2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year .. . 15 00 V paid In advunco 1 .'0 ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of fne doliar per square for one insertion anil llfty fßts per square for each subsequent insertion. Rates ny the year, or for six or three months, ■re low ami uniform, and will be furnished on •pplication. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less. *2: each subsequent inser tion to cents per square. Local notices in cents per line for one inser •ertion: ft cents, per line lor each subsequent •onsecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less, tft per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than 75 cents per Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PRKSS is complete and affords facilities for doing the class of Work. PARTICULAR ATTItNUON I'AIDTU LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages ore paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must bo paid tor in advance. The Heroic Life. Know that "impossible," where truth and mercy and the everlasting voice of nature order, has no place In the brave man's dictionary. That when all men have said "Impossible," and tumbled noisily elsewhither, and thou alone ait left, then first thy came and possibility have come. It is for thee now; do thou that, and ask no man's counsel, but. thy own only and God's.--Thomas Carlyle. ~r.:rr-<v Large Churches. The following is the seating ca pacity of the eight largest churches In the world: St. Peter's, Rome, 54,- 000; Milan cathedral, 37,000; St. Paul, Uondon, 25,000; St. Sophia, Constan tinople, 23,000; Notre Dame, Paris, 21,- 000; Florence cathedral, 20,000; Pisa cathedral, 13,000; St. Mark's, Venice, 7,000; St. Patrick's cathedral, New York, 2,500, with standing room for 8,000. Every Man's Influence. No man ever talks freely about any thing without contributing something, let it be ever so little, to the unfore seen forces which carry the race on to its final destiny. Even if he does not make a positive impression, he counteracts or modifies some other im pression, or sets in motion some train of ideas in some one else, which help's to change the face of the world. — E. L. Godkin. Cause of Astigmatism. Many cases of astigmatism arise from the practice of reading in bed, particularly by persons recovering from a severe illness. It. strains the muscles of the eye to such an extent that they alter the curvature of the cornea—the abnormality to which the ierm astigmatism is applied. A Watch for the Blind. The blind now have a watch on which the hours are indicated by movable buttons on relief upon the dial. The wearer finds the time by passing his hand over the dial and finds the button indicating the hour depressed. A strong tninute hand shows the minutes. Feel Need of Pockets. A recruiting officer in Kansas City says the most annoying thing about navy life is the absence of trousers pockets. Indeed, this is probably the cause of many desertions from the navy. What young American wants to carry a chatelaine bag when he goes shopping? A Case of Arbitration. A rat and a weasel found an egg. They couldn't decide who should have it, so they arbitrated. A cat was the arbitrator. The cat awarded the egg to the rat. The rat ate the egg. The cat promptly ate the rate. The cat. believes in arbitration; the rat doesn't. —Judge's Lib rary. The Pet Dogs of Paris. In Paris dogs are treated as well as human beings are. They wear au tomobile togs when they go motoring, they have a hospital, and they even have a good-sized cemetery, with monuments and headstones and in scriptions and mortuary wreaths. Portraits in Nervous Diseases. Dr. 11. Campbell Thomson of Eng land has been making use of the cine matograph in nervous diseases, taking pictures at the rate of 16 to the sec ond, showing the movements of the patients. Scatter Sunshine. How much good may we (To each other by a few friendly words, and the opportunities for them are so much more frequent than for friendly deeds! George Eliot. • His Opportunity. "A man in Winsted, Conn., ate 18 eggs at a sitting," says the Huffalo Ex press. Perhaps lie was determined 'o take full advantage of the recent slight slump in price. Too True. Shortly after marriage the average man acts as if lie had conferred a great favor on his wife by leading her to tl»e altar. —Chicago Daily News. Counting in Golf. A French caddie said that the Eng lish way of counting from one to ten was "one, two, three, four, five, six, d —n, eight,—d—n, ten." ERYAN IS UNSTABLE HIS PAST RECORD SHOWS HIS WEAKNESS. Policies He Has Advocated and Never Surrendered Bhow His Unfitness for High Position of Chief Executive. Judge Taft and Mr. Bryan are en gaged In a sort of joint debate. Each is examining the record of the other on the issues of the day, and pointing out how weak a candidate he would be if put