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The Job department of the pKKsslscomplele ard afford - facilities fir ,1 ..uy tie best euiss of W. rk. pAH'Ilt t't.AH ATTfc.N I lu.\ fAIIiTO LAW PKINTI.V;. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid (or in advance. Big Birds on Small Wings. In the attempt to discover some universal law of bird flight, scientists bave disclosed concerning a number of species a most puzzling paradox, perhaps the most mysterious of the enigmas that the subject presents, ■ays a writer in Everybody's Maga zine. It is that in JI number of birds and insect the size of the wings de creases in proportion to the increase In size of the body of the flying crea ture. The Australian crane, for in stance, weighs over 300 times more than the sparrow, but in proportion has only one-seventh the wing area of the smaller bird. This curious fact is equally striking if we compare birds with insects. If the gnat were in creased in size until it was as large as the Australian crane and if the wings of the insect were enlarged to main tain the proportion they now bear to its body, they would be about 150 times larger than the crane's. It re quires 3.G2 square feet of wing area per pound to tioat the bank-swallow, but to sustain the tawny vulture, a monster bird in comparison, requires only .fiS of a square foot of wing sur face per pound of body. The albatross, "weighing IS pounds, has a spread of wing of 11 feet and (i inches, while the trumpeter swan, weighing 28 pounds, has a spread of wing of only eight feet. The stork weighs eight times more than the pigeon, but in propor tion has only half as much wing .sur face. Theodore Shouts reaches up into some mysterious store of universal in formation and, having grabbed off a handful of more or less canned wis dom, lays down a few qualities that a man should have before a girl should think of marrying him, says Chicago News. Briefly, the description of the only man fitted for wedlock is this: Jle should be perfect mentally, mor ally antl physically and also be some pumpkin financially. Mr. Shonts may he right, but as there are only a few for that kind of man would first take nial bargain counter, the great major ity of the girls will have to accept hus bands with a few flaws or go single. Of course the girl who was waiting fo rthat kind of man would first take the trouble to be perfect herself, but that might be a simple matter for her. Even then she might be happy with a man having imperfections pro vided she was too polite to notice them. The sensible girl figures it out that the best she can get is the aver age man and makes up her mind to be happy with him if he will let her. Shipping men of both sides of the Aalantic have been much gratified by the announcement that the treasury department is asking for bids for the derelict destroyer which was author ized by the latest congress. This ves sel, which is to be stationed on the North Atlantic, will embody the latest improvements in craft of her kind, and will be capable of cruising for fi,ooo miles without replenishing iter bunkers. She will be furnished, the Scientific American says, with power ful searchlights and a wireless tele graph equipment, the latter to enable her to receive and give information as to the location of derelicts. A 54-foot residence lot in New York is described by a local paper as "tremendously large." That may be a good sized frontage for little old New York, but it would be cramped quarters iu the west, where people really live. If the Danish beer tablets prove a success, prohibition may do its worst, for the man with a thirst will go about with a song in his heart, at least so long as a large section of the human race wears vest pockets. A physician now conies forward to say that whisky is an antidote for poison ivy. If this keeps up, it won't be long before anybody can have a good excuse. it must be an aggravation to Mars to see all our patent medicine signs floating in the sky and not be able tc goto a coiner drug store and get r, bottle. DIFFICULT PROBLEM HOW TO REDUCE PRICES WITH OUT LOWERING WAGES. frasmuch as the Purpose of Tariff Revision Is to Force Down Values, It Is Not Easy to See How Amer ican Labor Will Be Able to Escape the Cheapening Process. It is gratifying to learn that some body has solved the difficult problem of how to lower the tariff, increase foreign competition and bring down prices without decreasing either the volume or the rate of wages paid to American labor. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts is the man. In a speech at Nantasket Beach on the Bth of August, according to the report in the New York Press, "Lodge said there would be no re vision of the tariff before 1909; that the party leaders were opposed to any tariff tinkering preceding a presiden tial election; that, a revision would not mean the lowering of duties on any manufactures the importation of which would hurt our workingmen, and that a new tariff act would be along the old Republican lines of pro tection for the American working men." Here we have the problem solved, but with no hint as to the process of solution. Like all the rest of the tariff "reformers," Mr. Lodge fails to furnish a bill of particulars. Th tariff. lie tells us, is going K> bo re duced along protective lines and not on any manufactures the importation of which would hurt cur workingmen. In that case, how shall competition be increased from abroad and prices lowered accordingly? For it must not be forgotten that the sole end and aim of tariff revision downward is to increase competition and force low er prices. If this were not the end sought, why talk of tariff revision? Now, as a general rule, there are but two causes of price reduction. One