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Th«- Job department of the Phfss is complete ■tid iff rd. facilities for doini; lh» best class of w«rb. P Ali lICULAIt ATTKJCIION I'AIDTO I.AW PRI.NTtNU, No l>jp*-r will b? discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of tho pub lisher. Pupers sent out of tho county must bo paid lor in advance. ___ French View of Marriage. The French, guided by reason, aa they would say, regard the institution of matrimony as a rational regulation of the fact of sex, as a compromise between the rights of the individual and the rights of society. The man obeys, but under protest; he is will ing to sacrifice his liberty so far, but, beyond that point, he regards self abnegation as fanatical asceticism. Marriage, under French usage, says H. in. Sedgwick in Atlantic, is a part nership, in .which such matters an character, tastes, education, birth and property are to be considered; con tracting families scrutinize the pro posed bride and groom as if coming up for admittance into a club. They look at our custom of marrying for | love with amazement, as we should look at a grocer's cart that started j on its rounds at 30 miles an hour. | Our system confines its view to the j romantic dreams of youth, and re gards matrimony rather as a holiday | e»uise than a voyage of life. We may '• err in our endeavor to regard men j and women as disembodied spirits; | and yet we cannot but think that the French err in their resolution to be , sensible and regard men and women ! as animals taken in the toils of soci ety. Our theory may look too far i into the future; theirs lingers too far in the brutal past. Where Some Writers Fail. The most frequent defect in liction j submitted for magazine use and, we might add, in most of the fiction that | somehow gets published in book form, ! is its lack of spontaneity in construe- ! tion and expression, says Harper's Magazine. The writer of this manu factured liction has a certain precalcu lated effect in view, with reference to which he ambitiously contrives every Incident and situation of his story. The harder he tries the more surely he fails of any genuine appeal to his readers. If he disguises his labor by a facile mastery of dramatic material and expression, he may succeed In reaching crude sensibilities and, be cause of his lower aim, may outsell his betters. The multitude is easily captivated by splendid artifice, which, in exceptional instances, has com pelled the admiration of even the ju dicious. We shall find, however, upon close examination, that in such in stances the writer has not, by his strenuous effort, wholly closed the door against all spontaneity. ... In our day polite literature must appeal to human sympathies, and the writer's fertility of invention is of little service. A popular tailor is quoted as say ing that the average college student is the worst dressed man in America. pipy be true of sou 1 .? college students, 'but It doesn't correctiy de scribe the sartorial adornment of those in this vicinity. Their get-up jnuy be generally described as more natty than otherwise, though there are exceptions to this rule. Occas ionally they affect an eccentriicty in dt(fss that is rather startling, says Boston Herald. For instance, in a Cambridge car not long ago two young men were observed who were evidently Harvard students. They were neatly arrayed in most respects, but when they crossed their legs the people seated opposite them noted that they wore no stockings. It looked like a bit of bravado that students sometimes affect. The development of Alaska is con tinuing at a phenomenal rate. Direct proof of this is furnished by the re port showing the operations of tho government telegraph system in the territory. Receipts during .the last few months have ranged from 50 to 100 per cent, more than last year, and the facilities are so inadequate that additions are imperatively needed. The system includes more than 3,000 miles of caJjl'j and land lines, supple mented by wireless apparatus which bridges a gap of more than a hundred miles. The lines are being extended in various directions, and before a great while will form a network which will bring all the habitable portions of the "Seward purchase" into touch with the rest of the world. WRITES ON TARIFF IDA M. TARBELL BEGINS SERIES OF ARTICLES. Worth That the Work Might Have Promises to Be Marred by Spirit of Hostility—Careless Handling of Facts. We observe with interest the begin ning of a series of articles in the American Magazine by Miss Ida M. Tar bell, entitled "The Tariff in Our Times." It is announced that the author "will attempt to make this most difficult of subjects absolutely understandable and entertaining to hundreds of thousands of readers who have realized its importance without understanding its meaning." That there are many hundreds of thou sands of such persons is not to be doubted. Whether they will all, or any very large portion of them, be persuaded to read the serial produc tion just referred to, is, perhaps, an other question. The author in this instance starts out with the advantage of having already obtained a wide public hear ing by means of the "History of the Standard Oil Company." Will she succeed in securing an equally large reading constituency for her history of the tariff? Much depends upon the kind of history that shall be written. There are