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JOB PRINTING The Job department of the Prntss Is complete rfi.a affords facilities for doing the best class of Work. PAHTICUI.AK ATTENTION P*IDTT) Law PHINTIaO. No paper will be discontinued until arrear tfes are paid, except at the option of the pub sb«r. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor In advance. Temptations of Evil. Leisure misused, an idle hour wait ing to be employed, idle hands with no oeeupation, idle and empty minds with nothing to think of—these are the main temptations of evil. Kill up that empty void, employ those vacant hours, occupy those listless hands, and evil will depart because it has no place to enter in, because it is con quered by good.—Dean Stanley. Surely Hard Luck. A few days ago a young Shoreditch relieving officer put over £2O, the balance of his relief money, into an old boot which he placed under the bed. thinking it would be safest there. On returning home he found that his wife had given away the boot and its contents to a caller at the door.—Lon don Tit-Bits. Purpose of the Dreamer. Every work of man's hands may be said to be the result of a dream. Take a block of marble, rough hewn, from the quarry. The sculptor wants to cut a figure out of the mass. Has he not all the time he is carving the ligure in his mind lie wishes to pro duce? Determined to Succeed. Napoleon had conquered Europe in imagination before he saw Jena or Atmterlitz. When only ten years of age, from the military school at Brienne, he wrote to his mother in for-—a: "With Homer in my pocket, and my sword by my side, I have to carve my way through the world." History Lesson. Diogenes, dear children, was the man who lived in a tub, and who searched for an honest man. "I'm hon est," cried a candidate for re-election. "Where's your tub?" asked Diogenes. "Look at my barrel!" cried the can didate. But Di went on hunting. A Missouri Epitaph. A north Missouri editor says he saw this on a moss-grown tombstone: "Here lies our wife, Samantha Proc ter, who ketched a cold and wouldn't doctor. She could not stay, she had togo; praise C.od from whom all blessings flow." —Kansas City Star. Woman's Latest Conquest. Sea otter has been requisitioned for the adornment of fashionable femi nine attire. Heretofore it has been exclusively reserved for the use ol" men. no doubt on account of its weight and durability. The Right Place. The Tramp—"All, Mister, what would you do if you felt like you did not have a friend itt the world?" The Kieh Man —"What would 1 do? Why, I'd apply for a job as baseball um pire, of course." —Chicago News. Piping on Atlantic Liner. Tn a big Atlantic liner there are over 1,000 lons of piping of various kinds. The boiler tubes, if placed end to end. would stretch about ten miles, and condenser tubes over 25 miles. A Busted Illusion. " \ thing of beauty i?; a joy forever." "I used to think so." "Don't you think st) now.' "Nope; I have seen her in curl papers and house-cleaning nigs since then." Hie First Sijht of Spoons. Montaigne was astonished, when he visited Switzerland in ir.xu to find that "at all r..e;Us they put on the table as many spoons as there are people pres ent." Ksep Smiling. Recall what the I'ool ihinketh in his heart Disappointed inn: an nature does deserve pity, but it is not good to give it. Brace up. Obvious Inspiration. "Never trust a woinan," says an eastern writer. We wonder how long lit was engaged to her before she threw him over. St. Louis Star. Helping Corr.ebody's Fish Story. Inside a salmon a fishmonger of Valiingfcri;, Berk, discovered an iron Chisel five inches long and half a found in weight.— Tit-Bits. The Lucky Man. A won '.n always forgive:; a man for having made 1 er cry because she had such a good li'-.e doing it.—New Yer'.c Frtrs. A LITTLE YOUNG FCR THE TALL HAT. President Taft—This fits your present needs better. NEEDS NO UNIFORM PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS HIMSELF. And the People of the Great Nation That Elected Him Recognize His Fitness for That High Office. The unwritten law that the presi dent of the United States shall not leave the territory of this country was recently violated for a few minutes when Mr. Taft stepped upon Mexican soil to pay a brief official visit to the thief executive of that republic. One of the results of the encounter clearly proves the wisdom of the tradition that the American executive should stay at home during his term of office. As long as he is within ni»s own boun daries comparisons are not possible between him and other rulers. It is true that he comes in contact with re splendent representatives of foreign governments, and is now and then sur rounded by blazing uniforms on full dress occasions, but he does not meet those of relatively his own official rank face to face, and his lqck of a dis tinctive costume is not noticeable. It appears that they have different ideas down in Mexico from those that obtain here regarding the matter of presidential trimmings. President Diaz, for example, has one uniform that cost 25,000 francs in Paris, which is a little less than $5,000. Qne can