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The .lob department of the I'KKSS Incomplete and uffordi facilities for doing the best class of work PAUiICULAH ATTKNtION PAIDTO LAW PItINTINU. No pjp-r will bi discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of tho pub- Usher. Papers sent out of the county must be oalo lor in advance. Many a breezy young man, re marks the Philadelphia Bulletin, is preparing to reap the whirlwind. A new hotel is projected in Ma nila that will cost $1,200,000. It is in tended to make that city a tourist re sort. * - - Giving up both the ship and the ghost is rather overdoing it, says the Boston Transcript. Also annoying to Ihe passengers. That will be a restful day, sajs the Philadelphia Ledger, when l.ipton has lifted the cup and Peary triumphant ly climbed the North Pole. Colorado holds the record among the states of having 407 mountain peaks exceeding 10,000 feet; 33 of these are 14,000 feet and over. Residents of England have $550,- 000,000 invested in mortgages in for eign countries. These investments an nually bring about $27,500,000 in gold. Will we be compelled to annex Mex ico because the Yaqul Indians have killed some American citizens? We must uphold the dignity of the coun try at any cost. Pittsburg has decided to abandon white as the color of its street clean ers uniform. It won't be necessary, says the New York American, to buy new uniforms, however. The mikado has announced his de sire to decorate American Ambas sador McCorniick, now in Paris, for his services in protecting Japanese interests at St. Petersburg during the war. The tramp, says an authority, is no more. But in his place, exclaims the Philadelphia Inquirer, we have a class of peripatetic vagrants that an swer the same purpose; so what's the difference? Some scientist has discovered that the north pole is moving southward at the rate Qf 20 miles a year. Now if he has the courage of his convic tions let him go up to Winnipeg and open a fur store. Whereas ten years ago silver was the leading item among a bride's gifts, cheap jewelry of a showy though quite up-to-date class is now given by even the richest of our relations and friends. An invention which will make it possible to telephone from a train moving at the rate of 40 miles an hour has been completed. The man who sends his wife away for his health isn't likely to experience much relief after this. You can't bat admire the duke of Cumberland's "pigheadedness" in re fusing to give up his claim to the Hanoverian crown, says the Boston Herald. He promised his father on his death bed he would never relin quish the right or reconcile himself with Prussia. If Lieut. Peary had a fleet of stanch ships like that on which he made bis last voyage there is little doubt that he could reach the pole. A number of stout vessels could sup port each other in various ways. Get ting to the pole, says -the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, is chiefly a matter of money. Interesting particulars have been given by the Dutch papers about a telegraph messenger, living at Breda, who by self-tuition has become a mas ter of languages. This man, now 50 years of age, can speak and write English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Latin, Greek, Hebrew Knd Sanscrit, and is able to decipher hieroglyphic and cuneiform inscrip tions. He has ahw a knowledge of cosmography, astronomy, physics, the history of art, and various other sci ences, and can write Greek poems. A dermatologist lias solved the mys tery of converting a faded society wo man into a study of pink and white. The beauty doctor has already made several experiments with his fountain of youth, lie simply tattoes a blush on the checks without injury to ihe flesh or skin, says the Pittsburg Dis patch. He declares the process does not cause pain—not even a wince— because the needle only enters the skin one-sixteenth of an inch. lie uses vegetable coloring to produce the schoolgirl blush. This i:; injected un der the skin. The fluid is said to "be quite harmless laid really posseses antiseptic properites. IDEAL TARIFF BILL CRITICS OF THE PRESENT LAW HAVE A DUTY TO PERFORM. Those Who Find So Much Fault With the Tariff as It Is Should be Able to Formulate Improvements That Will Meet All Re quirements. In all sincereity and good faith, we call for a tariff revision bill at the hands of the "progressive" gentlemen who are so strenuously insisting upon immediate action by the dominant party, lest through neglect thereof the party that is in should be displaced by the party that is out. If the exigency is so pressing as all that, and if, as is claimed, there is involved in the exist ing tariff more of extortion and graft than have been practiced in life in surance since life insurance was in vented, then it is up to the "progress ives" to come forward forthwith with the draft of a measure for the com plete reform of this terrible tariff. In all conscience they ought not to stand back and wait for somebody else to undertake the work. They, being the ones who pick the flaws and find the faults with the tariff as it is, are the very ones to come promptly to the foreground with a plan of rectification. They are the ones who know how bad things now are; ergo, they are the ones to remedy the condition. Governor