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The Job department of the PRESS Incomplete • nil affords facilities for doing Iho best class of work Pa in icli.au A item i ion paiuto 1-aw Pkintino. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the optiou of tho pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. What the Harvest Has Done. The harvest of the great wheat-rais ing states has been well up to the av eiage, and, with the high prices, is to return more money to the farmer than in many years. While the coun try's total wheat crop is estimated at 40,000,000 bushels more than last year, it Is yet 60,000,000 bushels below that of the previous season, and the farmer has little reason to fear material les sening of values. The corn is promis ing well in the interior states, and lessened yield in some of the older settled ones may make this likewise a remarkably profitable year for produ cers of that cereal. Contracts are being made at this writing at prices giving abundant return for the farm er's toil. Minor crops have been gen erous in th.e prairie states, with good prices. Altogether, declares Charles Moreau Harger, in tho American Re view of Reviews, it has been a goodly year and one that has given the farmer a feeling of independence. His stable position is certain to have effect on every sort of industry and enterprise. A Merry Heart. Why do you wear a harassed and troubled look? Are you really in trou ble, or are you allowing the little wor ries of life to grind furrows in your face? Take a glance at yourself in the mirror and reform—that is, reshapo your face into the lines of comfort and good cheer which it ought to wear. Take an honest inventory of your trou bles, and decide whether or not they are really worth advertising in your countenance, urges the New York Weekly. It may seem a little thing to you whether or not you wear a smil ing face, but it is not a little thing. A serene look informs the tired and troubled men and women whom you meet that there is peace and joy in at least one heart. And there may be among them some who had begun to doubt if peace or joy existed at all. "A merry heart doeth good like a med icine." An English suffragette leader who is on this side says that American wom en are more timid than their English sisters in demanding their rights, and urges them to make equal suffrage a burning issue in "a fire of revolt." The lady is mistaken in lier main points. American women are not timid; they are not as aggressive or as violent as their English sisters because they have no need to be, and as for start ing a flame of revolt that is not nec essary, either. The moment the wom en of the country in any considerable majority demand equal suffrage the men will give it to them. The women of this country have confidence in the men to do them justice, and the men have respect for the women, which is a state of affairs the English suffra gette sentiment does not as yet seem lo have penetrated. Every old woman has her assortment of "signs" to tell whether the wed ding day is "lucky," but a brave young woman can wrestle with adverse omens and get the better of all. When an English girl arrived at the church in which she was to be married she found it on fire, with four engines deluging it. The firemen said she could not go in; yet in she went, by way of the vestry; and although tho flames were sweeping up from the other end and smoke and sparks were in the air, she held her parly stead fast. until the ceremony was conclud ed. The church was destroyed; but if this marriage falls it will not be be cause tho young matron lacks courage and determination. Warnings have been issued in Egypt to look out for it bigger flood in the Nile than has appeared for a quarter of a century. When this was written the water had not risen at Khartoum, but nearer the sources of the river the banks were swollen to overflowing. Pears aie entertained for the stability of the Assuan dam that was built to Impound the floods and preserve tho vvater for Irrigating the lower valley. # OBEDIENCE TO LAW WILL BE KEYNOTE OF THE NEW ADMINISTRATION. Judge Taft, with Gov. Hughes of New York, Went Before the Country on Their Records, and Are Pledged. The keynote of the now administra- ! tlon Is obedience 10 law. Judge Taft himself has sounded it. It was en- i thusiastically received. Addressing a | body of business men, the victor in the recent contest spoke for prosperity j under the law, and his hearers rose to him with approval. The country will ; follow suit. In that sign we shall con- j quer. If anybody asks. Why have empha sized so plain a point? let him recall the disclosures of the last few years in the business world. In many quar ters not only was law being violated, but practices prevailed which In good reason called for prohibition. Men, alone or in combination, with cunning and large resources were a law unto themselves. They had adopted the Vanderbilt motto, and were swimming in privilege and gain. "The public be d—d!" Trusts were in their glory. Railroads were building or breaking down towns, fixing their own prices 011 commodities and making and unmak ing public servants. In New York state the very dregs of the population—the race track gam blers —observing what was going on at the top impudently copied it. They set up for a law unto themselves. Rac ing should