is a diminished demand, and the other is an increased supply offered at cut rates. At present there is 110 decrease of demand and no overpro duction to break down values. On the contrary, prices remain firm and the facilities of every line of domestic production are strained to the utmost to supply the demand. Then if the supply is to he so increased as to break down prices, it must be by im portations bearing lower values. This is plain. Just how the tariff is going to be tinkered to suit all the shouters for downward revision Mr. Lodge does not make clear. He does not tell us how the tariff can be so manipulated in the revision process as to satisfy the free-traders, the "progressive" Re publicans like Cummins, who want to bring in foreign competition that will do away with "the monstrous extor tion and graft" being practiced under the Dingley tariff, and the demand for free raw materials and reciprocity in competive products that is so strenu ous in Massachusetts, and at the same Ume keep the peace with American la bor on the farms and in the mines, mills and factories. The jaunty, off hand assurance that all this can and will be ckme when the tariff conies up for revision will hardly suffice. Gratifying it is to know that the tariff is not going to be touched until after March 4, 1909. We don't know bow Mr. IxJdge has managed to settle this thing BO conclusively, but he eecros to have settled it to his own satisfaction. Hut not to the satisfac tion cf GOT. Guild. On the same plat form and within the suflie hour Guild reiterated his burning desire for im mediate tariff revision. Not without eome show of reason and consistency, one would thick. If the present tariff is so atrocious as it is thought to be by Guild and Fuss and Cummins and Whitney and a lot of other urgent revisionists, why postpone the rem edy for three years? If the country is not now prosperous; if labor is un c:nployed; if wuges are low and pov erty acute; if business halts and ruin *_'..a!Vs abroad; If commercial failures aid soup houses are the chief crop of the year—if aM these things are true because of the Dingley tariff. Guild is right and is wrong, and not a moment r.hould be lost in repealing the Dingley tariff. But, if none of these things are true; if prosperity is at high water mark; if labor is scarce and wages the highest eve' heard of and poverty is almost unknown; if business is the best and commercial failures the few est on record—-if, on the contrary, all there tilings are true (and they are true), then both Guild and Lodge are wrong. Then we should not only not be talking about immediate tariff re vision downward, but we should not be talking about tariff revision two or three years hence; we ought not to be talking about tariff revision at all. We should let the tariff abso lutely alone. Would Wipe It Out Entirely. Tariff talkers, who treat the ques tion of revision fairly and honestly, ask the would-be tariff tinkers, free traders, tariff reform.rs and pro moters of selfish interests —all ene mies of the protective tariff —to name the sections they would revise. Should they all comply, the free-traders and tariff reformers (they are one and the eumc) would najne enough to wipe out the protective tariff entirely, and even chould Lhis c1r.33 of tariff haters keep still, the demands of the representa tives of selfish Interests would prove so diversified as to cover all classes of goods and would wipe out the pro tective principle entirely. This the true friends of the protective tariff will never submit to. —Tiffin (O.) Trib une. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1907. BECOME A DUMPING GROUND. | What Would Follow a Reduction ol the Tariff. If our tariff is reduced, as is serious ly proposed, the United States will be come tiie common dumping ground of the German and the British trusts, in competition with each other. The American people can then have the pleasure of buying steel at a very low price, probably less than the cost of I production. They will also have, con currently, the pleasure of finding other employment for many thousands of workmen, as American steel plants shut down in the face of such a com petition. Free traders in this country are re lying in their forthcoming assault upon the tariff on the prejudice they may be able to arouse by reason of the fact j that a small percentage—a very small i percentage, almost infinitesimal as j compared with the whole—is sold j abroad cheaper than at home. But : that is the settied policy of manufac- j tutors in European countries, and ' especially is it the policy of free trade ' England. If we should lower any of j our protective duties below the point of adequate protection Eurcfpean man ufacturers would go after this market I —the richest and the greatest in the ! world—if they had to give their goods j away. And their people at home would ! applaud them fur doing it, expecting j to reap theii reward later on. Mean- I timo, with American industries crip pled, millions of our laborers would be without employment and hence unable to sustain the tremendous buying pow er \iiat the country now possesses and which I- tlie foundation of our uncx- ; ampled prosperity. We went all through this experience only a few years ago. but some of us seem to be itching for another term at j it. if they keep on fussing we shall ' get it.