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The Job department of the Phkss Is complete rfed affords facilities for doing the best class of wort. Partioui.au attention paidto law PWNTINO. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid ler In advance. Primitive Philosophy. Animism ia the name of a theory originally propounded by Stahl, about 1707. It asserts that the soul is the vital principle and only cause of life, and that the functions of plant and animal life depend upon this principle of vitality, and not mere mechanical and chemical action. As the word is now used, it denotes the general doc trine of spiritual beings. It is not itself a religion, but a sort of primi tive philosophy. Boosts and Knocks. How comes it that the evil which men say spreads so wildly and lasts fo long, whilst our good, kind words don't seom somehow to take root and bear blossom? Is it that in the stony hearts of mankind these pretty flow ers can't find a place to grow? Cer tain it is that scandal is good, brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neigh bor is by no means lively hearing.— W. M. Thackeray. Pain and Grief Common to All. It is not surprising that "accidents are always happening." Even kings and queens cannot live through calm and peaceful days. Toothache at tacks their royal nibbiers and gout brings pain to honored toes. Disap pointment, suffering, loss of money, anxiety are merely bitter ingredients in the formula of daily existence. This Must Mean New York. American men and women to-day hire their wives and husbands as they hire their houses and carriages. There fore if they are not suited they pro ceed to hire different ones! Hire, tire, and "fire" seems to be the motto for the modern home! Current Litera ture. Spectacles. The invention of spectacles is va riously attributed to Alessandro di Spina, who died at Pisa in 1313; to A 1 Hazen, the Arabian (eleventh cen tury), and to Roger Bacon (1214-92). It is quite safe to suppose that the invention was not earlier than the be ginning of the eleventh century. Causes of Quarrel Removed. "Is your husband thoroughly domes ticated by this time?" "Oh, yes. He never has any loose change in his pocket, and is careful not to leave any of his private letters lying around the house. We have little to quarrel about, now." —Cleveland Leader. A True Republic. The only country we can think of where republican traditions are prop erly followed out is the little state of Andorra, and there they have no poli ticians; everybody works.—London Saturday Review. A Non-Subscriber. A south Missouri editor refused to publish a death notice of a non-sub scriber. "People who don't take the home paper," he said, "never were alive, and their passing away has no news value."—Kansas City Star. Good Work by Workhouse Boy. Possibly the best interpreter of the Hibie is Kitto. His Scriptural lore was the admiration of all his contem poraries. He was reared in a work house. A Waste of Money. Hub—lleckless and extravagant— I? When did I ever make a useless purchase? Wife —Why, there's that fire extinguisher you bought a year aco; we've never used it once. In the Middle. ' The thief always suffers in the end. "Not always. My little boy stole some green apples the other day and that is not where he suffered."— Ilous ton Post. The Real Victim. After a man has been sick a week his wife looks worse than he does from taking care of him.—Atchison Globe. The Philosopher of Folly. "Rome give ficcording to their means." says the Philosopher of Folly, "and others according to how mean they are." The V/onders of Science. "Oh, mamma," said little Albert, who was having his first view of an aeroplane in action, "see the cattle j:en flying." SAMf OLD PERFORMANCE irW I , '""-"ATIC SIDE SHOW NO "PORK BARREL" PRESIDENT TAFT'S POSITION ON WATERWAYS PROJECT. Assurance That Wise Supervision of Large Sum Needed Will Be Exer cised Will Be a Source of Satisfaction. President Taft's speech at St. Louis gives assurance that his administra tion does not intend to tolerate either reckless enthusiasm or sectional fav oritism In the government's policy of waterways improvement. Each project, he declares, must be taken up strictly on its merits; wheth er the territory to be affected will Justify the expenditure, whether the improvement will be useful when done, whether it will be beneficial to the entire country. L'nder no considerations would he have the funds dedicated to any water ways enterprise merely because it would boom certain sections and boost certain congressmen back into office. In the political vernacular, there is going to be no "pork barrel" in the administration's program for improv ing our waterways. The president's declaration will tend to reassure those who have been stag gered by the project of placing a bond issue'of from sr>oo, ooo,ooo or $1,000,- 000,000 at the tender mercies of con gress for the purpose of improving our waterways. Only a strong hand and an informed head to oversee the appropriations ol these vast sums can hope to insure their wise and legitimate employment in the monumental task to which they would be