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Hymn-Writers.
It Is an American habit for the fam
ily to group about the piano once a
week and sing hymns, each member
calling for his favorites among the 50
or more which he knows by heart. Of
all forms of literature, the words of
hymns have the widest appeal, and the
ordinary man can remember more
hymn-tunes than all the other com
plete tunes he can muster. The hymn
writer Is thus the most popular of all
artists who express themselves in
words and melodies. Yet he frequently
remains obscure. The people who
know his songs do not remember him.
Even persons who know the words
and the music of scores of hymns will
confess that they never looked in the
hymnal to see who wrote them. It
was the good fortune of the late Ira
D. Sankey that his manly voice and
enthusiastic personality were associ
ated with his tunes. No doubt the
extra heartiness with which people
usually break forth into a Sankey
hymn is due to the fact that so many
have heard him lead them. The quali
ty of Sankey's work is indicated in
the story of the beginning of his alli
ance with Moody. It is said that
Moody heard him leading a revival
hymn at a religious convention, and
asked in excitement who he was. A
neighbor told him, and expressed »d
--miration for his fine voice. ' I don't
know anything abort liis fine voice,"
replied Moody, ' but I do know that
he feel? every word he sings and be
lieves every word he feels." Sankey
was a doer as well as a singer of the
Word, says the Youth's Companion.
He responded to Lincoln's first call for
volunteers. At the end of his life he
was afflicted with blindness and ill
health, but he kept his fervent spirit.
And the income from his published
work went largely to religious institu
tions.
The last trace of connection be
tween the famous East India Company
and the government of India disap
peared when Sir Philip Hutchins re
tired from membership in the council
of India on July 31, this year —so
years, within two days, from the date
of the passage of the act transferring
control of East Indian affairs to the
I3ritißh crown. Sir Philip entered the
old company in 1857, and was em
ployed in its civil service in Madras,
where he continued after the transfer
of contrdl. He rose to responsible po
sitions in India until he was called
home as secretary of the judicial de
partment of the India office. He was
made one of the members of the coun
cil of India in 1898, the body which ad
vises the secretary for India in the
cabinet, in his administration of the
Indian empire. All other men who
had been employed by the old com
pany had disappeared from the India
office, and for the last nine months of
his tenure Sir Philip was the sole sur
viving servant of the old regime. Al
though its political power ceased in
1858, the East India Company itself
did not go out of existence until 1874.
India has 131,000 lepers. Canton
alone has 10,000, Mauritius 3,300, Por
tugal 3,000, Hawaii 1,800, Norway
1,770, Crete 900, Greece 350, Kio Ja
neiro 120, and Sweden 100. Russia
estimates her lepers at 0,000. The
United States has 278 known victims
of this dread disease. Congress should
care for them.
According to the Electrician, the
committee appointed in connection
with the rebuilding of the Russian
navy has decided to utilize the public
contributions which have been sub
scribed for the purpose of rebuilding
the warships in establishing wireless
telegraph statons at .18 points ou the
Baltic coast line.
"For goodness sake," asks a Chi
cago paper, "why do not Chicago nov
elists get acquainted with some good
people?" Because, for some unac
countable reason, they hate to leave
Chicago.
The Countess Maria von Linden, Ph.
D., of iionn university, has been en
gaged for some time in research and
experimental work on the subject of
the endurance of hunger among but
terflies.
FARMER DOESN'T SEEM INTERESTED
REPLIES TO BRYAN
MR. TAFT MAKES NEW TURN IN
CANVASS.
People to Judge Between Man of Ac
complishment and One of Ab
surd Promises and Exploded
"Paramount Issues."
The most effective statement yet
made In the present campaign is that
of Mr. Taft, in reply to Mr. liryan's
criticism of the Roosevelt letter re
lating to the Republican nominee.
This statement marks a new turn in
the canvass. It may be said that Mr.
