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The West in the Lead.
The west as a whole is far beyond
the east in iis abatement of the smoke
nuisance. In St. Paul some four years
ago, the work was given over to the
department of health, whose first act
was to lay the following question be
fore the local and national unions of
steam engineers and firemen: "Can
the smoke nuisance as it. exists to-day
be reasonably prevented without in
jury to trade and manufacturing inter
ests?" This question was unanimous
ly answered in the affirmative by the
members of both unions. Notices were
jtaken in all dubious cases and lines
were imposed when necessary, a mini
mum fine of $25 for the first offense,
doubled for each succeeding one. The
work has been most, successful, and
besides an abatemement of smoke, a
saving of fuel is reported. In Milwau
kee an ordinance which has gone
through periods of relaxation and
others of strict enforcement, has been
successful when properly managed,
continues Hollis Godfrey in the Atlan
tic. About half the city at the time
of a recent report used smoke-con
suming devices, about one-fourth used
hard coal or smokeless fuel. The gen
eral condition of the city was admir
able. So admirable, indeed, that the
title of the ordinance passed by the
common council is worth quoting in
full as an epitome of what such an
ordinance should be.
No proposition could be more thor
oughly in keeping with the eternal fit
ness of things than that which has
reference to a national "Lincoln high
way" from Washington to Gettysburg.
The plan in outline is to construct a
road between the points mentioned, a
distance of 72 miles, to be a memorial
to the martyred president. It is in
tended to make the highway as perfect
a road as can be devised. In time, if
constructed and maintained as in
tended, it would become one of the
most notable sights. Kept in thorough
condition, a great driveway through a
park-like border, with residences,
statuary and other features, the high
way would be a magnificent public
road, remarks the Troy (N. Y.) Times.
And as a direct connecting link be
tween Washington and Gettysburg,
with both of which Lincoln's fame is
inseparably connected, what could be
more appropriate?
The Zeppelin airship is it. Until
some other invention can skim the air
like a bird and respond as does this
marvelous machine to the will of man,
the count's probable conquest of air
must place his discovery at the top of
the line. Since a king and queen have
gone riding on this Zeppelin cloud, we
shall soon hear of lesser lights ascend
ing, though, since Germany holds the
copyright on such aerial travel, it will
be some time before the count's inven
tion can be as popunlar as the bicycle
or the automobile. No doubt, it is
destiny that man should have wings
and fly. But don't let Count Zeppelin
be too airy. He may come a cropper
yet.
There is a great deal of food for
thought in the statement of Chicago's
Salvation Army officers that since
their anti-suicide bureau was started,
about a year ago, 400 men and women
have applied for advice. According to
the army officials a large proportion
of these would have taken their lives
if the bureau had not intervened. If
that is so, Mr. Carnegie might properly
recognize the Salvation Army among
the life savers.
Mrs. Russell Sage sits down hard on
Ihe proposition to change the name of
Sag Harbor to "Sage Harbor" in her
honor, and even suggests that she pre
fers a return to the old-fashioned spell
ing of the name, which was "Sagg
Harbour." Mr. Brander Matthews and
his fellow-simple spellers ought to e'
a circular to Mrs. Sage.
In order to have "live spokes" newly
sawed timber must be well racked up
and laid in the open air one year to
the inch to season. The average auto
mobile spoke requires a two-inch piece
of timber; that means two years of
idle lumber.
"ME AND JACK.
(After a Well-Known Print.)
OUTLOOK IS GOOD
MIDDLE WEST STATES ARE
SAFELY REPUBLICAN.
With Crop Prospects Fine and Busi
ness Improving the People are
Enthusiastic for the Safe
Ticket.
One of the common statements
made nowadays Is that the result of
the election and the coming of good
times will both depend to a very large
extent upon the conditions in the
states just beyond the Middle West.
The Boston Transcript is publishing a
most interesting series of letters from
the centers of the country containing
answers to questions about crops,
business anti the political outlook.
These come not from the usual politi
cal prophets, but from banks, mer
chants, manufacturers and other rep
resentative authorities. They are
from conservative men, who express
themselves in moderate language. The
latest instalment of these replies cov
ers the Prairie states—Kansas, Ne
braska, lowa, Minnesota and the Da
kotas.
From these reports and opinions we
get cheeer for the future. Kansas has
splendid crops in parts, fair crops in
parts and better than average crops
on the whole and better than in 1907.
The prospects for improvement in
business are good. All the advices
are to the effect that Taft will carry
the state by a big majority.
