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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.