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Shut In.
A maiden aunt who had lost her
money was provided with a home in a
well-to-do family. At once she identi
fied herself with its Interests, and be
ing a housekeeper born, was able to
serve them in many ways. AB occa
sion arose, she played the parts oi
cook, maid, nurse, seamstress, laun
dicss. gardener, social secretary and
night watchman. So faithful was she
to such duties that sho never left
town, when others took vacations, and
for weeks at a time did not stir be
yond the gate. The family "gave her
a home," as they and she said. Actu
ally she earned her living three times
over. In return for board, lodging
and clothing, she accomplished tasks
and bore responsibilities that few do
mestics would have been willing to
undertake at any price. Unlike the
domestics, she had no Thursday and
Sunday afternoons, and her social life
was limited to the every-day associa
tion with self-absorbed and indifferent
relatives. The "shut-ins" who are
confined by illness have a society
through which they are ministered to
by many gracious influences, says the
Youth's Companion. The shut-ins who
are too poor to maintain homes, and
whose kinsfolk are too proud to let
them seek the shelter of an institu
tion, are unorganized and attract no
notice; but in many cases they are
equally deserving of sympathy. True,
there is seldom intentional unkindness
jwii'tcuv m turitou mlu n (ii ifqifjc, 'n
the relatives had been unfeeling they
would have sent the old aunt or uncle
to the poorhouse. When we "give a
home" we do a fine thing. But before
we plume ourselves unduly, it is well
to glance at the other side of the ac
count, and see how much money is
saved and how many wearisome little
tasks are spared us by the old woman
who is "able to help round," or the old
man who "just does the chores."
It has been discovered by a maga
zine writer that an ambitious child
may secnre a university education and
board at Valparaiso, Ind., for about 23
cents a day. The northern Indiana
university has placed education on the
bargain counter. The poor boy can go
there and learn from the same books
used in the institutions where 23 cents
a day wouldn't be a start on spending
money. Of course, says the Chicago
Daily News, it should be understood
I>y the ambitious that only plain table
hoard and unadorned knowledge go
for that sum. No young man need ex
pect to be able to break a rib as a
baseball hero for any amount like that
and neither can a young woman bios
fcom out as a society queen with a few
studies as incidentals. As there is
nothing doing but education it will
never be popular with the frivolous
rich.
Hi at the preservation of the value
of railroad investments is a matter of
widespread interest is illustrated by
the recent report of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company, Ehowing that thero
are more than 78,000 shareholders in
the parent company and those con
trolled by it, and that there has been
an increase of more than 10,000 stock
holders in the past year.
Enlistment in the peaceful army of
postal clerks has heretofore been de
nied to applicants under five feet four
and weighing less than 125 pounds.
The authorities have recently dropped
the rule from the list of regulations. A
physical giant is not needed to sort
mail with speed and accuracy.
A new species of hazing has started.
A college student in St. Louis was
taken to a train by a party of fellow
vtduents and sent home, with a warn
ing not to come back. His offense
was being a mollycoddle, which shows
liow the young idea has been im
pressed by the strenuous life.
A Wellesley college professor re
bukes her pupils for wasting so much
time playing bridge—a game which
she designates as "a sort of mental
shewing gum suited best to empty
minds." Will thai teacher dare to
come outside and repeat her remark?
YOU CAN'T FOOL WILLIAM.
ALL ARE BENEFITED
ECONOMIC VIEW OF AMERICA'S
NAVAL OUTLAY.
Money Wisely Expended by Republi
can Party Flows Through All
Channels of Trade —Business Un
dertakings Built Up.
