2 CAMEBOH COUM PRESS,. H. H. MULLIN, Editor and Proprietor Published Every Thursday EMPORIUM. • PENNSYLVANIA = _ . _____ Cheer up; we won't run out of citrate for 120 years. Seriously, is It worth $1,200 a year to be a New York society perdoa? Portugal will reorganize its ravy. Tt appears that tho boat needs over hauling. It is dangerous to become a cen tenarian, for one drops oil nearly every day. Big chance for some one to buy the Madison Square garden. Marked down to $3,500,000. The Jimswinger paved the way for the oncoming of the clawhammer. Teh former is the pioneer coat. A diplodocus 175 feet long has been discovered in Utah. A diplodocus is something like a dinosaurus. only more so. They do things in style in Chicago. A woman there carefully removed tho glasses from another woman's face before slapping her. Why all this fuss about the theft of two opera scores in New York? Sev eral of those produced lately were more or less stolen. Uncle Samuel will build two battle •hips in 1911. Possibly when they are finished they will be far enough be hlnC the times to be used as targets. Boston's mayor can get wild ap plause by singing "Sweet Adeline" in public. In some respects Boston's leadership in culture seems hopeless ly Becure. The United States court of customs appeal has decided that a hen is not a bird. Perhaps it would have called her a bird if she had been laying eggs regularly. "Have women a sense of humor?" y* a question that is bothering Uer laan literary men. The dear girls must have a sense of humor to tol erate mere man. A few days ago Miss Stefanlja Pletrzykowski married Jan Sadowsky In Chicago. We merely reprint this Item to annoy the compositors and the proofreaders. Vienna is growing faster than Ber lin and It now has 2,004,291 inhab itants. The old city is holding Its own famously, especially In the re spect of waltz music. China is nothing if not progressive. The pigtail is togo, a constitution and a parliament are to be established, and some think a bald-headed China man will yet be seen. A building 58 stories high Is about to be erected In New York. All of which goes to show that even the buildings want to get as far away from the town as they can. We are told by a Buda-Pesth belle that American men are fllrtß. That Is easily explained. American women are so surpassingly beautiful that the poor men can't help themselves. Last year's fire loss in the United States and Canada foots up $234,470,- 650. In all Europe the loss was but one-sixth as large. This leak is a powerful indictment of American waste. It does not matter so much whether they are sending us pure champagne or imitations from France, as most persons in this country who buy the fizzy stuff judge it solely by the price anyway. A member of the audience In a Hamilton (Ont.) theater was struck In the forehead by the point of a sword which flew over the footlights. It would be no more than Just to give htm bin money back. Snowballs were used In Pennsyl vania the other day to put out a fire. Whenevor you feel one smite you on the dome, gentle reader, blaspheme not, but remember that sometimes a snowball is a blessing In disguise. Football may be a rough game, but ■when it comes to roughness those Russian students have their American brethren trimmed forty ways.. To earn his college emblem it is neces sary for a student to croak a police man. Six London policemen held at bay for five hours by a bulldog, may have been restrained from harsh steps by the fear of the Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals. Of course, It would have produced a Ger man war scare if the obstinate ani mal had been a dachshund. Wealthy Americans gave away pub' licly In big chunks $103,197,125 last year, and this was not protaibly one half of charity's grand total in thii country. A Connecticut girl, angry at a mere box of candy as a birthday gift, from her betrothed, I.urled it into the furnace. Flic has junt discovered that a SIOO diamond ring was among the candy, nnd Is now rep- nting her rash act The point of this is nofc or much emotionalism In the Now Elag land temperament THEIR HOLD INSECURE DEMOCRATS ARE EY NO MEANS FIRMLY IN THE SADDLE. Consideration of Figures of the Recent Election Are of Character ta Give Little Comfort to the Party. tn the elections last, fall 53 members of the hou. • of representatives were chosen by margins faMiiis under 1.000. I Of those men who owe their success to a few hundred voters 31 are Demo crats, 21 are Republicans and one is the lone Social Ht, Berger, of Miiwau- j kee. He fell mahy thousands of votes short of a majority in his district and pulled through by a plurality of 330 over the Republican candidate. Of the 53 districts carried by less than 1,000 margin 25 were won bj plu ralities below 500. Of these seats which were turned on the slenderest of pluralities 13 went to the Democrats and 11 to the Republicans. Berger, the Socialist, the other. On the face of the figures these facts do not reveal their full significance. They seem to leave the two great par- j tics not very unequally placed in re- j speet to dependence upon extremely close districts. In reality there is a wide difference. The Republicans who carried dls-1 tricts by slender pluralities saved them In the face of a general and heavy fall ing off in their party's strength. They showed that the seats they held could be won in the worst of