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World Is Improving.
The world was never so truth-telling
as it is to-day. Nothing like it ever ex
isted in the past. The commercial
life of the world compels truth as
nothing has, nothing else can, for if
is on its credit and truthfulness that
the fabric of our great commerce
rests. You may rest assured ti.at there
never was so much truth in the world
as there is to-day, and there never was
such a real care for truths as there is
to-day.—Uev. M. ,|. Savage.
More Work; Less Play.
Isn't there a suspicion that at the
present time Australia might he said
to be "unduly pleasure-loving?" When
it is remembered that the time is one
of grave anxiety; that the sands run
rapidly out lo give the signal for a
struggle for very existence—there
seems reason to suggest, for the na
tional good, a little less horse racing,
a little more attention to the serious
things of life.—Sydney liulletin.
Marriage Age Is Increased.
It is generally admitted that the
marriageable age of women has ad
vanced considerably of recent years.
Many a bride has long felt girlhood be
hind her before she exchanges her
vows at the altar, and there seem to
be few young men nowadays who care
to assume the responsibilities of mar
ried life until they are in the financial
jxisition usually associated with mid
dle age.
Best Way to Tie Shoe-Laces.
A way to keep shoe-laces tied is to
make a bow in the ordinary way, then
insert a buttonhook underneath the
center of the bow and draw one loop
and one end through (underneath),
thus turning the bow practically up
side down. Or draw one loop through
the other and pull the "answering"
end, so that the loops are knotted.
The New Morality.
So, it's away with your old morality
and your prating about duty, self-re
straint, sin and its punishment.
"Science" or "evolution," as the case
may be, has shown that to be strong is
to be virtuous, that to seize is the aim
of life and to let go one's hold the su
preme transgression.—X. Y. Evening
Post.
Woman Took Dare: Posed on Chimney.
Dared to climb a 125-foot chimney in
process of construction at Torrington,
Conn., Mrs. (Jtiy Xodine mounted to
the top and posed there several min
utes enjoying the view. To get there
Fhe had to climb rickety ladders all
the way.
Life.
Life is a cocktail, made up for the
most part of sweet things, and tinged
■with a dash of bitters. We must
<lrain It to the dregs to get at the
cherry, just, as we must live a full
and rounded life to know all its pleas
ures.—Detroit Free Press.
Persian Easy Language to Learn.
Persian is said to be not a very diffi
cult lanjjuaKe. r l he modern Persian is
very much like the Knglish in its
sensible rejection of the inflections
that burden so many of the world's
tongues.
Pharaoh's Mummy.
Pharaoh's mummy has been discov
ered and unfolded, and the eyes of
readers of these pages can rest on the
very features on which the eyes of
Moses looked 3,000 years and more
ago.
Quest of the Age.
We have lost our power to become
satisfied with the essentials of life.
Rich and poor alike, we seek wealth
as the greatest promoter to human
happiness, the greatest blessing ob
tainable.—The Queen.
Decline of Nrtions.
Tf the big scientist who ascribes the
downfall of Greece and Rome to ma
laria turns out to be correct, what in
the world will the commencement ora
tor of the future have to fall back on?
Time Hard to Kill.
rime, observes the Philosopher of
Folly, has more lives than a cat. I've
killed it more than a million times my
self, and eternity doesn't seem a bit
closer."
Saying cf a Sage.
"Enemies is unsatisfactory. When
friend abuses ye, he means it; but
■n a enemy praises ye, he doesn't
it."
THE CRYSTAL GAZER
The Pure Democracy Future Lcoks Bright to Her.
ON A BRUISED REED
REST DEMOCRATIC HOPES OF
ELECTING A PRESIDENT.
Party Already Confesses Defeat When
It Admits That It Depends for
Victory on Desertions from
the Enemy's Ranks.
