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The Job department of the Prkss Is compleu rfKd affords facilities for doing the best class of Work. Particular attention paiuto Law Frintimo No paper will bo discontinued until arrear- Kes are paid, except at the option of the pub ber. Papera aent out of the county must be paid lor In advance. GERMAN HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY. The American consul at Nurem berg reports on an interesting statis tical study of household economy in Germany. In the report considered the government took into account 852 families, the heads of which were | asked to keep a careful account of the wage income from all sources and the outgo for the period covered by the study. The total annual income was sl4 4,501, and the total expenditures $453,005, leaving a deficit of more than SB,OOO at the end of the year. For skilled industrial workmen the aver- | age annual income in Germany, among j the families considered, was found to be $448. The average income for all the families in the reckoning was $521.70, while average expenditures amounted to $531.69, which left each family owing approximately $lO at the end of the year. When it is consid ered that those averages may be ac cepted as the averages for the better class of wage-earners in Germany it would seem that, so far as the matter of comparison is concerned, the aver age American wage-earner, whether skilled or unskilled, has little about j which to complain. The showing in ! Germany is more remarkable on ac- \ count of the differences between j earnings and expenditures, and sug gests the need of larger incomes or greater economy in household affairs, else wage-earners in Germany will soon find themselves burdened by a growing debt which they cannot hope to overtake. Capt. Godfrey L>. Carden, a special agent of the department of commerce and labor, who has just finished an ex tended trip through Russia, with a view to learning trade conditions, makes a report very encouraging to Americans. He says he found a big demand for American manufactures, especially machinery of all kinds, and that the supply is not up to the re quirements. Here is a field which may be worked to advantage. Russia has entered upon a new era of develop ment along various industrial lines, in which the need of machinery is very great. America excels in the manu facturing of machinery, and that fact is becoming more and more widely recognized abroad. What is wanted is active work in the way of canvas sing for orders. And with American ships to carry the goods the gain would certainly be still more rapid. The propaganda for good roads • is accomplishing great results. The ef fect of the campaign is being felt in almost every state in the union. The awakening to the necessities of the situation has come none 100 soon, but now that, the battle is practically won and millions of dollars are being in vested in the improvement of the highways of the nation it cannot be realized too soon that, constant and untiring vigilance is the price of good roads. No matter how well built the new roads may be, unless liberal pro vision is made for their maintenance they will deteriorate and become little better than at present. A high school on Long Island has is sued an edict against hair puffs and cosmetics. With regard to the former something desperate needs to be done, as at the present rate of puff decora tion, the average woman's head threat ens to blot out the landscape, and it is necessary to attack the evil with the growing generation if a race of top-heavy women are not to afflict the eye of beauty-loving mankind. College professors calculate that if the birth-rate decrease continues for 150 years there will be no births at all by 2000 A. I). In that case few will survive to the time when men will live 120 years —and those who do will be lonesome. Wheat exports are dropping. What a pity that America's extensive wheat , lands cannot be turned upside down and cultivated on the under side for a few years! Hens are lifting mortgages in Kan sas. liut the roosters keep on doing the crowing, which some cynics say is «l;>o e' oX the human race. GOSSIP Carrie Nation Gives Advice on Wooing WASHINGTON.