dedicated. Neither the independent and enthu siastic expert, seeing all things in the light of an ideal, nor the conservative, time-serving politician, with vision re stricted by the present, is here a re liable guide. There is a sane, practi cal, middle ground that will seek to make a beginning on sound and broad economic foundations, and to outline a luture policy capable of gradual fulfillment without ever embarrassing the nation financially or interfering with its other needful projects. We hope that President Tnft will j prove the man who can act the har j monizing buffer between the various | elements who will come to logger j heads in the framing of the govern I ment's policy toward waterway im | provement. His plain speech at St. j Louis encourages our belief that the ! hope is well-grounded.— Milwaukee Free Press. Tillman and Taft Agree. Senator Tillman's refusal to pa." ! $lO for his dinner, even though he | ate it in the company of the president | of the United States, will awake a ! grateful echo, we imagine, in Mr. I Taft's own bosom. It is a fact calling for the attention of the professional i sociologist that the president should , have been most exposed to the hor rors of the $lO dinner among the tlior i oughbred Democracy of the far west and that his meals should have grown simpler, and incidentally more nu tritive, as he has made his way back to the effete and hyper-civilized At lantic border. Now, $lO a plate for a great state banquet does not strike one as too much, even for South Car olina, but to one haunted with an un broken vision of turtle soup and squab the Jeffersonian dollar dinner must seem the ideal thing. On this point Mr. Taft and Senator Tillman undoubtedly meet, and the breakup of the solid south is brought by so much nearer. In general it would be well if on future presidential trips local committees could rid themselves of the notion that the presence of the chief magistrate of the nation is in tended to show wlmt the best hotel in lown can do, or, on the other hand, that lie was intended by nature for trying out the iuum complex dishes that lo cal patrWftism '.j-.a evolve. —New York Evening Post. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER ,8, , W . MAINTAIN INTEGRITY OF LAW Incalculable Harm Will Be Done if Confidence in Pure Food Meas ure Is Disturbed. A singular, and, if It were to be cred ited, decidedly disturbing assertion is made by a Washington correspondent with reference to the impending tariff war with France. It is that if the French government should apply Its maximum tariff rates to our goods this government might among other meas ures "retaliate by subjecting French wines and spirits to a rigorous test under the pure food law." The statement is unauthorized and it is hoped will remain so. There could be nothing more likely to de stroy confidence in the integrity of the enforcement of the pure food law than the currency of such a report as this. Indeed, if the statement were made upon recognized authority it would make confidence impossible in the ad ministration of that law Plainly under the law if French wines are adulterated they must be condemned; while if they are pure they must be approved. To suppose that inspection can be used to affect the tariff war implies one of two things. Either it means that if the French government will abstain from its obnoxious measures the United States inspectors will be instructed to admit adulterated goods as genuine; or, if the French government persists, our government will have pure goods condemned as impure. Either course would be destructive of the integrity of the law, and we believe that either imputation is grossly unjust. The pure food law was enacted to protect the people of the United States from adulterations. If it is not en forced strictly on its merits it is a fraud and imposition. It cannot be honestly mixed up with an interna tional dispute over tariff rates. We reject the idea that any attempt will be made so. Comptroller Murray and Bank Loans. National banks are restricted in the size of the loans they may make to any one person. Up to a few years ago the restriction was very great— too great, indeed, to be practicable or desirable. Now, however, the law is liberal, since it permits loans to the amount of ten per cent, of the com bined capital and surplus of the bank, with the provision, however, that none shall exceed 30 per cent, of the capi tal. Comptroller of the Currency Murray has just announced that he is about to devote especial attention to enforcing this provision. It is said that not many years ago 60 per cent, of the banks violated it, but that at present the percentage lias been reduced to 15. The comptroller holds that there should be no violation at all. lie is handicapped, howr.ver, in his efforts at enforcement by the fact that the only penalty lie has it in his power to in dict i-; the revocation ol' an offending bank's charter. And where the excess loans in no way impair the bank's sol vency he hesitates to impose so radi cal a punishment. Nevertheless, lie has announced that just this punish ment he will be compelled to resort to before very long. The situation has one moral for con gress which is very plain. It is that t:.