goon according to their chart, and interests. What, had Gov. Hughes to do with it? Let him be ware. If he made any more noise he would be pulled down at the polls and a man putin office who would keep his place. When the great body of the people got a square look at the situation they wondered. For a moment it seemed Incredible that such outlawry should for so long a time have gone practi cally unchallenged. Then as the won der grew indignation grew, so that when President Roosevelt, moving first, and Gov. Hughes, coming into of fice later, took tip the gage of battle, sentiment for the law took immediate form. Congress had all necessary pop ular support in its enactments to "shackle the cunning" of the big law breakers, while the legislature at Al bany had the support necessary to show the gamblers their limit. Judge Taft and Gov. Hughes went before the country on their records and the records of their party, and both were superbly indorsed. No more impressive majorities have ever been achieved than stand to the credit of those two men. The one goes into the White House, and the other remains at Albany, Instructed by the people to execute all the law now 011 the books and ask of the lawmaking authorities such additional statutes as may be necessary to conserve and strengthen all public interests. Judge Taft, speaking first, pledges himself to obey Instructions. Gov. Hushes, in turn, will do likewise. They will continue what both have done much to help inaugurate—"the reign of law." All activities within the law are encouraged togo full speed ahead. All without the law, and defiant of the law, are warned to ring their backing bolls and withdraw from the course. A word to the unwise, spoken by such men, should be sufficient. There may be murmurs. Lawbreak ers have no good opinion either of the law or officials who execute the law, but such influences are not to-day po tent In our affairs. Tnft's Southern Trip Profitable. The vote in those southern states In which voting still means something indicates that Mr. Taft's courteous at titude was not lost on the southern public. In Virginia, an additional seat in the house of representatives has, apparently, been won by the Re publicans. North Carolina lias sent three Republican representatives to Washington and the Democratic ma jority in the state has been decreased. The city of Richmond has seen, for the first time in years, a Republican campaign conducted by the most re spectable and substantial element in the community. In Georgia, free speech and a free division of opinion have been countenanced, and both the Watson ticket and the Republican ticket have received generous sup port. The old Bourbon intolerance has given way to liberality and mod eration, and the south is beginning to awake to the fact that its own politi cal .and material development has been retarded by the failure to en courage its people to think and act for themselves. Will Not Stand for "Bryanism." One demonstration of the campaign just ended is this, namely: That De mocracy can not win before the Amer ican people in its present alliance with that system of political notions and purposes which, for want of a more definite name, the country has come to call Bryanism. Before De mocracy can come again into power it must find a new and better creed, based upon principles, and competent by its powers of appeal to command the respect of the country. The Amer ican people will not turn over the re sponsibilities of government to a party of shifting ideas and policies, lacking the assurance afforded by fixed principles and habits, and whose suc cess would be nothing less than a menace to the business prospects o! the country. "How did it happen?" auks Mr. 1 Bryan. For that matter, how does It , always I ippen? CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY DECEMBER xo, 1908. SEES DANGER AHEAD FOR TAFT. Democratic Newspaper Stand* in Fear of "Reactionaries." The New York Coat sees danger ahead for Mr. Taft, and the danger must Indeed be a very small one to escape the eagle and prophetic evp of the Host. Mr. Taft has carried a gtsid deal of driftwood along with him to victory. Cannon and Dal/ell, I'avne suid Gardner are liable to think that his triumph is one for reaction in general, and that they have carte blatic he to break all party pledges and to eat, drink and be merry. Hut the Post will throw upon these delin quents the cold shadow of Its watchful disapproval: "Nothing is more certain than that President-elect Taft will have his ears filled with the cry that the tariff must not be touched. If prosperity rapidly returns, it will bo said that any at tempt at tariff revision will throw everything into uncertainty again. If, on the other hand, recovery lags, it will be alleged that ihe country is waiting tiil the terrible portent of tariff reduction is out of its path. Judge Taft will need all his firmness and every particle of his courage to keep his word on this subject, and to insist that his party also stand to its pledged faith. The question of stanch ness and consistency in this matter of the solemn promises of the Republican party to reduce the tariff immediately after the 4th of March, will be the very article of a standing or falling presidency. This Mr. Taft must well know; but he may not yet be aware of the combined and formidable efforts that will