adverse years. These districts may fairly be classed as secure, even against a landslide for the opposition. The conditions are reversed in re spect to close districts carried by Dem ocrats. They profited by the same general revulsion of public sentiment which made Republican success ex tremely difficult. Districts which went Democratic last, fall by the narrowest of pluralities are districts very likely to be lost at the next congressional election. A change of 9,500 votes, in the right places, would have reversed the result of the struggle for the national house of representatives. It would have given the Republicans the full control of congress by electing 31 Republicans instead of Democrats in the districts where the Democratic margin was less than 1,000. The present Democratic hold on the house of representatives is exceeding ly uncertain and liable to be lost in the next general election. The margin of the majority party in the next house will look ample on roll calls, when the Democrats stand together, but the popular vote foundation beneath it is astonishingly small and insecure. Really Involves No Subsidy. The Gallinger ship subvention bill has been passed by the United States senate, though by a vote so close that the vice-president decided the tie, registering himself in favor of the measure. The act, should it become a law, will authorize the postoifice de partment to pay four dollars per mile on the outward voyage to second class American-built vessels plying between ports in the United States and those In the Philippines, China and Australia and in South America south of the equator. Payment of two dollars per mile under the same conditions may be made to ships of the third class. A provision limits expenditures in any one year to $4,000,000, or to an amount not exceeding the surplus earnings of the ocean carrying mail business. In othe? words, this much-talked-of "sub sidy" bill really involves no subsidy. It simply permits the government to expend, in aid of American ships car rying the mails, the profits made in one branch of the postal service. The bill now goes to the house of repre sentatives, where sentiment is thought to be stronger in favor of this very moderate plan for encouraging Ameri can shipping. Settle the Tariff Question. When the Payne bill became a law, its friends hoped, and expressed the opinion, that the tariff would not be an issue of pressing moment again for at least ten years. They conceded that the Democrats would continue their agitation, but they did not expect it to make much impression as against a measure at once a good revenue pro ducer and a harborer of the principle of protection. This proved to be a mistaken judg ment. The tariff as an issue did not disappear for a single week. Oppo nents of the new law in both parties continued to attack it, and in a little more than a year after its enactment they secured a verdict against it at the polls. And what is now on the cards, both as respects reciprocity and recision of schedules, is in obedience to that verdict. The question now is, will the tariff question be settled in the next ten years? The people want it settled, and it is true that nothing is settled until it is settled right. Likes Tariff Commission Idea. Revision of the tariff through a tar iff commission, as advocated by Presi dent Taft, is the sensible way. So vital a matter as the readjustment of duties on imports, involving, as it does, the question of protection to industry, the necessity of revenue and the inter ests of the consumer, is one that calls not for inexperienced tinkering, hut for expert thought, as ably pointed out by Mr. Lincoln C. Cummins, and Presi •lent Taft's wise stand for a commis sion composed of experts must merit the commendation of all good citizens who are Interested primarily in their eountry'a welfare.—-Baltimore Ameri can. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY. MARCH 16, 1911. SHOULD LEARN THE LESSON Republicans Mrst Realize Cause of F.e cent Defeat and Get Together Again. Division.' in the Democratic party? Certainly. And on every important subject. Tin-' can IK clearly traced ui the tariff, Later, v. - e shall see th ill appear on < urrencs reform. And then tli6 new trust legislation will show differences between the south and the i ut. It must he remembered that tlie De mocracy has been out of power a long time, and in tha! time has been largely engaged with experiments. It has written some queer platforms. It has made some strangn nominations. The leading question it lias put to itself has been: "What shall i do to get in again ?" For 14 years nothing it did availed. Failure after failure was recorded. Mr. Bryan was defeated three times and Judge Parker once for president. House after house !• 11 to the lot of the Republicans. In the senate the Demo crats dwindled to a small squad. Last November tiiere was* a "kill ing." But it did not come through Democratic strength, but Republican weakness. The Republicans fought each other, while the Democrats walked off with the spoil. It was the easiest thing that ever eatne the Democracy's way. But. voted inio power in the house, the Democracy must now have a pro gram. It has at last got in again, and the meaning of that is that the time for experiments has passed. It must agree upon something, anil support it. Well would it have been for the Re publicans if immediately after their great victory in 1008 they had taken stock of their divisions and settled them. They were on the eve of a bit ter row over the house rules. The tar iff was to stir and distress them even more severely. And yet they plunged ahead as if ignorant of or indifferent to the menacing situation. The result was such a tumult in less than six months after the victory that nothing could stop it, and the party went to defeat at the polls.