2 CAKJJfi CUUS'i'Y PilisSS. It. H. MUI.UN, Kd lor. rublih.icU livery Thursday. TF.KMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. #er f«r •»« y paid to advance > i 0 ADVKRTISINQ RATES: Advertisements are published at the rale ot l&e dol ar per square forone Insertion and fifty )<Btt per square for each subsequentiimertlon Rate* i>v ill* yar.or for six or three month*, ftr« low and uniform, and wIU be furnished on k pplication. Le«sl and Official Advertising per square I'irse tlmo.i or lets. 52: each subsequent in»er »ien ; 0 cents per square. Loral notices 1" cents per line for one lnser s-riion: 5 cents per line (or eaen sub»equeu> •»t).reutlTe Insertion. Obituary notices over Are lines. 10 cents per l!«* Simple a-snoum eroents of births, mar* « »«'« mid deaths w.ll be'lnserted free. Uuslnoss cards, fl»e lines or less. »f> per ye#r. »»er tlve Hues, at lbs re«iil.ir rates of adver tit'ng No local inserted for less than 75 cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pkk*s is complete /nd affords facilities for doing the best class of ) rk. P*bti<jul*u anm rioN piibtu Law I'RXNTINO. No paper will be discontinued until arrear- Sfct are paid, except at the option of the pub- Usher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid tor In advance. Courtesy in Young Girls. Young girls are apt to be somewhat thoughtlessly discourteous, and are quite oblivious of the irremediable evil often wrought by want of thought. Such girls should bear in mind the lesson in courtesy given by a father to his daughter. "My child," said he, "treat everybody with politeness, even though they are rude to you. For, re member that you show courtesy to others, not because they are ladies, but because you are one." —Home Motes. Rice Market Yields $200,000,000. The world's market for rice, meas uring this market merely by the im ports of the principal countries of the world, amounts to from $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 per annum. The Im ports of rice into the principal coun tries of Europe in the latest available year amounted to about $52,000,000 value; into Asia and Oceanica, SBB,- 000,000; into North and South Amer ica, exclusive of the United States, 512.000,000, and into Africa, $6,000,000. Ho, Girls! "Don't be concerned because of your lack of good looks," says a writer. It's the real dope, girls. Take it from us that a freckled, skinny girl, with a codfish complexion, who can draft a design for a toothsome mince pie is head tind shoulders above the peaches and-ceam beauty who don't know a flour sifter from a baseball mask. Correspondent Wants to Know. Here's a funny thing. One fly can spoil all your food. One toad can eat $19.40 worth of flies in a season. (These figures from the secretary of agriculture.) We have 8,000,000 flies in our kitchen during an ordinary summer day. How many toads should we keep? Another Good Old Tar Heel Word. Besides Sampson county, Onslow comes forward as a shipper of Jeru salem oak seed. "The seed, in mo lasses, as an old-time domestic rem edy," we are told, "can be swallowed more mellifluously under the name of 'Juzelymake.' " —Charlotte Observer. At the Bottom of It. "What started him 011 the road to success?" "Well, I'm not sure; but I think his parents had something to do with it in not bringing him up from babyhood in the idea that he was one of the marvels of the age." Regrettable, Don'tcherknow? "These exchange editors make me tired," exclaimed the self-worshiping poet. "Here they are crediting a poem of mine to some fellow named Byron." Rather a Long Life. An Arizona woman 11G years old who used tobacco for 110 years is dead. Little girls, beware of her sad fate. It Is awful to live too long. Cut out chewing tobacco at the start. Mars' Canals. Bill —"I see a wise astronomer is telling the people that he has no ticed some disturbance on Mars." Jill—"Perhaps it's one of those canal mules kicking again." Good Thing to Remember. I alk," said Uncle Eben, "is supin' tike rain. A certain amount is wel come an' necessary. Hut doggone a deluge!" Wanted. Knicker —There is room for a new invention. Uocker —For instance, an alarm clock to strike the psychological moment. Literature. Literature gives life to the ideas of the moment, and poetry crystalizes ideas into forms that can be remem bered. One of the Few. "De man dat's his own worst en emy." said Uncle Eben, "is one o' de few people dat makes any real prog ress toward lovin' deir enemies." The Daily Problem. "Are you interested in what is in table rapping?" "No; I am more in terested in what goes on it."- Balti more American. By Proxy. "The king is going to raise some pin money by starring his court jest ers in vaudeville." "He'll try to live by his wits, eh?"— Kansas City Times. CANT STAND T HE SUNSHINE S _^=r r --~ 3 . .'£* v '^— v .1 GJEfO*!'