Nebraska seems to be in fine shape.
"Our crop outlook is the very best and
if nothing unforseen happens we shall
have a banner year," says the report
from Omaha, and practically every
business center sends news of a
bumper crop and of Improvement in
trade. All the letters say Taft will
carry the state.
Excessive rains have drowned out
some of the corn of lowa, but other
wise the state is in superb condition.
Some sections report bumper crops,
while others are less enthusiastic.
Crop prospects are ahead of 1907,
Better business is expected, and Taft
will carry the state by a very big ma
jority.
This report sums up the score of
letters from Minnesota and the two
Dakotas: "Fall conditions and crop
prospects were never better. The
writer within the last two or three
weeks has been in the states of North
and South Dakota, as well as Minne
sota, and in all three of our states
the people are very optimistic regard
ing conditions and have just cause
for being so. From all appearances
there should be large crops in all
those states this year."
Crops better than in 1907, business
Improving and Taft in the lead —this
is the message which the Prairie
states send to the country.—Baltimore
American.
1896—1908.
W. J. Bryan was nominated in 1596
as an extreme radical and beaten.
Four years later he was again nomi
nated, but was not quite so extreme
as in IS9G, and again he was beaten.
In 1908 he is nominated for the third
time, on a platform called by the
mystifying name of "conservative rad
ical," and though he secures the sup
port of such conservatives as Thomas
M. Osborne he loses the sup
port of such radicals \4 Thomas E.
\Vatson and W. 11. Hearst. The in
clinations of Mr. Bryan toward "con
servatism," seem to have kept pace
with his growth in flesh and worldly
goods. It is an interesting study.
With a clear million and himself
weighing 300 pounds, would Mr. Bry
an be n safe and sane Democrat?—
New York Evening Sun.
Perhaps it is a mere coincidence
that the number of The Commoner in
which Mr. Bryan announces that he
has turned it over to be run by others
during the campaign contains a poem
entitled "Lonely," which begins thus:
"O, but it's dull and lonesome, and
the house is strangely still."
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY SEPTRMBER 3, 1908.
CAN MR. CONNORS DELIVER?
"Fingy" Promises New York State to
Mr. Bryan, but—
Asseverates William J.—alias "Fin
gy"—Connors, august though disfig
ured state chairman of the Democracy
in N'ew York:
"There is no question about N'ew
York state which will give pluralities
of anywhere from 75,000 to 100,000 for
Bryan."
Mow grossly yet subtly deceptive
are mere physical appearances! The
frowns and the tightly-shut lips
which, on the part of some charac
terized the 80 some minutes of Bryan
cheering in Denver were not signi
ficant. The fact that "Fingy" Con
nors himself Eat there lugubrious of
brow as Charon and silent as the
sphinx; the fact that he glared into
silence any impressionable New York
delegate that showed symptoms of
joining the chorus; the fact that New
York was one of the six chilling states
sternly to repress the adoration of
Bryan and to show indifference, even
disdain, of the Peerless One all
throughout the delirious hour and
something—all these phenomena
mean, then, merely that "Fingy" Con
ners is undemonstrative and at the
bottom of that within him which cor
responds to a heart he loves Mr.
Bryan dearly. At least we shall see
if all the New York Democracy is
possessed of the same power of utili
tarian love and repression.
NOT SAFE IN BRYAN'S HANDS.
Next President Must Reorganize the
Supreme Court.
Harper's Weekly points out that the
most serious and important work of
the next president will be the virtual
reorganization of the supreme court.
Four justices will have passed the re
tiring age when Taft or Bryan goes
to the White House—Chief Justice
Fuller, 75; Justice Harlan, 75; Justice
Brewer, 71; and Justice Peckham, 70
in November. It is pretty well under
stood why the chief justice and Justice
Harlan have aot availed themselves of
their privilege to retire; they have re
garded it as a duty to remain on the
bench so long as the country had a
president more than likely to name as
their successors men in sympathy
with new and revolutionary methods
of "interpreting" the constitution and
the laws. Quite likely Justice Brewer,
perhaps the strictest constructionist,
as he is probably our ablest jurist, has
been influenced by the same consid
eration.
But it is too much to expect or ash
that these patriotic men remain at the
post of duty for another four years;
so it is altogether probable that the
next president will have the naming
of four or even five, an actual majority
of our supreme court. What kind of
men would Bryan appoint? His rec
ord and his words leave no room for
doubt.
Debs to Gompers.
