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The Job department of the PHKSS Is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. pAUTICCLAB ATTENTION PAID TO L.AW PHINTINO. No paper will discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the optiou of the pub- Usher. Papers sent out of the county must bo paid (or In advance. Dogs as Suicides. According to M. Camille Flam maiion, the eminent astronomer and psychologist, it is possible for dogs to commit suicide. We ourselves liave heard of such things and take more or less stock in them, but M. Fiammarion believes that dogs suffer from grief and despair and kill themselves like human beings. His remarks were oc casioned by the alleged suicide of a Saint Bernard dog who threw himself under a motor bus in the Place Saint Sulpice recently, an hour after the death of his mistress. Jle argues that 'the dog may be assumed to have known as well as a human being that a motor bus would crush him to death, and when he got in front of its wheels he probably did so as the quickest way to end his grief at his mistress' demise. M. Fiammarion cites other in stances which have come under his notice of dogs committing suicide, and concludes that the stories are not so incredible as they seem at first sight, and adds that dogs may have even bor rowed the instinct from man. But hav ing given dogs credit for memory and intense affection, says the Boston Her ald, why doubt their capacity for men tal suffering? Maeterlinck, another ob server of dogs, lias given them souls, as well as memory and affections. Many a dog has died of grief even if he did not commit suicide. Six professors of the State College of Agriculture are making a tour through the farming regions of Penn sylvania on a special "educational train" furnished by a big railroad company. The trip combines instruc tion through lectures and object les sons in the shape of all sorts of up-to date equipment for farm work, carried on the train. One of various objects in view is encouraging the cultivation of alfalfa, the hardy grass which is pe culiarly valued as a hay producer. There are also suggestions for increas ing the output of dairy products, the care of live stock and other matters of practical moment. As the people flock to the train, view the exhibits and lis ten with deep interest to the lectures it is apparent that they are quite will ing to pick up hints that may be valu able in their business. There are five rare metals in the so called platinum group—rhodium, os mium, palladium, iridium, and ruthen ium. Rhodium resists the action of chemicals remaikably, acids that dis solve gold and platinum having no effect upon it. It is used for crucibles. Osmium is the heaviest of the metals, one-sixth heavier than gold. Iridium is one of the hardest of metals and is extensively used in the making of points for gold pens. All these rare and costly metals are obtained mere ly as by-products in the refining of platinum, and the world supply is con trolled by one firm in London. The expression, "Painting the town red," has been traced to"The Divine Comedy." Dante, led by Virgil, comes to the cavernous depths of the place swept by a mighty wind where those who are confined who have been the prey of their passions. Two faces arise from the mist —the faces of Francesca and Paola. "Who are ye?" cries Dante in alarm; and Francesca replies sadly, "We are those who have pajnted the world red with our sins." Emperor William thinks the Zeppe lin airship will give Germany an im portant advantage in the next great war to be fought in Europe, provided he can get them to fight it before a better airship than the Zeppelin con trivance is invented; but some of the powers ate perversely hanging back, apparently being determined to put off the conflict for years and perhaps for ever. Marriage and divorce statistics, offi cially compiled, present no encourag ing picture. A reaction is needed, a getting back to the simple life and wholesome occupation. His satanio majesty continues to keep a sharp lookout for the idle. There are about 6,000 New York per sons who have not been in the city on an average two months in a year in the last, decade. Europe, the south, seashore and mountains have them for tpe other ten months. i PRESIDENT SENDS STRONG MESSAGE ACCOMPANYING REPORTS OF THE CONSERVATION CONGRESS URGES NEEDED LEGISLATION Document In a Measure Is a De fense of the Retiring Administration —Duty of the Present Generation to Its Descendants Pointed Out —Obli- gations of Citizenship—Urgent Need for the Development of the Coun try's Water Power. Washington.—With the transmission of the report of the national conservation commission and accompanying papers. President Roosevelt also sent a message to congress. The following is a com prehensive synopsis of the document: The president declares lits entire con currence with the statements and con clusions of the report and proceeds; "It is one of the most fundamentally Important documents ever laid before the American people, it contains the first in ventory of its natural resources ever made by any nation. In condensed form It presents a statement of our available capital in material resources, which are the means of progress, and calls atten tion to the essential conditions upon which the perpetuity, safety and welfare of this nation now rest and must»always continue to rest. "The facts set forth in this report con stitute an imperative call to action. The situation they disclose demands that we, if. ! President Roosevelt. neglecting for a time, if need he, smaller and less vital questions, shall concentrate an effective part of our attention upon the great material foundations of na tional existence, progress, and prosperity. "The first of all considerations is the permanent welfare of our people; and true moral welfare, the highest form of welfare, can not permanently exist save on a firm and lasting foundation of mate rial well-being. In