/ -* /</i.vv/T CAUSE OF ADVANCE HIGH PRICES OF FOOD NOT DUE TO TARIFF. Foreign Demand for Our Products Has Enormously Increased —Coun- try Vastly Better Off Than When Prices Were Low. Talking of the high prices of food and the means, if any there bo, to pre vent their going higher, it is remark able that no one in Washington has paid any attention to one obvious cause of the advance which everybody feels. An enormous quantity of our food products is exported, chiefly to England, and the demand abroad has enormously increased during the past quarter of a century. Great Britain during the year 1908 imported food to the value of $1,220,000,000, almost all of it for her own consumption. Of this vast amount $250,000,000 was for meat, while the importation of wheat was about $25,000,000 less. Her im portation of meats as recently as 1878 was less than 8,000,000 hundred weights, whilst in 1908, it reached nearly seven times that amount. Only during comparatively recent years have we had any serious competition for this great market, but lately Ar gentine, Australia and Canada share the business with us. The increase in demand, however, has more than kept pace with the new sources of supply. The price of nearly all the world's food, available for the world market, is therefore fixed, not at the source of supply, but at the chief point of for eign demand. It is not easy to see how, under these conditions, any abatement or even abolition of the tar iff on food by this country could ap preciably affect the price at home; while it is still more difficult to un derstand how the tariff, high or low, can increase the home price, since we import scarcely any food, especially the great staples. We might get some meat and wheat from Canada if there were no tariff, but not at a price less than that which the Canadian pro ducer could get for his stuff in Eng land, freights being equal. Whatever be the cause of high prices it still remains true that the country is vastly better off to-day than it was 15 years ago when prices were so low that the farmer was losing money on everything he raised, and the urban populations were idle and could not afford to pay even the low prices which food brought. If it could be managed so tbat we could have plenty of employment at high wages, and at the same time get all our needs at the lowest figures, all the difficul ties of life would be solved. Or, if we could sell everything we produce at present prices, and buy everything we need at the prices of 1896, we should have something like the millennium. We commend this simple problem to reformers generally, and especially to the statesmen at Washington who, with such sound and fury, are looking for the goat. The Statehood Bills. With the introduction of the New Mexico and Arizona statehood bills in the senate the first step has been taken toward doing justice to these rich and enterprising territories. There would seem to be at this time no sound and legitimate reason for in terfering with the manifest right of these territories to become part of the union. The Republican party spon sored their admission in its last, plat form and the president has recom mended it in unmistakable terms through his recent message. It is up to the Republican majority in congress to see that justice is done and the pledge of the party fulfilled. There has been some argument on the part of extreme partisans that if Arizona and New Mexico were granted statehood they might send Democratic representatives to congress. Such a petty, unstatesmanlike attitude cannot be too roundiy condemned. As if politics had a right to be heard in a matter of simple national justice? It will not hi" the least memorable fact connected with the Taft. adminis tration if, during its course, the United States are rounded out ifiCo one com pletrj, homogeneous whole. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, igio LITTLE CAUSE FOR ALARM Idea That President Taft Is to"Run Amuck" Among Corporations Is Absurd. A short memory is a snare some times. The few who have critically and un favorably compared Mr. Taft with Mr. Roosevelt in respect of his "quieting" statement the other day about his anti-trust intentions have set a trap for themselves. They forgot that un der like conditions and to the same purpose Mr. Roosevelt once announced that he had no intention "to run amuck among the corporations." So, also, Mr. Taft said, "sensational statements as if there were to be a new departure and an indiscriminate prosecution of important industries have no foundation." To silence the scaremongers with their foolish alarmist rumors of an in discriminate raid on big business merely because it is big, President Taft took the trouble to reiterate his position, and impliedly to assure the public that neither he nor Mr. Wicker sham had been bitten by the anti-cor poration mad dog and gone rabid. liufainess men who took stock in the wild rumors of impending indiscrim inate raids on the great producing and wage paying organizations of the coun try, and that is as much as to say on the reviving national confidence and prosperity, paid Mr. Taft a poor com pliment. The former judge and model civil governor of the Philippines is not going to turn weathercock, or destruc tive, or seeker of the cheap and fleet ing popularity that comes of rout to the galleries and the sheet iron thun der of the professional "trust buster." In his message of January 7 the president made his policy and attitude on the trust question very plain: The economic advantages of com bination are fully recognized, and the aim will be to conserve advantages, while preventing abuses. There will be no prosecution with out good and sufficient evidence of wrongdoing. All tli.it corporations and combina tions ha\e to do in order to keep out of trouble with this administration is to live up to the spirit of the anti-trust law. That law is unfortunately vague and we believe, with Mr. Roosevelt, that it ought to be amended. Dut it very certainly was not intended to cripple and terrorize the great legiti mate, fairly conducted industries o! the country, and will not be so acted on by this administration. As for the attitude of the courts in regard to strictly literal interpretation of this, in terms, too sweeping and in definite statute, let us quate what the court said in the joint Traffic associa tion case in 1908: The act of congress must have rea sonable construction, or else there would scarcely be an agreement or contract among business men that cou'd not be said to have, indirectly or remotely, some bearing upon inter state commerce, and possibly to re strain it. Minimum for Minimum. Senator Knox announces a complete agreement between the United States and Germany on the tariff on the line of his policy of securing for us the fullest opportunity in foreign markets. Minimum for minimum is the basic principle of the new convention. The matter of maximum rates is entirely eliminated, and there will be no dis turbance of trade between the two countries, as at one time was feared. The conclusion of the negotiations was quickened by the sincere desire of botli governments to avoid even a temporary suspension of friendly rela tions, as would have been the case if the present agreement were permitted to expire before a new one was" en tered into. Good Republican Doctrine. The power of states to impose fair and reasonable conditions on outside corporations desiring to enter them for local business remains untouched. The right to refuse to. license outside corporations without giving any rea son remains intact. Hut the power tc exact unreasonable terms or practice extortion lias been substantially ]irr. I ited by the latest decisions A CHEERFUL PROSPECT. "Well, young man, what do you think of my daughter?" "Rather thin." "That will improve; at her age I was like that." Why He Was Lonesome. Tommy, whose varying points of view are illustrated by the Farm Jour nal, had not yet learned the Golden Rule. Neither have a good many of his elders. "1 should like. Tommy," said his fa ther. "that you might find some boy to play with you. Now what's the matter with Johnny Jenkins and the little Dobbs boy?" "Pooh! Why, they're a whole year younger than I am," said Tommy, con temptuously. "I couldn't play with them!" "Well, there's Jack Spear and Willie Harlow. Won't they do?" "Yes, but they're a year older than I am," said Tommy, wistfully, "so the mean things won't play with me." Meaning of Cemetery. It is not correct to say that "ceme tery" means the "city of the dead." The word is from the Greek "Koime tcrion," meaning sleeping place, not the place of the dead. There is nothing in the thinking that it was originally intended to convey the idea that the departed were really dead any more than there is in the old Hebrew term for cemetery—"Bethaim"—the house of the living. Comparison Shunned. "You didn't cry at all at the mati nee." '■' No," answered the reposeful girl; "1 couldn't think of such a thing." "But the young woman with you wept copiously." "Of course. Her lace handkerchiefs are ever so much more elegant than mine."—Washington Star. THE STORY OF THE PEANUT SHELLS. As everyone knows, C. W. Post of Battle Creek, Michigan, is not only a maker of breakfast foods, but he is a strong individual who believes that the trades-unions are a menace to the lib erty of the country. Believing this, and being a "natural born" scrapper for the right, as he sees it, Post, for several years past, has been engaged in a ceaseless war fare against "The Labor Trust," as he ; likes to call it. Not being able to secure free and 1 untrammeled expression of his opin ions on this subject through the regular I reading pages of the newspapers he lias bought advertising space for this 1 purpose, just as he is accustomed to for the telling of his Postum "story," and he has thus spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in denouncing trades-unionism. As a result of Post's activities the people now know a whole lot about these organizations: how they are honeycombed with graft, how they ob struct the development of legitimate business, curtail labor's output, hold up manufacturers, graft upon their own membership, and rob the public. Natu rally Post is hated by the trades unionists, and intensely. He employs no union labor, so they can not call out his men, and he defies their efforts at boycotting his products. The latest means of "getting" Post is the widespread publication of the story