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MERITS OF THE CITY.
Nearly all civilization is the product
of the city, where mind meets mind
and each becomes brighter from con
tact, says New York Weekly. Masses
of population may engender great
vices, but they also engender great
virtues, and If they do not produce,
they certainly develop the finest and
keenest intelligences that we have.
The little town-states of Greece cre
ated most of the ancient civilization
that is worth having, and after they
fell and the dark ages came in it was
the little city-republics of Italy that
brought light, learning and mercy back
to the world. Some of the blackest
crimes are committed in the country.
Conan Doyle has Sherlock Holmes, In
one of his best stories, point out this
fact. It was a clever touch and it is
true. The country man is not more
honest than the city man, although he
may lack opportunities. Flaubert and
Balzac have drawn grim pictures of
sordid meanness in the rural life of
Fiance; Tolstoi has done as much for
Kussia, and Sudermann, Ibsen and
Hardy have told similar black stories
of their own countries. The recent re
port of the commission on country life
showed considerations which left very
much to be desired in the way of im
provement.
With food products of all kinds ex
'tremely high in price, the people of
il-ong Beach, L. 1., may account them
selves fortunate In experiencing a
visitation of whiting, also known as
"frost fish," which were cast upon the
beach recently in such numbers that
tthe coast for five miles was a solid
ridge of fish. Residents along the
beach gathered as much as they could
>oat immediately and pack away for
luture use, and then hauled tons of the
'fish to their gardens and farms to en
rich the soil. The whiting is one of
the best food fishes of the winter sea
son, and the surfeit at Long Beach
would have made many a lover of fish
happy if it could have been shared
"without expense that would have made
the distribution profitable.
Quartermaster General Aleshire of
the United States army declares in
his annual report that he could reduce
the cost of maintaining the nation's
military establishment if he were
given more officers and a new system
of selection and detail. There is waste
in many directions through the ineffi
ciency of civilian employes and en
listed men who receive extra pay for
performing certain duties in an indif
ferent way. Great savings could un
doubtedly be achieved through the in
auguration of system and the appoint
ment of capable men, as push for pre-
Serment tends to load departments
■with employes who are chiefly con
cerned about the drawing of their sal
aries.
The Washington preacher who finds
football in this country worse than
bullfighting in Mexico is doubtless sus
lained by the statistics of mortality in
itie two sports. The difference lies in
the fact that while the bullfighting has
become tamer, football has taken on a
dangerous strenuoslty.
Forty thousand shirt waist, makers
are on strike in New York. Now, then,
M those who have to button 'em down
the back will only strike in sympathy,
victory is assured.
In spite of the professional knock
ers the snow really is a beautiful thing,
after the walks are swept as far as
the street cars.
A New York employe has asked that
Tils salary be cut down. With this
exception his friends had not noticed
anything the matter with him.
Kermit Roosevelt has killed a sita
tunga, but whether it is bigger than an
elephant or smaller than a weasel the
reader Is left to conjecture.
A prominent New York poet is be
ing sued for a grocery bill. What
business has a poet eating and drink
ing, anyway?
WANT JUSTICE DONE
ATTITUDE OF THE PEOPLE TO
WARD THE SUGAR TRUST.
Demand Is Not Made In a Spirit of
Vengeance But for Its Effect in
the Upholding of the Law.
At last one of the high officials of
tho American Sugar Refining Com
pany—the sugar trust—has been in
dicted for the monstrous and long
continued swindling of which the fed
eral government, was the victim. Char
les R. Heike, secretary and treasurer
of the company, Is important enough
and responsible enough to count ma
terially in its inner circles. Me Is
powerful enough to be dangerous to
other men of greater authority, if he
can bo induced to tell all that he
knows.
With Heike Is indicted Harry Walk
er, assistant superintendent of the Wil
liamsburg docks of the trust, and
James P. Bendernagel, former cashier
at the same docks, also Ernest W. Oer
bracht, former superintendent there,
as well as certain subordinantes who
have been Indicted before. All of these
sugar trust men are charged with con
spiracy to defraud the government.
