2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, td:tor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. tryor •} °J pti« to advance I M ADVERTISING RATES: Afl»o*t!«ements are published at the rut# ol sae dollar per square for one insertion and llfty Stats per square for each subsequent insertion. Rates by the year, or for six or three months, fcre low anil uniform, and will be furnished cs Application. rjegnl and Official Advertising per square, firea times or less. <2; each subsequent inser tion !0 cents per t-quare. Local notices lu cents per line for one. lnser serilon: ft cents per line for each subsequent «sn«eeutlve Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per llae. Simple announcements of births, mar riages anil deaths will be inserted free. Business cards. Ave lines or less, 46 per year; over five lines, at the regular rates of adver tising No local Inserted tor less than 75 cents per Issu* JOB PRINTING. Th« Job department of the Prsss Is complete *nd affords facilities for doing the best class of work. Paiiticulau attention paidto Law FItINTINa. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub usher. Papers sent out of the county must bo paid lor In advance. Analysis of Reason. Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of "touching" a man's heart, but we can do nothing to bis head but hit it. —G. K. Chester ton. Handicapped. "Precocious children do not always grow up to be geniuses." "No," an swered Miss Cayenne. "Sometimes they are kept so busy thinking up odd things for their fathers to tell down town that they neglect the ordinary branches of education."—Washington Star. Area Not the Biggest Factor. Any scientific farmer can tell the modern Malthuses that it is cheaper io raise a certain product on 50 acres well farmed than on 200 poor acres. Area and its present yield may al most be disregarded in figuring what population the earth can support. Queer New York Street Signs. A barber in the Bronx who halls from Italy has a sign painted on his window "Harbitonsorial Parlor." And on a hotel by a lironx road is the an nouncement, "Automobile and Fun eral Parties Cheerfully Accomodated." —New York Sun. When the Parson Listened. A local minister who listened close ly to the hymn caught the lady mem bers of his choir singing: "Yield not to flirtation, for flirting is sin; some sister will help you a brother to win." —Lawrence World. Just a Gentle Hint. A clergyman startled his drowsy congregation the oilier day as fol lows: "My dearly beloved friends, permit me to remind you that I came here to preach, not to act as umpire in a snoring match." —Tit-Bits. I. Life's Ups and Downs. "The world is full of ups and downs," quoted the Wise Guy. "That's right," agreed the Simple Mug. "We are either trying to live up to a good reputation or trying to live a bad one down." No Proof of Hereditary Leprosy. The London Lancet says six hun dred children of leprous parents are being educated by the Mission of Lep ers, and the children show no signs of leprosy. National Differences. "Chinamen are very different from us in one thing, ain't they, pop?" "In a great many, but what's your one?" "Why, if a Chinaman don't get a yel low-jacket on him, he's stung." Really a Puzzle. "Did she marry for love?" "That's what everybody is wondering. Her husband is charming in manier, wealthy, has no bad habits, and moves in the best society."—Judge. Has the Sad Conviction. After a man has tried in vain to bor row a few paltry dollars you can't con vince him that the world isn't growing ■wiser. Best Milk for Babies. Morning milk is best for babies — fresher and fewer germs than the previous night's milk, but slightly weaker in cream. Few Attain Long Life. Taking the average for the world around fewer than half of the babiea born live to be 50 years of age. Tests of Success. Sometimes it seems easier to num ber your successes by counting the chances you didn't take.—Puck. Ma.~.im. It's all right for a man to hold three or four queens in a game of cards— but not in the game of love. Uncle Ezra Says: "Tt's a short road thet hez no tem tations fur the autymobile speeder," Spanish Proverb. All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.—Pon Quixote. Where the Chatterer Loses. T H" talker FOVVS, the listener reap«. r-Italian. MORE WINNING OF THE WEST. % Out Through the Wild and Woolly Country. POINTS OUT MERITS PRESIDENT TAFT'S ARGUMENTS ON PAYNE BILL. Chief Executive Clearly Shows That Pledges of the Republican Party Made to the People Hrve Been Kept. President Taft has made his eagerly looked for tariff speech and lias de clared himself in terms which will please the great majority of the Amer ican people, who are nPTTher free trad ers nor extreme protectionists. With characteristic frankness Mr. Taft ad mits t.lie defects of the Payne bill. With judicial care he weighs iis mer its and its faults and decides that, judged as a whole, it is good. He makes no pretence that it is an easy task to revise a tariff, nor does he minimize the difficulties which eon front the conscientious legislator who seeks to ascertain