2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor Published Every Thursday. 1 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ner jMr MM paid lu advance 1 *9 ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate ol ®-ie dollar per square for one insertion and fift> ■«nln per squure for each subsequent insertion Rates by the year, or for six or three month*, •re low and uniform, and will be furnished o.'i •ppllcaj,iou. Legal and Official Advertising per square ♦hreo times or loss, s2: each subsequent Insei tlon to cents per -.quare. Local notices lu cents per line for one lnser ■ertlon: 5 cents per line for each subsequent Obituary notices over (Ire line*. 10 cents pot line. Simple announcements of births, uia: riages mid deaths will bo inserted free Business cards, live Hues or less, *5 per year, oyer live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. N<> local Inserted tor less than 75 cents pei Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PRESS Is complete •nd u£Ti rd- facilities for doing the best class of Work P,\H'l ICULAK ATTENTION I'AlllTO LAW FURTING. No pjp?r will be discontinued until arrear ues are paid, except at the option of the pub* Usher. I'apers sent out of the county must bo Dald tor Ifi it .v;u;rcv "Wonderful Power of Light. The extraordinary resuscitating pow er of light recently received a curious illustration in the silver mines of Lau rinm. A mine had been abandoned 2,000 years, when some poppy seed was found beneath the slag. The slag toeing removed, in a short time the en tire space was covered with the most gorgeous show of poppies. After 20 centuries' rest they had bloomed as vigorously a ts if they had born borne by flowers of yesterday. Famous Old Bowling Greet. Bowling Green was the cradle of New York city. It was the center of New Amsterdam. Where the new custom house is stood the old Dutch fort. No. 1 Rroadway Was successive ly the home and headquarters of Lord Cornwallis, Lord Howe and Sir Henry Clinton, and Talleyrand lived there <during his stay in this country. On the borders of the green were the homes of Benedict Arnold, General Gates and Robert Fulton. Pointed Out Remedy. Walking about his estate, a rich citizen halted a laborer who was dig ging a drain and solemnly inquired if he were ready to die. The man ad mitted that he hadn't thought of pass ing away Just yet. "But every time I breathe a man dies," solemnly re marked the millionaire, in tones of terrible warning. "Gee!" cried the utmoved laborer . "Why don't you chew a few cloves?" Soulful Boston Messenger. A short time ago a gentleman In Boston sent a small boy in his neigh borhood to deliver a note to a young lady who lived a few blocks away. He gave the boy a quarter to make him hurry. After a short time the mes senger came back, and, handing the money, said: "Miss Z says she will be glad to see you to-night, but she didn't want the quarter."—Judge. "Mumping Day." What is known in Lincolnshire as "Mumping" or St. Thomas' day, when women and children go from house to house begging money, food, or clothing, was observed recently. In "Lincoln city many residents make it a practice to give the "mumpers" a packet of tea or sugar or provide them with a good meal. —London Standard. Quite a Distinction. Apropos of the four Brooks broth ers who were all preachers, it is re called that when one of them went to occupy the pulpit at Trinity, Boston, for a single Sunday, he was greeted by one of the parishioners, who ex claimed: "Ah, you are the brother of Mr. Brooks?" "Oh. no," said the visiting preacher, "I'm Mr. Brooks." Fine Caps for Infants. History tells us that Louis XIV., when a baby, received from the pope a gift of six rich caps of various styles, inclosed in magnificent cases made of brocade and silver. In an ex pensive layette of the eighteenth cen tury were included 122 baby caps of various kinds. Why Champagne Is Costly. Champagne takes Up much time and care in the making. Altogether a bot tle of champagne goes through 200 dif ferent operations, covering a period of 2!4 years. And in addition it is some times kept two or three years longer in the vaults maturing. Starvation Wages. A woman who has applied to the Lambeth guardians for relief says she Is a buttonhole-maker, is paid four cents a dozen, and that it takes an hour and a half to make them. Evi dently there are still people who sing the song of the shirt. —London Globe. Meet Universal Appreciation. Talents of even the highest order are criticised. But the simple little home graces that make a woman sweet and lovable are seldom —if ever —subjected to adverse comment. —Chi- cago Record-Herald. Bank of England Notes. The ink with which notes of the Rank of England are printed is made of charred husks and stems of Rrenish vines, and the recipe, like the manu facture of the paper, is a carefully guarded secret. LABOR'S BIG REWARD GREATEST ADVANCE IN WAGES KNOWN IN HISTORY. As a Result of Unparalleled Prosperity the Increase of Pay to Workers in Mills, Factories and on Railroads Will Amount to $1,000,000,000 for 1907. January first just passed and the months preceding saw the greatest ad vance in wages ever known in this country. The advance is the more remarkable because