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The Job department of the PRESS Is complete ftnd affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW Pnmia. No paper will be discontinued until arrear- KM are paid, except at the option of the pub bar. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for la advance. City Planning In America. We are prone to speak of city plan ning as if it were something new, and in a way something particularly American. It is true it has reached a wider vogue in a shorter time in this country than in any other, but as far back as 1666 Sir Christopher Wren prepared a plan for the city of Lon don after the great fire. It was never carried out, although some of his rec ommendations are now being executed under the progressive policy of the modern county council. In our own country, L'Enfant, over a century ago, prepared a plan not only for our capi tal city, but also for Buffalo, both of •which have been adhered to in the main points. Detroit followed L'En fant's ideas, although he did not pre pare the plans. These cities represent deliberate, comprehensive planning from the beginning. Like Dalny in far away Siberia, they were developed along previously determined lines; but such instances are possible only in new countries, and are exceptional even there. The Chicago, Cleveland, New York and San Francisco plans represent an entirely different phase of deliberate and comprehensive plan ning. They are more like the king made cities of St. Petersburg and Madrid, or the more recent emperor made Paris. They grew up along lines of least resistance, writes Clinton R. Woodruff in the Atlantic, and in obedi ence to immediate needs with practi cally little thought of the future and none of the aesthetic side. Then came a period of awakening to civic con sciousness and pride, leading to a dis satisfaction with existing conditions, and then an earnest desire for im provement. A project which may have impor tant results is to be undertaken in Boston, says the Herald of that city. The high school of commerce of that city is about to send a party of stu dents to Brazil to study commercial relations and trade conditions in the southern country. The Brazilian gov ernment, with fine courtesy, has made arrangements by which these pupils may have free transportation over cer tain steamers and Brazilian railways and a reduced rate over other roads. In effect, this is offering the visitors every facility for getting about with ease and at moderate cost and for readily acquiring the knowledge of which the students are in search. Moreover, the facts indicate the Brazil ians' readiness to meet our people in trade and to do everything possible to encourage the development of com merce between the sections. Hetty Green has moved into rooms that cost her sls a day. For a time doubtless she pondered over it, won dering if sls wasn't all the money there was in the world; but on looking at her bank account she came to the conclusion that it wasn't. Hetty must be doing this as a means of self-pun ishment for something she has done, since it must give her a pain every moment she stays in her expensive quarters. A New York paper, describing the visit of Mr. Andrew Carnegie to Le high university, to which he has just given a dormitory, says Mr. Carnegie was "met by the student body with the university band, composed of students, a large number of the alum ni and the faculty." It is doubtful if any other American university could muster such a band, even though such newspaper English is common enough. The kaiser's head will adorn the next issue of German postage stamps. Hitherto they have shown the sym bolic figure of Germania. The heredi tary monarchs of the federated states are growing accustomed to the idea of an empire under the rule of the kaiser, and have withdrawn their objection to the use of his portrait on the stamps. They have a way of looking on the bright side of things in Oklahoma. When a citizen in the arid district lost a valuable colt by drowning a while ago, the local newspaper commented that it was "a fine thing to have water enough out on the Staked plain to >own a horse." AS TO "RETREATS" BRYAN'S CHARGES BOTH ILLOGI CAL AND ABSURD. Of No Plank in the Republican Plat form Can It Justly Be Said That a Position Has Been Abandoned. Mr. Bryan is unreasonable. How could he reasonably expect the Republican convention to Inject enough Populism and Socialism into its plat form to suit him? If it had thus catered to Mr. Bryan it must have mortally offended its own party, shocked the common sense of the country and perhaps caused the defeat of Mr. Taft. And what would it profit the convention to please Mr. Bryan and lose an election? No, Mr. Bryan should be reasonable, and not grumble at a Republican platform for being Repub lican instead of Populistic. Why, even his own convention is likely to prove very refractory when it comes to going the whole hog with a platform Socialis tic enough to