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The Job department of the PRISS Is complete <cd afferds facilities for doing the best class of Work. PABTICUI-JIK ATTENTION PAIDTO Li« PRINTIWO. No paper will b« discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor In advance. Sun Cooking. A German, Haron Tehernhausen, was the first sun cook, lie began in 10S7 to boil water, and in 1688 he had very good success in boiling egs;s. Sir John Ilerschel and Buff on are oth er famous names associated with sun cooking. Sun cooking—roasting and boiling by sunlight instead of coal or gas—has been going on for three hun dred years. There are sun stoves that roast a sirloin or boil a soup to perfection. They are only used, how ever, by scientists. Malaria in Children. Dr. Cardamitis says infancy less than a year old has a higher tend ency to malaria than any other age. Malarial children's blood should be kept disinfected with quinine, as they are the main carriers of malaria. Mosquitoes catch it from malarial children before starting an epidemic of chills, fever and ague. He recom mends chocolate quinine tablets, three grains a day, for children. The Murderous Bluefish. A five-pound bluefish passes east ward from Vineyard sound in the spring and weighs ten or 15 pounds in autumn. The bluefish is an unmiti gated sea butcher and is able to whip any other species not larger than him self. He attacks menhaden with such lerocity as to pack them in windrows a foot deep on the coast. Happiness Easily Found. Happiness is not like a large and beautiful gem, so uncommon and rare that all search for it is vain, all ef forts to obtain it hopeless; but it con sists of a series of smaller and com moner gems, grouped and set togetli er. forming a pleasing and graceful whole. —Samuel Smiles. Spectacular Fire. The most spectacular fire ever wit nessed in the oil industry was at one of the Dos Bocas wells in Mexico. About GO.OOO barrels of oil was burned up daily for nearly two months. The flames rose to heights of 800 to 1,400 feet. Heartless Landlord. "I used to walk the floor worrying about how I was going to pay my landlord," said Mr, Tufluck. "I hope you have quit all that?" replied the optimist. "I had to. The landlord said that if I didn't stop wearing out the floor he'd raise the rent." Inventions Discount Talent. "I wa'n't no good as a musician In the old fiddlin' days," says Uncle Henry Butterworth, "but when it comes to playm a phonygraph I'm just as good a hand as anybody."—Kan pas City Times. Classifying Him. "I'm just one of the plain people, sir." said the demagogue to the gifted orator. The latter looked him over. "It strikes me," he "that you are plain enough to be in a little class by yourself." Cultivate a Hnppy Nature. A happy nature is sometimes a gift, but it is also a grace, and can therefore, be cultivated and acquired; and it should be a definite aim with those who are training a child. — Sou'.sby. Good if Hruperly Spelled. "So you think Swiss cheese is a wholesome diet?" "Yes," answered the man with a tender stomach; "only you must spell wholesome without the 'v. .'" Courage. A good many people who think they have the courage of their convictions reverse the decision when they dis cover that their opinions may cost money. Chinese Written Characters. In their writing, the Chinese make use of at leant 214 groups of signs, each group containing from five to 1,351 separate characters. Daily Thought. Time is infinitely long and each day is a vessel into which a great deal may IK- poured if ore will actually fill it up. -Goethe. Photographic. The photographer never takes peo pie lor what they are worth, but what he can get out of them. —Chicago Nev.s. FOR SHIP SUBSIDIES PRESIDENT TAFT HAS PLACED HIMSELF ON RECORD. Means That Rehabilitation of Ameri can Merchant Marine Will Be Again Forced Upon the Atten tion of Congress. The president's declaration at Se attle that the country was ready for an experiment with ship subsidies as one method for the rehabilitation of the American merchant marine, and that it was his purpose to urge upon congress legislation in this direction, while not totally unexpected, is the first formal step which has been taken to commit the national administration to this policy. For months there have been signs, in the redoubled activity of the unofficial advocates of ship sub sidies in the conduct of their propa ganda of education, and in the trend of the consular reports, that it was the purpose of the government to back this method of reviving Ameri can shipping in the foreign trade. With this backing the fight in con gress will have a very different as pect from the subsidy campaigns of 1898 and 1003, and the chances are thus immeasurably increased that the country will again make a serious at tempt to solve a problem which has baffled American economists. The logic of the protective system will be found to support the principle of government aid for shipping, al though the contribution of the public toward the support of private enter prise is more direct and conspicuous when given in the form of subsidies than in the case of import duties, and there is undoubted weight in the ar gument that American shipbuilders and owners are alone in being denied support