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Didn't Forget Himself.
A three-year-old waif In a deacon
n esses' home offered up this prayer,
says the Delineator: "Oh, God bless
all in this home (mentioning each by
name), "and all the sailors in the
sea, that the ships won't run over
them, and all the poor boys and girls
that they may get bread and candy,
and bless Alfred Warren Randall"—
(himself)—a hesitation, then added,
"the one what's got the nightgown
on."
Why She Went Sour.
"I felt kind of miffed," said the ge
nial man who likes to occupy a lofty
niche in everybody's affections, "when
the religious lady at the loot of the
table suddenly soured on me; but
when I found that she had under
stood me to boast that my father —
dear old Methodist preacher that he
is—was a circus rider instead of a
'circuit rider,' I didn't know that I
could blame her."
More Babblers Than Heretics.
Now, as in the past, the vast num
ber of so-called heretics are but vain
babblers who know not what they
affirm. They can give no reason for
the faith that is within them because
they neither know the faith of the fa
thers nor contribute an iota to the
faith of the future.—Baltimore Ameri
can.
The Atmosphere.
The height of the atmosphere above
the earth has never been ascertained
because no one has even been able to
get far enough up to determine where
it ends. Hut it certainly spreads far
more than 50 miles from the solid sur
face of the earth and from the liquid
surface of the sea.
The Modern Understanding.
"Doctor," said the parishioner,
"don't you consider 'love one anoth
er' as binding as any other part of
the moral law?" "Of course I do," an
swered the Rev. Dr. Fourthly. "It's
the first amendment, to the ten com
mandments."—Chicago Tribune.
Vanity and Conscience.
A man's vanity tells him what is
honor, a man conscience what is jus
tice; the one is busy and importunate
in all times and places; the other but
touches the sleeve when men are
alone, and, if they do not mind it,
leaves them. —Walter Savage Landor.
To Remove Mildew.
To remove mildew, mix soft soap
and powdered starch- with half the
quantity of salt and the juice of a
lemon. Apply with a brush and leave
article out on grass for a few nights,
when the stain will have disappeared.
Very Indicative.
Bargain Hunter—"l would like to
get two sorts of spoons for kitchen
use."- Busy Clerk—"We haven't time
to sell them." Bargain Ilunter—"Huh,
sir, your attitude shows clearly that
you are out of sorts to-day."
Daily Thought.
To be alive in every part of our be
ing, to realize the possibilities that
are in us, to do all that we can, to be
come all that we are capable of be
coming, this is the aim of life.—
Charles Wagner.
Novels Not Books.
Boston's careful discrimination in
literary matters is revealed by a
sign displayed not more than half a
mile from the public library: "Books
and novels sold here."
Graded.
"When a feller has a job in a foun
dry he tells about the place where
he works, but if he's in a bank he
speaks about the concern by which
he is employed."—Exchange.
Importation of Birds.
More than $1)00,000 worth of birds
were imported into this country dur
ing the year 1908. Tliey were largely
parrots and canaries.
Lead Production in 1903.
The smelter production of lead in
the United States in I9OR was 408,52"
tons of 2.000 pounds, against 442,015
tons in 1907 and 418,699 tons in 190 G.
Flight of Monster Ear;le Noted.
A monster eagle with white head
and tail is reported as flying over the
lower Kennebec. The big fellow seems
to have his home in Arrowsic.—Bos
ton Globe.
THE FORECAST.
Prosperity Weather for Some Time to Come.
TO MAINTAIN PEACE
INTEREST OF THE UNITED
STATES IN CENTRAL AMERICA.
Fear That Coming Meeting of Presi
dents at El Paso Has Sinister
Meaning is Altogether
Without Grounds.
The heads of the five little Central
American republics, it is said, fear
that some sort of a plot against their
activities will be concocted by Mr.
Taft and President Diaz at the com
ing meeting of these two personages
at El Paso and the point near at hand
In the Mexican Republic. And Guat
emala, the largest of these little
states, is said to have sounded the
alarm among its associates. Thus
October 16, the day when Mr. Taft ar
rives in El Paso, is awaited with a
good deal of concern by our Central
American neighbors.
President Cabrera of Guatemala
has two reasons for attempting to
arouse the four other countries near
at hand, and get them to work in har
mony with him. Ho fears Mexican
encroachment, Mexico being on his
northern border. He is also anxious
to form a league of the Central Ameri
can countries, with Guatemala at the
head. Cabrera annd other potentates
of his locality imagine that the United
States and Mexico may want to ex
tend a protectorate over Central
America, because President Roosevelt
in conjunction with Gen. Diaz
stretched forth a restraining hand a
year or two ago, and halted a war
between Honduras and Nicaragua
then just beginning.
