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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25
LAWS VALUE SHOWN
FIGURES REPUBLICANS MAY
POINT TO WITH PRIDE.
Workings of Payne-AIdrich Measure
Shown to Have Been of Benefit
to the Country-Offical
Statistics Quoted.

The Payne-Aldrich law, it will be re-
sixth of August of last year, so that
the returns for the full fiscal year,
which began on the first of July, rep
resent only roughly and approximate
ly the working of the new law. There
fore the bureau of statistics calls out
the returns for the eleven months
since the law went into effect. The
statement shows the total imports in
the eleven months period to have
been S1,445,366, 500, against $1,231.-
S2S,976 in the corresponding months
of the fiscal year 1907, the previous
high record year of imports. OF this
total under the Payne law, 49,14 per
cent entered free of duty, being a
larger percentage free of duty than i'll
the corresponding period of any year
under the Wilson tariff law and 1892,
1898 and 1894, unGer the Mckinley
law, which admitted sugar free of
duty. Customs receipts during the
eleven months operation of the Payne
tariff law were $500, 1922, ,161, exceeding
tlDSc VI TIC COl OllCSIclldlu0 pNi iOb VI
any earlier year except 1907, when the
receipts for the corresponding month
aggregated $307 ,3S1. Comparing
the customs receipts for the period,
as reported by the treasury depart
ment, S302, 1922, ,161, with the value of
imports as reported to the bureau OF
statistics by the collectors of customs,
S1,445, ,366, 500, the average ad valorem
rate of duty on all imports is shown
to have been 2095 per cent, and on
dutiable imports 41.19 per cent.
A comparison of this ad valorem
rate of duty with that of correspond
ing periods in each year back to 1890
shows a lower rate on total imports
than in the corresponding period of
any fiscal year except 1896, the sec
ond year of the Wilson law, when the
ad valorem rate averaged 20.5S per
cent, and 1894, the closing year OF
the Mckinley law, when the ad va
loren rate averaged 1879 per cent.
The percentage OF. merchandise en-.
tering free of duty under the entire
operation of the Payne law thus far
has been larger than under the Ding
ley or Wilson law, but slightly less
than under the Mckinley law, the
share entering free of duty under the
Payne law during its entire operation
having been 1914 per cent; under the
Dingley law during it's entire period
44.31 per cent; under the Wilson law
during it's entire period, 4S.S2 pei
cent. ana under the IcKinley law
during its entire opo ION, 53.04 per
cent. And let it be remembered that
the Mckinley law imposed no duty on
sugar
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25
How Old Mother Earth Hides Her Age

/ -e of the Earth" from more philo-
sophical point of view.
The age of the earth always has
been a subject for discussion among
men of science and largely without
any definite agreement among the
representatives of the different
branches of studies on account of the
different points of attack.
Briefly, the more recent discussions
as to the earth's age have placed the
time as follows:
Lord Kelvin, in 1868, estimated the
earth's age at 20,000,000 to 40,000,000
and perhaps 9S,0O0,0O0 years.
Clarence King and Carl Barus, in
1888, placed the age at 24,000,000
years.
Lord Kelvin in 1897 revised his fig
ures from 2O,OOO,OOO to 40,o0o.OOO
years.
De Lapparent, in 1890, said it was
67,OOO,OO0 to 90,000,000 years.
Charles d. Walcott, secretary of the
Smithsonian institution, in 1898, placed
the maximum age at 100000 years.
]. Jolly, in 1899, estimated the age
of the ocean at SO,O0O,O0 to 90.000,000
years.
w. ]. Sollas, in 1909, placed the
age of the ocean at S0,000,000 to 1907
O0O. 900 years.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

THE person who buys nickefs
i worth of peanuts to MUNICH at the
ball game, to feed the squirrels in the
park or to gladden. the hearts of chill
dren at home, scarcely realizes that
he has contributed to an industry that
last year formed a million-dollar crop,
and which placed on the market in
various forms, reached the enormous
sum of S36,000,000. But it is a fact.
according to Washington statisticians.
This little seductive nut-a resolu-
ton to "eat just one" is soon forgot
ten-whose birthplace is America,
was. until comparatively recently, un-
appreciated either as to the money
in them" or as a really nutritious
product. Today the peanut plays an
important part in pleasure, from the
swell dinner party TO the ever-present
democracy of the circus. ball game or
picnic After all. what is a ball game
picnic or circus without the peanut
accompaniment?
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25
OLD MOTHER EARTH, like femin.

