2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ferjt&r RM ji paid la advance 1 ADVERTISING RATES: AdTerttsements ore published at the rate of rne dollar per square for one insertion and llfty tots per square fur each subsequent insertioa Rates by the yi ar. or for six or throe months ■re low and uniform, and will be furnished on UPPllcat.on. Legr.l and Official Advertising per square, three times or less. *2; each subsequent inser tion . 0 cents per Local notices 10 cents per line for one lnser •ertlon; 5 cents per line for each subsequent Obituary notices over five linrs, 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar ri«<ces and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less. »f> per year: over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local Inserted tor less than 75 cents per Usue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pkitss Iscomplete and afTords facilities for doing the best class of work Pahtiuui.au atteniion paiuto Law Printing. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must bo paid for in advance. Elevstlrig the Filipino*. What American precept and exam ple may do in the Philippines is indi cated anew by what is going on in Mindanao, regarding which the Army and Navy Journal says the quarters of the army officers there may result in the abandonment by the natives of the nipa huts and the sort of civiliza tion that goes with such primitive structures. The Army and Navy Jour nal adds: "Gov. Johnson, in installing a stable and practical government over the non-Christian tribes, has ar ranged for every family to have its hemp field, and is urging the natives to give up their huts for wood houses. He has used the dwellings of army officers as an illustration of the value of such habitations. The people, who have a high respect for the big Ameri can soldier, are abandoning their shacks and building real houses." This marks a long step forward, and as sures most gratifying results. The native huts of the old order are not only objectionable as typifying a low order of life, but are too often the breeding-places of disease. The first act when an epidemic breaks out is usually to burn the nipa huts as one of the best means of destroying the dead ly germs. The new and better way of living taught by the Americans is certain to add in raising the race to a higher level. Philadelphia has recently gone through an experience which the ma jority of its citizens would not care to repeat. The occasion was "Tag day." Large numbers of attractive young ■women interested in a charitable work had prepared small tags representing various sums of money. These they took with them into the streets and public conveyances and into stores und business offices. Whenever a per son was induced to give anything, a tag for the amount was pinned on his coat. The presence of one tag by no means conferred immunity. Rather ■was it a sign to other solicitors that the wearer was an "easy mark," and so he was importuned further, until he became all gummed up with tags. The ostensible spirit of fun is not enough to redeem so bold a method of hold up, remarks the Youths' Companion, end those who do give, even if they grin, are left in a rebellious frame of mind not conducive to future benefac tions. How to raise money for good works in worthy ways might well form a course of study in the new school* of social science. Closer union, indeed the formation of a new dominion by the British South African colonies, has been re garded by far-seeing men as certain to come in time. The time may be nearer than has been generally sup posed. Last month delegates of the self-governing colonies met in Pretoria to discuss interstate customs and rail way regulations. They took occasion also to pass a resolution in favor of a closer political union. The sugges tion was that a convention be called comprising 12 delegates from Cape Colony, eight from the Transvaal and five each from the Orange River colo ny and Natal, and that these delegates draft a provisional constitution. The members of the cusloms convention agreed to lay the resolution before their respective governments, and the general belief is that the governments will at least go so far as to approve the convention and appoint delegates, although final acceptance or rejection of whatever agreement might be reached will rest with each colonial government. For more than a century the Yaqul Indians have waged unremitting war against every effort of civilized gov ernment to end their tribal indepen dence. They have now submitted to the Mexican government, and received full rights of citizenship. At this writing the terms have not been con cluded, but the chief believes that his people will ratify the preliminary agreement, and end a strife that has cost