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The Job department of the Phess Is complete •lid uft ~1 facilities for doing the best class ot * rk. I'AI. l KUI.AK ATTENTION PAID TO LAW Pm m imo No poiisr will be discontinued until arrear aj<* arc paid, except at the option of the pub uslie-. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor lr, advance. Miss Lilsian Trsim. proprietor and manager of the Bon Ton theater, in Philadelphia, has inaugurated the cus lom of giving free tickets for matinee performances to the orphans in the city institutions, the messenger boys and the school children. Mrs. Britania W. Kennon, great granddaughter of Martha Washing ton and a descendant of the last ijord Baltimore, celebrated her ninety-sec on 1 birthday a few days ago at her home, in Georgetown, r». C. She was born there and has live J in iho same place all Lsr lif®. The order of Knight of Jerusalem has been bestowed by the kaiser on Dr. George I'ost, an American mis sionary, of Beirut, who is now in Ber lin. The Kaiser sent Count von We <iel to the American church on Sun day to represent hini when the Rev. JJr. I'ost preached. The library of Yale university has received from Miss Maria E. Peck, of Pittsileld, Mass., four volumes once the property of Israel Dickinson, of the class of 1768. The books were used by him during his college course. Each volume contains his book plate and one his autograph. Arthur F. Stater, recently sworn in as assistant secretary of the treasury, was born in Carlisle, England, in the early eighties. He was brought to America when one year old, and has lived all his life until recently in lowa. Three months ago he became editor of the Walla Walla Daily Union. At Christiana, a little town in the Transvaal, about 70' miles above Kim berley, an alluvial deposit has been discovered bearing diamonds, and the entire area has been staked out in claims, which are granted by ihe government, each 50 yards square. The "digging" for diamonds, which are found in the surface deposits, is somewhat similar to placer gold-min ing. There some 3,000 diamond-min ers. representing every nationality, are living in huts and tents with their families. The official figures showing the trade between the United States and non-contiguous territories Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippines and Porto Rico —are worth studying. The total in 1900 was $131,000,000, against less than $100,000,000 in 1904. This is rightly regarded as indicating extraor dinary growth. And that Uncle Sam is a generous patron of his "depend ents" is apparent from the returns •which prove that the United States buys much more of them than they buy of Americans. However, all oi the territories are making bigger and bigger purchases of this country. London dearly loves court gayety and display, of which the British capital had little during the later years of the successful but rather quiet reign of the good Queen Victoria. King Ed ward, tactful and kindly, gives his people their wish, and the court glit ter is all they could desire. It makes a pleasing setting or background for the sessions of Parliament and does no harm to anyone, for while all en joy the spectacle they also know that the real power rests with the house ot commons, which speaks the deciding opinion of England on all great ques tions. Queen Alexandra owns several fine chinchilla and Persian cats. Princess Alexander of Teck and Prince Mau rice of Battenburg also possess valua ble specimens, but the real cat fan cier among the royal family of Great Britain is Princess Victoria of Schles wig-llolstein, and the only royal cat tery is the one now established at Cumberland Lodge. This has been ar ranged on the most up-to-date princi ples, and has curtained windows and a front door, with a knocker and let ter box. The portals are surmounted by a crown and the initials "V. S. H." The year 1906 was notable for the largest addition to the Britisn mercan tile marine in effective tonnage and in size and power ever recorded in any one year, reports the London Financial Times. The total addition to the register was 1,550,000 tons. The merchant, steamers turned out of the shipyards represent 1,800,000 tons gross, an advance of 12 Vfc per cent of the production of 1905. Sailing ships are no longer a factor of importance in considering tonnage afloat, and a further 200,000 tons was removed l'roir the British register during the year. LIVING IS HIGHER; BECAUSE EVERYBODY LIVES BET TER THAN EVER BEFORE. Wage Earners Eat More Meat, Wear Better Clothes and Get More Pleas ure Out of Life Than They Did Twelve Years Ago. There lias been much said of late concerning