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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24
ACHIEVED BY ROOSEVELT.
Vigorous Initiative and Consistent
Advocacy in the Railway
Rate Matter.
employment.

1t must not be forgotten, while the
refinement of discussion of the details
OF railway rate-regulation bill is in
progress in the senate, that congress is
pledged to the passage of such a bill,
which is already sure of becoming a
law, says the Troy Times. The prn-
ciple of rate regulation has been es-
tablished and has been accepted. 1t
is only the application of the principle
that is now under discussion.
1t was not so very long ago that the
acceptance of the principle itself was
hOtly contested. There were many
prophets who predicted that the ma
tional congress would not consent to
endow a commission with power to
prohibit excessive rates of transporta-
tion.
What has brought about the general
acquiescence in the wisdom and pro-
priety of such legislation? Nothing
but the vigorous initiative and consist
ent advocacy OF President Roosevelt
himself. The president knew not only
that there must be some curb placed
on oppressively discriminating rates
for the carriage of freight but he saw
also that the people would support
measures looking to such repression.
1t was not only an act of general JUS
tice but one in harmony with :he pub
lie conviction that he advocated. when
in public address ana message to con-
gress he declared that this question
must be settled in agreement With the
principles of equity and in behalf Of
the people at large.
The house Of representatives
promptly and almost unanimously act
ed upon the presidents recommends
ton. The senate, a more slowly NOV
ing body, has gradually come to the
same destination and is now consider
ing methods for making the principe
operative.
The extent of this victory of the
president, which necessarily has been
achieved by the slowly advancing pro-
cesses which even the most righteous
truth must await, can be appreciated
fully only when the general acceptance
of the presidents idea is compared
with the opposition which existed not
so long ago. Mental force, political
sagacity and the power of a righteous
determination have seldom been illus
trated in so conspicuous q manner as
in the way by which the executive adj
vice has converted n more or less un-
willing legislature into a cooperative
factor, In establishing as a govern
mental rule of action the rieht Of the
people THROUGH their officers to fix q
limit beyond which the rates imposed
by carriers in interstate commerce
cannot so.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24
Was Promised to InSur-
anCe Commissioner.
BY THE EQUITABLE.
Commissioner Host, of Wisconsin,
Tells a Sensational Story to d
Legislative Committee.

Milwaukee, Wis.-The most sensa-
tional testimony which has been
presented to the special insurance in
vestigating committee of the Wiscon-
sin legislature was given Wednesday
when Insurance Commissioner Host,
of the Wisconsin department of in
surance, testified before the commit
tee that on June 16, 1908, the day on
which the hearing in the case of the
state of Wisconsin against the Equi-
table Life Assurance Society for a
compulsory distribution of the sur
plus of that company to Wisconsin
policyholders was to be held by him,
Secretary of State Walter l.. Houser
entered the insurance commissioners
Office and said that if Mr.. Host would
render decision in accordance with
a slip handed by Mr.. Houser to Mr..
Host, which would have been a deci-
sion favorable to the Equitable com
pany, that the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society would give $4,000 to-
ward a campaign fund for renomina-
tion of the state officers in the next
campaign.
The slip which Commissioner Host
testified Secretary of State Houser
handed to him was presented to the
commissioner and contained on it
these words:
Petition is denied and same is dis
missed for the reason that a determi-
nation of the subject thereof requires
the exercise of Judicial function that
cannot be exercised by the defendant.
1T is further announced as a rule
of this department that no similar
proceedings be entertained until a
final adjudication of the same is had
in the courts of the state"
Mr. Host testified that he told
Houser that he would think the mat
ter over. Hosts decision was against
the Equitable Life Assurance Society,
which afterward took the case into
the courts and obtained a rule adverse
to Mr.. Hosts order for a compulsory
distribution of the surplus on deferred
dividend policies.
Mr.. Host also testified that Robert
Luscombe, who for years represented
insurance companies before various
legislatures, telephoned to him three
times between June 16 and July 81,
1903, and asked Host to come to Chi
cago, saying he had an argument
which would convince Host that the
law in question was not compulsory.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24
Garfield's Report Con-
viCtS Standard Oil
AS LAW BREAKER.
The Complete Report of the COM
missioner of Corporations Is
Sent to Congress.

