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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
TOO MUCH FREE TRADE.
The Protective Policy of the United
States Placing Us Ahead of
England in Commerce.

dispatch to the New York Evening
markable change that has recently
come about in the relative positions
commercially of Great Britain and the
United States. 1t says English jour
nails accept with notable equanimity
the disclosure that Great Britain has
lost her preeminence among the ma
tions in export trade, and adds:
"rhe United States Is given first place by
last years figures, Great Britain the sec
ond and Germany the third. Moreover, the
percentage of increase for the past five
years is: United States, AZ; Great Britain,
%, and Germany, %. There will be many
homilies on these figures when England
wakes up to their significance. Meanwhile
some stir has been created in commercial
circles in the north by the remarks in
which the. president of the Glasgow
chamber of commerce INDUCED in recent
address in disparagement of free trade He
especially instanced Americas prosperity
to point which staggered credulity un-
der the most drastic protection, and de-
clared that England one day would realize
that it was no part of its duty to keep open
door throughout all sections of the globe
ciprocating foreigners. This speech and
the expectations of some leading Manches-
ter men of commerce as to the nature of
the financial proposals to be laid before
parliament at the coming session are lead
ing free traders to furbish up their weap-
ons in behalf of free trade
1t is somewhat surprising that so
ardent supporter of free trade as the
Evening Post would publish a state
ment of that character. 1t has been so
persistently asserted by newspapers
of the Post order that Englands COM
merc;al greatness was due wholly to
free trade, and that the United States,
hampered by protection, could not
hope to secure large export business.
that great many persons have been
inclined to believe it.
Facts, however, are unanswerable
things. And the fact that the United
States, with its strongly protective
tariff, has surpassed free trade Eng
land in exports is a hard one for the
free trade theorists to get over. 1t is
quite satisfactory to protectionists,
however, and wholly in line with their
teachings from the trSt-that the ade
quate protection of home industries
would lead to such development and
perfection as to enable us to success
fully compete with other producers in
the markets of the world.
Every official report showing the
commerce of the world is additional
proof of the soundness of the portec
tion argument. There arc ample signs
that England is perceiving its force
and growing n little tired of free trade.
Troy Times.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07

According to the Washington cor
respondent of the Chicago Record,
Society Cir, one of the recent
brides has been
guilty of some
sharp practice at Uncle Sans ex-
pense: Some weeks ago a great fuss
was made because the inspectors of
the New York custom house held up
for appraisement several trunks
filled with fine wearing apparel
brought brand-new from Paris by
young women of prominent connec-
tion in Washington society. Secre-
tary Gage, when appealed to, gave an
order for the release of the luggage
upon being assured that the owner
had suffered the destruction of all
her wearing apparel during the siege
of the legations in Peking, where she
was a member of Minister Conger's
household. A few days ago this
same young woman was married at
Epiphany church with great cere-
mony, and her bridal gowns and elab-
crate trousseau are described in the
newspapers as having been recently
obtained in Paris, where she stopped
for that purpose on her way home
from Peking. 1t turns out, too, that
she was not a member of Minister
Conger's household, but was guest
of Mrs. Squiers. She smuggled her
wedding outfit through the custom
house without the payment of duty,
even if there was good deal of mis-
representation on the way. The
young woman is a grandniece of a
former justice of the supreme court,
and the man she married is grand
son of member of the United States
senate"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
COMMENT AND OPINION.

UThe critical moment for demo
cratic convention will come when Bry.
an knocks at the door and asks for
hearing. The old yell, equally wild
and senseless. is merely suspended
ST. Louis Globe-Democrat.
USome democrats are inclined to
take the talk about the reorganiza tion
of their party as joke 1t may seem
funny to them, but they can never
win a national election so long as the
Bryanites are in control of the party.
Cleveland Leader.
UyAnd the squeaky little "anti-im-
perialists" still defame the memory of
Lincoln by protesting that if he were
living he world offer other terms than
unconditional surrender to enemies
who were in arms against the fag!-
\. Y. Mail and Express.
pTMr. Bryan's paper is disappoint-
ment to many of his admirers. His
"cross of gold" inspiration was rhe-
torical triumph. But one metaphor
cannot make a literary genius any
more than one swallow can make a
summer.-Washingt Star.
efficiently, Mark Twain took occa-
sion to criticize President McKinley's
Philippine policy, thereby placing him
self in the ranks of those who have
made a naturally difficult task still
more difficult and arduous for the ad-
istration.-Albany Journal.
UFree traders throughout the
country have been rejoioin that 'the
ship subsidy bill has been sidetracked ;"
Their congratulations are premature.
They should know from experience
that the republican party keeps its
platform promises.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
EsTThere is abundarI time for the
"Bryan-in-1904' deal fc be declared
ION" and off many tintes, and thus
bring about somewhat feverish fuc-
tuations in the stock Of the national
democracy. Just now IL has been de-
clared both ways at once. and the con-
trary declarations neutralize each
other.-Albany Journal.
ETMr. McKinley's reelection has al
ready. in truth, inaugurated another
era of good feeling, which neither pitt
full treason. nor puny prophecy, nor
dismal defamation can Danish or alb
breviate. The American people can
not be deferred by brawling brood
of factionsts and disru ;ltionists from
pursuing their course o, peaceful tri-
umph and prosperous development.-
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
APPRENTICE AND MASTER.
Apprenticesbps Were an Important
Institution In France During Four
teenIh Century.


Apprenticeship was an important
institution of France in the thir-
teenth and fourteenth centuries. and
was regulated with the utmost care,
as will be seen by the following ac-
count of IAN Idler in Old France:"
By the rules of the book the master
was held responsible for his appren-
tice; and under wise and kindly
roof, the lad who was learning to be
a master workman and a ruler in his
little world might lead a happy and
profita bic life.
Often he did so, and when the day
came that he might claim his free
dom he chose to remain the paid
servant, friend and fellow worker of
the master who had sheltered him
from boyhood and taught him all
his craft, rather than to seek a for
tune less assured elsewhere.
During the years of his apprentice
ship the patron, or master, was to
feed, clothe and shelter him, in the
homely wording of the clockmaker'
rule, to cherish him "beneath his
roof, at his board, and by his
hearth" Nay, it was strictly enioin-
ed upon the master to treat his APP
prentice "as his own son." and in
some trades he was bidden to remem-
Der that his responsibility did not
end on the threshold of the work
shop, that the soul and morals of
the little stranger had claims on his
solicitude.
In day when the streets of Paris
were more or less dangerous after
dark for everybody, the master was
instructed to be careful on what
errand he dispatched the youngster;
and the pastry-cook, whose apprent-
ices were often sent to cry cakes and
creams upon the public ways, were
continually warned to prevent the
lads from falling among evil COM
pany.
1t seems certain that, as far as the
Middle Ages are concerned, the rules,
precepts and admonitions were not
only framed with good sense and
care, but were very rigidly enforced
upon all masters who had youths and
lads in their employ.
High and low in the society of that
day the rod and birch were flourish
ed with small discrimination and less
nicety; and if the tutors of little
princes had leave TO whip them
freely, apprentices could not expect
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
THE CANDIDATE IN 1904.
who the Democrats VIII Nominate
I'm the Next Presidential
Campaign.

Sle announcement from within the
democratic national committee that
another nomination for Mr. Bryan is
impossible" and that there is IAN
abiding faith in the possibilities of Mr..
Olney" would be important if we were
in the beginning Of 1904; but in Feb
ruary, 1901, it is an idle prediction, eX-
cept that it is injudicious according to
all political precedents.
The pushing forward of specific
candidate prematurely has been re-
garded hitherto as a sinister device,
and more especially does it have that
appearance when, as in this case, the
celebration of Mr.. Olney is accom-
panied with a reference to Mr.. Hill as
a 'cheap politician" who is playing
for the nomination" hopelessly as
against the wise and careful Olney."
For his part, Mr.. Hill has made no such
mistake, but has caused it to be an
nounced at this stage that he is not a
candidate for the nomination and has
only disinterested solcitude for his
party's welfare. Neither has he put
himself in an attitude of criticism of
any candidate suggested, whether Mr..
Bryan or another. He may be cheap
politician" but he is better versed in
the game of politics than is Mr.. Olney,
if the gentleman from Massachusetts
is at all privy to such an announce
ment of his candidacy.
Moreover, this pitting of Olney
against Hill, with the bitterness of
feeling which the manner of it is sure
to provoke, may conduce to the benefit
of Bryan rather than diminish his
chances of getting the nomination. In
stead of king his candidacy 'impos-
sible,' such talk is likely rather to tend
to his advantage by dividing the oppo-
sition to him.
That the contemptuous estimate of
the political value of Mr.. Hill put for
ward by Mr.. Olney's friends does not
represent the sentiment of his party
was indicated by the peculiar distinc-
tion accorded him by the last demo-
cratic national convention, and since
the election evidences that his candi-
dacy is looked on favorably in the
y
especially of recent weeks, when a
proposed visit by him to the south has
drawn from its newspapers most flat
tering expressions of regard and con-
fidence.
The launching of the candidacy of
Mr.. Olney or anybody else, moreover,
is waste of effort, because no signs
of the crystallization of a democratic
issue will appear before the session
of the next congress and the elections
for congress which will succeed it in
1902. The character of the issue made
will GO far and is likely to be decisive
in determining the character, if not
the individuality, of the candidate to
be nominated for the presidency two
years later. Prudence dictates, accord
ingly, that hackers of any particular
aSpirant should hold their man in re-
serve until the political situation is
thus clarified. If the democrats should
carry the next congress an issue would
be established in their victory which
would make pertinent the discussion
of candidate titto 1t to represent it;
but beforehand the sagacious politi-
clans among them are contenting
themselves with silent though heavy
thinliing-N. Y. Sun.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
ParaIIax of Sirius.

Sir David Gill, royal astronomer at
the Cape of Good Hope, has recently
announced the result of a new and
very accurate determination of the
parallax of Sirius, the brightest star,
now visible in the southeast early
every evening. It's light, travelling at
the rate of 186,330 miles per second,
requires more than eight and one
half years to reach the earth. If the
light of the star were to be extin-
guished now--this instant-it would
continue to shine on for eight and
half years more. Then, and not TIL
then, would it disappear.-Science.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
Difficulty Easy to Overcome.

But are you able to support q
wife," asked the old gentleman.
"Well," replied the youth, "you
know it is said that two can live al
most as cheaply as one in such cir
cumstances."
"Ye-es; I've heard that stated" ad-
mitted the old gentleman, doubtfully.
$50 it occurred to me-" went on the
youth, cheerfully, that you would
not begrudge the slight extra cost
that will be entailed as result of
this addition to your family. Chi
caOO Post.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
to eene off too lightly at masteys
Two Seats for One Man.

A fat patron of the drama in New
York found all of the chairs uncom-
fortably small. Accordingly he
agreed with the manager of his
favorite theater to engage two seats
for the Saturday matinee regularly.
This proposition was accepted and
the money has been regularly paid
ever since. One large chair was pro-
vided near the stage in place of two
seats of the regular size. AS the
lessee, as he might be called, is usu-
ally to be found in his seat at every
matinee, the arrangement has prov
ed rofitable.-Chicapo Record.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
In ROstOn.
ston l encountered a parrot

In Boston l encountered a parrot
one day.
''Polly wants a cracker!' l OBJ
served, thinking nothing.
Your language is extremely an
omalous!" replied the bird, severely.
"Polly is colonial, while cracker, in
the sense of biscuit, is distinctly post
beIlum. Moreover, | am not consci-
Gus of wanting a cracker. I wouldn't
mind a plate of pork-and, however,"
The fowls scholarly dignity was
what impressed me particularly.-De
troit Journal
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07

Sistersviie, w. Va, which is in a
rich oil and gas country. got it's name
from the fact that an apparently value
less tract of 1900 acres was given to
seven sisters, and consequently called
sisters farm" A little prospecting
showed the land to be immensely val
liable, and growing town of some
thousands of inhabitants now occupies
the farm.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07

Advertisements are published at the rate OF
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cents per square for each suDsequentinsertion
Rates by the year. or for six or three months,
are low and uniform, and will be furnished on
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Legal and Onicial Advertising per square,
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Local notices 10 cents per line for one inser-
gertion; cents per line for each subsequent
onSecutive insertion.
Obituary notices over Ave lines 10 cents per
line Simple announcements OF births, mar
riages and deaths will be inserted free.
Business cards, five lines or less s5 per year;
over Ave lines at the regular rates of adver-
tising.
No local inserted for less than rs cents per
isRue,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07

AS hard-luck story it would be diff
fcult to match that of Albert G. Wood
ruff, of Newark, who, while trying to
commit suicide by hanging himself in
the Essex county Jail lately, was pre-
cipitated to the stone floor by the
breaking Of the rope, thereby receiving
a fracture of the skull, from which he
expired before he could put in opera
ton any other method for killing him
self
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07

Mr.. Thompson, member of the
Connecticut Legislature, introduced
new word the other day in legislative
debate. 1t was in a horse story. A
neighbor of Mr.. Thompson's went to
buy fast horse. After having been
shown some with past records and
some with possible future records, the
man said: Il don't want "a has been
nor will-be; | want an is-er."
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
AGAINST THE BELL co.
A Circuit Court Judge Decides the Fa-
nous BerIiner Patent Case.

Boston, Feb. 2S.-Judge Brown, of
the United States circuit court, has
decided against the American Bell
Telephone Co. in the famous Berliner
patent case.
The suits were the Bell Co. against
the National Telephone Manufactur~
ing Co. and same against the Century
Telephone Co., brought to restrain
respondents from selling, using or
making telephones or telephone APP
paratus with the microphone attach
ment, and to account to the Bell Co.
for past use, manufacture and sales,
upon the ground that such use, man
ufacture or sale was an infringement
OF patent.
The cases were argued before
judge Brown year and half ago,
and as they related to the same pat
ent, the microphone, were put in to-
gether, and were tried as if they were
one case. The Berliner patent is
considered one of the most import
ant held by the Bell Co. and does not
expire until November II, 1908. The
patent is the same one that has been
before the courts in the United States
VS.. Bell Telephone Co. suit where it
was held that the patent was not in
valid on account of delay at the pat
ent office. The whole case turns
upon the validity of this patent.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07

BY all accounts the women in To-
peka, Kan, are gambling at a fearful
rate. 1t is said that a young woman
Of that city started out the other day
to buy her wedding trousseau, having
several hundred dollars. Instead of
going on a shopping tour she called
at the house of married friend and
there found a poker game in progress.
She was broke" and in debt in a couple
OF hours.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
wrecked by It's Former Secretary.

Chestertown, Md, Feb. 2S.-The
Chestertown Building and Loan asso-
citation has gone into the hands of re-
bilities of $4,000, as the result of
the misrepresentation of the funds by
it's former secretary, Harry Hickey.
Hickey was cashier of the Chester
town national bank. For more than
two years he made no report. The
directors on February 13 told him
they must have it the next day. That
night Hickey took dose of carbolic
acid and died. His accounts with
the bank were straight.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
JOB PRINTING.

The Job department of the PRESS is complete
and affords facilities for doing the best class OF
work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAIDTo LAW
PRINTING.
No paper will be discontinued until arrear-
ages are paid. except at the option OF the pub
Usher
Papers sent out Of the county must be paid
for in advance.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.
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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07

From London exchange we learn
that Queen Victoria was personally
Insured for over $5,OOO0OO, and many
outsiders carried insurance upon her
life. Many actors, for instance, whose
business must be suspended for long
time after the death of the queen. will
now have their policies paid by the
various insurance concerns. The
queens death will probably entail the
largest insurance loss ever recorded.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
CHANGE OF LIFE.

"Iwas taken sick
five years ago with
The Grippe and
had a relapse and
was given up by
the doctor and my
friends. Change
of Life began to
work on me. l
flowed very badly
until a year ago,
then my stomach
and lungs got so
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
q Ez MRS ANNIE THOMPSON aEzz


"I cannot enough
has
and weak that could m
had falling
to
all
packages
e.
etabe Compound m
out it for anything always glad all for
will follow Pnkhams directions cured"
Gratefully South
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07

remarkable scene took place in
New York the other day. a crowded
cable car was rumbling along LeXing-
ton avenue, when suddenly a gentle
man who had just got in arose and
signaled the conductor to stop the
Ger, at the same time saying, in a
loud voice Some one in this car
has smallpox" There was frantic
scramble for the doors, and the of
fender was found to be n woman,
heavily yelled, occupying a corner seat,
who was on her way to the hospital.
The gentleman was physician, and
his knowledge of the disease enabled
him to uetect it by the peculiar odor
which always accompanies it.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07

bad, l suffered terribly; the blood
went up in my lungs and stomach, and
1 vomited it up. 1 could not eat
scarcely anything. 1 cannot tell what
1 suffered with my head My hus-
band got me bottle of Lydia E. Pink
ham'sVegetable Compound, and before
l had taken half of it l began to i'm
prove, and to-dayI am another woman.
Mrs. Pinkham's medicine has saved my
life. cannot praise it enough"
M. A. DENsoN, Millport, NY.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07

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The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-09-13

There is good deal of thought
less and senseless talk INDUCED in
with reference to the punishment
that should bs meted out to the
man who attempted to assassinate
President Mckinley. The propo-
sition to cut and burn the life out
of the villain is beneath the Dig
nifty of our great nation, and would
afford no compensation for the
loss of eur chief executive. The
remark Of the president that he
hoped the man would be treated
fairly is ilnminently in keeping
with the civilization of the age.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-09-13

A standpipe erected near the
public artesian well would offer a
water supply in time of fire, and
the water would rise by natural
pressure to sufficient height to
reach the top of the tallest build.
ing in Vinita. Give us water and
hose and we will never have an
other destructive fire.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-09-13

"Just Before Dawn" an interesting
and realistic melodrama will be pre-
sented at the opera house Monday
eve next. The play deals with the
problem which is interesting the
masses in this country today, the
great labor question. "shall capital
dominate labor or will labor and capi-
tai work harmoniously together?"
One realizing the power and strength
OF the other. The piece is In the
hands Of the most capable company,
and every attention has been given
to all details.