Senator Perkins of California, In a
speech before the senate, took a view
concerning the benefits which the
country has derived since 1883 from
the building of the modern navy,
which, though a somewhat unusual
one, is worthy of consideration. He
has figured up the cost of the vessels
of the new navy, built, building or au
thorized, as $309,359,190, and the total
expenditure on account of the naval
establishment since 18S3 as $1,244,-
651,029. But according to the theory
of the California senator, the country
has much more to show as an offset to
the nearly one and a quarter billion
dollars which has been paid during
the past 25 years for the conduction
and support of the naval outfit. He
points out that the building of the
navy has contributed greatly to the
fostering of the country's iron and
,fh;it from a. coni
of a century ago the United States has
risen to first rank in iron and steel
manufactures. In 1880, as he shows,
there were only 140,000 wage-earners
engaged in the various departments of
iron and steel production, and to these
was paid dining that year $55,000,000,
while in 1905 there were 857,000 work
ers employed in these same indus
tries, and these drew a total wage dur
ing the last-named year of $482,000,-
000.
These figures cannot fail to be im
pressive, and while the building of the
new navy is only one of the factors
that contributed to this enormous In
dustrial expansion, there can be no
question that it was an important fac
tor. The principle involved is that
money expended in the realization of
one great enterprise gives a sustain
ing impetus to other enterprises,
which in their turn build up still other
business undertakings. The ancient
sneer concerning "the producing of
general prosperity by general taxa
tion" does not embody the concen
trated wisdom which its originator
doubtless believed he had packed into
the epigram, it is better that indus
trial activity should be inaugurated
and maintained by the output of a
government-collected revenue than
that there should be a general indus
trial stagnation. In the navy the Uni
ted States has an outfit which few
thoughtful observers will regard as
being unnecessary, considering that
the building of navies is being pushed
in every quarter of the globe. As Sec
retary Tal't recently remarked, "it fills
the measure of the eye," which may
be translated into' the common slang
of the land as notifying foreign pow
ers with trespassing proclivities to
keep off our grass plots.
Hut while the country has the direct
value that depends upon the owner
ship of a great navy, there has also
unquestionably been a highly impor
tant indirect compensation in the fos
tering of affiliated industries. Not
alone the thousands of workmen em
ployed in building the warships and
guns and those other thousands who
dug the ores and who worked in the
plate mills have been benefited, but
the farmers who have found a better
market demand and the tradesmen
who have sold their various commodi
ties to the shipworkers, the inillmen
and the miners have shared in the
prosperity impulse derived from the
building of the navy. The money
which the government collects from
the people it again distributes among
the people.
Protection for American Forests.
The specific revision of the tariff
which the president recommends to
this congress as a forerunner and
pledge of general revision by the next
congress is the removal of the duty
on wood pulp. This revision meets
the Republican requirement that it
shall be on protective Jines. in that it
protects the American forests. No
other national asset, stands in greater
Immediate need of protection.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1908.
BIRTHPLACE OF GREAT PARTY.
Good Reasons for Preservation of
House at Ripon, Wis.
The preservation by the people of
Ripon,, Wis., of the the old school
house where the Republican party
was born in a proceeding to be com
mended. Such memorials of men
whose services to the country that
party made possible are being care
fully preserved and protected, and are
regarded as sacred relics. The cabin
where Lincoln was born is likely to be
almost as great nn object of interest
in the future as is the home of Wash
ington. The house where Grant lived
In his obscurity has a special impor
tance to patriotic Americans because
he lived there. Then why not regard
as a precious possession the house
under whose roof the party which
gave opportunity to these men had its
origin?
In February, 1854, a number of citi
zens—Whigs, Democrats and Free
Soilers—gathered in this schoolhouse
at Ripon and took the first steps
toward the formation of a new party.
Three weeks later a local organiza
tion was effected and the name "Re
publican" was chosen. From that
beginning the great Republican party
| grew—its foundation being the one
| overpowering impulse of opposition to
Because of the long list of states
j men and heroes who came to the front
I under its administration it should be
! commemorated Lincoln, Stanton,
j Sumner, Wade, Chase, Morton, Grant,
Sherman, Thomas and, later, Blaine,
Harrison, Hay, McKinley, Roosevelt;
because of these and a host hardly
less distinctive, the party deserves
tribute. Under it the country has
reached a development and prosperity
never dreamed before it came into ex
istence, that never could have been
reached but for what it accomplished.
Its place of beginning is truly a place
to be set apart and honored. What
ever its faults may have been, how
ever it may have failed or may yet
fail, its services are too great to be
forgotten.
