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Hemembereri Dereliction.
On a recent Sunday the clergyman
cf a parish church in Kent, England,
was reading the notices for the week,
and concluded by saying: "There will
be christening next Sunday at ten
t.hirty." He then slowly walked to
the pulpit. Suddenly turning toward
the congregation, lie remarked in se
vcre tones; "Remember, Mrs. Tomliti
son. 1 said ten-thirty. A year ago you
were late,l believe."
Lucky Eskimos.
The Eskimos have no physicians;
indeed, have no name for drugs or
dot tors. Nature here acts the good
sanitariaft and shuts the door against
all disease germs and blends in their
food iodin, the most powerful and
least harmful of all antiseptics. The
use of remedies either inside or out
is unknown. Wounds heal up at once
without mattering. All tumors, warts
and cancers ure unknown.
Pre-eminent Distinction.
'} there be no nobility of descent.,
112 the more indispensable is it that
lere should be nobiiiiy of ascent —
a character in them that bear rule so
line and high and pure that as men
come within the circle of its influence,
they involuntarily pay homage to that
which is the one pre-eminent distinc
tion —the royalty of virtue.—lienry
C. Potter.
Youthful Wisdom.
Berk, aged four, insisted on running
off to play with a little girl his age.
His mother lolti him that a dog might
bite him if he didn't stay at home,
lie answered that he would iiit the
dog with his slick. "Yes," said his
mother, "but you had no stick." Berk
replied: "and there wasn't any dog,
either."—Delineator.
Expensive.
A little girl of about seven entered
the store the other day to procure
some cloth to make her dolly a dress.
When handed the package she asked
the cost.".lust one kiss," the mer
chant answered. "All right," was her
reply. "Grandma said she would pay
you when she came in to-morrow."—
The I lousekeeper.
Gentle Actvice.
A man takes contradiction and ad
vice much more easily than people
think, only he will not bear it when
it is violently given, even though it
be well founded. Hearts are flowers;
they remain open to the softly falling
dew, but shut up in the violent down
pour of rain.—llichter.
Seeker After Knowledge.
Little Egbert one day observed ins
mother making tea. "What kind of
tea is that mamma?" he asked. "Why,
1 don't recall the name. Why do you
ask?" I was just wondering whether
it was the l.lbby tea we sing about at
school."—Delineator.
What They Look Like.
The little boy had been given oy
ster stew for dinner. The oysters
were unusually large. After peering
intently into the bowl l'or some time
be looked up into his mother's face
and said, "i don't like hoppy-toads."—
Delineator
Conserving Child Life.
It is much more important that we
rare for the children who are born
than that we should indulge in the
notion that it vast, increase in popu
lation is of value.—Philadelphia In
quirer.
Highest Fight cf Kite.
The world's record flight of a kirt
is 23.1 11 feet above sea level. The
•klle started from a mountain top
Tiller t'; ' temperature was 79 degrees
■aboxe zero and at its highest point
reached degrees below zero.
City Undesirables.
It 1s estimated that 113,000 adult
males in New York city make a liv
ing by "their wits," without in any
sense being an economic .actor aiding
in production or distribution.
The Chewing Habit.
A Washington judge thinks it con
tempt of court for some one to chew
gum in the temple of justice where
he presides, and yet. he lets the law
yers chew the rag.
Record to Be Proud Of.
Alfred H. Booth of Worcester,
Mass.. has been organist at St. .Mat
thew's church for 30 years, and in tliyt
time has missed but one service.
RULE OF MAJORITY
PLEA OF PRESIDENT FOUNDED
CN CONSTITUTION.
Protest Is Allowable, But Repudiation
of Duties Is Looked Upon as a
Display of Littleness Not
to Be Permitted.
President Taft in his third sermon j
in the series of discourses upon moral
themes that has marked his intinerary
took for his text "Personal Restraint." j
In the home, in the shop, at the coun-;
tor —everywhere the man who can say ,
no at the right time is above tempta- j
tion. The man who can say yes at the j
right time has the field of opportunity j
before him. In the little things of
man's varied relations is found the'
key to character. When he has |
thrown aside his habiliments as presi
dent of the United States, or judge, or
clerk, or laborer; when he is in the
home and his most intimate nature is
revealed, the real test is applied to a
man. Mr. Taft referred to the impa
tient, snappish answer of a husband
to a tired wife, admitted he had not
been above the fault of shortness in
replies and condemned such things as
indications of an inaptitude for re
straint which, if not corrected, makes
its appearance in the larger relations
of life.
