2 /CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. 11. H. MULLIN, Editor and Proprietor Published Every Thursday EMPORIUM. I PENNSYLVANIA" The noblest study of mankind Is weather. Evidently the law of gravitation has not been repealed. For 50 cents now you can buy either a melon or a dozen lemons. There are few joy-riders back of the lawn mower or mowing machine this year. Last year Great Britain cut its liquor bill $51,000,000, yet nobody died of thirst. Keep cool and be cool. The mental attitude has much to do with physi cal condition. Bowling has been introduced into England. It will now become popu lar at Newport. Since the comet has departed peo ple have to charge up to sun spots whatever they cannot understand. Regarded merely as a peril, it is much easier to dodge a coming aero plane than it is to dodge a motor cycle. It is said that a substitute for ra dium has been found. Some druggists to the contrary, a substitute is not al ways something "just as good." • "Music an aid to dairy manage ment!" That's an old story. Was there ever a comic opera without a varia tion of the merry, merry milkmaid chorus? An airship passenger service be tween London and Paris is being talked of. People who expect to take that route should goto the trouble of first learning to swim. And now they say that either a pho nograph or a pretty singing milkmaid furnishing music in the stall makes a cow give more milk. The cow's artistic discernment is apparently not highly developed. It is estimated that over 15,000,000 words were spoken during the recent session of congress. All honor should be shown the stenographers who stayed at their posts and listened to every one of them. An expert at the National Educa tional association convention in Bos ton says that children are naughty when they are ill. Will the old say ing have to be revised to read "Spare the castor oil and spoil the child?" The northern Michigan dairyman who claims to have discovered that music sweet and low from a phono graph wooes milk from his cows, might try for ice cream by giving his devoted animals the "cold shoulder." The dean of Norwich indignantly denies that King George ever had a morganatic wife and adds: "King George is a man who, with a wife of like disposition to himself, has been wont during his leisure to sit in his garden with his young children round him, just the same as any of us might do in our own patch of garden." Also the dean might have told us how the king's tomatoes are coming on. The poor should be remembered this hot weather, for their sufferings are considerable. Ice ol'teu means health to the sick and pure milk life for ba bies, but these are luxuries for which the prisoners of poverty must look to their more fortunate brethren to sup ply them. There should also be gen erous public support of the various fresh-air enterprises which do so much toward ameliorating the condi tion of the poor in a large city during the heated term. The discovery of defective armor plate on the battleships Utah and North Dakota after the ships had been commissioned has caused agitation in the navy department favorable to a plan for the inspection of the plating of every battleship in service. It Is fair to assume that if two battleships could be provided with faulty plates without discovery until the ships were in active service there may be other ships with jioor plates that may have escaped detection The predicament of two men with their wives who were held into the night off Chicago by the failure of the engine of their gm-ollne launch, and who were rescued only after the wom en had sacrificed their skirts as torches, should recommend the lash ing of sweeps on the decks of such craft, so that men can help themselves In emergencies. A pair of muscular arms applied to a sweep would MXIII re-establl h confidence after accident by giving ih disabled craft motion enough to creep toward shore. Ami now a Torrlngton, Conn . man Is planning to walk to California Isn't It about time for some ambitious California fitly uiupltfbed by adiiln;, more mix vomica LAW'S VALUE SHOWN FIGURES REPUBLICANS MAY POINT TO WITH PRIDE. Workings of Payne-AldricH Measure Shown to Have Been of Benefit to the Country—Official Statistics Quoted. The Payne-Aldrich law, It will bo re membered, went into effect on the sixth of August of last year, so that the returns for the full fiscal year, which began on the first of July, rep resent only roughly and approximate ly the working of the new law. There fore the bureau of statistics calls out the returns for the eleven months since the law went into effect. The statement shows the total imports in the eleven months period to have been $1,445,366,500, against $1,331.