Exports of Farm Products.
How much of truth is there in the
assertion that American farmers are
suffering tor lack of foreign markets,
and hence demand a reduction of our
tariff as the price of gaining a larger
sale abroad for their products? Of
ficial statistics do not bear out the
claim. For the seven months ending
January, 1908, our exports of food
stuffs amount to $258,391,644. Of this
sum breadstuffs furnished $142,380,-
187; meat and dairy products, $98,-
357,827, and cattle, hogs and sheep,
$17,053,630.
This total of $255,391,04-1 of export
ed food products is tho largest for any
corresponding seven months hereto
fore known.
American farmers further contrib
uted to the export trade in the same
seven months raw cotton of the value
of $:!16,802,105. Add this to the $258,-
331,044 of food products and we find
that in seven months the total exports
of commodities grown and produced
on American farms were valued at
$575,253,749.
The truth of the matter is that
American farmers are selling to for
eigners all that they have left after
the American demand is supplied, and
at exceptionally good prices, too.
To Bar "Red" Literature.
President Roosevelt has tersely de
fined thejnfamy of anarchistic litera
ture when he says that if the law de
mands that such literature must be
carried, then the law makes the post
master general an accessory to mur
der in so far as the circulation of mur
derous literature directly leads to as
sassination.
It is intolerable that anarchists,
whose doctrine is lawlessness of tho
most violent kind, should bo permitted
to use the government service to
spread their propaganda and with tho
knowledge and consent of the govern
ment. The president is to be com
mended in the highest terms for ask
ing an immediate investigation by tho
department of justice of the law in re
lation to such literature. If there is
not already authority for the suppres
sion of inflammatory papers, that fact
should be determined at once so that
congress may enact a special law or
amendment in this session.
FEDERAL GRAND JDRY DDSY
INDICTMENTS AGAINST NUMBER
OF OHIO PEOPLE.
Former Cashier of a Leetonia, 0.,
Bank, Charged With Embezzle
ment and Making False Entries.
Cleveland, O. —W. H. Schmlck,
cashier of the Leetonia, 0., First Na
tional bank, was indicted on 6® counta
by the federal grand jury Wednesday.
The charges say that he embezzled
money from the bank and made false
entries in the bank's books to cover up
the embezzlement.
John W. Chapman. Akron, who ia
charged with embezzling $9,000 from
the postoffice in that place, of which
he was assistant postmaster, was also
Indicted. The warrant for his arrest
has not yet been served.
Miss Verde Mulllet, 81 years old,
Baltic, 0., was Indicted, charged with
■ending improper letters to her aunt,
Mrs. John Mullet, also of Baltic.
Miss Mulllltt Is alleged to have
started writing the letters to her aunt
after she received a comic valentine.
Other true billa were reported: Gus
tave Reuther and Gus A. Jannell,
Cleveland, charged with sending im
proper letters through the malls;
Thomas Mcßee, Mansfield, charged
with using the mains to defraud; Jo
seph and Antlonetta Ropp, Cleveland,
and George Short, Elyria, charged
with violating the oleomargarine laws;
William Brown, Elyria, charged wltb
engaging in the retail business with
out a license.
TROTHsIfIUSr BE WRITTEN
After Easter Verbal Engagement*
Will Net Be Allowed by the Ro-
Man Catholle Church.
Cleveland. O. —After Easter morn
ing an edict on engagements and
marriage ceremonies recently issued
by Pope Pius X., goes into effect and
private marriage engagements will be
referred to as "an Incitement to sin
and a cause for daceptlon of young and
inexperienced girls" of the Roman
Catholic faith.
For the past four Sundays priests
of the Cleveland diocese have read
the pope's decree. Lectures have
been given on the topic. Not only in
Cleveland, but throughout America,
the enclyclical becomes mandatory.
Bishop Horstmann said Wednesday;
"The order was read last Sunday for
the final time.
"It becomes effective on Easter Sun
day morning."
