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The Job department of the X'HERS iscomplet* and all' rds far lilies for doing the bc>t. class of work. PAR'I ICL LAII AT t I:N I IOM PAIUTU LAW PKINTINC; No paper will discontinued until arrear ages arc paid, except at the option ol the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must bo paid for in advance. Man Still a Savage. The civilized world is reverting. It pines for brutalities, it hankers for horrors, and it grovels before the spec tacle of animal pain. Don't yon be lieve it? Then yon do not know"what is happening in the most enlightened quarters of the earth. It is useless to enumerate the cruelties practiced in the name of pleasure or of science. For one, I hate ot dwell upon what exists in this educated, supposedly Christianized world, exclaims a writer in the lioston Herald. Man is still a savage. Whether it is pigeon shoot ing, bull fights, sport in the jungle, a privately arranged bull and tiger com bat, or even the accepted prize ring maulings, lie craves the emotion, the maddening, blood-curdling frenzy Ihis process of killing excites. There are degrees, it is true, and the brutal in stinct may not relish seeing hapless birds drop wiht broken wings as much as watching a bull and tiger shut in a cage battling out their bloody strength, but it is all one in the main, a bestial excitement. But we are told that spectators at such scenes are few compared with all those who have made a better and safer life for hu manity at larn". One never can tell. Sometimes the police step in, as they did at. the savage exhibition in Mar seilles, and end the "sport." But the police cannot reach the source of such Inhuman amusement. Light in the Dark Continent. There is a new ray of light for Africa. Belgium has decided to take tinder national control the region of the Congo. Not since the days when Great Britain was aroused to a white heat by Armenian massacres has there been so much international indigna tion as in recent yr ars o"er reported atrocities in the valley of the Congo. To be sure, there have been pro and con, and the controversy has been general, says the Boston Herald, that the exploitation of the resources of the Congo has given much more atten tion to the size of the product than to the life and happiness of the natives. Perhaps the finest and most hopeful comment is the fact that Belgium it self has taken Ihis African dependen cy from the personal control of the sovereign, Leopold, and has made national the government and the responsibility therefor. Reports from the Panama canal con tinue to show a surprisingly rapid rate of progress. More than three times as much earth was excavated in June and July of this year as was dug out in the corresponding months of last year, and the rainy season, which it was thought would check the work, has had practically no effect. At the present rate of 3,1)00,000 cubic yards a month it will not take long to exca vate a hundred million cubic yards. '"The tendency of the present day is lo encourage people to depend on the government," says the Hartford Times. The real, manly American young fellow will never be built on a plan like that. He will go out. in the world to take care of himself and to help along the old folks. That is the aort. of self-reliant manhood on which the country is going to depend for its future. An interesting experiment in pure food is to be tried in New York. Ar reats have been made and fines im posed on persons who put sulphuric acid in the preserving of fruits and Jellies. Warnings against repetition of the offense had no effect. Now a Jail sentence is to be tried. The ex periment is worth extending to other matters where fines have failed. A crab was caught in Florida in whose claws was found slicking an old Spanish doubloon. Now the lucky finder is going to institute a search for a lost treasure reported to have bwn buried near the place, and ex pects to land it with the crab as a clue. The restaurant oyster with its S2OO pearl is hopelessly outclassed. The value of last year's catch on •the Pacific slope is estimated at $2C>, 000,000. When ilie fisherman and the statistician get together 'you may look for something out of Ihe ordinary. THE WANDERING MINSTREL. He Is Still Wandering in the Wilderness. PARTY OF PROGRESS INDEPENDENT VOTER DRAWN TO REPUBLICANS. Principles and Records Stand Far Above the Heroics and Platitudes Given Utterance to by Mr. Bryan. "Not. in years have party lines been more loosely drawn or voters more disposed to put principles and men above party labels. The opportunity of the Democratic party in the com ing election lies in making itself an effective instrument for this spirit of protest. A great independent vote can be won if the Democracy and its can didates prove before election day that they deserve this vote and can appeal to its confidence."