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JiIEBON COUNTY PRESS,.
H. H. MULLIN, Editor and Proprietor
Published Every Thursday
EMPORIUM.
A clean straw hat Is now becoming
a rarity.
Small thunder showers are thank-
Cully received.
What Is an aviation meet without
I* dead and injured.
If all boys were taught to swim few
er men would be drowned.
Amateur swimmers as well as small
boats should hug the shore.
If it is not one thing it is sure to
be another in merry England.
Whoever invented going swimming
was a public benefactor, all right
There is need of safe and sane tar
get practise with the big army guns.
It is to be regretted that our val
uable forests are not built of Asbes
tos.
Aviators have not yet reached a
point where they can deny the light
ning.
Laugh as a health measure by all
means, but laugh as opportunely as
possible.
Vacations are all right while they
last, but deliver us l'rom the first
■week after.
It will bo hard for the small boy to
believe that not all ice cream cones
are fit to eat.
"don't" for aeroplane amateurs
might properly be included in the list
of summer cautions.
Western grasshoppers are having a
hard time keeping up with the suc
cessive crops of alfafa.
Noise shortens life, discovers some
fellow who will no doubt live quietly
to his hundredth birthday.
Paris is producing some interesting
aeroplane literature. One machine is
hit by lightning and melted.
The man who invented money
•would have pleased more of us if he
had only made It easier to get
Russia is opening a school of avia
tion. This ought to swell the dead
and wounded column considerably.
Pulling the wrong lever of an aero
plane can never become a fixed habit
•with an aviator. Once usually suf
fices.
If it will help any, we will say that
the new hobble skirts look like a
man feels when his suspenders have
broken.
Russia is opening a school of avia
tion. Let us hope that her aviators
will make a better showing than her
navigators.
The diamond trust has been re
newed for five years. But who can
renew his note on the engagement
ring that long?
The snake stories of the season are
ahowlng a fine crop. The fish stories
will have a hard time in coming up to
their standard.
One Milwaukee man did not see his
bride until he married her. Many
brides do not see their husbands at
all after marriage.
A Maryland man has taught a rat
tlesnake to chew tobacco. Fastidious
Maryland people will refuse to asso
ciate with rattlesnakes, hereafter.
Aviator Harmon says that to be a
successful bird man one must be abso
lutely Indifferent to death, that being
just about what most of us decided
some time ago.
Another policeman has been shot In
the leg when his revolver dropped
from his pocket. We may have to In
case our policemen in bullel-proof ar
mor to conserve them.
"American women," says the gaek
war of liaroda, "are the most beauti
ful women in the world." Whatever
the gaekwar's fallings may be, ho evi
dently has a good eye
This Austrian count says that the
European beauties are—well, stouter
than ours. That Is one reason why
tho American tnan has never gone
abroad to marry a title.
After a New York man had shaken
pepper Into his soup he was seized
with an attack of stiei zing that killed
htm. Evidently some of the New
York restaurants continue to serve
genuine pepper.
Those who think that avlntlon Is
•"flying In the face of Providence" may
find confirmation In the fact that one
aeroplane has been struck by light
ning. although we have not stopped
building homes because one is occa
sionally hit by a bolt.
A convention of dentists at Denvet
have Issued a number of "Don'ts" for
.parents; among them a warning not tf
let u boy eat half m appli and g've
the rest to a playmate Tin >■ ■ -nil
boy will unanimously • ticore this wg
jgestlon.
FACTS FOR FARMER
SOME PLAIN TRUTHS WELL TO
REMEMBER.
A Glance at the Exchange Value of
His Products Should Determine
Him How to Cast His
Vote This Fall.
While the prices of practically all
commodities have shown some ad
vance during the last few years, the
products of the farm show a much
greater advance than do the products
of mines and factories. The financial
condition of the grain raiser, the gen
eral farmer and the dairyman is bet
ter than ever before and never was
the purchasing power of farm prod
ucts so great.
