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Your Duty to Others.
We must all realize that this life Is
full of sorrow, and if you personally
have had the good luck to escape your
share of it you are a very fortunate
person. But do not. on that account,
allow yourself to grow cold-hearted
and unsympathetic to others. Those
l>oor others! Tneir lot is often so hard
—so lonely—so full of misery. We
are here to"heal the wounds and
bind tho broken-heart;" and the only
way we can do this is by being kind,
loving and sympathetic. A few words
of love will do more to help a sufferer
than money sometimes, says the New
York Weekly. For heart sickness is
much harder to help than hunger and
poverty. Show interest in others; try
to help them; go out of your way to
lighten the burden of the heavily
laden. Do not hesitate to whisper
your kindly thoughts in their ears.
Don't pass by on the "other side;" If
you are strong, then be merciful. Re
member that we all look at life front
a different standpoint, and what might
appear like a grain of mustard seed
in your path to you is an almost in
surmountable obstacle to your weaker
sister. The more she shrinks the
more necessity for you to step in and
help her on her way with genuine
sympathy and loving sisterly words
and acts.
Some French writers have under
taken unitedly to show to the world
that their national literature is not
truly represented by the coarse and
indecent novels that are supposed by
many persons to be the most charac
teristic production of literary France.
Not only is it not true, remarks the
Youth's Companion, but the picture of
French life drawn from these novels
is grossly unjust. There are hundreds
of French novels written every year
that are as sweet and wholesome as
anything England or America can
show; and anyone who desires a true
representation of French family life
may find it in Prof. Barrett Wendell's
recent book. Moreover, the study of
art, history, science and many other
branches is pursued In France by com
petent and painstaking writers. It is
proposed to establish agencies In Eng
lish and American cities for the sale
of the best French books.
If there are not 48 stars on the flag
within a year or two it will not he for
lack of effort on the part of citizens
of Arizona and New Mexico. A con
vention of delegates from every part
of New Mexico adopted resolutions
the other day demanding the admis
sion of the territory as a state. Tho
governor of Arizona has reported that
the statehood sentiment in that terri
tory is stronger than ever before.
Bills were introduced in the senate
on the first working day of the session
of congress providing for the creation
of two new states out of the terri
tories. As the effort to pass a joint
statehood bill has been abandoned it
is now necessary for the two terri
tories to convince congress that they
are worthy to be admitted to the fam
ily of states.
That the world is not drifting into
n sameness of conventionality is
proved by a debutante dinner in De
troit. where the guests were enter
tained by a cock fight, in which the
game roosters had boxing gloves on
their spurs, and by the offer of a
woman in Cincinnati to sell her body
to a medical school to raise money
enough to buy a bridal trousseau.
A story comes from Philadelphia of
a mother who nearly killed her child
by making the old mistake of taking
a bottle of poison for the medicine
which should have been administered.
The present age lias man\ marks of
progression, but it seems impossible
to teach everybody tho gnat impor
tance of being careful to get the light
bottle.
\\ e have It from an eastern scien
tist that girls can preserve their
beauty ! >:• a hundred years by the use
of radium. As it only costs about a
million dollars a pound the prescrip
lion will not be generally followed.
Besides, remarks the Detroit Free
Press, Detroit and Michigan girls
don t need it.
NO WAR WITH JAPAN
ALL SPECULATION AS TO CON
FLICT IS IDLE.
That Country in No Financial Con
dition to Join Issue with So
Powerful a Foe as the
United States.
Highly significant dispatches from j
Japan contain matter that should help ;
to put a quietus 011 jingoes and alarm- |
ists here and in Europe. No sane per- j
son surely would see anything but a
sign ot' lack of warlike intentions in j
a government which introduces a liud- j
get calling for immense reductions in j
army and navy appropriations. The '
total proposed retrenchment program i
involves 100,000,000 yen, and two-I
thirds of this would dock the army j
and navy expenditures formerly laid
out for 1908-03.
Retrenchment is a case of sheer
necessity for Japan. National in- j
solvency is the alternative. The limit I
of the taxable capacity of the people j
has been reached, and the failure to
lioat the last loan in London shows
ominously for the national credit 1
abroad, even at a period of wide- j
spread stringency.
Japan's foreign debt, now i:i some 1
2,300,000,000 yen, bearing a high rate
of interest that is eating into the nar
row resources of the people annually.
