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The Job department of the Pkess is complete And affords facilities for iloinu the best class of work. Pakticulah atten iion paid to Law Printing. No paper will br discontinued until arrenr ut.H are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. l'apers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. Inheritance and Environment. Inheritance and environment are not only realities, but are the most impor tant elements of the everyday life. The thought of yesterday fixes the tendency of to-day. The conditions of to-day are the background against •which every life is projected.—Albion W. Tourgee. Convenience for Telegraphing. When a traveler in the grand duchy «112 Baden wants to send a telegram while he is on the train, he writes the message on a postcard, with the request that it be wired, puts on a stamp and drops into the train letter box. At the next station the box is cleared and the message sent. Wooden Warships Lasted Long. Some of the old-time frigates lived four times as long as our modern bat tleships and cruisers, and they were made entirely of wood. Steel ships rust out; wooden ships wear out. At ten years our navy is obsolete or prac tically so.—New York Press. High Price for Rare Stamp. One of the rarest stamps in ex istence, the 20 centimes or 15 centimes of Italy, Issued in April, 18G5, has just been sold for £36 at a London auc tion. The specimen is known as the variety with dots and surcharge in verted. A Suggestion. A Boston gentleman has, out of sym pathy, married a woman who was knocked down by his motor car, and had a leg amputated. We believe that if this kind of thing were made oblig atory by law we should hear of fewer people being run over. Sign and Guard of Sanity. A man's life and influence is meaS' tired by the range of interests to which he can respond. A store of per manent and valued interests is both a sign and guard of sanity.—Henry Churchill King. Boy Was an Observer. "What is the best place in whicli to keep fresh milk in hot weather?" asked the teacher. "Please, teacher, In the cow," answered the small boy ■who had just returned from a country holiday. i Crowded Out of Own House. The bishop of London had the ex perience recently of being crowded out of his own house. He had agreed to open a bazaar at Fulham palace, but •when he arrived tho crush was so great that he could not at first get in. The Evils of Divorce. Not a few of the matrimonial fail ures are due to the fact that a good many women get married merely to keep the public from supposing they have never been proposed to.—Chica go Record-Herald. Cider Drinking in England. In the English cider countries all the Inns still display tho old legend: "Drunk for a penny; dead drunk for twopence." Cider plays a notable part tn the Christmas festivities. Work of Watch Wheels. ' The main wheel of a watch makes 460 revolutions a year, the central •wheel 8,760, the third wheel 70,080, the fourth 525,600 and the escape wheel 731,860. Causes of Neuralgic Headache. At least 90 per cent, of all cases of neuralgic headache are attributed by Dr. Toms, an American oculist, to de fects of the eyes. Good and Simple Food. Macaulay sakl that no man need ask for better food than plain roast beef and baked potatoes. In Addition to a Fat Graveyard. Or, to put it another way: "A sloppy •winter makes a big doctor's bill." To Be Hidden from the World. A man's folly ought to be hl» &Teat est secret. —Chinese Proverb. Sugar in Plants and Trees. Sugar is to be found In tlie sap of nearly 200 plants and trees. Patience in Misfortune. Every misfortune can be subdued With patience—Socrates. BRYAN HAS THE GRIP Will the Tide Recede or Rise? ARMY'S GOOD WORK COUNTRY HAS REASON TO BE PROUD OF ITS SOLDIERS. Arduous Duties in the Philippines Per formed Faithfully and Well —De- velopment of Filipino Force Has Turned Out Well. There is a touch of pride in that part of Secretary Taft's report on Philip pine conditions in which he recounts the work of the United States army. He has been one of the strongest advo cates of an effective fighting force. He has urged plans of many kinds for keeping the army in first-class condi tion. He believes that, the record of its achievements in the islands should not be minimized as the decade of oc cupation is-reviewed. The army seldom is brought to the attention of the ordinary American citizen. He sees it on parade occa sions or at military posts if he ever gets near one. It is hard for him to appreciate its value or to understand why, in time of peace, there is need for such an organization. Hut when the transformation of the country into a world power with dependencies is recalled the possible service of sol diers is better indicated. In the Phil ippines the secretary believes that the army has been one of the most ef fective of the agencies which have brought order out of confusion. It has to contend with bands of guerrillas scattered through the islands. Sometimes there have been 500 distinct posts with a maximum of 65,000 men attached