Possibly it might suit Gen. Diaz'
purposes in this contingency to make
a demonstration against Guatemala,
so as to divert the attention of the
Mexicans from troublesome home is
sues in connection with the coming
election for vice-president in their
country. That would make Diaz' task
easy in electing Corral as vice-presi
dent and in defeating Reyes. But the
United States has not the slightest
desire to menace the independence of
any country f Central American or
anywhere else. As the builder of a
canal across the isthmus which will
cost us $100,000,000 or $500,000,000,
and as the guardian of the Republic
of Panama, we have an interest in
the maintenance of the peace in Cen
tral America. But we will not ex
tend a protectorate over any of its
countries, or make ourseive? responsi
ble for the good behavior of any of
them. —St. Louis Globo-Democrat.
West's Political Power.
The west lias long been strong
enough at Washington to get what
ever it wanted, if its representatives
could have been induced to stand to
gether in political action. The sec
tion has elected so many men to the
house and to the senate, that, had
they formed an organization on cer
tain lines, and for certain objects and
held these lines unbroken, the influ
ence of the west would have been
paramount in all questions ol vital in
terest to its people. While the west
has not. had, and has not yet, a legis
lative majority, it hao been so strong
ly represented that an intelligent and
cohesive organization, placing it in a,
position where it could have held and
welded the balance of power through
combinations, would have made it su
ireme in all national matters directly
affecting it.
Give Tariff Law a Chance.
Many are criticising the new tariff
law, but give it a chauce. The proof
of the pudding is in the eating. The
best of this new law will be in its
operation. Now is not the time to
criticise. Now is the time to wait
and see whether the law will do all
that its creators claim for it. To at- ]
tempt to tear it to pieces and pull |
down the party that has enacted it j
will be simply to hinder and retard |
the revival of business which is sc !
earnestly desired everywhere.—Mil :
waukee Sentinel (llop.)
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1909.
GOOD IN PRESIDENTIAL TOUR
Means Better Understanding Between
the Chief Executive and the
People.
There is not much difference of
opinion about the value to the coun
try of such tours by the executive
head of the nation as the long journey
President Taft is now on. Before he
returns to stay-at-home life in the
White House he will travel as far as
half way around the earth at the
equator. It will be like crossing the
United States four times, between the
Atlantic and the Pacific, or making
two round trips from New York to
Paris. And all the while he will be
in his own country, seeing American
life and American people by the mil
lions. Every day he will widen his
already broad knowledge of the nation
he serves, and the public will gain
closer understanding and surer appre
ciation of the president.
Nothing but good can come of such
contact between the chief executive
and the people. The government and
the country will be closer together in
feeling and knowledge. Washington
and distant sections will be less liable
to misunderstandings and errors.
Where President Taft goes he will
win friends. Everywhere he will in
crease his multitude of admirers. In
all of the states which lie will visit
there will be less danger of misrepre
senting him and his administration in
a way which can sway public senti
ment and do lasting harm.
This country is so immense and its
interests are so varied and so far
reaching that no man can know his
fellow citizens and their nffairs, sit
ting in the White House, as he can if
he makes such journeys as this of
President Taft. There is 110 public of
ficial who would not be broadened and
strengthened by such schooling.
THE ANTI-TRUST OUTLOOK
Wickersham Is Planning to Take a
Fall Out of the Combi
nations.
Mr. Wickersham seems bent upon
taking a fall out of the trusts. He is
at present planning such an amend
ment of the interstate commerce act
as shall make prima facie the good
and the bad trust. At least, he hopes
legislation may be enacted that will
modify the Sherman anti-trust law in
a way to create conditions of distinc
tion between the trusts that rule and
the trusts that serve society; the kind
that monopolize for suppression of in
dustry and the kind that organize for
its extension. The task is of such an
academic nature that it might be well
to call in consultation a board of
economic advisers. There has not yet
been established any ipse dictum way
of distinguishing the good from the
bad sort of trust except that of Mr.
Bryan, which was wholly artificial and
as completely ridiculous.
Everyone who lias no ax to grind
will wish the attorney general success
in his efforts. Ho has one of the most
capable and level-headed lawyers in
the country behind him, the keen
minded, clear-sighted and imperturb
able President Taft. But it cannot be
expected that the president shall do
the work for the head of the legal de
partment. He has marked out the cam
paign, which is not dissimilar to
that of .Mr. Roosevelt, with less of
strenuosity and none of the expletive
of that valorous opponent of concen
trated rascality, as he saw it. The
question is not whether Mr. Taft is
011 the right lead- he is; but whether
the attorney general shall follow that
lead with the unerring instinct, of an
economic dachshund.
