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Toe Job department of the Phms Is complete aoJ nCff>rd facilities for doiQi* tho best VtirU P Ali'l KHTLAR ATTENTION PAID TO LAW sPftt>JTl NO No ,"pap"r will be discontinued until arrear- Ki-s are paid, except at the option of the pub he r. Papers sent out of the county must be oald (or varrcc. High-Speed Steel. "Pigness in everything is become so characteristic of the material things that goto make up modern civiliza tion that only undertakings of tremen dous magnitude attract more than passing notice." Thus writes O. M. Decker in the Technical World Maga zine. "Thirty story buildings, three mile dams, and Panama canals a'.one are able to hold t lie public eye long enough to be even a seven-da>won der. Next week it i. a i old story and not at all wonderful. The great engi neering feats which appeal so strongly to the eye undoubtedly have an im portant part in the remarkable indus trial and commercial development now writing itself in such hold letters into the history of civilization. There are, however, other agencies at work in this development, some of them surely destined to bring about great changes in methods and efficiencies now re garded as superlative, and one of these agencies, yet quite 'Jraknown to the generai public, but nevertheless al ready exerting a p-'Mverful influence upon industrial efficiencies, has made a pluee for itself in the modern ma chine shop. The essential function of the machine shop is to fit accurately the various metal parts which are to be assembled into other machinery of one sort or another; and this is gen erally done by cutting or paring away any excess and unevenncss of metal " left, in the casing or forging. This sort of cutting obviously is something very different from thai seen iti the wood shop, for example. Special tools and machines, the former strong and hard enough and the latter rigid and powerful enough, are necessary to re move the excess of material from steel, iron, or other resistent metals. Ordinary cutting edges, as they are commonly understood, would not do at all. An account of the processes by which high-speed steel lias been per fected and the uses to which it is put, forms subject matter in an exceeding ly interesting article of some length, amply illustrated. This looks liiie anti-Oslerism. Chief Chemist Wiley of the department of agriculture at Washington, addressing the graduating class of a scientific school at Cleveland, said jocularly that be belongs to a hundred-year club, any member of which who dies before completing the century will be ex pelled in disgrace. Speaking more seriously, he said: "The present gen eration is going to live much longer than the one which came before, be cause it knows more about the laws of diet, hygiene and surgery, li is a rank disgrace for any man to die, ex cept of old age." And Dr. Wiley thinks that, in view of the good pros pects ol long life as a result of proper care and understanding of the rules of health, it will pay a man to spend a long time, even 20 years or more, in the schooling which shall fit him for liis work. From which it is to be in ferred that learning how to live isoae of tjie essentials to long life. Citizens of Spokane propose that ad jacent portions of Idaho, Washington and Oregon lie reassembled into a new state to be called Lincoln. Ad vocates of the plan maintain that this division is the natural one, with re spect to the geographic formation, and a)so to the interests and occupations of the people. Strong opposition comes naturally from people in parts of the three states not included in the proposed new state. The idea is doubly interesting at present when the feeling for state lines is said to be dissolving all over the country; it indicates that the sense of the state unit is very strong, and that it is a matter of deep importance to a man whether he lives in Oregon or in "Lincoln." Not many women would be able to make the record which Mrs. Frank Woodward of St. Charles, Mich., has established. Within a few years she has earned from the state $2,970 for . shooting wolves. She and her husband live in a lumberman's shanty near Ontonagon. Mich., having moved there to benefit Dr. Woodward's health. TARIFF IS NULLIFIED DISTANCE NO LONGER AN ELE MENT OF PROTECTION. American Railroads Systematically Favor Foreign Producers by Deliv ering Goods to Interior Points Cheaper Than Our Own Domestic Manufacturers Can Ship Them. Washington, June 4.— An oppor tunity is presented, through the medium of a case pending before the interstate commerce commission, for another test, of the question whether, under the interstate commerce law, exporters of commodities from for eign countries shall have an advan tage over domestic producers on rates of transportation from seaboard points to the interior of the United States. Attention has been called to the fact that under a decision by the United States supreme court, made some years ago, such advantage has been given foreign producers. There are intimations that the interstate commerce commission, as at. present constituted, not only disagrees with the former supreme court decision, but also entertains the belief that abundant opportunity is presented in the existing law for protecting the in terests of American producers, or, if that shall be impossible, to havo the question differently