to them. The work has been anything but pleasant. But its success proclaims its effective ness. It is a notable feature of this service, too, that the American sol diers exhibited toward the natives a far better feeling than might have been expected considering the charac ter of the warfare. The development of an American force composed of Filipinos has been encouraged. It has appealed to the military instinct of the people and has proved a helpful mechanism in the general scheme of government. The suggestion of the secretary about West Point training for a few of the natives is a good one. Under govern ment encouragement a large number of Filipino boys have been given the advantages of American schools. The colleges and universities have been generous in giving free tuition and other help to them. Just why the gov ernment schools should not share in this work does not appear. The Last Time They Reformed It. The last time the Democrats re formed the tariff is so comparatively recent that men still young have a vivid recollection of it, and those who were not old enough to realize the dis asters of the Wilson bill as a personal experience, have learned of it as a bit ter tradition. Whatever sentiment there may be for tariff reform, it is safe to say there is not much demand for tariff revision at the hands of the Democratic party. Gov. Johnson argues that because the Democracy has won twice in 50 years on a tariff reform platform, it can do so again this year. The logic of the situation is the other way about. A burnt child dreads the fire. —Jersey City Journal. Advocates Tariff Commission. If congress had an unimpeachable authority to provide it with facts con cerning Industrial conditions and tar iff needs, and if the reports of this authority were available to the public generally, so that every citlasn could have a good test as to whether the congressmen were ik>ing thier duty or descending to log-rolling, then it would be much more probable that we could get a tariff law that would be in her ently fair and consequently proof against criticism. It is with this ob ject that Senator Ileveridge lias in troduced a bill for the creation of an expert commission to investigate facts and to certify facts to congress.—Chi cago Record-Herald. . CAMERON COUNTV PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 30, 1908. JAPAN AND OUft FUTURF. French Writer Discusses the Smolders ing Embers of Strife. That diplomacy has failed to effect a cure and has brought merely tem porary relief to the strained relations between Japan and the United States is once more asserted abroad. Andre Tardleu of France, student of interna tional politics, is the most recent to give voice to the belief that Japan and America are tending inevitably to an armed struggle. The present attitude of the two countries he characterizes as little more than a makeshift, a su perficial amity below which are the unsettled issues of immigration and of dominance in the Pacific, smolder ing embers of strife 'which are inex tinguishable and must ever remain a barrier to permanent peace. M. Tardieu emphasizes the improb ability of speedy war—and dwells upon the probability of a future con flict. He looks into the future and declares that: "As the Japanese have changed their industrial life so they may alsc change their political conditions, and the populace may sometime bo able to carry the day against the counsels of the 'elder statesmen.' When the population of Japan, progressing co lossally, has filled up the outlets opened by the wars with China and Russia, may it not covet Hawaii and the Philippines as it coveted Formosa and Korea?" When such time comes—if come it does—the war which M. Tardieu fore sees will burst; but will that time come? Peace gains with every year. In the years which must elapse before the crisis which this French student predicts, may not the influences which have brought about The Hague meet ings have grown so powerful in all civilized nations as to force Japan tc abide by the judgment of the world and hold its people as well as its army and navy in check? So far as the American republic in concerned, its diplomacy is and will continue to be for peace, for adjust ment of difficulties by amicable com promise. But without cultivating that foolish alarm and resentments which hurry peoples into conflict, there should be as a vertebra of our peace tul statecraft a thoroughly adequate preparedness for the final arbitra ment of war. A Revival of Bourbonism. The Boston Transcript thinks that the willingness of southern members of congress to hark back to recon struction days during the debate on the penal laws shows a recrudescence of Bourbonism. It generalizes thus: "The discussion abounded in reve lations of the reason the south is of so little weight not only in the broad policies of the union, but in the policy of the party which it most affects Southern orators in the midst of their most passionate pleas for a wide na tionalism still discuss the needs of the union from a purely sectional point of view. They do not