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China's Unwelcome Guest.
China has troubles of its own, ami
one of them is tho presence in that
country of the Dalai Lama, the head
of the Buddhist faith, whose tradition
al home is in the sacred city of
Lliassa in Tibet. Several years ago
when a British expedition forced its
way to and into the holy city the Dalai
Lama gathered his voluminous skirts
about him, assembled a big and
gorgeous retinue, shook the dirt of
the town from his sandals and set out
for regions where his privacy would
not be disturbed. He took refuge in
northern China, and he has been on
Chinese soil ever since. Apparently
ne has conceived a liking for travel,
for he has moved about a great deal,
his latest procedure being a ceremo
nious visit to Peking, where of course
he was received by the imperial au
thorities as became his state and his
position in the religious world. But it
seems that the Chinese government is
getting a little tired of the visitor. It
was all very well lo have him as an
honored guest for a short, time, but he
has manifested a strong desinclination
to return to his home. What makes
matters worse is that the hundreds of
retainers who follow him about are a
rather unpleasant lot. A Peking dis
patch describes them as "a wild, dis
orderly, unkempt-looking crew, giving
no impression of their religious affilia
tions." As they live on the country,
insist on being well cared for and are
not above creating very lively disturb
ance if they do not get what they
want, their presence is not an un
mixed joy to the kindly and hospitable
but peace-loving Chinese.
An examination of candidates for
the new women's nurse corps of the
United Stales navy was recently held
in Washington. Of those who passed,
20 young women have been selected
to take a preliminary course in the
Navy Medical school. There they will
study for six months, at the end of
which time they will be examined
again and, if they pass, will be as
signed to one of the 18 naval hospitals
in the country as nurses. It is intend
ed that they shall be the nucleus of a
corps which will eventually number
150 highly trained nurses, some of
whom will be stationed in the naval
hospitals in Yokohama, Honolulu and
Manila. The woman selected to or
ganize the new corps is Miss Esther
V. Hassan, who is not only an experi
enced nurse, but has seen service in
Ihe relief corps in Cuba, Porto Rico,
the. Philippines and various army
camps in the United States.
The truth about us as a people lies
somewhere between the constant
warnings against corruption and pleas
for altruism from idealists like Presi
dent Tucker of Dartmouth and the flat
tering pronouncement of a learned
French woman recently arrived in this
country for her third long visit. "As a
people," she said, "your ideals and
your moral tone are ahead of any Eu
ropean country; individually you are
apt to be disappointing. But the fact
alone that here one constantly hears
reference to 'service,' and the desire
and intent to render 'service'—that
serving has been made, however re
cently, a public ideal, strikes the for
eigner forcibly."
Cheese must have been a rather
dear or scarce article of food in 1502.
for it is recorded in the "blackbooks"
of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's
Tnn that at Easter term, 1502, it was
"agreed by the governors and bench
ers Ibis term that if any one of the so
ciety shall hereafter cut cheese im
moderately at the time of dinner or
supplier, or shall give cheese lo any
servant or to any other, or shall carry
it, away from the lable at any time,
he shall pay four pence for each of
fense. The butlers of the society shall
present such defaulters weekly, under
pain of expulsion from office."
There will not b a wireless station
in Wa tiliv i< non top of Washington's
monument. There i.re yet a few places
left In tie modem human heart in
which pure seuiimeni has sti!| the hi t
ter of bald utility, and it does seem a
trifle shabby to tn n a testimonial to
the Father .if Ills Country, suppose
to be erected by a grateful nation, Inio
a self-supporting institution.
FINDS MORSE AND
CURTIS GUILTY
JURY IN FAMOUS TRIAL AT NEW
YORK CITY RENDERS ITS
VERDICT.
THE BANKERS GO TO PRISON.
The Jury Recommended Clemency in
the Case of Curtis, but Made No
Such Appeal for ex-King
of Ice Trust.
New York City.—Charles W.