the cost of produc tion at home and abroad. He makes clear his expectation that the new board will devote itself to the task. Discussing the tariff bill as a whole, Mr. Taft shows that the Payne tariff bill makes three times as many de creases as increases; that decreases have been made on articles entering into consumption to the amount of $5,000,000,000, mostly necessaries, and increases on articles entering into consumption to the amount of $851,- 000,000, of which $579,000,000 are lux uries. Concretely stated, therefore, the Payne bill, measured in terms of consumption, made decreases on com modities to the amount of $5,000,000,- 000 and increases on the necessaries of life to the amount of $272,000,000 only. In the light of this showing it was certainly unnecessary for the president to make any profound apol ogy for his course in signing the bill or any excuse for those who voted for it. Taking up the method of reasoning which was used by the "insurgents" in congress, the comparison of im ports under the various schedules of the old and the new law, Mr. Taft dis misses it as wholly misleading, say ing, "Nothing could be more unjust in a protective tariff which also con tains revenue provisions." To the extreme "stand-patter" Mr. Taft's discussion of the tariff bill will doubtless prove almost as unsatisfac tory as it will to the free trader. His declaration that the wool schedule ought to have been reduced, that "it Is the one Important defect in the present Payne tariff bill and in the performance of the promise of the platform to reduce rates to a differ ence in the cost of production with reasonable profit to the manufactur er," will afford as little solace to the injured feelings of the "range sena tors" as to the woolen manufacturers of the east, llis intimation that the schedules will have to be still further revised when his new tariff board shall have acquired the information he will demand of it will disquiet the heart of the extreme "stand-patter." But to the great majority of the voters, in cluding not only Republicans but a large number of latter-day Democrats, Mr. Taft's attitude will strongly com mend itself. Not least important was Mr. Taft's broad intimation that the next presi dential campaign v-ould be fought out on tariff lines, that three years hence (he tariff board would have acquired the information necessary to the con sideration of the tariff on a lfcore sci entific basis than ever before and thai by that time the Republican party would be ready togo before the people with a definite proposition. Three years is a long period in poli tics. but tlu-re can be little doubt that if the question of revision of the tariff js then uppermost Wie people will ro- CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1909. gard the passage of the Payne bill and President Taft's frank discussion thereof as an earnest that the Repub lican party will make a sincere ef fort to fulfill the party pledge, where as the debate and the votes on the Payne bill amply demonstrated that party pledges have no binding force with_tlie members of the opposition. TO DISFRANCHISE THE NEGRO Maryland Democrats Have Old Idea with New and Specious Argu ments. Maryland Democrats have opened another campaign for the disfran chisement of the negro, which is be ing urged with novel and specious pleading. The proposed amendment to the constitution would bar negroes who have not been thrifty enough to accumulate .SSOO and an education. Of course there are the usual argu ments about restricting the suffrage to the intelligent and responsible ele ment, barring the illiterate and igno rant, and all that. The new wrinkle is the assertion that by adopting the amendment the grandfather clause can be brought at last squarely before the United States supreme court and a decisive ruling obtained on the four teenth and fifteenth amendments. Ac companying this is the liayner argu ment that these amendments are an iniquitous interference with the state's rights and furnish an alleged .necessity for defending them. All this, of course, makes cam paign declamation, but it may be doubted whether it can obscure the real purpose of the Maryland politi cians in pushing the issue. There are some 60,000 negro voters in the slate. The Democrats believe that ttose rep resent the balance of power. By the elimination of the great majority of the negro voters the state, they think, can be made safely Democratic. That is all there is to it. The alleged anxi ety to get the federal amendments be fore. the supreme court by tdopting the state amendment and having a test made is simply campaign dust thrown in the eyes of the voters. If the Dem ocracy is so anxious to obtain such a devision on this issue there have been numerous opportunities in the south ern states that have been carefully overlooked. Taft's South Carolina Appointments. Mr. Taft's record in the way of ap pointments in South Carolina is one to which he may "point with pride," and for which he is entitled to ■ the thanks of the people of this state. The roll is worth calling at times to show how far we have