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/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not been repealed.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<ll to set out to walk
en t to New Knglaml?
That bltti r la ie In the mouth e\pe
rlenced on tit tar ins: In the morn
ing, sat* an authority, may be r<*
moved ti• taking a little mix vomica
mixed with water Should Ihe expert
metiU-r, however. «|e tire to remove nil
tastu from his mouth permanently
tills can b" ac> 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, <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^
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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<l or ma
that some of them would be vary ac
ceptable, and the paternal or mater
nal parent's willingness—nine times
out of ten—to invest. Yet there are
millions of bushels that goto the
fattening of hogs throughout the
south, the feeding of poultry, while
the vines, often cured as feed
thousands of head of cattle, and even
old Mother Earth is nourished by the
roots of the plant, which furnishes
nitrogen to it from the air.
The farming of peanuts during the
past five years—not longer than this —
has become an established industry
of this country. At present about five
sixths of the crop comes from Vir
ginia and most of the balance from
Tennessee, Georgia, West Virginia
and the Carollnas, although most of
the southern states contribute some.
As the peanut industry has increased
so has the use of all nuts grown
mightily as an article of food during
the last decade, and the entire fam
ily now forms a most important part
of the diet of the physical culturlst
and vegetarian.
reer. It is expected he will under
take most actively n number of re
forms which might not meet with the
approval of the army at large.
One of the questions which will he
taken up hy General Wood is the
physical test of officers. Since Presi
dent Roosevelt inaugurated this sys
tem. many officers have been hoping
that it would be modified. General
Wood Is one of the fort-most of phys
ical culture enthusiasts.
Instead of being made milder, It Is
not unlikely that the tests will be
made harder than ever. The detail
of troops to the Philippines is an
other matter that will be disposed of
by General Wood very soon. He has
also a uumbtr of ideas regarding co
operation between the regular army
and the militia which he Mill prob
ably attempt to put Into practise.
Ceitera! Carter, *lu» has been act
ing chief of »tatf, will take his plaee
as assistant chief. General illlss,
whom In- *II> •■••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
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BB Applied externally It affords almost ln-
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H with Lumbago and Hheumatlain In my arms
Hand lag*, and tried all tba remodlea that 1 ooutd
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THIS ad. is directed at the
man who has all the
business in his line in
this community.
<1 Mr. Merchant —You say
you've got it all. You're sell
ing them all they'll buy, any
how. But at the same time
you would like more business.
<J Make this community buy
more.
<1 Advertise strongly, consist
ently, judiciously.
•I Suppose you can buy a lot
of washtubs cheap; advertise
a big washtub sale in this pa
per. Putin an inviting pic
ture of a washtub where
people can see it the minute
they look at your ad. Talk
strong on washtubs. And
you'll find every woman in
this vicinity who has been
getting along with a rickety
washtub for years and years
will buy a new one from you.
<J That's creative business
power.
OURj AD. RATES ARE RIGHT
—CALL ON US
(CoDjrtKht, 1909. by W. N. U.»
Word - of - Mouth
Advertising
Passing encomiums, only over
your store counter, about the
quality of what you've got to
sell, results in about as much
satisfaction as yotirwife would
get if you gave her a box of
cigars for Christmas.
Advertising in This Paper
talks to everybody at once and makes
them Ulk back with muney.
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■ vertiaetool thing•,Mr
■ Mruhi, i Wben It's
■ cold, booal warmth
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