broaden with the times, and seem unable to realize that they are far apart from the human mind, or that they are speaking in the closing years of the first decade of the twentieth century. Even John Sharp Williams, their floor leader, a man of broader culture thaj most of his followers, fails to rise to the many occasions offered him, and frequently is a representative of Mississippi rather than a member of the grand council of the nation." Under Republican Control. Republicans assumed control of this country March 4, 1897, with the instai lation of President McKinley, when tinkering with the tariff left the busi ness interests in a deplorable condi tion. the agricultural element in in solvency and the industrial masses dependent upon souphouses and those who had work with small wages and tiny dinner buckets to carry their meals. The tariff was readjusted and out of chaos came order. Out of ad verslty came prosperity. And from that day to the present the country continued to prosper.—Lincoln (Neb ) Herald. CHILEANS GREETED YANKEES. PRESIDENT MOTT REVIEWED OUR BATTLESHIP FLEET. Chilean Warships Exchanged Salutes with Those of the United States, Much Powder Being Burned. Valparaiso, Chile.—The great Amer ican fleet of 1G battleships, under the command of Rear Admiral Ev ans, passed Valparaiso Friday after noon and continued cn its voyage northward to Callao, Peru, the next stopping place. All Valparaiso and thousands of persons from every city in Chile witnessed the passing of the fleet. President Montt and the other high officials of the republic came out to greet the battleships and almost the entire Chilean navy exchanged salutes with them as they swung around Curaumilla Point and into Valparaiso Bay in single fil;, headed by the Chilean cruiser Chacabuco and five Chilean torpedo boat destroyers. Turning sharp around Curaumilla Point at 2:10 p. m.the Chacabuco and the five Chilean destroyers led the Connecticut and her 15 sister ships into view of the thousands who had awaited their appearance since dawn. The day was perfect and the spectacle of the fleet stretched in a great semi circle, as seen the high hills around the bay was magDificent. President Montt and other Chilean officials embarked on the training ship General Baquedano and took a position well out in the harbor. Around the Baquedano thefleet swung at a speed of four knots, firing the presidential salute as they passed in review, it was one hour from the time the head of the fleet entered the bay until the last vessel had passed the president's ship and turned to ward the open sea. Then the Baque dano lifted anchor and escorted the fleet well out of the bay and on its way to the north. The enthusiasm of the Chileans was almost boundless. SAYS IT IS INSOLVENT. New York's Attorney General Will Ask that a Receiver be Appointed for a Life Insurance Company. New York City. State Attorney General Jackson announced Friday that he has decided to ask for the ap pointment of a receiver for the Mu tual Reserve Life Insurance Co. Attorney General Jackson said his decision to ask for .a receiver was based on the report of Superintendent of Insurance Kelsey, who contended that the company is insolvent, with a deficit of .$1,717,114. The company has 37,000 policyhold ers, some of whom formed a commit tee to secure the dissolution of the company and distribution of its assets. Following tiie legislative insurance investigation several officers of the company were indicted on charges of larceny of the funds of the company, and of forgery. Albany, N. Y. Superintendent Kelsey, of the state insurance department, gave out la.'t night the report of the departmsnt examiners. Nelson B. Had ley and Charles Hughes, upon the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Co., together with a statement, in part as follows: "The Mutual Reserve Fund Life As sociation from its organization in 1881 down to 1902, was an assessment as sociation. In 1902 it reorganized as an old line level premium company and changed its name to the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Co." The examiners also say: "We found the last annual statement was both false and misleading." THE NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives. Washington.—ln tha senate 011 the 12th Senator Rayner, of Maryland, made a speech in opposition to the Aldrich financial bill. The criminal code bill was considered for two hours. The house passed the Indian appropriation bill and several speeches on the tariff and the presi dent's recent message were made. Washington.