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The Job department of the Pitr.ss is complete and aßords facilities for Join;; the best class of Work. PAli'l IL't'l.AK A'l TKN 1 ION PAIDTO I.AW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the optioa of tlio pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor In advance. »■ ■ ■ s WORTHLESS FARMS. American agriculture shows a strange contrast With the price of farm prod ucts higher than ever before, farm land has depreciated in value, and the number of abandoned farms steadily increases. Figures gathered by the con servation commission are surprising. It is shown that there are 16,000 square miles of abandoned farms, chief ly in New England, New York, the southeast and the middle central states. That is, there are in the United States at present 10,000,000 acres of abandoned farm land —an area as large as the cul tivated part of the Canadian north west, 15 times the size of Rhode Is land, four times the size of Connecti cut, twice the size of Massachusetts, or half as large as Ohio, says Cleve land Plain Dealer. Of the many rea sons advanced to explain this deser tion of farms, two or three are espe cially worth noticing. Most impor tant of all, perhaps, is the wasteful sys tem of cultivation that has so long prevailed in the United States. A fertile soil has in countless cases been exhausted by taking everything from it and returning nothing to it. Add to this the fact that there is a marked trend of population from city to coun try, and that farm labor has become so expensive as to leave little profit from the work of a laborer, and it is little wonder that so many owners of farms do not care to cultivate them. Kelic hunters have been breaking into the church where l'resident Taft worships in Washington. During the past year it has been twice necessary to rebuild the president's pew, and it is no longer safe to leave the hymn books in the rack or the cushion on the seat after the chief executive has attended services, says Chicago Record-Herald. So many books and cushions have been carried away that officials of the church now take every thing that is movable from the pew as soon as the president finishes his de votions. Cannot something be done to lessen the hardship that is thus put upon the relic hunters? Why not fur nish a plank for the president to sit on when he goes to church, and then leave it for the relic hunters to whittle up and divide among themselves? Ry having it made of some kind of soft wood the comfort of the presi dent and the convenience of the relic hunters would both be provided for. We are a great people and ought to be able somehow %) keep our relic hunters from feeling that they are be ing deprived of their rights. A number of parents in Vienna have sent a petition to the educational au thorities asking that the number or studies be reduced and that examina tions be made less severe. This ac tion, practically against the modern "cramming" system, was suggested by the suicide of a schoolboy who had failed to pass his examination in Greek and Latin. The moral is not onv which need be confined to Vienna. It is said that in some parts of the south farmers use the razor-back hog as a defense against wolves and sheep-killing dogs. A hungry razor back can whip half a dozen wolves at the same time and so fierce do these porkers become that sheep-killing an imals do not venture near a farm where they are kept. Edison's street car storage battery may make the trolley obsolete. In time the wizards of science may even invent a strap to which it is a pleasure and comfort to hang, but. overen thusiastic hopes should not be in dulged in this direction. The Filipinos are frightened at the army maneuvers in the Philippines. They remember too well the real thing to be pers.laded this is play. It is well, maybe, that such an impression is left upon their memories. There is to be an investigation of the sanity of a New York woman who ■wants to give away money. She must have some relatives who are eager to do a little inheriting. KEEP TARIFF PEACE DISAGREEMENT WITH CANADA TO BE AVOIDED. Anything in the Nature of a Struggle Would Have Been Most Unfortu nate—lmportant Field for Our Manufacturers. It is good news that tariff peace with Canada is practically assured. The time limit for an agreement was almost reached before the difference between Washington and Ottawa were adjusted, and a failure to come to such a conclusion would have been costly to both countries aud in every sense unfortunate. The Dominion is one of the best customers for American products, not withstanding the fact that the two countries are rivals in the markets of the world in disposing of many im portant staples, chiefly agricultural. The rapid growth of Canada is add ing enormously to the purchasing power of Canadian trade centers, and the value of Canadian patronage is fast increasing. in fact, the rate per cent, of expan sion in the international trade of the Dominion is higher than the rate of growth in the foreign commerce of the United States. The figures are bigger on this side of the border, but the rate of increase is lower. In February the expansion of the foreign commerce of the Dominion was nearly 20 per cent. In the iirst 11 months of the Canadian govern ment's fiscal year the rate of gain was more than 20 per cent. The ac tual increase was over $104,000,000. There is nothing small about the Canada of to-day. Such a country, separated from this republic by a boundary 3,000 miles long and mainly nothing but an imag inary line, must be one of the most important fields in the world for American manufacturers and export ers of all kinds to