2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor and Proprietor Published Every Thursday EMPORIUM. - PENNSYLVANIA Fortune telling Is prohibited In New York, but fortune bunting is not. A house In St. Louis was set on Are by a tireless cooker. Now what'U we do? After all. In charging a dollar for trimming hair the barbers are making a cut-price. Just whan we were getting used to peanuts and spring water, the price of meat goes down. A Detroit woman was divorced while attending a card party. Again the law of compensation. A new SIOO counterfeit bill Is In cir culation. When buying bacon, exam lae your change carefully. There should be some great world Inarket in which war scares could be purchased cheaper by the dozen. The man who boasts of calling a spade a spade may pass a snow shovel without being able to recognize it. A sacred cow In Central park, New York, is suffering with a severe cold. Nothing is too sacred for the grip germ. One Denver woman Insists that she never owned a hat. Then she never kept anybody waiting while she pinned It on. The czar solemnly gives It out that he hopes God will be lenient with Tol stoi. Can you beat that, for Russian humor? That New York is the hottest place In summer and the coldest in winter does not necessarily spell climatic superiority. Chicago captured most of the rib bons at the New York horse show, but New York isn't kicking much. She has the gate receipts. Sane and scientific development of aerial navigation is the end to bo worked for; dare-devil stunts endan ger the aviator without advancing th» trt The students at Wellesley have been declared to be "a vast lump of unas similated Indigestible stodginess." What this means no one seems to know. A Detroit lady who has been having matrimonial troubles says she mar ried once on & bet and once for spite. She appears to have lost in each in stance. Statistics now Indicate that smokers make the best athletes. We havO known for a long time that certali l kinds of cigarettes make one strong lfl a certain sens*. Sir Ernest Cassel has bougnt e gramme of radium for $72,000. It w»fl probably marked down from $75,000 and Sir Ernest may be said to have Becured a bargain. Into the realm of ethics comes th# question of whether the person who tells such an excruciatingly funny •tory that another person dies laugh ing Is really a friend. Bauer kraut, too, Is going up. Scar city of cabbage, is the given cause, but a 25 per cent, annual increase In consumption may have suggested the Idea that there was more money in 1L Another reduction in the running time between New York and Phila delphia has been made, but It has not yet become possible for I'hlladelphl ans who do business In New York to go home to lunch. After having been six days without food a sailor swam several miles to the shore of Australia, pursued by •harks A man who can get away with a yarn like that wastea his tal iit before the mast. Now the French are experimenting tvlth a weapon to be used against airships One warlike Invention Is barely Introduced when, before It has time to become practicable, a counter acting invention fairly shoves It uslOe The coachman has shared the fate of bis horse In the subordination of both to the up to dfrfH automobile. It Is the good looking chauffeur w ho now makes a runaway match with the ro mantic young helresa We sre Informed that a man In Washington sprouted a lemon tree In his thumb after be had cut that useful member In whittling a lemon. If the report bad said II was an orangu treu or a rosebush we should never have believed It. Mlladl rays sho Jusf can't under stand how women ever kept up with all the gossip of the town before Invention of tho telephone Only I* deer hunters were killed during th« deer hunting «en«on Just rioted In New I f Rlnn l Apparently the hultteis arti !• anting how tn shoot When a !"<* c i trl. t. r d'ed In Lit tie flock tl e otl d l l ' body *u> found lo contain hum » hair, teeth •nd human tone* ' lit- »>fi» #rl tfently In lb* undertaking • : ntH DIVIDED INTO CAMPS HOW THE DEMOCRATS LINE UP ON "TAR'FF REFORM." Party Is Going to Have Some Trouble Squaring Stump Speeches With Results to Be Shown to the Country. Representatlvo Ransdell of Louisi ana la right. Tho ways and means committee of the next house should be formed so as to Insure a hearing In that body of the several views of tar iff reform which are found In the Dem ocratic party. On that subject Mr. Ransdell di vides his party Into three schools, or classes: Free traders, near-free traders and protectionists. That di vision will answer for purposes of dis cussion. Of froe traders, confessed and ag gressive, there are few. And we shall hear little from them