No cno who is well informed be
lieves that the top of the corrupt line
has been reached. It is altogether
probable that men still higher in auth
ority are more guilty than any so far
brought within the sweep of the grand
Jury s net, but if they can be reached
at all it will be through such measures
as these indictments. It may be that
if the government can convict the men
it has accused they will decline to
bear the punishment for their crimes
in silence. They may insist upon
bringing down other and more notable
personages to share their troubles and
go with them to the penitentiary, if
need be.
That -s what the country desires to
see, not so much in a spirit ol ven
geance as for the sake of checking a
dangerously common laxity about
dealings with the government, in which
the nation, the states and the cities
ate defrauded. The whole country
wants to see full and impartial Jus
tice done, it is eager to witness the
wholesome spectacle of trust mag
nates punished exactly as persous of
no prominence or wealth would be for
like frauds upon the nation's treasury
and like contempt for its laws.
So Soon Forgotten.
While Mr. Bryan was celebrating
Jackson day by declaiming "The
Prince of Peace" at Christobal, in the
canal zone (a dispatch from Colon
naively says that "he did not mention
politics ), the unterrified Democracy
of Missouri was gorging on a two dol
lar dinner in Kansas City.
The Hon. Beauchamp Clark of Pike
county emitted ferocious enthusiasm,
tho Hon. Joseph Wingate Folk vir
tuous commonplaces; our own organ
izer of victory, the Hon. Norman
Mack, urged the LJemocrats to get to
gether.
Not a word from Panama; not a
word about the chief whom Mr. Mack
made president by almost the total
electoral vote a fortnight before the
election of 190 S. The chairman of the
national Democratic committee salut
ed the old familiar favorites, Jefferson
and Old Hickory; to the Nebraska
Jackson and Jefferson he offered no
worship, or but a silent one.
Has Jackson day ceased to be Rryan
day? Is Wandering William lost to
memory as to sight?— New York Sun.
No Danger of War Over Tariff.
Ihe president of the local govern
ment board of Great Britain is report
ed as deprecating a British tariff on
lumber or. the ground that It might
lead to war with the United States,
and as saying that tariffs had caused
nearly all the wars that religion had
not. We beg leave to assure Mr.
Burns that If there is never a war be
tween America and Great Britian un
til there is one over a British duty
on American lumber, peace will be
perpetual—as, indeed, we expect It
will be, anyway! As for the other
part of his statement, If tariffs are to
be eschewed because they occasion
nlly provoke wars, of course the nat
ural inference is that religion should
also be abolished, since It is the other
chief cause of wars! But really we,
should be much interested to have Mr.
Rurns display a catalogue of wars
which have been caused by tariffs.
The house committee on rivers and
harbors has agreed to report in favor
of annual appropriations for river im
provement hereafter. To keep at
work continuously is clearly the best
plan to insure real economy as well
as positive results.
Mr. Tcft and the Consumer.
The president sees in this constant
ly Increasing burden on the consumer
the greatest political factor of the
time, and believe that it should be
studied and analyzed.
Slight Differences
Contemporaries that declare we are
In disagreement with Mr. Bryan do us
an Injustice. Excepting free raw ma
terials. prohibition, government own
ership of railroads, the initiative and
referendum, federal charters for cor
poratlonß, government guaranty of
bank deposits, federal ownership of
telegraph, government payment of
campaign expenses and several other
things, we are In entire agreement
with Mr. Bryan.—Houston (Tex.)
Post.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1910
HIGH PRICES ARE UNIVERSAL
Proof That They Are Universal and
Beyond the Reach of Any
Government.
In free trade England there 1b a
crisis in the boot and shoe Industry
because of the sharp advance in the
cost of leather. Manufacturers draw
upon many countries for their raw ma
terial, obtaining hides from Argentine,
Australia and South Africa as well as
North America and Europe, but they
find themselves unable to buy leather
except at so large an advance that it
must force higher prices for shoes —
so much higher that consumers pro
test bitterly.
In Vera Cruz, the best known port of
Mexico, the cost of living has about
doubled, according to unquestioned au
thorities, In the last ten years or so,
and the present retail price of food
staples such as flour, meats, tea, po
tatoes, etc., Is so high that the condi
tion of the poor is desperately bad.