cultivate. To main tain friendly and favorable trade re lations with the Dominion ought to be a settled policy of the United States. Splendid Words for Arbitration. Platonic advocacy of peace and arbi tral ion is new fashionable even in quarters that have no intention of ta king a real step forward in the direc tion of armament limitation and re duction of the staggering war or defense burdens. Rut President Taft made some declarations before the American Peace and Arbitration league that are significant and pro gressive—that should, and doubtless will, have great moral effect. They will, at any rate, inspire and gratify all the active peace workers of the world. It is no small matter to secure sub mission to arbitration of questions in volving construction of treaties and differences over individual claims or minor property rights. It would be a much greater victory for reason, good will and humanity to secure the sub mission of questions involving "na tional honor" or "vital interest." The ordinary arbitration speech or article expressly disclaims the idea of in cluding such questions, but Mr. Talt tells ihe world that personally he sees no moral or practical objection to the arbitration of matters of honor and vital interest. He is prepared togo beyond most men. and all the rules or men so far heard from on the subject, in favoring arbitration before and Im proper tribunals of all international disputes without exception or limita tion. Kings, presidents, premiers and for eign ministers will recognize the im portance of this "personal" opinion of the head of the United States. It cannot fail to rtimulate the work of the true friends of peace—and of the dis cussion of limitation of armaments by agreement as the next duty and task of the enlightened nations. Strange It Didn't Come Sooner. The west is not going crazy for low tariff rates. Colorado is a state in which a good deal of opposition to the new law was said to prevail, but the intelligent people out there are not to be fooled by the silly free trade trick of trying to lay all advance in prices of necessaries of life to the tariff. The Roulder (Colo.) News remarks: "If the tariff is the cause of high prices, as is so persistently asserted, it is strange that they did not come sooner. We have had a high tariff law for many years, and it is curious if it has just begun to affect prices so radically, and especially on those articles on which tli« tariff has been reduced or removed." It is just as reasonable to att. >uto to the tariff the altitudi nous prices of wheat, gold and other products during the strenuous times of the civil war.—Troy Times. The congress and Mr. Taft are com mitted to the ider.ls and the policies of that great American, Abraham Lin coln, and his wise dictum on the field of Gettysburg: "Government by the people, for the people and of the peo ple shall not perish from the earth." —Wauseon (O.) Republican. The Party's Pathway. Congress must push ahead with constructive legislation if a political revolution is to be averted. The promises of the Republican platform must be kept, in letter and in spirit, if the country is to be turned back from the road to Democratic control of the fj derai government. The best brains in the Taft administration and I he highest courage must be given full swing it the battle next November is to be won for the party in power.— Cleveland Leader. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1910. LIVING HERE AND ABROAD Words of Samuel Gompers Good Evi dence as to the Benefits of Protection. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, gives some interesting facts as follows: "1 believe 1 may assert that whether the cost of living in Europe or in America is greater to the working man depends entirely on the standard of living he adopts while in America. If he voluntarily lives a life of sell'- dcnial in this country that he com pulsorily lived in his native land, his outlay in money will remain about the same. Even then he will hardly escape gaining some from the superior supply of the good things of life in America. Living is cheap to the wage worker in Europe only because he does without what in America soon becomes a necessity to him —food in good quantity and quality, present able clothes, and a comfortable home, and, in general, a larger and freer life. Meat is usually from 25 per cent, to 100 per cent, higher In Eu rope than in the United States. The immigrants coining to America finds that lie can buy in quantity, and (in cases where he need not) his flour, potatoes, fuel, sugar, coffee, salt—the essentials for his plain table —all cost less ordinarily than in the land he left. The cheapness and abundance of many varieties of fruit and of our melons and tomatoes is a surprise to him. Closely after the most pressing necessities come a line of things cheaper than in Europe, such as cot ton clothing, jumpers and shoes. Fine wool and silk stuffs, furs, iaces and kid gloves cost less abroad than in the United States, a fact, however, which bears as lightly in an inquiry as to the conditions of the masses as does the tariff on the masterpieces of art. The main conclusion as to hous ing is the same as that relating to food; if the immigrant who comes to this country is willing to continue livng here at the same level he was obliged to accept in his native land, he can find it for the same money." Stop "Cussing" and Begin Thinking. Gentlemen who insist on "cussing" the tariff for the high cost of living should take a copy of the new tariff law in one hand and a price list of groceries and meats in the other and inform themselves. Maybe they will find what the philosophers call food