both parties many lives and enor mous property losses. This peaceful settlement is an end for which Presi dent Diaz has long labored, and its realization is another proof of the effi ciency of his government. V/ITH THE NOMINEE NEW YORK REPUBLICANS A UNIT FOR TAFT. Party's Standard Bearer Assured of Loyal Support in the Empire State —Business Men Are Awake to His Value. Mr. Taft is too wise and too consid erate of the attitude he should main tain toward slate politics to seek to influence New York or any other state In the selection of Us officers. As a citizen and a party man, vitally inter ested in the outcome of the election, he naturally has his favorite for the governorship of New York. This pref erence is well known to he the pres ent occupant of the office, which fact thoroughly discredits the efforts made in the past to represent Mr. Roosevelt as ininiicable to the governor, for Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt are doubtless in agreement in this matter. The out look in the state election is excellent for the Republican party. All attempts made to have it appear that the Em pire state Republicans are seriously at odds is a part of the general misrep resentations of the Democrats. The Republicans will carry the state for Taft, no matter who may be the guber natorial nominee. Everything is shaping up beautifully. There is not a missing link in the ac cord of the party upon national issues. Mr. Taft made himself solid with New York by his early announcement of the favorite son principle. He Is known to have played fair before the convention met, and he will be given a square deal by New York at the election. The tremendous impression made by Mr. Taft, however, is not con fined to politicians. The business men of the metropolis—the financiers and the men of wide affairs generally—are looking to Mr. Taft as their salvation from the flotsam and jetsam that other wise would overwhelm them. Mr. Taft has been tested, and he is believed to be sound to the core. Business men generally put his quali fications beyond party and sum them up very succinctly. Mr. Taft knows the territory he is to work; he lias traveled every part of it; he knows the line of goods his party has to offer; he knows the tastes of the people; he is acquainted with the obstacles to be overcome; he is fully informed as to the trade competition of other pow ers; he is just the man to represent the American people in every capacity a president is called upon to fill. This satisfies the business men. They know his acumen; they believe in his princi ples; tliey trust his wisdom. For all these reasons, aside from the generally favorable political state of the case, New York will be solid for Taft. This is a matter of felicitation to the country in general that regards the New York vote as most important. The country wants Taft—certainly the section of the people who are most keenly sensitive to the elements in the nation's life on which depend its pros perity. Therefore, Taft will fill the bill for the country. His acceptability to the conservative business interests of the metropolis is indication of his general acceptability to this class the nation over.—buffalo Express. Tariff Revision. In all probability the revision of the tariff will be the paramount issue in the campaign. The casual observer might say that inasmuch as both Taft and Bryan have declared for a modi fication of existing schedules, it will make little difference to us which un dertakes the work; but this fallacy is one of the dangers to be guarded against in the present campaign. Mr. Taft and those who stand with him on the Republican national plat form would carry out the McKinley idea of tariff revision, retaining the principle of protection for American industries and American labor, except with reference to products of monopo listic combinations. Mr. Bryan, on the other hand, would smash the protective tariff, imposing only such duties as are necessary for revenue. In other words, Mr. Bryan would open our markets to the prod ucts of the cheap labor of the whole world except in cases where incidental protection results from the imposition of revenue duties. —Burlington Free Press. Maybe Kern Is Right. It pleases Mr. John W. Kern of In diana to look upon his nomination for the vice-presidency with humorous nonchalance. When excited friends first told him that he had been named he waved thein aside and continued the narra tion of a funny story. Since then he has discoursed much about anecdotal friends at the bar, much about Indiana localism and much about his beard. He has not, so far as reported, said ono word in serious appreciation of tlirt honor and responsibility which ft great national party has placed on his shoulders. To us this course seems in the worst of bad taste. It also seems to be extremely poor politics. A man who looks upon his nomination to an ex alted office merely as a joke gives the people a very convincing reason for not. electing him to that office. —Chi- cago Evening Post. If Henry Watterson keeps on the way he is now going, he will argue himself into the belief that he sup ported Bryan in 1896. —Rochester Dem ocrat. "The Democrats have been very good to me," says Mr. Bryan, with unction. This is unquestionably true of some of the Democrats. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY AUGUST 20, 1908. BRYAN UNDER A HANDICAP. "Shouters" Will Want Reward In Ex tremely Improbable Event of Success. Mr. Bryan disposes of some gossip about appointments in case of his elec tion by saying that ho has made no promises about officers and will maka none. A wise course. It was said of Mr. Clay that had ha been elected president he would have been overwhelmed by the multiplicity of the promises that had been made by him, and for him by friends, in the matter of patronage. Unselfish per sonal devotion did not explain the whole of the Clay following. Some of il was canny, and wanted assurances. Many men so disposed got assurances. Mr. Clay was approachable in a deli cate way on such scores. If a little dictatorial at times, he was yot warm hearted, and he desired very much to be president. In the White House, therefore, he would have been be sieged by Clay men from all quarters, clamoring either for what, had been promised them, or for what they thought they liad deserved as laborers in his vineyard. And there would not have been patronage enough by a hun dred per cent, togo round. This was equally true probably of Mr. Blaine —another leader who had the knack of attaching men to him with bonds of extraordinary strength, but who at the same time found it nec essary to talk "business" to some of his followers. He, too, had a good deal of "paper" out which it would have taxed him as president to redeem. Mr. Bryan's leadership has been short as compared with the length either of Mr. Clay's or of Mr. Blaine's, but it has been long enough to bring many men under his spell, and thou sands have associated themselves with his rise and the establishment of his power. Fully a regiment may be mus tered who "found him first." As many more are known In their respective communities as men who stand "par ticularly close" to him, and with whom he always confers before taking any important step. Then we have the army of shouters, hoarse all through campaign years from use of his name, and convinced of their right to recogni tion at his hands. Is it difficult to draw the picture of Mr. Bryan in the White House, with the original Bryan men, the men who stand "particularly close" to him, and the noble army of general shouters, all moving on him for remembrance in his hour of triumph? He might not wish himself in Hongkong, or his besiegers in Hades, but his condition, even with out a single promise out, would move all sympathetic persons to genuine pity. Mr. Taft and the Courts. One great advantage Mr. Taft car ries with him into the present con test. We believe that, in spite of the seething discontent, and in spite of immigration, the American people still believe in the supremacy of law. They had in 1787 the opportunity to put final power into the hands of an executive if they wished. They had the opportunity, also, to make of the courts a set of mere puppets of the temporary popular mood, or to make the legislature supreme. They did none of these things. They founded courts which were to act irrespective of pressure from executive, legisla ture or populace. If the people of to day wish to amend the constitution they are free to do so and to remove this power of the courts to stand be tween the permanent and the tem porary opinions of the masses. As long as we have courts, however, as the final arbiters of law, it is folly to endeavor, by short terms and by elec tion, instead of appointment, to make them popular in tone. Very likely, during the term of the next president, four members of the supreme court of the United States will be changed. Who will bo likely to put upon that bench the higher grade of men. Mr. Bryan or Mr. Taft? That, is one of the most important questions the electors must face between now and November. In the opinion of some of the most intelligent citizens, it is the most important question to be faced. —Collier's Weekly. Taft and Bryan Compared. Taft is by nature, culture and action a conservative, with an experience of indicated value in jurisprudence and in administrative work. Bryan's skin holds the core of a radical, the tem perament of an actor, the instinct of a Bohemian, and the gay resilience of an adventurer on every sea of expedien cy. Taft steers