- statute s-houlni be so amended as to permit the comptroller to use pen alties on a graduated scale. A pro vision that banks would forfeit all in terest on excess loans might serve very well as a penalty for a first of fense. The President Feeling His Way. President Tuft's message to the six ty-second congress is complete. He has written it on the slopes of the Rockies, in the n'.kali dust of the inter-mountain states and an the blushing fruit lands of the Pacific slope. Little is lacking from tire doc ument save the executive's benedic tion to the lawmakers and a few rc-commc ndatiens handed him by mem bci's of his cabinet. Taken as a whole the trip just taken might well b». called a try-out of the message j TP I WEEK'S EVENTS! : : • Latest News of Interest • J Boiled Down for the • • Busy Man. 2 • • PERSONAL. Senator Aldrich in an address be fore the bankers of Des Moines de clared that if a central bank of the United States should ever come it must be the servant and not the mas ter of existing financial institutions. Commissioner Henry W. West of the District of Columbia has sent his resignation to the president. Mr. West was appointed seven years ago by President Roosevelt. He resigns to resume newspaper work in Washing ton. W. Cameron Forbes has assumed the office of governor general of the Philippines. The formal inauguration will take place November 24. James J. Corbett, a bricklayer and former Bostonian, who when last heard from was seeking employment at Pittsburg, Pa., is heir to $250,000, which will be turned over to him when he puts in an appearance at Boston. Charles P. Taft, brother of the president, has purchased a rare por trait, probably the finest of its kind in the world, in Limoges enamel, for which it is understood he paid SIOO,- 000. It Is a portrait of the duke of Nevers, by Limousin, a sixteenth cen tury artist. Franklin Taylor, who ran for mu nicipal judge in the New York elec tion and lost, filed an expense account of $832.23, accompanied by the re mark that "A fool and his money are soon parted." Mrs. Sarah T. Rorer, the well-known culinary expert, shocked the Mothers' club of New York by declaring that men were not fit to bring up their own sons. Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard has been elected president of the Lincoln Uni versity Endowment association, to suc ceed the late Gen. O. O. Howard. Dr. Charles W. Eliot, as president of the National Conservation associa tion, authorizes a statement on the danger of the monopolistic control of water power and coal lands, which is declared to be urgent. Rev. Harry E. Woodcock, who was ordained as a minister of the Congre gational church in 1848, celebrated his ninety-third birthday in Kansas City by preaching a sermon. Rear Admiral John Hubbard, naval aid to the assistant secretary of the navy, has been ordered to command the third squadron of the Pacific fleet, now stationed in the orient. He, will succeed Rear Admiral Giles D. Harbor. Secretary of War Dickinson, who has been at his home at Belle Meade, Tenn., in attendance upon his son, who has been seriously ill, and later with the president on his trip through the south, has returned to Washing ton. GENERAL NEWS. The national apple show opened in Spokane, Wash., with exhibits from commercial orchards in all parts of the northwest and a prize list of $25,000. The twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Southern Homeopathic Medical association was held in Hot Springs, Ark. The grand encampment of Illinois Odd Fellows began in Springfield. Advocates of an inland waterway from the Mississippi to the Apalachi cola and thence across the Florida penisula to the Atlantic met in con vention in Jacksonville, Fla. A Cairo (111.) mob lynched Will James (negro) the confessed slayer of Miss Anna Pelley, and Henry Salz ner, (white) a photographer accused of the murder of his wife. James confessed his crime implicating an other colored man named Arthur Alexander. The rope by which James was strung up broke and he was then shot to death. Later his body was burned on a p>re built by his slayers. Salzner was hanged afterwards and a search for Alexander instituted. Gov. Deneen ordered several companies of state militia to the scene. The American Federation of Labor in convention at Toronto, Out., has gone on record as favoring trade schools in connection with the public school system. (ieorge (J. Gilbert, who represented the Eighth Kentucky district in con gress from If>9B to !90(i, is dead at Louisville, Ky. Mrs. John Jacob Astor was granted an interlocutory decree of divorce by Justice Mills, sitting in the supreme court at New York city. Jury fixing charges brought by State's Attorney Wayinan, at Chicago, were practically nullified when 'the judges in the public hearing of the case refused to accept the confession of Nicholas J. Martin, secretary to Alderman .Michael J. Kenna, as evi dence. An immense crowd attended a meet ing at tlie Unitarian church In Sait Lake, called in honor of the late l'rof [•Vrrer. executed at Barcelona. A conference on the prevention of infant mortality opened at Yale uni versity under the auspices of the American Academy of Medicine. I Thomas I. ITall. aged 17. the son of" ■1 Louisville furniture dealer, entered i the .Merchants' National bank at New ' <in *» 'nd.. and in an attempt to '"III up i he institution shot and killed • H. l awoett, the cashier, and seri ously wounded President J. K. Wood to Ltai'i" ' ! " ei, >pting to escape young robber was '•a?