2 /CAMERON COUNTY PRESS,. H. H. MIJLLIN, Editor and Proprietor Published Every Thursday PENNSYLVANIA Keep cool and keep your temper. Beware of the pure spring water at the summer resort. A new airship record, also an air- Bhip, are broken every day. The cases of short weights seems to be Just as clear as the producL They are breaking aviation records rather more rapidly than the limbs of the aviators. The report that Castro is on his way to Venezuela appears to be taking a summer vacation. This is the season when many things happen that make a man glad he learned to swim. It has been demonstrated that a monorail car will not stay on a rail that is not llrmly laid. A Massachusetts university presi dent wants to conserve the reliable old fashioned spanking. It seems doubtful if Virginia's new tinti-cussing law will be any more ef fective than the anti-kissing move ment. .lust think of stealing the milk of a poor cow when she was interested in the beautiful strains of Beethoven or Wagner. Explanations from the weather bu reau that a hot wave is something in the nature of a flare-up would do no good whatever. A West Point cadet been pun ished for chewing gum. The ste nographers' union should pass reso lutions of sympathy. It will be noticed that these would be nude fanatics up in the Saskatche wan always select the summer months for their demonstrations. A Boston suicide left a dollar bill to pay for the gas he used, and Bos ton papers are referring to this as an evidence of culture and refinement. A substitute for radium has been in vented. We shall refuse to use it un til we can be assured that it doesn't contain benzoate of soda. Pennsylvania reports the appearance there of a new blood-poisoning bug. Pennsylvania should lose no time in developing a smaller bug to bite it. Baltimore is having an undertakers' war. Baltimore people who intend tc eat ice cream cones should do it now and get the benefit of cheap funerals. A New York paper is trying to find out the name of the man who indent ed the cocktail. As he must be dead by now, why impose the blot on his memory? Flights over the English channel ehould be encouraged. An aviator with a good cork jacket is much safer over a large body of water than he is above land. A young woman in Washington is so beautiful that she can't get em ployment. They won't even give hei a chance to prove that handsome is as handsome does. in view of the bad character that has recently been fastened upon the fly the man who is referred to by his friends as one who "wouldn't harm a fly" is finding it difficult to retain pub lic esteem. The gas works of the Zeppelin Air ship company at Friedrichshafen, Ger many, have been demolished by an explosion which injured seven people. There are men who would get discour aged if they were in Zeppelin's place. Attacks upon children by dogs and cats are chronicled quite frequently nowadays, probably because of neglect of the animals during the hot weather. Animals that are extremely thirsty during the heated term are as apt to become deranged as men who are sub jected to extremes of heat and cold. All owners of animals should exercise more than usual care in looking after their comfort while the weather is un comfortably hot. The government chief chemist says that ice cream is very injurious to the youth of the country during the heat ed term. The next thing some scien tific iconoclast will be holding forth on deleterious nature of the moon light excursion germ and the dangers of the park concert microbe. And the youth of the country will continue in these germ-inviting ways and will sur vive, as it has done since romance and Ice cream were invented. Just because the early bird catches the worm does not prove that the early riser cuts the most grass. The announcement of the discovery of an anti-typhoid vaccine which comes from Paris may mean the addition of another important means of prevent ing disease to a list already of gratify ing length. Typhoid fever is so pre valent and so insidious and carries with it danger of so many complica tions that anything which helps to les een the evil will mean great benefit to the race. WORK NOT DELAYED INQUIRY INTO OPERATION OF TARIFF SCHEDULES. Charges That the Administration Is Net in Earnest in This Matter Shown to Be Without Any Foundation. Some rather sharp criticism lately has been caused by the fact that a per manent tariff commission has not yet been provided for. The opinion is put forward is some quarters that a policy of delay is being followed in the hope that the demand for the commission will be lost sight of."The Republican party has missed a great opportunity to put itself right before the American people," declares pne of the critics. Considering the usually well-informed sources from which these comments come, they are somewhat surprising. Those who know what is going on in Washington are aware of the fact that the work which would have been turned over to the commission is pro ceeding just as though it had been cre ated. Some time ago President Taft direct ed the existing tariff