It is declared to bo the intention of
Bryan to steal the Roosevelt livery to
serve his party. Mr. Bryan Is not built
right to wear it, and the first voice to
tell him so doubtless will come from
the White House. The livery may be
handed down, hut it will goto a man
who will make proper use of it, and
who has some garments of his own
to add to the supply.
Word conies that the Democrats dur
ing the campaign will praise Roose
velt and damn his party. They will
say that their candidate is the logical
successor of the man now in office.
There's no logic in it, and the party
of defeat confesses at the outset that
having no reserve strength it must de
pend for victory on the forlorn hope
of desertion from the ranks of the
enemy.
Air. Roosevelt has been called a
radical; doubtless he is one, but
there has been a leaven of conserva
tism in all his radicalism, and the Re
publican ship in entering new seas has
had a firm hand at the helm. The so
called reactionaries of the party have
condemned the president without stint.
It has not hurt him, nor has it lost to
the Republicans the conservative vote.
For conservatism it takes not a sec
ond's thought to choose between
Rooseveltism and Bryanism.
The masses of the Republicans be
lieve in the advanced policies of the
party. They want progress, but they
also want an assurance that the path
doesn't lead to a deadfull. They will
hardly be induced to follow a man who
has stolen their guide's clothes.
The Democratic party always has
had a capacity for blundering. Pos
sibly it is not the part of wisdom to
give advice, but if Mr. Bryan and his
friends desire to hurry the day of the
president's advent into the campaign
as a special pleader for the cause of
Mr. Taft, they will continue to claim
that Bryanism is a simon pure Roose
veltism.
The president cares little for prece
dent, provided he thinks the people
won't growl at a little smashing of
rules honored by time and nothing
else. It would be sheer joy for him
to get a chance to use the big stick
on certain Democratic pretensions.
Roosevelt is a Republican. Progres
sive policies are the party policies,
and they have a place in the party's
pledges. The president is not going
to sit idle at Oyster Bay while these
policies are filched. The Democrats
apparently are about to give the pres
ident a challenge to take the field.
They hope he won't accept it. but
challenges never lie long at the Roose
velt gate. The coming campaign
won't be altogether tame.
"Inexpressibly Happy."
Any formal statement that Secre
tary Taft might have made with refer
ence to his nomination for the presi
dency would have been colorless as
compared with the simple statement,
"I am inexpressibly happy." No other
Impromptu comment could have meant
more. For, after all, the feeling of a
man who has achieved such an honor
able distinction, has earned it and
won it in spite of almost malicious
apposition, but who has kept his faith
and his heart and his cheer oi counte
nance, may be better loft to the popu
lar imagination.
Naturally, Mr. Taft is very happy,
and in t his hapftiness the Republican
party should share in an unusual de
gree. I'.veil those of the Democratic
faith should be patriotic enough to be
glad that the Republican party has
done so well.
It is doubtless very pleasant for Mr.
Bryan to reflect that the issue in the
campaign "wilt not be one of the is
sues that arrive from time to time pre
senting an economic question." What
my economic question would do to
Mr. Bryan would be a plenty.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1908.
INVOICE THAT IS NEEDED.
Wisdom in Securing Statement of
Country's Natural Wealth.
The president has called for an In
voice of the natural resources of the
I nited States. He wants the informa
tion before the first of January for
use in connection with possible con
gressional action regarding the con
servation of these" resources. Such
an invoice is fundamental. If it is
properly taken and the statistics are
grouped as they should be the report
will be one of the most important and
valuable documents ever published by
the government.
The phrase "natural resources" has
been a pleasing thins to conjure with.
Hut there has never been any adequate
attempt to define the words in ex
press terms. Hooks have been written
upon different features of natural
wealth. Some of these give a pretty
good idea of the extent of these re
sources. There have been estimates
of the amount of coal or iron or gold
or silver. There have been descrip
tions of the vast areas covered with
forest.