this respect our situ ation is far from satisfactory. After every possible allowance has been made, and when every hopeful indication has been given its full weight, the facts still give reason for grave concern. It would be unworthy of our history and our in telligence, and disastrous to our future, to shut our eyes to these facts or at tempt to laugh them out of court. The people should and will rightly demand that the great fundamental questions shall be given attention by their rep resentatives. I do not advise hasty or Ill considered action on disputed points, but I do urge, where the facts are known, where the public Interest Is clear, that neither Indifference and inertia, nor ad verse private Interests, shall be allowed to stand In the way oft'"> public good. "The great basic facts are already well known. We know that our population is now adding about one-fifth to its numbers in ten years, and that by the middle of the present century perhaps 150,000,000 Americans, and by its end very many millions more, must be fed and clothed from the products of our soil. "We know now that our rivers can and should he made to serve our people ef fectively In transportation, but that the vast expenditures for our waterways have not resulted in maintaining, much less in promoting, Inland navigation. Therefore, let us take Immediate steps to ascertain the reasons and to prepare and adopt a comprehensive plan for inland waterway navigation that will result in giving the people the benefits for which they have paid but which they have not yet received. We know now that our for ests are fast disappearing, that less than one-fifth of them are being conserved, and that no good purpose can be met by failing to provide the relatively small sums needed for the protection, use, and Improvement of all forests still owned by the government, and to enact laws to check the wasteful destruction of the for ests in private hands. "We know now that our mineral re sources once exhausted are gone for ever, and that the needless waste of them costs us hundreds of human lives and nearly J300.000.000 a year. Therefore, let us undertake without delay the In vestigations necessary before our people will be In position, through state action or otherwise, to put an end to this huge loss and waste, and conserve both our mineral resources and the lives of the men who take them from the earth. "This administration has achieved some things; it has sought, but has not been able, to achieve, others; it has doubtless made mistakes; but all It has done or attempted has been In the single, consistent .effort to se cure and enlarge the riffi and oppor tunities of the men and \ i of the I'nlted States. We are tr. con serve what is good in our -vs tem, and we are striving t end when we endeavor to do aw<».» .. ~n what is bad. Success may be made too hard for some if it is made too easy for others. The rewards of common Industry and thrift may be too small if the rewards for others, and on the whole less valuable, qualities, are made too large, and especially If the rewards for qualities which are really, from the public standpoint, undesir able. are permitted to become too large. Our aim Is so far as possible to provide such conditions that there shall be equality of opportunity where there Is equality of energy, fidelity and Intelligence; when there is a reason CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY JANUARY 28, 1909 able equality of opportunity the dis tribution of rewards will take earn of itself. "The unchecked existence of monop oly is Incompatible with equality of opportunity. The reason for the ex ercise of government control over great monopolies is to equalize opportunity. We are fighting against privilege. It was made unlawful for corporations to contribute money for election ex penses in order to abridge the power of special privilege at the polls. Rail road rate control is an attempt to se cure an equality of opportunity for all men affected by rail transportation; and that means all of us. The great anthracite coal strike was settled, and the pressing danger of a coal famine averted, because we recognized that the control of a public necessity in volves a duty to the people. anet that public intervention in the affairs of a public service corporation is neither to be resented as usurpation nor per mitted as a privilege by the corpora tions. but on the contrary to be ac cepted as a duty and exercised as a right by the government in the in terest of all the people. The effi ciency of the army and the navy has been increased so that our people may follow in peace the great work of making this country a better place for Americans to live In, and our navy was sent round the world for the same ultimate purpose. All the acts taken by the government during the last seven years, and all the policies now being pursued by the Government, fit in as parts of a consistent whole. "The enactment of a pure food law was a recognition of the fact that the public welfare outweighs the right to private gain, nnd that no man may poison the people for his private prollt. The employers' liability bill recog nized the controlling fact that while the employer usually has at stake no more than his profit, the stake of the employe is a living for himself and his family. "VVe are building the Panama canal; and tills means that we are engaged in the giant engineering feat of all time. We are striving to add in all ways to the habitability and beauty of our country. We are striving to hold In the public lands the remaining supply of unappropriated coal, for the protection and benefit of all the people. We have taken the first steps toward the conservation of our natural re sources. and the betterment of coun try life, and the Improvement of our waterways. We stand for the right of every child to a childhood free from grinding toll, nnd to an education; for the civic responsibility and decency of every citizen; for