—Tile World, New York. "If," indeed! Hut if we have not followed the brilliant and cogent rea soning of the World's political edi torial in vain, it has long cherished in the depths of its editorial being the belief that, the Bryanized Democracy is effective of nothing save defeat, and as for its peerless leader, it lias reminded us often enough that, like the player queen, lie "doth protest too much." if Mr. Bryan is to-day an in strument of protest, effective or other wise, it is 110 fault of the New York World. The independent vote which Mr. Bryan's tardy and reluctant champion now covets for him or for his reor ganized party is, however, an intelli gent vote as well as an independent one, and considerably drawn from the ranks of the Republican party. It has grown in numbers, though, from Mr. Bryan's party, most notably since Mr. Bryan's leadership began, and it has waxed likewise in political wisdom founded on political experience. In the present campaign, we believe the man behind the independent vote is looking over the situation, clear eyed and cool headed. He will see in each party a progres sive wing and a conservative or reac tionary wing. He already has seen the triumph in each party of the progressive leader, and he will not have failed to note that into each triumph entered the element of com promise, and that, behind each pro jressive leader marches to-day the leaders who opposed them; behind Taft Cannon, Aldrich, Foraker; behind Bryan Sullivan, Taggart, Murphy, Watterson, Francis, Pulitzer. In the light of this not novel or unnatural po litical situation he will put somewhat more faith in the effectiveness of the instrument which speaks through Mr. Taft's honorably guarded and scrupu lous utterances than in that which re sounds through Mr. Bryan's taking rhetoric. For he will suspect that the free and unlimited coinage of promises under present conditions in the Demo cratic party will fall somewhat short of a ratio of 16 promises to one ful fillment in case of a success—won with the assistance of Mr. Bryan's ef fective allies aforementioned. The spirit of righteous protest, our Independent voter will consider, found utterance, and with noteworthy effect, through lloosevelt, Taft, Hughes and militant progressives of the Repub lican party. If it was not completely effective, that was because It met the opposition of men sworn to opposition, as some of Mr. Bryan's chief lieuten ants and allies are sworn to opposi tion. In short, the Independent voter real izes today, and will remember in No veinber, that the Republican party has already proved itself what the World is asking Mr. Bryan and the Democ racy to prove themselves befort elec tion day—an effective instrument of the spirit of protest.—Milwaukee Sen tinel. "Bryan," says the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, "can sit on his lawn with his legs crossed, tailor fashion. That is more than Taft can do." To be sure. Mr. Taft has no lawn worth mentioning. It is unkind to twit him on his comparative poverty and hi advarsary's wealth. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY OCTOBER 8, 1908. TAFT AND THE TRUSTS. People of the Country May Rely on Republican Nominee. The nioro the people see and hear William Howard Taft the less doubt there will be as to his purpose and ability to keep up the good work of the Roosevelt administration. Where the next president lets his country men judge him at first hand there is little question that the present stand ards of the national government will be maintained. Especially in dealing with corpora tions which disobey national laws and conduct their business unfairly, Roose velt has been so vigorous, so aggres sive and so convincing in stating his case to the country that there has been a disposition to look for a marked change when his successor shall take up the heavy tasks of the presidency, it has been said that Taft would not attack the great evils of misused wealth with such force and zeal as the present executive has shown, and this view has been quite general. Hut when and where the Republican candidate is seen and heard and the people have au opportunity to come into close contact with him, this fear of the weakening of the federal gov ernment, 111 any important respect, gives place to new confidence in the ability and determination of the man whom Theodore Roosevelt himself recommends for his successor. When men come to know Taft, face to face, they feel and trust his strength, his firmness of purpose, his high charac ter, his ability to get the results de sired. Then they become certain that there will be no backsliding at Wash ington, no giving up of any ground which has been won by the govern ment, when the next president takes up tlie burden his friend and intimate associate lays down. Taft tours are sure to make Taft votes because of this clearing away of misunderstandings. Taft speeches will win many wavering voters simply be cause they will make clearer the truth about Taft. Where he js known he is trusted. Those who stand closest to him are most confident of his great success in the White House. Mr. Bryan. in the Baltimore American is an in terview with a prominent physician and an influential Democrat, and thus the man speaks: "I have been a life long Democrat, and I expect to remain a Democrat, but I cannot conscienti ously look upon Mr. Bryan as a Demo crat. I think he is a Populist." Viewed from the standpoint of pri mary Democratic principle, this man's conclusion is correct, and every well informed Democrat knows it. Mr. Bryan has knocked over every sacred doctrine the Democratic party ever proclaimed and has stood up for about everything the Populists ever pro posed. He was for free coinage, un limited greenbacks, packing the su preme court for a political end, govern ment ownership of railways; and as a writer in the North American said, he would to-day bo for socialism but he Is afraid his party would not stand for it.