in their effort to compete with foreigners. And aside from the argu ment from logic, President Taft him self refers to the next strongest card of the ship subsidy advocates when he speaks of the practical difficulty in which the nation would find itself in the event of war without the mer cantile marine from which to draw its seamen, it colliers and its supply ships. Congress has both refused to supply the requisite lleet of colliers for the navy and to face seriously the problem of the decline of the mercan tile marine. This much said, the case resolves itself into a balancing of evils. Shall the United States adopt an expedient of doubtful value to gain a result that in the nature of the thing, can have no certainty of permanence? Shall we pay many millions to the ship owners to the end that other millions now paid to foreign shipowners for the carriage of our foreign commerce shall also be paid to American ship owners? What would be the econom ic gain to the country of a system which increased the cost of marine transportation, and added another sort of class legislation to the law books? These are some of the ques tions which will be now debated with fresh interest and intensity, and will be coupled with the additional ques tion, whether some means other than subsidies cannot be found for the re suscitation of American shipping in the foreign trade. Free ships in the foreign trade, free shipbuilding materials, an extension of the present policy of liberal con tracts for the carrying of the mails and discriminating duties in indirect trade have all been suggested, and all have been strongly supported. The point of Immediate importance, at the beginning of the serious debate of the subsidy question, is whether some of these expedients would not accom plish the desired result without the evils which the foes of subsidies be lieve would inevitably attend the adoption of a bald subsidy program. The shipowner would doubtless prefer a direct grant of aid from the public treasury, but it is more than an open question, in the light of the experi ence of other countries, whether the method would in the end give the re sults that are so ardently and univer sally desired. They Need No Protection. The superintendent of a South Carolina cotton mill has made some Interesting statements to a reporter for the Providence (R. I.) Journal, lie says that the southern mills are earning larfje dividends—many of them from 25 to 40 per cent, a year. In most cases what is earned over ten per cent, is put into new buildings and improvements. That helps to ex plain why the number of spindles in the south has risen in ten years from 4,000.000 to 10.000.000 and why that section consumed more bales of cot ton last year than New England and Canada. I he big dividends of the southern mills serve to explain the absence of enthusiasm among southern senators for the reduction of the duties in the cotton schedule and their perfunctory opposition to whatever increases were made. It is true that the increases do not affect the cheaper grades of goods to whose manufacture the south de votes itself almost exclusively, but the owners of the southern mills are looking forward to the time when they will begin to rival New England in the product ion of finer goods. One can understand why the appeal of Mr firyan and of the Saratoga con ference to the Democrats to "rally once again, boys, shouting the battle cty of 'tarilf for revenue only" has no response front those interested in tin great southern cotton manufactur ing Indus' y They call themselves Democrats but they are for n high protective turiff and the preservation of their 25 or 40 per cent, dividends. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1909. EXPERT OPINION ON TARIFF Country Has Right to Look Forward to Good Work from the Commission. Congress took alarm at the idea of a turiff commission and consented only to the appointment of a board that should secure information to as sist the president in the discharge of the duties imposed upon him by the maximum and minimum section of the new tariff bill and the officers of the government in the administration of the customs laws. The executive might need help in putting the law into effect, but an omniscient legislature required no help whatever in framing the laws of the future. The board which has now been chosen consists of three members who have made a special study of the tariff from different points of view. Henry C. Emery, the chairman, is pro fessor of political economy at Yale and a writer of note on economical questions. James B. Reynolds has served on commissions for the inves tigation of foreign tariffs, is assistant secretary of the treasury and is con sidered a tariff expert. Alvin H. San ders, editor and publisher of the Breeders' Gazette, is chairman of the American Reciprocal Tariff league, has worked zealously for the exten sion of our markets. Is in close touch with the producers of the west and understands thoroughly the industrial conditions and needs of this part of the country. The records of these men indicate their fitness for such an investigation as may be required of them. No one can doubt that the appointments were wisely made, and it is very possible that the information which the board secures may have an effect upon con gress in spite of the exhibitions that have been given of congressional stub bornness. At one time it was inti mated that the president anticipated this larger influence from the work of the board, whose duties, even after the legislative restrictions, are hardly so sharply defined as to prevent full reports on various kinds of informa tion. Facts properly set forth, an aroused public sentiment, an adminis tration favorable to a comprehensive commission plan, may result in a clos er approach to scientific tariff-making and let us hope that they will.