— "The first thing a fellow ought to do when he goes courting is to get a line on his future mother-in-law, because she's going to be either his best friend or his worst enemy." It was Carrie Nation who confided this bit of philosophy to a reporter. The enforced leisure of the Wash ington workhouse, where she was be ing held pending a hearing on a charge of destroying property, had giv en Mrs. Nation the chance to turn her attention from her pet theme, and it was an off day for the demon rum as far as she was concerned. "I am going to devote a large part of my time hereafter to seeing that mothers-in-law get the attention they ought to have from the American peo ple," she said, warming to her theme. "Why, a man ought to love his mother in-law as much as he does his wife, and if he does not it's a sign either that he's soaked all the decency out of him with whisky or burned it out with these fool cigar ettes. If a man does not like the mother of the girl he's going with he Put Spies on the Trail of Uncle Sam tS THE Pressed Steel Car Company of Pittsburg, which was recently in I the throes of a long strike, is estab lishing a branch in Washington, not for the purpose of acquiring new busi [ ness in that district, but to keep in di rect touch with governmental affairs. This is following out the policy of I President F. N. Hofstot, who claim*' 1 that within a few years every corpora | tion of any size in the United States will maintain a similar office in the national capital to keep close watch lon what the government is doing and | make an annual report to its head ! offices wherever they happen to be. | The corporations hope through the J newspapers to disseminate the action I and policies of the Union's executive ; officers and offices. They will main- I tain their own clerical sleuths. "Business is taking the place of pcli ! tics in our government," said Mr. Hof- I stot. "The government of this country | is becoming more commercialized ev ! ery day. The commercial interests are Attorneys Fight in Washington Court UNITED STATES District. Attor ney Daniel W. Baker and An drew A. Lipscomb, the leading crim [ inal lawyer of Washington, passed the j lie and engaged in a rough-and-tumble fight under the eyes of Justice Ashley M. Gould several days ago. Mr. Baker was the prosecutor and Mr. Lipscomb the attorney of the de j fense in the trial of John W. Collier, a policeman, charged with killing his j captain on inauguration day. In the course of the trial Lipscomb insinu ated that the district attorney had at tempted to intimidate Rev. Dr. Ed ward Mott, Collier's pastor, by writing a letter to the bishop of Washington objecting to Dr. Mott appearing as a character witness for Collier. Mr. Baker was on his feet in an in stant with an objection, but Lipscomb was not to be headed off. Anecdotes of the Nation's Lawmakers DURING the heat of the tariff ses sion Representative Sereno E. Payne of New York, who boasts as large a girth as any member of con gress, had occasion togo to the White j House with frequency. The amount of news he gave up on these occasions to the newspaper men would have starved a space writer to death in about two days. In addition, Mr. Payne, who was always polite on such occa- I sions. finally became a little bit gruff, | because of the rapid-lire bombardment i of questions which were daily thrown at him. Finally, a reporter on a Washington newspaper, who was about as large around the waist line as Mr. Payne, recorded the call of the Re publican leader at the White House by saying that Mr. Payne had, that CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1910. t better light out and book his spare time somewhere else, because it's a sure thing that the girl will turn out to be just like the old lady. "This law of heredity that I've been studying lately is a wonderful thing. It's the keynote of the whole matri monial problem. Now, if a fellow be gins to think his girl's mother is pret ty nice dispositioned, he don't need to look any farther than that house for a wife. And after he gets married it's most likely that his mother-in-lnw will be willing to do more for him than his wife will in the way of cookirg and economizing and minding his chil dren." Mrs. Nation owns to 63 years, but says she will fight to the death against the demon rum She has now achieved the crowning triumph of her nine years' crusade —the smashing of furnishings in the big Union station. Mrs. Nation's defense was that she did not destroy private poverty but a public nuisance. Carrie thinks the country has im proved in the last three years. "Taft ain't my style," she admitted, ' but he's a whole lot better than Ted dy Roosevelt. He's a well-meaning man and he don't drink, and though I may have said at times that he was chasing around the country eating a whole lot more than is good for him, I think he is better than anything in the presidential line we've been get ting lately." becoming more important than poli tics. Commerce and business are the mainstay of the nation, and expect only the right that the government should give greater rights to them. "Politics in the future should take a back seat. This will increase as the years pass. My own view is that ev ery big industrial firm should keep in close touch with the doings of the government, and particularly svith those departments devoted to the com mercial and industrial interests." Mr. Hofstot was asked about poli tics. "What I get in