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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.