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/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
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Postum contains the
natural food elements of
field grains and is really
a food drink that relieves
fatigue and quenches the
thirst.
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"There's a Reason"
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