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H. H. M'JLLIN, Editor.
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Yet Tliey Get Victims.
Layers of odds at the race track are
prone to circulate tales of their enor
mous losses upon certain races, but it
is seldom that a loss on a run may be
shown, for it has been figured by ex
perts, states the New York Herald, that
a skillful layer makes a book showing
a percentage of 25 in his favor, by which
he is bound to retain at least one-fourth
of his takings. Large losses happen oc
casionally when an unexpected victory
pays 40 or 50 to 1, but as a general
thing, unless the bookmaker deliberate
ly gambles with chance, he "makes
book" so that he will show a profit on
each race. A skillful bookie can so
manipulate the odds that at no point
does he stand to lose on a race, and, like
his brother of the gambling house, his
profit lies in this percentage In his
favor. Even where gambling games
are run without recourse to fraud the
odds in favor of the dealer are never
less than 20 per cent.
Difference in Envoys.
A London writer says Sergius Wittc
belongs to the mastiff type, Baron
Komura to that of the weasel. The
Russian envoy's manners are notorious
ly bad, so bad that he rarely enters the
czar's presence without making some
courtier's hair stand straight on end.
Genial as he is by nature, he is often
rough and off-hand, and sometimes he
is quite brutal in his callousness; he
tramples conventionality under foot
ruthlessly and calls spades spades in a
fashion that his enemies dub indecent.
The Jap's manners, on the contrary, are
exquisite. His courtesy is as kindly as
it is ceremonious, and there is some
thing quite touching in the gentle defer
ence he shows to all whom he meets,
even while allowing not one of them to
approach him too nearly. Just as M.
Witte is a stanch democrat, Baron
Komura is an aristocrat by instinct.
Civilization stands for something
definite, yet it is hard to measure. Not
by foot-pounds or kilowatts or amperes
or ohms can it be estimated, yet a cer
tain college professor has hit upon a
plan for attaining results which will uo
interesting, although not conclusive,
says Youth's Companion. He has been
traveling up and down the country, vis
iting schools far and wide, and putting
a series of questions to the pupils. One
of them is: "If not yourself, who would
you rather have been?" According to
the age at which the pupils show some
of the larger knowledge of the world,
and according to ihe answers they make,
the professor rates the standing of the
community which they represent. At
last accounts, Springfield, Mass., was i;j
the lead.
Theoretically a college match pro
vides an opportunity for generous emu
lation between young men in someforia
of recreation which they follow for iU
own sake. This conception is retained
in England better than in this country,
where the national tendency to make a
business of whatever is undertaken
works against the best form of amateur
sport. It is thus that great expenses are
felt to be necessary in training; there
is a tendency to take professional per
formances as the standard, and with
this goes of necessity a desire for elab
orate training and the erection of what
should be a recreation into a solemu
duty of winning. And from this in turn
arise most of the troubles which have
attended the growth of college athletics.
Miss Ida SUM i.an, ol Brooklyn, will
present a unique medal to Martin
Corcoran, a teamster. Across the bar
will be t he word "Humanity" and on the
pendant the inscription: "Presented ;o
Martin Corcoran on Sepieniber 5, 1!)U!>,
for Being the Mo 1 Humane Driver in
Greater New York." The medal was
Miss Sheehan's own idea and she pays
for it hei elf through the Society for the
Prevention ol Cruelty to Animals. She
decided whom she would give it to uii< ;•
u course of sleuthing extending o\i r i *o
months.
Son:»'f a' .i nan paper; < xpn s., ama/.e
nieni thru .Vintuitu i ' in named >o
rucci « d Irf.rd € '■ ■ r>:on as viceroy of In
dia. They consider thai I ■ Is uot big
enough for the ;• '.;<•»». <n paper d<
idaros ilrf his lordship w; lardy up
to If: (111,1 1,.p of c'r.! a .1, 'nliv'-
A"" ol I Mini'! :il f.||j, which
any Uoolboy i nl 1 (111. ■
PRESFNT NATIONAL ISSUES
Republican Record on All Questions
Is ail Element of Strength in
Every State.
Because the republicans in Ohio, Vir
ginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
the other states which elect governors
in 1905 are making, or are to make, their
canvass on national issues, some demo
cratic papers and politicians pretend
to be surprised. The only surprising
thing about this is that anybody should
have the effrontery to affect surprise.
This is the usual order of things, says
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In near
ly all the states in nearly every canvass
in which governors or other state offi
cers are chosen national questions are
at the front. This is unavoidable in a
great coutnry like ours, in vyiiich large
issues of some sort are almost always
being discussed. In every one of the
states-here mentioned a good deal of at
tention will be given to local concerns
by the republicans. In Ohio, in the
opening of the campaign. Gov. Herrick
discussed state issues almost solely, and
ho said some things which will bother
the democrats to answer. The republi
can candidate in Virginia is also giving
a good deal of attention to state ques
tions. So will the republican nominees
in Massachusetts and Rhode Island,
whoever they chance to be.