decided if it shall again be presented to that court of last resort. A question is again before tho com mission whether products sent into ;lio United States from a foreign coun try shall be entitled to a lower through transportation rate from the foreign port of shipment through to an inland point of destination in this country than is granted American pro ducers or consumers for a much short er distance of carriage wholly within the United States. This case is brought by manufacturers of plate glass in Pittsburg. They allege that in instances which they cite plate glass obtains a rate of transportation from Antwerp through to Cincinnati or Chicago, a distance of more than 5,000 miles, of 32 cents per 100 pounds, whereas a rate is charged from Pitts burg to Cincinnati, a distance of only 313 miles, of 20 cents per 100 pounds. A rate of 32 cents per 100 pounds is also made from Antwerp to points further into the interior of the United States, and also through Gulf ports to Chicago from Antwerp of 32 cents per 100 pounds, whereas the rate from Pittsburg to Chicago is 30 cents per 100 pounds. The question raised in this case by the American producers is whether they may be discriminated against by such rates on foreign plate glass laid down in the American markets. As an economic question, il was brought out in this hearing that the plate glass industry of the United States originated in 1S(!9, whereas it had been in existence in Europe for more than 200 years. Thirty years ago American plate glass production amounted to about 500,000 square feet, whereas the importations of plate glass at that time aggregated 5,800.- 000 square feet annually. This gave an annual consumption at that time of a little more than 0,000,000 square feet of plate glass in the Unit ed States. At this time the consump tion of plate glass amounts to more than 21,000,000 square feet annually. In 1876, the price per square foot of plate glass averaged about $2.50. To day the average is from 30 to 35 cents. The reduction in price has been in large part brought about by the de velopment of the domestic plate glass industry. It was also shown that the cost of production of plate glass in this country is three-fold greater than it is in Europe. Reciprocity with South America. Tho sound principle In reciprocity Is that we shall offer a free market for things we do not produce in return for a free market in lands which have prod ucts different from ours; and southern America supplies the ivccss.iry condi tions for this.—Philadelphia North Amer ican. Is not that precisely what we are now giving them? Can the North American name a single article which we do not ourselves produce that is not already on the free list? Our im ports from all South America in 1906 amounted to $140,422,876. Of this sum coffee and crude rubber made up fully three-quarters. We levy no tariff on either coffee or crude rubber. What, then, is to be the basis of reciprocity dickers with the South American re publics? There is, practically, no basis, unless it be the willingness of those countries to give our exports a preference in return for our free ad mission of their coffee and rubber. We could, of course, establish a basis by placing a tariff on those non-competi tive products; but that would violate a cardinal principle of protection. Protection tariffs competitive articles only. It would seem that South America is provided with the neces sary conditions for sound reciprocity, but is not disposed to supply those conditions. Investigation by Workingmen. British workingmen have alway3 been assured by free trade orators that they were much better off than their German brethren, who were rep resented as being doomed bv the pro tective tariff to live on black bread and horseflesh. Finally a deputation of workingmen was sent to investigate. They have returned and reported that under the tariff the German workmen ! are more prosperous and contented than ever before in the history of that country. The black bread is admitted, but it is brown Instead of black, and it suits the German taste better than white bread. —Minneapolis Journal. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1907. CHANCE TO SETTLE QUESTION. I Free Trade Platform This Year Would Shed Light on 1902. After 12 years of unexampled pros perity under the Dingley law, which emphasi sin its schedules the policy of protection, a platform which should declare protection not only unlawful, but a snare, would "make mighty in teresting reading," and give us a text for a stirring campaign. And then the result might afford an answer to a question which has long engaged the politicians. What influ ence secured the Democratic triumph in 1892? Who killed Cock Robin that year? "I," said the free trader. "I did it with my little deliverance against protection," "Grover," said the ardent Clevelandite. "Mr. Cleveland did it with the force of his personality. He was the platform." "The Home stead strike," said the disgusted Re publicans. "But for that (len. Har rison would have had a walkover." And so the contention has continued to this day, and still continues. Now, if it was the tariff plank in the Democratic platform which did the work then, why not ask history to re peat itself? Why not next year again challenge protection to another battle to the death? The protectionists would ask nothing better. They