2 d-MEROH COUffl PiIESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor I* iblisliod Every Thursday, j ( Tl'.IiMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. [f>, ..J In advance 1 Ml | ADVF.RTISINO RATES: J •, wrtisemeuts are published at the rate ol an I l.ar per square fornne insertion and lift? r ,.j • er ■ quarts 112 >r cacti subsequent tnsertlou j . , . . i!r year, or for six or throe months »,-t iv imi uniform, ami v.ill be furnished o.'< up ira;'n!l. j -:il a: il Ofnclal Advertising rer square I »h» i.::.«■* or le*». 'J: cacti subsequent Inset La o . oi.ts per-q*.iure. I ;il not ;i os lu cents per line for one lnsoi- | k| cents per line for each subsequent • to! cu'ivc insertion. >1 • ary ri I ices over five lines. 10 cants [ill l'.ni :;.p!e announcements of liirtlis, mat - I r , ,iii deaths will i>« Inserted free. ij s c; rils. five Hues or less, *6 par yean ! or',l . lints, at the regular rates of adver >| local Inserted for less than 75 cents pe> tssj JOB PRINTING. 1 .lob department of the Pi«it<=s Is complete ant ni - t.i '.litltss for doing the best class of WO I' M: l ICULAB ATTKM'IIOH PAIUXO LAW PH Tl.Vi. > p.ip?r will bi discontinued until arrear- I fg. arc paid, except at the option of the pub ist I { ,crs sent out of the county must be oald lor . advance. ! A Law to Protect Birds. 1 c threatened extermination of all bes tiful birdfi in this country in order to iisfy the demands for ornamental mil nery has led to the enactment in M-v al states of greatly needed laws for he protection of wild birds. Com- I mi* ioner Whipple, of the New York siai ? forest, fish and game depart mei t. lias recently served notice tbri lgh the press to the williners of the i:ite, retail ■'nil wholesale, that hl3 '.I part men t Intends to use every legi imuto means to enforce the law pro iting the possession or sale of th > bodies or fcather3 of wild birds, whe her taken in this state or else wht e. The penalty for each violation oft e law is s(>o fine, and an addition al $ 'Si for each bird, or part thereof, sold offered for sale, or possessed. This law seems to be sweeping enough to c institute an efficacious remedy so far s the state of New York is con cern id. All the added beauty that can be 112 ven to the creations of milliners for he adornment of latfies is not enoi ;h, remarks tlie Case and Corn men to compensate a civilized people for tie infinite loss to the everyday life 112 many millions of people, if the beau iftil plumage and graceful flight oft ie birds should disappear, and theii twitter and song be silenced. Stat< which have no such laws may well adopt them, and all that have then should secure their enforcement. Farming Without Water. \V< are just beginning to learn that, if th soil is cultivated carefully and inter ively, it can be made to hold wate within itself and carry a storage reset ok* underneath the growing crop.' Finely pulverizing and packing ' fdbed makes It capable of re tainiil the greatest possible percent age cli 1 the moisture that falls, just as a linl sponge of a certain size will hold i.iuny times as much water as a coars ji'iitßo of the same size, or as a tun ■ ibler full of birdshot will retain many i nies the amount of water that a tun I bier full of buckshot will. It is a wel I nciwn fact, says the World To day, ' at water moves in the soil as it doe sin a lamp wick, by capillary at tractii in The more deeply and the more 'lensely the soil bed is saturated with moisture, the more easily the water moves upward in the soil, just as the oil "climbs up" a wet wick fast er than it does a dry one. 1 ramp Nuisance Is Serious. It v.M . estimated some years ago that tiiore were 30,000 tramps in the United States. But, with its much smaller area and population, England Is ahe; I of us in its supply of the genus hobo. A committee appointed by the British parliament to investi gate tl tramp problem in England, says If lie's Weekly, estimates that in seasons of depression there are 80,- 000 tratips in that country, and that it is nevd less than half number. Legislation by parliament to regulate and milnate the evil is recommended, though 10 solution of the problem short c finding employment and pay ing bet r wages is regarded as pos sible. Therflis no feature of the national life of Jmerica upon which patriotic Americls can dwell with less pride than uni the record of our waste by fire. F| the first half of this year the firejiss of the country aggregat ed $:;tv»;3,000, a sum greater by nearly p0,000,000 than the entire customs! revenue of the United States fernment. Of course, says the Phipelphia Ledger, this enor mous adegate includes an abnormal item —tl! losses from the San Fran cisco cclagiation— but when the experts lo formulated the estimates can say j more of the losses (other than thojcrcdited to San Francisco) than t hit hey are "normal," the ex hibit is lielancholy one. A Morel] woman who wants $23,- 000 for lach of promises itemizes the bill s">,000 for mental anguish, s2,oofi fileil'ling clothes, a S2OO doctor's; and "estimated cost ol living foi years at fGOO iter year, which wt have been borne by the defendant her husband had he married 1 $15,000." NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT SEE. 112 ECONOMIC HISTORY ! OF THE I UNITED STATES t=~ ~~ UNDER jhC I ;„onc"T.ON n*?