board to make a detailed, scientific investigation of the operation of the tariff schedules. The chairman of the board is in Europe studying the methods of foreign tariff investigators. Another member is in > ranee obtaining data oh the home costs of foreign products, in which he will be assisted by special treasury agents and the consular service. A third member has taken up his head qu:yters in Chicago, there to give his personal attention to wool and the mar ket conditions and production of meats and cereals. The statistical expert of the board is about togo to Europe to collate the facts and figures which the work of the chairman has made avail able. The real investigators, however, will not be the members of the board, but business experts, who are being put to work rapidly. For instance, one of Carnegie's former engineers will com pile the report on iron and steel. Every tariff schedule will be examined by an j expert in that particular line. Instead of a small board being responsible for the facts to be set before the president they will be ascertained by the most highly trained men that the govern ment can procure. This work will continue without in terruption until it is completed. How much time it will require no one can guess. But it seems that the president will not consent to any further revision of the tariff until authentic facts to base it on are at hand. If anybody knows a better way to obtain them than the one he has adopted he doubt less would be glad to hear about it. The Bogy Man. "There has never been a time since the close of the Civil war when the prospects of the Democratic party have been brighter than they are at present," says Senator Isldor Rayner of Maryland® The Republican party is divided, the masses have been be trayed, the interests have kidnaped Mr. Taft, and so the Democrats are about to come into their own. But this is a day dream. As the shades of night fall, and"the beetle wheels his droning flight" and the barn owl hoots, Mr. Rayner sees a specter and shivers, with dread. The prospect he vaunts is not so bright after all. He confesses it himself: "Will Mr. Bryan and his followers permit the Democratic party to nomi nate a president of the United States and to send to the people a platform of its own construction? If he shall insist, as I have no reason to think he will, that he must select a candi date for us and that he must frame the platform, then we must rise in our might and assert the principle that no one man has the right to dictate the nomination and formulate the principles of the Democratic party." The Hon. John Walter Smith, the junior senator, also wants the party to rise in its might. He serves notice on Mr. Bryan that he must not domi nate. Such fears are sweetest incense to Mr. Bryan's nostrils. The palpita tions in Maryland reinspire him with hope. Snubbed in Nebraska, flouted in Ohio, he beholds the Maryland senators going down on their marrow bones and begging him to throw away ambition and let the Democratic party alone. It must choose between weakly yielding to him or bouncing him without benefit of clergy. Either fork of the road goes in the direction of Salt creek. Great Increase In Imports. A tariff that increases imports can not be called vicious, except from the protective viewpoint, and yet under the Payne-Aldrich tariff of 1909 there has been in seven months an increase of nearly $200,000,000 in competitive imports! Also a big increase in im ports on the free list. Was not this downward revision enough? How much more of importations that dis place American labor would you de sire? —Newton (N. J.) Register. The increase in exports In the last fiscal year was due largely to manu factures sent abroad. That is possi ble only for the reason that the protec tive tariff develops manufactures in this country. Under free-trade the na tion would return to pastoral pursuits. Champ Clark says he can almost see himself in the speaker's chair. It is a mirage, colonel.—Omaha Bee. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER i, 1910 SHOULD RAISE THE MAINE Particular Reasons Why Question of Cost Must Have No Consid eration. The difficulty of raising (he old Maine, sunk in 18 feet of mud in ad dition to the 30 feet of water in Ha vana harbor, is being made much of by army engineers. It may be so great as to be practicably insuperable. Cer tainly it is far beyond the sum pro vided in the congressional appropria tion, as well informed persons knew and said when the appropriation was made. But when the argument is made as in favor of abandoning the undertak ing it is really a reason why the question of cost must not stand in the road of establishing the truth. It is that the raising "might result in unexpected disclosures which would b3 better left at rest." In other words it is argued by an American pa per that it is best not to let the truth be known lest it should be shown that the view of the United States was wrong. This position is so discreditable that it eall3 for distinct repudiation. Sup posing the imputation to be true, the United States