the army appropriation bill and the pro vision for increased pay for non-com missioned officers and privates was stricken out. Carnival Begins. New Orleans, La. The street pageants of the Mardi Oras carnival began last night with the parade of the Knights of Momus. Seventeen al legorical floats, each representing one of Aesop's fables, drawn by several horses and bearing masked and fan tastically dressed knights, paraded through packed streets. Killed His Wife. Philadelphia, Pa.—ln a rage be cause she had refused togo with him to New Jersey, Jacob Koebler, aged 25 years, on Thursday shot and killed his wife, wounded her father and mother and then tried to end his own. Runaway Engine Caused Two Wrecks. Brockwayville, Pa. —A locomotive running wild through the Brio railroad yards here on Thursday i crashed into the rear of a freight train at the Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts burg railway intersection, killing two men who were in the caboose of the freight. Endorsed Taft's Candidacy. St. Louis, Mo. —Resolutions fa voring the candidacy of Secretary Taft for president and commending Roose velt's administration were adopted by the Republican state convention here Thursday. SAYS HUSBAND IS A MURDERER OPERA SINGER TELLS OF THE KILLING OF HER BROTHER. Deserted by Husband and Denied the Legality of Their Marriage, Glacia Calla Says She Will Send Him to Electric Chair. New York City.—"The whole story * as she called it, was told last night by Glacia Calla, the beautiful opera singer who, in the tragic role of a deserted bride denouncing her hus band as the murderer of her brother, has excited interest on two continents. Her successes in Paris, her marriage to Paul Roy in Boston, the quarrel at the New Hampshire summer home, followed by u duel; her Might in the night to her mother's home and the ten agonizing hours she spent beside the corpse while the recital of suicide was being decided upon were given by the woman with all the dramatic art of which she is possessed. She agreed to shield her husband, she explained, because "Oh, when you love a man so." Now that her husband has left her and denied the legality of their marriage, and has even asserted that she is several years past her admitted age, the sing er says that she has had time to real ize "the horror of it all," and will "never let up until I drive him to the electric chair." Miss Calla, as she prefers to be called, closed the interview with the statement that she had already told her story to the New Hampshire au thorities and to her attorneys here, by both of whom she had been forbidden to talk about the matter. Miss Calla, who in private life is Mrs. Paul E. Roy, came here several days ago and has since made her home with her cousin, George E. Hodg don, a dealer in automobile supplies. A few days before her husband sailed for Europe she called at his apart ments, but he was not in. She did not see him at any, time here and had not lived with him since the death of her brother, George A. Carkins, on January 2. She engaged counsel u> this city and obtained a warrant for the arrest of her husband, which was afterward sent to Rome. The state ment by her husband, cabled from Paris, in which he asserts that his brother-in-law was killed in self-de fense, led Miss Calla to give her ver sion of the tragedy. Portsmouth, N. H. —A warrant for the arrest of Paul E. Roy on the charge that he murdered his broth er-in-law, George A. Carkins, at New ington January 2, was sworn out last night by Sheriff Collis, of Rockingham county. Although Roy is in France and is said to be a citizen of that country, the authorities have deter mined to get him if possible. FOR NEPHEWS AND NIECES. A Philadelphia Woman Sets Aside SBOO,OOO on the Day of Her Second Marriage. Philadelphia, Pa.—A few hours after the marriage of Mrs. Anne Weight man Walker to Frederick Pen field in New York Wednesday, her attorney in this city announced on behalf of the bride the following gifts to relatives and institutions: A deed of trust under which SOOO,OOO are set aside for the benefit of her nephew and five nieces, and $200,000 for the benefit of four great-neplxews and nieces, in equal portions. Fifty thousand dollars to the Col lege of Physicians in this city, as a memorial to her father, the late Will iam Weightman. Forty thousand dollars to Franklin institute, in this city, to carry out a contract gift made as a memorial to her father. Fifty thousand dollars to the His torical Society of Pennsylvania as a