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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
FLOODS IN GEORGIA.
Ten or is Lives Lost and Much Prop.
erty Destroyed in and Around
Augusta.

Augusta, Ga.-The flood waters
at Augusta began receding Thurs
day afternoon, having reached the
height of 40 feet, probably as high
as the flood of 1883. Between ten and
10 persons were drowned, most of
them negroes.
Rain has ceased in the upper valley
and there is no danger of further dam
age. The loss is between $750,000 and
$1,000,000 and consists of damage to
stocks of goods and private property,
losses on the streets, destruction of
bridges across the Savannah river, and
breaks in the canal banks.
AS eight cotton mills are dependent
on the canal for power, thousands of
mill operatives will be idle three or
four months. While the flood was at
its height five fires broke out The
Mcdaniel builders material establish
ment in North Augusta was burned,
as were also a train of 40 cars belong
ing to the Southern railway. Nixon's
lime, cement and hardware house and
huge quantity of lumber belonging
to the Georgia railway was burned.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
OUTLOOK is GOOD
MIDDLE WEST STATES ARE
SAFELY REPUBLICAN.
With Crop Prospects Fine and Busi-
ness Improving the People are
Enthusiastic fer the Safe
Ticket.

One of the common statements
made nowadays is that the result of
the election and the coming Of good
times will both depend to very large
extent upon the conditions in the
states just beyond the Middle West
The Boston Transcript Is publishing a
most interesting series of letters from
the centers of the country containing
answers to questions about crops,
business and the political outlook.
These come not from the usual politi-
cal prophets, but from banks, mer-
chants, manufacturers and other rep
resentative authorities. They are
from conservative men, who express
themselves in moderate language. The
latest instalment of these replies COW
ers the Prairie states-Kansas, Ne
braska, Iowa, Minnesota and the Da-
kotas.
From these reports and opinions we
get cheer for the future. Kansas has
splendid crops in parts, fair crops in
parts and better than average crops
on the whole and better than in 1907
The prospects for improvement in
business are good All the advices
are to the effect that Taft will carry
the state by big majority.
Nebraska seems to be in fine shape
"Our crop outlook is the very best and
If nothing unforeseen happens we shall
have banner year." says the report
from Omaha, and practically every
business center sends news of a
bumper crop and of Improvement in
trade. All the letters say Taft will
carry the state
Excessive rains have drowned out
some of the corn of Iowa, but other
wise the state is in superb condition.
Some sections report bumper crops,
while others are less enthusiastic.
Crop prospects are ahead of 1907,
Better business is expected, and Taft
will carry the state by very big ma
Jority.
This report sums up the score of
letters from Minnesota and the two
Dakotas: Fall conditions and crop
prospects were never better. The
writer within the last two or three
weeks has been in the states of North
and South Dakota, as well as Mime
sofa, and in all three of our states
the people are very optimistic regard
ing conditions and have Just cause
for being so. From all appearances
there should be large crops in all
these states this year"
Crops better than in 1907, business
improving and Taft in the lead-this
is the message which the Prairie
states send to the country.-Baltimor
American.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
NOT SAFE IN BRYAN'S HANDS,
Next President Must Reoraanize the
Supreme Court.

Harper's Weekly points out that the
most serious and important work of
the next president will be the virtual
reorganization of the supreme court
Four justices will have passed the re-
firing age when Taft or Bryan goes
to the White House-Chief Justice
Fuller, rs; Justice Harlan, rs; Justice
Brewer, II: and Justice Peckham, 20
in November. 1t is pretty we'll under
stood why the chief justice and Justice
Harlan have not availed themselves of
their privilege to retire; they have re-
garded it as a duty to remain on the
bench so long as the country had
president more than likely to name as
their successors men in sympathy
with new and revolutionary methods
of interpreting" the constitution and
the laws. Quite likely Justice Brewer,
perhaps the strictest constructionist,
as he is probably our ablest jurist, has
been influenced by the same consid-
Grafton.
But it is too much to expect or ask
that these patriotic men remain at the
post of duty for another four years:
so it is altogether probable that the
next president will have the naming
Of four or even five, an actual majority
of our supreme court. What kind of
men would Bryan appoint? His rec.
ord and his words leave no room for
doubt.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
A VERY MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR
WEALTHY BALTIMOREAN is SHOT
WHILE AT ATLANTIC CITY.
Police Claim That Revenge Prompted
the Shooting-As Usual, There's
Woman in the Case.