suit Mr. Bryan. Mr. Bryan also makes the singular complaint that the platform contains a series of "retreats." But a "retreat" means an abandon ment of a position previously occupied. In no single plank is there any such abandonments. To say, as Mr. Pryan does in effect, that the platform omis sion of this or that personal view of an Individual was a retreat is nonsense, in several of the planks the party makes an advance. In no single one of them has it abandoned a position previously occupied. Now as to "retreats," Mr. Bryan is on very thin ice when he makes that criticism. He is notoriously the great retreater. He has retreated from free trade, he has retreated from free silver, he lias retreated from government ownership. As a political crawfish in respect of abandoned positions he has no equal. That is the common charge against him. His flurried backward scramble fvom his Madison Square garden pro nouncement when he found it did not '♦satch on"was one of the really oopiic incidents of his rendition of the rOfe of Perpetual Candidate. If Mr. Bryan had his normal quan tum of the sense of humor he would be extremely shy of talking about "re treats."—Milwaukee Sentinel. MAKES HIS POSITION PLAIN. Mr. Taft and the Injunction Plank In the Platform. The simple fact that Mr. Taft through his personal representatives urged the injunction plank upon the Republican convention is a sufficient refutation of the disingenuous plea that the declaration was revolutionary and a reflection upon the judiciary. Secretary Taft is as far from being an advocate of disorder as he is from being a servant of special privilegs. He exemplifies, moreover, the highest type of jurist which this country af fords. His record on the bench is as distinguished as his service in execu tive channels. No one is better en abled than he to puncture the silly argument that to recognize limits to irresponsible and autocratic power in individual judges is to reflect upon the integrity of the courts. But the discussion over this injunc tion plank has served the useful pur pose of making Mr. Taft's own posi tion known unequivocally to the entire people. He has made his own plat form on this as on other issues of pub lic moment, and with or without the injunction declaration as an expression of the convention's views the people will know exactly what to expect from Mr. Taft when they vote for him for president. Qualities That Make Taft Strong. Taft is lovable and popular and strong. The combination is happy. Taft is broad, progressive and safe. The legislation urged by the president, but which was received sullenly by congress, will have in Taft a forceful advocate. He will see that it is fitted to the needs of the people and to the limitations of the constitution. Roosevelt knows Taft. He said of him: "I do not believe there could be found in all the country a man so well fitted to be president. . . . He would be as emphatically a president of the plain people as Lincoln, yet not Lin coln himself would be freer from the least taint of demagogy, the least tend ency to arouse or appeal to class hatred of any kind." New York Safely Republican. Mr. Sherman will aid materially in bringing support to the national ticket in that part of the state in which Re publican majorities are made. He has the friendship and respect of the great mass of voters in the up-state Repub lican strongholds, and there is no ac tive Republican politician above or be low the Bronx who will not exert him self to the utmost to vindicate Mr. Sherman's choice as Mr, Taft's run ning mate on the national ticket. Vic tory in New York this fall is clinched by the nominations made at Chicago. —N. Y. Tribune. In his second race Bryan carried only four northern states, all small, with a combined electoral vote of 13. Since then Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Montana have been Republican. The Bryan electoral prospects offer no visible fighting chance. He Ought to Know. Says the Hon. David B. Hill, "There Is no Democratic party." He ought to know; he was one of the principal lU>dertftk«rg. —N. Y. Tribune. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY i 6, 1908. NOW TO WORK FOR VICTORY. Harmony in Party Necessary for R» publican Success. Now for business. .Judge Taft is tha candidate by a wonderful demonstra tion, and there is business to be done. No candid man will deny that tha Republicans have need to be very much alive. Their leader's strength ia much. Their platform i« well con structed. The history they recite ia impressive. But divisions exist in a number of states, all of which are nec essary to Republican success in No vember. Those divisions should b« healed at as early a day as possible, and Judge Taft is, on every account, the man to encourage and to direct the work. In the first place, he wants to win. He has drawn a prize reckoned among the greatest. A nomination for presi dent brings great gratification, but at the same time imposes great responsi