prudent fore sight in public matters, and for fait play In every relation of our national and economic life. In international matters we apply a system of diplo macy which puts the obligations ol international morality on a level with those that govern the actions of an honest gentleman In dealing with his fellow-men. Within our own border we stand for truth and honesty in public and in private life; and we war stern ly against wrongdoers of every grade. All these efforts are integral parts of the same attempt, the attempt to enthrone justice and righteousness, to secure freedom of opportunity to all of our citizens, now and hereafter, and to set the ultimate interest of all of us above the temporary interest ol any individual, class, or group. "The nation. Its government, and its resources exist, first of all, for the American citizen, whatever his creed, race, or birthplace, whether he be rich or poor, educated or Ignorant, pro vided only that he Is a good citizen, recognizing his obligations to the na tion for the rights and opportunities which he owes to the nation. "The obligations, and not the rights of citizenship increase in proportion tc the increase of a man's wealth of power. The time is coming when a man will be Judged, not by what he has succeeded in getting for himsell from the common store, but by how well he has done his duty as a citizen and by what the ordinary citizen has gained in freedom of opportunity be cause of his service for the common good. The highest value we know W that of the individual citizen, and th< highest justice is to give him fait play in the effort to realize the best there is in him. "The tasks this nation has to do are great tasks. They can only be done at all by our citizens acting to gether, and they can be done best ol all by the direct and simple applica tion of homely common sense. The application of common sense to common problems for the common good, undei the guidance of the principles upon which this republic was based, and bj virtue of which It exists, spells per petuity for the nation, civil and indus trial liberty for its citizens, and freedom of opportunity In the pursull of happiness for the plain American for whom this nation was founded, by whom it was preserved, and through whom alone it can be perpetuated Upon this platform—larger than any party differences, higher than class prejudice, broader than any question of profit and loss—there is room for every American who realizes that the common good stands first." Accompanying the message are ex planations and recommendations ol work to be done for the future good ol the country. The president says; "It is especially important that the develop ment of water power should be guard ed with the utmost care both by the national government and by the states in order to protect the people against the upgrowth of monopoly and to in sure to them a fair share In the bene fits which will follow the development of this great asset which belongs tc the people and should be controlled by them. "I urge that provision be made for both protection and more rapid devel opment of the national forests. Other wise. either the Increasing use of these forests by the people must be checked or their protection against fire must be dangerously weakened. if we compare the actual fire damage on sim ilar areas on private and national for est lands during the past year, the government fire patrol saved commer cial timber worth as much as the total cost of caring for all national forests at the present rate for about ten years. "I especially commend to congress the facts presented by the commis sion as to the relation between for ests and stream flow in its bearing upon the importance of the forest lands in national ownership. With out an understanding of this ultimate relation the conservation of both these natural resources must largely fail. "The time has fully arrived for rec ognizing in the law the responsibility to the community, the state, and the nation which rests upon the private ownership of private lands. The own ership of forest land is a public trust. The man who would handle his forest as to cause erosion and to injure stream flow must be not only educated but he must be controlled." In conclusion the president urges upon congress the desirability of maintaining a national commission on the conservation of the resources of the country. He adds: "I would also advise that an appropriation of at least sfio,ooo be made to cover the ex penses of the national conservation commission for necessary rent, assist ance and traveling expenses. This is a very small sum. I know of no o'her way in which the appropriation of so small a sum would result in s< large u benefit to the v,'holes nation." CATCH AT A STRAW DEMOCRATIC HOPE OF REMAIN ING A PARTY. Henry D. Clayton Urges His Fellows to Frame a Complete Tariff Bill- Obvious Weakness in the Purpose. A party that ignores the tariff as a leading issue ceases to be a national party. The Democratic party has long ceased to have claim upon the nation, because it has turned aside to adventi tious issues instead of pursuing the highway of political expression. This Is the view taken by Henry I). Clayton, chairman of the Democratic caucus of the house of representatives. He urges his fellows to frame a com plete tariff bill in order to meet the Re publicans point by point with counter schedules. There would certainly be no objection on the part of the Repub licans for the Democrats to take this course. The tariff is a national ques tion, more broadly so, perhaps, than any other. The more enlightening the discussion of it the better. Yet the Democrats have 110 position on the subject. They may claim, as thw a candi date' solidly supported by the financial, commercial and industrial interests of the country could fail of election. Those interests embrace almost every body making a living in this country outside of the professions. They dominate ejur