it was based on the highest rate known in this or any other land. A ten per cent, increase to the wages of the laborer under the free trade tariff of 1846 would have meant a daily gain of from five to ten cents, if he had gotten it. A ten per cent, increase under the Dingley tariff in 1906-7 means a gain of 20 to 50 cents a day, or from S6O to $l5O a year; the gain itself being more than the entire wage of some foreign com petitors. The Dingley tariff has brought most wondrous changes to our industrial life. Under it our foreign trade has doubled; the value of our farm prod ucts has doubled; the volume of em ployment has changed from the Idle ness of millions to a veritable labor famine in all parts of the country. Our manufacturers are unable to supply the demands of our prosperous people, and we are buying over $1,200,000,000 worth of foreign products. Remarkable as are all these results, they do not equal in importance the in creased rewards to labor. The secretary of the Railroad Gen eral Managers' association says the railroad employes will this year re ceive over $1,000,000,000 in wageg, more than double what the railroad employes of 1896 received. Here is a gain of over 100 per cent, in the past ten years. These are so-called "non protected" workers, and yet they are among the greatest recipients of the rewa» - 4 of a protective tariff. The condition of street and elevated railroad employes is similar. The next largest increase has been given to the metal workers. Bradstreet's estimates that the annual pay roll in the Pitts burg district alone exceeds $350,000,- 000. an increase over two years ago of $100,000,000. The textile workers of New England and elsewhere have had their share too in the increase of wages, the gain amounting to many millions of dollars. The express companies' employes, coal and iron and copper miners, boot and shoe operators, and the laborers in thousands of mills and factories have had an increase during the past year over the increases of the years preceding under the Dingley tariff. The laborers of the United States have been trebly benefited, first by continuous employment; second, by higher wages; third, by shorter hours; and we might add, fourth, by an in crease of interest in savings banks where they have over $3,000,000,000 on deposit at four per cent, now, in most cases, instead of three and three and one-half per cent, formerly. And still the labor demand is not equal to the supply, and we are easily absorbing half a million new wage earners an nually from abroad, who, with their families, add over a million new con sumers each year to increase the de mand for American agricultural and manufactured products. In the light of the above facts it would seem foolish, yes, criminal, to change a tariff policy which lxas given such unprecedented rewards to the workers of the country. Would Wreck the Prosperity Train. Foreign Trade, $3,250,000,000. What will the advocates of tariff re duction as a promoter of foreign trade have to say about ihe November trade returns? In the llrst 11 months of 1906 our imports have been $1,188,- 139,822, an increase of $110,138,061 over the corresponding period in 1905, while our exports have amounted to $1,607,712,842, this being $180,460,567 more than for the first 11 months of 1905. The grand total for 11 months is $2,795,852,664. At this rate our for eign trade for 1906 will reach the $3,- 250,000,000 mark. Is not our foreign trade doing fairly well under the Ding ley tariff? It is double what, it was ten years ago under a tariff revised downward with particular reference to promoting foreign trade. Taking these large figures into due considera tion, will the congress of commercial organizations which is to meet two weeks hence in Washington be likely ,to advise another experiment in for eign trade promotion like that of 1884-'97? We should think not. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 7, 1907- TARIFF REVISION PROGRAM. Postponement Until 1909 Should Mefct Views of All Sensible Republicans. It comes more or less authoritative ly from Washington that there will be no further talk of tariff revision at this time. That decision is in accord ance with sound common sense. The country is at the present time at the height of prosperity and it. would be folly to undertake to revise the tariff at stich a time. That there are some schedules which might be changed and which ought to be changed may be admitted and is admitted by all. No one can be such a fool as to contend that any taxation scheme is perfect. The tariff is in its very nature one of the most complicated compromises In our national enactment. And it is be cause of these complications and com promises that many people have hon estly opposed any tariff changes or tinkerings at this time, fearing that more harm than good would come from such a procedure. Gov. Cummins, of lowa, began this agitation even before President Roose velt was inaugurated. He tried to force it into the national platform of Chicago and he went to Detroit and told an audience about that time that ha was for revision now, immediately, by this congress (meaning the con gress then in session) and he kept up until he said finally, and we be lieved