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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28
COMMENT AND OPINION.

ETGold has been found in Texas, Thine
destiny again interyenes to make Mr..
Bryan's political prospects less pleas
ing.-N. Y. World (Dem).
GyNow that William J. Bryan is back
in his native land no democratic dinner
VIII be democratic without his presence.
Detroit Free Press Dem.).
UJudge Parker is emphatic in his
expressed belief that the seat of democ-
racy is in the west. And Mr.. BRYAN
supplements it by thinking that he
knows the seat of the presidential candi-
date is also somewhere in that baili-
wick.-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
ex-senator Beverdge never speaks
without saying something worth re-
membering. In his speech at the recent
love feast he said: Unless a political
party serves the whole people it has no
reason for success or even for existence
Our pride as republicans is that our
party has done well for the nation: orr
guaranty of victory is the certainty that
we will continue to do well for the na-
tion. Never forget that the surest way
TO win is to deserve to win" That be-
longs to the class of utterances that will
do to paste in ones hat.-Indianapolis
Journal.
ETThe news of Mr.. Roosevelt's popu-
larity in Nebraska will hardly prove a
shock TO Mr.. Bryan. That state has moi
recently given him much chance to pose
as a favcrite son.-Washington Star.
DThe public debt increased S11,GlS..
$50 in December, and the cash in the
treasury now amounts to 81 ,4O5, ,G21 $50
against which there are demand liabili-
ties of 81 ,02G, ,247 ,0S6, leaving an actual
cash balance on hand of 1919, ,374 ,S95.
The treasury cash increased $40 0,137 Age
during December. Uncle Sam, thanks
to republican financiering, begins the
new year in first-class shape.-Troy
Times. .,..-....,,...-.,.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28
Bryanss Answer.

New Haven, Conn, Jan. 21.-The
answer of William j. Bryan to the ap-
peal from the probate court brought
by heirs of the late Philo S. Bennett,
was filed yesterday in the superior
court. In the answer Mr.. Bryan fig
ures both as executor of the Bennett
will and as trustee under the terms of
the will. In effect the answer de-
clares that the sealed letter referred
to in the will makes it the duty of
the executor to pay $4,000 to Mrs.
Bennett to be turned over to William
]. Bryan and that Section IL of the
will. mentioning the sealed letter, is
valid.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28
AN "ISSUE" FROM BRYAN
More Flnpdoodle Oratory from the
Great GIobe-TrOtter of
Nebraska.

AT banquet in New Haven, Conn.
which was declared to be a prelude to
the opening of the presidential cam
paign in New England" William Jen-
n1ngs Bryan gave an tissue" for the
coming national contest. He said:
The great issue at this time is the Issue
between man and mammon between pllI-
tocracy and democracy. All surface oues-
tlohs or taxation, regulation and of finance
are but phrases of that century-long. that
Worldwide struggle between the common
people and organized wealth"
AS piece of rhetoric and as an exbib-
1t OF political forensics this is lofty and
high sounding. 1t is Bryanesque, saws
the Chicago Record Herald. 1t is true
that the issue between man and MAN.
mon is ever with us and is more than a
"century-long." In his European trip
Mr.. Bryan must have noted abundant
evidences of the fact that this struggle
began way back, long before the birth
OF the western republic.
But does Mr.. Bryan seriously propose
to make an issue of this struggle. old
as the human race itself. in the coming
presidential contest? Does he intend to
ask the next national democratic con-
Vention to incorporate this issue. in the
language in which he has framed 1t, in
the national platform?
Political issues are not made I'm of
glowing generalities. Mr.. Bryan is an
eloquent gentleman. He has many ad
mirers outside the 100000 Americans
who voted for him in two presidential
contests. AS citizen and as a typical
American he commands respect. But
when 1t comes to outlining an tissue"
for the democracy in the coming presi-
dental campaign he will have to he
more specific, He will have to come
down from the lofty heights of post
prandial oratory to particulars If he
means that the great issue is the issue
between the people Hnd certain monopo-
lies that seek to cohtrol the agencies of
production and eXche1ge he will have
TO say so in lucid and explicit terms.
The issue as vaguely defined by Mr..
Bryan would be merely the issue OF
class against class-an issue that wouId
not be seriously considered by the
American people as political issue in q
campaipn.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28
Trolley Car Ran AWAY.