that a car which was recently wrecked in transmission was found to be loaded with empty peanut shells, which were being shippei from the south to Post's establishment at Battle Creek. This canard probably originated with President John Fitzgerald of the Chi cago Federation of Labor, who, it is said, stated it publicly, as truth. Post conies back and gives Fitz gerald the lie direct. He denounces Fitzgerald's statement as a deliberate 'alseliood, an underhanded and coward ly attempt to injure his business, hav ing not the slightest basis in fact. As such an effort it must be regarded. It Is significant that this statement about "the peanut shells" is being given wide newspaper publicity. In the "patent inside" of an eastern cwintry paper I find it, and the inference naturally is hat labor-unionites are insidiously spreading this lie. An institution (or a man) which will resort to moral intimidation and to physical force, that will destroy ma chinery and burn buildings, that will maim and kill if necessary to effect its ends, naturally would not hesitate to spread falsehood for the same pur poses. We admire Post. While we have no enmity toward labor unions, so long as they are conducted in an honest, "live and-let-live" kind of a way, we have had enough of the tarred end of the stick to sympathize thoroughly with what he is trying to do. He deserves support. A man like Post can not be killed, even with lies. They are a boomerang, every time. Again, we know, for hasn't this weapon, every weapon that could be thought of, been used (and not simply by labor unions) to put us out of busi ness, too? I am going to drink two cups of Postum every morning from this time on, and put myself on a diet of Grape- Nuts. Pully for Post!— Editorial in The American Journal of Clinical Med icine. How often do you eat this food? A short, time ago there appeared In the columns of one of the prominent magazines an article on building brain and muscle by the proper selection of the foods you eat. A good many people were surprised to find oatmeal placed at the top of the list of foods recommended; but if the article had appeared in an English or Scotch paper every reader would have expected to see first place given to good oatmeal. As a matter of fact Great Britain and Europe come to us for tremendous quantities of Quaker Oats because it represents to them perfect food, being the richest in flavor and best in clean liness and purity, of all oatmeals. Americans should eat more Quaker Oats; the results would soon show themselves in improved conditions ol health and strength. 55 Does He Love Anybody? Von Moltke had some few human failings. He loved his wife devotedly, but conquered his alma mater, Den mark, even after she had educated him for the military service out of her poor, stingy pocket. But Kitchener is a machine man only. He loves neither man nor woman. His spear has never known a brother, as its sharp point has hewn asunder the bodies and souls of the sons of women.—Bos ton Post. Two Bad Cases In England Cured by Resinol Ointment. I have been using Resinol Ointment during the last few weeks lor a varicose ulcer on leg and can bear tes timony to its cooling and curative qual ities. Have never found anything to equal it. I was recommended by my sister, Mrs. Cairus Ladykirk, Norham on Tweed, to try it. She had been treated 14 months previously without effect, but was entirely cured by Res inol Ointment. Robert Davidson, Gateshead on Tyne. Belgium Has No Navy. Belgium is, perhaps the most pros perous state in Europe, as well as the most thickly settled. The late king's reign was at least marked by an enor mous advance in wealth and social re form. One of the country's special ad vantages is that its international neu tralization permits it to dispense with a navy, while the Belgian army is maintained on a very small and inex pensive basis. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot roacb the Heat of the disease. Catarrh Is a blood or consti tutional disease, and In order to cure It you must take Internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken In ternally. and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is not a quack medi cine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians In this country for years and Is a regular prescription. It Is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, nctlni; directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients Is what produces such wonderful re mits In curing catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHKN'KY CO.. Props.. Toledo. O. Fold by Druggists, prion 75c. Tukc llall's Family i'llls I or constipation. The Perverse Sex. "Hinkley's got a wonderful head. All his woman readers are simply wild over that serial love story he is run ning in the Daily Stunt." *4low did ho clinch 'em?" "Why, ho printed the last chapter first." ■mportantto Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infanta and children, and see that it In Use For Over .'