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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. He was out of the house until 1893 and
was again elected, serving until 1897. While a member of the house he waa
elected in 1890 to the senate, but did not take his seat until March 4, 1899.
AT FIRST SIGHT.
He—Rosalie, I can't tell you how ]
worship your almond eyes, your vel
vet cheeks, like peaches, and your
cherry lips!
Rosalie—l suppose you are the new;
gardener.
Ship's Figurehead.
Carvings for more than 500 vessels
were made by William Southworth,
who recently died at Bath. He made
a specialty of the carving of figure
heads for many years, and some splen
did ones were the product of his
-.kill. The rise of commercialism has
blotted out the poetic significance of
the figurehead and few figureheads are
seen nowadays.—Kennebec Journal.
Rough on Rats In Out Buildings.
In sotting Rough on Rats in out build
ings after mixing it well with nny food de
cided upon, separate into small bits.place on
several pieces of boards, and put these here
and there under the floors. Close up all
openings large enough for Dogs, Cats or
Chickens to enter, but leave some small
openinffs for R-its to get in and out. One
25e. box of Rough on Rats, being all
poison, will make enough mixture to clear
out in one or two nitrhts «ettintrs, hundreds
of Huts and Miee 15c.. 25c.. 75c.. at
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Trie Doctor's Fault.
Judge—l am led to understand you
stole the watch of the doctor who
had just written a prescription for
you at the free dispensary. What have
you to say to this charge?
"Well, your honor, I found myself in
a desperate quandary. His prescrip
tion said 'a spoonful every hour,' and
I had no timepiece."
Tlamlins Wizard Oil will knock the
spots off a sore throat. It's use makes
tonsilitis. quinsy and diphtheria impossi
ble. It is simply great for the relief of
all pain, soreness and inflammation.
Sorre people's morals are like their
best clothes —only worn on extraordin
ary occasions.
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