would rush to take up such a challenge, and then we should all enjoy the campaign hugely. The tariff would make a love ly issue, and especially in the light of what happened to the Democratic party after it carried the country in 1892 on 1 five trade platform. Wash ington Star. TiiF ORIGINAL BHAIN STORM. MUST Be } vA jk (reduced !J VT wili Hard to Wreck. Now that the railroad magnates have had time to sit down and think it over, they seem to agree that the country is to be congratulated upon the existence of conditions whlcli pre vented the recent flurry in Wall street from traveling far outside of the strictly speculative belt. Melville E. Ingails, chairman of the board of di rectors of the Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis railroad, is quoted as say ing on the twenty-second of March: it is true, of course, that the coun try is going through a form of crisis which may turn out all right, or which may prove hurtful. But one thing should strike one forcibly; while stocks have shrunk Billions you have heard of no failures or business catas trophes. have you? That would seem to indicate solidity and a substantial prosperity which will be hard tc wreck. Under normal conditions Mr. Ingails is a strenuous friend of "tariff re form." But circumstances alter cases We don't believe the gentleman was thinking much about ripping up the tariff during those two "lllack Fri days" in which stock values went tumbling down at the rate of bun dreds of millions a day. About that time, we venture to guess, Mr. Ingails was mighty glad that tariff agitation and the dread of tariff changes did not occur in the tendency toward a do structive panic, and that tariff stabil ity and business solidity produced a substantial prosperity that was hard to wreck. Some Other Tariff. We are told by the Boston Adver tiser that the Republican party in Massachusetts is "led by Republicans who are as strong protectionists as any stand-pat leader at Washington, but who are not so possessed of a fetish that they must consider it polit ically as a crime to alter a tariff which has outlived its best period of useful ness." What tariff is it that "has outlived its best period of usefulness?" If we thought that the Advertiser could by any possibility mean the Dingley tar iff, which has proved and is still prov ing itself to be by far the greatest prosperity producer among all the tariffs known to history, we should greatly doubt that sort of stand-pat ism. It must be that the Advertiser means some other tariff. Well Said. "Everyone who favors reciprocity or the lowering of any particular duty is headed in the direction which leads to free trade." That is the truth. It was not a pro tectionist who said it, though every well grounded protectionist knows il to be true. It was said by Harvey N. Shepard, who presided at the annual dinner of the American Free Trade league in Boston on the 30th of last month. Boston was the best possible place to say it in. In .10 part of the country are there so many persons who, without knowing it, are headec in the direction of free trade. Thanks Mr. Shepard, for saying the right thing at. the right time and in the right place. VERY UNfAiR METHODS ARE ALLEGED TO EE USED BY COMBINE OF RAILROADS AND A STEAMSHIP LINE. The Inter-State Commerce Commis sion Will Investigate a Complaint Made by Philadclphians. Washington, D. C. —The inter state commerce commission has de cided to institute an investigation into the affairs of the Hamburg-American Basket Co., which is charged by Peter Wright & Sons, general agents at Philadelphia of the Cosmopolitan Shipping Cii. and the Cosmopolitan lines, with pooling and maintaining monopolies in restraint of trade. The inquiry is expected to be one of the most stupendous ever undertaken and of a character different from any that Jias ever before engaged the attention (<f the commission. The Inquiry will have to deal with an alleged combination between rail loads in the United States and the German shipping concern and there tare interests every American pro ucer, manufacturer or shipper aspir ing tj introduce his goods to foreign consumers. According to the complaint on which action was taken by 'he com luission tho Hamburg-American Packet Co. has built up a complete monopoly of the eastbound traffic originating in Chicago, St. Louis, Kan sas City, Omaha, Minneapolis, Duluth, Cleveland and other manufacturing centers of the United States intended for places 011 th<- continent of Europe. The complaint reviews'what it claims tj be unfair methods in stifling com petition. JUSTICE GODDARD TESTIFIES. A Colorado Jurist Corroborates Son-*; of Orchard's Ev dence in the Haywood Trial. Boise, Idaho. The state on Wednesday made dramatic prduc tion and proof of the Goddard bomb and besides offering further corrobor ation of the testimony of Harry Orch ard against Wiliam D. Haywood, se cured a ruling under which a number of the denunciatory articles published in the Miners' Magazine, ofiicial organ of the Western Federation of Miners, will be admitted in evidence. To .Justice Luther M. Goddard him self fell the task of telling the story < 112 the finding a::d preservation ot the bomb with which Orchard tried to kill him. His testimony was minutely circumstantial. The Colorado jurist testified thrst the first information that he received about th» bomb came to him from Orchard's confession, which was siio.