then and still believe, unwisely, that all the insurance graft of all the insurance companies of all time did not equal one-fifth of the tariff graft in one year. That wan the other ex treme. We do not now believe that i the governor meant •.vhat lio saiJ. Ho could not have mcaut it, but lie '.vaa carried away with the facility of utter ance that has been given him, and he was annoyed at the delays in a matter for which he had been a special advo cate. It was in utterances like these that many Republicans found the ani mus of their opjiosition to the present governor. The postponement of tariff revision until 1909, that is until after the pres idential election of 1908, will meet, we believe, with the approbation of nearly all Republicans. Even the governor of lowa, who has been 90 insistent on this question, cannot hut acquiesce in the decision of the wisest leadership in congress, with the advice and con sent of the president. To undertake tariff revision now would be a most disastrous proceed ing, not merely from a party stand point, although that is not unimpor tant, but from a financial and indus trial standpoint. It will be easier and create less disturbance if done imme diately after the next presidential elec tion. When it is done at that time the new tariff cannot be made an imme diate and bitter politipal issue, but the new schedules can be put into ef fect with the least disturbance. The conditions of the country in the mean time may undergo serious changes and this program on the tariff will have to be varied accordingly, but the fact that there is to be no revision until then will in itself be an impor tant factor in the continuance of our present high prosperity. The agree ment reached in Washington is one of the best assets in our continuance in prosperity. It is to be hoped that there will be no Republican dissent to this pro gram, and we feel certain that it will not come from the governor of lowa, who has been learning some wisdom and moderation on such issues. The agreement is satisfactory to the busi ness interests, and the politicians ought to see it in that way.—Cedar Rapids Republican. To Secure Fair Treatment. "We have reached the day when we must be willing to make geenrous con cessions if we are to receive fair treatment in Europe."—Buffalo Ex press This is the conclusion reached in view of threats by Germany and France to mark up thoir tariffs on American exports. We are to make "generous concessions" from our tariff on German and French exports in or der to secure fair treatment! We are to take the bread out of the mouths of American wage earners and their fam ilies merely because some European nation threatens to treat us unfairly if we don't! Ts that the Express' idea of the prop er course for a nation of 85,000,000 people to pursue? Are we to lie down and surrender our rights whenever some foreign country flourishes a big stick? Our tariff is our own. It suits us. It was made for Americans, not for Germans or Frenchmen. Under it we are buying $700,000,000 a year of com petitive goods from foreign producers. Shall we be scared into buying more? If so, how much more? If we show the white feather now when and where will the big stick bluff game stop? Are we always to be at the mercy of foreign bulldozers? For shame! The Express needs to take a few stitches in its patriotism and its common sense. Both are get ting the worse for wear when it talks about making generous concessions in order to secure fair treatment. There is a better way to secure fair treat ment, and the weapons are in our owr hands. The Rice in Price of Labor. "Some idea of the amount of this tariff trust graft may be obtained by considering the difference between the rise of prices in this country and in England."—Byron Holt. The rise in prices of labor, for in stance. Prices of commodities have risen the world over during the past few years, but nowhere has the price of labor risen as it has in the United States. iT IS COMPETED. THE THAW JURY HA3 BEEN CHOSEN AT LAST. THE TAKING OF DIRECT TESTI MONY FOR THE STATE NOW TO BEGIN. New York. —The Thaw jury as com pleted late Friday follows: Foreman —Denilng Smith, 55, retired manufacturer, married. No. 2—George P. Pfaff, 61, hard ware, married. No. 3—Charles H. Fecke, 45, ship ping agent, married. No. 4 —Oscar A. Pink, 40, salesman, married. No. s—Henry C. Harney. 50, pianos, married. No. C —Harry C. ISrearley, 35, adver tising agent, married. No. 7—Malcolm S. Fraser, 40. sales man, married. No. 8. —Charles D. Newton, G5, re tired railway official, married. No. 9—Wilbur S. Steele, GO, manu facturer, married. No. 10 —John S. Dennee, 38, railway freight agent, unmarried. No. 11 —Joseph B. Bolton, 57, clerk, married. No. 1 iJ—Bernard Gerstman, 36, man ufacturer's agent, married. The selection of the twelfth juror came as a complete surprise at the end of a long and tedious day—the eighth of the trial —and immediately after this last member of the trial panel lied been sworn in Justice Fitz gerald ordered an < adjournment of eourt until Monday morning. District Attorney Jerome, who has been contending since Thursday after noon for the removal of one oi' the men now in the jury box, but who has failed to gain the consent of the de fendant's counsel to change, was still reluctant as court adjourned Friday to begin the actual proceedings with out a further opportunity to plead with Thaw's attorneys. At his re quest, therefore, Justice Fitzgerald ordered all talesmen who have not yet been examined to be in court Monday morning ready for jury service in case any are needed. Mr. Jerome then an nounced that if there should be no change in the situation in the mean time the state would prcieed to place all its direct testimony before the jury at the Monday morning session. HAS NO FOUNDATION. Report that Japan Has Issued an Ulti matum to the United States Is Officially Denied. Washington, D. C.