CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1909.

CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.H. H. MULLIN, td:tor.

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Analysis of Reason.Reason is always a kind of brute

force; those who appeal to the headrather than the heart, however pallid

and polite, are necessarily men ofviolence. We speak of "touching" aman's heart, but we can do nothing to

bis head but hit it.?G. K. Chester-ton.

Handicapped."Precocious children do not always

grow up to be geniuses." "No," an-

swered Miss Cayenne. "Sometimesthey are kept so busy thinking up oddthings for their fathers to tell down-town that they neglect the ordinarybranches of education."?WashingtonStar.

Area Not the Biggest Factor.Any scientific farmer can tell the

modern Malthuses that it is cheaperio raise a certain product on 50 acreswell farmed than on 200 poor acres.Area and its present yield may al-most be disregarded in figuring whatpopulation the earth can support.

Queer New York Street Signs.A barber in the Bronx who halls

from Italy has a sign painted on hiswindow "Harbitonsorial Parlor." Andon a hotel by a lironx road is the an-nouncement, "Automobile and Fun-eral Parties Cheerfully Accomodated."?New York Sun.

When the Parson Listened.A local minister who listened close-

ly to the hymn caught the lady mem-bers of his choir singing: "Yield notto flirtation, for flirting is sin; somesister will help you a brother to win."?Lawrence World.

POINTS OUT MERITS

PRESIDENT TAFT'S ARGUMENTSON PAYNE BILL.

Chief Executive Clearly Shows ThatPledges of the Republican Party

Made to the People HrveBeen Kept.

President Taft has made his eagerly

looked for tariff speech and lias de-clared himself in terms which willplease the great majority of the Amer-ican people, who are nPTTher free trad-ers nor extreme protectionists. Withcharacteristic frankness Mr. Taft ad-mits t.lie defects of the Payne bill.With judicial care he weighs iis mer-its and its faults and decides that,judged as a whole, it is good. Hemakes no pretence that it is an easy

task to revise a tariff, nor does heminimize the difficulties which eon-

front the conscientious legislator whoseeks to ascertain the cost of produc-tion at home and abroad. He makesclear his expectation that the newboard will devote itself to the task.

Just a Gentle Hint.A clergyman startled his drowsy

congregation the oilier day as fol-lows: "My dearly beloved friends,permit me to remind you that I camehere to preach, not to act as umpirein a snoring match." ?Tit-Bits.

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Life's Ups and Downs."The world is full of ups and

downs," quoted the Wise Guy. "That'sright," agreed the Simple Mug. "Weare either trying to live up to agood reputation or trying to live abad one down."

No Proof of Hereditary Leprosy.The London Lancet says six hun-

dred children of leprous parents arebeing educated by the Mission of Lep-ers, and the children show no signs ofleprosy.

National Differences."Chinamen are very different from

us in one thing, ain't they, pop?" "Ina great many, but what's your one?""Why, if a Chinaman don't get a yel-low-jacket on him, he's stung."

Really a Puzzle."Did she marry for love?" "That's

what everybody is wondering. Herhusband is charming in manier,wealthy, has no bad habits, andmoves in the best society."?Judge.

Has the Sad Conviction.After a man has tried in vain to bor-

row a few paltry dollars you can't con-vince him that the world isn't growing\u25a0wiser.

Best Milk for Babies.Morning milk is best for babies ?

fresher and fewer germs than theprevious night's milk, but slightlyweaker in cream.

Few Attain Long Life.Taking the average for the world

around fewer than half of the babieaborn live to be 50 years of age.

Tests of Success.Sometimes it seems easier to num-

ber your successes by counting thechances you didn't take.?Puck.

Ma.~.im.It's all right for a man to hold three

or four queens in a game of cards?-but not in the game of love.

Uncle Ezra Says:"Tt's a short road thet hez no tem-

tations fur the autymobile speeder,"

Spanish Proverb.All sorrows are bearable if there is

bread.?Pon Quixote.

Where the Chatterer Loses.TH" talker FOVVS, the listener reap«.

r-Italian.

Discussing the tariff bill as a whole,Mr. Taft shows that the Payne tariffbill makes three times as many de-creases as increases; that decreaseshave been made on articles entering

into consumption to the amount of$5,000,000,000, mostly necessaries, andincreases on articles entering intoconsumption to the amount of $851,-000,000, of which $579,000,000 are lux-uries. Concretely stated, therefore,

the Payne bill, measured in terms ofconsumption, made decreases on com-modities to the amount of $5,000,000,-000 and increases on the necessariesof life to the amount of $272,000,000only. In the light of this showing itwas certainly unnecessary for thepresident to make any profound apol-ogy for his course in signing the billor any excuse for those who votedfor it.