cannot in honesty let a half million dollars stand in the road of doing justice to a defeated antag onist. To propose such a course is a counsel of mingled poltroonery and dishonesty. As a matter of fact there is not the slightest foundation for that dishon orable fear. At the inquiry into the loss of the Maine the builder's plan showing the number and location of every structural beam in the vessel was before the board for reference. The number of a beam iound forced upward an,d sticking at an angle through the decks was reported by the divers and identified on the plan as a part of the keel. To doubt that' this proved an explosion beneath the keel is to suppose that divers, engi neers and naval officers were joined in a conspiracy of perjury and falsehood. When an American paper casts that imputation it is time to insist on the truth being made clear if it costs sev eral times a million. Tariff Law That Works Well. The new tariff law is proving not merely a good protective measure but a producer of income that puts it ahead of laws enacted "for revenue only." The complete returns up to April 30, which means ten mouths of the present fiscal year of the govern ment, show that the customs receipts were $252,000,000, which beats all rec ords for tariff laws. This disposes of the charge, made while the bill was pending in congress and after its pas sage, that it would be a failure as a revenue producer. Another wallacy is exploded by the showing, through in disputable official figures, that the rate of duty is lower than any which has been collected since the tariff act of 1883 went into effect. And it is to be remembered that this period in cluded the operation of the Democrat ic Gorman-Wilson law. That measure slashed duties right and left, but this was done with little care to protect American interests, and the result was that imported products came into direct competition with domestic in dustries. it is shown by the official figures mentioned that the ad valorem percentage of duties collected for the full nine months, ended with April, during which the new law was in ef fect was 20.91. This was not only lower than at any time for a like pe riod under the much-abused Dingley law, but below the Gorman-Wilson rate, which averaged 21.01 per cent, during similar terms of the three years while the act was operative. Again, the percentage of imports ad mitted free for the nine months in question was 49.89, against 44.31 un der the Dingley law and 48.42 under the Gorman-Wilson act. Great Party Record. The work done in the first congress under President Taft's administration is far more extensive and important than, at the outset, he, Senator Aid rich, Speaker Cannon or any other Republican expected. The Payne tar iff act, passed at the special session, has been called by Mr. Taft and other Republican leaders the best law in its particular field ever enacted. It has given adequate protection to every in dustry which needed protection and at the same time it has furnished much more revenue to the govern ment than the Dingley act provided. In a fairly satisfactory way it ad justed the tariff schedules to the changes in conditions which came since the Dingley law was framed in 1897. —Leslie's Weekly. Over-Confidence Only Peril. J The only peril which now confronts the Republicans is over-confidence, and the campaign managers may bo relied onto keep this feeling from getting into dangerous shape. The record which congress has made in the session which close a few days hence will furnish a striking tribute to the Republicans as a party which carry out their pledges, in spirit as well as in letter. —St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Taft and Roosevelt. Roosevelt and Taft are not political Siamese twins. Each has a mind of his own. Each has his own methods. One was president. The other is president now. The man who is pres ident now is responsible for the ad ministration of the duties of the office, and alone will be held accountable*for the manner in which these duties are performed.—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Bungling Diplomats Cause Trouble WASHINGTON.— Ignorance on the part of amateur diplomats con cerning the proper form of diplomatic correspondence nearly precipitated a war scare in two nations not long since. It was announced that the em peror of Germany had deliberately affronted the United States govern ment by employing affectionate terms in addressing President Madriz of Nicaragua, whom our government had refused to recognize. "Great and Good Friend," is the way the kaiser's letter to Madriz was commenced. This had siuister sig nificance to the amateurs. Immedi ately the newspapers were filled with stories that Germany had espoused the cause of Madriz; that the Monroe doctrine had been thrown down and repudiated by the warlike kaiser;; ilso the emperor had been acting queerly of late and undoubtedly was bent on making all the trouble he could for the United States. After a little inquiry the war scare faded away. "In all probability," said a state de