Tariff Measure Needed.
We regard the passage of the tariff
bill as a causa ior general congratu
lation. Had the efforts of congress
proven abortive, resulting chaos and
delay would have been most deplor
able. As it is we havo a meaeure, not
perfect, but workable, and the great
est opportunity that ever confronted
the nation for creating an era of
abounding prosperity.—Louieville Her
old (Rc\)
IMPORTANT NEWS
NOTES OF II WEEK
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED
FORM.
tVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed Into a Few Lines for the
Perusal of the Busy Man—
Latest Personal Infor
mation.
PERSONAL.
President Taft, at Seattle exposi
tion, in his speech said he would ask
congress to pass a ship subsidy law.
Mr. and Mrs. William .Jennings liry
an celebrated their silver wedding an
niversary with a big reception at their
home at Lincoln, Neb.
Dr. Harry E. Hutchins has been ap
pointed temporary president of the
University of Michigan at a salary of
$7,000 a year.
War Secretary Dickinson is back in
Washington after an extended vaca
tion in the south. He said the depart
ment had reached no conclusion on
the West Point hazing case.
Huntington Wilson, assistant secre
tary of state, has been threatened
with another attack of appendicitis,
but Washington reports say an opera
tion will not be necessary.
Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and
blind marvel, is to make an airship
flight with Charles J. Glidden of Bos
ton and will record her sensations in
the air.
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller is suffer
ing from a cold, at her home in Cleve
land. Her physician says it is not
serious.
GENERAL NOTES.
Prof. Jerome H. Raymond assumed
the presidency of the municipally
owned Toledo university, Toledo, 0.,
and Prof. Harry 13. Hutchins became
acting president of the University of
Michigan, the resignation of Dr. James
B. Angell going into effect.
President Taft visited the Alaska-
Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle,
Wash., and was the center of interest
lor the great crowds at the fair.
In the Long Island automobile
derby, while running 65 miles an hour,
a 60-horse power machine overturned,
killing Mechanician James Hates and
seriously injuring Driver Herbert
Lytle.
President Taft preached a sermon
on amity between the people at the
Mormon tabernacle, Salt Lake City,
to a large audience who cheered him
most enthusiastically.
'J he south is honoring the memory
of Admiral Raphael Semmes, the
naval hero of the confederacy, this
being the one hundredth anniversary
of his birth.
A romance in the wake of the Louis
iana storm became known. A young
woman of Leesville, La., lost her
trousseau in the storm, and appeared
at the altar in improvised attire, while
the groom met her bare-footed, with
his garments misfits.
D. J. Vent, one of the striking train
dispatchers of the Mexican National
railroad, who is now seeking employ
ment in the United States, has fallen
heir to $600,000 in Scotland.
The seventieth session of the Rock
River conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church opened in Rocklord,
111., with Bishop Goodsell of New York
presiding.
The National League of Veterans
and Sons, organized two years ago to
benefit men who have served in the
regular army or National Guard and
their sons, met in annual session at
Bay City, Mich.
President Taft, properly clothed, de
scended 1,200 feet into the famous
Leonard copper mine at Butte,
Mont. He expressed himself much de
lighted with the experience.
One thousand children, terrified by
"Black Hand" stories, became panic
stricken in a Jersey City (N. J.)
parochial school when they heard fire
works exploding on the outside. One
child was fatally injured and 13
others more or less hurt.
Two million people viewed the big
Hudson-Fulton parade at New York.
Twenty thousand men were in line.
The street car service in Omaha
and Council Bluffs was almost normal
following (he strike. The Omaha city
council has by resolution, urged the
car company to agree to arbitration.
President Taft in a speech at Spo
kane declared he would ask congress
to authorize the issuance of $10,000,-
000 in bonds to complete irrigation
projects already begun. 4
United Stater. District Attorney
Sims has unearthed evidence that
white slave traffickers are operating
again on a large scale in Chicago.
Raids and prosecutions are probable.
Bush fires are raging in the Sas
katchewan districts and are threaten
ing the property of the settlers.
• Consul General Lay, at Cape Town,
says large quantities of American goods
could be sold in South Africa if rep
resentatives were 011 the ground.
Public schools and co-education are
denounced as jeopardizing the faith of
children in a pastoral letter issued by
the French episcopate.
Wilbur Wright successfully circled
the statue of Liberty, New York har
bor, in his heavJer-than-air aeroplane.