by the light of con science, reason, judgment, constitu tion and history. Bryan begins life every morning and has sobered in de meanor only by his contact with occa sions. Occasions have wrought no mental or moral change In him at all. No thoughtful man would make Bryan his executor. No thoughtful man should make Bryan his executive. The intimates of the two men are as unlike as the two men thei.selves. The people know that well. The judges, scientists, statesmen, pub licists, scholars and men of leading who have and who share the friend ship and the confidence of Taft, and the motley wear of the shouters, ad venturers, bosses, time-servers and charlatans who fellowship and revel with Bryan, have been thrown on more than flashlight view at Denver, in Lincoln and elsewhere, for days past, and will be for months to come. Mr. Bryan is said to be perfectly con fident that he will be elected this year. Mr. Bryan has never been imperfectly confident. He was cocksure in 1896 and cocksurer in 1900. The finest hoper in this vale of tears, and sus tained by the solid fact of the $60,000 a year which he makes out of hie party.—N. Y. Sun. "CY" YOUNG IS HONORED GIFTS SHOWER UPON GRAND OLD MAN OF BASEBALL. Veteran Pitcher Is the Central Figure in a Remarkable Demonstra tion at Boston. Boston, Mass. —Nearly 20,000 per sons from all over New England at tended Thursday's benefit, game for Denton T. (Cy) Young of Peoli, 0., tho Boston American league baseball team's veteran pitcher, at the Ameri can league grounds. Three silver lov ing cups, a traveling bag and two big floral pieces were presented to Young. The largest cup was given to Mr. Young by his many admirers through a local newspaper. Lieut. Gov. Draper made the presentation. Manager Fielder Jones, of the Chicago Ameri can club, presented a large silver cup given by the players of the American league. One other cup was given by a friend and the traveling bag was given by the umpires of the American league. The Boston National league club gave a big floral offering. The main attraction besides "Cy" himself was a game between the Bos ton nine and a team of star players picked from the other American league clubs. The All Stars won by a score of 3 to 2. The game went 11 innings. The gate receipts, all of which goto Young, amounted to nearly $7,000. A surprise was afforded those who attended when the locals appeared in makeup before the game. "Cy" was a rube with straw hat, Criger was fat tened -out into a comedian, Jake Stahl was a cowboy, Laporte a farmer, Lord a rough rider, Wagner a comedian, Thoney an admiral, Sullivan a clown with a trumpet, Gessler a doctor, Don ohue and Burchell as Chinamen and Deacon McGuire as Uncle Sam. LIQUIDATION IS FINISHED. Final Payment to Creditors of French Panama Canal Co. Is Made. Paris, France. —The liquidation of the old Panama Canal Co., which has been going on since ISS9, was com pleted Thursday when the civil tribunal of the Seine authorized a last payment to creditors of 1 per cent, and issued a decree of discharge to the receivers. In 1878 a concession was obtained from Colombia by the Societe Civile Internationale du Canal Interoceanique for the construction of a canal across the isthmus. This concession was purchased in 1879 for $2,000,000 by a company headed by Ferdinand de Les seps. The work of excavating for the canal proceeded until 18S9, when the company went into bankruptcy and disbanded. Great scandals followed the collapse of the company. Extensions of time for the comple tion of the canal were granted in the 90's to the liquidators of the company, the last naming October 31, 1910, as the time. A new company was then organized to prosecute the work, but failure to do so resulted in 1903 in a treaty between Colombia and the United States by which the latter country was to cut the canal. The American congress ratified that treaty, but the Colombian congress rejected it. A revolution in Colombia resulted in the isthmus falling into the hands of the new republic of Panama, and the Panaman government gave the United States the right to do the work. In acquiring title to the canal prop erty, however, obstacles were thrown in the path of the United States by the bondholders of the old Panama Canal Co. and the stockholders of the new Panama Canal Co. endeavoring to prevent the transfer. Finally, however, in 1904, in consideration of $40,000,000, the United States was able to take all rights in the premises. GOT THE DOUBLE CROSS. A Pittsburger Tells a Sad Story of a Faro Game that Went Wrong. New York City.