2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. tr year K OJ paid In advance > W ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of ■ae dollar per square forone insertion and tlfty (•nti per square for each subsequent insertion. 1 Rates by the year, or for six or three months, fcre low and uniform, aud will be furnished on •ppllcatton. Legal and Omclul Advertlslnc per square, three times or less. IS; each subsequent inser tion fO cents per square. Local notices in cents per line for one inser sertlon: 6 cents per line for each subsequent sensecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per linn. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines ur less. »5 per year; over five 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 PHKSS Is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of WOrll. PAUTICULAH ATTENTION I'AIDTo LAW PRINTING. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear ages sre paid, except at the option of tho pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for In advance. The Abuse of Servants. Bridget and Dinah and Katrina con tinue to receive the censure, not to say abuse, of the public press and pri vate individuals for their alleged un satisfactory performances of their du ties in the kitchen, in the laundry, in the dining room—in short, "up-staira, down-stairs ,and in their ladies' cham bers." The abuse is sometimes ex travagant and the censure undeserved. Bridget and Dinah and Katrina often <lo much better than the newspapers and the mistresses would have us be lieve. But, conceding that, upon the whole, household servants are not as efficient as they might be, is it sur prising? If you found a man who had never driven a plane or handled a saw, and set him to work at the frame of a house, and presently began to berate him because he was a poor carpenter, you would make yourself more ridicu lous than you would make him. If you wanted a coachman or a groom, you would hardly engage one who had never seen a horse. If you did, and your stock were badly cared for and yourself run away with, you would be laughed at if you blamed your incom petent retainers. Yet this is just what is done by housekeepers in regard to servants, says the New York Weekly. It is as unreasonable to expect women to cook or do other housework before learning how, as to expect a man to build a house or manage horses with out any instruction or experience. What is needed is a school for serv ants, or a system of apprenticeship, or some other means of training them in household work before they are called upon to fill household positions. When Dr. Billy James Clark, a young physician of Moreau, Saratoga county. New York, organized a temperance society in the village, in 1808, the drinking habit was much more preva lent than it is to-day. The one hun dredth anniversary of Dr. Clark's soci ety was celebrated last last month in Saratoga by an international temper ance convention, with delegates pres ent representing 25 states as well as half a dozen foreign countries. Dr. Clark's society is frequently de scribed as the first American temper ance organization. The Sober society of Allentown, N. J., however, ante dates it by three years. Organized temperance work on a large scale did not begin here till 1826, when the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance was formed in the Park street church in Boston. Excessive drinking is so uncommon nowadays that if the early temperance advocates could come to life and see the change tb<»7 would be astounded at the prog ress made. Men have learned by ex perience and observation that if they would get on in the world they must keep sober, and the restraint upon them has been a powerful agent in the prtsmotion of temperance. The town of Kipling has just blos somed out in Canada, where there is only one town of Shakespeare. The nearest the United States comes to having a Shakespeare on the map is the town of Shake in Oregon. For Borne inscrutable reason the great English dramatist was never popular among the new town namers in North America, although we have in the Uni ted States 30 Mlltons, three Gold smiths, four Dickenses, 30 odd Scotts, 20 Byrons, two Tennvsons, and one Thackeray. Notwithstanding all the Browning clubs, there isin't a Brown ing on the American map. Some commodities ought to remain high-priced. For example, few people believe in cheap liquor licenses. Fewer still will approve the economics of a New Jersey justice who has reduced the size of fines because times are hard and sinners are poor. Marking down the price of disorderly conduct does not seem to be a wise way of helping the needy. A burglar insurance company has ben organized in New York. The po lice department there has long been in the business of insuring against bur glary, but there is still room for addi tional enterprise in this branch of in surance- HIS HOPE OF SUCCESS The Suit Is a Little Large for Him. END THIS SLANDER TIME TO PUT A STOF TO DEMO CRATIC FALSEHOOD. Assertion That American Voters Have Been Corrupted by Republican Party Is an Insult and Should Be Repudiated. The "keynote" speech of Tem porary Chairman Bell at the Demo cratic national convention was charac teristically Bryanesqu'e. It