2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. f'tr T»«r 92 00 112 paid la advance l-> 0 ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of «oo dollar per square fur one insertion anil fifty per square fur each subsequent insertion. Rates i>y the year, or for six or three months, »re low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less. each subsequent Inser tion .'0 cents per square. Local notices In cents per line for one Inser ter lion: 5 cents per line lor each subsequent •on«ecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five lines 10 cents per line. Siniple announcements of births, mar riacef: and deaths will lie inserted free. Business cards five lines or less. >f> per year; over live lines, at the regular rales of ailver t s'.ntr No local inserted for less than 75 cents per Uaue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Phkss Is complete •nd affords facilities fordoing the best class of w..rk. Pabticulak attln i ion paiuto Law Printing. No paper will be discontinued until arrear rges ore paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for In advance. As Dirty aa Possible. Hundreds of young women are being trained all over the country for charity workers. Philanthropy is now recog nized as a profession, for which one needs a special education as truly as for teaching. One of the first lessons a worm-hearted woman needs in deal ing with povertj is to distinguish dirt from misery. To one accustomed to clean surroundings, the filth in which many poor people live seems intolera ble. It would eutail absolute wretched ness un the visitor. Rut, in point of fact, the families who live embedded in dirt usually do so because it does not offend them. The poor womau whose senses are tortured by bac odors and foul sights manages that her rooms shall be clean, no matter how bare they may be, or how empty her cupboard and coal-bin. The friendly visitor who thinks that tidiness is a sure sign of comfort and dirty disorder an equally sure sign of extreme want ■will make serious mistakes in her dis pensing of gifts. Said a poor woman to a sympathetic and experienced vis itor, "Thank you, miss, for praising my clean room and giving me the coal order in the same breath. You aren". like most of the rich folks, who think if you're too dirty to touch with a ten foot pole you must be poor, and there's no end to what they'll give you; but if you're clean and decent — no matter what it costs you—you'ro lucky people, who want nothing from anybody." Intelligent philanthropy looks below the surface, says the Youth's Companion, and discovers that real suffering may have a clean face and real comfort a dirty one. The helpful friend is sympathetic without being sentimental, and knows how tc seek out the pain which hides itself, and how to ignore the plea of those who try to appear as dirty and misera, ble as possible. The laws of some states require that savings banks shall advertise thci names of depositors to whose accounts no additions have been made during a specified time, usually 20 years. Man> of these dormant accounts are never claimed. Depositors forget, or die in testate, or simply drop out of sight. The same thing happens in other cour.. thries. Thus In 1888-9 the Panama Canal company of Prance made an issue of bonds having a par value ot 400 francs. Although they bear no in terest, several hundred bonds are re deemed each year at a premium. One would suppose that the bond-holders would watch for those premiums; yet the company's current statement shows that nearly 300 of the bonds drawn previous to 1005 have never been presented for payment, although two of them are entitled to premiums of 100,000 francs, and none is worth less than a thousand francs. Making all allowances for accidents that de stroy bonds, bank-books and the own ers, it seems that many persons who are wise enough to save money are unwisely indifferent as to what be comes of their savings. Good and healthy Kirls are almost always cheerful. No novelist would consider his youthful heroine complete it' a "ringing laugh" were omitted from the list of her charms; and in real life the girls who do not laugh now and then are seldom trusted or liked by their companions. Even beauty will Dot save them. A belle who fails to understand the jests of her admirers, and smiles in amiable bewilderment while other people are laughing, is soon left with no consolation save to wonder what anybody can see in her rival—a girl with "up-turned" nose, perhaps, and a large mouth and freckles, but the happy possessor of a pair of merry eyes and a cheerful dis position. The gift of jtayety, says the New \ ork Weekly, is indeed of great value; but it must be gayety which originates in a kind and cheery heart, not that which is born of mere ex citement or gratified vanity. A Chicago woman went, into hyster ics and called for the police because the had been attacked by a "hugger," and later it was discovered that ir; stead of a bold, bad man, a bear had embraced her. This must have been disappointing enough to bring on an other attack of hysterics. THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM YOKE OF MOB RULE INEVITABLE IF BRYAN AND HIS IDEAS WIN. Nebraska Platform Proves That the "Perpetual Candidate" Has In No Way Altered His Ideas— Still State Socialist. Tlie Nebraska Democratic platform is known to have been revised by Mr. Bryan and is believed to have been written by him. In its pompous state ment of self-evident truths and in the