—Cedar Rapids Republican. ON ACCOUNT OF THE "EXPORT PRICE" PRIVILEGE. , : •V- jfeJ'i "isv 1 .x- / -• h ' ■mm • 1 Senior Partner—We shall have to wind j Up our cruise and Ret back to New Vork | at once. Junior Partner—Why, what has hap- j pencil? No bad news,l hope. Senior Partner—Hnd enough, T should I think. Six of our biggest department ' store customers write that hereafter they ' will buy direct from the New Vork agents j of German manufacturers, instead of buy- j iIIK from us as heretofore. Consequently j we are out of it, and it will be necessary | for us to cut down our working force and retrench all round so long as the United | States government permits foreign manu- j facturers to consign goods to their owa j agents at "export prices." Great Britain Also? Of Course. The Philadelphia Record utterly misconceives the situation when it says that the American Protective j Tariff league is "urging on shallow j grounds that Great Britain shall be j denied what lias been conceded to I Germany." Nothing of the sort; j quite the contrary. The American j Economist has uniformly contended ' that if we are going into the game j of playing tariff favorites Great Britain should be granted equal j favors; in fact, should be granted I more, because she is a better customer j than Germany by two to one, and, j besides, she imposes no tariff at all j upon our products (saving a strictly i revenue tariff on spirits and tobacco), J whereas Germany has doubled her ' tariff against our products. It may | be that our gifted state department j will find a way to let Great Britain ! in on an equal footing with Germany, | and so avoid the shame and disgrace ! of mistreating our best customer. It j is earnestly to be hoped that such t will be the outcome, and that not only ( Great Britain hut every other nation j on earth will be granted the equiva- i lent of the concessions granted to ] Germany. The sooner the better, for ! then the country will have a broad I comprehension of the policy and a j clear understanding of the practical j effects of revising the tariff downward ! by diplomatic dickering. Ten Years of Dingley Tariff. Last Wednesday was the tenth anni versary of the enactment of the Ding ley tariff law. And what a change there is in conditions! Ten years is not a long period in the world's history. The memories of ' most of us can easily span it. Ten years ago our foreign trade was less than $2,000,000,000, now ft is more than $3,000,000,000 a year. Then the governmentt revenues were insuffi cient to cover the expenditures, while now, with the expenditures greatly in creased, we have a substantial surplus. At that time business was depressed and industry languished, while now there is prosperity on every side. Ten years ago freight ears were going to decay on the sidings with no call for their use, and now, with vastly in creased equipment, it is the freight that is tied up because there are no* car? enough. The ten years under the Dinij'ey tariff have been such years of activity and growth as neither th> country nor tlie world has ever known —Grand Rapids Herald. VOYAGE MARKS A NEW EPGGH MAIDEN TRIP OF BIGGEST STEAMSHIP WAS A SUCCESS. The Lusitania Crosses the Atlantic from Queenstown to New York in Five Days, 54 Minutes. New York City—A few days ago there was a local celebration of the hundredth anniversary of that proud occasion when i'.obert Fulton's 130-foot steamer Clermont went puffing up the Hudson river at five miles an hour. On Friday New Yorkers turned out to welcome a steam Craft, the passengers of which breakfasted in Queenstown, Ireland, Sunday and lunched in New York yes terday. Both experiments were epoch-making in the way of propulsive power—the Clermont with her side paddles and the new Cunarder with her quadruple turbines. The voyage of the Lusitania was most important in that it was a test of the most modern propulsive power. This is the view taken by her owners, who are satisfied that practicability of the turbine for fast vessels has been demonstrated and that this new de parture in English shipbuilding has been justified. The fact that the Lusi tania was able to cross the Atlantic in five days and 54 minutes and was able on her maiden trip nearly to equal th<* best trans-Atlantic record, is held to be of secondary importance. Officials of the line said that the Lusitania had done all that was ex pected of her without her having been pushed to make a record. Heretofore, it iw.a pointed out, tur bines have been constructed for mod erate speed, but on the Lusitania and her slste» ship, the Mauritania, built with tiic greatest government subsidy ever paid, was staked the British hope that turbine-driven vessels would prove not only the most comfortable, but the swiftest, liners afloat. The Lusitania is the largest liner ever built, being 700 feet long. Her breadth is 88 feet, depth til) feet and gross tonnage 32,500. The Lueania, also of the Cunanl line, ami the previous record holder, which started to pace the Lusitania with 15 minutes' advantage at. Queens town. reached Sandy I look bar at 9 o'clock last night, 13 hours behind the new ship. BURTON NAMES HIS AIDES. New Commander-in-Chief of G. A. R. Appoints His Staff. Saratoga, X. Y. Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic who have been attending the forty first annual encampment of the or ganization concluded their business Friday and adjourned until l!)0S. In stallation of the newly-elected officers, adoption of several recommendations from the committee on resolutions and Commander-in-Chief Burton's an nouncement of appointive officers took up the time. The encampment adopted the re port of the committee on resolutions which recommended legislation by congress authorizing the erection of a soldiers' hospital in the vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico; increasing wid ows' pensions to sl2 a month; provid ing some suitable memorial for the soldiers and sailors of the Union army who were in the south when the war began and did not join the southern forces, and directing that widows of soldiers buried in the national ceme teries may be buried beside their hus bands. These recommendations will be incorporated in bills to be present ed to congress. A resolution was adopted directing the new commander-in-chief to choose a committee, consisting of one mem ber from each department., to prepare plans for a suitable celebration of President Lincoln's birthday annivers ary. February 12. 