Taking up the method of reasoningwhich was used by the "insurgents"

in congress, the comparison of im-ports under the various schedules ofthe old and the new law, Mr. Taft dis-misses it as wholly misleading, say-ing, "Nothing could be more unjust

in a protective tariff which also con-tains revenue provisions."

To the extreme "stand-patter" Mr.Taft's discussion of the tariff bill willdoubtless prove almost as unsatisfac-tory as it will to the free trader. Hisdeclaration that the wool scheduleought to have been reduced, that "itIs the one Important defect in thepresent Payne tariff bill and in theperformance of the promise of theplatform to reduce rates to a differ-ence in the cost of production withreasonable profit to the manufactur-er," will afford as little solace to theinjured feelings of the "range sena-tors" as to the woolen manufacturersof the east, llis intimation that theschedules will have to be still furtherrevised when his new tariff board shallhave acquired the information he willdemand of it will disquiet the heartof the extreme "stand-patter." But to

the great majority of the voters, in-cluding not only Republicans but alarge number of latter-day Democrats,Mr. Taft's attitude will strongly com-

mend itself.Not least important was Mr. Taft's

broad intimation that the next presi-dential campaign v-ould be fought outon tariff lines, that three years hence(he tariff board would have acquiredthe information necessary to the con-sideration of the tariff on a lfcore sci-entific basis than ever before and thaiby that time the Republican partywould be ready togo before thepeople with a definite proposition.

Three years is a long period in poli-tics. but tlu-re can be little doubt thatif the question of revision of the tariffjs then uppermost Wie people will ro-

MORE WINNING OF THE WEST.

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Out Through the Wild and Woolly Country.

gard the passage of the Payne billand President Taft's frank discussionthereof as an earnest that the Repub-lican party will make a sincere ef-fort to fulfill the party pledge, where-as the debate and the votes on thePayne bill amply demonstrated thatparty pledges have no binding forcewith_tlie members of the opposition.

TO DISFRANCHISE THE NEGRO

Maryland Democrats Have Old Ideawith New and Specious Argu-

ments.

Maryland Democrats have openedanother campaign for the disfran-chisement of the negro, which is be-ing urged with novel and speciouspleading. The proposed amendmentto the constitution would bar negroes

who have not been thrifty enough toaccumulate .SSOO and an education.Of course there are the usual argu-

ments about restricting the suffrage

to the intelligent and responsible ele-ment, barring the illiterate and igno-

rant, and all that. The new wrinkleis the assertion that by adopting theamendment the grandfather clausecan be brought at last squarely beforethe United States supreme court anda decisive ruling obtained on the four-teenth and fifteenth amendments. Ac-companying this is the liayner argu-

ment that these amendments are aniniquitous interference with thestate's rights and furnish an alleged.necessity for defending them.

All this, of course, makes cam-

paign declamation, but it may bedoubted whether it can obscure thereal purpose of the Maryland politi-cians in pushing the issue. There aresome 60,000 negro voters in the slate.The Democrats believe that ttose rep-resent the balance of power. By theelimination of the great majority ofthe negro voters the state, they think,

can be made safely Democratic. Thatis all there is to it. The alleged anxi-ety to get the federal amendments be-fore. the supreme court by tdopting thestate amendment and having a test

made is simply campaign dust thrown

in the eyes of the voters. If the Dem-ocracy is so anxious to obtain such a

devision on this issue there have beennumerous opportunities in the south-ern states that have been carefully

overlooked.

Taft's South Carolina Appointments.Mr. Taft's record in the way of ap-

pointments in South Carolina is oneto which he may "point with pride,"and for which he is entitled to \u25a0 thethanks of the people of this state. Theroll is worth calling at times to showhow far we have traveled since theunhappy blunders of the last adminis-tration: Durant, collector of the port

of Charleston, with "Pete" Jennings asdeputy collector thrown in for goodcount; Floyd as postmaster at Spar-tanburg, with the indorsement of manyof the best men in that city; Has'.tie asassistant district attorney at Charles-ton; Storen as census supervisor ofthe First district; Waterhouse atBeaufort; Russell at Anderson; Pritch-ard at Greenville; Douglas for theFifth district; Dupre for the Columbiadistrict, and possibly Alexander forthe Sixth district. All these men arewhite men; a number of them areDemocrats, and the majority of themare natives of the state. We thinkthat this is a good record, and that, be-sides pleasing the people and ftakingtIKm think that they really have an

interest in the government at Wash-ington, the government, itself will getfirst rate service.?Charleston (S. C.)News and Courier (D.*m.).