Atlantic City, N. J. Refusing
to accept the stories to the effect
that Charles B. Roberts, a wealthy
clubman of Baltimore, WAS shot by a
highwayman while in a rolling chair
on the board walk with Mrs. w. S. G..
Williams, also of Baltimore, on Wed.
nesday night, the police of this city
are working upon the theory that Rob.
erts was the victim of a vengeful
man.
While they will not say that they
believe Mrs. Williams husband knows
something about the shooting, they
admit that he will not be eliminated
from the case until he has proved
conclusively that he not only was not
in Atlantic City, but that he was en-
tirely Ignorant of the shooting and
the circumstances which led up to it.
So determined are they in this di-
rection that Detective Harry Wilson
was sent to Baltimore Friday to make
thorough investigation
Their attitude in the matter was
taken when the parties involved de-
CldItu llldJ MT. 1lODeTIS udu DGen nelu
up by a highwayman on the board
walk. The authorities accept such
statements as a reflection on the
manner in which board walk strollers
are protected and the promenade po-
Iced.
The wounded man is at the City
hospital. His condition is considered
dangerous and the physicians will not
probe for the bullet in his liver until
his condition improves. They fear
that to operate upon him now might
prove fatal.
Mrs. Williams s at the Hotel Brigh-
ton, and while the police will not say
that she is detained as a witness, they
lead inquirers to believe that such is
the case.
The colored man who was pushing
the rolling chair in which Roberts
and Mrs. Williams were riding at the
time of the shooting is still locked
up, and if he knows who Mr.. Roberts
assailant is he declines to make
known his identity.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
OPEN DEALING IN PAINT

Buying paint used to be like the.
proverbial buying of a pig in a
poke" Mixtures in which chalk
ground rock, ETC., predominated were.
marked and sold as Pure White,
Lead" the deception not being ap-
parent until the paint and the paint
ing were paid for. This deception is,
still practiced, but we have learned to,
expose it easily.
National Lead Company, the larg-
est makers of genuine Pure White
Lead, realizing the injustice that was
being done to both property owners,
and honest paint manufacturers, set
about to make paint buying safe.
They first adopted a trade mark, the.
now famous "Dutch-Boy Painter" and
put this trademark, as a guaranty of
purity, on every package of thei
White Lead. They tnen set abe
familiarizing the public with
blow-pipe test by which the puI
and genuineness of White Lead
be determined. and furnished a b
pipe free to every one who W.
write them for it. This action wa
itself guaranty of the purity of
tional Lead Companys White Lead.
AS the result of this open dealin
the paint buyer to-day has only hin
self to blame if he is defrauded. For
test outfit and valuable booklet on
painting, address National Lead Com,
pany, Woodbridge Bldg, New York.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
CAN MR.. coNNoRs DELIVER?
"Fingy" Promises New York State to
Mr.. Bryan, but

Asseverates William J.-alias Fin.
sy'-Conners, august though disfig-
ured state chairman of the Democracy
in New York:
There is no question about New
York state which will give pluralities
of anywhere from $4,000 to 100000 for
Bryan"
How grossly yet subtly deceptive
are mere physical appearances, The
frowns and the tightly-shut lips
which, on the part of some charac-
terized the so some minutes of Bryan
cheering in Denver were not signi-
ficant. The fact that "F1ngy" Con-
ners himself sat there lugubrious of
brow as Charon and silent as the
sphinx; the fact that he glared into
silence any impressionable New York
delegate that showed symptoms of
joining the chorus; the fact that New
York was one of the six chilling states
sternly to repress the alteration of
Bryan and to show Indifference, even
throughout the delirious hour and
something-all these phenomena
mean, then, merely that "Fingy" Con-
ners is undemonstrative and at the
bottom of that within him which cor
responds to heart he loves Mr..
Bryan dearly. At least we shall see
if all the New York Democracy is
possessed of the same power OF utili-
tartan love and repression.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
FIFTEEN LIVES LOST IN FLOOD
Town of Folsom, N. NJ, Suffers From
Cloudburst

Trinidad, Col.-Flood in the Cim-
maron river following cloudburst
washed away number of dwell
ings at Folsom. N NJ, Thursday night.
Fifteen persons are reported to have
been drowned. Eleven bodies have
been recovered Ten miles of track
and 12 bridges on the Colorado &
Southern railway were washed out.
The entire town was swept by the
flood caused by the cloudburst. Sew
eral houses were swept away COM
pletely and nearly every house in the
town was damaged.
Searching parties have been formed
and it is expected as many more
bodies will be found. Folsom is in the
northeastern part of New Mexico,
near Ration on the Santa Fe railroad
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03