The immense burden of the late war,
felt in inordinate taxation of an im
poverished people, dims the glory of
military achievement, and a series of
bank failures, strikes and dangerous
social demonstrations indicates a
looming domestic crisis that must be j
prepared against. Hence this sudden j
calling a halt on a program of army j
and navy expansion that Japan simply
can not pay for.it is growing evident
that the peace of Portsmouth came
none too soon for Japan, and that the
surrender of the money indemnity wsmj I
a heavy sacrifice.
The seat of Japan's anxiety is at
home, and the anxiety is primarily
financial. The question of comparative
fighting ability aside, the sheer finan- !
cial burden of a war with the United 1
States would crush Japan within a ■
twelvemonth. A country facing a
problem of threatened national in
solvency. and with its foreign credit
for war purposes already eaten up, is
in no mood or condition to seek a pre
text for war.
The Aldrich Currency Bill.
The Aldrich-Allison currency bill
may be an admirable measure, it will
give to the currency an elasticity
Which it does not now possess and in
sures the soundness of any circulating
notes which may be issued against
security other than that now required
of the national banks.
Hut there is no reason for hurrying
its passage. The country does not
want congress to swallow any Aldrich
bill, bait, hook, and sinker. The sena
tor from Rhode Island said that the
I finance committee would be glad to
have suggestions, amendments, or
other currency bills from his col
leagues in the senate.
It. has not come to our notice that
Senator Aldrich has undertaken to
consult the middle western bankers.
It may be that while his bill is satis
factory to his own financial friends
it will not suit Chicago, or Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan,
lowa or Minnesota. At first glance
it would seem that while the bill, if en
acted into law, may benefit t£e
country as a whole, 't will serve east
ern interests and eastern banks rather
than the banks and general business
of the interior. The bankers of the
interior should be heard. Congress
should consult them as to the effect
of the proposed measure before it
reaches a conclusion as to the charac
ter of the law which It is to enact.
The speaker of the house is from
the middle west, and can serve his
constituents by seeing to it that be
fore there is any currency legislation
their interests shall have been con
sulted.
The Country Itself Again.
It is certainly in order to congratu
late the banking and business com
munity on the disappearance of the
last signs of the recent stringency.
The New York banks have resumed
full cash payments and report a sub
stantial surplus over their legal re
serves. In Chicago and other western
centers, where conditions were at no
time nearly so bail as in the east,
clean.-g house certificates have not
been used for some time, and the
extra-legal emergency "currency" is
rapidly being retired. The premium
on currency is a thing of the past even
in Wall street, anil country banks are
again sending their surplus cash to
the money markets.
Protection Policy Defended.
During the campaign we shall hear
something about protection and free
trade. Mr. Bryan and his friends will
argue from the assertion that protec
tion is the mother of trusts and that
the surest, means of dealing with
trusts is to destroy protection. The
Republicans should welcome that de
bate—should welcome even the most
veiled attack on a system which
stands so thoroughly justified by ex
perience. If protection cannot be de
fended nothing can be. If was never
more deserving of the title "the
American policy" than it is to-day.
with America, under its application,
in the front rank of producing and
flourishing nations.—Washington Star.
CAMERON COUNTY PRBS6, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1908.
THE LEVEL OF COST.
Prices Have Advanced Throughout
the World.
Many persons in our country who
have complained of tlit* increased cost
of the necessaries of life have talked
and written as if the condition were
peculiar to the United States and af
fected us alone. The fact, as is
known to students of broader view, is
that high prices have been and are
world-wide. Increased cost here is
coincident with increased cost abroad.
If prices had risen in the United States
only we might blame the tariff or the
trusts or anything else prominent in
the political discussions with better
show of reason, but since the foreigner
suffers with the American consumer
it ought to be clear that the things
most dwelt upon here as underlying
causes of greater cost are not the re
sponsible ones.
A deputy speaking in the German
Reichstag recently on the increase in
the cost of living in Berlin, said that
it amounted to ,'io 1-3 per cent, in the
last ten years; that the price of
articles of general consumption had
in some instances advanced over 00
per cent., as. for example, in the case
of rye, which had gone up 62.T per
t cent., while wheat' had risen 45 per
; cent, since 1901 and flour 34 per cent,
i since September, 1906; barley had
' risen ten per cent, and potatoes 12 per
j cent, since last year; in 1900 the price
lof beef had risen "6 per ceat., veal
41.5 per cent., mutton 50 per cent., and
pork 40.0 per cent., compared with
what (hey had cost ten years before;
during the last 12 months all these
prices, except in the case of pork, the
price of which had slightly decreased,
had recorded further advances.