when the next houso begins work on the Payne law. As a rule, they are agitators, not legis lators, and their work Is on the out side of congress. Their part is to thump the robber barons in the press and on tho stump while a campaign Is on and generalities are effective. Later, when generalities must give way to practicalities, they subside. It is their time for disappearing. They take a header, and down they go. Tho near-free traders are more nu merous, but are often disguised when congress is ii action on the tariff. They wo- t like to see taxation re duced t<~ the bare needs of the govern ment. j'ut are unable to work out the ".jietn. Their maxims all goto pieces in the presence of trade statis tics and trade demands. The result is that they are often found recorded in favor of protective duties. The protectionists are more numer ous still. Really, there are a great many of them. Every revision of the tariff in tho past quarter century has revealed tho fact. They came out very openly when the Payne bill was In the making. In congress and out, they wanted a "share" of what was going, and not only accepted it from the Re publicans, but asked for it. Rut only a few were logical in the end, and sup ported in Its entirety what had been done. Tho lato Mr. MeEnery of Lou isiana stood alone In the senate on that point. He had asked for protec tion on sugar, had got it, and so did unto others as at his request they had done unto him. Even after the ways and means committee shall have done its utmost to harmonize all party differences in tho preparation of a tariff measure, tho real situation will in some measure appear in the open house debates. The Republicans have the leads, and will follow them for political purposes. The Underwood bill is not going to square with the Democratic stump speeches of the recent campaign.—Washington Star. Mr. Bryan's New Part. Mr. Bryan has already adapted him self to the Democratic situation. The fact that the Democratic state ticket in Nebraska was defeated in part through his efforts has eliminated him as a candidate for the presidential nomina tion. After denouncing bolters unmerciful ly for the last fourteen years, he sud denly Joined the ranks of those who separate themselves from their party for the party's good. He openly op posed the Democratic candidate for governor, Mayor J. C. Dahlman of Omaha, the same man who appeared In New York with a cowboy's outfit in 1906, when Mr. Bryan was return ing from a trip around the world, pre pared to use a lasso In order to keep ♦.ho Peerless Leader out of the clutches of false eastern friends. Mr. Bryan may claim some justification for his opposition to Dahlman on the ground that a "moral issue" like the restric tion of tho liquor traffic was involved. But there are hundreds of thousands of Democrats who will be ready to re mind him that he would not excuse them for bolting him In 1896 on the more Important "moral Issue" cf pre serving the nation's credit and main taining Its good faith. Senator Lodge on the Tariff. Declaring In favor of revision of the tariff by schedule and for the creation of a permanent nonpartisan tariff tar iff commission. Senator Lodge of Mas sachusetts, whose tariff record is being assailed by Governor-elect Ftss of that state, addressed the senate: "I aiu a thorough protectionist," de clared Senator Lodge. In defending his 'arllT position. "I believe In this policy now as firmly as 1 ever did In my life. !n my opinion a disinterested in vest I gallon of the tariff by any hottest board that goes th roughly Into the differ nee In the cost of production at home iwd abroad will sustain the | ol icy of protection. If i.uch an invest! -atlon would not sustain the policy or protection, then !t dues not deserve to stand If It should be sfeown that du 1 leH are too high, then they should !«• reduced." I'he Massachusetts senator said h« was In accord with the president In his ">»jiitiiuieti(lailon for revision of the tariff by subjects. Party Beat Him to It. DUclulum rs front Mr llryan that he has no intention of becoming a candi date for president In I#l2 are super fluous. Th« Democratic party hut nu Intention of alio* In* him becouie a candidate Nuw Vvrk H.