We are glad to be able to agree oc
casionally wiih Comrade Debs, presi
dential candidate of the Socialist
party.
In liis spirited challenge to Mr.
Gompers to a debate on the Demo
cratic injunction plank. Comrade Debs
refers contemptuously to that curious
ly warped hit of lumber as meaning
less and "simply a bait to catch the
unions."
Judge Taft, who is a pretty fair law
#er, has confessed his inability to un
riddle this delphic plank of Mr.
Bryan's, which is ambiguously worded
to catch two different sets of voters.
Like the ingenious darky's coon trap,
It is set "for to eotch 'em a-comin' and
a-goin'."
This is a great year for all kinds of
bait for political gudgeons. But
Gompers is no gudgeon: and we ex
pect he will declfne to bite at the bait
dangled before him by Comrade Dobs
who needs a little campaign advertise-
Tnent in his business. —Milwaukee Sen
tinel.
10 PUT LID ON
ATLANTIC CITY
NEW JERSEY'S GOVERNOR SAYS
HE MAY CALL OUT THE
STATE'S MILITIA.
LIQUOR LAWS ARE IGNORED.
Grand Jury Indicts a Gambler and a
Postal Card Dealer, But Refuses
to Indict Saloonkeepers in
Atlantic City.
Atlantic City, N. J. The ac
tion of Gov. Fort, in issuing a proc
lamation to the people of New Jersey
threatening to send troops into this
famous resort to enforce the state
liquor laws unless the people of At
lantic City observe the law caused a
sensation Thursday among the resi
dents and the thousands of summer
visitors.
Close on the heels of the governor's
proclamation another sensation was
sprung at Mays Landing, the county
seat of Atlantic county, when the
grand jury absolutely refused to obey
the instructions of the court to return
indictments against excise violators.
Supreme Court Justice Thomas W.
Trenchard, who had been requested
by Gov. Fort, to sit with the county
judge, was so incensed at the action
of the grand jury that he instantly
discharged it with a severe repri
mand.
After reporting two indictments
against the alleged proprietor and
steward of the so-called Millionaires'
club in Chelsea, on a charge of gamb
ling, and one indictment against an
obscene postal card dealer, the grand
jury was dismissed Thursday with
out finding any indictments against
Atlantic City saloonkeepers. Justice
Trenchard scored the jurors severely.
Joseph Salus, foreman, replied that
the prosecutor had refused to lay evi
dence of more gambling cases before
them until they had first considered
liquor cases. Salus closed the pro
ceedings by saying that the jury was
not ashamed of what it hail done.
WAS BETRAYED FOR REWARD
Cousin of a Murderer Leads the Lat
ter Into a Trap and He
Is Killed.
Indianapolis, Ind. —Sheriff Bryant
of Monroe county, Ky., and one of
his deputies on Thursday produced
the body of Jesse E. Coe, a negro,
who has been wanted in this city since
September 30, 1906. On the night of
that date Patrolmen Sullivan and Pet
icard were killed in an alley by twc
negroes whom the officers had seen
breaking into a house. George Will
iams, one of the> negroes, was cap
tured and hanged. Jesse Coe, the
other, had since been a fugitive in his
native hills near Marlinsburg, Ky.
Sheriff Bryant was paid $1,500 by
Mayor Bookwalter upon the identifi
cation of the body of Coe which the
sheriff and his deputy had brought
here.
Coe's whereabouts was betrayed tc
Sheriff Bryant by Claude Andrews, a
cousin of Coe, who will get S6OO oi
the reward. The sheriff and three
deputies lay in ambush at a place in
the mountains agreed upon with An
drews; who had enticed Coe to the
spot on the prtense of hunting squir
rels. Here the officers came upon
him. Coe was armed with a rifle. He
refused to surrender and attempted
to shoot, but the officers were first
and shot him to death.
FLOODS IN GEORGIA.
Ten or 15 Lives Lost and Much Prop
erty Destroyed in and Around
Augusta.
Augusta, Ga. —The flood waters
at Augusta began receding Thurs
day afternoon, having reached the
height of 40 feet, probably as high
as the flood of 1888. Between ten and
15 persons were drowned, most of
them negroes.
Rain has ceased in the upper valley
and there is no danger of further dam
age. The loss is between $750,000 and
$1,000,000 and consists of damage to
stocks of goods and private property,
losses on the streets, destruction of
bridges across the Savannah river, and
breaks in the canal banks.