The principal features of the edict
are:
"Only those engagements are con
sidered valid which have been con
tracted in writing, signed by both par
ties and by either the parish priest or
the ordinary of the place or at least
by two witnesses "
The marriage must be with the con
sent of the priest of the parish in
or both have lived for at least a month
If neithpr party has a fixed abode
the marriage may not be performed at
all, except with permission of the
priest's superior.
Workmen Find Fortune.
New York City. Convinced that
William Jaynes, who died last
fall at Hempstead, L. 1., had pos
sessed a considerable amount of
money, the executors of his will made
a thorough search of his property
and finally decided to tear down the
dilapidated cottage in which the man
had spent his life. After a portion of
the wall had been taken down the
workmen found two bags, one con
taining $5,000 in gold, the other $6,000
in bank notes. Later they discov
ered bank books which will bring the
value of the estate to $25,000.
Skin Grafted on Young Child.
New York City.— Skin grafting
on one of the youngest patients who
have ever undergone the operation
has been successfully tried on Bertha
Zola, 6 months old, a grandnieee of
Emile Zola, the French author, at the
Harlem hospital. The child, on Feb
ruary 10, was terribly scalded on the
face, chest and arms. A burn about
four inches square on the right arin
failed to heal. The skin to cover the
four inches of scalded surface was
taken in small pieces from the child's
left thigh.
Old Reporter Dies.
New York City. —John 11. Man
digo, for twenty years the head of the
sporting department of the Sun, died
Wednesday, aged 50 years. He had
been in the employ of the Sun for 33
years, having begun as an office boy.
He early became an expert baseball
reporter and is said to have originated
what came to be known as a technical
story of the game. A widow survives.
Skates to Her Death.
Chicago, 111. Beatrice Schooler,
famous as a child model among
artists of Chicago and New York,
skated to her death on the asphalt In
front of her home Wednesday. The
accident occurred during a roller
skating party in which a score of girls
and boys of the neighborhood took
part.
Drowned in Lake Michigan.
Chicago, 111. —ln a sudden gale
on Lake Michigan today Joseph
Sachsel, wholesale liquor dealer, and
Arthur Freud, a cousin, were
drowned by the capsizing of a small
boat in which they were rowing. A
number of fishing boats had much
difficulty reaching shore.
Give Preference to Americans.
East St. Louis, 111.— More than
15 workmen fought at the works
of the American aluminum works
when Armenian, Greek and Turkish
laborers became angry because tha
company, in taking back its employes,
gave preference to Americans and ne
groes.
Troops May Meet Outlaws.
Manila, P. I. A private tele
grain, not yet confirmed, officially re
ports an engagement between regular
troops and constabulary and Moro
outlaws near Lanao, a town on the
island of Mindaoao.
IWO OCEAN LINERS
iEEIINCHANKEL
THE MONTEREY AND DANISH
STEAMER UNITED STATES
COLLIDE IN LOWER BAY.
BOTH ARE BADLY DAMAGED
No Lives Lost and No One Injured
So Far as Reported United
States Most Seriously
Injured. s
New York City.—Two ocean liners,
the Monterey of the Ward line,
bound for Havana, and the Danish
steamer United States of the Scandi
navian-American line, bound for Co
penhagen, collided in the main ship
channel In lower New York Bay on
Thursday. Both vessels were dam
aged but no lives were lost and no
one, so far as reported, was injured.
The Monterey had her stern damaged
and several of her bow plates loos
ened, but she was able to return to
her dock, where her passengers dis
embarked. They will be forwarded
to Havana by another steamer, for it
is probable that she will have togo
into dry dock for repairs.
The United States was more seri
ously damaged. A large hole wtf
stove In her hull ou the starboard sida
abaft the engines, and so threatening
was its nature that it was deemed
wise to run her aground on a bank
on the channel's edge. There the
steamer is resting easily tonight, the
weather being clear and calm. Sev
eral wrecking tugs are standing by.
Temporary repairs will be made and
then the vessel will be pulled off into
deep water so that she can return to
the city for permanent repairs. There
are SO first-class, 90 second and about
400 steerage passengers aboard the
United States. It Is probable that
they will remain aboard over night,
for there appears to be no danger ia
their so doing.