At the rate new quarrels are springing up in the Democratic party histates without whWi it can neverhope to win again, it may easily b?that the great advertiser of Lincolnwill be the only man willingto accepta Democratic presidential nominationin 1012.

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TOUR OF THE PRESIDENT.

President Taft was given a hearty

welcome 011 his arrival at San Fran-cisco and the program for his enter-

tainment was carried out without a

hitch.President Taft officiated at the lay-

ing of the corner-stone of the FirstUniversalist church at East Portland,

Ore.President Taft visited the Alaska-

Yukon Pacific exposition at Seattle.Wash., and was the center of Interestlor the great crowds at the fair.

President Taft, at Seattle exposi-tion. in his speech said be would askcongress to pass a ship subsidy law.

PERSONAL.

Mrs. E. E. Pitts of Laurens, S. C.,

is said to have been cured recently ofpellagra in an advanced stage.

Miss Ruth Bryan has announcedherself as a candidate for congressfrom a Colorado district.

Attorney General VVickersham andSecretary Nagel of the department ofcommerce and labor arrived in Wash-ington after their vacations.

Richard U. Sherman, son of Vice-President Sherman, and Miss EleanorMills, a society belle of Utica, N. Y.,

were married at that city.

Postmaster General Hitchcock is atFlagstaff, Ariz., for a bear hunt. Howill join the Taft party at Yuma.

Prof. Abbott Lawrence Lowell wasinaugurated as president of Harvarduniversity.

GENERAL NOTES.

Sensational developments are ex-pected in the jury-tampering scandalat Chicago. State's Attorney Way-man has discovered much new evi-dence and drafts of more indictmentsare being prepared and the presentgrand jury is expected to return them.

Action has been begun at Washing-ton before the interstate commerce

commission by the Federal Sugar Re-fining Company ol' New York againstseveral eastern railroads in which al-legations of unjust and unreasonablecharges for transportation of sugarare made.

A Hudson-Fulton fete was heldevery night In midocean on thesteamer President Grant on the voy-age to New York.

The reproduction of Henry Hud-son's exploring vessel Half Moon,which took a central part in the Hud-son-Pulton celebration, will be perma-nently placed in a lake in Prospectpark, Brooklyn.

A monument to the Rhode Islandtroops who fell in the civil war atNewbern, N. C., was dedicated there.Gov. Pothier and other Rhode Islandofficials taking part.

A flock of over 4,500 sheep andlambs from Colorado Is under quaran-tine at the Kansas City stockyards byorder of Inspector H. B. Adair, whodeclares that the animals are afflict-ed with tho "ljpand leg" disease.

Lieut. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, re-tired, does not believe enforced idle-ness is causing the high death rateamong retired army officers, accord-ing to a statement he made at LosAngeles.

More than three billion fishes andfish eggs were distributed by the bu-reau of fisheries of the department ofcommerce and labor in the last year.

New York woman suffragists willheld a city convention October 29, butwill not name a ticket. Next year,however, (hey intend to put a ticketinto the field.

Pittsburg tendered Dr. Frederick A.Cook such a warm ovation that thenorthern explorer was visibly affected.I le announces that the facts in the polecontroversy will be given to the pub-

lic soon, and everything settled with-in six months.

Ray Lamphere of Belle Gunness'"murder farm" fame Is reporteddying of tuberculosis in the MichiganCity (Ind.) prison.

liellevue hospital doctors are puz-zled by the case of a well-dressedman who does not remember his nameor history. He says he was riding ina street car when something in hisbrain snapped and his memory be-came a blank.

The comptroller of the treasury hasrefused to reimburse a Philadelphiadrug company for virus destroyed b3r

order of the government on theground that it was affected with theloot and mouth disease.

Kev. VV. M. Stuckey, who was ar-rested at VVaukegan, ill., chargedwith abducting 17-year-old LorenaSutherland, was released on SI,OOObond at Ottawa, Kan.

Eight Pacific coast cities have ac-cepted an invitation to send delega-tions to China to inspect the coun-try's enterprises.

A $1,000,000 exhibit of heavy ma-chinery and street car appliances isa feature of the street and interurbanrailways' convention now in sessionin Denver.

Military surgeons from all parts ofthe United States and from 11 foreigncountries are attending the annualmeeting of the Association of Mili-tary Surgeons that opened in Wash-ington.