bility. Party followers look to the nominee for inspiration and sugges tions. They work with all the more zeal when assured of his approval and support. In the second place. Judge Taft has demonstrated talents for harmonizing serious differences. He is as much of a diplomat as executive. His tri umph in the Philippines grew out. of his ability to bring men of widely dif ferent views to act together. He han dled dissensions in Cuba and in Pana ma with marked cleverness. It i 9 easy to believe, therefore, that this power, which has been exercised so successfully on strangers and aliens, can be used as effectively on home folk. It is Judge Taft's duty to bring all Republicans together. No more inter necine warfare. All ammunition should be used against the common enemy, in New York, in Ohio, in Indiana, in Wisconsin, in lowa, wherever Republi cans have been hammering each other, that hammering, by Judge Taft's inter position, should cease. For this cam. paign, Hughes and anti-Hughes men, Foraker and anti-Foraker men, Cum. mins men and Allison men, La Folletta men and anti-La Follette men, should all become Taft men, sinking personalis ties for the party's welfare. As little should be heard henceforth about radicals and conservatives. In the sense that Judge Taft is a support er of the president he is a radical, but likewise is it true that neither in his mental poise nor in his temperament does he offer anything that would make for the slightest alarm in the event of his elevation to the presiden cy. He can lead both factions with absolute sincerity, and if both follow him he will be the next president ol the United States. THE UNTHROWN. —Washington Star. Along the Isthmus. President Amador is said to have suppressed the now famous letter of Secretary Taft in which that bumptious politician was given to understand that the doctrine of the square deal applies in Panama as well as every other inch of territory for which this government feels responsible. But everything is peaceful enough for the present along the isthmus. This, how ever, is not deceiving. A Chinese typhoon does not require less time for generation than a Latin American po litical revolt. Everything may be as peaceful as a May morning until election day or the day after, and then the tall grass may blaze from the close firing of opposing elements. In that case there will be some quick work done by United States jackies. The dispatch of ships to the isthmus will be in line with the political insurance policy issued by this government to the world when recognition was given the new repub lic of Panama. But both at Cuba and Panama the determination of Uncle Sam may be counted upon to keep the hair-trigger insurrectionists from try ing their old election tricks. The Supreme Court. The supreme court stands at the apex of a fine system of judiciary. It is more —it is the upex of a fine sys tem of government. It is the voice of the American people interpreting law in relation to legislation, without re gard to the persons or the interests affected. It is the most safely con servative and unimpassioned tribunal ever created among num. —Baltimore American. And the man who makes an assault upon it is an undesirable citizen. We infer from recent hasty utter ances of Mr. Bryan that he is particu larly displeased v'ith the injunction plank in the Republican platform. Can it be that it was formulated without consulting him? Col. Watterson says Bryan will carry Kentucky next November by a majori ty "all the way from 20,000 to 40,000." If you see it in the Courier-Journal it'« in the Courier Journal. FLAMES SWEPT HARBOR'S FRONT FIRE AT EAST BOSTON, MASS., CAUSES A LOSS OF NEAR LY $1,500,000. PIERS, WAREHOUSES, CARS And a Grain Elevator Were Con sumed, While Several Ships Nar rowly Escaped Destruction— Two Lives Probably Lost. Boston, Mass.—A fire, believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion or a locomotive spark, swept nearly a quarter of a mile of the harbor front of East Boston late Wednesday, causing a property loss estimated at nearly $1,500,000. Much of the loss falls upon the Boston & Albany Railroad Co. Two persons are reported missing and it is thought that both perished in the flames. One of them was Daniel Sullivan, a watch man at the Cunard line pier, and the other was Miss Sadie Arnold, a clerk employed by the Cunard Steamship Co. The fire was the biggest and most destructive that has broken out along the harbor front for many years. The flames spread with remarkable rapid ity and by the time the first lire fight ing apparatus arrived on the scene they were beyond control and leaping from pier to pier. Within half an hour of the time the fire was discovered, four piers, three warehouses, a grain elevator containing .'50,000 bushels of grain and many loaded' freight cars had been destroyed. Several vessels and lighters nar rowly escaped destruction. The big Leyland line steamer Devonian was moored at one of the piers which was destroyed. The