"He who conquers himself is great
er than he who taketh a city." Such
was the suggestive text for the presi
dential discourse. There are many
persons who regard a position of pow
er as relieving them of the common
amenities and considerations of life.
They become puffed up and concerted
or opinionated and intolerant.. Such
persons, by seeking to repress the in
dividuality of others, tend to lower
the plane of life expression, and by
their illustration of the spirit of in
tolerance and peevishness, of envy,
spite, retaliation or revenge, demean
life and lower its standards.
Mr. Taft does not preach a goody
goody. but a practical gospel of mutu
ality and helpfulness. He declared in
the Fresno discourse for respect for
the will of the majority. Yet, on the
other hand, he remarks the true
strength and dignity of sentiment is
found when the majority respects the
minority voice. It is the petty and
grasping, the self-seeking and sordid
who seek no entrench themselves in
political «r any other kind of power
by denying to the voice of the minor
ity the consideration that, such voice
deserves. After all, the majority rules,
but unless it is corrected and checked
by the minority it is an autocracy
rather than a representative and cred
itable force.
Mr. Taft regards as pusillanimous a
minority that takes to the woods when
beaten instead of sturdily fighting the
battle from such vantage ground as is
left it: doing the work of protest and
criticism and taking hold of such
levers as it may grasp. The mere re
pudiation of duties because they are
not. paramount, of responsibilities be
cause they are not crucial, he regards
as a species of littleness that should
not be displayed in a land of liberty
and individuality. Such doctrine is
sound; it is good tonic, and those who
grasp the president's viewpoint of con
trol and restraint have acquired a
I breadth of philosophy and ethics that
will enable them to do their full
share in every phase in life. —Balti-
more American.
Bryan Is It.
What is the use, asks William Jen
nings Bryan, in his supreme satisfac
tion with his representative charac
ter as a Democrat, for the Democratic
party to hold a conference to mark
out measures? Certainly the great
commoner is well within bounds log
ical when he reasons that he has not
diminished a whit in his power of
originating policies, while the party
has not advanced a jot in its ability to
do more than harp upon the lonesome
string of Cleveland principles. Mr.
Bryan is not assured that any national
conference would have truly repre
sentative character, by which, of
course, is meant he has no assurance
that it would have an overwhelming
majority of Bryanites in it.
Mr. Bryan is too busy in coining
speech into currency to give attention
Just now to wizardizlng a convention
assembled for the mere matter of talk
ing. He has his talk classified by this
time and it is not the season for an
output of gratuitous afflatus upon po
litical subjects. He must cut his
winter wheat while the chautauqua
sun is shining. Mr. Bryan is a wise
politician and knows that the times
and periods that govern his appear
ances in the political Held are as ac
curately guided by conditions as the
recurrence of the seasons. This may
be the winter of the party's discon
tent, but the sun of serenity ever
halos the brow of the man who, when
his party is floundering and seeking
to find stable ground, remarks: "Oh,
what is the use? I'll come along with
a sheaf of enthusiasm after awhile
and an entire new draft of policies
ready made for the party."
Party Voters with the President.
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
duties. They will sustain the party
majority and keep it in power. There
Is not a doubt that his constructive,
definite, moderate views, contrasted
with the demoralizing, vindictive, up
setting purpose of the opposing Demo
cratic organization, embody the pref
erence of the average American voter
By pursuing this course Mr. Taft will
have persuaded and conquered Repub
lican opinion in the west. —Omaha
Dec (Rep.).
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER n, 1909.
THE ARMY AND THE CITIZEN
Memories of Self-Sacrifices Are Worth
Much to the People of Any
Country.
At a banquet of the Illinois Sons of
the American Revolution Gen. Grant
said: "When a people cast aside sen
timents of patriotism and ideals of
loyalty they become sordid, and sor
didness marches hand in hand with
vice." The general said that the
youth of the country should be taught
to revere the memories of the men
who had fought for principle.
With monuments dotting the land in
recognition of the services of heroes
of war and peace it might seem that
the general's advice Is not needed, it
is needed, however, and the sharpness
of the neeti lias been more manifest in
the last ten years than ever before.
President Taft found it necessary to
plead for decent treatment for the
army. An underpaid organization for
ten years has been lacing death and
disease in tropical countries, has done
its duty faithfully and its reward has
been the frequent sneer.
