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The Job depsrtment of the Priss Is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class ot Work. PaKTICCLAB ATTENTION PAID TO LAW PHRTINO. No paper will t« discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the optlou ot the pub- Papers sent out ot the county must be paid Helen Most Popular Name. Statistics have been amassed by tome one In a girls' college, where there is an enrollment of 1,600. Of this number more than 100 have the name of Helen, which means light. Mary came second with less than 90. Then followed Margaret, Ruth, Flor ence and Elizabeth in that order. Old fashioned are frequent. There are still many Hopes and Dorothys, and a few Emilys and Penelopes, but Abigail, Huldah and Hepzlbah seem to have outlived their popularity in America. A Gentleman and Boots. The "first gentleman in Europe" got the very worst definition of a gentle man from his valet when driving down to Brighton. The prince regent was arguing about the gentleman, and finally turned to his valet. And the valet, replied that a gentleman was one who did not clean his own boots. It was a flunkey's reply. One likes bet ter the demand of the duke of Welling ton, "Give me men who can sleep in their boots." Devotion Extraordinary. The Grand St. Bernard is one of the most desolate spots that the mind can conceive. Wild, rocky, bare, it seems too desolate for living things to in habit. Yet here a handful of de voted men live cheerfully, giving up everything, health, pleasure, family ties, all that hen hold dear, that they may save others from perishing,—Our Animal Brothers. . . In This Land of Possibilities. Joseph Mardust came to this coun try from the north of Europe, worked eight years for? 0 a week, married when it was raised to SO, and folir years later departed for "home" with his family and a draft for $2,000 on a foreign bank, thenceforth to lead a country gentleman's life.—World's Work. The Pea Long Known to Man. From its original home as a native, wild growth in western Asia and ad jacent Europe the cultivated pea been taken by man to all civilized countries. It has been cultivated for thousands of years, for dried peas have been found in Egyptian tombs. Weight of a Cubic Foot of Gold. A cubic foot of trinket gold weighs 15,709 ounces; the same quantity of coin gold weighs 17,fi47 ounces; of pure gold icast> ounces; of hammered gold 19,:i1C ounces. The diamond is the hardest known min eral. It is. however, brittle. Their Own Victims. "Why is it," said the discouraged housewife, "that all our cooks become so discontented and irritable?" "That's easily explained." answered Mr. Oroucher. "They have to eat their own dinn* rs and get dyspepsia." The Poet's Family. * i»ad. you're poor, ain't you?" "No, son—l'm rich. I own you and the baby, aiu! you're worth a million dol lars apiece to ni~," "Iktd, couldn't you hypothe. .tt«- the baby an' t me a new pair o' shoes'" Expert Indorsement. "Yes.' said young Mrs Torkln*. "I am sure our gardwn la truing to be a success " "So soon?" "Yes. the chickens base taxied everything and th« y are perfectly enthusiastic ' Good Work of Youthful Scholar. Jane iMtvie*. unuer i«»-lvv years of ag< of Mtaencwn, Wales, a Sunday school scholar, has learned by heart the whole of the New l. ■tauiettt dur ing the past year Th» Limit, Hotel Manager there' Now I have o arranged the price* on the metiu that no u«* eaa order leas than a dollar's worth - Meggendorfor lilaettsr. Home Authors Gwin 4 C»»ir>ce gly* their rualnmrn plenty t,| foreign thora where th. > gly* that Is tut Safety Valve. - Auhtaoa Kan (Hole TAFT IN THE RIGHT N PRESENT POSITION AP TO THE PAYNE LAW. 2hief Executive at No Time Said He Considered the Measure Perfect Nor That It Was Really What He Desired. Some remarkable advice has been offered to President Taft. Summar ized, It runs like this:"lt is not 100 late for you to remedy the evil you did last year by Indorsing the new tariff law. Come out now and franklY confess lhat you spoke hastily md with too little knowledge. You bave seen since, and know now, that the law, Instead of being the best, is considered the worst tariff measure the Republican party has ever en acted. It has divided the party east ind west, and will be a source of trou ble while It remains on the books. Stand up like a man, confess your rault, advocate an Immediate revision of the revision, and all will be well." What would be left of Mr. Taft If be were to do this thing? Who would care a rap for his opinion on any of the measures now pending in con gress if he should confess that he dealt with the tariff question in ig norance, or without the sand to stand up to his duty? He would make the most pitiable spectacle of himself im aginable. The act, in fact, would be tantamount to suicide. But, more than all, it would misrepresent Mr. Taft's convictions. It would be a base surrender—something that would not comport with Mr. Taft's character. In saying that the Payne law is, upon the whole, a good law, Mr. Taft did not declare it was perfect. He had not concealed the fact while the bill was taking shape that certain of its provisions were not to his taste, nor did he