-t CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1911 FOR REAL TARIFF REVISION Republican Leaders In the Right In Insistence on Adequately Equipped Commission. There Is every promise of valuable results during the short session of con gress, in the vitally Important field of tariff study and tariff revision, with tho aid of a commission of experts ln vestod with large powers. The presi dent has Insisted upon legislation for that purpose in conferences with lead ers of the Republican majority in the house of representatives, and they agree that definite action will be taken before the end of the session, and aa early as possible. The only point in doubt is the ns. ture of the plan which will bo put for ward by (ho standpat leaders who still exercise great power in the house. Apparently Congressman Longworth is distrustful of the willingness of Dalzell, Payne, Dwight and others of their class togo far enough in the di rection of tariff revision by scientific experts. Tho Ohio represents.!ivo has drawn a bill embodying his own ideas of what a tariff commission should be and tho manner in which it ought to be supported and empowered to get results, and In this measure he hopes to satisfy most of the Republican In surgents in both the house of repre sentatives and the senato. This is progress which cannot faii to be of value to the country. It will clear the way for increasingly impor tant steps in the direction of tariff re vision by schedules and by experts, in. stoad of all at once and by representa tives of special interests and political parties, factions and leaders. It means more business and less bidding for votes, in delermining the duties to bo paid on imported merchandise. If the present session shall result in nothing more than the firm establish ment of a competent and adequately equipped tariff commission, of a per manent nature and given sufficient powers and scope of action, the win ter's work will be well worth while, and the present congress will go out of office with a record of lasting prog ress In public affairs of vital impor tance. The Latest Pinchot Charges. Reyond question, President Taft is able to handle the Alaskan coal land situation and dispose of it in a manner satisfactory to the public. This was made plain by his refusal to accept the policy recommended by Secretary Hal linger and his insistence that the rights of the people in the public lands of the great northwest territory should be safeguarded. At the same time, the country cannot regard the strong rep resentations made to him by the Pin chot brothers concerning the notori ous Cunningham claims, as either in appropriate or presumptious. The public is keenly Interested In tho Cunningham claims. They have been the storm center of the entire Ballinger controversy. The Pinchot brothers are in a position to know much about them. And when, in a for mal document, thye solemnly declare to the president of the United States j that these claims are to all intents and j purposes fraudulent and they tell why, i a halt in any proceedings looking to- J ward the completion of these land j deals is called for. In their brief, tho Pinchots present the accusations against those who are j pushing the claims more strongly and forcibly than ever before. They ! charge, without reservation, that the ] Individuals who made entry for the j land did not do so in good faith, but j under an agreement to turn their ! holdings over to interests intent upon j obtaining a monopoly of important | coal lands In Alaska. The country has reason to believe that what the Pinchot brothers say le I true. The president owes It to the ; country to ascertain the exact truth and make It known. The Malllnger in- I vestlgation was not for that purpose and It was as unsatisfactory In this i respect as In others. The people have become familiar with the methods and J objectß of the big public land-grabbers i and are not In the mood to tolerate | them any longer.—Cleveland Leader. To Control the Franking Privilege. j One of the many sensible and prac* | ticai recommendations embodied lc the president's message relates to the extreme desirability of subjecting the I official use of the franking privilege to a more efficient supervision and ■ control. I'nder the loose system, or absence of system, to be more precise j which now prevails there Is no way of ascertaining the extent of the i gratuitous service rendered in (hit connection by the post ofllre depart > rui nt, but there Is no doubt that 111 ut'Krcgate cost amcunto to many mil lions of dollars, and it must be re , Kftrded us altogether probable thai various abuses Involving extravagance and waste have crept In. which ur gently require correction. To thl* end the president advises that con gress authorize the substitution at s| eclal Official stamp* for the differ .■nt kinds of frank* now habitually ! employed to secure the free trans ' portntlen of governmental and con gressionul mail matter. [ Certain North Carolina Democrat* ! waul luml.