opened with the customary denunciation of the Re publican party as the nurse of "spe cial privilege" and "monopoly" and as the author of "government by injunc tion." Then Mr. Bell proceeded to argue for the substitution for the injunctions of the courts, issued indue process of law and for the protection of life and property, of the injunctions of the Gomperses and Sheas and other per sonal usurpers of governmental power for the destruction of property and waging of wars which spare not even life. The ideas of Mr. Bell, which are necessarily the ideas of Mr. Bryan, of a "constructive policy" for the Demo cratic party seemed to be confined chiefly to certain ends and leavings from the congressional waste baskets —to those "great reforms" for which Hon. It. M. La Follette of Wisconsin stood sponsor in the Republican na tional convention —"popular election of senators," "physical valuation of railroads," "publicity of campaign con tributions." On this latter point Mr. Bell said: "The corrupt use of large sums in political campaigns is largely respon sible for the subversion of the people's will at the polls." The assertion that they were beat en by purchase of voters who would otherwise have supported them is fre quently made by defeated candidates. It is the easiest and the cheapest ex cuse of egotism which the people have refused to take at its own valuation. Mr. Bryan offered it in 1896. The grain of fact in this charge is that sometimes in petty local con tests in communities where the moral sense averages low or a certain kind of ignorance prevails, victory goes to the side of the longest purse. But that such methods should win on any large scale is physically Impossible. Let us consider the facts: There are about 16,000,000 voters. There is no evidence that the expendi tures of either great party in a presi dential year have been as much as one dollar a head. Out of this is paid all the expenses of printing, meetings, speakers, and all the other apparatus of the education process which a po litical campaign is and must be if free and popular government is to exist. Where did the money come from with which were "bought" those mil lions of venal voters that defeated candidates and candidates that fear defea* are always seeing? Where are the venal voters? Let the average American ask himself. He may sus pect that he knows one—possibly. But does he know one? The question answers itself. And, knowing the answer, is it not time that the resentment of the decent mil lions of Americans should put an end to this dirty slander and this down right lie? Mr. Bryan's Convention. A stale candidate, who is a fore gone conclusion, makes a stale con vention, makes a stale campaign and a stale campaign ends in an election without enthusiasm and without hope. All the accounts agree that as the opening of the Denver convention ap proached interest seemed to ebb away. The members who had ar rived on the scene with some sense of their individual importance soon be gan to realize that the delegations were at the end of strings and that the strings ran into the study of a cer tain substantial citizen at Lincoln, Neb. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY AUGUST 13, 1908. THE CHANGE IN BRYAN. Proof Not Forthcoming That Old Fal lacies Are Abandoned.. In Mr. Bryan's extenuation it is put forward that he has changed. They whom resentment or indecision or the desire to be placated move, represent that the peerless one is not at all dan serous this time because* what made him so he has forsworn. Once he was for free coinage—to that ha has said a long farewell. Once he railed at the courts —now his roaring is gentle, like that of a sucking dove. Once he was for government ownership—that he is trying as hard as possible to for get. Once he was an ardent free trader—that, perchance, he may yet disown and at any rate forbears to emit a sound that might alarm the most timid manufacturer. Let us freely admit that all which Bryan once believed he now disavows. How long is it since infidelity to im mortal principles and the mobile ad justment of one's views to the exigen cies of the hour became a sure pass port to the trust and confidence of the American people? Are we to under stand from the evidence that Bryan is so great and indispensable an execu tive that whether he has any views or not becomes a negligible matter? If Mr. Bryan should be elected it might be found that these ideas he has for the nonce concealed are really only subordinated until such time as he can get into position to put them into effect. And against such a con tingency Lloyd's offers no insurance. Characterization That Fits. Long has the trinity of significant initials "G. O. P." stood in impres sive isolation. There has been noth ing to counterbalance it descriptively but "Democratic party." A worthy, symmetrical, euphonious characteriza tion for the Jeffersonian opposition has all these generations been a cry ing need. Mr. William Randolph Hearst, unconsciously, too, we believe, has supplied the literary want. In tent only upon reaching "hands across the sea" for the purpose of assas sinating politically Mr. Bryan, Mr. Hearst has cabled a most happy thought that, at once sketches the present status of the Democratic