—ln the house on the 13th an interesting speech on the tariff was delivered by Champ Clark, of Missouri. General debate on the legislative appropriation bill was closed. The senate discussed the law governing the reserves of national banks, also the criminal code bill. Washington. The senate 011 the 14th gave attention to a speech in op position to the Aldrich currency bill by Senator Clay, of Georgia. Material progress was made in the house with the executive, legislative and judicial bill. REVIEW OF TRADE. Percentage of Idle Machinery in Man ufacturing Plants Decraiiies. New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Industrial plants steadily decrease the percentage of idle machinery, es pecially in the steel business, which increases the size of pay rolls and by raising the purchasing power of the wage earner improves retail trade. Thus far progress is slow in whole sale and jobbing departments, but as retail stocks are depleted there is more disposition to place orders for spring goods. Reports are still irregu lar, some sections of the country re covering much more rapidly than others, and a few interior cities record business even better than at this time last year. Ship Wrecked; Ten Lives Lost. Portland, Ore. The American ship Emily Reed, from New Cas tle, N. S. W., for Portland, went ashore I- rlday at the mouth of Ne halem river, on the Oregon coast, and broke in two. The Crew were swept overboard by the seas. Ten seamen were lost, while six were saved. Tornado Killed Four People. Tyler, Tex. Tyler was swept by the most disastrous tornadc ■n its history before daylight Friday. The storm swept over the main resi dence quarter of the city, killing fou» people. Protection Against Glanders. No horse, ass or mule may be brought Into Great Britain from any other country, except Ireland, the Channel islands or the Isle of Man, un less accompanied by a certificate of a veterinary surgeon to the effect that he examined the animal immediately before it was embarked, or while it was on board the vessel, and that he found the animal did not show symptoms of glanders or farcy. New Method of Resuscitation. A simple method for resuscitation from asphyxia is reported by Dr. W. Freundenthal of Berlin. He intro duced the index finger into the mouth and moved it to and fro over the epiglottis, causing an effort to swal low, which was immediately followed by a return of respiration. This proved successful when the older methods failed, while it makes severe traction on the tongue unnecessary. Too Late. A housewife of Newport News, Va., being without a maid, wrote to a young colored girl whom she knew to be out of work, and offered her a posi tion. A day or two later she received this reply: "Dere Mis Payne: I am verry sory but I cant come. I wish I gotten your letter jes a few days be fore, but now 1 cant come cause Ime going to get marrid to-morrer. re speckfully Annie." Rattler Explanation. The lattles of the rattlesnake lie edgewise. It is evident that they must do so, inasmuch as they are but con tinuations of the backbone. The tsnake carries the rattles 011 the ground ex cept when he raises them to sound his warning. This will be evidenced by the fact that in every snake of any size that is killed the rattles are worn through on the under aide. — Forest and Stream. Poisoned by Tiger Whiskers. In the recollections of a well-known big game hunter in India it is stated that after skinning a tiger it is al ways necessary to guard its whiskers, as the natives have an unpleasant habit of cutting them up very small and mixing them with the curry of those they dislike. The finely divided bristles set up an irritant poison, the results of which often prove serious. Age of the Legal Wig. The use of wigs by judges and bar risters is not very ancient. It was in troduced. I imagine, toward the end of the seventeenth or at the beginning of the eighteenth century, when it had become the fashion at court. Bishops continued to use wigs longer than their clergy, but they have discarded them, to their great advantage, for many years now.—London Morning Post. Old Roman Drinking Vessels. Tumblers resembling in shape and dimensions those employed to-day have been found in great numbers in Pompeii. They were made of gold, silver, glass, marble, agate and of precious stones. Uncle Eben. "When I sees a gemman honin' a razzer," said Uncle Eben, "l's minded of de fact dat some people never gits real active an' industrious 'ceppln' when dey's on de road to trouble." — Washington Star. Valuable Tame Rattlesnake. A tame rattlesnake belonging to an Arizona farmer sleeps every night on the front gate of its owner's garden, coiling himself around the gate and gatepoitt, so that a lock and chain to keep out intruders are not needed. " Danger In Soft Water. Experience in England shows that in towns supplied with soft water the death rate is 19.2, while in towns that have a supply of hard water it is only 16.5. Taken at His Word. "Pinch me if I fall asleep," mut tered the Stewed St.ude as he lurched against the lamppost, and the Proud Minion of the Law proceeded to do as he was bid. —Yale Record. Push It Along. When civilization really advances there will be public Institutions for the treatment of grouchy husbands and nagging wives. Hurry, hurry, happy day! G.SCHMIDT'S,^ ■ **1 A *MV''RTBRS FOR FREBH BREAD> || popular P "" cv s EA^ ' 1 BBEK&KHNm? CONFECTIONERY Daily Delivery. All order*given prompt *nd skillful attention. •• ■""■■■" ■"» .i...ii "■■ __■! §WHEN IN DOUBT. 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