the great, increase in the cost of living over the increase in wages. Some people make this a basis for an attack on the protective tariff. They insist that the higher cost of the necessities of life is caused by the tariff duties. Hut those who are advocates of the protective tariff argue agaiust any such conclusion. They contend that it is the protective tariff which has given the country the great prosperity that it now enjoys. This prosperity has en abled every one to draw good wages, where during periods of hard times only a portion of the people in the country were receiving anything like adequate financial income. The whole country is now living higher than it ever has in its history. Everybody, both capitalist and labor er, is indulging in greater luxuries than ever. The wage earner is eat ing more meat and wearing better clothing than he did 12 years ago. He is taking more pleasure out of life, going on more vacations und attend ing the theater, going on railroad journeys and living nearer to the line of individual comfort than before. All of this costs money, and consequently his expenses are very much greater. Ask a man to name the particular line of necessities of life that cause the increase of living and there will be hesitation, and a vague declaration that "all of them have advanced in price." As a matter of fact, however, it will be found that the advance in the cost of living lies more in the higher living indulged in by the wage earners than in the greater cost of the commodities. Were people willing to-day to limit themselves to the cloth ing and food which they could afford during the hard times they would find that the ciist of living would be very little if any higher now than then and that their savings would mount up more rapidly. But the rule of life is "Easy comes easy goes," and it is only with the ut most. frugality of spirit and careful business management that the wage earner to-day is able to keep from allowing his good fortune to run away | with him. With the present indulgence in ex tra living, because of the financial abil ity to do so, increasing the pest of liv ing, it is not fair to lay the blame to the policy that has created the larger j income. It. is well in this connection to consider the conditions that con front the wage earner in other coun tries. The Kansas City Star has ob tained from a reliable source a list of the wages of 12 classes of laborers, mechanics and artisans in Germany, England and the United States. The comparison shows that the wage here is more than double in the other coun tries named, while prices in Germany are as follows: Beefsteak, 26 cents a pound; porksteak, 20 cents; bacon, 21 cents; ham, 29 cents; butter, 30 cents; coffee, 28 to 48 cents; eggs, 20 cents a dozen; potatoes, 24 cents a bushel; flour, nine dollars per barrel. Little comment in this case appears to be necessary.—Burlington Hawk eye. A Vicious Political Heresy. Some things of immediate rele vancy to existing conditions in and around Boston were said by Secretary Shaw in his speech before the Spring- Held chamber of commerce on the 14th of February. After discussing his plan of a free zone for manufac tured exports—a project whose realiza tion is so remote, not to say impossi ble, as to be hardly worth discussing —Mr. Shaw turned his attention to the Massachusetts idea of freckled free trade and protection in chunks: "Free trade and protection are at constant war with each other, and will not harmonize. If New England is to have protection for her manufac tures, then I insist, that Florida shall have protection for her citrus fruit, Louisiana for her sugar, Texas for her cattle, Montana for her wool, and Da kota for her wheat. If New England is to have free trade in the things she consumes, then let her concede free trade in the things she produces. Pro tection in spots and free trade in spots is the most vicious political heresy known toman, and resolves all eco nomic legislation into a squabble for local advantage. We have had more than one experience with this kind of legislation, and we ought not to invite a repetition." It seems a pity that these words of plain common sense could not have been addressed to the members of the Massachusetts legislature before they signed that foolish petition in behalf of tariff revision, free raw materials, and reciprocity in competitive prod wets. In that case the petition would, we feel sure, have gone to Washing ton with fewer signatures. Should Mind Her Own Business. Massachusetts would best, mind Iker own business aftd let other states tnlnd theirs, so far as urging the president goes, trusting to an actual expression of other states' ideas rather than to individual notions sent in from out side. The revision of the tariff is a grave enough qirsstion to warrant a real expression of the general belief, and too grave to warrant imputing a general belief to the people affected from the sporadic personal opinions of sta'e governors.