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.
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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.
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m liable goods at reasonable
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8 yon with the best to be found.
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B§ worthy goods and fair dealing
jif is too well known to sell any
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