It is not a question of weakness on
local questions for the republicans to
discuss the great issues which are be
fore their party in the nation at large.
Whatever the peculiarities of their local
politics may be, there are concerns
which appeal alike to republicans from
Maine to California and from Mary
land to Oregon. They form a bond of
union between the republicans of the
entire country. The party's record on
all the national questions is an element
of strength for its members in every
slate. The republican candidates in
Virginia, Rhode Island, Massachusetts
and Ohio will gain many votes because
of their parly's intelligence, progress
iveness and courage in national con
cerns. Every republican state conven
tion which has been held in 1905 has
pointed triumphantly to the record of
the Roosevelt administration. Every
elate convention of the party which is
yet to be held this year will do the
6aine. The republican record for cham
pionship of the interests of the people
—of all the people, democrats and re
publicans. south and north—is an asset
of incalculable value to every candi
date of the party for every office, local
at: well as national.
In every state which votes in 1905
the republican candidates, stump ora
tors and newspapers will give much
attention to the issues of peculiar con
cern to themselves, in their own com
munities. In most cases they will prob
ably-give more attention to these mai
lers than the democrats will like. On
the whole, the republican state gov
ernments throughput the north and
west have managed their affairs with
ability and honesty. The people are
satisfied with Ihe republican govern
ments which they have, and are likely
to continue them. Herrick will be re
turned to power in Ohio. Utter of
Rho;if. Island will be succeeded by
himself or some other republican. It
is pe.liaps too much to expert that tha
republicans will carry the democratic
stronghold of Virginia, but they wl'.l
put up a fight which will be memorable
for its intelligence and vigor. The
democrat Douglas in Massachusetts
will be succeeded by a republican. In
every Roosevelt state of last year
which votes Ibis year the conditions
are favorable to the republicans. The
democrats realize this, and will not be
surptised at the returns which will bs
spread before (lie country on the morn
ing of November J?. On local as well
as national issues the republican party
has the American people on its side in
1905, as it had in 1904.
POINTS AND OPINIONS.
inrin his travels around the world,
Mr. Bryan is likely to be shocked by
finding several more governments that
are run without his consent. —N. Y.
Mail.
D. Rockefeller's alleged pre
diction of hard times and an industrial
slump in 1907, just in time for the
presidential campaign, may strike Col.
Bryan as almost too good to be true.
—Milwaukee Sentinel.
E~\Ve gather that our esteemed con
temporary, Ihe Novoe Vremya, is not
in favor of Roosevelt for a third or
any other term. An opposition some
where and of some sort seemed neces
sary to relieve the chorus of unani
imity.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
O'Bryan and Calamity! What a
ticket to conjure wilh. Imagine this
combination astride ihe donkey's neck
entering the great presidential handi
cap in 1912. And a.s naturally as one
says the alphabet, alter Bryan and Ca
lamity comes Defeat. —Toledo Blade.
farmers are growing sheep
in larger numbers each year. It is es
timated that the farmers in southern
Hardin and northern Marshall coun
ties will feed liO.OOl) sheep this winter.
I The Dingley tariff has made the sheep
: ami woolen industries among the most
profitable in the country.- Manchester
(la.) Press.
B'"Col. ISryan reminds the country
that he lias now arrived at the years
of dlsrreilon. Still, there are cases In
which the inoculation for discretion
' h;n failed to take. Washington Post.
t Four Chicago beef mi 11, cornered
In ih> federal courts, have plea-led
guilty to the charge of conspiracy and
laid lines aggr gating s26,Oim» rather
I than goto prison, as they wre
pretty 111 ely to do had they continued
li MM 'ln' pro—CßthM. Thai n suit
wh brought about by honest i nfotce
tnent of anil-trust legislation l>y a re
publican nll i i -li tration at Wu-diiug-
I. U.— Troy Viui' a.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1905.
SHOULD BE NO TARIFF JOLT
If the Dingley Law Is Good, Why
Should the Hand of Re
vision Touch It?
A curiously tuned "bugle call" for
tariff revision comes from that staunch
and stalwart organ of republicanism
and protection, the Pittsburg Ga
zette. Lest it be imagined that the Ga
zette has fallen from the faith and
embraced false doctrines, we quote from
its editorial a few sentences that have
the ring of truth:
"There is no room to doubt that a pro
tective tariff is the basis of national
prosperity. The student of history can
not avoid that conclusion if he follows
the lines with an open mind.
"Teeming prosperity greets the ob
server on every hand. Mills and fac
tories are overwhelmed with orders, la
bor is fully employed, the fecund earth
is yielding crops almost without paral
lel in agricultural annals.