Cummins should by all means step to the front. He known, no wan better, what a fearful instru ment of wrong and oppression the Dingley tax itt is. Naturally lie uhould be the head of a volunteer tariff com mission. Governor Guild would, of course, be the vice chairman. Who can speak so authoritatively regard ing the sufferings of the boot and shoe millionaires of Massachusetts because of the atrocious tariff on hides? .Mr. Foss will naturally have a controlling voice in determining what to do in the matters of free raw materials and Canadian reciprocity. Congressmen McCall and Ames could help greatly, for they are tremendously alive to the pressing necessity for tariff reform. There are others so numerous that space is too short for mention in de tail who would be of signal usefulness. We do not include John Sharp Wil liams, Champ Clark and Bourke Coch ran in the category because of the fear that their presence and co-operation might prove somewhat embarrassing. Still, they might be consulted on the quiet, for their help will be needed on roll calls later on. The president of the Sugar trust, a high authority on reduced sugar tariff rates, and the president of the Tobacco trust, always interested in lower toba'cco duties, would make excellent members of the commission. Those suggestions arc purely tenta tive. Far be it from assuming to dic tate. But we do feel certain that we offer a valuable hint when we urge that the volunteer tariff commission should take shape and activity at the earliest possible moment. The coun try is looking to the reformers and progressives for the ideal tariff bill. Of course, they can draft such a bill without the slightest difficulty. Know ing, as they do, how utterly abomina ble the present tariff is, it follows necessarily that they know just how to improve it. All they have to do is to utilize their proficiency as tariff mak ers and agree upon the bill to be sub mitted to the house committee on ways and means. No need to wait for an extraordinary session of con gress to be called next spring. Less need to wait until 1909. The time to act is now. The volunteer commission can be called together inside of three days, and, once together, we don't suppose it would take more than three hours for the experts to agree upon a detailed list of the reductions to be made in the Dingley schedules Ho easy it is for those who have mastered the tariff in all its intricacies to de cide as to what should be done. Let. the volunteer tariff commission get together and get to work. The country wants this question of altered tariff rates settled. It wants a bill of particulars, a bill that it can read, un derstand and admire. Delay is repre hensible under existing conditions. We might almost say inexcusable. Bring on the ideal tariff reform bill. Possibly it would strike congress so favorably that, instead of ten months ordinarily devoted to such matters, it would pass both houses in ten min utes! Who can tell? At all events, let us have the bill light away. Money to Burn. The enactment of the income and in heritance taxes would increase the surplus of $358,000,000, and might make the sum larger than that. What would we do with that deluge of cash? President Arthur's troubles were light compared with the torments which President Roosevelt would precipitate upon himself if con grew should take him at his word and open these streams of revenue which he asks. Providing we adopted and stuck to those proposed taxes, what would we be compelled to do with the tariff and the internal imposts? We might, as a preliminary, be called upon to burn down all the custom houses or sell out all the collectors' offices. Frederick D. Grant s-iid a few years ago that it was easier to manage a surplus than a deficit. But he did not dream of the surplus which President Roosevelt would one day propose to precipitate upon the country. No clairvoyance is needed to foretell that neither the in-' come nor the inheritance tax will be enacted this winter or next winter, or probably any other winter. —St. Louis Globe Democrat. CAMhRGK COUNT Y PRESS, THURSDAY JANUARY 31, 1907. INDUSTRIAL GROWTH Has Added Enormously to Wealth of Farmers. In a well conceived analysis of the present conditions of national pros perity, Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers' Record, of Haiti more, in the Review of Reviews, sets forth some astounding figures. It is true, as the writer says, that to grasp these figures we must accustom our selves to think in billions. For exam ple, the number of people engaged in agriculture has increased from 6,000,- 000 in 1870 to 11,500,000 in 1905, while in the same 35 years the value of farm property in the United States has advanced from $9,000,000,000 to $26,570,000,000. In 1870 the value of our farm products was less than $2,- 000,000,000; In 1906 this value has reached the tremendous total of $7,- 000,000,000. Says Mr. Edmonds: "Contrast this striking exhibit of the prosperity which has come to the farmers of the country with the pov erty of 10 or 15 years ago, and in do ing so bear in mind that this is only the beginning of what we may ex pect in farm life. In passing through the pioneering period of skimming the cream of our most fertile soil wo car ried our farm production beyond what could be