—Chi cago ltecord-Herald. Bryan and Bailey. Mr. William J. Bryan is making speeches in Texas in advocacy of the policy on which he wishes the dis united Democracy to unite—a tariff for revenue only, with free raw mate rials. Senator Bailey is making speeches in support of a tariff for rev enue only with low duties on raw ma terials. He says that was the Demo cratic doctrine in 1840, when Polk was president. Mr. Bryan contends that President Cleveland, wh% was for free raw materials, represented the modern convictions of the party. The two statesmen have been firing at each other at long range. Some body proposed that they should have a joint debate and thresh out the question. It is one in which the Tex ans are interested. There are many of them who, while denying vigorous ly that they are protectionists, ap prove of stiff duties on wool and lum ber, and who disliked the removal of the duty on hides. But Mr. Bryan, who likes to he the only star in the sky, and who, per haps, is unwilling to meet at close quarters so strong a debater as Sena tor Bailey, does not take kindly to the suggestion. He says he will not consider a joint meeting unless Sena tor Bailey shall make a personal re quest for It. He thinks it would tend to turn attention from his tentative platform to individuals—to Bailey as well as Bryan. The senator says that, in view of Mr. Bryan's opinion that a Joint debate would affect the na tional party, he is averse to forcing it. How the Democratic party, which is groping blindly for an issue ac ceptable to the great mass of its mem bers, can be harmed by a joint de bate between two of its leaders is not apparent. It seems rather as if it would tend to clear up the situation and enable the Democrats to know what they ought to believe and preach as to the tariff question. At present they are badly mixed, in Texas as v.ell as the rest of the union. Must Hear from the People. It is understod that the plans of the monetary commission are still in a formative stage. Thus far the work of the commission has been chiefly that of investigation. The ex perience of every important commer cial country, and the results of that experience in existing financial sys tems have been studied by experts, whose reports, which will form the basis of the commission's action, will stand as classics in the study of na tional finance. But uowevor perfect In Its science the plan evolved may be, it will require, not only for enactment, but for its successful application, the co-operation of the people. To that end the members of the monetary commission, In their campaign of ed ucation. must sit as learners as well as instructors. And in adopting this policy of public discussion the com mission is exhibiting a characteristic of successful leadership which, while directing, takes counsel directly or in directly of its forces and enlists, rather than commands, respect and obedience. President and Party. Taft's position is impregnable as a choice of tactics in party leadership. The party voters will be pleased with the president's exposition of party du ties. They will sustain the party ma jority and keep it in power.—Omaha Bee. > ■ I ~OFil * i ! WEEK'S BENTSi • « e . o * • Latest News of Interest • % Boiled Down for the j a Busy Man. • o • aatlOKltltltllllOtllOlKl PERSONAL. Dr. James H. Carlisle, president emeritus of Wofford college and one south's best-known educators' died at his home in Spartanburg, X. He was 84 years old. Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale univer sity says the normal span of human life is 150 years, and declares the longevity of man increases as science and medicine make advances. Mrs. Josephine Floyd Jones, who was a member of one of the oldest families on Long Island, in her will left, SIO,OOO and her personal wardrobe to her faithful servant, Hannah Dav enport, who is to have a grave in the family burial plot. Bernhard Dernburg, German colonial secretary, who is at Kansas City, de rides the suggestion of war between Germany and England. Miss May Clayton, 25 years old. daughter of a wholesale liquor mer chant. and Peary S. Tsujl, a Japanese restaurant keeper, were married at Seattle, Wash. It was a romance of the Seattle fair, the couple having met at the "Pay Streak." Rudolph Gluck, 19 yen's old. will sail for Russia from Xew York in a few days to serve three years in the Russian army, and so save his moth er s property at Kaprin, near Warsaw, from confiscation Lieut. Foulois of the American army has arrived in New York after attend ing the International Aeronautical con gress in Paris. He says France is crazy over flying machines, and this class of craft is bound to