for thought. For example, it will be noted that the tariff rate lias been increased on figs, pineapples, dates, hops, split peas, grapes in barrels, buckwheat flour — and all of these things either remain at the old prices or have been reduced in cost to the consumer. And we only see one chance for the "cussing" gentleman to reply. He may say he doesn't care for hops any way. On the other hand, the tariff has been reduced on beef, bacon, mutton, veal, pork, ham, barley, green peas, dried peas, cream, starch, cabbage, lard, cornmeal and sugar, among other things—and on all these things, or nearly all of them, the prices have gone up. There is no question of the high price of living. But it isn't fair to charge the tariff doesn't do it—as the facts and figures show. Living costs more and more because more and more the people who pro duce have quit producing and have gone into the consuming class. And there is little hope of the cost of liv ing getting down to old-time prices until the tide of population turns from the mills and the cities, and the mil lions now depending on wages—or charity—turn to taking care of them selves by raising what they need for food, and a little for the market. Then things will get down to the normal—and not until en.-Salt Lake City Herald. Consular Reform. The analysis of the operation of President Roosevelt's order of 1906 proving for promotion in the consu lar service and substituting examina tion lor political pull as a requisite lor appointment is highly gratifying. Ol' the CI consuls general now serv ing 22 have been promoted under this order and three appointed after ex amination, the otners having been in the service before the order. Of 229 consuls, 106 were serving before the order, seven have been promoted and 50 appointed after examination. The assumption is therefore justified that the membership of the service to day is better qualified by length of service or by proved fitness upon ex amination than there was any hope that it ever was under the old spoils system ol appointment. Under the ad ministration of Secretary Knox abso lute fitness will continue to be the test, as he has upon more than one occa sion made plain. The consuls are the business agents of the government abroad with certain clearly defined duties. Hereafter a consular post will not be a foreign vacation at the ex pense of the government. The incum bents will have to earn their salaries and it is well to learn that in the first case it is .cen they are capable of do ing it Solidified the Party. If the effect of all this shall be. as Republicans of various shades predict, to restore unity of the majority party in the house, the Democrats will get rather worse than nothing out of their demonstration of strength. Instead of holding aloof and allowing the Repub licans to fight their own battles, they fought the insurgents' battle for them and helped them to extinguish the \*ry offense that was counted on as a campaign issue to help the Democrats in the elections for tiie new congress There is no prob lem of increased cost of food if you eat more Quaker Oats An ideal food; delicious; appetizing; strengthening. Compared with other foods Quaker Oats costs almost nothing and yet it builds the best. C 2 Algy Explains. "What do you suppose, Algernon," tho young tiling asked, "is the reason the ocean is salty?" "I am sure I don't know," drawled Algy, "unless it is because there are BO many salt, fish in it." —Success. When Rubbers Become Necessary And your shoes pinch, shako into your ■hoes Allen's Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder for the feet. Cures tired, aching feet and takes the stint; out of Corns and Bunions. Always use it for Breaking in New shoes and for danrinK parties. Sold everywhere 25c. Sample mailed FREE Address, Allen S. Olmsted, L,e Roy, N. Y Tuberculosis in Ireland. A bill will be brought before the British parliament calling for steps to be taken to prevent the high mor tality from tuberculosis in Ireland. The bill will demand the compulsory notification and registration of tuber culosis cases, the establishment of spe cial institutions for consumptive pa tients, the instruction of the public about this disease, and improved con trol over the meat and milk supplies. The President's Speech. The president of tho Hewitt Bros. Soap Company, Daytpn, Ohio, says: "Buy two cakes of Easy Task soap for ten cents; use one bar and if it isn't just what we say it is, you got your dime back in a jiffy." It is a strong claim to say that Easy Task soap cuts the work of washday in half, but the fact can lie proven by tho evidence of thousands of delighted women. Used to It. Recently a lady witness in a court up the state was subjected to a troublesome fire of cross questions, and the lawyer, thinking that some apology was necessary, tried to square himself. "I really hope, madam," said he, "that I don't annoy you with all these questions." "Oh. no," was the prompt reply; "I am accustomed to it." "You don't mean it?" wonderingly returned the lawyer. "Yes," rejoined the lady. "I have a Bix-year-old boy at home." Newfoundland's Bad Record. The Newfoundland Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis is carrying on a vigorous and necessary campaign this year in the island. The death rate from the disease in Newfoundland is very large. About one in every five of the total population dies of it, and, what is worse, in the last six years the death rate, which is sta tionary or decreasing elsewhere, has increased about 50 per cent. This is due largely to the native horror of fresh air in the house. Returning to Prose. 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