p res 'dei it Taf 13,000 Mile B| i - ■ | RESIDENT WILLI* \I P HOWARD TAFT, backed up by 326 pounds of joy tul smiles is to-day speed westward on a 13,000- n ' lle tour of the United Iwp&n Hie trip is over two months in duration, start i"g September 15 from >rj Hoston and ending with the president's arrival in Washington for the winter, on No vember 21. It is the longest journey through the length and breadth of the United States ever undertaken by an Amer ican executive while in office, and the trip is notable in presidential annals. While ex-President Theodore Roose velt is smashing precedents and set ting new ones in Africa by riding on the cowcatchers of engines, etc., nis successor is getting close to the soil in his own environment. Riding with the en gineer, getting his picture taken leaning from the cab of the engine almost in the act of swabbing the grease from the num bers on the side of the vehicle, stretch ing over the observa tion platform to shake hands with countrymen at towns where two-minute slops are billed, shout ing a cheery "howdy" as the special train pulls out of the small town station, "Big Bill" Taft is racing from coast to coast and back again. He was scheduled to touch the extreme northern boundary of the country and upon the occasion, October IG, when it was pre arranged that he should shake hands with President Diaz of Mexico, and there by cement relations "between these nation al neighbors, he wai elated to set foot on the south boundary. He started from Beverly, Mass., which Is on the east coast of the United States and his program called for a visit of several days at Seattle and other points on the Paciiic coast which is the west boundary of the union. Thus it was predestined that the executive should set foot on the four extreme lines which enclose the domain which selected him as its head. The personnel of the president' 3 traveling party besides the president, consists of John Hays Hammond, president of the League of Republi can Clubs; Capt. Archibald W. Butt, military aide; Wendell W. Mischler.' assistant secretary; Dr. J. J. Richard son of Washington, D. C.; James Sloan, Jr., and L. C. Wheeler of the secret service and Maj. Arthur Brooks, the president's confidential messenger, six newspaper men ac company the president throughout the entire trip. The party travels in two private cars attached for the greater part of the time to regular trains. Besides the regular executive affairs President Taft is preparing his message to con gress and a small part of each day is spent in either making memoranda or mental notes on points upon which he will elucidate in the regular communication due in December. Secretary Carpenter, the man who handles much of the president's business of national im portance, has packed away in his grips severa' hundred pounds of programs which are to be car ried out at the various points at which the presi dent is scheduled to stop and make a few re marks. There is scarcely a state in the union through which the president does not pass. Every big city in the country with only a few exceptions, will be invaded in accordance with the presiden tial program. Leaving Boston, after mploring into the city of h gh brows, Mr. Talt and hi J, two special trains de parted westward for Chicago, arriving in the windy city the following day. \ Party chiefs there received him with the sort of gVd hand that Chi cago knows how to extend. TaffXpalm turned up ward in response to the cordial greeting, after \ Kty Numbers shom President's Course M » £*• in E. Ph«o ' '*—« lilcajto, 111....;.' Sent' lii "*—.**" An, " nl "> Tex Oct." 17 •'—Madloon, Hllivtiuki-*'' .„. —*V ort Snni Hounton, Tex Oct. is I'ortaitc, Hln . ; si.pt IT ~ri' , ,, «' «. 18 Miuu Sent. 17 !*£ } ?. " '•« < ■ » Mlnnenpolla anil st. ? hrlatl Oct. lil-20-21-22 . I'nul, Minn..Sept. 18-111 Oct. 2.1 •> «•"}"' Mo.. Oct. 211 10 —I'uebio, coi. . ■>?. ... —* "I'o. 111 ocf ~,, 11—Ulenwoou S PW », Col . . SeSt'. 23 - .!tlv l ' k ,!>» <», (. 2« —MontroNe, < <>l « ; It? •»»—Memphla, Trnu o.t v? !tZr."" ,ake II»h Oct. 2S J—M""' .'.Sept' 27 »"UKe, 1,.. O.t. 21) I—Helena. Mont.. Sent •>- —-New Orleans, I.a I«—Spokane. Wanh ...'.'.'.Sent' as .... . , Oct. ao-31 —Nov. 1 I.—North Yakima Sent' 3 »—Jn'l«« —Portland, Ore Oct •> •« t? —'Hrmlnnhnm, Ala Nov. 2-: i ,112' —*«crniiiento, Ca1...'.".. Oct 4 V< «» Nov. 1 -'l—o.-iklaud. Cal ~'V i 4 ~—Savannah, On Nov. I "erkelcy, Cai. .. .