What is now proposed is a careful
and concise invoice taken for busi
ness purposes and with a definite end
in view. Our natural resources have
been sufficiently exploited for rhetor
ical effect. There are few people, pos
sibly no one at all, with any real
knowledge about the extent and char
acter of such national wealth.
An accurate statement will be valu
able as a check upon lavish outlays in
the future, such as have marked the
river and harbor bills for many years.
If there had been certain knowledge
of scientific value available for con
gressional information many thou
sands of dollars wasted in useless
"improvements" might have been
spared. The importance of knowing
just what there is to conserve is evi
dent. 'i he invoice should precede the
adoption of any comprehensive plan
for large outlays. Its accuracy should
be unquestioned.
TAFT POPULAR WITH ALL.
Every Shade of Party Opinion Satis
fied with Candidate.
There is fresh evidence daily of Mr.
Taft s remarkably strong strategical
position in making this campaign.
Such is his personality, that both
sections of party opinion find them
selves in agreement on his candidacy.
Republicans who disagree pretty
sharply sometimes on party questions
find themselves able to unite heartily
on Mr. Taft as (to quote Mr. Spooner)
"an ideal man for the presidency."
Mr. Taft was the "Roosevelt candi
date." No doubt about that. lUit that
label does not at all deter men not
"Roosevelt Republicans" front being
Taft Republicans.
There is J. Ogden Armour, for in
stance, who dislikes Roosevelt and
makes no bones of saying so. But this
"Roosevelt candidate" nevertheless
suits him to a dot. "The ticket is
strong and sure to win," says Mr.
Armour, "and with the election of
such candidates the prospects for
prosperity in the United States are ex
cellent."
Why is it that such Republicans who
dislike Roosevelt most, warmly sup
port Roosevelt's closest friend and
candidate?
As to "policies," the two men are in
general accord. In point of honest sin
cerity and backbone it is an even
thing. Then there must be a world of
difference somewhere.
\\ e guess it is one of temperament,
training and methods. President Taft
will be able to do a lot of houseclean
ing without smashing the crockery
and setting tire to the building.—Mil
waukee Sentinel.
Bryan and Cleveland.
If praise of Mr. Cleveland is to dis
rupt the Democratic party, it merely
illustrates afresh the irreconcilable
nature of the differences between (he
Cleveland and Bryan wings. Mr.
Cleveland was a statesman whose
views did not change with each hour;
who held fast to undying prinicles,
whether to do so was unpopular or
not. Hence it is impossible to praise
him without seeming to criticise the
chameleon of Lincoln, Neb. N. Y
Post.
LIGHTNING KILLS MILITIAMEN
THREE SOLDIERS MET DEATH IN
CAMP AT GETTYSBURG.
Terrific Storm Struck the Camp—Th«
Injured Number 26—Gov. Stuart
Had Narrow Escape.
Gettysburg, Pa.—As a result of a
severe storm which passed over the
encampment of the national guard of
Pennsylvania Thursday night, three
troopers were killed and 26 seriously
Injured.
The dead are:
Private Barbe, Eighteenth reginient.
Private Morrison, Tenth regiment.
Private Garver, Tenth regiment.
The body of Garver was severed in
twain as though by a sword.
The greatest confusion prevailed
and the visitors to the camp as well
as many of tl> > troopers were panic
stricken.
The field hospital is crowded with
injured and the colonel of the Tenth
regiment gave up his quarters to
those in immediate need' of medical
assistance.
When the storm came up Gov. Stu
art was entertaining a few friends in
his tent. The storm broke with such
suddenness and fury that the occu
pa its of the tent found themselves en
tangled in the canvas and ropes in an
instant, but all escaped serious in
jury.
1 here were nearly 50 men in the
regimental guard tent of the Tenth
regiment when the storm broke and
not one is believed to have escaped
injury.
The men of the Second brigade,
whose tents were pitched in the low
land, were forced to swim to safety.
Their cots are floating about the
camp and not a tent of this brigade
remains intact.
When the storm swept down upon
the camp there were hundreds of vis
itors present.