It is impossible to read the story of
the fight in front, of Santiago, Cuba,
and Ihen to understand the tendency
of the people to belittle it and to
withhold the praise that Is due the
soldiers who fought in it. The Sixth
regular infantry in a few hours of he
roic lighting lost 13 officers and 105
men, about 20 per cent, of the light
ing force of the organization.
After the battle of Santiago, in seek
ing to cast ridicule on one man whom
it did not like, a newspaper spoke of
the First volunteer cavalry as "the
Rough Riders who never rode." From
this it was taken for granted by the
unthinking that the volunteer cavalry
had borne no worthy part in the fight.
The sneer has lived and it shows itself
frequently. The Rough Riders lost six
officers and Si men in the battle.
They advanced t,o the fight on foot, as
did every other cavalry organization
thut was engaged. The commanding
officer who would have sent mounted
regiments into that fight would have
been a fool and a criminal.
The men who goto the front, are
heroes at the time of the fighting. The
people cannot do too much for them.
They deserve respect for what they
have done even in the days when the
wars seem :t long way off. The mem
ories of self-sacrifice are worth some
thing to any country.
Reviving American Shipping.
President Taft's advocacy of mild
experiments in the subsidizing of
American merchant ships has not
awakened very many responsive
thrills. The out-and-out advocates of
ship subsidies realize that under the
crippling operations of the American
navigation laws strong stimulants are
needed if results are to be gained.
While to make a beginning would give
them hope of large and important
subsidies to come, it is going to bo
difficult to convince inland constitu
encies of receptive congressmen that
measures ineffective in themselves are
intrinsically worth while.
There is no doubt at all that the
American flag ought to be restored to
the seas. To say that the high wages
of American shipwrights and Ameri
can seamen put the American mer
chant marine at a hopeless disadvan
tage is easy, hut not necessarily accu
rate. Good wages bring superior serv
ice. There is. however, no offset to
needless expense of materials for
ships.
If efforts equal to those put forth
to get subsidies out of the national
treasury were directed to overcoming
by wise legislation the fundamental
causes of the decay of the American
merchant marine it is likely that sub
stantial progress would come without
much delay.
President Taft should consider well
this side of the question. Since be
announces that he will join in the task
of reviving American shipping he
should not rest content with merely
urging subsidies to a few ship owners
out of the insufficient, funds of the
post office department.—Chicago Itec
ord-Uerald (Ind. Rep.).
Setting It Straight.
Gen. Robert Shaw Oliver, assist
ant secretary of war, officially dis
credits the recent report from the war
department that because of the dis
abilities and difficulties experienced in
the war game in Massachusetts there
were to be no more joint, maneuvers
by the regular army and state guards.
The department, he says, has not the
slightest intention of varying from the
plans previously made and followed.
But there will be a modification that
will, he hopes, avoid the troubles en
countered in Massachusetts.
The officers of the war department
having jurisdiction over the inst ruction
and training of the National Guard or
ganizations have decided that here
after only picked men shall be allowed
to participate. The medical officers
of the guard will bo directed to make
more stringent medical examination
of recruits entering the militia, and no
member not physically able to stand
the str.»in will be allowed to take part
in tlie maneuvers. Further, only such
state organizations as prove in the
camps of instruction fit to take part
and competent in their work will be
given the privilege.
This is a more sensible course than
that first announced of abandoning the
joint maneuvers altogether, which,
however, was then .-aid to he based
upon the -conclusion that the results
were not worth the hardship experi
enced by unfitted guardsmen. The ef
feet of the modification will be te
eliminate the physically unlit and to
train or eliminate the incompetent.
The discrimination must tend to an
improvement of the standard of the
state troops and work for progress all
along the line.
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PERSONAL.
Rev. HI wood Worcester of Boston,
founder of the Emmanuel healing
movement, declares the movement has
grown to such an extent and so many
ministers are interested that a col
lege at which the teaching of Emman
uel methods shall be the principal
feature of the curriculum is demanded.
Dr. Jennie McCowen, president of
tlie lowa Conference of Charities and
Correction, called to order the elev
enth annual meeting of that organiza
tion in Davenport.
Rev. John It. Pratt, pastor of the
First Congregational church of Ve
rona, N. .1, has been elected mayor
of the borough, because no one would
run against him, and he is now the
busiest man in Verona.