* J.* * * SoJ* % '""leaton, s. C.. . 1.... Nov. 5 22—Snn l'ranclnio "ocl'k J —,V" t " N,a > Nov. tl-7 -M— lOMeailte Valley. . Oct. iL~S/ , 1 , , u '" to,n « s - <" Nov. H ~Cal Oct. 10 4t « llm'njcton, N. C Nov. II ~J I. ok AnKelex, t'al Oct It 112» Richmond, Vn Nov. 11 -•—'»rontl Canyon Oct I t —»V "xhliitcton, I>. C Nov. 10 -«—\lhni|lier<|iie, N. Mcx 'oet* i>- —Mlllllletotvn, Conn Nov. 11 —K! I'aao, lev '. Oct! It! —Norfolk. Vn Nov. 10 Meet* I'realdent Diaz of Mexico Vt —"fnpton. Vn Nov. 20 _ ' —VVaahlnKton, O. C Nov. 21 BBi v MEE r/r/O PLA r. \\hieh ho was down on the bookings to "do" Mad ison, Portage and Milwaukee, Wis., in a single day on his way to Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. i hence the program called for a southern trip to Des Moines, lowa, and Omaha, Neb., with a Jong jump to Denver, Col., which city a little over a year ago wasn't big .enough to hold all the Dem ocrats who wanted William Jennings Pryan lor luo job Mr. Taft now has. i hence to Wolhurst, Pueblo, Glenwood Springs and Montrose, Col. From there the president was routed to Salt Lake City, Utah, Pocatello, Idaho, Jutte and Helena, Mont., Spokane, North Yakima and Seattle, Wash. J lie line of travel from Spokane extends south ward along the Pacific coast, the southern states being next to receive the president. At El Paso iexas, one of the most notable events of the tour S", ,T CU '' r when 0,1 sixteenth day of October 1 lesldent l)iaz of Mexico and President Taft of the United States, will shake hands in a mutual harmony carnival. , T i 1?" 8 , the northern lf ne of travel "Oh, you Pill J alt became a slogan, nnd "llowdv Hill" was another favorite expression of the multitude dur- CAMERON COUNTY PRE,SDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1909. PPSSJOER/R D/AT OR MEX/COJ WHOM TAF7~ IV/CL A/EET madd ' honorary president and member for life of the club, as are President Di az and former President Roose velt, and a special committee will present engrossed certificates o 112 election to him before his visit. Arriving at St. Louis from Texas at 7:27 a. m., Monday, October 25, President Taft will be enter tained at break fast at 8:30 o'clock by he w Orleans on tho steamboat Mississippi at 5 p. it A'riving at Capo Girardeau, Mo., at 6 a. ni„ Ocobei 2G, the president will bo routed out of bed tsmale an address from the upper dock of the seandioat to the people gathered on the wharf. Leaving ;ape Girardeau at 7 a. in., there will be a livehO;r rm to Cairo, 111., where at noon Mr. Taft wil mace a second address from the boat LsavingCairo at 1 o'clock the next stop is sched uled at lickman, Ky., at 4 p. in.. wher« the third address/ from the deck of the Mississippi will be made, leaving Hickman at 5 p. m. an all-night ran will l>ritg tho party to Memphis, Tenn., at 8 o'clock on the iiorniiig of Wednesday, October 27. At Mjtmphis the president will leave the steamer and befentertained in tho city for lour hours, ma- King anaddiess while there. Helena, Ark., will be reached at 6 l). m.on the 27th, and an address from the bofi is scheduled. On Thursday, October 28, the only stop is scheduled at Vicksburg, the president's party arrives at G p. in out r ing the first clays of the tour. That great big :S2G pound Taft smile, which is the only one of its kind in captivity, was the greet ing which met the saluta tions from close to the soil. Secretary of the Interior Ballingcr will accompany the president through the jrthwest. Secretary of War i will join the party at El cas, und make the remaining : to Washington. Secretary the department of commerce r will be a member of the the trip down the Misslssip- During his stay in certain tates the president probably 3 as guests on his train the of those commonwealths, cted to meet Senator Cum .o has been reported of late boomed for the presidency at Des Moines. Senator Dol > was to be at Des Moines, ntonio, Texas will add its wel- President Diaz at El Paso in ling of the president of the uiblic with President Taft, on 16, through a committee of ;ens and members of the In iial club. If President Diaz jto return to Mexico City via lonio, a special train will be t his disposal and he and hla 1 be given possession of tho onal club's home. A special •eof 25 conveyed this wel -1 invitation to President Diaz o City. President Taft was Pennsylvania Happenings The number of automobiles regis tered at the highway department up to a