An explosion in office of the Colum
bian Film building at Pittsburg, Pa.,
caused a panic and 50 to 73 persons
were injured, many of them seriously.
The monetary loss exceeds $200,000.
Secretary Dickinson sustains Gen.
Frederick 1). Grant in participating in
a parade in Chicago last week saying
the officer acted as an individual,
which he has a perfect right to do.
Twenty-five thousand men were in
line and 2,000,000 witnessed New
York's great military parade which
was the climax of the Hudson-Fulton
celebration.
1 William Armstrong of Quincy, 111.,
was killed and his brother, Harold,
and Archie Johnson were seriously
injured when their automobile in
which they were riding was hit by a
train at Buda, 111.
The steamer Roosevelt, which car
ried Commander Peary to the arctic
1 regions. Is in New York harbor and
will participate in the Hudson-Fulton
naval parade up the Hudson river.
State Supreme Justice W. J. Gay
nor was nominated by the Democrats
for mayor of Greater New York.
Two armed, bandits looted the Citi
zens' National bank of Glenwood
Springs, Col., of SIO,OOO in a most
spectacular manner and escaped to
the mountains.
New York had a spectacular fire
when the Dunham chocolate plant in
Pearl street was damaged $200,000.
Rear Admiral Schley, retired, has
can.-eled all his engagements in New
York on account, of his health and
will return to Washington and seclu
sion.
A torchlight procession of 5,000 per
sons was a feature of a demonstration
for Gen. Trevino given in Monterey,
Mexico.
Sam Yong Ping, an aged Malay and
one of the wealthiest fishermen on
the Louisiana coast, hanged himself
by his feet from a tree near his home
on Para tana bay. He is supposed to
have been crazed by the recent storm.
Passengers on some of the Omaha
street cars drove off the crews and
ran the cars themselves, when the
motorinen refused to start after the
fares were collected. The crews sent
in a riot call.
Another dissolution of the Finnish
senate is imminent as a result of the
clash over Finland's contribution to
the Russian defense fund. The Rus
sian cabinet asks $1,000,000 from Fin
land; the Finns will contribute only
$2,000,000.
Gen. Grant, at Washington, declares
he will continue to lead parades that
stand for law and order until prohib
ited. This is in reply to criticisms for
his participation in Chicago's temper
ance parade.
Col. W. R. Morrison, former con
gressman, is dead at his home in Wa
terloo, 111., after a protracted illness.
Dr. Frederick A. Cook was given a
magnificent reception at Philadelphia,
at which city he delivered a lecture.
Denunciation of the French school
system by the Catholic authorities is
said by Figaro of Paris to have been
the result of a message sent by the
pope* through Cardinal Satolli.
Thomas Gray, 19 years old, walked
the streets of New York two hours
after he had been shot near the heart,
fearing his father would not believe
his story. He went to bed without
telling of his injury, but his mother
saw his blood-stained garments and
he was aroused and walked a mile to
Bellevue hospital with his father. The
shot may prove fatal.
A Paris jury decided that Edward
Baudin was justified in killing his
wife at her request to end her suf
fering. The woman was a victim of
asthma and the disease was strangling
her.
Mrs. Linda Baldwin, who says she
doesn't know how old she is, but who
is supposed to be over 100, is de
tained at Ellis island. New York. She
lived 60 years in Brooklyn and re
turned from Ireland to look after
some property.
Ex-Gov. McSweeney of South Caro
lina, who had been under treatment
in a private sanitarium at Baltimore,
Md., for several months, died there.
Ho was born in 1855 and rose from
newsboy to governor.
Taking of the testimony for the de
fense in the suit of the state to oust
the International Harvester Company
for alleged violation of the Missouri
anti-trust law began in St. Louis.
Hunter Harry Whitney, who has ar
rived at St. Johns, N. F., from Labra
dor says he believes both Cook and
Peary reached the pole and sees no
reason why the latter should doubt
Cook's claim.
At the International Dry-farming
congress at Billings, Mont., October
26-28, prominent men from European
countries and Canada, as well as the
United States, will take part.
Eight stockmen from Montana were
killed and 14 other men injured at
Chicago when the Panhandle "flyer"
crashed into the rear end of a stock
train in the St. Paul yards.
After running amuck and attacking
the officers and hospital stewards of
the United States hospital ship Belief,
John Ransom, a fireman of the ship,
was shot and killed by Civilian Mate
Heinke at Manila.
Six survivors of an unknown vessel
are aboard Winter Quarter lightship,
the remaining 12 men of the crew
having perished, according to a report
made by Capt. Delano of the steamer
Porto Rico which arrived at Baltimore
from New York.