imagine the uproar in the United States if congress should appropriate such a sum for the official costume of the president. In Mexico, however, (he chief executive would seriously lose prestige if he did not deck him self out with all the symbols of mili tary power. The Mexican editor who complains that Mr. Taft did not dress appropri ately when he met Mr. Diaz and that he was not sufficiently escorted by a gorgeous array of troops, ought to come to Washington and peep in at a session of the house of representatives some warm spring day and note the many varieties of neglige which there obtain, lie would probably return to his provincial town ana empty his ink well in an effort to express in the hot test Spanish his contempt for a no called civilization guided by Jaw makers of such fashion-defying inde pendence. During a recent administration some fears were expressed by a few appre hensive citizens lest, a tendency to ward display were being manifested in certain high quarters, and mutter ings of "militarism" were heard from the rural regions. But these gloomy questionings were in vain. No one proposed a presidential uniform. Mr. Taft's wilted collar is not wor rying the people of the United States, nor do bis loose and easy clothes give the public any occasion to doubt his entire fitness, as regards personal dig nity. for the office he holds. As long as he makes himself comfortable and thinks clearly and acts wisely there will be no domestic discontent with his dross.—Washington Star. Democratic Opportunity. "Blessed be nothing." Dr. Wood row Wilson thinks the Democratic party is fortunate in its condition of poverty. Having no policies, 110 rec ognized leaders, no powerful financial allies, it has no entanglements. It can start with a clean slate and map out a program of politics for the gen eral good. Hut still it needs a Moses to lead it arid to obtain for it the tables of stone. Will Dr. Wilson as sume the responsibility? Our maximum tariff is directed against "undue discrimination," and the administration will construe the phrase sensibly, in the interest of peace and trade rather than in that of mischief, friction and ?Vss. It is strange that nothing new in ".he argument line against the tariff has appeared since the campaign of 1846.---Des Moines Capital. CAMERGN COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1909 THE SITUATION IN POLITICS Leading Republican Organ Sets Forth What It Considers Needs of the Party. "The Democratic party is now fac ing an unusual opportunity and a very great duty. The party 111 power has become entangled with all sorts ol interests and has lost its freedom ot choice. The Democratic party is free from entanglements. It is free to make a program for the general good if it will."—Dr. Woodrow Wilson of Princeton to the Democratic club oi Plainiield, N. .J. As an analysis of the Republican sit uation Dr. Woodrow Wilson's words smack of cant. As a statement of the Democratic opportunity they are ac curate. A great opportunity does confront the Democratic party. Of course, to grasp the opportunity that party must, first, get out of its present demoraliza tion —get out of that disregard lor party principles which led its repre sentatives in congress lately to scram Die lor the local benefits of a protec tive tariff. It must realize that there are right ways and wrong ways of doing things, and that the way that makes the citi zen exist for the government, instead of the government for the citizen is always the wrong way. Thus getting out. and getting back the Democracy will come again to stand for economy in administration, which with pateranlism is impossible. It will stand for a tariff system whose single object is, as Dr. Wilson well said, "the calling out of all the re sources and energies of the nation" as a whole. Under present conditions this means reduction of the tariff, in a word, the Democracy will get back to the Clevelanu position 011 the tariff and taxation and expenditure and the du ties of an American government. Ot course to do this the Democracy will have to quit whooping for postal savings hanks and old age pensions and national regulation of everything. It will have to be content with Ameri can prlw'ples as it was in the days wher. it, won victories. "hat is the Democratic opportunity. Jt is also the Republican opportunity. The danger is that neither party will grasp its opportunity. If either does we should-get along fairly well. If both should do so our tranquillity and prosperity would be re-established upon the broadest foundations. But that apparently is not. destiny.