traveled since the unhappy blunders of the last adminis tration: Durant, collector of the port of Charleston, with "Pete" Jennings as deputy collector thrown in for good count; Floyd as postmaster at Spar tanburg, with the indorsement of many of the best men in that city; Has'.tie as assistant district attorney at Charles ton; Storen as census supervisor of the First district; Waterhouse at Beaufort; Russell at Anderson; Pritch ard at Greenville; Douglas for the Fifth district; Dupre for the Columbia district, and possibly Alexander for the Sixth district. All these men are white men; a number of them are Democrats, and the majority of them are natives of the state. We think that this is a good record, and that, be sides pleasing the people and ftaking t IK m think that they really have an interest in the government at Wash ington, the government, itself will get first rate service.—Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier (D.*m.). At the rate new quarrels are spring ing up in the Democratic party hi states without whWi it can never hope to win again, it may easily b? that the great advertiser of Lincoln will be the only man willing to accept a Democratic presidential nomination in 1012. f'siiliiyi ! OF J I ! WEEK'S EVENTS I • • • • • • • Latest News of Interest • • • • Boiled Down for the • I Busy Man. I • • TOUR OF THE PRESIDENT. President Taft was given a hearty welcome 011 his arrival at San Fran cisco and the program for his enter tainment was carried out without a hitch. President Taft officiated at the lay ing of the corner-stone of the First Universalist church at East Portland, Ore. President Taft visited the Alaska- Yukon Pacific exposition at Seattle. Wash., and was the center of Interest lor the great crowds at the fair. President Taft, at Seattle exposi tion. in his speech said be would ask congress to pass a ship subsidy law. PERSONAL. Mrs. E. E. Pitts of Laurens, S. C., is said to have been cured recently of pellagra in an advanced stage. Miss Ruth Bryan has announced herself as a candidate for congress from a Colorado district. Attorney General VVickersham and Secretary Nagel of the department of commerce and labor arrived in Wash ington after their vacations. Richard U. Sherman, son of Vice- President Sherman, and Miss Eleanor Mills, a society belle of Utica, N. Y., were married at that city. Postmaster General Hitchcock is at Flagstaff, Ariz., for a bear hunt. Ho will join the Taft party at Yuma. Prof. Abbott Lawrence Lowell was inaugurated as president of Harvard university. GENERAL NOTES. Sensational developments are ex pected in the jury-tampering scandal at Chicago. State's Attorney Way man has discovered much new evi dence and drafts of more indictments are being prepared and the present grand jury is expected to return them. Action has been begun at Washing ton before the interstate commerce commission by the Federal Sugar Re fining Company ol' New York against several eastern railroads in which al legations of unjust and unreasonable charges for transportation of sugar are made. The Spanish ambassador to France lias Tigain formally assured Foreign Minister Pichon that Spain has no in tention of departing from her original program regarding Morocco as com municated to the powers. The Upper Mississippi River Im provement association in session at Winona, Minn., has adopted a resolu tion requesting congress to appropri ate $20,000,000 for a six-foot channel in the Mississippi river from Minne apolis to St. Louis. A dense fog at Detroit caused many collisions between street cars in which several persons were in jured. One boy was killed. The Mayor of Marshalltown, la., and six members of the police force anil sheriff's office have been indicted by a federal grand jury for placing an In dian service officer in jail and keeping him there for more than 24 hours. The old-fashioned lord mayor's show, which for many centuries has been one of the most picturesque functions to be witnessed in England, will be abandoned this year by the new lord mayor-elect. Sir John Knill. "Near-beer" dealers in Tennessee must pay a tax of $1,500 a year, col lection of which is to be begun at once. "King's Mountain day,"the anniver sary of the victory over the Hritish in 1780 at King's Mountain, N. C. ( was celebrated in South Carolina and Tennessee. As each graduating class at West Point is about eighty men short of the number of officers needed by the army, an effort will be made by Presi dent Taft to persuade congress to in crease the number of cadets to be ap pointed. Prominent public men who were to have been called by the government in the Panama libel case against Dela van Smith and Charles R. Williams of the Indianapolis News have not been summoned to the hearing next Mon day at the Indiana capital. The biennial convention of the Na tional German American alliance was held in Cincinnati, more than .',OO dele- Kales attending The thirty-second annual meeting tional German American alliance was held in Cincinnati, more than three hundred delegates attending. Charles 11. Crane, the new American minister to