Pittsburg. Jan. 21.-Of the 80 pas
sengers aboard a trolley car which
ran away in Rankin last night. five
were seriously hurt and ten others
badly bruised and shocked. The car
while descending the steep grade on
Hawkins avenue got beyond control,
by reason of icy tracks. After run
ming about 30 yards IL jumped the
curve and plunged over a 2O-foot EN-
bankment, turned completely over
and lodged in Il snow bank Just on
the brink of n hill.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28

During the past few years many of
the old abandoned farms of New Eng
land have been taken up by city farm
ers" and made into splendid country
homes. While some Of the purchasers
were not practical farmers, they had
the capital to convert them into pleas
ant summer residences. They have en-
gagged practical men to rejuvenate these
old worn-out hills, and under modern
methods the land is being brought into
a profitable state of cultivation. Live
stock will do it quicker than anything
else, and though the land does not ad-
NIT of extensive grazing, in a small
way raising stock in the east can be
made satisfactory business.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28

Schenectady, n. Y, Jan. 21.-PIans
to equal and possibly beat the speed
of l2O milcsan hour made at Prossen.
Germany, some time ago, were made
Wednesday at conference between
officials and experts representing
the New York Central railroad and
the General Electric Co. The tests
are to be made on the tracks between
this city and Hoffmans. If present
plans hold, the Central thus will be
enabled to run trains through New
York City and on its surburban lines
at an unparalleled rate of speed.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28

War has its episodes no less romantic
than those of peace, as a sentimental
Milton might have said. One of them is
disclosed in the search Of a Cuban SOL
dler Tor the American nurse who cared
for him in the hospital at Santiago.
She would not give her name to him.
but told him that he would hear from
her after the war. He has been waiting
for word from her, and is now in this
country, searching, with nothing to aid
him save her photograph and the knowl-
edge that her family objected to her
service as an army nurse.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28
Charges Against Justice Hooker.

Albany, N. Y, Jan. 21.-Charges Of
the Bar association of jamestown
against State Supreme Court Justice
w. b. Hooker, former representative
in congress, were brought before the
State Bar association yesterday. The
charges quote the report of Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Bris-
tow relative to alleged irregularities
in the postoi1ices at Dunllirl and Ere
donia, with reference to rentals of
postotfice buildings, and set forth
that NJ. II. Taylor, named in Bris-
toW's report was appointed postmas-
ter at Dunkirk upon Hooker's recon-
mendatfon and that Hooker was and
is one OF the owners of the postoffice
building in Dunllirll, alleged to have
been the subject of excessive rental
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28
Prosperity has prevailed so generally

Prosperity has prevailed so generally
throughout the country during the last
The u.,oao few years that some
of the social philos-
ophers have meas
ured and stated 1t In terms of pianos. The
measure was not bad one The num-
Der of pianos bought by people who, 25
years ago, would not have thought of
owning one, and ten years ago were not
able to pay for one, has been a pretty
good index of satisfactory business con-
ditions. At the same time, it was pleas
ant to know that prosperity was con-
trlbuting so promptly to the happiness of
the whole family. Yet in this, as in many
other affairs, there has been a loss as
well as gain. The piano has come,
out an old and valued friend, the n4elo-
deon or parlor organ, has gone; and
there are those who think that it came
just little nearer to the family life,
and Is a little dearer to the memory of
those who have gone out into the world,
than its more pretentious successor can
ever be. The parlor organ, observes
Youths Companion, belonged to a sim
pier age than this-the pre- bicycle, pre-
telephone, pre-rural delivery age. 1t was
good, honest instrument, fine enough,
as its name indicated. to put in the par
tor, yet inexpensive enough for a man of
small means to buy without any severe
strain. Once bought, what change it
made in the family life! 1t became in
stantly the heart and center of it. The
aeighbors began to come in more fire.
quently, and together, for 'sing" The
boys stayed at home oftener, and did
their part toward making the sing a
success. The quality of music which this
humble instrument produced may be
technically inferior to that which the
piano produces, but it was not spiritually
or emotionally inferior-rather the con-
trary. One could execute upon it the
ltveliest jig or the merriest college song,
yet its especial field was the music of
the old-fashioned hymns, the sweet
oid-time ballads and simple songs which |
touch the heart because they are true to
life. 1t is music Of this sort which they |
recall who listen for the notes of the old |
melodeon and the voices of those who .
gathered about 1t: and for them the pi- |
ano is no substitute
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28
Foraker VIII Not Fight.