Morse, until a year ago a dominant fig
ure in the world of finance, and Alfred
11. Curtis, former president, of the Na
tional Bank of North America, were
found guilty Thursday night in the
criminal branch of the United States
circuit court on charges of misapplica
tion of funds and falsifying the books
of the bank. There was also tho addi
tional charge of conspiracy against
the prisoners, but the jury acquitted
the men on this count.
Within five minutes of tho time the
jury had rendered its verdict Judge
Hough had refused to entertain a mo
tion for bail and had committed the
two bankers to the Tombs prison.
Judge Hough said that ho would hear
any motion the lawyeifc for the prison
ers desire to make at 10:30 o'clock
Friday morning. His decision made it
compulsory for the incarceration cf
Morse and Curtis in cells in the Tombs
prison until today.
The federal statutes provide a mini
mum penalty of five years' imprison
ment for falsifying the books of a bank
and a penalty of two years' imprison
ment for misapplication of funds. No
alternative but imprisonment is pro
vided for conviction on the charge of
falsifying the books of a bank. The
maximum penalty on this charge is ten
years' imprisonment. The jury recom
mended clemency for Mr. Curtis, but
made no recommendation in the case
of .Mr. Morse.
There has been wide interest in the
joint trials of Morse and Curtis on
charges growing out of the failure of
the National Bank of North America.
It was brought out in the testimony
that Morse had made large loans from
the bank through so-called "dummies"
and that Curtis had enabled him to do
so. The money thus obtained was used
to finance the Morse ice pools and
steamship operations.
United States Attorney Stimson, who
has had charge of the prosecution of
Morse and Curtis, said after the prison
ers had been taken to the Tombs that,
according to his computation, the pris
oners had been convicted on 54 counts,
all of which are combined in the
charges of misapplication of funds and
making false entries in the books of
the bank. The latter charge also in
cluded the charge of making false re
ports to the comptroller of the cur
rency.
Curtis is hoping for a suspended sen
tence because of the aid he gave to
the government attorney. When on
the stand Curtis frankly told of all the
financial operations in which lie and
Morse had been associated. This fact,
coupled with the plea for clemency
made by the jury, might, he thought,
secure for him a suspended sentence.
The financial career of Charles W.
Morse was among the sensational de
velopments of modern finance. Rising
from successful operations in the ice
business, Morse soon acquired a repu
tation for company promoting and trust
organizing. At the time of his gaining
control of the Bank or North America
he had already acquired control of a
number of local and out of town banks
which became known as the Morse
chain of banks. At the height of his
fame, he was director in 26 corpora
tions and banks.
SAYS HE SPENT $2,800.
Vice President-elect Sherman Files a
Statement of His Campaign
Expenses.
Utica, N. Y. —Vice President-elect
Sherman on Tnursday forwarded
to Albany for filing with the secretary
of state a statement of his expenses in
the campaign just closed. In his com
munication Mr. Sherman expresses
the opinion that he is not as a matter of
fact obliged to make such a statement.
He files one, however, in order that
there may be no question about it. The
statement shows:
Contribution to Oneida county Re
publican committee $750; contribution
to Republican state committee $500;
contribution to Republican committee
SSO; to Harry E. Dcvendorf, private
secretary, for postage, telegrams, print
ing, stationery, pictures, frames, travel
ing expenses, expressage and other in
cidentals, $t!00; traveling expenses, in
cluding railroad fare, Pullman accom
modations, porters' fees, carriage hire,
hotel bills, etc., S9OO. Total $2,800.
Gave 53,000,000 to the City of Boston.
Boston, Ma*:-). — The will of tho late
George F. Park man of this city, be
queathing $5,000,000 to the city of Bos
ton for tile maintenance of public
parks and $500,000 to numerous insti
tutions was allowed Thursday by Judge
George in the probate court.
200 People Drowned.
Aniciy. China. -A small steamer, car
rying GOO passengers from Amoy i<
Rungan, a few iull< s distant, sank
Wedne. day evening. Two hundred or
the passengers were drowned.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12, 1908.
RAILROADS GAIN A VICTORY
SECURE INJUNCTION TO PREVENT
REDUCTION IN RATES.