Mrs. Raymond Robins, who is in
New York to welcome Mrs. Pankhurst,
the English suffragette, said western
factory girls are superior physically to
those of the east.
Congressman Aiken of South Caro
lina says he will introduce a bill in
the next congress for prohibition in
the District of Columbia.
De Witt Clinton Duncan, the well
known Cherokee writer and states
man, is dead at his home in Vinita,
Okla., at the age of 75 years. Mr.
Duncan wrote many notable articles
on Cherokee affairs and poems under
the Indian name of "Too-Qua-Stee."
Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, the de
posed New York Christian Science
leader, in a public statement declares
she does not intend to secede and
will comply with the orders of the
Boston church directors.
John Chandler, a farmer living near
Kansas City, Mo., took refuge in a
barn during a storm. The storm lift
ed the barn bodily and carried it
away. Chandler was uninjured.
John P. Ware, aged 70, was refused
a license to wed Cora Burns, aged 15,
when he applied to the county clerk
at. Oroville, Cal. The girl's mother,
aged Ml, who gave her consent to the
proposed marriage, may lose control
ol' her daughter.
GENERAL NEWS.
In the Steinheil trial at Paris, a
wild scene of disorder was created
when a man giving the name of Le
levre arose and loudly proclaimed
that lie was the slayer of M. Stein
heil and Mine, Japy for whose murder
tlie widow of the former is being tried.
Not much credence is placed in the
man's confession.
William Dobson, cashier of the
Canadian Express Company at Niag
ara Falls, was sandbagged while alone
in the company's office at the Grand
Trunk station and a package contain
ing $14,156 taken from him by two
unknown men in broad daylight.
The British house of commons has
passed the third reading of the finance
hill by a vote of 370 to 140, the gov
ernment's majority being much larger
than had been anticipated.
A terrific battle between the revo
lutionists and the Nicaraguan govern
ment forces has been fought and the
rebels are in possession of Las Lajas,
near Los Chiles. Many are reported
to have fallen on both sides, Maxim
guns being used with terrible effect.
Martin Kaufmann of New York is
under arrest at Berlin on tlie charge
of frauds amounting to $107,000 in
connection with the Cotton Goods
Converter's Company of New York.
He was for many years considered
ore oi' the most worthy business men
of New York.
The twenty-fifth annual national
horse show opened in Madison Square
garden. New York, with a remarkable
display of western draft horses among
the exhibits.
The cries of a 15-month-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Cohen, of Mil
waukee probably saved IS persons
from death in a fire which damaged
the building in which they live. The
little one's cries awakened the mother
and she gave the alarm.
An antitoxin administered to Albert
Pierce, a snake charmer, after he was
bitten by a big "rattler" in a New
York museum, saved the man's life.
The North Dakota is the fastest
and most powerful battleship afloat.
Her screw standardization tests over
the Rockland (Me.) measured mile
course developed a maximum speed of
22.25 knots and more horsepower
than has been reached by any other
warship.
William .1. Gaynor (Dem.) was elect
ed mayor of New York city by a plu
rality of 70,471 over Otto T. Bannard
(Rep.). His lead over Hearst was
95,321.
Herman C. Baehr (Rep.) was elect
ed mayor of Cleveland over Tom L.
Johnson by about 4.500 plurality.
Dr. William J. Dodd, a New York
physician, who left an estate of $250,-
000, feared he would he buried alive
and in his will requested that his ra
dial artery be cut before his burial.
The administrator in probating (he
will said the artery was cut as re
quested.
All of the original "V. It. H." Lin
coln pennies, which aroused such wide
interest because of tin- prominence of
Designer Brenner's initials on them
and the subsequent change in dies to
make the initials less conspicuous,
have passed entirely into the public's
hands.
Because he spanked a 12-year-old
schoolboy with a shingle, Timothy
Tripp, a district schoolmaster in the
town of Greene, N. Y., was found guil
ty of assault and sentenced to pay a
fine of S2O or serve 20 days in the
county jail.
Judge Marvin of the probate court
at Hartford, Conn., announced that he
would appoint a conservator for Mrs.
Luclnda Treat Goddard, the 70-year
old bride of Charles It. Goddard, a
Yale student, who but recently reach
ed his twenty-first birthday.
