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"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.
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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."