party, invokes its history and prophesies its future. Says Mr. Hearst to Mr. Bryan: "I don't think the path of patriotism lies in supporting a discredited and de cadent old party." It is eminently possible, of course, the*, "discredited old party" may refer to Mr. Bryan specifically and directly However, we much prefer to accept the second adjective and adjust it to its manifest, sense. Hereafter it shall be first "G. O. P." as counter-opposed to I). O. P. —"decadent old party," as Mr. Hearst and other less prominent pessimists behold it —under Bryanism. That Anti-Injunction Plank. Those features of the Denver plat form that have relation to sane issues are for the most part either meaning less or unsound. That relating to in junctions is partly one and partly the other. Nobody denies that "parties to all judicial proceedings should be treated with rigid impartiality," but what does this mean: "Injunctions should not be issued in any cases in which injunctions would not issue if no industrial dispute were involved." If Gompers is satisfied with that, it must be because he thinks he sees something in it that it does not con tain. A possible sense may be extract ed from the statement that trial by jury should be provided in cases of "indirect contempt" of court, though a defiance of injunction orders is suf ficiently direct to be promptly and sum marily punished if injuctions are to have any effect. The so-called anti-in junction plank is simply rotten.—N. Y. Journal of Commerce. Vote vs. Yell. Looking back at the two conventions it is evident that the Democrats are better on the yell than the Repub licans.—Washington Herald. But on election day it will be found that the Republicans can beat the Democrats at voting. 8,000 MEN OUT IN OANADA MECHANICS OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY STRIKE. Both the Officials of the Railway and the Union Men Will Fight for What They Think Are Their Rights. Montreal, Quebec. Returns re ceived' by union leaders here Wed nesday show that the strike order pro mulgated from this city by Bell Hardy, chairman of the Federation of Me chanics of the Canadian Pacific rail way, was obeyed by the employes in the mechanical dapartment of the rail way in every shop from St. John, N. 8., to Vancouver, B. C. It is estimated' here that about 8,000 men are out, though this estimate is below that made at Western points. The Montreal shops alone account for over 2,000 idle men. The union lead ers claimed that the strike would have the effect of crippling operations on the whole railway system unless a set tlement has been reached between the company and its employes. When this settlement will come about is a mat ter of conjecture. There have been rumors of trouble for some months and tho mechanics are evidently well organized and determined to fight while the company is equally pre pared to stand on what it considers its rights. The officials of the Canadir 1 Pacific railway refused to make a y state ment beyond the declaration .hat they would stand by the award of the board of arbitration and conciliate .1 appoint ed under the Lemieux law to considei the matters in dispute between the company and their mechanics. There is but slight probability of govern ment intervention. The strike became effective at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning and simul taneous in the shops at St. John, Hall fax, Montreal, North Bay, Winnipeg and" other cities of Canada whistles were blown by marshals appointed by the central committee and work was abandoned. FIGHTING FORHOMEAND LIVES Wind Turns to Gale and Drives Flames Down Hill to Doomed Town of Michel. Vancouver, B. C.—For three days the people of Michel have fought for their homes with death at the door. Wednesday afternoon thej were beaten at the game. The second in size of the d'evasted district of East Kootenai, started to burn in real earnest at Dusk. Nothing can save it from being a heap of ruins. From a slight eastern breeze the wind turned to a gale from the west at 3 p. m.and the city in a moment was doomed. The blaze came sweep ing down the hill. At the edge of the town 100,000 feet of mine timbers, owned by the coal company, caught fire and four loaded railroad cars standing on a side track were con sumed. Two Canadian Pacific locomo tives hitched onto a train to carry the fire fighters away to the west tc safety. By the time the train left for the west the fire was spreading all over the yards. The train got only half a mile on its journey when it encountered a wall o! flames. There was danger of its being hemmed in and being burned with every body aboard so the locomotives were reversed and' run back with all speed. By the time the train returned all the houses on the flat district back of the Great Northern depot were burning and the main town was likely to catch at any moment. ELECTRICAL STORMS IN EAST Great Damage Is Done by Heavy Rain and Hail—Lightning Strikes in Many Places. New York City.