- 828,976 in the corresponding months of the fiscal year 1907, the previous high record year of imports. Of this total under the Payne law, 49.14 per cent, entered free of duty, being a larger percentage free of duty than in the corresponding period of any year under the Wilson tariff law, and 1892, 1893 and 1894, under the McKinley law, which admitted sugar free of duty. Customs receipts during the eleven months' operation of the Payne tariff law were $302,822,161, exceeding those of tlie corresponding period of any earlier year except 1907, when the receipts for the corresponding month aggregated $307,053,381. Comparing the customs receipts for the period, as reported by the treasury depart ment, $302,822,161, with the value of imports as reported to the bureau of statistics by the collectors of customs, $1,445,366,500, the average ad valorem rate of duty on all imports is shown to have been 20.95 per cent., and on dutiable imports 41.19 per cent. A comparison of this ad valorem rate of duty with that of correspond ing periods in each year back to 1890 shows a lower rate on total imports than in the corresponding period of any fiscal year except 1896, the sec ond year of the Wilson law, when the ad valorem rate averaged 20.58 per cent., and 1894, the closing year of the McKinley law, when the ad va lorem rate averaged 19.79 per cent. The percentage of. merchandise en tering free of duty under the entire operation of the Payne law thus far has been larger than under the Ding ley or Wilson law, but slightly less than under the McKinley law, the share entering free of duty under the Payne law during its entire operation having been 49.14 per cent.; under the Dingley law during its entire period, 44.31 per cent.; under the Wilson law during its entire period, 48.82 per cent., and under the fcKinley law during its entire cr< ion, 53.04 per cent. And let it be remembered that the McKinley law imposed no duty on sugar. Wise Word to the Wise. In an Arkansas paper. Democratic in politics, we find the following ad vertisement; "Keep Your Money at Home. "Get your Hour, meal and feed at the Universal mill; by so doing you not only get pure, unadulterated goods and full weight, but keep your money circulating around home and have a chance to get hold of it again. On the other hand, by the buying the cheap er mixtures that are shipped in and sending your money away, there is very little hope of ever seeing it again. A word to the wise is suffi cient." Presumably the advertiser is like wise a Democrat, and votes with great regularity to send to congress a man who opposes the maxim, "Keep your money at home." That is protection doctrine pure and simple. It is sound doctrine for the Arkansas mill owner and for every man who has anything to sell. That is precisely what a pro tective tariff aims to do—to "keep your money at home," where it will circulate, and where you will "have a chance to get hold of it again." As Miraham Lincoln said: "If you buy an article made abroad, you have the article, but the foreigner has the money. If you buy an article made at home, you have the article, but the money stays at home." There is the germ of a good, reliable Southern pro tectionist. in that Arkansas man. The Tariff as a Revenue Raiser. To the many features of the tariff law that have confounded the critics is now to be added great capacity as a revenue producer. The end of the fiscal year has brought also an end of deficits between government re ceipts and expenditures. Last year there was a shortage, as regarded the Income from all sources for the 12 months of $58,734,000. This year there is a surplus of more than $9,40©,. 000. The figures tell their own story, and little amplification of the facts Is need) <1 to show In what a different sit untlon, financially speaking, the gov ernment finds Itself a* compared with a yeai ago. It Is also slgnficant that estimates based on the working of the old tariff law Included a deficit of over $31,004,000, The new lav has wrought a revolution In till n -tpeet and has relieved the government from condl ilnm that Involved great embarrass an nt |t IN now stated that It may not be necessary, for the present at least, to Isnue lunula, as the govern an ft hn |*>wer to do. for primeettiliig work on the Panama ranal, the In cri a i'U mraui H permitting ■ ndl iiit> ai the project from current re cetpt* CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1910. BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR TRADE American Foreign Commerce the Com ing Year Bound to Assume Gigantic Proportions. One important factor in the outlook for trade and industry is the excel lent conditions existing in the coun tries which are the best -customers American producers have outside their home markets. The prospect for for eign commerce is entirely different from that which would exist if the times were bad in Great Britain, Ger many, Canada, Prance and Mexico. But these best patrons of American exporters arc all in better than an average state of industrial and com mercial activity. Canada is enjoying a great advance in every form of na tional development, and though the widespread and severe damage to the wheat crop in tlie Canadian northwest will undoubtedly check this growth for the next year or so, it will not pre vent many solid gains and the general progress of the Dominion will be rapid. Mexico is making notable strides in industries and trade and in the development of a country still far below the possibilities of its natural wealth. Great Britain, Germany and France, tlie three leading customers of Amer ican producers in the Old World, are expanding their foreign trade and in creasing their industrial strength and activity. They are all in a position to buy more American merchandise than usual, and there is an excellent prospect for American exports to all of these great European markets. It is impossible to