recent date is over 32,000, as com pared with 25,000 during the whole of last year. Sub-stations have been established by the state police department, the troopers who returned from McKees Rocks being sent out to points near Greensburg aud Wyoming. Awards for the building of state highways have been made at the highway department for one mile of road in Union township, Adams coun ty, and two miles in Manheim town ship, Lancaster county. The state live stock sanitary board has the Texas fever situation in Lan caster county is well in hand. Four of the cattle landed at Mt. Joy have died and the board's agents have located all the other infected cattle. The disease has not spread. The governor has announced the appointment of Alonzo T. Searle, esq., of Honesdale, Wayne county, to be president judge of the Twenty-second judicial district of Pennsylvania, to (ill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge George S. Purdy. A conference was held recently by Deputy Attorney General Cunningham and Assistant Deputy Hargest and Chief Factory Inspector Delaney re garding the injunction suit restraining Captain Delaney from interfering with the Roumfort Amusement Co. of Har risburg and 9- other moving picture places. It is probable that the case will not be heard until the latter part of this month or early in October. All of the forest fires that, for the past month had been burning through out the state are now extinguished, according to information received at the state forestry department. The bills from the fire wardens for serv ice rendered during the recent out breaks are coming into the depart ment fast. Prior to this year the bills were returned to the county, com-, missioners, who were refunded the money later by the state. The board of public grounds and buildings has instructed Superinten dent Rarabo to secure opinions from architects relative to the placing of the civil war flags in the rotunda. The plan of the board is to have glass cases made for ithe flags, but the board first wants to know whether the pun-in* at me cases in tUr. ro tunda would in any way detract from the architectural beauty of the place. The flag room is needed for office space for the new legislative refer ence bureau. That the state police authority is supreme to municipal police power is the opinion of Assistant Deputy At torney General Hargest, who rendered an opinion to Dr. Louis A. Klein, dep uty state veterinarian. Dr. Klein had asked whether the state live stock sanitary board can enforce the state quarantine law in Norristown, where there were several dogs suf fering from rabies. On August 20 all flogs were quarantined in the borough of Norristown and ten days later it was learned that the local police were not enforcing the quarantine. A few days later an agent of the board was sent to the borough with orders to shoot all dogs running loose. The agent was taken before the burgess and informed that such action was against the borough ordinances. Mr. I largest, in conclusion says: "You are advised that your agent has author ity, notwithstanding any borou&h ordi nance, to enforce the quarantine by shooting or otherwise destroying any dogs that may run at large. What is generally considered in financial and commercial circles as the mopi convincing proof i.' the re turning industrial and business activ ity was furnished recently in the an nouncements made by the Philadel phia and Reading railway and Penn sylvania railroad that there were no idle cars on either of these systems. The Reading officials announced that all the company's cars were in ser vice, except thost' being repaired. The number, it was stated, awaiting re pairs is at a minimum. The import ance of this is shown when it is stated that ir> months ago the compa ny had 10,554 idle cars in the yards and sidings of the system. East of Pittsburg, the Pennsylvania railroad official state there are practically no idle cars. On the lines west of Pitts burg there* are 12,000 cars idle, but they are being put into service rap idly. and it is expected by the officers htat before another week there will not bo a single idle car on the Penn sylvania system, whereas in 1008 the company had more than 46,000 idle cars. Troop A, of the state police, has left McKees Rocks by an overland route to its barracks at Oreensburg. Troop R went by train to Wyoming, ('apt. Marsh is in command of Troop A and Capt. Robinson of Troop