—Secretary Root positively refuses to make any statement touching the Japanese situ ation in its relation to fhe conference which took place at the White House Wednesday evening between the pres ident, some members of the cabinet and the California congressional dele gation. He does, however, enter a sweeping denial of the authenticity of any of the published interviews at tributed to him as to the imminence of war or the state of the treaty nego tiations, or indeed any phase of this subject, which he regards as one emi nently unsuited for public discussion at this time. The fact appears to be that a state ment in the press cable dispatches as cribed to Baron Hayashi, Japan's min ister for foreign affairs, to the effect that in event the courts uphold the San Francisco school officials, then the matter of discrimination against Japan would require diplomatic treat ment was In some quarters erroneous ly attributed to Secretary Root, who has been putin the position of stating that he had received an ultimatum from the Japanese minister for for eign affairs. Mr. Root denies that he has received any such communication and careful inquiry fails to show that the alleged remark of Baron Hayashi has ever been communicated officially to this government. A BUSINESS BULLETIN. Commercial Activity in All Lines Is the Greatest Ever Known. New York.—ll. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Although the average of the 60 most active railway securities fell this week to the lowest point since 1901, there was no corresponding reaction in commercial activity, which con tinued beyond precedent. Reports from leading manufacturing centers indicate that scarcely any idle ma chinery can be found, preparations for future trade evidencing a confidence in well maintained consumption. Forward business is most extensive in the iron and steel manufacture and the cotton industry, and the mercan tile outlook is bright. Wholesale houses receive large contracts for spring delivery, especially In dry goods lines, and the settled winter weather has produced a wholesome re duction in retail stocks of heavy weight wearing apparel and other sea sonable merchandise. Congress. Washington.—ln the senate on the Ist a bill was passed increasing the pay of mail carriers in cities, also a bill increasing the pejisions of all sur vivors of Indian wars from $8 to $lO per month. The house spent the day in consideration of the river and har bor bill. A Deadly Epidemic. London, Eng. Cerebro - spinal meningitis, hitherto but slightly known in this country, has broken out in virulent form in Scotland and the nortli of Ireland. The disease has al most become epidemic in Glasgow, where 103 cases occurred in January, of which 47 were fatal. Hatters Strike. New York.—-Four thousand men and 700 women employed in the hat factories of the Orange, N. J., dis trict were called out on strike Friday by order of the national union officers. Abraham Lincoln. That these shall not have died in vain, he grayed, Who gave their lives that Liberty and Law Should be the nation s heritage, lie saw With deep, prophetic eyes, yet undismayed, The work remaining, though ' i these dead" had made Their lives a freezoill offering without flaw. From his great utterance men turned with awe Blended with mightier longing, unafraid, For nobler service, whatso'er its meed. Its meed, we know, for many thousands still IVas death on battlefield, or prison fen. For him, the great, sad leader, was decreed A martyr s death, that so he should fulfill His work as leader, as a man of men. SUSAN F. DICKINSON,\ Saw the Assassination of President Lincoln Diary of Dr. Charles S. Taft, Fecently Discovered in New York, Is a Remarkable Souvenir of the Great Tragedy of April 14, 1865. A remarkable souvenir of the assas sination of Abraham Lincoln recently came to light In New York. It is the pocket diary of Dr. Charles S. Taft, formerly resided at No. 273 West Twenty-second street. In his time Dr. Taft was an eminent physician and attended many notables, among them Governor O. P. Morton of Indi ana. But no experience in his life equaled the one he records in his note book. He was present at Ford's Theatre that fatal night and witnessed all of the tragedy which ended in the death of Lincoln. He was one of the first physicians to reach the wounded pres ident's side, was present at his death, and helped to perform the autopsy. Dr. Taft's personal account of these occurrences is embodied in his notes, which evidently were never intended for publication. The diary was found in a pile of miscellaneous scraps in the baling room of the Salvation Army Industrial Home, at No. 528 West Thirtieth street. The army home has fifteen wagons, each having its own territory. These make daily trips throughout the city collecting waste material of all kinds which householders are glad to get rid of. The wagons discharge their loads every evening at the warerooma of the Industrial Home. ——————■ I n r > otv (/fit/ ameO fiaritj OA7BVCI& a&J' % aAu^) (ufhn. VcAAT%t*>3 irtffc <Uc£ltptt&nsy'lvtU. Vnttar.tJj dim. of th. ■vtx., ti/ru/' cjtfo-zife cvmC*-' / ytrCtZCt, j ' frtfirXs tfaz 'facta* fr&K. Vuw tfce. 