/JP.!' a ". v injured a col side of the river latter failed chase and only escaped the ven&bful of a mob by a ruse on the part of the sheriff. Deputy United States Attorney Gen eral Stimson at New York is making preparations to push criminal pro ceedings against the sugar trust which, it is charged, has stolen $30,- 000,000 from the United States treas ury through underweighing importa tions in the last 20 years. The possibility that President Taft will include Great Britain and Canada in a proclamation directed at France in connection with tariff discrimina tion against the United States was discussed in the negotiations between Ambassador .lusserand of France and officials of the state department. That Mme. Steinheil, aided by some unknown accomplice, murdered her husband so as to obtain her freedom to wed the wealthy and infatuated Maurice Bordeler, but that the killing of her stepmother was unpremedi tated and merely incident to the tragedy, is the theory of the state as outlined by Trouard Riolle, the judge advocate, in opening the argument of the prosecution at Paris. A jury in the New Jersey supreme court returned a verdict for $3,500 in favor of Miss Jeannette Fried of New ark in her breach of promise suit against Charles Nissenson. Miss Fried claimed Nissenson jilted her after a promise of marriage. He testified that he lost his love for woman because she was too fond of drinking cocktails and other stimulants in pub lic places. Seven persons were injured, some probably fatally, in a wreck on the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad, five miles south of Henryetta, Okla. Two passenger coaches left the track and turned over. Arthur George, who shot ond killed his divorced wife at Brighton Beach, Seattle, Wash., on May 13, was con victed of murder in the first degree and will be sentenced to death. The case attracted attention because it was the first in which a new state law which limits the use of the insanity plea was applied. Four Chinamen who had been smug gled into the United States from Canada and billed to St. Louis as "merchandise" were taken from a freight car in the yards of the Wabash railroad at St. Louis. They told the police that they had been placed in the car in Montreal. Frank Pierce, assistant secretary of the interior, it is announced, has re fused to grant a right of way to the proposed Oklahoma Pipe Line Com pany, holding that the Prairie Oil and Gas Company, a Standard Oil branch, is already in Oklahoma and should handle Oklahoma oil. A young woman and a man are near death as the result of an auto mobile accident on Long Island and their identity is concealed. The num ber on the wrecked car is that of an automobile owned by Rodman Wana tr.nker. Mrs. Jeannette Ford-Stewart, ac cused by C. L. Warriner, the default ing Cincinnati treasurer of the Big Four Railroad Company, denies that she shared in his peculations by blackmailing him, and declares she will tell the whole story in court. She says her tale will disclose some sensational facts. President Taft, in a speech at Richmond, Va., outlined his annual message to congress and put reclam tion and irrigation first in importance, with anti-trust, interstate commerce and postal savings banks following. On the eve of final adjustment, the litigation between the American Sugar Refining Company and the Pennsyl vania Refining Company came to a sudden halt at New York when the United States circuit court granted a restraining order forbidding the com promise agreed upon by the two con cerns. A jury at Chicago acquitted Valen tine B. Caugh of the killing of John A. Sjosladt, who died following a blow struck by Caugh in defense of several girls. In their verdict the jurymen lauded Caugh for asserting, his manhood. President Taft arrived in Washing- j ton in splendid spirits from his 13,000- j mile journey through the west and j south with 2f>(> speeches to his credit. Solt pedals and other equipment j for the famous chimes of Trinity j church. New York, now being putin, j are intended to make the chimes play j 'with feeling." Robert Simpson died at Somervilie, N. J., while under the hypnotic influ ence of Prof. Arthur Everton of New- j ark. An autopsy showed Simpson i lied from aneurism. Everton was ar rested. George W. Foster, the contractor >vho buiit the great leek at Sault Ste. Marie, died in Cincinnati, aged 79. Dies for a five-cent piece bearing the head of George Washington, to take the place of the coin now in circula tion. have been prepared by engravers •it the mint in Philadelphia. If the government adopts this coin it will be the first to bear the head of the first president of the republic. The supreme court of the Cnited Slates has decided against the com- \ plainants in the case of 13,000 Choc ! law and Chickasaw Indians excluded j from the citizenship rolls by Secretary ; Hitchcock of the interior department j March 4. 