Taft has finally struck his gait. From
this time on there will be something
doing when Mr. Taft discusses Mr.
Bryan.
There is no possibility that ihe
present campaign will be marked by
unseemly personalities. Both candi
dates are men of clean characters. Hut
in the absence of great, dominating
issues the personalities of the two
candidates, and especially their rec
ords —tho one as a performer and the
other as a theorist —will play an un
usually important part in the cam
paign.
Mr. Bryan has lorced the fighting
from the first. He has done his ut
most to discredit the record and the
pledges of the Republican candidate.
He has gone out of his way to belit
tle what others have said of the
achievements of Mr. Taft. Finally Mr.
Taft has replied with a broadside that
will give Mr. Bryan something to
think about for a few days.
All this was both interesting and il
luminating. The people like a spirited
presidential canvass. They like good
fighters. Mr. Taft is a good fighter
and he is an honest fighter. In this
particular encounter, Mr. Bryan, 'not
Mr. Taft, will be put on the defen
sive.
Mr. Taft's life has been full of la
bor and accomplishment. He has a
record that he may confidently sub
mit to the people. Ordinarily a man
who has no official record is at an ad
vantage in a political contest, provid
ed he can make the people believe his
promises. But the majority has never
believed in Mr. Bryan's promises, and
the explosion and abandonment of his
several paramount issue of the past
ore not calculated to increase public
confidence.
In this beginning of the real Taft-
Bryan contest the first thing that Mr.
Taft has done has been to call the at
tention of tho spectators to Mr. Bry
an's fighting methods. It is to be
hoped that in the future Mr. Bryan
will be as fair as Mr. Taft has beer..
The public likes an honest observance
of the rules of the game.—Kansas
City Star.
Richard Olney.
Richard Olney declares for Mr.
Bryan. He is not, however, a new re
cruit. He was regular in 1900 on the
issue of imperialism. He is regular
this year on what are called general
principles. He sees great dangers to
tho country from longer Republican
rule, tending, as he thinks it does, to
centralization and a cloud of other
evils. His remedy is the election of
Mr. Bryan, which would be followed
by other Democratic triumphs, and so
in time would be accomplished the
rescue of affairs from Republican con
trol. Mr. Olney's letter is probably
Intended as an offset to Mr. Cleve
land's letter advising support of Judge
Taft. Is tho live Olney more power
ful than the dead Cleveland? Ho is
tha fourth member of the second
Cleveland cabinet to throw his sup
port to Mr. Bryan. Judge Harmon,
Hoke Smith and David R. Francis
have been in camp for weeks.
Only "nine-tenths of the Republican
farmers," according to Mr. Bryan, "are
with the Democrats on public ques
tions." is Mr. Bryan running his legs
off and working his chin day and
night for tho purpose of converting
the remaining one-tenth?
"Bryan will i:iake a good president."
says an exchange. "Might," you
meun, ncigli bora "might.''
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 1908
OLD FRIEND IN CAMPAIGN.
Mr. Bryan Comes to the Front with a
Familiar Note.
When Mr. Bryan at Wilmington
charged the steel trust with financing
Mr. Taft he sounded a familiar note.
He did the expected. We feared that
this was to be a campaign without a
bogie; that, possibly, the Commoner's
imagination had suffered from over
strain. We are glad our fears are un
founded; that there is no impairment
of his imaginative faculties.
Of course, it does not matter that
this latest product r" Mr. Bryan's fer
tile imagination has no existence in
fact. That is aside the point, it is
sufficient for his purposes that it flt«:
into his theories. He has alwav? 'jcen
a great theorizer. He is the only man
who has a specific for e\'ery social ill.
But the people, for some reason, have
flu't snared' his confidence in their ef
fectiveness. His promises were too
vague, too uncertain, and, besides, he
changed them so often. For instance,
one of Mr. Bryan's theories is that the
United States Steel corporation has
been accorded immunity and in return
It has promised to finance the Repub
lican campaign. Here we have the
characteristic Bryanic argument, for
upon analysis this charge resolves
itself into merely an expression of
opinion. Ho presents no proof. Mr.