politics—" he ex claimed. "Why, if a man wants to have his name sullied and his reputa tion dragged down in this country all he has to do is to get into politics; run for office and the rest is easy." It is anticipated that the other big corporations of America will follow the ideas outlined by the head of the Pressed Steel Car Company. There are agencies already in exist ence representing the two biggest cor porations in the world in Washington known to-day, the Standard Oil Com pany and the United States Steel cor poration. But as for business offices with regular corps of workmen and public communication with the affairs of the government they do not now exist. "I want to show you that the district attorney's office has attempted to in timidate this witness!" shouted Lips comb. "Mr. Lipscomb knows that he is not telling the truth!" shouted the district attorney. "You're a liar!" shouted Mr. Lips comb. Then the district attorney made for him. Mr. Baker weighs 250 pounds. He is not so agile as in his college days, but he was full of fight. He launched a wallop at Lipscomb, which, had it landed, would have knocked him across the court room. His aim was bad, and the blow landed on the assistant district attorney. Then Liscomb and Baker clinched, and rights and lefts, uppercuts and jabs stirred up the court room dust, and likewise the ire of the judge, who ordered the bailiffs to separate them. Before the court officers could inter fere, the defendant, Collier, jumped into the melee and stopped the pro ceedings. Justice Gould called the fighting attorneys before the bar, gave the district attorney a severe repri niand and lined Lipscomb SSO for con tempt. day, "waddled" into see the president and out again. The next day, when hailed by the same reported for news, Mr. Payne got even by retorting: "Tell your paper that its reporter waddled after Mr. Payne, who replied that he had no news." Recently Mr. Payne called at the White House and the reporter greeted him with: "Well, Mr. Payne, I see you are still waddling to the White House." "You must go around with a look ing-glass in front of you all the time," came the reply from Mr. Payne, with out tlie bat of an eye. Senator Julius Caesar Burrows of Michigan, after an exceedingly busy day in which he called upon the presi dent and several members of the cab inet, thereby arousing the suspicion ol the Michigan newspaper men to a fever heat, was met by one of them, who inquired: "Senator, have you any news con cealed about your person to-day?" "Yes," replied the senator. "Thor oughly concealed." —— MORE POWER FOR MORGAN Through purchase of control of the Equitable Life Assurance society, J. P. Morgan is acknowl f edged the insurance king of America, the domi d nating factor in the nation's finances and the master and controlling spirit of the traction situ- UjL ation in New York. lr " Mor ß an has been during the past 25 years "■ W'tiazju the Atlas of the financial world of the United IV, '+S' rata JBf States. He possesses more money power than Vr ft' CTar any man ever lived In this country. V Born in Hartford, Conn., April 17, 1837, of a anii ly which for generations had been wealthy Jm anc * aristocratic, he from his youth up enjoyed —-"j \jfiy \ fflwi a H the educational advantages that his parents' A \M money and social position could give him. After -viijflWfomf' 7 1 v'\>Vl graduating at the English high school in Boston he went abroad and became a student at Got tingen, Germany. At the age of 23 he returned to this country and appar ently because nothing else presented itself for him to do went into his father's banking business. As his experience in the business grew his father wisely placed upon his shoulders more and more of the firm's responsibilities. He was sent to London as the firm's representative and there obtained a thorough grounding of the exceedingly complicated subject of foreign ex change. When he returned to New York he was made a partner in his father's banking firm. During the years that followed some of the most luminous of his achieve ments were: In 1871 lie created a market in Europe for $25,000,000 worth of New York Central stock and sold it there at a profit which amazed old Commodore Vanderbilt. In 1877 he handled an Issue of $20,000,000 of government bonds in prepa ration for putting the national currency on a gold basis. In 18S0 he provided $40,000,000 for the extension of the Northern Pacific railroad to the Pacific coast. In 1880 his was the master hand in the reorganization of the Reading railroad and the reorganization of the Baltimore and Ohio, involving syndi cate work and the loan of $10,000,000. In 1803 the Southern railway was created out of the Richmond Terminal and allied lines. In 1595 the Erie railway was rehabilitated. SENATE WATCHES DOLLIVER Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver of lowa, a lead ting member of the "insurgents," threw some hot k shot into the enemy in his speech delivered at the Press club in Chicago just before congress A convened. Mr. Dolliver advanced the theory that Bb\ the most hopeful sign about the last congress was not what congress did, but the fact that it yjl did not do so unanimously. He also said that he Wv believed President Taft's attitude toward the yVV "insurgents" at the present session will be friend //J jly and that lie thought the president had done J I all that it was up to him to do in the tariff mat w. / ter, as congress made the tariff revision and not ' \ J the president. * "The time when a 'skin game' can be worked 1 ME/ / on the people with the unanimous consent of congress will never come again," said Mr. Dolli ver. "When 1 am asked why I do not vote with the majority I say: 'Not un til I have made a chemical analysis of it.' "The real insurgents at the extraordinary session of congress were not the few men who tried to represent the public interest faithfully and carry out the pledges of the party platform, but the interesting group of private interests before whose threats to defeat legislation the leaders of the party bowed down for the sake of harmony. "It will be a queer state of the public mind when representatives of the people are successfully read out of a party in order to secure a solidarity organized around merely private interests." Soon after he arrived in Washington Senator Dolliver went up to the White House to see President Taft. He waited for some time in an outer oifice and then demanded of Secretary Carpenter the reason for the delay. He was told that the president was busy and could not be seen until the next day. The lowan slapped his hat on his head and left, telling Mr. Carpenter that when the president wanted to see him he could send for him. It id said the lowa senator now has a different opinion concerning the president's feel ings toward the insurgents. EDWARD OUT-OF-DOOR KING —~——————— o tij er European sovereign is so much a man of the open air as King Edward, who has / just celebrated his sixty-eighth birthday anni / versary. He is singularly energetic, though not / \\V J active in the sense of one who walks rapidly and / 'Tfvlj far * When there is nothing better available for an out-of-door occupation he does not despise the % Jm garse of croquet, though he has never [^4ufcfjf W'll fallen a victim to golf. 'swJk' \ is not afrait l of rain an( ! he actually revels IWop' * n the brisk freshness of a heavy shower. He (ki \ hardly ever uses an umbrella. For life out of JHW doors he P refer s clothws which will resist the rain, but he does not like a mackintosh. * Clad 1 in a long ' clotll ca P e - which completely covers /// \T~~X | his other clothes, he scorns to take shelter from even a tropical downpour. He likes the sea, not only in its fairer moods, as when he is yachting in pleasant weather on the Solent, but also when he can watch it in storm. On his tour abroad this year the king was perpetually out of doors, in the royal yacht or ashore in motor-cars or carriages. He picnicked wherever he could, even at Girgenti and Pompeii. Malta was entirely traversed in the duke of C'onnaught's motor car. Few are more skilled in the management of a sporting estate than his majesty. His head keeper, Mr. Jackson, constantly consults him and the king takes no mere surface interest in the intricacies of game preservation, with due regard to the rights of others. He arranges the beats personally and with much skill and he enjoins a rather strict observance of all the rules. He is an excellent marksman. | MONEY IS THE NEW LEADER The Democrats in the United States senate have a new leader. He is Hernando de Soto /rnmu Money, senator from Mississippi. The senate is /ill, \ pretty well made up of money these days, having /I'l \ \ several multimillionaires on its salary list. It W '1 often is called the "Millionaire's club." The new only " ° f course the Mississippian who will lead vftLgl.' Ypgfr the party of Jefferson in the affairs to come be r.Jft&JA ' fore t' ie senate has a few dollars, but as com ty/WUBr Pared with Elkins, Guggenheim, Depew and Bev y/AMR! eral fcthers he is a poor man. ''/IMPM Senator Culberson of Texas has been the mi \ JrMM/' nority leader in the upper branch of congress for 'lll several years, but soon after the lawmakers con '|l . veiled for the sixty-first session he announced that he would give up the honor because of his health. Many thought Senator Bailey, also of Texas, would get the place, but it went (o Senator Money. Mr. Money lias had ample experience in congress to make him a good leader of his party forces. He was first elected from the fourth Mississippi district in 1875 and served 10 years. 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