forward by his party in the com ing race. Each also seems to assume that the other will be so put forward. In a way, therefore, the battle has opened in advance of the action of the two national conventions. Judge Taft makes two points against. Mr. Bryan which will be available in the campaign whether the former leads his party or not. The first point relates to the Phil ippine islands. Mr. Bryan exerted his influence to have the archipelago taken over by the United Statefe; and thus he is associated with what he now calls our colonial policy, lie ex plains that his object was to assist in closing the whole episode with Spain, so as to enable thi». government iO give the Filipinos a government of their own. But now he wants to carry out that policy without delay, in t lie face of the fact that our investigation and experience have convinced many of our wisest men that years must elapse before the United States can withdraw, with safety to the interests for which it then becomes respon sible. The second point relates to the silver question. It is true, as Judge Taft charges, that there is nothing in Mr. Bryan's present attitude toward silver which would prevent him from reviving his free coinage contention at any time in future a money stringency and a black financial out look existed. He still holds to Lis opinions of 189G, and claims, moreover, that events since then have verified them. It is not the character of the additional metal discovered —gold— which relieved the situation, but the quantity. ft we may accept Mr. Bryan's explanation, if he had won his fight in lS9fi, and the government had entered upon the unlimited coinage of silver prices would have risen and good times been restored if not an ounce of gold had been added to the world's supply. Mr. Bryan's great weakness lies not so much in what he is now advocating as in what he has advocated in the past and has not surrendered. Not only is he holding free silver in abey ance,, but government ownership and operation of railroads as well, lie be lieves in both policies, and, given the power and an emergency, would push both. Favor 3 Tariff Commission. Senator Heveridge is making a pow erful appeal to the country with his tariff commission pian. This plan is not a device to delay or juggle re vision, as some commission plans of the past have been. It does not pro pose that the schedules shall he inves tigated by interested persons, but that the commission shall be made up of experts, regardless of polities, and that the commission shall be a perma nent institution, working continuously to make such changes in the duties as will meet new conditions, be fair to the consumers of this country and pro mote business in general, more es pecially in the direction of foreign trade. Such a comieission, provided for in the present session of congress, could do vastly more for effective re vision than any congressional body could do against the time —"soon after the presidential election"-—when it is promised the tariff will be revised. Its reports would be of practical value to congress in making this general re vision and in the consideration of sub sequent. modifications. With such a provision for making die tariff right and keeping it right, there would never again be a general disturbance of business due to-tariff agitation.— Kansas City Star. Abandoning States. News conies from Winnipeg that the spring tide of emigration from our western states to Canada lias K!:'l>.;]V set. in and gives promise of reaching at least high water mark. This is a serious loss to the United States. Ac cepting, as we may, the Canadian sta tistics of immigration, it appears that since the opening of the century about 300,000 people have moved across the line to make homes in Canada. Prob ably a few have returned, but most have stayed and are content to stay. These people do not goto Canada because they are not doing well in the United States, but because they hope to do better in the new land. Many of them are of the class which has mnde our great west. They or their fathers obtained lands in the west either by homesteading or by purchase for a small sum an acre. They can now sell their holdings for many times the original cost and take their money, their experience and their equipment into a new country and there buy land for a few dollars an acre and see its value Increase as did the value of their farms in this country.—New York Sun. It is felt by all thoughtful citizens that wastefulness and profligacy in disposing of national assets, of coal and oil lands, for example, or of water power, would henceforth be literally inexcusable. Reckless destruction of our forests must also be stopped, alike for the sake of health and the wealth of the people of the United States. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1908. NO INTERFERENCE IN HAITI. ' Chicago Tribune Would Have United States Keep Hands Off. It will be readily admitted that the people of Haiti cannot establish a stable government. They have been experimenting for about a hundred years under emperors and presidents, and have failed. It must be admitted that blood does not flow bo freely in Haiti as it did in the days of Christo phe and Dessalines, but it is still a country where brute force is the only law and where there is barely a trace of what would nowadays be called civilization except among the few whites and the educated mulattoes of the coast towns. A densely igno rant population occupies but does not utilize what should be one of the most productive regions of the earth. It is all wrong, economically, that Haiti should goto waste as it does, but it does not follow that the United States should intervene in Haitien af fairs even if invited to do so, de clares the Chicago Tribune. There io a color question in Haiti, not of white and black, but of white and yellow. There are mulattoes who, out of hatred of the blacks, would be quiie willing to call in the I'nited States so that it might put them in power and then politely depart. The United States should keep out of such a hornet's nest as Haiti as long as it cnn. If any American cit izen wer to he injured and redress de nied him it would Le necessary to ex act satisfaction. In the distant years manifest destiny will make the United States the ruler of all the West India islands, but there should he no hurry nbout their acquisition. This country has now all the dependencies it can attend to. Mr. Roosevelt's Tour. The most remarkable and the most memorable foreign tour ever made by an American citizen was that oi President Grant at the end of his eight years' administration. But it was Grant's distinction as a general rather than as a statesman that made him an interesting stranger in other lands. In the case of President Roose velt, who announces that he will spend a year in travel out of the United States after he leaves office, interna tional interest has been aroused by his administrative policies and his pic turesque personality. Probably no other president, with the single exception of Lincoln, has appealed so strongly to the imagina tion of Europe. And no other lias re ceived such spontaneous and so nearly uniform approval throughout the world. Even in countries much en amored of hereditary rulers Mr. Roose velt. has been rated as one of the few very great government heads of his time, and in not a few instances has been ranked as the most interesting personality in public life. For these reasons the president has reason to look forward with rare sat isfaction to his contemplated tour, which may or may not be a tour of the world. It would not be surprising, of course, if lie should leave by the At lantic and return by the Pacific, for he would have a naturally strong de sire to visit the Philippines and Japan. Worrying Bryan. The Minnesota Democratic commit tee has formally and aggressively opened its campaign for tlie nomina tion of Gov. Johnson, and sounded the keynote of the opposition to Mr. Bry an's candidacy. This is an eminently practical proposition, a question of determining which one of the two leading candidates for the Democratic nomination would have the better chance of election. Yet the case against Mr. Bryan as a twice defeated and shopworn candidate whose third defeat would be well nigh a foregone conclusion is bluntly put: 1 he Democracy of the nation have .or 12 years been losing ground.and the belief is general that under the old conditions defeat is certain. For months the party has been drifting to ward an autocratic convention, where popular choice is to be subordinate to personal will. . . . Rebelling against the doctrine of despair, we take it for granted that th«jre is no necessity for the ravens of defeat to perch on the banners of Democracy in 1908 sim ply because they did in 1£96, 1900 and 3901. Conditions industrially, finan cially and politically are such that we have this year the opportunity of a generation to win the presidency. Why give it up by supinely acqui escing in any nomination which guar antees defeat?" Wha Owns the Water? President Roosevelt notified con gress in one of his messages that he should be obliged to veto any bill granting water power privileges which did not contain a time limit and did not reserve to the proper government official the right to fix and collect, a just and reasonable charge. The presi dent holds, and is right in doing so, that valuable water power privileges, the property of the public, an equiva lent for the production of power to thousands of acres of coal lands, should not he given away irrevocably or with out compensation. In accordance with his promise the president has vetoed- the first, defective water power bill that reached him. It is a little