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lor in advance.
Dance and grow strong. It is the
edict of the American Physical Cul
ture association, which last week met
•it Columbia university principally to
put itself on record to the effect that
the time had come to recognize danc
irg in the scheme of educating tha
body.
The other day there was only one
person present to see Berlin's edu
cated horse, Hans, do his trick. When
Hans was asked how many people
were present he let his hind hoofs
fly and kicked the spectator down,
thus replying "One." The unfortunate
was kicked in the face and very badly
hurt.
Before June 30 of the present year,
when the United States government
shall have completed its extension of
the sea wall at Galveston, that un
lucky city will rest secure behind six
miles of solid concrete sea wall and
be forever immune from a repetition
of the frightful disaster of September,
1900.
The transmission of power by elec
tricity hits become so ordinary a thing
that electrical engineers are now con
fidently considering what a few years
ago was deemed impossible—the trans
mission of 100,000 volts over an elec
tric wire. There are numerous instal
lations, carrying over 40,000 volts, and
in Montana one built to transmit 80,-
000 volts.
Pennsylvania, with a soft-coal area
but slightly greater than that of West
Virginia, has been mining 40,000,000
tons of soft coal a year, and 60,000,000
tons of anthracite, and has for many
years produced far in excess of any
other state. She has now reached tho
limit of her productive capacity, and
coal men estimate that her coal-beds
will be exhausted with a period of 50
or even 40 years hence.
The market for foreign goods in the
republic of Honduras, Central Ameri
ca, is necessarily restricted, as tha
country is small, but the region is
comparatively near at hand and the
market, such as it is, ought to be con
trolled by American manufacturers.
Implements and tools of all kinds
used in manufactures or agriculture
should find a ready market sale, if
properly tight to public notice
that is, by practical demonstration of
their usefulness.
The greatest oil well in the world
is the Droojba of Baku. When this
Russian well began to yield it gave
''orth from 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 gal
lons of oil a day—an output worth
>55,000. The oil soared tip to a
height of over 200 feet, a dark-hued
fountain that hissed and roared like
a Niagara. With the oil so much
sand was mingled that a number of
houses and workshops in tho vicinity
were buried —vanished out of sight
under a mass of grease-soaked sand.
The British Isles are credited with
12,000 square miles of coal. Russia
has 20,000 and New South Wales, Aus
tra'ia. 24,000. India is believed to con
tain 33,000 square miles of coal meas
ures, and Canada C 5.000. From that
point up to the United States is a
great trap, for this republic has 200,-
000 square miles of coal. Highest of
all stands the Chinese empire, with
232,000 square miles of coal veins,
much of it known to be of the best
quality.
California is to-day, with the excep
tion of Russia, the largest producer of
crude petroleum in the world. Its to
tal for 1004, according to estimates of
the California Petroleum Miners' As
sociation, was more than 28,000,000
barrels, which is more than douale
that of New York and Pennsylvania
together, a little less than Ohio and
Indiana combined and more than
twice as much as that of West Vir
ginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. The
actual production is no index to the
possibilities of the Golden State's oil
fields.
Mrs. Charlemagne Tower enjoys tho
distinction of having represented her
country at three great European can-
Hals in succession—Vienna, St. Peters
burg and Berlin, season Mrs.
Tower gave the most brilliant social
representation the United States has
ever had in the German court. Sho
appreciated early *i her husband's
diplomatic career tho powerful ad
junct to diplomacy which hospitality
constitutes. It is said that she was
provided with $200,000 a year by her
husband to "keep America's end up"
in the czar's realm.
OONCERNING THE DEFICIT.
Democrats Far Astray Regarding the
Shortage in National
Finances.
From the figures along to this date
the treasury statement for April will
reveal a shortage of $30,000,000 for
the ten months in receipts as com
pared with expenditures. But what of
|t? Everybody knew when the year
began, last July, that there would he a
deficit. Secretary Shaw last Decem
ber figured that the deficit would be
$18,000,000 at the end of the fiscal year.
June 30, l'JOo. It will be $30,000,-
000 at the end of April, and some of the
democratic papers are calculating that
this will mean a deficit of $40.000.000 or
$50,000,000 for the year, says the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Those papers make the same sort of
a mistake that poor Parker made in
his canvass of 1904. Parker figured
on the basis of the shortage at that,
date, that the deficit for the year would
be in the neighborhood of $150,000,-
000. There were loud cries in the
democratic press that the biggest short
age on record in a time of peace was
about to be seen. Some of those papers
believed these things. Others of theiii
knew better. For a time in the cam
paign. however, the $100,000,000 or
$150,000 treasury shortage figured in the
headlines of the Parker sheets, and had
a place in the arguments of the Parker
stump speakers.