—Washington Star. Democrats and the Tariff. Twenty-seven years ago this coming spring Mr. Randall, supported by forty odd of his Democratic friends, took oft the head of the Morrison horizontal bill in the house. That nullified the elec tion of Mr. Carlisle to the speakership so far as the tariff was concerned. Four years later the Mills bill was passed in the house as a response to Mr. Cleveland's tariff measure of the previous December, but it was so little in accord with the spirit of the mes sage that the tariff reformers in the Democratic national convention which renominated Mr. Cleveland practically repudiated the bill and indorsed the message. Six years after that a Democratic congress divided on the tariff ques tion, and brought things political to the ground with a smash. Mr. Wilson of West Virginia presided over matters In the house, and Mr. Gorman revised the revision when it reached the sen ate. The two men, although both Dem ocrats, were far apart on the tariff, the one being an anti-protectionist and the other a protectionist. Since then the Republicans have re vised the tariff twice, and on both oc casions there were Democratic sena tors and representatives who sought and obtained protection duties on arti cles in which their constituents were interested. "Call it what you please, protection or what not, and I'm for It," said the late Senator Daniel very frankly. So now. There are protection Dem ocrats and anti-protection Democrats, and they are just as far apart as Mr. Randall and Colonel Morrison were a quarter of a century ago. Next year, in both the house and the senate this fact will be developed. Extend Session of Congress. The inauguration of the president so early in the spring imposes danger and hardship on those who participate in it. The short session of congress is not long enough. When the federal calendar was ar ranged many years ago it provided amply for the necessities existing then. But the country has grown immensely. One appropriation bill now carries a greater sum of money than was need ed then to run the whole government. Six weeks added to the short session would relieve the situation common at this time of the year. The present congress could utilize the time advan tageously to the country, to its own membership and to the party which controls it. It would seem that little urging should be necessary to bring about the adoption of the resolution. Reform in Customs Payments. It is said that the senate probably will return to its original form the bill authorizing the payment of cus toms duties by certified checks—that is, the senate will strike out the house amendment which makes acceptable certified checks of state banks and trust companies, leaving only the checks of national banks. It is pointed out that the government has no au thority over state banks and trust com panies, but has constant supervision of national banks. The treasury officials at. any time can call 011 the comptroller of the currency for Information re garding a national bank. The chance of loss from accepting certified checks from state banks or trust companies is so slight that the government might well disregard it in the general desire to facilitate business. It is hard to please everybody with a tariff, but the Republican party is identified with the kind that has been associated with general prosperity. Hats and V # y"V Vi ; - V '• t Wv W-^M I • X " " fell / ' \ m> \ n t - v.A t v. m ./ '■ '■ t % k/i I I * WM I :-I .v»< . « ..W/.-JM-I \... .» s ' . y^'^ZggM IT IS to lie the small hats for early spring, made of exquisite, lustrous, light braids, that is light in weight. And th'-se little hats are soft, many of them made without a wire frame, so that they sit caressingly upon the hair and conform themselves to the shape of the head. And a few people have jumped to the conclusion that be cause hats are small, the matter of dressing the hair will sink into one of the unimportant and negligible details of the toilette. Such a conclusion is not reached by a course of reasoning. If you have absorbed it,"l pray you gentle lady, to unthink your speaking, and to say so no more." The smal hat, even more than the large one demands a well dressed coiffure; fof the coiffure is the visible means of support of the little hat. Hair, in pretty curls or fluffy waves, simply must peep out from under the edges of the hat and frame the face and neck, otherwise the wearer will look as if she were bald. These small hats worn over a coif fure from which a few stray puffs and bobbing curls contrive to stray out, and covered with a fine floating veil of lace, are simply entrancing. These veils come in a variety of fancy weaves. Nothing is prettier than a NIGHTDRESS IN ONE PIECE Pattern Simple in Construction and Garment Most Comfortable to Wear. Anyone who wants to make a night dress with little trouble should use this pattern, as it is very simple in construction and comfortable to wear; the