—Lowell Citizen. t/VMEftOto COUNTY P>fcESS. THURSDAY MARCH 28, 1907. TRUTH ABOUT EXPORT PRICES. All European Countries Sell Some Goods Cheaper Abroad. When it is remembered that almost the sole ground of antagonism to the present, tariff on the part of Repub lican "'progressives" is the small ex portation of American manufactures at less than average domestic prices, and that last year's Democratic con gressional campaign had this for its principal asset, especial interest at taches to the following statements by Secretary Shaw in his recent speech before the chamber of commerce of Springfield, Mass.: "If there be an article produced in Europe which is not regularly sold for export to America cheaper than it is sold in the country of its origin, the treasury department has not discov ered it. Every country in Europe sanctions selling goods abroad cheap er than at home, and the practice pre vails everywhere. "The charge had been so frequently made that steel rails were sold abroad at $7.80 below the American price that I took occasion to investigate the mat ter. 1 asked the president of the Unit ed States Steel corporation to let me see the records of their foreign sales covering the period of the preceding GO days. .This favor Was promptly grant ed, and I personally examined them. The sales aggregated 2r>,000 tons, and the average price on board cars at factory was $27.65 a gross ton. The lowest sale wa3 $27.50 a ton, 50 cents lower than the American price." Republican editors should paste this i;i a conspicuous place at their desks when about to t;<l;e their pen in bi l l for a fresh onslaught against the Ding ley tariff because of goods sold abrad cheaper than at home. Perhaps they would write about something else if they were thus constantly reminded that the practice of cutting prices on exports is a universal one, and that less of it is done in the United States than in any other part of the world. Perhaps, too, they would reliect that if we should reduce our tariff on ac count of the insignificant volume of our cut price export trade we should be merely providing a bigger recepta cle for the cut price exports of all the rest of the world. Perhaps they would end by deciding that the be.st thing ti" ao is to let our tariff alone. UPSET AGAIN! ' V - 1 •-" v A _ "sffe, ' 'A Sfe; i r Jk * P.e wiCTfart ..r.l "UrtH " .-Vtmii'ftr." la"™" we trot into .] dsi'tcd A-.-. ... |-bt ' - C" '. J . Silent on the Taritf. The silence upon the tariff question by President Roosevelt is evidence that he is not in line with the tariff revision idea. President Roosevelt is a man who does not hesitate to men tion every needed reform and every needed change in laws. He is not a man to wait the actions of others, but is always a leader, if he was satis fied that the tariff needed revision he would have said so in his message. On the contrary he is silent, which means that existing conditions do not demand a general change. This, of course, does not meet with the approval of one element of the Re publican party in this state, but it does vindicate the great mass of Re publicans in lowa in their contention that so long as we are prosperous it is right and proper to "let well enough alone," so far as the tariff is con cerned. —Atlantic (la.) Telegraph. Know Where They Are At, Not only have the tariff rippers dropped the issue, but John Sharp Williams, the Democratic leader of the house, asks for more protection for the farmers. It was supposed file Dingley tariff amply covered every ag ricultural interest; indeed, many of the reformers have insisted the rates are unnecessarily high and have pro posed to scale them down by direct reduction, or partly neutralize them by reciprocity treaties. In the whirli gig of politics it is difficult to keep track of all the gyrations of the op ponents of the protective system. The protectionists, on the other hand, know where they are "at," and they know the consistency of standpatism. —Burlington Hawkeye. No Relief. Sympathizing deeply with the sor rows of those Massachusetts manufac turers who long for free trade in crude materials while retaining protection for their finished products, John Sharp Williams, leader of the free trade mi nority in the house of representatives, not long ago introduced a bill abolish ing the duty on bituminous coal from Canada. The house committee on