All that they can hope to do is-to sus
tain life by eating only beans and
corn meal and the cheapest and poor
est vegetables.
Even In Siberia, one of the regions
least populated and most opulent in
natural resources, there is a marked
rise In values, all the way from land
to meat, and the same change is noted
in Argentine, where cattle are raised
by millions and the 7,000,000 inhabi
tants. more or less, have a territory
one-third as large as the United States
to spread themselves over and use as
prodigally as they desire.
Such illustrations of a world-wide
movement could be multiplied without
limit. They show plainly that some,
at least, of the causes of high prices
are common to many lands and are
probably beyond the reach of any gov
ernment. Others, however, may be
both local and illegal, and in that case
they must be dealt with all the more
rigorously because of the burdens
which cannot be lifted by the power
of the state.
For Two New States.
There was 110 opposition worthy of
notice in the house of representatives
when the bill admitting Arizona and
New Mexico as separate states was
passed. If the senate took the
wishes of the people as its guide there
would be no resistance in that body
to the speedy fulfillment of manifest
destiny in the case of these two terri
tories—the last remaining in the
United States not counting Alaska and
the Island possessions of the republic.
Doth of the territories are much bet
ter qualified for statehood lhan sev
eral of the states admitted many
years ago. They have enough peo
ple, plenty of natural resources and
a fair promise of continued and satis
factory growth. It is only a question
of years, if not months, when both will
be members of the great sisterhpod
under the Stars and Stripes and there
seems to be no good reason for much
further delay.
President and Party.
President Taft is president of all
the United States and of all the Re
publican party. He is, beyond most
men, kindly, long-suffering and pa
tient. He will make no martyr of any
body. He will penalize no independ
ent views on the tariff. He has such
himself, lie will not treat as a party
crime party independence. He has
himself sinned that way and counted
it for righteousness.
He will ask only, as an honest pres
ident must, candor, fair treatment and
an honest desire to help the Republi
can party to govern and legislate to
the good of the whole country. Such
men he will support, and he will ex
pect their support on the broad, gen
eral principles of the Republican plat
form, accepting, as he asks for him
self. a fair, personal liberty of in
terpretation. He will read no man
out of the party who does not read
himself out. —Philadelphia Press.
The President and Trusts.
President Taft. broad-minded, judici
ally trained, fully equipped and con
s'.rvative, has proposed a solution
which will disturb no values and affect
no investmeent. Pass his measures
and the railroad and trust question
will rest for a generation. Delay or
defeat them, and the gathering tide
will rise and sweep over all land
marks.—Philadelphia Press.
This is one of the times, which is
about all the time, when the Demo
cratic party will sit on the fence
cursing or rldiculinß the earnest men
in public life who are trying to do
things. While Republicans are work
ing at the conservation movement in
opposite ways the Democratic party
will be faithfully conserving its
grouch.
Mr. Bryan's inspection of the work
on the Panama canal results In his
announcing himself a convert to the
administration plan for that enter
prise. Here is one of the Roosevelt-
Taft policies that Bryan does not
claim to have been stolen from his
stock in trade, but in which he hon
orably announces himself a follower.
Taft Policies.
So much has been said lately about
what would come out of the White
House if Mr. Roosevelt were still
there, it is interesting to note that
h*re and there is comment that Mr.
Taft is more advanced in his views
than Mr. Roosevelt was while in of
fice. Mere is something to think about
and certain to be thought about. If
peopie will talk about policies, hero
are things definite and individual
enough to be called Taft policies.—
Washington Star.
Home-Made
w\ > 0 i%
BY JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
EVEN this early in the season the
powers that produce our Easter
bonnets are working industriously
on the millinery which will be in
such demand at Easter time, and
thereafter. Surrounded by counter
parts of all the lovely blossoms we
know, and others, born in the brain
of the designers, the busy workers
enthusiastically assemble braids and
ribbons, feathers and flowers into
fetching hats.