<n to him at Denver February 1!!, 1906, by Detective McParland. He at once returned to his home and in his gate discovered tho screw eye which Orchard said lie placed there. It was rusted by ten months' exposure. The witness said li examined tin' ground out.-id • the gate where Orchard said he placed the bomb and found a slight depression with the soil packed around it. Th<-* bomb was dug up the next day by Gen. Bulkeley Wells, who used a pocket knife to cut the soil away and raise the pine box contain ing the bomb. There was a small phial oi» top of the b;.x and attached to the rubber cork of the phial was a piece of rusted wire. The bomb and its attachment were taken t > the office of the Binkerton d-'iective agency and sealed in wrap pers and envel .pes that were signed by half a dozen witnesses, including Justice Goddard. and after that they were placed in a vault to the door of which, seals, including that oi a no tary public, were attached. ENORMOUS GRAET. Further Revelations as to Overcharges for Furnishing Pennsylvania's New Capites. Harrisburg, Ba. —Charles D. Mon tague, a metallic furniture ex pert, of New York, testified before the capltol investigation commission Wednesday that the state had not only b.ve.n grossly overcharged for the nietailic furniture supplied by the Pennsylvania Construction Co. under its $2 000,000 contract with the board of grounds and buildings, but that he had bored into the "burglar proof vault" in the state treasury in four hours with an ordinary eight-inch breast drill. Mr. Montague said that the four safes in the capitol for which this con cern was 1 aid $66,000 by the state were worth only $27,000 and that tiiero was no chrome steel or steel rails in tiie vault, only ordinary steel which any one coulu bore into with ease. As to the metallic furniture the expert said the state was charged ex cessive prices. He said certain bills were two and three times more than a fair trade list price without the customary dis count. He said the sub-basement contained one case that cost the state $1,182. The list price was $287, sub ject to discount. As to the first floor metallic furniture it cost $229,231 and was, worth $1152,103. On the entersol floor the cases were billed at $154,688 and were worth $04,470. These esti mates were based on standard trade price lists. The expert said that the bronze 011 the first floor was worth $26,000. The state paid $"166,000. Willson Nominated for Governor. Louisville, Ky. Hon. Augustus 12. Willson, of Louisville, was last night nominated by acclamation as republican candidate for governor of Kentucky. The platform was adopted without a voice raised against it. 100 Lives Lost in a Flaod. Athens, Greece. —More than a hun dred persons were drowned in the flood caused by the overflowing of the Lir.hos river, which inundated the town of Trikkala, in Thessaly, Tues day. It Is Never Imposed. "Pa." "What is it. my son?" "When <1 trust is found guilty of vio lating the law there is always a max imum and a minimum tine that may be imposed, isn't there?" "Yes. The maximum fine Is the most that the offending trust may be compelled to pay and the minimum is the least that it may get off with." "Why do they take the trouble to have a maximum, pa?"— Chicago Kec ord-Herald. Ever Hopeful. "Aren't you afraid the government will eventually assume ownership of the railways?" "Supposing it does," rejoined Dr. Dustin Stax. "It'll have to employ us experienced men at enormous sal aries to keep them from being run at a loss. The difference will merely be that in giving us money the public will contribute as taxpayers instead of as passengers.—Washington Star. Neckromancy. Noiselessly the prudent mamma ot the large family of daughters opened the parlor door and looked in. Softly she withdrew. "The young man who can make two heads seem to grow where only one grew before," she said to herself, "is a benefactor to the human race, and de serves to be encouraged."—Chicago Tribune. A Short Tale. "Their tale of love was brief but comprehensive." "What was it?" "First he went to court and sued for her love." I "What then?" "She went to court and sued fol - American. NOT THE LOVABLE KIND. L Mamma —Don't, you know the Bible says we should love our neighbors? Lillie —I know, ma, but this is ar awful neighborhood.—Chicago Journal Happiness. How happiness coos flaunting by, As gaily as a butterfly; And when we catch the lovely thing, Alas! it lias a broken wins! -Life. A Benefit. "You think the discovery of a route to the north pole will be of great benefit to the human race?" "I do," answered the scientist. "If if does nothing more it may satisfy curiosity so as to prevent others from risking their lives on the journey." —Washington Star. Only One Way. "I see there is a movement on foot to stop the use of profanity over tele phones." "But think how it will demoralize business. We can't get along without them." —Milwaukee Sentinel. Then He Got Busy. "Why do you look at me like that, you great, awkward bear?" "Oh, Miss Pimmie, I —l protest I'm not a—a bear." "Well, why aren't you?"— Chicago Tribune. A Slippery Subject. First Reporter—Did you ever fall down on an assignment? Second Reporter—Sure; one day when I was sent to write a story about the icy sidewalks. —N. Y. Press. 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