B. Tlio regular sub-stations for state police will be established at once by the state police department, now that the troopers have been called away from McKees Rocks. These stations will 1)0 scattered throughout the country near the barracks at Greens burg and at Wyoming. HOW THEY LOVE ONE ANOTHER. I Ella—There aren't many faces Ilka mine. Stella—No; but I guess the supply will equal the demand. CUTICURA CURED HIM. Eczema Came on Legs and Ankle*— Could Not Wear Shoes Because Of Bad Scaling and Itching. "I have been successfully cured of dry eczema. I was inspecting the re moval of noxious weeds from the edge of a river and was constantly in the dust from the weeds. At night I cleansed my limbs but felt a prickly sensation. I paid no attention to it for two years but I noticed a scum on my legs like fish scales. I did not attend to it until it came to be too itchy and sore and began getting two running sores. My ankles were all sore and scabby and I could not wear shoes. I had to use carpet and felt slippers for weeks. I got a cake of the Cuticura Soap and some Cuticura Ointment. In less than ten days I could put on my boots and in less than three weeks I was free from the con founded itching. Capt. George P. Bliss, Chief of Police, Morris, Manitoba, Mar. 20, 1907, and Sept. 24, 1908." Potter Drug & Cbcm. Corp., Sole Props., Boston. Mottoes of a Queen. Her majesty, the queen of Portugal, pins her faith, it is said, to the follow ing mottoes: Keep out of doors all you can. Breathe outdoor air, live in it, revel in it. Don't shut yourself up. Build your houses so that the air supply is good. Throw away your portieres and bric-a-brac. Don't have useless trifles about you. Have a favorite form of exercise and make the most of it. Ride on horseback if you can; cycle if you can not get a horse; do anything to get out in the open air. Don't overeat. Drink little and let that little be pur/. Don't try to dress too much, yet dress as well as jou are ablo. Wear everything you can to make yourself lovely. Why We Are Stronger. The old Greeks and Romans were great admirers of health and strength; their pictures and statuary made the .muscles of the men stand out like cords. As a matter of fact we have ath letes a„d strong men—men fed on fine strength making food such as Quaker Oats —that would win in any contest with the old Roman or Greek champions. It's a matter of food. The finest food for making strength of bone, muscle and nerve is fine oatmeal. (Quaker Oats is the best because it is pure, no husks or stems or black specks. Farm ers' wives are finding that by feeding the farm hands plentifully on Quaker Oats they get the best results in work and economy. If you are convenient to the store, buy the regular size pack ages; if not near the store buy the large size family package. 2 True Thrift. "When visiting a certain town in the Midlands," says a medical man,"l was told of an extraordinary incident wherein the main figure, an econom ical housewife, exhibited, under trying circumstances, a trait quite character istic of her. It seems that she had by mistake taken a quantity of poison— mercurial poison—the antidote for which, as all should know, comprises the whites of eggs. When this anti dote was being administered, the order for which the unfortunate lady had overheard, she managed to murmur, al though almost unconscious. "Mary, Mary! Save the yolks for the pud dings!"—Tit-Uits. GOVERNMENT HOMESTEADS One and one-half million acres of farming and grazing land will be opened for settlement in the Chey enne River and Standing Rock Indian Reservation October 4th to 23d. Past daily through trains direct to I'ierro and Aberdeen, S. D., the registration points, via the Chicago & North West ern Ry. Write for descriptive pamph lets giving maps and full particulars to W. B. Kniskern, P. T. M., C. & N. W. Ry., Chicago, 111. Anything But That. Little John is the youngest of family of five boys, says the Deline ator. One day his mother said to him: "O, John, isn't it too bad 1 have n't one little girl? I could curl her hair and make such pretty little dresses for her. Don't you wish you were a little girl?" "Why, mother," he said, "I'd rather be most any other kind of animal you could mention than a girl." His Helping Hand. First Him —When that man fell overboard, why did you throw the cigar 1 gave you after him? Second Him —I thought I heard the poor devil call for a rope! 3