0LD MOTHER EARTH, like femin-
" Unity through all time, but with
her far greater success than most of
her sex, has defied man to learn her
age. Scientists still admit their de-
feat. Their latest estimate credits
her with mot above 70,000,000 years,
or below 55,000,000 years" This esti-
mate, given official sanction through
publication by the Smithsonian insti-
tuition in Washington, is the result of
studies by Frank Wigglesworth
Clarke and George F. Becker of the
United States geological survey. who
have followed the subject with consid-
erable interest.
Prof Clarke, in a paper entitled "a
Preliminary Study of Chemical De-
nudation," presents review of all the
available data not only for the United
States, but for the world of the propo-
sition from a chemical point of view.
Mr. Becker, on the other hand, dis
cusses the question In a paper on THE
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25
Vast Sum Which We Spend on Peanuts

BY far the largest part Of the crop
is consumed from the peanut stand,
the little whistle sign of the roaster
being the signal for the average
youngster to suggest to dad or ma
that some of them would be very ac-
ceptable, and the paternal or mater
nal parents willingness-nine times
out of ten-to invest. Yet there are
millions of bushels that go to the
fattening of hogs throughout the
south, the feeding of poultry, while
the vines, often cured as hay, feed
thousands of head of cattle, and even
old Mother Earth is nourished by the
roots of the plant, which furnishes
nitrogen to it from the air.
The farming of peanuts during the
past five years-not longer than this
has become an established industry
of this country. AT present about five
sixths of the crop comes from Vir-
ginia and most of the balance from
Tennessee, Georgia, West Virginia
and the Carolinas, although most of
the southern states contribute some.
AS the peanut industry has increased
so has the use OF all nuts grown
nightly as an article of food during
the last decade, and the entire fam
lily now forms a most important part
of the diet of the physical culturist
and vegetarian.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25
BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR TRADE
American Foreign Commerce the Com.
ing Year Bound to Assume
Gigantic Proportions.

One important factor in the outlook
for trade and industry is the excel
lent conditions existing in the coun-
tries which are the best customers
American producers have outside their
home markets. The prospect for for
eign commerce is entirely different
from that which would exist if the
times were bad in Great Britain, Ger
many, Canada, France and Mexico.
But these best patrons of American
exporters are all in better than an
average state of industrial and com
mercial activity. Canada Is enjoying
a great advance in every form of ma
tional development, and though the
widespread and severe damage to the
wheat crop in the Canadian northwest
will undoubtedly check this growth for
the next year or so, it will not pre-
vent many solid gains and the general
progress of the Dominion will be
rapid. Mexico is making notable
strides in industries and trade and in
the development of a country still far
below the possibilities of its natural
wealth.
Great Britain, Germany and France,
the three leading customers Of Amer
lean producers in the Old World, are
expanding their foreign trade and in
creasing their industrial strength and
activity. They are all in a position
to buy more American merchandise
than usual, and there is an excellent
prospect for American exports to all
of these great European markets.
1t is impossible to form an intelli-
gent estimate of the business situa-
tion in this country without taking ac-
count of conditions where the surplus
Of American farms and factories, mills
and mines and forests, is largely dis
posed of The prosperity of the best
customers of the United States in for
eign lands is one of the best assurances
of continued activity and many-sided
development in the business of the
American people.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

THE army is on the anxious seat.
! With a new boss on the job II Is
expected Major Gen. Leonard Wood,
chief of stan. will make things hum
until his own ideas are put into oper-
alton, Although he was appointed to
succeed Major Gen. Franklin j, Hell
last October. since that time he has
been ON a trip 60 Argentine 10 rep
resent the United Staess az the cen
teuulal celebration. and has only late
ly returned to Washington,
Ia the meantime many important
questions have been piliur up await.
iug his decision. Just what effect the
personality of the new chief ut stan
WIlI have uu tho army iH a matter cot
much moment tn the officers who
kuus somos slins uf hIa strenuous CA.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25
"keep Your Money at Home

Get your -four. meal and feed at
the Universal mill; by so doing you
not only get pure, unadulterated goods
and full weight, but keep your money
circulating around home ana have a
chance to get hold of it again. On the
other hand, by the buying the cheap
er mixtures that are shipped in and
sending your money away, there is
very little hope of ever seeing it
again. A word to the wise is suffi
cient"
Presumably the advertiser is like
wise Democrat, and votes with great
regularity to send to congress a man
who opposes the maxim, Keep your
money at home" That is protection
doctrine pure and simple. 1t is sound
doctrine for the Arkansas mill owner
and for every man who has anything
to sell. That is precisely what a pro
tective tariff aims to do-to keep
your money at home" where il will
circulate, and where you will "have
a chance to get hold of it again" AS
Abraham Lincoln said IF you buy
an article made abroad, you have the
article, but the foreigner has the
money. If you buy an article made
at home, you have the article, but the
money stays at home" There is the
germ OF good reliable Southern pro-
tectionist in that Arkansas man.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25
The Tariff as Revenue Raiser.