China, sailed from San Francisco to assume his duties. i'he celebration ol the centennial at the American Humane association opened in St. Paul, Minn., with Presi dent Stiilman of Albany, N. V., in the chal • • It is reported that John It. vValsn :he lormer Chicago banker, is prepar ni; a ... unci i coup and regain his (or nei' power. Handils who at lacked the poet office ft I Miass, in Samara province, iiuasia • btupeU with alter iulllug | olll olUcers. A Hudson-Fulton fete was held every night In midocean on the steamer President Grant on the voy age to New York. The reproduction of Henry Hud son's exploring vessel Half Moon, which took a central part in the Hud son-Pulton celebration, will be perma nently placed in a lake in Prospect park, Brooklyn. A monument to the Rhode Island troops who fell in the civil war at Newbern, N. C., was dedicated there. Gov. Pothier and other Rhode Island officials taking part. A flock of over 4,500 sheep and lambs from Colorado Is under quaran tine at the Kansas City stockyards by order of Inspector H. B. Adair, who declares that the animals are afflict ed with tho "ljp and leg" disease. Lieut. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, re tired, does not believe enforced idle ness is causing the high death rate among retired army officers, accord ing to a statement he made at Los Angeles. More than three billion fishes and fish eggs were distributed by the bu reau of fisheries of the department of commerce and labor in the last year. New York woman suffragists will held a city convention October 29, but will not name a ticket. Next year, however, (hey intend to put a ticket into the field. Pittsburg tendered Dr. Frederick A. Cook such a warm ovation that the northern explorer was visibly affected. I le announces that the facts in the pole controversy will be given to the pub lic soon, and everything settled with in six months. Ray Lamphere of Belle Gunness' "murder farm" fame Is reported dying of tuberculosis in the Michigan City (Ind.) prison. liellevue hospital doctors are puz zled by the case of a well-dressed man who does not remember his name or history. He says he was riding in a street car when something in his brain snapped and his memory be came a blank. The comptroller of the treasury has refused to reimburse a Philadelphia drug company for virus destroyed b3 r order of the government on the ground that it was affected with the loot and mouth disease. Kev. VV. M. Stuckey, who was ar rested at VVaukegan, ill., charged with abducting 17-year-old Lorena Sutherland, was released on SI,OOO bond at Ottawa, Kan. Eight Pacific coast cities have ac cepted an invitation to send delega tions to China to inspect the coun try's enterprises. A $1,000,000 exhibit of heavy ma chinery and street car appliances is a feature of the street and interurban railways' convention now in session in Denver. Military surgeons from all parts of the United States and from 11 foreign countries are attending the annual meeting of the Association of Mili tary Surgeons that opened in Wash ington. The climax of the north pole contro versy is expected within a week«when the Peary Arctic club will make pub lic Peary's statement, which he de clares will prove that he was the only white man to reach the pole. Wilbur Wright made the most spec tacular flight in his aeroplane at New York that the world has ever wit nessed. He circled the air 100 feet over New York harbor in an 18-mile wind. Owing to complications between Morocco and Spain becoming more acute declaration of regular war be tween those countries is a possibility. An organization known as the George Washington fund has been launched to help worthy Americans stranded abroad to get back to the fatherland. The fund was organized on board the liner George Washing ton, on the way from Bremen to New York, and was suggested by Isaac Guggenheim of the smelting family. The Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America met in annual convention at Toronto, (.'an., about 320 officers and delegates being present. Richard Updyke Sherman, second son of Vice-President Sherman, and Miss Eleanor Miller, of Utica, N. Y., were married in Utica. The groom is professor of mathematics in Hamilton university. The celebration c e the centennial anniversary of the incorporation of St. Louis is in full swing and the fetes will continue throughout the week. Or. cderick A. ( nnouneed at \\ ashin~t'»n that he will acquiesce In the proposition tha 112 he University of Copenhagen be asked to waive its claim to a prior examination of his records in order that American tribun frla may review them. News of the probable death by starvation In the Baffin land of Mor rison. one of the crew of the wrecked Dundee whalter Snowdrop, was brought to St. John's. N. F„ by Wil- Ired (Jrenfell's missionary schooner l.orna Doone. Minister Crane, who was about to sail for China from San Francisco, was summoned by Secretary Knox to return to Washington. It Is said cer tain phases In the eastern situation are to be discussed. With a view to Increasing the cotton yield of German liast Africa