As eight cotton mills are dependent
on the canal for power, thousands of
mill operatives will be idle three or
four months. While the flood was at
its height five fires broke out. The
McDaniel builders' material establish
ment in North Augusta was burned,
as were also a train of 40 cars belong
ing to the Southern railway. Nixon's
lime, cement and hardware house and
a huge quantity of lumber belonging
to the Georgia railway was burned.
Ex-Senator Vilas Dies.
Madison, Wis. —Col. William F.
Vilas, who was postmaster general
and secretary of the interior during
President Cleveland's first administra
tion and afterward was United States
senator from Wisconsin, died here
Thursday.
Sage's Estate Amounted to $64,000,000.
New York City. Russell Sage's
estate is valued at $64,153,800. This
fact became known Thursday for the
first time through the signing of the
order for the transfer tax.
A VERY MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR
i
WEALTHY BALTIMOREAN IS SHOT
WHILE AT ATLANTIC CITY.
Police Claim That Revenge Prompted
the Shooting—As Usual, There's
a Woman in ihe Case.
Atlantic City, N. J. Refusing
to accept the stories to the effect
that Charles B. Roberts, a wealthy
clubman of Baltimore, was shot by a
highwayman while in a rolling chair
on the board walk with Mrs. W. S. G.
Williams, also of Baltimore, on Wed
nesday night, the police of this city
are working upon the theory that Rob
erts was the victim of a vengeful
man.
While they will not Bay that they
believe Mrs. Williams' husband knows
something about the shooting, they
admit that he will not be eliminated
from the case until he has proved
conclusively that he not only was not
in Atlantic City, but that he was en
tirely ignorant of the shooting and
the circumstances which led up to it.
So determined are they in this di
rection that Detective Harry Wilson
was sent to Baltimore Friday to make
a thorough investigation.
Their attitude in the matter was
taken when the parties involved de
clared that Mr. Roberts had been held
up by a highwayman on the board
walk. The authorities accept such
statements as a reflection on the
manner in which board walk strollers
are protected and the promenade po
liced.
The wounded man is at the City
hospital. His condition is considered
dangerous and the physicians will not
probe for the bullet in his liver until
liis condition improves. They fear
that to operate upon him now might
prove fatal.
Mrs. Williams s at the Hotel Brigh
ton, and while the police will not say
that she is detained as a witness, they
lead inquirers to believe that such is
the case.
The colored man who was pushing
the rolling chair in which Roberts
and Mrs. Williams were riding at the
time of the shooting is still locked
up, and if he knows who Mr. Roberts'
assailant is he declines to make
known his identity.
BUSINESS BULLETIN.
Gradual Improvement Continues and
Crop Prospects Are Satis
factory.
New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Review of Trade says:
Gradual improvement continues, es
pecially in respect to the percentage
of manufacturing plants in operation,
and country merchants are more dis
posed to replenish stocks. Retail
trade is seasonably quiet, except
where sales are stimulated by clear
ance sales, but wholesale and jobbing
houses are doing a good fall business,
although collections are irregular.
With the exception of the cotton
mills, there is much less idle machin
ery in the leading industries. Sev
eral wage agreements have been
signed and there is little strife be
tween capital and labor.
Crop prospects are satisfactory and
producers obtain unusually high
prices. Contracts are placed more
freely for steel, new business includ
ing a large tonnage of plate and pipe.
FIFTEEN LIVES LOST IN FLOOD
Town of Folsom, N. M., Suffers From
a Cloudburst.
Trinidad, Col. —Flood in the Cim
maron river following a cloudburst
washed away a number of dwell
ings at Folsom, N. M., Thursday night.
Fifteen persons are reported to have
been drowned. Eleven bodies have
been recovered. Ten miles of track
and 12 bridges on the Colorado &
Southern railway were washed out.
The entire town was swept by the
flood caused by the cloudburst. Sev
eral houses were swept away com
pletely and nearly every house in the
town was damaged.
Searching parties have been formed
and it is expected as many more
bodies will be found. Folsom is in the
northeastern part of New Mexico,
near Raton on the Santa Fe railroad.
A DISASTER IN A MINE.
Five Men Killed in a Collision of Cars
Far Under Ground.
Wilkesbarre, Pa. —Five men were
instantly killed, another is expected
to die and eight others were seriously
injured in a collision late Friday aft
ernoon at the Warrior Run colliery
of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co., six
miles from this city.
The men were being hoisted up a
slope when a runaway mine car struck
a train of mine cars on which were
20 men who were employed in the
mine. Only six of them escaped in
juries. Those killed were horribly
mangled.