There were 25 first cabin passen
gers, 17 Intermediate and six second
cabin passengers 011 the Monterey at
the time of the accident. No great
excitement occurred on either vessel,
according to eye witnesses of the col
lision, and fearful passengers were
quickly calmed by the ships' officers,
who gave it out that there was 110
question of their safety on such a
clear day and with a handy shore.
Stories as to the cause of the col
lision and the responsibility therefor
differ. The United States, accord
ing to the accounts, steamed down
the bay in the wake of the Monterey.
But after going by the quarantine sta
tion the Danish steamer passed the
American steamer and it was just
after this that the accident occurred,
i' i , *—u ' i i i 4 .*'" United StntcH
had to check herself to <-,n
cape running down a schooner anil
before the Monterey, which was close
behind, could be stopped the collision
occurred. Others were inclined to
blame the officers of the United States
for passing the Monterey in the con
fined limits of the ship channel and
say the collision should be laid to
this.
SEEK HEIRS FOR FORTUNE
Someone in Cleveland Thought to be
Entitled to Wealth Left by
a Californian.
Cleveland, O.—Someone in Cleve
land is wanted to inherit $150,-
000 left by Ed McGirk, who has died
In Los Angeles, Cal. He is believed
to have had relatives here.
McGirk impressed his acquaintances
in California with having left behind
in the east a past he wished to keep
shrouded in mystery.
In 20 years he accumulated his for
tune. He had no family and no kin,
so far as is known, west of the Mis
sissippi river.
In conversation with his closest
friend during his life in California,
James Robinson, McGirk slipped a re
mark which made thfe latter believe
he had come from Cleveland.
Robinson, ex-president of the Ohio
association in Los Angeles, took it
upon himself, after McGirk's death, to
try to seek out his relatives.
He addressed a letter setting "forth |
this information to Mayor Johnson.
The mayor turned it over to Chief
Kohler. Kohler is seeking for heirs
to the fortune.
Patrolman Shoots Robber.
Portland, Ore. After a series
of bold robberies on both sides
of the Williamette river Thursday
night in which three men held up pe
destrians and saloons. Patrolman
Charles D. Henson shot and killed
Edward Ives, one of the robbers, and
was in turn wounded by a fusilade of
shots from the highwaymen. Anoth
er of the robbers, Fritz Ralhke, was
wounded by Patrolman S. D. Vessey
and captured.
Sent Letters Through Mails.
Minneapolis, Minn. —A jury found
a verdict of guilty in the case
of the United States against Her
bert F. Robinson, J. L. La.vne and
F. E. Holiday, tried before Judge Mor
ris in the federal district court Thurs
day on an indictment charging that
the defendants had sent letters
through the mails falsely claiming
inside and exclusive information on
the grain markets.
Negroes to Travel "First Class."
Washington, I). C.—The depart
ment of justice Thursday decided to
institute proceedings under the inter
state commerce act to compel the
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis
Railway Co. to furnish accommoda
tions to negro passengers paying first
class fare equal in all respects to
those furnished to white passengers.
Banker Wants Parole.
Cleveland, O. —James C. McMil
lan, sent to the penitentiary in
September, 18fl9, from this city to
serve 20 years for cutting with intent
to kill, is an applicant for parole.
MONEY MARKET MUCH EASIER
BUSINESS SITUATION SHOWS NO
MATERIAL CHANGE.
Waather Conditions Have Not Im
proved Retail Trade —Building
Operations Increase.
New York City.—Dun's Review
Bays that the business situation shows
no material change; improvement in
some directions being offset by more
curtailment in other departments, al
though the easier money market is
having a beneficial effect on collec
tions. Boston reports that while there
there is no falling off in commercial
activity, little distinct gain is noted,
and weather conditions have not fa
cilitated retail trade. Woolen mills
make better reports, but there Is no
improvement in cottons or footwear.