"If tariff adjustment is a shock to
business there will never come a mo
ment when business will be in better
condition to bear it.
"This prosperity, practically contin
uous, began with the enactment of the
Dingley law. That law was the founda
tion on which it was built."
Why, then, asks the Rochester Dem
ocrat and Chronicle, with a tariff under
which abounding prosperity lias been
obtained and retained should the hand
of revision be laid upon an instrument
so powerful in its promotion of the com
mercial and industrial activities of the
country? Because, in the words of the
Gazette, "the common people, grown
rotund with fatness, have forgotten the
lean years and are demanding a change
in the tariff laws." Because "if the Fif
ty-ninth congress does not do this, no
man may say who will be called to do it."
Because "the Fifty-ninth congress is a
republican congress. It is economical
ly sound. Speaker Joseph G. Cannon is
a protectionist; Sereno E. Payne, John
Dalzell, Charles H. Grosvenor, ranking
members of the committee on ways and
means; these are among the most ardent
protectionists in this country. With
these men to lead and a solid phalanx
of republicans behind them, when tho
tariff is taken up for revision it will
be in the hands of its friends. It will
be revised right. No industry, no ma
terial interest w ill suffer. There ought,
not to bo any fear about revising the
tariff while these men, good and true,
are there to do it."
All of which, apparently, means some
thing like this: That the everlasting
clamor of the free traders against the
protective system is making an impres
sion on a large mass of people who do
not know when they .are well off. who
are liable to be led astray and who
may suddenly vote into power the anti
protection party. Therefore the repub
lican party should forestall any such
movement by revising the tariff :;fter
its own fashion and in line with the
popular sentiment may be appeased and
principles of the Dingley law, so that
tranquilized by the form of a revision
which shall effect a change in schedules
but not in the spirit and policy which
pervade the present tariff. Then, says
the Gazette, "let it alone for the next ten
years."
A shrewd plan, honestly stated, but in
its very nature wholly unsatisfactory to
the most insistent agitators for revision
—namely, those whose leading articles
of faith is that "protection is robbery."
The ten-year feature of the scheme
| could not be binding on them, or any
body else, if public sentiment should
demand another revision in five years.
I The present traiff is not quite eight
years old. Who can say how long a.
new one would last in view of the "irre
pressible conflict* between free trade
and protection and of the waves of po
litical reaction which occasionally and
spontaneously sweep over the country?
THERE IS A DISTINCTION.
Two Terms Which Should Ee Used
in Order of Respective
Importance.
The friends of protection ought to be
careful to distinguish between a maxi
mum and a minimum tariff and a mini
mum and a maximum tariff.
It makes a great, deal of difference
which word comes first, says the Spring
field (Mass.) Union.
It is a minimum and maximum tariff
we must have if we would remain a
protectionist country.,
A minimum tariff would apply
equally to all nations. It would be the
declared tariff policy of the country,
and in accordance with it manufactur
ers would govern their purchases and
sales. The maximum duties would be
applied only against those countries
that discriminated against us.
A maximum tariff made to such na
tions as showed us the greatest com
mercial favors, would result in tariff
instability. The manufacturer would
never know what the tariff would be
f*.x months hence.
On the other hand the mistake should
not be made of declaring the present
Dingley law to be the maximum duties
to be added to it.
c~7"rhe recent clamor for reciprocity
has no deep foundation in public sen
timent. Much of it is ambitious politi
cal clatter.— Burlington Hawkeye.
*'?* Senator Stone thinks there is an
epidemic of republicanism, the cure
for which is to remove the cause. The
cause of the republican epidemic is the
lemocratlc party. Wo n.-'i;<• with tin
'Mintor thai it should be removed, and
: lie sooiur the b tier. S.. I>JU'*
Globe-Demo! rat.
That d'fni! in the national reve
titles \%!• i<-ii lias rutmed ceri.iin demo
raiie eriiir much worrim nt appears
;o be IHI.III;. rare of i'S LF by turning
into a surplus. For Ihe firs t half of
! .tpptcmi < r a balance of s'!,4oA,«oi in re
' eipt:; over • >,ei ii uuuounced.
I dt. bu ultr (Jiul' Demo rut.
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PROMINENT MAN ARRESTED.
Superintendent of Schools of Peoria,
111., Charged with Forgery and
and Embezzlement.
Peoria, 111., Oct. 6. —Prof. New lon C.
| Dougherty, superintendent of city
, schools of Peoria for more than 20
' years, president of the Peoria national
bank and a capitalist, was yesterday
arrested on two true bills returned by
the grand jury, charged with forgery
and embeAlement. The arrest fol
lowed an investigation of the grand
' jury of charges brought against Prof.