hesitate when signing the measure to express regret that it was not Just what he desired. He simply made what he considered the best of a concededly difficult situation. Nor has he attempted at any time, last year or this, to prescribe the length of the measure's life. He wants it to have a trial, and doubts if the business world would profit by an im mediate reopening of the question even to correct, errors. Hut that is for the country to say. The president, if he so desired, crfuld' not prevent dis cussion of the subject, and if the country wants the errors of the Payne law corrected at once it can secure such action. There is much of good in the law. In fact, the good exceeds the bad, and a revision based upon the principle of protection would leave much of the law unchanged. The bad should, and must, gc, and there is no apparent reason why Republicans should slaughter one another at the jiwHs over the question of when and how to do it. The Farmers Warned. Mr. Foss, the reciprocity man from Massachusetts, was inaugurated to his seat in congri ss recently, with the display of much enthusiasm by the western corn growers. It's all very funny now, when the corn growers are banging away at I'ncle Joe, and having lots of sport with Taft and his policies, but just wait till they get onto what Foss* scheme really is. Foss looks up in Canada and sees po tatoes selling for 30 cents a bushel below our price, and oats, butter, eggs. chec~:e, everything from the soil, ch«aper than it is on this side of the line. Then, Foss says. Let's buy our products up there! Why do we pay the west so much more for our food than we inn get It for of our neigh bors over the line? This is exactly what Foss means by reciprocity, and what everybody else who talks about it means. Hut wait till our agricul tural friends of the west have thought this business over awhile, awl you will gee a diminution of their enthusiasm for this gnat reciprocity champion.— Hampshire (luetic, Northampton. Tariff and Price Fluctuations. Kxi" rieii< e shows that It is very difficult to find any unvarying rule so working as to create a uniform level of rising er receding prices. So the pretense of laying the fluctuations to the tariff become* very absurd. Kvl dentlv a tnriff that fcrretl up the price of articles would not serve u contrary purpose anil bring prl< e» down Yet we have the phenomena of prices go ing up und down and varying in the ile|.-r«- to which they rise und fall, while tin' tariff remain* the same That bugaboo has been overworked Rven in free trade Kngland prices of rniMiuoditk'H bourne back anil forth in extraordinary manner How can the tat Iff be held accountable for such itc eurrenees? Good in Presidential Tours. It is not the president'* loudness for travel that takes hint on so utany laborious tours ab» -it the country Th» • involve hard work Hut tht-y t>ri bablv havi Ho tr conipenxtttton In til* opportunity of UHHIHI various kinds of people alio are not anion* th» Iteijueut v isltors In Washington and at expressing the i.v ta| iitio Hi Interest in i great many fieUl- of activity that lie outside the HMWMMV, they give opi'ori unity for the unolttdal **pn • HUM ot bis own views and purpurea s',»h as hardly run lie found at Wssk 11. vtrnor Harmon. Hovwrbur Mar an I'ryan atv going to he I tie next {hsiutrtlk pt»sid*at Mi*kiN|tua 1 Kit CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1910. ZELAYA DEFENSE IS WEAK Effort to .Discredit Secretary Knox Really Is Unworthy of Serious Consideration So far aa the press summaries show, Ihe Zelaya attempt at proving Secre tary Knox's notion against him to bo unjust and unfounded relies for its main point of evidence on a letter as serted to have been written by Leonard Groce to his mother Just be fore his execution, and stated to have been retained "for diplomatic reasons." The retention for six months of a letter from a man on the eve of death, for diplomatic reasons, would be sufficient to cast doubt on it If it contained anything to prove what is claimed. But the fact is that (here Is nothing whatever in the let ter indicating the Justice of his exe cution. In the letter Groce referred to him self as "a wayward son," tells that he "joined the revolution in Blueflelds and was captured and sentenced to be shot to death," and sums up his fate us "the result of war and disobedience to a loving mother." These are the sentiments which would naturally come from a roving spirit on the eve of death. But waywardness and dis obedience are not in civilization capi tal crimes. Not one word in the let ter weakens the claim that Groce and Cannon were entitled to the treatment of prisoners of war or overcomes the evidence before the inquiry instituted by the Madriz government that they were sentenced by the arbitrary or ders of Zelaya himself. When such a shallow claim is set up on the basis of a letter that fur nishes no proof, it is a legitimate de duction that the Zelaya defense is so weak as to fully vindicate Secretary Knox's course. Roosevelt's Future. From information that has just been obtained these facts are now made absolutely certain: Colonel Roosevelt will not be a candidate for reelection to the