Why should not the tactful home
dressmaker try her hand also, at mak
ing up a pretty, simple hat or so, for
the coming spring? She has more
time now than later and can indulge
herself in more millinery or lessen the
expenses of her spring headwear by
a little hatmaking at home. It is fas
cinating work. All the home millin
er needs is a little guidance. This does
not mean that she can make all sorts
of hats. The home-dressmaker who
turns out a prety lawn dress, weli
done in every regard does not at
tempt the exacting tailor-made suit. It
is the same with hats.
A good shape, developed in three
different ways is shown in our illus
trations. The home milliner may feel
perfectly safe in attempting this hat.
She needs to buy a wire frame of this
or a similar shape, mull and braid to
cover it.and the trimming materials.
Suppose our enterprising reader
lives far enough south to expect warm
weather 011 the 2Gth of March, for
Easter is very early this year. She
may select a fancy braid, flowers and
ribbon for her*hat. Roses and lilacs
are always in style, as staple as rib
bon, which is ever present in millin
ery. Probably she owns some good
looking roses and will need to freshen
them up. This is done by care
fully trimming the frayed edges
of the petals and tinting them
with water colors or with oil
colors dissolved in gasoline. Two
sprays of lilacs in their natural color
and two clusters of roses with their
foliage will make a wreath. Two and
one-half yards of ribbon will make the
full rosette bow, which consists of a
group of loops four inches deep, sewed
to a small piece of buckram.
The frame must first be covered
with mull or crinoline, but preferably
mull matching the braid in colors. A
yard will cover the brim and crown,
forming a foundation for the braid.
Sew this over the frame as smoothly
as possible, covering upper and under
brim. Bind the edge of the brim with
the braid and then cover the entire
hat with it. sewing one row after ]
another with the outer edge of each
row overlapping the inner edge of the
preceeding row. The under brim may i
be faced with ribbon like that used in ]
the rosette if preferred.
As to color, the *methyst shades
are a safe choice. Olive, moss or
light greens, navy or tight blues, tan,
banana and light brow is. in fact there
Is almost nothing in colors that will
not harmonize with lilacs and roses.
The ribbon should be of the same
color as the braid, hut need not be
just the same shade. Make the flower
wreath and sew it to the hat. Then
make the rosette, which is sewed on
last. Finally the hat is lined with a
scrap of silk, and Is ready for wear, j
an achievement of v.hich the clever
maker has a right to be proud. If
she has any misgivings about how to
proceed with the making, let her ex
amine any hats made of braid, whicn
come within her reach.
Suppose however, our home-milliner |
lives where an Easter falling in March j
Is likely to be far Irom an Ideal spring j
Tree Planting on Waste Lands.
Coke of Holkham, so we learn from
Mr. W. H. R. Curtler's short "History
of English Agriculture," began his
great agricultural work about 177t>
on an estate where, as old Lady
Townshead said, "all you will see will
be one blade of grass, and two rab
bits fighting for that;" in fact it was
little better than a rabbit warren. Ik
transformed the bieak, bare country
aide by planting 50 acres of trees
every yoar until he had 3,000 acres i
noil covered, and in IJS32 had probably ,
day. Her needs have been looked
after, and she should choose braids
in darker, stronger colors, than for
flower-trimmed hats. A moss green,
olive or clear bright navy, or any of
the good shades of brown. The blue
of the bluebird is the happiest of se
lections. For trimming, velvet ribbon,
satin bows and fancy feather quills
are the proper choice, or wings may
be used. Let the satin ribbon be of
the same color as the braid. The vel
vet ribbon may be a dash of bright
color like cherry or coral or a darker
snade of the same coior as the satin
ribbon.
For the feather, nothing is much
prettier than the iridescent coque, but
there are so many to choose from that
one may use the individual taste in
this matter. The velvet ribbon is
threaded through small slashes cut in
! the covered frame, the fancy feathers
I are sewed on firmly and over them
a group of loops made of two yards
of No. GO ribbon. If the matter of
covering the hat with braid seems too
i difficult, a shape can be bought ready
made and simply trimmed with folded
satin ribbon, a cluster of quills and an
ornament or flower placed in the cen
ter of a rosette made of loops. Five
yards of ribbon are needed for this
hat and two broad, or a cluster of nar
row quills.