Prices of things which enter into
j general consumption tend everywhere
I tf) a common level. Special causes in
| terfere to make the price of some
j article or some class of articles a lit
i tie higher here or a little lower there,
but in general when the price is high
or low in one country it is the same
lin another and all. There is the im
' portant difference always, however,
j that the purchasing power of ottr own
| people is greater than that of the peo
j pies of other nations. —Pittsburg <!a
--| zette-Times.
Army Pay.
Secretary Taft in his annual report
! urges congress to grant higher pay to
| the enlisted men of the army. He
! especially wants better compensation
: to be given to men who have received
I a specialized training in the service
which enables them to earn higher
wages outside after their terms of
enlistment expire. Such men ought to
i be kept in the army, and the only way
to keep them is by giving them in
ducements to re-enlist, among which
i better pay holds a chief place.
The pay given the men was fixed so
• long ago that it has no proper rela
! Hon to present economic conditions,
i Even the pay for men in their first
: enlistment should be somewhat raised.
! But the chief raises should goto tho
skilled men who repeatedly re-enlist
and to tho noncommissioned officers
j who make the army their life work.
It has been suggested that a grade
j equivalent to that of the warrant offi
( cer in the navy should be created in
the army, and that material privileges,
: allowances and increased dignity
| should accompany appointment to it.
We do not have a large army, and
i yet we find it very difficult to keep
| its ranks full. The decrease in the
number of enlisted men last year was
4,428, despite the best efforts of the
I enlistment officers.
Under such conditions a judicious
! increase in the pay of the men is de
sirable. even though congress should
;be in its most economical mood.
: There are plenty of varieties of petty
! graft and waste which might be elim
j inated elsewhere if economy is in the
| air.
That Handy Surplus.
Silly free trade writers are harping
on the treasury surplus as one of the
causes of the existing situation. They
! never stop to think that because of
I this very surplus the government was
| able to rush $25,000,000 of currency to
j the relief of banks which would other
j wise have been compelled to suspend
payment and close their doors. That
treasury surplus has proved an anchor
lof safety, a fortress of financial
! strength. The government bad no
| surplus with which to help out the
| banks in the free trade regime of
| 189.1-97. It was, instead, issuing bonds
to the extent of $200,000,000 to cover
j treasury deficits. Protection surpluses
j are sometimes handy things to have.
The Panama Canal.
The testimony with regard to tho
Panama canal before the house com
mittee Is exceedingly Interesting. It is
j given by those who know whereof they
j are speaking, and also who are frank
and candid in expressing themselves.
There has been too much hesitation
heretofore concerning the facts —hesi-
tancy that really accomplished no
good purpose, and often creates sus
picion. The testimony gives a sort of
i bird's-eye view of what is going on at
! Panama, and creates a conviction of
j something like speedy achievement.
Is Worth the Cost.
Whether the canal costs $200.n00,000
or $140,000,0(10 is a matter of more or
less indifference in comparison with
! the importance of the undertaking
: and the relation it will have to the
■ ! welfare of this country. It will easily
| he worth the larger sum if it can be
J built for no less, and the people hava
' | so much confidence in the men now in
• | control of the work that they will not
j question the wisdom of the expemli-
I tures which circumstances may show
i to be requisite.—Denver Republican.
BIG STICK FALLS ON STILLINGS
THE PUBLIC PRINTER IS SUS
PENDED FROM OFFICE.
The Action Is Taken in Order to Aid
the Investigation of the Govern
ment Printing Office.
Washington, D. C. President
Roosevelt on Wednesday temporarily
suspended as public printer Charles
A. Stlllings and appointed William S.
Rossiter temporarily to fill the duties
of that office. The action, as ex
plained officially, is to facilitate the
investigation now being made of the
government printing office by con
gress. Mr. Rossiter now is chief
clerk of the census office.