—A story of a faro game in a luxuriously furnished private dwelling in the fashionable section of the upper West Side was disclosed Thursday at the hearing of Martin Phillips, who was arrested Wednesday night, charged with lar ceny. Phillips was arraigned in the West Side court and was held in $I ,- SOO for trial. Neville R. Moxley, for merly of Pittsburg, who gave his present address as this city, was the complainant, alleging that he lost SOOO in a faro game dealt by Phillips. In his story to the court Moxley said that he came to New York to work a "system" with Phillips. Mox ley said that Phillips wrote to him saying that they could make $2,000 out of Phillips' employer. Moxley, it was alleged, was to put up the neces sary money and to get 00 per cent, of tho proceeds, the remaining 40 per cent, togo to Phillips. Moxley said he came to this city with S6OO, to which Phillips added S3OO, saying that much was needed to work the "sys tem." Killed His Son and Daughter. I.os Angeles, Cal. — Driven insane by religious mania, H. J. Dufty, 60 years old, on Thursday attacked and killed his son and daughter with an ax, and then cut his own throat with a razor, inflicting fatal injuries. Three Buried in One Grave. Wheeling, W. Va. —Margaret, Ma mie and Claire Gavin, the vic tims of Tuesday morning's explosion and lire, were burled Thursday in one grave. Three thousand persons at tended the funeral. WOMAN PILOTS EXCURSION BOAT Mrs. Rose E. Watkins First of Hor Sex to Hold License in Illinois. Bloomington, 111.— Mrs. Itose PJ. Wat kins of La Salle county, this state, has been granted a license as pilot and master of a steamer on navigable waters, and is now a familiar figure to Illinois river excursionists. The season is now at its height and thou sands have watched her at the wheel as she guided the vessel along the devious meanderings of the inland waterway. Mrs. Watkins is now regu larly authorized to handle a steamer ZOJ& bfrrrfrtf, up to 100 tons' burden on the Illinois river or any of its tributaries. When the government decided it would inspect the boats used to carry passengers on the rivers of the coun try and examine in rules of navigation the pilots and masters, using the same rigidity and same vigilance as with ocean going vessels and their com manders, the examining board toured the state and looked into every boat Inspectors Peck and Mansfield, who were assigned to the Illinois river, one day ran across the steamer George S. Watkins. When they asked to see the pilot they were amazed when Wat kins, who serves as engineer, intro duced his wife. The inspectors asked her the usual questions about the laws of navigation, lights, signals, etc., and found that she was thoroughly in formed, more so than the average man. She was granted a license im mediately and is very proud of the document. The regulations do not prohibit wom en serving as pilots. Although the in spectors were somewhat dubious about their authority to grant the per mit, due to lack of precedent, they de cided that they must, do so see! com plimented Capt. Watkiafc uy>on ner knowledge of the subject. Mrs. Watkins was born upon the banks of the Illinois, and has spent nearly her entire life upon the river. She taught school for several years. After her marriage to Capt. Watkins the latter decided to embark in th» excursion business, Mrs. Watkins de cided to assist her husband, and, after studying navigation, was intrusted with the post of pilot. She has fre quently demonstrated her presence of mind and cool-headedness in trying sit uations and has won many compli ments upon her success in an occupa tion so novel for a woman. IS CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR. Workshop of R. R. Williams of Texas, Blacksmith and Lawyer. Dallas, Tex. —R. K. Williams of Cumby, Tex., who is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for gov ffjjj I^s^ Workshop of a Gubernatorial Candidate ernor against Gov. Thomas M. Campbell, is a blacksmith and lawyer. Until he made public an nouncement a few weeks ago o I his candidacy for the office of chief ex ecutive of the state he had been heard of but little outside of his own com munity. Lawyers in his town do not have much to do and Mr. Williams spends much of his time ylying his trade of blacksmith. He also is filling the office of justice of the peace through appointment. Mr. Williams' candidacy has been well received by the anti-administra tion element of the party. Williams clubs have been organized all over the state during the last few weeks. He is receiving the active support of some of the leaders of the party and the fol lowing which he has developed is mak ing Gov. Campbell uneasy. Texas is such a big state in area that it takes much money to travei over it making a campaign. Mr. Wil liams says that he. is too poor to stumj. the state. He will conduct a "front porch" campaign. It is planned tc run excursions of his supporters tc Cumby and let them listen to the speeches of Mr. Williams, who says he will remain at home during all tb» campnign. SAMEf, THE SINGER, DIES LIFE OF NOTED HYMN WRITER AND EVANGELIST IS ENDED. He was 68 Years of Age and Had Beer> Afflicted with Blindness for Several Years. New York City.