Washington, Jan. ga conference
which was pregnant with significance
was held at the White House Friday
between the president and Senator
Foraker. The senator returned
Thursday from a sojourn of several
days in Ohio. While in the state he
conferred with many of his friends
regarding the political situation. 1t
was to inform the president of the
result of his observations that he
called on him. 1t seems improbable
at this time that Foraker will pre-
ciPitate contest in Ohio over the
selection of delegates to the Chicago
convention.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28
DUN'S WEEKLY REVIEW.
Weather Conditions Furnish tho Main
Influences I'm the General Situation.

New York, Jan. 23.-R. q. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says:
Weather conditions have furnished
the chief influences in the general
trade situation. TO some extent
traffic has been hindered, especially at
the east, but the latest returns OF
railway earnings for January show
an increase of $40 per cent. over 1903
Consumption of fuel has increas sed
and retail trade in coal greatly ex.
panded, but no commensurate gain al
first hands is reported owing to the
large supplies held by dealers. Re.
tail distribution of footwear and
heavy wearing apparel felt the stimu.
lus, and annual clearance sales re.
moved accumulations of dry goods.
millinery, etc
Wholesale business is fairly active,
travelling statesmen sending in about
average orders, and jobbing trade is
normal. Manufacturing plants are
more active, with little change in
quotations, and the outlook for
spring trade is considered favorable.
Collections are somewhat more
prompt.
Iron and steel plants that resumed
at the turn of the year have obtained
sufficient business to continue operat-
ing and thus far the adjustment of
wages has not produced the threat
ened strike.
Failures this week numbered 35S in
the United States, against 265 last
year, and 33 in Canada, compared
with ~ Il year ago.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28
A Triple Tragedy.

New York; Jan. 21.---Mrs. Louise
Elton. % years old, of East Sixty
fourth street, was found mortallv in
jlred by II pistol shot wound at her
home Wednesday. Her two children,
Annie, years, and Rosie, years,
were found dead. having been killed
by pistol shot wounds. The woman
was alive when found. but died short
ly afterwards. 1t is believed that
She shot her children aud then COM
mitted suicide.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28
IsAccused of Embezx.fnr sas. 500.

New York, Jan. 21.-Peter Forester,
former grand commander of the
Knights Tcmplar of this state, who
has been missing since last Septem-
Der, was charged with rot having ac-
counted for a trust fund of S26, 800
in a warrant the existence of which
came out yesterday at a hearing in
the matter of the estate of Lucinda
Daugherty, who died September l,
1889. The warrant for Forester was
obtained by one of the heirs.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28

EMost democrats are as much
afraid of Tammany as they are of 16
to one.-Chicago Chronicle Dem).
GJ"From now on let the democratic
battle cry be Up and at them, ;" says the
Sentinel This foreshadows unrelentinp
war against the Bryanites.-Indianapo
lis Journal.
GFDavid B. Hill has at last succeeded
In striking keynote. All that the dem
ocrauc party lacks, he says, is live is
sues, wise counsels, conservative candi-
dates, unity of action. and about a mil
lion more votes.-St. Louis Globe Demo-
cTat
GTSome democrats think there will
be an advantage in holding their ma
tional convention ahead of the repub-
licans. The unfortunate thing for them
is that they can't have an election at a
different time.-Philadelphi Press.
GA democratic harmony dinner with
Cleveland, Parker and other harmonic
ers absent and Dave Hill as the principal
speaker and expositor OF party doc
trnes; also with all illusions to Bryan
carefully excluded! If that is the sort
of harmony which is expected to get
places and spoils, the democratic party
ia probably laboring under another vain
delusion.-!Troy Timea
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28
Morgan Would Annex Panama.