partment official, "the emperor never Bad Land Title Tangle Is Revealed |^VHETHgRj A REPORT made to congress by a commission appointed to examine land titles in the District of Columbia discloses that many lots of land occu pied by modern business houses and residences in the national capital are still owned by the government, not withstanding the present tenants be lieve they have a clear title to the property. This question of land titles in the national capital is not a new one. Two years ago congress created a commis sion to study it. The commission con sisted of the attorney general, the sec retary of war, Senator Scott of West Virginia, Representative Bartholdt of Missouri, and one of the district com missioners. The report reveals a hor rible land tangle, which the courts will probably never be able to straighten out. The tangle is the outcome of the wild speculation in real estate that took place for a good many years after the capital was laid out. Private lands were acquired In Now Planning a Substitute for Beef J) 1 /D'uphTHAT^ RESTRICTIVE LAWo>II s ojn rtZ&ETI DEER and elk preserves may play an important part in reducing the high cost of beef. According to gov ernment experts who have made an investigation of the cost and methods of raising venison, declare that the game laws of the various states are preventing deer and elk farming and denying the country one of its chief sources of cheap and good meat. Deer and elk can be raised readily in near ly every state in the Union. They are easily controlled and cheaply fed. The increase of elk under domestica tion is fully equal to that of cattle. The state and the government, through its Yellowstone park officials, have co-operated with individual ranchmen in caring for the vast herds of elk in the Jackson's Hole region in Wyoming. It is estimated that there are 30,000 elk in the Yellowstone park region, constituting the only great herd left. For two or three winters these elk have been fed, and have now Government's Census of Indian Wards IN the present census tho govern ment has made a great effort to ob tain, through special agents, full and authentic data concerning the tribal relations of the Indians, as a decade hence when the fourteenth census will be taken, It probably will be found that those Indians who are now de pendent wards of the nation have be come full-fledged citizens. The Indian population of the United States decreased in the decade from 1890 to 1900, from 273,607 to 266,760. In 1880 the care of the Indians cost the national government $5,206,109; in 1909 the cost had risen to $15,- 724,162, more than three times as much. The total attendance of In dian children in schools conducted by knew that the note In question was sent. It was a regular routine matter in the German foreign office and fol lowed the stereotyped form. Nations are excessively polite to one another in their Interchange of communications. Every letter that goes out from the state department to a foreign government has this cere monial finish: "Accept, excellency, the renewed as surance of my highest consideration." The cermonai! letters of all coun tries begin in about the same way. For instance, all o£ England's com munications begin: "George V., by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, emperor of India, etc." "Nicholas, by the Grace of God, em peror autocrat of all the Russias, czar of Casan, czar of Astracan, etc., lord of Plescott and grand duke of Smo lenski, etc." Germany's letters are very much like those of Russia, in that they be gin by announcing all the titles of the ruling potentate. "William 11., by God's grace, emperor of Germany and king of Prussia," etc., is the way the present emperor addresses his cere monial letters. The emperor writes with a quill pen, and if one may judge by his signature on file in the state department, does not take much time about it. Washington, in the early days, by a very simple process. The territory "not exceeding" ten miles square was ceded to the United States govern ment by Maryland and Virginia and placed under the authority of three commissioners, appointed by the presi dent. They or any two of them were required, under the direction of the president, to survey and by proper metes and bounds deilne and limit a district of territory, and the territory so defined was established as a permar nent seat of the government of the United States. Power was given the commissioners to purchase or accept land on the eastern side of the Poto mac, for the use of the United States, and the commissioners were further required to provide suitable buildings for the accommodation of congress, the president und public officers of the government of the United States. It was to raise money to erect the pub lic buildings that the government planned to sell its land to private par ties. No sooner had the capital city been laid out than land speculators ap peared on the scene, and as a result of their operations, it is asserted, much land which belonged to the govern ment illegally passed to individual owners. come