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The Job department of the Phiss Is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. Pahiicllah attention paidto Law Phinting. No paper will be discontinued until arrear- Kes are paid, except at the option of tho pub her - . Papers sent out of the county mast be paid lor in advance. Ml - ' J The suggestion to change the date of inaugurating the president has been revived, and the commissioners of the District of Columbia will try to enlist public interest in tine mat ter. As usual, whenever a change has been advocated the date suggest ed is i'.pril 30, which was the date of (ieorge Washington's first inaugu ration in New York. A marked feature of the times in the transportation world is the rapid increase of trolley roads. It is more noticeable in the east than in the w<;st. and the more densely populated the country the more rapid the devel opment of trolley roads. Just what effect it will have on steam railroads and on trade and social life remains to be seen, but it has evidently come to stay. Some one lias discovered that sun stroke is also the work of a microbe of peculiar shape and kind. It only remains now to find the germ which causes people to freeze to death in winter time. The germ which invades the physical anatomy that has been struck by lightning and the bacillus that plays havoc with persons who are run over by railway trains can be hunted up and identified later. "Viscogen," the new compound used in adulterating milk, is composed of sugar, lime and water. The lime in the compound, turned by the lactic acid of the milk into a white, thick substance, aided by the sugar, gives the adulterated milk the appearance of great richness. If a milkman had used such a thing 50 years ago he would have been tarred and feathered and given 30 minutes to get out of town. Volcanic eruptions in various parts of the earth show that the universal excessive heat has been due to the fact that Mother Nature has chosen this time to bake an unusually large baking in her subterranean oven. Whether it be a new island which has been launched somewhere on the sea or a new star now set out to cool in the heavens, the baking is doubtless completed and the oven will be per mitted to cool off gradually. There are dangers in being too younfr. A female employe in Hacken sack, X. J., sued for wages. In court she testified to her age, and she put the figures so low that the case was thrown out of court because as a self confessed infant she had no right to sue. Then her lawyer offered to prove that she was over age, but he was too late. A girl should be permitted to have two ages—one when she her self sues and one when she has a suitor. The seven ages of man justi fy two ages of woman. The Porto Kican regiment, com posed of natives of that island, com manded by American officers, has out lived all the other volunteer regi ments, and by special permission is to be continued on the rolls of the army, it being very likely that the organization will ultimately be incor porated into the regular establish ment. The regiment is in a high state of efficiency now, and the army offi cials are much pleased with the show ing that has been made. Who thought of such a state of affairs as this a few years ago? This is not the only country that bas labor troubles. An elaborate re port just published by the statistical bureau of France shows that during 1900 there were 902 strikes in that country, in which 222,714 workers took part, at a loss of :i, 700,577 days' ■wages. The report also shows that 1,115,524 days' wages were sacrificed by 20,754 employes who wanted to work, but were compelled by those who organized the strikes to remain idle. Finally, the report shows that only 22 per cent, of all the strikes re sulted in victory for the strikers. The announcement that the apple crop in certain sections of New York and other states from which the bulk of the fruit is usually obtained is practically a failure has been re ceived with, comparative indifference by the same public that is lamenting the losses to the grain crops of the west. Probably this is due to the fact that few persons realize the Value of the apple crop. The Ameri can apple crop in 11)00 was worth fully $430,000,000, while the hay crop of 1809 was worth only about st-12,- 000,000 and the wheat crop $319,000,000 The theory that the standard of ed ucation in this country is altogether too high is helped by the announce ment that the Harvard curriculum contains 405 courses, which the aver age student cannot master in less than 300 years. AMERICAN FUTURE TRADE. Puerile Palaver of Free Trade Fan alira About ForrlKn Business Cundltluna. The Baltimore Sun professes to re gard with apprehension the .future of American trade. 11 is unnecessary after making- this statement to in form the reader that the Sun is de voted to the ideas inculcated by Cob den. It is only the free traders in this country who are seriously con cerning- themselves about the vapor ings of foreigners, who are dissatis fied because the United States has become a competitor in markets which they once fancied could be se curely held by themselves. Sensible Americans realize that "business is business" and that foreigners are buying from us because we sell what tht.y take from us more cheaply than they can produce it, or than anyone else can sell to them, and that it is impossible for them to adopt any course which will better the situa tion so far as they are concerned. It is the failure to keep this latter fact in mind that causes American free traders to make many stupid blunders in discussing the question of the expansion of our exports. They invariably