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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
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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
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Mrs. Pinkhara, at Mass.,
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COPY OF A LETTER
recently recolvod from a promlnont
buhlnubb man of Cleveland
Cleveland, Feb. 10. 1910
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HENKY A. ABEL. 1264 Addisou Koad
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