—Chica go Inter Ocean. No Tariff War Against America. An alliance against the United States is the dream of a certain school of political economists in Germany, who, while not disapproving of the drastic tariff methods and trade regu lations adopted by Germany for the protection of German industrial and trade interests from foreign rivalry, resent the tariff policy of the 1 nited States. Ours is the greatest market in tiie world. A free entry for Ger man goods would raise Germany to the highest pinnacle of prosperity. It would glut her with wealth. What wonder that the tariff wall erected by American statesmanship irritates and provokes! Nor do we relish the prac tical exclusion from Germany of some of our valuable staples, or German tariff rates generally. In this inter national tariff game we have every advantage. We might lose the Ger man market altogether and not starve. Germany could not lose the American market, either for selling or buying. She must get raw materials here and sue must dispose here of her products. We have much the same advantage of all other commercial nations of Eu rope. At the same time they have tariff regulations against each other, and no two nations have interests in common. To combine them against the United States in a tariff war v.ould argue a degree of sentimental ity that might befit the middle ages, but is altogether foreign to our prac tical age, in which self-interest is the sole guiding spirit in the policy ol nations.—Newark Star. NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. AT HOME AND ABROAD Happenings That Are Making History —lnformation Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. PERSONAL. Col. Charles Smith, 81 years old. who served in the Mexican war and in Ine civil war, died at his home in Terre Haute, Ind. Herman Erenhaft, a New York tailor with a largo family, will soon come into possession of SIOO,OOO. lie inherits from an aunt in Austria the fortune which will relieve him and his family from the stress of poverty. Lord Minto, viceroy of India, and Lady Minto narrowly escaped death by bombs thrown at them in Ahmeda bad, India, by unknown persons. GENERA. NEWS. Two heroic men, R. Y. Williams and F. M. Morris, descended into the St. Paul mine at Cherry, 111., anil paved the way for a fight against the flames, and it is confidently believed that the entombed men dead or alive will soon be reached. They went down through the air shaft and found that the lire was raging at the loot of the shaft but in other portions of the mine the temperature was nearly normal, this gave the stricken women and children renewed hope. John Mitchell, in a speech before the American Federation of Labor, in dorsed a report of the committee on boycott and declared that he irtended while at liberty to declare (or the rights guaranteed him by the organic law of his country. The body of Hedwig Zinda, the young Polish girl who had been miss ing several days, was found in an abandoned office at Milwaukee. She had been assaulted und murdered by unknown fiends. A whole family is dead an the result of a three-cornered duel that was fought at Pioneer, La., between Clar ence Compton and Sylvester and Al bert Owen. Compton, his wife and his little daughter were all killed and Sylvester Owen was slightly wounded. After the killing he and bis brother surrendered to the sheriff. The trou ble grew out of an unkind remark made by Compton to the boys' sister. Mrs. Compton with her child stepped into the line of fire during the shoot ing. Rumors are current in New York that the government will halt, tempor arily at least, the merger of the Western Union Telegraph and Amer ican Telephone & Telegraph Com panies. and determine whether the law prohibiting combinations in re straint of trade is not being infringed upon. Rev. J. C. Hathaway, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, at Maryville, Mo., committed suicide by hanging. No reason can be assigned for the deed. The National Association of Rail way Commissioners have adopted a uniform code of demurrage rules ap plicable alike to state and interstate transportation. John T. Mach. president of the As sociated Ohio Dailies, an organization of 116 Ohio newspapers, lias sent to President Taft and to the members of the tariff board a letter asking for action on print-paper duty to avoid a trade war with Canada. The laymen's missionary movement for evangelization of the world opened its session in Haltimore. Sir Thomas Upton will challenge for a race for the America's cup to be sailed in 1911. Sir Thomas made this statement just before sailing for Europe on the steamer Lusitania. Rev. Thomas J. Shuhan, rector of the Catholic University of America, at Washington, lias received from Rome the papal brief creating him a domes tic prelate of the pontifical court, with the rank of monsignor. The appeal of the Ohio Slate Fed eration of Labor from the revocation of its charter was dismissed by the American Federation of Labor in ses sion at Toronto. It was voted to rec ognize only the newly-formed Ohio federation. Dowager Duchess Consuelo of Man chester. formerly Miss Consuelo Yznaga of New York, who has been { seriously ill for some time in London, ] is in a critical condition. Fifteen hundred hotels in Missouri and Kansas lose $250 each every year in bad bills, a total of $375,000. The question of curbing this evil will be discussed at the annual meeting of the Kansas-Missouri Hotel Men's as sociation, which opened in Kansas City. Secretary Wilson says SIOO,OOO will be needed to administer the 25,000,000 acres of public land added to the na tional forests by President Roosevelt. Josephine Chauvin. who is credited