political lifr», and ought to dominate it. As thea News and Courier justly points out, they include "the merchants, the bankers, the man ufacturers, the workingmen and the farmers." Mr. Bryan is becoming very exclu sive in his political affiliations when he says that he would not care as presi dent to be "subservient to the finan cial, commercial and inelustrial inter ests" of the country. What other in terests would he serve? Whose wel fare would he put ahead of the wel fare of those who produce and dis tribute, of those who create the wealth of the; country and of those who act as middlemen between the producer and the consumer? The presidential candidate who haughtily dismisses these controlling elements in our pop ulation as beneath his concern will in evitably remain in the minority, lie is too exclusive for the average Amer ican voter. Tariff on Hides Should Come Off. The tariff on hides is not protec tive. It. never led to the raising in the United States of a single steer that would not have been raised with out it. It hurts instead of helps Amer ican industry, by making the raw material of the tanner artificially dear, which is a great detriment to the man ufacturer of shoes. As a revenue pro ducer it is injudicious, because for every dollar it nets to the government it makes the American people pay many dollars in the increased cost of footwear. The tariff on hides injures the for eign trade by enhancing the cost of manufacturing boots and shoes intend ed for export and by showing inhospi tality to an important export of Souih America, a region whose good will the United States has taken pains in many ways to secure, but which maintains more intimate commercial relations with Great Britain anu Germany than with the northern portion of the west ern hemisphere. Sometimes the question of the tar iff on hides is obscured by dragging in voluminous collateral statistics. It is a simple question, and the facts set forth above are conclusive as to the inadvisability of the impost. It was not favored by the authe>rs of the Mc- Kinley tariff and the Dingley tariff, but was hung onto those measures while they were on their passage. It is an excrescence, and should be lopped off. —Evening Wisconsin. Always Ready. The American battle-ship fleet reached Suez two days ahead bf its schedule. It was met by orders to hasten to Sicily and there do all pos sible for those who are suffering from the great earthquake disaster. Within a few hours the small cruiser Yankton was o% -ier way through the canal, with ever* medical officer and hospital attendant that could be spared. The supply ship Culgoa was close behind with all the surplus pro visions of the fleet. Ample supplies of coal awaited the fleet at Port Said and were taken on by each detachment as it arrived. As many of the ships as it may be deemed desirable, or all of them if needed, will be ready as soon as coaled to pro ceed to Messina. The readiness of our navy for any duty is the important point to be ob served. Those who saw the fleet steam into Suez remarked that, despite their long voyage, the ships looked as if just out of harbor for a naval review. The general ant* correct Impression made by all these incidents is that our fleet is all right—except, of course, on paper. On every sea, save that de scribed in the ten-cent magazines, our fleet is visibly ready for any sort, of duty. All the world sees it so. Only some Americans are blind. For the Country's Welfare. The recurring confusion, waste and uncertainty of those periodical wrestles with the tariff can be stopped when congress has the welfare of the country enough at heart to stop them. It is for congress to define the prin ciple on which the tariff revision shall be conducted, just as the Republican platform defines it on a protective basis. Then let expert testimony set tle what the duty shall be, on that basis, by impartial and exact investi gation of the cost of production, actu al labor ce>st and comparative rates of profit. When each schedule is thus disposed of by itself the periexlical halts of business to get the tariff re vised will be abolished.—Pittsburg Dispatch. A BPEEDY ONE. Miss Tapps—Of course, some type writers are extremely expert. Clerk—Oh, yes. I know of one who married a rich employer in less than three months. TOLD TO USE CUTICURA. After Specialist Failed to Cure Her In tense Itching Eczema —Had Been Tortured and Disfigured But Was Soon Cured of Dread Humor. "I contracted eczema and suffered Intensely for about ten months. At times I thought I would scratch my self to pieces. My face and arms were covered with large red patches, so that I was ashamed togo out. I was advised togo to a doctor who was a specialist in skin diseases, but I received very little relief. I tried every known remedy, with the same results. I thought I would never get bet ter until a friend of mine told me to try the Cuticura Remedies. So I tried them, and after four or five applications of Cuticura Ointment I was relieved of my unbearable Itching. I used two Bets of the Cuticura Remedies, and I am completely cured. Miss Barbara Krai, Highlandtown, Md., Jan. 9, '08." Potter Drug & Chein. Corp., Solo Props., Boston. Absent-Minded Alderman. A Lynn (Mass.) alderman at a re cent aldermanic meeting inquired what had become of an order he had intro duced some time before calling for an arc light on Willow street. The city clerk, after digging into his files, in formed him that the order had come before the board nearly a month pre vious and that he had voted against it. Folly. Him —I don't see how you can bring yourself to kiss that dog. Her —And I suppose the dog don't see how I can bring myself to kiss you. We're a foolish sex, aren't we? If Your Feet Ache or Hum get a 2.V package of Allen's Foot-Kuse. It gives quick relief. Two million packages sold yearly. P Smiles make a better salve for trou ble than do frowns. 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