presi dency in 112 under any circumstance. He will not be a candidate for con gress. lie will not be a candidate to suc ceed Chauncey M. Depew in the sen ate. He will not be a candidate for the governorship of New York, but will indicate his preference for William Loeb, Jr. He will make one or two speeches In the west, advocating the return of Republicans to the Sixty-second con gress. He will remain in private life, and will devote his efforts to his literary work and deliver many lectures. A Poor Trade. What could the Democrats do If they should capture the house? They could not enact any laws. They could not enforce any policies. They could embarrass the opposition, but in the end they would be compelled to vote for appropriations to carry on a Re publican administration. They would be thwarted in any effort to Initiate reforms. The plnntom honors of the house might start all kinds of in testinal struggles among the Demo crats. The losers would be sore, and the winners would discover that they had traded oft friends for empty honors.—Washington Post. Right Man for Supreme Bench. There has been through the length and breadth of the land but one opin ion ns to the fitness of the selection when President Taft nominated Gov. Charles E. Hughes of this state to All the vacancy on the bench of the Supreme court of the United States caused by th« death of Justice Brewer. In character as n man and in ability as a lawyer the governor meets every requirement, tad if. as has been BUR Rested, the president's purpose has been to strengthen the august tribunal, it Mill be generally conceded that the object has be n a< < oniplished.—Troy Times. Have Confidence In Roosevelt. Colonel Roosevelt Is powerful be cause he ha- the people's confldt nee. He has won that confidence by a life devoted to the public Interests. He has refused to In* bound by the dic tutex of the platitudinarian !t« sped lug ullke the letter and the spirit of the law. he ha?' fount) in the constitu tion and the statuti i power sufficient w hen called Into action to chtik the aKKresNioiia of the most subtle and the most REBUILT HS Influence that has 11.:111■ (< Mi it 11-i II In ii.m|i Hi life.— Louisville Post. Like Usual Democratic Argument. It Is Inspiring to hi ir l>eiiiocrutle stump speakers urging ihelr hearers to vote for l»i inocratie congressional candidates ami stating as a reason why ' there will be no danger to the counlrv" in Muting the landidute to Washington, that the senate is over wheluttiiKly Republican ' It is a fact that sut h alanine tits were used many tillteft ill the t'him st i olid New York distrli t and that they were «• n• • live to allay THE fears of the business HH n is plot id h> it.' rim.lt t'im innutl rounin relai °t rtbiuie Has Kept Faith. \n i • i anali -u <>r what has bri-n acei(tupllshe«| slur* Mr Taft and • otiKress went Into power .March 4. i att n vi at noihinH but a ■ lean state of public n riirv, ami It Is this fait and nothing else that Is illstmb INK tin Is mot tat* who pretend to be suunr* The party has kept ike fallh aud alt It has tu 4M now la iu k<» plt a lii <td and i.o« tu In (Uiu* slain pfdtd omaha lite When the Regiment Came Back. ALL the uniforms were blue, all the swords were bright and new, When the regiment went marching down the street; All the men were hale and strong as they proudly marched along. Through the cheers that drowned the music of their feet. Oh, the music of the feet keeping time to drums that beat. Oh, the splendor and the glitter of the sight, As with swords and rifles new and in uniforms of blue. The regiment went marching to the fight! WHEN the regiment came back all the guns and swords were black And the uniforms had faded out to gray. And the faces of the men who marched through that street again Seemed like faces of the dead who lose their way; For the dead who lose their way cannot look more wan and gray. Oh, the sorrow and the pity of the sight; Oh, the weary, lagging feet out of step with drums that beat. As the regiment comes marchiog from the fight! —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. ) ► Memorial Day, 1910 ☆ ☆ ☆ Country's Duty to Heap Honors on the Thinning Ranks of the Veterans , N the nrmies during the 1 progress of the Civil war there were enrolled a total of over 2,000,000 men. mmmmmmi Tens of thousands of these atodQtJEt perished from wounds re- TEgjgWS reived in the struggle or K TTJI from diseases contracted through the exposures anil hardships of the cam paigns. Other tens of thousands re turned maimed in limb or shattered in health, never to ■ become again capable of carrying on the natural struggle for existence and supremacy in the peaceful pursuits of life. Since the close of the war, the ranks of the remnants of the Union army have been thinned out con stantly by the hand of death. The expectancy of life left to these sur vivors of the war, taking them in the mass the day that the great review was held at Arlington Heights after peace was restored, was much less than the normal term of human life. Still in spite of the thinning out of the ranks there remain with us today a vast host of the "old boys in blue" who left their homes and the peaceful