with knowing of a white slave syndi cate on the Pacific coast, is under ar rest in San Francisco. Attorney General Wickersham is convinced he has sufficient evidence in his possession to convict one or more of the officers and several ol the directors of the American Sugar Refining Company of fraud in connec tion with the weighing of sugar nt the port of New York. Neariy forty inches of rain fell in Hayti in the first two weeks of No vember. Great damage was done by floods. A long stride toward the complete control by one corporation of all wire communication in the United States was made in the acquisition by the American Telephone Telegraph Company of the control of the West ern Union Company. Officials of the Postal Telegraph Company emphatic ally deny that they will be in the merger. At the cabinet meeting in Washing ton the "sugar trust" scandal at New York was thoroughly discussed and it is generally believed that on the as sembling of congress it will send a com mittee to the eastern metropolis to thoroughly investigate the customs de partment. In the meantime Attorney General Wickersham and Secretary MacVeagh will take steps to prosecute certain officers and directors of the sugar company. Three companies of state militia are now at Cherry, 111., by order of Gov. Deneen at the request of Bureau coun ty officials. It is feared that when the bodies of the dead winers in the St. Paul mine are brought to the sur face some ill-advised move on the part of the miners may be made. The fire in the shaft is still burning fiercely, preventing any and all attempts at rescue. At a meeting of labor unions in Rumvik, Sweden, it was resolved to laise a fund to assist those desirous o' emigrating. This is the answer of the workmen to the movement recent ly started to collect money and ask lot legislation to prevent emigration. Robert Morrison, head of the Brook lyn comb factory that burned last week, killing ten persons, committed Filicide at his home in New York. His son died in the tire and the disaster is said to have driven him insane. Former Treasurer of the Dig Four Railroad C. F. Warriner was indicted by the grand jury at Cincinnati on charges of grand larceny and embez zlement in the amount of $5,000 on each count. William D. Adams, a former heating contractor, who has filed a petition in bankruptcy in New York, with liabili ties of $12,000, declares his only asset is one dog, value not given. Under the law the dog will be seised for the t< nefit of creditors. Miss Barbara Tschaylcovsky, in St. Petersburg, writes to friends in New- York that her father, who is facing charges as a revolutionary leader, will bo tried behind closed doors. Ameri cans are expected to appeal for an (■pen trial for the man. A great mass meeting to urge votes for women was held in Carnegie hall, New York, under the auspices of the American Woman Suffrage associa tion, the president of that organiza tion, Rev. Anna Shaw, presiding. The fourth Christian Endeavor world's convention opened in Agra, India, with delegates present from nearly all lands. Dr. Francis E. Clark, founder of» the society and president of the World's union, was in the chair. President Taft has officially pro claimed Thursday, November 25, as Thanksgiving day. Gov. Deneen of Illinois also has issued a like procla mation. When the news that the court of appeals at Washington had refused to grant a stay of proceedings, asked for by the labor leaders, was received at the convention of the Federation of Labor in session at Toronto, it was proposed that all delegates should ac company, as an honor escort. Presi dent Samuel Gompers and his asso ciates to Washington when they go to give themselves up to serve their sen tences for contempt. The mine at Cherry, 111., in which more than 300 miners are entombed is again on fire after an unsuccessful attempt by rescuers to explore the drifts and it has again been sealed. All hope of rescuing any of the poor unfortunates lias been abandoned. It is feared that it will be several days before entrance to the shaft can be effected. The work of the New York civil courts was brought to a standstill and records were threatened when fire started in the basement of the .court house. Quick action was necessary to keep from flooding the bulky ex hibits used in the trial of the Ameri can Ice Company. The lire was put out with little loss. The annual report of Samuel Grab folder of Philadelphia, president of the National Jewish Hospital for Con sumptives at Denver, shows that the death rate among patients has been decreased in ten years from 7.8 to 3% per cent. James J. Hill, in talking to President , Taft, expressed the opinion that, the country was on the verge of ruin be cause of the high price of living and the decreased purchasing power of money. Harry K. Thaw was mobbed by a crowd that filled City Hall square at New York, as he emerged from the su preme court building where he had been waiting to testify in a suit brought against his mother by Dr. A. M. Hamilton, the alienist for $7,000 for his services in examining Thaw. Later in the day Thaw was returned to Mat teawan asylum. Seventeen soft drink dealers at Bel videre, 111., were fined $11,425 and sentenced to jail for from thirty to ninety days for violating the local op tion law. President Taft. delivered an address at the installation ceremonies of mak ing Dr. William Arnold Shanklin pres ident of Wesleyan university, at Mid dletown, Conn. The state Sunday school association of Michigan convened in Saginaw and that of Missouri in Moberly. The Kansas-Missouri Hotel Men's associa tion held a two days' convention in Kansas City. WARSHIPS RUSHED TO LATIN COUNTRY PRESIDENT ZELAYA OF NICARA GUA HAS TWO AMERICANS SHOT TO DEATH. PRESIDENT TAFT VERY ANGRY Chile Upsets Settlement of Old Claim and Secretary Knox Has Given that Country Ten Days to Pay Her Debts. Washington, I). C.