be put forth in order to make him swear." A Decisive Victory. If Rrvan had boon defeated by a few electoral votes the result would have been a public calamity, because dema gogy would have raised the instant cry that the will of the people had been defeated by fraud or purchase. If Taft had just "scraped through" the electoral college and if at Ihe same time Bryan had received a slight plu rality of the popular vote, the result would have been almost disastrous, because all the shrieking brotherhood of whirling dervishes, all the Social ists and enemies of the courts would have begun an Immediate agitation against the domination of plutocracy and the "buying of elections." The actual vote —its magnitude, its broad sweep—representing every sort of sociological and political school, in all sorts of states —the definitive, en thusiastic pronouncement for Taft and against Bryan in agricultural states, in manufacturing states, in business communities, and in the realms of labor, disarms the dema gogue, makes the victory satisfying and decisive and convinces one and all that tho people by the exercise of their reason and deliberate judgment repudiated Bryan and all his follies and isms.—-Philadelphia Ledger. Seas End of Bryanism. The New York Times sees nothing for Bryan but annihilation, and"the crushing defeat of ambition evokes not one spark of pity." The peopl have pinned their faith to a states man proved to be "capable, just, firm, fair, courageous and wise:" "Under the conditions of a popular ballot this decision is the record of some 7,000,000 individual judgments. Men vote alone, they do not think alone. The majority millions who elected Mr. Taft president of the United States were moved by a just sense, common to them all, of the public weal, by a common desire, a common purpose to put into safe and competent hands the executive con trol of the nation's affairs. Their judg ment was unerring, their decision was given with an emphasis that reflects the soundness of their understanding, and the firm convictions of their minds. In a sense It is astonishing, but we expect the American people, when their enlightenment is appealed to, to behave in just that way. No finer triumph of republican institu tions and of the republican theory of government was ever recorded." Mr. Taft and the Catholics. Mr. Taft's letter, dated October 0, to Rev. Magnus I.arson, a preacher of St. Paul, Minn., is straightforward, sensible and satisfying. It would have made a serviceable campaign docu ment, so clearly and sanely does ir meet the issue raised by the clerical inquirer, but it is well to avoid on principle all religious dispute on tho eve of an election. Mr. Taft effective ly sets at rest the silly rumors that a huge sum of money was paid out of the United States treasury to the Spanish friars in the Philippines, and that he ever made a special plea for the Roman Catholic church in the Phil ippines. His statement of the United Slates government's relations with the Catholics in our far eastern de pendency is coherent and valuable on its own account as a lucidly written chapter of recent history. Of course, no Intge proportion of the American people were ever affected by the doubts Mr. Larson expressed in his letter. The votes show that, re ! liglous bias has no influence in the election. A Charleston (S. C.I paper remarks that "Republicanism, as represented by Judge Taft. is stronger and more vigorous in the southern states to-da) 'han it has been since the Republican party was founded." The gain in this respect is likely to lie one of the |m ! portant political developments of the i next four years. Many of tin- Democratic newspaperf which would like to consider Mr Bryan politically dead are showing in undue fussiness about the d'. ialif and date of the funeral. OHIO SUPREME COURT DECISIONS SEVERAL OF SPECIAL INTERE3T HANDED DOWN AT COLUMBUS. TESTIMONY OF WIFE IS N. G. Can't Convict on It in Criminal Action —Union Label, Personal Injury and Other Cases. Decided. Columbus, O. —An important de cision was handed down by the su preme court Tuesday which materially weakens the law against the failure to provide for minor children. The ease, styled the state of Ohio vs. Arthur Orth, was brought up by the prosecu tor of Hancock county on exceptions, which exceptions the supreme court overrules. Orth was tried on a charge of failure to provide and his at torneys held that he could not be con victed on testimony of his wife. The court, holds likewise, on the old ruling of the use of the testimony of a wife or husband against a life partner in a criminal case. Charles C. Myer and Louis Wenzel started a saloon in Cleveland and bought their fixtures from the Cleve land Store Fixture Co. George F. Gunn, president of the Gunn Brewing Co., became surety for them on condi tion that the fixtures should bear the union label, this being an extra agree ment and not a part of the contract. When the fixtures were delivered, only part of them bore the union label. Gunn refused to pay the bill. The fix ture company then agreed to saw out a part of the bar and have a new part putin by union labor which should bear the label. Gunn would not agree to this and suit was entered. Gunn lost in the lower courts and the su preme court has affirmed the de cision. A Cleveland case decided Tuesday was the C. C. C. & St. L. railroad