< r protected. l.oulilnn t D«*m orrats favor protection for Mipur and rice, and Alabama lieuioerats oppow the removal of th« duty on Iron and steel The worst Is yet to n>nM lor the Democratic tariff reformers. "The Democrats are letting togrthet again," said an organ of that party Ye*, and the tiolae of the collision eat to h>aid fuur city block* u*ay Odd Small MILLINERY modes have run to the new and strange lately and the question of "what next" is asked with an anxious tone by those who must suit tho caprice of fashion or loso in the business race. Just what next no oho up to this writing knows exactly, but of one thing we are fair ly sure, and that Is, a continuing vogue of small hats. We have come about as close to the bonnet as we are likely to get, and we will depart therefrom, when spring comes. But the small hat Is here and will be here; for which all those who travel in street cars and ride in elevators or walk upon wind swept streets, are duly thankful. Two types, as unlike as possible, are shown here. One Is of the present mode, fitting like a bonnet and trimmed at the back with a big rosette of ribbon. This is an old development of the bonnet-turban style which Is dear to tho winter girl In many vary ing forms. This is a double coronet brim, a development of the turban, on lines familiar, in every community from one ocean to the other. The double coronet is by way of variety and the draping is very cleverly ar ranged by means of this peculiar frame. A precursor of new Ideas Is shown POINTLESS HATPINS. CH=====S-(fe rts.i r.« » Klg. 1. Structure of the New Hatpin— Klg t. The Holder Klg. 3. Manner of Ar ruiiging In Hat. A pointless hatpin with Interchange able bends has become popular in Paris. Having no point to protrude beyond the aide of the hat. It Is obvious that the pin v.-ill not endanger the eyts of other people, Kach hatpin U In rtnllty two pins with one head, the pin part sliding through a star like tlx ture permanently attached to the hat. Heads of var:< us design* are provided with i ach pin. Cold Used on China. The newt-st designs In china reveal a lavish use of gild, not only In the border of the dlsl.«». but In large tlural and conventional designs, and • iiietiitiM tomblned with the (lowers. In colors, that may <*e -orate a dish The pattern* for the moat part art simple but striking Among the dc signs carrb d out golely In the gold, 'he Oriental, the t°r*ek and the Hymn tire effect* prod'Miiinnte. The flowered i ilna shows the grace ful garl.it.il dee'>r at lon of a hap|.y ut>- <>f trailing >ln->s, with a heavy bard< r affect. In si ai>e. the fluted design the (luting tt wi.irlv .-paratel is being great'/ used A new ware has apt »re*l wbit-h will nt. din ol be very popular In th« odd piece*. <uch a < »ug»r anil creamer, oho* olale set ur odd plates In the Jaunty little helmet hat witn visor frcnt. Drought forth in Paris and transplanted to New York, it is shown in the smartest of Fifth avenue shops. Worn at Just a little angle one can see how widely It differs from the demure bonnet-like shapes. It is a simple looking piece of mil linery. but will bear studying. The frame is covered with white satin and faced with black velvet. Piping cord finishes the brim edge and the velvet collar and flat bow at the front. This particular model is one of those bid ding for favor and is a radical new de parture. Whether "she will or sho won't." is the all Important question. My lady of fashion is ready for changes, but just what will please her restless fancy remains to be found out. Small, flexible hats are the most promising for street wear. They are commendable from the standpoint of comfort, but their correct adjustment will take care on the part of the wear ers and a tendency to lose their orig inal lines wil have to be combatted. In felts and velvets, as in furs, the soft hats have body enough to remain shapely. They are without doubt the most successful of new things placed before the public. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. ! FASHIONS FOR LITTLE ONES In Profusion of Raiment the Rising Generation Is Not Far Behind Its Elders. Nowadays they cater Just as much to the children in the matter of dress as they do to the grown-ups, atlt | a gllmpso Into the children's department of our stores today would open the eves of the most Incredulous. Here will he found In the greatest profusion raiment for all ages and sizes, from the tlnltat tot Just walk ing to the young lady about to make her bow to society, who realizes, how ever, that as yet there IB a distinct Ibie drawn between h< r gowns and t*ose of her mother or elder sister There Is a charming litter of has. ketn on this season's dressing table for holding everything that a girl uses In making her toilette, from hatpins and pincushions to hair rlblsms A general but not exact uniformity In fhape Is preserved In the many sizes of ln.