Bryan knows this. But he hopes by
vehement gestures, by seeming earn
estness, to so befog his hearers that
they will believe that expressions of
opinion are synonymous with state
ments of fact. Such methods are too
transparent to be convincing; they
defeat their own purpose. But Mr.
Bryan does not realize it. He is sin
cere in his beliefs, but mere sincerity
will not avail unless it carries con
fidence. And that is something Mr.
Bryan has never inspired.
Republicans and Prosperity.
TJnder this head the extremely Re
publican St. Louis Globe-Democrat
speaks of the prosperity placards
which Mr. Kern emphasized and says
because they would giye the Demo
crats a chance to cry blackmail they
are unwise. But it adds:
"The story which they tell is true.
The election of Bryan would be a
calamity to the country, even though
the Republican senate would tie his
hands. A Bryanite victory would send
down American stocks on every bourse
in the world in which they are bought
and sold and would be a blow at Amer
ican intelligence, as well as at Ameri
can financial credit. Shares of all
sorts on our own exchanges would im
mediately drop. Those big orders for
rails and general railway equipment
which are said to be held off until aft
er the election would be withdrawn
indefinitely. Messrs. Bryan and Kern
may rail at these conditions, but the
things which have cast discredit upon
them and their party are known to all
the world, and neither their entreaties
nor their imprecations will alter tho
situation in tho slightest degree."
Denunciation of Little Value.
It is well that the growth of federal
expenditures in our rapidly growing
nation should be subject to searching
and persistent scrutiny, so that abuses
may be extirpated and extravagance
nipped in the bud. Newspaper readers
will remember what a protest, went up
at the last session over the ruthless
way in which Speaker Cannon slaugh
tered the expectations of members and
department heads. To keep the appro
priations down to the lowest possible
limit was one the laudable ambi
tlons of the speaker and the senate
leaders. Honest and pertinent criti
cism, as we have said, is necessar.'
and wholesome; hut not much benef
can be derived by Mr. Bryan er hi
party by lco.se and reckless denuncif
tion of extravagance where little i
any extravagance can be shown t
exist.
Not. so much as a whisper come
from Mr. Bryan charging that an;
body has stolen the frca silver tin;
der of his first campaign. And yet tl
firmament rocked and revc.
berated with his racket about the w
cessity of going into free silver to s:r
the country from everlasting riLi:
Foxy .Air. Bryan, to torg'jt the big u.
of his thunder.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST
TUBERCULOSIS ON
SOCIETY FOR ITS PREVENTION
SAYS "ITS CONTROL DEPENDS
ON SOCIAL WORKERS."
ESTABLISH LOCAL SOCIETIES
Pennsylvania Dispensaries Give No
Medicine If It Can be Avoided —
Patients Wait Until Too
Far Advanced.
Washington, D. C. —"The control of
tuberculosis in this country depends in
large measure upon the success of so
cial workers in each community in
gathering together in an effective or
ganization physicians and officials on
the one hand and large numbers of ef
ficient laymen on the other."
This was the declaration Tuesday of
Wallace Hatch, executive secretary of
the Pennsylvania Society for the Pre
vention of Tuberculosis in an address
on"The Responsibility of the Social
Worker in the Campaign Against
Tuberculosis" at the New National
Museum. The occasion was known as
the social workers day and in the
absence of Ernest P. Bicknell, national
director of the Red Cross society, who
was to have presided, Richard
Beamish of Philadelphia acted as
chairman. Dr. Thomas H. A. Stites,
director of the Pennsylvania state dis
pensary system of Harrisburg, Pa.,
told of the work of that organization.
"We need to establish a small anti
tuberculosis society in every social,
fraternal and business organization
which can be reached," said Mr.