Flood Made 3,000 People Homeless.
Fayetteville, N. C. This city,
with a population of 12,000 and
located on the Cape Fear river, is
almost entirely submerged because of
the flood. Three thousand persons
are homeless and an appeal has been
issued for relief.
George P. Rowell Dies.
Poland Springs, Me. George P.
Rowell of New York, prominent for
many years in the newspaper adver
tising business, died here last night,
aged 70 years.
OPEN DEALING IN PAINT,
Buying paint used to be like the
proverbial buying of a "pig in a
poke." Mixtures in which cha!k„
ground rock, etc., predominated were
marked and sold as "Pure White
Lead," the deception not being ap
parent until the paint and the paint
ing were paid for. This deception is
still practiced, but we have learned to
expose it easily.
National Lead Company, the larg
est makers of genuine Pure White
Lead, realizing the injustice that was
being done to both property owners
and honest paint manufacturers, set
about to make paint buying safe.
They first adopted a trade mark, the
now famous "Dutch-Boy Painter," and
put this trademark, as a guaranty of
purity, on every package of thef
White Lead. They tnen set abr
familiarizing the public with '
blow-pipe test by which the pin
and genuineness of White Lead
be determined, and furnished a b
pipe free to every one who w
write them for it. This action wa
itself a guaranty of the purity of
tional Lead Company's White Lead
As the result of this open dealir,
the paint buyer to-day has only hin
self to blame if he is defrauded. Poi
test outfit and valuable booklet on
painting, address National Lead Com
pany, Woodbridge Bldg., New York.
•HE WAS NO HASBEEN.
Smoking Car Just the One Old Woman-
Was Looking For.
"Madam," said the brakeman as the
train stopped at a village station and
a little old woman started to enter
the smoking car, "the car back is the
one you want."
"How do you know?" she tartly
asked.
"Because this is the smoking car."
She pushed past him and climbed
up the steps, and after taking a seat
she pulled out and filled a pipe, struck
a match on the sole of her shoe, and
after drawing a few puffs she said to
a man smoking a cigar across the
aisle:
"That young feller out there don't
know half as much as he thinks he
does."
"How so?" was asked.
"He took me for an old woman that
had never rode on the cars before, ana
told me this was the smoking car."
"And you wanted this car?"
"Why, I never ride in any other—
not unless my pipe is broke, my to
bacco all out and none o' you men
folks will lend me a cigar."
ONE EXCEPTION.
Easy Edmund—lt's one uv de frail
ties uv our poor human nature dat no
matter how much a man gits he wants
more.
Drather Sitdown (thoughtfully)—
Oh, I dunuo 'bout dat. Not in a police
court he don't.
Progress.
"Yes," Raid Mrs. Malaprop, "my
boy is doing first-rate at school. I
sent him to one o' them alimentary
schools, and his teacher says he's do
ing fine. He's a first-class sculler,
they tell me, and is head of his clas&
in gastronomy, knows his letters by
sight, and can spell like one o' these
deformed spellers down to Washing
ton."
"What's he going to be when he
grows up?"
"He wants to be an undertaker, and
I'm declined to humor him, so I've told
the confessor to pay special intention
to the dead languages," said the proud
mother. —Harper's.
FRIENDLY TIP
Restored Hope and Confidence.
After several years of indigestion,
and its attendant evil influence on the
mind, it is not very surprising that
one finally loses faith in things gen
erally.
A N. Y. woman writes an interesting
letter. She says:
"Three years ago I suffered from
an attack of peritonitis which left me
in a most miserable condition. For
over two years I suffered from nerv
ousness, weak heart, shortness of
breath, could not sleep, etc.
',' My appetito was ravenous, but I
felt starved all ihe time. I had plenty
of food but it did not nourish me
because of intestinal indigestion. Med
ical treatment did not seem to help,
I got discouraged, stopped medicine
and did not care much whether I lived
or died.
"One day a friend asked me why I
didn't try Grape-Nuts, stop drinking'
coffee, and use Postum. I had lost
faith in everything, but to please my
friends I began to use both and soon,
became very fond of them.
"It wasn't long before I got some
strength, felt a decided change in my
system, hope sprang up in my heart
and slowly but surely I got better. I
could sleep very well, the constant
craving for food ceased and I have
better health now than before the at
tack of peritonitis.
"My husband and I are still using
Grape-Nuts and Postum." "There's a
Reason."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
Interest.