EBERHARD CONFESSES.
Man Who Murdered and Robbsd Hie
Aunt Tells of the Crime.
New York City.— Drawn back to
the scene of his crime by a force he
could not resist, August Eberhard.
self-confessed' murderer of his aunt,
Mrs. Ottillie Eberhard, a Viennese
widow, whom he lured to a lonely
spot in New Jersey a few days ago
and shot to death, was captured on
Thursday near Paterson, N. J., and is
now a prisoner in the Hackensack
jail.
What interested the authorities
most in the confession of Eberhard
made to them was the reason he gave
for committin gthe crime. Eberhard
said that he was in love with a New
Tork girl and that he needed money
to marry her, so, knowing that his
aunt had $2,500, he plotted to kill her
and steal the money. Eberhard says
he also intended to kill his cousin,
Ottillie Eberhard, to whom he was
engaged, so that nothing would stand
in the way of his marriage to the
New York giri.
Eberhard was found lying on the
lawn of a residence just outside of
Paterson. There was an ugly looking
wound in his right leg, which the
murderer first said had been inflicted
by Italians who attacked him, but
which he afterwards confessed' was
inflicted by himself so as to make the
police believe he had been wounded
on the night his aunt was killed.
When Eberhard was searched not
penny was found in his pockets.
Eberhard said that he had buried the
money lie stole from his aunt. He
led the detectives to a tree n?ar Lit
tle Falls and there dug up a bundle
of bills. There was $2,400 in the bun
dle, which is the amount that was
stolen, as the murderer left a small
amount of money in the bosom of his
aunt's waist, so as to give the im
pression that she had' not been robbed.
HAZERS ARE SUSPENDED.
Eight Cadets at VVett Point Military
Academy Are Sent Home
in Disgrace.
West Point, X. Y. —Eight cadets
in the United States military acad
emy here were on Thursday sent
to their homes as a result of hazing
members of the fourth class. They
were William T. Russell, appointed at
large, and Harry G. Wever of Illinois,
members of the first class; and Byron
Q. Jones, New York; George \V.
Chase, New York; William W. Prude,
Alabama; Isaac Spaulding, Oklaho'
ma; William Nolle, Virginia, and
| James A. Gillespie of Pennsylvania,
members of the third class.
The cadets who have been placed
under suspension for what has come
to be regarded in official eyes as the
major offense in the acad'emy list, will
have their cases passed upon by the
secretary of war and have been or
dered to await the secretary's action
at their homes. Precedent in such
cases sets the penalty as dismissal
from the academy following proof of
the hazing charge.
Mail Order Houses Are Indicted.
Chicago, 111. —The federal grand
Jury returned' indictments on Thurs
day against 29 mail order houses
whose alleged Illegal profits are'
said to hftve been between four
and' five millions of dollars. The
charge is using the mails to defraud.
Assistant Treasurer Meline Dies.
Washington, D. C.—Maj. James
F. Meline, for 16 years past the assist
ant treasurer of the United States,
died at his home here Thursday after
a long illness. He was 67 years old.
A HIGHER COURT
REVERSES LANDIS
HUGE FINE IMPOSED ON STAND
ARD OIL CO. IS DECLARED
ILLEGAL.
NEW TRIAL OF REBATE CASE
Is Ordered by United States Circuit
Court of Appeals, Three Judges
Concurring in the Opinion
Handed Down.
Chicago, 111. —Following the unan
imous decision on Wednesday of
Judges Grosscup, Seaman and Baker,
composing the United States circuit
court of appeals, reversing and re-t
manding the case of the government
against the Standard Oil Company of
Indiana, in which case Judge Landis
in the district court had imposed a
fine of $29,240,000, the federal attor
neys announced that the government
had 30 days within which to file a pe
tition for a rehearing, and that it
would be filed within that period.