Senator Reed Smoot, in a speech be
for the United States senate. May
27, 3 DlO, declared farm land itself had
advanced in value rapidly and every
thing produced on the farm had risen
materially. Financially, the farmer
has become independent. The rural
free delivery and the telephone have
placed him in touch with the world
and he is as familiar with current
events as is the city dweller.
The average prices of the principal
farm products in March, 1910, and
March, 1836, as shown by the bulle
tins of the United States bureau of
labor, reveal in a striking manner
prosperity of the farmer.
The real value of any article is its
exchange value. The real worth of
farm products is measured by com
parison with the value of articles
which the farmer %vants to purchase.
Figuring on the general wholesale
price of articles, ten bushels of corn
In 1896 would buy 21 pounds of Rio
coffee, in 1910, 70 pounds; ten bushels
oi corn equaled in value 53 gallons of
rc tlned petroleum in March, 1910, 23
gallons in March, 1896; ten bushels of
corn equaled in value 1,040 brick in
March, 1910, and 519 in March, 1896;
ten bushels of corn equaled in value
337 pounds of wire nails in March,
1910, and 95 pounds in March, 1896;
ten bushels of corn equaled in value
131 pounds of sugar in March, 1910,
and 59 pounds in March, 1896, etc.
A 300-pound hog, when valued in
merchandise at the wholesale rate,
equaled 36 barrels of salt in March,
1910, and 16 barrels in March, 1896.
Twenty pounds of butter showed
values as follows, when measured in
the wholesale price of staple articles:
Coffee, No. 7 Rio, in March, 1910, 70
pounds, in March, 1596, 29 pounds;
granulated sugar, 130 pounds in
March, 1910, as compared with 82
pounds in 1896, etc. A case of eggs
which would have bought 72 yards of
Amoskeag gingham in March, 1896,
would Jiave bought 110 yards of the
same material in March of this year.
These comparisons might be con
tinued indefinitely, the same state of
affairs existing in every lino of goods
which the farmer buys, whether to
eat or to wear, whether to house him
self and his stock or to operate his
farm —in every case the rise in the
value of the products of his farm has
been greater than the rise in the
value of the products he desires to
buy.
Agriculture is the foundation of our
national wealth. Farmers constitute
our greatest class. When the farmer
prospers everyone else must neces
sarily prosper, and the whole country
goes ahead.
Does the farmer, in the light of
these comparisons, desire to turn
back the hands on the clock dial?
Does he prefer Cleveland penury to
laft prosperity? Let him answer at
the polls this fall.
Silk Dresses Are Cheaper.
Statistics secured by the govern
ment at Washington show that the
women of the United States are wear
ing more than ever American made
silk in preference to that from »he
looms of France and other foreign
countries.
The value of the silk sold In the
states last year is estimated at $165,-
000,000, of which sum $132,000,000
were paid for American silks, the bulk
of which, no doubt, were produced in
New Jersey. The silk Industry has
been built up under a protective tar
iff; the price of a silk dress has been
reduced In consequence, so that the
multitude of women InsteAd of the
few can purchase and wear it If they
choose. —Camden (N. J.) Courier.
Tariff and Cost of Living,
It Is probable that the habit of
abusing the new tariff will go out of
fashion. I'hat it Is responsible for the
higher cost of living Is a contention
thai will not live through the summer.
Foss of Massachusetts made the most
of it while he could. That the tariff Is
not responsible is now established by
two independent lines of proof. The
first Is that prices have gono up the
most on articles of agricultural pro
duction of which au exportable sur
plus Is produced. The second Is that
the new tariff Is lower than the old
one, and hence could have no Influ
ence toward raising prices under any
Imaginable theory. —New York tilobe.
Work for Party Success.
There are 850,0t'0 Republican voters
In the flute of New YoJk, however,
and among them somebody Is likely to
be nominated who will continue tie
succession of Republican victories
The president and his party friends
are planning for Republican victory
In the Important states as well as In
the congre <lonnl campaign, and then
I- a fair prospect thnt In each Held (lev
will succeed St Louis Oleic l>cino
crat
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1910.
STATISTICS SHOW THE TRUTH
Complete Repudiation of Democratic
Claims as to Tariff Re
vision.