*j ~;J TINKERING WITH THE TARIFF Protection Enemies Hope Sectional Discontent Will Break Down System. Finding nothing else to combat when they take up the coming politi cal campaign, the Democrats are like ly to make the proposition to tinker with the tariff the main issue. They already have found hopes of victory In Massachusetts, where the shoe man ufacturers want a lower tariff on hides, so that they may buy leather cheaper, the American packing con cerns having so cornered the hide market that the tanners cannot ob tain supplies to carry out their con tracts without putting up the price of their products. In some localities in the eastern states there is a popular demand for a readjustment of the tariff rates on articles Which are shut out now and cannot be imported in competition with American materials; but in every conspicuous instance the demand is local and affects only a small number of people. The American tariff is for the pro tection of the entire American people ■ —the people as a whole, not the peo ple of particular localities. Were this not the case the tariff would be unfair and unjust, in adjusting rates the several localities to be affected for good or evil were given respectful con sideration, but the good of the whole nation was the criterion for the final scale. No other basis or consideration for an equitable tariff could be adopt ed. The constitution of the United States and the constitutions of the several states prohibit class legislation or favors to special localities. Any thing which affects one locality more than another is not chargeable to fa voritism or unfairness, but is the good fortune or the misfortune of that par ticular locality under the operation of a law general and broad in its scope and intended to be free of discrimina tion in its effect. The attempt to make th* complaints of people of particulat localities against the tariff schedules a matter of national interest will be in line with the long established policy of the Democratic party to draw sectional lines and array one portion of the country against the others, to create special instead of presenting national propositions in combating the opposite party. The unexampled prosperity of the past 12 years is due to the protection given by the statesmen of the Re publican party to domestic industries. Any departure from that policy will be a break in the wall of defense be hind which American labor and cap ital have fought foreign invasions. Tinkering with the tariff will be like letting little streams trickle through a great dike till they wear the way for a larger flow and finally destroy the whole barrier against the floods. Behind a safe wall of reasonable, fair and just protection the American peo ple are building up industries and de veloping material wealth at a rate never dreamed of by the old-time Bourbon statesmen, whose war cry always was free-trade and cheap labor. Good wages to the workmen and a fair profit to the capitalist make the wheels of industry go round smooth ly and constantly, and both the wage of the workman and the profit of the capitalist depend upon keeping the gates closed to the products of cheap labor abroad and the incoming of cheap stuff from the overcrowded markets of other nations. This policy may make prices higher in this coun try to the consumer, but it gives the consumer the same telaiively high price for what he produces, and thus evens up the scale and keeps the wheels of industry and the marts of commerce going. There Is "something CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1906. doing" under a protective tariff, and that's what makes a happy people. Closed factories, half-tilled farms, rust ing railroads, dilapidated cities and towns may be attractive to Bourbon Democracy, but the aggressive Repub licans of this country want to see something going on all the time- They are the apostles of Industry and activ ity, not the advocator of free-trade and plenty of leisure. —Iloonville (Mo.) Republican. CAMPAIGN ON HIGHER LINES. Republicans This Year Do Not Need to Make Any Defense of the Dingley Tariff. Voters in the west are under no necessity of resting satisfied with "the bald assertion that the Dingley act is the perfection of tariff legislation," while even the party opponents of that act are compelled in their state ments of facts and conditions in the business world, to prove its surpass ing efficacy. The widening distribu tion of manufacturing industries over the country is at last admitted by the free traders after years of denial, be cause the fact has now become so palpable that continued denial, even free traders can see, would involve a disastrous reaction against those persisting in it. The diffusion of in vestment and of enterprise under tha Dingley tariff law are such as to be caimble of easy demonstration. They, in fact, demonstrate themselves and make "The bald assertion that the Dingley act is the perfection of tariff legislation" unnecessary. Bald asser tion is never necessary when facts and figures are available. If we are to have a tariff campaign this year it is growing reasonably clear that it is to be on higher lines than in the day of the last, great ob fuseation. Cleveland got the key to the