To-day the utmost that the demo
cratic papers figure that the shortage
will be for the year is $50,000,000.
They are far astray, of course. April
is always a month of heavy interest
payments and other disbursements by
the government. There has been an
excess thus far in the month of
$5,700,000 in the treasury's outgo. Put
in May and .June the income will be
ahead. There is a reasonable certainty
on this point. Those months near
ly always show receipts in excess of
expenditures. There is no reason to
believe that 1905 will be an exception
to this rule. For the ten months of
the fiscal year the receipts have been
larger than they were In 1904. but the
expenditures make a much greater
gain over last year's. The receipts are
likely to keep on increasing, while ex
penditures for the coming fiscal year
stand a chance to be below those of
the present one. The deficit on June
30 will probably be down to $25,000,-
000, and may be lower. Putin any
case the treasury's working balance is
large, and the business world is not
showing the faintest concern in the
natter.
THE PESO DOWN AND OUT
Mexico Puts the Finishing Tcuch on
the Beautiful Bryan
"Look."
An event which will Rive general sat
isfaction everywhere except in Lin
coln. Neb., where it will be regarded as
a calamity, ushered in May day in the
sister republic of Mexico, says the Chi
cago Chronicle. .On that date the
standard of monetary value of the re
public was changed from silver to gold
and the value of the peso, the old
Spanish milled silver dollar, dropped
to 50 cents.
The passing of the peso destroys the
last supporting prop of Bryan and the
free silver freebooters who followed
his dishonest leadership. They are
now denied even the indulgence of
their old confidence game of crossing
the border and exchanging one dollar
of honest money for two pesos and pre
tending that the latter is the true
standard of value and that gold has
doubly appreciated. Mexico's standard
dollar is now the gold dollar of every
other nation with an honest currency.
To make the event more pathetic for
the Bryanites, the change was effected
without the slightest jar or disturb
ance in business circles.
"Look at Mexico!" was Bryan's fa
vorite ejaculation for years when har
anguing the mob of cheap money ad
vocates.
All right, William, look at Mexico
Take a good, long look. too.
The Grave of Silver.
The discontinuance of the coincide of
silver on private account in the mints
of Mexico is more than the driving
of the last nail in the coffin; it is
tamping down the last sod on the
grave of an issue that was prominent
in American politics for more than a
quarter of a century, an issue that was
often exciting and at one time danger
ous—not that it threatened revolution
ary violence, but because it was re
garded as tending to corruption of the
currency, and, therefore, to panicky
business conditions and national dis
grace. The only thing that can be said
to the credit of the republican party
regarding its treatment of that issue is
that ir, was, at every stage of the long
conflict, nearer to safety and sanity
than the democracy. The only fact in
the protracted drama that can be so
construed as to reflect credit on the
democratic party is that a democratic
president set himself against the domi
nant sentiment of his party and at a
great personal sacrifice saved his coun
try from the threatened calamity.—
Washington Post.
In the Quake? City.
Church—l see a man in Philadelphia
was arrested for walking in his sleep.
Gotham —Perhaps he was exceeding
the speed limit. —Yonkers Statesman.
II"It is safe to say that tariff re
vision will soon be revived as a politi
cal issue. The republicans are likely
to heed administrative insistence on
this point, and the democrats, as it
appears, w*ll push the unwelcome sug
gestion by what promise to be unpleas
antly emphasized references to the
condition of the national treasury.—
Newark News.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1905.
DECLARATION IS CORRECT.
Governor Cummins of lowa Makes
Strange But True Statement
Regarding Tariff.
"It is not probable that congress will
revise the tariff until the people <le
niand it in terms so emphatic that their
determination to have it cannot be mis
understood."
These are not the words of William
J. Bryan or the editor of the Dubuque
Telegraph-Herald.
They are crediteed by the Washing
ton Post to Gov. A. B. Cummins, of
lowa, says the Burlington Hawk-Rye.