—Severe electrical storms late on Wednesday accom panied by heavy rain and' in some in stances by damaging showers of hail, broke the heat wave that has been af flicting New York state and the New England states. The storm brought great relief to this city, for during the day ten deaths and more than 20 prostrations were caused by the heat and excessive humidity. Even early in the day the hospitals were caring for many pros trated. The mercury stood at 90 de grees at 2 o'clock and was still ascend ing an hour later when the first cool ing breeze came. Tn a few minutes it had dropped ten degrees and by nightfall there was little to complain of in the way of weather. From all sections of New England and New York came reports of dam age done by the storm. Lightning struck in many places, and at Green Island, near Troy, N. Y., Mrs. Thomas McCabe was killed by a bolt. At Jamestown, N. Y„ the storm was especially severe, driving several craft ashore on Chautauqua lake. Four Rhode Island churches were struck by lightning and one of them was levelled to the ground at Provi dence, causing a total loss of more than SIO,OOO. Miss Katherine Wormeley Dead. Newport, R. I.—Miss Katherine Prcscott Wormeley, famous as the translator of the work of Bal zac, died Wednesday night at her summer home in Jackson, N. H. Her body will be cremated and' the ashe« will be brought here for burial. Deserter Shot and Killed. San Francisco, Cal.—William F. English, a private in Co. 115, coast ar tillery, waiting trial for desertion, waa shot and killed at the Presldo Wednea day while trying to escape. IIJ OPEN GRAVE OF HVPNOTIC VICTIM HUMANE OFFICERS VISIT GRAVE OF GIRL WHO THEY CLAIM WAS BURIED ALIVE. GIRL WAS PLACED IN COFFIN Declares She Will Emerge from Sleep in Perfect Condition—Carried on Stretcher to Grave Which Had Been Prepared. Sandusky, O. —The Humane society may goto law to release Flor ence Jessie Gibson, aged' 19, buried five feet below the surface at Cedar Point as a hypnotic experiment. "A stop will be put to the exhibition if any statute can be found under which the society can proceed," de clared Mrs. Fannie Everett, humane officer, after a visit to the "grave." The girl was placed in a coffin and lowered beneath the earth Saturday night. She is to be resurrected, ac , cording to present plans, August 10, after an imprisonment of 10 days. Bundha Kupparow, Hindu mystic, who put the girl in a state of cata lepsy and' buried her, insists the Hu mane society has no cause for action. He declares that at the end of 10 days she will emerge from her sleep in perfect condition, as did a young man he buried in Washington in June. Immediately after the girl was hyp notized, she was carried on a stretcher to the grave, already prepared. A big crowd saw her lowered in her cof fin and the dirt thrown in. The grave is on the amusement circle at the resort. All can see that the girl actually in in the grave, by peering down a long tube, through which the face of the sleeper can be seen by aid of a little electric lamp which dangles at the end of a wire. BAD BLOOD BETWEEN RIVALS Hotel Man Kills Man in Crowd at Railway Station at Upper San dusky, O. Upper Sandusky, O. —James Good love, proprietor of tho Hotel Reber, one of the city's most prominent men Thursday evening shot and killed Frank McCormick, an employe of the Hotel Gottfried. The crime occurred at the Pennsylvania depot, in the presence of 50 people, who were wait ing the arrival of a train. Goodlove immediately drove to his hotel, then started for a saloon across the street, where he was arrested'. He was taken to the mayor's office, in front of which a large crowd of ii> dignant citizens assembled. When he was led to the jail, there were cries of "Mob him" and "Lynch him." McCormick's homo was near Lon don, 0., and he had been in the em ploy of the Hotel Gottfried several months, in which time he had made himself popular. He acted as depot man for the hotel, as did Goodlove for his hotel, both hostelries running cabs. For some time there has been a fight for position at the depot. Thurs day evening McCormick stepped up tc Goodlove and protested against the position tho latter had taken with his cab. Goodlove replied by calling Mc- Cormick a foul name, whereupon Mc- Cormick struck him. Goodlove drew a revolver from his pocket and Mc- Cormick started to run. Goodlove explained "I'm going tc kill you," and fired twice, one bullet striking McCormick in the back. The latter ran ten feet, fell and expired. LIVED IN SWAMP ON BERRIES Alleged Woman Forger, who Escapee from Sheriff on Saginaw Bay Shore, Again Captured. Bay City, Mich.—Mrs. Elizabeth Barnett, alleged' forger, who es caped from Sheriff Hartley three days ago by plunging into swamps on the Saginaw bay shore, again was taken into custody at Crump, 25 miles north of here, Thursday. She was exhausted from privation and fatigue, haven eaten little but swamp berries until her arrival at Estey, where she wis given solid food. She ate ravenously, swallowing without chewing. Her clothing was torn almost to shreds, her form was emaciated from hunger and privation, her thick black hair was matted about her head in a mass stiffened by dust and rain, and her features were almost black from grime and exposure to the sun. In Darkness for Two Hours. Paris, France. —Paris was plunged in darkness for two hours Thursday night because of an attempt of elec tricians to carry out a general strike, similar to that of March, 1907. Fire Threatens Kentucky Town. Midway, Ky. This