plausibility of its half-truths it. cer tainly bears "Bryan" stamped all over it. Hence it may be set down as the Bryan program. It contains, of course, all of Mr. Bryan's old hobbies such as the "elec tion of senator by popular vote," and it offers the sapient suggestion that the way to "bust the trusts" is to"put on the free list" anything manufac tured by a joint stock company. It also counsels, of course, the haul ing down of the flag in the Philippines and the abandonment of that Ameri can territory. It also looks forward in times when every other nation is getting away from academic "free trade," to a "tariff for revenue only" as a millennial condition toward which we should strive. The platform clearly declares for a national income tax and a national in heritance tax, not for revenue but to "reach 'swollen fortunes.'" It does not even pretend that a larger national revenue is needed. It openly presents these "taxes" as a method of taking away property from the men who are supposed to have "too much." It goes to the full length of state socialism with respect to regulation of commerce and industry. It "es serts" not only "the right of congress to exercise complete control over in terstate commerce," but also "the right of each state to exercise just as com plete control over commerce within its borders." It would have us all livo st all times under the shadow of governmental inspection, state and national. In brief, the Bryan platform invites us by our votes to put upon our necks the yoke of mob rule and upon our bodies the strait-jacket of state social ism. It offers as a balm for our wounds the hair of the dog that has bitten us. It promises to keep on doing to us— only harder and more continuously— exactly what has been done to us for the last three or four years, and what has brought us to our present re verses. Do we want more of the dose we have had for the last six months? Por sane and free Americans there can be but one answer. We do not. Better Army Pay. If the United Slates is to have and maintain the kind of a regular army it needs in numbers and quality it must offer a decent wage to the en listed men. The present figure of sl3 a month is ridiculous and obsolete. The proposed increase of two dol lars a month, as provided in the Hull bill, may seem niggardly on the face of it; but it appears that provision is made for further increase conditioned on the soldier's will and ability to earn it. The enlisted man can earn a max imum of S2O a month by attaining a standardized degree of proficiency with the rifle, and there are two in termediate degrees of proficiency car rying increases of two and three dol lars, respectively. The principle of offering this incentive to excel in the main point of soldierly efficiency is? sound, and no man worth his salt will rest content with the minimum of sls when he can qualify for S2O. The house bill provides for increas ing the pay of the enlisted men only, but there is a bill in the senate mak ing similar provision for commissioned officers; and the result doubtless will be a reasonable increase all round, it is a sheer ease of necessity. If we are to get, and keep the right kind of men lri the army, the right kind of pay and other inducements must be of fered. CAMsZRON COUNTV PRE SB, T/HUR>SDAY, APRIL 2, 1908 BAILEY HYPOTHESIS IS WRONG. Senator's Talks of Shylocks' Gr«cd Not Borne Out by Facts. Senator Bailey in his speech on the Aldrich bill scored the shylocks who bring on a panic, and then sit like personified greed upon their locked and guarded chests of gold. There they sit, according to the observant senator, until the hour comes when they can buy three dollars' worth of their neighbor's property with one dollar of their hoarded money. The senator's assumption that the shylocks of the country helped to bring on the panic for the sake of profiting by it may pass for what it is worth. It has not in the past been the custom of men of great wealth active ly engaged in financial operations to start conflagrations that might do them more harm than anybody else. Hut if there were men sitting on chests of gold which they did not. open until the bargain counter was most attractive, there were in all parts of the country men with a little money in a bank or a safety deposit vault who also took advantage of the op portunity. The aftermath of the great fall in stock exchange quotations was a not able increase in the number of share holders of the prominent corporations. These numerous purchasers of small lots of stocks and bonds are no shy locks. They are merely the sensible pickers up of good bargains. Accord ing to all appearances, the small in vestors got more of the securities which their former owners had to throw overboard during the panic than the men did who had chests of gold at their command. It is well that the securities of corporations and their profits should be distributed more gen erally than they have been. This beneficent result of the panic Senator Bailey cannot perceive. He can see only the hypothetical gains of some unnamed shylocks who, lie says, pulled down the pillars of the financial edi fice that they might pick up some val uables in the ruins. Party of Achievement. It is no accident that while the Dem ocratic. party lias but one candidate, handicapped by perpetual defeat, the Republican party has this great group, each a man of special experience and training. Platform eloquence is Bry an's chief claim for recognition. The candidates of the Republican