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The Job department of the Pniss Is complete *u& affords facilities for doing ihe best class of worli. Particular attention paidto Law Fbintiho. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor la advance Learn to Distinguish Colors. Late experience has shown that the Colorblind may be taught to name or dinary colors correctly, although they may not gee colors as others do. A conductor on the Southern railway was discharged for color blindness, when he began to study colored wool ens and plants, and in five weeks passed a rigid color examination with out a mistake. Dr. Brawley has over come the disadvantage of color blind ness in other persons by a like course of color study. "Tea with Children." "Tea," says the London Chronicle, "in the garden is one of the best established of our mid-Victorian insti tutions. Air. E. V. Lucas —who is a connoisseur of the caddy—recalls in his essay, 'The Divine Leaf,' a story of the late Arthur Cecil, who once en countered the following inscription in a garden at Kew: 'Tea, plain, 6d.; tea, with shrimps, 9d.; tea, with chil dren, Is.' " Thrown Through Glass Screen. While a Blairgowrie (Scotland) young man was cycling home from the golf course the other evening he came out of a narrow lane onto the main road at a high speed and ran into the front of a motor car that was passing. The cyclist was thrown right through the glass screen of the motor, and landed on the road on the other side, mira culously escaping with comparatively Slight injuries. Time for Change. In a real-property case before a French judge, at an early period of the revolution, the defendant, whose title was contested, proved that the estate had been in his family for more than 200 years. "Well," said the judge, "it is now full time for another family to have a turn." Over the Phone. Host (at his wife's reception)—Ah, my dear Mrs. Brown, aren't you com ing? Everybody is expecting you. . . . Oh, never mind about your dressmaker and gown. . . . It's not your clothes we want to see, it's you.—Harvard Lampoon. A Little Knowledge. Any knowledge whatsoever is bet ter than none at all; a little knowl edge is dangerous because it is almost no knowledge at all. We are rapidly coming to the day of a blessed smat tering knowledge of nearly every use ful thing. Damage by Rats. Two or three rats will eat as much grain as a hen, according to the fig ures of the department of agriculture. Besides robbing the hen of her ra tions. rats often steal her eggs and chicks. Fewer rats and more hens would improve the farm income. On the Safe Side. "So Mrs. Jorkins is dead." "1 hadn't heard of it. How did you know?" "I didn't hear positively, but I overheard Jorkins say in a street car that he intended to dispute her will." Fashion Worth Setting. If woman would make up mind that she really was fashioned from a "funny-bone," things would go a bit merrier. Suppose you set the fash ion in your neighborhood.—Exchange. Marriage Made a Family Affair. In France marriage is a family af fair. The parents of both parties in terest themselves deeply. Family af fection is stronger in France than in England. Turn Out for the Bumpers. "There's a good many bumpers on the road to success. It's a hull lot better to turn out fur 'em than to try j to turn 'em all down." Always With Us. An inquirer wants to know where the liars goto, but up to date there is no evidence they have gone any where. —Omaha Bee. So Say We All. Sociologist—Do you have much trouble keeping down expenses? The Toiler- Not so much as keeping up the revenue. Uncle Ezra Says. "Fellers who do all their travelin' in airships won't hev much uv an op portunely fur leavin' footprints on the sands uv time." WILL GO TO MEXICO PRESIDENT TAFT TO VISIT NEIGHBORING REPUBLIC. Action Should Put an End For All Time to Silly Idea That the Chief Executive May Not Leave Country. It appears that Mr. Taft is not to meet President Diaz at the middle of the international bridge over the Rio Grande, after all. He is to cross the bridge and enter Mexico. Presi dent Diaz Is to call bn hioi, too, on this side of the river. He has to got permission from his congress to do this, however, as one of the laws of Mexico forbids, actually or practi cally, the president from leaving that country without the consent of con gress. That permission, of course, has always been obtained when Gen. Diaz has asked for it. In our case this consent is not nec essary. One provision of the United States constitution provides that in the case of the president's "inability to discharge the duties of his office, the same shall devolve on the vice president." This is the basis of the assumption that a president is not allowed togo outside the country. It may be said that, if outside the boun daries of the United States, a presi dent could not perform his customary functions. There might be a physi cal as well as a political obstacle in the way. Yet this has not always acted as a deterrent. President Ar thur crossed the line into Canada for a few hours, and the machinery of the government was not disarranged to any discernible degree. Mr. Roosevelt, who smashed many precedents, went to Panama in the last half of his service, and thus was a long way and for a