pursuits of litto goto the front and protect the homes of those left be hind, hold up the (lag of the country and preserve the Union of the states. This great "gray host" of the old sol diers presents a path«<ic but inspiring spectacle to till of us this latest Memo rial day, when we are called upon to commemorate their deeds of valor, their patriotic devotion to the flag iind and to the I'nion, and to fill our souls as at a pure fountuin with a re newed spirit of patriotism, of greater love for our country, greater appre ciation for our admirable Institutions and a deeper and more devoted de termination if the occasion should arise to emulate their deeds and to be as true to the flag and the country as they were, handing down to suc ceedinK generations the I'nion intact, its institutions unimpaired, as they did for us. The I'tiited States has certainly stamped the old maxim, "Republics are ungrateful," as false. There never was a country under any form of gov ernment which showt .1 the measure nt gratitude to the men whit defended the flag and preserved the nation at all comparable to the I'nlted States nt America as shown by tin history iff the treatment accorded to the *ol di< rs who fought lu the great war Year by year from that time to this, till HI ope of the pension lint has lieeh steadily enlarged. Almost a half 11 ntiiry alter the first call for troops b> President Lincoln in the nprlng oi IM.I, iu spite of the hundreds of thou sand* "i tht old army who have I i ii. i-«i i.\t r to the other side the government Is pawn* this year a I larger sum In pensions than was |>ro ! tided the Nist year after the war and > almost as much as in any pfttlmi* I v.n.r In all that have passed by A* the years roll bv we all should [ cultivate the spirit manifested by tht I *ov( i umciii in enlaiging the scope u{ I the pension list As Intimated above, | this pi uvea thai the gralelut Malts of A nit * H'tfti.; Mfi luut hid luur# 1 1 iit|*i j y with a sense of the debt that wo owe the old soldiers as the years roll by. Those of us who see the "old boys in blue" marching through the streets on Memorial day year by year, ran scarcely miss being struck by a sense of the weight of years that rests upon the shoulders of this "good gray army." Remember it is more than ii whole generation ago, as human life goes, almost a generation and a half, since the last recruit was enrolled in the volunteer army of the Union just before the war came to its close. There are very few members of the Grand Army, very few soldiers of the Civil war, who are only at the three score mark. Indeed, there are not many of them who are not at the psalmist's term of life, three score and ten. There are but few alive who answered the first call of President Lincoln. If the new recruit were only twenty when that call went out, he is sixty-eight now. The soldier who was thirty is nearly eighty. It is a touching thought to think of this noble army and look back through the half-century that is gone by and think of the bright, promising, sturdy youths with life all before them, with quickened pulses, with firm, unwaver ing tread that shook the earth in th* first army corps and brigades organ ized in the early days of the war. When the great review was held near Washington, after peace was made, the eyes of these "boys tn blue" were still bright with hope, their steps still firm and their hearts resolute. Un like most other armies, they went back to their homes glad the war was over. They returned to the occupa tions they had laid down when the call to arms reached them. They have been through all these years of busi ness good citizens. law abiding, Indus trious and self resp< < ting, taking cnre of themselves and of those dependent upon them as generally and as efll ciently as those who never heard the rattle of musketry or the roar of ar tillery, nor the shock of cavalry (-barging over the plain. Year by year their ranks are thin ning out now very rapidly. Year by year, thousands of them drop. They may never have another opportunity of • xperleitclng a little Joy begotten ol the respect anil gratitude shown by their countrymen. It Is fitting that the graves of those who are gone should bi decorated with dower* in memory of what they did and endured, but it is still more important that «« should show to those who still remain among u our high appreciation «112 • heir patriotism and valor. I*ong live tn thousands and tens of l honx.md- the ' ho) s 111 blue ' May their ruiiklhiu slowly May many years pass by before "tap*" Is sound ed over the grave of the la»t of this great aruiv of giu/leii heroes. And whih I hey live may Americans of thu in< iiit and ot coming generations n< v> r Im< k In their admiration and t latitudi to tin lorn who protected thi hi.me* of \meri<a, who upheld th* Hug of the country, and who pre seivetl the I nioii ol slates Intact, wlili all the admirable Institution* Italia d b) tin lathers of the republic ANOTHER WOMAN CURED By Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Black Duck, Minn.— "About a year ago I wrote you that I was sick and could not do any of i my housework. 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