party | have done the world's work. They | have shared in the solution of great ! problems, state and national. They | are trained in the arduous school of events because the Republican party for threescore years has made history and offered to those who join it as young men the privilege of great ca reers in the service of a great party. With every new task the Repub lican party has shown new youth, new strength and a new wisdom. It is mora j than ever to-day the party of young J men. It attracts them by the oppor tunities of the future as well as by the glories of its past. It never of fered more to young men than it does to-day, and it never had more young men, the best and pick of the land, within its ranks. Nigh a century after the birth of its first great president, it. remains as it was when he led it, the party of youth, of hope, of bound less opportunity and of historic achievement. Mr. Bryan's Warning. Mr. Bryan issues a solemn warning that a plot is on foot to send untrust worthy delegates to the Denver con vention, and he calls on the Demo cratic masses to be on guard. Science has delicate instruments for record ing earthquake shocks, but it has nothing delicate enough to catch the tremor that will pass through the "masses" at this call. Neither Leader Nor Issue. The plight of the Democracy is piti ful. Without a leader or an issue, pos sessing neither u prophet nor an in spiration, it is, or just now seems to be, in extremis, sure enough!— New York Sun. DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE IS DEAD HIS DEATH LEAVES A BIG GAP IN ENGLAND'S POLITICAL RANKS Had an Active Life—Declined Offer of Premiership—Had a Large Fol lowing in the Country. Cannes. —Spencer Compton Caven dish, eighth Duke of Devonshire, died Wednesday of heart failure. He was born July 23, 1833. The death of the duke leaves a gap In the public life of Great Itritain, for although his withdrawal from the Bal four ministry when Joseph Chamber lain launched his fiscal policy es tranged him from a majority of the party, he still had a large following in the country, and as president of the Unionist Free Trade league took an active part in the campaign against tariff reform. Few men have spent a more active political life than the Duke of Devon shire. He had been almost continu ously a cabinet member in charge of some important department, as a Lib eral before the split with Gladstone and later as leader of the Liberal- Unionists. He led ths Liberals during the temporary retirement of Gladstone In 1875, and was offered, but refused, the premiership after the Midlothian campaign of 1880. He was again of fered this honor upon the defeat of home rule, but he again refused. The duke was often the guest of his majesty, and it was when he was with the king at W lndsor last June for the 4scot races that the first seriout symptoms of heart weakness were Jisplayed. Last fall he left London for Egypt to spend the winter. In January a recurrence of the heart weakness was reported, but from this tie rallied, and was able to start for Some, stopping at Cannes to rest. The duke has no immediate family, «nd the dukedom passes to his nephew, Mr. Cavendish, who married the daughter of Lord Lansdowne. The death of the duke places a badge of the Order of the Garter at the disposal of King Edward, and this, n accordance with custom, will be re turned to his majesty by the succes sor to the title. A number of public offices also are made vacant, notably the chancellorship of Cambridge uni versity, the lord lieutenancy of Derby shire and the provincial grandmaster ship of the Derbyshire Masons, a post which the duke held for half a cen tury. The duke owned about 18G.000 acres. PROTEST AGAINST DR. HILL Appointement to Succeed Tower Meets with Unexpected and Unex plained Hitch. Washington, D. C.—An intimation has reached the state department from the embassy at Berlin that the appointment of Dr. David Jayne Hill as successor to Ambassador Tower may not be entirely acceptable to the German people. No reasons are given for the al leged dissatisfaction, nor will the state department admit that the mat ter has been put In official form. Some weeks ago the German gov ernment signified its approval of Hill's selection for the post. Tower's res ignation has not yet been received, al though he has written the president lie intended resigning. Officials here are at a loss to un derstand why Hill may not be accept able to Germany. Since Emperor William some time ago personally in dicated to this government he would be acceptable, the question arises as to whether Germany's attention may have been attracted to Hill since. He was a most logical man for the Berlin post because of his knowledge of Germany and her people. As a member of the American dele gation at the last peace conference at The Hague he was in close relations with the German delegation. He per sonally arranged most, of the enter tainment extended to Prince Henry of Prussia by this government upon his visit to this country in March, 1902. He was appointed assistant secre tary of state in October, 189S, was made minister to Switzerland in Jan uary, 1903, and was promoted minister to the Netherlands in March, 1905, where he is still serving. TO PERSECUTE THE JEWS More Atrocious Than Attempted by Russia is Campaign Initiated by Roumania. Berlin. —Roumania has initiated a campaign of persecution of Jews, ac cording to advices to the government here, equaling anything of which the Russian government, lias