histories and histories. In her story of the Standard Oil Miss Tar bell was dealing with a single insti tution, with only one industrial en terprise. In writing oft.bo tariff her scope must be enormously enlarged. Now she is dealing with all indus tries; with a total industrial produc tion of $15,000,000,000 a year; with wages earned by, paid to, and again spent by more than 10,000,000 people; with the American standard of living, higher by far than that of any other people ever khown in the world's his tory; with a condition of national prosperity so amazing as to excite universal astonishment and envy; with the material welfare of 85,000,- 000 men, women and children. It is a stupendous proposition. How will the lady deal with it? The answer is suggested by the opening chapter of Miss Tarbell's his tory of"The Tariff of Our Times." We find, first of all, a spirit of hos tility to the American protective tar iff system. That seems to be the ■ point of view. Wherefore some sa lient facts are either overlooked or else colored by partisanship in their presentment. We are asked to be lieve that protection to American in dustry was never intended to bo more than temporary; that the intention of the Fathers of the Republic was to protect industries from foreign com petition only until they should be established, "but no longer;" that they were then to be left to their fate. But we are not told that a protective tariff was the second act passed by the first American congress, and that Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and all the early presidents were in favor of stimulating American products through protection and of establish ing the industrial independence of the United States. Miss Tarbell insists that the panic of 1857 was in no way influenced by free trade tariff legislation, but she does not explain how it was that a country blessed with abundant crops and having the largest gold produc tion in its career up to that time could be plunged into financial ruin, its banks wrecked, its industries par- I alyzed, its labor unemployed, and a | condition of want and suffering ! brought on without the greatly re | duced tariff and the greatly in j creased inflow of foreign manufac tures having anything to do with the , disturbance. We are told by Miss Tarbell that an enormous inflation of juices was caused by the Morrill tariff of 1860. No mention, however, is made of the effect on prices of the heavy pre mium on gold in the period of 1863- 'G9, when $2.80 in greenbacks was ; /required to buy a dollar's worth of goous. Til fere are peculiarities in the story ' which relate to the question to what kind of tariff history Miss Tar- I bell has undertaken to write, and how I well equipped she is for the tas'k. Judgment, on the question may be suspended for later Installments. For the present it is enough to say that the lady seems to have started out on an attack on the system of protec- much as she attacked the Standard Oil. Evidences abound of lack of studious preparation, of un ripeness, of careless handling of facts and conclusions. The article would have been better for a more thorough and careful consideration, and. one is tempted to suggest, for a more active employment of the edito rial blue pencil. Does Not Affect Calico. Whether through ignorance or in tention we will not undertake to say,, the Kansas City Star, a protection hater, maices a gross misstatement in assorting that "the supreme court holds that imported calico must pay a double duty," and that an extra cost for a calico gown will be the result. The truth is the supreme court holds j nothing of the sort, and that the price of calico will not be affected by so much as a fraction of a cent. The decision relates exclusively to fancy or figured weaves and not to print goods. It requires thai fancy cotton selling at 60 cents a yard shall pay more tariff duties than plain cottons selling at 15 cents c yard. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY JANUARY 10 1907. CULLOM'S UTOPIAN SCHEME. Folly of Supposing the Tariff Can Be Taken Out of Politics. Senator Cullom of Illinois is report ed as proposing to introduce, in the senate, a joint resolution providing for the creation of a "non-partisan com mission" of "experts" to report on the schedules of the tariff and make such recommemlfitions as it may desire for "revision." We had such a commis sion once, and it made a sad mess of it. The result was a series of in trigues lasting for the whole life of the commission, a tariff fight at the end, the defeat of the Republican party, a new tariff which Cleveland would not sign, a few years of misery under it, and a final return to the sound principles of protection. The folly of Senator Cullom is fun damental. It assumes that the tariff question can be anything but a polit ical question. Protectionists and free trade men differ radically. Protec tionists believe that every American industry which is capable of supplying domestic demands for its products with a sufficient surplus to permit do mestic competition to set up should he protected. The amount of protection does not matter, so that it is enough. Its object is to give the American mar ket to the American producer. If it does this, it satisfies the protection ists. If it does not, they wigh the tariff to be made higher. All other products they would admit free, and if in the protected