Washington, D. G. President
Roosevelt on Thursday transmitted to
congress the complete report of James
r. Garfield, commissioner of corpora
tions, of the investigation which he
has made into the operations of the
alleged oil trust. A full synopsis of
the report, accompanied by a message
from the president dealing with the
facts developed by the inquiry, was
sent to congress ON May A.
The report of Mr. Garfield covers
500 printed pages. In support of the
various allegations made by him. he
prints in the report copies of way
bills, letters of railroad officials bear
ing on transactions with agents of the
Standard Oil and independent oil
companies, special oil tariffs of var
ious railroads, bills of lading, blind
bills of lading and secret understand
ings and agreements of the several
railroad companies named with the
Standard Oil Co. In many instances,
according to the copies of the way
bills, the rate paid by the Standard
Oil Co. was only 33 1-3 per cent. of
the amount stated in the bill.
The testimony of employees of rail
roads is given in confirmation of the
bureaus charge that there was a con-
Standard Oil Co. Although, it is al
legged, in the case of the Chicago &
Alton railroad the general tariff Off
GERS admitted the existence of a Sc
cret rate and that the purpose was to
conceal it from other railroads and
not from the shippers, one of the lead
ing clerks of the Alton is quoted as
testifying that the secret rate was in
tended only for the benefit of the
Standard Oil Co., and that had any
other shipper inquired for rates he
would not have been given the low
rate accorded the Standard Oil Co.
The report further shows the estab-
lishment of rates from small, in
consequential and in many instances
obscure points near large shipping
centers and the filing of the tariffs
with the interstate commerce COM
mission as evidence that the rates
were not secret. But Mr.. Garfield
maintains that by this arrangement
the rates were effectively secret, be-
cause any shipper other than the
Standard Oil Co. in applying for
rates would be given the published
rates from other places in the vicinity
of the small points referred to, which
in every case were considerably
higher He declares that the railroads
recognized the irregularity of the ar
rangement "and that they designed to
hide the rate from all shippers except
the Standard Oil Co."
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24
MARKET THAT is CHEAPEST
How Free Trade Would Improve"
the Condition of Domestic
Workers.

Mr.. Henry NJ. Whitney, leading tar
iff smasheT in Massachusetts,, has an
article in the Inter Nation arguing for
like candor and credence some points
that the free trader clings to in the
face of facts that overwhelm adult
minds of the ordinary quality, says
tile Buffalo News.
Mr.. Whitney says that not over 400,-
900 workers in agriculture could be af-
fected by foreign competition if all du-
ties were removed. That would leave
over 26,000,000 wage-earners, three
fourths of all in the United States,
whose condition, everybody must adj
nit would be improved by being able
to supply their several wants in the
cheapest market"
This threadbare assertion is not
meant by Mr.. Whitney to be funny.
He is as serious as ever in his life
when he assumes the continuance Of
current American wages in the face of
free trade with countries whose labor
is producing everything that Ameri-
cans use and yet is paid on Il scale of
from a quarter to a half of the rate
paid in the United States. He express
ly says that his figures "show that 81
out of every 100 people would he able
to buy more and better things If there
were no tariff at ALL"
All this is on the assumption that
free trade would not affect wages. But
if it did affect them, and nobody was
ever so brave as to maintain that it
would not, Mr.. Whitney does not tell
how the money to buy things is to be
earned on the scale he imagines. And
if manufacturing industries went to
the wall, with the cutting in half of
the buying power of the industrial
part of the country, what would be the
gain in cheap foreign prices after do
mestic savings had been speng
Germany has just had an exhibition
in Berlin in which things of beautiful
workmanship were shown. But when
the empress of Germany saw them and
was told that the wages paid to make
them were one cent an hour she went
away with tears in her eyes, and no
wonder. That is the kind of market
Mr.. Whitney would send Americans
into to buy. This is the kind of market
he would reduce Americans to at home
For the wages paid in Germany are
the highest in Europe except in the
British Isles, and even England is
filled with the starving poor out of
employment.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

and she is often the bread winner of
the family. Whether she is sick or
well, whether it rains or shines, she
must get TO her place of employment.
perform the duties eXacted of her.
smile and be agreeable.
Among this class the symptoms Of
female diseases are early manifest by
weak and aching backs, pain in the
lower limbs and lower part of the
stomach. In consequence of frequent.
wetting of the feet, periods become
painful and irregular, and frequently
there are faint and dizzy spells, with
loss of appetite, until life is burden.
All these symptoms point to a de-
rangement of the female organism.
which can be easily and promptly
cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta--
BILE Compound.
Miss Abby f. Barrows, Nelsonville,
Athens Co., Ohio, tells what this great.
medicine did for her She writes
Dear Mrs. Pinkham -
II feel it my duty to tell you the good
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
and Blood Purifier have done for me. Before
| took them l was very nervous had dull
headaches pains in back, and periods were
irregular, had been to several doctors, and.
they did me no good.
''Your medicine has made me we'll and
strong. l can do most any kind of work
without complaint, and my periods are all
right.
II am in better health than ever was
and / know it is all due to your remedies.
recommend your advice and medicine to all
who suffer"
1t is to such girls that Mrs. Pink
ham holds out a helping hand and ex--
tends cordial invitation to correspond
with her. She is daughter-in-law of
Lydia L. Pinkham and for twenty i've
years has been advising sick women
free of charge. Her long record of
success in treating woman's ills makes
her letters of advice of untold value to.
every ailing working girl. Address,
Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