'Vp- dcLa, Tr 1, WaUf-/010 A,, iy | dry CTCMU&ZU w efec&m j Cfl*. c/*. I ffan) MA- _ • 10 ) W Mmturty-tTtk fa, las cMfc, </t& -dyt,.-, i *£, ! ifad sAW %jL/uziiity Two Pages of Dr. Taft's Diary The standard biographies of Lin coln and the newspapers of 1865 make brief mention of Dr. Taft as being present at the president's death and the autopsy. There can be no doubt of the genuineness of the notes. The house on Twenty-second street former ly occupied by Dr. Taft, is now a boarding house, and the doctor's name is unknown to the present occupant. Some of the older residents in the neighborhood, however, remember him, but indistinctly. Dr. Taft begins his memoranda of the great tragedy in these words: "Notes of the circumstances attend ing the assassination of Abraham Lin coln, president of the United States, on the evening of April 14, 1865, as witnessed by me; also the medical notes of my attendance on the presi dent up to the time of his death and of the post-mortem examination five hours after death. "The notes were written April 15, 1865, at the earliest possible moment after my attendance upon the presi dent and the post-mortem examina tion." "Attended Ford's Theatre," he writes, "Friday evening, April 14, with my wife; arrived at the theatre about eight p. m. The president and party arrived about 8:30 p. m. Saw him take a seat with his back immediate ly opposite the entrance door of the box, and facing the stage; could not see the president after he was seat ed. owing to a division in the front of the box extending 'lom the lower rail to the top; people could see his left profile from the opposite side of the dress circle from Ills box. I occu pied a seat in an orchestra chair section C, No. 175, about three rows back from the orchestra railing, and somewhat to the left of the center of the stage. I could see Mrs. LincoiiL In one corner of the box and another lady, whom I subsequently learned was Harris, in the opposite corner nearest the stage. From th© relative position when I saw him seat, himself, ho must have been sitting, between the two ladies and just be« hind the division of the box, which in tercepted the vie .v of his face fronw my seat. "At about 10:30 p. m. my attention, was directed toward the box by the report of a pistol, and I saw a man drop from the state box„ shouting as he did so, 'Sic semper tyrannis!' As he struck the stage h© partly fell, sinking down until hiß. knees nearly touched the floor; he sprang to an erect posture in an in stant, brandished a large knife which, i he held in his right hand for about the space of three seconds, then darted across the stage with the knife held; above his head and disappeared. A few moments of great confusion then, followed, many persons jumping upon , the stage and some passing out in the direction the man who had leaped; from the state box had taken. "I was endeavoring to pacify my wife, who wished to teave the place,, when I heard several shouts for a sur geon; this was the first intimation I had that any one had been wounded. I sprang upon the stage calling out th(»*. I was a surgeon, when I war seised by several men and lifted up to the state box. When I entered the president was lying upon the floor sur rounded by a number of men, who were about lifting him to remove him. Some were advising his removal home: this measure I opposed, stat ing that I was an army surgeon and wished him to be removed to the nearest house. "As we passed down the stairs I inquired if there was any other sur geon ptesent, and a gentleman who was near me, supporting the head, stated that he was a surgeon; when we reached the street some persons on the porch of a house opposite called to us to come over there. We carried the president over and pro ceeded with him to a room at the end of the passage, where he was laid upon a bed. "I called for brandy and after a few minutes had elapsed a quantity of brandy was brought, which I diluted and gave the president a teaspoonful of. He swallowed it, but with much difficulty. I afterward gave another teaspoonful, which caused so much strangulation that I gave no more, except after the arrival of Dr. Stone, when, at his suggestion, I put half a teaspoonful between his lips, but it was not swallowed, and nothing more was ever put between his lips. "I remained with the president until he died, engaged during a greater part of the night in supporting his head so that the wound should not press upon the pillow and the flow of blood be obstructed." "Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A."
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