Hatch. "This may seem a tremendous
undertaking and the results t rjky
seem to justify the effee'b, out the ex
tent of our such that we
can scarcely do less." He declared
that Pennsylvania has one of the most
health departments in the
country and one which is beginning to
show enviable results. Mr. Hatch told
of the effective work accomplished
during the past year against tubercu
losis in Pennsylvania by the Pennsyl
vania Society for the Prevention of
Tuberculosis, the oldest organization
of its kind in the world. Summarized
the society has established a bureau of
information; organized an employment
exchange; conducted 649 formal talks
and lectures; distributed 160,000 leaf
lets of instruction; secured the co
operative help of over 150 organiza
tions; opened two tuberculosis classes
and one dispensary; gathered a tuber
culosis exhibit which has been demon
strated in 14 towns and cities before
153,226 people and established anti
tuberculosis societies in six cities and
towns.
Dr. Stites said that at the Pennsyl
vania dispensaries no medicine is
given if it can be avoided. Fresh air,
sunlight and rest are the means of
cure. The difficulties encountered in
dispensary work, said the speaker, are
that patients wait until they are too
far advanced for cure before they ap
ply for treatment.
EXPECT TO PAY ALL CLAIMS
Creditor Bankers Decide to Sell the
Property of A. Booth & Co.,
Fish Dealers.
Chicago, 111. —Indication that United
States District Attorney Sims would
begin action under the Sherman
anti-trust law against A. Booth & Co.,
in the evening of its reorganization,
caused the creditor bankers commit
tee to reject the reorganization pro
posal of W. Vernon Booth and to de
cide to sell the property of the cor
poration in every state at its physical
valuation.
Mr. Booth proposed to reorganize
the corporation by placing $2,000,000
of new capital in the company, while
the stockholders would contribute sl,-
000,000 more. After eight hours de
liberation the committee rejected the
proposal. From the sale of the prop
erty held by the corporation the cred
itors expect to pay all claims held by
Chicago and eastern banks and pay
about 100 cents on the dollar to the
3,000 minor creditors.
Immediately after the appointment
of a receiver for the corporation many
Independent fish dealers complained
to District Attorney Sims that for five
years they had been compelled to ac
cept prices established by A. Booth &
Co.
Conference Now Seems Possible.
Paris, France.—An international con
ference to consider the Bulgarian sit
uation is now assured, according to
the statement made here Tuesday
night. It will be proposed by Great
Britain, France and Russia, acting to
gether, instead of by one power.
Those three powers are in complete
accord on the principle of an imme
diate conference; Italy is in favor of
it and even Germany is expected to
idhere to the proposal.
Negro Taken from Jail.
Glenllora, Tex. —Ban Price, a ne
'ro, was seized by a mob here,
aken to the center of the town ami
anged to a tree Tuesday. He is
harged with criminal assault on his
•wn daughter.
Two Drown on Lake Superior.
Sault Ste. Marie, On^ —Two men,
John Hunter of Sarnia and
Fred Shields of Duluth were drowned
Tuesday near Whitellsh, on Lake Su
pe.rior, by the overturning of a scow
belonging to the Held Wrecking Co.
LIVING PICTURES OF Tt E PAS,
WERE SHOWN IN AN HISTORICAL
PAGEANT AT PHILADELPHIA.
Quaker City's Celebration of Found
ers' Week Ended with a Re
markable Display.
Philadelphia, Pa. —Like pages out
of the past, torn from the great
book of history and laden with the
memories of 225 years, the living
scenes of the first great historical
pageant ever planned in this country
were unfolded Friday before a con
course of 750,000 people. In this
drama of the centuries, the culminat
ing feature of Philadelphia's celebra
tion of founders' week, there were 5,-
000 men and women in costume.
There were 70 mammoth floats faith
ful to the last detail in their portrayal
of the scenes selected from the long
span of years.