Washington, Jan. Ex-senator Nor
gan yesterday introduced a bill pro-
viding for the annexation of Panama
to the United States, the rights and
property of Panama resting in the
United tSates without reserve" The
bill appropriates S1O,O0O,OOO as COM
pensation to Panama for its cession;
places S15,O0O,OOO at the disposal Of
the president for the compensation
of Colombia, and appropriates $4O,-
100000 for the purchase of the prop
erty of the Panama Canal Co. in Co
lombia, including the Panama canal.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28
CURRENT TOPICS,

Alcohol from sawdust is a CONNER
cial success.
There are $4,000 Mormons in the
United States.
Manitoba is prominently the pro
vince of wheat
England annually imports 100000
coo worth Of eggs.
american hand and sulky plovs are
very much admired by farmers in the
orange river colony and Natal
Cottee is a very strong antiseptic-
Ihere are many diseases the mi
cropes OF which are destroyed by it.
The flesh Of reindeer may now be
houSht at any time in the Berlin
markets. 1t is brought frozen from
Finland and Lapland.
For the first time in Somanland.
camels are now being used as draft
ANNALS, and the results are stated to
be highly satisfactory.
The hay crop, excepting corn alone,
Is the greatest in value, the gross re-
alization during last year on 81 .205.-
$40 tons being $3.50, ,3768SO
Russia, Roumania and Servia are at
the TOP OF the list in illiteracy. so per
cent or the population in these cCun-
tries being unable to read or write
The boring Of the Simplon tunnel
mas again been interrupted on the
SWISS side by the tapping of hidden
springs which have flooded the works.
Round-trip tickets from London or
Paris to Peking, China, by rail and re-
turn by ship, with stopover privilege
at any port, are now on sale for s2O4.
Farmers in Northern Sweden are
importing domesticated yaks from the
Hlmalayas, these animals standing the
severe scandinavian climate admir-
ably.
For protesting against the reading
from the pulpit of the conscription law
imposed by the Russians, five per-
sons have been fined $50 each in Fin
land.
Polar birds have been seen in parts
OF South Tyrol (Austria), and it is as
sumed that the exceptional severity of
the Arctic winter has driven them
south.
N'N iSiNh IAdiHDeT Vi u6puJl6S re-
Gently voted to expend the sum of S6O.-
100000 for the improvement of canals,
new water works and the extension of
seaports.
With capital of 100000. Franco
ierman company has been formed to
lDtaln alcohol from peat, moss and
lchens. The works will be erected in
Denmark.
Moved by the eloquence of man
Who was charged at st. Petersburg
With robbery, the jury not only ac-
luitted him, but presented him with
| sum of money.
Now that cotton presses reduce the
ze of a bale until it weighs As
pounds to the square foot, one shin
Will carry the product of 40 900 acres
t average cotton land
All the iewelry and valuable cos
umes of the late Queen Draga have
cen taken over tne frontier by the
representatives of her heirs and sent
D her sisters at Munich.
John HaZeltine, known throughout
entral New York as philanthropist,
as announced plans to take a colony
one thousand Syracuse people to
lontana for the purpose of establish
lg a .oWn.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28

They don't play the ponies in Tilla-
NOOK, Ore. Instead they bet on the ar
rival OF the mails. Down there they say
there are three things no one can foretell
the result of footrace, the verdict of
petit jury and the time the mail will ar
rive.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28