profitably consumed by this country or for which a profitable mar ket could be found in Europe. Now, enormous industrial growth, with its millions of consumers, added to Euro pean requirements, has reversed the conditions." The chief cause of agricultural i.rors perity iu the United States is stated In thre.i words: "Enormous industrial growth." Ten years ago, when our industrial growth was suffering from the blight of tariff revision downward, the value of farm products was not above $3,500,000,000, or one-half of the value in 1906. Ten years ago Ameri can farm property represented a value of but little more than $16,000,000,000; to-day the value stands at fully $27,- 000,000,000. The foreign demand for our farm products has had relatively little to do with producing these as tounding advances in value alike of products and of properties. Far more potent has been the home market. NOTHING DOING IN THAT LINE Patent PI II Peddler.—A:uythi n g tn my line to-day? Uncle Sam—Fade away, Doc.; forget it. Do I look like a man who needs dosing? What Germany Covets. Germany seems to have taken note of the silence on the tariff in the president's message, and it has ex pressed some disatisfaction over the omission of the question it has re garded as very important. But the German papers may not have taken note of the fact that during the last month our exports exceeded those of the same month fast year by some $22,000,000. The United tates is doing about all the foreign business that she could hope to do under the most favorable conditions. What Germany is trying to do is to keep down her own import and at the same time ex tend her exports. Germany ets the position in trade held by this country and thinks in some way or «ther to reach it through the tariff. But Ger many needs American agricultural products, the hogs and the cattle of our farms. Without them the German industrial classes can not have meat enough to satisfy their wants, and without it meat prices in Germany will be out of all range as far as the masses are concerned. The United States now lias commissioners in Ger many studying the tariff question and when they return and make their re ports we shall, of course, know a gre.at deal more about this subject. In the meantime President Roosevelt re served all mention of the tariff.—Cedar Rapids Republican. Should Not Be Necessary. The defeat of Congressman Mc- Cleary, of Minnesota, and Congress man Laeev, of lowa, is being referred to with great satisfaction by oppo nents of protection. It will not be denied that those two men were lead ers in congress of the Republican party, and that their defeat is greatly regretted by friends of the cause they so weil advocated. But they were hardly more conspicuous as friends of protection than was William McKinley when he was defeated in his Ohio dis trict on the same issue, or than was President Benjamin Harrison when he failed of re-election because of the desire of the people to try a season of tariff reform. It may be necessary for history to repeat itself in ordei that the lesson which followed the de feat of McKinley and Harrison shall be learned anew. But it should not be necessary.—Adrian, Mich., Times ALGER DIES. Michigan Senator Yields to Sudden Illness. WAS 68 YEARS OLD. He was Secretary of War During the Spanish-American War and was a Mufti-Millionaire. Washington, D. C. —United States Senator Russell A. Algor, of Michigan, ditd suddenly at his residence in this city at 8:45 o'clock Thursday morn ing, following an acute attack of oedema of the lungs, with which ho was stricken shortly after 8 o'clock. "Gen. Alger was secretary of war during the administration of Presi : dent McKinley from March 5, 1807, to August 1, 1899, a period during which the administration of the war depart ment was brought into great promi nence through its activities in connec tion with the war with Spain and the military operations in the Philippines that succeeded it. "Gen. Alger was patriotic, earnest and most devoted to the interests of the army and especially considerate of the welfare of enlisted men. Ho was a gentle, kindly man with great confidence in Lis friends -»nd associ ates and was much beloved by Ills subordinates. He was the subject of unjust criticism because of the coun try's lack of preparedness for war when war came, although for this he was in nowise responsible. His rec ord as a soldier in the civil war was long, useful and highly honorable." RtJSSUCLb A. ALGER. Russell A. Alger was a native ol Ohio, born February 27, 1836, in Me dina county. Left an orphan at 11 years he worked on a farm, attending Richfield academy in Summit county. Later he taught school and studied law in the office of Judge Upson and Mr. Wolcott in Akron. Admitted to the bar in 1859, he immediately re moved to Grand Rapids, Mich. During the civil war he rose from captain to brevet major general of volunteers. In 1889 he was elected commander-ia-chief of the G. A. R. He was governor of Michigan from 1884 to 1886, and was several times a candidate for the presidency. As secretary of war in McKinley's cabinet he was charged with the re sponsibility for the "embalmed beef" scandals. This forced him to resign in 1899. He made millions in Michigan lum ber, breaking into that rich field dur ing the early days of its development. THE SITUATION AT KINGSTON. Three Thousand People are Homeless and 500 Corpses Have Been Buried. London, Eng.