to make Germany Independent of the cotton of the United States, Bernhardt Dein berg, German minister of colonies, and I). - Walter Btisse, head of the German agricultural department, have arrived at New York to study cotton culture. Gov. Hadley and Mayor ICrelsman welcomed the mayors of 361 cities at St l.ouis as guests at the Centennial week celebration at that city. The University of Michigan will give a four-years' course in railroad administration for students wishing to qualify lor railroad positions. JILTED GIRLBLOWS OFF HEAD WITH GUN VILLA OF AN AMERICAN PAINTER AT ROLLEBOISE, FRANCE, THE SCENE OF TRAGEDY. GIRL NOTED FOR HER BEAUTY She Served at Night in the Double Capacity of Domestic and Model —Was Thrown Down by Her Lover at a Public Bail. Mantes-Sur-Seine, France. —The vil la of Daniel Ridgway Knight, the American painter at Rollerboise, over looking the Seine, was the scene of a dramatic tragedy October 6. Ar niande Pisoni, a 17-year-old-girl, re nowned throughout the countryside for her beauty and who served at night in the double capacity of domestic and model, after being publicly jilted at a village ball by her lover, Gustave For tune, returned to Mr. Knight's homV\ took the painter's shotgun and, placing the barrel under her chin, blew off her head. Mr. Knight found the body of the girl the following morning upon his return from Paris. Before killing herself Armande wrote a pathetic letter to her father, a chimney sweep in Paris, and to her sisters, adjuring the latter to avoid love affairs and never to believe man's word. She also left a letter to Mr. Knight asking forgiveness for the trouble and annoyance she was caus ing him in committing such a deed in his home. The coroner returned a verdict of suicide during a temporary fit of madness. When Fortune heard of the tragic death of his sweetheart he tried to kill himself. The funeral of the girl was the oc casion of remarkable demonstration of affection for her. The entire populace of the village attended the services and followed the coilin to the grave. Mr. Knight paid all funeral expenses. He said that the girl had a face of the most remarkable beauty he had ever seen. She was posing for pic tures Mr. Knight is painting which lie said are valued by him at $."0,000. One of them is for John If. Converse, presi dent of the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia. W!EN MUST BE SOMEBODY Progressive Women of New York De cide that It Is Not Incumbent on Wife to Use Husband's Name. New York City.—The New, York legislative league, composed of pro gressive women, has decided by reso lution that it is not incumbent on a married woman to use her husband's name. While this resolution was unanimously carried many prominent speaW-rs declared that at the present time, with men in a more powerful political position, it would bo ex pedient for women to use some part of their husband's names. "My husband objected to me using my own name," declared Mis. Mar garet Holmes Bates, 'and it did not do him any good. 1 wrote and signed my writings with my own name. It is all very well in private and social life to use your husband's name if he is anybody. I don't see why anybody should use the name of a nonentity." DUN & CO.'S TRADE BULLETIN Every Large Business Center Throughout the Country Reports Progressive*! improvement. New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: From every large business center throughout the country come reports of progressive improvement in trade. In most instances the reports are more than satisfactory; they speak of a present and prospective increase in activity that is indicative of a return to even more than normal conditions. In somo cases the volume of trade is described as equal to, or in excess of previous records. In the iron and the steel trade I'uJl productive capacity appears to have been approached and the outlook for 1910 is very bright. TRAINS COLLIDE WITH CRASH Seventeen People Were Killed and Ten Severely Injured Near To- Peka, Kan. Topeka, Kan. —Seventeen persons were killed and ten severely in jured in a collision between a freight train and a construction train on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad near here. The dead are eleven Mex icans, four section foremen and two brakemen. The injured are all Mexi cans and are at the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe hospital. It is believed some of them are fatally injured. The work train was backing into Topeka with 50 Mexicans riding on the flat cars. As the tivin was rounding a curve the north bound freight crashed into it. One Killed; Eight Injured. Waterloo, la.—Ono person was killed and eight others were injured at Greene, 40 miles north of Water loo. The of a passenger train picked up a loose plank which broke a switch and caused the wreck. Old Monitor Officer Dead. New York City.—Capt. Join Joshua N. Webber, 80 years old, who served as an executive officer cn t!.■ iron clad Monitor during her b:-fr 1« with tho Merrfniac in IS'J4 is C- ! ... a Stnten iolnnd seamen's rc-sc.ru
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