In the case that was reversed
Wednesday, the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana was found guilty of
accepting rebates on shipments of oil
from its refinery at Whiting, Ind'., to
East St. Louis, 111. Judge Landis
fined the company $20,000 on each
of 1,462 counts, each count represent
ing a car load shipment.
The opinion of three judges of the
higher court leaves little of the con
tention that each car load constituted
a separate offense. Even the various
shipments, of which there were about
500, could not be considered as sep
arate offenses under the ruling of the
court of appeals. The fine should
have been based on settlements be
tween the railroad and the oil com
pany, the opinion holds. Of these
there were just 36. The maximum
fine on this basis would amount to
$720,000 and the minimum $36,000. It
is said that $223,000 is the total
amount which the Standard Oil Co. is
alleged to have received as rebates
on the shipments in question.
In the event that a rehearing is de
nied, the government may goto trial
on the original indictment, containing
1,462 counts. Such an action, Dis
trict Attorney Sims could be ready to
take within two weeks. There are
also seven other indictments, con
taining 4,422 counts. As a vast
amount of work has been done on the
case already decided and reversed, it
is unlikely that an entirely new case
will be instituted. The record of the
present case contains over a million
and a half words, and is estimated to
have cost the government $200,000.
Another move which may be made
by the federal attorneys is to trans
fer the prosecution from this jurisdic
tion either to the western New York
district, or to the eastern Tennessee
court. In these two districts, the
government investigation led to in
dictments containing about 2,000
counts against the Standard Oil Co.
i DESPERADOES RAN AMUCK,
Two Bandits Shot 11 Persons in th<
Streets of Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Boston, Mass. —Eleven persons wer<
shot on Wednesday night, three ol
them probably fatally, by two des
peradoes who, on being pursued bj
policemen and a crowd of citizens
fled for two miles through a thieklj
settled district of Jamaica Plain, fir
ing right and left and disappeared ii
the woods near Franklin park. The
men are believed to be two of th£
gang of three who robbed a saloon in
Jamaica Plain Tuesday night aftei
shooting and killing one man and
wounding two others.
Mrs. Delia Fallon is one of th«
most seriously injured of last night's
victims. She was standing in front
of her home with her baby in hei
arms when the two men, pursued b>
a crowd, came down the street. As
they passed her one of them fired
and the bullet entered her head. Sh«
was removed' to a hospital in a criti
cal condition.
It is believed that the desperadoes
lay concealed in Calvary cemeterj
while the police were hunting fot
them on account of Tuesday night's
hold up and robbery.
The robbers fled' with hundreds ol
men pursuing, and soon disappeared
in Franklin park, shooting down Offi
cer Cox near the park gate.
As soon as possible a cordon of po
lice, armed with rifles and revolvers,
was thrown about the park.
Patrolmen McMahon and Thomp
son sighted the supposed Italians in
the neighborhood of the park late in
I the evening and went down before
their flre.
Herbert E. Knox, the night watch
man of the Forest Hills cemetery,
who was shot in the abdomen by one
of the desperadoes, died at the Emer
son hospital late last night.
Plasterers Fell 50 Feet.
St. Louis.—During mass Wednes
day at St. Francis de Sales
church two plasterers fell 50 feet to
the floor, near Rev. Holweck, who
was celebrating the mass. One man
was killed'.
Battleships Resume Their Voyage.
Honolulu, Hawaii.—The Altantic
battleship fleet bade adieu to Hawaii
on Wednesday and sailed for Auck
land, N. Z., the next point on its
world itinerary, where it is due to
arrive on August 8.
AN AMERICAN IS THE VICTOR
JOHN J. HAYES WINS THE MARA
THON RACE IN ENGLAND.
Yankee Sprinters Completely Out
classed the Englishmen, Who
Were Expected to Win.
London, England.—lt would be no
exaggeration in the minds of any of
the 100,000 spectators who witnessed
the finishing struggle of the Marathon
race (2(5 milefe) at the Olympian are
na h riday to say that it was the most
thrilling athletic event that has oc
curred since that .Marathon race in
ancient Greece, where the victor fell
dead at the goal and, with a wave of
triumph, died.