—Ohio State Journal. "Shall the People Rule?" .For ourselves we see no reason for the inquiry that Mr. Bryan is so in sistently putting. We have heard of 110 plot to revolutionize our Repub lican form of government and estab lish an absolute monarchy. We do not understand just what grievance in the body politic the impassioned declama -1011 about popular rule is directed igainst. The people have ruled. The >eople are ruling, and we are willing o go further, and to say that even if Mr. Bryan is elected the people will till rule, which is more than he ieems ready to concede in the case of Republican success.—Louisville Her ald. Missed His Calling. William Jennings Bryan, with that sonorous, far resounding voice of his might have risen to fame as a base ball umpire. Instead of that, he if wasting it in the vain attempt to talk himself into the presidency of the Uni ted States. —Chicago Tribune. STORY OF ATTEMPT TC 3RIEE IS TOLD IN AN AFFIDAVIT MADE BY A PRIEST. The Howard Gould Divorce Case Fur nishes Another Sensational Incident. New York City.—That $2,000 had been offered sin employe of the Hotel St. Regis to give false testimony against Mrs. Howard Gould was the uubstance of an affidavit, purporting to have been made by Rev. Joseph G. Murray, which was presented to Justice Giegerieh in the supreme court Friday. The case came up before the justice on a motion to strike out cer tain allegations in Mrs. Gould's com plaint in her suit for a separation from her husband, as scandalous and irrelevant. Mrs. Gould's counsel op posed the motion and presented sev eral affidavits in which it.was charged that certain witnesses had been hired to testify in favor of Mr. Gould. The affidavit of Father Murray was one of the papers presented. It de clares that Michael H. Doo.ty had told the priest that while he was employed at the Hotel St. Regis, where Mr. Gould lived, a detective went to him with the proposition that he "give a proper report of Mrs. Gould's comings and goings at the hotel, the amount of wine she drank and the names of her visitors, notably those that were men." Another affidavit, made by Maurice Molloy, alleges that Molloy was under contract, while custodian of Castle Gould at Port Washington, to treat Mrs. Gould in a contemptuous fashion. The lawyer for Mrs. Gould recited how it was alleged that Molloy had gone into the house, sat on divans and puffed cigarette smoke in Mrs. Gould's face when she ordered him out of the bouse. She says she was particularly an noyed by her husband during a trip to Egypt, where they were entertained by the khedive and Prince Mohammed Ali. She accuses Mr. Gould of being jealous when she went driving With the prince. BUSINESS BULLETIN. Hesitation Is Noted in Nearly All the Leading Industries. New Yoii< City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Seasonable weather has stimulated retail trade materially, and the better distribution to consumers brought a larger movement in wholesale and jobbing departments, but in most lead ing industries there is still hesitation. Low stocks of merchandise necessitate urgency in replenishment when deal ers find retail buying on a normal scale, as is the case in many sections of the country, but preparations for distant requirements proceed cautious ly, although expressions of confidence are heard on all sides. On the whole there is improvement in mercantile collections, yet in many lines, especially the east, irregularity is noted. Many factories have further increased the number of hands at work. While new business comes most conservatively to the steel mills, or ders on hand are sufficient to maintain the current rate of production during October, and activity is confidently ex pected next month. Railway buying continues limited. Two Officeholders are Removed. Washington, D. C. —As the result of a report made by the civil service commission President Roosevelt on Friday removed Lincoln Avery, col lector of the port at Port Huron, Mich., and also directed the removal of Charles 11. Dailey, special agent of the treasury at that place. The civil service commission found proof of charges of serious violations of the regulations in regard to campaign as sessments, and which also involved, 011 the part of Bailey, "pernicious ac tivity in politics." Negroes are Ejected from Cars. Washington, I). C. —The president has received complaints from Kansas that negroes traveling from Kansas to Oklahoma, Texas and other southern states are made the victims of embar rassing circumstances, being arrested by state officers who claim that they have no right in chair cars in the states above named and who