White House in 1892 on incongru ities and absurdities which cannot be repeated in any tariff campaign into which the Democratic party will ven-i ture, or let itself be driven without wiping it off the map. it finds itself forced to admit the distribution of manufacturing industries and the ex istence of a home market for food stuffs and raw materials raised on the farms. The country retains a vivid recollection of the last campaign in which it was contended that there was no distribution of manufacturing in dustry and no home market which could maintain the prices of farm products. The Republican party has recognized, jn the passage of the rail way rebate and regulation law, that its broad national policy of diffusing industrial growth and placing con sumers and producers on one com mon basis of interest, must be sup piemen ed by new legislation. It con cedes that the Dingley law, while it has worked miracles of change from the soup-house era of tariff tinkering under Cleveland, must be buttressed by other laws, regulating internal commerce between the states, from time to time. It makes no claim of absolute perfection for any human device. But according to Democratic testimony the results of its policy to date are such that it may well "stand pat" for the campaign.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Smartness. "How do those particular members of the smart set show their smart ness?" asked the inquisitive person. "In keeping out of the divorce court," answered Miss Cayenne.— Washington Star. Purity. The public executioner of Austria wears a pair of new white gloves every time be carries out a capital sentence. SICK FOR TEN YEARS. Constant Backache, Dropsy and Se vere Bladder Trouble. Fred W. Harris, of Chestnut St.,-Jef ferson, Ohio, says; "For over ten years I suffered from t kidney disease. The third year my feel and hands would swell and remaia puffed up for day 3 at a time. I seemed to have a constant backache. Finally I got so bad that I was laid tip in bed with several doctors in attendance. I thought surely I would die. I changed medicine and be gan using Doan's Kidney Pills when I was still in bed. The relief I found was so great that I kept on until I had taken about ten boxes. The kid ney secretions became natural and after years of misery I was cured. I have increased in weight, and show no symptoms of my former trouble." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Mi'burn Co., Buffalo. N. Y. WHEN THE BED GOES 'ROUND But Smith Wat Too Wise to Wait on the Procession. "That was an amusing story about the congressman who caught his bed the fourth time it came around. It reminded me," continued the narrator "of the first time I heard the bed phrase. It happened in Harrisburg, where I was then stationed, and i< happened to a legislator whom I shall call Smith. "At the first session Smith becani famous for his ability to comfortably carry mere liquor than any other man In tho legislature. At the opening ci the second session some Philadel phians got together and put up a job on Smith. They arranged relays, so that when one party had enough an .other should take hold, and thus keep going until they had Smith down and out. Well, they began with Smith one evening, and after two relays bad succumbed their successors noted with much satisfaction that Smith was mixing his beverages—they didn't know that was his custom, and he fooled them all. The bout con tinued all night and all of the next day, and when the second evening came Smith was the only man able to get away unaided. "Several days later I asked Smith how he got along after he reached his hotel. "When I got into my room," he replied, "I saw a procession o? beds coming in my direction. I grabbed the first one, fell into it, and woke up the next afternoon.' "—Pitts burg Chronicle-Telegraph. The natives of the Malay peninsula have in use the smallest current coin in the world. It is a sort of wafer, made from the resinous juice of a tree, and is worth about one-twenty thousandth of a cent. Hasty Mervous Chewing of Food the Cause of Dyspepsia If your teeth are fit, chew, chew, chew, until the food is liquid and insists on being swallowed. If teeth are faulty, soften Grape- Nuts with hot milk or cream, or allow to stand a minute soaking in cold cream. "There's a reason," as follows: Grape-Nuts food is in the form of hard and brittle granules, intended to be ground up by the teeth; that work not only preserves the teeth but brings down the saliva from the gums so necessary in the primary work of digestion. Many people say (and it is true) that when they eat Grape-Nuts they seem able to digest not only that food but other kinds which formerly made trouble when eaten without Grape-Nuts. Chew!! "There's a reason" for Grape* Nuts Peculiar African Forest. The most extraordinary ft rest ir the world was discovered by Dr Welwitsrh, and occupies a tableland some six miles in width, near th« west coast of Africa. The peculiar ity of the trees is that, though theh trunks are as much as four feet ir diameter, they attain the height o) only a foot. No tree boars more tliar I two leaves, and these attain a lengtl ] of six and a breadth of two foet. English Intensity. The Englishman loves nothing sc much as practical activity. It is