1907. The Indians had asked ; or redress. BOY ROBS BANK TWICE SHOOTS ASSISTANT CASHIER AND TAKES ABOUT SI,OOO. Youthful Bandit Then Flees With the °°ty, but Wounds Himself When Posse Closes In On Him. October with h companio®. l "' Bullock, Dip hold up the cashier of robbed and robbed it again. He is probably fro in a self-inflicted wound, while Fred Starr, assistant cashier of the Kaw Valley State bank of Eudora, suffers from a Bullet wound inflicted by the bandit. Xo his first hold up of the Eudora State bank Bullock shot and killed a policeman. As officers had about decided that Bullock had left the state with the loot of the previous hold up, he and McKay entered the State bank about closing time. While the robbers were at work Starr entered the Eudora bank, which is the town's clearing house. In his hands were the day's clearings and the robbers turned on him and shot hiin through the jaw. Grabbing all the ready money in sight, about SI,OOO, the bandits then ran out through the back door of the bank. Harry Wilson, a son of Cashier Wil son, spread the alarm and citizens armed with shotguns, rifles and revol vers pursued the bandits across the fields. In attempting to swim the Kaw river the boys lost ground and a few minutes later the pursuers were at their heels. McKay then surrendered, but Bullock, wrenching the revolvers from his faltering partner's hands, sped on into a woods. John Miller, a farmer, who knew nothing about the pursuit, stepped in to Bulock's path and the boy, thinking him a pursuer, fired several shots that barely missed Miller. Seeing that the youth was ready to shoot at anyone, the pursuers fired a score of shots at Bullock, who returned the fire. Thus the chase continued for some time, none of the shots exchanged between the citizens and their quarry taking effect. The hunted robber gradually lost ground and with scant hope of es cape, he stopped and shouted defiance at Jhe fast approaching hunters. "I have only one bulet left, but I'll beat you yet," he shouted and fired his remaining bullet through his own head. McKay was later captured. STORMSAND FLOODS DAMAGE Believed that Many Lives Have Been Lost in the West Indies —Large Amount of Property Destroyed. Kingston, Jamaica, via Holland Bay. —From fragmentary reports that are arriving here from the countryside, the damage resulting from the storms and floods which have raged throughout the island since November 5 is enor mous. The greater portion of the rail way and the coaßt line on the north side of the island have been seriously damaged. Landslides are numerous on the main railroad, and communica tion has been completely cut off. Many bridges also have been carried away. No communication has been possi ble between this city and interior points since the 6th. There have been many deaths from the floods, it is be lieved, and many maritime disasters, though these cannot be definitely de scribed. Numerous sloops have been lost off the coast. The Norwegian steamer Amanda and the Bradford of the United Fruit Co. went ashore at Port Antonio and the Bradford is a total wreck. The bark Avalon before reported ashore at Woodstock point, went to pieces in the gale. She be longed to the Atlantic Fruit Co. The submarine cable of the Danish West Indies Co. has been broken. Property in and around Kingston has suffered severely, the damage sus tained thus far being estimated at $500,000. The banana plantations in the north and northeastern portions of the ilsand have been badly hit by the storm. GENERAL TRADE IS BUOYANT Open Weather Helps Outside Con struction Work, but Retards Open ing of Winter Wear Lines. New York City.—Bradstreets says: Continued mild weather is help ful to building and other outdoor con struction work and facilitates fall plowing and winter wheat growth, but at the same time is a source of con siderable complaint as to its effect on retail trade in heavy dry goods, cloth ing and heavy wearing apparel. In other wholesale lines, however, reports are still to a high degree fa vorable, holiday demand is especially active and spring business is being booked in good volume, except where, as in cotton goods, high prices and uncertainty as to future prices of raw material check selling operations. The general tone of affairs commercial is buoyant. In industry generally the re port is still one of well filled order hooks and of full time run. Iron and steel production is active. Power Sites Held Out. Washington, D. C. —Secretary Bal linger has issued an order for the conservation of the water power rights on 8,000 acres of land located in the states of Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Washington, Wyoming and New Mex ico. Noted Woman Doctor D:cs. New York City.—By the death here from heart disease of Dr. Har riette Keatinge, America Ins losr one of its most noted women phys! cians.
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