All tho romance, all the legendry,
all the rugged history of the days of
long ago were grouped in this notable
display. People fought to get a
glimpse of it and hundreds of women
were taken crushed and fainting from
the congested corners. Every ambu
lance in the city was brought into play
and every hospital was filled. The
eight miles of grand stands, covering
practically every foot on either side
of the route traversed by the pageant,
were fairly stormed by ticket holders,
while speculators reaped a harvest at
exorbitant prices.
Following the scenes of early set
tlement there came the period of Wil
liam Penn and the Quakers. Benjamin
Franklin soon followed Penn upon the
iicene. It was not long until the spec
tators found themselves gazing upon
Washington, /efferson, Lafayette, John
Paiul Jones and Rochambeau in their
patriotic activities. They looked upon
Betsy Ross as she toiled upon the
dig, they saw the voting upon the Dec
laration of Independence in the oid
state house; they saw the Virginians
coming to congress with Washington,
Jefferson ami Patrick Henry at their
head; they saw the New Englanders
arrive with John Adams, John Han
cock, Samuel Adams and Robert Treat
Paine riding in the lead, and then, out
of all this pageantry of make-believe,
there came a touch of real history.
It was the old Liberty bell. On a
carefully guarded truck and partly
buried in straw, the old relic was
shown as it was being hurried away
to Allentown in a hay wagon for safe
keeping in 1777.
On the heels of the departing bell
came the entrance of the British
troops into Philadelphia under Sir
William Howe and Lord Cornwallis,
both of whom were pictured in the
parade. The advent of the red-coated
troops was an imposing feature of the
spectacle. There were about 1,000
well drilled men in line and all were
costumed in the period of the revolu
tion.
Following this came the march of
.he Americans to Yorktown. Another
thousand men made up the Conti
nental troops. Rochambeau and the
French allies, in resplendent uniforms,
added further interest to the revolu
tionary period.
The period of the civil war gave an
other opportunity for military display.
REVIEW OF TRADE.
Many Undertakings are Postponed Un
til After Election.
New York City.—R. G. I)un &
Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says:
Substantial progress toward indus
trial recovery was made during the
past week, a very large number of
wage earners resuming work in mills
and factories that had been wholly or
partially idle for many months. Yet
resumption is by no means uniform,
many undertakings being deferred un
til after election, and low water is
still the cause of short time at numer
ous plants. Retail trade at many
points has decreased, although some
sections note a satisfactory distribu
tion of fall and winter wearing ap
parel, and payments are a little more
prompt.
Contracts for finished steel are re
stricted to current needs, but a large
tonnage is under negotiation. New
projects are deferred until election,
when much business will be placed.
Confidence is shown by the steadiness
of prices and the gradual increase in
pig iron for production.
Stocks of dry goods are low almost
beyond precedent.
A Collision at Sea.
San Francisco, Cal. —The steamer
Norwood was towed into this
port Friday in a waterlogged condi
tion by the Asuncion. Capt. Martin
of the Norwood reports that during a
dense fog the Norwood was struck
by the steamer Asuncion and cut be
low the water line. The Norwood be
came waterlogged in 20 minutes. Iler
boats were lowered and two women,
two children, 13 male passengers and
part of the crew put aboard them.
The boats were picked up by the
Asuncion.
A Doubly Fatal Wreck.
Spokane, Wash. A passenger
train was wrecked near Poller,
Mrnt.. on the Great Northern railroad,
Friday. The engine went into the
rii-er and a fireman and a watchman
were killed.
An Appeal for Campaign Funds.
New York City.—An appeal for
contributions to *he Republican na
tional campaign fund of SSO each from
10,000 business men was issued Fri
day by R. Sheldon, treasnr 1
of the national committee.
CHICAGO WINS
CRUCIAL GAME
THEY DEFEAT THE GIANT 6 AND
WIN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE
CHAMPIONSHIP.
THEIR TEAM WORK PERFECT.