Just as the president's action in
suspending Mr. Stillitigs was being
announced, a committee of labor lead
ers of this city called at the White
House and presented to the president
resolutions adopted by the Central
Labor union here charging Mr. Stiil
lngs with violations of the eight-hour
law in the government printing office
and adding: "It is difficult at this
time to get witnesses against Mr.
Stlllings, for the reason that many of
them are employed in tho government
printing office and directly under his
charge. We hope, however, to follow
up our oral statement by way of affi
davits if necessary." The president
Informed the committee of the action
he had- taken in the case.
Resolutions by numerous labor or
ganizations in various cities charging
violation in the government printing
office of the eight hour law, discrimi
nation against veteran soldiers and
the widows of soldiers and violation
of the civil service law have bora
submitted to congress and the presi
dent.
Mr. Stillings is from Boston and
was appointed public printer in 1905.
He had been general manager of his
lather's printing firm in New York
and at various times manager of the
printers' board of trade of this city
and of New York. Mr. Rossiter also
came from Massachusetts and had
business connections in New York
and Washington before assuming of
fice in the census bureau in 1890.
THEY DIED TOGETHER.
Two Women, Friends for Years, Froze
to Death While Sitting Near an
Empty Stove.
New York City. Two women
were found dead Wednesday in the
kitchen of a house at No. 351 West
Seventy-first street, of which they
were caretakers. They were Mrs.
Margaret Bertie, 70 years old, and
Mrs. Margaret Kelly. 40 years old.
For many years they had been
friends.
There was a little coal In a bin in
the cellar and 17 cents were found in
a cupboard. The police think the wo
men set by a stove, in front of which
their bodies were found, to keep
warm and fell asleep before the fire
went out and were frozen to death.
Coroner Harburger said the women
had been dead more than 24 hours.
Each of the women had a heavy wrap
about her shoulders.
Pawn tickets which showed that
during the last two months Mrs. Ber
tie had pawned 18 articles of dress
and jewelry were found.
While the policemen were in the
house preparing to remove the bodies
to the morgue a collector for a stone
cutting concern called. This concern
built for Mrs. Bertie a small monu
ment over the grave of her son, Capt.
John W. Bertie, who served in the
Spanish-American war.
TRAINS ARE SNOWBOUND.
Michigan Is in the Grasp of a Blizzard
that Paralyzes Transportation.
Detroit, Mich. With upwards of
a dozen passenger trains snowbound
; in various parts of the state and Indi
j cations of zero weather, Michigan is
in the grasp of a blizzard that has
paralyzed transportation in many
sections and threatens to cause seri
ous distress. On the Flint division of
the Pore Marquette railroad a passen
ger train has been stalled since Sat
urday and with the railroad closed a
number of small towns are shut off
from their chief source of food sup
plies. So far as known the passen
gers on all snowbound trains have
been carried on bobsleds to nearby
towns or farm houses.
Last night the wind reached a
velocity of 50 miles an hour at De
troit.
Henry Laros, of Menominee, was
frozen to death Tuesday night while
trying to walk to a lumber camp near
Cedar River, in the upper peninsula.
Sues Match Trust for $25,000.
Toledo, O. —A motion was argued
in common pleas court on Wed
nesday to compel the Saginaw Match
Co. to exhibit all its books for in
spection, to show if it has sold out to
the Diamond Match Co., known as
the match trust. James Klatz, a
match salesman in whose behalf the
motion was presented, claims $25,000
damages from the Saginaw company
for breach of contract.
Congress.
Washington.—On the sth Mr. Bev
eritlge made a speech in the senate
in favor of his bill providing for a
non-partisan tariff commission. The
day in the house was devoted to
speeches on tariff revision and tho
president's recent message to con
gress.
Four People Burned to Death.
Preston, Minn. Four lives wore
lost when the house of Thomas
Yeast, four miles southwest, of here,
burned to the ground Tuesday night.
The victims are Mrs. Yeast, Charles
Engle, wife and baby. Mr. Yeast es
caped.
Earthquakes in Connecticut.
Danbury, Conn. Residents of
Lanesvllle and points in the llousa
tonic river valley between Brookfield
and New Mil ford were startled Wed
nesday by two distinct earthquake
shocks and several large cracks ap
peared in the earth.
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of the most handsome dishes ffl
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both in imported and domestio
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the "DOMESTIC" and "ELDRIDGE.' All drop-
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