sleeves are cut in with the body part, an opening being made down the left side; the neck is cut square and trimmed with two rows of insertion mi tered at the corners, but the pattern is cut quite up to the neck, so that one row of trimming only need be used. The sleeves are gathered into inser tion-trimmed bands, and are finished with lace. Materials required: Four yards 36 inches wide. Two Little Hints. Do not throw away boot polish when it has become hard through the lid being left off, but place it on top of a warm oven until It softens. I have tried it and found it worth the trouble. To open a tin of black lead, pull away the paper and put it in front of the fire —on the fender will do. It will open quite readily and better than knocking the tin with a knife. Care of Silk Gloves. In trying on silk glomes cover the bands well with talcun: and you will not tear the gloves. If a seam rips, do not whip it over and over. Turn the glove, catch one side of the torn part and then the opposite, going back and forth, and the work will not rip out. Do not knot the thread. Mend a "nin" in a similar manner. Brussels net with a little dot or fig ure over the surface and a lace pat tern in the border. Two good models in small hats are shown here. In Fig. 1 the round, cap-like turban Is made of silk braid in bright champagne color, the brim and crown are both made of the braid, sewed and afterward draped on the fine light frame. These hats are not for the amateur millinery, because they require a knowledge of the art of draping. The rosette and petal is made of brown velvet and gold cord. It is a beautiful color combination, and suited to almost any color in the costume. The second hat is of an elegant braid in black and white. It is trimmed with a double collar of velvet and kid, and finished with velvet covered buttons. It is a cool and crisp combina tion of black and white which we can never hope to excel in elegance. Imagine these hats on a head with the hair drawn back and not appear ing about the face and neck! The pretty face and the pretty hats would both be spoiled. The importance of the coiffure with the small hat in creases. They are both well worth while. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. WILL PLEASE THE INVALID Pretty and Useful Trifles That Will Lighten the Tedium of the Sick Room. Among the appropriate things for the invalid are flower holders. These can be fastened to the foot of the bed, and are large enough to hold three or four carnations or roses, generally all that are to be allowed in the sick room. Another acceptable gift is a dainty piece of china—a flower bordered plate, a gruel bowl of eggshell thinness, or a fragile cup and saucer of delicate design. Never mind if these things are likely to break with their first tumble; because of their beauty, they will give enough pleas ure, perhaps real benefit, to make their possible short existence well worth while. A lightweight leather writing case, provided with a screw top bottle of ink, compartments for paper, envelopes, stamps, and pen and pencil, gives the invalid who is strong enough to write a certain feel ing of independence. Some of these cases have keys which add to their usefulness. A pint or half pint vacuum bottle, for keeping liquids warm or cold, is another comfort-giv ing gift for the invalid and a time saving gift for the nurse or caretaker. « SCARF OF SHETLAND WOOL One of the Prettiest and Most Com fortable of the Season's Head Coverings. Something more than a coat is re quired by the girl going forth in the evening to some gala function or other. She needs a head muffling, a throat protector of some sort, and is very well protected if she has velvet or silk overboots and long wool mit tens for the thin gloves. These things make her comfortable, and if they are selected they need not be clumsy or unbecoming. One of the cheapest and most re warding head muffllngs of the season is a Shetland wool scarf or auto veil, for these pretty things can be worn over the face. These filmy scarfs come in all colors and pure white, as well as in white with gay Scotch bor ders. For a dark girl who is going to have a bit of vivid color in her party get-up the Scotch-border scarfs are superb. They have a look of Mex ican splendor and cost exactly one dollar and ten cents each! Novelties. Nets are gaining in favor as a foun dation for chiffon corsages, producing a much softer effect than silk. Large velvet bags with the personal touch of an embroidered monogram in one corner are much favored. Among scarfs the newest material is fine silk tricot, like glove silk. These come in all the fashiomtbU shades. Many of the sleeves in the new evening gowns are slushed, with anj other material appearing underneath .. !'.EGiFE GORES WE/.K KIDNEYS, FREE RELIEVES URINARY AND KIDNEY TROUBLES, BACKACHE, STRAIN -ING, SWE: LING, ETC. Stops Pain In the Bladder, Kidney" *nd Back. Wouldn't It he nice within a wi 1; or s<> to ljoyrln to say goo.lbye for«ver to the scalding, dribbling, straining. or too fre quent passage of nrlno; the foreb'-ad .and the back-01-the-liend aci.es; the itltvhes DIKI pains In the 1 iclc; (lie growing ir.'ii cle weakness; '■ pots b fore tin- ; i• .. H,'h a3 wfljj 9.ooo cans torn 2 toes or 20,000 can* fruits in 10 hours. TERMS: A per cent of pac!r, or 2 or II yearly payments, or for cash* Writs for Booklet. THOS. U. BKCR'N, Mo.