No proposition could be more thor
oughly in keeping with the eternal fit
ness of things than that which has
reference to a national Lincoln high
way" from Washington to Gettysburg.
The plan in outline is to construct a
road between the points mentioned,
distance of 72 miles, to be a memorial
to the martyred president. 1t is in
tended to make the highway as perfect
a road as can be devised. In time, If
constructed and maintained as in
tended, it would become one of the
most notable sights. Kept in thorough
condition, great driveway through a
park-like border, with residences,
statuary and other features, the high
way would be a magnificent public
road, remarks the Troy On. V Times.
And as direct connecting link be-
tween Washington and Gettysburg,
with both of which Lincoln's fame is
inseparably connected what could be
more appropriate?
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
BUSINESS BULLETIN.
Gradual Improvement Continues and
Crop Prospects Are Salts
factory.

New York City.-R G. Dun & Co. S
Review of Trade says:
Gradual improvement continues, es-
pecially in respect to the percentage
of manufacturing plants in operation
and country merchants are more dis
posed to replenish stocks. Retail
trade is seasonably quiet, except
where sales are stimulated by clear
ance sales, but wholesale and jobbing
houses are doing a good fall business,
although collections are irregular
With the exception of the cotton
mills, there is much less idle machin-
cry in the leading industries. Sew
eral wage agreements have been
signed and there is little strife be-
tween capital and labor.
Crop prospects are satisfactory and
producers obtain unusually high
prices. Contracts are placed more
freely for steel, new business includ
ing a large tonnage of plate and pipe.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
A DISASTER IN A MINE.
Five Men Killed in Collision of Cars
Far Under Ground.

Wilkesbarre, Pa.-Five men were
instantly killed, another is expected
to die and eight others were seriously
injured in a collision late Friday aft
ernoon at the Warrior Run colliery
of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co, six
miles from this city.
The men were being hoisted up a
slope when a runaway mine car struck
train of mine cars on which were
20 men who were employed in the
mine. Only six of them escaped in
juries. Those killed were horribly
mangled.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
12Q6-1qn2-

w. ]. Bryan was nominated in 1896
as an extreme radical and beaten
Four years later he was again nomi-
mated, but was not quite so extreme
as in 1896, and again he was beaten
In 1908 he is nominated for the third
time, on a platform called by the
mystifying name of conservative rad
ical," and though he secures the sup
port of such conservatives as Thomas
M. Osborne he loses the sup
port of such radicals as Thomas e.
Watson and w. r. Hearst. The in
clinations of Mr.. Bryan toward con
servatism," seem to have kept pace
with his growth in flesh and worldly
goods. 1t is an interesting study.
With clear million and himself
weighing 300 pounds, would Mr. Bry-
an be a safe and sane Democrat?-
New York Evening Sun.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03

There is a great deal of food for
thought in the statement of Chicago's
Salvation Army officers that since
about year ago, 400 men and women
have applied for advice. According to
the army officials a large proportion
If the bureau had not intervened If
that is SO, Mr.. Carnegie might properly
recognize the Salvation Army among
the life savers.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
FRIENDLY TIP
Restored Hope and Confidence.

After several years Of INDIGESTION
and its attendant evil influence on the,
mind, it is not very surprising that
one finally loses faith in things gen
orally
A n. Y. woman writes an interesting
letter. She says:
Three years ago l suffered from
an attack of peritonitis which left me
in a most miserable condition. For
over two years l suffered from nerv-
BUSINESS, weak heart, shortness Of
breath, could not Sleep etc
MY appetite was ravenous, but l
felt starved all the time. / had plenty
Of food but it did not nourish mo
because of intestinal Indigestion. Med
ical treatment did not seem to help.
l got discouraged, stopped medicine
and did not care much whether | lived
or died.
Zone day a friend asked me why I
didn't try Grape-Nuts, stop drinking
coffee, and use Postum 1 had lost
faith in everything, but to please my
friends l began to use both and soon,
became very fond of them.
1T wasn't long before I got some,
strength, felt decided change in my
system, hope sprang up in my heart
and slowly but surely got better.
could sleep very well, the constant
craving for food ceased and l have.
better health now than before the at
tack of peritonitis.
my husband and I are still using.
Grape-Nuts and Postum" There's q.
Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
Interest.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
Progress.