supplanr dirigible balloons King Manuel of Portugal is con fined to his bed with an intestinal trouble accompanied with a light fever. William I. Buchanan, former Ameri can minister to the Argentine republic and Panama, died on the street in London Irotn supposed heart disease. Gonzalo de Quesada, formerly Cuban minister to the United States and now a member of the permanent court at The Hague by appointment of the Re public of Cuba, has been selected by this government as an arbitrator in the case of the Orinoco Steamship Company against Venezuela. GENERAL NOTES. "Gipsy" Smith, the English evangel ist, headed a procession ol 20,000 en thusiastic Christian people that marched through Chicago's South side "Tenderloin" district. Most of the resorts closed their doors and there was practically no disorder. The Xational Woman's Christian Temperance union met in annual con vention at Omaha, Neb. Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, the president, deliv ered her annual address. The one hundred and fortieth anni versary of the discovery of San Fran cisco bay by Gaspar De Portola is be ing celebrated in San Fraucisco and the regenerated city Is entertaining guests from all parts of the world. The National Purity congress Is holding its annual meeting at Burling ton, la., and is attended by hundreds of earnest, practical men and women devoted to the uplifting of their fellow Americans. F. E. Hanscome, cashier of the wrecked • Mineral Point (Wis.) First National batik, killed himself at the grave of his mother. Worry over the bank's affairs was the cause. Mrs. John Gray, his aged mother in-law, fell dead upon seeing his body. Cleveland (O.) police are Invest! gating the cause of illness of 14 per sons who were taken sick after eating chocolate candy purchased at an East side confectionery store. Mrs Richard McMartin of Thompson vllle, Mich., visiting at Ashland, Wis., walked out of the house while asleep during the night and off the bridge over the Bay City creek, falling on the rocks and breaking both legs. A diamond ring worth $l,lOO, the property of Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, was found on the mountain side near the Edison estate in New Jersey. It was lost six years ago. Robert Mc- Carthy, the finder, was rewarded with SIOO. Fire destroyed the computing scale works and other buildings in Dayton, 0.. causing a loss estimated at $750,- 000. The International Banking Corpora tion. an American concern with main offices in Peking, has opened a branch bank at Hankow. Jack Johnson still retains the title of Heavy-weight chamuion of the world, because he knocked Stanley Ketchel out in the twelfth round in their fistic battle at Colma arena, San Francisco. The fight was furious and bloody. The colored man was too heavy and strong tor his lighter opponent. The seventy-seventh annual meet ing of the Illinois State Young Men's Christian association was held in the new building of the University of Illi nois association at Urbana. Members of the Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky library associations held a joint conference in Louisville. The Spanish cabinet, headed by Premier Maura, resigned and is super ceded br (me lormed by Se:jor ; Moret, former premier. This change resulted lrom the outcry over Revolutionist Ferrer's execution. The American Ice Company of New York is on trial in the criminal court on the charge of violating the state law preventing monopoly. The con cern is charged with creating an arti ficial ice famine. A dam at Lake Derkos, which sup plies Constantinople with water, burst and 25 persons were drowned. Calcutta dispatches to London say 10,000 people have perished in a ter ritlc storm which swept the plains in the delta of the Ganges and Brahma putra, in Bengal, India. According to a report from United States Consul General Griffiths, at London, the army of unemployed in Great Britain has grown steadily and has now reached proportions that are causing the government great uneasi ness. The grand jury at Chicago has caused a stir by joining State's Attor ney VVayman in his demand that the judges of Cook county courts clean out the county jury commission in such a drastic manner as will prevent any opportunity for jury tampering in the future. A copy of a book written in 1810 by Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat, and entitled, "Torpedo War and Submarine Explosions," has been sold at auction in New York for SOO. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Whitlock of East Orange, N. J., were so affected at the prospect of ''losing" their two daughters by marriage that they went to their country home to escape being present at the double wedding. They ■are said to he well pleased, never theless, with their sons-in-law. A fund to be known as the Charles Eliot Norton memorial fund has been endowed to the Archaeological Insti tute of America in Washington by James Loeb, a retired banker of New York city. Army officers to the number of .15 started from Fort Meyer, Va., under the lead of Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, presi dent of the war college, for a 90-mile endurance test. It is reported in Lisbon. Portugal, that King Alfonso's mind is in a serious condition because of fear