arrest, eject and otherwise interfere with col ored persons who are interstate pas sengers. These communications were referred to the department of justice. Evans' Son to Face Court-Martial. Manila. —Lieut. Frank Taylor Evans of the battleship Louisiana, son of Admiral Robley D. Evans, and Lieut. Charles P. Burt of the battle ship Georgia, must appear before a court-martial on October 5. Evans is charged with being absent while act ing as chief of the deck, using profane language to a superior officer and in toxication. Burt is charged with "eon luct unbecoming an officer and a gen tleman." A Strike Is Averted. Seranton, Pa. The threatened strike of the Delaware, Lackawan na & Western railroad switchmen lias been averted. It was announced Friday that the discharged committee men, Flynn Cannon, will be rein stated. American Fleet Arrives at Manila. Manila. The I(» battleships of the American fleet which started from Hampton Roads last December, are anchored in double column off tin breakwater heif. OUTLAW SIS IS BEING HEQ BY A VIGILANCE COMMITTEE IN BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA. GOV. SWANSON TAKES ACTION Newspaper Men are Told to Leave Arvonia or be Shot—Leader of Desperadoes Is Reported to Have Been Killed. Richmond, Va.—Excitement in Ar vonia is greatly allayed, but in the outlying districts, where the houses are several miles distant from each other, the people are still fearful of visitations from the Zimmerman- Thomas gang of outlaws. The crisis was reached Thursday when Edmund W. Hubbard, state's at torney for Buckingham county, tele graphed to the justice of the peace in Arvonia to summon 80 men and form them in squads of 20 to scour the country for the desperadoes. Mr. Hubbard acted after consultation with Gov. Swanson. It is supposed the vigilance committee started last night. The latest report from the outlaw country is that Charles Newton, broth er-in-law of Benjamin Zimmerman, supposed to be the leader of the gang, is dead from wounds inflicted by one of the desperadoes. The report could not be confirmed owing to the inac cessibility of the place where the shooting is said to have occurred, but it is generally believed that Newtoa has been killed. The murder, if it oc curred, is the result of an old grudge existing between the victim and hits slayer. Some time ago Zimmerman is al leged to have attempted a criminal as sault 011 Newton's wife, and after the warrant was sworn out for his arrest, to have threatened his brother-in-law. In consequencvo of the threats, New ton and his wife moved from the home of the band to a place called Payne's Station, near where the alleged shoot ing took place. It is reported that members of tin; gang have been sight ed in the woods between the Slate and James rivers, but 110 one has got with in earshot of them. Affairs for newspaper men reached a climax Thursday at Arvonia when the first greeting they received was that they would be shot on sight, and that it would be well for them to leave the village. The bearer of the message would not divulge the name of the render. He repeated the message sev ral times, and the reporters took him at his word. THE CRUSH WAS TERRIFIC. Twenty People Were Injured While Viewing a Parade in Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa. —Over a score of men, women and children were in jured. some of them so painfully that treatment at hospitals was necessary, during the great historical and indus ; rial pageant Thursday in celebration of Pittsburg's sesqui-centennial anni versary. Over 300,000 persons lined the route of the parade and at times the crush was so great that many per sons were thrown to the ground and severely trampled before rescued by the police. Many prominent persons were 111 th*> parade. Lieut. Gen. S. B. M. Young, retired, a native of this city, was grand marshal. In the first carriage was Charles W. Fairbanks, vice president of the I'nited States, his special aide. Col. Patterson, and Mayor Guthrie of Pittsburg. In other carriages were Gov. Stuart of Pennsylvania and staff, ex-Gov. Pennypacker, Lieut. Gov. Mur phy, members of every court, con gressmen and legislators. Last night the streets of the city were crowded with masqueraders. Street tar service in the down town section was suspended, while thous ands of persons threw confetti and the din of horns and bells was terrific. FIVE PERSONS KILLED. Freight Crashed Into an Excursion Train at Sugar Ridge, O. Toledo, O. Five persons were killed at Sugar Ridge, 0., at 8 o'clock Thursday night when a freight train on the Toledo & Ohio Central railroad crashed into a heavily laden excur sion train returning from the fair at Bowliug Green. The dead: Richard Rideout, 15, Bast Toledo. Thomas Crane, 14, Toledo. George Oosler, 21, Sugar Ridge. Leslie Fuller, 16, Dunbridgc. John Brake, Columbus, The injured number about 1."), two of whom will die. The accident was caused, it is said, by the carelessness of the crew of the freight. Two Firemen Buried in Store's Ruins. Voungistown, O. Five firemen are in the hospital and two more are in the ruins of Knox's five and ten cent store, where fire started at 7:30 o'clock Thursday night and gutted the structure. The building, three stories high, is wrecked. Two Killed; Twenty Injured. Spencer, N. C.