The climax of the north pole contro-versy is expected within a week«whenthe Peary Arctic club will make pub-lic Peary's statement, which he de-clares will prove that he was the onlywhite man to reach the pole.

Wilbur Wright made the most spec-

tacular flight in his aeroplane at NewYork that the world has ever wit-nessed. He circled the air 100 feetover New York harbor in an 18-milewind.

Owing to complications betweenMorocco and Spain becoming moreacute declaration of regular war be-tween those countries is a possibility.

An organization known as theGeorge Washington fund has beenlaunched to help worthy Americansstranded abroad to get back to thefatherland. The fund was organizedon board the liner George Washing-ton, on the way from Bremen to NewYork, and was suggested by IsaacGuggenheim of the smelting family.

The Amalgamated Association ofStreet and Electric Railway Employesof America met in annual conventionat Toronto, (.'an., about 320 officersand delegates being present.

Richard Updyke Sherman, secondson of Vice-President Sherman, and

Miss Eleanor Miller, of Utica, N. Y.,were married in Utica. The groom isprofessor of mathematics in Hamiltonuniversity.

The celebration c e the centennialanniversary of the incorporation ofSt. Louis is in full swing and thefetes will continue throughout theweek.

The Spanish ambassador to Francelias Tigain formally assured ForeignMinister Pichon that Spain has no in-

tention of departing from her originalprogram regarding Morocco as com-

municated to the powers.The Upper Mississippi River Im-

provement association in session atWinona, Minn., has adopted a resolu-tion requesting congress to appropri-ate $20,000,000 for a six-foot channelin the Mississippi river from Minne-apolis to St. Louis.

A dense fog at Detroit caused many

collisions between street carsin which several persons were in-jured. One boy was killed.

The Mayor of Marshalltown, la., andsix members of the police force anilsheriff's office have been indicted by afederal grand jury for placing an In-dian service officer in jail and keepinghim there for more than 24 hours.

The old-fashioned lord mayor'sshow, which for many centurieshas been one of the most picturesque

functions to be witnessed in England,

will be abandoned this year by thenew lord mayor-elect. Sir John Knill.

"Near-beer" dealers in Tennesseemust pay a tax of $1,500 a year, col-lection of which is to be begun at

once."King's Mountain day,"the anniver

sary of the victory over the Hritish in1780 at King's Mountain, N. C. ( was

celebrated in South Carolina andTennessee.

As each graduating class at WestPoint is about eighty men short of thenumber of officers needed by thearmy, an effort will be made by Presi-dent Taft to persuade congress to in-crease the number of cadets to be ap-pointed.

Prominent public men who were tohave been called by the government

in the Panama libel case against Dela-van Smith and Charles R. Williams ofthe Indianapolis News have not beensummoned to the hearing next Mon-day at the Indiana capital.

The biennial convention of the Na-tional German American alliance washeld in Cincinnati, more than .',OO dele-Kales attending

The thirty-second annual meetingtional German American alliance washeld in Cincinnati, more than threehundred delegates attending.

Charles 11. Crane, the new Americanminister to China, sailed from SanFrancisco to assume his duties.

i'he celebration ol the centennialat the American Humane associationopened in St. Paul, Minn., with Presi-dent Stiilman of Albany, N. V., in thechal ? ?

It is reported that John It. vValsn:he lormer Chicago banker, is preparni; a ... unci i coup and regain his (or-nei' power.

Handils who at lacked the poet officeft I Miass, in Samara province, iiuasia? btupeU with alter iulllug| olllolUcers.

Or. cderick A. ( nnouneed at\\ ashin~t'»n that he will acquiesce Inthe proposition tha 112 he University ofCopenhagen be asked to waive itsclaim to a prior examination of hisrecords in order that American tribunfrla may review them.

News of the probable death bystarvation In the Baffin land of Mor-rison. one of the crew of the wreckedDundee whalter Snowdrop, wasbrought to St. John's. N. F? by Wil-Ired (Jrenfell's missionary schoonerl.orna Doone.

Minister Crane, who was about tosail for China from San Francisco,was summoned by Secretary Knox toreturn to Washington. It Is said cer-tain phases In the eastern situationare to be discussed.

With a view to Increasing the cottonyield of German liast Africa to makeGermany Independent of the cotton ofthe United States, Bernhardt Dein-berg, German minister of colonies, andI).- Walter Btisse, head of the Germanagricultural department, have arrivedat New York to study cotton culture.