Three Federal Judges Issue an Order
to the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Chicago, 111. —Federal Judges Gross
cup, Seaman and Baker sitting in
the United States circuit court Fri
day issued a decree restraining the in
terstate commerce commission from
enforcing an order effective November
10, to railroads in the Missouri river
territory to reduce their rates nine
cents a hundred pounds on first class
freight from the Atlantic seaboard and
involving also differentials all through
the classification.
Washington, D. C.—Considerable
surprise was expressed by officials of
the interstate commerce commission
on receipt of information that the
United States circuit court at Chicago
had granted even a temporary injunc
tion in what is known as the Missouri
rate case. The complaint from which
the order of the committee originated,
developed into one of the most import
ant cases with which the commission
has had to deal in the past year. It
was brought by firms in Kansas City
against the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific Railway Co., and practically all
of the railways doing business between
Atlantic seaboard points and Kansas
City. In effect, the complaint was that
the rates on class commodities be
tween Atlantic seaboard points and
Kansas City were too high and that
they discriminated against Kansas
City as compared with many other
points in the west and northwest.
MORSE IS SENTENCED.
Punishment of New York Banker le
Fixed at 15 Years' Impris
onment.
New York City.—From a cell in
the Tombs prison Charles W. Morse
now directs the efforts of his counsel
to secure his freedom, he having on
Friday been sentenced to serve 15
years in the federal prison at Atlanta,
Gii.. for misapplication of the funds of
the National Bank of North America
and making false entries in the; books
of the bank. Alfred li. Curtis, former
president of the defunct bank, who
was jointly tried and convicted with
Morse, was given his liberty on a sus
pended sentence.
While Morse's lawyers immediately
applied for and secured a stay of exe
cution for ten days after sentence had
been imposed, still it is probable that
Morse will remain a prisoner in the
Tombs until Monday, as Judge .Hough
has refused to admit the financier to
bail. The Morse lawyers late Friday
applied to the United States circuit
court of appeals for a writ to show
cause why their client should not be
admitted to bail, and the writ was
granted, but it is not returnable until
Monday; hence it appears that Morse
must remain a prisoner until the ques
tion of bail is settled on that day.
Whether a new. trial will be granted
Morse is problematical. Judge La
combe granted a writ of error to the
Morse lawyers Friday. This writ is
returnable December 3 and is based
on the usual grounds—exceptions
taken by the defense during the trial
and exceptions to the indictment it
self. This step had to be taken be
fore application for bail could be made,
and it also leads to the argument for
a new trial. The Morse lawyers say
their client has instructed them to
fight "to the last ditch."
REVIEW OF TRADE.
Manufacturing Plants are More Active
and Many New Undertakings
Have Been Started.
New York City.—li. G. Dun &
Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says:
Seasonable weather has stimulated
retail trade, while manufacturing
plants are more active and numerous
new undertakings have been started.
Sentiment is more hopeful regarding
the commercial future, orders being
placed for remote delivery, which is
a noteworthy improvement over the
conservative attitude formerly con
spicuous. Preparations for holiday
trade are on a liberal scale and there
is a feeling of confidence that renders
holders reluctant to do business when
concessions are sought.
All the leading industries have in
creased output, some having already
received large contracts, while others
operate more freely in anticipation of
orders to come. Commercial credits
are extended more freely, and there Is
some improvement in mercantile col
lections.
Expected contracts for steel pro
duct are coming forward freely, stim
ulating the demand for pig iron, and a
substantial tonnage has been ordered,
including deliveries during the lirst
half of 1909.
Efforts to make purchases at con
cessions are increasingly unsuccessful
in the primary markets for textiles.
Taft Goes to Hot Springs, Va.
Cincinnati, O. —President-elect \V. 11.
Toft, Mrs. Taft and Fred W. Carpen
ter, private secretary, left Cincinnati
Friday night for Hot Springs, Va..
where Mr Taft will remain for rest
and recreation until Thanksgiving.
Gas Fumes Killed Three People.
Washington 1). ('.—Overcome by
the fumes of a gas of unknown origin,
three persons of the family of Clar
ence l<. Bremerman, a stenographer 1::
the library of congress, were asphyxi
ated in their home here Friday
PRESIDENT FIXES
DAY OFJANKS
PROCLAMATION CALLS ATTEN
TION TO GROWTH AND PROS
PERITY IN ALL THINGS.