«kets used In a girl's room, and a gem ral style of derorttlon Is carried out In colors that must match Haskets for the dressing table are rho sen with rotation to their uses and supplemented with ,lat desk baskets I that contain material* for correspond ence and with baskets for tewing and for holding veils, hosiery, collars and | nrektles. fcr Eveninn Freehs » . .. | Itordered silk llim|i>p|lnri ami | gnoses with borders of | lain orange, above* which are Horal border*, are mai'e up Into charming frock* wltk touches of black Velvet to glte them rh trader, and there v* otiotf «« i|uU!'« to rdur« stuffs In winch the hord* r U of l*»r*ian ttwlgn a ith »»» angw ti « prvtfum mating w»l> t THE GROWTH OF TOWNS IN WESTERN CANADA A BAROMETER OF THE GROWTH OF THE AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS. The traveler passing through « country is impressed favorably or oth erwise by the appearance of the towns along the line of railways. As they appear prosperous and of healthy growth he at once assures himself that there is either a local industrial factor to cause it, or a splendidly developed agricultural area from which ia drawn the resources that contribute or make for the growth that is so readily apparent. On the other hand, if evidence of impover ished streets, badly appearing resi dences and business places and leth argic citizens, there is an absence of local industry and surrounding agri cultural prosperity. There is no lino of railway, whether main or branch, throughout western Canada, that through the towns or cities that are built along the ribs of steel do not convey the most favorable impression. The cause is not always apparent, but the facts are there and easily seen. In most cases the growth and the sta bility of these towns are caused by the excellent agricultural districts that are tributary; in some cases, manufacturing enterprises have sprung up, caused by the agricultural demands and needs. The Winnipeg Free Press and the Edmonton Bulle tin have recently sent corps of cor respondents through the provinces to secure data concerning the growth of the two or three hundred towns that have come into existence during the past two or three years. The partic ulars make interesting reading, and as one reads of the station house, the blacksmith shop, the boarding house and the store of April, being dwarfed in August by a hundred or more dwell ings, by large hotels, by splendid stores, and a half dozen implement warehouses, not forgetting the two or three churches and the excellent pub lic school buildings, it causes one to stop and think if they ever heard of such marvelous changes. Certainly not often. These are facts, though, as related of western Canada. Then, too, there are now cities —yes, cities of from ten to fifteen thousand people —where five or six years ago there was but the bare prairie and the lone section post. The changes in the Ca nadian West during the past eight or ten years have been marvelous, and it is no idle tale to say that th® development in number and growth of the cities, towns and villages there in the past decade has eclipsed any thing in the history of the building of a new country. Agriculture has been the basis, and it is agriculture of the kind that is lasting. The ease with which an excellent productive farm, capable of yielding a splendid living and large profit to the operator, is such that it has encouraged thousands to follow that pursuit, and also other thousands on the limited and expen sive farms throughout the Central Western States as well as some of the Coast States, to enlarge their field of enterprise. The climate is excellent, and just the climate that is desirable for the healthy growth of man and the products of the field. All varie ties of the smaller and better paying grains are raised, and generally with every assurance of good fields. With government supervision of railway rates, splendid markets are centain, and the highest prices realized. The Dominion Government, that has been carrying on a propaganda of securing settlers for the vacant lands, issues literature descriptive of those avail able In the provinces, and on request of your nearest Canadian government agent, copies will be forwarded free. False. Clerk—This Is an eight-day clock. Murphy—G'wan! It's a lot; ther'a only sivin days in the wake!— Fuck. Make the Liver Do its Duty Nine timet in ten when the liver u right the Stool Ac h sod bowcU ate right. CARTER S LITTLE LIVER PILLS . gently but firmly :r,''""'vJHcarters Cutet Coo- WITTLI stipation, IIVER Indiges- Headache, and Distress after Eating. Small IMI. 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