vs. Frank Curran, a minor. The boy, 12 years old. was at the Cleveland stock yards to see about a carload of poultry when a loose door on a passing train struck and injured him. The common pleas court reverses the circuit court and affirms the decision of the com mon pleas court, so the boy gets noth ing. Charles A. Turner likewise loses his personal damage case against the Pope Motor Car Co. and the Baker Mo tor Vehicle Co. He was attending a race at Cleveland between cars owned by these companies anil was injured. The law that the tracks of an inter urban company may not cross the tracks of a steam road at grade, unless it is absolutely necessary that it do so in order to reach its objective point, may not be evaded by selection of a point of crossing by the junior com pany where separation of the grade is impossible, according to a decision of the supreme court Tuesday in a case which railroad men all over the state have been watching with interest. The suit is styled "In the matter of the application of the Toledo, Findlay & Fostoria Railway Co., to ascertain and define the mode of crossing the tracks of the Pennsylvania company." The common pleas court held for a crossing at grade. The circuit court reversed the common pleas court and the su preme court upholds the latter. The case is reported. Another grade cross ing case decided was that of the To ledo Railway & Terminal Co. anil Jud son Harmon, receiver of the Toledo Railway & Terminal Co., vs. the Lima & Toledo Traction Co. The terminal company loses its case and the trac tion company gets the crossing. The case of the Union Savings Bank and Trust Co. of Cincinnati, executor, plaintiff in error, vs. the Western Un ion Telegraph Co., defendant in error, in which the important question as to the right of a trust company to act as executor was brought up by the tele graph company, was disposed of Tues day without a decision as to the main point, at issue. The court holds that the telegraph company cannot proper ly bring up the question in the suit being tried. The suit grows out of a minor case. Adolphus H. Smith of Clark county got damages against the Western Union because it killed some shade trees, but he never collected. The trust company was appointed ex ecutor of his estate and revived the judgment and sought to collect. The Western, Union brought up the ques tion as to the trust company's right to act as executor, and the court decided against the trust company. The case was brought up again for a rehearing, the former judgment vacated, the cir cuit court reversed and the common pleas court affirmed. The court holds that if tlie right of the trust company to act as executor is to be attacked it must be attacked directly, and not collaterally, as is done in this instance. Chief Justice Price dissents. The case Is reported. 1,000 Men Resume Work. Chicago, 111. —After an idleness of 13 months, the old open hearth de partment of the Illinois Steel Co. plant at South Chicago was reopened Tuesday and 1,00(1 men resumed work. Preparations are making to open five other blast furnaces. Martial Law Because of Race Riots. Prague, Bohemia The rat" riots between the Czechs and Germans are as anting the gravest char letej and probably will eompel dec laration ol martial law. I WOMAN SUFFRAGE DISCUSSED A SOMEWHAT STORMY MEETING IN NEW YORK CITY. Men and Women of Worldwide Prom inence Argue the Topic of Bal lot for Women. New York City.—Now York was a storm center Friday of argument for and against woman suffrage and in the very vortex of the whirling winds there remained suspended, aw it were, a letter on the subject from the presi dent of the United States. The storm centered in the meeting of the Na tional League for the Civic Education of Women, in the Berkley theatre, where the subject of universal suffrage for women was considered. The organization is opposed to woman suffrage. Dr. Lyman Abbott was the principal speaker and it was he that presented a letter from President Roosevelt. The letter was interpreted in various ways by the auditors and Dr. Abbott was often interrupted by applause and by shouts of disapproval. A climax came when a score or more suffragists united in denuncia tion of the attitude of conservatism which the president had taken in his letter. The shouts of the suffragist leaders became so troublesome that a few policemen were asked to seek out the offenders. They were threatened with ejectment and finally the dis turbance was quieted. At the conclusion of the lecture, however, the suffragists withdrew to the sidewalk, where an indignation meeting was held. Mrs. Borman Wells, who said she had just come from England after spending three weeks in Holloway jail for trying to break into the house of commons, was one of the leaders of the outside meet ing. At the meeting proper the theatre was well filled. Richard Watson Gil der presided and said that the mem bers of the society did not believe that women should be burdened with poli tics. President Butler of Columbia university spoke in sympathy with the league's work and read a letter from Secretary of State Elihu Root. Friday night at Carnegie hall the woman suffragists had their turn in a meeting under the auspices of the In ternational Woman Suffrage council. Mrs. Philip Snowden, leader of the suffragist movement in England; Mrs. Clarence Mackay and