this trait which has raised hira to such an important position in politics and in dustry, and which has given birth to English sport. Not this alone, how ever, but the fact that the English man does nothing half-heartedly or on a small scale, but entirely, intensely, with his whole heart. —Frankfurter Zeitung. The Perfect Ear. The perfect ear should be about twice as long as it is broad. It should be delicate and pink, and should touch the head with the back of the upper point. Outstanding ears are hopeless ly disfiguring. A woman who is af ilicted with this kind of a beauty ill should dress her hair in a way that will partly hide her e^rs. And His Hair Was Thin. An English authority on athletics gives it as his judgment that men should not enpage in the game of football after they have reached the age of thirty years. When a man is thirty years old he is supposed to have arrived at the age of rtaion. — IJO-i \ngeles Times. Pigs, Shoats and Hogu. When does a pig become a hog? Some authorities say when it is big enough to hold its own with the hogs at the trough. That sounds very well, but it is not right. Prof. .Jay D. Lentz, of Concord, says a pig does not be come a hog but a shoat, and the shoat becomes a bog. Much Money Sent to Italy. A single bank in Naples receives half a million dollars a year sent out of the United States by temporary Italian residents. The same bank has received from Italians in Argentina and Brazil $828,000 and $125,000, re spectively, in one year. Our Records. Let us not in our pride forget that in future ages people, scanning the records we leave, will wonder at the fact that we had the audacity to claim to be civilized when it was necessary for us to have policemen to keep U3 in order. Some Foes of Memory. Scientists have discovered that the memory is stronger in summer than in winter. Among the worst foes of memory are too much food, too much physical exercise, and, strangely enough, too much education. Higher Than Mount Everest. Mount Everest is 29,002 feet high; but lately it is believed that two peaks behind Everest are actually higher than it, which hitherto has been considered the highest mountain in the world. Real Old-Fashioned Umbrella. There has been discovered at Green ock, England, an old-fashioned umbrel la with whalebone ribs, which must be quite 120 years old. When opened it affords shelter for a whole family. A Rich Possession. This was ever my chief prayer: A piece of ground, not too large, with a garden, and a spring of never-failing water near my house, and a little woodland besides.—Horace. Growth of Cotton Industry. In 1800 100,000 bales of cotton would have lasted the Lancashire mills for a year; now the same amount only feeds their spindles for a day and a quarter. Uncle Eben. "A person dat has mo' money dan he knows what to do with," said Un cle Eben, " 'pears to be a good deal like a man wif de dyspepsia in a house full o' pie." s G.SCHMIDT'S,^ FOR rREBH BREAD J popular P " I,c¥ "CTCREA.. §_ __ # CONFECTIONERY Dally Delivery. orders given prompt and skillful attention. WHEN IN DOUBT, TRY Theyhiraitood the teit of ye*. OTDnUe r * » D U have cured th«uiaad«9| WTZA oIHURb i IMJUII la the whole Mil. All dralni aqd lotie* are checkef frrmanrntty. mu2m2 *'* property cured, their eoadltion often voirlea them Into lalaalty. Consumption or Deatk. Mailed icaled. Price ii per box: « boxe*, vlth Iron-Clad lef«l money, #5.00. Scad for iree book. AddreM, PEAL UCDIOINK «&, t total* ty M. Q. Doisca, DimgglMt, BoipariM.ra. THB Windsor Hotel 8 Between 12th and 13th fits.. on Filbert Bt. 1% Philadelphia, Pa. Throe minutes WAMC from the Reading 112 Terminal. 1 r I Five minute* WU.K from the Pena'a R. C R. Depot. ~~ European Plan SI.OO per day and uprrarde. ■ American Plan (2.00 per day. ; FRANK M. SCHEIBLEY. Manager. 112 S The Place to Buy Cheap S ) J. F. PARSONS' > Wo promptly obtain I'. s. and Foreign < Send model, sketch or photo of invention for'' / frceroport on patentability. For free took, ( ' madam "««!»!«. Dean's A a*fe, certain relief for Hup pressed Menstruation. Never known to fall. Hafe! Sure! Speedy! Satisfaction Guaranteed or money Reminded. Went prepaid for 11.00 per box. Will «end them on trl&l, to be paid for when relieved. Samples Free. UNITED MEDICAL CO. , Box 74, L*NC*«TC> r*. Bold in Emporium by L. ITaggart am' H. 0,. Dodson. -' Bafe.ipeedy regulator: 25cetit». PrtiKglsti or matt' Booklet free. DHL. LAFHAKCO, Philadelphia, Pa. MM'—mi 11 run mw wwm <i | WIT nn A «r. If jol «. I PILES SuppasUorg H A D. Matt. Thoraptra, inpt. P Qrtf«4 MNII, fitauoi'.U, V. C.. wrlUi: "Inn nj BJ \Uj *• tU T«m claim Tor tbe»." I)r. t. M. u look, w. Tft., wrlt«a i "Tktj |lv« «nlr«r«al »atl»- H fbatUa." Dr. ■. D. IfcOlll, Ohtrkibarg, Teao., writes i M "!• ft praotic# of H jaart, I hart foaal so rtm«4* to I S u * 1 Jinn." Fauca, AO Cbbic. fUrapica frr«. |«I4 Emporlas by i- Caggart ui A. C EVERY WOMAN JKfeJ>ki Sometimes needs a reliable monthly regulating medicine. Jl DR. PEAL'S PENNYROYAL piLLS, Are prompt, safe and certain In result. The gcnu» loe (Dr. Peal's) never disuppolnt. SI.OO per bun. Sold by R. C. Dodson, druggist .21 For Bill Heads, Letter Heads, Fine Commercial! Job Work of All Kinds, Get Our Figures*
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