discipline on the De vonian was so excellent, however, that she was warped out into the stream without even having a square Inch of paint blistered. Less fortu nate were the British bark Belmont of Yarmouth, N. S., and the schooners Paul Palmer, a five-masted craft, and the O. H. Brown, a four-master. The Belmont was moored by steel cables to the pier where the fire started. So quickly did the flames en velop the wharf and warehouse that it was impossible to slip the cables from the mooring posts, and it was necessary to resort to the tedious process of cutting a half dozen or more of the great wire ropes. By the time the Belmont was gotten out into the stream the paint had been burned off her steel hull, her cabins had been practically destroyed, her lifeboats charred and ruined and her spars, sails and rigging so badly burned as to make a complete new equipment necessary. HITCHCOCK WILL BE LEADER. Is Chosen Chairman of Republican National Committee—Sheldon to Be Treasurer. Hot Springs, Va. Frank H. Hitchcock of Massachusetts, chair man of the Republican national com mittee; George R. Sheldon of New York, treasurer of the national com mittee, and Arthur I. Vorys of Ohio, member of tUe national committee in charge of the Ohio Republican head quarters, which are to be in Cincin nati. This was the result of the meeting of the executive committee of the Republican national committee here Wednesday. The designation of Mr. Vorys to be in char(KJ of the campaign in Ohio is regarded as a solution of the embar rassment arising from the selection of Mr. Hitchcock in preference to Mr. Vorys. By this arrangement the cam paign in Ohio will be a sense sep arate from the balance of the country. Vorys will be accountable only to Taft. The appointment of Mr. Sheldon as treasurer w r as a surprise and was accompanied by an element of mys tery. Preceding the meeting of the executive committee discussion of the treasurership had centered upon Rep resentative McKinley of Illinois, treasurer of the Republican congres sional committee. It was generally believed by the leaders of the party who have been here to consult with Mr. Taft that he desired to have Mr. McKinley serve as treasurer of the national committee and had practical ly told him that he would have to sub mit to be "drafted" for that position. Mr. Sheldon's appointment was up on the recommendation of Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of the committee since 1892. It is also stated that his selection has the approval of Presi dent Roosevelt, with whom he was a classmate at Harvard. Mr. Sheldon is a close personal friend of Mr. Bliss, Forest Fires on Long Island. New York City.—Hundreds of men are fighting a forest fire which is burning through the center of Long Island, near Eastport. Several small dwellings at isolated points have been consumed. Preston Declines the Honor. New York City.—Martin R. Pres ton, who was nominated for president of the United States by the Socialist- party while serving a 25-year term In prison, has declined to accept the nomination. FULL PUBLICITY IS PROMISED STATEMENT BY MR TAFT AS TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. Republican National Committee Will Comply With the Laws of New York State. Hot Springs, Va. — That the pub licity of campaign funds is to be made a feature of the coming cam paign was made very clear here Fri day. Mr. Taft had' extended talks with Chairman Hitchcock and George R. Sheldon, treasurer of the national committee, and the necessity for the strictest possible compliance with the New York law in relation to the pub licity of campaign funds of the na tional committee was the chief topic. Referring to suggestions that the Republican party might receive funds outside of New York and not include them in the report of the national treasurer, Mr. Taft replied promptly that it was possibie to commit per jury in such a case, but he scouted the idea that the purpose of giving publicity to the funds of the party in the coming national campaign is not entirely sincere. Mr. Sheldon also declared that the New York law in respect to all the funds that come to the national committee in whatever state they may be collected will be published, with the names of the donors. Mr. Sheldon said he believed that money for campaign purposes would be very "tight" this year, but he did not believe the publicity of campaign funds would lessen the amount con tributed. He declared that compli ance with the law in this respect would dispel the popular idea that a vast amount of money is spent in na tional campaigns. WITH NOISE AND FIREWORKS Cincinnati Will Celebrate on the Day that Taft Is Officially Notified of His Nomination. Cincinnati, O. —At a meeting on Friday of the committee in charge of the reception that will be extended to William H. Taft on July 28 when he is formally advised of his nomina tion for the presidency, the following program was agreed upon: At 7 o'clock in the morning of July 28 