form an intelli gent estimate of the business situa tion in this country without taking ac count of conditions where the surplus of American farms and factories, mills and mines and forests, is largely dis posed of. The prosperity of the best customers of the United States in for eign lands is one of the best assurances of continued activity and many-sided development in the business of the American people. Don't Get Dizzy. The Democrats can only profit by Republican betrayal of the Republican cause. They have no ether hope on earth than that which they gain through hope for treason in the Re publican camp. How can a Democrat go out and persuade a farmer to vote the Democratic ticket when the farm er knows that during the last Demo cratic administration a 250-pound hog could be exchanged for only 150 pounds of granulated sugar, whereas a hog of the same* weight today will bring 500 pounds of the same kind of sugar. And the same comparison can "be made with calico and woolen goods and everything a farmer has to buy. j Fifteen years ago it took 110 bushels j of wheat to get a farm wagon; today 02 bushels, or one load of wheat, will pay for a wagon. Fifteen years ago the banks controlled the farmers': to day the farmers control the banks, j and these changes have come to pass ( under the reign of the Republican ! party. It seems to me the only ques | tiou is whether we can keep our heads ! and avoid being made dizzy by the force and power of the progress be ing made. —Senator Carter. Study These Questions. The tariff and the cost of living will ! be an issue in the coming campaign, j The voters would do well to make a ! study of these questions before the | coming campaign opens in order to be able to judge intelligently of the merits of the question as presented by the two leading parties. The Demo cratic party will endeavor to show ' that the Payne tariff law is respon ] sible for the increased cost of necessi- I ties. In this connection we should re member that on every article that has advanced in price the duties remained 1 the same as under the Dingley law |or was substantially reduced. As an illustration, we need only to point, to ' shoes and woolen goods. There was a ' substantial reduction in both shoes I and tin/ material entering into their ! manufacture, yet shoes have advanced Jin price about 25 per cent. The wool- S «'u schedule remains the same as un -1 der the Dingley law, yet woolen goods have advanced in price.—Hickory (N. C) Times-Mercury. New Tariff Law Justified. The showing for the past year Is gratifying from every point of view. The (iscal results fitly crown the reve lations of the working of the tariff act : that have utterly refuted tho allega tions of the enemies of that measure. The law Is far from perfection, but the principal objects aimed at in revision | have been so quickly and so fully at tained that the transformation wrought is surprising even to the most ardent | supporters of the bill in congress. The need of more revenue was HO urgent that the trainers of the act felt that the duty of providiiiK funds for thi' government was In some respects more Imperative than that of adjust ing the protective schedules. Happily ( no very serious Inroads were made on 1 protection, and the customs receipts ; for the fiscal year prove the law to be 1 .1 veritable "deficit smasher." The new tariff has been In effect less than eleven months, tint It has been trli*! nid found not wanting as an ally of the national treasury. Same Old Editorials. The heai in I now at hand when the lit niocrstli editor tnk« s his quill MI i, l .uid I; -.ting bis oirtunii, jiriv 1; in revamp those hot old eA!ti> rlab • vplainiiiK wherein mi 1 hn« 11 HIKIIS point to Iteruocratlc sucres# this tall "- Saratoga Barato«l*r FSSSSTDOINGSLSF O^ I / esr THE I J C^PRR^I. Secretary Wilson Now the Bug Man WASHINGTON— Added to his al ready manifold duties, James Wilson, the secretary of agriculture, is now made by congress the chief bug inspector of the United States. It came about with the passage of a law identical with the pure food and drug act, but covering all insecticides and fungicides. The enforcement of the law, as in the pure food law, is vested in a commission consisting of the secretary of the treasury, the sec retary of commerce and labor and the secretary of agriculture. But the two cabinet officers first named arc sort of commissioners emeritus. The real work comes down to the secretary of agriculture. The bug commission has appointed the legal officers of the three depart ments, It. E. Cabell, commissioner of internal revenue; Charles Early, so licitor of the department of com merce and labor, and George P. Mc- Cabe, solicitor of the department of agriculture, as a subcommittee to look after the legal enforcement of the law. This subcommittee is up against a hard problem already. The law de fines an insecticide as a compound for "repelling, destroying, mitigating or How Old Mother Earth Hides Her Age OLD MOTHER EARTH, like femin inity through all time, but with her far greater success than most of her sex, has defied man to learn her age. Scientists still admit their de feat. Their latest estimate credits her with "not above 70,000,000 years, or below 55,000,000 years." This esti mate, given official sanction through publication by