The ribbon is laid in folds and
tucked about the hat in what is known
as a "crushed" band. The rosette is a
series of loops four inches deep sewed
to a little piece of buckram, the size
of a silver dollar. This is sewed to
the hat after the band and quills have
been adjusted. Finally an ornament
or a flat flower is sewed at the center
of the rosette, completing the trim
ming.
These hats provide one with some
thing pretty for Easter and very use
ful for the spring and early summer,
or for general wear all summer, for
that matter. The last two described
are very handsome in all black.
Twelve yards of braid are needed at
least for this model, one yard of mull,
and a spool of silk thread matching
the braid in color. Finally, let mo
whisper to those interested, the mas
culine members of your family will
think your achievement wonderfully
clever, if you make your own hat.
Shank Buttons Best.
Just now. when large buttons are so
much in vogue 011 shirtwaists .-nd tub
gowns, a quick and easy way to attach
them so they may be removed for
laundering is to use buttons with a
shank, and fasten in place with small
safety pins on the wrong side.
The spaces should be measured and
marked with a few stitches just where
the buttons should be, so they may be
quickly attached after each trip to the
laundry.
' In this way one set of buttons will
do duty for a number of suits.
Practical Traveling Coat.
One of the practical coats brought
out for southern-bound travelers is the
mannish ulster, made of white blan
keting, white chinchilla or some simi
lar white cloth, which is easily slipped
into and out of when jumping into the
machine for the ride to the links or
homeward. The coat 3 are of full or
three-quarter length and have the ad
vantage of being cozy, smart and of
cleaning perfectly.
Delicate mosaic pendants, festooned
with a line chain of sterling silver
plated with gold, form some of the im
ported necklaces.
the unique experience of embarking
In a ship which was built of oak
grown from the acorns he had himself
planted. Between 1776 and 1842 (the
date of the death) he is said to have
spent JCo3ti,9!i2 on improving his es
tate.
Naturally.
Meeker—"Just one year ago to-day
I led my wife to the altar. - ' Bleeker
—"You did—eh?" Meeker—"Yes;
and tfc.tn and there my leadership
txded' "-Judy.
Quaker Oats
is the world's food
Eaten in every
country; eaten by
infants, athletes,
young and old.
Recognized as the
great strength
builder.
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Delicious and economical.
WESTERN CANADA
What J.f. Hill, the Great Railroad Magnate,
Say* About ita Wheat-Producing Powert
"The arrontout need of this country
[United Ktutes] in another genera
**on nr two tho i' r °-
viding of honiea for its
1 peoplo and producing
I sufficient for them. The
I days of our prominence
If I las a wheat exporting
■ 111 I country ore gone. C.'an-
A I a<la is to be thf great
|ir>S I . AMJ wheat country."
fVf. I A
BOT Hate is taking advantage
-■ tPHKlvft'ralhvny hulld
log to Hi© wheat field*
of Western Canada.
/" V~\ Upwards of 125 Million
Bushels of Wheat
were harvested in 1909. Average
of the three provinces of All>erla
Bankatchewan and Manitoba will LM |
;W"7v JMM upwards of 23 buHlielH i>er acre.
fSPW 1 ree homestead® of 1 (>0 acre*,
CVt l^j| |l I! and adjoining pre-cmpllonH of J
J IGO ncre* (at $3 per acre, are to
1 12, be hud In the choicest districts.
r/yswuZ Ml. ' School® convenient, climate
\ Pfl\\ M J I excellent, soli the very bent,
I rftf 11 ' I railways close at hand, huild-
LJtIJ 1 lug lumber cheap, fuel easy to
■gfef I get and reasonable In price,
ID \ water easily procured; mixed
farming a succ«>ss. >Vrito as to
■M Bf. l>est place for settlement, settlers'
»<£>■ Vum low railway rates, descriptive iJlus
ggal trated "Last Best West' (sent free
n «, 'A on application), and other infornia-
Wl tion, to Hup't of Immigration,
. Ottawa, Can., or to the Canadian
7. r Government Agent.
H - M * WILLIAMS
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