—The lemon col ored Latins are off the reservation again. President Zelaya of Nicaragua is shooting American citizens, lie stood Leonard Grace and Leroy Can non between a firing party and a slone wall, according to a consular report received here. President Taft has or dered the cruiser Des Moines and gunboat Vicksburg to make a flying trip of it and bring President Zelaya to time. President Taft is mad clear through. He promptly announced his refusal to ' receive Senor Isidoro Hazera, the new Nicaraguan minister, and the state de partment practically recognized the belligerency of the Nicaraguan revolu tionists and made peremptory de mands upon President Zelaya for ex planation of the execution of the two Americans condemned as insurrection ists. Meanwhile Chile, the most tabasco saucy of all South American coun tries, has upset the settlement of a 33- year-old claim after agreeing to pay it. Secretary Knox has given Chile ten days to pay this claim, with the alternative of having diplomatic rela tions severed. This is the procedure which is the ordinary preliminary to seizing a custom house or a few ships of the debtor's navy in satisfaction of the repudiated claim. Chile has had no use for the United States since her war with Peru and Bolivia in 1576, when the Alsop concession raised dip lomatic difficulties between Chile and the United States. The Alsop conces sion has been pending ever since in the form. President Zelaya, on the other hand, can't very well talk back. He will not be given a chance if he feels like back talk. This freebooter presi dent lias more than qualified for the title of "international nuisance" vacated by Mr. Castro of Venezuela. Zelaya entertains the ambition to be the richest man in Central America and the dictator of its five so-called republics. This time, when Zelaya caught two Americans fighting him and the Amer ican consul at Managua intervened, he was told togo to, or words to that ef fect. The Americans were shot. A dispatch from Managua, Nicara gua. says Messrs. Cannon and Grace, the Americans who were executed for complicity in the rebellion, were tried at a fair court-martial held under the direction of the government. The men, it was charged, were responsible for placing dynamite mines which were intended to blow up government steamers laden with troops which en tered the river at Greytown. MRS. A. E. STETSON OUSTED Directors of Christian Science Church Say She Worked Against the In terests of Denomination. Boston, Mass. —The long expected climax to the fight between Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson of New York City and the board of directors of the Christian Science church in this city came when an order of excommunica tion was issued against this woman who lias long been recognized as one of the most powerful members of the organization. In their order the directors stated tiiat a conference of more than three days had convinced them of the truth of the charge against Mrs. Stetson, namely, that she had worked against the interests of the church and of members of the church who were nor her followers, and that she had per sisted in teachings and practices which are contrary to Christian Science. EDITOR AND POET IS DEAD Richard Watson Gilder Was Head of the Century Magazine—Ran Paper at the Age of Twelve. New York City.—Richard Watson Gilder, author and editor of the Century magazine, is dead here of heart disease. Mr. Gilder, like many who have risen to high place in letters, early showed liis bent of mind. Born at Bordentown, N. .1...in 1844. one of eight children, he was writing, setting the type for and pub lishing the SI. Thomas Register at Flushing, L. 1., when he was ll'. Better known as a poet, even than as an editor, Mr. Gilder has published six books of verse, among which are sonnets and lyrics which have found a setting in the American anthology. Alleged Murderer Suicides. Lafayette, Ind.—While tin 1 jury in the case against Elias Ray. wealthy land owner accused of mur dering Conrad Ortman, an employe, was gathering in the court room, word caiue that Ray had killed himself. Ex-Senator Gregg Dies Suddenly. Columbus, C). Former Senator John W. Gregg died very suddenly «.t his liome in Waverly of heart dis ease. lie represented the Seventh dis trict in the Sixty-sixth and Sixty geventh assemblies.
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