to look upon the feeding as a matter of course, and State Game Warden Nowlin of Wyoming, who has led the feeding experiments, says that the last of the great elk herds is be coming rapidly domesticated. Several ranchmen in the Rocky mountain coun try have conducted private elk pre serves for years. Outside of the pri vate elk preserves there are few herds left in the west. Barret Littlefleld, who lives near Slater, has several hundred elk on his great ranch. Every season he ships many carcasses of elk to the Denver market, besides supplying zoological gardens throughout the country. He has found it profitable to raise elk for the market —so profitable that he abandoned the cattle business years ago and has devoted himself entirely to the raising of venison. There are two other elk preserves in northwest ern Colorado. J. B. Dawson, a Routt county pioneer, has several hundred head of elk on his ranch near Hayden. In nearly every state in the Union the killing of deer is forbidden ex cepting in the fall and during a lim ited period. If deer and elk are to be raised for the market the venison farmer must be allowed to kill for the market, whenever the demand is there. the government or by missionary en terprise is 25,777. In these schools no effort is spared to teach the child some industry by which he may sup port himself when he comes of age, and the Indians are gradually learn ing to live by the sweat of the brow upon the product of their own self respecting handiwork, rather than up on the bounty of the government. The Apache Indians employed on the Roosevelt reclamation project un der the act of June 17, 1902, earned $34,000 in 1909, and rendered eminent ly satisfactory service in regions where, on account of the heat, a white man could not have labored. Sheep herding has given profitable employ ment to many hundreds of Navajos and Pueblos in the past year, and Pima and Papago Indians, employed as navvies on the Southern Pacific railway, earned many thousands of dollars. The Sioux farmers have done well, though they are deficient in the quality of persistent that makes the most successful sort of rlcultural laborer. TEN YEARS OF SUFFERING. Reatored nt Lnxt to Perfect Health by Donn'i Kidue/ Pilla. Mrs. Narcissa Waggoner, Carter ville, 111., says:"For over ten years y-a m I suffered terribly "with backaches, head aches. nervous and *m|| dizzy spells. The V&WSy kidney secretions were unnatural and gave me great trou tile. One day I sud (len,y fell to th ® floor, where I lay for a long time uncon scious. Three doc tors who treated me diagnosed my case as paralysis and said they could do nothing more for me. As a last resort, I began using Doan's Kidney Pills and was permanently cured. I am stronger than before in years." Remember the name—Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. MISUNDERSTOOD HIM. ''|l yr "My friend," said the solemn man on the railroad tran, "do you drink Intoxicating liquors?" "Sure!" cried the convivial chap. "Much obliged for the invitation. Got a flask with you?" Making Tasks Easy There are lots of magazines printed for the purpose of telling women how to make their work lighter. But you can't reduce labor by reading about it. All the philosophy and theory in the world won't help you out on wash day unless you use Easy Task soap, which lives up to its name and makes wash ing an easy task by doing half the work. Get it at your grocer's. Advice. "Doctor," called little Bingle, over his telephone, "my wife has lost her voice. What the dickens shall I do?" "Why," said the doctor, gravely, "If I were you I'd remember the fact when Thanksgiving day comes around, and act accordingly." Whereupon the doctor chuckled as he charged little Bingle $2 for profes sional services.—Harper's Weekly. Game. The Creditor —Will you pay this bill now, or never? The Debtor —Mighty nice of you to give me my choice, old scout. I choose never. Ho is a good time-saver that finds out the fittest opportunity for every action.—Thomas Fuller. Nipped In the Bud. • The Minister (stopping to tea)—' No, thank you, I must decline on the cucumbers. Little Tommie —Guess you're afraid of the tummy ache, but you don't need to be, cuz when I have it mamma al ways rubs " (! I !) —Boston Her ald. At the Shore. Polly—l wonder how Cholly man ages to keep that wide-brimmed straw on in a wind like this. Dolly—Vacuum pressure.—Judge. There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that the man with $1,000,000 is a million times happier than the man with one dollar. The secret of life is not to do what one likes, but to try to like that which one has to do; and one does like it— in time.—D. M. Craik. Summer I Comfort There's solid satisfac tion and delightful re freshment in a glass of Iced Postum Served with Sugar and a little Lemon. Postum contains the natural food elements of field grains and is really a food drink that relieves fatigue and quenches the thirst. Pure, Wholesome, Delicious "There's a Reason" POSTUM CEREAL CO., Ltd., Buttle Creek, Mich.
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