To the many features of the tariff
law that have coniounded the critics
Is now to be added great capacity as
a revenue producer. The end of
the fiscal year has brought also an end
of deficits between government re-
ceipts and expenditures. Last year
there was n shortage, as regarded the
income from all sources for the 10
months of S5S,734.0O This year
there is a surplus of more than 81, 400.
000. The figures tell their own story,
and little ampliGeation OF the facts is
needed TO show In what different sit.
uation. financially speaking, the gov
ernmcnt finds itself as compared with
n year ago. Il Is also significant that
estimates based on the working OF tho
old tariff law Included a deficit of over
Sai.000.00O. The new law has wrought
revolution in this respect and has
relieved tho government from condi.
iluns that involved great omhorrass.
mont lt Is now stated that o. may
not be- necessary for tho present A.
least, tn Issue bonds. uH the govern.
mgrt has power to do for prosecuting
work on tho Panama canal. the m.
crendod revenues permitting eyueudl
turo ou lhe project from current re-,
ceipts
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

The predicamcnt of two men with
their wives who were held into the
night of Chicago by the failure of the
engine of their gasoline launch. and
who were rescued only after the wom-
en- had sacrificed their skirts as
torches. should recommend the lash
ing OF sweeps on the decks of such
craft. so that men can help themselves
IN emergencies. 4 pair of muscular
arms applied TO q sweep would soon
Te-establish confidence after accident
by giving the disabled craft motion
enough to creep toward shore.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

The discovery of defective armor
plate on the battleships Utah and
North Dakota after the ships had been
commissioned has caused agitation in
the navy department favorable to a
plan for the inspection of the plating
of every battleship in service 1t Is
fair to assume that if two battleships
could be provided with faulty plates
without discovery until the ships were
in active service there may be other
ships with poor plates that may have
escaped detection.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25
R27 DoINGs {pTe4
L@A CApITA1 ~
S@87U &2@-DW1G
Secretary Wilson Now the Bug Man
Now the Bug Man

preventing" any insect. The law Of
ficers. after due consultation, admit
ted that while they understood how an
insect might be repelled or destroyed,
they did not see how they could pre-
vent an insect or mitigate him.
The law is specific in declaring
against misbranding insecticides. If a
well-meaning citizen of the United
States puts up a compound that he
says will rid house of, say, bugs,
within a specified length of time,
there seems no way to determine
whether the compound is mishrand-
ed, unless the secretary of agriculture
goes to the premises and holds a
stop-watch on the reaches, to see
whether they mitigate or vacate with
in the time limit.
The biological survey has issued an
informal statement already, saying that
the law is remiss in that it does not
include rats among the insects to
be prevented An effort is being made
to see whether the law officers are
willing to consider rats as insects.
Dr. HenSnaW Oh the DlOlOSlcal sur
vey and Prof. Crittenden of the bu-
reau of entomology are going to call
to their aid the legal advice of Judge
Pugh of the police court. Judge Pugh,
while assistant district attorney some
years ago established a reputation in
the police court by arguing that, le-
gally, a lop-eared rabbit was a chicken
n,it in ba op+
body can prove a sewer rat to be a
centipede Judge Pugh is the man, it
is believed.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

The poor should be remembered this
hot weather. for their sufferings are
considerable. Ice often means health
to the sick and pure milk life for ba.
bies, but these are luxuries for which
the prisoners of poverty must look to
their more fortunate brethren to sup.
ply them. There should also be gen.
erous public support of the various
freshair enterprises which do SO
much toward ameliorating the condi
tion of the poor in large city during
the heated term.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25
Same Old Editorials.