The completed statistics of imports
for the past fiscal year reaffirm what
has been already shown of tho actual
operation of tho revised tariff. The
great increase in importations is to
bo attributed to tho general revival
of business activity, rather than to
the effect of the tariff, though it is
evident that at least this did not re
tard the revival. It was most directly
operative in the increased proportion
of goods imported free of duty, which
formed a larger percentage of the
whole than in any previous like peri
od, except when raw sugar was admit
ted duty free.
The aggregate duties collected upon
all imports under the revised tariff
would average 20.95 per cent, ad
Valorem. Under the McKinley law
this average was 25.48 per cent.; un
der the Wilson law, 21.92 per cent.,
and under the Dingley law, 22.12 per
cent. Thus it appears that the actual
taxation imposed by the present tariff
is less than under the Democratic
tariff, which was denounced by Re
publicans as favoring "free trade."
Upon all dutiable imports—exclud
ing those admitted free —the average
rate of duty is shown to be 41.19 per
cent, ad valorem under the revised
tariff, against 47.10 under the Mc-
Kinley tariff, 42.82 under the Wilson
and 45.76 under the Dingley law. Here
again there appears a very distinct
reduction of the average duties below
tuat of any previous tariff.
Whatever attacks may be made
against individual schedules of the
Payne-Aldrich tariff, the contention
that the duties were revised "up
ward" and not "downward" cannot be
maintained in the face of these fig
ures. Meanwhile the tariff has been
bringing in such excellent results in
increased revenues that there will be
less and less disposition to disturb it.
—Philadelphia Ledger.
Another Bryan Nostrum.
Mr. Bryan's pronouncement against
ship subsidies, coupled with an alter
native, is a charming illustration of
the irresistible disposition of the man
to jump at a new idea, or sometimes
an old and exploded one, as the solu
tion of any given question. Instead of
subsidizing ships he would have the
government own merchant transports
for use in time of war and for lease
"to help trade" in time of peace.
"They could be leased to carriers on
conditions which would enable tho
government to train seamen, . .
and the policy could be stopped any
time if found unprofitable.
That would produce the salutary re
sult of stopping the policy before the
government put its money into any
transport ships. Running ordinary
merchant ships so as to make them
pay is a science not taught or pro
duced by any civil service school. If
the profit is secured it is usually by
keeping the seamen under conditions,
both of wages and living that Ameri
can youth would reject. The high
price of living has not yet brought our
population down to the standard of a
few dollars a month and maggoty
pork as a steady diet.
The policy which Mr. Bryan so
lightly advocates Is a tolerably short
i cut to a subsidy. A very few years of
j running tramp steamers for profit
! would make any administration glad
to offer anyone a subsidy who would
take the ships off its hands.
Lying About the Holy Word.
Every Republican ought to chew up
a morsel of righteous indignation and
spit it in the face of the erring Demo
crats who are trying to belie the party
j for its vote on the Bible question. The
■ lie that caused Democratic Ananias
; to turn up his feet was but an atom
| eompared with the lie going the
| rounds that the Republican party
| raised the price on Bibles. Hides are
; free of any tariff whatever, but there
1 is a clause that makes leather bound
i books Imported to this country pay an
ad valorem duty. This only affects
the high-priced morocco covered
Bibles printed in this country or
bound in this country and dlstrib
j uted throughout the land. Its a pretty
; low resort of tin- Democrats to lie on
I the Holy Word to gain voters.—Cllnt-
I wood (Va.) Journal,
Might Make a Difference.
The Democratic candidate for gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, Mr. (Jrim, made
this remarkable statement In his
speech the other day accepting the
j nomination: "The election of a state
ticket In Pennsylvania Is complicated
by no national or local Issue, and
1 should 1 be elected I am hound to
consider that this expression of the
• people will have no hearing upon ua
tioiial affairs " Yet Democratic lead
ers are everywhere saying cheerfully
that It is "a Democratic year." If Mr.
(irim should win. would he and they
I then proclaim that fhe victory had no
: national significance?