Gov. Hadley and Mayor ICrelsmanwelcomed the mayors of 361 cities atSt l.ouis as guests at the Centennialweek celebration at that city.

The University of Michigan willgive a four-years' course in railroadadministration for students wishing toqualify lor railroad positions.

JILTED GIRLBLOWSOFF HEAD WITH GUN

VILLAOF AN AMERICAN PAINTERAT ROLLEBOISE, FRANCE, THE

SCENE OF TRAGEDY.

GIRL NOTED FOR HER BEAUTY

She Served at Night in the DoubleCapacity of Domestic and Model

?Was Thrown Down by HerLover at a Public Bail.

Mantes-Sur-Seine, France. ?The vil-la of Daniel Ridgway Knight, theAmerican painter at Rollerboise, over-looking the Seine, was the sceneof a dramatic tragedy October 6. Ar-niande Pisoni, a 17-year-old-girl, re-nowned throughout the countryside forher beauty and who served at night inthe double capacity of domestic andmodel, after being publicly jilted at avillage ball by her lover, Gustave For-tune, returned to Mr. Knight's homV\took the painter's shotgun and, placingthe barrel under her chin, blew off herhead. Mr. Knight found the body ofthe girl the following morning uponhis return from Paris.

Before killing herself Armandewrote a pathetic letter to her father, achimney sweep in Paris, and to hersisters, adjuring the latter to avoidlove affairs and never to believe man'sword. She also left a letter to Mr.Knight asking forgiveness for thetrouble and annoyance she was caus-ing him in committing such a deed inhis home. The coroner returned averdict of suicide during a temporaryfit of madness. When Fortune heardof the tragic death of his sweethearthe tried to kill himself.

The funeral of the girl was the oc-casion of remarkable demonstration ofaffection for her. The entire populace

of the village attended the servicesand followed the coilin to the grave.Mr. Knight paid all funeral expenses.He said that the girl had a face ofthe most remarkable beauty he hadever seen. She was posing for pic-tures Mr. Knight is painting which liesaid are valued by him at $."0,000. Oneof them is for John If. Converse, presi-dent of the Baldwin LocomotiveWorks at Philadelphia.

W!EN MUST BE SOMEBODYProgressive Women of New York De-

cide that It Is Not Incumbent on

Wife to Use Husband's Name.

New York City.?The New, Yorklegislative league, composed of pro-gressive women, has decided by reso-lution that it is not incumbent on a

married woman to use her husband'sname. While this resolution wasunanimously carried many prominentspeaW-rs declared that at the presenttime, with men in a more powerfulpolitical position, it would bo ex-pedient for women to use some partof their husband's names.

"My husband objected to me using

my own name," declared Mis. Mar-garet Holmes Bates, 'and it did not

do him any good. 1 wrote and signed

my writings with my own name. Itis all very well in private and sociallife to use your husband's name if heis anybody. I don't see why anybodyshould use the name of a nonentity."

DUN & CO.'S TRADE BULLETINEvery Large Business Center

Throughout the Country ReportsProgressive*! improvement.

New York City.?R. G. Dun & Co.'sWeekly Review of Trade says:

From every large business centerthroughout the country come reportsof progressive improvement in trade.In most instances the reports aremore than satisfactory; they speak ofa present and prospective increase inactivity that is indicative of a returnto even more than normal conditions.In somo cases the volume of trade isdescribed as equal to, or in excess ofprevious records. In the iron and thesteel trade I'uJl productive capacityappears to have been approached andthe outlook for 1910 is very bright.

TRAINS COLLIDE WITH CRASHSeventeen People Were Killed and

Ten Severely Injured Near To-Peka, Kan.

Topeka, Kan. ?Seventeen personswere killed and ten severely in-jured in a collision between a freight

train and a construction train on theAtchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroadnear here. The dead are eleven Mex-icans, four section foremen and two

brakemen. The injured are all Mexi-cans and are at the Atchison, Topeka& Santa Fe hospital. It is believedsome of them are fatally injured. Thework train was backing into Topekawith 50 Mexicans riding on the flatcars. As the tivin was rounding acurve the north bound freight crashedinto it.

One Killed; Eight Injured.Waterloo, la.?Ono person was

killed and eight others were injuredat Greene, 40 miles north of Water-loo. The of a passengertrain picked up a loose plank whichbroke a switch and caused the wreck.

Old Monitor Officer Dead.New York City.?Capt. Join Joshua

N. Webber, 80 years old, who servedas an executive officer cn t!.\u25a0 iron-clad Monitor during her b:-fr 1« withtho Merrfniac in IS'J4 is C- !

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