assume that Europe is in precisely the same position as the United States, and that it can safely and economically resort to the impo sition of heavy import taxes. But this is not the case. Most of the ar ticles which Europeans buy from us are essential to the successful pros ecution of their own industries. They need our raw materials and food stuffs, and such manufactured goods as they take from us are purchased because there is some obstacle in the way of their producing them for themselves as cheaply as they can buy them from us. It is absurd, therefore, for the Sun to indulge in such puerilities as the following: "Europe is compelled at present to buy our grain and our meat products, but if it. should be come independent of us in these par ticulars the American farmer and cattle raiser would at once feel the shrinkage in the demand for their products." If Europe could achieve independence in this regard no' temp tation we could offer in the way of freer markets for the manufactured goods of that country, would prevent Europeans from making an effort to be self-sustaining. And we may safe ly assume that if the plan outlined by the Sun in these words were at all feasible it would be resorted to promptly: "If (he Europeans believed themselves to be for commercial and industrial existence, abstention from the use of American manufactures might be regardsd es a policy of practical wisdom as well as evidence of the highest patriotism. All the wise people and patrotic people are not on this side of the Atlantic." Nothing- could be further from the truth than the implication of the Sun that patriotism has been appealed to or is depended upon by Americans to support the manufacturing industries of this country. The policy of pro tect ion rests on 110 such shaky foun dation. It is built upon the firm be lief that the imposition of high duties encourages the development of do mestic resources, and that the result must necessarily be a cheapening of manufactured products by bringing the mine, the field, the factory and the consumer close together. No sen timental appeal could have accom plished the building up of a great manufacturing industry. Only the be lief of the people that it is wise to enter every field of energy which of fers a prospect for profit could do that. The Europeans have long since acted upon that principle, and it is safe to say that in all cases in which they have remained in a state of de pendence upon this country they have found it profitable to do so. There is nothing likely to induce them to abandon their past method; and it is certainly unreasonable to suggest that we should pursue a course dif ferent from that which has brought success to and built tip our rivals. It will be time enough for us to neg lect our opportunities when we see Europeans doing the same. At pres ent they buy nothing which they can profitably produce at home. It will be hard to convince sensible Ameri cans that prosperity can be main tained by deliberately ignoring this rule for the purpose of promoting external trade. —San Francisco Chron icle. DRIFT OF OPINION. ICTMr. Bryan will lend his influence against further schisms in the demo cratic party if he is really for the party more than for Mr. Bryan.—ln dianapolis News (Ind.). IE? - "What will the democrats do?" asks the Philadelphia Times. Why, unless they intend to belie all their post-bellum record, they will wait till the other fellows do something, and then sit on the fence and make faces at them. That's easy.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. But w»iat must make Col. Bryan stamp about the house with clenched fists is that Col. Watterson, who has himself been a good deal better than a raw hand at stirring the political waters, should now feel justified in referring to the Nebraskan as an agi tator.—Detroit Free Press (Dem.), OCSix hundred teachers le.t San Francisco for the Philippines to enter the educational service of the new government. Where is the Anti-Im perialist league? Are these emissaries of despotism to be allowed to depart without a protest? Is it not enough to buy the Filipinos without trying to debosh their innocent souls by teaching? Must they be subjects of education as well as of despotism, and be taught witnout their consent?—N. Y. Sua. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1901. TOWNE TAKES A TUMBLE. Brjnn'n Former RuanlnK Mate F.xpe rieiiceM a ( hniiKe of Heart and I'orket, Charles A. Towne's repudiation of the silver issue is attracting almost as much attention as the same action taken by the Ohio democracy. And naturally. He has been one of Mr. Bryan's principal advisers, and would have been Mr. Bryan's yokemate in last year's campaign if the Kansas City convention had been as logical and courageous as the situation de manded. He would have met the full requirements of the platform adopted by that body far better than did Mr. Stevenson, ami was a younger and more aggressive man. So that when this representative of the inner sanc tuary, as it were, turns his back upon silver and declares that the issue is dead the country gives attention. And yet, as a matter of fact.', of what real value is Mr. Towne's opinion on the money question? A few years ago he was sent to con gress by a Minnesota district. He was what is called "a sprightly man"—• ready of speech and a good cam paigner. Hut he had no reputation as a student of finance. Still the financial'question was the first to at tract him in congress, and the result was his leaving the republican party and going over to the party of silver. Once free of his old associations, he took extreme ground in the new, and immediately became a leader. He adopted