memorial to her first husband, Robert C. W T alker. Twenty thousand dollars to the So ciety to Protect Children From Cru elty, of Philadelphia. Twenty thousand dollars to the So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Five thousand to the Prof. George Allen memorial in the University of Pennsylvania and a similar amount to the library fund of the Perkiomen seminary, of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Penfield is the daughter of the late William Weightman, a wealthy manufacturing chemist of this city. As the only surviving child she was made sole heir of Mr. Weightman's great fortune and her wealth has been estimated at from $40,000,000 to $60,- 000,000. Mrs. Penfield's first husband was R. C. Walker, who was a Penn sylvania member of the Forty-seventh congress and a well known lawyer of Wllliamsport, Pa. lie died in 1903. Mrs. Penfield has two brothers who died leaving six children. After the death of Mr. Weightman, Mrs. Jones Wister, wife of one of the brothers, attempted to break the will In the interest of her daughter. In making her gifts Mrs. Penfield says that but for the attempt to break her father's will she would have previously made a deed of trust for the benefit of the nieces and nephews similar to one which had been provided by Mr. Weightman. Congress. Washington. Senators Culberson and Nelson spoke in criticism of the Aldrich currency bill in the senate on the 26th. The bill to revise the crim inal laws of the United States was passed. In the house Mr. Dalzell (Pa.) deliered a long speech in defense of the Republican party and its policies. Bank's Directors Must Pay $1,500,000. Waynesburg, Pa. —Receiver Strawn, of the defunct Farmers and Dro- Drovers' National bank, has notified the former directors* of the bank that they will have to contribute $1,500,000 as a result of the failure of the bank. The institution was closed on Decem ber 12, 1906, and the shortage amounts to $1,800,000. Refused to Remove Kelsey. Albany, N. Y. The state senate on Wednesday rejected the resolution removing Otto Kelsey from the office of state superintendent of insurance. The vote was 19 to 30. IBaleom 6 Ltoyd. | m WE have the best stocked 8 general store in the county 9 H and if yon are looking for re m liable goods at reasonable S prices, we are ready to serve 8 yon with the best to be found. W Our reputation for trust- B§ worthy goods and fair dealing jif is too well known to sell any 4 but high grade goods. H Our stock of Queensware and | Chinaware is selected with H * L f great care and we have some $[ 112 of the most handsome dishes . ever shown in this section, both in imported and domestio makes. "We invite you to visit || us and look our goods over. | | Mconi Lloyd^j [J LOOK ELSEWHERE BUT DON'T FORGET || THESE PRICES AND FACTS AT || j| 11 LaBAFSIf | IWe carry in stock pets, Linoleums and ' < ft] Mattings of all kinds . Vjf gfTrfrtffiWtß IN town. Also a big line M A very large line of -FOB_TBE K| Lace Curtains that can- Mt ? Mhvl M . lAk iif lA El COHfMBIE LODGING Sj Art Squares and of flne.books In a chojce library ?'!| M Rugs of all sizes and select the Ideal pattern of Qlt&'s- W M kind, from the cheap- Wernicke "Elastic" Bookcase. |< Nest to the best Furnished with bevel French || || plate or leaded glass doors. || || Dining Chair®, •»"" || || Rockers and GEO. J. L^BAR, High ChairS. Hole Afent for Cameroh County. |fg A large and elegant I———————J M El line of Tufted and || Drop-head Couches. Beauties and at bargain prices. fi^j E2 |3O Bedroom Suite, (OP |4O Sideboard, quar- 6* Tfl E'j solid oak at 4>ZO tered c'ak JJwU ff 128 Bedroom Suite, tf*)l |32 Sideboard, quar- <£QC R? |f solid oak at 3ZI tered oak. . 125 Bed room Suite, Clfl |22 Sideboard, quar- jvl || solid oak at )ZU tered oak,.. 3*o || || A large line of Dressers from Chiffoniers of all kinds and |Hf || $8 up. all "prices. |£ fcj The finest line of Sewing Machines, on the masfeet, £'g || the "DOMESTrC" and "HLDRILG^. 1 M d&p- jj heads and warranted. S3 A fine line of Dishes, common grade and China, in *jj sets and by the piece. M As I keep a full line of everything that goes to M |i make up a good Furniture store, it 'is usefess to enum- H || erate th'em all. || || Please call and see for_ypursetf that lam teeing || rj you the truth, and if you do'ff !t TJira, there is no iiarth 112 5 done, as it is no trouble to stow goods. K I GEO. J .LaBAR. f| UNIDBrnPAK.INO. *4 rerczazzxsaggssssiisss^ssssii 3
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