2 . CAMERON COUNTY PBESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor and Proprietor Published Every Thursday EMPORIUM. - PENNSYLVANIA Rain's scarce and eatables high. This is falling weather for the avi ators. Minister W'u apparently can "come back" indefinitely in China. Man will soon be in a position to five the birds lessons in flying. They are going to give "As You Like It"in Esperanto. Is this as you lika It? Flying across the English channel Irtll soon be as fashionable as appen- Ileitis. A New Yorker has been robbed In France. And he wasn't buying any thing, either! Even though the man beat the bird flying, the latter did not get discour aged and quit. Japan is about to annex Korea offi cially, having already annexed it very thoroughly in other ways. It would be interesting to watch a struggle between the two new langu ages, Esperanto and baseball. A New York man recently ate sixty one ears of corn at one sitting. Train ing for Wall street, evidently. Women should receive early instruc tions in the art of alighting from air ships without stepping backward. As between the hobble skirt and the long hatpin we vote for the hobble skirt. The wearer hurts only herself. Recause of the use of lead pipes cer tain drinks are said to be poisonous. This is a case where death has a lead pipe cinch. Proceedings in the Esperanto con gress are scarcely more understand able than the proceedings in the reg ular congress. Sir John Murray has found fish three miles under water. Most of the fish you go after seem to be farther down than that. Evidently the silly season has begun operations in Europe, judging from the excitement over America's offer to be a big brother to Liberia. The Chicago blind beggar who spent ■even dollars a day regularly on his women friends apparently had quite an eye for feminine beauty. Speaking of women an earnest per son says, "There ought to be lea* ehine on the outside." A little dab with the powder rag usually helps. When he became the father of trip lets the other day a Chicago man made so much noise that the police had to be called. Some men get excited so easily. An Albany man wants the state of New York to pay him for cherries that the robins took from his trees. When he was a baby he probably cried for l&e moon. Maine wants 10,000 housemaids and promises to pay them from three to six dollars a week apiece. We suspect that Maine is destined to have a long felt want. Some fault-finders complnin that the paper on which tho new SI,OOO bills are printed is not as good as they rould wish How do you like tho new 11,000 bills? Those South American republics may agree to arbitrate ail right, but what will their *port-lovlng citizens really do when a real lively little revo lutlon comes their way? Assertions that hitherto disregarded rodents and reptiles are g prevented by law (roui flymg over tiurtn * country IU*II.I u havi not h inl what peri alty Ims been provided tor aviators who fly so high above Uertnau court try towns a. to It. indlating tubabU The aeronauts are K ting to drop j bomb- on tuluil'* vii ship at the New Jersey meet They will discover how j •tlttt• ill It Is to hit a ill us evlgeured by the railing of tb« rum upon ihi Ju*t and the uujuwl I Milk- America Is not only priHliteliia big i ger snd beller guitt lhau any other IMtloti, but she also proline- ■ un re ! and louder ai|vimt»» of p«ae> that We're boiii-4 to win, Arn<:tggi-ddou a* luUieltltlUiu. SEEKS PARTY UNITY APPEAL IN PRESIDENT TAFT'S RECENT LETTER. Chief Executive Shows How Impor tant It Is to the Country That Republican Government Con trol Shall Continue. President Taft's letter to Chairman McKinley has had tho effect of placing the campaign on the high level of patriotism and making party unity the stepping stone to party success. In concluding his recital of the results thus far attained by the Sixty-first congress the president says: "It Is of the utmost importance to make this a campaign of education as to facts and to clear away the clouds of misrepresentation that have ob scured the real issues and have made it difficult to secure for the Repub lican majorities in congress the real credit due them from the country for the tremendous task they have ac complished. If this is brought clearly home to all voters, and especially to the young men now voting for the first time, and they become im pressed, as they ought to be by this record, with the difference in the gov ernmental efficiency and capacity of the Republican and Democratic par ties, they will enroll themselves with the party of construction and progress rather than with the party of obstruc tion and negation, and the resulting legislation of the Sixty-second con gress will vindicate their choice." As the president truly says at the outset of his letter: "The question will be not what complexion of Republican- Ism one prefers, but whether it is better for tho country to have the Re publican party control the legislation for the next two years and further re deem its promises, or to enable a Democratic majority in the house either to interpose a veto to Repub lican measures, or to formulate and pass bills to carry out Democratic principles." The great issue, then, is whether the Republican or Democratic party Is to be in control of the next house of representatives, and the president has given us all a platform on which to stand, has sounded a keynote and given us rallying ground where all can meet in common cause against an irresponsible political party of inca pacity and repudiation. Mr. Taft makes it clear that the constructive work of the Republican party would not only be halted but perhaps an nulled by a Democratic house of rep resentatives. Regarding the tariff the president reiterates his well-known views ex pressed at various times during the past year. He emphasizes the turn ing of a deficit of $58,000,000 into a Burplus of $26,000,000; calls attention to the splendid operation of the maxi mum and minimum feature and the work of the tariff board, adding that: "All Republicans—conservative, pro gressive and radical—may well abide the situation with respect to the tar iff until evidence now being accumu lated shall justify changes in the rates." In particularly happy vein does the president enumerate and discuss the work of the last session of congress: the advanced railroad legislation, the postal savings bank act, the conserva tion measures and particularly the laws affecting labor. On this latter point he says: '"The Republican party at the last session of congress again exhibited its deep and sincere interest In the gen eral welfare of the working men and women of the country by adding im portant enactments to its already long record of legislation on this subject." And then he mentions the long list of bills passed and pending in the in terest of the working classes, adding: "No more important legislation in the interest of human life has ever been enacted by congress than the laws of •he recent session." Crooked Democratic Method*. Speaking on behalf of Mr. Kern, Mr Tlryan upholds the temperance cause in attractive phrase, in tbit hope that temperance men may nee their way clear to vote the Democratic ticket. Simultaneously tin- brewerylsed Dem erratic machine In this state is seek ing a "wit' Democratic legislature so as to repeal the county option law. j Nbhol on law, hoping that a Demo cratic legislature may be elected i u send Mr Keru to the senate. Him tl taneously the fer«werts*d Democratic wa> hlee la thU state U laboring for a "ifcei" Democratic legislature to repeal i the county option law l«ie# the actual moral sensibility of llryan, Kii»l»t> ncy of purpaae, sud un prli ipled program of double dtling from whbh lmne»t meg wight be tempted lo recoil? Apparently not Apt r< ntly (hi , think that sll total i u .niituKi, local option rlt iien* may elect a 'wet" Democratic legislature I'Jt Ibe egpresa purpuec of repealing ' ifce option law ludiana polls rttar. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1910. WHAT IS TO BE HOPED FOR? Voters May Well Ask Themselves This Question Before Giving Sup port to Democrats. "The size of the Democratic victory that will be announced on the morn* irig of November 9 will be staggering. It will include an overwhelming ma jority in the house of representatives and H gain of many United States senators. Ohio, the president's own state, will be lost to the Republicans. New York, the state of the ex-presi dent, will be sweepingly Democratic. Majorities will be so large that peo ple will tiro of computing them." — New York World, Thursday, August 25, 1910. If the result is thus certain, and everything is over except the shout ing, It is pertinent to inquire what the country will get as a consequence of the revolution, says the New York Globe. If the overwhelming majority of us are to invest our ballots as in dicated what dividends will be paid? What is the Democratic program? What will we be voting in? Prac tical persons desire an answer to these questions, for political matters affect business, and business condi tions affect every man's material wel fare. It is hardly worth while togo back to the Democratic platform to get a statement of Democratic purpose. Mr. Bryan wrote that platform, and re cent events have Indicated that Mr. Uryan is no longer in command. To what, then, shall we turn for a state ment? The voices of individual Demo crats are numerous, but they are con tradictory. No one can gather from them with any surety what is present day orthodox doctrine. It is not going too far to say that Democratic au thority can be quoted in favor of and against practically every known po litical and economical proposal. A sad state of muddle exists on the Re publican side, but its stream is clear and crystal compared with the Demo cratic muddiness. Mr. Hearst has In dicated that he proposes to be a Democrat this year; so have many of Mr. Cleveland's friends; so have not a few former Republicans and inde pendents, some of them on the ground that the Republican party is entirely too radical and others on ihe ground that it isn't radical enough. In the absence of other authority, one turns with some measure of hope to tho campaign book recently Issued by the Democratic congressional com mittee. Here is something