one, extending the lime for the construction of a dam across the Rainy river in Minnesota, originally authorized several years ago. There are other hills before congress which do not comply with the president's re quirements anil which are being held hack until the fate of this Minnesota measure shall have becu finally dis posed of. The hills before congress granting such privileges should be held up until the ownership of the water shall have been determined. A SQUARE OEAL; SQUARE MEAL FOR EVERYBODY IS THE MOTTO OF A NEW ASSOCIATION. Purpose of the Organization Is to Pre vent Legislation Against Railroads and Other Corporations. St. Louis, Mo. A business or ganization to be known as the Nation al Prosperity Association of St. "Louis has been formed as the result of a conference held by business men dur ing the last three days and last night a formal address 'was issued to the business interests of the country. It Is proposed to extend tl}e association throughout the country for the bet terment of all classes of business. In the formal address it is set forth that the purposes of the association are: To keep the dinner pail full; to keep the pay car going; to keep the factory busy; to keep workmen em ployed and to maintain present wages. The address continues: "Tlie National Prosperity associa tion lias nothing to do with.the past, it looks forward. It has a platform. The two planks are a square deal anil a square meal for every man. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the business situation. The financial clouds have rolled by. The crop pros pects, the basis of ail things for us, are exceptionally good. We believe that we can get back to normal con ditions quickly if we will. We do not see why we should wait for the clos ing months of 1908 or for the spring of 1909." Chairman Simmons said: "We have formed a business organization which has for its object the encouragement of the return of prosperity sooner than might otherwise occur without help. We believe that present condi tions are favorable to this." MAKES BROWN MEN SQUIRM Boycott Placed on Japanese Goods by Chinese Is No Joke. Pekin, China. —It is understood here by Chinese officials that the pur pose of the Washington authorities in dividing the American battleship fleet into two squadrons is to enable the vessels to visit Japan and China sim ultaneously, and the feeling of disap pointment has, in a measure, been lessened. The impression prevails among the Chinese, however, that what they call the definite purposes of the fleet's presence in Asiatic wa ters have been foiled by an attempt to neutralize the political interpreta tions that have been given to the fleet's movements in the far east. Japan is facing a serious situation as a result of the boycott arising from the Tatsu Maru incident. Admiral ljuin of the Japanese navy, whose cruiser squadron is now anchored off Taku, was received in audience by the emperor and empress dowager on Friday. Coincident with this occur rence Japan is seeking the support of Great Britain to put a stop to the boycott by joint representations to China. The boycott is increasing and Japan is not satisfied with China's ef forts to put an end to it. THE NATIONAL LAWMAKERS Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives. Washington.—All the pension bills on the calendar and many other bills of minor importance were passed by the senate on the'29th. The house spent the day in debate on a variety of subjects, the sundry civil appro priation bill being nominally under consideration. Washington.—-The senate on the 30th devoted its session to considera tion of the agricultural appropriation bill. The house spent the day in de bate of the sundry civil appropriation bill. Washington.—A resolution suspend ing until January 1, 1910. the commod ity clause of the Hepburn railroad rate law was considered by the sen ate on the Ist, but no action was tak en. The house passed the sundry civil appropriation bill. REVIEW OFTRADE CONDITIONS Little Improvement Is Noted by Dun's Weekly Bulletin. New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Sentiment was greatly improved in financial circles by the successful is sue of new railroad bonds, prices of securities attaining the highest posi tion since last October, but mercan tile and industrial conditions were not changed. The outlook for the. steel business brightened when it was: shown that the railways could borrow money for needed work and the good progress of the crops promises well for the future in all branches of busi ness. In so far as current conditions are concerned, however, reports indi cate a small volume of trade and only fair collections. United Christian Party Nominates. Rock Island, 111. The I'nited Christian party held its conven tion Friday and nominated Rev. D. B. Turney of Decatur for president and IS. Coffin of Fort Dodge, la., for