People See the Truth.
As regards the matter of high
I pril l'*, it Is believed that the hlglx-st
! point has been reaehed, for In many
lines of goods prices have already
been materially reduced, and It U be
lieved that further reduction will take
place throughout tie summer and fall.
Hut the people have at last learned
I one I him? -that Is, that the high
I prices in foods particularly were not
brought about becaus< or the tariff -
In fact, thi' tariff law Is no longer
I blamed for any of the high prices
which the people had to meet during
the early part of the year.
■—WdP—■
Tattoo Suggested for Army Horses
/there IS >*, AwVfeis
ONE OBJECTION r
TO THIS TAT - ( l-£
TOOINC V Jl Jrs JM
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WASHINGTON. —Army horses are
to become tattooed animals if
a suggestion made by Capt. Casper
H. Conrad, Jr., of the cavalry arm, is
adopted. Captain Conrad is detailed
for duty in the quartermaster's depart
ment, and Is recognized as an expert
on horses required for military use.
Horses are now being purchased by
members of the quartermaster's de
partment, who are making their selec
tions in various parts of the country.
The success attending this effort
has been very gratifying to the quar
termaster geneiTil, who has estab
lished an army remount system, with
a view to improving the cavalry
mounts and the horses furnished to
the field artillery. When a young horse
is purchased in any locality to be sent
to one of the two army remount de
pots—at Fort Keogh, Montana, or Fort
Reno, Okla. —he is marked with a
numeral. The mark lasts about four
months, when it becomes obliterated,
and it is necessary to apply another.
Uncle Sam Is to Test the Open Door
THE United States is to test the sin
cerity of Russia and Japan in their
recent claim of adherence to the open
door policy in China made recently co
incident with the signing of the new
treaty by the Czar and the Mikado. It
has been announced at the state de
partment that the government will
press at once for recognition from
these two powers of the railroad con
cession recently granted by China to
an English-American syndicate.
This is the concession which Russia
blocked with an emphatic protest last
winter. Since then the negotiations
have been in the statu quo. Now they
are to be resumed at once. The gov
ernment Is to find out whether or not
Russia and Japan Intend to bar the
United States as well as other powers
out of Manchuria by raising unjusti
fiable objections to the admission of
other nations to that rich field.
Will Lead in War on the Opium Evil
THE United States will lead the na
tions in the fight against promiscu
ous opium traffic at a conference to
bo held at The Hague in September,
according to statements of authori
ties in Washington. The conference
was made possible through diplomatic
correspondence with the interested
powers by Secretary Kuox. The na
tions represented will be tho United
States, Great Britain, Germany,
France, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Por
tugal, China, Siam, Persia. Japan, the
Netherlands, Russia and probably Tur
key.
The work of the conference will fol
low along lines suggested by the In
ternatlon Opium commission, which
met last year at Shanghai, on the in
vitation of this country. Tho light
against the promiscuous use of the
drug and other narcotics which figure
in international trade will be made by
Capital a Suffragette Stronghold
THE Increased attention which the
suffrage cause is attracting In
Washington has astonished the old
timers whose remembrance of the
small tioily of women who called upon
the Committee oil Privileges and
Elections at the convening of overy
new congress Is the last Impression
of a few plucky women leading a des
perately forlorn hope.
Time was when the woman who
had suffrage leanings was afraid to
avow t lii-iii In Washington, and when
It was thought exceedingly eotirngous
of such well known soclel x lenders
as Mrs. John II Henderson and Mrs.
John It Mel.eun to entertain Miss
Susan It Anthony, the must famous
apostle of the cau«« of woman's
rights, Belief lit the right <>l women
A third marking takes place when the
horse is sent from the army remount
depot to the troop or battery, and it
must be renewed from time to time.
It is Captain Conrad's idea that a
more enduring designation could be
accomplished by applying a mark to
the inside of the upper lip of the
horse. He has devised an instrument
for this purpose, and suggests the use
of India ink, with the result that the
numeral adopted will be indelible.