If correctly quoted, it is a strange ad
mission. t>y the way, for the eloquent
governor, who, two years ago. declared
the people were demanding in sten
torian tones the revision of the tariff
right then, and who last year went on
record in the same statement, and whose
friends and supporters said after the re
cent national election that the tremen
dous vote for Roosevelt was an emphat
ic demand on congress for immediate
revision.
It is an admission that, in spite of his
and his friends' recent, emphatic state
ments, the people have not yet demand
ed revision of the tariff in a way that has
attracted the attention of congress.
At the same time it is a wise and
logical statement of fact.
There is no question that the gov
ernor is correct in his declaration as
quoted. It is quite unlikely that con
gress will enter upon such a revision of
he tariff as Gov. Cummins would like
until the people really demand it.
That the demand has not yet been
made the governor wisely anil correctly
admits. When the emphatic demand
will be made neither Gov. Cummins nor
any other man can accurately tell.
It is not likely, however- that the
people will call for a general revision
of the tariff so long as the preseint
schedules continue to serve '.he coun
try as well as they do.
MORE APPARENT THAN EVER
Value of the Protective Tariff Being
More Clearly Demonstrated
Every Year.
The value of protection is shown in
some figures given in a bulletin from
the bureau of statistics. Although there
has been a large increase in imports
since 1890, there has been very little
growth in the importation of luxuries.
In 1894 such imports aggregated SK!7.-
000,000 in value, an increase of less than
$8,000,000 since 1890, and in manufac
tures ready for consumption, there was
about, the same rate of increase. But
in materials there was a growth in the
same time of nearly $200,000,000. There
was no substantial change in food
stuffs, the class of goods required by
American manufacturers providing for
the principal increase. That demon
strates the value of the protective tar
iff. says the Johnstown (Pa.) Tribune.
In jewelry and precious stones other than
diamonds there has been a decline in im
portations of nearly one-half since 1896.
There has been 110 decrease in demand,
but it is supplied by American manu
facturers, the value of whose capital
employed had doubled in ten years.
The decrease in silk importations tells
of the growth of silk manufacturing.
The imports of raw silk increased from
5.000,000 pounds in 1900 to over 10,000,-
>lllO last year. This is an industry en
tirely dependent upon the tariff. There
was never a time when the benefits of
the tariff were more apparent than
now.
CONTEMPORARY COMMENT.
s 'The democrats need not expect to
fly very high until they get their wings
together.—Chicago Chronicle.
E 'So long as Secretary Shaw is not
worrying over the deficit the rest of
the population need not shed its col
lective shirt. —Chicago Tribune.
c 'We shudder to think what would
happen to the democratic party if Col.
Bryan should collapse into silence for
1 few weeks. Charleston News and
Courier.
liryan reports that the demo
crats are everywhere active and mili
tant. Most of the democratic record
or fighting has been won between bat
tles. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
t-'Mr. Bryan lias bought another
SSOO heifer, but Judge Parker continues
lo regard farming as utterly profitless,
in so far as its bearing upon political
"ampaigning is concerned.—Chicago
Record-Herald.
c 'Some of the brethren who are
criticising President Roosevelt, for tak
ing a little vacation ought to be re
minded that President Jefferson spent
790 days of his term away from Wash
ington, while President Jackson's out
ings consumed 502 days of his. Pres
idential vacations are strictly non-par
tisan.—Columbus (O.) State Journal.
IC-' Some people who are censoriously
disposed will refuse to regard as a co
incidence the fact that a prospective
treasury deficit is announced just at
a time when the non-partisan senti
ment, is unmistakably in favor of re
ducing the tariff. "How can we reduce
the tariff when it is not producing suf
ficient revenue for our needs as it is?"
will naturally be the reply to all fur
ther suggestions for tariff reform. —
Chicago Chronicle.
t'-'The government of Australia has
appointed a commission to Inquire into
the operation of the customs tariff of
the commonwealth. This movement is
understood to be a preliminary to an
increase of duties so as to make them
more protective in cnaracter.—Pitts
burg Gazette.
ic?The Texans know that their state
is mighty and beautiful, but they like
to be told so by non-Texans. They may
continue to roll up those preposterous
democratic majorities, but henceforth
they will have a very kindly feeling
for Theodore Roosevelt personally—
Hartford Courant.
TOWN WRECKED;
100 LIVES LOST
Snyder. Okla.. Is Almost Completely
Demolished by a Tornado that
Swept Over It.
DOZENS OF PEOPLE ARE INJURED
Entire Families Were Killed and It Is
Said that Only Six Houses in the
Town Escaped Wreckage or
Destruction, Many Being
Blown Away.