vice president. Banker Suicided. Manasquan, N. J. Morgan Ma gee, president of the First Nation al Bank of Manasquan, killed liimsell Friday by firing a bullet Into his head while standing on a dyke in Manas quan Inlet. EXPRESS GAR WHS LOOTED TWO MEN OVERCAME MESSEN GER AND STOLE FOUR BAGS OF CURRENCY. OK THE PAN-HANDLE ROAD. The Robbery Took Place at Walker's Mills, Eleven Miles West of Pitts burg, and the Thieves Made Their Escape. Pittsburg, Pa. Two train rob bers who evidently boarded the New York and St. Louis express on the Pan Handle railroad of the Pennsyl vania system at the Union station in this city when that train left at 10:05 last night, ten minutes late, overpow ered the express messenger and got away with four bags of currency, con taining an amount of money as yet unknown. The robbery was committed near Walker's Station, a lonely and isolat ed spot in a rough section of country about 11 miles west of the city. The train, one of the fastest be tween here and Steubenville, 0., was brought to a sudden halt by an emer gency signal from the bell cord and when Conductor William Lafferty of Carnegie, a suburb of this city, went forward to learn the trouble lie found Adams Express Messenger Roshen bound and gagged in the express car and so frightened that he could not give any connected report of what had happened. A brief report was telegraphed to the Pittsburg offices of the company from Rennersdale, the next telegraph office, and from Steu benville as full a report as possible was sent in by the conductor. Except that both of the robbers ■were white, the express messenger is unable to give any description that will be of aid to the secret service forces of the Pan Handle and the Pennsylvania railroad companies, and the city and county detective forces, all of whom have been called out to work on the case. The express safe was open, as the messenger was making up bills for packages received from the local of fice and the robbery was accomplished in a very few minutes. Persons standing on the station platform at, Carnegie, a short distance from the place where the robbers left the train, report having seen the express mes senger at work in his car and two men on the platform outside the car. It is known that four bags, all sealed and containing money, were taken from the car, but nothing is known as to the amount of money .contained in either bag. WROTE ANONYMOUS LETTERS Confession Made to a Congressional Committee by an Attorney. Washington, D. C. The investi gation into the legislative methods employed by the Electric Boat Co., directed by the house of representa tives under a resolution introduced February 20 by Representative Lil ley of Connecticut, is ended as far as open sessions are concerned. The closing hours of the case were dramatic. Frederick Brown Whitney, an attorney at law, admitted that he was the author of the anonymous let ters of February 13 and February 15 to the representative of the Detroit Fl-ee Press and State Senator Frank Edinborough of Michigan, which have figured so prominently in the inves tigation. The admission of Mr. Whit ney was made in the form of an af fidavit which was read by his coun sel, ex-United States Senator Thurs ton of Nebraska. Mr. Thurston stat ed that Mr. Whitney is ill in Garfiedl hospital, this city, and that it would be impossible for him to appear be fore the committee. In the affidavit Mr. Whitney stated that from 1901 to 1904 he was clerk to the committee on naval affairs of the house of rep resentatives; that shortly thereafter he became second vice president of the Lake Torpedo Boat Co., which position he retained until May 13, 190G; that he is now vice president of the Lake Submarine Co., an in dependent prganization. The reasons for writing the anonymous letters were given by Mr. Whitney as fol lows: "That of his own initiation he un dertook what appeared to him to be not improper methods to have brought to the attention of congress the methods which he had believed had been pursued by the Electric Boat Co. in its endeavor to secure through congressional . action what might bo termed exclusive legislation, which would shut out competition and prevent the Lake Torpedo Boat Co. from competing in the Unitde States for submarine torpedo boat construc tion." Doctor Killed an Electrician. Birmingham, Ala. Dr. J. E. Gar rison shot and killed J. D. Will iams, an electrician, at' Flat Creek in a duel Thursday. Garrison re centlp moved away from Flat Creek and came to Birmingham. Bad blood existed between Williams and Garri son about family affairs. When Williams saw the physician he asked him to wait a few minutes and, se curing a pistol, shot Garrison down. The latter, while on the ground, shot Williams to death. A coroner's jury exonerated Garrison. PAPER TRUST LEVIES TRIBUTE ON THE NEWSPAPER PUBLISH ERS OF THE UNITED STATES. Convincing Evidence of Its Extortions Is Laid Before a Congres sional Committee. Washington, D. C.