Played in New York was Wit
nessed by a Record Breaking
Crowd and Thousands Were
Unable to Gain Admittance.
New York City.—"Chicago 4, New
York 2"—this was the tale in a phrase
told at the end of the most decisive
baseball game played in this country
in many years; played at the Polo
Grounds in this city Thursday to de
cide the National league championship
for the season of 1908. In the pre#
ence of a record breaking crowd,
which swamped the grounds and left
many thousands outside long before
the game began, a game was played In
deadly earnest to settle as tensely
dramatic a situation as the most ar
dent lover of sport could imagine.
Chicago won and New York lost.
It was great baseball, witnessed by
the greatest of great baseball crowds
—which would have been more thau
doubled could the fences have been
stretched out into a circle of sufficient
size to include all those who clamored
vainly for admittance, and who
thronged everything that offered the
least possibility of catching even an
echo of the applause within. Specta
tors who know the game, however bit
ter they may feel over the tie decision
which made the game compulsory,
concede that the work of the Chicago
team was, practically perfect.
The Giants were outplayed. They
lacked, among other things, that cer
tain indefinable something, absence of
which Is probably in this instance ex
plained by the results of the great and
steady strain they have been under
the past week. Chicago, fresh from
rest and well-judged practice and
coaching, were superb in form. Bril
liant, errorless fielding, snappy base
running and opportune hitting in the
third inning, which made effective in
scores a double by Chance, won th<
game.
New York could not hit at critical
times. Mathewson, favorite of the
favorites, could not keep his invincible
arm power and the effect of a mo
ment's lapse in that third inning could
not be overcome. McGraw's substitn
tlon of Wiltse in the box the last two
Innings may or may not hare been
wise. The home team needed a long
hit, needed the tremendous rallying
power which Mathewson has more
than once inspired in them at the
very finish, and wrung victory from
seeming defeat.
The two great innings of the game
were the third and the seventh. In
the former Chicago made all its runs,
in the latter—opening with tremendous
enthusiasm following the loud-shouted
slogan: "The Giants' lucky seventh"
—hopes were renewed, but died, after
one run, which kept company with
that made in the first inning.
Pfeister started to pitch for Chicago,
but was taken out in the first inning
after the Giants had scored one mn.
Brown succeeded Pfeister and only al
lowed four hits in eight and a half in
nings.
The gathering of the vast crowd
which witnessed the contest for the
premier honors of the National league
was picturesque in the extreme. At
daybreak the enthusiasts began to as
semble.
WILL OPEN IN DETROIT.
Arrangements are IVtade for the
World's Baseball Championship
Series of Games.
Cincinnati, O. Beginning at 2
o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday.
October 10, the baseball teams of Chi
cago and Detroit, which have jnst won
the closest recorded contest for the
championship of the National and
American leagues, will meet at De
troit to enter on a series of games for
the baseball championship of the
world. But one game will be played
at Detroit before the scene shifts.
The Sunday and Monday contests go
to Chicago, while the Tuesday and
Wednesday games are to be played at
Detroit and the sixth game, if one is
necessary, will then be transferred to
Chicago. There have been some ad
ditional rules adopted governing such
contests, although in most respects
the rules will be as for previous sim
ilar games.
The national baseball commission
will be in charge, but the immediate
control of the games is given to two
umpires from each league. For the
National league Umpires O'Day and
Klem were designated by President
Pulliam, while President Johnson of
the American league named Sheridan
and Connolly to represent his organ
ization.
25 People Injured in a Collision.
Oklahoma City, Okla. —In a col
lision between an eastbound Hock
Island passenger train and a freight
train at Yukon, a station seven miles
west of here, Thursday, seven coaches
of the passenger train were derailed.
Twenty-five persons were injured.
Strike Is Settled.
Marshalltown, la. —The settlement
of the lowa Central railway strike,
which has been on since April
22, was effected Thursday. The men
will return to work Monday,