of an upris ing in Spain and of his own assassina tion. King Edward of England is much exercised over the socialistic demon strations in connection with Ferrer's execution and is laboring hard to pre vent a general election on the budget, fearing that owing to the highly fever ish condition of public opinion the house of lords would be imperiled and possibly abolished. A typhoon of unusual severity swept over the island of Luzon, washing out railroad beds, cutting off telegraphic communication and doing much other damage. President Taft had the time of his life on his brother's ranch in lexas. lie rode a balky cayuse, saw wild steers roped by cowboys and wit nessed the rounding up of a herd of cattle, together with many other in teresting things connected with ranch life. The Minocqua ( Wis.) bank was rob bed of several thousand dollars by five men who, after being rounded up at a small station near there by a sheriff's posse, turned on the latter with rifles and made their escape. The American Antiquarian society laid the corner-stone of its new build ing in Worcester, Mass., in connection with the opening of the organiza tion's annual convention. Miss Eleanor Lorraine Beattie, who was recently extradited from London on a charge of grand larceny and who is now under bonds for trial, has ad vertised in New York for a position as chauffeur. She is willing to wear a uniform and pilot a taxicab. William Fason, a blind negro, who killed two men in a Paterson (N. J.) saloon, when he was denied a drink, was sentenced to 40 years in prison. W. R. Hearst won a "strike" in the New York political campaign Saturday night when he threatened to retire from the race for mayor and to leave the fusion ticket to its fate unless his fellow nominees appeared on the stage with him. Two schooners, with 11 persons aboard, are missing off the Newfound land coast and are believed to have foundered in the gale last week. The annual convention of the Na tional Woman's Christian Temperance union opened in Omaha with about 500 delegates in attendance. National President Lillian M. N. Stevens deliv ared her yearly address. Illinois cities and towns celebrated the second arbor and bird day of the year with exercises in the public schools. The United States supreme court has issued an order staying proceed ings in the northern Illinois circuit court in the matter of the application of Capt. M. Carter for the allowance of further counsel fees in the govern ment's suit against him for the restor ation of the funds alleged to have been procured by him through defal cation. Attorney General Stead has ren dered an opinion to the effect thai the one hundred and twenty-second article of war does not give officers of the marine corps authority to com mand in the army unless detached for service by order of the president. Ministers and laymen from all parts of the country met in Detroit to at tend the general convention of the Universallst church. Abraham G. Munn, retired manufac turer and philanthropist of Louisville, died there, aged 91. He attributed his long life to temperance in all thinss. WAS IN NO HURHY TO LEAVE Prisoner Put Coming Gastronomic Joy Ahead of a Brief Period of Liberty. A colored man from Georgia had lived in Washington but a few years when he was arrested for some slight violation of the city ordinances. Upon hearing that the negro was in jail, the secretary of the colored Y. M. C. A. secured the services of a minister to go with him and sign the prisoner's bail bond. They reached the jail shortly before noon, and told the negro the object of their visit. In re sponse to the proffered kindness he said: "Mistah Johnsing, I sho is glad you all is gwine to git me out. but 1 wants you-all to fix it so I can't git out till late dis evenln'." Of course the two Samaritans were somewhat taken aback by this unus ual request. But a moment later they lost their breath when, in answer to the secretary's question, the Georgia negro replied in a whisper: "Well, sah, dey's a-gittin' dinnah ready, an' dey's cookin' greens; an' 1 sho would like to git some o' dem greens befo' I leabes dis place!"—Lip pincott's. THE CLEVER GIRL. "Your father ordered some wood from me this morning, miss. Do you know whether he wants hard or soft?" "Oh—er—not too hard." A Frencch Scholar. As William bent over he!' fair face he whispered: "Darling, if 1 should ask you in French if I might kiss you, what would you answer?" She, calling up her scanty knowl edge of the French language, ex claimed, "Billet doux." —Tit-Bits. Why Not? Aunt Spinsterly—l hope that your opinions uphold the dignity of your sex, Mamie, and that you believe that every woman should have a vote. Mamie—l don't go quite so far as that, aunty; but I believe that every woman should have a voter. —Sketch. Cause of Discord. She —So they do live happily togeth er, you say? He —No. It's the eternal struggle be tween religion and society. He is as straight-backed as she is straight front. —Life. SiVvvx^Kds awi EW 4 Swwva acts y<A otvXW \)owfc\s; c\eawses V\\c system escc~; ass\s\s \\abv\wa\ pCTW\a\VGW%. To vfe bewcJvcivaV cjjeds.a\wocys\)\i\j \\\e nANUFACTuRJTD BV The CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Co. 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