town, about half way between Lexington and Frankfort, was the scene of a Are that for a time threatened the town with destruction Thursday night. The fire destroyed five warehouses of the S. J. Greenbaum Distilling Co. Drydock Bid Accepted. Washington, D. C. —Mr. Erickson of Seattle has been notified by the navy department of the acceptance of his bid of $1,625,000 for the construction of the Puget Sound drydock. ' REVIEW OF TRADE CONDITIONS BANK EXCHANGES IN LEADING CITIES LESS THAN A YEAR AGO Cotton Mills Still Curtailing Output- Steel Industry Is More Active— Country Merchants Place Orders. New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Review of Trade says: Bank exchanges this week at all leading cities in the United States are $2,211,978,665, 8.3 per cent, less than a year ago and 10.9 per cent, und'er the clearings of the first week of August in 190 G. The loss continues quite large at Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Baltimore, New Orleans, Minneapolis and San Francisco, clear ly due to conditions affecting special interests in those sections. St. Louis and Kansas City again report a gain, and at other leading cities losses are small. Mid-summer dullness affects trade, and the volume of bank clear ings, usually at the low point of the year in August, is reduced, but it is now materially above the amount in the earlier months of the year, show ing a marked improvement in that re spect. Boston reports that cotton mills are still curtailing output, but larger sales of wool promise greater activity in the woolen industry. Dry good's jobbers are placing f»JI orders freely and the situation will be improved by the auction sales. Retail dry goods trade is quiet at Philadelphia, but wholesalers report more inquiries and there is some improvement in collec tions, although payments are not yet wholly satisfactory. The steel indus try and building trades are more ac tive. Recovery in business at Chicago would be more rapid if the weather were less excessively hot. Country merchants attend the wholesale and jobbing markets in large numbers, placing orders that compare favorably with those of a year ago. Wholesale dry goods trade is active at Cincin nati, traveling salesmen are sending in large orders and there is a good personal attendance at jobbing houses. Conditions Improve steadily at Cleveland, but shipping interests, are dull. VORYS CHOSEN FOR CHAIRMAN Will Preside at the Campaign Open ing in Youngstown, 0., on September 5. Cedar Point, O. —Arthur I. Vorys. manager of the movement which culminated in William H. Taft's nomination for the presidency, will preside at the opening meeting of the Republican campaign at Youngs town, September 5. The orators of the day will be Andrew L. Harris, governor of Ohio, who will speak on state issues, and Gov. Charles E. Hughes of New York and Senator Albert J. BeVer idge of Indiana, who will devote their efforts to an explanation of national issues. Special invitations will be extended to Ohio's United States senators, Jo seph B. Foraker and' Charles Dick, though their names will not be on the program for addresses. Invita tions also will be sent to the Repub lican members of both houses of the national congress and the Ohio gen eral assembly, and to all Republican county chairmen in this state. The arrangements for the campaign opening were made Friday afternoon at a meeting of the sub-committe ap pointed for that purpose by the Re publican state executive committee, at the latter's recent session in Cin cinnati. AGED WOMAN DIES WEALTHY Girls Enter Into Compact in Youth Which Nets Survivor Com fortable Sum. St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Margaret Castens, 94 years of age, who received $15,000 three years ago as the result of a unique compact en tered into by 65 girls in a German convent school more than 70 years ago, died at the home of her daughter in this city Friday night. Seventy five years ago Mrs. Castens was a pupil in a convent near Stuttgart, Germany. The girls agreed just be fore they graduated to p»y a certain number of marks a year into a Berlin bank and the entire amount was to goto the last surviving member of the class. Three years ago Mrs. Cas tens found herself the only one of the class remaining. She wrote to the bank, believing she would receive a few thousand dollars. She received more than $15,000. Gives Fortune to Cats. Philadelphia, Pa. —Half a million dollars out of an estate of st>oo.ooo is given to charity by the will of the late Mrs. Annie L. Lowry of this city. The will, which was probated Friday,, directs that $5,000 be invested and the income paid to Violet Pealk, a cousin, for the care of cats and par rots that belonged to Mrs. Lowry. Wheat Near Ten Year Average. Washington, D. C.—The crop re porting board of the department of agriculture Friday issued a bulletin giving the condition of spring wheat on August 1 as 80.7 compared with a ten year average of 82.7. The con dition of corn is 82.5. Milking Cow Starts Fight. Newton, .Mass. —The alleged action of an Italian boy in milking a neighbor's cow Friday night started a battle which culminated in the shoot ing of the boy and his mother.
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