been guilty. Acting under orders from the cap ital, the local authorities are expelling thousands of Jewish families from dis tricts in which they have been un molested for years, and in some cases for generations. The exiles have been reduced to destitution, but their appeals for justice are entirely ignored by the Roumanian government. The campaign is in violation of the Berlin treaty, and the German press is urging the signatory powers to interfere in the sufferers' behalf. The expulsions are wholly unex plained. An outbreak of Jew-baiting is also reported at Jaffa, in Palestine, where Turkish soldiers, police and a mob of Moslem fanatics sacked the ghetto and wounded men, women and chil dren. Electric Chair for Gillette. Albany, N. Y. —Chester Gillette of Cortland must die in the elec tric chair at. Auburn prison next week for the murder of his sweet heart Grace Brown, of South Otselic, at Big Moose Lake two years ago. Gov. Hughes will not Interfere. Will Close Indefinitely. Chicago, 111. —The • problem of the unemployed of Hammond, Ind., will become acute with the end of the present week when the Hammond Steel Car Co., which employs nearly one-fourth of the population of tb" town, will close indefinitely. TRUST CRUSHED: SO SMS WITNESS BUSINESS KILLING TACTICS OF STANDARD PLACED THINGS "TOPSY TURVEY." 25 CENT PREMIUMS PAID Th? Failure of Large Numbers of In dependent Oil Dealers in '73 and '74 Attributed to the Great Panic of '73. Cleveland, O. —Details of business killing tactics of the Standard Oil Co. were told on the wit ness stand in the trust hearing Thurs day by C. J. Castle, proprietor of the Columbia Refining Company, a former trust "confidential agent." He told of securing information about shipments of indepnedent oil from the W. & L. E. agent at Mas sillon, 0., and from the Pennsylvanaia agent at Alliance. These agents were paid in oil. Blanks, without names or heading, were furnished by the Stand ard, Castle said. Castle's duties, he said, were to in stall tank wagons in independent fields, cut prices, an'] force the inde pendents to sell out. The New Ameri can Company was thus driven out at Oberlin, he said. Castle said he himself had to sell out to the Standard when the trust bought up all tank cars in the country in 1885. Five other independent com panies were crushed in the same way. Louis Irwin, millionaire Pittsburger, called to testify for the government Thursday in its case against the oil trust, proved an exceptionally good witness for the Standard. Irwin was a member of the late lamented South Improvement Com pany, the first big Rockefeller project, but for 20 years has not engaged in the business. He drew out of the South Improvement Company before the wreck of that enterprise, and 13 years later sold his refinery. AN OHIO MAN IN TROUBLE Dr. Stanton Coit, Formerly of Co lumbus, 0., Accused of Assault in London. London, England.—Friends of Dr. Stanton Coit, American sociologist, sentenced in West London police court Thursday to a month's impris onment on a charge of assaulting an omnibus driver, declare the doctor a victim of a blackmailing plot or a frightful error by an over-suspicious, evil-minded accuser. Coit is at liberty under bail fur nished by Sir Montagu Pollock, with whom he dined before his arrest. He has appealed the case and supporters, rallying by hundreds, say there will be no difficulty in proving him inno cent. The doctor, they say, frequently consults workingmen concerning their lives, and, in seeking to gain the driver's confidence probably excited the man's suspicions and led him to imagine what was far from his ques tioner's thoughts. The conductor told the court when he collected his passenger's fare the latter squeezed his hand, followed him to the top of the bus, questioned him concerning his working hours and at tacked him. Coit is nearly prostrated. He seemed thunderstruck when the mag istrate pronounced sentence, exclaim ing: "My wife!" Coit was born in Columbus, O. He spent years in New York working to improve the condition of the poor and established what later developed into the University Settlement movement. He went to London in 1894 and con tinued his sociologist work. In 1898 he married Miss Adela Wetzlar in Kensington town hall. NIGHT RIDERS RAID AGAIN Warehouse, Stock and Homes Are Burned—Small Quantity of Goods Saved. Cincinnati, O. —Night riders visited Covington, largest of the Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati, on Thursday and applied the torch to the immense tobacco warehouse of T. S. Hamilton & Co. When they left, the warehouse, with its? half a million pounds of tobacco, and six neighboring dwellings were in flames. Only a small quantity of household goods was saved. The loss will reach $1 .">O,OOO. The warehouse was burned to aches,, and nothing but tottering walls remain of the three-story brick dwellings. The fire spread so rapidly that the residents of the houses adjoining the warehouse barely had time to escape. City Auditor Gould and his family, who live next door to the warehouse, saved nothing from their home. Had Mrs. Gould not been awake at the time of the fire, the family might have been burned to death. Miss Nellie Feeney was ill in her tliird-story room when the fire broke out. She had to be carried from the building. Goes to South Africa. Galion, O. —Airs. Eulah F. Cant well has been appointed princi pal of a Methodist school for boys in Uruguay. To Fight Berry Bill. Cleveland, O. —The Municipal as sociation may fight the Berry bill for the extension of the terms of county officers. This bill, if passed, would give County Commissioner Mac kenzie five years more in office, Mat hews six, and Fischer seven, without re-election. Other officers would have their terms extended until 1911. Will Run Full Time. Schnectady, N. Y. The Alpha Knitting Company of this city, which employs 300 hands, announced that beginning Monday the mill will be run on full time. HARRIMAN HANDED BOUQUET HE IS TRIUMPHANTLY VINDI CATED BY ASSOCIATES. Proposed Issue of Bonds Investigated by Committee of Three Disin terested Directors. New York City.