—lra D. Sankey, known as an evangelist throughout the Christian world, <lie<l Thursday night, at his home in Brooklyn, but the news of his passing did not become generally known until Friday. Mr. Sankey was G8 years old. For the last five years he had been blind and had suffered from a complication ol diseases brought on by overwork. Rut almost to th? very last he worked at hymn writing. His tours throughout this country and Europe with Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, brought him into wide prominence. Sankey, it might, be said, wrote the gospel hymns of the world. In China, Egypt, India, Japan, in almost every language kntrvvn toman. Sankey's hymns are sung. He received a large income from his publications ami leaves a considerable estate. Among Mr. Sankey's most familiar composi tions are "The Ninety and Nine," anil "When the Mists Have Rolled Away." His songs are said to have had a cir culation of more than 50,000,000 copies. He was a rapid composer and wrote book after book of gospel hymns. Dur ing the last live or six years of his life he was interested in preparing and publishing the story of the gospel hymns. At the same time he saved his wonderful voice for posterity by singing into phonographs. The rec ords were sent all over the world. Sankey first met Moody at a Y. M. C. A. convention at Indianapolis. Moody was so charmed with the young man's voice that he urged him to ac company him on his evangelical tour. Sankey explained that he was mar ried and that he could not give up his position. "You must come, I cannot get along without you." Sankey con sulted his wife and they cast their lot with Mr. Moody. They visited Great Britain from 1873 to 1875, and again in 1883, and made many tours throughout the United States. THREE BALLOONS IN A RACE. Unique Rules Governed a Contest for a Cup. North Adams, Mass.—The bal loon North Adams No. 1, with A. D. Potter of Greenfield as pilot and Holland Forbes and daughter Natalie, aged 12 years, as passengers, and owned by the North Adams Aero club, undoubtedly won thfe cup offwred by Mr. Forbes in the first poP.t-to-point race ever held in this country. The race was started from North Adams Friday afternoon. The North Adams No. 1 landed on the farm of Lyman Sanderson at West Whateley, about five miles from its previously declared destination, Haydenville. This was the first balloon to get away. The- Greylock, owned and piloted by Dr. Roger M. Randall of North Adams and having Clarence Wildman of this city as passenger, landed on the Bry ant farm in Ashfieki, fully 12 miles from its desired destination, Leeds. The third balloon to start, the Heart of the Berkshires, owned by the Aero Club of Pittsburg, was the last to land, coming down in Amherst, within six and one-quarter miles of Whateley station, its destination. The conditions of the race were that, previous to the race, the occu pants of the balloons should designate some place, at least 30 miles from North Adams, where they would at tempt to land, that they should land within ten miles of the postoffice of the place and that the balloon landing nearest the announced destination should win the cup. REVIEW OF TRADE. Demand for Steel Products Is Stead ily Increasing. New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Trade reports continue irregular with pronounced gains in some sec tions and no improvement in others, the net result being encouraging, how ever. Steel demand is steadily broaden ing, each week bringing a larger per centage of active capacity, and the improvement is especially gratifying in view of the few orders from the railways. Mob Re.gns in Springfield. 111. Springfield, 111.—A mob, bent on wreaking vengeance on the ne groes of Springfield because of an assault committed by a negro on a white woman, raged through the streets last night, beating negroes and disregarding the soldiers of Troop B, ordered out by Gov. Deneen to pre serve order. Two men are dead and probably two score more or less seri ously injured. The whole east end of the city, iuhabited by negroes, is in flames. Bank Clerk Charged With Theft. Wilkesbarre, Pa. —Norman Fogel,. until recently a clerk in the First National bank of this city, was arrested Friday, charged with embez zling $7,500. Ie was given a prelim inary hearing aid in default of SB,OOO bail was comiritted to Jail. Streiched Hemp. Tucson, Ariz. —Edwin Hawkins was hanged here on Friday for the murder of Albsrt C. Leonhanlt of Co lumbus, 0., wlo was killed December 22, 1907. while resisting a holdup.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers