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<md to eat
arouse but little apprehension in th«
tulnds i' those who have their mouey
Invested In the be«f business.
Experts say that ail the Zeppelin
airship nerds Is a series of lofty struc
tures that will permit It to ti» up now
and then This Is simpler than pro
vlilln« It with a concrete foundation
uud an elevator.
A lunary commit- -.lon Is trying to de
termine whetbr an In . mo uian Is a
resldeut or New York or N«w Jersey.
Why nut ask huu which state he bt*
lon*;* to? 111, au*ut-r may deturuiiua
the Litent of bit deluslnus
Aviators ar« to b<> 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.
<sr« at stress Is laid by Democratic
missionaries throughout Indiana upon
Mr Kern's denunciation of Senator :
Khlveiy us a brewery attorney and the '
brewers lor having bought the leglslu
ture of ISimultaneously Mr Kern
eulogize* this :;atue brewery attorney
and the br« werlied Democratic ma
chine invites us to elect a "Met" I Jem
ocratlc legislature to repeal the local
option law.
As a supporter of county option and
a temperance man Mr. tiryaii return
mends Mr Kern to the people of Imll
una as another good temperance man i
anil the efficient godfather of th> 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, K<rn and Marshall detect In all
this any cent ilka of Idea , any seen,
ing h.c<>ii»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.
<?" ' dvwßh le P art >' 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<u Mr
112 |w*«k taatsd storage . KK thai caused
I all tho trouble n.ay b.< lm*Kia«d. Aft. r be had
V tv 112 lit *d hl< fooling* be t-itlli-d up a real t-state
' "ih .'h V< "r !«'■ 'a"lot *3 !hl. , b«n. ,Mrm
r.al , iat» had ,be farm;
wtthlii |W«» ii«>* * eUU'\ <u hmi Jom*
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AFTER
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Not That Meaning.
"The doctor said that Bill was.
drunk when we took the poor fellow
to have his head attended to last
night after he fell."
"Doctor never said anything of the
kind!"
"Didn't I hear him? Said it was a
jagged cut"
SIOO Reward, SIOO.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn
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has been able to cure In ali Its stages, and that is
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cure now Known to the medical traternlty. Catarrh
being a constitutional dbiiisc, requires a constitu
tional treatment. Hull's Catarrh Cure Is taken In
ternally. acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and Riving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and assist
ing nature In doing its work. The proprietors have
so much faith In its curative powers that they ofTer
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cure. Send for list of testimonials
Address F. J CHENEY <sc CO.. Toledo. O.
Hold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Phis for constipation.
"The Wish Is Father to the Thought."
Dr. Robert L. Waggoner, the presi
dent of Baldwin university, said, in
the course of an address on pedagogy
at Berea, O.:
"And one of the most remarkable
changes in the last 30 years of teach
ing is the abolition of corporal pun
ishment. A boy of this generation is
never whipped. Hut a boy; of the last
generation—well!"
Doctor Waggoner smiled.
"The boys of the last generation,"
he said, "must have believed that
their instructors all had for motto:
" 'The swish is father to the
taught.'"
English in London.
Senator Depew, on the deck of the
Lusltania, talked about "English as
sha is spoken in London."
"It Is very difficult to understand
that London English," he said. "I
know a man who had lodging* all July
In Bloomsbury, nrar the British mu
seum.
"On bis return from the museum
ono afternoon, my friend said to his
landlady:
" fan I have a cup of tea, if you
please?'
" 'Certainly, sir; at once,' the land
lady replied. 'The kettle 'as been
bt'lin' for 'ours.'
" 'Hut—er—l prefer freshly boiled
water, if you don't mind," stammered
my friend.
"The landlady reddened with anger.
" 'Look 'ere,' sho said, 'if I 'ad meant
wot you mean I'd 'avo said hours.'"
Brings
Cheer
to the breakfast table
Post
Toasties
with cream.
Crisp, jjolden-brown
"crinkly" bits, made
Irom white corn,
A most appetizing, con
venient, pleasurable
breakfast.
"The Memory Lingers"