THE SOUL TO BE CONSIDERED
President Roosevelt Says We Must
Smite Down Wrong and Strive
for Public and Private
Righteousness.
Washington, D. C. —The president
on Sunday issued the annual Thanks
giving proclamation, in which he
pointed out the steady growth of the
nation in strength, worldly power,
wealth and population and that our
average of individual comfort and
well-being is higher than that of any
other country in the world. For this,
he declares, Americans owe it to the
Almighty to show equal progress in
moral and spiritual things. The
proclamation follows:
By the President of the United States
of America —A Proclamation:
Once again the season is at hand
when, according to the ancient cus
tom of our people, it becomes the duty
of the president to appoint a day of
prayer and of thanksgiving to God.
Year by year this nation grows in
strength and worldly power. During
the century and a quarter that has
elapsed since our entry into the circle
of independent peoples we have grown
and prospered in material things to a
degree never known before, and not
now known in any other country. The
13 colonies which struggled along the
seacoast of the Atlantic and were
hemmed in but a few miles west of
tidewater by the Indian-haunted
wilderness have been transformed into
the mightiest republic which the
world has ever seen. Its domains
stretch across the continent from one
to the other of the two greatest
oceans, and it exercises domain allko
in the Arctic and tropic realms. The
growth in wealth and population has
surpassed even the growth in terri
tory. Nowhere else in the world is
the average of individual comfort and
material well-being as high as in our
fortunate land.
For the very reason that in material
well-being we have thus abounded, we
owe it to the Almighty to show equal
progress in moral and spiritual things.
With a nation, as with the individuals
who make up a nation, material well
being is an indispensable foundation.
But the foundation avails nothing by
itself. That life is wasted, and worse
than wasted, which is spent in piling,
heap upon heap, those things which
minister merely to the pleasure of the
body and to the power that rests only
on wealth. Upon material well-being
as a foundation must bo raised the
structure of the lofty life of the spirit,
if this nation is properly to fulfill its
great mission and.to accomplish all
that we so ardently hope and desire.
The things of the body are good; the
things of the intellect better; but best
of all are the things of the soul, for, in
the nation as in the Individual, in the
long run it is character that counts.
Let us therefore as a people set our
faces resolutely against evil, and with
broad character, with kindliness and
good will toward all men, but with un
flinching determination to smite down
wrong, strive with all the strength
that is given us for righteousness in
public and in private life.
Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roose
velt, president of the United States, do
set apart Thursday, the 26th day of
November next, as a day of general
Thanksgiving and prayer, and on that
day I recommend that the people shall
cease from their daily work, and in
their homes or in their churches, meet
devoutly to thank the Almgihty for the
many and great blessings they have
received in the past, and to pray that
they may be given strength so to order
their lives as to deserve a continuation
of these blessings in the future.
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this
31st day of October, in the year of Our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and
eight and of the independence of the
United States the one hundred and
thirty-third.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Routs Bold Intruder.
Cleveland, O. —Boldly attacking a
burglar who had entered her home
Sunday morning, .Mrs. Nellie Geiger,
22 years, hit him over the head with a
billy and put him to flight. The man
was helping himself to the silverware
when .Mrs. Geiger was aroused. He
drew a revolver as she demanded his
business. Brushing the gun aside, Mrs.
Geiger struck the man with a billy be
longing to her husband. The burglar
dropped liis booty and fled.
Dismiss Schools; Lack of Gas.
St. Joseph, Mo. —One death by
asphyxiation, the dismissal of all
schools heated with natural gas and
cold meals, as the result of no fuel,
was tin' result Monday of the break
ing, near Leavenworth. Kas., of a
natural gas main with which St.
Joseph is supplied most of its light
and heat. The gas was shut off be
ginning Sunday night until f> o'clock
Monday evening. Joseph Chartrand
was found dead in his room. It is
thought, aw the result of the lire going
out ami fumes escaping.
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