Guthrie, Okla., May 12.—The death
list of Wednesday night's tornado at.
Snyder will probably exceed 100 per
sons. Ninety-five bodies have been
recovered, a dozen persons are miss
ing and given up for dead, and of the
41 seriously wounded several are
likely to die. More than 100 other per
sons suffered less severe injuries.
Relief is going from neighboring
towns. Oklahoma City sent 100 men
to dig graves and seek the dead still
in the ruins, and a dozen undertakers
with 100 coffins. Offers of financial
assistance came from numerous cities.
Gov. Ferguson, of Oklahoma, has is
sued a proclamation calling attention
to the needs of the stricken town.
In a number of cases entire families
were killed and in almost every fam
ily in town some member was injured.
Every house in the town except six
are said to have been either badly
wrecked or demolished, many of them
being blown entirely away. The busi
ness portion is reported entirely de
stroyed.
It is still difficult to obtain informa
tion from Snyder. A single telegraph
wire furnishes an outlet, but it is
blocked with private messages con
cerning the dead and the injured.
To add to the general confusion and
distress, after the tornado had passed
fire broke out and burned up all that
remained of the buildings in one of the
business blocks. So far it has not been
possible to find out whether any
bodies were cremated, but it is possi
ble that such is the case.
An unidentified woman was picked
up dead, having been pinioned to the
ground by a long sliver which ent<v<'l
her left eye and came out through the
back of her head. Clarence Donovan,
a railroad engineer, and Miss Nina
Fessendcn were to have been married
Wednesday night, but had just post
poned the nuptials until Thursday.
Both were instantly killed by the
storm.
EXPLOSION WRECKED TRAIN
Twenty People Killed and Scores In
jured in a Railway Horror at Har
risburg, Pa.
Harrisburg, Pa., May 12. —Twen'y
persons were killed and more than 100
others were injured in a railroad
wreck and dynamite explosion early
Thursday on the Pennsylvania rail
road in the southern part of Harris
burg. A full box car of dynamite ex
ploded at the middle of the heAvy
express train. The train carried a
number of prominent persons and
most of them escaped with slight in
juries. The wrecked train was the
second section of the Cleveland and
Cincinnati express leaving Philadel
phia at 11:05 o'clock Wednesday night.
It consisted of a combination baggage
and smoking car. one day coach and
six sleeping cars.
There are various stories of how the
wreck occurred, but the official ver
sion is as follows:
About 1:40 o'clock the locomotive
on an eastbound freight train was
flagged by the crew of a shifting en
gine ahead on the same track. The
engineer quickly put on the air brakes
and the train, an unusually long one.
came to a sudden halt. The strain on
the air valves was a severe one and a
connecting air hose in the middle of
the train blew out. This caused the
middle of the train to "buckle" and
(he damaged cars fell over on the pas
senger tracks. Just as this happened
the Cleveland express came thunder
ing up and "sidt swiped" the freight
wreck.
The express was stopped within 15
feet of its own length and the first
sleeping car was opposite the wrecked
cars. Before anyone could leave the
passenger train, which was not much
damaged, a few slight explosions oc
curred and then there was one great
flash and roar that shook the earth.
The whole affair occurred within a few
seconds.
The work of rescue was at first slow
and it seemed as though the flames
would envelop the entire express train
before those who were pinned beneath
the heavy wreckage could be freed.
Scores of those who were trapped in
their sleeping beds or pinioned under
wreckage were taken out and laid on
the ground.
The fire drove the resetters back be
fore all had been taken from the wreck
and the unfortunate men and women
were soon enveloped in flames. The
cries of the dying were heartrending,
but. nothing could be done for Ihem.
An alarm of fire was sent in, but when
the firemen reached the scene the
flames had done their work. The en
tire train was consumed by fire.
Shot Three People and Suicided.
Valdosta.Ga., May 12. —John Hewitt,
a white man of Adel. yesterday shot
and killed his wife, shot her sister and
brother, wounding them slightly, and
when surrounded by a posse of citi
zens shot and killed himself. Tho
enttse of the tragedy is unknown.
Convicted of Conspiracy.
Chicago, May 12. —Five business
agents of labor unions were yesterday
declared guilty by Judge Chytraus of
forming a conspiracy to drive John M.
Stiles, a contractor and painter, out of
business.
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