Insurance came from medieval Italy
1t is believed to date from the 10th
century, and at that time it was
known in Florence. The Romans did
not know insurance. The nearest they
came to it was the practice of COM
pany supplying the army to require a
guarantee from the state against the
loss of ships. But this was soon
abandoned, because damages had been
collected for sunken ships too worth
less to float.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

New York.-Thc Associated Pres.
learns from source of intor.
nation closely allied to the Neu,HaI-
aa government that President Ca#.
win resume control of his oHD. uu
1,ay 2a and ON that day win grant
general amnesty TO political prisoners.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

Pharmacy and medicine were first
made separate professions by the
monks and priests of the tenth ~and
eleventh centuries. The father of the
apothecaries seems to have been Con
stantine Afer, Of Carthage. Their
preparations and potions were sold to
the rich and given to the poor. No
apothecaries are mentioned in France
prior to 1884
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

Talus, the Greek, is said to have in
vented the saw from having once
found the jawbone of a snake, which
he employed to cut through a small
piece of wood. In early periods the
trunks of trees were split into boards
with wedges, and though these boards
were not always straight, they were
regarded as much better suited to
construction than sawn boards, be-
cause they followed the grain, and
lasted longer and were stronger.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

Cheyenne, Wyo. - ". 4. Broth
ers, former federal distributing
agent an Casper, Wyo, pleaded uHg
600 tle United States district court
here Wednesday ,o ohnr-a .f .r.
hezzI.monr ami was sentenced ig
judge hingr 10 three years impg,sau.
ment.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

Advertisements are published at the rate o'
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cents Ier square for each Subsequenttnsert!On
Rates by the year, or for six or three months
application.
Legal aud Oficial Advertising per square
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ito 20 cents per square.
Local notices 10 cents per line for one inseI'
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con ,ccutivc insertion.
Obituary notices over five lines 10 cents pGV
line. Simple announcements OF births, maj
rlageS and deaths will he inserted free
Business cards, five lines or less 10 per year;
ever 1--we lines, at the regular rates OF adveT'
tsng.
No local inserted for less than 70 cents per
issue
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

The lowest temperature ever re-
corded on the earth was taken at
Werchoiansk, in the interior of Sibe-
ria, January 10, 1885. 1t was 80 de.
grees and fraction below zero.
Werchoiansk is in the latitude of the
pole of cold. There the earth is
frozen to a depth of about 100 feet
and in the warmest season it never
thaWS
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

Scranton. pam explosion OF
gas iu the Diamond mime uu
IHu aF Uuwai SIS men. tarye of
tl#U I..Hs.N Tho men were uiac.
Ir au m position when Tho m.ue aas
became lsnlted.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

,h.aaap Ill., Cen. John Near.
thur former postmaster az CHICAGO.
.Hl g major general luf.ue lrr cIg.I
war; d.e3 here Wednesday. aeed r.
years. tie had been On for two years
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24
JOB PRINTING.

The Job department OF the PREss is complete
and affords facilities tor doing the best class OF
work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO Law
PRISTING,
No paosr 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 Ia advance.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

"Colored rain," in the shape of mil
lions of little red, green and yellow
insects, fell recently at Anglers,
France The phenomenon lasted sew
eral hours, and so numerous were the
insects that they choked the water
pipes in the town and were shoveled
up in the streets by the cartload.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

During 1906, 172 climbers lost their
lives on the Alps. But as 10000 per-
sons made ascents the percentage of
loss was small. Only 10 per cent. of
the accidents, fatal or otherwise, Were
due to unavoidable causes. The rest
ness.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

According to the Biological Society
of Copenhagen a very interesting ex-
pertinent is shortly to be made in the
northern portion of the narrow straits
called the Little Belt, between the
Baltic sea and the Cattegat Electric
lamps are to be fixed at the bottom of
the straits, in order to prevent the
conger eels from making their way
out into the open sea. The eel shows
a marked fear of light. The conger
eel even will not migrate to the open
sea when the moon is at the full
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24
Congress.