—Two lives were lost and 20 or more persons were injured here Thursday night by the ex plosion of a powder storage house in the yards of the Southern Railway Co. ■JASTAV/AYS fcHt RESCUED 3'IEAMER AEON WRECKED ON A REEF IN MID-OCEAN. Passengers and Crew Spent Nearly Two Months on a Barren Island in the Pacific. Suva, Fiji Islands. The cast aways from the British steamer Aeon who spent nearly two months on Christmas Island, an almost bf.rren coral formation in the Pacific ocean arrived here Wednesday on the steam er Manuka, of the Canadian-Australian lino, nil well and increased by one in number. A daughter was born to tin wife of Chaplain B. R. Patrick, U. S. N., 24 hours before the Manuka wai sighted, and this event, with the ar rival of the rescuers, was made thi occasion of much rejoicing. The Manuka reached Christmas Island on September 23. Six hundred bags of mail were transferred to tlx steamer during the night and the ppp sengers and crew of the Aeon wer» taken aboard the next morning. The Aeon left San Francisco on July *5 for Auckland by way of Apia, and was carried on the coral island by th* strong currents setting in shore. The steamer speedily broke up, but the mails were saved and a large quantity of stores. The refugees suffered few privations, but found themselves amid the remnants of former wrecks, indi eating th<- clanger of the reefs and tides. Besides the officers and crew, tin Aeon carried Mrs. Patrick and her children and the wife of Lieut. W. K. Riddle, IJ. S. N. Rude shelters were built, but later quite an artistic cot tage was erected for Mrs. Patrick and her nurse out of lumber and the cabin fittings of the ship. Among the store* saved were plenty of fresh vegetables, and the men of the crew got fish in abundance by the use of clubs in the surf. A supply of fresh water was found at a depth of seven feet and according to the castaways, under the circum stances, they fared well indeed. TAFT VISITS BRYAN'S TOWN. Republican Candidate Receives Warm Welcome at Lincoln, Neb. Lincoln, N'eb. —Accepting the chal lenge of William J. Bryan, right in the home city of the Xebraskan William H. Taft on Wednesday night not only indorsed President Roosevelt on the question of the publicity of cant paign contributions, but defended it with arguments to establish that posi tion as sound from the standpoint of public good and to show that the Bryan position was one simply for pre election effect. Mr. Taft made 11 speeches in .Ne braska before reaching Lincoln and five speeches in Lincoln. His audi ences throughout were large ami en thusiastic and his reception in Lincoln was made particularly gratifying to him by the enthusiasm exhibited by the immense crowds which greeted him at all points. Excursion trains came to Lincoln from many places in the state during the day and the city was alive with bands, marching clubs and general campaign excitement. Air. Bryan, whose plan was to reach the city Wednesday forenoon, had changed his schedule so as to bring him in at 1 o'clock Thursday morning. This change precluded any possible, meeting between the candidates. The one disappointing feature of the Taft demonstration in Lincoln was the bad condition of the voice of the can didate. A FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE. City of Hyderabad, India, was En gulfed by a Flood—Thousands of People Drowned. Hyderabad, India.—The catast.ro phe that overwhelmed Hyderabad, the capital of the nizani's domin ions anil left in its trail thousands of dead, was one of the most suddtjii and most appalling of many visitations in India. In the nizam's dominions art many tanks or lakes, the largest of which communicates with the river Musi. Tremendous rains caused fh< lake to overflow into the river, which in turn burst its banks. A flood oi' water 60 feet high swept down upon the city, carrying every thing before it and completely de vastating several quarters of the city Thousands of tons of water crashed in a dense mass against the houses burying under the ruins the natives to a number that cannot be estimated. When the flood subsided a vast quag mire of black mud, out of which arises a poisonous stanch, marked the spot where thousands of people lived. Bands of natives are now searching this pool for the bodies of their rela tives and the scenes are sickening. .Many bodies have been recovered and all of them are badly mangled. Many more are buried in the debris of ma sonry and twisted iron. The flood act ually wiped out a district a mile long and half a mile wide. Strike Is Declared Off. Winnipeg. Man. The strike of Canadian Pacific railroad mechanics which started August 4. was declared off Wednesday. The strike involved about 20,000 men. The terms of set tlemont have not been announced. Will Not Tane the Stump. Washington, l>. C. —Secretary I.oeb on Wednesday said that President. Roosevelt had no intention at p -at of making a speaking tour in behalf of the Republican candidate for the pres idency.
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