{O Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. A Thought Reader. "So you are studying telepathy?" "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum; "my object in life has been to find what people are thinking and then say it first. Any reliable system would simplify my labors immensely.'' —Exchange Free to Our Readers. Write Murine Kye Remedy Co.. t'liica- K<). for 4S-paße Illustrated Kye Book Free. Write :ill about Your Kye Trouble and they will advise a» the Proper Appli cation of the Murine Kye Remedies in Your Special Case. Your Druggist will tell you that Murine Relieves Sore Eyes, Strengthens Weak Kyes, Doesn't Smart, Soothes Kye l'ain. ami sells for 50e. Try It In Your Eyes and in Baby's Eyes for Scaly Eyelids and Granulation. The Graveled Geometer. Euclid was boasting of his abilities. "But," cried his wife, "can you find why our gas bills are just as big as when they charged a dollar a thousand cubic feet?" With a moan he sped into the night. Distemper In all its forms, among all ages of hdrsei and dogs, cured and others in the same stable prevented from lining the disease with Spohn's Distemper Cure. Every bftt tle guaranteed. Over 500,0J)0 bottles sold last year. $.50 and SI.OO. Hood druggists, or send to manufacturers. Agents wanted. Write for free book. Spohn Med. Co., Spec. Contagious Diseases, Goshen, Ind. A Benefactor. "Are you doing anything for oth ers?" asked the philanthropist. "Sure," answered Mr. Crosslots, *'l make a garden evej-y year for the ben efit of my neighbors' chickens." DRUNKENNESS is unworthy when you can have it removed without any body's knowledge. Acme simple home treatment will do the work. Write E. Eortin, Dickey ifldg., Chicago, 111., for free trial. Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life. —Smiles. AI M"VS (,CN(i BALSAM Is the old reliable Cornell remedy. Found In every droit storoand In poeticallyevery bon o. For hule by all driiiftfists. Sac, f>Uc and 11.00 bottles. The family tree of a bunko man must be a slippery elm. Mrs. Wiunlow'ft Soothing Syrup. Forrblldren teething, softens the minis, reducesln. Humiliation.allays pain, cures wind colic. 2oca Louie. it is easy to offend people who have BO use for you. WHEN YOUR BACK ACH ~S SUS PECT THE KIDNEYS. Backache Is kidney ache, in moat cases. The kidneys ache and throb with dull pain be cause th're is in- J s< j2Lr' 2/ flamniation within. | You can't bo rid of fy \) \ji the ache until you steals cure tlie cause—the kidneys. 2 Doan's Kidney ■•/(I - PHls cure sick kid- H / Vvv. l neys - G> s - Warren, r J %p% 1517 No. 7th St., )■' a )i.: Uoise, Idaho, says: ? . I. J'' .'<! "An Injury to ray H - ylj V&t back >' Ciirs aso left & Agf me lame. I had to til n use a can0 > and it j? Ha . S-.p hurt me terribly to P £n : .Agsgi»y ! s stoop or lift. The kidney secretions nauw passed too frequent ly. For five years since I was cured by Doan's Kidney Pills, I have had no return of the trouble." Remember the name—Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial Are called conscience.—Washington. IMPOSSI IM.K TO FIND ANYTHING better for sideache. backaches or stitches than J'frry Dnris' /''tinkillf. 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The most successful remedy in this country for the cure of all forms of female complaints is Lydia E. I'ink ham's Vegetable Compound. It ban stood the test of years and to-day is more widely and successfully used than any other female remedy. It has cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflam mation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, ir regularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indigestion, and nervous prostration, after all other means had failed. If you are suffering 112 rom any of these ailments, don't give up hope until you have given Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound a trial. If you would like special advice write to Mrs. Pinkliam, Mass., for it. She lias guided thousands to bealtk, free of charge. Make YOUR Roof Trouble-Proof SLATE IT Costs DO more than artificial material and you will have a roof that will alwolutely protect your building for centuries with* out one cent of expense. Nothing in existence can equal SHELDON'S Srftsr. ROOFING SLATE for •trenflrth, durability and r-conomr. Our free book, THE HOOF *?, teiis \\ li\ . It's jours for the asking. F. C. SHELDON SLATE CO. GRANVILLE. NEW YORU Hay's Hair-Health Never Falls to Restore Gray Hair to lis Natural dolor and Beauty. Stops its falling out. and positively n move - Dandruff. Is not a D>e. Refuse all substitutes, ft oo and 50c. bottles by Mail or at Druggists. LAC t Semi ioc for large sample Bottle BlItL Philo Hay Spec. Co.. Newark, N. J . L". S. A. DYOLA DYES H> fast, beautiful colors 10c per package it dealers If not in stuck, hcntl us 10c stating color desired. ONE DYE FOR ALL GOODS Color card and hook of directions free by writing Dy-o-la, lturlington, Vermont. DYOLA DYES TAKE A DOSE OF ,P Vht fctSl MMCMt YSK F It will inslanl'y relieve that racking cough. J| j Token promptly it will often pie vent II til Asthma, Bronchitis and seriou* thioat and ;g [HI lung troubles. 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