Attorney Stephen G. Porter filed an
appeal in the superior court of Penn
sylvania at Pittsburg in behalf of
Helen Boyle, asking for a reversal of
her sentence of 25 years to the West
ern penitentiary, inflicted in Mercer
recently, after she was convicted of
complicity in the kidnaping of Billy
Wliitla, the son of Attorney .lames
W'hitla of Sharon, Pa.
Leonard Dunmore, a negro, was
burned to death by a mob at Knox
ville. Miss., and his daughter, who at
tempted to render him aid, was shot
and fatally wounded. The black man
was charged with arson.
Alva Coan, aged 17, has confessed
that he choked Alexander Hoenig to
death two years ago at Cleveland while
he was attempting to rob his victim.
The National Geographic society at
Washington has accepted Commander
Robert E. Peary's evidence that he
reached the north pole, and presented
him with a gold medal for accom
plishing his achievement.
It is said that Speaker Cannon is
making an effort to purchase the fran
chise of the South Bend (Ind.) bass
ball club of the Central league and
then transfer it to Danville, 111., his
home.
According to Deputy Consul General
Hanauer, at Frankfort, Germany,
there will be a heavy influx of foreign
manufacturers to the United States
and the establishment here of facto
ries for the production of many ar
ticles abroad and marketed in (his
country. The new tariff law is de
clared to be the cause of this action.
The trial of Mine. Marguerite Stein
heii for the murder of her husband
and her step-mother has begun in
Paris, and it is declareed that before
the rase is ended the mystery en
shrouding the death of the late Presi
dent Faure, who is said to have been
stricken in Mine. Steinheil's home,
will be cleared once for all.
A motormai lost control of a street
car at Des M dues, la., while it was
descending a hill at a high rate of
speed, and it jumped the track, killing
one man and injuring 65 other per
sons. With but possibly one excep
tion all those hurt will recover.
American army officers who will
compete with English in horseback
riding at Madison Square garden in
New York are Lieut. Bee, Seventh cav
alry: Lieut. Ebon Swift, .Jr., Eleventh
cavalry; Lieut. .1. S. Martin, Four
teenth cavalry, and Lieut Mont
gomery. Seventh cavalry, all from
Fort Riley.
Capt. Hagemann of the Kronprinzes
sin Cecilie, which reached New York,
said the life preserver from the liner
washed ashore on the French coast a
few days ago was carried overboard
in a storm last May.
Ninety-three ships, both sail and
steam craft, were built and odicially
numbered it) October, according to a
statement issued by the bureau of
navigation of the department of com
merce and labor.
Citrus fruit shipments from south
ern California in the season ended
October 31 aggregated 38,071. cars,
showing by far the largest season the
industry lias known.
Owing to weather conditions the
standardization tests on the ltockland
(Me.) course of the battleship North
Dakota, with (he exception of the Del
aware, the largest fighting craft in the
world, was postponed.
By a plurality estimated at 15,000
Francis .1. Heney was repudiated at
tiie polls in Sail Francisco as prose
cuting attorney and Charles M. Ficlc
ert (Hep.) was elected in his place.
Mrs. William Marlow and her four
children burned to death near Pitts
burg, Pa., when their home was de
stroyed by fire, caused through the
overturning of an oil lamp.
President Taft received a joyous
welcome in Columbus, Miss., when lie
went to visit the birthplace of Secre
tary of War Dickinson and brother,
the secretary with him.
The Diamond Manufacturers' Asso
ciation of New York is planning to
raise a fund to make war on the smug
gling of gems into the United States.
In 1907 duty was paid on $37,000,000
worth of precious stones.
In an effort to reach the theatrical
folk with the Gospel, the church and
labor department of the American
Board of Home Missions of the Pres
byterian church has started a move
ment by which it hopes ultimately to
conduct a religious service in many
of the vaudeville theaters of New
York and other cities.
George Baker, recently appointed
corresponding secretary to Gov. Mar
shall of Indiana, committed suicide at
Goshen, Ind., by poisoning because a
young lady refused to marry him.
Arrangements are being made by
tin 1 United States with foreign coun
tries by which diplomatic mail will be
putin special pouches, thus avoid
ing the individual handling en route
of ordinary mail.
The 13-cent stamp is to be super
seded by a 12-cent stamp to cover let
ter postage and the new ten-cent
registry fees. The new stamp will
bear Washington's profile.
GIVES AWAY URGE SUM
JOHN STUART KENNEDY LEAVES
S2E.COO.COO TO CHARITIES.