ways and means has voted to indefi nitely postpone consideration of tfcat bill. Wait till the Democrats obtain control of legislation. Then the down trodden tariff reformers of Boston will get free coal. Yes, and many othei free things which they won't want. THREE MtH SHOT. FIERCE FIGHT FOLLOWS A RAID ON A GAMBLING HOUSE AT FORT WORTH, TEX. COUNTY ATTORNEY KILLED, HIB ASSISTANT FATALLY SHOT, A GAMBLER WOUNDED. Forf Worth, Tex. Following an attack on an alleged gam bling house Friday, County Attorney Jeff D. McLean was shot and killed and Hamil P. Scott, a member of the] attacking party, was fatally wounded , by William Thompson, proprietor oi 1 the resort. Half an hour later Thomp-1 son was surrounded in a lumber yard j and captured after a desperate light j in which Thompson suffered bullet j wounds that may prove fatal. County Attorney McLean, heading a party of deputies, forced an entrance ! to the place, arrested several men and loaded a furniture van with para phernalia. The wagon with the con- j fiscated furniture had just moved off when Thompson approached McLean 011 the sidewalk and fired a bullet into McLean's throat, breaking his neck and causing death. Thompson ran west with Scott in pursuit. Dodging behind a billboard at Seventh and Throckmorton streets, ; Thompson shot Scott three times in ; the body. Scott fell and Thompson discarded his empty pistol for that carried by Scott and fled. By this time a score of policemen ; and deputy sheriffs, followed by bun- ; dreds of excited men and boys, were 1 in pursuit of Thompson, who found temporary refuge in .l lumbti shed j.ist a ross the street from the Ton- j iaine hotel, the most fashionable hos- ! telrj in the city. Patrolmen Bell and Lloyd opened i fire on Thompson, who returned the ! shots, while the crowd shouted i "Lynch him." As soon as Thompson ; emptied his revolver the officers, I whose own pistols were emptied, fell i upon him with, bare hands and made { him a prisoner, as he was suffering . from three severe wounds inflicted by j the officers. TRAIN WRECKERS AT WORK. They Causer' the Derailment of an Ex press on the Pennsylvania Road. Pittsburg, Pa.—A committee rep resenting the Pennsylvania rail road which has been investigating the cause of the derailment of the Chi cago limited Friday at Stewart, Pa., near here, after taking the testimony of the train crew and the crews which passed ; point of derailment previ ous to the accident authorized the fol lowing statement last night: "Th« j wreck was caused by some person or persons removing the bolts and tie plates joining two rails and turning one of them inward so as to throw the train off the track. The work waj evidently that of one with a knowledge of tracks and signals, as the "I>. nd wire" which completes the el. ;:i ric signal circuit was carefully kept intact, thereby causing the sig nals to show 'safe' instead of 'danger' as they would have shown had this contact been broken. "The tools found near the scene of the accident were such as are used in laying track, but were not the stand ard tools used by the Pennsylva nia Railroad Co.; nor were they the property of the company. The place selected for the derailment seems to have been chosen with a view of throwing the train off the track and at the same time guarding as far as j possible against loss of life. The engine and the five cars were derailed, but no one was hurt. Among the passengers was Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland. TRADE REVIEW. Business in Spring Goods Booms ana Confidence in the Future Unshaken. Mew York. —R. G. Dun & Co.'a Weekly Review of Trade says: Business lias responded to the influ-! ence of settled spring weather at I most points and the proximity of Easter has increased retail sales of ■ dry goods, millinery and footwear. 1 Many dealers had underestimated re- j quirements and urgent demands are I made upon jobbing houses. Transpor- j tation is more satisfactory, but at many cities there are still complaints that seasonable goods do not come forward as specified. In addition to current trade there is a volume of preparation for later sea sons that maintains activity at manu facturing plants, the high prices read ily paid on most of this forward busi ness testifying to the fact that confi dence remains unshaken. One of the best features of the present situation is the steady improvement in mercan tile payments, despite the unsettled condition of the money market. Riots Caused Loss of Many Lives. Vienna. —The seriousness of the situation in northern Moldavia growing out of the agrarian disorders has not been exaggerated. Four hun dred farms in Moldavia have been de vastated, 