—More evidence tending to show that there is a combination of paper manufacturers to fix the price of news print paper in the United States was adduced on Wednesday before the special »com mittee of the house which is investi gating the subject of the duty on wood pulp and print paper as affect ing the price in the United States. John Norris of the New York Times and representing the American News paper Publishers' association contin ued his testimony and presented nu merous documents to bear out his contention. Apparently the committee was par ticularly impressed with the annual statement of the International Paper Co. for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1907, showing an increased cost of production of 60 cents a ton as against a raise in the price of paper of sl2 a ton. Chairman Mann, appreciating" the importance of this testimony, an nounced that he would goto the bot tom to ascertain the cause of so largtf an increase in ihe price of paper. During the day Mr. Norris formu lated a number of questions which ha wished the committee to propound at once to the International Paper Co, and others. Mr. Norris requested that David S. Cowles, president of the American Paper and Pulp association, furnish copies of all letters sent by him urg ing dealers to restrict paper output or to maintain prices. Reading from a paper Journal a re cent statement by Mr. Cowles justify ing the increase in the price of paper of sl2 a ton because of the increase in cost of wood pulp, Mr. Norris de clared the statement to be "absolute ly false," and he said Mr. Cowles knew it was false when he made it. Asked for a statement regarding the Canadian mills, Mr. Norris said they were running at this time be cause American mills had combined to maintain prices at such a high fig ure that Canadian mills could pay $6 a ton in freight and still undersell the price which the combine had fixed as its selling basis. Discussing the question of improved machinery as having a bearing on the? cost of production, Mr. Norris said that ten years ago paper rolls were 110 inches wide, whereas now they run 150 inches; they ran 150 feet a minute, but now run 550 to 612 feet a minute; ten years ago the capacity was 20 to 25 tons a day per machine,, whereas now they make from 46 to 50 tons a day. "All of which," ho said, "by reason of the increased out put per machine tends to reduce the labor cost per ton of paper produced with substantially the same crew." FANATIC HELD FOR MURDER Religious Maniac Who Killed His Niece Raves and Rants in Jail. Easton, Pa. The coroner's jury on Wednesday rendered a verdict charging Robert Bachman with the murder of Irene May Smith. The surgeons who made the postmor tem found that death was due to strangulation. Bachman will be for mally charged with the murder to day. Mrs. Smith, mother of the little girl, was one of the witnesses. She swore that her brother, Bachman, killed the child during a fit of relig ious frenzy while she and her hus band were in another part of the house. While on their way to their home at Alliance Mr. and Mrs. Smith concluded that Bachman's religion was all wrong and that the death of the child was the work of the devil and not of God, as Bachman claimed. Daubert, one of the party who had been holding the meetings, swore they did not believe in the work of Bachman and that, the latter was in sane. His testimony was to the ef fect that, the meetings at the start were no more than gatherings for prayer and Bible reading so common in this section among certain classes of Pennsylvania Germans. These gatherings are known as "experience meetings." Neighbors of the Bach mans testified to the noise made in the house on Sunday and Monday and to the Smith child telling them that her father and mother were Jying on the floor kicking and crying, and of her uncle smashing furniture am; dears. She was hungry* and was giv en food. The jury went to the Bachman house and in the room where the child was killed everything was smashed to pieces. Mrs. Smith was released on bail after the inquest. Her husband remains in jail. Bach man continues to rave and rant and insists that he committed no wrong. Smith is in a pitiable condition both mentally anil physically. Prison and Big Fine for a Distiller. Richmond, Va. —T. M. Angle, pres ident of the Dry Fork Distilling Co., was on Wednesday found guilty in the I'nited States court of committing extensive revenue frauds and was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary and fined $15,000. Rev. Morgan Dix Dies. New York City.— Rev. Dr. ftlor- 1 gan Dix, rector of Trinity Protestant Episcopal parish since 1862 and one of the city's most prominent clergy men, died last night, aged 81 years.
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