articles the tariff is not made prohibitive, it is owing to the necessities of revenue. The na tional government cannot do without some jevenue from imported articles, and the policy of protectionists its such a reasonable adjustment of duties is will produce the necessary revenue, to be laid on competitive or non-competi tive commodities, as may seem best, preferably on articles imported large ly but which, like sugar, <we produce to some extent. The free traders have an entirely different theory. If they £ould they would jibolish all tax on imports except port and lighthouse dues. Hut they also are constrained by the necessity of revenue and recog nize that there must be a tariff law. In framing it, however, they would levy duties, so far as possible, on com modities which we cannot or do not produce and, therefore, must import. They do this because revenue being their only reason for consenting to any tariff on imports they choose those articles which we must Import, because from them the most certain and largest revenue can be got from the smallest number of commodities. They do not give protection any con sideration whatever. , While all this is the theoretical policy of the two par ties, practically all American tariff laws have been compromises. With a free trade congress the tariff would give the least possible protection. A protectionist congress would give the most possible protection. The question of protection or free trade is a matter of opinion. On that the American people have always di vided. The Republican party has al most no permanent distinctive doc trine except that of protection. The Democratic party has almost no per manent distinctive doctrine except that of free trade. To take the tariff question "out of politics" would leave neither party much of anything ex cept a scramble for offices, under or portumst pretenses such as the Dem ocratic party now makes with respect to the passing issues of the day. The Republican party is now in power. It is responsible for carrying on the gov ernment. On such a vital question as that of the tariff the leaders have no right to take Democrats into counsel. Let a Republican congress assume re sponsibility for legislation or no legis lation on Republic principles and al low the Democrats the privilege of voting the other way and bringing the people to their views, if they can.— San Francisco Chronicle. Wants to Reform This Smoke Nuisance. Not Yet. "There are plenty enough Democrats and tariff revision Republicans in the house to defeat Mr. Cannon fov speak er. Hut will they do it?" —Kansas City Star. Probably not, this time. Another two years, at the present rate of prog ress. would bring it about. Repub lican revisionists may be crazy enough to want to plunge all industry and all business into the whirlpool of tariff disturbance and tariff uncertainty, but jve think their insanity has not yet reached the stage of combining with free trade Democrats for the defeat of Joseph G. Cannon for speaker of the house. A surer way than that to wreck the Republican party and a quicker way to check prosperity could not be devi3od. DffP PROBE Reveals the Extent of Mr. flarriman's Control. KING Of MAGNATES Ail Other Railway Bosses Seem Like Dwarfs when Compared wilh This Emperor of Roads. New York.—Modern methods of combining mammoth railroad sys tems and extending tho principle of community of interests were delved into Friday by the inter-state com merce commission, which began in this city an inquiry into the so-called "Harriman lines." * At Friday's hearing it was brought out that the Union Pacific Railroad Co., the Southern Pacific Co., the Ore gon Short Line and the Oregon Rail road and Navigation Co. are practic ally under the same administration, Mr. Harriman appearing as president of each company, with only slight vari ations in the lists of other officers. It was shown that the Southern Pa cific Co. owns the Pacific Mail Steam ship Co.; that the Southern Pacific Co. and the Harriman interests are in con trol of tin; Portland and Asiatio Steamship Co. These lines run steam ers between cither San Fiancisoo or Portland and the Orient. On the Atlantic Ocean it was shown that the Southern Pacific awns the line of steamers running between New York and New Orleans formerly known as the Morgan line. The Union Pacific exercises joint control with the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway over the Chicago & Alton railroad. The agreement is that the Union Pacific shall have charge of the road one year and the Rock Island the next. This agreement, entered into by Mr. Harriman an* W. B. Leeds, extends for a period of ten years from 1904. The Union Pacific owns $28,123,100 worth of stock, or 29.59 per cent, of the capitalization of the Illinois Cen tral railroad. The Oregon Short Line owns $39,- 540,600 worth of stock in the Balti more & Ohio Railroad Co., this being 18.62 per cent, of the whole. Of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul stock, the Oregon Short Line owns $3,690,000 worth. The company also owns $2,572,000 of the stock of the Chicago & Northwestern, $10,000,000 of the preferred stock of the. Santa Fe and $14,285,745 of the capital stock of the New York. Central railroad. A LONG CHASE IS ENDED. R. C. Flower, Notorious by Reason of Swindles, Arrested in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa. "Dr." R. C. Flower, alias