the Smithsonian insti tution in Washington, is the result of studies by Frank Wigglesworth Clarke and George F. Becker of the United States geological survey, who have followed the subject with consid erable interest. Prof. Clarke, in a paper entitled "A Preliminary Study of Chemical De nudation," presents a review of all the available data not only for the United States, but for the world of the propo sition from a chemical point of view. Mr. Becker, on the other hand, dis cusses the question in a paper on"The Vast Sum Which We Spend on Peanuts THE person who buys a nickel's worth of peanuts to munch at the ball game, to feed the squirrels in the park or to gladden the hearts of chil dren at home, scarcely realizes tfeat he has contributed to an Industry that last year formed a million-dollar erop, and which placed on the market in various forms, reached tho enormous sum of $30,000,000. But it is a fact, according to Washington statisticians. This little seductltve nut —a resolu tion to "eat just one" Is soon forgot ten —whose birthplace is America, was, until comparatively recently, un appreciated either as to the "money in them" or as a really nutritious product. Today the peanut plays an important part in pleasure, from the swell dinner party to the ever-present democracy of tho circus, ball game or picnic. After all. what is a ball game, picnic or a circus without the peanut accompaniment? General Wood May Stir Up the Army THE army Is on the anxious seat. With a new boss on the job It Is | expected Major Gen. Leonard Wood, j chief of stuff, will make things hum until his own ideas are put Into oper -1 ntion Although he was appointed to j succeed .Major Gen. Franklin J. Hell lust October, since that tints lie has been on a trip to Argentine to rep ! resent tin United Stub's at the on ! tiniilul celebration, uiid hit only lute ! |y returned to Wu bingtou. iln tlie no niitliiie many important intentions have been piling up await I lt|i< Ills derision. Just »lull eff>ct tin personality of the new chief of »taff I will bittk on tiie Army i< a matter of murli moonlit to the otflr. rs who j know »oßtefciilii« of bin »ti iiu.m preventing" any insect. The law of ficers, after due consultation, admit ted that while they understood how an insect might be repelled or destroyed, they did not see how they could pre vent an insect or mitigate him. The law is specific in declaring against misbranding insecticides. If a well-meaning citizen of the United States puts up a compound that he says will rid a house of, say, bugs, within a specified length of time, there seems no way to determine whether the compound is mishrand ed, unless tho secretary of agriculture goes to the premises and holds a stop-watch on the roaches, to see whether they mitigate or vacate with in the time limit. The biological survey has issued an informal statement already,saying that tho law is remiss that it does not include rats among the insects to be prevented. An effort is being made to see whether the law officers are willing to consider rats as insects. Dr. Henshaw of the biological sur vey and Prof. Crittenden of the bu reau of entomology are going to call to their aid the legal advice of Judge Pugh of the police court. Judge Pugh, while assistant district attorney some years ago, established a reputation in the police court by arguing that, le gally, a lop-eared rabbit was a chicken within the meaning of the act. If any body can prove a sewer rat to bo a centipede Judge Pugh is the man, it is believed. j. Eof the Earth" from a more philo sophical point of view. The age of the earth always has been a subject for discussion among men of science and largely without any definite agreement among the representatives of the different branches of studios on account of the different points of attack. Briefly, the more recent discussions as to the earth's age have placed the time as follows: Lord Kelvin, in 1863, estimated the earth's age at 20,000,000 to 40,000,000 and perhaps 98,000,000 years. Clarence King and Carl 13arus, in 1833, placed the age at 24,000,000 years. Lord Kelvin in 1897 revised his fig ures from 20,000,000 to 40,000,000 years. De Lapparent, in 1890, said it was 67,000,000 to 90,000,000 years. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian institution, in 1893, placed the maximum age at 70,000,000 years. J. Joly, in 1899, estimated the age of the ocean at 80,000,000 to 90,000,000 years. VV. J. Sollas, in 1909, placed the age of the ocean at 80,000,000 to 150,- 000,000 years. By far the largest part of the crop is consumed from the peanut stand, the little whistle sign of the roaster being the signal for the average youngster to suggest to da •■••da, will goto Han ►"rauei-i'o to telle.i (leneral Harry, tukiM t'Oßtlltitltd of Wit i'olut. S The Place to Buj Cheap j ) J. F. PARSONS' / [CtlEs ■RHEUMATISM Ilurbaco, sciatica INEURALGIA and KKIDNEY TROUBLE ■ "S-OIOPS" taken Internally, rids tbe blood H of the poisonous matter and acids which M are tba dlroct causes of tbese diseases. BB Applied externally It affords almost ln- H stant relief from pain, whllo a permaneLt ■ oure Is being effected by purifying tbe H blood, dlssolylng the poisonous sub- B stance and removing It from lbs system. DR. 9. D. 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