—As the result of an investigation which, by no stretch of the imagination, could he called cruel, E. H. Harriman was tri umphantly vindicated Friday by his associates in the directorate of the Union Pacific. Mr. Harriman had been accused of grafting in the salt* of other railroad stocks to the Union Pacific. H. H. Rogers and .James Stillman were similarly accused. As Mr. Harriman controls the Union Pa cific it.was never felt that the verdict would be harassingly severe. In fact, it was not a verdict, but a bouquet. While in an exonerating frame of mind the directors refused to grant the request of certain Connecticut stockholders to sue Harriman, Rogers and Stillman to recover profits which were alleged to have accrued to them in the deal. The stocks sold to the Union Pacific and the manner of selling them have been the subject of inquiry by the Interstate commerce commission and Mr. Harriman refused, "by advice of counsel," to answer direct questions BS to his interest. It has recently been decided by the supreme court that ho must answer. The stocks in question were those of the Illinois Central, tha Railroad Securities Co. and the St. Joseph & Uran 1 Island. The directors said the purchase was authorized in advance and that Hani man, Rogers and Stillman, who had blocks of the stocks, were excused from voting. INSTITUTION WAS LOOTED Bank Employes Charged with Stealing $1,105,000 —Teller and Auditor Face Two Charges. Pittsburg, Pa. —Charging the steal of $1,105,000, informations were made on Friday against Henry Rei ber and John Young, teller and auditor, respectively, of the Farmers' Deposit National bank, sworn to by National Bank Examiner Folds. The two accused men. with Harry Silverman, manager of the local of fice of a New York brokerage con cern, already face three charges. Their counsel has begun proceedings to secure their release, but with pros pects of greater revelations. United States Commissioner Lindsay, it is be lieved, will refuse to fix any bail Reiber and Young for years had entire control of cash of the bank. Over half a million has been taken from the bank within the last eight months. The men have made a confession to the government authorities and the amount they admit appropriating cor responds almost exactly v.ilh the pres ent shortage. UNKNOWN WOMAN A HERO Makes Two Trips Into Burning Build ing and Saves Children, but Is Burned Herself. New York City.—Two trips by a brave woman into a burning Hat house in Borough Park Friday night resulted in the rescue of five children wh», unconscious of their danger, were playing happily. The rescuer was a stranger, Mrs. I.ilia Raymond, who was passing the house when the fire started, rang in an alarm and then ran back to (he house. She burst in the front door and led Mrs. Joseph Lock to the street, then rescued Mrs. Lock's chil dren. The dress of one child was afire on the last trip, and in extinguishing the flames Mrs. Raymond was badly burned about the face and hands. The house was destroyed. NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and Houso of Representatives. Washington.—ln the senate on the 25th a bill was introduced to legalize contracts and agreements not in "un reasonable restraint of trade," to ap ply to corporations of every character. An amendment was made to the cur rency bill. In the house a bill was in troduced making it a misdemeanor to publish anarchistic newspapers. Washington.—With five Republicans voting against it and three democrats for it.the Aldrich currency bill was. passed in the senate on the 27th. The house engaged in a desultory discus sion of the agricultural appropriation bill. Spring Weather Brings Better Trade. New York City.—Dispatches to Dunn & Co.'s Review indicate that spring weather is bringing out a better retail demand lhan many dealers anticipated and the general situation is slowly improving, although collections are not yet satisfactorily prompt. Im provement in the commercial situation is more in evidence at Boston, retail ers noting an early demand for spring merchandise, and wholesale business is reviving. A better demand for lum ber promises more active building operations. Retail trade at Philadel phia is expected to improve when the weather becomes more settled. Job bers of woolens note an increase aud steel mills are resuming. Bank Secretary Anxious to Return. San Francisco, Cal. —The Call on Friday said: Wo»<l reached the office of the chief of police Friday that John Dalzell Robertson, assistant secretary of the defunct California Safe Deposit <£• Trust Co., was in New York and anxious to return to San Francisco and turn state's evidence. Misrepresented Himself. Naples, Italy.—A man representing himself as an agent of the On ban government has arrived here for the purpose, he says, of enlisting Italian carbineers to repress brigand* age in Cuba.
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