The season o. nov az hand when
tbo Democratic editor takes bls qu.ll
u hand and. lighting his corucuh. pro-
ceoIs 60 rcyamp those bot old edto
rl3ls explaining Wherein and how "all
signs point tu Democratic success his
tan Saratoga saFatoslar
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25
The dean of Norwich Indignantly

The dean of Norwich Indignantly
denies that King George ever had a
morganatic wife and adds: King
George is a man who. with a wife Of
like disposition to himself, has been
wont during his leisure to sit in his
garden with his young children round
him, just the same as any of us might
do in our own patch of garden" Also
the dean might have told us how
the kings tomatoes are coming on.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

The northern Michigan dairyman
who claims to have discovered that
music sweet and low from a phono-
graph wooes milk from his cows,
might try for ice cream by giving his
devoted animals the "cold shoulder"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

And now they say that either a pho
nograph or a pretty singing milkmaid
furnishing music in the stall makes
COW give more milk. The cows
artistic discernment is apparently not
highly developed.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

An expert at the National Educa-
tional association convention in Bos-
ton says that children are naughty
when they are ill., Will the old say
ing have to be revised to read Spare
the castor oil and spoil the child?"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

An airship passenger service be-
tween London and Paris is being
talked of. People who expect to take
that route should go to the trouble of
first learning to swim.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

That bitter taste in the mouth expe.
rienced on hrst arising la the mora.
ms. says an authority. may be re-.
moved 1y taking littIc nus youiea
mixed with water should the expert
meuier however desire to remove aIl
taste trum hlH mouth permanently
this can be accomplished by adding
moro mas Y0mlCu.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

1t is estimated that over 100000
words were spoken during the recent
session of congress. All honor should
be shown the stenographers who
stayed at their posts and listened to
every one of them.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

Music an aid to dairy manage
ment!" That's an old story. Was there
ever comic opera without varia-
tion of the merry, merry milkmaid
chorus?
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

1t is said that substitute for ra-
dium has been found. Some druggists
to the contrary, a substitute is not al
ways something Just as good"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

Regarded merely as peril it is
much easier TO dodge coming aero
plane than 1t is to dodge motor
cycle.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

Since the comet has departed peo-
pie have to charge up to sun spots
whatever they cannot understand.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

And now a Torrington, Conn. man
Is planning 20 walk TO California
Isn't u about time for some ambitious
California citizen 20 set out % walk
east to New England?
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25
Wise Word to the Wise.

In an Arkansas paper, Democratic
in politics, we find the following ad-
yertiscment:
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

England. 1t will now become popu-
lar at Newport.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

Keep cool and be cool. The mental
attitude has much to do with physi-
cal condition.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

Evidently the law of gravitation has
not been repealed.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

THIS ad. is directed at the
man who has all the
business in his line in
this community.
q MIR. Merchant-You say
you've got it all. You're sell
ing them all they'll buy, any
how. But at the same time
you would like more business.
q Make this community buy
more.
q Advertise strongly, consist
entity, judiciously.
g Suppose you can buy lot
of washtubs cheap; advertise
a big washtub sale in this pa
per. Put in an inviting pic
ture of a washtub where
people can see it the minute
they look at your ad. Talk
strong on washtubs. And
you'll find every woman in
this vicinity who has been
getting along with a rickety
washtub for years and years
will buy new one from you.
G That's creative business
power.
OUR AID. RATES ARE RIGHT
CALL ON US
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

The uoblest study of mankind is
weather
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

There are few joy-riders back of the
lawn mower or moving machine this
year.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

Last year Great Britain cut it's
liquor bill S54.OO0.0OO, yet nobody died
of thirst
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

For so cents now you can buy either
a melon or dozen lemons.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1910-04-01
DAVENPORT ITEMS.

Rev. u. A. Holmes of the 3rd Baptist
church returned Sunday after visiting
his wife and baby in Fort Madison, ana
giving a two weeks service in Bloom
ington, Ill. He filled the stand in the
morning and observed the Easter pro-
gram in the evening. His wife was not
able to travel yet, so he did not bring
her
Mrs. A. Highly and Miss Ella Baker or
Omaha, Neb.. who have been visiting
their sister and sister-in-faw, Mrs. f.
Baker for the past week returned homc
last Sunday evening. They were very
royaly and highly entertained by the
ladies Of the Tri City.
Bethel A. M. E. church observed
Easter services Easter morning and
evening. Rev. Z. B. Stovall delivered
the Easter sermon in the morning. The
morning program was carried out by
the bishop 8, addresses being read by
Mrs. VIM. Shepherd, and solo N'Lead
Kindly Light" was given by Mr.. f..
T. Haskings. The Sunday school rend-
cred their programe in the evening, as
sisted by the choir Of the Allen league.
The church was beautifully decorated
with ferns and cut flowers, and the
draperies were beautiful. The program
was nicely carried out. A SOLO was CIV
en- by Mr.. R. 7. Hastings and by Mrs.
Geo. Washington. It was one of the
greatest Easter services ever held In
Davenport The church was packed 10
fullest capacity. The officers and
teachers deserve great credit for their
work.