Presbyterian Church and Colleges
Will be the Beneficieries of Fortune
from Man Who Rose from Bottom.
Now York City.—Starting as an
errand boy in Glasgow, Scotland, John
Stuart Kennedy died in New York re
cently worth $60,000,000. His will,
filed for probate November ." by Rob
ert W. Deforrest, one of his utors,
and who drew the Scotchman's last
testament, bequeaths $25,000,000 to
public charities.
Mr. Kennedy had risen from errand
boy to shipping clerk when he came to
New York nearly U0 years ago as the
representative of a Scotch shipping
firm. He amassed his great fortune
mainly through shrewd and far-sighted
railroad investments. Broadly r,peak
ing he leaves a little more than one
quarter of his entire estate to his wife,
Emma 13. Kennedy, who survives him.
a little more than another quarter to
relatives and friends, and gives .some
thing less than one-half to various
charitable, religious, benevolent and
educational institutions.
Mr. Kennedy was one of th< little
known rich men of America.
The gift to charity is the largest
single contribution of its kind ever
made and the beneficiaries include ed
ucational and church institutions,
north, south, east and west in this
country, and five abroad, CO in all.
Nearly half of the $25,000,000 goes
to institutions connected with the
Presbyterian church, of which .Mr.
Kennedy had been an active member
for many years. Other large beneficia
ries include the American Bible so
ciety, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the New York Public library, the New
York United Charities, Columbia uni
versity and Robert college, Constanti
nople.
The charitable, religious and educa
tional institutions which receive the
largest bequests are to share the resi
due of the estate left after definite
gifts of approximately $12,000,000 have
been paid out.
MILLIONS TO FIGHT PLAGUES
Mrs. Rucssll Sage to Give $1,000,000
to Fight Tuberculosis—A Like Sum
from Carnegie to Combat Pellegra.
Washington. I). C. Follow! :p the
donation of a million dollars by .lolm
I). Rockefeller to be used in fighting
the hook worm disease in tho south,
officials of the treasury and tho public,
health and marine hospital service
have received information that two
other million-dollar donations are
likely to be forthcoming very soon;
one from Mrs. Russell Sage, to be used
in extending the work for eradication
of tuberculosis; the other from An
drew Carnegie for fighting pellagra,
a mysterious disease that has baffled
scientists.
The understanding is that ail these
sums will be placed at the disposal of
the same general authorities, associ
ated with the public health and ma
rine hospital service. The latter
would not give positive confirmation
of the reports, but in other quarters
it was learned that there is the best
of reason for expectation that these
sums will be given and that an
nouncement will come very s::on.
HISTORICAL MANOR BURNS
House in Which George Washington
Was Sworn Ir.to Office Cr.tchcs
frcrn Bonfire.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The histori
cal Livingston Manor, owned by
John Henry Livingston and located
near Tivoli. on the banks of the Mini
son river, was destroyed by fire No
vember 5.
Livingston Ma:;or was made famous
in history because it was in this house,
which was erected in 1783, that Chan
cellor Livingston swore Georpe Wash
ington into office in 1789. The estate
was known as "Idele" and had just
been remodeled. Its novel architecture
had been copied by architects from all
parts of the country. The fire was
caused by burning leaves and the loss,
is $25,000.
COUNTRY'S WEALTH GAINING
Trade Reports Hold Out the Fromise
for 1910 of a Year cf Unequalled
Business.
New York City.—R. G. Dun K- Co.'g
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Without exception tho reports oi
trade, both wholesale and retail, in all
parts of the country are more than
satisfactory and hold out the promise
for 1910 of a year of unequalled busi
ness. What this means, expressed in
almost inconceivable (inures, is that
the Tinted States is now increasing its
wealth at a rate never before achieved.
Neither the high prevailing prices
nor the discussion of disputed eco
nomic policies seem in any way to
shake confidence or check the indus
trial progress.
Automobiles and He - ses Burned.
New York City. While Cl* ndenin
L Ryan, son of Thomas F. Ryan,
the traction magnate, and a band of
volunteer lire fighters—many of them
millionaires fought a blaze which
started in the garage at young Ryan's
country estate near Suffern, N. Y..
three valuable automobiles, several
thoroughbred horses and several out
buildings were thoroughly destroyed.
The Ryan mansion was saved. The
loss oil the other buildings and o:i the
automobiles and horses is saiti tc ap
proximate SIOO,OOO.