the silver faith in its entire ty, and gave a reading of it almost as attractive and rhetorical as that of Mr. Bryan himself. The silver and wheat theory he made his own, and he could wee only a curse in gold. A few months ago Mr. Towne went to New York to live. Business at tracted him, and as a lawyer, not as a financier, he became associated with business men. His lines fell in pleasant places, and he is prospering. His ne\v enviconment has given him new light, and he sees the financial question according to that light. He no longer holds to the silver and wheat theory. He no longer detects a curse in gold. lie no longer sees the country rushing upon smash, obeying the helm as set by the money power in New York. According to Mr. Towne's present version, gold is all right and the country is all right. He is filling his own pockets, and he is all right. But shall we call this man a finan cier? Are his views on the money question of any particular value one way or another? A few months in congress changes him from sound money to silver. A few months in New York changes him from silver back to sound money again. And yet only last year the country was asked to commit its fortunes, financial and otherwise, to a political aggregation of which this agile gentleman was one of the most conspicuous and in fluential leaders!— Washington Star. TARIFF FIGHT TALK. "Party Perllily" (iorinnn Akiilu In the Fore with A Chilkpl for the K epnblicitiiß, "The tariff question offers an invit ing field of operations for the democ racy,'' are words which are attributed by a democratic paper to ex-Sena'tor Gorman. This is the same Gorman who assisted in changing the Wilson democratic tariff of 1894 in so many places and in so many directions that Wilson did not know it when the dem ocratic senate, under the head of the Maryland, boss, got through with it. The house democrats resented Gor man's action, and there was a dead lock of several weeks on that ac count between the two chambers, both controlled by the democrats. A democratic president, Grover Cleveland, said that Gorman's trans formation of the Wilson tariff meant party perfidy and' party dishonor. The same president, although he had been calling for tariff changes ever since he entered office, refused to sign the Gorman version of the tariff, but let it become a law through the ex piration of tne time limit. Cleve land, in a letter, condemned the hand ful of democrats in the senate, under the lead of Gorman, who put the tar iff of 1894 in such shape that no dem ocrat has ever yet been found who is willing to call that a democratic act. Gorman replied to Cleveland's at- j tack upon him in about the ifiost sav- j age speech which that trickster was j ever excited into making. This man who helped to split the democratic party on the tariff of 1594 is the man who says"the tariff ques- i tion offers an inviting field of opera tions for the democracy at the pres- ' ent time." A democratic attack on the tariff, it is hardly necessary to say, would be welcomed by the repub licans. It is not likely that the re publicans will have the benefit of Gor man's presence in the senate at an early day, for his plot tings to get back to that body win probably be de feated. Still, a democratic tariff cru sade conducted i* the Gorman spirit would do the republicans about as much good as if the Maryland boss were in congress himself to lead it. The democrats, forced to drop "anti imperialism" and frightened into abandoning silverism, are hunting for some issue wnich they hope will keep their followers together. The repub lican party would be exceedingly glad to see the democrats bring the tariff question to the front. St. Louis (i lobe-Democrat. p-\V. J. liryan insists that Mark Banna should be nominated for the presidency by the republican party in 1904. This he regards as nis best joke, but it is far from being as good a one as the presumption on his pari that he is capable of giving political advice. —Chicago Inter Ocean. THE DIE IS CAST. A General Strike Order Is Issued by President Shaffer. All .Tletiiltersoltlic Amalgamated Asso elation ICmployed In (he Mills Own ed by the (lilted States Steel Cor poration are Ordered to Oiiie Work ou August II). Pittsburg, Aug. 7.—The die is oast. The battle of the giants is on in earn est. Up to last evening it had been merely a skirmish, each side trying to find the vulnerable spot in the other's armor. Now it is different, brought about by the issuance by President Shaffer of the long-talked of general strike order. This order was promulgated last evening, to take effect after the last turn of the mills on August 10. The strike call includes practically nil Amalgamated men in the United States Steel Corporation's employ not now on strike. It was issued from the Amalgamated's headquarters and mailed to all Amalgamated lodge of ficials, who are expected to call their men into the strike. The text of the call follows: "Brethren: The officials of the United States Steel Corporation have refused to recognize as union men those who are now striving for the right to organize. The executive board has authorized me to call upon all Amalgamated and other union men in name to join in the movement to fight for labor's rights. "We must fight or give up for ever our personal liberties. You will be told that you have signed contracts, but you never agreed to surrender those contracts to the United States Steel Corporation. Its officers think you were sold to them just as the mills were, contracts and all. "Remember, before you agreed to any contract you took the obligation lo the Amalgamated association. It now calls you to help in this hour of need. "Unless