official. Party funds have paid for its printing. It has been compiled by duly author ized agents and editors, and it con tains what is to be regarded as the latest orthodox Democratic doctrine. It Is a copious book, having no less than 512 pages. But alna! the read ing of it but Increases confusion What will the Democratic party at tempt to do if it gets control of the house and senate? It 1b not stated — not even hinted. There Is plentiful complaint, page after page, of what the Republicans have done, but not a suggi'stion concerning the line of con duct it Is proposed to substitute. One Year of the Tariff. Those persons who got themselves committed against the Payne tarifl act before It had a chance either tc Justify or condemn itself in actual practice, have no comfort from there turns of the treasury department. So consistent Is the favorable story from month to month, from quarter to quarter, and now for the whole year, that the critics have to turn to an cleat history for consolation. They must appeal from the relentless logic of results, as recorded in the custom* returns, to the flawless logic of their own extra-session speeches, as print ed In the "Congressional Record" be tween March 15 and August 7, 1909 What does a year of the Payne act show? As the treasury department recites. It shows ordinary customs re colpts $15,000,000 above those of the banner fiscal year 1907, and 176,000, 000 la excess of receipts for "any other year of our national life except 1907." There was a deficit of $511,739,- 955 in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909; there is a surplus for the year Just ended of more than J-0,000,000, • lie IHI poratlon tax law, passed as n complement to the Pay no act, con tributlng $'.'7,099,934. Thus the tariff has turned a deficit Into a surplus; It lias been a success fill revenue raiser, and therefore ac complUhed the primary purpose for which Import duties Hre levied. This it las done by atitiiuUtlng importa ti< ns. ami the only way to stimulate them I by lowering duties, by real 'revision downward." This revision, downward, the returns show, takr? •he form of rates a little lower than those of the Wilson act and averaicinx t>. per cent lower tlinu those of the IMngley act; it has been accompanied by a greatly enlarged free list. Th* rapid ln> ri ise In Inifioi'tatlons offers tumie little Ki'ouud for regret, but for r><4»ii lis precis* ly opposite to those ad i.tiiced In lowa and Wisconsin li suki ' sli, that a greater tb >d than w.i j wntielpat> d la pouring ta>r the low | ••r I tariff wall New York Kveimn j Mall. Doctrin* Hard to Ditlni. ljoen anybody know where ilie lieit! | 1 cratlc party really "ta at?" In Vlr j glilla one la- iiiM rntl. liii inhrr of rnn> gress nh» rwpudlatwd the tar IT fur 1 i» v< ai»e only national platform and j toted lor protecting AwrVaa ludu tries was "turned du*i*" wh»a *•**• 'IB* r. el. ct|.,«, Mhiie another afcu j rM «h« pilmartea by a big majority. What is Um'xruiM d .cit,., i.ny. j i wiMswr I JURIST ON THE RACE TRACK Exchanging a seat on the federal bench of the old Oklahoma Territory for a seat on a Bulkey behind fast-stepping trotters and pacers / ' 3 ° Places In a satisfactory manner, I John L. Pancoast, now a resident of Blackwell, yeS? northern Oklahoma, has been making the Oklaho liosS ma-Kansas racing circuit the past summer with -y $, 1 a string of horses that have pulled down numer , ' \ 1 ' /fijt ous purses for their erßtwhile ermine-wearer i j;r|vj yffffl The love of horse flesh Is the only reason \ sulkey. He Is still a practising attorney and Is Jyffifo- admitted to practise before the United States Su / preme court, but he prefers to see the steppers coming down the home stretch In a whirl of dust and hear the shouts of the onlookers as the ani- Bal he is driving perhaps noses out a head under the wire. Judge Pancoast was always a devotee of the racetrack. He has always owned a string of fast horses and during his days on the bench he watched with interest the progress of his horses. In early life, however, in Ohio, where he was born, in 1852, and admitted to the bar in 1878, he made up his mind that he would some day wear the ermine. This fact he kept steadfastly before him. He had that "bee In his bonnet" when he located In western Kansas in 1879, going through with the usual experience of a young lawyer and afterwards moving to Oklahoma. During territorial days In Oklahoma the federal judges named by the president were also the district judges of the territory and In addition to be ing district Judges, the seven of them sitting together at the capital consti tuted the supreme bench of the territory. Thus John L. Pancoast became not only a federal judge, but also judge of the Seventh Oklahoma district with headquarters at Alva and a member of the territorial supreme bench with the title of associate Justice. Pancoast was appointed in 1902 by President Roosevelt and again in 1906 by the same president. Being a judge on the bench, with his one ambition in life realized, Pancoast did not forget his horses. It was his one relief from the bench, hla vacation, his pastime, his fad. He served as judge until state hood abolished the court. | CIRCLES GLOBEIN AN AUTO Mrs. Harriet Clark Fisher of Trenton, N. J., holds the unique record of being the only woman w h° has girdled the earth in an automobile. Mrs. /O-r - Fisher's trip in her 40-horsepower machine makes new history in the automobile world, and particu vSafiipl larly in the realm of women. With her on the gff*V:aTO! trip were her secretary, Harold Fisher Brooks, W&Sr d rove i a man and maid servant and Honk ' ~ Honk, her pet bull terrier, who was taken along \ W as a maßc °t. ' n addition, the car, which was 1 especially built for the trip, carried a complete J stock of tires, parts and cooking utensils. ' landed In France, toured leisurely through it; thence through Germany and Switzer 4U' land; crossed to Italy, where a brief stay was *V t y . i^lfmade at Como. Thence they visited Vienna, Rome, Naples and Port Said, taking ship from there to India. Mrs. Fisher's letters r. ferring to their experiences are inter esting in the extreme. "It was exciting," she wrote. "We live like gypsies most of the time. We found hotels few and far between. You never saw a more surprised set of people than were the natives when wo would roll Into one of their little vil lages. In the country between Bombay and Calcutta wo preferred to camp out. When we got to China we had our troubles, but our most exciting ex periences were in Japan. We started from Kobe and went from there to Osaka, and thence to Kyoto, Nagoka, Skldgonka, Atml, Odawara and Yoko hama, bound for Tokyo. Wo found the streets so narrow, that in many In stances our automobile barely grazed through them. We were forced to run our car over bridges that were old and unreliable, and many times we feared we would plunge through them. "We were also obliged to cross on small ferries, and one of these trips, across Hamana bay, was three miles in length. To get across here we had to lash two fishing boats together and build a temporary platform on which to run the car." The part} met with several exceptionally exciting experiences that rame near sending hem back. After landing In San Francisco and starting east across her own country, Mrs. Fisher's trip was uneventful except for her ar rest In Sandusky, 0., for exceeding the speed limit. AN ENGLISH PRISON EXPERT~ At the invitation of the United States govem ment Thomas Holmes comes from England to at- HPW tPn '' the International Prison conference. Mr. SS Holmes la the secretary of the Howard assoeia- J|P. Ik tlon in Loudon, which Is devoted to the double fZ/ .S| worst ut reforming prison administration. He la admittedly tho foremost of practical Ennllsh ; J '* SE&S criminologists He has made a lifelong study of KW criminals. Before he became the secretary of Howard ussoctatlon he was for many years a A k court missionary. For a long time Mr Holmes has been advo |pr>'v%' eating the right of offender* to pay their fines by i lnKti.llm« a ata and thus. In a measure, equalizing JRffiHguCiMw W the glaring •ilsparlty In treatment which the law 17- TtK ■ 1 makes between tho rich and tho poor. At pres ent the poor man or youth who commits some trifling offense Is bundled off to Jail if he cannot immediately hand over the pecuniary atonement for his misdemeanor which blind justice demands of him. On tho other hand, tho offender with a woll-llued pocket, to whom tho payment of tho fine ts no hardship, escapes the Ignominy of imprisonment altogether. Now, Mr lloliiimm seems to be within measurable distance of gt-ttlnK his pet reform adopted by lenal enactment. A few days ago, on behalf of this Howard association, he obtained an official Interview with Winston Churchill, the home secretary, whose special business It Is to look after the admlntstra tlon of Justice, and Mr. Churchill since then has announced his Intention at luauKurutliiK this reform. f* PICTURESQUE PITTSBURGER ' ' The uto»t picturesque millionaire In Pitts " bur* and one of the uioat bliarre In the country / Is Alexander It i'< acock, who reoently came Int. / public notice on account of a bud eg* lie< aus< | 1 he not one for breakfast he spent nearly |?o,nu<> to start a heum-ry with * hlch to supply his table *lth og<* fr ->h from the Hi st. ||« has the repu j'l m'J tatlon of belli* the most Irascible Individual lu r y Itttsburg Wl. tl happened to his «hef wh* * eUU'\ h | ia- | ... t. t«i iii • r. km 1.. . * i«• t»4 or. Mi ai -, f4 . k ftn( 111 M» *«py I'Ut tut • I % **h frwah « MH» r« iu|> Ui || ti* ii (UHltr «#f «% H|ub«irii ■ « U »tr« si i» in th«* rour*> ..f |,j 112. . I' I t till# |U lilit" I Hl'U S| s I *4l Hi Kit ! it Iti Ii r!i. k 4 llfc M ■ '* t : VBfwH* • «'Hr< lt » AFTER DOCTORS FAILED LydiaE.Pinkham'sVegeta* ble Compound Cured Her Knoxville, lowa. "I suffered with paiiis low down in my right side for a year or more and was so weak and ner vous that I could not do my work. I 112 ";;;; ; 1 .) wrote to Mrs. I'ink 'il' n ham and took Lydia ' ■'•'jtSWfcV, E. Pinkham'a Vege table Compound ■[s£& iiji and Liver Pills, and I t ojjjpj am glad to say that W "ollars for any case that It falls M cure. Send for list of testimonials Address F. J CHENEY