Much labor and machinery continue
idle in the textile industry at Phila
delphia, iron and steel buying is along
narrow lines, but coal is active, build
ing operations increase, and pay
ments are fair. Trade at Pittsburg
is quiet and buying is along conserva
tive lines. Retail merchants i-eport
that spring trade is slow and jobbers
are more strict than formerly in
granting credit. Manufacturing condi
tions show no material alteration.
Wholesale orders exceed expectation
at Baltimore, straw hat factories are
very busy, millinery trade is active,,
but collections are not prompt. 7.0u»-
isvllle reports the general outlook en
couraging, factories are a little more
active, but collections are still slow.
Warmer weather stimulates
at Chicago, and there is an increase
in the volume of reorders from out-
Eide points involving prompt ship
ment, while the agricultural outlook is
encouraging. Retail trade is fair at
Cincinnati and more interest is shown
in purchases for fall delivery, while
payments are prompt.
LOVED TOO MANY WOMEN
Sensational Suicide of a Woodbury,,
N. J., Minister—Many Things
Brought to Light After Death.
Woodbury, N. J. —This town was
greatly shocked on Friday ovei
the sensational suicide of the Rev.
George W. Tomson, pastor of the
Woodbury Presbyterian church, and
the subsequent developments which
involved the names of at least three
women of this place. Tomson was
found dead in the Newton hotel with
a bullet in his brain.
The sensation caused by his sui
cide was as nothing compared with
the conditions that were developed
when the clergyman's friends
searched for a motive for his acr.
About a week ago public announce
ment was made of Tomson's engage
ment to wed Mrs. Fannie Ken worthy,
a wealthy widow of this place and a
member of his church. Most people
who knew them were greatly pleased
and there was every prospect of a
happy marriage. When the tragedy
came it was learned that the preacher
had been paying attention to another
woman, who hail been living at the
same hotel where Tomson resided
since the death of his wife.
The young woman is alleged to
have declared in a meeting of Sun
day school teachers that Tomson had
promised to marry her and she fur
ther declared that he would never
marry Mrs. Ken worthy.
A widow also claims that the min
ister was attentive to her.
TWO ROBBERS' BOLD DEED
Get All the Cash In Sight in a Bank
and Put Officer and Customer
in Vault.
Chautauqua, Kan.—Two men, one
of whom is declared to have been
Henry Starr, outlaw, held up the Citi
zens' State hank here Friday.
C. R. Walterhouse, cashier, was
quickly subdued before the robbers
gathered up all the money in sight
and locked Walterhouse in the vault.
Walterhouse and a customer were
talking business. The robbers, both
well dressed, sauntered into the bank
and strolled over to the cashier's win
dow. Hoth drew revolvers and forced
the men into the vault, slamming the
door. The robbers escaped.
It was half an hour later before
the robbery was discovered.
The men were later released from
their prison by President J. H. Ed
wards. who had been summoned. The
robbers got more than $3,000.
THE NATIONAL LAWMAKERS
Proceedings of the Senate and House
of Representatives.
Washington.—ln the house oti the
14th the conference report on the spe
cial pension bill was adopted granting
increases of pensions to widows of sol
diers and sailors. The two features
of Interest in the senate were the
speech of Senator Foraker on the
Brownsville affair and the president's
message advocating the building of
four more battleships.
Washington. The senate on the
15th passed bills providing for a pub
lic building at Poplar Bluff, .Mo., and
creating a forest reservation at Cass
Lake, Minn. The house resumed con
sideration of the naval appropriation
bill.
Washington.-—On the ITth, by unan
imous vote, the house committee on
banking and currency tabled the Aid
rich currency bill.
Italian Missionary Murdered.
Rome, Italy.—The murder of an
Italian missionary in Tripoli and thf
persecution by the Ottoman authori
ties of natives who have sold land to
Italians are causing considerable ir
ritation. Protests against these ac
tions have been lodged with the Ital
ian government.
Another Woman Found Guilty.
Chicago, 111. —Mrs. Jennie Call, who
under the name of E. L. Olinn
conducted a matrimonial agency in
Chicago, was found guiltv Friday l.y
a jury in the federal cotllt of hit . ins
used the mails to oromote a fraud.