8,000 fugitives have flel over the Rumanian frontier into Aus tria, and 10,000 Jews are homeless. The number of dead and wounded cannot be given accurately, but re ports give a total of about 85 men killed and 150 wounded. Has Become a Raving Maniac. Atlantic City, N. J. —James Par ker, who attempted to save the life of President McKinley by striking the arm of Czolgolz as the latter fired the fatal shot at the pres ident, is in jail here, a raving maniac. Parker will be committed to an asy lum. $700,000 Fire Loss. Pine Bluff, Ark. —Fire on Friday swept over the entire plant of the Bluff City Lumbar Co. and de stroyed several small dwellings owned by the company. The loss is $700,000. IT WAS SHORT. The Conference Between President Roosevelt and Railroad Presi dent Mellen. Washington,. D. C.—The confer ! ence between President Roosevelt and Charles S. Mellon, president oi ! the New York, New Haven & Hart 1 fo.-d railroad, on the railroad situa tion took place at the White House Tuesday. It lasted not more than 35 minutes. No statement as to the par ticular questions discussed was made at the White House and Mr. Mellen ! declined to talk. He referred his in quirers to Secretary Loeb, adding 1 that anything he might say might b< j construed as having a bearing upon j the situation. Mr. Mellen was asked whether he I would again visit the White House : but he replied that he did not expect ! to unless sent for. Almost in the \ same breath, however, he said that 1 perhaps he might come after all, even 1 If not sent for, as he is in the habit I of making frequent trips to the capi tal. Within three weeks President Roosevelt has had visits from half a dozen well known financiers and rail \ road men, with all of whom he has discussed the railroad situation. The president says that he is learn ing all he can regarding the railroad situation and that he intends to con tinue to consult with railroad people and others, it, is understood he is : making inquiries on points pertaining i to federal supervision and control of ! the railroads, an appraisement of the ■ physic?.! tluation cf such properties and on the issue oi' various forms of | indebtedness. When lie fias made ip his mind and ! is ready to tell the public just what his a.titude is on the railroad issue, | he will do so in a speech or in a mes ' sage to congress. Some expressions j from him are expected 011 the railroad : question during the next few months. I Murder and Incendiarism. ! Sedalia, Mo. Frank Smith, a farmer, aged 50 years, was shot, and killed at his home near Lis j bon early Tuesday by an unknown person who escaped. Mrs. Smith dis ! covered the house to be in flames and I awakened her husband, who was just j emerging from the front door when t shot. It is believed the tire was I started by the assassin. Railroaders' Wages to be Raised. Owosso, Mich. —General Manager Lowell, of the Ann Arbor road, has completed arrangements with the employes which involve an increase in wages amounting to 10 per cent, for conductors, switchmen, bra': rnen. engineers and firemen. Nine People Killed. Torreon, Mexico. —Nine persons, eight of them children, were killed Tuesday and many othens in jured at Durango, Mexico, by the col lapse of the roof of the public school building. Not at That Time of Life. A Milwaukee bachelor says that no woman has kissed him in 01 years of his life, and never will, "so help me God." If he's escaped to that late time in life, the chances are a million to one that he won't have to keep the girls away from him. —Atlanta Geor gian. Immense Sulphur-Bottom Whale. Largest of all animals that ever lived on this planet is the great sul phur-bottom whale of the Pacific ocean. One specimen which was measured was 95 feet in length and 35 feet in girth, its estimated weight was 294,000 pounds. Inspiration. If we ever write a musical comedy, ivhich is extremely unlikely, it will be for the purpose of showing that one can be produced without putting one of the characters into a white serge suit. —Topeka Capital. Dishonest Society Women. One of the London weeklies states there are five or six society women in that city who never are permitted to participate in the management of char ity bazaars "owing to their well- J.nown dishonesty." Shows Growth of New York. New York city's first Roman Cath olic church was built in 1786 at Bar clay and Church streets, where St. Peter's now stands. Now there are in the city 182 Roman Catholic church edifices. G.SCHMIDT'S, HEADQUARTERS FOR FRESH BREAD, J popular CONFECTIONERY Daily Delivery. Allorderp given prompt and • skillful attention. §WHEN IN DOUBT. 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