Since the beginning of the Olympic
games the great rivalry has been be
tween England and America and
while the minor competitions on the
track and field, in which the two na
tions specialized, were fought out,
Englishmen consoled themselves for
all the American successes by the
thought that in the domain of long
distance running they always had
been supreme, and whatever prizes
they failed to grasp in this the co
lonials would pick up.
The sequel may be told briefly. Six
Americans started in the Marathon
race and nine English runners. Of
the first ten men to reach the coveted
goal, four were Americans and they
are officially placed as follows:
•John Hayes, first; Joseph Forshaw,.
Missouri Athletic club, third; A. R.
Welton, Lawrence Y. M. C. A., fourth*
and Lewis Tewinipa, the Carlisle In
dian, ninth.
The second man was Hefferon of
South Africa. He was the oldest
among the runners, having 34 years
to his credit, and he made a remark
able pace almost to the end of the
struggle.
The firct Englishman who crossed
the line came in twelfth. He was
W. T. Clarke and was not one of those
counted upon to win. Duncan, the
former English champion, who won
the preliminary English trial, fell out
at the twelfth mile.
The race is not only a triumph for
the United States but. in a larger
sense, for America, because seven of
the leaders at the end were from
North America. The three Canadians,
Wood, the Indian Simpson and Law
s n finished fifth, sixth and seventh,
respectively.
It will not snatch any laurels from
the brow of Hayes, who won a good
race, to say that the hero of the .lay
was the Italian Dorando. The sympa
thy of every person in the stadium
went out to the gallant Italian, who,
although he did' not win, deserved to
win.
Durando crosse.l the line first, but
as he fell several times after he en
tered the stadium and each time was
helped' to his feet by over-zealous of
ficials, he was disqualified. The
judges' decision was unanimous that
Hayes won the race properly.
SULTAN SURPRISES TURKS.
He Grants a Constitution to His Peo
ple and Orders a Parliament
to Assemble.
Constantinople, Turkey.—After 32
years of autocratic rule under Sultan
Abdul Hamid 11., Turkey again has
been granted a constitution. An im
perial irade was issued Friday order
ing that a chamber of deputies be as
sembled. This present constitution
is practically a restoration of the one
proclaimed December 23, 1876, by the
present sultan immediately following
his elevation to the sultanate.
This action on the part of the
sultan, which came as a complete
surprise to all observers of the prog
ress of events in Turkey, was wrest
ed from him by the Young Turks, a
political party that has been working
for many years for the establishment
of a constitutional government.
FINANCE AND TRADE.
Retail Business Is More Active and
the Percentage of Idle Machinery
Gradually Decreases.
New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Industrial plants gradually enlarge
the percentage of active machinery,
furnishing more work for wage earn
ers, which stimulates retail trade,
while favorable crop progress
strengthens confidence in a continu
ance of recovery in business. New
ccntracts for steel produces are being
placed with more freedom, and col
lieries resume that were closed by the
drouth.
Outside representatives of jobbing
houses are numerous in the primary
market for cotton goods, but opera
tions are restricted, as is customary at
this season.
A Battle With Indians.
Tucson, Ariz. —ln a fierce battle
between Mexican troops and Papago
Indians last Tuesday near Getro, a
mining camp in Sonora, Mexico, 19 In
dians and two soldiers were killed.
Hughes Wants Another Term.
Saranac Inn, N. Y. Gov. Hughes
will accept a renomination if
the Republican party of this state de
sires him to again be its candidate.
In a statement made public Friday
the governor so declares himself.
A Daring Crime.
Philadelphia, Pa. — After choking
Joseph, A. Vaughn, a bank runner,
and robbing him of $1,900 on a trol
ley car Friday, a man whose identity
is unknown dashed through the car
and escaped.