Rockefeller, unlike some millionaires.
does not forget his boyhood friends He
has come to the rescue of an old chum
whose little farm on an island in the
missouri was about to be lost through
debt, The oil magnate generously sent
sufficient sum to cancel the ob,ipation
which might have cost him as much as
$3.50. Wonder if there will be another
advance in oil?
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28
PURE FOOD BILL.
IL Passes tho House of Representa-
tiyes - Standards Fixed for Purity

and strength of Foods and Drugs.
Washington, Jan. 21.-The house
passed the Hepburn pure food bill
yesterday on a rising vote. POI to Gs,
its opponents being unable to secure
roll call on the bill. The amend
ment inserting the word "willful"
with reference to persons who sell
adulterated or misbranded goods, and
which would have compelled the gov
ernment to prove intent to violate
the law by the venders, was stricken
out on yea and nay vote. Several
attempts were made to amend the
bill, but no material changes were
made
The bill fixes the standards of foods
and drugs as to their purity, strength
and character and defines what shall
be considered authorizations or mis-
branding of foods and drugs. II also
prohibits interstate commerce. i'm
portation and expectation of such
misbranded or adulterated articles.
1t is proposed to enlarge the scope
of the bureau of chemistry to include
the bureau of foods and impose upon
it the duty of performing all chemical
work for the other executive DEPART
with the duty of inspecting food and
drug products which belong to inter-
state or foreign commerce. The Sec
retary of agriculture is given author
ity to employ such chemists, inspec-
tors, clerks and laborers as NAV be
necessary for the enforcement of the
ct.
One section of the bill provides
penalties for the introduction of
adulterated or msbranded foods or
drugs and another section requires
the secretary of agriculture to pre-
scribe rules and regulations to gov
ern the director of the bureau of
chemistry and foods in examinations
of articles required to be inspected
under the law
Violations of the law shall be re-
ported by the secretary of agricul-
ture to the proper district attorney
of the United States, who is to cause
proceedings to begin without delay.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28

If two or three per cent of the vast
extent OF arid lands of the United
States are ultimately reclaimed and,put
under cultivation, it will mean popula-
tion in the western half of the United
States almost as great as that now in
the eastern half Of the country.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28
LET US NOT FORGET.
The Lack of Business Sense Is the
Dominant Element of the
Democracy.

Senator Platt, of New York, is univers
ally conceded to be one of the shrewdest
of political managers, but it is not sc
generally known that he has had long
and successful career as business man
His experience in this line, says the In
dianapOis Journal, qualities him to dis
cuss politics from business point OF
view. He is statesman of the practical
or, II you please, of the commercial
school.
In his speech at complimentary din
ner lately given him in Washington the
New York senator emphasized the in
ability Of the democratic party to rise
above its environments in the admins
tration of the government. He pointed
out that, as the dominant element of the
party is lacking in good business sense
and controlled by vagaries, its admin
istration of public affairs will inevitably
partake of those characteristics A
democratic president may not himself
be dangerous man, but said Senator
Platt, "he must yield to the spirit of
his party and be its instrument, or he
must break with his party and be the
rock on which it splits and goes to
pieces. The following is worth quoting:
THE history Of Mr.. Cleveland Is perfect
illustration Of my point. He was made the
democratic candidate for his availability
but as soon as the entire government be-
came democratic. in his second term, 1t
was straightway discovered that between Il
conservative president and n radical party
n f1.f
eminent. As the president became more
conservative the party became more rad
icaI, and the effect OF their struggles for
control was felt in the profits of every bust
ness and in the earnings OF every work
ingman."
When Senator Plat says that the
struggle between the conservative and
the radical elements of the democratic
party affected the profits of every busi-
ness man and the earnings of every
workingman he knows whereof he
speaks, for he is a business man himself.
The American people must have very
short memories if they have forgotten
what disastrous plight the country was
in at the end of Mr.. Cleveland S second
administration and how quickly it raj
progress came in again.
In the light of experience and in view
of the contrasting records of the two
great political parties in their admin
istration of the government, Senator
Platt thinks 1--WE shall need throughout
the coming campaign to keep constantly
before the people the often-proved in
capacity of the democratic party to con-
duct public affairs and the menace to
business which proceeds from its very
constitution" The suggestion is time
ly, lest we forget that the democratic
leopard has not changed its spots and
that the party is still as incapable of
giving the country a successful and prog
ressive business administration as it ever
was in the days of its past professions
and promises.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28
prompt.
No River and Harbor Bill This Year,

Washington, Jan. 23.-The house
committee on rivers and harbors yes.
terday decided that there should be
no river and harbor appropriation
bill at the present session of CON
gress, although few surveys might
be ant orizad