the trouble is settled on or before Saturday, August 10, 1001, the mills will close when the last turn is made on that day. "Brethren, this is the call to pre serve our organization. We trust you and need you. Come and help us, and may victory come to a just cause. Fraternally yours, "T. ,T. SHAFFER." President Shaffer added this state ment: "TJ»e call goes to the vice presi dent of the districts in which there are mills owned and operated by the National Steel, National Tube and Federal Steel companies, as well as to the officials of the lodges in the mills. "No notice has ljeen or is being sent to the managers of the mills. We think their notice has come from the other side - and that they have had warning of this ever since the inaug uration of the strike. That ought to be sufficient." The order given above is expected to swell the number of idle men to over 100,000 at the end of the week. President Shaffer was asked if the call was intended togo to the union men of the Carnegie Steel Co. He said that he could answer, no ques tions on that score. The Amalgamat ed has lodges in the upper and lower Union mills of the Carnegie Co. and a foothold in the Homestead, Du quesne and Bra.ddock mills. In con formity to statements that have been made by President Shaffer before, these men will be expected to join the strike, as will Amalgamated men and sympathizers in all plants of the United States Steel Corporation. New Castle, Pa., Aug. 7. —At mid night last night 275 men, represent ing the last turns in the steel and bar mills of the local plants of the Na tional Steel Co.'s mills, walked out in deference to the general strike order of President Shaffer. The order was obeyed without the. least hesitation, the men being most anxious to fur ther the wishes of the officials of the Amalgamated. The steel workers of this city are organized. They rep resent 800 men. Pittsburg, Aug. 9.—The contending sides in the steel strilfe are centering their energies for ( a show of strength on the.day that the general strike becomes effective. The United States Steel Corporation is re-opening mills closed by the first strike call, to show its independence of unionism and gathering strength wherever it may to lighten the effe-ct of the general strike order, and the Amalgamated association bends its energies to the extension of its membership and to obtain the support and co-operation of the American Federation of La bor. President Shaffer devoted Thursday to a conference with President Gom pers, of the American Federation of Labor, who came here for a personal study of the situation before commit ting himself or his organization in any manner. The conference reached no conclusion and will be resumed to-day. The steel corporation succeeded yesterday in getting the Farm mill at the Lindsay «£ r McCutcheon plant and another mill at the Clark works in operation. They also received reports that at Hyde Park Wednesday four of the mills did perfect work, and an announcement from Wellsville that the strike was virtually over there. They met with no opposition at any of the four points where they have reopened mills and expressed their satisfaction at the progress n\ade. Wood Kuowa 111* It ■istncMs. Fort Sill. O. T., Aug. 7. —John Wood, of Weatlierford, O. T., who drew Net. 1 in the Lawton land district, created a -sensation at the land office yester day when, in filing his claim, be chose 100 acres running the entire length of the town site on the south. Accord ing to the government plan, the two most valuable sectionn in the whole reservation were ma do to adjoin the town site on the south. Miss Heals, the Wichita telephone girl, who drew No. 2 from the wheel, had counted on setecting one of these, bu! had to take a less valuable uci. HAD FUN WITH THE PARSON. Incidentally That Functionary Worked OUT u Little Jollity on the Cowboy. A clerical friend of mine told me a capital story -of a Yule man who was the stroke ore of 'his crew, and the chief athlete on the football field, says a writer in the New York Times. lie entered the ministry and spent yeiars in missionary labor in the far west. Walking- one day through a frontier town, a cowboy stepped up to hiin and said: "Parson, you don't have enough fun. Take a drink!" The minister declined. "Parson," said the cowboy, "you'll die if you don't have some fun." And he knocked the parson's hat off his head and hit him a wliack on file e'ar. The old athlete's spirit rose; the science which he had learned in the college gymnasium and forgotten for a quarter of a century was aroused, a blow landed on the jaw of tihut cowboy that sent him sprawling in the street. The parson walked over him as if he had been a door Tug, picked him up and dusted the side of the house with him and then tmopped up the sidewalk with his form. y\s the ambulance was .carrying the cowboy off he raised his head feebly and said: "Parson, what did you fool me for? You are chock full of fun." Curfew Law Invalid. County Judge Smith at St. Paul, Neb., has declared the Nebraska cur few law unconstitutional. A week ago four young women, daughters in each instance of prominent families, engaged in a charivari. All are grown, but of an age which brings them within the provisions of the curfew ordinance. They were ar rested and detained for being out late. Habeas corpus proceedings were begun, with the result that the law has been declared illegal, and the girls ordered released. An appeal will be taken to the higher courts. The Chip Off the Block.—"I ran tell you one thins, Maria. Tt' Johnny is like mo, he will have good staying qualities, anyhow." "He has them now, John. 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