there will be salutes of 20 guns or more, fired from the hilltops. At 8 o'clock bands in the parks, squares and at prominent corners will begin to make melody, and they will keep at it all day. At 10 o'clock a flag will be presented by the city of Cincinnati to Charles P. Taft, brother of the nominee, to be unfurled over the Taft residence on Pike street when the nominee is in Cincinnati. This pre sentation will be made at Taft home. At 11 o'clock the notification com mittee will be escorted to the Taft residence and on a temporary plat form Mr. Taft will hear the formal word that he is the Republican par ty's choice for president. There will be but two speeches, that of Senator Warner of Missouri, giving notifica tion to Mr. Taft, and that of accept ance by the nominee. At 1:30 p. m. marching clubs will pass in review and then a public re ception will be held. This will be followed' by a luncheon to the notifi cation committee given by Charles P. Taft. After luncheon the visiting committee will be taken in automo biles over the city. At 5 o'clock several thousand bal loons will be sent up and at 8 o'clock there will be an immense display of fireworks from the river bridges and craft in the harbor. The public land ing will be roped off for the populace, while Mr. and Mrs. Taft and the noti fication committee will view the fire works from the steamer Island Queen. SMALL GAINS ARE NOTED. Each Week Brings Increased Manu facturing Activity. New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Further small net gains are record ed in commercial progress, favorable reports predominating, although the tendency is by no means definite. In many lines of trade the dullness of midsummer is unusually intense, but each week brings increased manufac turing activity and instances are not ed of orders for fall goods placed too late for delivery at specified dates. More business is coming to the iron furnaces and steel mills, although or ders are usually for small quantities, but a good sign is the increase of specifications on old' contracts. This extends even to billets, which have been notably quiet for several months. Sales of irteel bars during June attained surprising dimensions. Structural shapes move more free ly, several large undertakings and numerous small bridges or buildings calling for a substantial tonnage. Textile mills are still curtailing out put, especially in New England, but gradual improvement is noted in some d'epartments. Redskins Goon the Warpath. Bisbee, Ariz. —An uprising of Nav ajos in New Mexico is report ed and 30 soldiers with machine guns have been sent from Fort Huachuea to Fort Wingate, N. M., to aid the troops stationed there. Branded Her Son With an Iron. New York City. Asserting that her 6-year-old son, Charles Goodsall, was the Messiah, his mother, Mrs. Grace Goodsall, branded him for life on the forehead and throat with a red hot iron. HEALTH BRINGS HAPPINESS. Invalid Once, a Happy Woman Nov* Mrs. C. R. Shelton, Pleasant Street Covington, Tenn., says: "Once J seemed a helpless lnt valid, but now I ea joy the best of health. Kidney disease F brought me down ter- J? rlbly. Rheumatic aches and pains mad« every move painful. The secretions wer» disordered and my head ached to dis traction. I was in a bad condition, but medicines failed to help. I lost ground daily until I began with Doan's Kidney- Pills. They helped me at once anS soon made me strong and well." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Up to Hl* Tricks. Lord Rosslyn, at a dinner in New York, said of a notorious Londo® spendthrift: "When he was at Oxford he wired once to his uncle, whose heir he was: " 'lf you don't send me a hundred by Saturday, I'll blow my brains out.' "His uncle wired back: " 'You telegraphed me that and when I forwarded you my best revolver, you went and pawned it.' " JBf • jk Jfg W *22RIA Proof is inexhaustible that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound carries women safely through the Change of Life. Read the letter Mrs. E. Hanson, 304 E. Long St., Columbus, Ohio, writes to Mrs. Pinkham: " I was passing through the Chang® of Life, and Buffered from nervous ness, headaches, and other annoyingf symptoms. My doctor told me that. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound was good for me, and since tak ing it I feel so much better, and I can again do my own work. I Dever forget to tell my friends what Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound did for m«i during this trying period." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands or women who have been troubled with, displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear tng-down feeling, flatulency, indiges tion, dizziness or nervous prostration.. Why don't you try it ? Mrs. Pinkham invites all siclc women to write her for advice*. She has guided thousands to health. Address. Lynn, Mass. OUTDOOR LIFE AND Hi Should be inseparable. 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