long time out side of the United States. He did not suppose that, during his tour, he had abdicated the presidency. Nor did the country. Mr. Taft will, when he enters Mexico, find that he is not violating any law or dangerously as sailing any custom. Messrs. Arthur and Roosevelt, especially the latter, paved the way for him. A good re sult of his visit across the line will be that we shall probably not hear again of that fictitious barrier which com pels a president to stay in the coun try during his term. Usually it is bet ter for the president and the country that he remain in close touch with things at the national capital, hut if he drops over to call on a neighboring po tentate for a few hours the govern ment at Washington would still live. Foreign-Built Yacht Tax. There is one clause in the new tariff bill which is altogether com mendable. The high tax contemplated upon foreign-built yachts will provide, if it finally becomes operative, a method of aid to home shipbuilding enterprise which should long before this nave been put to use. This clause is not designed for reve nue purposes, but in its immediate ef fect it will produce a considerable revenue, as it will result in imposing a very heavy annual tax upon a large number of American yachts that were built in foregn yards. There are more than half a dozen yachts which, under the regulation, would have to pay an annual tonnage tax in excess of $lO,- 000 and more than 100 that would have to pay from SI,OOO to $6,000 an nually. There is a means of escape for the American owners of foreign built yachts—that of securing United Stages registry by paying in a lump sum 35 per cent, of the value of the ship into the national treasury. As some of the foreign-built yachts owned in this country cost in the neighbor hood of $1,000,000. the lump-sum tax, if chosen, will sum up into an aggre gate of millions. The main purpose of the clause, it is quite apparent, is to prohibit the foreign-built yacht from American reg istry, or, rather, to compel Americans* who are able to built yachts to build them at home. In its retroactive working the tax will be a pretty ste«p one, and it is probable that it will re sult in bringing some high-priced yachts into the market. A Good Investment. Secretary Knox will got his extra SIOO,OOO for the diplomatic service without any questioning. The money is to be spent in advancing American commercial interests in Ihe orient and in Latin America, and in paving the way for the new diplomacy of commerce and finance to do effective work. The request for the additional appropriation indicates that the moves which have been made in China are but the beginning of a comprehensive plan already mapped out. The invest ment will bring good return. President's Valuable Service. Some Democratic newspapers' may attack the president out of a sen?? of partisan obligation and try to sfeov that he failed to bring to term?, the Republican-Democratic "stand patter" combination in the senate. But no critic of the new law professing to be Impartial can afford to urdervalue the president's service in making it what it is. That service will prove histori cal, for it will mark a welcome turn ing point in the history of tariff legis lation. Keeping Up with Bryan. We do not know what position Mr. Bryan will take next; he keeps us guessing all the time as to what we should do or should not do to keep in touch with him.—Charleston News and Courier. Bryan does not. approve of the tar iff. Bryan's opinion on that or any other subject is of little consequence CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1909. SECURITY FOUNDED ON ROCK. Point Made by Gov. Hughes In Hi« Seattle Address Is Particularly Pertinent Just Now. To declare that "our security is In the educated intelligence of the aver age man,"in his appreciation of duty as well of personal right, is not to ad vance a startling discovery in social science. Yet this point, made by GOT. Hughes in his address at Seattle, is particularly pertinent and refreshing at this time, and the whole passage in which it is presented will bear reit eration. We are told that the income tax amendment spells revolution and the downfall of the states. We are told that direct primaries and the growing resort to the referendum and recall are destructive of representative gov ernment. We are warned of the steady approach of socialism by one set of gloomy prophets and of the growth of executive usurpation and bureaucratic tyranny by another set of alarmists. What has been de scribed as "the apocalyptic style" has been greatly in evidence of late in polemical discussions of new taxes and proposed politico-industrial re forms. That is why such sane, strong, con vincing sentences as those of Gov. Hughes are so "grateful" just now. There is no chance for the dema gogue, no possibility of "revolution," if "we are to be ruled by intelligent public opinion." Our truest safe guards are not constitutional provi sions difficult to change, not checks and balances devised generations ago, but "the growing appreciation of jus tice" and the common sense of the democratic electorate. Majorities are not mercurial; theories count for lit tle with them. Needed changes are so cured long after their realization ceases to threaten "revolution," and no force in human society is equal to that of the influence of the average character and tho average educated intelligence of the community. Gov. Hughes would do everything to strengthen the conception of our common interest, to facilitate educa tion by discussion and experience, to guide opinion aright and insure order ly development of laws and institu tions. The success of democracy de pends on mental and moral education, and it is impossible to do too much for such education. But to distrust "intelligent public opinion" is to de spair of human progress. The Revision of the Tariff. A tariff law much worse than the final draft of the Payne-Aldrich law would be accepted with gratitude and relief by the commercial and manu facturing interests of the country if it carried with it definite assurances that no further agitation of the sub ject need be expected for ten or a dozen years. Busiitess would adjust itself to the new schedules, and with the prospect of non-interference from the congress before them the mem bers of the manufacturing and trading community would make the best of the situation created. But will the new measure satisfy the class from which the demand for "downward revision" has come? The demand has been made by the "ulti mate consumer." What will be his verdict on the new schedules a year after they have gone into effect? The answer is not difficult. If there is no reduction in the cost of living his complaints will be renewed and an other period of agitation will ensue. No Permanent Division in Party. It will lie tor future presidents to do as President Taft has done —to an swer for the country at large, and, holding the tremendous power of the veto in reserve, impress upon tariff makers the necessity of taking a na tional along with a local view of re vision. President Taft did not cen sure or lecture the senators and rep' resentatives who came to him under the spur of home influences, and only pointed out that as the representative 1 of the people he must do his part from the national viewpoint alone. And he did his part with resolution and suc cess. The new law will be the better for the part he took in framing it. The contest has been full of ginger, with now and then a display of acri mony, but a permanent division in tho Republican party as a result is not at all likely. Other duties will now pre sent themselves, and the party must advance to them in as good fighting shape as possible.—Washington Star. Outlook for New Tariff Law. The Dingley law had a life of 12 years. But it should have been re vised eight years ago. Had McKin ley lived such action would have been taken. What will be the length of the new law's life? It need not be long, even if the measure is successful. In equalities may grow up under it as rapidly as under the Dingley law. If It fails, either as a revenue raiser or as an adjuster of differences, the end, of course, will speedily come. Its Hopes Unfounded. The Democratic Rochester Herald, in noting liryn their 3,500 bill boards with large posters Illustrating the ways to prevent and cure con sumption. The Poster Printers' asso ciation has also granted $200,000 worth of printing and paper for this work. This entire campaign of bill board publicity will be conducted un der the direction of the National As sociation for the Study and Preven tion of Tuberculosis in co-operation with the National Bill Posters' asso ciation. Fitted for the Job. The general consulted the topo graphical chart. "You understand, colonel," he said, "that this charge on the enemy's fortification necessltaties the most reckless disregard for hu man life?" "I understand, general," the colonel replied. 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The boy smiled, i "But I don't expect to be a million ! aire," he said. "I don't care to be | rich—l'd much rather be good." | The grocer was so much pleased | with this artless reply that he com ! promised with the boy for three and a h'alf. A Realist. "I am a great believer in realism," remarked the poet. "Yes?' we queried with a rising in flection, thereby giving him the desired opening. "I sometimes carry my ideas of realism to a ridiculous extreme," con tinued the poet. "Indeed!" we exclaimed inanely, somewhat impatient to reach the point of his witticism. "Yes," continued the poet, "the other day I wrote a sonnet to the gas com pany and purposely made the meter defective." At this point we fainted. Look at the Names. In 4 A. D. Fearaidhach-Fionfashtn* was an Irish king, a "most just and good prince," who was slain by his successor, Fiacbadh-Fion, who was treated to a similar fate by Finchadh- Fionohudh, "the prince with the whita cows," who died at the hands of "tha Irish plebeians of Connaught." Eocb airh-Moidmeodhain was one of th« half dozen who died of natural causes, and Flaithbheartagh was one of th« two to resign the monarch's sceptei for the monk's cowl.—New Yorli Press. Prepared for the Worst. "How long had your wife's first hus band been dead when you married her?" "About eight months." "Only eight months? Don't you think she was in a good deal of a hurry?" "Oh, I don't know. We had been engaged for nearly two years." When a woman gets really sick sh« begins to wonder if she -vill look good in a halo.