C. G. Dalney, who has been a fugitive from New -York since 1903, where he is wanted to answer charges of grand larceny and swind ling credulous investors out of about $1,000,000 on alleged bogus mining op erations, was arrested in this city Fri day by Detective Sergeant McConville, of New York, and several local offi cers. Flower, who-the detectives say is the most colossal mine swindler of the age, was captured in a room in one of the big office buildings in the center of the city. The arrest of Flower ends a chase by the detectives and postal authori ties that carried them through Mexico, Central America, part of South Amer ica and Canada, besides many points in the United States. Following his operations in New York, through which, it is said, many society women lost money, Flower jumped bail aft< r indictment in May, 1903. He was un der $20,000 bond. DUN'S TRADE REVIEW. The New Year Opens Bright with Promise in Business Circles. New York. —R. G. Dun & Co.'s Review of Trade says: The new Year opens bright with promise in business circles, no exces sive stocks being carried over, aanf results of inventories fully equal san guine anticipations. It is especially noticeable in dispatches from the west that there was less than the custom ary lull in business ai'ter the holiday season, while bargain sales are rap idly disposing of the moderate sup plies remaining on hand. Many new contracts for a large ton nage of steel appeared during the past week. Railway requirements show no abatement, few contracts being con sidered, however, except for delivery in the last half of the year. Congress. Washington.—The house spent flvo hours on the 4th in consideration of the "omnibus claims bill," carrying ap propriations for war claims, but made no progress with it. The senate was not in session. A Famous Engineer Dies. Lebanon, Pa. Daniel Carman died here Friday, aged 72 years. He served 30 years as an engineer of the Pennsylvania railroad. It fell to Carman's lot to bring President-elect Lincoln, on the eve oj. his inauguration in 1861, through thaf perilous mid night journey from Harrisburg to Washington., Carnegie's Latest Big Gift. Washington, D. C.—Andrew Carne gie has given $750,000 for the con struction of a building to be used by i the Bureau of American Republics. WHERE HE LEARNED. An Irishman looking for work took his stand in a group at the gate of a large engineering establishment,. By and by the foreman came up to the gate and asked: "Are there any drillers here?" '"Yes." said Pat, stepping forward. He got the job at once, but he had not been working long at the machine when it broke down. The foreman, in anything but a pleasant mood, then in quired: "Where, man, did you learn drill ing?" "In the militia," was Pat's reply— Tit-Bits. AT A FANCY DRESS BALL. MIJO Biickstonc —No, T<otJ Bangle sey, i cannot many you. I'm so much below you in station. Lord B. —uli Wosy, don't say that. Why, oh why, wasn't I born lower in life? Now if I'd only been born a shoeblack —oh no, no. No offense, dash it all! Exit Miss B. —Punch. Why He Married Her. "Yes," said William, the coster, "it were superstition as made me marry my missus." "How's that?" inquired his friend. "Why, it were a toss-up 'tween her an' Mary Jane. One day Aw were thinking which of 'em to have—Mary Janes or Anna —when Aw saw a cigar lyin' on th' ground. So Aw picked it up, and blowed if it didn't say on it 'Ave Anna,' so I had 'er."—Tit-Bits. Her' Object. Rich Old Husband—l admit that you come of a famous family, while I be long to the newly rich; but is that any reason why you should always be in directly reminding folks of that fact? Charming Young Wife —I? How? "You are forever talking about your ancestors." "Really, my dear, you do me injus tice. My reason for keeping people reminded of my great grandfather is to make you seem younger by con trast." —Tit-Bits. Asked and Answered. "Doctor, you may as well be frank with me. Tell rne the worst," said the patient, nervously. "I can do nothing for you," said the doctor calmly but firmly. "Nothing?" "Absolutely nothing. There's noth ing the matter with you."—Cassell's , Mean Woman. "Mrs. Stebbins is a very mean woman." "What has she done?" "She gave her little boy a slice of bread and butter and told him togo out and sit where he could smell the blackberry jam Mrs. Perkins was making."—Tit-Bits. He Knew Her. "What seats have you?" asked the man at the box office. "Hew many?" asked the attendant. "Two, my wife and myself." "Last row; all I've got." "Won't do. There's no man living could make my wife take a back seat." —Yonkers Statesman. The Best He Could Do. "Well, my little man," said the min ister who had been invited into dinner, "can you repeat the Beati tudes for me?" "No," replied the little man, "but I can sing 'Waiting at the Church!'" —Chicago Record-Herald. G.SCHMIDT'S,^ —__HF.AD<JUARTER9 FOR fresh BREAD, |1 popular | « CONFECTIONERY DcSiiy D© liVCrV. orders given prompt and skillful attention. §WHEN IN DOUST, THY The* ha™ itood the teat of r««> OTnnßjn „ _ M , »" J h«* cured Ihou.andidl S H In fto) * /T&'f/j ">aofNerrouiDii„. a , W i UwljO $ «*> syTfA Debllit r- SleepUo. AP-A IU ! */*//£>€' 25" and varicocele,Atrophy.fa. AbAIN ■ ffHr ... |im" r TT They dwr tho brain, .trento,.® " U " circulation, make dl£<aaliem ▼lfor to the whole bcin j. 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