This will require, of course, a regular
system of marking so that there may
be no duplicates. By this means a
horse accepted for military service
will keep its number. It may be nec
essary to have legislation to prevent
tampering with the designation or ma
king use of a similar mark in the case
of horses not used in the military
service.
Captain Conrad's quest is expected
to lead to several important acquisi
tions during the coming year. By this
method the middleman is avoided, and
horses are obtained at a much lower
price than under the contract system.
Besides, there is a better opportunity
of selection, and controversies are
avoided which so often have prevailed
between the government representa
tives and the contractors who fail to
comply with specifications in the de
livery of military animals.
When the recent convention be
tween Russia and Japan was sprung
on the world American diplomats ex
pressed little surprise. The govern
ment has believed from the first there
Is a secret article in this convention
which has not been made public. It is
felt the unpublished portion is an
agreement on the part of the two na
tions to support each other In barring
other nations from the territory in
question. The United States intends
to force Russia's hand and determine
whether such a secret bargain exists.
The concession granted to the English-
American syndicate was for the con
struction of the Chin-Chow-Aigun rail
road line. English capitalists were to
furnish the funds and the materials
were to be built in America.
There Is one drawback to the situa
tion from the standpoint of this gov
ernment. England for some unknown
reason, is weakening. Her enthusiasm
for the joint undertaking cooled per
ceptibly after Russia had entered an
objection. Diplomats seem to think It
quite likely that the United States will
have to make the fight single-handed
to keep Manchuria open with equal op
portunity to all nations.
means of international agreements
through which opium producing coun
tries will protect, by means of gov
ernment supervision, ports where the
Importation of the drug is prohibited.
The first realization of the serious
ness of the opium traffic so far as the
United States Is concerned came when
the government started to put the
Philippines in order. An attempt to
regulate tho unlimited traffic there
called for the appointment of a com
mission. The commission in tracing
the many Americans engaged In the
opium trade found that the United
States, with some 200,000 American
users of smoking opium, to say noth
ing of the Chinese users here, pre
sented almost as serious a question
as the insular possessions. Since that
time the United States has led the
fight among the powers against the
! drug.
About a year ago a law absolutely
prohibiting the Importation Into this
country of opium for any except medi
cinal purposes was passed. But thero
are now about 150,000 Americans using
the drug, und In spite of the prohibi
tory statute about 68,000 pounds of
smoking opium is smuggled Into this
country annually.
that tho believer wore ahort hair, Im
poaalble frocks, a man's hat and other
cranky accompaniment!) of "queer
vlewa."
Time ha« changed all that. The
women Who commotio the committee*
which have appeared to demand the
vote at tht> hint few aeaalona of con-
Krchs have been modlahly gowned,
attractive and In moat tiiMtanrea BO
dally prominent. The cause of the
ballot for woman ha* awept the coun
try to auch an extent that many of
the iienatorH and representatives of
the preaent contents* are avowed ayut
pathlzera and not a few of them have
put themaeivea on record aa favor
IIIK suffrage. The "votM for women"
agitation la now diacusaed openly and
aympathetically at many a Wndilug
ton tea table prealded over by a hos*
ICHH whoae aiM-ial prominence la undis
puted and sNhoao gracea mil talent a
are dlatlnctly of th< uioat feminine
kind.
It In not ►afe to acoff at womaa nuf.
frnge anywhere In Washington uow,
Hf too MMtf WlWl of the not
which la really Influentlal have Ue-
S The Plate to En j Chtiif i
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THIS ad. is directed at the
man who has all the
business in his line in
this community.
€| Mr. Merchant —You say
you've got it all. You're sell
ing them all they'll buy, any
how. But at the same timo
you would like more business.
(]j Make this community buy
j more.
<5 Advertise strongly, consist
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•3 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.
•1 That's creative business
j power.
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Advertising
Passing encomiums, only over
your store counter, al>out the
quality of what you've got to
sell, results in about as much
satisfaction as your wife would
get if you gave her a box of
cigars 'or Christmas.
Advertising in This Paper
I talk;) t<> rvtTvlnxlv at once anil makes
them talk Uatk with muney.
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