—The colonial office has received several telegrams from Sir Alexander Swettenham, the gov ernor of Jamaica, explaining the inci dent with Rear Admiral Davis, but not one Is of such a character that the au thorities are prepared to give it to the public. Last evening the colonial office gave out two reports received from tho gov ernor on conditions in Jamaica. He says that up to date 500 bodies have keen buried, in addition to a number of remains that could not be identi fied. The governor estimates that 200 bodies are still buried in the ruins, and that it probably will take a year to remove the debris. The main thoroughfares of Kings ton have been cleared, the street car lines are in operation and the people are living in outhouses and the less damaged buildings. There are 3,000 homeless persons in temporary shel ters erected in the gardens, on the public squares and at the race course. Tho number of homeless ones is be ing decreased, as work is plentiful and many persons have baen given free passage out of the city. Congress. Washington.—The house on the 24th passed the pension appropriation bill and voted to abolish all the pen sion agencies throughout the country and centralize the payment of pen sions in Washington. The senate ad journed as soon as the death of Sena tor Alger was announced. Changed the Age Limit. Philadelphia, Pa.—The Pennsyl vania railroad management has de cided to change the age limit at which men may enter the employ of the company, from 35 to 40 years. In the west the Pennsylvania company has had difficulty in securing competent men under the age limit. A Dig Flood in Missouri. Cairo, lll.—The Mississippi river Is running over tho levee at Birdpoint, Mo., and thousands of acres of the best farming land in Missouri are under water. ST IS REJECTED. MR. BANG'S BID FOR PANAMA CANAL WORK. IF MR. OLIVER GETS THE RIGHT PARTNER HE WILL BE GIVEN THE CONTRACT. Washington, D. C.—As the result of a conference at the White House last night it was decided to reject the bid of Oliver & Bangs, who proposed to complete the construction of the Panama canal for 6.75 per cent, of the total estimated cost, Insofar as Ahson M. Bangs, of New York City, is con cerned. While no official statement was given out, it can be authoritative ly stated that if William J. Oliver, of Knoxville, Tenn., can enter into a satisfactory arrangement with some other contractor who is financially re sponsible he will be given the con tract for the construction of the canal. The fact that the McArthur-Gilles ple Co., of New York, whose bid for I the construction of the canal was 12.5 ■ per cent., were represented at the con ference, leads many of the interested parties to believe that a combination j may be formed between that firm and , Mr. Oliver. It is known that the Mc- Arthur-Gillespie syndicate has con vinced President Roosevelt and Sec retary Taft of its financial responsibil ity and after a thorough investigation | the canal commission officials haveex • pressed satisfaction that Mr. Oliver Is able to carry out his end of the agree ment, and there would have been no j question to awarding the contract to j Oliver & Bangs had the credentials presented by Mr. Bangs proved as satisfactory to the officials hero an those furnished by Mr. Oliver. MOB KILLS POLICEMEN. ; A Desperate Battle in the Streets of Grodno, Russia. Grodno, Russia. —As a result of an exchange of shots between Grodno, Russia, Jan. 26.—As a re sult of an exchange of shots between the authorities and a number of Ter rorists on the streets of Grodno, Fri day, five policemen, a prison warden and one Terrorist were killed and a number of persons were wounded. The trouble started when two men, without warning, shot and killed a prison warden. The assailants fled, one of them taking refuge in a church and the other in a private house. They were pursued by the police and three policemen, who had effected the arrest of the man in the church, were attacked by the assembled crowd, fired upon and killed. The Terrorists escaped. The police then proceeded to the house where the second man had hid den and as they approached the build ing he opened fire and killed two of his pursuers. At this stage of the fighting troops were called out and fired a volley, killing the man who | had hidden in the house and wounding j several passersby. DUN'S TRADE REVIEW. ; Leading Manufacturing Industries Re port a Steady Volume of New Business. New York. —R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Low temperature and snow at many points stimulated retail demand for seasonable merchandise, but retarded movement of freight, which was be ginning to show noteworthy improve ment. Distribution of heavy weight clothing, footwear and other winter goods was very large during the past week, reducing stocks that it was feared would be carried over on ac count of the mild season. Wholesale and jobbing trade in dry goods for spring delivery was liberal. Leading manufacturing industries report a steady volume of new busi ness, assuring full operation of plants far into the future, and maintaining high prices for all raw materials. 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