1909. Commander-in-Chief Burton's ap pointments include the following: .iere T. Dew, Kansas City, Mo., adju tant general; Charles Burrows, Ruth erford, N. J., quartermaster general; Col. I). R. Stowitz, Buffalo, inspector general; L. VV. Collins, Minneapolis, judge advocate general; Henry Hea comb. Philadelphia, assistant adjutant general and custodian of records; Corey Winans, Toledo, senior aide-de camp and chief of staff. Retiring Commander Brown was made chair man of the committee on pensions. Miss Millie Leighton, of Clinton, Mass., was elected president of the Daughters of Veterans. DUN'S REVIEW OF TRADE. Retail Business Increases at the Lead ing Cities. New York.—R. G. Dun fi Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Retail trade increases at the lead ing cities as the vacation season closes, and the opening of the fail lines is attended with most satisfac tory results. As the staple crops are secured and marketed there is a prompt improvement in mercantile collections throughout the agricul tural districts and the decline in prices was especially helpful in stimu lating export trade. There is still much conservatism in placing con tracts for future business and de creased speculation is another factor that aids in restoring normal financial conditions. Postponed business Is coming more freely to the steel mills and there is less disposition to wait for more favorable conditions. Structural steel shapes are constantly ordered, espe cially for bridge work, and the rail ways seek all forms of supplies in larger quantity than was expected for some months. Dynamite in Grain Exploded. Chippewa Falls, Wis. An ex plosion of dynamite in a bundle of grain Friday injured five men and wrecked a threshing machine on the farm of Peter Peterson. Investiga tion developed the fact that dynamite had been placed in several bundles of grain. The miscreant has not been found. Riot in a College Town. Lafayette, Ind. ln a riot Frl lay between Purdue university students and city toughs, six student* vere severely injured and 15 others A'ere severely beaten. REV. TiNSLEY ON TRIAL FOR HERESY MINISTER IS ACCUSED BEFORE M. E. CONFERENCE. | IN SESSION AT CLEVELAND. He Is Charged with Preaching Con trary to the Established Standards and of an "Un-Christian Like Attitude." Cleveland, O. Two trials of ministers, one for heresy and the j other for defamation of character and I chewing tobacco, were instituted at i the session of the East Ohio confer ence of the .Methodist Episcopal church at the First M. B. church here Thursday. Rev. Charles W. Tinsley, of Youngs town,. was accused of preaching con | trary to the "established standards" j and of being "unministerial and un ! Christian-like" in his attitude toward ! man. His trial began at 1:30 o'clock I in the First M. E. church. Rev. W. B. King, of Uhrichsville, ! was formally arraigned before the in ! vestigating committee of the confer ence for the tobacco habit and alleged slander of Presiding Elder Henthorne, who in turn has preferred charges to be heard later. The trial of Dr. King lasted all day. Those who look part were sworn to secrecy. The principal witness was Miss Meyers, whom Dr. King says he discharged from his choir some time ago, and who did not like the minis ter's talks against dancing, and moved to Cleveland. She told the committee of how her former pastor spat to bacco juice out the car window all the way from Cleveland to Uhrichsville one time. Although the charges had been ex pected against Rev. Tinsley, still it was thought they would not be made until after the King-Henthorne trou ble was settled. Rev. Tinsley was not present at the session any of the time and .lid not have any counsel present to challenge the committee of nine se lected by the elders to make the in quiry into his alleged heretical dis courses. Rev. A. Simmons was made chairman of the probers. .lust in what respect Rev. Tinsley preached heresy the charges did not say. They were brief and general and were referred to a committee of pre siding elders to appoint a committee of inquiry. The charges were signed by six members of the conference. The com munication was read by Rev. O. \V. Holmes, presiding elder of the Youngstown district. The preferring of the charges came out of a clear sky. The conference was considering routine business when Rev. Holmes suddenly arose and announcing that he had a "very sad duty to perform" read the charges. The charges declare that "we the undersigned members of the East Ohio conference, believing the teach ings of Dr. C. W. Tinsley to be con trary to the articles of religion and the established standards of doctrine, and, believing that his spirit and atti tude toward his brothers to be unmin isterial anil un-Christian, we respect fully ask that a committee of inquiry be appointed to investigate." Copper Situation Reaches a Crisis. New York City.—A crisis in the copper situation, due to a deadlock between the producer aud the con sumer has resulted In a tremendous overproduction of the metal and the Amalgamated Copper Co. will soon shut down its mines in and about Butte, Mont. Taft Sails for the Orient. Seattle, Wash. William H. Taft. sailed Thursday on the steam ship Minnesota. Accompanying Mr. Taft are representatives of the Asso ciated Press and Collier's Weekly, the New York Herald and other papers. Lehna Draws a 55-Year Sentence. Meadville, Pa. 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