Dr. Charles F. Aked of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church spoke. TRADE QUITE SATISFACTORY R. G. Dun & Cc.'s Weekly Review of Trade—Cold Weather Helps Some —Steel Industry Almost Normal New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co."s Weekly Review of Trade says: Colder weather brought a better re tail demand for seasonable merchan dise, and holiday trade made good progress, but assortments are not wholly satisfactory because of the con servatism of many dealers who failed to secure adequate stocks. Indus trial activity is maintained, except where it is customary to limit opera tions for inventories at this season. Shpe factories receive much forward business, wholesalers anticipating higher prices in keeping with the per sistent upward tendency of hides and leather. Recent advances in pig iron are held, although there is less pres sure to provide for the needs of 1909, while the steel industry is almost normal except for big railroad con tracts that are still deferred. Com mercial payments are gradually im proving. Inadequate water supply re tards work at woolen and pulp mills in New England, coke ovens at Con nellsville and various other industrial plants, while lake navigation is about closed for the season. Dry goods market conditions are more quiet, although there is no evi dence of weakness. In some Hues there is the usual lull that appears in December, while in other departments the position of the raw material is a disturbing factor. There is a steady demand for cotton goods from buyers who have refused to operate beyond immediate needs. Improvement con tinues in the demand for woolens, al though orders are unevenly dis tributed. Sterner Soo City Believed Lost. St. Johns, N. F. —Wreckage which has come ashore at Cape Ray leaves little room for doubt that the sturdy little steamer Soo City, which for 20 years plied as an excursion vessel on the Great Lakes, went down with her crew in the midst of the gale that lashed the Newfoundland coast for two days this week. The steamer was in command of Capt. John G. Dil lon of Brooklyn, who was formerly commander of the United States gov ernment transport Missouri. A wife and three small children awaited his return home. The exact number of the crew is in doubt. It Is known, however, that no less than 18 men were on board and it lias been re ported that the crew was recently in creased to 28 men. Pine Bluff Being Washed Away. Pine Bluff, Ark. —Seven frame dwell ings and a two-story business build ing were the toll exacted on Friday by the encroaching waters of the swollen Arkansas river. The river !s slowly rising and the water is gradually undermining another dyke further east. , Gen. Simon on the Job. Port nil Prince, Haiti. -Gen. Simon, president to be. Is at the gates of i'ort au Prince at the head of his 0.000 men. SOPHIA WTTLESEN^S^^gg HEALTH VERY POOR RESTORED BY PE-Rll-\A«. Catarrh Twenty-five Years- Had a Bad Cough, Miss Sophia Kittlesen, Evanston, 111., writes: "I have been troubled with catarrh for nearly twenty-five years and have tried many cures for it, but obtained very little help. "Then my brother advised me to try Peruna, and I did. "My health was very poor nt the time I began taking Peruna. My throat was very sore and I hail a bad cough. "Peruna has cured me. The chronic catarrh Is gone and my health Is very much Improved. "1 recommend Peruna to all my friends who are troubled as I was." PERUNA TABLFTSSome people pre fer tablets, rather than medicine in a tluid form. Such people can obtain Peru na tablets, which represent the medici nal ingredients of Peruna. Each tablet equals one average dose of Peruna. Man-a-lin the Ideal Laxative. Ask your Druggist for a Free Perunt Almanac tor 1909. If You WorK Outdoors Any cold you contract should be cured without delay, and driven entirely out of the sys tem —unless you wish to in vite an attack of Pleurisy or Pneumonia. Dr. D.Jayne's Expectorant is known as the most success ful preparationeverdiscovered for Colds, Coughs, Bronchitis, Inflammation of the Lungs or Chest, Pleurisy, Asthma and diseases of similar nature. This famous remedy has been dispensed for over 78 years, and is sold by all druggists, in three sizo bottles, SI.OO, 50c and 25c. Dr. D. Jayne's Tonic Vermi fuge is a splendid building-up Sonic for «ystemß weakened by Cougho or Colds. W. I*. Donelas mftkAs sellf tticre ( men's 53.00 Rn<l S3.SO bho«»s than any other manufacturer in the world, bo cku4o they hold their fcliapp, fit Iwtter, and wear longer than any other make. shoe« at All P. fees, fcr Every Member of the Fami'y. (fen, Er/s, WDmen, !Kii:es& Children W L Donglxr $4 00&n4 fC.Ov GtitCdr* cannot bo equalled i\ any price. W L Doa-lia $2.bV and %'l ")0 cUo*t rir« the beet in tl.e world rant f'olor I a+rt, jljrclurtivrli/. ajy'l'Mke N o *uhsi!tn;r. W. J,. l>uUKlr\H nam* nnd pri»*e Is atomped on bottom. Sold blioes mailed from factory to ajiy part ot t i.»* world. Oitt u free. W. 1.. DUKiI.AS. 157 >park St.. Brockton. Mens. Choice Mistletoe Beautiful foliage and berries, ideal for HOLIDAY SOUVENIR. Sent postape paid in 25 and 50 cent car tons, address, W.T. CI.EMONS, P. 0. Bo* 115, Ft. Smith, Ark nfITPMTC I W «mn li.rolrma^Wiffi rQ < n« 6 n.iii. I CWi Q &«!« U t.l itfurt'iiui'B. rtwuiU IB tJ.e in lim*. Sold t>y ilrnrgist*.
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