Yes" said Mrs. Malaprop, my
boy is doing first-rate at school.
sent him to one O. them alimentary
schools, and his teacher says he's do
ing fine. He's a first-class sculler,
they tell me, and is head of his class
in gastronomy, knows his letters by
sight, and can spell like one o these
deformed spoilers down to Washing
tom"
What's he going to be when he
grows up?"
"He wants to be an undertaken and
I'm declined to humor him, so I've told
the confessor to pay special intentions
to the dead languages" said the proud
mother.-Harper's
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
Ex-senator Villas Dies,

Madison, Wis.-Col. William F.
Villas, who was postmaster general
and secretary of the interior during
President Clevelands first administra-
ton and afterward was United States
senator from Wisconsin, died here
Thursday.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
Flood Made 5000 People Homeless

Fayetteville, N. c. = This city,
with a population of $4,000 and
located on the Cape Fear river. is
almost entirely submerged because of
the flood. Three thousand persons
are homeless and an appeal has been
issued for relief.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03

Mrs. Russell Sage sits down hard on
the proposition to change the name of
Sag Harbor to Sage Harbor" in her
honor, and even suggests that she pre-
fers return to the oldfashioned spell
ing of the name, which was "Sagg
Harbour" Mr.. Brander Matthews and
his fellow-simple spoilers ought to g
a circular TO Mrs. Sage
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03

In order to have live spokes" newly
sawed timber must be well racked up
and laid in the open air one year to
the inch to season. The average auto
mobile spoke requires two-inch piece
of timber; that means two years Of
idle lumber.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03

Perhaps it is mere coincidence
that the number of The Commoner in
which Mr. Bryan announces that he
has turned it over to be run by others
during the campaign contains a poem
entitled Lonely" which begins thus:
30, but It's dull and lonesome. and
the house is strangely still"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
Georae p. RowelI Dies.

Poland Springs, Me. - George P,
Rower of New York, prominent for
many years In the newspaper adver.
tising business, died here last night,
aged 40 years.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
ONE EXCEPTION.

Easy Edmund-It's one NV de frail-
ties Nv our poor human nature dat no
matter how much a man gifts he wants
more
Drather Sitdown (thoughtfully)-
Oh, dunno bout dat. Not in police
court he don't.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
saae,s Estate Amounted to $e4 600 600.

New York City. - Russell Sages
estate is valued at $64,153,S00 This
fact became known Thursday for the
first time through the signing of the
order for the transfer tax.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
II. II. MULLlN, Editor.
OF SUBSCRIPTION
ADVERTISING RATES:

Advertisements are published at the rate OF
enc dollar per square for one insertion and fifty
ksnts per square for each subsequent insertion
Rates by the year, or for six or three months
Are low and uniform and will be furnished on
application.
Legal and Ofncial Advertising per square,
three times or less, ~; each subsequent inser-
Hon 10 cents per square.
Local notices 10 cents per line for one inser-
sertion; 5 cents per line for each subsequent
consecutive insertion.
Obituary notices over five 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 five lines. at the regular rates OF adver-
tising.
No local inserted for less than 70 cents per
iaRua
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
JOB PRINTING.

The JOB department OF the PRESS is complete
and affords facilities for doing the best class of
work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO 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
tor in advance.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-08-22
II STATE or LOUISIANA.
23rd Judicial District Court-Par-
. ish of st. Mary.
St. Mary Bank & Trust Co., VS..
Pierre Daigle. No. IL, 250.

Under and BY virtue of an order OF
seizure and sale issued out Of the Hon
orable 2Srd Judicial District Court OF
Louisiana. in the above numbered and
entitled suit, and to me directed.
have seized and will offer for sale, fol
cash, at the Court House in front OF
The t. Mary Bank & Trust Company
building, in the town of Franklin.
La, Parish Of st. Mary. to the last
and highest bidder, on
SATURDAY, THE 9TH DAY OF
SEPTEMBER, A. D., 1908,
between the hours Of II o. clock a. M,
and o'clock p. M, the following de-
scribed property, to-wit:
That certain tract or parcel OF lana,
lying and being situated in the Parish
Of st. Mary. Louisiana, known as the
Patagonia Plantation, comprising i've
hundred and sixty $500 superficial acres,
more or less, and designated as the
Southwest Quarter Is. w. y and South
Half q. ~ Of Northwest Quarter IN. ".
~ Of Section Twelve ny, the South
east Quarter Is. E. y of Section Eleven
ny. and the North Half IN. y Of the
Northeast Quarter IN. E. II. and the
East Halt lE. y Of the Northwest
Quarter IN. W. II Of Section Fourteen
(14), all in Township Fifteen South,
Range Six East It. IS, 8. R. s E.,) in
the Southwestern Land District OF
Louisiana; together with all the build
ings and improvements thereon situated,
and all of the rights, ways, privileges,
servitudes and appu,tances thereunto
belonging or appertaining.
WILSON T. PETERMAN. Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Parish Of 1t. Mary, La,
July gath, 1908.
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Estimates Furnished on
any Building on Short
Notice.
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