Washington.-On the nth the sen
ate devoted its session to a review OF
the amendments TO the railroad rate
bin. The house passed the naval ap-
preparation bill.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

In India assaults on British sol
diers by natives have become so fre-
quent of late that the press is direct
ing the serious attention Of the gov.
ernment to the matter. The Civil ami
Military Gazette asserts, "on trust
worthy information, that in the north
ern command alone such assaults oc-
cur as often as once a week, with
marked tendency TO increase This
is regarded as an aftermath Of the
triumph Of the Japanese in the far
east.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

Hail is a mystery. Nobody knows
how it is formed, though there are
several theories. A hailstone is made
like an onion, of a series Of concentric
coats. These coats OF ice are appar-
emily put on in succession, by repeat
ed froezmgs, but in what manner is
unknown. One notion suggested is
that the frozen rain-drop. which Is
the nucleus, is alternately attracted
and repealed between opposing storm
clouds, of positive and negative ciec-
triication respectively aud that IL
gradually increases la size as it is
carried 10 and fro.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24
Congress.

Washington.-On The 10th the SEN
ate Finished consideration of the rail
road rate bin In committee of the
whole. The house completed it's dc
bate Of the naval appropriation bill.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

No one il himself when his nerve CEN.
ters are exhausted, whether from exces-
nVe use or from lack of proper food. The
quality of ones thought, ambition, en-
ergy, aims and ideals, is largely a matter
Of health.-Success Magazine.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

Already l75,OO0 farmers from the United States
have made their homes in Canada.
For pamphlet Twentieth Century Canada
and all information apply to SUPERINTENDENT
or IMMIGRATION, Ottawa, Canada, to the
following authorized Canadian Government
Agents
II. NJ. WILLIAMS, Law Building, Toledo. o.
Mention his PAPER
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

Genius is seldom bothered with book
kceping.-Life.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

Complexion bad? Tongue coated? Liver
deranged! Take Garfield Tea.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24
Twenty Five Bushela.
OF W heat to The Acre

means a productive
capacity in dollars of
over SO per acre.
This on land, which
has cost the farmer
nothing, but the price
of tillimg it, tells its
own story.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

Lots of US bow to the Inevitable with
out a formal introduction.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

BE patient; card houses are built in an
hour-cathedrals take centuries.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

Some men make such a big fuss about
planning for big things that they over
look the necessity Of attending to the
little details.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

Garfield Tea overcomes constipation. sick
headache, liver and kidney diseases.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24
CORDIAL INVITATION
ADDREssEDTOw WORKING GIRLS.
Miss Barrows Tells How Mrs. Pink
hams Advice Helps W orking Girls.

Girls who work
a r e particularly
to fe-
m a / e disorders,
especially those
who are obliged
to stand on their
feet from morn
ing until night in
stores or facto-
ries.
Day in and day
out the girl tolls.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24

Lands adjoining can be purchased at from Sc
10 SO per acre from railroad aud other corpora
tonS.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-24
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-09


battle, made his dispositions according
ly and entered the fight with his eyes
open. The admiral only casually states
in the course It his letter that the
minister of ma 'ae is investigating the
causes of the catastrophe to determine
whether the commander shall be court
martialed for the loss of his ships.
The charge that the British admiral
concentrated his ships at Wei-hai-wei,
expecting to receive an order to destroy
the Russians in the event of Admiral
Togo's proving unequal to the task,
has caused sensation in diplomatic
circles, all the more so as Admiral
RoJestyensky's letter was published
with the permission of the minister of
marine, and no doubt is entertained
that it will be made the subject of dip
lomatic representations to Great Brit
ain.
Referring to the absolute secrecy of
Admiral Togo in regard to the DISPOSE
ton of his forces, Rojestvensky de-
clares that this was unknown even
to the admiral of the British fleet al
lied with the japanese, who concen-
trated his forces at Wei-hai-wei in ex-
pectation of receiving an order to ami
hilate the Russian feet if this, the
anal object of Great Britain, was be-
yond the power Of the Japanese"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-09

ante room during the entire time
while Charles L. Yerkes, Jr., and Mrs.
Charles Rondamiller, children by his
first wife, were with Mr.. Yerkes.
A complication of ailments, with
Bright's disease underlying, brought
the multi-millionaire' life to close
after weeks of suffering. The stormy
career of the traction magnate of two
hemispheres, made up of a mixture of
shadows and Successes romance Of
financial triumphs and bitter battles
for social prestige-culminate in
deathbed scene made additionally ira
gle by the note of domestic discord.
Although nominally a New Yorker
for the last eight years, Mr.. Yerkes
had spent much of his time in London,
where he had successfully launched
and engineered one of the most stupen-
dous urban transportation projects the
metropolis has known. For twenty
years or more Chicago was his home,
and it was in Chicago that he garner
ed the fortune which made possible
his achievements.