General conference of the German
Evangelical Synod of North America.
In session at Rurlington, la., has
adopted resolutions denouncing prohi
bition and started a movement for
the formation of a national organiza
tion.
William L. Keiser, conductor, and
Peter McCourt.v, motorman. were
killed and 20 passengers injured in a
trolley car collision in Des Moines, la.
Slight earth shocks were felt
through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana
but no damage was reported. The
general direction was from west to ,
east. , j
WE HOST PROTECT
OUR WATER POWER
i
GIFFORD PINCHOT SAYS THAT
MONOPOLY IS FORMING TO
CONTROL THE SITES.
■ CONGRESS SHOULD GET BUSY
Will Have to Deal With Question of
Disposition of Vast Areas of Coal
Lands in the West, but Prin
cipally in Alaska.
Washington, D. C. —Unequivocally
asserting that a monopoly is now in
process of formation whose object is
to ofitain possession of the water pow
er sites of the country, Gifford Pin
chot, chief of the bureau of forestry,
who returned from an extended inspec
tion in the west, declared that reme
dial legislation must be enacted at the
coming session of congress if this
great natural resource is to be pre
served to the people.
The problem of how best to prevent
the nation's water power sites from
being gobbled up by such combina
tions, Mr. Pinchot predicted, will be
one of the biggest issues which the
next session of congress will have
to thresh out. While he stated that
the alleged trust is now only in the
formative stage, Mr. Pinchot declared
that prompt action on the part of con
gress is necessary to throttle it. Up
on the proper solution of this question,
the future happiness of a great many
people rests, he said.
Looming up as another big problem
which will confront congress will be
the question of the disposition of vast
areas of coal lands in the west, but
principally in Alaska. It is important
that congress should take prompt ac
tion 011 this important matter, Mr. Pin
chot said, for the protection of the
country's fuel supply and also to pre
vent a monopoly in that product.
Any doubt that may have existed as
to whether Mr. Pinchot would continue
to advocate the policies for which he
has fought so hard, was set at rest
by him. As a result of his western
tour he is as fully determined as ever
to continue his policies regarding the
conservation of the country's natural
resources and the great national forest
reserves. Not only did Mr. Pinchot
assert that President Taft is thorough
ly imbued with the conservation move
ment but he declared that the people
of the country are now more complete
ly aroused over the matter than at
any previous time. President Taft,
Mr. Pinchot said, has expressed him
self in favor of a conservation com
mission, and added that he was also
in accord with that suggestion.
TEST FOR CENSUS AGENTS
Director Durand Announces That Ap
plicants for Appointment Will
be Examined November 3.
Washington, D. C. —Census Director
E. Dana Durand announces Novem
ber 3 next as the date for making a
practical test of the qualifications of
applicants for appointment as special
agents for the collection of the thir
teenth census statistics of manufac
tures, mines and quarries. Blank ap
plications may be obtained now by
writing the bureau of the census.
No applications which are received af
ter the close of business October 25
will be considered.
In a circular of instructions relative
to the subject, approved by Secretary
Nagel of the department of commerce
and labor, the director states that
about January I, 1910, the bureau will
employ from 1,000 to 1,800 special
agents. As far as possible it is de
sired to obtain for this work persons
who have had college or university
courses in statistics or economics, and
persons who have had service in the
accounting department of some manu
| facturing or other business establish
ments.
If the applicant's statements as to
business training and experience and
education are satisfactory, and the ap
plication is complete in every respect,
a card will be mailed to the applicant,
advising him when and where to ap
pear to complete the prescribed prac
tical test in filling out a schedule such
as is required in the actual work of a
special agent.
THE WEEKLY TRADE BULLETIN
Industrial and Commercial Situation,,
as a Whole, Is That of a Full Re
turn to Normal Conditions.
New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
The industrial and commercial situa
tion, as a whole, at the beginning of
the last quarter of the year, is that of
a full return to normal conditions.
The southern trade, it is reported, is
better than for several seasons past.
The chief flaw in the situation is to be
found in the high prices which serve
to check operations in some direction,
and are a conservative influence. Bus
iness in steel rails is expanding.
Newspaper Man and Novelist Dead.
New York City.—Frederick R. Bur
ton, 48, a newspaper man and nov
elist, died suddenly at Lake Hopat
cong, N. J. The cause is supposed to
have been heart failure. Mr. Burton
was the author of several novels,
among them "Strongheart."
Acres of Lumber Burned.
Midland, Ont. —Fire on October I
wiped out the lumber yard of .Mauley
C'new, at Dollartown, an area
of 13 acres bare. This if, t! > t. .o id
fire in two weeks.