Dougherty that the accounts of the
school funds which were deposited in
the bank of which he was president
were being manipulated. The investi
gation resulted in the discovery that
there was a shortage of at least SGO,-
900. The investigation covered only
the period from January, 1903. The
srand jury will now, it is said, investi
gate the entire record of Prof. Dough
erty as superintendent of schools and
it is believed that a much greater
shortage will be found.
Prof. Dougherty was first arrested
on a charge of forgery, the specitio
charge being that ho had forged a
voucher for $164.50 for coal. He
promptly furnished $3,000 bail. The
indictment and arrest on the charge
nf embezzlement followed yesterday
afternoon, and on this charge Prof.
Dougherty furnished $9,700 bail.
Following his arrest on the charge
of forgery Prof. Dougherty sent in liis
resignation as president and director
of the Peoria national bank. He also
sent in his resignation as superintend
ent of schools.
Mr. Dougherty has been city super
intendent of schools for 25 years. He
is wealthy, is president of the Peoria
national bank and is a heavy stock
holder in the Dime Savings and Trust
Co., the Title and Trust Co., tho
Peoria Livery Co and other concerns.
FIRE IN A FLAT HOUSE.
Three People Dead, Seven Badly
Burned and Two Firemen Injured.
New York, Oct. G.—Three children
j were burned to death, their parents
rescued and taken in a dying condition
to St. Mary's hospital, five other ten
ants sent to hospitals suffering from
burns, and two firemen hurt in a fire
in a four-story flat, house in Reid ave
nue, Brooklyn, late Wednesday night.
Other incidents of the fire were the
birth of a child while the mother was
i being removed from the building, and
< an accident which wrecked Fire Chief
Croker's automobile and in which the
chief narrowly escaped serious acci
j dent.
The fire is believed to be incendiary.
The hallways of the building were
tilled with flame and smoke and every
; occupant, of the building was asleep
j when the flames were discovered by
j William Teaz and James Nugent, fire
j men, who were off duty.
NEGRO STABS A CLERK.
An Attempt Made to Rob a Jewelry
Store of Precious Gems.
New York, Oct. G.—ln broad day
light and with hundreds of people on
| the street, Louis Brown, a negro, made
i an attempt to rob a Maiden Lane jew
! elry store of $2,000 worth of gems yes-
I terday. His attempt was frustrated by
Oscar Windorf, a clerk, who grappled
wit# the would-be thief and who was
; stabbed by the negro during the fight.
Brown is a carrier for jewelry sales
-1 men. Yesterday ho entered the store
of Cross & Begulin and asked to see
• some jewelry. Windorf noticed the
1 negro put a tray of jewels tinder his
coat and immeditely seized him.
j Brown drew a knife and slashed the
! clerk until he finally got free. A chase
;of several blocks followed, Brown
| swinging right left with his
| weapon as he rushed through the
j crowds. He was finally captured by a
police officer.
Municipal Ownership Problem.
New York, Oct. 0. —Melville E. In
galls, of Cincinnati, president of the
board of directors of the Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis rail
road, yesterday was chosen to head
the commission of the National Civic
Federation which has undertaken a
study of the municipal ownership
problem as it appears both in this
country and abroad. The commission
met in this city yesterday, the first
session being presided over by Samuel
Oompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor and first vice
president of the National Civic Feder
ation.
Hunting Burglars Proved Fatal.
Vandergrift, Pa., Oct. o.—The little
village of Matteer, eight miles from
here, was the scene of a tragedy late
Wednesday night in which two per
sons were shot, one fatally. While
hunting burglars around the home of
his grandfather, Jacob Kanappenberg
er, Lloyd Kemaly, aged 17, was shot in
the abdomen by his uncle, Murray
Kanappenhcrger, and the boy in
frightened agony discharged his own
revolver, the bullet striking his aunt,
Lottie Kanappenberger, in the thigh.
Died of Yellow Fever.
Chicago, Oct. G.—William Gunning,
of Natchez, Miss., who came to this
city a week auo, died yesterday of yel
low fever. When Mr. Gunning reached
Chicago he was suffering with the
disease.
N.o Designs on the Philippines.
London, Oct. G.— The correspondent
of the Daily Teleuraph at Tokio quotes
thi semi official Kokuniln Shimbun to
I the effect lltHt Seen lar.v* Taft's \inlt to
Tokio has r( Milled in an Important
uuticrfttanding BP to the outcome of
Japan's explicit disavowal of any de
signs on th<' Philippines.
Old Soldiers Meet.
Cincini.- tl, Oct. G The society of
ib Army of the Tennessee met In an.
Mini Kes lion in this city yesterday, th« i
pp ddutl, liril. <iiv)i>llle M. Dud e, ol
NtfW Ye.! - , pr> Hiding.
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